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Tragic Death of Hulk Hogan · Motor City Mad Mouth

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  Speaker 1: Good evening, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to another edition of the Motor City Mad Mouse Show. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: poor Jennifer. I'm going to miss her tonight. She's out
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  Speaker 2: under the weather, but that's okay. You've got the five
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  Speaker 2: of us, and we're going to entertain you for the
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  Speaker 2: next 60 minutes or so. Get ready for some action
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  Speaker 2: as we get ready with SB's back in the house. Right, Mr. Steve?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, good evening, everybody. Glad to be here. Hope I
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  Speaker 3: can help the ball club.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you're going to do great, man. You always do
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  Speaker 2: well as a leadoff man. We got Ed McAndrew back
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  Speaker 2: in the house.
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  Speaker 4: Glad to be here. Always a fun time.
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  Speaker 2: And we got Rob Maranta learning how to be Mr. Versatile.
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  Speaker 2: That's what you need to do, RM.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, everybody. Good to be here.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what you're doing. And the candy woman. There
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  Speaker 2: you go. Let's get ready for some action. Let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about countries that no longer exist and why they disappeared.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: We got Yugoslavia once held together by Tito. Yugoslavia divided
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  Speaker 2: into Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro. Can you keep track?
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  Speaker 2: North Macedonia and Kosovo. This breakup reshaped the Balkans. You
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  Speaker 2: had the Soviet Union. The largest nation dissolved in 15 months,
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  Speaker 2: 15 nations emerged, 300 million people found themselves in a
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  Speaker 2: country that no longer existed. We have the Ottoman Empire,
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  Speaker 2: ruled three continents for 600 years. This fall redrew borders.
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  Speaker 2: Many of today's Middle East conflicts trace back to its collapse.
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  Speaker 2: And then we have Czechoslovakia, flipped peacefully in 1993, the
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  Speaker 2: only velvet divorce.
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  Speaker 1: Ever.
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  Speaker 2: No casualties, decisions made behind closed doors before polling citizens.
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  Speaker 2: The Republic of South Malakou declared independence in 1950, crushed
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  Speaker 2: within six months. Soldiers evacuated to the Netherlands. The Republic
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  Speaker 2: never formally surrendered. And there you have it, Steve. That's
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  Speaker 2: what it There are other countries that no longer exist
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  Speaker 2: and why they disappeared.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Tito held Yugoslavia together after World War II. And
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  Speaker 6: for those keeping score at home Montenegro, if you're a
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  Speaker 6: James Bond fan, you'll know that the big card game
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  Speaker 6: in Casino Royale was held in Montenegro.
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  Speaker 3: So beautiful place, but it is what it is.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think anyone's shedding any tears for the Soviet
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  Speaker 6: Union breaking up. Putin said afterwards that was the saddest
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  Speaker 6: day of his life.
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  Speaker 3: It was kind of the happiest day in mind.
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  Speaker 6: Some of the others, you know, they are what they are,
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  Speaker 6: but those were the two.
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  Speaker 3: Big ones in my book.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Eddie.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: What's interesting. I agree with Steve.
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  Speaker 7: The Soviet union kind of has a special place.
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  Speaker 4: I think since I've mentioned that both my kids, I've
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  Speaker 4: been over to Russia twice with my, uh, my, both
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  Speaker 4: my kids were adopted. So, yeah, so that's, uh, uh,
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  Speaker 4: and I've always been fond of Russian studies. That's no,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, the Ukraine war is all part. Actually,
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  Speaker 4: if you look at the Ukraine war, that's, you know,
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  Speaker 4: a result of that. Um, Also, the other one that
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  Speaker 4: I always forget is I always want to call that
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  Speaker 4: area Yugoslavia.
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  Speaker 7: I guess I'm just an old guy.
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  Speaker 4: You always forget that it's broken into all those different
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  Speaker 4: countries now. And one other one I just wanted to
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  Speaker 4: toss out there, Scott, and I'm not sure, I don't
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  Speaker 4: know if I heard it, is East Germany. Because East
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  Speaker 4: Germany was a country that no longer exists. once the
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  Speaker 4: wall fell in 1990. And it's funny, it's interesting. I
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  Speaker 4: have a very good friend and former colleague that is
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  Speaker 4: from East Germany. He grew up on the, what we
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  Speaker 4: would say here in the States, the wrong side of
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  Speaker 4: the wall.
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  Speaker 7: And it's always funny to talk to some of.
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  Speaker 4: Those people who did, because sometimes our perception of what
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  Speaker 4: their life really was like, it wasn't as bad as,
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  Speaker 4: the pictures being painted here. So, um, it's just always fun,
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  Speaker 4: but great, great topic to kick us off there, Scott, Rob.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. You know what?
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  Speaker 5: Um, I'm glad I had brought up East Germany, you know, um,
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  Speaker 5: that should have been on the list because that was
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  Speaker 5: all part of, uh, the fall of Soviet union, um,
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  Speaker 5: which like you said, Putin in his crazy head, um,
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  Speaker 5: with Ukraine, um, you know, that's just, that's, that's me.
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  Speaker 5: That's like him trying to start to get some of
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  Speaker 5: it back.
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  Speaker 3: Right. Um, little steps, exactly what it is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Little steps, which the Soviet union, of course will never
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  Speaker 5: be what it was, but it's just, it's just crazy
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  Speaker 5: how this is still, this is still going on. Um,
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  Speaker 5: you know, it, it shouldn't, it shouldn't have lasted this long.
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  Speaker 5: It shouldn't even happen, but unfortunately it did. Um, But
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  Speaker 5: all great societies eventually come to an end, right? And
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  Speaker 5: you never know with the United States eventually if that's
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  Speaker 5: going to happen. So, yeah, that was a great subject, Scott.
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  Speaker 5: Great opening pitch there.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Ron. I appreciate all you guys for saying that. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: go ahead, Candace.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, obviously, you guys have kind of talked about,
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  Speaker 8: you know, USSR, Yugoslavia. How about Czechoslovakia? It underwent a
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  Speaker 8: peaceful velvet divorce, splitting into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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  Speaker 8: You talked about East Germany. You have Austria-Hungary. You have Prussia,
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  Speaker 8: which actually in 1947 divided into Germany, Poland, and Russia.
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  Speaker 8: And the one that I kind of think, Scott, that
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  Speaker 8: you did not mention, and I know this goes back
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  Speaker 8: before all of us, but it's the Republic of Texas.
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  Speaker 8: It gained its independence from Mexico and later chose to
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  Speaker 8: join the United States as the 28th state. But it
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  Speaker 8: existed from 1836 to 1845. Sam Houston. Bring in the
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  Speaker 8: United States a little bit there.
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  Speaker 2: I like Blood Eagle. Great people in the future. We'll
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  Speaker 2: talk about New York City, Minnesota, and Michigan. You know what,
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  Speaker 2: Blood Eagle? I have a treat for you. Hang in
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  Speaker 2: there for a minute, my friend.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: No, I really do. I'm serious. I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: he's reading my mind, but I like this guy already
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  Speaker 2: for some crazy reason. Okay. Onward we go. The Buffalo
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  Speaker 2: Bills former boys, John Murphy, was denied a credential after
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  Speaker 2: Joe Brady column. Steve, you and me have been down
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  Speaker 2: this road a lot. I don't know if we were denied,
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  Speaker 2: but I can certainly see the side of both ways.
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  Speaker 2: You know, with the team... Till Brady and, of course,
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  Speaker 2: John Murphy don't mess around with their head coach.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, look, I mean, you know, it's okay
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  Speaker 6: to criticize. It's okay to, you know, find faults with
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  Speaker 6: stuff that's going wrong.
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  Speaker 3: But it's like, and I'm not aware of the.
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  Speaker 6: Column, but if you get personal with somebody, you know,
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  Speaker 6: in the organization, they have every right to block. But again,
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  Speaker 6: I don't know the particulars in this story. I did
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  Speaker 6: see that, but I was assuming, and maybe I'm wrong
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  Speaker 6: to do so, that it turned into a personal attack
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  Speaker 6: on this guy's part.
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  Speaker 3: But you never know.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, he could have just been writing something that,
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  Speaker 6: you know, you're supposed to be unbiased when you cover
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  Speaker 6: a team. It's hard to do so. Because as we
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  Speaker 6: all know, when you cover a team, you're supposed to
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  Speaker 6: be unbiased, but at the same time, you want to
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  Speaker 6: root for them because your readers are much more apt
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  Speaker 6: to read everything that you have to say if they're winning.
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  Speaker 6: If they're losing every game, your readers lose interest. So
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  Speaker 6: I know you're supposed to be unbiased, but at the
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  Speaker 6: same time, you kind of have to root for them
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  Speaker 6: a little bit because you want, you know, you want
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  Speaker 6: the team that you're covering to do well, because the
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  Speaker 6: better they do actually the better you do.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Cause more people, you know, nobody wants.
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  Speaker 6: To read an after game column, you know, when the
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  Speaker 6: team loses 45 to nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 6: But if they, if they beat a top team, you know,
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  Speaker 6: in a, you know, Monday night football showdown, right. And
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  Speaker 6: everyone wants to read that column because they want to
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  Speaker 6: bask in it. So, again, you know, I might be
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  Speaker 6: speaking out of turn, but, you know, I didn't read
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  Speaker 6: his column, so I don't know what was in it.
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  Speaker 6: But sometimes guys get personal with it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I.
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  Speaker 4: Think we need we need to bring back the homers.
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  Speaker 4: The homers got to come back. You just wear everything.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, you got to bring them all back.
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  Speaker 7: It's like when you're listening to the local station for
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  Speaker 7: the football, baseball.
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  Speaker 4: Game, it doesn't really matter there. You know, it's like
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  Speaker 4: when I listened to the local hot and watch the
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  Speaker 4: local hockey, you know, they love the hockey place.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, about the, Except on Boston Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: They are the most negative.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, during 20 years of the Patriots dynasty, you
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  Speaker 6: would have thought the Patriots absolutely sucked.
