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- 0:09Speaker 1: Good evening, everybody!
- 0:21Speaker 2: Welcome to another edition of the Motor City Madhouse Show.
- 0:27Speaker 2: I'm your host, Scott Morgan Ross, and if that isn't
- 0:29Speaker 2: a crazy intro, I'll try to make it better. I
- 0:31Speaker 2: never know what's going on. Depends on how much type
- 0:33Speaker 2: of different fluids I put in my system. But we've
- 0:35Speaker 2: got the fearsome five-some, if you include me in that group.
- 0:38Speaker 2: which I guess he might. That's Steve Ballas during my
- 0:41Speaker 2: longtime home co-host. We got Ed McAndrew. Don't mind going
- 0:46Speaker 2: through Ed three times a week. Jennifer, our beautiful partner
- 0:50Speaker 2: out in L.A. Candy and I will meet her when
- 0:52Speaker 2: the Olympics come, God willing. And, yes, we have Candy,
- 0:55Speaker 2: jack of all trades. And let's get to it. Where
- 0:58Speaker 2: are we going to go first? Guess what? We're going
- 1:00Speaker 2: to Russia, people. Why are we going to Russia? Oh,
- 1:04Speaker 2: my goodness. I'll tell you why we're going to Russia.
- 1:07Speaker 2: Because we're going to learn a little something other than Putin. Okay?
- 1:11Speaker 2: And I don't want to put him in there. I
- 1:12Speaker 2: don't want to get too political. But in Russia, there's
- 1:15Speaker 2: a museum dedicated entirely to vodka. How about that? Vodka. Oh,
- 1:21Speaker 2: my God. In Russia, bears were trained to serve drinks
- 1:26Speaker 2: in circuses. I didn't like that. Circuses, people. My goodness,
- 1:32Speaker 2: I don't remember the last time I've been to one,
- 1:34Speaker 2: but I can tell you many other places I've worked.
- 1:39Speaker 2: Russian people use black bread as a cure for hangovers. Katie,
- 1:47Speaker 2: we get black bread, but I don't use it for hangovers.
- 1:51Speaker 3: What do you use for hangovers?
- 1:53Speaker 2: I don't use it, but Russian people do.
- 1:56Speaker 3: I don't even know what that is.
- 1:58Speaker 2: Yeah, they use them for hangovers, man. I'm telling you,
- 2:00Speaker 2: they use black bread for hangovers. Russian people want banned
- 2:04Speaker 2: ammo clothing in schools. I don't know what that is,
- 2:08Speaker 2: but I'm looking at the picture. It looks pretty weird
- 2:10Speaker 2: to me. In Russia, cats guard the Hermitage Museum against mice. Well,
- 2:16Speaker 2: that's probably a universal language. I'm not surprised there. They'll
- 2:18Speaker 2: try to get Rusty in there. All he does is
- 2:20Speaker 2: play with water and do a lot of redecorating every
- 2:23Speaker 2: day of the week, but I can only imagine they're
- 2:26Speaker 2: in Russia. Bears have been spotted roaming gas stations. My goodness.
- 2:32Speaker 2: Russian people still use ice swimming as a tradition for
- 2:36Speaker 2: good health. Russian people often gift red tarnations at funerals.
- 2:41Speaker 2: And Russia, too, wants more expensive than gold. Russian people
- 2:47Speaker 2: celebrate New Year twice each year. Forget about the Rose Bowl.
- 2:50Speaker 2: They do it way, way different. Okay. Thanks. Let's go
- 2:54Speaker 2: around the orange. Let's talk about Russia minus Putin.
- 3:00Speaker 4: Don't want to go. However, I would like to partake
- 3:05Speaker 4: in the Museum of Vodka. I think that especially if
- 3:10Speaker 4: they're handing out free samples. I was a fan of
- 3:15Speaker 4: Stoli back in the day. That was some good stuff.
- 3:19Speaker 4: Although once I got into the Grey Goose, I kind
- 3:22Speaker 4: of left that behind. That's a story for another time.
- 3:26Speaker 5: Another time.
- 3:29Speaker 4: But, yeah, I've heard about the Red Carnation thing. It's
- 3:35Speaker 4: kind of strange, I don't know, in my opinion. But, yeah,
- 3:41Speaker 4: Russia's a weird place. They're a very sad, drunken people.
- 3:51Speaker 2: I have to read that. We have a duck. Museum
- 3:55Speaker 2: dedicated to vodka. Hey, look, I don't mind a Coca-Cola museum.
- 4:01Speaker 2: All you do is get pumped over there a little bit.
- 4:03Speaker 2: Here you go to sleep. Go ahead, Eddie.
- 4:08Speaker 5: Well, this is something that I can actually, I know
- 4:10Speaker 5: a lot about.
- 4:11Speaker 6: Um, I've actually made multiple trips to Russia. As I
- 4:14Speaker 6: think I mentioned before, both my kids are Russian adoptees. So, uh,
- 4:19Speaker 6: actually when we adopted my son, he's from, uh, in Yekaterinburg,
- 4:24Speaker 6: which is right near the Ural Mountains.
- 4:29Speaker 5: So we flew in.
- 4:31Speaker 6: To Moscow, flew from Moscow to there, and we stayed
- 4:35Speaker 6: three weeks in country with a host family. So we
- 4:38Speaker 6: got to live with them, and when we were visiting them,
- 4:41Speaker 6: it was part of the process.
- 4:43Speaker 5: You had to.
- 4:44Speaker 6: Adopt, but then you had to wait three weeks, you know, Basically,
- 4:49Speaker 6: you had to prove yourself to everybody and stuff like that.
- 4:51Speaker 5: But it was fine. Wonderful people.
- 4:53Speaker 6: Host was wonderful. She spoke English. They had a young
- 4:57Speaker 6: high school daughter who had a pet.
- 5:01Speaker 5: Rat in the apartment.
- 5:03Speaker 6: So, yeah, the thing was probably about that big. The
- 5:06Speaker 6: husband was their driver. We actually learned a Russian card game.
- 5:10Speaker 5: Called Durak, which is called Fool.
- 5:13Speaker 6: And it's a card game we still play today. We
- 5:16Speaker 6: taught the kids as they got older. Fun fact about
- 5:20Speaker 6: the Ural Mountains in the Russian continent or the Russian landmass,
- 5:26Speaker 6: it's separated by the Ural Mountains.
- 5:28Speaker 5: There was a line that separates Asia from Europe.
- 5:32Speaker 6: And it was funny. We got to go out there.
- 5:34Speaker 6: And at one point, my wife was on one side
- 5:36Speaker 6: and I was on the other. So then two years later, conversely,
- 5:40Speaker 6: we got to go to the western side of Russia
- 5:42Speaker 6: to get my daughter.
- 5:44Speaker 5: She was right. She's from just south of St.
- 5:46Speaker 2: Petersburg.
- 5:48Speaker 6: That trip was basically we flew in in about a
- 5:51Speaker 6: 36 hour time period. We visited her, drove back and
- 5:54Speaker 6: flew back home. Thought we were going to be in
- 5:56Speaker 6: the States for a couple or a couple of weeks
- 5:59Speaker 6: until they.
- 6:00Speaker 5: Made a ruling or whatever.
- 6:01Speaker 6: About seven days later, we get a call, say, you
- 6:03Speaker 6: got to come back to get your daughter and go
- 6:06Speaker 6: through all the final process.
- 6:08Speaker 5: It.
- 6:09Speaker 6: As long and drawn out my son's process was, living there,
- 6:13Speaker 6: was how quick and from. But like I said, we
- 6:16Speaker 6: found the people were great. They were just like you
- 6:20Speaker 6: and I. It's cold there all the time from about
- 6:23Speaker 6: now until April. The interesting part was when we were
- 6:28Speaker 6: adopting my son, being the businessman, I asked them, so
- 6:35Speaker 6: do you like it how it is now? Because a
- 6:39Speaker 6: lot of them grew up under the communist rule when
- 6:42Speaker 6: they were younger. And to a man, to a person,
- 6:46Speaker 6: they all preferred it the latter way.
- 6:48Speaker 5: Because they had all that they needed. And they were
- 6:54Speaker 5: content that you couldn't do that.
- 6:56Speaker 6: And I also have a friend who grew up on
- 6:59Speaker 6: the other side of the German wall in East Berlin.
- 7:03Speaker 6: And that's a story for another time. But he shares
- 7:05Speaker 6: a similar story. Anyway, so I enjoyed it. It's great experience.
- 7:09Speaker 6: Tried their beer, tried their food.
- 7:12Speaker 5: Good time.
- 7:13Speaker 3: What's a Russian beer?
- 7:16Speaker 5: A beer, like a regular beer. Usually higher. No B
- 7:20Speaker 5: E E R.
- 7:22Speaker 2: It's that.
- 7:22Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 7:22Speaker 6: I mean, they have different kinds of Russian beer. They're at,
- 7:24Speaker 6: they don't have the same alcohol content laws. So they
- 7:28Speaker 6: have a higher alcohol content in a smaller thing. And
- 7:32Speaker 6: before I go off, before I finish the, the black bread.
- 7:36Speaker 6: is a dense dark rye bread staple of Russian tables
- 7:39Speaker 6: made from rye flour with molasses or malt for that
- 7:42Speaker 6: near black color and a slightly sweet sour bite, often
- 7:46Speaker 6: with caraway or coriander. The famous one is the Borodinsky,
- 7:51Speaker 6: hearty enough to be a meal on its own.
- 7:54Speaker 3: Sounds good. I think I'll try some.
- 7:56Speaker 2: I don't mind.
- 7:58Speaker 6: I think I just talked for that whole part. I
- 8:01Speaker 6: think I'm done for the show, Scott.
- 8:02Speaker 5: Oh, you're not.
- 8:04Speaker 2: But it's Jennifer Fern.
- 8:07Speaker 3: Yeah, actually, I love the Russian people. I have quite
- 8:11Speaker 3: a few friends that are Russian. And one of my
- 8:13Speaker 3: friends is he's a former Cirque du Soleil performer. And
- 8:19Speaker 3: he was the hand balancing guy. He was the one
- 8:21Speaker 3: I forget what they're called. He was the one on top.
- 8:24Speaker 3: And then his partner was named Chunk, which I thought
- 8:27Speaker 3: was interesting. And he was the guy on the bottom.
- 8:29Speaker 5: Yeah, that's funny.
- 8:30Speaker 3: And he was like a chunk. Like he was like
- 8:32Speaker 3: someone took a really tall guy and scrunched him all
- 8:34Speaker 3: the way down. His legs were just like solid tree trunks.
- 8:39Speaker 5: They were.
- 8:39Speaker 3: And his whole body was that. And he was the
- 8:42Speaker 3: perfect person to be the underneath, you know, and lift
- 8:46Speaker 3: him up. And they did all those crazy things and stuff.
- 8:49Speaker 3: it's fascinating, fascinating to watch their, their circus. Like the
- 8:53Speaker 3: first time I went to a Cirque du Soleil, we
- 8:55Speaker 3: had never heard of it was 1990s. First time they
- 8:58Speaker 3: ever came to the United States that.
- 8:59Speaker 1: I knew of.
- 9:00Speaker 2: Right.
- 9:01Speaker 3: And so my husband and I think we're going to
- 9:03Speaker 3: a circus with circus animals and we get there and
- 9:06Speaker 3: we're like, huh? Like we didn't get it at first,
- 9:08Speaker 3: but then by the, you know, by halfway through, like
- 9:10Speaker 3: we just loved it. It was so unique and so
- 9:13Speaker 3: different and so entertaining and, We did not have bears
- 9:16Speaker 3: delivering our drinks, which I'm not so sure. I mean,
- 9:22Speaker 3: on the thought of it, it sounds, oh, how cute.
- 9:25Speaker 3: But then, like, you know, bears have bad days just
- 9:28Speaker 3: like everybody else. And just like the tiger, you know,
- 9:31Speaker 3: from the people in Vegas, you know, those two guys,
- 9:34Speaker 3: what were their names? No, I can't think of them.
- 9:37Speaker 3: And then the tiger.
- 9:38Speaker 4: Siegfried and Roy.
- 9:39Speaker 3: Siegfried and Roy. And he ate Siegfried or Roy. I
- 9:42Speaker 3: forget which one. But anyway, it wasn't good. He tacked
- 9:45Speaker 3: his head like animals are animals. I think Cesar Millan
- 9:50Speaker 3: does a really good job of talking about that when
- 9:53Speaker 3: he's teaching you how to train your dog. And he's like,
- 9:56Speaker 3: animal first, then dog. breed you know or then dog
- 10:02Speaker 3: then breed right animal dog breed that's what he does
- 10:05Speaker 3: animal dog breed and it's the same thing it's a
- 10:08Speaker 3: bear it's a bear now some bears are not carnivores.
- 10:14Speaker 3: So I'm hoping they choose one of those to serve
- 10:17Speaker 3: the drinks, but still it's a bear. And I know
- 10:22Speaker 3: I cuddled up with a grizzly, but that grizzly was
- 10:24Speaker 3: stuffed full and he wasn't going to eat me. So,
- 10:29Speaker 3: and the red carnations, I actually did not know about that.
- 10:32Speaker 3: That's kind of, kind of fascinating and interesting. I don't
- 10:35Speaker 3: know that we necessarily have a funeral flower, do we?
- 10:40Speaker 3: I don't, Is it the lily?
- 10:42Speaker 6: Well, it could be kind of the lily, I think.
- 10:44Speaker 3: It could be, huh? The white lily?
- 10:46Speaker 5: Yeah, the white lily is what I would say.
- 10:47Speaker 3: Yeah, that's interesting. And, yeah, I don't know. Red carnation
- 10:53Speaker 3: seems kind of like, but it's pretty, you know, red.
- 10:56Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. Okay, Katie?
- 11:02Speaker 7: Yeah, I've just been kind of looking up this Russian
- 11:05Speaker 7: vodka museum.
- 11:07Speaker 2: I mean.
- 11:08Speaker 7: The museum can justly be proud of its collection of
- 11:12Speaker 7: over 600 exhibits, various brands of vodka, vodka recipes, vodka posters,
- 11:19Speaker 7: vodka labels, vodka bottles of different sizes. The staff of
- 11:27Speaker 7: the museum will satisfy the curiosity of all those interested
- 11:31Speaker 7: in the personal preferences of the russian empires in alcoholic
- 11:34Speaker 7: drinks and will tell visitors about the origins and forming
- 11:38Speaker 7: of present-day vodka traditions and i looked up like to
- 11:42Speaker 7: you yeah the um the black bread is kind of
- 11:47Speaker 7: it's like a dark rye bread it can be and
- 11:49Speaker 7: it's used they do serve it with vodka at times
- 11:53Speaker 7: so that it kind of can absorb you know the
- 11:56Speaker 7: whole uh alcohol you know um let's see we're gonna
- 12:06Speaker 7: uh as far as carnations i think that would be
- 12:09Speaker 7: kind of cool i think anytime you have like a
- 12:11Speaker 7: big field of um flowers that looks kind of cool
- 12:15Speaker 7: and stuff like that so interesting things that i did
- 12:18Speaker 7: not know scott.
