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Vote Cologuard · Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show Podcast

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According to Eleanor Deering of the Environmental Defense League
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of Women, all climate change deniers should be shot.
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A woman of few but deadly words. Deliberately misquoted by her
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enemies. Illinois.
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Deering has been a collaborative force for change.
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Collaborative. She heads up the Environmental
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Justice League of No Man Allowed.
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Trying to undo the damage caused by your generation's
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indifference getting you kids hopped up on hysteria and false
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hope is the real threat to this planet.
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No, we have retail and we have wholesale.
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We have pink packets and blue packets.
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Republicans and Democrats and the party that crazy midgets
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started. So many choices.
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How they all love their free will.
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Everybody has a different point of view.
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There should be only one point of view.
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My point of view, Well I have a message for these.
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Humans, the buffet is about to close.
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If you're over 45, that means it's time to start screening for
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colon cancer. And there's no easier way to do
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it than with Cola Guard, the simple, efficient box delivered
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straight to your doorstep. Oh, hello, can I help you?
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Hi, I'm Kologard, a non invasive way to screen for colon cancer
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at home. I am my doctor ordered you.
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That's right. Because I'm safe, easy to use
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and I find 92% of colon cancers. OK cool.
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How's it work? I just need to collect a sample.
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So open me up and you know, go inside me, inside you.
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Yeah, just go inside me. It's OK.
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I like it. Good morning, America.
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How are you? I'm Rabbi Dave.
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I am 61 years old and I am at average or below average risk
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for colon cancer. Wow, that was that was an
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interesting intro there. I am Friar Rod and I don't know
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what my percentage. I'm probably greater than that,
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Dave, because my mother had colon cancer, so.
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There is no history of colon cancer in my entire family
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history. It does not exist.
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There are other cancers, but not colon cancer.
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I've never had a colonoscopy, in fact I've managed to get out of
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several. Of them you're missing Dave.
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Oh, but I do. I get them every three years
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now. So he says to me at my physical,
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which I had a couple of weeks ago, which by the way was I'm
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not sure how to categorize this, we talked about my last year's
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physical that lasted 11 minutes. Yeah.
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This one I I have discovered 2 secrets now.
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Well, one secret anyway. Always schedule doctor
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appointments for September 11th because nobody else does really.
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For the first time in recorded history, I got there at the
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normal. Normally I'm I'm 15 minutes
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early to everything and I went right in and I was the only one
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there and we had time to talk. This physical lasted 24 minutes.
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Well, that's a good one. Yeah.
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So we're up there. Now, part of that is in
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fairness, I have two other doctors that handle like my
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endocrinologist and a urologist. So he doesn't have to do any of
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those things. So in fairness, I mean, really,
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what does he have to do? But we had a nice conversation
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which included the fact that I'm 61 years old now, and while I am
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at average or below risk average for colon cancer, he pointed out
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that once again, I had managed to avoid the colonoscopy last
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year. Because what I do is I schedule
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them and then I cancel them. Oops, sorry, something came up.
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I'll get back to you. Which is sad because I did the
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same thing. My endocrinologist wanted a bone
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scan, bone density scan a couple weeks ago and I was supposed to
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do it back in June and frankly, I'd have had enough of Ivs by
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then. So I cancelled it at the last
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minute, said I can't do it. And I was very vague about my
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reasoning. My reasoning was for those of
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you that listen to the show, you get the inside baseball.
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My reasoning is I'm tired of Ivs.
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Well, it turns out that you don't actually need an IV for a
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bone density scan. You just lay there and you don't
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even have to take your clothes off.
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So the joke's on you. So in that case, yes, but I've
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been doing that for I don't know if I were six years with
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colonoscopies. This is our annual dance.
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I'm going to schedule you for a colonoscopy.
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OK, I'll cancel it in two weeks. So, but this year, insert
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ominous music here. He has come up with a different
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plan and that plan is. Is he is?
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Oh, you got the dreaded talking box.
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I got the talking box and I was OK with this.
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We were having this pleasant conversation.
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Oh this is so this is non invasive.
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Now keep in mind that I've just gotten through this bone density
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scan, which is also non invasive, for which all I had to
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do was lay there. That's all I had to do was
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simple, was easy. It was pleasant conversation.
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Then he says, oh, we'll do this non invasive test.
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All you have to do, and I'm quoting here, this is a a direct
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quote from my physician, who by the way, is an Air Force doctor
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retired, he says, And I quote, all you have to do is shit in
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the box. Now look.
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See, you just like stand over it.
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Dude. So here's the thing that you
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don't know about me, OK? We're about to find out, I take
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it. There are things you're going to
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find out about me that you probably don't want to know.
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So there's a skip ahead button if you really don't want to know
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this. But there are certain biological
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functions which I'm sure if some psychiatrist was to sit down and
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analyze me at some point that I have an issue with.
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And this is one of those issues. I'm that guy who at work, when
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I'm at work, if I have to do that, I will go home.
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OK. I'm that guy.
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OK. I do not I realize that I've
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been married now an aggregate total of 22 years of my life
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between two wives. I do not, I do not share this
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whole idea of the just walking in while somebody else is using
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the bathroom thing. Yeah, that is I I can't even
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tell you how appalling that is to me in either direction.
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I did my. This is what I tell.
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People. So you'd never go to the
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bathroom in a public space? Not unless it is a drop dead
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emergency. And then you're a stall guy,
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right? You go into the.
