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I found this story that I found the other day pretty intriguing
because people are personally getting sued that's striked.
Did you know that, Robin?
Yes.
Well, when I got to reading about it,
maybe I don't have such a problem with it like I thought I did.
Because there's such thing as human decency,
no matter how mad you are at your counterpart
or thinking how greedy they are or whatever.
Just let me explain to you what happened and I'll get your take on it.
Me, I see their point.
I see the company's point and I do see why they sued.
Just so you know, my dad was a union member, union steward from here.
Oh, what union?
Electrical workers.
He worked for Tanger City Paralyte.
Okay, well I support unions.
This isn't anything about that.
When I read to you what happened, I'm a big union supporter.
And if companies weren't so damn greedy, they'd have no need for them.
That last place that I worked at screwed, in my opinion,
fucked me over as much as they could out of money,
out of prevailing wages and everything.
Well, that being said, I also agree if the company is right, I agree with that.
Me too.
I agree it's right all the way, whatever's right.
Me too, exactly.
And there is a middle ground too.
The Supreme Court dealt a blow to striking workers on Thursday
ruling that companies can sue workers if they believe their activism leads to damages.
So the activism part I don't agree with because unless it means something that I don't think is the context of this,
but activism is like when you strongly feel about something and you bring awareness to it, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, well maybe that's the way they had to word it, maybe not.
But I'll explain to you what I'm talking about right here.
The case centered on a concrete company that had sued striking employees
after the employees walked out and left concrete trucks running.
Okay.
Yeah, so it ruined product.
I see where you're going.
Okay.
The court ruled 8-1 in favor of Glacier Northwest against the internal brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 174.
So you hear that word, Teamsters.
Yes.
Yeah.
So look, you out there in podcast land, you can draw your own conclusions of Teamsters
because they're not all bad, but there's some of them that take shit a little bit too far in my opinion.
So once again, this show is only our opinion.
Exactly.
Okay, do you take it for what you want, Mike?
Yes, absolutely, Rob.
Very well said.
I'll hold back if you want to ask me.
Wipe your ass with your Bluetooth.
You love it, kiss your Bluetooth.
We don't care.
But this is our opinion and this is how we feel about it, and that's the way it is.
Neil Francisco, the attorney representing Glacier, told CBS News that the ruling vindicates the longstanding principle
that federal law does not shield labor unions from tort liability when they intentionally destroy an employer's property.
Our client is entitled to just for just compensation for its property that the union intentionally destroyed.
And this article, I could have went on with it, but let me just explain some things about it.
Yeah, these articles do get long.
I'm fighting out.
Okay, well, number one, the workers did not have to leave the trucks running.
I know they were told to, but they did.
There was thousands and thousands of pounds of concrete from what I read, if it's true, and I believe it is,
it's from several news sources, that it destroyed thousands and thousands of dollars of their property.
Okay?
Okay, I'm with you.
Yeah, so you can strike, but on the way out, you don't tear out the wall sockets and burn up equipment
and smash cars on the way out or nothing like that.
If you're striking, you're like, hey, we think you owe us more.
You don't. We'll see you in court or whatever.
You know, we'll see you in litigation.
You don't clock in that day. You all meet on a sidewalk in front of the building that morning.
I've been there and done that.
You don't clock in and start work and then leave things running.
You don't do that.
No. On this particular case, I'm with the company.
I'm with you on that, my friend. They should be liable.
You have to be a gentleman on the way out.
There's a lot of money in that diesel running them trucks, a lot of money. Yeah.
And let me tell you another thing, too, being a victim of a strike.
You go a little bit out of bounds with them and it is not forgotten.
No. They let you back in the doors because they have to by law.
But they don't forget it.
And first chance they get to quotations, air quotations, get you back, depend on it.
That will happen. Yeah.
So these people who did that, let's say they get back in the door, they get sued.
Everyone's like, OK, well, fuck. All right. Whatever.
So people were personally sued and the union was sued both. OK.
And then this company won this glacier. Yeah.
Yeah. They won.
So they won money from the people in the union, from what I understand here.
But also, let's say they get this figured out and then these people go back to work and they go, hey, yeah, come on in.
You got your jobs back. But those people were back there just stewing, thinking, yeah, Billy over there.
He left the fucking truck running and he ruined the brakes. He did this and that.
Yeah, we don't like him. Well, guess what?
Guess who has upper hand? Your employer, not you. Yeah.
So they're not going to forget that. And you think the union's going to remember that?
I'm sorry, but my experience is with it is no.
The union's like, OK, thanks a lot, buddy. We'll see you later.
We'll go back to your job. And then you're back at that job and you're hung out to dry.
You're fucked because your company now hates you and you're a strange.
You're like you're like you just got a divorce and you still got to hang around the house.
You're pushing the broom. Yeah. Yeah. You're pushing a broom.
And your ex wife doesn't love you anymore.
Actually, your ex wife is like despising you more the more you hang around. Right.
Well, this is this is the exact same thing.
Almost. So, yeah, these people that have to go back to work in that building are not going to have an easy time.
I can tell you that right now. No, they might go find a new job.
Yeah. Yep. Yeah.
What they need to do is they need to get with that union and say, hey, here's the deal.
You're the ones that told us it was all green and fucking in there red rosy.
