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Opening Acts, Monkey Co-hosts, and Certainty · Talk About That

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  Speaker 1: Life audio.
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  Speaker 2: Today, I'm talking about that John flies on a private
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  Speaker 2: jet and gets ignored by young people. Meanwhile, I use
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  Speaker 2: two high schoolers as my opening act and invent a
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  Speaker 2: historical new drink, plus a conversation about rage bait and
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  Speaker 2: why politics can never bring his true freedom. Today's episode
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  Speaker 2: is not sponsored by Sally's Seashell Shop. We're right down
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  Speaker 2: by the seashore, which in retrospect was a poor choice
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  Speaker 2: of location. The first a word from my actual sponsor, Johnny.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's time to strap in for a little
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  Speaker 1: journey down the track sta Bentertown.
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  Speaker 2: All aboard the friendship. That would be like a horn,
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  Speaker 2: like a fog horn. Either way, we're here Mansard Town.
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  Speaker 2: Strap in, everybody. I was in the air the other
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  Speaker 2: day and on a plane. Oh and we'd been flying
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  Speaker 2: for an hour, and I was like, I think I
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  Speaker 2: had to go to the back. I normally do not
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  Speaker 2: go to the bathroom on a plane. I'm like, trade
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  Speaker 2: make sure I'm empty. I just don't. I'm not. It's
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  Speaker 2: a very confined. I'm six four, I don't. I don't
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  Speaker 2: like it good. So like we're gonna be empty before
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  Speaker 2: we go on this plane. But it was like a
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  Speaker 2: three three and a half hour flights like I had
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  Speaker 2: to go and then I go to get up and
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  Speaker 2: I go to unbuckle my seat belt and it was
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  Speaker 2: not buckled, Like I had just forgotten son.
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  Speaker 1: The flight attendant really screwed.
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  Speaker 2: If they had if they had done, if anything had
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  Speaker 2: happened during take off.
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  Speaker 1: You've seen those videos where someone was not flying around
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  Speaker 1: where they're not strapped in, they go straight to the ceiling,
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  Speaker 1: like because you're in a metal tube flying in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the air. Wait, what if you knew that
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  Speaker 1: again that that time I flew in that private like,
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  Speaker 1: I felt so like, wow, we're we're a really small.
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  Speaker 2: Like everything's exaggerated if anything happened aurbulance wise.
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  Speaker 1: And you're like, I'm just up here basically by myself
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  Speaker 1: flying It's almost like I have a jetpack on, but
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  Speaker 1: it's a little bigger than that, so.
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  Speaker 2: More expensive jet I wish I had a John flys
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  Speaker 2: private all the time.
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  Speaker 1: With a jetpack. It's I have flown one time in
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  Speaker 1: a private plane.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty good experience, it's pretty great, it's pretty unique.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty great coming home and going out like because
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  Speaker 1: again just landed at the air at the Lebanon Regional Airport.
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  Speaker 2: Oh is that where you went?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Like when I got there to go, I think
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  Speaker 1: I told the story before, But when I got there,
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  Speaker 1: I just pulled up and strove down the road from
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  Speaker 1: my house and just go.
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  Speaker 2: I literally, you just get in and go. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I just pulled up. It just landed, pulled up. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh, your car is here. It's like, wait,
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  Speaker 1: it's an airplane. And I got in and uh, we
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  Speaker 1: flew away.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't call it a car a car flying car
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  Speaker 2: to be a little bit disorienting. Your car, your car
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  Speaker 2: right this way? Sorry, Oh we're flying here today.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a pretty experienced flying You're right. The flying private.
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  Speaker 2: The thing of the luxury of it is one thing,
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  Speaker 2: but the main thing is just how quick you're in
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  Speaker 2: the air and how quick you can get back home
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  Speaker 2: and you're not waiting in line, and you're not going
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  Speaker 2: through security and you're not doing all those things, and
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  Speaker 2: that's what makes it. Yeah. I wouldn't sy it makes
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  Speaker 2: worth the money because I've never paid the money to
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  Speaker 2: do it, but I have flown private a few times
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  Speaker 2: in on somebody else's dime.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty good. Yeah, I don't know if I'll ever get
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  Speaker 2: to that level, and that's okay, I've made you won't.
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  Speaker 1: But it's all right, I've already predetermined, Oh that level
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  Speaker 1: of success.
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  Speaker 2: Have you?
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  Speaker 1: There's a chart.
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  Speaker 2: So I had somebody posted a I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: it's a review of the show, but I guess it
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  Speaker 2: kind of is. They posted a Facebook post today. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you get a notification if somebody's mentioned you in their post.