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Stall. Yeah.
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Oh yeah, and not only that, but I try to find restrooms that are
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lockable so that I'm the only one in there and.
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So you'd love a Bucky's restroom because you know those stalls
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are actually rooms. They're like you close the door
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and you're in the room. Oh, thank God, I I needed to
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know that because we're probably going to the East Coast again
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next year or so. There's good news.
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The closest I have found to that prior to that is Love's, which
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are not quite rooms, but almost. They're tiny stalls, but they're
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they are completely closeable. At most I I have them marked out
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on the maps. Which ones are?
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Yes, I am that guy. So now I have this box that's
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been staring at me for a week. You got to do it Dave though.
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It's your health, man. It's either that or the invasive
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route. OK, the only drawback to the
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invasive route right now is the IV, which while I do not like
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Ivs, at least I can tolerate it. And the and the juice that they
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give you, your memory is like very foggy.
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You don't remember anything. Else I've been through that
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three times this year. Already and half the ride home.
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You don't remember half the ride home.
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So I said to my computer, because I talk to my computer
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all the time. Other than Rod and Bill, it's
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pretty much my only friend. I mean, I said why should I use
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this? And it said to me collar guard
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isn't in. Tells me all the nonsense.
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It's not invasive. That's what it this seems to be
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the selling point is that it's not invasive.
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Everybody's skipping the part that you literally have to shit
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in a box. Everybody seems to miss that
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it's not invasive. OK, but dot dot dot.
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So you're, you're not a diaper guy, right you?
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Don't need to change diapers. No.
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Yeah, well, I did when my son was OK.
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So when my son was born, everybody was making fun of me
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because they knew it was coming and eventually I had my first
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diaper change, which was. And I'm not trying to embarrass
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Ben, who's now a 14 year old and, you know, doesn't like to.
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It's a perfect age to a parachute.
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I ended up having to get a hose because and and and what I
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vaguely remember is holding him up and saying holy how much
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stuff can come out of one kid. But you know what?
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Over time I got used to it. Not used to it in the sense of I
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enjoy this, but but used to it in the sense of I became very
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efficient at it and very effective at it and very quick
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at it. Does that make sense?
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Yeah. But I don't want to do that with
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the collar guard. I don't want to become efficient
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at using collar guard. Well, try it once and then you
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could try the invasive route. Well, you might still have the
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invasive roundup depending upon the results that come back.
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See, I made the mistake of going online and saying, OK, what's
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the drawbacks to this? What?
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What's the, what's the downside of this?
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And you know what it comes back as, but you have to shit in the
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box and it ain't as easy as people seem to make it out to
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me. It's not like you just, you
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know, wait wait, how many steps 9?
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OK, so apparently it's more than just shitting in a box.
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Well then you have to pack the backs up and mail it back whole.
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How of fun is that? I can't wait for that aspect
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though. But here's my here's my buck.
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UPS Store. Ah, shit.
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But apparently because I'm the guy that thinks about the
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technical aspects of things, I'm like, what do I got to reach in
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there and pull it out. And, you know, look, the, the,
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the VA keeps sending me those tests.
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Here's a little brush. All you do is go and then stick
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the brush in and stick it like, Nope, not doing it because
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you'll get a series of vomit with it.
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Because I that's going to that's yeah, I can't do it.
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Sorry, no. So are you one of those
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sympathetic vomit? Guys, good Lord, yes.
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So you haven't watched the movie Mordecai then?
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No, not going to. That's hilarious.
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So I have this test. It's sitting here and I keep, I
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keep messing with my head because I'm sure it's simple,
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I'm sure it's easy, I'm sure it's not invasive.
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But I'm also a historian, so I know how they used to do this on
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the Apollo spacecrafts when they were going to the moon.
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So that's the part nobody talks about.
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Nobody talks about, you know, you're flying to the moon, still
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getting to the bathroom. Nobody's talking about Elon
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Musk. Hey, two years to get to Mars.
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What are you going to do, not go for two years?
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And believe it or not, there was one astronaut who actually on
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Apollo 8 who actually changed his diet to what he called a low
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residue diet so that during his flight to the moon and back, he
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would not have to go because of the the the procedure for doing
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so was very well. It involved essentially shitting
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in a bag in a small space with two other guys staring at you.
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And no ventilation. Yeah, so I'm freaking myself out
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over this Cologuard thing. So.
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So it could be worse. You could be on a spaceship
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somewhere. It.
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Could be worse, yes. I'm not sure.
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I'm not sure in my life how it could possibly be worse but but
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yeah. I don't want to go to space to
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reinvent artificial gravity. Then you don't have to worry
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about that background. So here's the here's the tips.
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Are you ready? All right, sure.
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Prepare the kit in advance before you start.
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Make sure you have everything ready.
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Read through the instructions first.
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Well, that's good. That's usually good with any
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kind of medical test. Pick a calm time.
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Try to pick a time when you won't be rushed or interrupted.
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It's a delicate process and the last thing you want is
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distractions. So leave your phone outside of
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the bathroom. Use the bracket properly.
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The kit includes a bracket that you will place on the toilet to
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hold the collection container. Position it carefully and make
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sure it's secured, underline and bold.
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This keeps everything quote clean and simple.
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Relax, relax and quote. Aim carefully.
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Which you've never had to do before.