So you go ahead and find us another job because this place, it ain't going to work.
So, yeah. Yeah.
Anyhow, Rob, you got a you got anything you want to throw in there here?
Oh, did you watch my Facebook?
I am on Facebook so little anymore.
OK. Well, I posted one. I think it was yesterday.
OK. And it was hilarious.
Mark, I think it was one. It was a man.
And it says all these rappers out here are dying and drug overdoses in their early 20s.
And it showed a picture of Ozzy at 71.
And he had that Ozzy smile.
Oh, yeah. I got a better example.
Keith Richards. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, you know, you know, we got all these.
Dying over those guys that went through all that.
No, I know. Yeah. Well.
I mean, the rock community has had its share of overdoses, too.
But I also think that like rock music has been ODM for so long now where rap is more of a newer.
Right. Form of music that they're kind of going through there.
And we're going to try to do everything and get away with it stage when like the rock community doesn't really do that anymore.
Right. And the thing I'm trying to point out here is I hear what you're saying.
But also think of this.
Think of the 60s and 70s when all these bands are just getting big and think of how many people didn't make it through it.
Now, that's true. Yeah.
So I think it may look lopsided right now.
And it was a funny meme. Don't get me wrong.
But I think this right here, I think that it's probably virtually the same only we've already been through it and we've already seen it.
And they're going through it right now.
And then, you know, maybe later on there, they'll look at their predecessors and go, we ain't going out like that.
You know, I didn't think of it like that. I just read it and I just started rolling.
Well, let's be honest.
Whenever you hit fame like that and everything you get, everything you want in life is easy.
It's hard to control yourself.
And there's no one there to tell you no, because all you have around you is yes, man.
Right.
It's like, hey, man, should I start this line and shoot this and shoot this heroin and fucking drink five bottles of gin?
Oh, hell yeah. You the man.
They don't have people around him telling him, yeah, I don't think that's a good idea. Whoever.
Yeah, they have yes, man. They pay him to be yes, man.
Yeah, that's right, man. That's right. Yeah, you're the best.
And then that's what happens.
They don't have anyone like telling him, no, you know what, dude, here, I've been watching you and you're really starting to fucking run off the rails.
You need to need to nip this thing, go to rehab so we can get another couple of albums out of you.
But, you know. Right.
I didn't think of the serious side of that one. I was wondering if that was funny.
Well, no, no, it was funny. I'm just saying I'm just explaining a little bit more to it.
It was funny. And all you're doing was meaning it as a joke and is perfectly fine as a joke.
But what I'm saying is, is they're kind of going through their stage of hell, yeah, we could do whatever we want when rock music has been at it like 50 years.
And they're kind of like, I don't know, man. A lot of people ended up in the grave early.
Yeah, they did. They did. Yeah. So.
Kurt Cobain. Oh, shit. Yeah. Yeah. Well, many others. Yeah. Yeah.
Well, I guess you could attribute Kurt Cobain to drug use.
I think. Well, Jimi Hendrix was drug use. Yes. Janis Joppo was drug use.
There's a lot of alcohol. Yeah. Jim Morrison was a lot of alcoholism did it too.
Bon Scott. Yeah. Death by Death by Misadventures, what the coroner called it.
And basically he drank himself to death. He drank so much alcohol his body could not survive because he had too much alcohol in his system.
He pickled himself. He pickled himself. Yeah.
And Bon Scott, they're good. They just hit big with Highway to Hell album and they had a new one that they're working on, which was called Back.
It was going to be called Back in Black. And he wrote a lot. He helped co-write a lot of the songs on Back in Black.
And that was one of the biggest selling albums ever. But Bon Scott never made it there because Bon Scott drank himself to death.
So. And here's another thing, too. You know how many people out there don't know that ACDC had two lead singers?
Bon Scott and then Brian Johnson. Yeah. I've always known that.
Me too. But we grew up in that. There are a lot of people think it's the same guy.
Honestly, they do sound a lot alike. They do. On purpose.
The guy that I was reading an article the other day, the guy that Angus and Malcolm Young wanted, who were the leaders of ACDC, the brothers.
Malcolm since passed away. But anyhow, they were talking to both of them, I believe.
The guy they wanted was Mark Starachi from Crocus. Really? Yes. And think about it. That guy sounded almost exactly like Bon Scott.
He did. He did. Yeah. Yeah. That guy. As a matter of fact, like one of Crocus's songs earlier in their career, Long Stick Goes Boom.
I dare anyone to tell the difference between that and Bon Scott. I mean, they sound identical.
And that's who they wanted to replace Bon Scott. But he said, no, I'm going to stick with Crocus.
I wonder if he's kicking himself in the ass right now as we speak. Oh, I bet he is. Yeah.
Dammit. I'll tell you what I liked is, is I saw Axl Rose perform with ACDC when when Brian Johnson had his hearing problem. Right. Right.
Axl Rose does a really, really, really good Bon Scott. Does he really? Yes, he does. Look him up. I would not imagine that.
Look him up on the Internet. Look up when he filled in for ACDC. But the one that reminds me a lot is he did a whole lot of Rosie so well.
I was like, man, I was kind of hoping he'd go ahead and join ACDC. I would went and see him again. Yeah, it's pretty cool.
So anyhow, you got anything you want to add to that?