- 12:19Speaker 2: Thank you oh you're welcome i find it hard to
- 12:21Speaker 2: believe you have two new year's days i have a
- 12:23Speaker 2: struggle with one Two New Year's games? I mean, give
- 12:27Speaker 2: me a break. Really?
- 12:28Speaker 3: Well, what's behind that?
- 12:29Speaker 5: Tell us more about that.
- 12:30Speaker 6: I think one's the Russian Orthodox New Year's Day. Because
- 12:34Speaker 6: they celebrate Christmas on January 6th.
- 12:38Speaker 5: Oh. As opposed to that. And so it has to...
- 12:42Speaker 5: That was one thing.
- 12:43Speaker 6: We also did a mass at a Russian Orthodox church,
- 12:46Speaker 6: which was in Russia, which was really nice because a
- 12:48Speaker 6: little old lady.
- 12:50Speaker 2: She was older.
- 12:51Speaker 5: Probably like Steve's age old.
- 12:54Speaker 7: Uh.
- 12:56Speaker 6: Came up, you know, and we spoke enough Russian to
- 12:59Speaker 6: get to work, to get through the process.
- 13:03Speaker 5: But she came up and she gave us the book
- 13:05Speaker 5: and she pointed out to where we were.
- 13:06Speaker 6: You know, it was kind of the international language of
- 13:10Speaker 6: if you want to follow along, here's the page and
- 13:12Speaker 6: where we're at.
- 13:13Speaker 7: So it does say Russia celebrates two New Year's Days
- 13:18Speaker 7: due to a historical shift between the Julian and the
- 13:23Speaker 7: Gregorian calendars. So the main New Year's is January 1st
- 13:27Speaker 7: with major celebrations on New Year's Eve. It's an official
- 13:31Speaker 7: public holiday. Workers usually get a multi-day break from January
- 13:35Speaker 7: 1 through January 8th. They decorated trees, gift giving, family feasts,
- 13:43Speaker 7: and watching the midnight presidential address. The old New Year
- 13:48Speaker 7: is January 14th, which corresponds to January 1st on the
- 13:53Speaker 7: old Julian calendar. It's more of an informal traditional holiday
- 13:57Speaker 7: rather than a state day off. Families gather together for
- 14:01Speaker 7: a second quieter meal and many people finally take down
- 14:04Speaker 7: their New Year's trees, not Christmas trees, New Year's trees.
- 14:10Speaker 3: So basically in Russia, the first part of the year
- 14:13Speaker 3: is just a constant party to set the tone for
- 14:16Speaker 3: the whole.
- 14:16Speaker 5: These vodka museums, right?
- 14:18Speaker 7: And vodka museum, I.
- 14:19Speaker 3: Think, launches.
- 14:20Speaker 2: Why not?
- 14:20Speaker 3: I think that there needs to be some events at
- 14:22Speaker 3: the vodka museum that I need to attend.
- 14:25Speaker 4: You know you have a hangover when you get January
- 14:29Speaker 4: 1st through January 8th off.
- 14:35Speaker 3: Well, it's like, you know, Hanukkah, but quite differently. Yeah.
- 14:40Speaker 5: Exactly, yeah.
- 14:41Speaker 3: The eight days of vodka.
- 14:44Speaker 2: That would be the worst thing in the world. Why not?
- 14:47Speaker 2: I don't drink that much because of the amount of medication,
- 14:49Speaker 2: but I don't know if I can stop that one.
- 14:51Speaker 2: All right, well, we'll go on to a different subject here.
- 14:54Speaker 2: And this one's a little bit more on the serious note. Unfortunately,
- 14:57Speaker 2: no charges. Oh, kind of good, actually. No charges for
- 15:00Speaker 2: a Texas father who beat to death a daughter collector.
- 15:03Speaker 2: Let me give you this story. Okay. Okay. You know,
- 15:07Speaker 2: you talk about father being cleared. In 2012, a Texas
- 15:10Speaker 2: father made a frantic 9-11 call after catching Jesus Mora
- 15:14Speaker 2: Flores assaulting his 5-year-old daughter. The father pulled Flores off
- 15:20Speaker 2: and in the struggle, fatally beat him. Good job, senior.
- 15:25Speaker 2: All right. Now you know how I feel about this one.
- 15:28Speaker 2: He tried CPR until paramedics arrived, but Flores died at
- 15:31Speaker 2: the scene. A grand jury... And since rule, the father's
- 15:36Speaker 2: actions justify Texas law, meaning he will face no charges
- 15:39Speaker 2: for defending his child. Steve, I don't know about you,
- 15:42Speaker 2: but I agree with this one. Yeah, I don't think
- 15:45Speaker 2: that's sad at all. No.
- 15:48Speaker 4: I mean, you know, it's like.
- 15:52Speaker 4: That's Texas, though. That's Texas. So, you know, kind of
- 15:58Speaker 4: like Florida, right? In certain aspects.
- 16:03Speaker 2: And, hey.
- 16:05Speaker 4: Kudos to the dad. I mean, I think if I
- 16:09Speaker 4: had been placed in the same situation, I probably would
- 16:12Speaker 4: have done the exact same thing.
- 16:14Speaker 2: Hey, Eddie.
- 16:20Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm with Steve on this.
- 16:22Speaker 6: And actually, in a somewhat ironic way, I've told my daughter,
- 16:29Speaker 6: I said, you know, I will protect you at all lengths.
- 16:34Speaker 6: And I explained to her what that meant. I said,
- 16:37Speaker 6: if you ever date somebody and you lie because he's
- 16:43Speaker 6: hurt you emotionally and says he's hurt you physically, you can't,
- 16:48Speaker 6: I tell her, you can't un-pull that trigger. And then I,
- 16:51Speaker 6: so you have one time, so I'm with Steve. That
- 16:56Speaker 6: guy should be, there's, and in fact, where I cringed
- 17:00Speaker 6: was when you said the child was five years old.
- 17:03Speaker 5: I don't even– I.
- 17:06Speaker 6: Would have said– I would have called the police and
- 17:08Speaker 6: I would have told them to bring the coroner with him.
- 17:12Speaker 6: I've already got him zipped in a bag for you.
- 17:14Speaker 6: He's in my garage fridge chilling. So, no, that's– I
- 17:19Speaker 6: have no– there's places in hell for guys like that.
- 17:24Speaker 2: That's all I'll.
- 17:26Speaker 7: Say about that.
- 17:27Speaker 3: Yeah, it reminds me of that guy that– got to
- 17:31Speaker 3: kill the guy in prison who, who had, you know,
- 17:35Speaker 3: what was it?
- 17:36Speaker 7: Raped, molested.
- 17:37Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 17:37Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
- 17:39Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 17:41Speaker 3: I mean, you know, there's just opportunities where, you know,
- 17:46Speaker 3: it kind of pay back as a bitch and people
- 17:48Speaker 3: who are abusers deserve to be abused back. I'm sorry.
- 17:54Speaker 3: I don't really, you know, that's in the Bible. Eye
- 17:56Speaker 3: for an eye, you know, like it kind of is, but,
- 18:00Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, sweet justice for the dad,
- 18:03Speaker 3: but still just awfulness, period, just awfulness. And to your point, Ed.
- 18:11Speaker 3: you know, I was talking to this about talking to
- 18:13Speaker 3: somebody about people who just exaggerate in stories. I used
- 18:16Speaker 3: to date this guy who would have a fabulous story
- 18:19Speaker 3: and he would exaggerate the story. And I'm like, you
- 18:22Speaker 3: lose all credibility when somebody, even if you just exaggerate
- 18:27Speaker 3: this much, it doesn't even matter. Now, no one knows
- 18:30Speaker 3: what else you exaggerated. And you, you never, again, you
- 18:33Speaker 3: never have credibility again. Exaggeration is a lie. And the
- 18:37Speaker 3: same thing, you know, when, when people cry wolf, like
- 18:41Speaker 3: what you're saying, you know, and now like even the
- 18:43Speaker 3: Cornell thing, which I don't know if we're going to
- 18:45Speaker 3: talk about or not, but like even the Cornell thing,
- 18:47Speaker 3: it's not so cut and dry. It's very interesting. We're
- 18:50Speaker 3: going to see how, how it all pans out. But
- 18:53Speaker 3: when women accuse people of something that did not happen,
- 19:00Speaker 3: it is worse for women to, overall for the people
- 19:05Speaker 3: that really did really are victims and then they have
- 19:08Speaker 3: to go through the same hell and people want to
- 19:11Speaker 3: know why people don't report it's because you are already
- 19:16Speaker 3: abused tremendously and then but that's even just the starting
- 19:21Speaker 3: of it if you're going to report it and it's
- 19:23Speaker 3: not friendly and predators prey on that and so uh
- 19:29Speaker 3: i'm sorry if the dad got to do that you
- 19:32Speaker 3: know like I'm not a fan, but at the same time, dude.
- 19:39Speaker 2: This stuff polices itself in prison anyway. If these prisoners
- 19:43Speaker 2: see you done this, they're going to wipe out anyway.
- 19:45Speaker 2: Let's turn over to Candy. A lot more to get to.
- 19:48Speaker 7: So the attacker was jesus mora flores who abducted the
- 19:52Speaker 7: child to a remote location a witness saw him abducting
- 19:58Speaker 7: the girl and raised the alarm the father ran toward
- 20:02Speaker 7: his daughter's screams found flores assaulting her and struck him
- 20:08Speaker 7: several times in the head and neck area. The district
- 20:12Speaker 7: attorney and sheriff announced that a grand jury reviewed the
- 20:15Speaker 7: case and found the father was legally justified in using
- 20:19Speaker 7: deadly force to protect his child, resulting in no charges.
- 20:24Speaker 7: Let's face it. She was five years old. She can't
- 20:30Speaker 7: say no. She can't, like, I mean, she has to
- 20:33Speaker 7: be protected.
- 20:34Speaker 5: Yes.
- 20:34Speaker 7: Dad has, you know, someone has to step up for
- 20:37Speaker 7: her because she can't, she doesn't even know what's going on.
- 20:40Speaker 7: What's happening. She's just a little girl. What's sad about
- 20:46Speaker 7: it is she'll forever have this ingrained in her memory.
- 20:50Speaker 7: You can't take that away.
- 20:52Speaker 5: You know, that's true.
- 20:55Speaker 3: I have a friend who was molested at age 10
- 20:57Speaker 3: by her uncle. And the problem is she didn't know
- 21:01Speaker 3: it was bad because he did it as love, you know,
- 21:05Speaker 3: and because I love you. And she was enjoying it
- 21:07Speaker 3: because it feels good. And then she grew up and
- 21:10Speaker 3: found out that it was bad. And then there was
- 21:13Speaker 3: a time when she wanted to redefine the word orgasm
- 21:16Speaker 3: because she has so much shame from it. And I'm like,
- 21:20Speaker 3: goodness gracious, what a tangled, awful web of a mess
- 21:25Speaker 3: because of some pervert.
- 21:29Speaker 2: Candy got a good one in the chat room. Please
- 21:31Speaker 2: put it up. This one. Go ahead and read it
- 21:35Speaker 2: while you're at it.
- 21:36Speaker 7: Eye for an eye leaves everyone blind is a phrase
- 21:40Speaker 7: from a reason, folks. Slippery slope. Justice isn't just equal punishment.
- 21:48Speaker 7: It's also about preventing future issues without causing more problems.
- 21:53Speaker 2: Bingo. Thank you. That's a good comment. I like that.
- 21:57Speaker 2: Anything else you want to add to it, Candy?
- 21:59Speaker 7: No, I'm good.
- 22:01Speaker 2: All right. Well, you know what? In my opinion, kudos
- 22:03Speaker 2: to the father for beating the daylights out of this bum. Okay.
- 22:07Speaker 2: I wouldn't ask him to rest in peace, but at
- 22:09Speaker 2: least he got to a place where he's going to
- 22:11Speaker 2: do it again. All right. Well, here you go. Zach
- 22:14Speaker 2: Bryan smashes a U.S. concert record with 112,000 people in
- 22:18Speaker 2: attendance at Michigan Stadium at It was the largest ticketed
- 22:24Speaker 2: concert in U.S. history, surpassing a previous record of 107-019
- 22:27Speaker 2: set by the Grateful Dead in 1977. The Big House.
- 22:35Speaker 2: Jen's having some issues. I'm sure she'll be back. All right.
- 22:39Speaker 2: What do you think, Steve? The Big House?
- 22:42Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw that in the news. That's awesome for him.
- 22:47Speaker 4: And I didn't realize the Dead was the U.S., record
- 22:52Speaker 4: holder for that. I love the Grateful Dead. Kudos to
- 22:57Speaker 4: Luke Bryan. I think that's great. Good for him.
- 23:03Speaker 5: That is very cool. That's a lot of people.
- 23:07Speaker 6: I remember my freshman year in college when the old
- 23:11Speaker 6: JFK Stadium was still up in Philadelphia. You two played there.
- 23:15Speaker 6: That seated about 100,000 people. And a buddy of mine
- 23:20Speaker 6: had an extra ticket and he said, let's go. So
- 23:23Speaker 6: we all, so me and a hundred thousand of my
- 23:25Speaker 6: closest friends, and they weren't even looking.
- 23:28Speaker 5: I can remember it.
- 23:29Speaker 6: They weren't even looking. It was just a mob scene
- 23:31Speaker 6: to get in. And it was like, everybody pushed in.
- 23:35Speaker 6: They were barely looking at tickets. And then what made
- 23:39Speaker 6: it even cooler is that Bruce Springsteen came on stage
- 23:42Speaker 6: at the concert. So packing, packing a stadium with, 115,000
- 23:50Speaker 6: people Shows that he's got a lot of fans And
- 23:52Speaker 6: a lot of people that like what he's doing And
- 23:55Speaker 6: that's a good payday too Okay.
- 23:59Speaker 3: Jen Sadly I don't even have a clue what we're
- 24:01Speaker 3: talking about Because my internet keeps failing me And I
- 24:04Speaker 3: keep having.