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  Speaker 2: So sometimes I'll go and be like, oh my tag
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  Speaker 2: me interesting be a photo of me with somebody after
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  Speaker 2: the show. This was somebody who evidently took photos of
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  Speaker 2: the show that I was at in Morton, Illinois. Here
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  Speaker 2: it's near Poria, Yah okay, so which when Peoria is
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  Speaker 2: the next major city, you know where you are, you're
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  Speaker 2: and you're out there, you're out there. But it was
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  Speaker 2: at this auditorium performing art center. But it was a
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  Speaker 2: high school auditorium that hosts these events and they would
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  Speaker 2: do like the five play series, buy the whole series,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you buy the whole pack. And I was
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  Speaker 2: one of those things. And so they have a built
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  Speaker 2: in subscriber audience. And so it's pretty packed house, four
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  Speaker 2: hundred people or so, and so most of them did
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  Speaker 2: not know me. There were a few people who were like,
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  Speaker 2: we've seen your videos, but most of them were just
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  Speaker 2: and there were a lot a lot of older they
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  Speaker 2: show yeah because they just like they buy it. They
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  Speaker 2: also bought my Fair Lady and whatever other.
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  Speaker 1: Play my Fair, Johnny, My Fair Johnny.
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  Speaker 2: So this woman was evidently taking photos of the night,
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  Speaker 2: and I didn't know that she was around there doing it.
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  Speaker 2: And I may have met her, but I don't remember her.
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  Speaker 2: But she wrote this is her post and tell me
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  Speaker 2: when anything strikes you. She goes, well, that was certainly different.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh boy, oh no, no moving colored
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  Speaker 2: stage lights, no fancy costumes, nothing but an average looking
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  Speaker 2: guy in a strike shirt and a microphone, plus the
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  Speaker 2: occasional use of a guitar. I was like, or we've
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  Speaker 2: started off ouch and then she goes, I've never photographed
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  Speaker 2: a comedian concert before. Air quotes over concert. Uh, if
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  Speaker 2: you ever get a chance, go see Johnny w I
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  Speaker 2: haven't laughed so hard in a long long time. The
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  Speaker 2: guy is just hilarious. You hear a punchline, I think
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  Speaker 2: the story's over until the next and the next punchline.
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  Speaker 2: The laughter was virtually NonStop, so what kind of photos
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  Speaker 2: could I produce of a guy who barely moves on
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  Speaker 2: the stage, faces his faces, the many faces of Johnny
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  Speaker 2: w enjoy and look him up on YouTube or dry
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  Speaker 2: bar comedy. And then she tagged me, so it is
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  Speaker 2: just a bunch of zoom ins on like the faces
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  Speaker 2: I make on stage, because I really don't move a
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  Speaker 2: lot on stage. But she in the beginning, I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I need to block this person. She came around.
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  Speaker 1: You know, out of all the things they could have
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  Speaker 1: said about you, to call you average looking, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean it could have gotten worse.
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  Speaker 2: He was in Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think.
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  Speaker 1: There was some in psychology we would call some of
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  Speaker 1: those mixed strokes.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe a guy this handsome could also be funny.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost not fair. That's what you hope for, right,
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  Speaker 2: You're like, I just thought he was. It's not when
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  Speaker 2: the prom king is also hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was walking a runway for a new
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  Speaker 1: designer and turns out he's funny.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not what I got. What I got is
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  Speaker 2: I was completely underwhelmed by his appearance and stage presence,
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  Speaker 2: and then he won me over with the jokes, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: which I guess I can live here.
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  Speaker 1: I think that that is sort of my life in
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  Speaker 1: a nutshell, is that what I want to do is
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  Speaker 1: something to win you over from all the other reasons
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  Speaker 1: you probably will not want to hear anything from me.
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  Speaker 1: I want to like in that moment, Yeah, my god,
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  Speaker 1: that guy I was expecting because when you're an old
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  Speaker 1: white bald dad. I can tell you that never before
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  Speaker 1: in my life have I felt more like in the
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  Speaker 1: presence of younger people now, not like the staff and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: If I have a connection but they don't know me,
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  Speaker 1: the assumption is so like, I don't I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what they assume, but I can just tell they don't
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  Speaker 1: care anything that I have to say. Yeah, you know
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  Speaker 1: usually and that's okay.
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  Speaker 2: They're just waiting. There's waiting for you to finish so
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  Speaker 2: they can right, They're like all right, boomer or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: They Yeah, I don't know, I don't know what it
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  Speaker 1: is so like the idea that I could be like yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but then I dropped this this gold and it really
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  Speaker 1: won over the room. That's such a enneagram three part
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  Speaker 1: for me, Like I'm like, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, for an average looking dude, that guy got
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  Speaker 2: a mind on him.
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  Speaker 1: You know, though ugly to look at, and I really
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  Speaker 1: didn't like his church. But you know what, when he
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  Speaker 1: got to speak, a couple of things really spoke to me.
