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Birthday Tales, Seahawks for Sale, and Family Drama Details · Rik and that Michele Chick

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Welcome to Rick and That Michelle Chick, the weekly
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podcast where your hosts, Rick and Michelle, confidently dive
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into topics they know absolutely nothing about and somehow make
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it sound legit. They're not experts.
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They're not qualified. Honestly, they barely googled
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it. So grab a drink, lower your
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expectations, and let's pretend this counts as content.
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So buckle up. Facts are optional, but the
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bullshit? That's premium grade.
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This is Rick and that Michelle chick.
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How was Megan's birthday? I think it went off pretty good.
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We had her mom came on Thursday and made it to the gorge because
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of the snow and stuff. So she made it to here and then
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her brother came on Friday. And so I think it was a pretty
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darn, I think it was a, a good birthday.
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So I got the, the Marion Berry pie, which she loves.
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Got that, got that on Friday. And then on Saturday we did wine
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tasting. So we went to like 3 different
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places. We started at noon and then
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around, around the tri-cities, Benton City and all that.
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And so we went to three different places, the Cuteri
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boards and and the wine tasting and her uncle and aunt came
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along too. So so their wine.
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Their wine. Members.
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Well, they are. Yeah, of these different clubs.
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So a couple places we went, you got kind of, I don't know if
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it's special treatment, but preferred treatment.
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Yeah, because they're already wine, wine nippers and stuff.
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And so then I so I think we had a good time.
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I mean, it was kind of fun to do that.
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I actually went way faster than I thought because I thought, Oh
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my gosh, we're going to be wine tasting all day long.
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I thought that's just so long, but it actually goes pretty
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quick when you're with people and people are talking.
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We went to these three different wineries and then we ended up at
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for dinner or the last stop was we we'd had brewery, which is
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right outside Kennewick, kind of sort of in the middle of
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nowhere. Well, it's incredibly busy.
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It's just insanely busy. And Megan had the four, four
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thoughts to rent a Dome. So they've got a couple of domes
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around there and they're they're see through domes.
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Yeah, they have them at Trevary. Yeah, the wine right here in.
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Yeah. Yeah, so it has music, it has,
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it has little benches, it's got blankets, all that.
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So it was already self heated inside and and I didn't realize
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it. You can't hear anything from
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inside the the the globe. No.
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It's so so that I get. It own little like party room
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like yeah. So, so we had.
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So then her friend Eric showed up and we played.
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Oh, they played cribbage for a little bit and then and then we
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played. Oh my gosh.
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Cards Against Humanity. Fun.
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Yeah, so Kyron came, Kyron came her son, and he's 2223 and with
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a bunch of older people. And as he said, we, we all had
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no sense of humor because they never won.
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No one would pick his cards, right.
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So, so I ended up, I ended up being the winner because
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everybody, every time we would do the the cards that I would,
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you know, so we did a round of that.
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But Chiron was hilarious by saying that you know you old
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people don't have a sense of humor.
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Well, yeah, Like the kids love to play Cards Against Humanity
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with their grandparents because a lot of the turns they don't
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know. And so there have been.
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Yes, there have been, he says. I can't remember which one it
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was, but one, I don't know if grandpa had it, but he didn't
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know what the word was. And so he kind of had to show
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his card to one of the kids, and then they kind of like,
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whispered it to him and he was like.
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Yeah, yeah, not appropriate, basically.
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So it's funny though. Yeah, some of it's not, some of
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it's not appropriate. So anyway, we had, we had a good
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time and then I guess we came home and, and Megan stayed up a
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little bit to talk to her brother and then and then they
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crashed. Well, did she like her gift?
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I think she did well. I saved the receipt, so
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hopefully she liked it. I think she did, you know her,
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but she got she got new dishes, she got new cups, she got new
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dishes. It was great to see her mom.
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Her mom's always great. I, you know, and her brother's
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awesome. So I think that I think it made
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it, I think it made her birthday a little extra special.
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So, and, and I felt like that, that she had a good time.
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She said she had a good time. So you got, you got to take it
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at face value, you know, and then I just have to, I just have
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to, I just have to remember that it's her birthday, not my
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birthday. So.
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So she's not interested. That's correct.
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Yeah, that's whatever she prefers.
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Well, that, well, it was her. She preferred sleep.
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Yes, I get it. Yeah, it makes me laugh.
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Makes me laugh. Yes.
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Nope. Like nada, nada.
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So no, Turned out pretty. Turned out pretty good.
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So what's the what's the next big one around the corner?
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What? What is it?
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February. Yeah, it's February, so.
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Yeah, Mother's Day, that's around the corner.
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Something like that. Well, I mean, yeah, unless you
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have more birthdays in between. I mean, yeah.
