All right. Welcome to the Larry Needle Show.
I'm Larry. Needles isn't here. And I'm Old Joe.
I got my dad with me. And we're going to talk
some, we're going to talk about some stuff today
and some interesting things, like right off the
bat, I mean, I guess we could get right into
it. Well, by the way, this is our second anniversary.
Oh, wow. Second anniversary for the Larry and
Needle show. Yeah, pretty cool Yeah, so maybe
we could just do some review and talk about things
that are happening here and yeah, let's talk
about Let's talk about what happened last week
and what's gonna happen tomorrow when you went
to the oh, yeah Elon Musk protests slash Tesla
right after watching a lot of them YouTube stuff
and seeing some of these protests. Yeah, I wanted
to Experience it right as a hands -on situation
so I decided to take a ride last Saturday to
an active protest taking place in a town real
close to where we're at here and I put on a Not
a Trump hat But I did put on a military hat that
I had, former Marine, and I put the hat on, and
it was pretty prevalent. It had a big USMC on
there. And I proceeded to go over to the demonstration,
and it wasn't too long before, even though I
didn't have a Trump hat on, that I was engulfed
in these demonstrators who I tried to engulf
is a funny word because it took place on golf
road. So that's pretty funny. So just trying
to converse with them, I saw one person holding
an American flag, which I thought was totally
out of place. And when I approached him, it turned
out he was a Trump supporter. So that was good.
So there was him. And I said, well, I know where
you're coming from. And I'm on board with you.
And we shook hands. And he thanked me for my
service. And I said, but I'm going to go over
there. And he said, well. I'm going to tell you,
you might get roughed up." I said, well, I've
been roughed up before, so let's give it a whirl.
and before Barry Long I was in the middle of
this group again just trying to engage them in
conversation and actually try to just get their
views and listen to them in a calm direction
with the respect that they were on both sides
of the street. So as I engaged one side of the
street level of excitement was going up with
them. We weren't far away from the F words yet.
And I was just trying to engage, like one guy,
I asked him, I said, now what is it that you're
here protesting? Elon Musk, he's got to go. And
he just went off on Elon. And I said, did you
realize you're actually protesting your own demise?
Because You are a stockholder in the E -Line's
company. If you have a 401, an IRA, you have
that in your portfolio. The biggest owners, first
of all, Elon Musk owns less than 13 % of the
company, which is an amazing fact in itself.
You've got Vanguard, the next biggest holder.
You've got BlackRock. Those are low lives. And
you've got JP Morgan Chase. Tesla? Yeah, they're
vested in Tesla. And they're, you know, they're
9%, 8%. Any mutual fund that you own, you own
Tesla. So these people are out there demonstrating
the demise of this guy. And I'm trying to tell
him, this man that owns this dealership, he's
just trying to make a living. You know, I mean,
he's not here. There's no political agenda, you
know. And once they got boxed in and they saw
the logic that they lack, that's when they started
with the F .U. get out of here. And, you know,
so I'm not backing down. All of a sudden, here
comes the reinforcements from across the street.
Yeah, well, are you going to say how wide the
street is? The street is unbelievable. And busy.
There's three lanes in each direction. It's the
main thoroughfare through this. Plus double turning
lanes. It's all car delivery, car sales places.
It's just one of many. So this is a busy street.
And now we're not at a corner. So they're risking
their life. They're jaywalking. Coming across
the street with their poorly made signs. Oh,
the stuff on their signs was just, I was embarrassed
for them. So at any rate, about 15 minutes passed.
I had my camera out on my phone, but unfortunately,
I didn't, I did something wrong and I missed
such beautiful footage. I had a woman in front
of me and pushing a sign in my face. I says,
why don't you lower that sign so I could see
your face? Are you ashamed of yourself? or what
is it that you're trying to hide from? I'm just
asking you some questions. And this is about
the tone of my voice, and they're just, now they're
going. The FUs are flying like crazy, and they're
giving me the one finger, and I says, I didn't
ask you about your IQ. I just wanted to get some
information from you. Anyhow, it didn't go well
at all. It didn't go well at all. You know what's
funny is a lot of these things you see in the
signs are matching, perfect signs. Yeah, those
are the ones that are being paid and organized.
This one must have been an organic uprising.
It was, because there was some very, I mean,
one thing that demonstrators have in common,
they're all ugly and angry. I noticed that. And
I also noticed that the women are worse than
the men. I mean, they have no, I mean, they just
yell and scream. So I don't know what happened,
but the police came. and singled me out. I expressed
myself very calmly. I don't want to get in a
confrontation with the police. I said, well,
I'm just here asking a few questions. I have
the right to be here. He said, yes, I know you
do. He said, but you're kind of instigating,
you're agitating a situation here. He didn't
ask me to leave. directly but he suggested that
I leave that area. Life would have been a lot
easier for the protesters and probably me too.
So I just couldn't believe it. I had a plan to
be there a little bit longer but I left and I
was cooperative. But to get them riled and get
them angry - You really don't have to do anything.
All you got to do is be there. You don't even
need a hat. And we see so many guys on YouTube
with the gumption to go on there with the, you
know, the MAGA hats. They're like, oh my, they
really go crazy. I was wishing I had a hat. So
if I go again and I really don't plan to, that
was a spontaneous thing. I would wear my Marine
Corps cap and my Trump shirt. And just walk around,
you know. I have one thing going for me. They
won't lay their hands on me because I am old
and I used the military. Sometimes they don't
care. I know. I know. They were getting up in
my face. Geez. I couldn't believe how easily
they're riled. They have no, it's like a tree
without any roots. They have no idea why they're
there. You say, well, just give me a couple of
examples. telling me anybody that's better than
Trump, Kamala Harris. I said, well, what did
she accomplish? Anything? We're not talking to
you, and they get all frustrated. They won't
engage. They just won't engage with the silliness
of these people. The demise of Tesla stock is
going down. So is there 401s and all of their,
like the guy from Minnesota, Tim Walz. Tim Walz,
what a dumb fuck. He's over there yelling and
praising that it's going down. And they own a
million shares or something. His state, their
retirement and their pension plans is based on
Elon Musk. Yeah, yeah. Such a genius. What a
dumbass that guy is. It's a sad, sad world we
live in, it really is. I like what I was watching
Gutfeld last night, I think he said. Jasmine
Crockett is like Cardi B with a head injury.