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  Speaker 3: Because every week it was like, oh, my God, they
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  Speaker 3: were so lucky to win that game. They won. They
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  Speaker 3: beat the Jets 38 to 7. And they just, you know,
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  Speaker 3: eat pie because they were terrible.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm just like, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Brady only threw four touchdowns in 95. He dropped that
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  Speaker 4: pass in the end zone. God.
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  Speaker 3: You know, and.
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  Speaker 9: After every Super Bowl win, they talked about style points. Well,
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  Speaker 9: they didn't really blow the other team out. They just
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  Speaker 9: won the Super Bowl, for God's sake.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's Boston Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 6: So they are– no one will ever accuse them of
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  Speaker 6: being homers.
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  Speaker 4: But the article itself, if I recall correctly, touched on
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  Speaker 4: the inexperience of the current head coach, and he was
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  Speaker 4: saying if they don't get to the playoffs, that is why.
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  Speaker 4: And I agree. There might be some truth to that.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if it got any more personal like you, Steve.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't read the article. I just kind of found
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  Speaker 4: the snippets of it. But what I– I think pulling
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  Speaker 4: the credentials is a little too much. Watching sports over
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  Speaker 4: the years, these guys usually travel with the team.
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  Speaker 7: They're embedded with the team.
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  Speaker 4: They all know them. So they're part of the family,
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  Speaker 4: more or less. Pull the guy aside and say, hey,
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  Speaker 4: we feel this was a little bit of a hit job.
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  Speaker 4: Can you maybe fix it or do something different? you know,
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  Speaker 4: have a conversation first. And maybe that did happen.
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  Speaker 3: I don't, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Have a conversation.
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  Speaker 7: I just, to me, I think pulling the credentials.
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  Speaker 3: That's a pretty serious step. That's why.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I.
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  Speaker 6: Assumed that you got personal with some of this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: And like I said, maybe you did, but if it wasn't,
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  Speaker 10: I think it's a little on Eddie's side and, you know,
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  Speaker 10: somebody's got to take a deep breath next time and say, okay,
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  Speaker 10: what are we going to do?
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  Speaker 4: Rob?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I didn't read the article, but there's always,
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  Speaker 5: you know, this comes with the territory, right? You're going
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  Speaker 5: to be criticized. It's going to get personal, especially if
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  Speaker 5: you're in New York, forget about it. Forget about it.
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  Speaker 4: You were talking about.
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  Speaker 5: Boston, New York sports radio is even worse. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: the team, the team wins and the next day they're
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  Speaker 5: complaining and making, you know, stupid trade suggestions and, and
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  Speaker 5: all this other stuff. But, but, you know, like you said, it,
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  Speaker 5: it goes with the territory. Sometimes you have to have it,
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  Speaker 5: you know, tougher skin and just, you know, blow it off.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, that's how I feel. If it was me,
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  Speaker 5: you know, whatever, right. Whatever you want about me, get personal.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Candace.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 8: Long time build radio play by play announcer. John Murphy
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  Speaker 8: spent a combined 34 years as the team's radio voice
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  Speaker 8: and analyst. And now he is, can't get a press
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  Speaker 8: box credential inside the new Highmark Stadium after writing a
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  Speaker 8: column that was critical of new head coach Joe Brady.
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  Speaker 8: This is according to the Buffalo News. And it kind
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  Speaker 8: of gets really dicey in here a little bit because
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  Speaker 8: it says that it leads to questions that it says
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  Speaker 8: his exclusion from the area where reporters sit has led
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  Speaker 8: to questions about whether channel four, the preseason games rights
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  Speaker 8: holder and official station of the bills is practicing self
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  Speaker 8: censorship and giving into implied pressure from the team. Murphy
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  Speaker 8: noted that two days after he wrote the column in August,
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  Speaker 8: he received a text from his sports director that said
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  Speaker 8: the station was unable to get credentials for him and
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  Speaker 8: his photographer and because their part-timers don't receive them. Murphy
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  Speaker 8: said that he was told in mid-July he would receive
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  Speaker 8: a credential for the season and was shown where he
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  Speaker 8: would have a seat. In his column, more than a
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  Speaker 8: month later about Brady, Murphy wrote that the one, in quotes,
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  Speaker 8: one thing that could hold this year's team back was
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  Speaker 8: their rookie head coach. after he wrote a subsequent column
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  Speaker 8: predicting the bills would finish the season with 10 wins,
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  Speaker 8: he was still, he was then Murphy said that at
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  Speaker 8: channel four, he was told he had to take a
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  Speaker 8: pause on his column and it couldn't publish it because
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  Speaker 8: of pressure from the bills.
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  Speaker 2: Well, well, Yeah, let me tell you, PR people can
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  Speaker 2: be protective of their certain parts, whether it's coach or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: and if they don't like what you're saying, it's their
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  Speaker 2: version of saying that you're centered for a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: So while I can see it from both sides somewhere,
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  Speaker 2: I tend to wonder where freedom of speech is in
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  Speaker 2: this whole thing. That's what I wonder. And obviously, that
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  Speaker 2: wasn't the point.
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  Speaker 4: But can we say that if he's only questioning maybe
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  Speaker 4: being a coach, being a rookie, getting to the playoffs...
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  Speaker 4: isn't that kind of a little tame? I mean, compared
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  Speaker 4: to what they talk about in New York and Boston, geez.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they're talking to people, throwing them off the
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  Speaker 4: bridges if they don't catch with style. I mean, we're
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  Speaker 4: talking Super Bowl style points just a few minutes ago.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I just think, you know, I think Buffalo,
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  Speaker 4: the Bills need to take a little bit of a
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  Speaker 4: deep breath and what the PR guy does is just say, hey, yo,
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  Speaker 4: As they say in New York, just forget about it.
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  Speaker 5: Forget about it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: Before the Patriots' last two Super Bowl victories, okay, the
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  Speaker 6: talk on Boston Sports Radio was you can see Brady's regression.
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  Speaker 3: You can see it. It's palatable.
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  Speaker 6: You have to realize that it's coming. And then they
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  Speaker 6: went out and won two more Super Bowls. And then
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  Speaker 6: he won a third after he blew talent. And he
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  Speaker 6: threw for like 5,000 yards, right? And it was like,
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  Speaker 6: hell yeah. That regression looks horrible, right? You know, when
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  Speaker 6: they won the Super Bowl down there.
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  Speaker 2: All we are is just media. Tom Brady's no good.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: And in the eyes of Lee Corso, Not so fast,
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  Speaker 2: my friend. But I'll tell you what, we're going on
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: to something else. Ron, I don't know if you know this,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: and Candy, I don't know if you know this, but
• 17:57
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  Speaker 2: from lunch equals dinner buffet just reheated with new sauce.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: The internet cost of $ 30 a day candy knows all
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: too well how to handle the internet better than anybody
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  Speaker 2: I've ever seen. One post Go on the Instagram post
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: and it still doesn't work in the middle of the ocean. Four,
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  Speaker 2: you can't leave. In the middle of the ocean, you're trapped.
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• 19:20
  Speaker 2: a whole ship will sink. And you know what that means?
• 19:24
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  Speaker 2: the last time you go on a cruise, but you
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  Speaker 2: might be ready to watch all seven of those bad boys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: or 65 cruises, when we went on one last year
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  Speaker 6: with them, they said as soon as we got on board, go.
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  Speaker 6: Them, see the, I don't know, purser or whatever, and
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  Speaker 6: take the automatic gratuities off and say, well, we'll, you know,
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  Speaker 6: tip as we go along, which we did.
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  Speaker 3: And it saved a bunch of money.
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  Speaker 6: Um, as for the water down drinks, I believe that,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, um, Because you like sitting out on the deck,
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: drinking a cocktail with a tiny little umbrella on it.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: You can polish quite a few of those off.
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: Whereas normally you'd be feeling your oats a little bit.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: I don't like the food angle there.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Thought that was kind of gross.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: That doesn't seem like that would be.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: You'd even be allowed to do that.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: But I've never been on a cruise, Scott, and now
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: you've just... I'm not sure if I helped you at all, but... No,
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: you guaranteed that I probably won't be on a cruise.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: That's my point. My wife has no desire to be
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: on a cruise.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: But no, that just.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: You stick... I don't even know how many people... Rob,
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: how many people these boats hold since you're like the
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: cruise guy?
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: I've been on 20 cruises and I don't want to change.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: So how many people do we have on this?
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Depends on the size of the boat.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: I've been on ships with like 750 and I've been
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: on ships with 6,000 people.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: It depends.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: Alright, so 6,000 6,000.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: People in a contained environment for X number of days
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: in the middle of the ocean.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Let me tell you what.
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: I've been on a ship with 6,000 people, and it
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: doesn't seem crowded.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: Nope.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: That's how big they are.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: No, I'm just saying, but you're still contained in the
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: same area. The food thing is kind of gross. The
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: drinks didn't surprise me at all. I mean, if you're
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: paying– if it's not open bar, like where you're prepaid,
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: they're going to just.
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: It's a money grab.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: And I've got a buddy of mine who does the
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Disney cruise a lot.
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: They're the Disney Club people. They have all the memberships.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: And, you know, they go to– Disney even has an
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: island that their boat goes to. And, you know, it's
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: just– you know. It's unfortunate that it doesn't go back
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: to the locals. I mean, that would probably help their
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: economy greatly. But as we've said on this show and
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: many other shows, that's why we live in America. It's
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: all about greenbacks. So, yeah. So I'll pass it over
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: to Rob since he's been on 20 cruises.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what's the word?