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Seal everything tightly, send it promptly, get it in the mail as
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soon as you can, and stay calm. This is not the most glamorous
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task, it says, but it is an important one, which is not what
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I'm supposed to be talking about today.
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We were supposed to start today's discussion with a
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discussion about the 19th Amendment and Taylor Swift and
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yeah, women in politics and yadda, yadda, yadda.
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But this box has been staring at me.
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I'm over there for the last week.
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They've sent me two texts saying, hey, did you get your
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box? Did you You need to get this
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done? And they sent me instructions in
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a separate envelope saying hey, you need to get this done.
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There should be a commercial about this.
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There should be if I have to hear it again.
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I did it my way. I'm going to have a heart
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attack. Welcome back.
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I'm Dave. And I'm Rod.
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I think I'm better now, I'm not sure.
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You vent it a little bit, kind of got it off, lifted the burden
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off your shoulders. Had a drink during the break and
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I'm much calmer now. Did.
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You add a little bit of Wyoming whiskey to your coffee.
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Yes. OK.
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So what's wrong with politics these days?
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This is of. Course a lot of things this time
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I get asked there's a question every.
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Day. Yeah, I'm beginning to think
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and, and, and I'm beginning to see actually more and more
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online that I think the the they're saying that women might
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be the problem. Do you believe this, That this
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is the art? This is the theory.
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Hypothesis is that women having the vote, specifically white
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women having the vote. Well.
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Is screwing things up. I it's an interesting theory and
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I'm willing to entertain it. And so, you know, and what's
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what's interesting is that online you're seeing a lot of
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even some conservative areas where white women are coming out
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and saying women having the vote is a problem.
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Right, but Anita Bryant doesn't count.
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Well, it wasn't Anita Bryant. I'm seeing a lot of libertarian
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circles as well say the same thing.
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And if you do a search for repeal the 19th on on X, you get
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a whole host of a whole host of quotes on there.
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You know, this is this is an example.
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Women are tired. Women tried suffrage and
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discovered their primary political concern is killing
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their own children. Can we finally call this
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experiment failed to move on? I mean, you're seeing this and
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there's shows like Whatever the Whatever podcast and there's
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other libertarian cycles. So I wanted to bring it up today
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just to have a conversation. Just just to because the
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discussion about shooting in a box wasn't enough.
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We just wanted to insult more people.
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Yeah, sure. So the, the whole argument here
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comes from this idea that studies are showing, or polls
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are showing, I wouldn't call them studies, that for women,
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specifically white women, the overwhelming issue in the 2024
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election is not the economy, but rather abortion, which to my
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knowledge now, maybe I'm, I don't know, maybe I'm not seeing
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the whole picture. Is there anybody in this country
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who's being told it is absolutely impossible for you to
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have an abortion? You cannot do it.
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I think there's a lot of fear going around that they can't.
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Well I have a fear about cola guard tests too but you people
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are mocking me for that or I'm already getting texts about it.
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Fear is the worst thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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I get it, but these polls seem accurate to me because the
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conversations that I have had with white women.
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Seem to revolve around that they're either women who don't
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understand why that's the the issue, or they're women who are
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just absolutely passionate about that is the only issue.
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Yeah. There is no other issue.
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The fact that you're paying $12.00 for a pack of eggs is
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meaningless beside this idea that you might not be allowed to
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kill your baby in some states. How did we get to that point?
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I don't, you know, some of it's going to be the, the feminism.
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I mean, you know, I think it's that move and it's, it's a lot
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of that that drives it. You know, I'm all for body
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autonomy, but when it gets to the like the abortion issue,
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there's two bodies concerned and you'll never convince me that
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there isn't 2 bodies concerned in that.
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But it's so emotional. It's an emotional response.
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It really is right in many ways that and then I don't, I don't
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know of any decision I've ever made that it's been emotion
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based. That's been good that I've come
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back and said, you know what, I had it right, ever.
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But have you ever tried to explain that to A to a woman?
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Don't make your decision based on emotion.
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Oh yeah, as a married man, you cannot say that.
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No, you cannot. You can't even have that
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discussion. So I, I guess my question, I
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mean short history of women's suffrage in this country.
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Of course, like most nations of the 18th century, we did not
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grant women the right to vote. In fact, there were no nations
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in the 18th century that granted women the right to vote.
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So we didn't in the Constitution, although women
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were heavily involved with the ratification process, especially
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in Massachusetts, pushing their husbands to vote for the
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Constitution because they believe that in the future
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things would get better. Pizzaw.
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And eventually there were women's suffrage movements in
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the 1800s. And they they, you know, pushed
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hard for those kinds of things. At least one state noted itself
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as the Equality State because before it became a state, it
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allowed women to have the vote in the territory.
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And then the federal government said, well, if you want to be a
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state, you can't do that. Can you imagine such a thing?
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What state was that? Wyoming, which is why Wyoming is
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called the Equality State. OK.
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They were told by the much like Utah was told, hey, if you want
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to be a state, you can't have two wives.
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Wyoming was told if you want to be a state, you can't be loud
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and women to vote. Sorry, it seems seems morally
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compatible, right? Yeah, sure.
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So then we got the 19th Amendment in the Progressive Era
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of the United States, which allowed women to vote.
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And then we got Taylor Swift, and now she's telling white
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women how to vote because she doesn't care about $12.00 eggs
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or $5 jets. She would never care about that
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stuff as she does. Jets takes her personal jet as
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her commuter vehicle. And Kansas City Chiefs fans are
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starting to turn on her because Travis Kelsey is overweight and
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out of shape and they're blaming.