If that's at all possible. Oh my gosh. That is
amazing. It really is amazing. I love it. I love
it that they can get so easily riled. I've never
seen anything quite like it, you know. And now
he's gonna be gone probably, he's got about 40
days left. And then he's gonna go back to what
he really does. The man who's lost, up to date
here, $115 billion. That's what he's lost. And
he only owns about a little less than 13 % of
the company. How could you lose $115 billion?
$115 billion from the depression of the stock.
The stock at the high point was $488. The stock
today, it closed at about, today was a, oh my
gosh, the market went in a dump. It closed today
around $224, $25. Wow. So it's less than half.
Now that's a high point. He didn't, this whole
thing didn't start at the 488, you know. Yeah.
It came down. If a guy's got balls, You should
be buying to end money. You should be buying
Tesla with both hands Because he's coming out
with the the bi phone or the pie phone have you
heard about that? Oh my gosh If it does half
the things they're saying it's gonna do it'll
make the Apple look like crap Yeah, apparently
it's only six to eight months away and it's gonna
be under $200 So he's going after that market
now, you know And then another two, three years,
we're going to have affordable robots that we
will, you and I, you know, if we had that kind
of money, I guess they're going to be like 30
,000 or something. That's a lot, Scott. But the
thing will cut your grass. It'll, it'll, it's,
it's an amazing. But I thought, you know, then
what about the illegal aliens that are cutting
the lawn? Isn't that going to fuck them up? I
mean... Aren't they against that? They should
be right. We will be you want some convoluted
thinking maybe that's must Scheme get rid of
the illegal aliens. So there's be the demand
for his robots I Gotta pass it on to the Democrats.
They're gonna run with that. That's a good one.
I just thought of that as we speak here Yeah,
so me and Mary worked at the oh, yeah, obviously,
you know, but we worked at the last last Tuesday,
on April 1st, the election, and we were so busy.
We were like the busiest, we were the busiest
place in Illinois. That is amazing. Our location.
I must say, shame on me. The guy told us, one
of these poll workers. Where were you, where
were you? Addison, in Addison Township. off of
Lake Street? Yeah, Lake and Addison. Yeah. The
street is Kennedy behind there. Yeah, that's
the - No, it wasn't that. It was on Addison Road.
Oh, is it on Addison Road? Yeah. Because I've
been through some business meetings there. I
thought it was going to be there, too. Yeah,
it was on the other side. It wasn't facing -
okay. Because if you take that one street, it
just goes right into the village there. Yeah.
And they were busy, huh? Oh, yeah. Well, did
they have a maritorial election? Did they get
a new mayor? Yeah, well, they had all kinds of
elections, and there was election for DuPage
County. Do you want to have some certain tax?
No, I don't want that tax. Is that DuPage County
there? Well, here's the thing. Each person gets
a... custom ballot by depending where you live.
So it's probably a crossover thing? No. Every
single person gets a different ballot. Oh, so
you tell them custom as you go there. They know
your address by where you live. So when you're
given the name, they generate the ballot. And
so my ballot and Mary's ballot won't be the same
as the person sitting right next to me. Were
you able to vote there? I voted, yeah. Oh my
gosh. You didn't have to be in your own township.
No, that's why they do the custom ballots now.
Don't you remember when you came and voted the
thing printed up both sides? Yeah, but I didn't
know that was a custom. Yeah, in the old days
you had to go to your exact place because they
had the stack of ballots or the machine with
the thing with all the same ballots in there.
Yeah. So they couldn't, you know. You can't vote
here. You don't live in this district. Now it
doesn't matter where you go because they print
as you need it. Oh, I didn't realize that. Geez.
There was over 700 people or something that voted
there. 774 people voted in those places. Wow,
that's a lot. Yeah. And that's not even a big
election. I think the guy said... Thirteen hundred
for the You know the presidential election there
at that place oh They did thirteen hundred president.
Yeah, so that's a lot then if you did seven jeez
Holy yeah, well almost eight really. I mean seven
seventy four knows Well, I was shocked because
they told us you know when they emailed. Oh,
it's gonna be dead bring a book That's what I
thought I thought this really didn't mean anything
and it's gonna be deader than a door now and
It turned out to be Kind of busy Wow Wow It's
almost like a regular. I'm ashamed to say I didn't
vote I I don't know who ran I don't know I have
no idea what was going on there though, and it
just snuck up on me All of a sudden you see some
lawn signs and I wonder where they advertise.
Yeah, it's like in the middle of nowhere. I wonder
where they advertise the... Because I mean we
don't watch regular network TV. Maybe that's
why we weren't aware of it. That's another thing
that people... You watch Fox, you're brainwashed,
you're brainwashing. And the lies that they're
listening to, it's amazing. All they do is ridicule.
Trump who has a plan. And he knew this was going
to happen. Maybe it's a little worse than he
thought with the market. The market today just
- But that's also because there are a bunch of
bitches that get all panicky too. It's going
to come back. If you listen to the real financial
guys, they're kind of - I listened to one guy,
that black guy with the plaid suits and all that
shit. Charles Payne? Yeah. He said, I don't want
to, I don't want to say it, but he says, but
I'm kind of licking my chops here, you know,
because this is the time to buy, but you got
to have the balls to do it, you know. I don't
even think it hit the low yet. Think we're gonna
be in another week of it's you know what it's
bad for the guy that has to has to retire Well
a lot of times they give you 60 days to take
your Your money, you know what I mean? Yeah,
and then there's 60 days now. They got to take
that money at the lowest point You know So they're
gonna feel it so they get fucked on their stocks
if they yeah, but they're probably in a little
stuff That's too aggressive, but the average
person person, if you don't do nothing, it's
going to come back. The stock market is going
to come back. That's the way it goes. Even healthy
stocks, I mean, geez, everybody took a hit. But
he knew this was going to happen. Now we need,
some of them are coming around. But that's the
thing, these people that are out there demonstrating,
they don't even understand what's going on. They
don't even know about America. We were founded
on tariffs. You know what I mean? Woodrow Wilson
is the one who put the income tax in. We didn't
have income tax. And that's not, you know, it's
not 2 ,000, I mean, 200 years ago that that happened.