Oh, some other stories, but there's been funny comments at the end of it. Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead.
OK. In Germany, there's a soccer stadium with a three mile long beer pipeline that supplies the beverage to visitors.
There's a pipeline that supplies the beer to the stadium. OK. Uh huh. And there was all kinds of different comments to this story.
And one one of them was, you know, sounds sanitary to me, you know.
And then, yeah, they've been around for a long time in old Germany. Well, this one comment caught my eye.
It says in Milwaukee, you can freaking see and see is an all caps.
The breweries are the brewers in all caps. Freaking stadium. No pipeline.
And they ran out of beer in the sixth inning.
Who? We're we right across the street. They ran out of it.
That was pretty clever. Yeah, I've been playing a few lately that some of the actions.
I'll get the more later. So, Robbie, I got it. Yeah, I thought that'd be cool.
Beer pipeline. That would be hell. Yeah. Yeah, I'm in.
I got a question for you. What where do you exactly live? You live at Lake of Ozarks, right?
I live in the town of Camden. Camden. Yeah. OK. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yeah.
Yeah. Camden is right there. And I forgot the arm of the Lake of Ozarks.
It's the it's the Nyinga. It's where they all meet. Yeah.
And I was in four seasons there. Yeah.
You know, yeah, it all meets right here. Yeah. I like Camden. It's a pretty good sized town.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. My son just graduated a couple of weeks ago. Oh, cool.
Three hundred and eleven kids graduate. Yeah. Yeah.
And their football team's always in the running for state always. Oh, I didn't know that. Nice. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, they're football teams. They're football and they're banned.
So what prompted you to move from this area, the Kansas City area to Camden?
Well, actually, I was living up. I left the building there and met a woman, got married.
OK. And that was back in ninety eight.
And I'm excited. You know, I was up around St. Joe for about four years.
Mm hmm. That was back when I was doing the maintenance on me, all these and doing that.
I remember you telling me the 9-eleven story. Yeah. Yeah.
And I also DJ karaoke side couple guys. Oh, no shit. Four years.
Yeah. Cool. Yeah. And then, well, my ex-wife had an awesome voice.
I had an awesome voice. Uh huh. So we got this brainiac idea to move me and her four kids
and her oldest daughter's husband down to Branson. OK.
And we got her a singing career going. OK.
Well, a year later, we split up.
Now, how did her singing career do in Branson?
Do you remember Jim Baker? Yes. The CD of Jim and Tammy Thay.
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. While we were together,
there was this first singing service when he opened his new show in Branson.
Oh, wow. I am on your pilot show.
No shit. I helped run the cabling in his truck so you could see the show on a new year's day.
How was old Jim Baker?
I still wouldn't trust him. No, no, of course not.
Wouldn't he want to mess around with Jessica Hawn?
Yeah. Something like that. But now he's got some new woman.
Yeah, because him and Tammy split up. I remember that.
Yeah. When they went to prison, when they did their prison time and all that.
Well, he got out of prison and he got some backers in Branson's starter show down there.
I remember that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, my ex-wife was one of the first singing servers.
Oh, wow. OK. Well, a few months later, we get divorced. OK.
Well, now her and her new husband have a show up in St. Joe, which she stayed around Branson.
And if you don't mind me giving her a plug real quick.
No, go ahead.
If you are a Patsy Cline fan.
Oh, hell yeah. I am personally. One of the greatest female singers ever.
Check out a show called All About Patsy. It's by a woman named Alice Faye.
I've actually heard of that all about Patsy. I read it somewhere or saw it. Go ahead.
Branson.
Branson. OK, that must have been it then.
Well, now she has moved her show up to St. Joe and she does other gigs.
She'll go over to Hannibal every now and then. Maybe do a show in Branson.
That's my ex-wife, Mark.
Wow.
She's moved on to bigger things. I could not have taken her there.
I got her started.
OK. Well, you must obviously still get along with her because you wanted to plug her.
We'll always be friends. There was no more feelings.
OK.
And after years. I mean, I was back in 2002, 2003.
OK.
You know, that's how I ended up here. You asked.
Yeah, no, no, no. I was I was pretty interested in that.
And thank you. Thank you for sharing.
I mean, I knew there's going to be an interesting story to make you leave here.
I just didn't know what it was.
Yeah, yeah, that's what it was.
OK.
I'm here and want to come back home.
Be honest.
Man, that'd be cool. Then you could start doing the podcast in person.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Very cool.
Let's see here.
You had some story about the trains.
At Jess and Jim's.
Oh, oh, yes, yes, yes.
Yeah.
The Jess and Jim's crowd after work.
Oh, boy, we were something.
We had a wild party in the parking lot.
Yep.
We were either at Jess and Jim's or we were at RC.
One or the other.
There weren't any from 50 to 450 people.
Yep.
And one of the things we'd run down the side of Jess and Jim's was a railroad track.
Mm hmm.
Late at night, a train would come by.
Oh, what was it about? One one thirty in the morning, something like that.
Yeah, the late one. I remember that one. It was like clockwork.
One one thirty, one twenty five.
He'd be by.
With the old engineers, it looked like we wanted to rip our heads off every time we'd come by.
Uh huh.
Because there was that tower and that little building.
I think it was a switch station.
It was a switch station, yeah.