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Kyron's birthday. 'S at the end of May, so yeah.
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Yeah, so Logan's is tax day, April 15th, he's easy.
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And then Kyron's May 1st, he's Mayday baby, so.
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Chili's is April 20th, which is Weed Day and Hitler's birthday.
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Oh, there you go. Oh, wow.
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Oh, geez. Yeah.
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Oh, yeah, That's not that's probably not a good one for a
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birthday, I guess in terms of, you know, she.
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It's weed day, so she thinks it's funny.
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It's 4:20 so. OK, all right, all right.
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I mean, how are you talking? About Hitler.
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I was going to say I was talking about I was talking about the
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Hitler reference on that. I don't know if I want to be
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born on the same day as Hitler. My my birthday has John F
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Kennedy and Bob Hope so. So when you're in school and
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they ask you to do your book report on presidents, mine was
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always John F Kennedy. Because sure, the same birthday.
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So, yeah, yeah, that's good. And then Bob Hope's one of.
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And then Bob Hope's one of my favorite comedians.
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What I learned that. Well.
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Well, what I learned from Bob Hope more than anything else is
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so when I first got started in radio, I, I can't tell a lie, I
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was kind of, I was kind of arrogant about it full, I guess
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full of myself about radio. And that was that was my own
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insecurity not being as not being as good as I as I probably
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thought I was. Like you're all that because
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you're on the radio now like that.
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Well, I mean, I wasn't, I wasn't like Micah.
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I mean, I, I wasn't like Micah and I didn't go when I, when I
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first got into radio. I didn't go around and tell
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people I was on the radio, no. No, really, you don't.
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But but I did, I did have an aura around me of like I
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thought, I thought I was better than what I really was.
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So, so, yeah. So it was like, you know, so I
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was kind of I I don't someone, someone once said I was
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arrogant. I I don't, I don't see it like
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that. But I was different.
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To them, you probably were or at.
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That time period, well, at the time, I guess I, you know, I was
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writing checks my mouth probably couldn't cash.
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I think to some point just being in that industry, you have to
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have a a small degree of arrogance.
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Like sure, there are degrees of that in our business, like the
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Super arrogant, but I think you have to have a a smidge of it, I
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guess. I just, I just know for me as a
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kid, I used, for me, I use confidence as a shield or almost
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or I guess almost arrogance as a shield to protect myself from
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getting hurt as a kid when I was with the Wallaces.
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And then that that kind of transpired into my radio career
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at the very start of it. I don't, I mean, it's, it's very
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hard to describe, but what was interesting is there's, I think
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there's two ways to be a personality.
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And I know we talked about this a long time ago, but because of
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Bob Hope, I was watching Bob Hope one night and Bob hopes
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whole stick is self deprecation. He makes fun of himself the
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entire so so everybody. So it's almost like the
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listeners are awesome or the audience is awesome.
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You know, my wife is awesome, my friends are awesome, but I'm,
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I'm the guy I, you know, everything fails because.
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You're the messed up. Yes.
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And so when I. So when I started doing morning
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radio many years ago, I decided to take that angle, the self
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deprecation, you know, like, oh, we're like, we're just lucky to
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have a listener. Yeah, you know, it's like, Oh my
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God. And then people would say, oh, I
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listen to your. Show we do it in our podcast too
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yeah so. So, so for now, for me, it's,
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it's literally just part of the character.
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I mean, it's just part of, of, of how I present myself.
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But, but, but that was not how I presented myself 30 plus years
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ago. And so, but Bob Hope was a big
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part of that. And so I've always felt there's
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two ways to be as a, as an air talent.
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You can, you can be humble and self deprecating, making fun of
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yourself or you and I both have worked with the flip side where
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I'm the greatest that's ever lived.
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Nobody's greater than me. Yes.
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And those people I literally cannot stand to to work with at
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all. Where they?
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Are not fun. They're not fun in any way,
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shape or form to work with. Well, you were at one O 7 many
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years ago with particular person that is my Lex Luther and you
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had to deal with her quite a bit where she literally said I am
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the radio station. Yes, remember those days?
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Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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So it's like. To me.
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Well, what makes it crazy for me is they're no longer in radio
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and haven't been for a long time.
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That's what that's, that's the beauty of it all.
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And, and it was so funny And I, I normally don't get, I don't
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give anybody a bad job reference because I, I just don't believe
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in that. Or at least I, you know, keep my
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mouth shut. And Andy, they tell you the
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story that Andy called me. No.
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Oh, so Andy Winford, which we both know, right?
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You know Andy, he's down. He's down in Modesto, Stockton.
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He is the program director at Cat Country and he had an
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opening on his afternoon show and he's been trying to get me
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to go there forever, like forever.