It's not that long ago. I think it was right
after World War I or II. No, this was before
World War II. And there's another one. Talk about
Biden. Now the books are all coming out crazy.
Well, Wilson had a stroke and his wife was running
the country. But what they're saying about Biden,
the books that are coming out, oh geez. Dr. Jill's
not qualified to run the country. That's the
difference. She is a fucking idiot. Oh my, my.
He was an idiot before. He was completely senile
and that guy is, oh man, it's so great. All these,
but here's the other thing. So, okay, they're
writing their books. Now they're cashing in.
What about... you know, letting the country go
down the toilet and not saying anything sooner.
And that's another thing about these demonstrators.
How could they align themselves with these people
that had lied to them for four years? They knew
he was not capable of it. His right hand guy,
what's his name? Ron something or other. Ron
Klain. Yeah, prime for the debate. He said the
guy was like, I want to go lay by the pool. And
you know, oh my gosh. They said, OK, they prepped
them. OK, they were going to have a 90 minute
debate. They ended up doing 40 minutes or so
of it. And he said, I can't handle it anymore.
Then the second debate. Or maybe the first one
they did was supposed to be another 90 minute
thing and he was in there for like 20 minutes
And he's like I want to go take a nap. I want
to lay down. I'm tired So they let him because
he's the you know, he's the president and but
obviously he wasn't and that's the other thing
Who should be hanged by the neck for treason
for all this? There's so much treasonous shit
that went on. It's ridiculous. Trees, actual
treason. Absolutely. They talk about Musk again.
He wasn't elected. We elected Trump. What is
he doing here? Well, the guy who was running
the country here, they weren't elected either.
They were just non -governmental people. making
the decisions on our country. And these NGOs.
Right, yeah. I don't know who I heard say it,
but one of these smart money guys and he said
NGO is basically synonymous with money laundering.
That's all it is, is a money laundering deal.
Everybody got wealthy there. All that money they
pushed out. And these demonstrators also support
the fact that we're giving money through all
the country. That's how we have peace. It's like
a kid with a baseball bat but he can't play ball.
Well, I'll share all my stuff with you if you'll
be my friend. We don't have to do that. We were
the most powerful country in the world at one
point. And this had to be done. If you look at
back in history here, you don't have to go that
far back. I'm talking the 90s. They knew there
had to be an adjustment, but nobody had the balls
to do what it was because they were always looking
at reelection. Trump's not going to be reelected.
He's not looking for that. Somebody had to have
the balls to step up, otherwise there'd be no
country. There would not be a country. Countries
go bankrupt. We've seen it in Venezuela. We've
seen it in a lot of countries where the money
isn't worth shit. If it was a business, every
person would be fired. First of all, it would
already be... out of business, bankrupt, and
everybody would be looking for a different job.
I mean, everybody would be fired. That's why
when they say that Trump uses that, they never
made payroll and they never signed the payroll.
That's what I think these demonstrators, I mean,
I was holding myself back. I could have really,
I could have really ripped them. You know what
I mean? Well, what am I doing? They're too dumb.
Teachers, social workers, and people that sponged
off the system. I hate to belittle or say teachers
aren't the greatest thing, but they're not. They
suck. They suck. They're vested and they can't
get fired. Did you see what they're talking about?
My teachers are all shit. All shit? Yeah, terrible.
Terrible, I think. Well, yeah, I think so. I
know my situation Going to parochial school,
which will probably lead us back into another
subject I'm going to parochial school with these
nuns with the habits on they haven't been married
They know nothing about children and they got
a deal with these with these young young boys
that are you know full of testosterone and they're
ready to Explode at any minute, you know, they
weren't qualified for that. The only thing they
were qualified is the hour of religion you got
every day. So that wasn't a good thing. I was
going to say something else and I lost it about
these demonstrations. Anyway, they just don't
make any sense at all. Oh, I know what I was
going to say. In Chicago now. the teachers, or
I don't know if it's the teachers or who it is,
they're trying to pass a law that they get to
review the curriculum. Did you see that? Did
you see that? Of the homeschool children? And
they want to put the parents in jail if they
don't follow the exact scheme of things. Yeah.
I can't even, I can't even, I think of, I think
of Nick's wife, Leah, you know, homeschooling
Noel and Alex, and you know, I mean, the kids
are smart as a whip. She was certainly qualified
to do it, you know, and these mothers, you know,
they're... If you're going to tackle that, you
better be qualified because you're doing your
kid an injustice if you're not. But why is it
their business? Yes, but if you are qualified,
nobody cares more than the actual mom. Absolutely.
The teacher doesn't care. Absolutely. I mean,
she wants to read these papers and watch whatever
dumb show and drink wine, you know. It's not
like - There's one there's one thing that comes
to mind when they were and I think Alex being
younger Was doing the same work that Noel is
that right so darn smart She was doing some history
thing about different countries and this particular
one was about India. So that night she had Indian
food for the kids and she stayed with the whole
theme. So I mean, come on, gee whiz. And then
when it was time, they went to regular school.
They weren't hurting socially or anything like
that. I mean, gee whiz. But wow, how could you
do that? As far as being a teacher would go and
you know she they had the discipline they had
it all she was very qualified But but I mean
how could they interfere with these people's
lives? We're gonna we're gonna jail you and fine
you and You know, leave it to Illinois, leave
it to Chicagoland and these - We're a leader,
all right. Yeah, crooked as could be. I think
I'm going to move this a little closer. I think
we're way, way down on the runs of education.