- 24:05Speaker 2: To go back and forth Go ahead Candy We're talking
- 24:08Speaker 2: about Luke Bryan And him setting a record Attendance for
- 24:13Speaker 2: a concert In the US at the Big.
- 24:15Speaker 3: House Oh well congratulations to him Is that all I
- 24:21Speaker 3: have to say? Go ahead.
- 24:26Speaker 7: I mean, let's face it. It was a historic first-ever
- 24:30Speaker 7: concert at the Big House. And, yeah, Zach Bryan set
- 24:38Speaker 7: the U.S.-ticketed concert attendance record with 112,408 fans. We talked
- 24:40Speaker 7: a little bit about on Inside the Pigskin about how
- 24:48Speaker 7: some of these NFL stadiums, and I know the Big
- 24:52Speaker 7: House is not an NFL stadium, but we talked about
- 24:54Speaker 7: how some of the NFL stadiums paid to put regular
- 24:58Speaker 7: grass in for the World Cup. And then they switched
- 25:02Speaker 7: back to artificial. And part of their logic and reasoning
- 25:06Speaker 7: is because when you have concerts like this, you're completely
- 25:10Speaker 7: covering up the grass. The grass can't grow. It gets
- 25:13Speaker 7: damaged and everything like that. And so that's why you
- 25:16Speaker 7: have a lot of artificial grass. turf in some of
- 25:19Speaker 7: these stadiums. And I must, I don't know, Scott, you
- 25:23Speaker 7: would know what the big house has, if it has
- 25:25Speaker 7: artificial turf or not, but a lot of these stadiums
- 25:29Speaker 7: think about it. If you, if they only use them
- 25:31Speaker 7: for football, that's only how many games during the year.
- 25:35Speaker 7: And that's a big expense. If you think about it,
- 25:40Speaker 7: that's sitting there that they could use for concerts and
- 25:43Speaker 7: do other things. So kudos to them for putting on
- 25:47Speaker 7: concerts there. and letting more people, especially up in, like,
- 25:51Speaker 7: let's face it, Michigan's not in the warmest city. It
- 25:55Speaker 7: gets really cold in the winter. So you've got to
- 25:58Speaker 7: really take advantage of the summer months and months that
- 26:02Speaker 7: you don't have football and weeks that you don't have
- 26:08Speaker 7: football because the team goes on, you know, goes, plays
- 26:12Speaker 7: opponents at away games and stuff like that. The other
- 26:16Speaker 7: thing that does And not only does it give people
- 26:20Speaker 7: a chance to go to a concert, the workers that
- 26:24Speaker 7: have to work there, it employs them and gives them
- 26:27Speaker 7: another paycheck too. And we sometimes don't think about that,
- 26:31Speaker 7: but the parking attendants, the people that clean the stadium,
- 26:37Speaker 7: the food.
- 26:38Speaker 2: Vendors and all that, it's.
- 26:39Speaker 7: Extra work and pay for them. So kudos to them.
- 26:44Speaker 7: I like to see when they do things like this.
- 26:47Speaker 7: even though I can't afford to go to most of them.
- 26:50Speaker 5: Yeah, no, exactly, yeah.
- 26:54Speaker 2: Well, like I said, Michigan Stadium is a node to
- 26:57Speaker 2: not only hold that event, but they've also had a
- 27:00Speaker 2: lot of big events like soccer. I was thinking Manchester
- 27:03Speaker 2: United was in there. So if there's any building that
- 27:07Speaker 2: can hold big events outside of Michigan football, it's definitely
- 27:11Speaker 2: that one, and they pack them by a lot. All right,
- 27:13Speaker 2: let's go to our featured topic of the night, Atlanta
- 27:15Speaker 2: Honors Hank Aaron. Why wouldn't they honor Hank Aaron because
- 27:18Speaker 2: he's played with the Braves and what he's meant to
- 27:20Speaker 2: that franchise is unbelievable. An iconic Hank Aaron statue will
- 27:25Speaker 2: be moved to Georgia State's new baseball stadium, which will
- 27:29Speaker 2: be relocated at the main entrance of the new baseball stadium.
- 27:33Speaker 2: Excuse me. What's neat about the whole thing is that
- 27:38Speaker 2: it will be It's being built on the site of
- 27:43Speaker 2: the old Fulton County Stadium where the Atlanta Braves played
- 27:47Speaker 2: from 1966 to 1997 when they moved into Turner Field,
- 27:50Speaker 2: which was converted from Atlanta's Olympic Stadium. And obviously construction
- 27:56Speaker 2: is expected to be complete by fall of 2026. Okay, Steve,
- 27:59Speaker 2: some thoughts about what they're doing in Atlanta honoring Hank Aaron.
- 28:06Speaker 4: Yeah, I would have thought they already had done that.
- 28:09Speaker 4: I mean, Hammer and Hank is an icon. And, you know,
- 28:12Speaker 4: he handled his whole career with such class. I mean,
- 28:16Speaker 4: he was such a great ballplayer. And I'm glad to
- 28:20Speaker 4: hear that. I mean, I've been to the old ballpark
- 28:25Speaker 4: there in Atlanta, and I've been to the new one.
- 28:27Speaker 4: And it's an awesome place. But they should have. Hank's
- 28:33Speaker 4: statue right as you walk in the main gate there.
- 28:37Speaker 4: I mean, I'm glad they're doing that.
- 28:40Speaker 2: Eddie?
- 28:43Speaker 5: It's the house that Hank built. I mean, he was
- 28:47Speaker 5: from 54 to 76. No, he was for 23 seasons. No,
- 28:52Speaker 5: he was the man down there in Atlanta and Milwaukee.
- 28:54Speaker 5: I mean, Milwaukee slash Atlanta.
- 28:57Speaker 6: But, yeah, I mean, to Steve, I would have thought
- 29:00Speaker 6: maybe they had done something. They should have Hammer and
- 29:03Speaker 6: Hank right at the gate welcoming you as you walk in,
- 29:06Speaker 6: like he's shaking your hand. He was a great ball player,
- 29:11Speaker 6: and he was a class act off the field as well.
- 29:14Speaker 6: And I just think, you know, I like when I
- 29:17Speaker 6: see that kind of stuff happen.
- 29:19Speaker 5: So good for Atlanta.
- 29:21Speaker 2: All right, Jen, go ahead.
- 29:23Speaker 3: Anytime I think of Hank Aaron, it brings me back
- 29:25Speaker 3: to my youth and that my grandfather and my dad, I,
- 29:28Speaker 3: everybody was all into Hank Aaron. And then I think
- 29:30Speaker 3: of that candy bar.
- 29:31Speaker 2: Oh, Henry.
- 29:31Speaker 3: Remember the commercial?
- 29:33Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
- 29:34Speaker 2: I like that one.
- 29:37Speaker 3: Everything was on.
- 29:38Speaker 5: Oh, Henry. Right.
- 29:39Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 29:41Speaker 2: That's awesome.
- 29:43Speaker 5: That is a good reference.
- 29:44Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, my great aunt was a season ticket
- 29:48Speaker 4: holder for the Boston Braves. And shortly after they moved
- 29:53Speaker 4: to Milwaukee, she was heartbroken, but she still followed the Braves.
- 29:58Speaker 4: And she loved Hank Aaron from the time he was
- 30:02Speaker 4: in Milwaukee through Atlanta. She always followed his career, and
- 30:07Speaker 4: she was like, he should have been in Boston the
- 30:09Speaker 4: whole time. They should have never left. I always remember that.
- 30:15Speaker 6: I mean, just look at this. He was a 25-time All-Star,
- 30:18Speaker 6: a record. 1957 NL MVP, 57 World Series champ, three
- 30:21Speaker 6: gold gloves.
- 30:27Speaker 5: Two batting titles.
- 30:30Speaker 6: I mean, the man really, I mean, he was an
- 30:33Speaker 6: all-around player, and he had, I think, three gold, what
- 30:36Speaker 6: is it, three gold gloves, I thought I read.
- 30:39Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
- 30:40Speaker 6: And so, I mean, he was, yeah, three gold gloves
- 30:42Speaker 6: and two batting titles. I mean, what, I mean, yeah, anybody,
- 30:47Speaker 6: he was, he was.
- 30:50Speaker 5: The Michael Jordan of baseball in his day.
- 30:52Speaker 2: Hey, Candy?
- 30:58Speaker 7: The iconic bronze Hank Aaron statue by sculptor Ed Dwight Jr.,
- 31:03Speaker 7: which honors his historic 715th home run and was originally
- 31:09Speaker 7: dedicated in September of 1982, is moving to the main
- 31:15Speaker 7: entrance of Georgia State University's new 1,000-seat baseball stadium in
- 31:21Speaker 7: the Summerhill neighborhood. At the current location, the statue was...
- 31:26Speaker 7: has stood outside Center Park Stadium, which was formerly Turner
- 31:30Speaker 7: Field and originally the site of Atlanta Fulton County Stadium,
- 31:35Speaker 7: the entrance plaza of Georgia State University's new $ 15. 85 million
- 31:41Speaker 7: baseball stadium. The new ballpark is being constructed directly on
- 31:46Speaker 7: the footprint of the old Atlanta Fulton County Stadium, where
- 31:51Speaker 7: Hank Aaron hit his record-breaking touchdown. 715th home run on
- 31:57Speaker 7: April 8th of 1974. And a new marker in left
- 32:02Speaker 7: field will also replace the old wall fence to commemorate
- 32:07Speaker 7: the exact spot of the 715th home run.
- 32:13Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just surreal. I mean, think of Hank Aaron.
- 32:18Speaker 2: I still feel that he, in my mind, is the
- 32:21Speaker 2: all-time home run king, not Barry Bond. I mean, this
- 32:24Speaker 2: guy did it the right way. I mean, I really
- 32:27Speaker 2: always have believed that, and I always will believe that,
- 32:30Speaker 2: that Hank Aaron to me is truly legitimate. What else
- 32:34Speaker 2: can you say? Everybody talk on the topic?
- 32:38Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
- 32:39Speaker 2: Okay. All right. Or anybody want to add to it? Okay. Well, Denny's,
- 32:47Speaker 2: there's a guy that spent 48 years on the same job.
- 32:49Speaker 2: His name is Barney Mullins. 1978, a Phoenix. How about
- 32:53Speaker 2: spending 48 years on one job? All right. Let alone
- 32:58Speaker 2: a Denny's? A Denny's?
- 33:02Speaker 5: You said 48 years at Denny's.
- 33:04Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 33:06Speaker 5: And where is it?
- 33:07Speaker 2: In Phoenix.
- 33:09Speaker 5: Phoenix. Okay.
- 33:12Speaker 2: Wow.
- 33:13Speaker 3: He's committed.
- 33:13Speaker 5: 1978.
- 33:13Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 33:19Speaker 4: That would be what, 1978, right?
- 33:21Speaker 2: Yeah. He was actually 78 is what he was. I'm
- 33:25Speaker 2: looking for the information right now, but think about spending
- 33:29Speaker 2: 48 years over at Denny's. And hey, listen, I have
- 33:31Speaker 2: no problem with the food when I go there, but
- 33:33Speaker 2: that to me is still surreal is really what it is.
- 33:36Speaker 4: And he must have really liked his job.
- 33:39Speaker 2: And they must have really liked it.
- 33:41Speaker 7: And where was that, Scott?
- 33:43Speaker 2: In Phoenix, Arizona.
- 33:44Speaker 4: Phoenix, okay.
- 33:45Speaker 2: Go ahead, look it up, Candy. I am.
- 33:47Speaker 5: Is he still there?
- 33:48Speaker 6: I have a client out in Phoenix that I might
- 33:51Speaker 6: be going visiting in a couple weeks.
- 33:53Speaker 2: He's out there.
- 33:54Speaker 5: I want to say, we talked about you here. Let
- 33:56Speaker 5: me show you the clip.
- 33:57Speaker 2: Yeah, right. Yeah, Candy will look it up.
- 34:01Speaker 7: Longtime busboy, Barney Mullen, celebrated 48 years of service at Denny's,
- 34:07Speaker 7: located at Campbellback Road and 7th Street in Phoenix, Arizona.
- 34:14Speaker 7: He's worked as a busser and a dishwasher at the
- 34:16Speaker 7: same location since the late 1970s. He was hired around 77, 78.
- 34:22Speaker 7: A celebration, it's called Barney's Night, was held on Wednesday,
- 34:27Speaker 7: April 8th of 2026 to honor both his work anniversary
- 34:32Speaker 7: and his birthday. The community support, 20 to 25% of
- 34:35Speaker 7: the day's sales were donated to Laura Turner Homes, a
- 34:40Speaker 7: local Phoenix nonprofit providing housing and support for adults with
- 34:45Speaker 7: developmental disabilities where Mullen lives. Special recognition, U.S. Representative Greg
- 34:53Speaker 7: Stanton stopped by the event to present Mullen with a
- 34:56Speaker 7: certificate of congressional recognition. Mullen is recognized as a pioneer
- 35:02Speaker 7: and role model for the employment of individuals with intellectual
- 35:06Speaker 7: and developmental disabilities.
- 35:09Speaker 2: Pretty impressive yeah it really is i mean that is
- 35:14Speaker 2: yeah when i saw that i just you know steve
- 35:17Speaker 2: and i when we started doing this show we kept
- 35:18Speaker 2: talking about where all these mcdonald's and all these burger
- 35:22Speaker 2: keys weren't everywhere else but i mean it was just
- 35:25Speaker 2: surreal wasn't.
- 35:26Speaker 3: It my first job was helping people with developmental disabilities
- 35:30Speaker 3: get jobs out in the community was really a very
- 35:33Speaker 3: rewarding and educational job.
- 35:37Speaker 6: You know what's even really as fascinating is that a
- 35:40Speaker 6: Denny's stuck around for 48 years.
- 35:45Speaker 4: Must have been a good one.
- 35:47Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's still rolling. That's great stuff.
- 35:54Speaker 6: In the manufacturing world, you see people sticking around with
- 35:57Speaker 6: that a long time. I've got some clients who have
- 36:00Speaker 6: employees that have been there 35, 36 years. When you
- 36:03Speaker 6: try to promote change and try to influence systems, it can.
- 36:08Speaker 5: Be a little bit tough. But that's a story for
- 36:10Speaker 5: a whole other day. But, no, I think it's great.
- 36:13Speaker 6: It's great what Denny's doing for him. It's great the guy,
- 36:17Speaker 6: you know, gainfully employed, doing his thing. That is just
- 36:24Speaker 6: great to see.
- 36:25Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, some of this stuff is just surreal.
- 36:28Speaker 2: It really is.
- 36:29Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 36:29Speaker 6: That's a feel-good story, Scott. That's a good feel-good story.
