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Hey there this Mark with Quick Hits.
How about a beer powered motorcycle?
A Minnesota inventor who gained a following for his unusual vehicles and built his latest
creation a beer powered motorcycle.
Yeah that's right, you heard me right.
A beer powered motorcycle.
Kai Mickelson whose previous inventions include a rocket powered toilet and a jet powered
coffee pot.
Look both of these up.
I mean I think this guy is kind of a crack pot.
I mean he's intelligent obviously and really good with mechanics and knows how these things
work.
He's much better than me.
You know I had a hard time putting on valve covers when I was a kid.
And that's easy.
So anyhow this stuff is pretty neat but I mean I think you'd completely miss a boat
on this one.
He said the beer powered motorcycle he created in his Bloomington garage has a 14 gallon
keg with a heating coil instead of a gas powered engine.
Why would one waste delicious tasting beer on just a fuel?
There are no plans to mass produce this bike currently and I really see no reason for it.
That's why you know you go and you buy yourself a Vespa or whatever you know a Harley or whoever
makes them anymore.
I don't know does Kawasaki still make bikes?
Whatever.
Whoever makes them whatever kind you know you want to buy.
That's why you buy them and you put fuel in them.
They don't use very much fuel.
So if gas is three bucks a gallon I mean it's really it's it's really still inexpensive
to drive a motorcycle anywhere.
So why would one waste delicious tasting beer on such a gadget?
Unless they're just you know wanting to maybe get some I don't know headline or something.
I'll know other reason why you would do this.
So anyhow this is Mark and this is my quick hit my thought on it.
Hello and I am Mark and I am Christopher.
So Christopher you had some stuff that was on your mind.
Definitely so.
I was watching the television the other day and I noticed Deon Sanders doing an F-light
commercial and is that still with Nick Saban?
Yes.
Okay.
Yeah and here he was jumping around acting like an idiot with a CGI duck and a CGI goat.
Who was it?
Deon Sanders or Nick Saban?
Deon Sanders.
Oh my god.
Former former NFL star player Hall of Famer and he's jumping around like a moron going
oh they're gonna throw down baby over a fake duck and a fake goat in a commercial for Aflac.
I am so glad I did not see this.
So immediately the term that popped into my mind was endorsement whore.
Deon Sanders bent over spread his ass cheeks wide and said Ad Flac come your dollars in
my asshole.
I agree.
Now Nick Saban I still like the element that he does because he has that coachers look
on his face.
He maintains a little bit of dignity.
He does.
He doesn't do all this fucking ham and cheese shit but I did notice what he does is he does
something really direct.
Like Deon said someone said money this is on old commercial and he goes yeah someone
said Aflac.
He always if you watch it now he always confirms that Aflac means money.
And the reason is because he's the coach.
He knows everything.
He directs everything.
They did that on purpose.
Yeah there's a lot of.
And he's always got his glasses down about halfway.
He comes off very well on TV actually.
I still want a giant I want a fucking monkey to escape the zoo and bite him in the nuts
after the end of one game.
I like the guy.
I just I just want to see it happen.
Yeah I want to see him like scream and pull the monkey off his ball sack.
I want him rolling on the ground with fucking blood running out.
You know kind of like Biggin.
Yeah Biggin and the great ball bite.
Biggin is reincarnated as a monkey and bites him in the nut sack.
If anyone remembers Biggin because I know some of you fuckers listen.
And some of you fuckers have skipped some podcasts so go back and download them all damn
you.
And message me Facebook fucking email me or something.
Remember Biggin.
I want to hear.
I don't I know I don't remember everything about that big ugly fuck.
No that'd be great.
There's more to tell.
Did anyone ever catch him beating off or something?
Was he behind the bleachers finger and his asshole?
I want to know more about Biggin.
There's got to be more to tell him.
I know that fucking that that greasy piece of shit.
I know there's got to be more to it.
I just don't remember all of it.
There's some people that just they just look and seem greasy.
He was one of them.
Because of the way they are and their demeanor and you know it has nothing to do with ethnicity.
I know that for some people that's an ethnic slur for a certain group.
But to me greasy just has it's like calling someone weasel-y or creepy.
You know it's they just have a greasy slippery.
This guy is not as white as they get.
He's just a big old country fuck.
Fucking hay baling.
Yeah.
Fucking chow chewing.
Just looking at him you feel like there's a film left on you.
You got to wash off.
He used to call him gizzles.
He was a fucking gizzle.
Gizzle.
A gizzle.
They just look like gizzles when they walk through the room.
I remember you sit there going oh fuck another gizzle.
But this is a kid with an overactive imagination.
So anyhow so okay.
Endorsement horse.
So Deon Sanders I have listed because he inspired me.
You don't jump around with a fucking fake duck.
I'm sure they hired him to be the wild crazy guy but seriously have a little dignity.