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Thanks, Ed.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: So I've been on 20 cruises, and I don't want
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: to jinx myself because I've never had a problem on
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: a cruise.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: At all.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: Nothing, really. The helicopter thing. What I tell people, and
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: we've talked about this on our show, spoke with Candy.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: What I do is, even though I have health insurance,
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: if I'm going on a cruise, for 45 bucks, you
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: get cruise travel insurance, okay? So that means if you
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: have to get, God forbid, airlifted off of a ship,
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: it covers... the whole thing covers up to like, and
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: you could get different, you know, different variations. The one
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: I get covers up to like a million dollars. Okay.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: So just get yourself that and you'll be fine. You'll
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: be fine with that.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: The food.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: And also it depends on the cruise line too. Sometimes
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: celebrities more, you know, I guess upper class than NCL
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: or some of the others, uh, I've been on a
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: bunch of different cruise lines, though. And, you know, the
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: watered down drinks, of course. But a lot of times
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: if you get the drink package, I mean, I've had
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: drinks that were really strong. I'm like, well, this drink
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: is really strong. And I'm like, what's going on here?
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: They're not, you know, not watering them down. So it depends.
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: The cruise line, the ship. The people and the norovirus, yes.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: If it happens on a ship, that's a disaster. But
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: it really doesn't happen as often as people think. They
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: are pretty, most cruise lines are pretty, you know, pretty clean.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: They're always spraying people's hands and before you go on
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: a buffet and all that stuff. So, like I said,
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: I hope I didn't jinx myself, but I haven't had
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: a problem so far.
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: The only time it seems crowded on a cruise ship
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: is when it's time to get off. Like if you're
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: in a port or your cruise is over, that's when
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: you're like, hey, there are six.
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: Can't be guided.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: So, Ed, you definitely should go on a cruise. This
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: should not scare you. Watered-down drinks, like, come on. That
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: happens all over. That's not just on a cruise. They're
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: going to make the most bang for their buck.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: Let's face it.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: It's a business.
• 25:30
  Speaker 8: They're trying to make money. As far as the buffets, Ed,
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: they have all kinds of sit-down places. Scott and I
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: rarely go to the buffets. In fact, I would say
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: Scott never goes to the buffets. The last one we
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: were on, I go up maybe for breakfast to get
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: us something before I go on to the port so
• 25:55
  Speaker 8: I have some protein in me. And I'll actually grab
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: a couple of things for him. And they have boxed cereal.
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: So you could even just take a little boxed cereal.
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: So that's not going to be tainted with or anything
• 26:06
  Speaker 8: like that. But we do a lot of the sit-down.
• 26:11
  Speaker 8: We don't do a lot of the buffets just because, A,
• 26:15
  Speaker 8: we want to control how much we're eating. Um, you know, uh,
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: we're at an age where we're both kind of watching
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: our figures. I mean, our figure has gone, mine has
• 26:26
  Speaker 8: gone bigger and bigger, but I watch it anyways. Um,
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: but as far as like 6,000 people that that's, there's
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: a lot of people on the boat. Uh, the only
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: other time I would say you're, you really know that,
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: that not only when you get off. But before you
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: get off, if you're in a different country and you
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: have to get your passport stamped or they have to
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: see if you're legit. Because both times when we took,
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: obviously we went out of the country. We took ones
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: out of England and out of Portugal. And then to
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: go back into England, they have to look at your passports.
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: on the cruise ship and everybody has to go through
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: them looking at your passport.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: They call you up by certain room numbers and stuff
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: like that, but there's still always a long line for that.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 27:26
  Speaker 8: Um, other than that, I mean, yeah, they're going to
• 27:29
  Speaker 8: get you with internet. Of course, you know, you're on
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: a cruise. The question is, is why are you on
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: the cruise? Are you on the cruise to spend time
• 27:37
  Speaker 8: on the internet? Scott and I, we need it for
• 27:40
  Speaker 8: posting videos and all of that stuff. So it's a
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: little different for us. But the rest of them, you know,
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: do you need it?
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: No.
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: Could you use it?
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: Part of the vacation cost.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: The only thing I learned from that last cruise is
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: we needed a bigger room and I suffered a concussion
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: because I tripped over a cord and that put me
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: in a spot. Some of the rooms are a little
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: bit too small where you can barely move around, and
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: we learned. And on our next cruise that we're going
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: on late next summer, I think we did a little
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: bit better on the room. And when we go to Italy,
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: I think, right, Candy, around Memorial Day, we're going to
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: be flying in there and spending like four days over
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: the Coliseum and the Vatican. And some of your best
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: friends actually on the road are Marriott and Hilton's, too.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: And I have points of them. So we'll see. We're
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: hoping to see how that works out. But, yeah, we
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: do rely on Internet. Well, you know what? A few
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: of us live in the state of Florida. Okay, what
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: makes Florida one of the strangest U.S. states? Florida is
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: America's flattest state with just the highest point of 345 feet.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Tampa sits in Lightning Alley. one of the America's stormiest reasons,
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: of course, not any surprise. You have a team called
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: the Tampa Bay lightning. Okay.
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: You know what? I never, I never put that together.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no. Sometimes.
• 29:14
  Speaker 8: No.
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: Sometimes.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Again, learn something new, Scott. Every time I come
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: on this show, every time, every time.
• 29:24
  Speaker 8: That's good.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Live and learn. That's what the show's all about.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Well, Florida has the longest coastline in the contiguous United States.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Floridian Aquifer provides drinking water to millions across the state.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Cape Canaveral launches more rockets than almost any place on Earth.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Orlando has more major theme parks than almost anywhere else worldwide.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Crystal River is famous for manatees and rare in water encounters.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Walt Disney World spans 40 square miles, nearly San Francisco's size.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: The Everglades is the only place where alligators and crocodiles coexist.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Snow fell in South Florida once during the winter of 1977,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: and there you have it. The things about Florida, and
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: if you didn't know them, guess what? You know them now.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: All right, we'll start off with Mr. Bellisari, since he
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: does live in the state with us.
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: Yes, and the highest point I think, I could be wrong,
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: is the trash mountain, isn't it? It's like where they
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: pile the trash in the landfill. I remember somewhere we
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: were heading up the East Coast. Florida is so flat.
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: I mean, you can see the curve of the earth.
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: And then all of a sudden there was this huge
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: mountain And then we were like, what the heck is that?
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: As you're going down the highway. And it turns out
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: that was a landfill. It was like a trash mountain.
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: But yeah, it's flat. And the manatees are awesome. I've
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: been to the place where they go in the winter.
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: It's near a power plant. So where the, you know,
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: the power plant, you know, where they generate their, you know, whatever,
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: the water.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Outside of that, it gets.
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: Really warm and all the manatees go there in the
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: wintertime and they kind of hang out right near the
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: power plant. I mean, it's like a traffic jam of manatees,
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: which is super cool. And I think those are the
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: coolest things in the world anyway. And by the way,
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: they love drinking out of a hose. My uncle's boat,
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: he said, don't let anyone see you do that. but
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: I was hanging off the boat and I had a
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: garden hose and they would come right up out of
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: the water and drink the water right out of the hose.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: They loved it. Yes. Yeah. The Tampa Bay lightning, right?
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: That's and, and let me tell you what the whole
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: state of Florida is like lightning central. I mean, just yesterday,
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: I think, you know, we had some really impressive weather,
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: where they showed the lightning strikes instead of the little
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: dots on the map. It was just like one big
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: white blob, you know. And I'm two hours from Tampa,
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: so it's like that everywhere. But it's an interesting place,
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: and it's filled with insane people.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: That's why we live here.
• 32:47
  Speaker 7: That is crazy.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: And that actually just made me think about, okay, Tampa
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: Bay lightning, lightning out. Then I went Florida Panthers. So
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: the Florida Panther is a real deal to cougar subspecies
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: that lives almost entirely. So now, talking about what you
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: were saying, the weirdness of the state, you have its
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: own subspecies of panther plus the whole alligator crocodile thing
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: where they.
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: I remember my brother-in-law went to U of F.
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: Uh, to get his doctorate.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: And we went down there and, you know, you're walking
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: by these, you know, just little, I don't know, ponds
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: on the, on the campus and stuff. And you're like
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: looking down there and.
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: You have to almost do a double take. And it's like, oh, okay.
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: There's just a, I don't know, gator, croc, whatever.
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: And I think that's one of the, you know, that,
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: that the, uh, that the Floridians live in harmony with
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: the crocodiles and the, uh, Kind of. Yeah, exactly. Yeah,
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: it's funny because I was just at the other day,
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: I don't know what it was, and maybe because I'm
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: involved with you guys, you, Scott, and the rest, and
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: it's just starting to subconsciously plant thoughts in my head.
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: I was talking to my wife just the other, like,
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: even yesterday, I was like, you know, we could go
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: to Florida. We could move to Florida and stuff like that.
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: And she goes, why? And it's funny because she goes,
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: why did you just bring that up? I said, I
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: don't know.
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: I've just been thinking about it.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: You know, retirement, you know, it's nice down there and
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: stuff like that. Well, what's funny is that two of
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: our two couple friends, the husbands are also just started
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: talking to their wives about moving to Florida. But she's
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: my wife. But they're a little bit more like, OK,
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: we're looking for a house. We're going to start doing this.
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: I'm just kind of kicking the can around to see
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: what it is. And there's a lot of old people.
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: I guess the other odd thing about Florida is there's
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: a lot of old people, old and older people down there.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: You know, retiring and so on. So, I don't know.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: I just want generalization.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: You want to know an interesting fact about what you
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: said many years ago, Mr. McKenzie?
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: What is that?
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you. You really set me up for the story, brother.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Here's what happens. I'm working for the Tampa Tribune back
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: in the day covering high school out in St. Petersburg.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: I go into this place. I actually go into this
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: place here called Morrison's Cafe. And what do you think?
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: I'm the only guy with dark hair in there, and
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: they're all old people.
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: Don't figure it. Well, I think I told, I don't
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: know if I told you, Scott and Candy, while we
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: were just talking. But, you know, I was in a
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: car with a colleague of mine. We were behind the
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: car and the car was going slow. And he goes,
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: and we pull up and we pass him. And he goes, ah,
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: it's an old guy. And we both looked at each
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: other and go, oh, we really can't say, because we're
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: both about the same age. He goes, we really both
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: can't say that anymore. So I guess we have to
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: start saying he's an older guy. We're old guys.