- 36:35Speaker 2: Yeah, well, don't worry. I got some pretty interesting ones
- 36:37Speaker 2: coming down now.
- 36:39Speaker 5: I'm sure you do.
- 36:41Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Get ready now. I'm looking for a couple. Meanwhile,
- 36:44Speaker 2: can you take a good time to give everybody a
- 36:46Speaker 2: station break? Go ahead.
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- 38:32Speaker 2: Back to you, Scott. All right, Candy. Thank you very much.
- 38:35Speaker 2: Well done. All right, let's talk about presidents and established
- 38:37Speaker 2: national holidays. How about that? The reason why we get
- 38:40Speaker 2: these days off, let's find out who did what and when. Well,
- 38:43Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan actually brought in Martin Luther King Day in 1983,
- 38:46Speaker 2: the third Monday of every January. Arizona didn't buy into
- 38:49Speaker 2: it at the beginning, and as a result, they lost
- 38:51Speaker 2: the Super Bowl because of it. Ronald Reagan, people. You
- 38:55Speaker 2: have Martin Luther King Day. All right. I'll go over
- 38:59Speaker 2: them all, then you guys can talk about them. Rutherford B. Hayes,
- 39:03Speaker 2: President's Day, 1879, third Monday in February. We have Lyndon B.
- 39:09Speaker 2: Johnson Memorial Day, 1968, last Monday in May. We got
- 39:15Speaker 2: Joe Biden, June 10th. I wonder where that came from.
- 39:17Speaker 2: That was relatively new. Well, At least you got that
- 39:19Speaker 2: one right, Joe. Okay. Juneteenth.
- 39:22Speaker 4: What is it?
- 39:23Speaker 2: Juneteenth day, Joe Biden. Oh, Juneteenth.
- 39:26Speaker 4: Okay.
- 39:27Speaker 2: Yeah. I never heard of it. It's something different. Grover Cleveland,
- 39:31Speaker 2: Labor Day, 1894, first Monday in September. Don't tell that
- 39:36Speaker 2: to all the lionesses out there with Labor Day every
- 39:38Speaker 2: five seconds, but I had to throw that in there.
- 39:41Speaker 2: Grover Cleveland, I just mentioned. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Columbus Day,
- 39:45Speaker 2: second Monday in October. Woodrow Wilson, Veterans Day, 1919, November 11th.
- 39:54Speaker 2: Abraham Lincoln, Thanksgiving. Ah, I actually got Thanksgiving from Honest Dave. Okay,
- 39:58Speaker 2: thank you very much, Abe. The Lions may thank you,
- 40:01Speaker 2: but they haven't been winning on Thanksgiving lately, but we'll
- 40:03Speaker 2: still take the holiday anyway. All right, Ulysses Grant had
- 40:06Speaker 2: New Year's Day, Independence Day, Christmas, January 1st, July 4th,
- 40:11Speaker 2: December 29th. Ulysses Grant, he contributed to this party pretty good.
- 40:15Speaker 2: And there you have it. All right, Steve, what president
- 40:19Speaker 2: are you giving the most kudos to all this stuff?
- 40:22Speaker 4: Oh, Sam Grant, man. I mean, look at all the
- 40:25Speaker 4: stuff he did. I mean, he, you know, Ulysses Grant,
- 40:29Speaker 4: he was known as Sam, by the way, to his
- 40:31Speaker 4: friends in the military.
- 40:33Speaker 2: So, yeah.
- 40:34Speaker 4: But anyway, yeah, look at all the holidays he gave us.
- 40:38Speaker 4: But I will say this, Abraham Lincoln was a football fan, right?
- 40:43Speaker 4: There you go. Thanksgiving. I read that, and Abraham Lincoln
- 40:48Speaker 4: said that on Twitter, so there you go.
- 40:51Speaker 5: He said it on Twitter, right?
- 40:54Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 40:55Speaker 4: He said that on Twitter, so you know it's true.
- 40:59Speaker 6: If you read it on the internet, of course it's true, right?
- 41:02Speaker 3: It must be. It must be true.
- 41:07Speaker 5: I think they're all.
- 41:09Speaker 6: Honest Abe giving us Thanksgiving and then You rattled them off, Scott.
- 41:13Speaker 6: But Memorial, I like Veterans Day, Memorial Day, where we remember.
- 41:21Speaker 5: A lot of military people, families, friends, and stuff. I
- 41:26Speaker 5: always think that's good.
- 41:28Speaker 6: My grandfather, my dad's mom, his birthday was right around
- 41:32Speaker 6: Memorial Day. And it would usually fall on, sometimes how
- 41:37Speaker 6: the days fall, his would fall on Memorial Day weekend.
- 41:40Speaker 5: And his running joke for all his family and friends was,
- 41:44Speaker 5: I'm giving you Monday off for my birthday.
- 41:49Speaker 6: So, you know, it's funny. That kind of came back
- 41:53Speaker 6: into mind just recently. And my birthday has a tendency,
- 41:56Speaker 6: being the 31st of August.
- 41:58Speaker 5: To fall on Labor Day weekend.
- 42:00Speaker 6: And so when it does, I've had no need. You
- 42:04Speaker 6: guys can all have off Monday for my birthday.
- 42:06Speaker 5: So anyway.
- 42:08Speaker 6: I think it's great when the presidents look out for
- 42:12Speaker 6: the American people and honoring those and things that happen.
- 42:16Speaker 5: Here in the country. Good for them. I didn't know
- 42:21Speaker 5: his name was Sam. I learned something new, Steve.
- 42:26Speaker 2: Ulysses S.
- 42:27Speaker 5: Grant, you said his name was Sam?
- 42:29Speaker 4: There you go.
- 42:32Speaker 2: Look at that.
- 42:32Speaker 4: I'm learning too much. He was known as Sam.
- 42:36Speaker 6: Known as Sam. That's kind of like Bill McCroskey merit
- 42:42Speaker 6: on those commanders.
- 42:44Speaker 2: Anyway. Well, I like Grant a bit because all the
- 42:48Speaker 2: holidays he created.
- 42:51Speaker 3: I mean, he launched the whole thing, right? So it's
- 42:54Speaker 3: like he, yeah, Ulysses S. Grant launched the whole thing,
- 42:57Speaker 3: the whole concept.
- 42:58Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 42:59Speaker 3: And then, I mean, I'm surprised that he didn't include Thanksgiving,
- 43:03Speaker 3: but kudos to Abe, you know, honest Abe for adding
- 43:07Speaker 3: in Thanksgiving. I'm with Ed. I am a big fan
- 43:10Speaker 3: of Veterans Day. I think even though, you know, Memorial
- 43:14Speaker 3: Day is memorial, you know, and I think people tend
- 43:18Speaker 3: to forget that, you know, that it is actually a
- 43:22Speaker 3: somber day. And Labor Day kind of is too, really,
- 43:26Speaker 3: it was supposed to be a day to say, It's
- 43:29Speaker 3: like a mental health day. That was the original intent
- 43:32Speaker 3: of it is for the laborers to get a day back.
- 43:37Speaker 3: I think Martin Luther King Day is very important. I
- 43:40Speaker 3: think it felt like uniting in the black community. I
- 43:44Speaker 3: know he himself is a bit controversial nowadays when more
- 43:47Speaker 3: things come out, but I still think it's good. He's
- 43:49Speaker 3: still a hero and let's just keep it at that.
- 43:51Speaker 3: I'm not going to go deep into that. But I
- 43:55Speaker 3: just think that having days off as a nation is
- 43:59Speaker 3: really healthy overall. And, and I'm glad we do them.
- 44:03Speaker 3: I know, I remember like as a kid, we had
- 44:05Speaker 3: two president's days because we would do Washington's birthday and
- 44:09Speaker 3: late and Lincoln's birthday two weeks in a row. And
- 44:12Speaker 3: I don't remember if it changed when we added Martin
- 44:14Speaker 3: Luther King and then they just shortened it down into
- 44:17Speaker 3: one president's day. It might be that because the 80
- 44:21Speaker 3: sounds around about when I would remember something happening.
- 44:24Speaker 6: You know, that sounds right to me.
- 44:26Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 44:26Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 44:27Speaker 6: We had, we had a, Growing up here in the D.C. area,
- 44:30Speaker 6: growing up in grade school, we had a lot of,
- 44:32Speaker 6: you know, federal holidays sneezed and they were off, we
- 44:35Speaker 6: were off and stuff. But, you know, it seemed like
- 44:37Speaker 6: there was, to your point, Jennifer, it seemed like there
- 44:40Speaker 6: was a lot of.
- 44:40Speaker 5: Federal holidays back then where everybody was taking off. Yeah.
- 44:47Speaker 3: Interesting.
- 44:48Speaker 4: They need to add one more, and that's Super Bowl
- 44:51Speaker 4: Monday should be a national holiday.
- 44:53Speaker 5: Yes, yes.
- 44:55Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know what? For some crazy reason, I
- 44:58Speaker 2: think Donald Trump's going to do it. I don't know why.
- 45:00Speaker 2: He needs something to go with life.
- 45:04Speaker 4: Well, he hasn't answered my text messages. I mentioned that
- 45:09Speaker 4: to him.
- 45:10Speaker 5: You got to get them at midnight or 2 a.m.
- 45:12Speaker 5: on True Social.
- 45:14Speaker 2: Well, actually, he might be working with the USFL trying
- 45:16Speaker 2: to bring it back to life. Don't hold your breath.
- 45:23Speaker 2: He only got a dollar out of the deal. Okay.
- 45:27Speaker 7: You know, my very first job out of college, I
- 45:31Speaker 7: actually worked inside a VA hospital at the credit union.
- 45:36Speaker 2: Loved it.
- 45:37Speaker 7: A I'm working in a bank and two, I'm working
- 45:40Speaker 7: inside a VA hospital where it's on federal properties. So
- 45:50Speaker 7: all the federal holidays I always got. Now, One caveat
- 45:55Speaker 7: to that is, yes, I always got the day off.
- 45:59Speaker 7: My grandmother always saw it because it was red on
- 46:02Speaker 7: the calendar. So she would circle the day and say, oh,
- 46:05Speaker 7: candy's off. So candy's going to come up and help
- 46:08Speaker 7: me on her farm because she lived on a 110
- 46:12Speaker 7: acre crop farm until she was 96 years old. So
- 46:15Speaker 7: don't get me wrong. I loved spending time with her.
- 46:18Speaker 5: It was great.
- 46:19Speaker 7: But all of those holidays, especially the ones that weren't
- 46:22Speaker 7: your normal like Everybody celebrates, you know, the Christmas and
- 46:26Speaker 7: the families celebrate it. Some of those other little ones
- 46:29Speaker 7: like President's Day, Veterans Day, not everybody celebrates that and
- 46:34Speaker 7: gets together as a family. So my grandmother would definitely, oh,
- 46:37Speaker 7: candy's coming up. Let me do, let me have her
- 46:40Speaker 7: honeydew list. It's kind of funny. You know, everybody talks
- 46:43Speaker 7: about spouses and having a honeydew list for your spouse.
- 46:47Speaker 7: She had a honeydew list for any time we went
- 46:49Speaker 7: up to visit.
- 46:50Speaker 5: Her, but it was great.
- 46:52Speaker 2: Growing up.
- 46:53Speaker 7: That was cool.
- 46:54Speaker 3: 96 on a farm is impressive.
- 46:57Speaker 7: That's what kept her young. That's what I tell people.
- 47:01Speaker 7: You got to keep your mind going and keep your
- 47:05Speaker 7: body moving and that keeps you young.
- 47:09Speaker 2: My birthday worked out pretty good. I'm December 29th. I
- 47:16Speaker 2: got slapped right in the middle of it all. I
- 47:19Speaker 2: always made sure I had a day off for my employer.
- 47:21Speaker 2: I said, yeah, man, you're so worn out all year anyways.
- 47:24Speaker 2: I'm taking my birthday off. Okay, go ahead and do it.
- 47:26Speaker 2: But they're so, you get it tired when they're so
- 47:28Speaker 2: tired for the rest of the year. Don't make a
- 47:30Speaker 2: wicked difference. Eh, don't think so. Good. Do that 40,
- 47:33Speaker 2: 50 times and then become your own employment. You don't
- 47:36Speaker 2: have to worry about it. All you do is you
- 47:38Speaker 2: go out to the game and cover events. You don't
- 47:39Speaker 2: have to be sad at work.
- 47:41Speaker 3: But, well, it is what it is.
- 47:42Speaker 2: But I'll tell you what, I like Grant and I
- 47:44Speaker 2: like Lincoln because they represent a lot of things. Grant
- 47:48Speaker 2: represents a lot of holidays and Lincoln represents football. And
- 47:51Speaker 2: then the eyes of Jimmy Walker, they're dynamite. All right,
- 47:54Speaker 2: I'm not doing that. Dynamite, okay. Well, here's another weird
- 47:58Speaker 2: one for you. Guess what? Troy Palomaro was buying $ 10, 000
- 48:03Speaker 2: calling his wife during a game after leaving game 2011
- 48:07Speaker 2: with a concussion like symptoms. They used his phone to
- 48:11Speaker 2: reassure his wife. about this whole thing, that he was okay.
- 48:15Speaker 2: I mean, my goodness, leave this guy alone. It's not
- 48:18Speaker 2: like he's doing anything that was really that big of
- 48:21Speaker 2: a deal. I mean, 10 grand for this? Please. Okay, Steve.
- 48:30Speaker 2: That's stupid. It is stupid.
- 48:34Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, finding the guy 10 grand for that?
- 48:38Speaker 4: I mean, there's so much.
- 48:41Speaker 4: Going on in the world, that's what they're going to
- 48:43Speaker 4: fine somebody 10 grand for? Give me a break. And
- 48:48Speaker 4: I wasn't a big Colomalo fan, although he had great hair.
- 48:52Speaker 5: He did have great hair.
- 48:53Speaker 2: Can you imagine if all that was gray? God, that's terrible.
- 48:58Speaker 2: That's one big, that'd be one sponge of gray or whatever,
- 49:02Speaker 2: Brillo pad or whatever you want. I'll leave the 10
- 49:04Speaker 2: grand in his pocket for that.
- 49:06Speaker 4: No, I said great with the T.
- 49:08Speaker 2: Oh, great.
- 49:09Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 49:12Speaker 4: Great hair. Great hair. Yes.
- 49:15Speaker 5: He was on the all-hair team.
- 49:18Speaker 6: Now it's just the NFL doing the no fun league.
- 49:23Speaker 4: I don't.
- 49:25Speaker 5: Know. They have stupid rules. Some of these rules are just...
- 49:32Speaker 5: I don't know. Is it surprising? No. Does he have
- 49:37Speaker 5: 10 grand in his back pocket? Probably.
