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- 0:09Speaker 1: Good evening, everybody!
- 0:22Speaker 2: It's Insanity Night tonight! Motor City Mad Mouse Show! If
- 0:27Speaker 2: you're a big casino, we got Loki 7! Of course,
- 0:30Speaker 2: what do I know about casinos, except I don't play
- 0:32Speaker 2: them because I'm too cheap to lose any money. Anyways,
- 0:35Speaker 2: we have a special, special guest tonight. Editor over at
- 0:39Speaker 2: the Deerfield Beach Observer, Rachel Gov, enjoys the insanity. Welcome, Rachel.
- 0:44Speaker 3: Welcome.
- 0:46Speaker 2: Thank you. You ready for this wild, wild, wild ride?
- 0:51Speaker 4: Sounds good.
- 0:52Speaker 2: Let's do it. I can't prep nobody for this. We
- 0:56Speaker 2: got Eddie. We got Candy. We got Steve. We got Jen.
- 0:59Speaker 2: And we have Rob.
- 1:00Speaker 5: All right.
- 1:01Speaker 2: But I mean, we are going to start insanity. I'm
- 1:04Speaker 2: bringing back a topic especially for Rob and Rachel. How
- 1:08Speaker 2: long animals stay pregnant? Oh, my goodness. I knew that
- 1:14Speaker 2: could get you, Rachel.
- 1:16Speaker 3: Right out of the gate.
- 1:18Speaker 2: Here we go. And I'll go right to the left
- 1:21Speaker 2: so everybody has a crack. We have elephants stay pregnant
- 1:24Speaker 2: 660 days. Looking at those things, you wouldn't know it anyway.
- 1:27Speaker 2: 660 days. Then you have a giraffe. 450 days, but
- 1:33Speaker 2: they are long and mean. Hard to see if you
- 1:35Speaker 2: got one of those rugrats of giraffe style in one
- 1:38Speaker 2: of them because they're long and lean. And then we
- 1:41Speaker 2: have the gorilla, 257 days. So when I say giraffe, 450,
- 1:45Speaker 2: I said elephant, 660. Gorilla, 257 days. Boy, they are
- 1:51Speaker 2: ugly looking. Then we have a monkey. You can tell
- 1:53Speaker 2: that thing is pregnant at a fuck 65. We have
- 1:56Speaker 2: a panda, 135. You can tell there's a little bit
- 1:59Speaker 2: of rugrats in there. A buck, 135 days. A lioness,
- 2:04Speaker 2: 110 days. You got a cat, 64 days. You have
- 2:09Speaker 2: a dog, 63 days. You have a rabbit at 31 days.
- 2:14Speaker 2: You have a hamster at 16 days. Boy, they're getting shorter.
- 2:16Speaker 2: An old possum, 13 days. And that's it. All right, Rachel.
- 2:20Speaker 2: What are your thoughts about animals getting pregnant and how long?
- 2:26Speaker 3: Wow.
- 2:28Speaker 4: Sounds like a lot of suffering going on, being pregnant.
- 2:31Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 2:32Speaker 4: I wouldn't know because I don't have any kids, and
- 2:34Speaker 4: I didn't want to deal with that.
- 2:36Speaker 2: Right.
- 2:38Speaker 4: I don't know how anybody does it, honestly, animal or human.
- 2:43Speaker 4: So there you go.
- 2:44Speaker 6: Ed?
- 2:45Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 2:47Speaker 3: Well, you know, you said it's like 600 days for
- 2:50Speaker 3: an elephant. That's two years. I'm not even... that's God
- 2:56Speaker 3: bless mama elephant, you know? And you wonder why, you know,
- 3:00Speaker 3: when you look a lot of these, you know, like
- 3:02Speaker 3: the lionesses, you know, they hunt, they do everything. You
- 3:04Speaker 3: know why the lionesses hunt and do all that? Because
- 3:07Speaker 3: they're so angry from carrying all the kids and dealing
- 3:09Speaker 3: with all that, they have to take it out on something.
- 3:12Speaker 3: But no, anyway, no, I just, to Rachel's point, I think,
- 3:15Speaker 3: you know, anybody who can carry, whether animal or a human,
- 3:22Speaker 3: you know, carries a pregnancy to term and has a
- 3:27Speaker 3: child or an offspring, that's just fantastic stuff. It's amazing stuff, actually,
- 3:34Speaker 3: if you really think about it. So, yeah. Candice?
- 3:40Speaker 6: I cannot.
- 3:41Speaker 5: I mean, I've never had kids, so obviously it's hard
- 3:43Speaker 5: for me to fathom this. But to Ed's point, to
- 3:48Speaker 5: be pregnant for over two years? Are you kidding me? Okay,
- 3:52Speaker 5: so make the males pregnant, not the females.
- 3:54Speaker 2: Come on now.
- 3:55Speaker 6: I think we're working on that in the human race.
- 3:58Speaker 3: I know.
- 3:59Speaker 2: You know? Well, according to some people, I mean.
- 4:02Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
- 4:05Speaker 2: Go ahead.
- 4:06Speaker 7: Two years, Scott, for an elephant. I get my vote.
- 4:12Speaker 2: And yet you couldn't see it, totally making a difference anyway.
- 4:15Speaker 7: I mean, that's tough on mama elephant right there.
- 4:20Speaker 6: Yeah. But then imagine that you're a possum and every
- 4:22Speaker 6: time you turn around, you have sex, you have kids,
- 4:24Speaker 6: you have sex, you have 13 days. Like, no way.
- 4:31Speaker 6: You know, I mean, you're not a human. A lot
- 4:33Speaker 6: of women don't even find out for like two, three months,
- 4:36Speaker 6: you know, sometimes. And then all of a sudden you
- 4:40Speaker 6: got kids coming and kids galore. And then you got
- 4:42Speaker 6: a house full of kids.
- 4:44Speaker 7: Now you know why possums look like they do.
- 4:46Speaker 8: Right.
- 4:46Speaker 6: And the guinea pigs aren't so far behind that. And
- 4:49Speaker 6: the rabbits, which is why they are the primary food,
- 4:51Speaker 6: I think, for many of the coyotes and whatnot. But,
- 4:56Speaker 6: you know, maybe I think a monkey might be kind
- 4:59Speaker 6: of favorable. A panda or a monkey, you know, they're
- 5:01Speaker 6: not too bad. Well, 100 days, three, four months, like, bam,
- 5:05Speaker 6: get it out. I think we humans suffer way too
- 5:08Speaker 6: long going home nine months, 40 weeks.
- 5:10Speaker 4: That's a lot of pregnancy.
- 5:13Speaker 6: Rob, what have you got to say?
- 5:15Speaker 2: And I'll say it. This is why guys could never.
- 5:18Speaker 2: Two years. Let's see. I'll take a choice. Two years
- 5:25Speaker 2: in prison, two years pregnant.
- 5:28Speaker 3: Where am I going?
- 5:31Speaker 2: Three hots and a cot.
- 5:39Speaker 6: Thank goodness you're good with tongue twisters.
- 5:46Speaker 2: All right. Y'all ready?
- 5:48Speaker 3: We're ready.
- 5:49Speaker 2: Ready. All right. I'll tell you one thing. I give
- 5:52Speaker 2: you lots of places to go, but this isn't one
- 5:54Speaker 2: of them. Why North Korea feels like another world. North Korea, people,
- 6:01Speaker 2: I'll tell you why. A country seen from space at night,
- 6:04Speaker 2: satellite images show North Korea mostly dark while South Korea
- 6:08Speaker 2: glows beside it. The border splits between two realities. The
- 6:13Speaker 2: DMZ divides Korea sharply, making one peninsula feel like two
- 6:17Speaker 2: realities side by side. And that's our term, by the way.
- 6:21Speaker 2: Even time was different. North Korea used Juche years, J-U-C-H-E years,
- 6:28Speaker 2: I don't know. I felt it that way anyway. You're
- 6:32Speaker 2: starting from 1912 to the birth of Kim Il-Sung or Sung.
- 6:38Speaker 2: All right, whatever. My eyes are really going back when
- 6:40Speaker 2: I see Sung and Sung. News comes from the state.
- 6:42Speaker 2: Independent media is banned. So most citizens receive information through
- 6:47Speaker 2: the state control channels only daily. News comes from, like
- 6:52Speaker 2: I said, I said that one. The outside internet is limited.
- 6:56Speaker 2: Most citizens cannot freely use global internet, creating a closed
- 7:01Speaker 2: information bubble inside daily. The haircut rules sound unreal. Reports
- 7:06Speaker 2: describe state grooming expectations showing even appearance can become part
- 7:12Speaker 2: of political syndrome. Go figure, haircut. Oh, my God. I
- 7:17Speaker 2: think you've seen everything. No, but now we've got a
- 7:20Speaker 2: new meaning to the word haircut. Okay, money works differently.
- 7:23Speaker 2: Alongside state systems, markets help many people survive, buy goods,
- 7:28Speaker 2: exchange money quietly daily. Propaganda fills public space. Mural slogans, posters,
- 7:36Speaker 2: and monuments constantly reinforce loyalty, history, enemies, and national identity
- 7:43Speaker 2: daily everywhere. So there you go. All right. There's your
- 7:47Speaker 2: little story about North Korea, Rich. What are your thoughts
- 7:50Speaker 2: on how we got haircuts into the mix?
- 7:55Speaker 4: I've actually watched some people that have gone to North
- 7:57Speaker 4: Korea that have done documentaries that they've had permission to
- 8:00Speaker 4: go into some of the places. And I find it
- 8:02Speaker 4: fascinating how different it is there and how the people
- 8:07Speaker 4: are like from a different time period, almost like, you know,
- 8:09Speaker 4: Cuba with the old cars, but even worse, what they're
- 8:14Speaker 4: indoctrinated in knowing like a lot of other countries, you know,
- 8:19Speaker 4: against Americans or against outsiders. And then when they meet them,
- 8:22Speaker 4: they say, oh, you're not so bad. So I praise
- 8:26Speaker 4: the guy that did the documentary and I wish I
- 8:28Speaker 4: knew his name, but it was a great documentary that
- 8:30Speaker 4: I watched about this guy that went into North Korea.
- 8:33Speaker 4: But on the salons, they have like maybe six haircuts
- 8:37Speaker 4: that the women can get and same thing with the men.
- 8:40Speaker 4: So it's a very uniform society. And same thing with
- 8:44Speaker 4: the outfits, which are very kind of antiquated. outfits and
- 8:50Speaker 4: it's just all about uniformity, which is like a sci-fi book.
- 8:54Speaker 4: You know, it's like 1984, the big brothers watching and
- 8:58Speaker 4: you've got the statues of the dictators watching over you
- 9:02Speaker 4: and they treat them like gods. And if they don't,
- 9:05Speaker 4: you know, clap until they collapse and, you know, bow down,
- 9:09Speaker 4: then they can get killed for that. So it's, it's
- 9:12Speaker 4: a really scary place to be, but the people don't
- 9:16Speaker 4: know any better. I mean, some of them, have figured
- 9:19Speaker 4: out that there's a problem and have tried to escape.
- 9:23Speaker 4: So it's, I think it's really fascinating.
- 9:26Speaker 3: That's my take. Yeah, I would, no, I would agree.
- 9:28Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 9:28Speaker 3: I find it fascinating too. It's a completely, completely different
- 9:32Speaker 3: culture than what we, nothing that we can even kind
- 9:36Speaker 3: of fully, I think fully wrap our heads around to
- 9:39Speaker 3: have that kind of, you know, you have your, your
- 9:42Speaker 3: country you live in is basically surrounded by a big
- 9:45Speaker 3: blinder of You're fed whatever the ruling party wants to
- 9:50Speaker 3: give you. You don't get any outside information. And you have,
- 9:55Speaker 3: it's like Rachel was saying, you have to have haircuts,
- 9:59Speaker 3: the clothing, you have to toe the line. Individuality is
- 10:04Speaker 3: not really welcome there. You can't talk out. It's like here,
- 10:09Speaker 3: we're bashing different political parties or baseball teams or whatever. No, no, no.
- 10:15Speaker 3: You bash the ruler And you'll probably end up six
- 10:21Speaker 3: feet under. And it's, you know, the economic system is
- 10:24Speaker 3: not even strong. You know, I've seen some documentaries as
- 10:28Speaker 3: well that, you know, shelves are empty. You know, it's
- 10:31Speaker 3: not like they always have food. It's really, you know,
- 10:35Speaker 3: you talk about the haves and the have-nots here. Here,
- 10:39Speaker 3: at least, there's something in between. There, there are literally,
- 10:42Speaker 3: I believe, the haves and the have-nots. So, you know,
- 10:46Speaker 3: it's really....
- 10:48Speaker 2: It's sad.
- 10:50Speaker 3: It's sad that in this day and age, there are
- 10:53Speaker 3: still people in the world that rule over other human
- 10:57Speaker 3: beings and treat them the way they do. That's just sad. Candy?
- 11:05Speaker 5: There is a ban on foreign media. The 2020 Anti-Reactionary
- 11:10Speaker 5: Thought and Culture Act criminalizes watching, reading, or distributing foreign media.
- 11:17Speaker 5: especially South Korean dramas, movies, and music. Violations can lead
- 11:23Speaker 5: to severe punishment, including forced labor or public execution. There
- 11:29Speaker 5: is no free Internet. Citizens have no access to the
- 11:32Speaker 5: global Internet. Instead, they are restricted to a closed, state-monitored
- 11:38Speaker 5: domestic intranet and state-run television and radio. Yes, their clothing
- 11:45Speaker 5: and hairstyles are regulated to prevent foreign or Western influences.
- 11:51Speaker 5: Items like skinny jeans, dyed hair, foreign writing on clothes,
- 11:56Speaker 5: and certain types of skirts or trousers are banned.
- 12:01Speaker 2: Anthony, just so I respond to this, there's more to
- 12:06Speaker 2: this than meets the eye based on your comments. So
- 12:09Speaker 2: I don't think it's really funny, but if you think
- 12:10Speaker 2: you want to amuse yourself that way, that's okay. But
- 12:13Speaker 2: we've got a lot more views. You're just not seeing
- 12:15Speaker 2: them visually based on the platform that you're at. Thank
- 12:18Speaker 2: you very much, Infamy. We don't want you to be
- 12:20Speaker 2: an infamy. Go ahead, Candy.
- 12:22Speaker 5: So, yeah, obviously a dictatorship, not some place I'd like
- 12:27Speaker 5: to live. But, you know, when you don't know any better,
- 12:31Speaker 5: sometimes you don't know any different either, though.
- 12:36Speaker 3: Steve?
- 12:38Speaker 7: Yeah, look, they call it what the socialist paradise of
- 12:43Speaker 7: North Korea.
- 12:45Speaker 2: I mean, the.
- 12:46Speaker 7: Difference between North Korea and South Korea is they have
- 12:52Speaker 7: a wall up and nobody from South Korea wants to
- 12:56Speaker 7: go north. And like in the old Berlin Wall, when
- 13:00Speaker 7: the wall came down, nobody from West Germany was heading east.
- 13:06Speaker 7: You know, the government there has always been, I mean,
- 13:13Speaker 7: it's very... It makes China look like a liberal paradise.
- 13:22Speaker 7: It's a terrible place. I don't know why anyone would
- 13:25Speaker 7: want to go there. I mean, they have thousands of
- 13:28Speaker 7: people every year. They still die of starvation.
- 13:33Speaker 6: Yeah, tyranny is tyranny. And that kind of control over
- 13:37Speaker 6: people is for a purpose to keep them down, to
- 13:41Speaker 6: keep it so that there's a hierarchy. It reminds me
- 13:43Speaker 6: a lot of Iran and what's going on over there,
- 13:46Speaker 6: like those people had power and then they got it
- 13:49Speaker 6: all stripped away under this current regime where that's why
- 13:52Speaker 6: we're fighting and everything, you know, like getting the people.
- 13:56Speaker 6: It's been 50 years almost, you know, they they're 50 years,
- 14:00Speaker 6: you know, even 50 years old and you've never lived
- 14:02Speaker 6: under a freedom. And so the same kind of thing
- 14:04Speaker 6: that's going on over there, it makes it hard for
- 14:07Speaker 6: the people to rise and. It makes it hard for
- 14:09Speaker 6: individuality where you can find your own types of groups,
- 14:12Speaker 6: your own types of people, because they don't want that.
- 14:15Speaker 6: And so it is really very, it's just awful, that
- 14:18Speaker 6: kind of living. And it's very sad. Rob, what are
- 14:21Speaker 6: your thoughts?
- 14:23Speaker 8: I think that I would rather be pregnant for two and.
- 14:26Speaker 2: A half years than work for real. That's what I think.
- 14:31Speaker 2: There you go.
- 14:31Speaker 3: All right.
- 14:33Speaker 2: We have one more question. So, Candy, we have one
- 14:37Speaker 2: problem child in the chat room just so you know.
- 14:40Speaker 2: I'll just take him off. Yeah, there you go. All right,
- 14:43Speaker 2: so we don't have to worry about this guy anymore.
- 14:44Speaker 2: So with that said, I want to keep everything generalized.
- 14:48Speaker 2: I want to talk about Robin Williams. He died in
- 14:50Speaker 2: 2014 at the age of 63, but he was not
- 14:54Speaker 2: wrong when he said most people ignore this. He says
- 14:59Speaker 2: a hungry stomach, an empty wallet, and a broken heart
- 15:02Speaker 2: can teach the best lessons of life. motivation, success. Everyone
- 15:09Speaker 2: you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
- 15:12Speaker 2: Be kind always. People don't fake depression. They fake being okay.
- 15:20Speaker 2: Remember that. Be kind. And I think the saddest people
- 15:27Speaker 2: always try their hardest to make people happy because they
- 15:30Speaker 2: know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless. You will
- 15:35Speaker 2: have difficult moments. but they will make you appreciate the
- 15:38Speaker 2: beautiful things that we're not paying attention to. Two roads
- 15:44Speaker 2: diverged in the woods. I chose the one less traveled.
- 15:47Speaker 2: That is why I am different. I thought the worst
- 15:52Speaker 2: thing in life was ending up alone. It's not the
- 15:54Speaker 2: worst thing is ending up with people who feel alone.