• 36:16
  Speaker 7: He's the old guy.
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: Rob, what are your thoughts on Florida?
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: Well, Florida, let's not forget about the early bird special, right?
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: Seinfeld deal.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: Yes, my God, the heat.
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: When I used to, when my grandparents moved to Florida,
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: when they retired to Florida and we would go down there,
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: they would say, all right, let's get ready for dinner.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: And it was like Seinfeld.
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: I would say, but it's only three 30. And she said, yeah,
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: we have to get to the restaurant by four 30
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: for the early bird special. And then when you get there,
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: there's a line for the early bird specials. But like Ed,
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: you said old people to them, it's not that early
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: because they're getting ready for bed at eight o'clock. So yeah,
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: it's not, but also with the alligators, I went, I
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: was down there and she wanted to go to a
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: flea market. So I said, okay, I'll take you. And
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: it just, it rained pretty hard for about maybe 40 minutes.
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: We get to the flea market and there's a ton
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: of puddles and there are baby, they're baby alligators in
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: so many of those puddles. And you're right. They coexist
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: with you. Scott will coexist with you guys over there
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: and Steve and Ken.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: Until they reach a certain size. Yes.
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: Yes, and then they treat you as breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: Keep Rusty inside, Scott.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: I ain't going nowhere.
• 37:49
  Speaker 7: Exactly.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: No, not him. He's my sort of cat. Candy.
• 37:58
  Speaker 8: Let's see. I can honestly say, let me think.
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: Florida.
• 38:07
  Speaker 8: Hmm. When I was young and growing up, did I
• 38:11
  Speaker 8: ever imagine myself living in Florida? I'll be honest, no.
• 38:16
  Speaker 8: But yet, here I am. Actually, 15 years later, I'm
• 38:22
  Speaker 8: living in Florida. I'm trying to think, Scott. We've seen alligators.
• 38:33
  Speaker 8: I don't know that we've seen crocodiles. here in Florida,
• 38:37
  Speaker 8: and yet they both exist down here. As far as lightning,
• 38:45
  Speaker 8: oh yeah, there is a ton of lightning. I don't
• 38:49
  Speaker 8: know that I've ever seen as much lightning and as
• 38:53
  Speaker 8: many rainbows as well, though. You know, I lived in
• 38:57
  Speaker 8: Wisconsin for years in the Midwest, but I see more
• 39:01
  Speaker 8: rainbows and lightning than I did ever there. What was
• 39:07
  Speaker 8: one of your other interesting facts, Scott?
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: Manatees.
• 39:12
  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah, manatees. There's a bunch of those here. I
• 39:17
  Speaker 8: never realized that you had sea turtle season, and you
• 39:21
  Speaker 8: have to be careful when you're on the beaches during
• 39:24
  Speaker 8: certain parts of the year. You can't have lights out
• 39:27
  Speaker 8: and all kinds of different things. So that's something that's
• 39:30
  Speaker 8: a little different down here as well. And I'll tell you,
• 39:36
  Speaker 8: the one thing I can almost guarantee you, if you
• 39:38
  Speaker 8: are in a group of, let's say, 10 people, I
• 39:43
  Speaker 8: bet you at least nine of them are from someplace else.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: Not from Florida.
• 39:49
  Speaker 8: That's the one thing, too, that most people are not
• 39:52
  Speaker 8: from here.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: Nobody's from Florida, yeah.
• 39:54
  Speaker 8: Correct, correct. That would be my other odd thing that
• 39:57
  Speaker 8: I would say about Florida.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, when a seat's only 345 feet and
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: it's flat, there's an awful lot of things that can
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: happen in that flat space, and I just gave you
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: plenty of them. Maybe Jennifer should be glad that she
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: isn't feeling good when she hears about this topic. Don't worry, Jen.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: I'm going to send you a show and then give
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: you your feedback next week. But scary facts about the
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: great whites. Great whites can travel thousands of miles across
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: the ocean. They have been found between South Africa and Australia,
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: which is 12,000 miles. A great white shark bite is 4,000 PSI.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: This makes them have one of the most powerful bite
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: in the animal kingdom. Great whites are ambush predators, so
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: they look above the surface and ambush powerful attack from below.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: Great whites can detect a single drop of blood in
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: 25 gallons of water three miles away. Great whites can
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: grow up to 20 feet long and weigh over 5,000 pounds.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: They can swim 35 miles per hour. And that's after
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: a lot of these, you know, seniors.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: That's faster than, yeah, Navy ships. Yeah, that's true.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: Great whites can go up to 25 miles an hour.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: Interesting stuff. Great whites are extremely stealthy. Their skin is
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: covered in tiny tooth-like structures that reduce water resistance. Great
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: whites have been known to be cannibals to their own
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: kind and will eat weaker sharks. Scary thought. Great whites
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: can live up to 70 years. And there you have it.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: Great white sharks, Jaws, Peter Benchley, all over again. Okay, Steve.
• 41:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we have during the summertime when I lived in Massachusetts,
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: there's areas off there where all the seals go in
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: the summertime. So the great whites all migrate because that's
• 42:00
  Speaker 6: what they like to feed.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: On, right?
• 42:02
  Speaker 6: And we've walked the beach and you could tell when
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: there's a great white nearby because all the seals come flying.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: Out of the water and they come up on the sand.
• 42:13
  Speaker 6: And they just kind of chill out until it's safe
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: to go back in the water. But one of the
• 42:19
  Speaker 6: big regrets, I was in South Africa years ago for
• 42:24
  Speaker 6: about a month and a half.
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: And we went down to off the coast, down the
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: very tip.
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: And a friend of mine and I had signed up
• 42:37
  Speaker 6: to get in a shark cage to go swim with
• 42:40
  Speaker 6: great whites. And the The day that we went to
• 42:44
  Speaker 6: go do that, there was a horrible storm out there.
• 42:47
  Speaker 6: And the guy said, it's not safe. So, you know, unfortunately,
• 42:52
  Speaker 6: we didn't get to do it. And we waited until
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: the last day to book that. So the next day,
• 42:59
  Speaker 6: we were heading back up north, you know, in the
• 43:03
  Speaker 6: northern part of the country.
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: So I didn't get to do it. But, yeah, I really,
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: when I was younger, I wanted to get in a
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: cage with great whites. So I didn't get to do it.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: You know, where I got that idea was of Jaws,
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: Peter Benjamin. I think Hooper or whatever his name was. Mr. Hooper.
• 43:22
  Speaker 8: Mr.
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: Hooper.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that really gone out there and gave me the
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: itch to do it, but thank God it was nothing
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: more than just an itch.
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: Well, Scott, you don't have to sit there and read
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: off a whole litany of things about great white sharks.
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: I've watched Jaws. We've watched Jaws. We know that they're Bad,
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: bad man pajamas. And, you know, and we can't forget
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: the old shark week.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: Shark week. One of the best. They have some of the,
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: the best shows, but no, those were great facts, Scott.
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: And yes, they are, you know, below the Orca, you know,
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: right next to the Orca, you know, they are the
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: number one alpha predator out in the ocean. Um, For
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: their size, everybody talks about their bite and their strength
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: and all their teeth, but I think if you look
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: how big they can get, and to your point about
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: talking about their speed and their stealthiness, an animal to
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: be able to slide through water that fast at that
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: size is pretty incredible. Let me put it to you
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: this way. If I'm out in a fishing vessel... That's
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: not huge. Just one of those boats that you pulled
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: out of the dock in New York and New Jersey
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: or Massachusetts. And I'm out there and a great white
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: is comes up again and is bouncing up against it.
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: I'm thinking I'm turning my ass around and I'm headed
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: back to the shoreline. Cause you know, if he gets
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: a little, if he gets a little, he or she
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: gets a little feisty, you know, it doesn't take much.
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: It won't take much for them to tip that boat
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: or do something that you'll regret later. So, uh, Another
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: good topic, Scott. Like I said, it reminded me of
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: Shark Week, which is always cool. That would have been
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: a cool story to tell, Steve, being in a shark cage.
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was looking forward to it. Sometimes stuff happens.
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: Rob?
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: You're muted, Rob.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: I'm on mute.
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: It muted itself. That's weird.
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: Maybe it was a shark. That's where a cruise ship
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: comes in handy. If you're on a cruise ship, then
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: you don't mind a great white shark as much as
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: a fishing vessel. I have to give Steve credit because
• 45:58
  Speaker 5: we've all, like Ed said, Shark Week, great. Everybody loves
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: Shark Week on Discovery, right? But We've seen some of
• 46:05
  Speaker 5: those things when people are in those shark cages and
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: a great white just destroys it. It's like, what are
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: they doing? It's about to pop open. I have to
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: give you credit, Steve, for wanting to do that and
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: almost doing it because that takes a lot of guts.
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: In my younger days, I was kind of stupid. We
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: all learn.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, great.
• 46:38
  Speaker 5: Keep them away from me. I'll look at them from
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: the top deck of the cruise ship with one of
• 46:44
  Speaker 5: those watered-down drinks in my hand.
• 46:47
  Speaker 8: There you go.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: With an umbrella on the top.
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. Oh, that's funny.
• 46:55
  Speaker 8: Great white sharks. Sometimes some of us women might say
• 47:01
  Speaker 8: that some of the guys are great white sharks. too.
• 47:05
  Speaker 8: Watch out for them.
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: Thanks a lot, Candy.
• 47:10
  Speaker 8: I didn't say you.
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: Oh, do tell.
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: I was going to say, what was she alluding to?
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: There's a story here or something.
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: Do tell.
• 47:22
  Speaker 8: Oh, no, no, no, no. That's fine.
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: Ask Dave Doran what a great white shark I am.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: He'll tell you one way to take it to the
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: unemployment line.
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: Don't come at me.