He is a coach by the way.
Yeah.
Boy.
You know but this is what.
And I actually really like Deon.
Yeah I used to not like him but I've grown to like him over the years because I got to
learn more about him as a person instead of just a like persona.
And that's why this is so disappointing to see this grown man who's you know got a lot
of things going on and should be respected and here he is acting like just an utter fool.
Yeah.
Because somebody's giving him money.
Another thing that I found out about Deon and this is through my old job but we went
to Prosper Texas which is in northern fringe of Dallas and is a very affluent area.
Jerry Jones the Bush's you know W and I don't know about the old man or whatever.
But Deon lived right there.
You can see Deon's house from the school and he gave a lot of money.
I think someone said upwards like 10 million for that school to have it built.
And this was a huge school that we were down there for months working on.
Yeah.
And it was so big that we'd go down there for two weeks.
We'd come back for four days go down there for two weeks.
And we spent most of the summer and part of the spring down there doing this school.
It was so huge.
But he gave a lot of money and I also think he gave the land too.
And it was really close to his house.
Yeah he's done a lot of philanthropic things.
Yeah he did.
And another thing is the football stadiums indoors and outdoors were immaculate.
And I really thought that it was really cool that he invested that much money in where
he lived and believed in education and higher education.
And I thought it was really cool.
And anyhow oh hey did you see that?
It's loose.
Oh by the way we're at the Kansas City Zoo today.
Oh yeah.
And anyhow I think we didn't tell them that did we?
Probably not.
Okay well we're at the zoo.
We just kind of started yacking.
Yeah look they're trying to catch the parakeet.
Look at that bugger.
You know they have some birds.
He gave me a dirty look.
I've been in some zoos though they have some birds that just kind of roam the bird area.
Kill it!
Oh you didn't like that.
I better shut up we're getting kicked out of here.
The angry parakeet is going to attack.
I want that parakeet to bite his balls.
There we go.
Oh god.
That guy is going to kick me out.
Look at him.
He can fucking hear me.
I didn't know that.
He's not happy.
You have a loud voice.
I guess so.
So yeah I think we're I don't know what part of the zoo this is.
There's birds and waterfalls.
The penguin house is over to the left.
Yeah I mean really they changed it so much that's all I know.
Because when we're walking through we saw the Hillsburg penguin house.
That was pretty much anyhow.
We're somewhere near there.
It smells nice here you know sometimes as you get some steep areas.
It smells like ape ass like a lot of areas.
A lot of areas smell like hairy ape ass.
It's not good.
Elephants is pretty strong.
The red assay.
The red assay has a stronger fecal power.
It's pretty bad.
So anyhow we'd probably better get back to our endorsement whores.
Stop the presses.
But I gotta say this.
Our beloved Patrick Mahomes.
Endorsement whore.
Yeah.
Love him.
Great guy.
He's doing state farm.
Hy-Vee.
A couple other things.
Blugger burger.
Everything.
I mean you and Matt.
I mean yeah.
He's done a lot of stuff.
Yeah he's been doing so many of them.
So to kind of follow a theme.
Oh and the one that they paid a lot of money for.
The Hunt's ketchup got him first.
They never showed the commercial.
I think they got it just so Hines couldn't get him.
That's right because the gimmick first was he put ketchup on everything so one of the
ketchup companies got him and then maybe signed him to an exclusive deal and then just isn't
using him but they're keeping the other company from using him.
I think that's what it is.
They're like well Hines is already kicking our ass so here's what we do.
Mahomes is notorious.
He likes Hines and if it's not Hines then he likes the Whataburger spicy ketchup.
He's very clear about the ketchup on everything deal.
Ketchup's important.
Yeah it is.
It could start some family fights.
And I do agree with him.
Hines is the best ketchup.
And the thing that I'm really on to is simply Hines with the real sugar.
Oh shit that stuff is good.
Yeah the less processed the better on pretty much everything.
I love it because there's a big movement of the less processed everything.
The simply stuff like the simple 7up I really like.
It's just sugar not all the processed anything.
Everything natural with real cane sugar in it.
I guess the company's got accustomed to making everything so heavily processed so all the
flavors were really consistent.
But nobody bothered to ask the American public is that what you really want anymore?
I think a lot of it started at least with the sugar stuff was in the 70s.
I think it was the late 70s.
We had so much corn we didn't know what to do with it so somebody came up with the bright
idea of like let's start using corn syrup in everything.
High fructose corn syrup became the thing.
Yeah especially in soda pops.
But now lately the last few years now I've been on this for a while a lot longer and
just because I've been into the odd sodas like I've before mentioned.
I go to KC Soda Company at the River Market and I've always liked the old throwbacks.
Like the old throwback knee high oranges and grapes are just fucking awesome made with
cane sugar.