- 15:59Speaker 2: And there you have it. Robin covers a lot, but
- 16:03Speaker 2: the main takeaways you have to understand that we all
- 16:06Speaker 2: understand is number one, depression is something we just can't
- 16:10Speaker 2: take lightly. Mental health is something you can't take lightly.
- 16:14Speaker 2: And Robin Williams actually used to go to school at
- 16:17Speaker 2: a place called Detroit Country Day in my neck of
- 16:19Speaker 2: the woods. Rachel, what are your thoughts about Robin Williams?
- 16:22Speaker 4: Well, I loved Robin Williams, an amazing actor, an amazing
- 16:27Speaker 4: human being, amazing comedian. I mean, he could talk about
- 16:32Speaker 4: thinking on your feet. I mean, the stuff that he
- 16:34Speaker 4: came up with, you just couldn't keep up with him.
- 16:36Speaker 4: And so much energy, but you know, it was very
- 16:40Speaker 4: obvious for a long time that he had a lot
- 16:43Speaker 4: of mental problems. And, um, and then of course he,
- 16:48Speaker 4: I guess it was reported that he was going to,
- 16:49Speaker 4: he was reported to have an illness and I don't
- 16:52Speaker 4: know the details of what happened at the end there, but, um,
- 16:57Speaker 4: mental health is a really bad problem in this country.
- 17:01Speaker 4: And I think pretty much everyone has dealt with it
- 17:04Speaker 4: in some way or another. I know that I have
- 17:07Speaker 4: dealt with depression myself over the summertime when I had
- 17:11Speaker 4: nothing going on, I was pretty depressed and sometimes it
- 17:14Speaker 4: gets really bad. And I find that reaching out and
- 17:18Speaker 4: talking to people really makes a big difference. Some of
- 17:22Speaker 4: the conversations that I had with like the least likely
- 17:26Speaker 4: people made a huge difference for me. And just, and
- 17:32Speaker 4: staying busy, like being involved with life, makes a big difference.
- 17:36Speaker 4: So I think the lessons from Robin Williams is just
- 17:39Speaker 4: find the everyday joy in your life because he was
- 17:43Speaker 4: full of joy and he gave so many people so
- 17:46Speaker 4: much joy. And they say that comedians are actually the
- 17:49Speaker 4: most miserable people because they're projecting the comedy to be
- 17:57Speaker 4: against what they're feeling inside sometimes. So like you said,
- 18:01Speaker 4: you just don't know what's going on with people in
- 18:03Speaker 4: their real life.
- 18:05Speaker 2: Yeah, it's yeah.
- 18:07Speaker 3: You work for more. You know, he was hysterical back
- 18:11Speaker 3: in the 80s. But no, I mean, I think his
- 18:14Speaker 3: point is, you know, I think, you know, he makes
- 18:19Speaker 3: the good point. You never know what somebody what's what's
- 18:22Speaker 3: really going on in anybody. Because, you know, the depressed person,
- 18:25Speaker 3: the unhappy person is going to be the happy person.
- 18:29Speaker 3: And I think I agree with you, Rachel. You know,
- 18:31Speaker 3: I think we've all. either dealt with depression or dealt
- 18:34Speaker 3: with somebody who may have taken their own life, attempted
- 18:37Speaker 3: to take their own life. I think it's becoming, it's
- 18:41Speaker 3: at epidemic proportions and it's, and it's still because people
- 18:46Speaker 3: are afraid that there's still, you know, there's still a
- 18:49Speaker 3: stigma to asking for help or saying I am broken
- 18:52Speaker 3: or saying something like that, especially in the male, you know,
- 18:55Speaker 3: especially amongst us men, even as much as we talk
- 18:58Speaker 3: about it, you know, it's still, I mean, I can
- 19:00Speaker 3: even say it for myself. Sometimes, You just don't want
- 19:02Speaker 3: to ask for help. And that's why, you know, it's
- 19:06Speaker 3: so when you come up to people, you know, with
- 19:09Speaker 3: social media nowadays, you just be on there for five minutes.
- 19:11Speaker 3: You can see the hate and the anger and the
- 19:15Speaker 3: and just this crap that we're seeing right now on
- 19:17Speaker 3: our show. I mean, I know why, you know, what
- 19:21Speaker 3: is the purpose? That's anyway. That's why, you know, I
- 19:24Speaker 3: try to really, you know, you got to live in
- 19:27Speaker 3: the moment. You got to live in the present. You
- 19:28Speaker 3: got to make every day count because, you know, what
- 19:31Speaker 3: happened in the past? You can't change, and tomorrow's not promised.
- 19:36Speaker 3: So be kind to everybody you meet, and then hopefully–
- 19:40Speaker 3: I make daily posts, and one of the things I
- 19:44Speaker 3: like to say is that I can make one person
- 19:50Speaker 3: smile or laugh. My day is accomplished, and that's what
- 19:54Speaker 3: I try to do.
- 19:55Speaker 2: I like this comment in the chat room, Candy. Go
- 19:56Speaker 2: ahead and read it, please. It's a really good one.
- 20:00Speaker 5: Same as how poor people give money to help, where
- 20:03Speaker 5: rich only do it for tax deductions. The poor know
- 20:07Speaker 5: the struggle.
- 20:09Speaker 3: It's true.
- 20:11Speaker 2: Very good. Go ahead.
- 20:15Speaker 5: You know, we all talk about or we all see
- 20:19Speaker 5: how others judge us or judge people on especially social media.
- 20:26Speaker 5: One of my good friends, she's like, I'm doing a
- 20:30Speaker 5: time out from social media because she can't. She's like
- 20:34Speaker 5: going through things right now and she doesn't want all
- 20:38Speaker 5: the noise. that you read or you hear or you see.
- 20:41Speaker 5: And it's too bad that social media isn't a judgment-free zone,
- 20:47Speaker 5: but it's not for the most part. And so you
- 20:50Speaker 5: got to be very careful how you use social media.
- 20:53Speaker 5: And I think that's one of the things that this
- 20:56Speaker 5: younger generation hasn't figured it out yet. I think those
- 21:02Speaker 5: of us that didn't grow up with social media, some
- 21:05Speaker 5: of us are thankful. Like, I don't want my pictures
- 21:08Speaker 5: when I was doing crazy things back in the day.
- 21:13Speaker 2: Exactly.
- 21:13Speaker 3: Yes.
- 21:15Speaker 5: Because I think people would judge you differently and that's unfortunate.
- 21:19Speaker 5: And I think the message for me to anybody is
- 21:23Speaker 5: if you need a friend, ask, if you need somebody
- 21:27Speaker 5: to just listen, just listen, no judgment, no nothing. I'm
- 21:33Speaker 5: here because that's what the world needs is more people that,
- 21:37Speaker 5: Just listen, judge free.
- 21:40Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why when we talk about Robin Williams, and
- 21:43Speaker 2: this comes on my desk from time to time, every
- 21:46Speaker 2: time we go on, there's a new audience. I like
- 21:48Speaker 2: to make sure we get the mental health and the
- 21:51Speaker 2: depression out there. So it's always a good repetition thing
- 21:54Speaker 2: that we need to do. And that's why when Robin
- 21:56Speaker 2: Williams comes up, I don't have to take a bullet
- 21:58Speaker 2: out there. I think I've experienced lots of depression when
- 22:02Speaker 2: things were bad for a while, but somehow I've made
- 22:04Speaker 2: it through. But it's not easy. Don't take depression lightly.
- 22:08Speaker 2: Don't take suicide lightly. You just don't do it. Okay, Steve.
- 22:13Speaker 7: I think we've all had bouts of it and suffered
- 22:17Speaker 7: it one time or another, but it's hard to believe
- 22:19Speaker 7: that Robin Williams has been gone so long. I mean,
- 22:24Speaker 7: maybe because it still stings. It seemed like it was
- 22:28Speaker 7: just yesterday that he left us. Such a brilliant person
- 22:33Speaker 7: and as Rachel was saying earlier, I mean, his mind
- 22:38Speaker 7: was always going a hundred miles an hour, his ability to, uh,
- 22:42Speaker 7: ad lib, uh, you know, and, and just create was
- 22:48Speaker 7: so hilarious. And some of the talk shows, I, I
- 22:52Speaker 7: see the clips all the time on social media. They
- 22:56Speaker 7: were just, I mean, he was an amazing person, but
- 23:00Speaker 7: you know, behind it all, he was suffering.
- 23:02Speaker 2: And that's the totally sad part. Right. It's like such
- 23:08Speaker 2: a great, great talent.
- 23:12Speaker 7: And we miss that every day.
- 23:15Speaker 2: Jen, love the earrings, by the way.
- 23:18Speaker 6: Thank you. A little Halloween going on.
- 23:22Speaker 7: Gotta get that in there.
- 23:23Speaker 6: Gotta get that in there.
- 23:24Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 23:25Speaker 6: I mean, you know, I was amazed learning about gut
- 23:28Speaker 6: health and, brain health and so many things, how many
- 23:31Speaker 6: things actually contribute to depression outside of life and life happenings,
- 23:39Speaker 6: you know? So right now I have a friend who
- 23:42Speaker 6: is suicidal. I've been trying to help him. He's almost
- 23:46Speaker 6: exactly the same as how my ex was. My ex
- 23:49Speaker 6: had CTE. The first diagnosis he got was concussion syndrome,
- 23:52Speaker 6: which is kind of how I met you guys Also,
- 23:55Speaker 6: you know, with William Person, who was living with CTE,
- 23:58Speaker 6: had depression so badly. He was praying for death. He
- 24:02Speaker 6: wasn't suicidal, but just wanted to die. And every person
- 24:06Speaker 6: that he's ever encountered with CTE is either suicidal or
- 24:10Speaker 6: waiting to die. And that's about brain health. And then,
- 24:13Speaker 6: of course, there's of course, there's my phone. Turn that
- 24:18Speaker 6: thing off. But but, you know, there's. There's clinical depression,
- 24:25Speaker 6: which is severe, severe depression. And one of my friend's
- 24:31Speaker 6: sons has clinical depression. And she's like, I don't get
- 24:34Speaker 6: it when I'm in a bad mood. I just, you know,
- 24:36Speaker 6: turn on good music and make myself dance around and
- 24:38Speaker 6: I turn my mood around. And I said, no, it's
- 24:41Speaker 6: it's not a mood and it's not sadness. Right.
- 24:44Speaker 2: And sadness.
- 24:45Speaker 6: That's one of the biggest confusions about like manic depressant
- 24:50Speaker 6: is we think that depression is sadness and manic is happiness.
- 24:55Speaker 6: And having lived with it now, you know, not me,
- 24:57Speaker 6: but having had lived with it for six years, it
- 25:00Speaker 6: is very much not that. Clinical depression is not enough
- 25:06Speaker 6: energy to care. It's not enough energy to take that
- 25:10Speaker 6: drink of water from the glass that's right in front
- 25:12Speaker 6: of you, even though you're dying of thirst. It's not
- 25:15Speaker 6: enough energy to anything, to get up, to shower, to
- 25:19Speaker 6: just care about anything. And then manic is so much energy.
- 25:23Speaker 6: You don't know what to do with it. And you've
- 25:25Speaker 6: got to just get like exploding inside of you. And
- 25:28Speaker 6: I think that's a really important distinction because a manic
- 25:31Speaker 6: can be very, very violent and a depression can be
- 25:35Speaker 6: very detrimental. And then there's life things that happen that
- 25:39Speaker 6: cause normal people to feel depression or depressed feelings. you know,
- 25:44Speaker 6: it's depressed feelings. And even Brad Pitt, who said flat out,
- 25:49Speaker 6: he's like, I mean, I go, I have the golden ticket.
- 25:53Speaker 6: Like Brad Pitt knows he's got everything in life going
- 25:56Speaker 6: for him. He's got looks. He had a, he has
- 25:58Speaker 6: a career. He still has a career all these years
- 26:01Speaker 6: later in one of the toughest industries in the world
- 26:05Speaker 6: to maintain that many decades of a career. He's had
- 26:09Speaker 6: all these wonderful things, but still when his personal life,
- 26:12Speaker 6: was falling apart and he is so famous that the
- 26:14Speaker 6: whole world's in it. He said, I probably wasn't gonna
- 26:17Speaker 6: do it, but I felt like suicide. I felt like
- 26:20Speaker 6: just ending it all to just take that pain away.
- 26:24Speaker 6: And I think those are really valid points. I do
- 26:26Speaker 6: also think to Candy's point, not everybody can be your person.
- 26:31Speaker 6: And this I learned when I went through trauma is
- 26:34Speaker 6: not every person can be there for you while you're
- 26:38Speaker 6: having a bad time. I used to judge those people.
- 26:42Speaker 6: Like how dare you not be there for me when
- 26:45Speaker 6: I was there for years. And then I learned like,
- 26:48Speaker 6: not everybody can do that. And they really, they don't
- 26:50Speaker 6: have it. No one can give you what they don't have.
- 26:53Speaker 6: So find someone who can. Candy's one. I'm one. I
- 26:59Speaker 6: help out a lot of people. I don't know whether
- 27:01Speaker 6: I do or I don't make effect, but at least
- 27:03Speaker 6: I'm here to listen to you and see if I
- 27:05Speaker 6: can help you. see a new perspective or just get
- 27:08Speaker 6: that out of you and then go on to live
- 27:10Speaker 6: a better life. Rob, what have you got to say?
- 27:13Speaker 8: Yeah, it's sad when someone who's brought so much joy
- 27:16Speaker 8: to people that they don't feel the joy themselves. And,
- 27:22Speaker 8: you know, sometimes it could be a chemical imbalance. Different
- 27:25Speaker 8: things could cause it. I know Robin Williams did have,
- 27:28Speaker 8: you know, he did have a disease. He also had
- 27:31Speaker 8: a failed sitcom called that really bothered him. It lasted
- 27:38Speaker 8: one season and then that was it. And then he
- 27:40Speaker 8: passed away a couple of months later. And it also
- 27:45Speaker 8: goes to show, it doesn't matter how rich, how famous,
- 27:50Speaker 8: none of that matters. If you're depressed, it's what's inside you.
- 27:56Speaker 8: You look at Robin Williams and you say, man, he
- 27:59Speaker 8: had everything. He had talent. He had money.
- 28:03Speaker 2: He everything. And, you know, it's bad, but it doesn't matter.
- 28:08Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
- 28:10Speaker 8: And that's what's sad. And I think Rachel said it.
- 28:13Speaker 8: A lot of comedians commit suicide.
- 28:17Speaker 6: I mean, Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade following Robin Williams
- 28:22Speaker 6: was the most shocking threesome ever. Where you think, what
- 28:26Speaker 6: kind of problems can you possibly have that you end
- 28:29Speaker 6: your life like that? But then, you know, you learn
- 28:32Speaker 6: it's not what you think.
- 28:35Speaker 2: All I can tell you is Robin Williams, Pam Dalbury
- 28:37Speaker 2: did a whale of a job. And more than maybe
- 28:40Speaker 2: every time I get an opportunity to watch it, everyone
- 28:42Speaker 2: does do it. Let's continue on. We have a lot
- 28:45Speaker 2: more to get to. We're going to go into an
- 28:46Speaker 2: area that Rachel's all too familiar with. So where are
- 28:48Speaker 2: we for that, Matt? Matt, are oldest actors still alive today?
- 28:53Speaker 2: This is one I've I think it was a couple
- 28:56Speaker 2: months ago. I'll go back, but we'll start with Al Pacino.
- 28:59Speaker 2: He's at 85. So Al Pacino. I'll go over the list,
- 29:03Speaker 2: and then everybody can comment on it. We've got Al
- 29:06Speaker 2: Pacino at 85. You've got Anthony Hopkins, 88. You have
- 29:12Speaker 2: Dustin Hoffman, 88. Morgan Freeman, 88. Well, 88 is a
- 29:16Speaker 2: popular number. Michael Caine, 93. William Shatner, 95. Clint Eastwood, 95.
- 29:21Speaker 2: James Hong, 97. Rosemary Harris, 98. Dick Van Dyke, 100.
- 29:28Speaker 2: And there you have it. All right, Rachel, this is
- 29:31Speaker 2: a pretty interesting list of some people that have been
- 29:33Speaker 2: along around a long long time Which one which one
- 29:38Speaker 2: or one stand up to Rachel?
- 29:40Speaker 4: Well, Dick Van Dyke is another person who's just brimming
- 29:43Speaker 4: with joy and out in like perform and and Seems
- 29:50Speaker 4: to be talking and you know, he's a little bit fragile,
- 29:52Speaker 4: but I mean he's amazing and during the fires in
- 29:56Speaker 4: LA and He was trying to put out the fire himself,
- 29:59Speaker 4: and they had to drag him away. It's just amazing.
- 30:03Speaker 4: And then you've got William Shatner, who at 95 had
- 30:05Speaker 4: started a heavy metal band, which is awesome. I would
- 30:08Speaker 4: love to go to that. You know, James Hong has
- 30:14Speaker 4: been around forever. I mean, these people talk about resilience
- 30:19Speaker 4: with these people. I was surprised to hear Michael Caine
- 30:21Speaker 4: was 93. That's, wow, amazing. I was really upset when
- 30:25Speaker 4: Betty White died. I was hoping that she was going.
- 30:27Speaker 3: To last forever.
- 30:30Speaker 6: She should have lived forever.
- 30:31Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 30:33Speaker 4: But hopefully we all last that long.
- 30:35Speaker 2: Right.
- 30:35Speaker 4: And good, good health.
- 30:37Speaker 2: Exactly.
- 30:39Speaker 3: And, and just, you know, hearing Dick Van Dyke being
- 30:41Speaker 3: a hundred, I just, I flashed back to my young
- 30:44Speaker 3: days watching the old black and white Dick Van Dyke
- 30:47Speaker 3: show as he comes in and he fake trip, he
- 30:49Speaker 3: fake trips over the Ottoman.
- 30:51Speaker 2: No.
- 30:52Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 30:53Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, those are some great actors and
- 30:57Speaker 3: actresses that you named there, Scott. Al Pacino, Morgan Freeman.
- 31:02Speaker 3: I mean, some of the all-time favorites.
- 31:04Speaker 2: And you left one out, Scott.
- 31:07Speaker 6: Who was that?
- 31:07Speaker 3: Who did you leave out?