• 47:32
  Speaker 8: I mean, let's face it. They... When a great white
• 47:37
  Speaker 8: is born, did you know that they're four to five
• 47:40
  Speaker 8: feet already at birth? So they're as tall as me.
• 47:44
  Speaker 8: And adults typically reach 11 to 13 feet, while females
• 47:47
  Speaker 8: grow larger. They average 15 to 16 feet. Pretty amazing.
• 48:01
  Speaker 8: And they have a long lifespan of 70 years. Males
• 48:08
  Speaker 8: reach their sexual maturity in their mid-20s, while females mature
• 48:13
  Speaker 8: around their 30 to 33 years of age.
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: Interesting. Okay.
• 48:21
  Speaker 8: I'll leave it at that so we can get on
• 48:23
  Speaker 8: to the next topic, Scott.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: Okay. Well, we're going to stay international because... Countries where
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: people feel safe day and night. You got Iceland number one.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: No argument there. You have Ireland. I haven't been there,
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: but I'll take their word for it. People probably finish
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: the job. Okay. Three, New Zealand. And you got four
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: is Austria. You have five is Singapore. Six is Switzerland.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: You have seven is Portugal. Okay. Good to know. Eight
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: is Denmark. We will know. Nine is Slovenia. And number
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: 10 is Finland. All right, Mr. Balasteri. Okay, take it
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: from there.
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I'm not surprised at all with Ireland
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: and Iceland.
• 49:13
  Speaker 6: I've heard that, you know, that it's really nice there
• 49:19
  Speaker 6: in terms of being safe.
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: I've heard the same thing about Portugal.
• 49:23
  Speaker 6: I was reading about Portugal not too long ago and
• 49:27
  Speaker 6: they were saying that's a great place for people from
• 49:30
  Speaker 6: the U S and from Europe to retire. Um, the
• 49:34
  Speaker 6: cost of living is low, you know, um, The quality
• 49:40
  Speaker 6: of life is really good there. And they said, it's
• 49:43
  Speaker 6: safe to walk the streets at night. So that's always
• 49:48
  Speaker 6: a plus. And, you know, I don't know about some
• 49:52
  Speaker 6: of the other countries, but I've heard the same thing
• 49:55
  Speaker 6: about Singapore. Although I heard Singapore is going through a
• 49:58
  Speaker 6: little bit of a crime thing right now. So I'm
• 50:03
  Speaker 6: sure that'll get cracked down on because of the, I mean,
• 50:06
  Speaker 6: the vast amounts of money that.
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: Go through that place.
• 50:09
  Speaker 6: If you've ever seen pictures of Singapore, that place is
• 50:14
  Speaker 6: made out of money.
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: Hey, Eddie.
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, actually, Singapore typically gets the number one safest country
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: for what they have a lot of laws.
• 50:28
  Speaker 7: Rules, and stuff like that.
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: Because I just, as you were talking, Scott, I just
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: kind of ran a few of what kind of list
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: I could come up with. And actually, interestingly, it's a
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: 12 country list. My Japan is considered, it was number
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: 12 on my list. And the reason why I bring
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: it up is it for it. It says kids ride
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: trains alone and lost property comes back. Safety is baked
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: into the culture. And you know what I would say?
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: I've never been to Japan.
• 50:58
  Speaker 7: I know a lot of people live there and been there.
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: And I would say, yeah, I think, I mean, when
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: you look at it, you know, I don't know if
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: there's any city in the United States where they would
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: let a child ride a subway train alone at all.
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: And you notice, yeah, the U.S. isn't on this list,
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: on your list, my list. I'm not even sure where
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: that would fall. Singapore, yeah, Ireland, I think. I mean,
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: all those countries that you say, you know, at least
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: for me, when I hear them, I don't get a
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: fringe feel.
• 51:31
  Speaker 7: I get, oh, yeah, that's a safe place.
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: But here's another one that I think would surprise people
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: that came in on this list. Tajikistan. It's surprisingly high
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: score year after year because it has a heavy police
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: presence and tight-knit communities. So I guess, you know, when
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: you're in one of those, you know, one country like
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: that and you get, you know, it's kind of one
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: of those everybody knows everybody. and everybody's in everybody's business
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: type thing. Or in a good way. Or maybe a
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: bad way. But yeah, so very interesting, Scott. I wish
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: it was safe. I mean, I wish we all felt...
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: I wish this country would get a feel for that.
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: But I think, yeah.
• 52:24
  Speaker 7: Well, anyway, I'll just leave it at.
• 52:28
  Speaker 5: That. Listen, I've been to Switzerland, and Switzerland is a pretty...
• 52:32
  Speaker 5: pretty safe country um they say that the violent crime
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: rates are extremely low and you could walk safely through
• 52:40
  Speaker 5: most city centers and neighborhoods late at night and i
• 52:44
  Speaker 5: i felt safe my whole time in switzerland the people
• 52:47
  Speaker 5: were wonderful and you know they they said there wasn't
• 52:52
  Speaker 5: even much petty crime in switzerland so that's um the
• 52:56
  Speaker 5: one country out of scott's list that i could say
• 52:59
  Speaker 5: I've been to and I felt very, very safe there.
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: Ireland, I don't know.
• 53:05
  Speaker 5: My stepson went to Ireland in February by himself and
• 53:12
  Speaker 5: he said he had a great time and he felt
• 53:14
  Speaker 5: pretty safe. So I heard Ireland also is pretty safe, too.
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: Let me go to the chat room real quick. Blood
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: Eagle 52, if you're still with us, I'll have something
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: to talk about with New York City next week. I
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: want to get to some of these other ones there.
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: So if you're still watching, please come back next week
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: and I'll have some interesting information about the Big Apple. Okay,
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: go ahead, Candy.
• 53:37
  Speaker 8: I mean, obviously, Scott, you and I have been to Iceland.
• 53:40
  Speaker 8: I mean, it consistently ranks up there. Part of it
• 53:43
  Speaker 8: is it doesn't have as big of a population as Um,
• 53:48
  Speaker 8: I would think some times of the year, obviously you
• 53:51
  Speaker 8: probably wouldn't want to be there. There's not a lot
• 53:54
  Speaker 8: of people I think that live there during the very,
• 53:56
  Speaker 8: very cold months. Um, you know, Singapore it's ranked the top. Um,
• 54:03
  Speaker 8: and part of it is because it has strict laws,
• 54:05
  Speaker 8: high public order and low crime rates. Norway's up there. Um, again,
• 54:13
  Speaker 8: it's kind of interesting because these are like beautiful countries. Switzerland,
• 54:18
  Speaker 8: the same, too, but they're all places that also, it's
• 54:22
  Speaker 8: either really cold or, you know, it's beautiful weather. Let's
• 54:27
  Speaker 8: face it. We were in Norway where it almost, the
• 54:30
  Speaker 8: sun doesn't go down for part of the year, and
• 54:33
  Speaker 8: then the other part of the year, it's the northern lights.
• 54:37
  Speaker 8: Pretty cool list.
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: Scott?
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Norway's interesting how you bring that up. One of
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: the things on my bucket list is to catch the
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: northern lights at some point or another. So we went
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: out there and looted into crocodiles before, but guess what?
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: Wild crocodiles still live inside Cancun's hotels, though. Steve, if
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: you want to know. We got to get to the
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: crazy stuff, you know. We like to do a lot
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: of travel stuff on here. Might as well stay with us.
• 55:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I didn't see any crocs when I was in Mexico,
• 55:08
  Speaker 6: but I've seen, when I was in South Africa, I've
• 55:13
  Speaker 6: seen crocs that were upwards of 16 feet. And they
• 55:19
  Speaker 6: are scary and impressive. And they move really fast when
• 55:25
  Speaker 6: they want to. But as to living in a hotel
• 55:30
  Speaker 6: in Mexico, I guess I would like the name of
• 55:34
  Speaker 6: that hotel because I don't really want to stay there.
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: They're fake.
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: And they're ugly, too. By the way, I'll throw that
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: piece of territory.
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: They have nice white teeth.
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to find out, and I'll be darned
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: if I'm brushing them. Okay, go ahead, Eddie.
• 55:52
  Speaker 7: Yeah, Steve, when you find out the name of that hotel,
• 55:54
  Speaker 7: you can send that over to me, too. I'm going
• 55:56
  Speaker 7: to put that on the Do Not Visit.
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: Well, this is all inside Cancun's hotel zone, so they
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: could be in a bunch of them. Who knows? I
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: wouldn't even know which one, and I've got to find out. That's...
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: You know, when.
• 56:10
  Speaker 7: You think of Cancun, you think of people vacationing, beaching,
• 56:13
  Speaker 7: and drinking.
• 56:15
  Speaker 4: Somehow drinking and alligators roaming free through hotels, that just
• 56:21
  Speaker 4: doesn't– to me, that's a recipe for– that's a recipe
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: for disaster. I don't know. You got guys drinking and
• 56:33
  Speaker 4: thinking they're tough and want to go wrestle an alligator.
• 56:36
  Speaker 7: Next thing you know, he loses a digit.
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: I don't know. It's– I think they need to make
• 56:44
  Speaker 4: sure they keep control on those alligators because they probably
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: don't water down the drinks in Cancun.
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: Just don't drink the ice.
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I know all about that in Warren and Bill Walton.
• 57:02
  Speaker 5: You have to worry about the ice. You have to
• 57:04
  Speaker 5: worry about the wild alligators. You have to worry about
• 57:08
  Speaker 5: the Mexican drug cartel. You have to worry about them
• 57:12
  Speaker 5: popping something in your drink, giving you a roofie. You
• 57:17
  Speaker 5: got to worry about being kidnapped now. Cancun is not
• 57:21
  Speaker 5: what it used to be, unfortunately. And there's been a
• 57:26
  Speaker 5: lot of problems in Cancun recently. But wild alligators, I
• 57:30
  Speaker 5: don't know. One hand the alligators, one hand the cartel.
• 57:34
  Speaker 5: I don't know what's worse. I think I'm just going
• 57:38
  Speaker 5: to go somewhere else.