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I'm not making this up. Yep, not kidding.
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His brother on his podcast this week, had to defend Travis
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Kelsey saying, oh, he's just, how's this for an argument?
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He's just getting old. Yeah.
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That's nothing to do with Boink and Taylor Swift.
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So I guess the question is, how did we get to this point now?
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Is is this argument about repealing the 19th Amendment,
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which is never going to happen? I'm going to go on record.
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This is never going to be repealed.
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The only amendment in any danger of ever being appealed is the
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second that said. Followed quickly by the first
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well. They don't have to repeal that.
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They just ignore it. Yeah, they're not going to
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repeal the second either. They're just ignore it.
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The bottom line is the the question is, how did we get to
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this point today where today, I mean, we've joked for years
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about women should be not voting, but now it's almost like
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it's serious. People are actually doing
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studies, performing polls, making arguments that women,
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specifically white women, should not be allowed to vote.
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Yeah. How did we get to that point?
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Is it just because Kamala Harris is the presidential candidate?
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Or is it because poll after poll is showing that the issue for
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these women is abortion? Now please don't send me a text
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saying I know we only have like 3 women listeners and if you
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listen to this show the odds on favorite is you probably lean
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right anyway. I know you don't.
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I know my wife doesn't think that way, but should also
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probably tell you that I help her fill out her ballot.
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I, I actually do the research and I fill in the, the, the
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actual example ballot with all I'm going to vote for and I hand
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it off and say, hey, this is what I'm doing.
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If you want to follow it, it's up to you.
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Right. I go a little bit further than
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that, but I'm not comfortable telling you how far I go with
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this. But the bottom line is she has
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no interest in, well, that's not really how a democracy works.
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It's not really how a republican democracy works.
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It's not really how this is supposed to happen.
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What? While I know that we agree on
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the issues in this particular case, I couldn't necessarily
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tell you that about my first ex-wife.
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Yeah, So how would you fix it, Dave?
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Voting. I I would fix it.
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See this comes back to it's the same problem people.
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What people don't want to say or admit is it's the same problem
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with MET. There are men who are voting for
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the same issues. We call them white dudes for
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Kamala, OK, how do you get to that point where you look at
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this? If you took all the politics out
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of it, stripped it all down and you put Donald Trump and Kamala
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Harris up there and said, OK, which one of these two people is
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more qualified as an executive to lead a government?
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I, I, I don't see how you could possibly.
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I'm not saying he's the best person in the country.
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To do it, but of the two. But of those two, there's no way
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in hell you will ever convince me that she has any of that
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relevant experience or, you know, based on her interviews,
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ideas on how to do things. Yeah.
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So how do you? But there are still even men who
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are going to vote for that. Why?
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The problem is that we have become not sure what the term
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for it is. We have lost those values and
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those principles and virtues that imbued us prior to this.
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Now, that's not always a bad thing.
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I'm not saying that we should return to slavery.
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I'm an originalist and people tell me all the time that as an
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originalist for Constitution, you want slavery back.
28:20
No, I want the procedure followed so that we can end
28:25
slavery, which we didn't do. And because we didn't do it,
28:31
750,000 Americans either died or got hurt.
28:36
Is that what you really wanted? No.
28:38
And oh by the way, when we got rid of slavery, politically
28:42
speaking, the South was stronger than it was before.
28:46
Didn't think about that, did ya? Which is how we ended up heading
28:51
where we were and had the the backwards effect because we
28:55
didn't follow the procedures. Yeah.
28:59
You know, I've been doing a lot. I, I, I try not to talk about it
29:03
too much, but Bill and Rod can assure you of this.
29:06
I am deep into the French Revolution.
29:08
I am. I'm going nuts.
29:11
For example, sent them a text this week about the the concept
29:17
of right and left politically, yeah, comes from the French
29:21
Revolution, and it was simply an accident of history.
29:26
The people who were radical, who were, they called themselves the
29:30
patriots who wanted the King's head cut off, tended to sit on
29:33
the left hand side of the, of the assembly hall, while the
29:36
people who are more conservative monarchyist sat on the right
29:39
hand side. And, and, and they began to be
29:40
referred to that way during the French Revolution.
29:42
That's where it comes from. And we kept that today.
29:46
But even more deeply into the French Revolution, you see a
29:51
French nation that in 1787 is deeply religious, deeply
30:00
controlled by the clergy and a king who supports that, and A
30:04
and a nobility that enforces it. But in the mid 1700s you began
30:11
to have this enlightenment, this this idea, this libertarian
30:15
movement of the rights of men. And one of the things that it
30:20
did away with was religion. By 1789, the only people who
30:26
were going to church in France were people who were trying to
30:29
impress their neighbors with their piety.
30:33
Very few people believed it. In fact, the clergy, for the
30:36
most part it. The priests at the at the
30:39
churches probably did. But the bishops and the Abbots,
30:44
they were just nobility. It was just a social club.
30:48
France lost its sense of faith. Now, does that mean that the
30:53
entire Enlightenment was null and void?
30:55
No. But it's a warning to us that if
30:59
you lose those foundational values and you move forward with
31:05
radical changes and you have no moral and and ethical and
31:13
virtuous underpinning of it, where do you end up with
31:19
thousands of people under the guillotine?