- 31:09Speaker 2: Clint Eastwood.
- 31:10Speaker 3: Oh, Clint Eastwood.
- 31:11Speaker 2: No, I mentioned him.
- 31:15Speaker 7: You left out another 100-year-old. Who did you leave out?
- 31:19Speaker 2: Mel Brooks. Oh, yeah.
- 31:21Speaker 6: Oh, right.
- 31:21Speaker 2: Mel Brooks. Mel Brooks.
- 31:25Speaker 3: But you know what? These people are all in their
- 31:28Speaker 3: upper 80s, 90s, 100s, and they're all still relevant. And
- 31:33Speaker 3: they've been relevant. These people didn't start their career late
- 31:36Speaker 3: in life. They started their career at, I mean, they've
- 31:39Speaker 3: been at it 70, 80 years. Somebody was talking about Brad.
- 31:45Speaker 3: I think it might have been you, Jennifer. about Brad
- 31:47Speaker 3: Pitt and his longevity in this industry. Well, here's a
- 31:51Speaker 3: class in that industry who have stand, you know, seven
- 31:56Speaker 3: generations of, I mean, like I said, Dick Van Dyke,
- 32:00Speaker 3: black and white. I mean, I remember growing up to,
- 32:02Speaker 3: I mean, those were done in probably the early sixties,
- 32:06Speaker 3: you know, in the seventies and eighties. So it's, it's fantastic. It's,
- 32:10Speaker 3: it's great. You know, Morgan, you know, who doesn't love
- 32:12Speaker 3: Morgan Freeman? I mean, I mean, When you see his
- 32:17Speaker 3: picture and you see words, you listen and hear it
- 32:19Speaker 3: in his voice.
- 32:21Speaker 2: Yep.
- 32:21Speaker 3: So it's just, I mean, you just can't help it.
- 32:26Speaker 3: And Mel Brooks, you know.
- 32:27Speaker 7: He's got a major part in that new show Lioness.
- 32:33Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 32:33Speaker 2: And he's really good in that.
- 32:36Speaker 3: Yeah, I've seen a couple episodes of that. But yeah, great,
- 32:40Speaker 3: great list, Scott. Candy?
- 32:41Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 32:43Speaker 5: I'm going to actually add to your list, Scott, because
- 32:47Speaker 5: I'm going to– and it's kind of ironic. Her name
- 32:50Speaker 5: is Karen Marie Dahl. She is 107 years old. She
- 32:56Speaker 5: was born in 1919. She is notable as one of
- 33:02Speaker 5: Judy Garland's stand-ins on The Wizard of Oz.
- 33:06Speaker 6: Oh, wow.
- 33:06Speaker 2: Her title tonight is Wizard of Oz. So I thought
- 33:09Speaker 2: that was kind of interesting.
- 33:11Speaker 6: Very cool.
- 33:12Speaker 3: Wow, that is very cool.
- 33:14Speaker 5: There is Ray Anthony. He's 104, and he was an
- 33:18Speaker 5: actor in 16 Candles. And, Scott, I don't know, did
- 33:22Speaker 5: you say Eva Marie Saint?
- 33:24Speaker 2: No, I didn't. I only had a few of them.
- 33:27Speaker 2: I hope you remember the rest of these, but I'm
- 33:28Speaker 2: not writing them down.
- 33:29Speaker 6: I don't remember.
- 33:33Speaker 2: Eva Marie Saint is still alive? Yes.
- 33:36Speaker 3: Oh, wow. Who did you say from 16?
- 33:39Speaker 2: North by Northwest with Cary Grant.
- 33:42Speaker 5: Ray Anthony.
- 33:44Speaker 4: Who did he play?
- 33:46Speaker 2: Yeah. Ray Anthony. Let's see.
- 33:52Speaker 5: He was a band leader. He's an American retired band leader, trumpeter, songwriter,
- 33:57Speaker 5: and actor. He's best known for his tenure as a
- 34:00Speaker 5: member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Let's see if it
- 34:06Speaker 5: tells me where he's I'll keep looking at that. And
- 34:10Speaker 5: I'll look and see if I can find what he did.
- 34:13Speaker 7: But yeah, going back, Mel Brooks and Dick Van Dyke,
- 34:19Speaker 7: both a hundred years old.
- 34:21Speaker 2: I think they're the only.
- 34:23Speaker 7: Two actors that are still alive that fought in world
- 34:28Speaker 7: war two.
- 34:29Speaker 2: Wow.
- 34:30Speaker 7: And yeah. And, and as Rachel was saying, Dick Van
- 34:35Speaker 7: Dyke is so awesome. I mean, You know, he's still
- 34:40Speaker 7: so such a positive person. And Mel Brooks, I saw
- 34:44Speaker 7: a special with him and Rob Reiner, who they were
- 34:49Speaker 7: so close. They would have dinner together every night. And
- 34:52Speaker 7: I saw something recently that he still puts out the
- 34:57Speaker 7: TV trade for Rob Reiner every night.
- 35:00Speaker 2: Oh, Kyle Reiner. Excuse me. Yeah. Yeah.
- 35:03Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 35:07Speaker 2: Because they were so close for so many years. Wow.
- 35:11Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 35:12Speaker 7: It's like, it's really sad. But they're all giants in
- 35:16Speaker 7: the industry.
- 35:17Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 35:19Speaker 7: And it's amazing. I mean, such talent. And they're still
- 35:26Speaker 7: out there. And as somebody said, they're still relevant.
- 35:29Speaker 2: I love it.
- 35:30Speaker 6: They're iconic. And they're still alive.
- 35:33Speaker 2: Yes.
- 35:33Speaker 4: Yes.
- 35:34Speaker 6: You know, that, that in and of itself is, is
- 35:36Speaker 6: something to say. And like Rachel saying, you know, William Shatner,
- 35:39Speaker 6: William Shatner is probably just my, what am I thinking?
- 35:42Speaker 7: He doesn't look 95 at all.
- 35:44Speaker 1: No.
- 35:44Speaker 2: He's got that.
- 35:45Speaker 6: Energy of a 20 some odd, you know, like he
- 35:49Speaker 6: just goes and goes and goes. He was the Pedego
- 35:54Speaker 6: spokesperson for a while. And there he was, I think
- 35:56Speaker 6: he was in his eighties then. And he's got his
- 35:59Speaker 6: whole family doing the Pedego bikes and you know what
- 36:02Speaker 6: I mean? Like whatnot. And, he just, he's so funny.
- 36:05Speaker 6: He's so relevant. He loves to make fun of himself
- 36:09Speaker 6: and anything else that he can, you know, and I
- 36:12Speaker 6: think all of these people are really still like, not
- 36:15Speaker 6: just relevant, but important and iconic. I mean, you, you
- 36:18Speaker 6: just think when you, you say Dick Van Dyke and
- 36:21Speaker 6: automatically I got Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in my head
- 36:26Speaker 6: or the Dick Van Dyke show, you know, where he's
- 36:28Speaker 6: falling into the, into the original setting, you know, or
- 36:31Speaker 6: something like that. And then, Al Pacino. I love Al
- 36:35Speaker 6: Pacino and all the things that he's done. And he's,
- 36:38Speaker 6: you know, what a wide range that he has in
- 36:40Speaker 6: his acting. Clint Eastwood is always Clint Eastwood. There is
- 36:44Speaker 6: no other Clint Eastwood, but Clint Eastwood himself. I think
- 36:48Speaker 6: that his son-in-law married his daughter because she was Clint
- 36:52Speaker 6: Eastwood's son. He didn't see that in a comedian set
- 36:55Speaker 6: one time, sadly, in a comedy set. But I think,
- 36:59Speaker 6: you know, all these people are just absolutely incredible. I
- 37:02Speaker 6: really think I did not know Michael Caine was, was
- 37:05Speaker 6: up there, but good for him. Anthony Hopkins. I think
- 37:09Speaker 6: he's still making movies. I think he did. Right. Like
- 37:11Speaker 6: that's amazing. Amazing. Quality of life is everything. Rob, what
- 37:16Speaker 6: have you got?
- 37:17Speaker 8: Well, Mel Brooks still has 1900 years left because he's
- 37:20Speaker 8: a year old man.
- 37:21Speaker 7: So he's pretty young.
- 37:27Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 37:27Speaker 8: And Shatner is just amazing because he really went into
- 37:31Speaker 8: space recently.
- 37:33Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 37:33Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 37:34Speaker 2: That's amazing.
- 37:35Speaker 4: That was emotional. He was really emotional after that.
- 37:38Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 37:38Speaker 2: Yeah. It was amazing. What a list. What a list.
- 37:42Speaker 7: I'll tell you, they are all relevant.
- 37:44Speaker 2: It's great. Oh, I got more of them coming. I
- 37:47Speaker 2: just figured this one stood out this week. Well, last year, unfortunately,
- 37:50Speaker 2: we'll go back to General Hospital and they lost a
- 37:52Speaker 2: few people. I'm only going to talk about one of
- 37:54Speaker 2: them today, though. And his name is Tristan Rogers, a.k.a.
- 37:58Speaker 2: Robert Scorpio. I'm just going to go into this one
- 38:01Speaker 2: briefly a little, okay? And I'll bring up more as
- 38:04Speaker 2: we go along. I like Robert Scorpio, the character, determined, driven,
- 38:10Speaker 2: the investigative type of guy. And, of course, back in
- 38:13Speaker 2: the 80s, it was unbelievable. And, unfortunately, though, Tristan Rogers'
- 38:18Speaker 2: career spanned decades, and we don't talk about it. He
- 38:21Speaker 2: died at the age of 79. So, Rachel, some thoughts
- 38:25Speaker 2: about Tristan Rogers slash Robert Corbill.
- 38:28Speaker 4: Well, I didn't watch General Hospital.
- 38:30Speaker 2: Well, I did too, actually. Can you believe that?
- 38:34Speaker 4: I didn't. I don't know who that is. But I
- 38:40Speaker 4: did watch Guiding Light and I watched Dallas and Dynasty.
- 38:43Speaker 4: I watched a lot of soap operas. But General Hospital
- 38:47Speaker 4: was not one of them. Although I think that's where
- 38:49Speaker 4: Luke and Laura wedding was, right?
- 38:51Speaker 5: Right.
- 38:52Speaker 3: Yes.
- 38:53Speaker 4: So I think I might have watched that episode, and
- 38:55Speaker 4: that was about it, because that was a must-see TV,
- 38:58Speaker 4: kind of like who shot J.R.
- 39:01Speaker 3: Exactly, who shot J.R.
- 39:04Speaker 4: I don't have anything to say about that actor, because
- 39:08Speaker 4: I don't know who that is, but that's all I
- 39:11Speaker 4: have to say.
- 39:13Speaker 2: I'll say about this a couple soap operas. Number one,
- 39:15Speaker 2: I've got one life to live, and two, I've been
- 39:17Speaker 2: in enough general hospitals, so I'll leave it at that.
- 39:19Speaker 2: Go ahead. If you don't believe me, ask the woman
- 39:21Speaker 2: to the right here underneath the microphone.
- 39:23Speaker 6: And these are the days of your life.
- 39:25Speaker 4: These are the days of our lives.
- 39:27Speaker 5: All right, so there you go.
- 39:29Speaker 2: I had to get General Hospital One Life to Live.
- 39:31Speaker 2: Morris had nine, but whatever. Go ahead, Eddie.
- 39:36Speaker 3: No, I'm like Rachel. I didn't watch general hospital. I
- 39:39Speaker 3: didn't really watch any soap operas. And so I started
- 39:42Speaker 3: dating my wife and she was a big days of
- 39:44Speaker 3: our lives fan. Um, but I, because general hospital was
- 39:49Speaker 3: such at such a presence that everybody, you know, even
- 39:54Speaker 3: if you didn't watch it. And so when you said Scorpio,
- 39:57Speaker 3: the name rang a bell, um, you know, I, I,
- 40:01Speaker 3: I mean, those who watched it, love the show, love
- 40:05Speaker 3: the characters. You were all, you know, you, They liked
- 40:09Speaker 3: one side or another. I mean, back in the 80s,
- 40:13Speaker 3: I mean, soap operas were the thing. So may he
- 40:17Speaker 3: rest in peace. And, you know, General Hospital had a
- 40:20Speaker 3: great run.
- 40:21Speaker 2: Winston, I used to watch those properties when I was
- 40:23Speaker 2: at the University of South Florida and General Hospital. I
- 40:25Speaker 2: used to schedule my classes around those stupid things.
- 40:31Speaker 3: Well, that answers a lot of questions.
- 40:36Speaker 2: I couldn't have public speaking at 3 o'clock. No, I
- 40:38Speaker 2: had to have it at 6.
- 40:39Speaker 3: No, because you've got to go see what Luke and
- 40:42Speaker 3: Laura are doing.
- 40:44Speaker 2: We'll get into them later. But no, right now, today,
- 40:47Speaker 2: Tristan Rogers is Day to give them an RIP. There
- 40:50Speaker 2: we go. I find all this stuff when I'm not
- 40:54Speaker 2: sleeping at night, which is all the time. Rachel, you know,
- 40:56Speaker 2: if you're ever in the middle of the night and
- 40:57Speaker 2: you need somebody to text you, I'll be around. I'm
- 41:00Speaker 2: always working in the morning here, trying to create topics
- 41:03Speaker 2: over in my office from like 2 until 5 in
- 41:06Speaker 2: the morning. And I know Candy's watching the World Series
- 41:09Speaker 2: in the afternoon and watching me shoot the breeze about
- 41:12Speaker 2: my insane sleeping habits. Yeah, Steve, I did go ahead
- 41:15Speaker 2: and rearrange my classes, and it was surreal, that's for sure. Okay,
- 41:19Speaker 2: go ahead.
- 41:20Speaker 4: I just realized that you're not saying Christian Rogers. You're
- 41:23Speaker 4: saying Tristan Rogers.
- 41:25Speaker 3: Tristan Rogers.
- 41:25Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought I said Tristan.
- 41:26Speaker 4: I know Tristan Rogers personally. Oh, damn.
- 41:29Speaker 3: Oh, gee, really?
- 41:30Speaker 2: I thought I said it.
- 41:32Speaker 4: I met him. I met him. Okay. And I forgot
- 41:36Speaker 4: that he was in General Hospital. But I met him at,
- 41:39Speaker 4: I hung out and drank with him at the Palm
- 41:42Speaker 4: Beach Film Festival.
- 41:43Speaker 2: Oh, did you?
- 41:44Speaker 4: Years ago.
- 41:44Speaker 6: Oh.
- 41:45Speaker 4: Um, he was not, it was, he was a little drunk,
- 41:48Speaker 4: I think, but, um, maybe I was too, but.
- 41:54Speaker 2: That's okay.
- 41:56Speaker 4: The Palm beach film festival was, was fantastic. I was
- 41:59Speaker 4: hanging out mostly with Richard Jenkins and Tristan Rogers and, um,
- 42:04Speaker 4: the guy that wrote rhinestone cowboy for Glenn Campbell. So,
- 42:09Speaker 4: and I don't think Burt Reynolds was there that year, but, um,
- 42:12Speaker 4: you know, that was such a great festival. But yeah,
- 42:14Speaker 4: I didn't put two and two together. It's late at night.
- 42:17Speaker 4: But yeah, Tristan Rogers, I did meet. I have pictures
- 42:20Speaker 4: with him. And he was a little bit unsure about
- 42:24Speaker 4: me at first. Like, who are you? But then he
- 42:27Speaker 4: was nice enough once I started talking to him.
- 42:32Speaker 3: Sorry.
- 42:32Speaker 2: No, that's all right. What was he like?
- 42:36Speaker 4: Like I said, he was a little bit, I wouldn't
- 42:40Speaker 4: say rude, but a little bit like, standoffish at first
- 42:43Speaker 4: with me. Then he was like, oh, hey, and started
- 42:48Speaker 4: talking to me. We had a drink and he was okay.
- 42:53Speaker 4: Whereas Richard Jenkins was great immediately. Great guy. The guy
- 42:59Speaker 4: that wrote, and I can't think of his name, that
- 43:01Speaker 4: wrote the Glen Campbell song also was very nice. I
- 43:05Speaker 4: don't remember who else was there that year. There was
- 43:07Speaker 4: a ton of people, but Yeah, sorry.
- 43:10Speaker 2: I met him. Okay, no big deal. I'm glad you
- 43:13Speaker 2: got it. It's okay. By the way, SH, Joanne, you
- 43:16Speaker 2: are the superstar in the chat room today. I wish
- 43:18Speaker 2: I had something I could give you, but keep up
- 43:20Speaker 2: the momentum. I'll say wow for you and a big
- 43:23Speaker 2: thanks to go with it, pal. Thanks for contributing. You're
- 43:25Speaker 2: on a roll tonight. I feel like we got eight
- 43:28Speaker 2: is enough with you included, pal. Thanks for the good
- 43:31Speaker 2: talk out there. Scott, that's actually my cousin, by the way.
- 43:37Speaker 3: I was going to say, he knows Rob because he
- 43:39Speaker 3: threw Rob's name out.
- 43:40Speaker 2: Well, good. I didn't know. Well, that doesn't matter. I'm
- 43:43Speaker 2: glad he's been here. That's good. We've got to have
- 43:45Speaker 2: somebody out there contributing in a big way. This is
- 43:48Speaker 2: a show here where the other victim head that was
- 43:50Speaker 2: on there doesn't even appreciate this kind of a show.
- 43:54Speaker 2: But he's long gone, but at least your man here,
- 43:57Speaker 2: your cousin, is doing great. Okay. Who's left on this subject?
- 44:00Speaker 2: I think we're on Chris Rogers.
- 44:03Speaker 3: Yeah, we're still at Candy.
- 44:04Speaker 2: Okay, go ahead.
- 44:06Speaker 5: So, you know, he was born in Melbourne, Australia. When
- 44:11Speaker 5: he moved to the U.S., he couldn't find work with
- 44:14Speaker 5: his Australian accent. So he developed on working in American one. However,
- 44:19Speaker 5: when he was offered the chance to audition for the
- 44:22Speaker 5: ABC soap opera General Hospital, he was told to drop
- 44:26Speaker 5: his American accent.
- 44:28Speaker 2: He originally appeared.
- 44:30Speaker 5: On General Hospital from December of 80 until February of 92.