Well, there would be if you don't hurt people all over this tower and a switch station and up and down the track, mooning this train.
We'd be mooning this train to somebody.
Remember, my brother used to climb on top of that switch station and have his ass hanging out there to where he could see it like really close.
Oh my God. Yeah, we we we had fun.
And after the.
By we take all our beer bottles and hit the rest of the cars.
Oh, yeah, I forgot about that.
We did not hurt the engine, but the cars was open market.
Yes, it was. We didn't do anything that would probably hurt the the train.
We just put good sized dents in the carts.
Got government got involved because they were got engineers got concerned about their safety about this part.
Oh, I remember that. Yeah.
You remember that? Yes.
And and engineers were allowed to carry guns.
Uh huh.
We did not know this at that time.
I wish we would have known this.
We've done things a little bit differently.
We found out we found out this one night that I remember.
OK, you remember the car had that one little platform that you could fit like four people on and other people keep going up.
Yes, I was on the platform.
We were all all athletes to this.
And it was me and you.
A few of us were watching the engineers were all laughing, looking at him.
Yeah, just giving him giving him great help.
He holds up this shotgun.
Kids flying everywhere.
I remember that now.
Yeah, we wondered what the hell happened.
I just recently come to find out it went through legislation.
It become a rule.
I mean, long on the day to carry guns, and that's why he showed up that one night for that long day because he was expecting us, man.
He knew we'd be there.
The word was out, dude.
We did it too many times.
But I guess it wasn't just us.
I guess it was other groups hitting the trains at the same time, too.
Look, this was the 80s and we didn't have internet.
We didn't have phones.
That was the mid 80s.
That was the mid 80s, 85, 86.
We had nothing else going on literally.
So yeah, that was funny that they showed that man never kids just stared like cockroaches.
It was funny.
I forgot all about that.
All about it.
Do you remember that old man that drove the he had a gorgeous old Monte Carlo?
Yeah.
Who was that?
I can't think of his name.
He was an older gentleman.
It's Monte Carlo looked like it was off the showroom floor.
Yeah.
Well, one day we were just we were prepping.
So it was like before dinner shift.
We were just out there prepping and I'm thinking maybe Saturday could have been very weird.
I go to take some trash out for the dumpster.
And I look down the river tracks.
And here is this Monte Carlo park on the river tracks.
OK.
Jimmy, everybody was in the kitchen.
I come running in and said, hey, guys, there's a Monte Carlo out here on the river track.
And so we all go out there.
It was drunk.
What he did was when he come instead of turn in the parking lot, he turned down the river tracks and he drove down the river tracks away.
Realized he was on the river tracks, got turned around, was coming back, got stuck.
So he gets out of his car, walks in the bar, gets in, sits down, orders a drink.
Oh, my God.
You don't remember this?
I remember a little bit about it.
Yes.
Go ahead.
You know the story better than I do because it's one of the stories I will never forget.
Because that was a court.
It was like it was off the showroom.
Mm hmm.
I mean, I can't remember the name of the guy, but he went around a whole long time.
I don't know what happened to him.
Older gentleman.
Very nice.
Yeah, yeah.
I remember him.
I can't remember his name, but yeah, he was a nice guy.
And I remember that car in particular is beautiful.
I come running into the kitchen and guys, there's a car out here on the river track.
We all go out there.
And somebody ran in to find him and me, you, your brother, Jimmy, everybody from the kitchen's out there.
What are we going to do?
We start picking up this car and start taking over.
You know what?
I was there.
I remember that now.
Yeah.
And we get it.
Wow.
Yeah.
And he hit his ass.
And all of a sudden we start hearing rumbling and we knew what that meant.
Uh huh.
We turn around, here comes a train.
All it did was it took off the path or side mirror of that car.
And that was it.
It looked like it was going to smack it good.
Oh my God.
If we, if we would not have been there, Mark, gone.
Oh yeah.
And probably half the Jess and Jim's would have been gone too because it would have flown that car right at them.
Right at the building.
Yeah, it would have went, it would have got out.
Oh wow.
Gosh, that's something that I forgot about.
That's like one of those stories.
Yeah, if it wasn't out for us, that guy's car would have been gone, man.
Oh, I know.
And I don't know whatever happened.
We weren't bad people.
No, no, no.
We were wild.
Yeah, we were just wild.
But you know what?
If someone got in trouble like that, we'd be the first ones to help them out.
You better believe it.
Wow, man, you just got me with a story I hadn't, I'd forgotten all about.
Yes, yeah.
And the thing, the thing is, is I don't think.
You ought to have people like Jimmy and all them, if they remember that.
We need to get them on the podcast and just.
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I think Brian may have been there that day.
Brian probably was there because I think he's probably out there probably moving the car with us.
Well, it was him and Jimmy doing the baits.
Okay, that sounds about right.
Yeah, yeah. It was Jimmy and Brian on baits and you and your brother on dish dogs.
Okay, that sounds about right.
Yeah.
Yep, we're all dish dogging, huh?
Those good old days.
The time of our lives.
Oh, I know. I remember smacking people in the back of the head with a big fucking T-bone.
Oh, that hurt.
Oh my God. Oh yeah.
Oh, geez. Wow, that's cooler than hell.