31:22
Because nobody knows what what is right, what's wrong.
31:26
And you disagreed with me and everyone who disagrees with me
31:29
is literally Louis the 14th or 16th.
31:32
Sorry, off with his head. So when it comes to this women's
31:40
voting thing, is the problem that white women are voting or
31:45
is the problem that white women are listening to the likes of
31:48
Taylor Swift and are convinced somehow or another, and I'm not
31:52
sure who convinced them of this, that the right to have an
31:58
abortion is the founding principal of this country.
32:03
Kamala Harris said it a couple of weeks ago during her
32:06
interview when she was talking about I'm proud to be an
32:09
American. Americans are great because
32:11
Americans believe that we've always fought for our right to
32:13
have an abortion. She said that on television.
32:19
And yet the same words will not come out of her mouth when it
32:22
comes to a COVID vaccination. Do you believe in body autonomy
32:26
or do you not? And this is where I get into
32:30
trouble as a conservative chat show host Rod is that I, I have
32:34
no interest in the abortion argument.
32:37
I, I take my position on abortion is exactly the same as
32:40
my position on gay marriage. If you don't want one, don't get
32:45
one, but stop telling me or anybody else what they should do
32:52
or have to do. That's.
32:54
Well, it's the same thing with the trans argument, right?
32:57
In a way you know. Stop telling us you know.
32:59
Stop telling me that I have to use your pronouns.
33:03
Right to. To converse with you.
33:05
Right. And and stop forcing it into my
33:08
face. Yeah, this is this is the
33:10
problem. You want to get married, get
33:11
married. But stop telling me that I have
33:14
to participate and support or ally myself to that because I
33:19
don't have to. And that's what it comes down
33:22
to. So when we're dealing with this
33:25
women's and voting thing, I think there's some cautionary
33:30
tales. 1789, October of 1789, this coming week in 1789, the
33:37
revolution in France was at a standstill.
33:40
The king kept saying no, and the the National Assembly kept
33:46
saying yes, and they kept butting heads.
33:51
They were like, well, we're not making any.
33:53
We want a constitutional monarchy is what the National
33:56
Assembly was saying. And the king kept saying, no, I,
33:59
I am the divine right of kings. I was granted this by God.
34:03
You can't change that. Now.
34:06
In some ways the constitutional monarchy made sense.
34:11
In some ways the the absolute monarchy made sense.
34:15
Not to me because I'm a Republican and libertarian, but,
34:19
but you could see the arguments that the king was making.
34:24
The problem was, in the process of all this, what group was the
34:28
king really pissing off? Because as an absolute monarch,
34:32
he had control, or at least was supposed or seemed to have
34:36
control of things, much like a president is seen to have
34:41
control of things that he really or she really does not have
34:45
control of. And the price of bread in Paris
34:49
was rising faster than people could afford it.
34:54
And there was a group called the market women, who by tradition,
34:58
these were women who ran the markets in Paris and buy
35:02
tradition in France for 400 years.
35:06
They had a quote, UN quote, special relationship with the
35:08
king. They could go to the king once a
35:13
year. The king would put on a big
35:14
banquet. The market women of Paris would
35:17
come to Versailles and they could.
35:20
They couldn't speak to him, but they could whisper to him what
35:26
the people wanted and needed, and the king, by tradition,
35:31
would listen and probably grant their requests.
35:36
In October of 1789, the market women had enough of the king
35:40
saying no, and it was the market women who marched the 12 miles
35:45
out to Versailles, got there to the king and said that's it
35:51
buddy, you're moving to Paris. You're going to live amongst us
35:56
where we can tell you what you are going to do.
36:00
And the only reason the king didn't lose his head that day
36:04
was the Marquis de Lafayette. Lafayette, the guy that fought
36:08
for us during the Revolution, convinced Queen Marie Antoinette
36:13
to step out onto the balcony and say, we love you, we're going to
36:17
help you. And Marie Antoinette never
36:20
forgave Lafayette for making her do that.
36:23
But you know what happened? The next day, the women marched
36:27
back to Paris. And in the middle of their
36:28
column was the King's carriage with the entire royal family in
36:34
it being taken to the palace in in Paris, where they would
36:38
remain as as virtual prisoners until they died.
36:44
You can't piss off women because they are pretty powerful.
36:51
And when they choose to be politically powerful, they can
36:55
be. But how do you control that?
36:57
And the, I think the only way you control it, if that's even
37:01
the right phrase, is by my favorite word, inculcating the
37:06
appropriate values and virtues of the society that you want to
37:09
have. And what's happened is who's
37:12
doing the inculcating here in America has changed.
37:15
It's no longer parents. It's no longer churches.
37:17
It's no longer grandparents. It's no longer tradition.
37:22
The people inculcating those values now is MTV, Taylor Swift
37:28
and Kamala Harris. TikTok.
37:32
TikTok, yes, social Chinese, Chinese spy apps, right, W
37:36
Taiwanese spy apps. And as long as that's the case
37:40
and until we're willing to address those things, and, of
37:42
course, even TikTok. What was Trump's move on TikTok?
37:47
He wants to ban it. I'm not sure I'm on board with
37:53
that. But at the same time, I
37:54
understand what he's trying to do.
37:56
Yeah. My question is, what are you
37:57
going to replace it with that's going to inculcate those values,
38:00
that and virtues that you want? Because if you don't, something
38:04
worse is going to take its place.