- 44:36Speaker 2: And when we talk about the super couple and.
- 44:38Speaker 5: The wedding, in 1981, that wedding brought in 30 million viewers.
- 44:47Speaker 2: Wow.
- 44:48Speaker 5: And remains the highest rated hour in American soap opera history.
- 44:53Speaker 5: He also was on Young and the Restless. He had
- 44:57Speaker 5: other roles. He was on Opportunity Knocks. He was the
- 45:02Speaker 5: voice of Jake the Kangaroo Mouse in The Rescuers Down Under.
- 45:07Speaker 5: He also gave his voice to the 2015 video game
- 45:11Speaker 5: Mad Max. And he played in some other. He also
- 45:16Speaker 5: did voiceover work representing restaurant chain Outback Steakhouse, Foster's Lager, Reebok,
- 45:24Speaker 5: and Epson and others.
- 45:26Speaker 8: Wow.
- 45:27Speaker 2: Steve, it's up to you and on to you.
- 45:32Speaker 7: Yeah um i i uh was not a big soap
- 45:37Speaker 7: opera fan and i'll tell you i got now i
- 45:43Speaker 7: remember the whole luke and laura thing i mean you
- 45:46Speaker 7: know blah blah blah but You know, in the 80s,
- 45:49Speaker 7: I was in the military, and they kind of frowned on,
- 45:51Speaker 7: you know, taking time off in the middle of the
- 45:53Speaker 7: day to go watch soap operas. But once you mentioned
- 45:58Speaker 7: The Rescuers Down Under, I remember that because my son
- 46:02Speaker 7: loved that film. So now I know who he is. But, yeah,
- 46:07Speaker 7: don't feel bad, Rachel, about him being standoffish. When I
- 46:10Speaker 7: met Helen Mirren for the first time, she called me
- 46:13Speaker 7: an effing gorilla.
- 46:14Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
- 46:17Speaker 3: Nice to meet you, too.
- 46:18Speaker 2: I thought she.
- 46:19Speaker 6: Was so eloquent.
- 46:20Speaker 3: Yes. Because she said it eloquently.
- 46:22Speaker 6: Oh, yes.
- 46:24Speaker 3: She said it very eloquently.
- 46:26Speaker 5: Yes.
- 46:28Speaker 6: Well, I mean, I ditched seventh grade so I could
- 46:33Speaker 6: go home and watch Luke and Laura stay home and
- 46:35Speaker 6: watch Luke and Laura get married. I was that into it.
- 46:40Speaker 6: And I remember Tristan's role, and I thought he was
- 46:43Speaker 6: like the perfect soap opera character actor like he just
- 46:48Speaker 6: did all the drama so well you know like everything
- 46:54Speaker 6: he knew where to pause the pregnant pause right i
- 46:57Speaker 6: think he was like the king of the pregnant pause
- 47:00Speaker 6: like he just really had all those down i think
- 47:03Speaker 6: all his characters were he played them really really really
- 47:07Speaker 6: well um i don't always know actors names until i
- 47:11Speaker 6: see their faces and i'm like oh yeah you So
- 47:14Speaker 6: I did have to look him up, because I was like,
- 47:16Speaker 6: I kind of thought I remember.
- 47:17Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just looking him up.
- 47:18Speaker 6: I was like, oh. Yeah, well, at first they're showing
- 47:20Speaker 6: him as an old person, and I'm like, okay.
- 47:22Speaker 2: Exactly.
- 47:23Speaker 6: But then when I saw him, now he's in a
- 47:26Speaker 6: scene with Luke, actually, right around the wedding, you know.
- 47:29Speaker 6: Because I think he, wasn't he like the detective or something?
- 47:33Speaker 2: Yeah, right.
- 47:34Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember all that.
- 47:36Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 47:37Speaker 6: So when I saw his face, I'm like, oh, I remember.
- 47:40Speaker 6: And so then I remember exactly, because he was... He
- 47:43Speaker 6: was really an iconic soap opera actor. Rob, what did
- 47:46Speaker 6: you get?
- 47:47Speaker 8: Well, I didn't watch soap operas because my friends would
- 47:50Speaker 8: have kicked my butt.
- 47:52Speaker 3: Exactly.
- 47:53Speaker 2: I'm going home to watch General Hospital. I can't play
- 47:56Speaker 2: football today. But I know who he was. All right. Well,
- 48:04Speaker 2: I got some insane topics and I have a feel
- 48:06Speaker 2: good story. I'm going to go with an insane one
- 48:08Speaker 2: followed by a feel good story. Ready for the insane one? Comedy, though.
- 48:14Speaker 2: This is Robin Williams. This is equipped for this show.
- 48:18Speaker 2: A beer drink. I mean, a bear. I repeat, a bear.
- 48:23Speaker 2: B-E-A-R drank 36 beers he stole from a camper's and
- 48:28Speaker 2: he passed out. Well, here, I'll repeat it again. And
- 48:34Speaker 2: for the guy that was a little on the facetious side,
- 48:37Speaker 2: you really meant something with this one, Six and Ed.
- 48:39Speaker 2: So a bear drank 36 beers he stole from campers,
- 48:43Speaker 2: and he passed out. Okay, Rachel, I don't know where
- 48:46Speaker 2: you're getting your beer at, but this bear obviously took
- 48:49Speaker 2: a nap that nobody thought he would do.
- 48:52Speaker 4: He beat my record.
- 48:53Speaker 2: All right. All right, then.
- 48:58Speaker 4: Did Robert Kennedy find him? That's my question.
- 49:01Speaker 6: You don't want to pass out around Robert Kennedy.
- 49:06Speaker 4: You don't know where you'll end up. I don't know
- 49:09Speaker 4: what to say to that.
- 49:11Speaker 2: Nobody ever does, but that's okay. Try to do the
- 49:14Speaker 2: best you can.
- 49:15Speaker 4: Keep your your animals away from uh alcohol i don't
- 49:18Speaker 4: know um you know it's funny i don't know what
- 49:23Speaker 4: to say at least i hope he's okay after that
- 49:25Speaker 4: that's a lot of beer.
- 49:27Speaker 2: Well he took a good nap let me tell you
- 49:28Speaker 2: a funny story when i was at usf i would
- 49:31Speaker 2: be actually the manager of our softball team for the
- 49:33Speaker 2: communications team, and we had a mascot named Chubber. Well,
- 49:37Speaker 2: the owner of Chubber went ahead and got him someone's beer,
- 49:40Speaker 2: but this poor dog was walking around in circles, and
- 49:44Speaker 2: you could tell he was having a good old time.
- 49:45Speaker 2: We did win the game, but Chubber had the best
- 49:47Speaker 2: time drinking all that beer. I've never seen a stoned
- 49:50Speaker 2: dog in my life until that. All right, so that
- 49:53Speaker 2: was just a little something that was parallel to the topic.
- 49:55Speaker 2: All right, what are your thoughts about the beer and
- 49:57Speaker 2: the beers? Well, the first thing I thought.
- 50:00Speaker 4: Of was.
- 50:03Speaker 3: If a bear drinks 36 beers in the woods, you
- 50:09Speaker 3: can finish the sentence. Anyway. No, but anyway, no, but seriously,
- 50:17Speaker 3: you know, they say, you know, in the campsites and stuff,
- 50:20Speaker 3: you know, you got to kind of put your, you know,
- 50:22Speaker 3: make sure you keep your food under control and stuff. And,
- 50:25Speaker 3: you know, they walk, you know. What's 36 beers? That's what, what,
- 50:29Speaker 3: three 12-packs at the, what, a case and a half?
- 50:33Speaker 3: So he sits there, he's, you know, he's been rummaging
- 50:35Speaker 3: through the forest all day, maybe had some bark, he
- 50:37Speaker 3: was thirsty, saw these beers come, hopefully it wasn't expensive beer,
- 50:42Speaker 3: just sat down and said, hey, you know, this is good.
- 50:45Speaker 3: But could you imagine being, just imagine this, you know,
- 50:49Speaker 3: you got 36 empties all over the place. And you
- 50:52Speaker 3: got a passed out bear in your camp. And you're walking.
- 50:54Speaker 3: What is the first thought that runs through your mind?
- 50:58Speaker 3: And the bear's just out cold. I mean, what do
- 51:01Speaker 3: you do? You call the park ranger from Jellystone. Hey,
- 51:07Speaker 3: I got Yogi Bear here. He just cracked my 36 beers. Now,
- 51:12Speaker 3: that's crazy. That's crazy. Scott, only you can find stories
- 51:15Speaker 3: like that. I'm convinced. And they're too crazy for you
- 51:20Speaker 3: to actually be made up. So I have to believe
- 51:22Speaker 3: that they're true.
- 51:24Speaker 2: Well, no. When you come over to the group chat,
- 51:27Speaker 2: I'll tell.
- 51:28Speaker 3: You this, though. No, I don't want to.
- 51:31Speaker 2: I don't hide my sources.
- 51:34Speaker 3: I usually go to therapy tomorrow because of this.
- 51:38Speaker 4: No, it's good.
- 51:39Speaker 3: I'm kidding.
- 51:41Speaker 2: It's all right. Everybody needs therapy after coming on this show.
- 51:45Speaker 3: You know, I love being here.
- 51:48Speaker 2: Go ahead.
- 51:50Speaker 5: The black bear broke into camper's coolers at Baker Lake
- 51:54Speaker 5: Resort in Washington State. He consumed about 36 cans of
- 52:00Speaker 5: Rainier beer, but tried only a single can of bush
- 52:08Speaker 5: beer and refused to touch the rest.
- 52:10Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
- 52:11Speaker 3: That's funny.
- 52:14Speaker 2: He didn't head for the mountain.
- 52:16Speaker 3: No, he didn't.
- 52:18Speaker 5: No. Wildlife officials found him later. It later woke up,
- 52:23Speaker 5: climbed a tree to sleep it off for four hours,
- 52:27Speaker 5: and returned the next day before being captured with a
- 52:30Speaker 5: human trap baited with donuts, honey, and two more cans
- 52:34Speaker 5: of beer.
- 52:41Speaker 7: My question is, did he crush the can of bush
- 52:45Speaker 7: on his head? I mean, you know, that's like after
- 52:49Speaker 7: you're drunk and there's no more beer left, you know,
- 52:52Speaker 7: that used to be the big thing is you take
- 52:55Speaker 7: a beer can and you, I'm probably the only person
- 52:59Speaker 7: who did that.
- 52:59Speaker 3: So instead of, instead of watching general hospital on your mission,
- 53:08Speaker 3: you were drinking beer. I was drinking.
- 53:10Speaker 7: With Yogi in the woods and I got him started
- 53:14Speaker 7: on the beer.
- 53:15Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 53:16Speaker 6: I mean, he's his own version of his own mascot
- 53:19Speaker 6: for animal health.
- 53:19Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
- 53:20Speaker 2: That's it.
- 53:21Speaker 6: The evolution came back.
- 53:23Speaker 3: Yes, yes.
- 53:26Speaker 7: And he is a mean bear when he has a hangover.
- 53:29Speaker 6: That's what I'm thinking. I was really more concerned about
- 53:32Speaker 6: when that bear woke up is when I don't want
- 53:35Speaker 6: to be there because he's going to.
- 53:36Speaker 2: Have an incredible head. And there's no more beer left.
- 53:38Speaker 2: No hair of the dog.
- 53:40Speaker 3: Well, no, there's probably bush, but he didn't want to
- 53:41Speaker 3: drink it.
- 53:42Speaker 2: Hair of the bear?
- 53:42Speaker 3: Exactly.
- 53:43Speaker 2: Hair of the bear?
- 53:45Speaker 6: The hair of the bear rob what do you think
- 53:47Speaker 6: about a.
- 53:48Speaker 9: Bear and a beer well i went camping once and
- 53:51Speaker 9: i went to get a beer and there were none
- 53:53Speaker 9: left and i said to my brother-in-law where's all the
- 53:55Speaker 9: beer and he said a bear came over and.
- 53:58Speaker 2: Took it all.
- 54:01Speaker 8: So you solved the mystery he wasn't lying i thought
- 54:04Speaker 8: he was lying.
- 54:05Speaker 2: To me oh my goodness Well, it's only fitting that
- 54:08Speaker 2: we're talking about beer when the Milwaukee Brewers are playing tonight.
- 54:11Speaker 2: So we'll go ahead and round out that segment because
- 54:15Speaker 2: now we have a good feel-good story, and it's about
- 54:17Speaker 2: divorce for a change. Have you ever seen a feel-good
- 54:20Speaker 2: story about a divorce? Here's a good one for you.
- 54:22Speaker 2: Made his parents get a divorce, this guy. Former quarterback,
- 54:26Speaker 2: missing quarterback Jake Garcia had a crazy past. And I'll
- 54:30Speaker 2: go over this. And he was tough. named a starter
- 54:34Speaker 2: at Furman on Tuesday, but his high school backstory is
- 54:37Speaker 2: pretty crazy. Garcia was a four-star recruit in the 2021
- 54:42Speaker 2: class out of Whittier, California, but faced COVID complications from
- 54:46Speaker 2: the state as a senior. The California native wanted to
- 54:52Speaker 2: transfer to a high school in Georgia, but California eligibility
- 54:55Speaker 2: laws required a full family move. Since his mother had
- 55:00Speaker 2: to stay in California, Garcia's mom and dad got a
- 55:03Speaker 2: divorce to allow for their son to transfer with eligibility.
- 55:07Speaker 2: Garcia played during his senior year at Grayson High School
- 55:10Speaker 2: in Georgia, and his parents were married after his time there.
- 55:16Speaker 2: The 6'2, 210-pound slinger enters sixth season of college football
- 55:23Speaker 2: and has made stops at five different schools. The multi-time...
- 55:27Speaker 2: The multi... Time transfer holds career numbers of 2,376 yards,
- 55:32Speaker 2: 17 touchdowns, 16 interceptions, and will face Tennessee in week one.
- 55:38Speaker 2: And there you have it. So you talk about an
- 55:40Speaker 2: unbelievable story about a player, family got a divorce for
- 55:45Speaker 2: his football career. I think that's pretty surreal. Rachel? Wow.
- 55:51Speaker 4: That's dedication to your kid, for sure. I've never heard
- 55:55Speaker 4: a story quite like that. That's really interesting. I don't
- 56:00Speaker 4: know if I have anything to add to that. I
- 56:02Speaker 4: don't really follow. It's too much. I know that's, that's
- 56:05Speaker 4: your domain.
- 56:06Speaker 2: So I'm not a one trick pony anymore. After you've
- 56:10Speaker 2: been on this show, you actually learn very quickly, but yeah, no,
- 56:14Speaker 2: it was just a human interest to me, but that's okay. Yeah.
- 56:17Speaker 4: It's good for him. You know, it's good that they
- 56:20Speaker 4: were able to do that.
- 56:22Speaker 2: It's, it's odd. Okay. Go ahead.
- 56:24Speaker 3: No, you know, you know, It's– parents end up making sacrifices,
- 56:36Speaker 3: some to an extreme, which this is. But I think
- 56:42Speaker 3: the underlying theme to this is that it wasn't– it
- 56:45Speaker 3: was a separation to try to facilitate, help their son's
- 56:53Speaker 3: future with the idea– I guess– I guess in some respects,
- 57:00Speaker 3: I try, I know divorce law is different in every state.
- 57:05Speaker 3: So I just don't, did they have to separate or
- 57:08Speaker 3: could they have just moved and kind of gone through
- 57:12Speaker 3: the motions? I don't know. But I, but nonetheless, a
- 57:15Speaker 3: parent taking a child going to another state and another
- 57:17Speaker 3: parent staying in the state. And I believe, wasn't it,
- 57:20Speaker 3: was it Florida and California? I mean, it was two coasts. Georgia.
- 57:24Speaker 3: All right. Same, kind of same difference. That's dedication. That's
- 57:32Speaker 3: betting on your son. Good for them. That's a special
- 57:37Speaker 3: type of parent. Not every parent would do that. I
- 57:41Speaker 3: think that's 1% of parents would do that. Let me
- 57:45Speaker 3: say this.
- 57:46Speaker 2: I wouldn't do that.
- 57:49Speaker 4: I like Dakota's comments in the chat. Good comments popping
- 57:55Speaker 4: up there.
- 57:57Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead, Candy. Read them when you see them.
- 57:59Speaker 5: Well, this one says, that's awful parenting. Whatever happened to
- 58:04Speaker 5: just following rules and playing sports?
- 58:07Speaker 2: Change common law.
- 58:10Speaker 3: That's actually, that's somebody else, all right.
- 58:16Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 58:16Speaker 3: Okay.
- 58:18Speaker 5: You know, I mean, his parents, it was the Garcia's,
- 58:23Speaker 5: and it was Jake Garcia could meet, It was so
- 58:25Speaker 5: that he could meet residency rules to play football in
- 58:28Speaker 5: Georgia while his mother stayed in California. He was a
- 58:32Speaker 5: star quarterback and ESPN 300 prospect who later committed to USC.
- 58:42Speaker 5: He played for Valdosta High School under head coach Rush Propst.
- 58:50Speaker 5: They legally separated and moved across country. That to me
- 58:56Speaker 5: That is taking dedication to the next level. That is
- 59:00Speaker 5: showing your kid that your kid means everything to you.
- 59:05Speaker 5: And you don't see that a lot. I'd love to hear.
- 59:10Speaker 5: how the kid is doing now, like to see like what,
- 59:14Speaker 5: where he's at now. And I may do that while
- 59:19Speaker 5: Steve goes next.
- 59:22Speaker 2: I don't, I honestly, I don't.
- 59:25Speaker 7: And you know me, Scott, I'm a big football guy. Yeah.
- 59:28Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 59:29Speaker 7: I don't know what to make of this. I mean,
- 59:32Speaker 7: is this, is this dedication to your kid or is
- 59:38Speaker 7: this the parent living vicariously through the son's football career?
- 59:44Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 59:45Speaker 7: I don't know the particulars of this, but it just
- 59:48Speaker 7: strikes me as really odd. And, you know, I mean, you,
- 59:53Speaker 7: you know, the dedication it takes to succeed in any sport,
- 59:57Speaker 7: especially football.
- 59:58Speaker 2: I mean, Right. But I don't know. I don't know
- 1:00:02Speaker 2: how to take this one.