The old Pepsi's and the Cokes and the RC's with cane sugar.
Fucking awesome.
But now it bled into other places like Ketchup's and other products to where people are doing
throwbacks of simple or simply or something like that.
Yeah I've seen that term a lot too.
And it's like organic was.
Organic was the big thing and now it seems to be simple.
Anything.
It's like nah not all that processed stuff it's just like this is the original original
formula back whenever.
And I wonder if it's cheaper to manufacture that way or cheaper to produce because you're
you're eliminating some refining and processing steps.
It probably is more cost effective.
Less waste is produced.
Well guess they finally figured out the microphone.
Idiots.
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Two monkey fuckers and a toaster will be right back.
And one of the guys was saying I'm really interested in this Eagles thing that's going
on but not $600 interested.
And then my wife mentioned that in her entire life she's always wanted to go see the Eagles
but it's always been way too expensive.
They've consistently been priced much higher.
And now there's a concern that Ticketmaster and their flex pricing is going to get a hold
of it.
And flex pricing basically is as demand for the tickets increases the price goes up.
So they're not content anymore with just selling out.
They want to get every dollar they possibly can while they sell out.
The problem is the Eagles clientele.
The Eagles clientele they can't afford it.
Yeah that's the unfortunate thing.
We're priced out because of that.
It'd be great to see them live.
Every lawyer you know loves the Eagles.
Every doctor you know loves the Eagles.
Every business owner you know.
Hedge fund managers.
I don't know whoever makes crap tons of money.
They all love the Eagles.
In like ACDC where that takes nine out of ten of them out.
For a while Chris Isaac was that way.
He was pricing himself way out of everybody's price range but I think he figured it out.
I think out of necessity he realized that hey you know what this is not a good business
protocol for you.
Plus Chris Isaac tours a lot more than the Eagles do at this point.
Well I miss the good old days when they did not have to rely on tours.
Now they have to because if you make music it doesn't sell.
They don't make the money.
They don't have the 30 million selling albums anymore.
And then they tour to make the albums sell better.
I remember like during the heydays in the 80s Bon Jovi come by three times in a year
on the same album.
And that's because they would release one hit and then it would do really well.
And then they'd release another hit and it would start to fade.
And they're like okay hey put them on tour again.
I remember Van Halen touring twice on the same album.
Yeah and that was to get the other songs to sell and people to buy the albums and it worked.
Now it is the opposite.
Now it's like they have to tour to make money.
So you can get all the paper and you used to do.
You used to be like yeah hey we're giving away tickets.
You know one on one the Fox or whoever is giving away tickets.
The Rock or somebody.
Or you get a block of them you know five for fifty dollars or something.
None of that goes on anymore because they need to make as much money as they can off
of this.
And it's not like the Eagles have some big elaborate stage show.
You know a troupe of dancers and tons of lights or anything.
You know they're doing it just because they can.
Yeah it's whatever the market will bear.
Yeah I mean I suppose I would pay that much for maybe if the Beatles weren't all dead.
Well you know a lot of them weren't dead.
Half of them weren't dead.
Yeah.
And they were to get back together.
I would probably pay that much to see them just to say I saw them.
All this.
For the prices they won I'm happy to go see the tribute band for a tenth of the price.
Seriously for sixty bucks I could go see an Eagles tribute band and buy the bar food and
some merchandise and you know we could have a really good time.
For ten times that I could maybe see the Eagles.
No thanks.
I know this.
There's a lot of cover bands out there or tribute bands that sound just as good as the
other bands do nowadays.
And they're a lot more responsive about doing the songs you want to hear as opposed to a
lot of these older bands are like you know we're sick of that song we ain't playing it
no more.
Yeah and that always pissed me off.
Oh yeah.
It's like no regard for the fan.
You know this used to piss me off by the way though when I was younger and I didn't want
to hear the hits.
I wanted to hear the songs that I really loved on the second side and all that you know.
Like the deep tracks.
Yeah.
I go see Ozzy and every fucking time you know the last four songs like Paranoid, Iron Man,
let's see Crazy Train.
Crazy Train.
Yeah.
Yeah it's just oh okay.
And it's like mix it up.
Throw something else in there but then I realized you'd say this to other people they look at
you like you're insane.
It's like I know.
What song is that?
What song are you talking about?
And I realized you know you're like this too because you are a true music fan.
Yeah.
You go see Alice Cooper you don't want to see Schools Out as the last song do you?
Yeah I'm kind of over that.
Yeah me neither.
I'd rather go see.
Since 1972 he's been pretty much using that as his last song.
Yeah and that's because it works.
Yeah it does.
Yeah.
You know all of a sudden the beach balls come out and he's got his cane and he starts poking
at people.
Yeah introduces each member and they do a little solo and yeah it just goes on and on.
Yeah.