We got a lot of stories about that place. Some of them we'll probably have to take to our grave.
Yeah, there's some of them that even to this day cannot be repeated.
No, no. It was for our eyes only.
Yes. Yeah.
Oh shit. And I remember Harry had so many crazy shit that he used to do.
Oh my God.
Oh man. Oh God. I got to remember more shit that Harry did because Harry was always unpredictable and just nuts.
He was off the charts, man. He was. But he was lovable. He was lovable.
He was the nicest guy you'd ever be friends with. And if you were friends, he was a true friend.
He'd be that one guy where everyone's just having fun dogging on people, not meeting anything, and he'd be the one that'd stick up for you.
Ah, come on now, guys. Stop. You know, Harry is a good guy.
RIP Harry. We're talking about you again, buddy. We're keeping you alive.
We're keeping you alive with our talk, our crazy Harry talk.
And anyhow, I got a neat little story here. You know we're all Black Sabbath fans, right?
Oh yeah.
Well, Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iaomi once had an onstage guitar solo interrupted by local taxi firm orders coming through his amp.
What?
Yeah. Yeah. Anyhow, they knew about this. So anyhow, Black Sabbath 1981 Tour was a statement that the band was better than ever with their new singer Ronnie James Dio.
Remember they just let Ozzy go, right?
Yeah.
Ozzy came out and he put out a fucking blistering first album, Blizzard of Oz, and he was on the charts everywhere and he was huge.
And you know, he was like really selling out smaller venues. I mean, not real small, but you know.
And he was just doing very, he was very successful. So Sabbath was over there going, oh shit.
You know, he's out here just kicking ass and they're kind of worried about their brand and everything. And so the 1981 Heaven and Hell Tour,
you know, it was kind of like a statement, you know, when Ronnie James Dio came out and Heaven and Hell came out, it was a fantastic album, right?
Yeah.
You know, it's a shame then that a local taxi company screeched through Iaomi's amp during a solo.
Sabbath's triumphant 1981 tour found itself in Leeds Queen Hall at soundcheck when Iaomi was practicing his solo
and a local taxi company's frequency was running through Iaomi's amp.
A very panicked discussions ensued.
And then they're talking about canceling the event when the city officials warned, and this was in England, you know, at the venue.
And I believe it was, oh gosh, something shy or well, anyhow, officials warned that doing so would cause a riot.
So they're like, you know, you can't cancel because these kids are going to like start pelting shit and they're going to destroy the whole venue if you guys don't show up.
So the group's tour manager then reached out to the local taxi company and they agreed to not have any radio broadcasts during the concert's duration.
That, you know, then the taxi company, sorry, I'm proofreading this as I go here because this is a story that I did not get a chance to read.
And I'm trying to go down.
Okay. What I'm trying to do is I'm trying to make this all it's going into all these other statistics that we don't need.
So, trust me, I know from doing my homework for this show.
Yes, you get all this information because I don't know these people must get paid by word.
That's all I got to say.
So, yeah, the band, the band offered 2000 euros to the taxi company.
Well, back then, that was a lot of money to not have any orders over their frequency during the duration of the concert.
The show went on and I only was at its most intense moment of the solo.
And then it went into Car 51 to Neville Street.
So some of it bled through. They weren't supposed to. But during his solo, during the climax of the solo, his best part of it, everyone heard Car 51 to Neville Street.
I only kept going and he didn't care. And he laughed it off. And nobody else gave a shit either.
So, anyhow, the show went on and people, it's like it's part of history because people that have that recording have that cab company order for Car 51 to Neville Street.
And it's going it's going to live. It's going to live on forever.
Oh, I bet it's worth a bunch of money right now.
I bet it is too because you can't find it on YouTube. Someone has it.
Exactly. I bet somebody's getting on a gold mine.
Oh, yeah. That to me is something that I find very intriguing and I love.
Yeah, I mean, that's one of those. I mean, that's one of those things. It's the name of the game. The show must go on.
Yeah. And I owe me didn't miss a beat. They just said that like, you know what? He kind of laughed and shrugged and just kept playing.
And everyone else is like, OK, so we've been going.
You know, people that were probably really plastered probably just thought it's part of the show.
Yeah, yeah, they probably did.
They're like, oh, how neat. Why did they do that? Well, who cares?
Give me another mushroom. I'm watching this shit.
Honestly, nobody probably even heard it.
You're right. I would have been watching this solo and I'd be like, did you hear that?
I'm like, what, the guitar? No.
Well, then in that case, no, I didn't hear it because all I heard was beautiful guitar.
I mean, come on, brother, it was Sabbath.
That's right. There's no other reason to hear anything else.
So, Tony, you the man.
See how you are. Yep.
So I've got another little one here. They're switching gears completely.
You know, killer whales are deliberately hitting boats now. Orcas are hitting boats.
So, hey, last Thursday, another group of orcas, also known as killer whales,
rammed into a sailboat off the southern coast of Spain and nearly sank it.
I know the whale damaged the rudder and pierced the hull of the sixty foot six foot vessel.
The attack adds to a running list of incidents where orcas have caused damage to
or had physical interactions between boats and orca whales.
It didn't just start this year, though.
There are 207 incidents in 2022 and there are over 20 in the last month of May of this year.
There are several theories.