- 49:40Speaker 6: Is it kind of he was doing something, you know,
- 49:42Speaker 6: he was calling his wife to assure her that he's not,
- 49:45Speaker 6: you know, in a convulsive state, dying?
- 49:49Speaker 5: You know, that's kind of would have been kind of
- 49:52Speaker 5: nice if somebody looks the other way. But, you.
- 49:56Speaker 2: Know.
- 49:57Speaker 5: Yeah. As it was said in stripes, NFL has to
- 50:00Speaker 5: lighten up, Francis.
- 50:05Speaker 2: All right, Jen.
- 50:06Speaker 3: Yeah, I need to know more behind why they decided
- 50:10Speaker 3: that they need this rule that it seems very frivolous
- 50:13Speaker 3: to me and very catty and not very warm and caring.
- 50:17Speaker 3: Not that the NFL ever is warm and caring, but
- 50:20Speaker 3: it's like, can we be human beings? And I think that,
- 50:23Speaker 3: you know, I met you guys because of all the
- 50:26Speaker 3: talks that we were doing with concussions and CTE and
- 50:29Speaker 3: the ramifications of brain injuries.
- 50:32Speaker 5: And to....
- 50:36Speaker 3: You know, the NFL is, is they want to sweep
- 50:38Speaker 3: it all under the rug and pretend like it's not happening.
- 50:40Speaker 3: The conversation is happening now. And then to do something
- 50:44Speaker 3: like that at a time when it, the conversation is heightened.
- 50:49Speaker 3: We all know that these high contact sports are severely dangerous,
- 50:55Speaker 3: not just on the field. It lasts forever. And then,
- 51:00Speaker 3: you know, you're trying to calm your spouse down to say, Hey,
- 51:03Speaker 3: it's I'm okay. I just, I don't know.
- 51:05Speaker 5: To me, Stupid.
- 51:07Speaker 3: It's just stupid. That's just uncaring on purpose.
- 51:10Speaker 2: Candy?
- 51:12Speaker 7: So, Paolo Malo left the game with mild concussion-like symptoms
- 51:17Speaker 7: after a tackle on Maurice Jones Drew. Because of his
- 51:21Speaker 7: history of concussions, he borrowed a team doctor's cell phone
- 51:26Speaker 7: to call his wife and let her know he was okay.
- 51:29Speaker 7: The rule, and I don't know if the rule is
- 51:33Speaker 7: still now, because this happened back in 2011. The rule,
- 51:38Speaker 7: the NFL strictly prohibits players from possessing or using cell
- 51:45Speaker 7: phones or other electronic devices in the bench area from
- 51:49Speaker 7: 90 minutes before kickoff until the end of the game.
- 51:54Speaker 7: He appealed the fine. And in January of 2012, he
- 51:58Speaker 7: successfully won the appeal and did not have to pay
- 52:02Speaker 7: the $ 10.
- 52:02Speaker 2: 000 penalty.
- 52:02Speaker 5: Nice.
- 52:05Speaker 2: Good.
- 52:06Speaker 5: NFL did something right.
- 52:10Speaker 4: One of the rare times.
- 52:12Speaker 2: All right. Like I said, Troy Palomaro, $ 10, 000 a phone.
- 52:17Speaker 2: Where are you going to hear it? Right here on
- 52:20Speaker 2: the Motor City Madhouse, people. Just like you're going to
- 52:23Speaker 2: hear this next one.
- 52:25Speaker 5: All right.
- 52:25Speaker 2: All right. These facts explain why you don't mess with hippos. H-I-P-P-O-S.
- 52:31Speaker 2: I know Jennifer talks on hippos. Before, so I had
- 52:35Speaker 2: to give her her wish and talking about it. Ready?
- 52:37Speaker 2: Be careful what you ask for, Jen. So here, let's
- 52:41Speaker 2: go around the horn here. I'm going to read them
- 52:43Speaker 2: all and then you all can comment on them. I'll
- 52:45Speaker 2: try to go a little slow. Baby hippos can instantly
- 52:49Speaker 2: swim at birth. No swimming lessons needed for gang. Let's
- 52:52Speaker 2: see if that thing's got a big mouth when it's open.
- 52:54Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Hippos mostly feed at night, spending most
- 52:58Speaker 2: of their daylight hours in the water chilling. Hippos can
- 53:02Speaker 2: weigh over Let's see, they can weigh over 110 pounds
- 53:06Speaker 2: or 10,000 pounds. I was going to say, what? Yeah, right. Well,
- 53:14Speaker 2: the newborn babies are 110 pounds, and that's got to hurt. Oh,
- 53:18Speaker 2: my God. Hippos can see, hear, breathe, while mostly submerged,
- 53:23Speaker 2: nostrils point right up over the head. Man, these are
- 53:27Speaker 2: really weird-looking animals, but they sleep over 10 hours a
- 53:31Speaker 2: day and look cuddly doing it. I usually get 10
- 53:34Speaker 2: hours a week, maybe if I'm lucky. Lately, 20. But
- 53:37Speaker 2: 10 hours a day, not bad. Hippos have no sweat glands.
- 53:43Speaker 2: They rely on water to cool them down. They communicate
- 53:47Speaker 2: with dung. They fling it around to make their presence known.
- 53:52Speaker 2: Let's see what else. Baby hippos are born in the water.
- 53:55Speaker 2: They must swim to the surface to get their first breath.
- 53:59Speaker 2: Bro looks low. I'll tell you a little, some of
- 54:02Speaker 2: these pictures tell a thousand words. Hippos often live in
- 54:05Speaker 2: groups over a hundred and it's led by one huge male.
- 54:09Speaker 2: All right. Hippos bite forces over 1800 PSI. One of
- 54:14Speaker 2: the strongest in the animal kingdom. If bro gets ahold
- 54:17Speaker 2: of you, it's over. Okay. Birds hitch rides on hippos
- 54:22Speaker 2: because they stir up insects beneath them, making food easy
- 54:26Speaker 2: to come by. This is the world's only albino hippo.
- 54:30Speaker 2: Dude wants to be a pig so bad. You saw
- 54:33Speaker 2: the picture. You'd really laugh. Hippos can open their jaw
- 54:36Speaker 2: 180 degrees. What that mouth can do. Despite their size,
- 54:42Speaker 2: they can run 30 km or 19 miles an hour.
- 54:46Speaker 2: There's roughly 150,000 hippos alive today. Hippos communicate, honking at
- 54:52Speaker 2: each other, just like New Yorker drivers down here. I
- 54:54Speaker 2: view New York drivers as the equivalent to hippos. They
- 54:57Speaker 2: honk at each other. Yeah, there you go. That too.
- 55:02Speaker 2: They are highly territorial and aggressive, which is the main
- 55:05Speaker 2: reason why they kill so many people. 300 a year.
- 55:08Speaker 2: And that's that. Okay, Steve. There's your little lesson of hippos, John.
- 55:14Speaker 4: You know, when I spent time in Africa, I did
- 55:18Speaker 4: the whole safari thing for about a week. And I
- 55:24Speaker 4: got to be friends with a guide or a game warden,
- 55:27Speaker 4: I should say. And he was telling me that hippos
- 55:34Speaker 4: fart through their mouth. How about that?
- 55:38Speaker 5: But isn't that a burp then?
- 55:39Speaker 3: Isn't that called a burp?
- 55:40Speaker 5: Yeah. What's the difference?
- 55:42Speaker 3: Does it smell like ow?
- 55:44Speaker 4: Nope. That's a fart.
- 55:48Speaker 6: Wow.
- 55:50Speaker 4: And they are awesome looking, but they are mean. They're
- 55:55Speaker 4: not cuddly and cute. They're mean. They're very mean spirited.
- 56:00Speaker 2: Well, they said I was getting by one of them things.
- 56:03Speaker 2: But don't worry, I'll have plenty more animal stories as
- 56:05Speaker 2: we go along. I have to mix them up a little.
- 56:07Speaker 2: Anytime I hear Jen mention something, I'm going to hunt
- 56:09Speaker 2: for it, or it'll find me. Okay, go ahead, Eddie.
- 56:12Speaker 6: Yeah, they look slow and cuddly, but they are not,
- 56:16Speaker 6: as Steve said, as you were saying, Scott, they're faster
- 56:19Speaker 6: than any human. And actually, they're the most dangerous large
- 56:22Speaker 6: land mammal in Africa, blamed for more human deaths than crocs, elephants,
- 56:31Speaker 6: and lions.
- 56:33Speaker 5: So, yeah, so, you know, that looks cute and cuddly
- 56:37Speaker 5: right there on that picture. And they can actually, I just,
- 56:40Speaker 5: hold on, I just had it. They can open their
- 56:44Speaker 5: mouth some kind of incredibly.
- 56:46Speaker 6: Like, oh, their mouth opens 150 degrees with canines up
- 56:49Speaker 6: to 20 inches long. Yeah, something moving that big at
- 56:58Speaker 6: 20 miles an hour takes a long time to stop.
- 57:01Speaker 2: And if it's not.
- 57:01Speaker 6: Going to open that wide, good luck to you.
- 57:05Speaker 2: Good luck.
- 57:06Speaker 5: You don't have to be the fastest in that one.
- 57:09Speaker 5: You don't have to be the fastest. You just got
- 57:13Speaker 5: to be fastest in the slower route.
- 57:14Speaker 4: Just not be the same.
- 57:16Speaker 5: Exactly.
- 57:17Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 57:18Speaker 3: Yeah, my aunt got chased by a whole herd of
- 57:22Speaker 3: hippos when they were on a safari in Africa. And,
- 57:26Speaker 3: I mean, she said it was the scariest thing ever.
- 57:29Speaker 5: Oh, wow.
- 57:29Speaker 3: Because they're coming. I mean, they're coming fast. And there's
- 57:33Speaker 3: a whole lot of them. And, like, you know, it
- 57:34Speaker 3: takes you a minute to kind of get going. You're
- 57:36Speaker 3: still not going to hit 20 on your little feet.
- 57:40Speaker 5: Exactly. You're sitting there going, are they actually coming at me? Really?
- 57:45Speaker 5: It's like, by the time you.
- 57:49Speaker 3: You know, I can't, I can't help but hear the
- 57:51Speaker 3: word hippo and you know, this is my youth coming
- 57:53Speaker 3: back again, but then that game hungry, hungry hippo always follows.
- 57:57Speaker 3: It always follows, which really gives power to the jingle
- 58:02Speaker 3: of the 1970s. I miss the jingles. Candy, what have
- 58:08Speaker 3: you got on hippos?
- 58:10Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
- 58:11Speaker 7: You know, they secrete an Oily red substance that acts
- 58:15Speaker 7: as a moisturizer, sunblock, and protects them from germs. It
- 58:20Speaker 7: also makes them look like they are sweating blood.
- 58:22Speaker 5: Oh, wow.
- 58:25Speaker 7: Did you know that hippos can't swim or float? They
- 58:29Speaker 7: walk or stand on surfaces below the water like sandbanks.
- 58:34Speaker 7: Even so, they spend most of the day in water
- 58:36Speaker 7: to protect their sensitive skin from the sun. They can
- 58:39Speaker 7: hold their breath up to like seven minutes. Hippos can
- 58:45Speaker 7: close their nostrils and ears to prevent water from entering.
- 58:49Speaker 7: That is why hippo calves can suckle on land or underwater.
- 58:55Speaker 7: They can live up to 40 years. They are the
- 59:01Speaker 7: heaviest mammal. The hippo is considered one of the most
- 59:07Speaker 7: dangerous animals in Africa, and it is highly aggressive, particularly
- 59:12Speaker 7: if you get between it and the water. Their canine teeth,
- 59:16Speaker 7: sharp teeth, are used for fighting. The hippo's closest living
- 59:20Speaker 7: relatives are whales and purposes. And the hippopotamus is the
- 59:27Speaker 7: third largest land mammal. after the elephant and the white rhino.
- 59:34Speaker 7: An open mouth on a hippo is not a yawn,
- 59:38Speaker 7: but it's rather warning you and telling.
- 59:41Speaker 2: You, get away from me.
- 59:43Speaker 7: If you ever see them open their mouth like that, run.
- 59:47Speaker 2: The other way.
- 59:48Speaker 3: Like the rattle on a snake.
- 59:49Speaker 6: Maybe I'll start doing that at home.
- 59:51Speaker 5: Why can you go in? Yeah. No, actually, and you
- 59:59Speaker 5: know what the name means in Greek? River horse. Oh. Yeah,
- 1:00:05Speaker 5: how about that? River horse.
- 1:00:07Speaker 3: Which is interesting, yeah.
- 1:00:08Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 1:00:09Speaker 5: It says here, worst named animal ever.
- 1:00:12Speaker 3: Right, because you're certainly not going to ride it.
- 1:00:14Speaker 5: No, it's closer to a whale than a horse. Probably
- 1:00:16Speaker 5: not going to tame it. Right?
- 1:00:17Speaker 6: But you know what's interesting is that, as Candy was saying,
- 1:00:19Speaker 6: did you say it's related to.
- 1:00:22Speaker 5: The whale and the porpoise?
- 1:00:23Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:00:24Speaker 6: It's almost like, when you said that, my first thought
- 1:00:27Speaker 6: was that The hippo was related to it but has
- 1:00:31Speaker 6: evolved into a land animal and has grown legs and.
- 1:00:38Speaker 5: Does not need as much water. Wow, that's fascinating that
- 1:00:43Speaker 5: they are related to them.
- 1:00:45Speaker 7: And they're most active at night and that's when they
- 1:00:48Speaker 7: go looking for their food.
- 1:00:50Speaker 3: Good to know.
- 1:00:53Speaker 5: Most of them are in Africa because it's cooler. What
- 1:00:56Speaker 5: do they eat? grass. Yeah, they're herbivores.
- 1:01:00Speaker 2: Unless the grass would be so fattening.
- 1:01:03Speaker 6: Unless humans are around, then they just like to chaw
- 1:01:06Speaker 6: on that.
- 1:01:07Speaker 3: I don't think they eat humans.
- 1:01:11Speaker 5: They might attack you.
- 1:01:13Speaker 4: No, they tear them apart and then they just spit
- 1:01:16Speaker 4: them out.
- 1:01:17Speaker 3: Just leave you there.
- 1:01:21Speaker 5: That's a pleasant visual there.
- 1:01:24Speaker 2: One more little fast.
- 1:01:27Speaker 7: A female hippo is called cows, and they give birth
- 1:01:31Speaker 7: every two years, usually to a single calf. Soon after birth,
- 1:01:36Speaker 7: the mother and her baby join up with the other
- 1:01:38Speaker 7: cows and calves for protection against predators such as crocodiles, lions,
- 1:01:42Speaker 7: and hyenas.