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  Speaker 2: I see now why yeah, yeah, but I.
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  Speaker 1: Want to get that see you got it. I don't
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  Speaker 1: ever get those.
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  Speaker 2: It's an interesting night too, for a lot of reasons.
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  Speaker 2: So we booked it, and then they wanted me to
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  Speaker 2: do like ninety minutes, which is a lot for comedy
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  Speaker 2: one guy talking for night. They go, we'll do an intermission.
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  Speaker 2: Can you do ninety minutes? They never book comedy concert
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, well, honestly, sixty minutes is a
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  Speaker 2: lot to your one guy talk. You do ninety you're
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  Speaker 2: really pushing it. Even with intermission, that's a lot. I know.
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  Speaker 2: You want to get your money's worth. Yeah, I said,
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  Speaker 2: maybe I'll bring an opener. Well, then they booked opener.
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  Speaker 2: They were like, we brought in openers. That's scary, and
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  Speaker 2: I go, okay. They go, we're gonna have two vocalists.
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  Speaker 2: I go, oh boy, okay. So I show up and uh,
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  Speaker 2: not knowing what to expect, and it was two of
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  Speaker 2: their students at the high school who had one like
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  Speaker 2: runner up in a contest for their grade and they
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  Speaker 2: were going to sing like to two tracks each Michael
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  Speaker 2: Boublat songs and Frank Sinatra, and I was like, this
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  Speaker 2: is introdeding. So I met these kids and I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I was so ready for like the not look you
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  Speaker 2: in the eye awkward kids, and they were the most congenial, smart,
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  Speaker 2: sharp kids. Wow. And they were asking questions about my
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  Speaker 2: career and they were telling I would asking about themselves,
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  Speaker 2: and they were just like look them in the eye.
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  Speaker 2: And I was just like, what is good? I go,
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  Speaker 2: you guys are blowing my minds. Well, they were so
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  Speaker 2: nice and they were in the band and they were
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  Speaker 2: in the arts, and they one of them is going
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  Speaker 2: to be a mathematician or like in the engineering. He's
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  Speaker 2: really good at math. And I go, and then plays
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  Speaker 2: the mellow phone in the band and what songs are
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  Speaker 2: you gonna do? And I go, man, you guys chose
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  Speaker 2: them really like big, these are big songs you're gonna do.
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  Speaker 2: And one's a freshman, one's a senior. But the senior
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  Speaker 2: wasn't like hazing the freshman and acting like he was
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  Speaker 2: too cool for school like you would expect. They were
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  Speaker 2: nice to each other. He was nice to the I
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  Speaker 2: was like, this is crazy. Yeah, so I get I
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  Speaker 2: tipped him. I gave him some money for opening and stuff,
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  Speaker 2: which blew. That really shocked him. But they were so nice. So,
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  Speaker 2: Caleb and Trevor, if you're listening, you've restored my faith
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  Speaker 2: in this upcoming generation y.
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  Speaker 1: I often say I wish we would have pushed Sadie
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  Speaker 1: towards the band.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she's very musical. I think that is true. I
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  Speaker 2: think that's part of what I was experiencing with them,
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  Speaker 2: is like they've kind of had a lot of their tribe.
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  Speaker 2: They found their tribe, and they're and intellectualism is embraced
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  Speaker 2: in that tribe, and you have your own little silly
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  Speaker 2: inside jokes. But sports has that someone's.
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  Speaker 1: Okay to be awkward in that try. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, It's okay to Yeah, no.
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  Speaker 2: No, I was. I was delighted by those two kids,
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  Speaker 2: and then their parents came back and wanted to take
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  Speaker 2: photos of them with me, and uh, they were just
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  Speaker 2: they were so sweet and it was a really it
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  Speaker 2: was a cool experience. So that's I may start doing that.
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  Speaker 2: If I go do some more of these theaters, I
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  Speaker 2: may be like, who can you give me? That's like
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  Speaker 2: a local youth that can just do a song or
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  Speaker 2: something open for me, or somebody wants to do stand up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a dangerous game you're playing.
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  Speaker 2: It is a dangerous game. It goes, it doesn't always go.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're right, you get up and you What you're
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  Speaker 1: basically saying is you found what you feel to be
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  Speaker 1: an anomaly. Now you want to try to replicate that.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, you're right. Over again, You're right. This is
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  Speaker 2: you're right. I'm playing with fire over here.
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  Speaker 1: Replicated anomalies. That sounds like replic it does. We're a band,
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  Speaker 1: we are.
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  Speaker 2: Give it up for replicated anomalies rock and roll. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know either. You know what you
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  Speaker 2: can't replicate? Johnny, Well you can. I guess it happens
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  Speaker 2: all the time the time. But john let's take a
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  Speaker 2: minute and hear from a few of our fine replicated sponsors,
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  Speaker 2: and we're back.