But yeah it's fun when the band cranks out some song that's like you know buried on the
second side of the third album and you're like one of ten people in the whole audience
that recognizes the song and you're going yeah.
I think this Motley Crue that did that one time on a tour they threw in like let's see
I think it was Theater of Pain was like really except it had a couple of hits.
That was like the third album wasn't it?
Yeah it was their third album.
The first one was Too Fast for Love, second one was Shot at the Devil.
Everybody knew the songs on there.
Well everybody knew songs on Theater of Pain but they only knew two.
It was the cover song of Smokin' in the Boys Room by Branch Hill Station then the second
one was Home Sweet Home.
Oh yeah.
Yeah but they had songs like Save Our Soul, Fight for Your Rights, stuff like that.
And I think they played let's see something about let's see something about rock or Let's
All Rock or For the Right to Rock or something like that and they played it in concert and
they said like you know they're like everybody went to the bathroom.
I think it's Nikki Sixx that said that.
He goes man everybody went to the shitter.
And it was like the place was a ghost town and sure enough since we played one of the
songs everybody knows all of a sudden they all came back.
All of a sudden they went into Dr. Feelgood and like all these fuckers are back in their
seats.
So it sucks you know it sucks for people like us that you know that like want to hear something
else and then also it's also hard on the band too because a lot of them forgot the songs.
Yeah yeah.
And they have to have the lighting set for all these different songs.
It's not like they can afford to just throw one in every third show or something.
The show has to be pretty much the same every night.
If there's complex lighting, choreography, that kind of thing.
So it's either in the set list for the tour or it's not most of the time.
Occasionally it's like okay we have a little section in the middle where we all sit down
and we play whatever we feel.
You know you see them do the little the semi unplugged in the middle of the concert where
they all get together in the middle of the stage and sit there and do that.
That's kind of the area where it's like okay let's pull out some old stuff.
Let's do some covers.
If somebody shouts a request maybe we'll do that.
But you know that's the unscripted part of the show.
But not every act can pull that off in the middle of a show.
You don't want to see every act doing that.
You know I would love to see it.
It'll never happen just because of the dynamic and the way it is.
But I'd love to see like just a hang on.
Stop the concert.
We're gonna have three songs here and you all yell which one you want to hear.
It's a good multiple choice.
That would be kind of neat but it'll never happen.
Because like I said you know let's say it was Van Halen.
They'd come out and go oh let's see talk about love.
Let's see.
Jamie's crying.
It would not be the song like even Top Jimmy or something like that which wasn't somewhat
of a radio hit.
No one would yell for that one.
They would just be like yeah.
Atomic Funk.
Yeah.
That was a good one.
That was.
Yeah.
Or some of my favorite ones like some of that guitar.
Especially on the first three or four albums.
Gosh like shit on Mean Street.
Yeah Mean Streets was good.
Oh my god.
Fair warning.
Just really did not get the pub that it deserved.
I don't feel.
I mean that thing.
That was Diver Down was another just fucking blistering album.
So yeah.
Diver Down got criticized a bit for having more than one cover song on it.
Yeah but you know can you really call them covers?
I know.
They really kind of made it their own in a lot of those cases.
Was it the one with Intruder right on it?
And they had Dancing in the Streets.
Yes.
But yeah I think it was Pretty Woman, Dancing in the Streets.
And there might have been one other cover.
Yeah.
But the thing is I dare anyone to hear Intruder and you know the actual song that they covered
did sound somewhat like it.
I mean the songs put together they're just not the same songs.
They're not even close.
Yeah.
Yeah it's a whole other interpretation.
It's not like a band covering it and trying to sound like the record.
It's you know here's a song we like and here's how it's done Van Halen style.
Yeah yeah this is like any band.
That's awesome.
Like I don't know being blasted off of his mind and coke or something and just being
like oh my god you know.
That's Pretty Woman's pretty cool song but man what if I put this in front of it.
And then he gets a little bit further you know.
It's like who do I call this?
I'm going to call it Intruder because if you hear the title and then you listen to it you
definitely hear what he's saying.
Yeah that's an intrusive song.
It's very intrusive.
That's a song that goes in your ear hole.
Yeah.
Kind of like this podcast.
Yeah.
You can play the podcast with it.
Like a fist full of barbed wire.
Just as gentle too.
I would agree.
But okay we were talking about the Eagles right?
Now to me the Eagles are blatantly ripping people off and they don't give a shit if the
Joe fan goes.
They don't want you there.
I hate the money grab aspect of them.
It's disheartening to you know, they don't have to do that.
Music went through a period where it was all blatant commercialism and then it seemed like
it went out of that and it was more about the music and appreciating your fans but some
acts it's still all about top dollar and they kind of get the attitude of well this is our
band so therefore we're going to give you the best and we expect to be paid accordingly.