- 1:01:46Speaker 2: Interesting. Hey, thanks.
- 1:01:48Speaker 6: I was just going to say thanks to John for
- 1:01:50Speaker 6: the update on the Caps game. I've got it on
- 1:01:52Speaker 6: here while I'm doing the show, so.
- 1:01:56Speaker 5: Hope you're enjoying the game.
- 1:01:58Speaker 2: We're going to go from hippos to Utah. How's that?
- 1:02:03Speaker 2: All right. So from Africa to Utah. Couldn't think of
- 1:02:06Speaker 2: anything further than anything else. Well, Utah is way more
- 1:02:09Speaker 2: than most people realize. Utah is home to the five
- 1:02:11Speaker 2: Brit rap-taking national parks called the Mighty Five. Youth Raptor,
- 1:02:17Speaker 2: one of America's largest raptors, was discovered in Utah. Utah
- 1:02:21Speaker 2: has more international dark sky places than anywhere else worldwide.
- 1:02:26Speaker 2: Great salt lakes, salty water makes floating much easier than
- 1:02:30Speaker 2: normal swimming. Okay. Utah preserves one of the world's richest
- 1:02:38Speaker 2: and most complete dinosaur records. So we got swimming. We
- 1:02:41Speaker 2: have dinosaur. My goodness. Let's keep those animals rolling, people.
- 1:02:48Speaker 2: And let's continue on. Utah powder is famous for being
- 1:02:52Speaker 2: incredibly light, dry, and fluffy.
- 1:02:54Speaker 6: Okay.
- 1:02:55Speaker 2: Many classic Western movies were filmed in Utah's Red Rock landscapes.
- 1:03:00Speaker 2: I believe that Bryce Canyon is actually a giant natural
- 1:03:04Speaker 2: amphitheater filled with hoodoos. NASA rocket boosters motors have long
- 1:03:11Speaker 2: been built and tested in Utah. Bonneville salt flats have
- 1:03:16Speaker 2: hosted legendary land speed records for decades. So there you
- 1:03:21Speaker 2: have it. Some thoughts about Utah.
- 1:03:25Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a beautiful state. It's absolutely beautiful. I think
- 1:03:29Speaker 4: the only saltier place than the Great Salt Lake is
- 1:03:33Speaker 4: maybe the Dead Sea, where you can literally sit up
- 1:03:37Speaker 4: in the water. I remember doing that. It's like you
- 1:03:42Speaker 4: can literally sit up in the water and float. I mean,
- 1:03:46Speaker 4: it's hard to sink. But Utah's gorgeous. I mean, it
- 1:03:51Speaker 4: gets a bad rap. from a lot of people, but
- 1:03:54Speaker 4: I'm here to tell you, if you've ever been there,
- 1:03:57Speaker 4: it is gorgeous. I mean, if you're a mountain person,
- 1:04:03Speaker 4: then you'll love Utah.
- 1:04:06Speaker 2: Yeah, and here's the thing. I actually was in Utah
- 1:04:08Speaker 2: for a period of time when I covered the Utah
- 1:04:11Speaker 2: Jazz and their hockey team as well. It was kind
- 1:04:13Speaker 2: of neat. I was actually invited during one of the
- 1:04:16Speaker 2: intermissions to talk about one of my wild trips that
- 1:04:18Speaker 2: I was trying to knock off the rest of my
- 1:04:20Speaker 2: states to hit the 48, then I had Hawaii And
- 1:04:23Speaker 2: I had Alaska next. So, yeah, it was great. I
- 1:04:25Speaker 2: enjoyed my time in Utah. That's for sure. Go ahead.
- 1:04:29Speaker 2: Who's next?
- 1:04:30Speaker 5: It sounds like great.
- 1:04:31Speaker 6: It sounds like I've never been to Utah.
- 1:04:34Speaker 5: Flown through it. Flown through Salt Lake Airport. It sounds
- 1:04:38Speaker 5: like a great place. You know, probably, you know, like
- 1:04:40Speaker 5: to visit at some point.
- 1:04:41Speaker 6: Always like visiting new places and, you know, getting that experience.
- 1:04:48Speaker 5: And so, yeah, that's about all I have to share
- 1:04:51Speaker 5: on Utah.
- 1:04:52Speaker 7: All right.
- 1:04:53Speaker 2: What about you, Jen?
- 1:04:54Speaker 3: I love Utah. I think it's absolutely gorgeous. I have
- 1:04:58Speaker 3: friends and family all over Utah and it's a perfect
- 1:05:02Speaker 3: road trip between, you know, like when you leave my
- 1:05:05Speaker 3: house and you go to Vegas and then you go
- 1:05:06Speaker 3: to Utah and then that, the Red Rocks and then
- 1:05:09Speaker 3: on my way to Colorado to visit friends and family
- 1:05:11Speaker 3: over there. But the Red Rocks are just, it's just spectacular.
- 1:05:18Speaker 3: Zion is my favorite. Like it is unbelievable, but it
- 1:05:24Speaker 3: is dangerous. And I don't think people remember to respect
- 1:05:29Speaker 3: nature enough. And quite a few people drown in the
- 1:05:32Speaker 3: narrows there because there's sudden flash flooding and it is
- 1:05:36Speaker 3: no joke. And, uh, you know, so I just, I
- 1:05:39Speaker 3: always say that with water period, you know, I think
- 1:05:41Speaker 3: people like to think that water is soft, you know, like, Oh,
- 1:05:43Speaker 3: I go swimming in the water, but if you hit
- 1:05:45Speaker 3: water hard, it's like hitting a sheet of glass. And if, Yeah,
- 1:05:49Speaker 3: flash floods. Like, it's no joke. Like, no joke. And
- 1:05:53Speaker 3: it's called the Narrows for a reason. But those red rocks,
- 1:05:55Speaker 3: that's on my bucket list, actually, to see a concert there.
- 1:05:57Speaker 3: And I think there's so many great things about Utah.
- 1:06:01Speaker 3: Good place. Ed, were you going to say something?
- 1:06:05Speaker 2: No.
- 1:06:06Speaker 3: Candy, to you.
- 1:06:07Speaker 7: Utah became the 45th state January 4th of 1896. The
- 1:06:13Speaker 7: world's first Kentucky fried chicken restaurant opened in Salt Lake
- 1:06:18Speaker 7: City in 1952, not in Kentucky, which you would have thought.
- 1:06:22Speaker 7: Here's an unusual fact. Utah famously consumes more Jell-O per
- 1:06:28Speaker 7: capita than any other state, with lime green being the
- 1:06:32Speaker 7: local favorite.
- 1:06:34Speaker 2: Interesting. Who figures that out?
- 1:06:38Speaker 5: Who literally says it's okay? Hey, Jennifer, is that something
- 1:06:43Speaker 5: that you do? Were you on that project? Is there
- 1:06:45Speaker 5: PR people?
- 1:06:46Speaker 3: I was not on that project.
- 1:06:48Speaker 4: And they do a lot of Jell-O shots.
- 1:06:51Speaker 5: That's what it is.
- 1:06:53Speaker 2: It's Jell-O shots.
- 1:06:54Speaker 3: Jell-O molds with the pineapple and coconut.
- 1:06:57Speaker 4: There you go.
- 1:06:58Speaker 6: Yes.
- 1:06:59Speaker 3: That was at every holiday meal growing up. I don't
- 1:07:02Speaker 3: know why every 1970s mom had that recipe.
- 1:07:06Speaker 7: Here's one for you and I, Jen. Early voting rights.
- 1:07:09Speaker 7: Utah women cast votes in 1870, 50 years before the
- 1:07:16Speaker 7: 19th Amendment that gave all American women the right to vote.
- 1:07:20Speaker 3: Go women. Yay. Now, is that because of the Mormon
- 1:07:24Speaker 3: religion or what?
- 1:07:25Speaker 7: It doesn't say, but I'm assuming. It also says that
- 1:07:30Speaker 7: Utah is the only U.S. state where every single woman
- 1:07:35Speaker 7: county contains a portion of a national forest. The lake,
- 1:07:43Speaker 7: the Great Salt Lake, this lake is up to eight
- 1:07:47Speaker 7: times saltier than the ocean, allowing people to float effortlessly
- 1:07:52Speaker 7: in the dense waters. And Utah protects its five distinct
- 1:07:58Speaker 7: national parks, Zion, Bryce Canyon, Arches, Canyonlands, and Capitol Reef.
- 1:08:04Speaker 3: They're gorgeous, gorgeous. You know, what's interesting is the Dead Sea, Steve,
- 1:08:08Speaker 3: you were talking about the Dead Sea being saltier than,
- 1:08:11Speaker 3: you know, and then Salt Lake's next. The Dead Sea
- 1:08:13Speaker 3: is known to be extremely healing and people with all
- 1:08:16Speaker 3: kinds of different issues, especially skin issues, go to the
- 1:08:20Speaker 3: Dead Sea to kill their psoriasis or whatever, you know,
- 1:08:23Speaker 3: like different things that, different conditions that they have. And
- 1:08:26Speaker 3: so I wonder, I never thought about that with the
- 1:08:30Speaker 3: Salt Lake if, that might be just as I should
- 1:08:33Speaker 3: go there. Just, I mean, salt is healing. We were
- 1:08:35Speaker 3: fed a, we were fed a bunch of lies. And so,
- 1:08:38Speaker 3: you know, salt is healing and eggs are okay to eat.
- 1:08:42Speaker 5: Yes, exactly.
- 1:08:42Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly.
- 1:08:44Speaker 7: Scott.
- 1:08:46Speaker 2: Thank you. All right. We're not done traveling yet. I'll
- 1:08:50Speaker 2: give you two days. How to spend two days in
- 1:08:52Speaker 2: Miami beach. All right. We'll go from one extreme to another.
- 1:08:56Speaker 2: Day one, South beach and Lincoln road. Everybody's heard about Lincoln.
- 1:09:00Speaker 2: Road down here. That's a great place for people watching.
- 1:09:04Speaker 2: Morning in South Beach, Ocean Drive, walk and coffee stop.
- 1:09:09Speaker 2: Late morning on the beach, sun, swim, South Beach vibes. Lunch.
- 1:09:15Speaker 2: Lincoln Road, Big Pink or Lost, Sandwichery, whatever. I don't
- 1:09:19Speaker 2: get into that French stuff. You're trying to pronounce it
- 1:09:22Speaker 2: and mess me up. It sounds hard to do anyways. Afternoon,
- 1:09:25Speaker 2: Art Deco, Desert, Pastel Buildings and Photo Spots. Evening, Serena Rooftop,
- 1:09:31Speaker 2: Sunset Drinks and Miami Skyline Vibes. Day 2, Oceanfront and
- 1:09:36Speaker 2: South Point. Morning, Collins Avenue, Avi Croissants, or whatever you
- 1:09:42Speaker 2: call those things, at Crema Gourmet. I tell you, my
- 1:09:45Speaker 2: French is bad. I'll tell you another story a little
- 1:09:47Speaker 2: bit earlier about Portuguese. Midday, you have Espinola Way, Lunch
- 1:09:55Speaker 2: and Stroll. All right. Afternoon, South Point Park, Pier and
- 1:10:00Speaker 2: Ocean Views. Evening, Mickey Beach, Dinner, Music and Oceanfront Vibes.
- 1:10:08Speaker 2: And there you have it. Two days in South Beach.
- 1:10:10Speaker 2: Let me tell you my story first. Candy and I
- 1:10:13Speaker 2: were driving up Federal Highway, and I see this America's
- 1:10:18Speaker 2: Recording Studio. I said, well, what if they have something there?
- 1:10:21Speaker 2: I can either record myself there, or maybe they'll bring
- 1:10:23Speaker 2: me out. Oh, it's all Portuguese. Really? Is this America's
- 1:10:27Speaker 2: out there? I don't know how to speak Portuguese. I
- 1:10:29Speaker 2: guess I better go to Portugal and go to Detroit. Oh, well, thanks, man.
- 1:10:32Speaker 2: All right, so what are your impressions on two days
- 1:10:36Speaker 2: on how to spend on Miami Beach?
- 1:10:39Speaker 4: It sounds like fun to me. I'm not a big
- 1:10:47Speaker 4: fan of South Beach, actually. It's a destination. If you're
- 1:10:54Speaker 4: going to visit there, you have to do it. Some
- 1:10:58Speaker 4: of those other places I'd like to visit, if I'm
- 1:11:01Speaker 4: back in Miami again soon, we're not that far away.
- 1:11:04Speaker 4: It's only like two hours from here.
- 1:11:06Speaker 2: What about you, Eddie?
- 1:11:09Speaker 6: All right, so for fun, as you were doing that, Scott,
- 1:11:12Speaker 6: I plugged into my little AI bot.
- 1:11:17Speaker 5: Give me two days in Miami.
- 1:11:19Speaker 6: And it says, you know, a little coffee in Little Havana.
- 1:11:24Speaker 6: Then stroll down Caglioccio. Midday South Beach, Ocean Drive, Art Deco.
- 1:11:30Speaker 6: Lunch is a Cuban sandwich at Versailles.
- 1:11:33Speaker 5: Versailles. Versailles, yeah. Versailles, that's me blotching my French. Not negotiable.
- 1:11:43Speaker 5: Not negotiable.
- 1:11:44Speaker 6: Then the afternoon, wood walls for the street art and
- 1:11:49Speaker 6: down to Biscayne Bay. And then the sunset at South Point.
- 1:11:55Speaker 6: Dinner at Coral Gables. Then South Beach does what South
- 1:11:59Speaker 6: Beach does. So, you know, I'm assuming that would be
- 1:12:02Speaker 6: going clubbing. And then day two would be Key Biscayne,
- 1:12:07Speaker 6: a little Coconut Grove. The Vizcaya Museum and Gardens.
- 1:12:13Speaker 5: And then in.
- 1:12:14Speaker 6: The evening, maybe the Bayside Marketplace with dinner in a
- 1:12:17Speaker 6: little Haiti or design district.
- 1:12:20Speaker 5: Nightcap at Paul and Shane on Cagliocho. It's out. You know,
- 1:12:25Speaker 5: I don't. Last time I was there, my.
- 1:12:27Speaker 6: Sister got her master's in physical therapy down at the
- 1:12:32Speaker 6: University of Miami.
- 1:12:33Speaker 5: So when I was. So and that was. Many moons ago.
- 1:12:41Speaker 6: That was probably the last time I was down at
- 1:12:43Speaker 6: the South Beach area.