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  Speaker 1: I want to remind you guys always to remember our
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  Speaker 1: friends at NICE Nashville International Center for Empowerment. They're helping
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  Speaker 1: refugees in the area. So you can just google NICE.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna read the whole things normally do. But
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  Speaker 1: Johnny and I both support them. They're an amazing work
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  Speaker 1: and we believe in that. So make sure you're a
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  Speaker 1: part of that. So if you listen to past episodes
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, but if you want to help out in
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: the Nashville area especially, then you can help out with nice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Man, what a challenging time we're in for folks.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, and I hate that everybody's being lumped in,
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  Speaker 2: even folks that are like trying to do things the
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  Speaker 2: right way or we're promises by this country and now
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  Speaker 2: it feels like we're going back on some of that.
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  Speaker 2: It just feels like so against what, yeah, we're supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be about. Somebody posted that the other day. It
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: was from John Prine. It was an old John Prime song.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was our friend Caleb Edwards. He posted
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  Speaker 2: a John Prime song lyric and it was like, I
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  Speaker 2: really love America, but I can't seem to find my
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  Speaker 2: way back to her. Yeah, And it's like I feel
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  Speaker 2: like we're in this weird We're in this weird spot
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  Speaker 2: where we're getting We're gonna get to decide in the
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  Speaker 2: next this next few months, we get to decide what
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  Speaker 2: we're going to become you know where, whether we go
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  Speaker 2: further down this path or what we're doing, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It's an interesting it's a very interesting time, and I
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  Speaker 2: know a lot of people have a lot of anxiety
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  Speaker 2: over it, no matter what side you're on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the fact that there are so many sides
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  Speaker 1: I think is part of the problem. In fact, that
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  Speaker 1: kind of leads into my quote for the day.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well you want to go and do it.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll continue. We'll pick up this conversation to the
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  Speaker 1: context of this quote. It's my sevenment we call they
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  Speaker 1: talked about that, mm hm.
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  Speaker 2: Close enough.
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Merton love Thomas Martin, the old mert ol Merty said.
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  Speaker 1: This is from a book from nineteen eighty five. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: he said, hope of attaining true freedom by purely political
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  Speaker 1: means has become an insane delusion. M hm. Hope of
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  Speaker 1: attaining true freedom by purely political means has become an
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  Speaker 1: insane delusion. So you know, Thomas Merton is a monk,
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  Speaker 1: right yeah. At the he's at a monastery up at
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  Speaker 1: near Louisville.
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  Speaker 2: The Merten Monk Monastery, the Merton Monastery.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting because I think just the word
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  Speaker 1: political is so divisive, and I think that it's what's
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  Speaker 1: really hard about life is we've never been so navel
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  Speaker 1: gazing as now, like looking at our own emotions. We
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  Speaker 1: talk about it all the time, like the therapy talk,
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  Speaker 1: the self reflection, the self improvement. But I think what
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  Speaker 1: we're missing and all that is the ability to objectively
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  Speaker 1: look at where we are on say a political spectrum
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  Speaker 1: or a sociological spectrum, and find, you know, whether or
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  Speaker 1: not we're moving in our inter right direction. Because there's
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  Speaker 1: like this assumption with all the therapy kind of talk we
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  Speaker 1: have is that wherever we're starting from, it's the right
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  Speaker 1: place right, it's it's the zeroline right.
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  Speaker 2: And so.
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  Speaker 1: I forget where I read this the other day. It
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  Speaker 1: was talking about like, you know, only those who can
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  Speaker 1: really honestly evaluate themselves with the help of others, can
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  Speaker 1: look at that painful truth. That's the only way to
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  Speaker 1: truly grow into an integrative type of existence. And I
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  Speaker 1: think what we're missing today is is like the political
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  Speaker 1: world lacks it lacks uncertainty. And when you're certain about
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  Speaker 1: really complex, nuanced things and you have a pure certain viewpoint,
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  Speaker 1: that has no room for anybody else's viewpoint. That's politics today.