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: Wild crocodiles.
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: You're just going to go on your cruise. Wipe the
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: cartels from the cruise.
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: Stay above water, pal. That's the advice I can give you.
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: Stay above water. All right, Candy.
• 57:51
  Speaker 8: Well, wild crocodiles frequently appear around resort areas, lagoons, and
• 57:56
  Speaker 8: beaches in part of Mexico. Like, well, sorry, Cancun, Puerto Vallarta.
• 58:04
  Speaker 8: I can't speak tonight. and Riviera Maya. Uh, they live
• 58:09
  Speaker 8: in surrounding mangroves, which sit right across from the hotel zone.
• 58:14
  Speaker 8: They occasionally wander onto golf courses, paths, um, and they
• 58:22
  Speaker 8: are more active at night. So you have to be
• 58:26
  Speaker 8: careful if you're out, you know, if you've had any
• 58:28
  Speaker 8: of that water or drinking and you're out at night, um,
• 58:32
  Speaker 8: It says pay attention to hotel or beach notices regarding
• 58:36
  Speaker 8: local wildlife. Stay out of unmonitored canals, marshes, and lagoons.
• 58:48
  Speaker 8: And you do not feed them because that just makes
• 58:52
  Speaker 8: it even worse.
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: And I'll leave it at that. Okay. Well, if you're
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: familiar with this guy, Robert Kraft wants a Patriots game
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: in Scotland after fans... World Cup takeover in Boston. It
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: shouldn't surprise you one bit. It sounds like those people
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: had a whale of a time, didn't they?
• 59:08
  Speaker 6: Oh, the Scots took over Boston during the World Cup.
• 59:13
  Speaker 6: And Boston fell in love with them. The Scots were everywhere.
• 59:18
  Speaker 6: They were just having a great time. Nobody acted up.
• 59:23
  Speaker 6: They literally drank two bars out of beer.
• 59:29
  Speaker 8: Really?
• 59:29
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: To where like.
• 59:33
  Speaker 6: This one bar that was close to where, you know,
• 59:36
  Speaker 6: everyone goes and hangs out in downtown Boston.
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: It's like one of the hotspots.
• 59:41
  Speaker 6: They had a call the Sam Adams factory or an
• 59:45
  Speaker 6: emergency resupply on a Saturday night because the Scots drank
• 59:51
  Speaker 6: the bar dry. And, and they had such a wonderful
• 59:56
  Speaker 6: time and they were just like the greatest, guests right
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 6: you know everywhere they went they just you know they
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 6: loved everything about our country they were you know tremendous
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 6: guests they had a great time nobody like i said
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 6: uh it it was like bittersweet when they they were
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 6: leaving because people didn't want to see them go them
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 6: and the norwegians had taken over boston yeah and uh
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 6: it was just really really fun to watch on tv
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 6: every Because I still get all the Boston stations.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, do you really? Yeah.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 6: So, like, I would have watched the Boston News every night.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 6: And every night they would show the Scots down in
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 6: the bar. And, you know, the people, they were out
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 6: at Gillette. They met Robert Kraft during the World Cup.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 6: And they were, you know, talking about, well, the NFL
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 6: plays in England all the time. You should have a
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 6: game in Scotland because we'll all show up. So that's
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 6: why Robert Kraft is asking for the Patriots to play
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 6: a game there. And I think that would be a
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 6: fantastic event because after what we've seen, you know, with
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 6: the Scots in, you know, in Boston for the World Cup,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 6: I would sign up for that trip.
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  Speaker 3: I agree.
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  Speaker 8: I agree.
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  Speaker 4: I think, I mean, they were all over the internet.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 4: They were, I mean, I think everybody, I was following
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 4: them from afar. I thought it was, because, like, to
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 4: your point, Steve, everything you heard about it was very
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 4: on the level. They weren't being obnoxious. They weren't breaking things.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 4: They were going in. They were drinking. They were drinking themselves,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 4: you know, whatever they call themselves. And they were, supposedly,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 4: I also heard they were, like, cleaning up after themselves, too.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 4: They were keeping things neat and tidy.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they took in a Red Sox game. Now, they
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: don't know anything about baseball. Right.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 6: But they loved it, right? And they were singing through
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 6: the whole game, right? They would just, you know, break
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 6: into song. And, like, they were showing both teams, you know,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 6: the Red Sox and whoever they were playing. And the
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 6: players would lean out from the dugout, just big smiles
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 6: on their face because the Scots were singing through the
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 6: whole game. And they were asking the regular fans, Hey,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 6: what just happened? You know, and they would just start
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 6: waving their flags around. I mean, they were just, they,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 6: they were great people. And like I said, there was
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 6: no problems.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: With that, you know?
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 4: And I think, you know, and I think to your point,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 4: I think that would be a very reciprocal thing to
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 4: do because it was so, you know, there was a
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 4: sense of unity there.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 7: Go play a football game in Scotland, the Patriots and
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 7: somebody else.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 4: And, you know, let them be the host and they'd
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 4: probably love that. You know, I think it's a great,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 4: I mean, I think that, I think that is a,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 4: that is, as they say, a no brainer, um, to
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 4: get that, to make that, that should somebody, you know,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 4: should be making that happen.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: They should Rob.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 5: I saw, I saw some of the video of them
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 5: at the Scott, the Scott, that Fenway and it was
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 5: pretty cool.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: They were swinging.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 5: Like you said, um, I think they drank Fenway Dry also.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they drank Fenway Dry too. I mean, that's pretty
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 3: hard to do, to drink a ballpark dry.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, really.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 5: And it's just, you love to see that. You know,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 5: they come in from another country. They're respectful. They're enjoying things.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 5: They're cleaning up after themselves. And they're just having fun.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 5: And they're just so nice with people. with the people
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 5: of Boston. That's such a great thing. Steve, do you
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 5: also get WSBK?
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 6: SBK TV 38, I mean, when I was growing up,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 6: that was like, you know, the big alternate station that
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 6: they used to carry the Bruins games until they made Nessun. And,
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 6: you know, that's growing up, and they had.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: All the old movies. The movie loft. Yes, the movie
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: loft on SBK.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I remember that from school. And we also had
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 5: it as a superstation in New Jersey, too. But, yeah,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 5: that would be great if the NFL went to Scotland.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 5: I would love to see that.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, I would make that trip if the Patriots played there.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: Hey, Katie. Yeah, that would be a pretty good trip.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 8: So it's reported that fans drank four times their typical
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 8: volume of for a four-day holiday weekend, like the 4th
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 8: of July or anything like that, noted that sales tripled
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 8: normally what they pull in during St.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 4: Patrick's Day.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 8: They ordered over 100 kegs of tennis lager. And what
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 8: I'm going to say is I think it would be interesting,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 8: the Scottish... Or the Wisconsin fans down in Tampa Bay
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 8: drinking out the bars down there.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 3: Out of beer.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 8: Who would drink more? That would be a rival that
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 8: I would love to see.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: You'd get behind that one.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: I would, yep.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 8: Okay, Scott, back to you.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: All right, I got two more topics I want to
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: get to tonight, at least two. One of them involves
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: former spirit workers are suing for unpaid wages, benefits, and
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: health care. Why shouldn't they be? Well, this is a
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: May 2nd. Bear Airlines shut down and laid off 17,000 employers.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: The CEO said signing these operations immediately. The candy and
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: I used to fly through it a lot, that's for sure.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: And now, of course, these folks are out of a job.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: And when you just think about the class action lawsuit
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: filed by six former Florida employees in U.S. bankruptcy court,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: 60 days of unpaid wages as a penalty for the
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: Warren Act violation, plus continuation of of medical benefits, retirement contributions,
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: and unused vacation and sick time. Many of the former
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: employees have chronic medical conditions, and now we're trying to
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: figure out how to maintain health care coverage on unemployment,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: which covers a fraction of what they were earning. Meanwhile,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: this is a motion in bankruptcy court seeking $ 10. 7 million
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: in retention bonuses for senior executives during the wind down,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: which is a Kind of detail that makes this story
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: go from unfortunate to something else entirely. And obviously, Spirit
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: isn't required. Hasn't responded to requests for comment. What's at
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: this point checked? Okay, Steve, let's talk about Spirit.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I've never flown on them, but I'm so sorry
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 6: to hear that. I mean, you know, it's like these CEOs,
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 6: they get the golden parachute, right? And then the workers
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 6: get screwed. I hate hearing that. I hate hearing that.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 6: That's why whenever they talk about sports and sports stars, look,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 6: I don't envy the guys their money. I think I'll
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 6: side on the side of the millionaire rather than the billionaire.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: But I hate.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 6: Hearing about workers that, you know, if you work for
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 6: an airline, 90% of those people bust their butts.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 3: For them to get screwed out of their money, I
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 3: hate hearing that.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: I really do.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 4: I agree with Steve on this. The little guy usually
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 4: takes the fall and the CEO and the execs are
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 4: going to get the golden parachute. or the buyout as
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 4: we were talking about last time. But no, it's, and it's,
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 4: you know, it's always tough to lose a job no
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 4: matter what. And it's even tougher, you know, people don't
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 4: realize that when you begin a business and you bring
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 4: people on and you're running a business and it's about
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 4: the food chain, you know, there's a response, you know,
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 4: to me, there's a responsibility there now. You now have
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 4: people livelihoods in the kind of, got to run the business,
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 4: you got to keep the business going so you can
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 4: keep your employees paid and you can keep your employees
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 4: insured because there's no, like you said in the class
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 4: action suit, it's more than just the pay, it's the insurance.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 4: If you've ever tried to traverse insurance, I mean, if
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 4: you've ever paid for COBRA, you know the pain that is.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 4: That is just... We could do a whole show on
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 4: health insurance companies and how that is the biggest.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure we could.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 4: I feel very bad for them. I hope they win
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 4: and get everything that they get. But, you know, With
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 4: the labor laws, you know, I don't know what the
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 4: labor laws are down there. The spirit was based out
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 4: of Florida, right?