Way down. We're number one on spending and we're
40 - I think dead fucking last. Well, if not
last, I think we're like 47 or 48. You're right.
We're number one per cost per child. Yes. And
we're down all the way on the bottom. Yeah. I
think I heard 48 or something. We're lower than
any Asian country. Our eighth grader is equivalent
to a fourth grader in Asia. Yeah. Reading level,
math. I think I heard third grader, but yeah,
that sounds about right. I think it was third
grader. Actually, I do think that, you know.
And it's just horrible, so we're complete idiots,
total idiots. And you gotta have math. Every
day, you're figuring out your bills, the taxes
you're paying. How could they let that slip?
It's craziness, geez. So how about they're doing
some math problems, they're in the ghetto, and
they can't figure shit out, and they're trying
to do fractions and such. And so the teacher
says, well, what if you get like an ounce of
Coke? And then, you know, they break it down
like that. And then all of a sudden the kids
could do math. The light goes on. Yeah. And it
was like, oh, yeah. Oh, wow. I didn't realize
we were. Is that what those numbers are? An ounce
of Coke, 28 grams and they split it up and they
get a salad. Yeah. Yeah. I got to get a water
real quick. Yeah. So they're, they're. They actually
they actually then all of a sudden knew how to
do the the light goes on yeah, yeah I gotta get
a water. What's up, Mary? I? Got a lot of things
I could say about that, but I don't want to seem
Racist yeah, and those those poor kids the inner
city kids are the ones that are suffering Yeah,
they're paying for it. They're paying for it
in spades Geez. Absolutely. But on a lighter
note, if there's such a thing. Right? Oh, gosh.
Life is good. It's still the greatest country
in the world. Yeah, absolutely. After all that
shit. And it even got better because you got
Rosie O'Donnell moved out. Yeah, how about that?
That's awesome. I was surprised they took her.
Yeah, me too. What a miserable fucking dyke.
Wow. I mean, she is the worst. A very, very,
very bitter person. Well, she was a comedian,
right? That's how she started? Yeah. But you
know what? It's so long ago, I don't even remember
her being funny. Me either. I don't remember
her being funny. I do remember Whoopi Goldberg
when she came on, when she first started. She
was genuinely funny. She had the dreadlocks with
the big hat covering all her locks and all that.
You might be too young. I remember her too when
she came out. She was funny. She was funny. Now
she's up the deep end. I had this Rolling Stones
album, some live album from I don't know where,
and she introduces the Stones on the... record
ladies and gentlemen blah blah blah at the concert
and I'm like They gotta put fucking whoopee Goldberg
on their album. No, I really I don't even like
Mick and Keith anymore There's a couple of Jaguars.
Oh my gosh. It sure it sure turned out that way.
Yeah Totally. I think her name was Karen Johnson.
Absolutely Karen Johnson. She picks up whoopee
Goldberg. Yeah So stupid. I remember one Whippy
Goldberg movie I saw. It was called, I think
it was called The Telephone, or The Telephone
Call. I think it was just called The Telephone.
And the whole time, it shows her in her New York
apartment, and it's a small room, and she's on
the phone the whole time, talking to different
people, this and that. blah, blah, blah. It's
going on and on. And I think at the end, the
phone company comes to collect the phone, and
it's not even working, and she's out of her mind.
You know, because you didn't even own them back
then. It was a long, long time ago when I saw
this movie. That's interesting, because I just
seen a... A thing on TV, I think the name of
it is Banshee. It's a town. It's a brutal series.
Oh my gosh. It's really brutal. But the guys
- runs away from his family and he meets this
girl in like a hobo type situation. And she said,
I'm on my way to Vegas. My girlfriend Zoe is
waiting for me. I gotta take this call. So it's
going all the way. The whole thing is going along
like that. He comes up in the morning, she's
out in front. Yeah, no, I'm only a few days.
I told you I would call you and I'll be there,
you know. So now they're in a situation where
there's other homeless people that are on the
run or whatever they are, you know. And she's
got her phone and she's talking and she puts
her phone on the way to the guy. And the guy
says, could I use your phone? I want to call.
I want to call somebody. They come and pick me
up. I'll get a lift. No, you can't use my phone.
Yeah, I just want to make one call. And you know,
they start pushing and shouting. He grabs the
phone, there's nothing on the thing. It's the
same idea. Well, that was the last good movie
that Whoopi Goldberg made and that was, I think
she was about 19 years old at the time. Well,
their claim to fame, her claim to fame was the
movie Ghost. I didn't see that one. Well, it
was, it was Debbie, Demi Moore. Demi Moore, as
I like to call her. Yeah. The guy that was the
dancer in that Dirty Dancing, Patrick Swayze,
he dies and he comes back to her and Whoopi gets
involved. Anyways, it was a good, it was a big
time movie. It was very big. No it wasn't though.
If you saw it, it was a good movie. Of course
I didn't see it. I never see any of these movies.
And then she was in all those stupid nun movies.
She was a nun and all that I never saw any of
those movies either you didn't miss much Yeah,
I can't stand her her and you know else. I can't
stand is Will Ferrell You know that goofy fucking
guy I think he's the anchorman or the weatherman
I used to like that guy, but now he gets on my
nerves. I can't stand him He maybe came out with
some derogatory remarks about Trump or something.
Oh, I don't think so. I just think he's not funny.
No. I didn't think he was funny on Saturday Night
Live. No, not at all. I thought he was always,
you know... Dumb. He's a retard. The guy's a
fucking retard, I think. He's a rich retard.