I think it is a pride thing a lot of it.
Yeah I would agree.
But seriously y'all are starting to get really really old and gonna die and you don't care
that there's a bunch of us that will never be able to see you.
That's what I'm talking about disheartening is it's just like yeah we may never tour again
after this you know we know this and we don't care.
Even the Rolling Stones aren't that bad.
You know Paul McCartney isn't that bad.
I don't think he does it anymore but when he would do a show here or there or whatever.
Julie Joel's pretty bad but not that bad.
What's wrong with a band like scaling down their stage show and going on a tour of smaller
venues like you know anywhere from twenty five hundred to seventy five hundred seats
and you know just staying in the cheaper hotels and you're not trying to make a million bucks
but just go out there and play for people for ten bucks each.
Yeah.
There's nothing wrong with it at all.
All you're seeing is green is what this is.
They could do it completely differently and another thing about the Eagles is it's not
stage show.
I mean this is a Hotel California tour where they play Hotel California all the way through.
Oh start to finish yeah.
And they just stand there and they all.
Good while when you guys were doing something productive these two were just yammering on
and on.
Paul just basically stand there.
There's no choreography there's no the lights change occasionally but I mean you go to like
an Aussie show or a WASP show or or even like Chris Isaac you know and he moves around and
you know different places of the stage and sometimes there's props and it's like the
Eagles it's you just they just kind of stand there and sing and that's great but where
we spent what are we spending the money on if it's not a big stage show an elaborate
production it's just all going to these guys.
Yeah exactly.
And that's that's what I have a problem with is right there is now you know now you talk
about the that album itself is written masterfully is what I mean the music is just insane it's
so so sound.
Yeah it's it's and it works so well as an album it's it's one of those in a small list
relatively small list of albums that is just perfect for the time and perfect in and of
itself there's a Fleetwood Mac album like that there is an Elton John album like that.
Yes.
Aussies in Black Sabbath Paranoid was just perfect for that time.
Oh yeah.
But there have been albums like that it's like every track is awesome everything works
at the time it came out it just blew up and it's it's it's usually a once in a career
kind of thing and Hotel California just took over the world when they came out it was.
And then the longevity too.
Yeah yeah.
I mean still to this day I mean it's still revered as one of the best albums ever.
Yeah.
And musically it's a musician's musician.
Yeah.
I mean the it's an album that every musician respects whether they like the music or not
they're like oh my god you have that writing on there instruments.
And it's a rarity when it's it's full of songs that everybody can sing along and recognize
the melodies and everything but if you're a musician and you try to play it the way
they played it you realize wow this is complex yeah this was written with some serious thought.
Yes.
But it doesn't it doesn't exude that from every note like it doesn't make it unapproachable
for your average fan.
Yeah.
You know you can still hear the song and sing it but then when you dive in it's like damn
this is well constructed.
And who is it that sings this song?
Hotel California is that is that a Don Henley?
Yeah.
He sings a lot.
Yeah.
A lot of hits.
His his voice in particular on that is I think he meant it to sound like this but it sounds
very concerning the way he sings it.
It's masterful because he's in the hotel California which is probably talking about the first
church of Satan.
Yeah that's part of the reference.
And it could be anything where you're trapped in something you thought was going to be great
but it really isn't.
Yeah it could be a metaphor.
Yeah.
We don't know but it is meant to be saying like that you know and just the way that he
emphasizes certain words and the stress that he puts on his voice when he sings it.
Yeah.
It's perfect.
Another guy that did that was Michael Jackson.
Yeah.
Michael Jackson had just a perfect amount of stress and concern whenever he needed to.
Yeah.
A lot of being a lead singer could could well be voice actor.
Yes.
You know you're selling the song and the idea and the passion of the song with your voice
and yeah there are a lot of musicians that that hit the notes well but they don't convince
you what they're saying.
No Michael Jackson was convinced.
Or you can't understand what they're saying.
Yeah.
Especially with women.
Let me put these two into throw this out here and see what you think.
Billie Jean and Dirty Diana.
Listen to his voice on both of those songs.
He sings that so convincingly you know that it's like wow you can almost see the woman
he's talking about.
You know and his stress on his voice sounds like he is really stressing about that woman.
Yeah.
Someone else that has such a believable voice when he sings is Stevie Wonder.
Oh god yeah you're not kidding.
Yeah.
Have you heard and I got to go on a little bit different.
That's what this podcast does.
We go on tangents.
Yes we do.
Stevie Wonder supposedly according to several stars and we can look this up right now if
we want can see.
Yeah I was going to bring that up if you didn't is that there's there's a lot of a lot of
people say it's bullshit.
You can see.
I want to know.
I mean if he is I wanted to hail him as one of the greatest pranksters ever.
Yeah.
Like dude it's awesome.
Well the story is that he needed a gimmick when he was starting out.