- 1:12:45Speaker 5: That sounds all good to me.
- 1:12:48Speaker 6: I might be 50-something by age-wise, but I still think
- 1:12:52Speaker 6: my mentality and.
- 1:12:55Speaker 5: My attitude sometimes can be more like my 20s. Then
- 1:12:59Speaker 5: it catches up to me and then it's like, no,
- 1:13:01Speaker 5: you can't. It's 10 o'clock. It's time to go to bed.
- 1:13:04Speaker 3: I'm 24 holding every year, but.
- 1:13:13Speaker 6: You're just starting to go out no no no i'm
- 1:13:15Speaker 6: in my pajamas now i gotta.
- 1:13:17Speaker 3: Get that yeah south beach is a party all night
- 1:13:20Speaker 3: kind of a place you know like there you start
- 1:13:22Speaker 3: at midnight and you go till four and those days
- 1:13:26Speaker 3: uh are over for me i i never really was
- 1:13:29Speaker 3: that big of a fan of that to begin with
- 1:13:31Speaker 3: you know like i did like how california we had
- 1:13:34Speaker 3: our last call it was supposed to be you know
- 1:13:36Speaker 3: two o'clock, no alcohol. So last call was always 120, 130,
- 1:13:39Speaker 3: you know, and I was always like, whoosh, I gotta
- 1:13:41Speaker 3: go to bed, you know?
- 1:13:43Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly.
- 1:13:44Speaker 3: But I love Miami. I love Fort Lauderdale is actually
- 1:13:47Speaker 3: my favorite, favorite, but I am Orange County to LA.
- 1:13:49Speaker 3: So same kind of thing, right? I lived, when I
- 1:13:51Speaker 3: lived in the Houston's, I was the Woodlands over Houston.
- 1:13:53Speaker 3: So I'm, I'm, I'm predictable, but South Beach, there is
- 1:13:57Speaker 3: nothing else like it. It is absolutely spectacular. I don't
- 1:14:01Speaker 3: have as detailed of a, of a day or trip
- 1:14:03Speaker 3: planned as Ed does. I'm not that eloquent. I'm really
- 1:14:06Speaker 3: more fly by the seat of my pants, which I
- 1:14:08Speaker 3: really like because I get to see all kinds of
- 1:14:10Speaker 3: different things, meet new people, go places I never would
- 1:14:12Speaker 3: have even thought of. And that's been my way of
- 1:14:15Speaker 3: traveling my whole entire life. It works out really, really,
- 1:14:17Speaker 3: really well.
- 1:14:19Speaker 7: But, you know, interesting.
- 1:14:20Speaker 3: I was there a few years ago.
- 1:14:22Speaker 5: We did.
- 1:14:22Speaker 3: I was into the dancing. So it was quite a
- 1:14:24Speaker 3: few years ago. We did that whole thing all night long.
- 1:14:27Speaker 3: So much fun. But, you know, what's interesting about South
- 1:14:29Speaker 3: Beach or about the Miami skyline is Do you remember
- 1:14:33Speaker 3: Kumar and Harold and Kumar?
- 1:14:35Speaker 2: Yeah, Harold.
- 1:14:35Speaker 5: Yeah, White Castle and White Castleburg.
- 1:14:38Speaker 3: Well, Kumar grew up, right? And he did this show
- 1:14:40Speaker 3: called The Giant Beast That Is Our Global Economy. It's
- 1:14:43Speaker 3: a fascinating show. And one of his episodes, which I've
- 1:14:47Speaker 3: noticed has not been repeated. I've looked for it. I
- 1:14:49Speaker 3: haven't seen it. But the other ones have been. But
- 1:14:52Speaker 3: he did it on money laundering. And he said the
- 1:14:56Speaker 3: entire Miami skyline. He said everywhere, everything there is. drug
- 1:15:03Speaker 3: money it's money laundering the all of it and i'm
- 1:15:05Speaker 3: oh yeah interesting and i mean really he pointed everywhere
- 1:15:09Speaker 3: all over the united states it's not like miami holds
- 1:15:11Speaker 3: the but they might be kingpin you know i mean
- 1:15:14Speaker 3: you look at what the.
- 1:15:15Speaker 6: Porch brought in yeah the entry yeah the entry point
- 1:15:18Speaker 6: for that drug.
- 1:15:18Speaker 3: Money right right i mean cocaine yes cocaine being the
- 1:15:24Speaker 3: the primary thing straight from cuba so let's find out
- 1:15:27Speaker 3: what candy has for us because we know she's got.
- 1:15:29Speaker 7: The scoop I have the scoop. Wait a minute. No,
- 1:15:32Speaker 7: I'm one of those that, you know, I totally believe
- 1:15:35Speaker 7: in like, you know, you go to a baseball game
- 1:15:38Speaker 7: and how they cut off alcohol at the seventh inning because, hey,
- 1:15:41Speaker 7: it's time.
- 1:15:42Speaker 9: To, you know, I'm one of those because I'm, you know,
- 1:15:44Speaker 9: I'm not as young as I used to be either.
- 1:15:46Speaker 9: But Miami is, you know, it is a very fun place,
- 1:15:53Speaker 9: especially for youth if people, you.
- 1:15:55Speaker 7: Know, are young and want to do that kind of thing.
- 1:15:59Speaker 7: You know, I mean, I like even just going down
- 1:16:02Speaker 7: by the port, going down to watch. As you age,
- 1:16:06Speaker 7: sometimes you're more of a people watcher type thing. So
- 1:16:10Speaker 7: if you like to people watch, it's a great place
- 1:16:13Speaker 7: to go. Yeah, you do have to be careful in
- 1:16:17Speaker 7: some areas. One of the things that when I Googled
- 1:16:21Speaker 7: it and they were saying what you should do, one
- 1:16:25Speaker 7: of them they said is that you should rent a
- 1:16:27Speaker 7: paddle board or a kayak on Biscayne Bay. And enjoy
- 1:16:31Speaker 7: a relaxing waterfront lunch at Lido Bayside Grill. There is actually,
- 1:16:39Speaker 7: you can stroll through the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach. And
- 1:16:45Speaker 7: the Jewish Museum of Florida is down in Miami. You
- 1:16:49Speaker 7: can have dinner at a rooftop or upscale spot like Mila.
- 1:16:55Speaker 7: Those are kind of cool. You can catch an outdoor
- 1:16:58Speaker 7: wall cast concert. at the new world center, um, or
- 1:17:02Speaker 7: grab a drink at sweet Liberty. Um, obviously you can
- 1:17:07Speaker 7: spend a morning sunbathing or swimming on South beach.
- 1:17:10Speaker 5: Of course.
- 1:17:11Speaker 2: Um, exactly.
- 1:17:14Speaker 7: You can cool off in the Miami beach botanical gardens. Um,
- 1:17:19Speaker 7: they obviously Lincoln road mall. There's, I mean, even if
- 1:17:24Speaker 7: you just want to go down to the port and
- 1:17:25Speaker 7: see all the big ships, the cruise ships, um, We've
- 1:17:29Speaker 7: done that. Obviously, Miami. The hurricanes are down in Coral Gables.
- 1:17:35Speaker 7: Miami dolphins are actually in Miami Gardens.
- 1:17:39Speaker 3: Aren't there Everglades? Don't they have the Everglades there? You
- 1:17:42Speaker 3: can go look at the crocodiles and you go in
- 1:17:45Speaker 3: a boat. There are.
- 1:17:47Speaker 7: There are a lot of Fort Lauderdale, Miami area.
- 1:17:51Speaker 2: Yes, you definitely can.
- 1:17:53Speaker 7: Sometimes Scott and I have talked about 95 N's Highway, expressway,
- 1:18:01Speaker 7: Interstate 95 actually ends in Miami. We've often talked about
- 1:18:05Speaker 7: we've taken it to the south end. Some point we
- 1:18:09Speaker 7: want to drive to the north end where it stops.
- 1:18:12Speaker 7: I think sometimes it's kind of cool to find a
- 1:18:15Speaker 7: road and say, okay, we're going to take it both
- 1:18:17Speaker 7: directions to see how far it goes. But, yeah, so
- 1:18:21Speaker 7: a lot of cool things you can do down in Miami.
- 1:18:24Speaker 4: Ends in Maine with the Maniacs.
- 1:18:26Speaker 3: Yep.
- 1:18:27Speaker 2: All right, well, let me tell you this. Once upon
- 1:18:30Speaker 2: a time, you know, I know how Jewish Miami is.
- 1:18:33Speaker 2: I was covering a Miami Heat-Detroit Pistons game. And you
- 1:18:37Speaker 2: know what? They had a rabbi singing the National Anthem.
- 1:18:40Speaker 2: And I didn't realize it was the Jewish New Year
- 1:18:42Speaker 2: until I heard the National Anthem from a rabbi at
- 1:18:46Speaker 2: Santa Claus.
- 1:18:48Speaker 5: There you go.
- 1:18:49Speaker 2: I swear. I can tell how religious I am. Oh,
- 1:18:51Speaker 2: my goodness. Shalom, people. Or whatever you call that word. Shalom. Shalom. Shalom.
- 1:18:59Speaker 5: Shalom.
- 1:19:00Speaker 2: Yeah, I butcher more names than anything. Shalom, senior. That's
- 1:19:05Speaker 2: all our humorous people out there.
- 1:19:06Speaker 3: But, yeah, anyway.
- 1:19:07Speaker 2: I know Miami's all Jews, especially when I hear the
- 1:19:09Speaker 2: national anthem from a rabbi, you know, down on Center
- 1:19:13Speaker 2: Court with the Miami Heat. I'm not a Heat guy,
- 1:19:15Speaker 2: but at least I know where a lot of the
- 1:19:17Speaker 2: Jewish people are down there. Yeah, I love Fort Lauderdale Beach,
- 1:19:20Speaker 2: Deerfield Beach. Those are my places anyway. I don't like
- 1:19:24Speaker 2: being north. I don't like being down there. All right, well,
- 1:19:26Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. We're going to go to Norway
- 1:19:28Speaker 2: because guess what? Norway is digging the longest undersea road
- 1:19:32Speaker 2: tunnel on earth. Get this, people. A future road junction
- 1:19:38Speaker 2: is forming under a 500-person island. Norway's ROGFAST project is
- 1:19:43Speaker 2: carving 27-kilometer tunnels beneath the fjord so drivers can cross
- 1:19:48Speaker 2: without waiting for a ferry. It makes sense. Crews are
- 1:19:51Speaker 2: digging from three directions at once, aiming to meet the
- 1:19:54Speaker 2: end of the sea and open route in 2033. The
- 1:19:57Speaker 2: depth makes the headlines, but the stranger detail is the layout.
- 1:20:00Speaker 2: A full interchange is buried beneath the tiny island built so...
- 1:20:05Speaker 2: An hour-long crossing can shrink to a few minutes if
- 1:20:10Speaker 2: it works as planned as the hardest parts of the coastline.
- 1:20:13Speaker 2: I mean, I'm looking at the pictures. It's just so fascinating.
- 1:20:18Speaker 2: Drivers will cross the fjord without, like I say, waiting
- 1:20:20Speaker 2: for a ferry. The plan is to turn a one-hour
- 1:20:23Speaker 2: trip into just a few minutes. Workers are digging from
- 1:20:27Speaker 2: three directions so the tunnel meets undersea. And the junction
- 1:20:33Speaker 2: will sit 250 meters below a tiny island of 550 people.
- 1:20:37Speaker 2: And there you have it. There's the story of Norway.
- 1:20:41Speaker 2: All right, Steve.
- 1:20:43Speaker 4: I'm not for this at all. And I'll tell you why.
- 1:20:47Speaker 8: If you're in Norway, why in the heck would you
- 1:20:51Speaker 8: want to drive under the ground where you can't see anything?
- 1:20:54Speaker 8: I'll take the hour drive because I'm in frigging Norway.
- 1:20:58Speaker 8: right so it's like i want to see the fjords
- 1:21:01Speaker 8: and the ocean and all that cool stuff i don't
- 1:21:04Speaker 8: want to drive in a tube under the ground yeah
- 1:21:07Speaker 8: give give me the hour-long drive uh i'll opt for that.
- 1:21:12Speaker 2: What about you eddie.
- 1:21:14Speaker 6: No i i agree with steve yeah why do you
- 1:21:16Speaker 6: want to drive underground but you know i understand about
- 1:21:19Speaker 6: wanting to get to where you want to know uh
- 1:21:23Speaker 6: So it takes a little bit less time. Work smarter,
- 1:21:27Speaker 6: not harder. But I saw this interesting fact about it.
- 1:21:30Speaker 6: When they were building the three, you were talking about
- 1:21:33Speaker 6: the three pieces underneath there.
- 1:21:36Speaker 5: They actually painted the cavern blue and yellow.
- 1:21:39Speaker 6: They used blue and yellow lighting like sunrise because they
- 1:21:43Speaker 6: were worried drivers would zone out and crash from monotony.
- 1:21:48Speaker 5: So artificial daylight inside the mountains. Check that out. That's
- 1:21:53Speaker 5: kind of interesting.
- 1:21:54Speaker 4: That's pretty cool.
- 1:21:56Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:21:57Speaker 6: That's why there are real smart people out there that
- 1:22:00Speaker 6: think about that kind of stuff.
- 1:22:01Speaker 5: I would have never thought about it.
- 1:22:03Speaker 2: But, hey.
- 1:22:06Speaker 5: Jen?
- 1:22:07Speaker 2: I report the news. Go ahead, Jen. No matter how
- 1:22:12Speaker 2: crazy it is. No matter how crazy it is. Say
- 1:22:18Speaker 2: that to me. It's not fake news. It's real news.
- 1:22:21Speaker 2: It's just strange. It's different news. All right, Jen.
- 1:22:26Speaker 4: I think she froze up.
- 1:22:28Speaker 5: I think she froze up again. All right, Candy.
- 1:22:32Speaker 4: She looks deep in thought, though.
- 1:22:33Speaker 5: Yeah, she does.
- 1:22:36Speaker 7: I am going to share my screen because I found
- 1:22:39Speaker 7: some pictures of this.
- 1:22:43Speaker 4: I didn't do it.
- 1:22:43Speaker 2: There you go.
- 1:22:46Speaker 7: So Norway is digging the longest underwater. The tunnel will
- 1:22:50Speaker 7: run 27 beneath a Norwegian fjord. Drivers will cross the
- 1:22:56Speaker 7: fjord without waiting for a ferry. The plan is to
- 1:23:00Speaker 7: turn a one-hour trip into just a few minutes. This
- 1:23:04Speaker 7: is them digging. Workers are digging from three directions so
- 1:23:08Speaker 7: the tunnels meet under the sea. The road junction will
- 1:23:12Speaker 7: sit 250 meters below a tiny island of 550 people.