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  Speaker 1: But by that definition it is anti politics because the
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  Speaker 1: definition of politics is supposed to be multiple sides of
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  Speaker 1: a spectrum working together. As you guys know, I got
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: to write for mister Jim Haslam, who's ninety five now,
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  Speaker 1: who founded Pilot Corporation, and his son was Governor Bill
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  Speaker 1: Haslam is a two term governor of Tennessee and Governor
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  Speaker 1: Hasn't wrote a book. It's right here on myself. It's
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  Speaker 1: called Faithful Presence. He wrote with Thomas Nelson and he
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  Speaker 1: talks in there, gives a story about he went on
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  Speaker 1: it was a right wing news network as the governor
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  Speaker 1: they had just passed some legislation. Yeah, and they were
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  Speaker 1: like asking him, so, how did you finally beat the
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  Speaker 1: Libs and whatever? And if you've ever met Governor Haslam,
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  Speaker 1: that's what the whole book is about. He's a guy
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  Speaker 1: that wants to followed Jesus and he believes that there
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  Speaker 1: is a way to be a Christian as you serve
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: a common good in the public square. That's what that
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: book's about, how to be a believer in the public square.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: And he was like, actually, no, I didn't beat anybody.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: We came together in the table and bro our sides. Yeah,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: but and they kept going at him, trying to get
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: that sort of bait, and he said, actually, we all compromised,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: gave something, lost something so that we could all win something.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: And that's kind of how the process is supposed to work.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: And the interview because they couldn't get this is not helpful,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: like they just think where we're going to go now,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: to bob over and whatever. And it's so telling that
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: we're addicted to the rage because we really believe we
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: can have some sort of freedom by purely political means,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: and we don't know that's the thing. We can't look
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: at ourselves enough to know it, because we've been told
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: that if anybody disagrees, then they're the enemy. We're literally
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: using words today in from like public offices like vermin.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: And they're not just we're describing immigrants. Certainly invaders were invaders.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: We're using words like I'm quoting, I can go find
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: these I'm not making out. This is not some garbage
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: words like garbage, words like scum, words like animal. These
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: are all dehumanizing terms and the only way someone would
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: entertain them is if you have to believe on a
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: high level that they're true. Otherwise, if you're dealing with
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: humans and I'm just I can only speak to those
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: who claim to follow Christ. If you're talking about other humans,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: then you have to deny the ways of Christ in
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: order to use those those terms. So the only way
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: it works is you have to believe it. You have
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: to be a true believer.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: It has to be your new religion. It has to
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: be higher than it's a new belief system. Yeah, that
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: says this is the way forward politics will since we'll
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: find this are of true freedom.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Like you said, right, and if it has no tension
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: with your faith, yeah, then I just would stop and
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: say again, I have zero judgment. And that's the thing.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: This could be triggering for so many people hearing the
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: words because we have been conditioned to be triggered. Now
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: we've been conditioned to that everything on your phone makes
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: more money when you're upset. That's just guys, that's straight
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: up in the data getting you upset, just more money
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: for the people.
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  Speaker 2: Even in the old days of like radio, like I
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: remember watching Howard Stern did him book called Private Parts
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: about his stories, like his biography, and then he did
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: a movie about it. And it was basically just stories
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: from him being like on terrestrial radio before he went
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: to serious, but like when he was in Testrail he
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: was the number one show and he was so shy.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: He was the original shock jock. He was so offensive
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: and whatever. And they were doing the data and they
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: said it really laid the groundwork for what social media
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: is now and what you know, Fox News, INSBC all
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: of it. And they said, we've done the data and
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: his drivetime show. The people that love him listen for
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: an hour and they go, okay, and they go the
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: people that hate him listen for three hours. Wow, that
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: was the real data. Yeah, so they just rage listen
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: to this guy so they could have more detail for
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: their angry letters to the station or whatever. And now
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: that's evolved into what we have now. He already saw it.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: I mean this was thirty years ago. Forty years ago. Yeah,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: it's crazy.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Well, I think we got to always that's fascinating and
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: I think we have to always realize that. And I
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: tell the church all the time, if you let's just
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: simplify it down to a couple phrases, if you just
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: really live your life trying to do justly, trying to
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: love mercy, not just tolerate mercy, but loving the idea
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: that people get mercy, and walking humbly with God. Which
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: other ways to say this would be you disadvantage yourself
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: to the advantage of somebody else, and you leave your
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: well being to God's providence, sovereignty care for you. You give
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: something up so others can have because you trust that
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: God is your provision. Then just living that kind of life,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: trying to do that every day will take all the
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: energy you have in all the best ways. You will
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: use your life up. You will waste your life in
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: the best of ways. You might not have fame, you
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: might not have fortune. You probably won't. You will gain
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: something much better. You'll gain real life, eternal life. And
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: I don't mean the future eternity. I mean you'll live
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: in eternity in the present. Which is one of the
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: prayers from the Book of Common Prayer is that strengthen
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: us in all goodness and by the power of the
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, keep us in eternal life today, like keep