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 7: Whatever the labor laws are out of Florida.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 4: For example, the Jews in that will state, you know,
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 4: for the employers here, they can just, they are employer-friendly here.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 7: They are not employee-friendly here.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 4: Anyway, Rob.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I hate hearing that, too. The workers always get screwed. Um,
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 5: in these situations, Spirit, I've, I had a fly Spirit
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 5: a couple of times. It's the Greyhound bus of the skies,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 5: or it was the Greyhound bus of the skies. Um,
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 5: it was, what a disaster that airline was. Cheap, but,
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 5: but still crazy. And, and it's a shame that happened to, uh,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 5: to the workers, but it always does happen to the workers. Um,
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 5: I don't like hearing that.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: Well, it's my job. You had to hear it. Yeah,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: they were hosed. Okay, go ahead, Candy. We've flown them
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: a lot, and we miss going there from here to Detroit,
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: but SELSA does okay for what we need them to do.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, Candice.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 8: I hate hearing this like everybody else has said. I
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 8: actually have known a couple of pilots that were pilots
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 8: for Spirit, so it is sad. There are six former employees,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 8: five from Florida, one from South Carolina, representing an estimated 17,000
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 8: workers laid off when the airline ceased operations on May 2nd.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 8: It's a violation of the Federal WARN Act, which requires
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 8: 60 days of advance written notice before a mass layoff
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 8: or plant closure. Management allegedly misled staff and instructed them
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 8: to ignore shutdown rumors as recently as April 16th of 2026.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 11: So what their demands are, 60 days of back pay,
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 11: compensation for medical and ISRA benefits, retirement contributions, and payouts
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 11: for unused vacation and sick time.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 8: Alongside concerning regarding pending final paychecks while executive bonuses were requested.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 8: So it'll be interesting to see. They filed this lawsuit
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 8: back in May. I don't know what will come of it,
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 8: but we will see.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, let's go to our featured topic tonight. Yes, Joshua
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: Bernstein Hulk Hogan is dead. What is that about? Oh,
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: you popped in at the right time, my friend. Hulk
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: Hogan took lethal fentanyl every single day after Linda left him.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: His back and knees were already destroyed. Linda filed in 2007.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: He never recovered. He died July 2025. The pain never
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: left him. And there you have it. So the only
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: thing I can tell you about is this. Lethal fentanyl
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: is something that is really bad stuff. There you go. Josh,
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: go ahead, Steve. That's our featured topic of the night.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I've watched, you know, that show that
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 6: Hogan did years ago.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 3: And you saw him when he got up in the morning.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 3: He could barely move, you know.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 6: So it was sad. Yeah, I mean, those guys, I mean,
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 6: you know, they say, oh, wrestling's entertainment.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 3: They still get hurt. And those guys, I mean, you, you.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 6: See all the former wrestlers and a lot of them
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 6: ended up with drug problems, right? When Hogan died last year, um,
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 6: you know, um, a lot of the stories came to
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 6: light again, right. You know, and all of those drug
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 6: problems came from guys being in pain and getting hurt
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 6: in the, in the line. I mean, you see some
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 6: of the stunts they did. I mean, the slightest miscalculation
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 6: and guys are getting messed up. So I feel bad
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 6: for the Hulkster. I was a big fan of his,
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 6: you know, and, you know, he did get out during
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 6: the 2024 election and stumped for the president, which was
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 6: kind of funny to see Hulk get out there and
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 6: still tear the shirt off.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 3: But then, you know, just a year later he passed away.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: So, yeah.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 3: Very sad. I was a big fan of the Hulkster.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: Josh, just to let you know, this is not a
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: pre-recorded show. This is live. I think you just came
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: in on the back end of it, and this is
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: what we are probably going to wrap up the show
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: with unless something comes to mind. Go ahead, Eddie.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was a big Hulkster fan growing up. I
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 4: was a big wrestling fan. I didn't know about the
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 4: drug use. It doesn't surprise me. All you have to
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 4: do is watch The Dark Side of the Ring on Vice.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 10: And you can see everything that has happened.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 4: Watching that show, those were all the guys that I
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 4: followed growing up in the 80s. The Mick Foley's, the
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 4: Hulk Hogan's, all of those guys who did all the
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 4: stunts and stuff like that.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 7: The body can only take so much.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 4: But when I was, it was funny when I was
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 4: kind of doing some research on my own, I didn't
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 4: realize this, that upon his death, it became knowledge that
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 4: he had lymphocytic leukemia, blood cancer as well. He died
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 4: of a heart attack, but he also was dealing with cancer.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 4: So towards the end of his days, I mean, towards
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 4: the end of his life, with the divorce and then,
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 4: you know, the pain of the body, It was a
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 4: tough road to end for the Hulkster. He entertained a
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 4: lot of people for a long, long time. It was
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 4: kind of funny.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 7: Seeing him rip the shirt off for a really old....
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 4: In that sense. Rob?
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 5: I have two Hulk Hogan stories. The first one is
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 5: my friend was married to Hulk's niece, so Uncle Terry
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 5: used to give us tickets to the wrestling shows at
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 5: the Meadowlands when in the, in the eighties. So we
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 5: would get to go and we would get to talk
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 5: to him and, you know, you know, as his, uh,
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 5: as uncle Terry.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 4: So that was awesome.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 6: That was number one.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 5: Then let's, that was in the eighties. Let's fast forward
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 5: to 2006. I'm on a cruise and, They're filming Hogan
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 5: Knows Best on the cruise ship. So he was on
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 5: the cruise ship, you know, with his wife, with the kids,
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 5: and they were filming the show. And I was in
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 5: a bunch of those shots for that episode, which is
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 5: pretty funny. But I got to say hello to him
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 5: again after all those years. So, you know, those are
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 5: my two Hulk Hogan stories. And, yeah, it's sad. what
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 5: happens to these wrestlers. Yeah, it's fake, but we know
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 5: all the work that goes into it, all the injuries,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 5: and fentanyl, we know that's a tough thing. It's killed
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 5: so many Americans and contributed, I guess, to his heart problems, too,
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 5: among other things that probably contributed to it. Luckily, I
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 5: got to meet him a bunch of times.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, my friend, Doug Panellitas, lived in Clearwater, and he
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: got to know the hole pretty well. They lived in
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: the same area in Clearwater. Not only that, I remember
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: Rocky III, when he got involved there and broke Stallone
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: in half. And from what I hear, Stallone had said,
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: that was a painful thing to deal with. But, you know,
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: when you get into that type of a drug, that
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: is dangerous, that's for sure. And rest in peace to home.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: And you're right, heart problems, though. Definitely come into effect.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: Rocky III, he was thunder lips.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: Thunder lips, yeah.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 3: Thunder lips.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, Candy.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 4: Let's do a little bit of research on this, though, too,
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 4: because on May 14th.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 8: Of 2025, he underwent a four-level... anterior cervical disectomy and
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 8: fusion operation. During the procedure, Hogan's feneric nerve, which helps
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 8: the diaphragm contract and expand to allow the lungs to
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 8: inhale and exhale air, was severed. Close friends noted a
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 8: rapid decline in his health following his neck fusion surgery.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 8: He didn't see any visitors to prevent infection while he
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 8: was trying to recover. On June 18th, says that he
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 8: was seriously ill and in the hospital and might not
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 8: make it. He died in his Clearwater home the morning
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 8: of July 24th. He had collapsed while doing therapy after
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 8: returning home from the hospital. His official cause of death
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 8: was a heart attack. His medical records later revealed that
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 8: he had also had chronic lymphoma, psychotic leukemia and atrial fibrillation.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 8: I can't speak tonight. But one of the things that
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 8: I wanted to go over is, did you know back
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 8: in the eighties, he was the most requested celebrity for
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 8: the make a wish foundation children's charity. He was featured
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 8: on the covers of sports illustrated. He was the first
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 8: and as of, 2013, the only professional wrestler to be
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 8: on Sports Illustrated back in that day. TV Guide, People's Magazine.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 8: He appeared on the Tonight Show. He had his own
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 8: CBS Saturday Morning cartoon. And he co-hosted Saturday Night Live
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 8: numerous times. I mean, he was just larger than life.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 8: He brought an awareness to wrestling that nobody else had.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 4: Did or could.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll leave it at that. He said TV Guide.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: What were the other ones? I mean, that Saturday Night Live,
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: that's big stuff.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 8: Sports Illustrated. Let's see.
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: Here it was. TV Guide.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 8: It was Sports Illustrated, TV Guide, and People Magazine. And
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 8: then he appeared on The Tonight Show. He had his
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 8: own morning cartoon. And he also co-hosted Saturday Night Live.
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 2: Well, you got TV Guide, you got Saturday Night Live.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: What was the other magazine you were talking about?
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 8: Sports Illustrated and People Magazine.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 4: That's it.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: Okay. I found one topic, and if you're really into
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 2: traveling and you're looking for some green bridges, I'll tell
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: you where you're going to find them. And that's the Netherlands,
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: our final topic of the night. The Netherlands leads the
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: way in wildlife protection with 600 green bridges. 600 green bridges, people,
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: built across highways, allowing animals to cross safely and reconnect habitat.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: These innovative crossings not only reduce accidents, but also demonstrate
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: how infrastructure and nature coexist harmoniously from deer to smaller creatures.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: Every life is respected in this thoughtful design. Would you
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: like to see Eagle's friendly initiative in your country, too? Steve,
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 2: what do you think?
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 6: I've seen pictures of those green bridges that they talk about.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 3: We need more of them in this country. I'm a
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 3: firm believer in those.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 4: Exactly. I agree.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, especially with the deer, the deer crack.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 4: Deer here is a crack of a branch. It runs away.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 4: It sees the speeding headlights of a 4,000-pound car coming
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 4: at it.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 7: It stands still.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 4: Let's do something that helps prevent those accidents and saves
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 4: the deer's lives. Yeah, and it's, you know, yes. That's
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 4: a firmness.