- 1:00:04Speaker 7: I guess, you know, without knowing all the details.
- 1:00:07Speaker 2: But I mean, on the surface, I see the parents
- 1:00:10Speaker 2: making sacrifices for their kids. That's what I see. Yeah.
- 1:00:15Speaker 7: And I mean, that's obviously a huge sacrifice. But at
- 1:00:20Speaker 7: the same time, I kind of I don't know.
- 1:00:24Speaker 6: I have a little different take. I mean, I don't know,
- 1:00:27Speaker 6: because first of all, California, get out of their family.
- 1:00:29Speaker 6: Like what? California and their COVID laws were so stupid.
- 1:00:33Speaker 6: And I can say that because I live here. We
- 1:00:35Speaker 6: were absolutely absurdly ridiculous while our governor didn't.
- 1:00:40Speaker 4: Pay attention to any of the rules.
- 1:00:43Speaker 6: And had parties at his winery when no one else
- 1:00:46Speaker 6: was even allowed to see their loved ones while they
- 1:00:48Speaker 6: were dying in the hospital. I mean, the whole thing. COVID,
- 1:00:52Speaker 6: everything about it makes me angry. Everything about it is
- 1:00:55Speaker 6: absolutely absurd and get out of people's families for God's sakes.
- 1:00:58Speaker 6: You don't belong in there.
- 1:00:59Speaker 2: You're the government.
- 1:01:00Speaker 6: But I do know plenty of families who like where,
- 1:01:05Speaker 6: you know, maybe one of the partners, one of the
- 1:01:07Speaker 6: parents got a job in another state and their kids
- 1:01:12Speaker 6: were in high school. They didn't want to go to
- 1:01:15Speaker 6: high school. So one parent stays, the other one goes
- 1:01:18Speaker 6: to work, comes home on weekends or, you know, some
- 1:01:20Speaker 6: kind of situation like that. I know one lady who
- 1:01:25Speaker 6: had six children. Her husband, his job, he was in
- 1:01:29Speaker 6: private equity. He was in business in Chicago making a
- 1:01:32Speaker 6: whole heck of a lot of money. But her son,
- 1:01:35Speaker 6: one of the sons actually was an actor and he
- 1:01:37Speaker 6: was in, oh, I don't know, one of the Latino
- 1:01:41Speaker 6: shows from way, way, way back.
- 1:01:42Speaker 4: His name is escaping me.
- 1:01:43Speaker 6: But anyway, he did really well. He had a whole
- 1:01:45Speaker 6: entire acting career. So she moved her entire family of
- 1:01:49Speaker 6: children and herself to LA so her one child could
- 1:01:53Speaker 6: follow his dreams in acting. The other one had new experiences,
- 1:01:58Speaker 6: but the husband stayed in Chicago and they did stay
- 1:02:01Speaker 6: married and they did somehow make it work. And so
- 1:02:04Speaker 6: I don't know if it's living vicariously. I don't know
- 1:02:06Speaker 6: these people, so I don't know if that's it, but
- 1:02:08Speaker 6: I think it's sacrificing so that your child who has
- 1:02:12Speaker 6: that kind of a talent is going to get the
- 1:02:14Speaker 6: opportunities that's going to create a really wonderful career for him.
- 1:02:17Speaker 6: And then, I mean, he came back to California and
- 1:02:19Speaker 6: he went to USC. And so screw you, Newsome.
- 1:02:22Speaker 3: What have you got to say, Rob? So Jennifer, how
- 1:02:27Speaker 3: do you really feel about it? How do you really feel?
- 1:02:29Speaker 6: Well, let me unpack it a little.
- 1:02:32Speaker 3: This will be your therapy session. You can have a
- 1:02:34Speaker 3: therapy session here. Right here. Just right here. Just let
- 1:02:38Speaker 3: it out.
- 1:02:39Speaker 2: The floor is yours. I'm going to hand.
- 1:02:41Speaker 6: It over to Rob.
- 1:02:43Speaker 8: You know, I guess they just sacrificed for their kid,
- 1:02:47Speaker 8: which is cool.
- 1:02:48Speaker 6: I don't know.
- 1:02:49Speaker 2: It's just crazy.
- 1:02:50Speaker 8: You know, you guys, Scott, you have to be speechless
- 1:02:54Speaker 8: on this one because really.
- 1:02:58Speaker 5: So I have to add because, Scott, do you realize
- 1:03:03Speaker 5: we watched him as a quarterback? Oh, yeah. He actually
- 1:03:08Speaker 5: ended up his first year of college playing University of Miami.
- 1:03:14Speaker 2: Oh, all right.
- 1:03:15Speaker 5: So when Tyler Van Dyke went down, Garcia was named
- 1:03:20Speaker 5: the Hurricanes' starting quarterback for their game against Virginia.
- 1:03:24Speaker 2: Okay.
- 1:03:24Speaker 5: In his first start, he completed 15 of 31 passes,
- 1:03:28Speaker 5: 125 yards, as Miami defeated Virginia. He finished the 2022
- 1:03:33Speaker 5: season appearing in eight games and throwing for 803 yards,
- 1:03:38Speaker 5: five touchdowns.
- 1:03:39Speaker 2: Four interceptions.
- 1:03:40Speaker 5: He entered the... transfer portal. He went to the university
- 1:03:44Speaker 5: of Missouri from the university of Missouri. He transferred to
- 1:03:48Speaker 5: East Carolina university from East Carolina. He decided to transfer
- 1:03:52Speaker 5: to your university of Michigan Wolverines. And then he now
- 1:03:58Speaker 5: transferred to Furman university to play for the Furman Palladians
- 1:04:03Speaker 5: in his final season of college eligibility. He would name
- 1:04:07Speaker 5: the starting quarterback for this year. I don't have his
- 1:04:10Speaker 5: stats for this year, but.
- 1:04:11Speaker 2: I have that information. Yep. You don't need. I think
- 1:04:15Speaker 2: the story over pretty much says that. Well, you know what?
- 1:04:19Speaker 2: Let's go to our featured topic of the night. Why
- 1:04:21Speaker 2: would I put Wizard of Oz on here?
- 1:04:23Speaker 3: Well, I was wondering the same thing.
- 1:04:25Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody does. That's OK. You're just trying to grow.
- 1:04:29Speaker 2: You are part of it. But anyway, disturbing facts about
- 1:04:31Speaker 2: the Wizard of Oz. There you go. The actor's makeup
- 1:04:34Speaker 2: contained toxic copper. OK. And then you got toxic copper.
- 1:04:39Speaker 2: The actor's The Wicked Witch suffered second and third degree
- 1:04:43Speaker 2: burns from the stunt. The original man's actor had to
- 1:04:47Speaker 2: be replaced due to the aluminum poisoning from the silver
- 1:04:51Speaker 2: face paint. Jet clamp it. Oh, was it? Yeah, there
- 1:04:55Speaker 2: you go. The lion's costume was made from real lion
- 1:05:00Speaker 2: hair and was so heavy the actor struggled to breathe
- 1:05:03Speaker 2: in it.
- 1:05:05Speaker 6: And what else?
- 1:05:05Speaker 2: Judy Garland had to go on a diet consisting of
- 1:05:08Speaker 2: coffee and cigarettes for the role. Oh, God, help me
- 1:05:11Speaker 2: with both of those. I'll see if I can handle
- 1:05:13Speaker 2: the other one.
- 1:05:13Speaker 3: Forget that one.
- 1:05:15Speaker 2: She was prescribed with amphetamines in order to help her
- 1:05:18Speaker 2: lose weight, which may have led to her drug addiction.
- 1:05:23Speaker 2: The snow used in the scene was asbestos. And the
- 1:05:28Speaker 2: actor playing the scarecrow was left with permanent scarring on
- 1:05:32Speaker 2: his face due to prosthetics.
- 1:05:34Speaker 3: Oh.
- 1:05:35Speaker 2: The lion was so complex, the actor could not eat
- 1:05:39Speaker 2: in case they ruined it. Oh, God, really? The dog
- 1:05:43Speaker 2: playing Toto was paid more daily than the munchkins. Yes.
- 1:05:51Speaker 2: And then you got Judy Garland was slapped across the
- 1:05:53Speaker 2: face for ruining some tanks by giggling. Oh, my God,
- 1:05:58Speaker 2: what a poor thing. I feel bad for it. So
- 1:06:01Speaker 2: there you go. Wizard of Oz, people. We have Judy Garland.
- 1:06:05Speaker 2: All right, go ahead. Okay.
- 1:06:07Speaker 4: Well, I have stories about Wizard of Oz. One of
- 1:06:13Speaker 4: the first things I auditioned for in, gosh, I don't know,
- 1:06:18Speaker 4: sixth grade was Wizard of Oz. And I auditioned for
- 1:06:22Speaker 4: the Judy Garland role of Dorothy. And there's some part
- 1:06:26Speaker 4: in the script where it's talking about grass. And that
- 1:06:29Speaker 4: made me laugh. I just started giggling when I got
- 1:06:31Speaker 4: to that line. So I didn't get the part of Dorothy.
- 1:06:38Speaker 4: I didn't know anything about that, but for some reason that,
- 1:06:42Speaker 4: and I ended up being a munchkin. That was my
- 1:06:44Speaker 4: first role as a munchkin with a lot of other munchkins,
- 1:06:49Speaker 4: you know, we were in the chorus. So that's my,
- 1:06:51Speaker 4: my experience with wizard of Oz. And then I played Dorothy.
- 1:06:54Speaker 4: I was Halloween. I was Dorothy one year. I am
- 1:06:57Speaker 4: a mad and crazy dancer. And I, was kicking my
- 1:07:01Speaker 4: foot up and my shoe went barreling across and hit someone.
- 1:07:08Speaker 4: But as far as the awful things that happened on set,
- 1:07:13Speaker 4: I did hear about Dorothy, Judy Garland, having to go
- 1:07:18Speaker 4: through diet pills. That's kind of a well-known story. I
- 1:07:21Speaker 4: didn't know about the coffee and the cigarettes, which is
- 1:07:23Speaker 4: kind of disturbing given her age. But then again, everybody
- 1:07:26Speaker 4: was smoking back then. Like my grandmother was told to
- 1:07:30Speaker 4: smoke by her doctor to help her nerves when she
- 1:07:34Speaker 4: was pregnant.
- 1:07:34Speaker 6: So, you know, she was pregnant.
- 1:07:38Speaker 2: Yes. Always listen to.
- 1:07:39Speaker 6: Your or not. Yeah.
- 1:07:42Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:07:44Speaker 4: That's this really frightening. I've had prosthetics put on me.
- 1:07:48Speaker 4: I was in Babylon five and I had all I
- 1:07:52Speaker 4: was an infeely refugee and I was up at five
- 1:07:55Speaker 4: 30 in the morning with all of that. But luckily
- 1:07:57Speaker 4: I didn't have any damage. And then I was, over
- 1:08:00Speaker 4: the weekend, I was a zombie for this photo shoot,
- 1:08:04Speaker 4: but we didn't have to use prosthetics. We just had makeup.
- 1:08:07Speaker 4: And that got all over the place. But we bought wardrobe,
- 1:08:11Speaker 4: thank God, that we could throw out. So those things
- 1:08:14Speaker 4: happen on set. You know, it's a scary industry. You know,
- 1:08:18Speaker 4: things can happen.
- 1:08:21Speaker 2: Well, Rachel, I'm glad we made you feel at home
- 1:08:22Speaker 2: with the Wizard of Oz. I didn't think.
- 1:08:27Speaker 4: I look a little bit like Dorothy.
- 1:08:28Speaker 6: You do look like Dorothy. I was thinking they really
- 1:08:30Speaker 6: missed out on you being Dorothy, those people.
- 1:08:33Speaker 4: Actually, the girl that got the part, I forgot her
- 1:08:37Speaker 4: last name, Jill, she was perfect for that part. So
- 1:08:41Speaker 4: good for her.
- 1:08:44Speaker 3: All right. So, Scott, when I came on and I
- 1:08:47Speaker 3: saw the title, let's talk about the Wizard of Oz,
- 1:08:51Speaker 3: I got a small twitch in my eye because when
- 1:08:54Speaker 3: I hear people coming to me about the Wizard of eyes,
- 1:08:57Speaker 3: it can go many different ways. For those of you
- 1:08:59Speaker 3: on here who don't know, I'm a little person. So
- 1:09:03Speaker 3: me hearing stories of like, which way is the yellow
- 1:09:05Speaker 3: brick road? Now you come into munchkin land, you know,
- 1:09:10Speaker 3: where's Toto? There's no place like home, you know, stuff
- 1:09:13Speaker 3: like that. And that's, that's from all my good friends.
- 1:09:17Speaker 3: From other people, it's not even half as bad. No,
- 1:09:20Speaker 3: I'm being serious. Yes, I had heard stories about the
- 1:09:28Speaker 3: munchkins getting paid less than the dog. Acting's a hard business.
- 1:09:37Speaker 3: That's why they pay the big dollars. That's why you
- 1:09:40Speaker 3: have to pay your dues. Not that those guys got
- 1:09:43Speaker 3: paid big dollars, but no.
- 1:09:44Speaker 6: It's... They don't make big dollars until you make big dollars.
- 1:09:47Speaker 3: There's a huge discrepancy. Yeah, right. No, I've done.
- 1:09:51Speaker 6: The dog makes more than the person.
- 1:09:53Speaker 2: Exactly.
- 1:09:54Speaker 3: The dog sitting in the chair in a munchkin is
- 1:09:56Speaker 3: still in the slaughterhouse.
- 1:09:58Speaker 2: The dog didn't have to sing and dance?
- 1:10:02Speaker 3: No, exactly. No, I think that's... But, you know, it's funny.
- 1:10:06Speaker 3: If you really look at it, that was a whole
- 1:10:08Speaker 3: different time. Everything that you said is all different now.
- 1:10:11Speaker 3: You know, I don't even think the, what is it,
- 1:10:15Speaker 3: the SGA, the Spring Guild. Yeah, the SAG, the F-A-G, yeah.
- 1:10:19Speaker 3: I mean, that didn't even exist back then because all
- 1:10:22Speaker 3: that stuff, none of that stuff would have happened. We
- 1:10:27Speaker 3: didn't really know much about asbestos yet. To your point,
- 1:10:30Speaker 3: everybody was smoking cigarettes. I mean... who remembers back growing up,
- 1:10:35Speaker 3: you bought candy cigarettes.
- 1:10:36Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:10:37Speaker 3: I think about that. I mean, we all pretended to smoke.
- 1:10:42Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 1:10:43Speaker 2: Right.
- 1:10:43Speaker 3: So, yeah, so that's, so, so now that I see
- 1:10:46Speaker 3: where you went with it, Scott, I'm a little bit, my,
- 1:10:49Speaker 3: my blood pressure's come down. Regular level for the show. So,
- 1:10:57Speaker 3: so thank you anyway. Rachel, you want to say something?
- 1:11:00Speaker 4: No, I was just going to say for the photo
- 1:11:02Speaker 4: shoot I did over the weekend, he's like, does anybody
- 1:11:05Speaker 4: have a cigarette like that we can use? Cause he
- 1:11:07Speaker 4: wanted me to have a, not like not even lit,
- 1:11:09Speaker 4: but have a cigarette in my mouth for one of
- 1:11:11Speaker 4: the shots, but nobody had one. So we didn't, we
- 1:11:14Speaker 4: didn't do it.
- 1:11:16Speaker 3: Or I'm surprised he said, Hey, just put a vape
- 1:11:21Speaker 3: in your mouth. Cause everybody seems to have vapes nowadays.
- 1:11:23Speaker 4: I actually have, I have Corey Feldman cigarettes. It's a
- 1:11:27Speaker 4: really funny story. Because I met him, I interviewed him,
- 1:11:31Speaker 4: and he left his cigarettes on the table. And I
- 1:11:33Speaker 4: grabbed him. I was going to run. I think he
- 1:11:35Speaker 4: was in a limo. I don't remember what he was in.
- 1:11:36Speaker 4: And I ran after him, but it was too late.
- 1:11:39Speaker 4: So I was like, I'm just going to hold on
- 1:11:40Speaker 4: to this. This was like 2010. And I still have
- 1:11:44Speaker 4: his cigarettes because I think it would be hilarious or
- 1:11:48Speaker 4: really weird. If I come up and say, here's your cigarettes.
- 1:11:52Speaker 3: Have you been looking for these?
- 1:11:56Speaker 2: I was wondering, are you.
- 1:11:59Speaker 7: Going to bring them back?
- 1:12:00Speaker 2: Yeah. I've been holding them for you. Oh, good Lord.
- 1:12:05Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:12:07Speaker 3: Candy.
- 1:12:08Speaker 5: One of the things that they also talked about is
- 1:12:11Speaker 5: that the heavy Technicolor lights push studio temperatures past 100 degrees.
- 1:12:17Speaker 5: frequently causing crew and cast members to faint. And part
- 1:12:22Speaker 5: of Judy Garland, her strict diet, the black coffee, chicken soup, cigarettes,
- 1:12:29Speaker 5: and she was also given stimulants and sedatives by the
- 1:12:33Speaker 5: studio to maintain her grueling 18-hour work days. And then
- 1:12:41Speaker 5: they also said Judy Garland earned one of the lowest
- 1:12:44Speaker 5: salaries among the main cast, while Toto the dog was
- 1:12:48Speaker 5: paid $ 125 a week, more than many of the actors
- 1:12:53Speaker 5: playing the munchkins.
- 1:12:54Speaker 3: Wow.
- 1:12:55Speaker 8: Wow.
- 1:12:56Speaker 2: Well, I've read about that.
- 1:12:58Speaker 7: And apparently the dog was like in super demand. They
- 1:13:04Speaker 7: really wanted this dog for the movie. And so like,
- 1:13:11Speaker 7: it was kind of like, oh, we need to make
- 1:13:13Speaker 7: sure that we get him. And that's why they offered
- 1:13:16Speaker 7: his trainer so much money. But, you know, growing up,
- 1:13:24Speaker 7: as a little kid watching the Wizard of Oz for
- 1:13:27Speaker 7: the first time, I hated the flying monkeys.
- 1:13:31Speaker 3: Oh, yes.