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: me in eternal life today. But to hate or to
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: even go down the rabbit hole of information beyond what
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: is just good civic, educational. I think we all need
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: to have a civic education. We all need to kind
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: of know what's going on somewhat, but to go down
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: the rabbit hole of obsession, which is the way all
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: the media is. And I'm not anti media, I'm just
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: pro responsibility to understand what the media is. Yeah, you
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: should look at guys, if you have never looked at
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: ad Fontes media bias chart, it's a great thing. It'll
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: tell you what you're listening to, where there is in
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the left, right, or middle. And if you don't, if
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: you want to listen to the right or the left,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: great also go listen to the middle on the other
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: side and get a balanced viewpoint on it. So the
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: media itself doesn't have to be bad. It's only bad
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: if you can't balance or understand its nature of what
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: it's doing to you, because it's no longer meant to
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: be just purely informational.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: No, we have a more miserable and enraged population than ever,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: and it's because we have little propaganda machines in our pockets. Yeah,
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: that are feeding us things, yeah, and then occasionally selling
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: us popcorn too, whatever else we want.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah. That is spiking your dopamine every time. It's spiking
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: your Cortisol when you get stressed. I mean like it's
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: literally we're writing a roller coaster of political rage. And
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I think back to Martin, there is no hope of
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: attaining any true freedom through this. There has to be
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: and I've had this conversation just by today. It is offensive,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: but it must be the case. Like our allegiance to Christ,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: there must not be a second, a close second to that.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: It's the first commandment, right, have no other gods. You
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: can have other interests, you can have other things that
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: you're even responsible for or that you have some allegiance too,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: but they shouldn't be anywhere on the level of your
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: one God. The rest should pale in comparison, because, as
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: the Psalms say, you alone make me dwell in safety.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: It's offensive you alone. There's nothing else. There's not gonna
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: be money, there's not gonna be a political figure, there's
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: not gonna be a policy, all the things. So if
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna engage in the civic processes, I should as
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: a believer. It's got to be it's got to be
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: almost like yeah, again, it's civic responsibility, not spiritual allegiance.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: There has to be a difference between that so because
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: hope of it taking true freedom about purely, purely political
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: means is an insane delusion. That's what Merton said. I'm
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: agreeing with him, guys. That's my secment for today.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: The Mertenn Monastery. John, let's do some old jokes today.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: We call it joke about that John tough time. I
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: don't know if I told you this, but I got
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: home the other day. I had been robbed, someone had
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: stolen my limbo stick. I mean, how low can you go?
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I like that?
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: That's John. A pastor announced, if you know your wife
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: is controlling you, moved to the left. All the men
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: in the church moved to the left except one man.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: The pastor was happy there was at least one strong
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: man and asked, how come your wife can't control you.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: The man quietly replied, my wife told me not to
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: move John. While Irene is calm, I'm thinking of this
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: person a name I like it. While Irene is calmly
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: cooking at home, the phone suddenly ranks, ma'am, please come
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: to the hospital right away. Your husband was run over
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: by a steamroller. She rushed to the hospital in the
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: panic and asked the front desk, please, where's my husband.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: He was run over a steamroller. Oh yes, rooms fifteen, sixteen,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: and seventeen.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: That's dark.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: That's Darry. It is dark, tough. Our heart goes out
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: to all those who were run over by steamrollers in
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: the audience today. If you're still with us, right, John,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: let's do this week in history. We call it talk
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: about Then, John This Week. Nineteen fifty two, the Today
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Show debuted on NBS. It's a long running show, the
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: first early morning show. Dave Garaway was Today's first host,
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: hosting until nineteen sixty one. Still running, it is now
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: the fifth longest running US television series. In nineteen fifty three,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: to boost sagging ratings, the chimpanzee Jfred Muggs was added
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: to the cast. Yeah, this was the thing they did
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: a lot in shows in the fifties and sixties. It
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: was like, we need to get a little kid, who's
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: the cute hit. We gotta get a chimp on this show.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: We gotta do some stuff. He was an instant hit,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: and it's estimated that Muggs earned the network over one
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: hundred million in advertising and merchandising. You know what, they
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: gave him a couple of bananas. Jay mugs got a
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: hundred million dollars. This is one hundred million dollars in
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: the fifties. You know what, which one of us is
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: the chimp making all the money? That's what I was
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: going to say. We need us a J Edward Muggs. Yeah,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: j Fred Muggs. Sorry, I don't mean to smirch about
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: J Fred and Jay Edgar Muggs.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's too many things here to say.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Sesh. Yeah, anyway, j Fred Muggs, he's probably not with
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: us anymore, but I want to know what he would.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Don't you miss the old days of using your first initial.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: And name any more of that? Yeah, that sounds very prestigent.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: You know this, This is a quote from from J
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Carl Driver that actually, doesn't that sound pretty?
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: That's not too bad, doctor Jay. I guess sounds like
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: he's of he's got average looks.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but but and probably average content too.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Wait, but he's three names. That was one of my
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: favorite jokes ever that I heard a couple of years ago,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: which was that guy was talking about serial killers. He goes,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: you know why these serial killers all have three names?