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 7: I think that would be a great initiative for this country.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 8: Hey, Rob?
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 5: You know, it's great. It looks nice and, you know,
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 5: Ed's right. Those four deer, they hear something and they
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 5: They run out. They freeze. Not only is that trouble
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 5: for the deer, it's trouble for the person driving the vehicle.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 5: I love that. That's great.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 4: That's amazing.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 5: It really is. We should do that here. It's ridiculous
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 5: that we don't.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 2: The last word. Fortune Exchange is coming up at the
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: top of the hour.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 8: I think it's really cool because let's face it we
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 8: have taken away their land from them and here we
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 8: you know we want to build roads we want to
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 8: build cities towns whatever it is we're taking more and
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 8: more of their wildlife land from them uh and i'll
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 8: be honest with.
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  Speaker 12: You like i years and years and years ago back
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 12: in wisconsin i ran over a dead deer I had
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 12: just gone over a hill, and somebody had hit the deer,
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 12: and it had died on the road.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 8: I couldn't veer because it was just two lanes, and
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 8: there was a car coming the other way. I literally
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 8: put a hole in my gas line and my brake line.
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 8: So I totaled my car just by running over this
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 8: dead deer.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 2: No kidding.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 8: Mm-hmm. Wow.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 8: And unfortunately, it was a classic car. So my parents
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 8: were not real happy with me, but there was nothing
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 8: I could do about it. So, yeah, unfortunately. But, yeah,
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 8: so I can totally understand them making these bridges and
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 8: having places for them to safely keep out in the wild.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm all for anything we're talking about. eco-friendly all
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 2: the way. Listen, I'm wearing a Netherlands shirt, people, so
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 2: I got to give them.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 4: A little bit more.
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 8: There you go. That's Amsterdam.
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, is it? Amsterdam's in the Netherlands, aren't they? Oh,
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 2: that's close enough. It's out there. All right, guys, we're
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 2: getting ready to wrap this puppy up. Any takeaways from
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 2: the show, Steve? Start with you.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 6: As usual, Scott, you have an eclectic group of topics
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 6: for us to talk about.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 3: And it was, as always, a whole lot of fun
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 3: to talk with you guys for an hour and a half.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 3: So I look forward to next week.
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll pass time. I apply when you're having fun.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: I think it's interesting, though, when you put the Spirit
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 2: Airlines situation in perspective, a lot of people depended on
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 2: that airline. And all of a sudden, just like that,
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 2: They shut down. I used to take them an awful lot.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 2: They weren't bad as far as their service is concerned,
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 2: but I didn't know they were that broke. I really don't.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 2: We're looking forward to having Jen on next week for sure. But, Eddie,
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 2: some takeaways from tonight.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 4: Well, I learned that the Tampa Bay is in lightning hour.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 4: I learned something new.
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 7: I haven't learned something new all day.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 4: I learned something new. And the Florida panther is a
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 4: real thing. And it's on the endangered species list today. No,
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 4: like Steve said, it's always, this is, this is a
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 4: great show. Just, we sit around and we, you, you
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 4: do eclectic is the, is the word. Steve, he picks
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 4: an eclectic list of topics that are all over the
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 4: place that you just never know. And it's, they're fun
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 4: to talk about and you just never know. We just
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 4: have conversations. And as Candy and I have said before,
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 4: you know, it's, There's no real sports related, which our
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 4: other shows are about, which are great. But this is
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 4: just these random topics that you just pull out of
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 4: left field. And then we just kind of go with it.
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 4: And we learn stuff. We learn stuff about the cruises.
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 4: We learn stuff about the green bridges. I mean, I
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 4: could probably go ask 10 of my friends, do you
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 4: know what the green bridges are?
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 7: And they'd say no. So if there's five people watching.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 4: This tonight or if they're listening, it's educational, too, in
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 4: a way, in a fun way. We talk sharks. I
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 4: didn't know it was Green Bridges.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 4: I didn't know anything.
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 2: About Green Bridges prior to the night. Go ahead. Go ahead, Rob.
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 5: I agree with you guys. I love that it's different,
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 5: that we get a break from talking sports for a
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 5: little while, that, you know, it's all different subjects. So
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 5: you do learn something. You get, you know, you have
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 5: a few laughs while you're learning. And it's just it
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 5: is a lot of fun. I like this type of
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 5: show where you don't get the topics, where you don't
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 5: know what is coming at you. I enjoy it very much.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 2: I've never had more fun in all my years in
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 2: the business preparing for a show than I do like this. And,
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: you know, I love having Jen on. I have a
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 2: few other people I want to bring on as occasional guests.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: Last week, Rachel did a dynamite job. And there's just
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 2: so many different ways to go. Life is more than
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 2: just sports. I think that one of the things that
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 2: Steve and I, when we started this whole thing, I
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: told Steve, there's going to be a bit of a
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 2: build here. You've got to stick with me on this one.
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 2: And he said, I'm with you, bro. I take this
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 2: guy everywhere. Then Eddie comes along. We get Jen, we
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 2: get Rob. I always say, ah, we don't need you
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 2: on Sports Exchange. I'll let the kids take over that show.
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 2: You're getting your butt in here to do this with us.
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 2: And it helps your travel channel a little bit because
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 2: you learn a few things. You and Candy do a
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 2: remarkable job on the travel show, but that's going to
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 2: turn it over to Candy to take us home.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, I like the show because it's different than,
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 8: like we've all said, it's different than anything any of
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 8: us do on a regular basis. We learn, we educate,
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 8: we laugh, and sometimes we laugh at ourselves.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 4: For what we do.
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 8: Or don't know. Cause sometimes you're like, really, how did
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 8: I not know that? Like that kind of surprised me,
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 8: you know, I'm like, that shouldn't surprise me, but it does.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 8: So I love that too. With that being said, South
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 8: Florida Tribune Publishing Company published a book, Lessons from the Microphone,
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 8: Tuning into the Enduring Wisdom of Visionary Leaders. Talks about
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 8: Scott's time in the media over the last, 40-plus years
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 8: or so, give or take a year or two. You
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 8: can get this on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kindle, Google,
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 8: and Apple Books. The audio book is also out there.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 8: There's a link on our website, www.SouthFloridaTribune.com, where there's a
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 8: plethora of great content, so.
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 4: Go check it out.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 8: If you like to listen to podcasts, you can find
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 8: us wherever you get your podcasts. If you want to
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 8: be a guest or you want to, who knows, you
• 1:30:21
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• 1:30:25
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• 1:30:31
  Speaker 8: Email us, southfloridatribune at gmail.com. Maybe you want to advertise
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 8: or sponsor a show because you want us to talk
• 1:30:40
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• 1:30:44
  Speaker 8: southfloridatribune at gmail.com. Last but not least, if you see
• 1:30:50
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• 1:31:04
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• 1:31:07
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• 1:31:43
  Speaker 8: to you, Scott.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 2: All right, that does it for this edition of Motor
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 2: City Mad Mouth. So I hope Jennifer Horsepool gets well
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 2: because I miss her.
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 3: But you know what?
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 2: I make her watch these afterwards so she can say
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 2: what she wants the following week anyway. Plus, the insanity
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 2: will come back to you next week. Mark my words.
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 2: And meanwhile, we have a great edition of Sports This
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 2: Week coming up. Eddie and I will be on SportsTrap tomorrow.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 2: Candy gets a crack fire up tomorrow. And Rob and
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 2: Candy will do it again on Monday night with the
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 2: No Limits Travel Show here. And before we sign off,
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 2: any ideas of what you guys have up your bag
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 2: of tricks on Monday night?
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 5: We figure it out by Monday. You never know.
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 2: Well, you know what? Again, she just blows up her
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 2: fire up reputation. She's one of those last-minute wing-it types
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 2: of people that all she does is wing it, and
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 2: she wings it well. And it works. And last night,
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 2: you talk about lightning striking Detroit last night. Tampa Bay
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 2: lightning struck the Detroit Red Wings 4-2 last night, although
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 2: it's a far worse cry than when you– And you
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 2: have to deal with it in a way. I had
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 2: to use that plug-in because it was an automatic NHL one. Anyways,
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 2: it's just a game. The best part of it is
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 2: I like the fact that they beat the Florida Panthers
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 2: in table four. Even better. So one out of two
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 2: in Florida is not bad. We'll go from there. And
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 2: so on behalf of Steve, Ed, Rob, and Candy, my
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 2: name is Scott Mordenroth, Motor City Mad Mouth. Thank you
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 2: for joining us on this edition of Motor City Mad
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 2: Mouth Show. And Candy put Rusty up so Rob can
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 2: be proud of his creation. And there you go. My
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 2: service cat.
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 4: There you go. His service cat.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 2: He gets his appearance every cotton picking show because Rob
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 2: did a dynamite job on that cotton picking logo.
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 4: Good job, Rob.
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 2: And we have to acknowledge Mr. Moronka's business of creating logos.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: That's my service cat.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 2: If you don't think there is one, well, there is
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 2: one for me. That's Sports Exchange coming up next. We'll
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 2: see you next Tuesday night at around 7.20 p.m. Wednesday night.
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 3: Wednesday night.
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 2: Wednesday night.
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 4: It'll be Veterans Day. Oh, Veterans Day.
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 2: All right, we've got Veterans Day. There's a few of
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 2: us veterans in this room. I mean, how many? I'm
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 2: a veteran in other ways, but we'll do a Veterans
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 2: Day show, but we won't stop the insanity or whatever
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 2: I throw out there. So meanwhile, happy Veterans Day before we.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 4: Hit the air.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 3: And meanwhile.
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 2: There you go. We'll, of course, change the net. Great
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 2: job by my crew tonight. But in the eyes of
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 2: journalism profession, we'll see if we can do better the
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 2: next time. Good night, everybody. Thank you very much for
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 2: joining us on the Motor City Mad Max show. Good night.
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 3: Good night, folks.
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 8: Good night.