- 1:13:32Speaker 7: I hated those damn monkeys, those flying monkeys. Oh, I
- 1:13:37Speaker 7: still do. Whenever it comes on.
- 1:13:39Speaker 2: I'm like, damn monkeys.
- 1:13:41Speaker 4: Anyway.
- 1:13:43Speaker 2: You know, and then.
- 1:13:45Speaker 7: It was like when I was a kid, then they
- 1:13:47Speaker 7: used to have the coffee commercials. And my mom would say,
- 1:13:51Speaker 7: do you know who Cora the coffee lady is?
- 1:13:55Speaker 6: No.
- 1:13:55Speaker 7: That's the Wicked Witch of the West. And she did
- 1:13:59Speaker 7: the coffee commercials. But, you know, then I read about her.
- 1:14:05Speaker 7: She was sick for quite a while after the movie
- 1:14:08Speaker 7: because of the green makeup. And her face stayed green
- 1:14:13Speaker 7: for over a month. After the filming was over because
- 1:14:18Speaker 7: it wouldn't wash out. And I think she couldn't even
- 1:14:26Speaker 7: eat with that on. She had to drink through a
- 1:14:28Speaker 7: straw during the day. And, you know, Buddy Ebsen, who
- 1:14:32Speaker 7: became Jed Clampett from the Beverly Hillbillies, he was the
- 1:14:36Speaker 7: original Tin Man. And the aluminum powder in the makeup
- 1:14:44Speaker 7: made him very, very ill and they replaced him, you know, with,
- 1:14:48Speaker 7: I'm trying to think it was, I think it was
- 1:14:51Speaker 7: Jack Haley, right? But yeah, I was a big Wizard
- 1:14:55Speaker 7: of Oz fan except for those damn monkeys.
- 1:14:58Speaker 3: Damn monkeys.
- 1:14:59Speaker 4: Scary trees. I didn't like the trees.
- 1:15:02Speaker 6: Right?
- 1:15:03Speaker 3: All that was frightening.
- 1:15:05Speaker 6: I mean, I love Wizard of Oz overall. Like, you know,
- 1:15:08Speaker 6: I thought I loved Wicked too. You know, it was
- 1:15:10Speaker 6: really amazing. I think hearing a lot of this sort of,
- 1:15:14Speaker 6: breaks my heart on Wizard of Oz. And you think,
- 1:15:16Speaker 6: you know what? Do better. But to your point, Ed,
- 1:15:20Speaker 6: we didn't know that much back then. So we didn't
- 1:15:23Speaker 6: know as much. But still, people are getting sick. And
- 1:15:25Speaker 6: why would you have it so hot? People are fainting.
- 1:15:28Speaker 2: Because it was Technicolor.
- 1:15:30Speaker 3: I know.
- 1:15:30Speaker 6: But it's like humanity. Keep humanity in humanness.
- 1:15:36Speaker 7: Did you know in the book that they weren't ruby slippers?
- 1:15:43Speaker 5: Yes.
- 1:15:44Speaker 2: They were sober in the book. Yes.
- 1:15:48Speaker 7: And I always wondered why they changed that, and I
- 1:15:50Speaker 7: think it had something to do with the.
- 1:15:52Speaker 6: The Technicolor.
- 1:15:53Speaker 2: The Technicolor.
- 1:15:54Speaker 6: I mean, that was the big.
- 1:15:56Speaker 2: Because that was 1939.
- 1:15:57Speaker 7: You've got to remember, that was like.
- 1:15:59Speaker 6: It had never happened before.
- 1:16:01Speaker 2: Yeah, that was big stuff back then.
- 1:16:03Speaker 6: That was big for the big screen. It was just,
- 1:16:05Speaker 6: that was the whole thing about it. And really, I mean,
- 1:16:09Speaker 6: quite amazing for 1939, but Wow. I mean, to think
- 1:16:12Speaker 6: to think that the scarecrow has permanent scars on his face, you.
- 1:16:17Speaker 2: Know, like over a year.
- 1:16:18Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 1:16:19Speaker 2: Because of the prosthetic. Awful. Awful.
- 1:16:21Speaker 6: I do want to give a shout out to Erwin Curtis.
- 1:16:23Speaker 6: He's his own little comedian here on the Carmen section.
- 1:16:27Speaker 6: He's got some doozies and I do. I do think
- 1:16:30Speaker 6: they were quite funny.
- 1:16:31Speaker 2: And somebody. Oh, yeah.
- 1:16:34Speaker 6: How do you say that? S.H.
- 1:16:35Speaker 2: Jode.
- 1:16:36Speaker 6: But five years old, it's smoking cigarettes and they weren't candy.
- 1:16:40Speaker 6: That's just awful. But it does remind me of someone
- 1:16:43Speaker 6: that I knew I won't mention. But she was a
- 1:16:46Speaker 6: foster child and was given marijuana cigarettes at age eight.
- 1:16:50Speaker 6: A whole I mean, a whole lot of them for
- 1:16:53Speaker 6: the parties and told light these and hand them out.
- 1:16:58Speaker 2: There's just some bad.
- 1:16:59Speaker 6: Things going on in the world. a person that I
- 1:17:02Speaker 6: know very dearly.
- 1:17:03Speaker 7: She grew up in.
- 1:17:04Speaker 6: The foster, in the foster care system and by the
- 1:17:07Speaker 6: family that adopted her in the 1970s, this was, this
- 1:17:10Speaker 6: was what, yeah, it was awful. And so, and it's
- 1:17:13Speaker 6: five years old smoking cigarettes.
- 1:17:15Speaker 3: Like that's no way, you know, it sounded like Drew
- 1:17:17Speaker 3: Barrymore story. Right. Down at the club.
- 1:17:21Speaker 6: Yeah. Right.
- 1:17:22Speaker 2: She's at studio 54. Come on.
- 1:17:28Speaker 6: You know what I mean? But you know what I
- 1:17:30Speaker 6: did though? I live here and Vern Trevor, mini me, right?
- 1:17:34Speaker 6: Mini me.
- 1:17:34Speaker 2: He was, we used to drink.
- 1:17:35Speaker 6: With him over at Kelly's bar over here. And then
- 1:17:39Speaker 6: Brad Williams is a local over here.
- 1:17:41Speaker 2: And so power to the little people.
- 1:17:44Speaker 3: I've had, I've seen Brad Williams a couple of times
- 1:17:46Speaker 3: when he's been in the area, had a couple pictures
- 1:17:48Speaker 3: with him. I, I joke. I said, Brad Williams and
- 1:17:52Speaker 3: I are just alike, except I'm funnier.
- 1:17:56Speaker 6: Well, he said, I hate it when people squat down
- 1:18:00Speaker 6: to get their picture taken with me. And it was
- 1:18:02Speaker 6: my birthday. And I said, I know you just said
- 1:18:04Speaker 6: you hate this, but I want my face with your face.
- 1:18:06Speaker 6: I don't want your face with my crotch. I don't.
- 1:18:10Speaker 3: Yeah. He's a good guy.
- 1:18:14Speaker 2: He's wonderful.
- 1:18:16Speaker 3: He's wonderful.
- 1:18:17Speaker 5: And honestly, so was Vern.
- 1:18:18Speaker 3: Vern was quite funny.
- 1:18:19Speaker 6: You know, I mean, he was, he was a lovely
- 1:18:21Speaker 6: little gentleman.
- 1:18:22Speaker 2: Yes, he was. Yeah.
- 1:18:24Speaker 3: He was a, he was a mini dude though. He
- 1:18:26Speaker 3: was tiny.
- 1:18:27Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:18:28Speaker 3: He was a tiny dude.
- 1:18:29Speaker 4: He could be tough, though. He could be.
- 1:18:34Speaker 3: I don't doubt that.
- 1:18:35Speaker 4: He could drink, too.
- 1:18:38Speaker 2: See, the one thing I'll say about all this is
- 1:18:41Speaker 2: watching all y'all talk and reading this stuff, I learned
- 1:18:43Speaker 2: a lot about the Wizard of odds just by keeping
- 1:18:46Speaker 2: quiet and just reading stuff as I put it together.
- 1:18:49Speaker 2: It is surreal. That's the only thing I'll say. Anybody else?
- 1:18:54Speaker 3: Rob hasn't had a chance.
- 1:18:56Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:18:57Speaker 8: The studios were so powerful back then. And that was a,
- 1:19:00Speaker 8: that was a big problem. Margaret Hamilton was burnt pretty
- 1:19:04Speaker 8: badly also. Um, When, you know, with the smoke effects
- 1:19:08Speaker 8: and when she was going under the stage, she was
- 1:19:11Speaker 8: out for, I don't know if it was a month
- 1:19:14Speaker 8: or even longer. So they had to stop production for that.
- 1:19:17Speaker 8: And the Munchkins were real partiers on that set.
- 1:19:21Speaker 3: They were.
- 1:19:22Speaker 2: They made up for it in alcohol.
- 1:19:24Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. And it doesn't take much. As long as
- 1:19:29Speaker 3: those guys are, it doesn't take much.
- 1:19:32Speaker 2: That's great, Ed.
- 1:19:34Speaker 7: Yeah, when I was working out in Universal, I talked
- 1:19:38Speaker 7: to an older gentleman out there, and he told me
- 1:19:43Speaker 7: that when they filmed the movie, half the scenes, the
- 1:19:48Speaker 7: munchkins were completely shit-faced.
- 1:19:52Speaker 2: I'm sure they were. In between takes, they didn't go
- 1:19:55Speaker 2: to the commissary to eat lunch.
- 1:19:58Speaker 7: They were drinking. And they did all the scenes like
- 1:20:02Speaker 7: they were half in the bag.
- 1:20:04Speaker 6: From the Munchkin land.
- 1:20:06Speaker 2: Exactly.
- 1:20:07Speaker 3: They got their voices that high.
- 1:20:10Speaker 4: Did you notice he joined the chat?
- 1:20:13Speaker 2: What's that? Yeah, Kim Jong-un.
- 1:20:16Speaker 4: Kim Jong-un is on our chat.
- 1:20:18Speaker 3: He joined.
- 1:20:20Speaker 6: He joined.
- 1:20:21Speaker 2: Exactly.
- 1:20:22Speaker 5: Thanks.
- 1:20:23Speaker 2: Yeah, right.
- 1:20:25Speaker 3: There you go.
- 1:20:25Speaker 2: Hey, listen. Well, keep it real. It goes everywhere, man.
- 1:20:28Speaker 2: Anybody else have anything to say about.
- 1:20:31Speaker 3: It?
- 1:20:32Speaker 4: Steve, what did you do at Universal?
- 1:20:36Speaker 7: I did security when they did films overseas.
- 1:20:40Speaker 4: Okay, because I worked at Universal also.
- 1:20:43Speaker 7: Yeah, I was the security advisor for them, like when
- 1:20:46Speaker 7: they filmed.
- 1:20:49Speaker 2: Over the pond or down in Mexico. Oh, okay.
- 1:20:53Speaker 4: I worked on the lot. I was a tram tour guide.
- 1:20:57Speaker 4: At Universal Studios.
- 1:20:58Speaker 2: Oh, wow. Oh, cool. That's cool.
- 1:21:01Speaker 7: The company I worked for, our guy worked for Universal.
- 1:21:09Speaker 7: He did the security for the Dr. Phil and the
- 1:21:13Speaker 7: house sets.
- 1:21:16Speaker 2: Oh, okay. Yeah. I got one more topic I want
- 1:21:22Speaker 2: to get to tonight, and I know that's what we'll
- 1:21:24Speaker 2: have time for. Rachel, how do you like the show
- 1:21:26Speaker 2: so far?
- 1:21:27Speaker 4: Oh, it's a lot of fun.
- 1:21:31Speaker 3: Good.
- 1:21:31Speaker 2: You want to go back another time?
- 1:21:33Speaker 4: Absolutely.
- 1:21:34Speaker 2: Let me know.
- 1:21:34Speaker 7: Good.
- 1:21:35Speaker 3: All right.
- 1:21:35Speaker 2: Well, wait till you see when we have this last
- 1:21:38Speaker 2: one here. Oh, boy. Places that let you live for
- 1:21:40Speaker 2: free if you help out. Okay. Rescue horses in New Zealand. Okay.
- 1:21:46Speaker 2: Thanks for in your Wanaka houses. Volunteers who help the
- 1:21:49Speaker 2: animals for about four hours a morning. And let's see,
- 1:21:54Speaker 2: we already talked about that one. A remote Irish island,
- 1:21:57Speaker 2: Great Blasket Island, two people, free food, and launching to
- 1:22:02Speaker 2: run its cafe and cottages all season. So a remote
- 1:22:07Speaker 2: Irish island. We'll keep that rolling. A tropical island out
- 1:22:12Speaker 2: in Australia. Middle Percy Island off Queensland has a population
- 1:22:17Speaker 2: of two. Of two and one living caretakers rent-free. Wow,
- 1:22:21Speaker 2: that's a real big population, people. Let's see. Okay, rent-free caretakers.
- 1:22:28Speaker 2: All right. A lighthouse in Maine. On Burnt Island, volunteer
- 1:22:33Speaker 2: keepers live at the lighthouse all summer and show visitors around.
- 1:22:38Speaker 2: Then we have a pig sanctuary. I knew everybody would
- 1:22:40Speaker 2: like this one. We have free lodging in exchange for
- 1:22:45Speaker 2: 20 hours a week, caring for rescued pigs. I knew
- 1:22:48Speaker 2: we'd have to have a pig in there at some point.
- 1:22:51Speaker 2: Let's see. Rescued cats and breeds. Now, this one hits
- 1:22:54Speaker 2: closer to my heart. Katie, make sure you put that
- 1:22:56Speaker 2: picture up for Rusty before we sign off. Volunteers on
- 1:22:58Speaker 2: the island of Cyrus get housing, brunch, and utilities for
- 1:23:02Speaker 2: caring for street cats. And I have a service cat.
- 1:23:05Speaker 6: Okay.
- 1:23:06Speaker 2: Right, Rusty? Right. Okay, Danny. Okay, there you have it.
- 1:23:10Speaker 2: All right, Rachel. I told you, we give it to everywhere.
- 1:23:13Speaker 2: Which one of these stands out?
- 1:23:16Speaker 4: I would go with the one with cats because I
- 1:23:18Speaker 4: love cats. My friends call me the cat whisperer because
- 1:23:23Speaker 4: I just walk around. The cats come to me often.
- 1:23:26Speaker 4: I had a cat that I called my cat, but
- 1:23:29Speaker 4: it was technically the neighbor's cat. But it was an
- 1:23:32Speaker 4: outdoor cat, so it was almost like a stray. And
- 1:23:35Speaker 4: this poor cat is named Patsy. And she had one
- 1:23:38Speaker 4: eye and she was always just filthy dirty. And she
- 1:23:42Speaker 4: was definitely well fed. Everybody was feeding her because everybody
- 1:23:45Speaker 4: thought it was their cat. But unfortunately, Patsy got run over,
- 1:23:48Speaker 4: which was really sad. But I used to think she
- 1:23:53Speaker 4: ran to me like she could just smell me from,
- 1:23:55Speaker 4: I don't know, miles away. And she'd come running, which
- 1:23:59Speaker 4: is really great. And often I didn't even feed her.
- 1:24:02Speaker 4: I would just pet her. And she loved me, so
- 1:24:04Speaker 4: that was, you know, it's sad that she's gone. But, yeah,
- 1:24:07Speaker 4: I would stay with the place that had the cats.
- 1:24:11Speaker 2: Hey, Eddie.
- 1:24:12Speaker 3: Well, yeah, well, you said the pig sanctuary. If you
- 1:24:17Speaker 3: take care of the pigs, do you get free bacon
- 1:24:19Speaker 3: for breakfast?
- 1:24:24Speaker 6: That might be against policy.
- 1:24:26Speaker 3: Oh, right, it might be against policy. Good point, Jen.
- 1:24:29Speaker 8: Good point.
- 1:24:30Speaker 3: No, actually, the, you know, Sometimes in the hectic world
- 1:24:37Speaker 3: of life, sometimes, at least I do, I find solitude
- 1:24:42Speaker 3: being by myself. Even if it's like after this watching
- 1:24:45Speaker 3: a ball game by myself or something. So the two
- 1:24:47Speaker 3: that stood out to me was because, you know, I'm Irish.
- 1:24:51Speaker 3: Obviously the Irish, that remote Irish island. But also, didn't
- 1:24:54Speaker 3: you say there was one.
- 1:24:58Speaker 3: Yeah, Australia had to be a caretaker. There's only like
- 1:25:01Speaker 3: two people on the island.
- 1:25:03Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:25:03Speaker 3: Something like that. You know, something like that would be
- 1:25:10Speaker 3: cool to experience to see if you like that type
- 1:25:14Speaker 3: of solitude. Because, you know, that would be very interesting. Steve,
- 1:25:22Speaker 3: you and I could go there and just kind of,
- 1:25:24Speaker 3: you'd be on one side, I'd be on the other,
- 1:25:25Speaker 3: and we have it, you know.
- 1:25:27Speaker 2: There you go. I would love that.
- 1:25:30Speaker 7: I would love that. I love solitude.
- 1:25:35Speaker 6: Yes.
- 1:25:36Speaker 3: Candy, what say you?
- 1:25:39Speaker 5: You know, I'm obviously a cat person because we obviously
- 1:25:43Speaker 5: know Scott and I both have cats. But before Scott,
- 1:25:49Speaker 5: I'll be honest with you, I had never had a pet.
- 1:25:52Speaker 5: But my grandmother... lived on a 110-acre farm out in
- 1:25:58Speaker 5: the country. And if you know of, like, farms out
- 1:26:01Speaker 5: in the country, people who don't want their cats just
- 1:26:05Speaker 5: drive out to the country, open their door, and let
- 1:26:08Speaker 5: the cats go. So I can tell you that every
- 1:26:13Speaker 5: time I went to my grandmother's farm, I had to
- 1:26:15Speaker 5: go to the store and buy cat food to take
- 1:26:19Speaker 5: it to my grandmother's house so she could feed these cats.