Yeah. But doesn't take much. And now I don't
like the Red Hat Chili Peppers by Proxy, not
only because they suck, but... because the drummer
looks exactly like Will Ferrell. Did you ever
see that? Oh no, I have no idea. They actually
have them both on one of these talk shows and
um... They got Will Ferrell dressed like the
drummer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Oh, you
know what? I did see something like that. You're
right. Yes. Yeah, bandana. I mean, really looks
like him. Yeah. And I think Will Ferrell plays
the drums a little too. Well, they sit them both
down. That's how you could figure out who's who.
Right, but he is... Because Will Ferrell cannot
play the drums. Oh, okay. He sucks. I must have
seen the same thing. Not only does he suck as
a fucking comedian, he sucks as a musician too
if he's actually trying. I must have turned that
off. I didn't see the whole thing. It's pretty
wild. It's like, wow, this guy is the spitting
image of the drummer from the Chili Peppers.
But that guy's a stroke too. As far as I'm concerned,
I mean. You know what the thing is that they,
and again, years ago - Hollywood. Hollywood food
jakes. Well, years ago they didn't come out with
a political - agendas, you know what I mean?
You didn't know what the person was or did you
care? It wasn't an issue. It wasn't divided like
it is now. I mean, to come out and give your
political views, you're alienating 50 % of the
market that is buying tickets for your shows.
Why not just keep your mouth shut? Like De Niro,
I refuse to watch a movie with the guy in there.
I'm done. buy tickets to the shows, because as
it turns out, the liberals are too cheap to go
to the movies at all because the box offices
are fucking totally failing. Oh my gosh, are
they failing? Oh, then the girl with the Snow
White movie. They said it cost $300 million.
And right before the movie comes out, she comes
with some political shit. I don't even know what
she said. But the first weekend, it took in $30
million. The opening weekend, you're supposed
to be, you know. It only goes down from there.
Yeah. And here's the other thing. I heard something
about whatever the movie cost. They spend double
or triple on promoting. So they really lost their
ass with that movie. Yeah. That one bombed and
so did the De Niro movie. It's another mob movie.
He can't act. He does the same character every
time. Well in this one, he plays two different
roles. Like he's at a table. talking to himself.
He's supposed to be Frank Costello, which was
some mobster guy in New York. And then I forget
who the other guy is. And his voice sounds exactly
the same. One, he's got a prosthetic nose on.
I've seen ads for it. But normally, in the old
days, I would have went and saw that because
it's by the guy who... Did casino and some good
movies? Yeah, right. Those were good ones. I
Never saw casino. Oh yet something to look forward
to that was an excellent excellent handle all
that No Did you see good fellas? Yeah That was
good. And so was casino. I Think casino was better
for me because I knew the story of the financial
guys they were from they were from the neighborhood
right and and I knew them and you know they had
been in this it did it been in the store you
know so they so it's really really brings it
to life you know you knew about them you knew
their friends you know the one they had another
brother he was real probably shouldn't be saying
that but he's probably dead, if not he should
be, but he was a card player and he fancied himself
as being real slick. His claim to fame was that
that was his brother, you know, the guy. They
lived off his fame. And then there was one other
brother who was the dentist, who had a normal,
you know, a normal life, you know. It was supposed
to be the Spalachros, who it was based on. You
know, we knew the story. And I think Nikki Calabrese
was there in Bensonville when the hit went down.
So there you go. I mean, how close could I be?
Oh, God. What a life. I remember the one guy,
he comes in the store. He's dead now. Statue
of limitations ran out on him. He comes into
the store. He had a girlfriend. went to the beauty
school, two doors down. So he's like, they're
out there, the cops are out, I'm gonna walk out,
they're gonna grab me. So he said, let me leave
my shit here. So he goes, he's going through
his pockets, he's got the top coat on, he pulled
out a bottle of Melex, you know. The thing was
this big, I never saw anything so big, you know.
It was a nervous wreck, the guy, it was a nervous
wreck. chewed up the filters on his cigarettes,
you know, and sure enough he went out and they
grabbed him. Yeah, they arrested him, you know.
And then he, you know, he went off and then come
back later. And then... That's weird. Yeah, very,
very weird. And then the seven guys that did
Ocardo's house, that broke into Ocardo's house.
Probably four of them I knew pretty well. You
know what I mean? And one guy, he was a really
strange guy. He liked green shoes. There's other
guys, I won't mention his last name, but he liked
blue shoes. Jimmy, I'll just give you his first
name. You know what it is. So he liked blue shoes.
This guy, green shoes. How many green shoes could
I have, you know what I mean? But I had them,
you know. It's a men's story, green shoes. So
he comes in. Now they rob a cartel's house. I
don't know what they were thinking. That is so
stupid, you know. This guy's gonna find out like
that, you know. So he finds out who the seven
guys are. He's got them. He's got them marked.
So this guy knew his destiny. He knew where he
was going. He comes in and he wants to give me
his gold thing hanging from his neck. It's St.
Demas. that's a patron saint of thieves. If you
go through the battle, through the theologians
and stuff, he was one of the first saints to
be canonized. This claim to fame is when you
get up there telling your dad, I'm sorry, I love
you, and Jesus said, today you will be with me
in paradise. And that was it. He was saved. There's
four views in the gospel on it, but one we could
say but anyhow Anyway, so he's one of the guys
on the cross right there with he's one of the
thieves Wow, right? These Yeah But all four Gospels
treat that moment a different way, you know what
I mean? It's interesting And I think John is
the only one says about Paradise. So he comes
in and he wants to give me this. I mean the thing
had to be that big. It was huge. They're heavy.
They're gold. These guys, these guys got money.
And he knew that his days were numbered. But
I didn't take it. I told him to give it to somebody
in his family. You know what I mean? I didn't
want that, because if he mentioned it, he gave
it to somebody. Who knows what's going to happen?
Somebody be coming in looking for it. And I really,
truly, I didn't, what am I going to do with it?