Yes.
And it wasn't uncommon for a musician to be blind.
You know there's you know in all the blues musicians you know blind so and so and blind
so and so.
It's you know the blind boys of Alabama was a group that recorded.
Yeah.
Blind Lemon Jefferson.
You know this is like so so he thought well that'll be my hook.
You know he was little Stevie Wonder and he was blind and it stuck and it caught on and
he was he was pretty much roped into it and you know he was past the point where he could
say oh well you know that was just a gimmick.
Yes.
No one would forgive him.
So he's kind of been stuck all of his life acting acting blind.
You know this is the story that these people tell and it's a lot of people that are and
have been close to Stevie saying yeah brother can see.
Yeah.
Like one of them it was an actual I got I have to look this story up but he accidentally
let loose with an accidently on a radio show.
He said yeah and Stevie was driving.
Everyone said what?
What did I say?
No no no you said Stevie was driving.
Oh I guess I did.
Didn't I?
Yeah.
I was kidding.
Yeah yeah by that time his foot was already in his mouth and yeah yeah.
Wow.
Yeah but I want to know because I want to say that's the greatest prank ever.
Oh no kidding.
Even the way he does it with his face in the air and I mean he's got it perfected.
I think people would forgive him and it would be no big deal if he came out and said you
know what this is this was a gimmick that got out of hand.
It wasn't like he was asking for a handout.
The guy is really talented.
Yeah.
He's probably advocated for the sight impaired community really.
So yeah I don't think he's.
It did not help his music career at all.
Not really.
Because the guy was uber talented and it didn't matter whether he could see or not.
So he didn't do it being somewhat talented and got the rest of the way because people
felt bad for him or whatever.
No he's very talented.
Yeah.
Very good you know.
I wouldn't put this anywhere near the category of stealing someone's identity or stealing
somebody's songs or anything like that.
It's yeah.
You know it's once you start hearing how he writes and how he performs and plays it's
like oh yeah this guy is real deal.
Hey there boys and girls this is Mark and this is Mark's thought of the day.
I just found out my phone really is smart.
As a matter of fact my phone is a genius.
I got to going through I was running out of space and I got to going through my phone
and it had to empty all the trash.
So I looked at my trash and in my trash my phone automatically took all the major quint
lutes and twees and threw them straight in the trash without me looking at them.
That is a brilliant fucking phone.
My phone is a fucking genius.
That's it Mark's corner.
So the old Stevie Wonder thing is pretty interesting.
I mean I don't know why people would lie about it so I think it probably is true.
Yeah.
I think most people don't want to call him out at this point.
You know they're just like whatever.
Yeah as you're saying if the interest level was high enough people would dig and want
to know but it's mostly people like it might be interesting to know but really don't care.
They don't care.
It's like the music is the same whatever.
It's like anymore people's sexual orientation.
Yeah exactly.
It used to be a big deal.
At first it was everyone just figured everyone else was straight because that's anyone anyone
thought about.
That was as far as everybody knew was normal.
And then it was ooh are you possible?
Are you?
But anymore it's like don't care.
Doesn't matter.
Yeah and as a matter of fact if someone volunteers it you're like okay fine all right great whatever.
It's like telling me which shoe you put on first in the mornings.
Like really don't care at all.
Has no bearing on my life.
Yeah and you think part of it was the fact that they had to hide it before.
Right right.
It was kind of like.
I certainly respect people's ability and right and pride to say you know this is who I am
and this is how I am.
Well like the Rock Hudson surprise.
Even though it had been rumored for a long time people were like oh yeah you know and
he's not what he seems but you still when you find it out it's like what?
You know.
Yeah.
Well hell people used to be in denial about Liberace.
I mean the only reason Liberace didn't just come out and say it is because there's a lot
of women that were in love with him that would not have it.
Yeah.
You know.
But there are a lot of women that would have been just fine you know.
Have a gay best friend.
And then you're like that's alright yeah I'm not trying to screw him I just want to hang
out with him.
He's uber talented but you know.
For those of you who are you know not in your 50s or older Liberace is L-I-B-E-R-A-C-E piano
player.
Yeah look him up.
Yeah.
Very flamboyant.
Yeah and at the time it was.
Very funny actually.
Yeah it was kind of nod nod wink wink but they seriously think he was gay was you know
something you just wouldn't even say out loud at the time.
No because it was so taboos.
Yeah yeah.
And I mean like Charles Nelson Riley was another one.
Paul Lin was another one.
So it was like everyone kind of knew.
Jonathan Harris.
Yeah.
Wasn't that his name?
Yeah Dr. Smith from Boston Space.
Yeah.
Everyone kind of knew but at the same time if they came out explicitly and said it would
probably ruin their career.
Yeah.
So just like people weren't ready for it in the 60s or the 70s quite yet.