- 1:26:22Speaker 5: Because she felt she had to. She couldn't just let
- 1:26:26Speaker 5: them starve. There were times I was buying three, four
- 1:26:30Speaker 5: big bags, cases of wet cat food. In fact, I'll
- 1:26:37Speaker 5: tell you a funny story. So here I'm at Walmart
- 1:26:40Speaker 5: buying all this, have it all on the conveyor belt.
- 1:26:45Speaker 5: And the lady behind me said something about kids. And
- 1:26:50Speaker 5: I said, oh, yeah, I'm buying this cat food for
- 1:26:52Speaker 5: my kids. It's cheaper than buying the regular food.
- 1:26:56Speaker 6: Oh, God.
- 1:27:00Speaker 3: That's great.
- 1:27:04Speaker 2: That's good.
- 1:27:09Speaker 5: With that, Steve, it's your turn.
- 1:27:11Speaker 7: You know, I'm not a cat person. I don't like cats.
- 1:27:15Speaker 7: But everywhere I go, if somebody has a cat that
- 1:27:18Speaker 7: won't come around strangers, they want to sit.
- 1:27:21Speaker 2: On my head.
- 1:27:24Speaker 10: And it's like, you know, everywhere I go, I'm like,
- 1:27:29Speaker 10: they want to sit on, you know, they do that
- 1:27:30Speaker 10: thing where they, you know, where they make their little
- 1:27:34Speaker 10: home there and there they go.
- 1:27:37Speaker 7: And you don't want to be rude. So you just
- 1:27:39Speaker 7: sit in there.
- 1:27:39Speaker 5: You know, but for some reason they love me.
- 1:27:46Speaker 7: But Scott, when you mentioned the pigs, Right. Not long ago,
- 1:27:51Speaker 7: we did a segment on Winston Churchill. And as soon
- 1:27:54Speaker 7: as you said that, I was like, I'll go to
- 1:27:56Speaker 7: the pig place because I'm not a cat guy. And
- 1:28:00Speaker 7: Churchill said, I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up
- 1:28:04Speaker 7: to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs look at
- 1:28:07Speaker 7: you as an equal.
- 1:28:09Speaker 2: So there you go.
- 1:28:11Speaker 6: Interesting. Yeah. My friends have a pig.
- 1:28:14Speaker 2: Go ahead.
- 1:28:16Speaker 7: And the movie Snatch, they said, be wary of a
- 1:28:18Speaker 7: man who keeps a pig dog.
- 1:28:20Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a lot of fun with pig segments
- 1:28:22Speaker 2: on here. That's why I go back to them.
- 1:28:25Speaker 7: That was my favorite gangster movie of all time.
- 1:28:30Speaker 2: Awesome.
- 1:28:31Speaker 6: I mean, I'm not skilled enough to go to New
- 1:28:32Speaker 6: Zealand and help with the horses. I would love to,
- 1:28:35Speaker 6: but that's just going to be a losing battle. I
- 1:28:38Speaker 6: don't know that I'm skilled enough for the pigs. My
- 1:28:40Speaker 6: friends do have a pet pig. It's a very, it's
- 1:28:43Speaker 6: huge and it's a pot belly, but it's huge. I'm like,
- 1:28:46Speaker 6: oh my goodness for the house it is anyway. So
- 1:28:48Speaker 6: that's a lot. I'm allergic to a lot of cats,
- 1:28:50Speaker 6: so I can't really do the cat so much. I'd
- 1:28:52Speaker 6: be very sneezy. I don't know about just two people.
- 1:28:56Speaker 6: Just two people is, not quite enough. I love solitude.
- 1:29:00Speaker 6: I don't mind it, but I do, I do need
- 1:29:01Speaker 6: some people. I was thinking maybe I would do the, um,
- 1:29:06Speaker 6: the lighthouse in Maine where like you're, you get your
- 1:29:09Speaker 6: solitude and then people come in, you get a little
- 1:29:12Speaker 6: bit of the social action, you get to show them around,
- 1:29:14Speaker 6: then they leave. It's the leaving part. That's really nice.
- 1:29:17Speaker 3: Right?
- 1:29:17Speaker 6: So I get a little bit of action and then
- 1:29:19Speaker 6: they leave. I think I'm going to stick with that one.
- 1:29:22Speaker 6: And I, I just think, um, I, I was loving, um,
- 1:29:26Speaker 6: Erwin Curtis's, uh, crispy bacon with for breakfast was the
- 1:29:30Speaker 6: name of his but he added in the for breakfast
- 1:29:34Speaker 6: which is crispy bacon was pretty pretty clever in all
- 1:29:38Speaker 6: of itself but in on its.
- 1:29:40Speaker 8: Own rob what have you got i'm going to maine
- 1:29:42Speaker 8: with you because fantastic the lighthouse the ocean yeah the
- 1:29:48Speaker 8: ocean air gotta love that and then.
- 1:29:52Speaker 2: So I'm there. Lobster. That's where I'm going, Scott. I'm
- 1:29:57Speaker 2: with the cats and me. But you know what? I've
- 1:29:59Speaker 2: got room for one more segment, and I think this
- 1:30:01Speaker 2: is necessary. So I'm going to go with the cats
- 1:30:03Speaker 2: and me. I think this is a really good one, everybody.
- 1:30:05Speaker 2: Especially Rob, pay attention to this one. The cost of
- 1:30:09Speaker 2: calling an ambulance around the world. This is really interesting.
- 1:30:14Speaker 2: And if I have to delay Sports Exchange, I'll do
- 1:30:17Speaker 2: it for this particular one because there are a lot
- 1:30:19Speaker 2: of people that travel around the world to do it.
- 1:30:22Speaker 2: around the world. You got the United Kingdom free through
- 1:30:25Speaker 2: the NHS with no bill issued to residents. Japan free for,
- 1:30:30Speaker 2: hold on one minute. Japan free for public emergency ambulance transport.
- 1:30:39Speaker 2: South Korea free through the government 119 ambulance service. India
- 1:30:43Speaker 2: free through the government 208 ambulance service. For Germany, up
- 1:30:49Speaker 2: to E10 co-pay under statutory health insurance. Canada, national average $ 240,
- 1:30:57Speaker 2: no tariffs included. Okay, just kidding. Australia, national average $ 622.
- 1:31:05Speaker 2: United States, national average $ 1, 383 plus $ 19. 49 a mile. There
- 1:31:08Speaker 2: you have it. All right, Mr. I don't like to
- 1:31:15Speaker 2: joke around about this one, but I think this is
- 1:31:16Speaker 2: something that people should be aware of, especially as we
- 1:31:19Speaker 2: approach the holiday season about traveling. If you get sick,
- 1:31:23Speaker 2: some of these places are expensive to travel by ambulance. Rachel.
- 1:31:27Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just talking, I think earlier today about
- 1:31:30Speaker 4: healthcare and the differences in different countries. And like, for instance,
- 1:31:35Speaker 4: a lot of my friends that not a couple of
- 1:31:38Speaker 4: my friends that live in England, we're talking about the
- 1:31:41Speaker 4: wait time in England is, And I was getting like
- 1:31:44Speaker 4: a big fight online about my friends about this. And
- 1:31:47Speaker 4: they're like, well, there's a lot of wait times in America.
- 1:31:49Speaker 4: I said, yes, but evidently in England, it's worse. And
- 1:31:51Speaker 4: then some people said, well, actually, Norway does it right.
- 1:31:55Speaker 4: Norway is not as much of a wait time. So
- 1:31:57Speaker 4: it's more about the wait times in the money aspect.
- 1:32:00Speaker 4: But I think health care and the expenses of it
- 1:32:04Speaker 4: is a really important conversation. And I don't know what
- 1:32:07Speaker 4: the solution is, but it's definitely something that should be
- 1:32:11Speaker 4: looked into because Maybe we're not doing it right here
- 1:32:16Speaker 4: because it's very expensive, and I know my health care
- 1:32:19Speaker 4: just keeps going up. You know, ambulance or whatever. I mean,
- 1:32:23Speaker 4: whatever the charges are are just ridiculous. So it's a
- 1:32:27Speaker 4: very important conversation.
- 1:32:29Speaker 2: Yeah, well, anytime you talk about holidays, travel, health care,
- 1:32:32Speaker 2: you better know what's going on with an ambulance and
- 1:32:33Speaker 2: how much they're going to be paying. I mean, I
- 1:32:35Speaker 2: understand staying healthy is one thing, but, boy, Candy and
- 1:32:38Speaker 2: I ran into this experience. in portugal where we didn't
- 1:32:41Speaker 2: know what the cost the exact amount of dollars to
- 1:32:43Speaker 2: get the hotel from the airport we were caught off
- 1:32:46Speaker 2: guard but ambulance is nothing that you mess with for
- 1:32:48Speaker 2: sure all right go ahead eddie no.
- 1:32:51Speaker 3: I'm just going to piggyback on what rachel was saying
- 1:32:53Speaker 3: i agree there is a problem with health care i'll
- 1:32:57Speaker 3: just know health care here in america it's way too
- 1:33:01Speaker 3: expensive um you know, when the insurance companies first started
- 1:33:04Speaker 3: back up here when it was, you know, they were
- 1:33:06Speaker 3: set up as nonprofits. So this was supposed to be
- 1:33:08Speaker 3: a nonprofit book type thing. And now they're, you know, they're,
- 1:33:11Speaker 3: they're money-making machines. Um, whether it's covering ambulance, I mean,
- 1:33:16Speaker 3: covering ambulances to, you know, to medicine. I mean, I mean, medicines,
- 1:33:22Speaker 3: I mean, you don't have insurance. I mean, all you
- 1:33:25Speaker 3: have to do is go to your local pharmacy and say,
- 1:33:28Speaker 3: I don't have insurance. What's this medicine cost? It costs
- 1:33:30Speaker 3: you for, I mean, I mean, a simple cholesterol medicine
- 1:33:36Speaker 3: uninsured is like two, a 30 day supply is like $ 250.
- 1:33:38Speaker 3: I mean, that's a, that's a, I mean, with insurance,
- 1:33:43Speaker 3: it's like three bucks. Right.
- 1:33:45Speaker 2: Okay.
- 1:33:45Speaker 3: So there's gotta be some to your, what you were saying,
- 1:33:47Speaker 3: there's gotta, and, and, and there's the problem. The biggest
- 1:33:53Speaker 3: problem is that we're in this, we're in a capitalist
- 1:33:56Speaker 3: model that everybody, that doctors are trying to make money
- 1:33:59Speaker 3: with their practices and, Insurance companies want to make money
- 1:34:03Speaker 3: with their insurance. Big Pharma wants to make money for
- 1:34:09Speaker 3: all their drugs. It also begs the question, why would
- 1:34:15Speaker 3: Big Pharma or why would the medical industry ever want
- 1:34:17Speaker 3: to cure anything? There's no money. The problem is it's
- 1:34:20Speaker 3: all about, like we've talked on different shows, it's all
- 1:34:24Speaker 3: about the money. Until you until you figure out a
- 1:34:29Speaker 3: way to take that factor out of it, it's going
- 1:34:32Speaker 3: to be a hard thing to fix. So, you know, and,
- 1:34:36Speaker 3: you know, ambulances are part of that. So unfortunately, candy.
- 1:34:44Speaker 5: We've talked a lot of times about like the NFL
- 1:34:48Speaker 5: and sports, how their business is. Well, we forget that
- 1:34:53Speaker 5: ambulance companies own ambulances and it's a business. It's sad because, yes,
- 1:35:02Speaker 5: in your dire time of need, you don't have a
- 1:35:05Speaker 5: lot of choices. I mean, if you need to get
- 1:35:07Speaker 5: to the hospital quick, you're going to take an ambulance.
- 1:35:10Speaker 5: Or if you're being transported from, I mean, I remember
- 1:35:14Speaker 5: Scott was transported. He was having some bad symptoms. We
- 1:35:20Speaker 5: went to one of these local ER doctors, and they said, nope,
- 1:35:25Speaker 5: you've got to go to the hospital. We're transporting you.
- 1:35:28Speaker 5: be an ambulance. And at that point you.
- 1:35:31Speaker 2: You don't have a choice.
- 1:35:33Speaker 5: You could, it could be life or death. So what
- 1:35:35Speaker 5: are you going to do? You're going to say yes.
- 1:35:36Speaker 2: And you're going to go.
- 1:35:37Speaker 5: And it's just sad that how expensive it can be. It,
- 1:35:43Speaker 5: this whole industry. I mean, we have insurance companies pulling
- 1:35:48Speaker 5: out of the state of Florida because there's too many claims,
- 1:35:52Speaker 5: you know, and it's sad because now all of a sudden,
- 1:35:56Speaker 5: We're looking at, oh, now I've got to get a
- 1:35:57Speaker 5: new insurance company. I might need new doctors because one
- 1:36:02Speaker 5: of Scott's doctors, he went to us, you know, even
- 1:36:05Speaker 5: though we've been going to him for how many years,
- 1:36:07Speaker 5: he's no longer on an insurance, taking the insurance company
- 1:36:11Speaker 5: that we're going to. So it's not even that we
- 1:36:15Speaker 5: could pay out of pocket. He doesn't take us. I
- 1:36:19Speaker 5: can't accept you. I can't take you. I can't have
- 1:36:22Speaker 5: you as a patient. We have one of his other
- 1:36:24Speaker 5: doctors that doesn't take our insurance. He said, okay, I'll
- 1:36:27Speaker 5: see you, but it's a flat fee. This is what
- 1:36:29Speaker 5: your fee is every time you come to see us.
- 1:36:31Speaker 5: That at least gives us a choice.
- 1:36:34Speaker 2: And we get to.
- 1:36:34Speaker 5: Decide if we want to pay that or not. But
- 1:36:37Speaker 5: it's sad that to get and to continue the medical
- 1:36:41Speaker 5: care that we need, that it can get so expensive,
- 1:36:45Speaker 5: it bankrupts some people.
- 1:36:48Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
- 1:36:49Speaker 5: Especially if you're on... fixed income like when you retire
- 1:36:53Speaker 5: you're retired and yes medicare and there's that donut hole
- 1:36:57Speaker 5: but that donut hole like you some of the medicines
- 1:37:00Speaker 5: people take are extremely expensive that's why you hear sometimes
- 1:37:05Speaker 5: people will go to mexico or kansas to get some
- 1:37:08Speaker 5: of their prescriptions because they're cheaper.
- 1:37:11Speaker 3: Right but then yeah yeah no i'm sorry go ahead
- 1:37:17Speaker 3: no no no no you go ahead steve No.
- 1:37:20Speaker 7: We're having that same issue right now in Southwest Florida. UnitedHealthcare,
- 1:37:26Speaker 7: which is like a big healthcare company, they're no longer
- 1:37:34Speaker 7: being accepted at all of the hospitals here in Southwest Florida.
- 1:37:40Speaker 7: And thousands of people are stranded now. They have to
- 1:37:45Speaker 7: find all new insurance because.
- 1:37:48Speaker 2: There was.
- 1:37:50Speaker 7: you know, a big to do with the hospitals and,
- 1:37:54Speaker 7: you know, that one insurance company about paying the bills
- 1:37:58Speaker 7: and all that. It's, it's, it's really sad right now.
- 1:38:03Speaker 7: There's a lot of people going through that now. And
- 1:38:05Speaker 7: then the last I heard everyone saying, don't change because
- 1:38:09Speaker 7: they're going to work it out at the last minute.
- 1:38:11Speaker 7: But that's, that's really tough to do when, you know,
- 1:38:15Speaker 7: when that's your only, you know, insurance there. Because what
- 1:38:19Speaker 7: happens if they don't? Then you're stuck. But getting back
- 1:38:23Speaker 7: to the original.
- 1:38:25Speaker 2: Topic, ambulance.
- 1:38:33Speaker 7: Are very expensive in this country you know I've had
- 1:38:38Speaker 7: a ride in them a couple of times due to whatever.
- 1:38:44Speaker 3: I can't tell you what it is.
- 1:38:47Speaker 7: I can't tell you.
- 1:38:50Speaker 3: Things happen.
- 1:38:52Speaker 2: There I was, minding my own business. All of a sudden,
- 1:38:55Speaker 2: this big thing hits me in the jaw. It's not cheap.
- 1:38:59Speaker 3: I'm charging a fee.
- 1:39:00Speaker 2: Plus $ 19. 49, so.
- 1:39:12Speaker 7: They don't want to take you to the hospital that's,
- 1:39:15Speaker 7: you know, two miles away.
- 1:39:17Speaker 2: No, they want to take you to the one that's
- 1:39:19Speaker 2: 25 miles away. Exactly.
- 1:39:20Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:39:20Speaker 2: That doesn't help matters any either.
- 1:39:22Speaker 6: It's not where that, yeah, it's a triage. This is
- 1:39:24Speaker 6: actually my industry a little bit, you know, from, from
- 1:39:27Speaker 6: a PR perspective, I've been involved in these conversations ever
- 1:39:30Speaker 6: since we, when we made it affordable, ever since we
- 1:39:33Speaker 6: made healthcare affordable, really, that was a 12,000 page pile
- 1:39:36Speaker 6: of mess and, And I can't even tell you how
- 1:39:40Speaker 6: big of a pile of mess it was because normally,
- 1:39:43Speaker 6: so what they do is, is all the special interests
- 1:39:46Speaker 6: put together all their, their, whatever they wanted, knowing that
- 1:39:50Speaker 6: they have to negotiate things out. And what happened with
- 1:39:54Speaker 6: those 12,000 pages that they didn't negotiate anything out. They
- 1:39:57Speaker 6: just said, let's pass 12,000 pages that no one's ever
- 1:40:00Speaker 6: read because they didn't care because the point of the
- 1:40:02Speaker 6: affordable care act, when it was very first going into
- 1:40:05Speaker 6: purpose was, was to make our health care such a
- 1:40:10Speaker 6: disastrous mess that the only solution would be single payer system.
- 1:40:15Speaker 6: And single payer system sounds like a really great option
- 1:40:19Speaker 6: until you really start delving into it. And it's not
- 1:40:22Speaker 6: perfect either. There is no perfect solution. Ambulances are very interesting.