38:06
This is what happens, yeah. Well, and you've got the media
38:09
that's marginalized, those that do have values, right, that do
38:13
have like the traditional values, they're, they're always
38:15
marginalized. And that's what I think you're
38:17
sort of seeing with this move of the 19th Amendment, the
38:21
repealing of, or at least the discussions of, is that you're
38:23
seeing a lot of people with those values pushing back now on
38:29
social media, and they're having those conversations.
38:34
I I do see it on social media. We had a discussion, Bill and I
38:39
had a discussion some weeks ago about Trump flags being seen in
38:43
Seattle, which hitherto was unheard of.
38:48
And I have noticed that even driving around here, there are
38:54
not a lot, but there are a sprinkling of waltz Harris,
38:59
Harris waltz signs and no Trump signs.
39:04
What does that tell me? Well, in the Central Valley of
39:07
California you you see mostly Trump signs, right?
39:11
You do see an odd Harris. Even though you know that 49.9%
39:15
of those people are going to vote for for Harris.
39:16
Yeah. So does it mean anything?
39:22
I don't know. What I do know is that this
39:28
comes right out of Roman history, folks, when you change
39:32
the teaching of the virtues and values that your society wants
39:37
to have from what they once were, whatever that might be, to
39:43
what they are now. That's where you begin to
39:47
because your history is what teaches you those virtues and
39:49
values. That's where the denigration of
39:52
history begins. That's where the tearing down of
39:53
statues begins. And by the time you're done with
39:57
that, you have no history to teach.
40:02
Because what is it? What is it?
40:03
It's just stories. It's just mythology at that
40:05
point. Yeah.
40:08
And that changes the values of every culture.
40:10
You can trace it throughout history.
40:12
You can trace it to every society that there is.
40:15
And once that happens, that's how you get to the point where
40:21
white women in particular believe that abortion is the
40:24
most important thing, most important issue, an election.
40:29
That's how we got there. Now how do we get back?
40:34
Can we get back? Not convinced?
40:38
We can. So what do you do?
40:44
About some prayers the
41:46
welcome back to what the frog Dave.
41:47
We have a hero now. We have a new hero in our midst.
41:51
There was a there. Was a hero that we deserve.
41:54
It is a hero we deserve Dave. There was a woman quote I was
41:58
running in the woods on the path behind the police station in the
42:01
high school this morning when I came upon a Groundhog that
42:04
looked injured. The 34 year old woman posted on
42:08
our Facebook group quote. It must have been startled when
42:12
I made a call on the speakerphone because it charged
42:15
at me screaming and lunging. I ended up on my back kicking at
42:18
it and screaming for about a minute.
42:21
The stunned jogger flung her cell phone at the crazed
42:24
critter, who then, startled, started to gnaw at the phone.
42:29
Then along comes a student, Caleb Morris, a high school
42:32
student who'd just finished his cross country run.
42:35
When he heard the screaming, he made his way up the path and
42:38
quote and right in front of my eyes lay a woman on the ground
42:42
shouting and screaming and looked as if she was trying to
42:45
fight off something the 9th grader posted quote.
42:48
I never thought a Groundhog could be so aggressive as this
42:51
one, Morris said. I was sort of frozen.
42:54
I was stunned by the fact that I was watching a viral YouTube
42:57
video worthy content in real time.
43:00
But Morris took a pass on Internet fame.
43:04
He said the woman in distress was still on her back kicking at
43:07
the Groundhog, screaming as loud as she could at the same time.
43:11
Shockingly, he said Groundhog scream even louder.
43:17
The groundhog's scream was even more unsettling.
43:20
The jogger got back onto her feet and Morris realized that
43:22
she couldn't call the cops since the Gopher had eaten her phone.
43:26
And with the power of Hey Siri call the police, I was
43:30
immediately put on the phone with the 911 operator.
43:34
The cops arrived a short time later and found the Groundhog
43:37
still snacking on the woman's phone.
43:39
The cops thanked Morris and instructed him to to get going
43:43
while they finished things up. The Bernard Township Mayor
43:48
Jennifer SA honored the teen on September 10th with a
43:52
proclamation. He is the hero that we do not
43:56
deserve. Groundhog ate the phone.
44:03
The fact that the woman fell down to Groundhog, it was
44:07
screaming and kicking at it. So anyway, yeah, good thing a
44:12
ban was there to save her. Sorry, I'm watching television
44:17
and there's a new serial out. I'm not making this up.
44:21
It's the Kelsey Mix. Travis.
44:23
And Travis and Jason Kelsey have a new serial.
44:27
Great. But it's Taylor Swift.
44:31
Has the NFL, the National Football League, and I'm going
44:35
to erase that. I'm going to say has football
44:37
and sports in general become a disgusting, unwatchable,
44:40
embarrassing referee show? I'm going to have to say yes.
44:48
The thrust of this article is the the the game the other night
44:51
where it seemed like every every play was a penalty.
44:58
Baseball has this problem now or has had this problem for many
45:01
years about umpires that are turning things into a show,
45:06
making it about themselves. There's a lot of discussion
45:10
about whether or not ejections are more about they actually did
45:15
something worthy of ejection or that the umpire just wanted to
45:18
show show up a manager or whatever in the college ranks.
45:27
I don't know in my lifetime that I've ever seen a worse season
45:30
than this year. Officiating was the the calls
45:35
that they're getting are just crazy bad.