- 1:23:18Speaker 7: We show the megaproduct shaping and that's the last slide
- 1:23:24Speaker 7: but i just thought that was kind of interesting.
- 1:23:26Speaker 4: That's cool it's very cool.
- 1:23:30Speaker 7: Okay so but i i i kind of agree with
- 1:23:33Speaker 7: you steve um norway is beautiful but if you live
- 1:23:38Speaker 7: there and you're you have to go to work like
- 1:23:40Speaker 7: i can understand not having to wait for a ferry
- 1:23:43Speaker 7: and you know um taking only minutes because if you
- 1:23:47Speaker 7: live there you see it every day so But for
- 1:23:49Speaker 7: those of us that- Time and a place, yep. Exactly, exactly.
- 1:23:54Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, and getting those ones that want to
- 1:23:56Speaker 3: go fast, like getting off the freeway is going to
- 1:23:58Speaker 3: help commute down 40 minutes or.
- 1:24:01Speaker 7: Something, you know?
- 1:24:04Speaker 2: Okay, Jen, any thoughts on this? We have one more
- 1:24:06Speaker 2: topic that we have to get to, then we go
- 1:24:07Speaker 2: to Sports Exchange shortly there. Anything else you want to add, Jen?
- 1:24:11Speaker 3: No, I'm- Oh, definitely the time and place. I'm kind
- 1:24:15Speaker 3: of- with what everybody said, you know, I think by
- 1:24:18Speaker 3: taking some people off the road, you know, in California,
- 1:24:21Speaker 3: we know about, and it does matter. It does make
- 1:24:23Speaker 3: a difference, but then eventually other people move there and
- 1:24:25Speaker 3: ruin the whole thing.
- 1:24:26Speaker 2: So, yeah.
- 1:24:28Speaker 5: Okay.
- 1:24:28Speaker 2: All right. Our final topic of the night. So this
- 1:24:32Speaker 2: was a tough one to swallow because I think a
- 1:24:33Speaker 2: lot of people contemplated this before, but Carrot Top is
- 1:24:37Speaker 2: hot for the lives after reported suicide attempt recovery in
- 1:24:39Speaker 2: a Las Vegas hospital. We've seen this role too many times.
- 1:24:44Speaker 2: I get well soon, Carrot Top, and I hope you
- 1:24:46Speaker 2: get the help that you need. Steve, some thoughts about this.
- 1:24:49Speaker 4: I didn't know about that, but so many of those
- 1:24:52Speaker 4: comics are tortured souls, and I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah,
- 1:24:58Speaker 4: too bad.
- 1:25:00Speaker 2: Get well soon, Carrot Top. Go ahead, Eddie.
- 1:25:04Speaker 6: Yeah, Suicide China is kind of hits home to me
- 1:25:08Speaker 6: whenever I hear it. I've I've been affected by it
- 1:25:13Speaker 6: more than I care to imagine. The show I produced
- 1:25:18Speaker 6: when Scott and I first met, one of our panelists
- 1:25:22Speaker 6: took his own life.
- 1:25:26Speaker 5: Via suicide, and there was really no outward signs.
- 1:25:29Speaker 2: I know.
- 1:25:32Speaker 5: Somebody else who does. The comics are tortured souls, but
- 1:25:37Speaker 5: I think there are a lot of tortured souls out there.
- 1:25:40Speaker 5: There's a lot of men It's a lot of men
- 1:25:42Speaker 5: who are tortured souls right now. And I think it's
- 1:25:48Speaker 5: a multitude of issues. And I just think it needs
- 1:25:53Speaker 5: to get better because we're losing a lot of great people.
- 1:25:57Speaker 2: Candy?
- 1:26:00Speaker 7: Mental health is a huge topic right now. If any
- 1:26:05Speaker 7: of you know or don't know, Lane Johnson of the
- 1:26:10Speaker 7: Philadelphia Eagles just retired. And he said it's due to
- 1:26:14Speaker 7: mental health issues and to want to spend more time
- 1:26:18Speaker 7: with his family. So kudos to him for recognizing that.
- 1:26:22Speaker 7: And I mean, let's face it. You think of NFL,
- 1:26:25Speaker 7: these big burly players that can handle anything and everything.
- 1:26:30Speaker 7: I mean, they get pounded on it on the football field.
- 1:26:34Speaker 7: Kudos to him for realizing that You know what? He
- 1:26:37Speaker 7: needs to get away from the game. He needs to
- 1:26:39Speaker 7: focus on him and his family. I wish nothing but
- 1:26:44Speaker 7: the best for Carrot Top. We all know what, like
- 1:26:48Speaker 7: Robin Williams, you know, and he talked about depression too.
- 1:26:55Speaker 7: It's sad because sometimes this world can be a very
- 1:26:57Speaker 7: lonely place. And I just hope that there's enough love
- 1:27:03Speaker 7: in the world that we recognize that Mental health is
- 1:27:08Speaker 7: a disease.
- 1:27:09Speaker 2: It's not a choice.
- 1:27:10Speaker 7: And that we can help. Even if we help just
- 1:27:13Speaker 7: one person, we've helped somebody, and that makes a difference.
- 1:27:18Speaker 2: Sure does. Well, I think we lost that for Internet.
- 1:27:22Speaker 2: It's been playing tricks on her tonight. But anyways, any questions,
- 1:27:26Speaker 2: comments about what we did tonight? Sports Exchange is coming
- 1:27:28Speaker 2: up in about 10, 12 minutes or so. But Steve,
- 1:27:31Speaker 2: what are your thoughts about what we talked about?
- 1:27:33Speaker 4: Yeah, it was another great show. It's always a lot
- 1:27:37Speaker 4: of fun talking with all of you. So it's one
- 1:27:42Speaker 4: of the highlights of the week.
- 1:27:44Speaker 2: We've got Jennifer back. All right, Jennifer, real quick. What
- 1:27:46Speaker 2: are your thoughts about Carrot Top and the unfortunate suicide
- 1:27:50Speaker 2: attempt that he made out in Las Vegas?
- 1:27:52Speaker 3: There's so much going on around that. I think it's awful.
- 1:27:57Speaker 3: And is he demon-possessed, just like... Perez Hilton. I mean,
- 1:28:02Speaker 3: something weird was about that. Like it, that's awful. I just,
- 1:28:06Speaker 3: I say prayers for him. I mean, he's been a
- 1:28:08Speaker 3: comedian and in our lives for a long time. And
- 1:28:11Speaker 3: that was very, very, very tragic. Very tragic.
- 1:28:14Speaker 2: Okay. As we, our normal customary procedure, Eddie Jansen talked
- 1:28:19Speaker 2: about the show tonight.
- 1:28:21Speaker 5: I thought it was, we knocked it out of the
- 1:28:23Speaker 5: park again.
- 1:28:24Speaker 6: Again, it's one of, it's marked on my calendar of love,
- 1:28:28Speaker 6: hanging out with you guys for the 90 minutes. just
- 1:28:32Speaker 6: chatting with good old motor mouth throws out at.
- 1:28:35Speaker 5: Us and just kind of see where it goes.
- 1:28:37Speaker 6: It's it's like, it's, it's, it's one of the highlights
- 1:28:41Speaker 6: of the week, you know, and it's, and it's perfectly
- 1:28:43Speaker 6: spaced right on hump day where, you know, you kind
- 1:28:46Speaker 6: of need that little bit.
- 1:28:47Speaker 2: And it's, it's, it's.
- 1:28:49Speaker 5: And it's right.
- 1:28:50Speaker 6: It's just long enough, Scott. So you, it's, it has all,
- 1:28:53Speaker 6: it checks all in my book, it checks all the boxes.
- 1:28:57Speaker 6: Topics are fantastic. You learn stuff, I learn stuff every
- 1:29:02Speaker 6: time and I love to learn.
- 1:29:04Speaker 2: Great. Well, I love having you, Steve and Jen, you
- 1:29:07Speaker 2: for your own legal and candy. I enjoy having her
- 1:29:09Speaker 2: on as well, especially when it comes up with the
- 1:29:11Speaker 2: graphics that make some of the stuff I talk about really,
- 1:29:13Speaker 2: really real. Okay.
- 1:29:15Speaker 3: It was fun. It was a lot of fun. I mean,
- 1:29:18Speaker 3: we went from molestation and murder to hippos to Norway
- 1:29:22Speaker 3: and Utah. I mean, we were the Russians too.
- 1:29:26Speaker 5: Right.
- 1:29:27Speaker 3: Don't forget Russia. We cannot forget Russia and the circus,
- 1:29:30Speaker 3: you know, the Cirque du Soleil or whatever all their
- 1:29:32Speaker 3: circuses are. That's actually a college degree there is circus performance.
- 1:29:37Speaker 5: It's really amazing.
- 1:29:38Speaker 3: They study circus and it is serious. They start studying
- 1:29:42Speaker 3: as children, as children in Russia.
- 1:29:46Speaker 2: Oh, wow. In Russia.
- 1:29:47Speaker 3: It's a serious thing. Circus performance is not the animals.
- 1:29:52Speaker 5: It's not carnies?
- 1:29:54Speaker 3: No, it's not the carnage.
- 1:29:56Speaker 5: Of the U.S.
- 1:29:57Speaker 3: It's much more Cirque du Soleil.
- 1:29:59Speaker 5: Yeah, it is.
- 1:30:01Speaker 3: Serious acrobats, serious, serious business. And I mean, really, we
- 1:30:06Speaker 3: talk about so many things. This is so much fun.
- 1:30:09Speaker 3: I definitely have to get my internet checked and find
- 1:30:11Speaker 3: out what is going on. But thank you so much
- 1:30:13Speaker 3: for your patience with me and for letting me back
- 1:30:16Speaker 3: in 15 different times. And I really appreciate you guys.
- 1:30:18Speaker 3: And I have so much fun with you. I consider
- 1:30:20Speaker 3: you all my friends now, and I really appreciate.
- 1:30:22Speaker 2: Well, you know, I feel the same way about you, Jen.
- 1:30:24Speaker 2: Don't worry. I've got plenty more of my bag of tricks. Hey, listen,
- 1:30:27Speaker 2: we've got to get our cable fixed this weekend, too. So,
- 1:30:29Speaker 2: you know, we'll be talking to you about two hours
- 1:30:32Speaker 2: on Sunday. But who cares? It is what it is.
- 1:30:35Speaker 2: We are family here. We talk about the most crazy
- 1:30:37Speaker 2: off-the-wall things. Who cares? You guys can put up with
- 1:30:39Speaker 2: all our zany business. Hey, you know, we're all in
- 1:30:43Speaker 2: that little minority together. If I'm crazy, I have more
- 1:30:46Speaker 2: crazy people that are willing to go along with this ride.
- 1:30:50Speaker 2: All right. So, Candy, give your summary real quick, and
- 1:30:53Speaker 2: then we'll be taking off and doing the Sports Exchange.
- 1:30:55Speaker 2: Go ahead, Candy.
- 1:30:57Speaker 7: My summary is I love talking about all the different
- 1:31:01Speaker 7: topics because all my other shows are very focused related
- 1:31:06Speaker 7: on sports. I do have a show on travel, but
- 1:31:10Speaker 7: my travel show is nothing like this. I claim my
- 1:31:15Speaker 7: travel show is the fastest 30 minutes in travel, but
- 1:31:18Speaker 7: this show– You never know what Scott's going to bring
- 1:31:21Speaker 7: at us. And even I don't know.
- 1:31:23Speaker 5: What Scott's going to bring at us. I was just
- 1:31:25Speaker 5: going to ask if you had any.
- 1:31:28Speaker 7: No, the only time I get a little bit of
- 1:31:30Speaker 7: glimpse is when I create the title and put the
- 1:31:33Speaker 7: show together and send you guys out the invites. Because
- 1:31:36Speaker 7: in the description, I put a little bit on what
- 1:31:40Speaker 7: we got.
- 1:31:42Speaker 4: There you go. This is my buddy from Norway.
- 1:31:45Speaker 2: There you go. The Vikings. All right.
- 1:31:48Speaker 5: Yes.
- 1:31:48Speaker 2: Good stuff. Nice.
- 1:31:50Speaker 7: But, yeah, I always enjoy, and I enjoy talking with
- 1:31:53Speaker 7: all of you. We all bring different viewpoints and add
- 1:31:59Speaker 7: different things to every topic, and that's what I love, too.
- 1:32:05Speaker 7: So thanks, Scott, for letting me be on the show.
- 1:32:07Speaker 2: You're welcome. That's it for this edition of Motor City
- 1:32:09Speaker 2: Mad Mouth. So we have the Sports Exchange coming up shortly.
- 1:32:13Speaker 2: And once Jennifer comes back in for the last time,
- 1:32:15Speaker 2: we're signing off in a moment. I want to thank
- 1:32:17Speaker 2: everybody for joining us. And I promise you I'll be
- 1:32:19Speaker 2: crazier and wilder the next time. So thanks again for
- 1:32:23Speaker 2: joining us on the Motor City Mad Mouth. I promise
- 1:32:25Speaker 2: to live up to my insanity, even though I never
- 1:32:27Speaker 2: knew when the Jewish New Year is. And Shalom and
- 1:32:31Speaker 2: all that business. Who cares? I think some of them
- 1:32:33Speaker 2: made me screw up. Shalom and percent. Whatever you call
- 1:32:38Speaker 2: that thing. All right, whatever. That's because tonight, I'll promise
- 1:32:41Speaker 2: I'll go ahead and get rid of it. I don't
- 1:32:42Speaker 2: know what campaign I'll have next Wednesday, but don't worry.
- 1:32:45Speaker 2: I will make it crazy. But no, I'm not looking
- 1:32:51Speaker 2: for a job with American Idol because I'd probably kill them.
- 1:32:54Speaker 2: They don't lose their hearing. It doesn't matter what you're saying.
- 1:32:58Speaker 2: But that's it for tonight. Sports Exchange is next. We'll
- 1:33:00Speaker 2: see you next Wednesday night at 7.20 p.m. Eastern time. 7.20 p.m.
- 1:33:05Speaker 2: Eastern time. Our goal is to get about an hour
- 1:33:07Speaker 2: and 33, about an hour and 30 minutes of this insanity.
- 1:33:11Speaker 2: And I got plenty more. Hey, and we have a
- 1:33:13Speaker 2: lot more to say. Good night, everybody.
- 1:33:16Speaker 5: Good night, buddy. Good night. Thank you.
- 1:33:18Speaker 2: Good night.