Some say the ocean heating up could cause the aggression to several other theories,
but nobody has a definite reason why these killer whales or orcas are acting out and deliberately hitting boats.
Some say they're trying to commit suicide because they're thinking if they really was trying to kill people
that they would capsize these boats.
Yeah, they're big enough, smart enough.
Yeah.
Well, you know what I find, Doc?
What?
It's only orcas. It's only one species.
You're right. You're right.
That's what I'm finding odd about that market. It's only one species.
You know what, Rob? That's very true. I never even thought of that or pieced it together like that.
Why just orcas? Why isn't it any other whales?
Yeah.
Or anything else for that matter?
Blue whales. Anything.
Yeah, anything.
Hmm.
I don't know. Very interesting.
But I'm monitoring that story and that's pretty much all they have of that right now.
Is they're attacking and trying to, it's appearing like they're trying to destroy boats or at least tip them over.
So.
I may help you on that stuff. I might see what I can find on it.
Yeah, see what you can find.
You got me interested on that one too.
That's pretty interesting, isn't it?
Especially with it being only one species. That's what I'm counting on you for.
Yeah. Yeah, me too.
Did I ever tell you about my mosquito larva trick?
No.
Well, allow me if you don't care.
Go right ahead, buddy.
Alrighty. My whole idea came about when my dad came up to me in the house when I was 11 or 12.
He told me to dump the small swimming pool because it had mosquito larva in it.
Sure enough, I examined it and I could see the little larva swimming around in it. Gross little bastards.
So I'm like, those are all future mosquitoes.
So I poured it out, stomped on the little fuckers while they're there on the sidewalk.
So a few days later, Miss Busby over on the east side of town called me and asked me if I wanted to make some extra money mowing her lawn.
So, of course, you know, I had other obligations.
Well, I mean, after the mowing, my obligation be like, go spend all my money on Pac-Man and Pepsi's.
Yeah.
Yeah. Maybe a cheeseburger here and there.
Yeah.
So a few days later, Miss Busby, you know, had me come down.
I mowed her lawn and weed-eated and she came out and anyhow, she said that it was only going to be five dollars.
It was supposed to be twenty dollars.
We agreed on twenty and she said that it was a huge lawn and it took me like a matter of a couple of days to do it because it was so big.
And it's supposed to be twenty dollars.
She said five dollars.
She claimed that the lawn looked substandard, but it didn't.
I worked my ass off on that lawn and I even weed-eated everything.
OK.
It was so pretty.
And so I told a couple of people and they laughed and said, oh, she got you too.
They said that she'd done that to everybody when I was old enough to mow.
And it was my turn because I just started mowing lawns and, you know, she kind of picks these people out.
She's like, oh, well, Mark's old enough to mow.
I saw him mowing a couple of lawns, so I'm going to go fuck him over.
So I'm pissed.
So I'm pissed and I go over to her house and she demanded my and I demanded my money.
I earned.
She slammed the door on me.
I called her a bitch through the air conditioner.
She called my dad and told him I cussed at her.
I informed my dad that she ripped me off and and everybody else.
I didn't get in trouble.
So I go out back and I see the larva in the pool again.
I dip a cup in and I get a large cup full of the larva infested water.
So I'm sitting there looking in this cup and it's full of those little bastards swimming around, right?
Oh, yeah.
Yep, I walked to Miss Busby's house and I pour out the water in her vases, her flower vases.
And and and I poured all I poured out the water in her vases and I poured in the larva water.
So she must have seen me out there in her yard.
She opened the door and wanted to know what I was doing.
So really quick, I said, you know, I said the other day when I called you that horrible word and you called my dad, I got in trouble.
I guess I got swatted and he told me to come here and apologize to you.
And that's what I'm doing here.
So she said, OK, but don't ever do it again.
I said, sure, Miss Busby, no problem.
I'm very sorry again. I shouldn't have ever called you that horrible word.
So anyhow, she had the huge pots on her on her porch.
And I kept going there at night, putting in large plastic cups full of larvae.
So I kept doing it like every night nightly.
And one night I come over and she was getting your yard, getting her yard sprayed for mosquitoes.
I kept going there at night for around six weeks, pouring the larva water in the vases.
She had to spray. She had the spray guy out at her house at least three times.
Stupid bitch. She should have paid me.
I cannot believe that worked so well.
She had her place sprayed three times.
Three fucking times.
Yeah, well, she probably spent like three hundred dollars on getting her yard sprayed.
And all she had to do was give me my 20 bucks I earned.
Yeah. Yeah.
So it's like, all right, suit yourself, bitch. Watch this.
That's what you get for messing with a good place.
Yep. Yep.
It all started because I had to dump the little swimming pool out full of mosquito larvae.
I had no idea what it was before that.
Until my dad told me, he said, oh, those little bastards are going to they're going to grow up to be mosquitoes.
They're going to bite the piss out of us.
I think I miss Busby on the east side of town, that's for sure.
All right, Rob, the floor is yours. You had some other stuff, I believe.
I want to get this one over with.
OK.
I mentioned something to you earlier, but I'm actually going to dig out the Bible for this one.
OK.
Everybody knows the eggs long conversation, which came first, chickens or the eggs?
Yes, and everybody has their theory and everyone.
I mean, go ahead.
I would love to hear this.
I found the answer.