45:42
It's like they're making stuff up, the kind of stuff that goes
45:46
in a box that you mail back. I have no dog in the fight of
45:53
Virginia Tech versus Miami yesterday.
45:56
Couldn't care less. In fact, usually when those two
45:59
teams are playing, I'm rooting for the Hurricane to roll
46:01
through. OK.
46:04
But that call at the end of the game yesterday, if you didn't
46:08
see it or don't care, it was the NFL had the same problem Once
46:15
Upon a time when they were using scab refs because the refs were
46:18
on strike. They had virtually the same play
46:23
with virtually the same result. Wrong.
46:26
And the next day the red, they settled the settled the the
46:30
strike with the real referees because can't have that
46:33
happening anymore. We don't have strike referees in
46:36
college football now, but man watched the Wyoming Air Force
46:41
game last night. I'm not even sure leaping the
46:48
shield is a 15 yard penalty in college football.
46:54
Leaping the shield I was playing.
46:56
Football my entire life, never heard of that.
47:02
OK. That's a 15 yard penalty.
47:06
Worked out the Wyoming's advantage, which is fine, but I
47:10
still don't know what the actual, I don't know, penalty
47:13
was penalties. Referees are getting ridiculous.
47:18
Note to anyone at the league office who reads some websites,
47:23
even though you won't admit it. Stop throwing flags on every
47:26
play. Stop it, stop it, stop it.
47:28
It's miserable. You're making us miserable.
47:30
The product stinks, it's fragmented, and frankly, we're
47:32
tired of it. Thursday Night Football sucks
47:37
enough on its own, and I cannot emphasize this enough.
47:40
Thursday Night Football is not worth watching.
47:44
No. Number one, you can only get it
47:47
on Amazon Prime, which is problematic enough, which I also
47:54
noted that the NFL Network this past week ran a Kansas City game
47:59
on. It's a replay of Kansas City
48:01
game on its network to compete with that.
48:05
Love to see the ratings. See how that went?
48:08
I don't know, 15 penalties and a half.
48:12
Referees are getting out of control.
48:14
And, and see, here's the great thing about it now is that now
48:17
that now that I've brought this up, you'll be watching the NFL
48:19
today and you'll be going. Now there's a lot of penalties
48:23
that are just stupid. Al Michaels was great though on
48:27
Thursday. Yeah, he was.
48:29
Yeah, you're going to need some new flags to throw in the
48:31
second-half. These ones are filthy.
48:35
Al Michaels is in the last year. He doesn't care.
48:37
He'll say anything now. So unlike the WNBA where they
48:41
apparently don't call fouls at all.
48:44
So which is not good for the WNBA because Caitlin Clark's out
48:49
now. So now whatever interest there
48:51
was in the WNBA playoffs. Bill is gone.
48:53
Is gone. Nobody's going to foul that crap
48:57
anyway. Is the NFL?
48:59
Unwashable. It blows in a box.
49:01
And I just happened to have one right here, which is the kind of
49:05
thing that makes me say that. BTF.
49:50
Welcome back. I'm Rabbi Dave.
49:52
I am Friar Rod. And we would be remiss if we got
49:55
out of here without mentioning the unmentionably largest story
50:01
in the world right now, which obviously doesn't really involve
50:07
Taylor Swift, so. Yet.
50:10
Yeah, yet have you noticed since this story happened and I'll
50:16
just spill it, the P Diddy arrest.
50:19
Have you noticed how many celebrities are just absolutely
50:24
wiping out their social media posts?
50:27
Yeah, well, there's there's definitely some distancing going
50:29
on. This is what you call social
50:32
distancing. Except for Ellen DeGeneres, who
50:35
apparently knew what was going on based on her tweets.
50:41
P Diddy got arrested. I'm still not absolutely clear
50:48
on what the charges are. I mean, I've read them, but
50:53
doesn't seem to me as a casual observer and someone who has
50:57
never purchased a Diddy album and never listened to AP Diddy
51:01
song, they don't seem to me to be anything that I wouldn't have
51:09
expected. In that there's nothing here
51:11
that surprises me. Is that is that a way to put it?
51:15
Except for the volume involved? 1000 bottles of baby oil.
51:25
Now look, I don't want to get weird or anything here, but baby
51:31
oil has its uses. But baby oil also goes a long
51:38
way. It does.
51:39
Little bit'll do you. Little dab will do you as they
51:42
say. 1000 bottles were found supposedly during the raid on
51:51
his place. That's.
51:56
Weird enough, maybe it was like a really good BOGO sale, right?
52:03
It's weird enough, but then his lawyer gets involved.
52:09
Oh yeah. And his lawyer has the ultimate
52:12
excuse. And I'm toying with using this
52:15
excuse myself in the future should I ever be accused of
52:19
excess in anything. The only thing I can think of
52:24
off hand is coffee. But his lawyer says that there's
52:29
a simple explanation for the rapper's massive supply of baby
52:33
oil. He buys it in bulk.
52:40
Well next next it's going to be the excuse that he grew up as a
52:44
middle class kid. In a middle class household and
52:49
the reason that he buys it in bulk is apparently because
52:52
that's how Costco sells it. I've been to Costco and I've
52:56
never noticed 1000 bottle bulks of being an oil but.
53:00
Here's your here's your palette. Right, right.
53:06
As for why Combs would need the 1000 bottles of baby oil, his
53:12
lawyer said, Quote, I don't know where the number 1000 came from.