- 1:40:27Speaker 6: A lot of times I used to have a whole
- 1:40:29Speaker 6: different perspective of an ambulance ride should be free because
- 1:40:33Speaker 6: here you are in your time of crisis. But there's
- 1:40:36Speaker 6: a lot of abusers. And this is actually, you know,
- 1:40:38Speaker 6: that happens in America. I don't know if it happens
- 1:40:40Speaker 6: everywhere else as much as it happens here. I'm going
- 1:40:42Speaker 6: to probably guess not as much. But really, since we
- 1:40:46Speaker 6: have such a big homeless population, when it gets cold out,
- 1:40:50Speaker 6: they call the ambulance because they're going to get a
- 1:40:53Speaker 6: hospital room. Because if you ask for if you have
- 1:40:55Speaker 6: to call the ambulance and you say you're having a
- 1:40:57Speaker 6: heart issue or whatever, they have to take you. And
- 1:41:01Speaker 6: it has turned into a free ride. to the hospital
- 1:41:04Speaker 6: in a free night stay. And really there's got to be,
- 1:41:07Speaker 6: let's address the real issue with the homeless. Now here
- 1:41:10Speaker 6: we've wasted billions of dollars and not helped any homeless
- 1:41:13Speaker 6: people whatsoever. When just Newsom doesn't know where that money went.
- 1:41:16Speaker 6: It's quite shocking. I bet if we look in one
- 1:41:17Speaker 6: of his bank accounts, we could find them. But, um, uh,
- 1:41:21Speaker 6: overall the, you're talking about managed care, you know, what,
- 1:41:24Speaker 6: like with the, the, um, the insurance not being able,
- 1:41:28Speaker 6: like your doctors are dropping the insurance. I'm on the
- 1:41:31Speaker 6: doctor's side of this a lot of the time because
- 1:41:33Speaker 6: the insurance companies show me one that hasn't made money.
- 1:41:36Speaker 6: You know what I mean? Like it's a very complicated,
- 1:41:38Speaker 6: and why is it so complicated? Why do when you
- 1:41:41Speaker 6: get your, like, it's not comprehensible. I think it should
- 1:41:45Speaker 6: be against the law to write documents the way they
- 1:41:48Speaker 6: write documents, the way they write laws, the way all
- 1:41:51Speaker 6: of it is purposely so that lawyers have jobs.
- 1:41:54Speaker 5: I mean, come on.
- 1:41:55Speaker 6: It's just absolutely ridiculous. And the managed care conversations are, they're,
- 1:42:00Speaker 6: they're a big, big, big problem because they don't want
- 1:42:04Speaker 6: to pay doctors. Like insurance companies are raking in the
- 1:42:07Speaker 6: dollars right now. And then they don't even want to
- 1:42:09Speaker 6: transfer that to the doctors. And that's a problem, you know,
- 1:42:12Speaker 6: and then medications like, so let's take the, you said
- 1:42:15Speaker 6: cholesterol medication, the statins.
- 1:42:18Speaker 3: Okay.
- 1:42:19Speaker 6: The statins right now, when high cholesterol used to be 350,
- 1:42:22Speaker 6: you know, whatever, 350 IUs or whatever it was, 350.
- 1:42:26Speaker 6: And then they invented statins. They were like, oh, anything
- 1:42:30Speaker 6: over 350 was like, you know, maybe we got to
- 1:42:32Speaker 6: look at what, you know, calming down your cholesterol because
- 1:42:34Speaker 6: it's probably going to clog your pores and you could
- 1:42:36Speaker 6: have a heart attack or a stroke. Then they invented
- 1:42:39Speaker 6: statins and suddenly it was down to 300 IUs and
- 1:42:41Speaker 6: then it was down to 250 and now it's at 200. Well,
- 1:42:44Speaker 6: we have a whole 150 IUs to play with in
- 1:42:47Speaker 6: there before it's even at a level that we used
- 1:42:51Speaker 6: to consider dangerous. And you know what no one dies from?
- 1:42:53Speaker 6: No one dies from high triglycerides. No one dies from
- 1:42:56Speaker 6: high cholesterol. You die from effects of things. And we
- 1:43:00Speaker 6: need better testing and other things that are not just drugs.
- 1:43:04Speaker 6: Stop putting drugs, so many drugs into people. You look
- 1:43:08Speaker 6: at some of these elderly and they're on 27 different medications.
- 1:43:12Speaker 6: Come on. Nobody needs 27 different medications. Just like no
- 1:43:15Speaker 6: child that's first born needs 72 shots. I just think
- 1:43:18Speaker 6: everything's out of control. It is because it's capitalism. It
- 1:43:22Speaker 6: is because the altruism is gone. Humanity is gone from humanness.
- 1:43:28Speaker 6: And that's my biggest thing is let's bring back humanity.
- 1:43:31Speaker 6: Let's start caring about people again and stop just attacking
- 1:43:35Speaker 6: everything and everyone and trying to see who we can
- 1:43:37Speaker 6: kill so we can make more money.
- 1:43:39Speaker 4: It's just absurd. Rob, how do you feel?
- 1:43:42Speaker 2: Yeah, well, real quick.
- 1:43:46Speaker 8: In New York City, we pay some of the highest
- 1:43:49Speaker 8: taxes in the country, right? And FDNY is in charge
- 1:43:54Speaker 8: of the ambulances.
- 1:43:56Speaker 7: And we're already.
- 1:43:57Speaker 8: Paying taxes, but yet you still get a bill for
- 1:44:00Speaker 8: that ambulance because under the.
- 1:44:02Speaker 2: Rules of the city of New York, FDNY is.
- 1:44:05Speaker 8: Legally permitted to bill patients to recover some money.
- 1:44:09Speaker 2: And you're right, Jen, a lot of it is because
- 1:44:12Speaker 2: of abuse.
- 1:44:13Speaker 8: I can't imagine how many homeless people in New York
- 1:44:15Speaker 8: City call ambulances just to get a ride to the hospital.
- 1:44:20Speaker 2: You're right.
- 1:44:20Speaker 8: So something's got to be done, but they're never going
- 1:44:23Speaker 8: to fix it. They're never going to fix it.
- 1:44:25Speaker 6: They need to fix it.
- 1:44:27Speaker 3: Yes, but they're.
- 1:44:28Speaker 2: Not going to fix it. Well, I'm glad I brought
- 1:44:31Speaker 2: this topic up because number one, everybody's passionate about it.
- 1:44:34Speaker 2: And number two, can you believe it? It's October 28th
- 1:44:36Speaker 2: and we're getting close to traveling. So I want to
- 1:44:38Speaker 2: make sure it was important that we got the ambulance
- 1:44:40Speaker 2: thing on now because there's going to be a lot
- 1:44:42Speaker 2: of international travel come November, the next three or four
- 1:44:45Speaker 2: months as everybody starts to look at Christmas overseas as
- 1:44:48Speaker 2: well in the United States. So it's good stuff to have. Rachel,
- 1:44:51Speaker 2: glad to have you on. I'm looking forward to bringing
- 1:44:53Speaker 2: you on more often too because now you have something
- 1:44:56Speaker 2: that'll take away from all your insanity and all those
- 1:44:59Speaker 2: incredible states Facebook poster. You know, Steve says, I like
- 1:45:02Speaker 2: to come on here because I've had a tough day.
- 1:45:05Speaker 2: This is my way to take my mind off. And Rachel,
- 1:45:08Speaker 2: you know what? We'll text a little bit. If you
- 1:45:10Speaker 2: want to come on more often to join this group,
- 1:45:13Speaker 2: I got a lot of these things. We're going to
- 1:45:15Speaker 2: get a lot of actresses, actresses, I mean, actors, actresses,
- 1:45:18Speaker 2: and travel and all the insanity. So, I'll tell you
- 1:45:22Speaker 2: what I'll do. I hope you had a good time though, Rachel.
- 1:45:24Speaker 4: I had a lot of fun. Um, you know, my
- 1:45:27Speaker 4: crazy schedule, so it may be difficult for, you know,
- 1:45:30Speaker 4: but let me know and I'll see what I can
- 1:45:32Speaker 4: do to come on.
- 1:45:34Speaker 2: I'll text you. I just want to make sure you
- 1:45:35Speaker 2: got the first one on your belt to see you
- 1:45:37Speaker 2: wouldn't be running or shy away from the next one.
- 1:45:39Speaker 2: That's all I need. If she's smart, she would.
- 1:45:43Speaker 3: If she's smart, she would. She'd run very fast away.
- 1:45:47Speaker 7: You're quite popular, uh, Rachel and the comment section.
- 1:45:53Speaker 4: Oh, I think Jennifer, look at Jennifer. It's got some
- 1:45:56Speaker 4: really interesting comments there.
- 1:45:58Speaker 2: Well, I'll do Rachel's. I'll text you in a couple
- 1:46:01Speaker 2: of weeks, see if you want to come back on.
- 1:46:03Speaker 2: But meanwhile, in a couple of weeks, I'd like to
- 1:46:05Speaker 2: get you on because there's a lot of actresses and
- 1:46:06Speaker 2: stuff that you're close to, but we've got a sample
- 1:46:09Speaker 2: side tonight. So with that said, as we get ready
- 1:46:11Speaker 2: for the sports exchange, okay, Rachel, why don't you let
- 1:46:13Speaker 2: everybody know how they can reach out?
- 1:46:16Speaker 4: Well, I'm on Facebook. That's the easiest way to get
- 1:46:19Speaker 4: ahold of me. And hopefully Jennifer will contact me on
- 1:46:22Speaker 4: there because we should keep in touch. Facebook, Instagram is
- 1:46:26Speaker 4: where I post all my crazy events and that's actually
- 1:46:28Speaker 4: more up to date. I'm behind on Facebook as far
- 1:46:31Speaker 4: as posting content, but you can always reach me there.
- 1:46:35Speaker 4: That's probably the easiest way. And yeah, I have I'm
- 1:46:40Speaker 4: all over the place. So I've got all kinds of
- 1:46:42Speaker 4: stuff going on. I've got like, you didn't mention, I
- 1:46:44Speaker 4: have a magazine that everybody should know.
- 1:46:47Speaker 2: I'm waiting for you to do it.
- 1:46:48Speaker 5: Okay.
- 1:46:49Speaker 4: I have a magazine about the film industry called independent streak,
- 1:46:53Speaker 4: S T R E A K magazine. And if you
- 1:46:58Speaker 4: go to the independent streak magazine.com, it's kind of like a,
- 1:47:03Speaker 4: a warehouse for the magazines. It's just like a very
- 1:47:05Speaker 4: bare bones website. And you have all the flip book
- 1:47:07Speaker 4: magazines in there for the last, almost 13 years. So
- 1:47:11Speaker 4: I do the entire thing myself. Wow.
- 1:47:15Speaker 6: No Moscow's under your feet, Rachel.
- 1:47:17Speaker 3: No, no. That's a good point, Jen.
- 1:47:22Speaker 4: And I also have Let's Talk Magazine, which is actually
- 1:47:26Speaker 4: more of a blog, which is everything else I get
- 1:47:28Speaker 4: invited to that's not film related. So it could be
- 1:47:30Speaker 4: high end. It's all high end lifestyle stuff like wine
- 1:47:33Speaker 4: and food, art. It could be entertainment as well. So letstalkmagazine.com.
- 1:47:39Speaker 4: You can check that out as well.
- 1:47:40Speaker 2: Well, I told you, Rachel, when you came on here,
- 1:47:43Speaker 2: you're going to have the opportunity to network. At least
- 1:47:45Speaker 2: you can say I definitely came through on that idea,
- 1:47:48Speaker 2: didn't I?
- 1:47:49Speaker 4: Yes, thank you.
- 1:47:49Speaker 2: Yeah, you got some good people. All right, Eddie, go ahead.
- 1:47:52Speaker 3: You're talking about Rachel networking. You mean the other five
- 1:47:55Speaker 3: of us networking with Rachel, right? It's a good hook here. No, actually,
- 1:48:01Speaker 3: it's a pleasure to meet you, Rachel. You did great,
- 1:48:04Speaker 3: you know. Thank you. But as yes, you can catch
- 1:48:09Speaker 3: me at Ed McAndrew on all social media at sub
- 1:48:12Speaker 3: 60 ed on YouTube. You can also catch me here
- 1:48:16Speaker 3: on Tuesday nights on inside the pigskin Wednesday night. here
- 1:48:20Speaker 3: at Motor City Mad Mouth, and tomorrow night at the
- 1:48:25Speaker 3: Sports Wrap at 8 o'clock. So, yeah, I just follow
- 1:48:30Speaker 3: wherever Scott tells me to go.
- 1:48:32Speaker 2: There you go. Eddie's got the toughest job with the company.
- 1:48:36Speaker 2: He's got to follow me. All right. Go ahead. You're
- 1:48:39Speaker 2: Go ahead, Candy. You're next. And then I'll go right
- 1:48:43Speaker 2: down accordingly.
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- 1:49:54Speaker 2: All right. We'll go to Steve. Go ahead, Steve.
- 1:49:57Speaker 7: I've been on that show.
- 1:49:59Speaker 2: Well, we're in Naples actually.
- 1:50:02Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 1:50:02Speaker 2: Hey, you can find me. You'll be in a lot
- 1:50:08Speaker 2: more as I keep dragging you into places with me
- 1:50:10Speaker 2: where I go.
- 1:50:12Speaker 7: My dog is snoring in my lap here and he's
- 1:50:15Speaker 7: not very impressed with any of the things I'm saying,
- 1:50:18Speaker 7: but you know, you can find me on Twitter, Instagram
- 1:50:22Speaker 7: at CB7SFG. I'm a, senior defense editor for national security
- 1:50:29Speaker 7: journal during the daytime. But my real passion is the NFL.
- 1:50:33Speaker 7: I write for patsfans.com. We did a podcast earlier today,
- 1:50:37Speaker 7: this afternoon, because New England is traveling to Miami this weekend.
- 1:50:42Speaker 7: And you can find me on Facebook at Steve Bell.
- 1:50:46Speaker 7: But normally every Wednesday night, I'll be here with bells
- 1:50:50Speaker 7: on because this is the place to be.
- 1:50:54Speaker 2: Don't worry. I keep it real. So you guys come on.
- 1:50:56Speaker 2: I'll tell you, get that when you have things to
- 1:50:58Speaker 2: tell Robin, basically, right? I know she's going to ask
- 1:51:01Speaker 2: you about the show, right?
- 1:51:02Speaker 7: Yeah, well, she can hear because she hears my comments
- 1:51:06Speaker 7: in the other room.
- 1:51:07Speaker 2: Oh, that's good enough. Okay, go ahead.
- 1:51:11Speaker 6: All right. My favorite is Steve with the dark background.
- 1:51:13Speaker 6: So it's like he's like the floating head.
- 1:51:15Speaker 7: It is the talking head.
- 1:51:16Speaker 2: Yeah, I do like it.
- 1:51:17Speaker 6: I do like it. So I am on all social
- 1:51:20Speaker 6: media at Jennifer L. Horsepool or at Engagement PR. Horsepool
- 1:51:24Speaker 6: is like a horse and a pool, but no E
- 1:51:26Speaker 6: in my horse. Just give me my L, Jennifer L. Horsepool,
- 1:51:30Speaker 6: middle initial, last name.
- 1:51:32Speaker 2: Makes a big difference. There you go. She brings that
- 1:51:35Speaker 2: candy every weekend. I'll tell you what, everybody does. It's
- 1:51:38Speaker 2: so great to have all y'all tonight. All right, Rob,
- 1:51:40Speaker 2: go ahead and finish it off.
- 1:51:41Speaker 8: Yes, on Monday nights with Candy on No Limits, we
- 1:51:44Speaker 8: talk about travel. It's the fastest 30 minutes and it.
- 1:51:48Speaker 2: Goes by so quick.
- 1:51:50Speaker 7: And NYMLB talk everywhere else.
- 1:51:54Speaker 2: Excuse my voice. I'm losing it.
- 1:51:55Speaker 8: Today we had Eddie Deason who was Eugene's.
- 1:51:59Speaker 2: On Grease on the show. And he was great.
- 1:52:03Speaker 3: We had a good time.
- 1:52:04Speaker 2: You could check it out on YouTube. He told a
- 1:52:07Speaker 2: lot of.
- 1:52:07Speaker 8: Good stories about Grease, about all the other movies he
- 1:52:11Speaker 8: was in.
- 1:52:12Speaker 2: It was great. Well, great show tonight. Glad to have
- 1:52:16Speaker 2: Rachel along with us. And yes, Rob created this thing.
- 1:52:18Speaker 2: And it's a very, very popular picture here on the network.
- 1:52:22Speaker 2: So there you go. There's my starter's cat, Rusty. Hey, Scott.
- 1:52:26Speaker 3: Can I ask you one question just for our friend Mel?
- 1:52:28Speaker 3: Go ahead. The jersey number is still 10.
- 1:52:30Speaker 2: It's not 13 yet.
- 1:52:31Speaker 3: You haven't updated it to 13 yet. It goes back
- 1:52:42Speaker 3: to a joke from Inside the Pigskin. Number 13 was
- 1:52:47Speaker 3: Dan Marino. And Scott does not like Dan Marino. So
- 1:52:54Speaker 3: we tease him.
- 1:52:55Speaker 5: It wasn't 10 Tyreek Hill.
- 1:52:58Speaker 3: I think 10 was Tyreek Hill. Yeah, it was like
- 1:53:00Speaker 3: Tyreek Hill. That's a good point.
- 1:53:03Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know what? I like the logo, so
- 1:53:05Speaker 2: I look past the 13. It's a rusty. I don't
- 1:53:07Speaker 2: care about it.
- 1:53:08Speaker 3: It's a great picture. Rob, you did it. That's an
- 1:53:10Speaker 3: awesome picture.
- 1:53:11Speaker 2: Thank you. All right, so meanwhile, that does it for
- 1:53:14Speaker 2: this edition of the Motor City Mad Mouse Show. The
- 1:53:17Speaker 2: Sports Association is coming up. Rachel, thanks for being with us.
- 1:53:19Speaker 2: Look forward to having you on, hopefully in a couple
- 1:53:21Speaker 2: weeks or so. Meanwhile, Eddie, Candy, Steve, Jen, Rob, you
- 1:53:25Speaker 2: did a great job, and we'll see if we can
- 1:53:26Speaker 2: see you better next Wednesday night. Good night, everybody. Sports Association.
- 1:53:29Speaker 3: Good night, everybody.
- 1:53:31Speaker 2: Good night, everybody. Be safe.