Am I going to wear it somewhere? I'm on the other
side of the equation there. I'm a white collar
criminal, not like them. And sure enough, Every
one of them was popped. Yeah, and one guy Which
I really didn't shed a tear about well, he wasn't
there but he was with the guy One of the guys
when he was Popped, you know, so he was collateral
damage, right and they were both big guys, but
somehow they fit in one trunk So they did a lot
of bending and you know So, every one of them
went. I mean, I can't imagine. It's almost like
a death wish. You know, you're going to go get
the top guy. Why the fuck would you do that?
You had to be nuts. I remember when the store
got hit one time on Chicago Avenue. They came
in and they, what they did years ago, the alarms
were, I found this out that the store was in
a police training film. because when the two
males were going through to become cops. Years
ago the alarms were local. You know if you broke
something the alarm would go off and you know
it's in the middle of the night. Well if they
heard it it did scare off the thieves you know.
Later on they became you know. silent alarms.
I had ADT, which is a silent alarm. If a break
-in comes, it goes off in the central office.
The police are notified. Somebody put an alarm.
Then I'm notified. You know, this is chain of
command. But anyhow, this one was still years
and years ago. It was a local thing. So what
they did is they would somehow Because the box
was right outside of the door when you go into
the store somehow they would shoot sand in there
So when the alarm goes off, you can't hear it,
you know You can't hear it. It's a beautiful
idea, you know So now they break in the store
and now they're not gonna take the boxes of shoes
Because we're gonna go they take the shoes out
of the boxes and they throw them in pillowcases
Okay They know where to go and which one to choose.
They're our own customers. You know what I mean?
They knew where to go, the expensive stockings.
We had socks. Back then they were French socks.
They were really, really nice. I probably had
a few pair, but they're gone. Back in the 60s...
They were eight dollars a pair. Oh, you know,
I mean, it was like golden. We didn't even put
them on the rack We had them in the thing underneath,
you know, so anyways, they knew about those and
they got them. So now Frank Frank calls up our
guy, you know our sponsor and He said they broke
in the store and The guy didn't say anything.
He says okay. Yeah, that's too bad. You know
two days later He calls Frank back. He says Where
do you want the shoes? What do you mean where
do we want the shoes? They found the guys who's
at this door and then we're making them return
the shoes. Well, we can't take the shoes back
because we just... file the fraudulent insurance
claim. You know what I mean? We're making money.
Those guys are making money. That's how it was
when you got robbed. Or a flood or anything.
You embellish the numbers and you made money
right there. Balance your inventory. the point
I'm making, how quickly he found out who stole
the shoes. Now you steal, you go to the top boss
of the outfit in Chicago and you rob his house,
how quick is he gonna find out? Seven guys involved
in it? That ain't gonna be a secret for long.
A secret that only could be kept by one guy.
As soon as you tell somebody, your life is in
jeopardy. But I thought that was pretty ingenious.
Mel and both Mel's, they saw the shoe store,
the House of Italian Shoes. In a training film.
It was like pretty interesting. That was the
only successful robbery of the store. There was
one where some, now fast forward to Harlem Avenue,
this is probably the 70s. Some asshole cuts through
the roof of the store. So he gets in. Now he's
in the attic. He cuts that space. Now there's
a false ceiling, you know, in the circle he is
now. And he cuts the circle and he drops down,
which those are pretty high ceilings, if you
remember. Yeah, that was high. And he goes to
the alarm. In front again, he must have been
a customer and turned that off. Okay, and then
He's gonna start his thing but in the aisles
as you go into the aisles underneath the rugs
of the island I had there was mats under there
were also alarms. So when I set the alarm I had
one Behind the wall and then I had one as you
go outside the door remember that thing there
was an alarm Unbeknownst to him. So the cops
come he's inside He would have got caught anyhow
because I didn't see any way out for the guy.
I Come there. They call me up. I come down there.
It's the middle of the night and The guy's in
the building somewhere. He's in the Ducks. Oh,
yeah Because the air conditioner came out of
two hidden vents in the back that you didn't
even know where they were. I mean, the store
was like... beautifully designed so the air is
coming out of there but you don't know you don't
know but the ducks are real big so this guy's
somewhere up in the ducks you know he's hiding
up there so now the cops are like well go in
and get him he's no I just got my pants out of
the cleaners I'm not gonna go in there you know
they're arguing back and forth nobody wants to
go in there so they they call the dog you know
they get the dog you know and he sniffed him
out and of course We go to court and all that
shit and he has to make restitution. I got zero
Except the big except a big hole and a lot of
Yeah, they should have sent the guy to jail but
anyway, I didn't want to say he was a moron He
had no way out, you know criminals are most of
the most of the criminals are usually dumb Yeah,
this this was extra dumb So he had no escape
plan, you know, it was a half -ass plan. I don't
know what the hell he was gonna do. That's fucking
crazy. How about the the company the countries
are falling right in line with Trump's tariffs
and You know, everyone was all up in arms, freaking
out, and it happened, and it's going down just
like he said it would. They're not going to want
to. But we need a big one. We need a big one
here, you know, to really bolster his case. But
they are, they're coming around. They're coming
around. And they will, because they don't want
to - They will. It's going to be tough, but it
won't be tough for long. I just hope that he
hasn't turned around before the midterm election,
because - They're really, they're really pumping
themselves up about Wisconsin. It wasn't that
big of a win, a slap against Elon and all that.
Here's the other thing. They can gerrymander
and shift around all they want. Is this your
jacket? Probably. They can do all they want with
that because the thing is all these other states
like California and New York. Illinois, we're
all losing electoral college votes in places
like Florida are picking them up So it ain't
gonna matter, you know, they're gonna need All
the states that they didn't win and then some
To be able to yeah turn it around. You know,
I mean, that's the way I I just don't think Wisconsin
matters that much anymore No, not if we could
win it in an election, because it's, it's really,
I mean, it's really blue. I mean, Madison is
the capital and well, you see, you see your uncle
and aunt. When we went there and they had the
lawn sign, I thought ma was going to go berserk.
What did they have, a Biden sign? No, this is
way back, the Obama sign. Oh, geez. I said, look
at this. Obama, little farce. Oh my gosh. He's
the biggest piece of shit we've ever had. Oh
my gosh. Did he do a number on the public? Wow.