OK, I want to hear it.
It's actually in Genesis 1.
OK.
Wow.
OK, there you go.
That solves it for me.
I'm good with it.
Yeah, yeah, it's right in the Bible.
Yeah, create birds first and then fed.
Let them reproduce.
There we go.
You're welcome, America.
You're welcome.
Yeah, now everybody quit arguing.
Yeah, and actually we have a lot of international listeners also.
So you're welcome, international listeners.
That's what we do here.
We solve shit.
We hunt the facts.
That's right.
We are fact hunters, relentless fact hunters.
If you want to call it that.
Not really, but anyhow.
We're always digging deep for the real story.
That's what the story led me to that.
That's cool.
And I read it and I was like, yeah, that's the answer right there.
Yep.
The answer's been in front of us this whole time.
OK, I'm good with it.
Did you know ketchup leaves the bottle at the rate of 25 miles per year?
No.
I didn't believe that though.
Just suck my red.
You know what's great now?
We have the plastic ketchup bottles.
Remember we had the bottle bottles, the glass ones?
Oh my God.
Oh, it would take an act of God to get you any type of ketchup at all.
Take a butter knife, shove up in it.
Yeah, that's all you could ever hope for is that right there.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, those glass ketchup bottles were crap.
Yeah, they were.
But now we have the squeeze bottle and all you got to do is just like if you're running like about half or a little bit under, keep that bitch upside down in the fridge.
That way it's ready to go when you're ready to squeeze that shit out.
That's what I do.
Yeah, yep.
25 miles a year, I believe that.
A year, a year.
Not an hour, a year.
A year.
Wow.
Yep, I believe that completely.
All right, you have some more stuff?
I'm liking some of these facts you're coming up with.
Yeah, yeah.
Here's another one of those with the funny quote at the end.
Okay.
Snakes can sense an earthquake coming from 70 miles, 75 miles away, up to five days before it happens.
So are people studying them to find out about earthquakes?
I guess, I guess.
I would think so.
It was in a fact, thanks.
But the comment that caught my eye was this guy asked, who asked the snake?
This comes with my snake story last week with Mike.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Who asked the snake?
Oh man.
I think it's a real comment people are putting on this.
I'm not making these up.
No, I believe it.
I mean.
I'm getting onto some good ones, so there's more to come in the future.
That sounds good.
I got a little story here.
Famous artist Maurizio Kettelin has a lot of signature work, I guess.
One of the most famous was $120,000 banana.
The piece of art is simply a banana taped to a wall.
So when Korean college student Noh Hayoung, I know that's his name, was walking by the art,
he grabbed the banana and he ate it.
He said he remembered that he skipped breakfast that morning.
When the banana bandit was finished, he took the peel and he attached it back to the wall.
He is facing a variety of charges, including theft.
So this guy walks by, he sees a banana up there, he grabs it, he eats it, and then just.
I forgot I ate breakfast.
Yeah, he says, I forgot I ate breakfast.
And then he takes the peel and he tapes it back up on there like nothing happened.
Whoever that is, I want to shake his hand. That's awesome.
Oops, I forgot.
He had it back on the wall. That's the play point.
Yep, that's fucking awesome.
Let me see here. I'm looking for some other stories here. I know I have a bunch of them.
So, hang on a second.
I'm looking. Do you know what a sea cucumber is?
No, I've heard them, but I don't know what they are.
I don't either. I really don't either. I just found this fact about them.
Some sea cucumbers fight with their guts, literally.
When they're threatened, they'll shoot out their internal organs, which are poisonous to prisoners.
They sometimes get rid of their entire digestive systems, but their organs grow back.
It doesn't kill them, they'll grow back.
Oh wow.
I've got some stories here I did on a little solo cast to keep people happy in between the two ones that we put out last week.
I have heard a lot of the stories here. I'm going to go over the stories again because of this.
Some people don't listen to the solo cast because they're really short.
We don't get the near numbers that we do whenever we do a regular podcast.
I'm going to go ahead and cover this. If you already heard this and you listen to the solo cast, I apologize.
But I think we ought to go ahead and cover them.
New Delhi, India.
A government official in India has been suspended from his job after he ordered a water reservoir to be drained so he could retrieve a smartphone, which he dropped while taking a selfie.
Take me home?
Yep. No joke.
So he's taking a selfie, he drops the fucking phone in there. So what a moron.
Food inspector Roshis Vizwa dropped his Samsung smartphone in the Katturada Dam in central India last week.
He first asked local divers to jump in the reservoir to find the device, claiming it contained sensitive government material.
So he was a food inspector, right?
So what was the sensitive material? A couple of hands not fucking being saran wrapped?
I don't know. A couple of pieces of fucking brisket that have been out all day.
Is that a sensitive material?
You know?
So when it could not be retrieved, he ordered the reservoir to be drained with diesel pumps.
This huge reservoir was drained with fucking diesel pumps, Rob.
Okay.
You know how long that would probably take and how many it would take?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Over the next three days, more than two million liters of water were pumped out of the reservoir, which is enough to irrigate at least 1,500 acres of land.
The videos went viral on social media.
Vizwas was sitting under a red umbrella at the water when the water was drained from the reservoir.
Vizwas also told local media that the water in the reservoir was unusable for irrigation and that he had received permission from a senior officer to drain it, which he did not.