53:17
Well, it came from the police, he went on.
53:22
I can't imagine it's thousands of bottles of baby oil and Lube.
53:26
And I'm not sure what baby oil has to do with anything.
53:32
I guess I don't know what you need 1000 for.
53:34
One bottle of baby oil goes a long way, his lawyer said.
53:41
But then he added this Diddy has a big house.
53:44
He buys in bulk. I think they have Costco's
53:47
everywhere He has a home. I mean, have you sat in a
53:51
parking lot of the Costco and see what people walk out of
53:54
there with and admitted? I don't think it was 1000, but
54:01
let's just say it was a lot. I don't know, man, I'm.
54:10
Well, it didn't, you know, it didn't Costco come out and say,
54:13
no, we don't, we don't have baby oil, so.
54:19
I've never seen it there. I've never looked in fairness.
54:23
They came out and countered it and said, well, no, we didn't.
54:25
We didn't. We don't sell that so.
54:27
Not in 1000 LB Bottled bulks, right?
54:31
So it wasn't us, is what they said, distancing themselves
54:35
further right? P Diddy.
54:36
Not that they needed to. I can't imagine for the life of
54:41
me that P Diddy ever stepped foot inside a Costco.
54:45
Can you imagine the zoo that would be?
54:49
See, this is the problem with being famous.
54:52
We all think we want to be famous, but really, do you?
54:57
I mean, do you want to live life where you know, you can't even,
55:01
you can't even go to McDonald's or a, or a popular restaurant in
55:07
Pittsburgh without, you know, having a massive crowd volume?
55:10
The wee bit of fame that I had from singing on the worship team
55:13
at church and being in musicals and stuff, I had people walking
55:17
up to me in Costco's that I could vaguely remember talking
55:20
to me like I was their best friend.
55:23
Yep. Being a regional celebrity
55:24
myself, that would happen to me all the time.
55:27
That'd be a target, you know? And, and I was on radio.
55:30
It's not like people saw my face every day.
55:33
Yeah, unless they happen to see the KFIV van drive by and they
55:36
went, oh, that's what he looks like.
55:38
But I'd have people come up to me and Target.
55:42
Aren't you, Dave? Well, I hope so.
55:45
I'm wearing his underwear, would always be my reply.
55:48
Which would catch them off guard usually, but.
55:50
I'm sure. At any rate, you don't want to
55:53
be famous. You really don't, because then
55:55
you can't go to Costco. And even if you did go to
55:58
Costco, people are watching what you buy and they're talking
56:01
about it and posting it on social media.
56:05
Dave just got a box. Of course I'm the one that told
56:13
you that. You would have known if I hadn't
56:15
told you. But anybody else have any
56:17
experience with this? You haven't done this with with
56:21
the Cologuard box, you, you haven't done this, have you?
56:24
The pre the earlier tests were not in a box.
56:26
You had to actually catch it in some kind of like piece of paper
56:29
and then dip the stick in it and it was horrible.
56:34
It was worse. Why am I see?
56:36
I feel like I feel like I might get arrested for this like P
56:39
Diddy. Maybe some baby oil will help
56:44
you, Dave. How is it going to help me?
56:46
I'm at low risk. I don't have colon cancer.
56:51
And, and here's the weird thing about me, you know that stuff
56:57
you have to drink? It doesn't bother me.
57:00
It doesn't bother me at all. I've had to do that for other
57:04
reasons and doesn't bother me at all.
57:08
Yeah. So here's my question.
57:14
Do I just ignore this box as I've done with the VA kits for
57:19
the past five years? I think you need to do it.
57:23
See what I'm afraid of is if I don't they're going to bill me
57:25
for it, which is BS2 because it's just a box with some
57:30
plastic in it. I mean how much can it cost?
57:34
They they didn't actually do any tests.
57:35
But what are you charging me for?
57:40
Sorry I I know we were talking P Diddy and baby oil but.
57:45
I wonder what the ratio is of those boxes sent out versus
57:47
returned? It's an interesting question.
57:51
I wonder too. Is it 50% higher?
57:54
Maybe, Maybe 60. All I know is it's weird, man.
58:01
It's it's weird and I'm freaking myself out and that's, that's
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the problem. I am just it's in my head now.
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And it wasn't. It was a perfectly normal
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conversation until he said those words.
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All you have to do is shit in the box.
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Soon as he said that it was like everything went dark.
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His vicious change from this nice old doctor guy to to Doctor
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X and I'm totally freaked out by it.
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You need some nitrous oxide, maybe that'll help.
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What I'm thinking is now here's my plan.
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OK. Get everything set up, drink
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heavily. Which probably isn't a good
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idea, because then I got to take it all down, don't I?
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Yeah, you have to be cogent enough to to seal it up, unless
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Cammy does it for you. How hard would it be, do you
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think, to get to talk my wife into?
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Is there a is there a honeydew list?
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Are the are there things that she needs, that she needs done
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that only you can do? Once I'm done, once I'm done
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with it, how hard is it to convince my wife that that that
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you pack it up and send it? She is a nurse, so I mean, not
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like she's never had to do that before.
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Well, stay tuned for updates because I'm sure we'll have more
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on this next week. Scintillating podcasting.
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I'm Rabbi Dave. I am Friar Rod and.
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This has been a disgusting with thousands of bottles of baby oil
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episode of. What the frock?