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: So that was announced the name John Wayne Gacy and
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: he gave like four or five examples, and he goes
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: because they're in big, big trouble. It's so funny. That's
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: a good thing. John, Wayne Gacy, you get down here
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: right now. What have you done? John? This week? Will
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Booth so help me this week? John Sterling Holloway was
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: born in nineteen o five, Sling Sure. He was an
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: American actor. He was the voice of some of your
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: favorite characters, most beloved characters, Winnie the Pooh, Okay, he
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: was the voice of the snake in Jungle Book Wow,
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: and the cheshire Cat in Disney's Alice in Wonderland. I
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: didn't know he did all those things.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was. I was a big Winning the poof fan.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah he had that. Ye had that very Yeah. I
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: had two stuffed animals. One was a Winning the Pooh,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: of course, and the other was a Snoopy. And I
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: still had the Snoopy at home my mom. Yeah I
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: found Did you pass it down to Sadie? Yeah, yeah,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: it's it's with the rest of her stuff old. Most
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: of her stuffed animals are gone now, but we've kept
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: well she's seventeen, I know, but she has a girls
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: kid animals. Yes, but you understand we have bins of stuff. Oh, sure,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: she can make whole Disney parades out of stuffed animals
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: and did so.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Oh the Old Disney Parade. None of those were Disney characters,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: but okay, Peanuts was. It was Swinny the pood Disney.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: I don't think so. I don't think so.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I don't think she used well, yeah, Snoopy, and I
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: don't know if he was in the.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Pre You're just lumping them with all cartoons or Disney
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: now saying this is like Google search engine happens, uh
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: huh Google that all tissues are clean ext Where I
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: meant bing, I meant ask Jeeves. John Benedict Donoald was
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: born this week seventeen forty one. He was an American
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: general comma trade horror. He attempted to betray you would
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: you would hate to have that kind of legacy that
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: like they can just put a comma in like your
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: your bio was like he was this guy trader he attempted.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: He's literally, what's not like when you think of somebody,
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: you call somebody an Benedict Donald if you mean trader.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: He attempted to betray West Point to the British during
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: the American of a. Before this, he was considered an
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: American hero of the Revolution. Arnold helped capture the British
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: garrison of Fort taekwonder Roga hindered by hindered the British
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: invasion of New York at the Battle of Lake Champlain,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: and played a c crucial role in the surrender of
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: the British General John Berg joins army at Saratoga. However,
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: he began spying for the British and plotted to surrender
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: West Point. When his plot was exposed, he began fighting
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: for the British. I used to have an idea for
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: a drink and it was one third t one third lemonade,
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: and one third betrayal, and it was a Benedict Arnold Palmer.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Never really So there is a new documentary from ken
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Burns about the the Benedict Arnold stuff is fascinating because
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: he really was. It's hard to explain, like he wasn't
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: quite George Washington level fame, but he was probably the next.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: So it fell big when he was exposed. He was a.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Big, big deal and he was a hero. But also
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: you don't realize quite the horrible conditions that the Revolutionary
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: soldiers went through. Also, the idea of trader is so
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: interested to me because like, as a loyalist, I look
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: back and it would have been hard for me to be, like,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: we're going against the British Crown.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: You're you're British, you're being a trader. To start doing
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: what you're.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Doing, revolutionary things have to betray something, and so it's like,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: you know, Benjamin Franklin's on son was a loyalist to
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: the British crown, so like it really was a civil
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: war as much as it was a revolution for them.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: So anyway, scientild just to have a bit about that,
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: about people who are cheaters in their relationships and then
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: some people cheat on the people that they were cheating with.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: He goes, it's like you're robbing a bank and then
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: you turn to the guy next you go, now give
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: me everything you have that you were robbing the bank with. Yeah,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: bennedic Donald. Anyway, John, the first super Bowl this week
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: nineteen sixty seven. What do you know about the first
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl? I did not know some of this stuff.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: It kind of blew my mind. I know nothing. Do
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: you remember the teams? No? What could just guess colts? No?
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Okay, Packers.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Okay, they beat the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs thirty five
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: to ten in Los Angeles. The first AFL NFL World
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Championship game was actually called the Super Bowl until later,
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: so it was almost like World War One.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you didn't call it World War One Bowl.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: You just said, I don't know what you said. You
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: said the NFL World Champion.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: It'd be really dark to call the Warrior in World
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: War One.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah right. It remains the only Super Bowl simulcast by
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: two television networks. NBC had the rights to nationally televise
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: AFL games, and CBS had the rights to broadcast NFL games,
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: so both networks were allowed to televise the game. This
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: is the part why it makes the list. Both CBS
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: and NBC erased the tapes of the game to save costs,
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: a common practice at the time. In twenty eleven, a
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: tape of the first half and most of the second
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: half was found in twenty sixteen after exhaustive searching of
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: their archives. The NFL had located individual recordings of each
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: play and stitch them together to form a complete game.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: So we just lost this to history until very recently,
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: and it's kind of hodgepodge together by other angles and
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: tapes to even get a full game unbelievable. And now
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl is like the biggest thing in the world.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Even people that don't watch football watch the super Bowl. Yeah,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: but back they were like, erase it. It's not as
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: product gonna take Wow, John. Finally, this week is why
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: I horde things. By the way, honey, if you're listening,
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: it's it's like every man has a box of cables
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: because you're like, what if they bring back the red, white,
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: yellow cable?