It was all a lie.
The smartphone was retrieved and couldn't be used.
It was waterlogged.
So the stupid fucker drained this huge reservoir for his fucking phone and he couldn't even use it anyhow.
Yeah.
He was suspended for the foolish act, but he should be fired and probably thrown in jail.
I was going to say proven fact.
Yeah, he should be.
Now, I don't know the laws over there.
And it didn't say I mean, the story stopped when, you know, him being suspended.
So he might very well be facing jail time.
I'm going to monitor the story.
India is one of the most water stress countries with overpopulation and severe drought.
So that guy right there, that idiot.
That's.
Yeah, he needs to be in jail.
Yeah, that's a long line.
I was thinking as dry as it is over there, he's doing away with a reservoir.
Yeah, that's yeah, that guy.
He deserves what he gets.
And hopefully it's a lot of jail time.
You know how many people could probably die because they don't get food over there.
Right. Right.
Yeah. What a piece of crap.
What about all the fish he just killed?
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
That's another one, too.
That's a good point.
Yeah, I didn't think about that.
Yeah.
So in New Zealand, there's this piece of pizza company, right?
Yeah.
It's called Hill Pizza.
It has a new pay option.
It's buy now.
Pay when you die promotion.
OK.
So you pay when you die.
Now, listen to this, because I was like, oh, fuck that.
I thought it was some sort of a gimmick.
It is a gimmick.
Don't get me wrong.
But it is what it says, too.
Also, this promotion was inspired by the buy now, pay later schemes going on.
We're seeing a growing number of people using the schemes to buy essential items like food.
And we think it's taken it a step too far when you got quick service restaurants like ours being asked to offer buy now, pay later options.
That is considered a treat or food.
So OK, we have that over here, right?
It's called a credit card.
And it's been going on for years.
Everyone goes down to, I don't know, your restaurant of choice.
Let's say you like Chipotle.
You go there.
You buy with a card.
That's buy now, pay later, right?
Right.
The pizzeria is taking the first 666 customers in New Zealand and the first 666 customers in Australia.
The chosen ones will have an amendment on their will that the restaurant will be paid in full at the time of death.
Now, OK.
Doesn't that cost quite a bit of money to have your will amended?
Yes, it does.
OK.
At least in this country it does.
Aren't you talking about a $20 pizza probably?
So you're going to go have like a $200 amendment on your will for a $20 pizza that you pay later when you die?
I think I'll just go ahead and pay with my credit card and do it like that.
And I'll pay next month as into when I die.
Why don't you say my kids will pay for it?
Yeah.
You know what?
At first I thought there's no way any idiot's going to go for this.
Then I thought again, hell no.
Everyone will go for this just for the notoriety.
Yeah.
Hey, check this out, man.
I bought a hell pizza.
Look at this piece of paper.
I'm going to buy this one and kick it.
Oh, OK.
Where was that at?
It was in New Zealand, but Australia is really close to New Zealand.
So they had a location in Australia too.
And it's called Hell Pizza.
Yeah.
There's another restaurant in Australia that's providing a 10 percent discount.
If you keep your mobile phones in a box while you're having your food.
Oh, I love that idea.
Yeah.
The funny thing was it showed a picture of these three teenage girls on these plasters, elbows on the table.
Of course.
And their dad sitting there, big thumbs up, smile, you know, because he's getting a 10 percent discount.
But I think that's the way it should be, you know.
Oh, I think so too.
I would love that.
Yeah.
Oh, that just burns my ass anymore.
Whenever I see it.
It didn't use to bother me so much, but it does now.
I look around and you see people burying their phones, not even talking to each other.
Or what burns my ass is this right here.
You're waiting to get your order, your waiter to come around and get your order.
And then when the waiter is on the, he's at the table next to you, everybody has their phone buried in their face.
You have to wait an extra five minutes because he's got to get their attention.
And it's not that easy.
They're like, oh, I'm watching the squirrel fucking kickbox a monkey, you know.
And it's like, man, get the fuck off the phone because you haven't even looked at their menu yet.
And you've been at the table for 40 minutes.
So he's got to get your order in, you know.
And then they're sitting there going, oh, what would you like for starters?
Uh, what do you want? A Italian salad? Do you want a ranch? Do you want, you know, uh, it pisses me off.
It's like, dude, it's like if you want to go fuck with your phone, go outside and do that.
People in here are hungry. They want to fucking eat. They want to have a good time.
I want to sit you sit there and watch you sit. You be brain dead.
Uh, yeah, right. Yeah.
This is me off. So rent complete.
You got other customers waiting. Yes. Yeah.
That's kind of like when we started to get out of Jess and Jim.
Do you remember what my new job was to get rid of customers on a Saturday night till we go home?
Oh, um.
Do you remember the ones that would stay out for closing and Saturday night we could not leave?
That is funny. I've forgotten all about that, man.
Yeah.
Our constant pursuit for a real knee slapper. It's strange insults from an alien. Real hilarity.
Every sock you wear is slightly rotated. Just enough for it to be uncomfortable.
Hey, where do they go? Where the douchebags?
Oh, my God. Someone took a dump in the corner. Oh, geez.
I'm glad they're gone. Let's just hope they don't come back.
Man, that smells.