And he likes men. And Michelle's a man. Oh my
gosh. Oh man, talk about pulling the wool over
everybody's eyes. It's really something It's
really really something that people you know
they can't see it. I like Michelle has her podcast
and All she does every week is say how terrible
Barack Obama is. Is that right? Yeah. I heard
it's not doing too good, you know. I don't want
to tune into it because they might use me as
a statistic and jack up a rating. What is it
on YouTube? I don't know. I've never watched
it. I haven't either. I hear about it and it's
just, you know, and see little snippets from
there. Yeah, she for me is very hard to look
at. I can't even, I can't even, it's almost like,
it's almost like a Satan, satanic person. There's
such evil in there. When I pray in the morning,
I pray for the Democrats, but I just can't believe
that they believe anything other than this is
it right here. Believe in the hereafter and live
the way they're living. You know what I mean?
I mean the greed the greed is Amazing. Oh my
gosh. It is it is And then this guy, that's another
guy I would love to find in a lonely alley, is
that Schiff. Holy cow. I see him sitting there
as a United States Senator in the largest state
in the Union. This is what his reward was for
all the lying, stealing, cheating, conniving.
Wow. Yeah, that that that's a bad and he's a
Jew and he's an anti -semite. That's the other
part that blows my mind You don't you know, he's
all pro -palestine this and that and he's a Jew
it goes You don't care about nothing Nothing
except what's happening right now. That's all
he cares about He's living in the moment man.
They're gonna spend a lot of time in a very very
warm place Very warm very hot It's horrible.
Yeah, all you could do is... Did you ever see
that movie with Jim Carrey? Which one? Where
he promised a little boy that... He wouldn't
lie. I tell you, I'm going to pick you up, going
to pick you up. So it was a birthday wish, you
know, the premise. He couldn't lie for 24 hours
and he's a lawyer. I think I might have saw parts
of it. The thing is, the thing is great. Then
Jim Carrey made some, I mean, and I see now he's
a billion times funnier than Will Smith. Oh my
gosh, he was funny. I think Jim Carrey might
have played Biden some of those times. When they
used actors You think so? Yeah, I Know you put
he did that Andy Kaufman and it was scary Right.
It was so much like him. It was like holy cow,
but I don't think he does anything now I think
he just paints and stuff Does Biden? I don't
know but they had at least five of them including
Joe himself How could they get the walk down?
I mean, he had... Well, they got actors. They
got actors that copy that shit. I mean, you could
do it. He had a strange... He had a strange gait
to him, you know? How about, man, I'll kill him
with drops. Aw, jeez. That's... I have seen a
couple of his movies. I saw The Doors. Oh, my
gosh. That was amazing. But he was a rock and
roll guy. Yeah. You know, so he, that's why he
killed the movie. It was, oh great. Was he, was
he in Rocky? One of those Rocky movies or no?
No, he was in Top Gun. Oh. That was, and then
they brought him back in the sequel. By then
he already lost his voice box. He didn't say
anything, but they didn't tell you that he couldn't
talk, you know. Right. He had throat cancer.
What a good actor. Christian Scientist. Oh right
and he wasn't taking care of himself. Oh I think
I read that somewhere. Yeah that's right. But
yeah he did kill that Doris movie. Oh my gosh.
You know what I think a lot of these guys that
do those autobiographical movies are excellent.
I mean look at the Jamie Foxx with the Ray Charles.
She was excellent. Yeah, the guy became Ray Charles.
He was Ray Charles Okay, so we went to we went
to jam night last night me and Ryan and this
other kid Kevin and There was this guy they played
keyboard we were at that place at the me though
now Taco joint in another place. This guy was
so good and he was playing Ray Charles and he
was fucking awesome I was just like dude. This
is Amazing the piano. Yeah. Well, you know he
had a keyboard Yeah, yeah, but it was all beat
up and you could see some of the keys were like
halfway down And just beat the hell and like
he was a black guy. No, he's a white guy His
voice was a cross between Randy Newman and Tom
Waits. I mean, he was pretty good. And then another
weird thing was at the voting, when I worked
at the voting thing last Tuesday, I saw a guy
that looked exactly like Frenchie. I mean, it
was so weird. Now I went to get Mary's attention
and say, look, there's Frenchie. Maybe it was
Frenchie on the lamb. He's been undercover all
this time. I doubt it. I doubt it, too He was
not he didn't have the money to fake his own
dad Plus, you know the kids That'd be brutal
oh my god for what reason yeah Usually you have
something when you do that. Yeah Somewhere to
go or something to do or something you've done
he on the other hand didn't fit that Bill it's
just so to speak. Let's see. I wonder how long
we've been gone How long do you think 35 minutes
58 minutes You're kidding. No, man. Oh and I
haven't told one joke. Oh, you can tell one if
you want See what I got, see what I can come
up here. Mark's gonna have his teeth all pulled.
Oh, the mail order thing didn't work out. No,
yeah. Oh, the guy's amazing. He's like, yeah,
this tooth came, this tooth is coming out. He
goes, here's what happened, I think. The last
time that Dennis fixed it, he glued that tooth
to the tooth next to it and I go, yeah, that's
probably what he did. He glued your tooth to
the other tooth. It's a permanent bridge. Don't
need anything. We should go get some epoxy at
the hardware store and we can fix it right now.
Get that flex, it'll never come out. Flex seal.
The guy he's to get the fish tanks leaking he
puts the stuff. Did you see he made a boat out
of paper? He put the flex seal around the the
paper. That's awesome. I mean I don't commercially
use a screen door. He makes a boat out of a screen
door. Oh, but this was actual paper I used it
to tape a pipe up, you know? It came the first
time I saw it in a wide strip like that. And
the tape was, I mean, the pipe was on the ground.