Yeah it was like back then it's like yeah he can be like that but you know we don't
know for sure so it's okay.
Yeah yeah it was kind of the don't ask don't tell time.
It was wasn't it.
Yeah and then when the Army started doing that it was like oh yeah you're yearning for
your the good old days when you can pretend that everyone was hetero and nothing else
existed.
Well yeah I mean I think another thing it's telling is is like football players they say
oh yeah every team has at least two or three gay people.
You never hear about it.
No.
But they all know it and they all coexist and they all don't you know they don't care
they're all in the same locker room and they're like yeah I'm not worried about so and so
he's not over here checking my ass out or nothing.
It's like really we're all here we're all professionals.
For all you know he doesn't find you attractive so.
Yeah.
You don't get all fully yourself.
It used to crack me up.
That every gay man is going to you know neatly desire you.
The biggest grease balls around would be the most offended that someone might be gay and
looking at him.
Yeah.
I remember thinking that guy would have nothing to do with you.
No kidding.
That guy has taste you're a fucking grease ball.
You're so below his league.
Yeah it's like dude he would vomit thinking about being human bad.
There was a Raiders player last year I think who was drafted openly gay and I don't think
he made the team.
Maybe a linebacker was what I'm thinking.
But yeah.
Who was it.
He's a guy from Missouri wasn't he.
I really have no idea.
Yeah he was from MU from Mizzou.
Fuck what's his name.
Well anyhow yeah.
There have been players that after they retire they come out.
But you know I think in the case of this Raiders player it was probably no big deal at all
that he was gay and open about it.
I forgot why it even came out.
There was some reason and I forgot why.
It was kind of like a.
Why he was out?
Yeah why he came out.
I think he wanted to start his life in the NFL open and just you know.
Yeah but he got criticized.
He wanted to be the first openly gay.
Yeah they said he wasn't talented enough so he had to do that to get drafted.
Yeah yeah that was a criticism I heard and.
Which I have no idea.
Well the Raiders eventually cut him at the end of training camp.
Well I guess maybe he wasn't good enough.
Because the Raiders never shied away at being the first in a lot of things.
They were the first to hire a black coach.
A head coach.
Well Al Davis as much as you hate him he was really kind of a catalyst on a lot of that
stuff.
Like I said before if you believe anything you say or think this podcast anything other
than hyperbole, parody and just plain stupidness you're done with us.
And that's how he beat.
Marcus Allen had the feuds and all that and then again he loved Bo Jackson.
I mean I don't know.
Al Davis was kind of an odd character.
Yeah yeah.
I heard that from Marcus Allen in one of his interviews of course everyone tells stories
in interviews that aren't necessarily true.
I know people knew Marcus Allen really well and he was not a very nice guy.
As a matter of fact I heard cocksucker and fucking asshole a couple of times from people
that don't cuss.
Yeah I always got the impression that Marcus Allen was what you saw was just a public persona
and wasn't the real him.
I'm not going to go into this person that I know but they do stuff for famous people.
We'll just put it like that.
They do services for famous people.
It's not underhanded, it's a real service and anyhow yeah they cannot stand him and
they're not the only one that I heard say that.
They said that he's just really crass and thinks he's better.
Yeah so anyhow.
He said that from his perspective the feud with.
Allegedly.
I love that word.
Allegedly.
I think Al Davis started when Marcus got an agent for the first time to negotiate a contract.
Oh I read that yeah.
And he said that was when Marcus, that was when Al Davis turned his back on him and said
you know you're dead to me kind of thing.
But really just one thing like that when other players were doing it and he wasn't doing
that to other players there's more to it than that.
So it had been speculated that Marcus Allen was dating Nicole Brown Simpson and that started
the big feud between.
Now I don't know if this is true or not but I remember reading it the big feud between
him and Al Davis.
Now if that's true or not I don't know but I know that OJ said that even.
And then Marcus Allen got mad at him and told me under the bus.
Yeah.
Well yeah I've heard it's weird I've heard stories about Al Davis.
Back in the 70s after a Chiefs game hitting the bars and getting drunk and cussing up
a storm and causing a problem.
I can see that.
But then I heard later that Al Davis never drank.
So I'm starting to think okay maybe somebody who looked like Al Davis or somebody who just
hated Al Davis started those stories.
Probably someone that hated him.
Yeah.
But I've also I started hearing that Al Davis was what most people would consider kind of
prudish at the time.
So the idea that that Marcus Allen is messing around with somebody's wife or ex-wife would
have really bothered Al Davis.
Maybe that is true then.
Yeah.
Maybe that is true.
I remember what did I see that on.
And I remember taking note and go you know I kind of think I kind of might believe this.
Yeah.
And it wasn't the fact that he knew OJ really well or something like that.
It was the fact that he thought it was really dirty to be someone's best friend and start
sleeping with their soon to be ex-wife.