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: That's my super Bowl one? It is, you know what
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. Who knows if you might need it someday.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Okay, don't get rid of that cable, my friend. That's right.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: I've done it, and you regret it immediately. You will
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: find a use for that cable or that adapter, that dongle,
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: whatever it is. John. This Week nineteen ninety two, uh
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: US Vice President Dan Quayle stated, George Bush will lead
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: us out of this recovery get away with words that
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: man did. He was probably above average looking.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: That would not even make the feed today. No, yeah, yeah,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: that's like today.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: No, it's like crazy.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: We could put the president a fighter jet dropping poop
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: on people tweeted by the White House, and that doesn't
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: it barely makes.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, It's like it's like eight hours of the news
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: cycle and then we move on to the next thing.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Dang well, I mean today he might be a king,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying if this was his time.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Teach that got a spell potato and we're off to
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: the races. He put an e on it? Right, he
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: put an e on it. Isn't there an eve if
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: you if you're plural or is it? Yeah? Potatoes has
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: any potatoes? We'll make fun of him, But could you
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: really spell potato? Mm hmmm, I think I could. I
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: think I have a good Yes, yes I can. It's
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: p right, give me, give me started. Yeah, anyway, dan Quayle,
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: that's interesting. That was an interesting election too because that
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: was where the recession had a hit because he was
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: coming off the First Gulf War, which was one hundred
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: days yea, the decisive victory, and then it was like
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: he had a ninety percent approval rating and then we
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: hit a economic recession and then he lost to Clinton,
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: and so that this was dan Quayle trying to do
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: some like damage control and somehow botched it.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's yeah. That was a real high
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: on brad moment. If you listen to the past episodes
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: for you, Dane, if you're listening.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, Yeah, it'd be interesting. Yep, I
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: don't know, man, But we got to political today. I'm
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: sorry everybody. We tried. I think it was just enough. Okay,
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: John thinks was just enough. Just enough, that's fine.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, our hearts do go out to all those men
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: in the world that are suffering in our country right
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: now and around the world. I mean, I hope we're
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: all about the work of trying to and yeah, I'm glad.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: We talked about a few things.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Which, hey, we want you to enjoy the show.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: We're not trying to take it down the dark path,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: but we also don't want to a dark path. And
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: I also don't want you to think that we are
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: not aware of what's happening in the world. So there's
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: a balance there. Johnny too aware, Yeah, painfully aware. A
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: lot happening. How you guys should go check out Johnny
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: W's show though. Man. When's the tour start?
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: February twelfth, Tour first dates twenty four, Spring dates twenty
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: four fall dates and we're coming to a city near you.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: I guarantee you. Yeah, So go to my website Johnnyew
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: dot com and check it out. Go to talk about
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: That podcast dot com if you want to find our
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: archived episodes. Four hundred almost. Yeah, we've been we've been
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: kicking around the idea of the live show. I think
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: we're gonna make it out. I don't think we'll wait
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: till five hundred. Probably, No, Oh, it's a good number.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Never mind, Well, we're gonna do it four.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Hundred because we may not be five hundred. That's a
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: little I've been very presumptive. But that's two more years.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Hey, no, it's not. Yeah, it's fifty two weeks, fifty
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: two years. It's not quite too but it's close enough.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: They weren't be friends in two years.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: You better keep it between the lines, my friend. You
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: better hold it together.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: It is amazing to me how many viewers regaining every week,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: and we appreciate you guys being a part of the show.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: People are listening in John like eaves dropping on a
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: conversation between two erstwhile friends who may or may not
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: be firstwhilestwhile.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: It's interesting because that is the premise of the whole show.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Just sitting with two friends.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: We're just hanging out. It's two guys, two regular guys,
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: two average looking, average looking dudes, highly successful. Maybe I
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: should be happy about average looking, you know, like it's
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: better than nothing.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: It might as well be. What else can you do?
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: If this or.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Worse from here on out? Probably you know you're not
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: going to get better.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: You don't think.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Maybe I can have like a old man glow up.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, their surgeries. I'll give you
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: a card to be what it takes. I'll give you
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: a card.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: So that don't mean where it takes. Hey, guys, thanks
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: for time you gave us this week.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: It was a lot of fun. Let's do it again
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: next week. I'll talk about that.