The pipe from my sub -pump, it had a pinhole
in it. And when it would, the thing, it would
like whistle like crazy. It took me... Three
months to figure out what the noise was coming
from. Is it a raccoon giving birth? What is going
on here? Finally I pinned it down so I dig it
up. I did the pipe. I see the hole. I thought
I'll buy some of this flexed or shit. The wide
tape, have you seen it? So I got rubber gloves
on and I'm taking the thing, it sticks to the
gloves, I can't get, so I incorporate the glove
right into the thing. Now I can't get it off,
I can't, you know, how do you even? get to the
end of it, you know what I mean? It's like you're
trying to throw something away. The shit is amazing.
Impossible to get up. Right, it's absolutely
amazing. You could do that at a nice dental work.
I'll tell you what, you know that alien tape
stuff? I use some of it and... I got three rows
downstairs. I'll take it because I love it. At
first I thought it was... That's that clear shit?
Yeah. Man, that stuff works like a motherfucker.
I must be using it wrong. I put it for my keyboard
and my... Keyboard stand in the basement. I put
it along a little because it's got two pipes
and you just lay the keyboard on top of it It
made it stick to the thing and it made it real
solid in my bedroom I took one of those clear
plastic shoe boxes with the plastic lid and I
The lids gone already. I don't know where it's
at, but I put a piece of alien tape on there
Stuck it to my wall above my bed because our
fucking remotes are so touchy that if we roll
over on the remote, the TV turns on. I fucking
hate that. I'm like, so after... So it's a TV
caddy. So I stick the thing, I stick the remotes
in there and my glasses so I don't sleep. Oh
my gosh. That's the end of rolling over onto
the thing and it's thanks to the alien tape and
you can get it off too. It's not permanent. I
don't know what I'm doing wrong. Moss sent in
for it. Anyhow... They sell it at the store now.
Yeah, I saw it. I've seen it on TV. Three nuns
are painting. They have to paint this room. They're
getting all new windows and treatments and stuff.
And they decide that, you know, to save our outfits
from getting paint on, let's take them off. You
know, we'll do it in the nude. And the nun said,
yeah, that's a good idea, so we won't ruin our
habits here. So they're painting the thing, and
they knock on the door. And they say, who is
it? Blind man. And they say, oh, let him in.
The guy's blind. He won't know if we're nude
or not. He opens up the door, and he looks at
the nun and says, nice tits. Where do you want
these blinds? I knew where that was going. I
didn't know you were going to say nice tips.
I knew you were going to say, yeah, the current
guy couldn't make it. I got these blinds or something.
That was good. I like that. I like it a lot.
The shortest two words in English language is
I am. And the longest two words is the longest
sentence is I do. The longest sentence, right.
I got to work on that one. I thought that was
a pretty good one. That's pretty good. That's
pretty good. It needs a little work. Yeah, yeah.
Oh, shit. Well, I thought we were going to talk
about the 40s and the good old days. Well, we'll
do that next time when Kiki's here. Yeah, it'd
be interesting for him too, you know. I mean,
sometimes I think back and, you know, and I'm
like... Geez, all the stuff that happened in
my lifetime, it just goes. It's crazy. Absolutely.
It just sneaks right by, you know what I mean?
It's like, and it's so cool that I got, I was
on the tail end of a lot of stuff. Yeah. You
know, when I think about it, a lot of stuff changed.
It's an amazing time period. Yeah. Very interesting.
You know, now I'm on the street. It's 1945. That's
amazing. I'm in action, you know what I mean?
I'm in play. Forty -six, I'm seven years old.
Yeah, so it was interesting times. But the beauty
part about it is you had a freedom to do all
that stuff. Right. It wasn't like... Not now,
you can't. You couldn't do that. You could be
a seven -year -old kid walking down the street
at 10 o 'clock at night and nobody's gonna...
I mean, I see these kids walking by. I see a
little girl going by on her scooter. What the
hell? And the mother's way back there, unbeknownst
to me. I don't know if I'd let my... It's frightening.
It's frightening. I'm glad we didn't have that
shit. We were able to run loose too. Yeah. Oh
my God. You guys were the tail end of it. The
absolute tail end of it. So yesterday, you know,
Bentley's closed, I tell you that. So I'm out
there looking in the window at Bentley's because
you know I'm a snoop. And here comes four kids.
There's two boys and two girls. I would guess
them to be 10, 11. They look like infants to
me, of course. The girls got little shorts on.
They're cute. You know, the little boy's cute,
the blue eyes and you know, and she's harassing
them and she's like, you know, pointing at me,
you're waiting. So I said, what's the matter
with him? You know, playing along with her, you
know, and uh... And I don't know what's wrong
with him. And the kid, the little innocent angel
kid said, it's that fucker who did it, you know.
He punched it. I'm like, oh my gosh. I said to
the little girl, do you have any soap? You can
wash his mouth. Yeah, that's a good idea. But
I mean, here they are. They look like innocent
babes. That's what it is today. That was like
at the demonstration. I mean, the FUs that were
flying out, and the finger, I'd love to snap
it off. That one gets me. It still gets me. In
the car or anything, when they throw that finger.
I agree. That's when I want to chase them down.
You dirty. Those motherless sons of bitches.
That pretty good picture there. Yeah, it ain't
bad, man. It ain't bad. The computer. How it
sounds and all that. Yeah. You see our sound
level popping? Yeah, I see that. Yeah. All right.
Well, thanks for tuning in to the Larry Neal
Show. I'm Larry. And I'm Old Joe. That's my dad.
And I also got to say, Thanks to Tom's Free Clinic
Automotive and Veterinarian Services for supplying
us with a new studio. It's quite an upgrade.
Very nice. We got a couch now. Comfortable. We'll
see what happens in the future. Maybe Tom will
even hook us up with more. I kind of missed the
theme song, but... Well, you know what? I was
kind of lazy, but I'll get it together. Next
time. It was fun. Yes. Nice chatting with you.
Yeah. Thanks for doing that, Dad. All right.
Peace. Peace, brother.