Yeah.
You could look at that and say well that tells me something about you that you would do that.
Yeah.
And you don't have the character I thought you did.
And then I also read this too that also Al Davis' thought was if I'm going to pay a lot
of money for somebody and I think that you know that I'm going to pay that much money
for him I'm going to go get Bo Jackson.
Yeah.
Bo Jackson was the most superior athlete anywhere back then.
I mean he was like a huge fucking muscle.
I mean like Bruce Jenner on fucking steroids at the time you know.
And I mean he's like well if I'm going to pay this much money I'm just going to go get
this guy and this other guy that wants all this money I'm just going to hang him out
there in the wind.
Yeah.
So.
Yeah.
He was he'd always been a big well-muscled guy.
I read Bo Jackson's autobiography and he said the nickname Bo came from it was short
for boar hog.
Didn't know that.
Yeah.
So if somebody was big and strong like a boar hog and then boar hog sometimes gets shortened
to bo hunk.
Bo hunk yeah.
But then they just started calling him Bo.
And so Bo is short for boar hog which is big tough strong animal.
So that's where it started.
What was the old term Bo champ?
Have you ever heard that one?
Yeah that's there's a French name Bo champ.
Yeah yeah and that's that's like a name.
Which is like beautiful Victor or something like that.
But I thought the name Bo champ.
And there's Bo brummel.
Bo brummel.
Yeah which was refers to somebody who was well dressed and stylish.
Yeah.
But now that that phrase itself is out of style.
You'll never hear it.
Yeah it's the phrase itself is not as stylish.
I actually want to look up some of these terms and just start using them in real life just
to screw up your life.
Yeah.
Oh I still like it when I read Sam Hain.
I think certain people are like what?
Or Jude S Priest.
Jude S Priest used to be like fuck it or something yeah you know Jude S Priest.
It's like screw everything man.
Screw it.
I'm done with it.
That was that was the way to say Jesus Christ without taking the Lord's name in vain.
Yeah.
Jude S Priest because it sounded like it a little bit.
Yeah yeah and it's going to be over an evil character too.
You know Judas who turned his back.
Yeah.
Yeah so it was a way to almost take the Lord's name in vain.
It also illustrates the absurd of Judas being a priest.
Yeah yeah.
I think it's multifaceted.
It's like yeah this guy turned his back on Christ but he was a priest.
I was like Jude S Priest.
And they're a great band too.
Yeah absolutely.
But I never understood why Christians get mad at Judas because he was only doing exactly
what God intended him to do.
Yeah.
So people refer to Judas as a backstabber or a turncoat or a trader.
A trader.
Yeah.
But no he was God intended him for him to turn Jesus in and for Jesus to die on the
cross.
Yes.
That was the intent.
Well I think this is a commoner's way of putting stuff into perspective.
Not saying that we're definitely commoners.
Yeah.
But you know what I mean.
We're proud commoner here.
Yeah.
We're definitely nothing intellectually great about us.
But I have no degrees.
None at all.
Yeah me neither.
Nope.
I was doing stupid shit and drinking maybe.
I don't know.
If there's a degree for that I'm sure I got one.
But the deal is it's a commoner's way of putting things in perspective and I mean they just
reach for something.
This guy's a Judas.
Yeah.
Oh so you're meaning he's fulfilling his destiny and doing exactly as they don't look at him.
They look like oh he's a backstabber.
Yeah.
You ought to call him the Quisling.
Now that one.
The Quisling.
Yeah.
Or Benedict Arnold.
There's a historic term.
Well Benedict Arnold would be a better term because that supposedly is the guy that turned
around and you know.
But I have heard that term.
You don't hear it as much as you used to.
No no.
When I was grade school age Benedict Arnold was more of a big deal.
Yeah.
Well they taught it a lot more then.
I don't know how much they teach of it now.
Yeah.
Good Lord.
It's just history that white people made.
Yeah.
Yes that's right.
I still want to know.
This is the main thing I want to know.
That period in time is this right here.
Why the fucking wigs.
Why the stupid white haired fucking semi long wigs.
What I heard and seems to be the most likely is that syphilis was so prevalent and one
of the symptoms of syphilis was losing your hair.
So the wigs became common and in order for the people with syphilitic hair loss not to
feel obvious it kind of everybody adopted the look.
It was like oh we all wear wigs then nobody will be able to tell which of us one of us
lost his hair.
So that was the very first politically correct deal.
There you go.
Yeah.
That's where it started.
Wow.
Well you've heard of smallpox.
Yeah.
Do you ever wonder if there is a big pox or a great pox.
There is a great pox.
That's syphilis.
Oh didn't know that.
So as bad as smallpox is people consider that small compared to syphilis.
Syphilis is the great pox.
Wow.
Didn't know that.
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