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But we never can cut a deal. Anyway, he calls me out of the
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blue and goes, hey, somebody's resume came across my desk and
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now I and they, and they said that person's name and I said,
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well, my, I go, my name's, I know my name's not on there.
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And he goes, no, no, no, no, he goes no, absolutely not.
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But he goes, I recognize the call letters.
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And you know, so I knew that you probably knew this person.
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And so I just said, I said, you know what, Andy?
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I don't ever give a bad reference.
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I can say is if I if I had a mortal enemy on this planet,
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that's my mortal, that's my mortal enemy, that's my Lex
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Luthor, so. Is this person trying to get
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back into radio or this was? Yeah, you know, I what I, I
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guess I don't know. They've been out for so long.
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I mean, I mean, you know, once I once I said that and he's like,
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and he was like, well, I'm not even going to call her.
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He goes and he was, he goes, he hadn't heard an air check.
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He hadn't heard anything. He just, he just saw it come
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through his desk and said, Hey, Rick probably knows this person
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and he's and then and then and then by you going by you just
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literally saying my mortal enemy, he's like, Nope, I'm not
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interested. And I just said it's, it's, I
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mean, one of the one of the thing, Hey, not to say that I
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was when we talked about being a program director for the first
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time, I, I made a lot of mistakes.
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I will be the first in line to say that.
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Yeah, and we. Talked about some of those yes I
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mean, hey, you know, but but I was still I would like to think
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even at 28 I was still a good program director.
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I knew what good radio good radio is yes, I would like to
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think that. And so I have AI had a hard time
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managing people, yes than than running a radio station or
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programming right. So and remember that there was
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the the sweethearts dance and it was like, oh, let's have a
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second chance prom, which like yeah, that's an awesome idea.
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And and this person just says so I can wear a dress and everybody
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can see me in my dress. Remember that.
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So I forgot about all this stuff, like, yeah, I just kind
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of. Well, this is one of those
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people. Yeah.
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This is one of those people in radio that that holds courts or
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think or think or think they hold courts, you know, And it's
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one of those things, like many years ago, not by my choice, but
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we ended up working together again.
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It wasn't my choice. And she ended up getting fired.
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So it was, you know, she did, she did to herself.
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But I remember having her. She was taking people backstage
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to Brad Paisley at the Yakima Sun Dome, and she was marching
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them across the field or across the, the, the, you know, the
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complex like she was holding court, Like you might as well,
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you might as well had a tiara and a scepter in her hand as she
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was walking the, the backstage winners over there.
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My gosh, so. And, and to show you just
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another avenue of arrogance was when she came back to, to she
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had, she'd worked in Memphis and a couple other places and got
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basically chased out of those places.
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Well, she's sitting in our, in our programming meeting and she
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has a regular cell phone. And then another phone rings,
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goes, oh, hold on, that's my Memphis cell phone.
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God. Yeah, please.
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Yes, yeah. So anyway, self, self
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deprecation to me is the is the way to go.
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And I, I, you know, I wish I could drop names on that one,
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but I, I actually, for once, will not start a holy war.
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But I think you have dropped this persons name.
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I so just to show you so years ago she had gone to a different
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radio station and then her morning Co host.
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This was back in like 2000. This is 26 years ago.
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Damn. Her coho cohost's name was Chris
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Chaos. And he sends me, he sends me an
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e-mail out of a report. I know it is a radio name.
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Sends me an e-mail out of out of no one goes you're a douche.
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And I go and I go who are you? And I go, who?
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Who are you? I'm Chris Chaos and my cohost
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says you're a douche. I said, I said, I said.
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And so anyway, Oh my goodness, it takes a it takes a small man
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to reach out to some to to reach out to a complete stranger.
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Someone you don't even know. You're getting one side of the
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story from this person. Yep, and and and and pick and
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pick a fight and pick the fight and and.
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For my recollection, neither neither are in broadcasting any
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longer. I wonder why that's all I got.
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That's all I got to say about that.
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So, so pop opens the self deprecation.
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Yeah. If you're ever curious.
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Well, I just, I mean, I think, I think it's interesting.
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I mean, I think it's one of those things where why we why we
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do the things that we do. And, and, you know, I mean, for
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me as a kid growing up, that was kind of my shield back in the
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day. All that, all that bravado, all
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that confidence was more of a mask and not, and not the real
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reality of you know what? I really, you know, every time I
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do a break on the radio, I'm like this, this sucks.
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Every time I hear a break, I do that.
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That's the that's the true truth.
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When I listen to myself back on an air check, it's like I think
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I'm the worst talent that ever lived and why am I even walking
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and breathing on the planet? So, so I loved it when Cheryl
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used to say one of her old bosses, she goes, she goes, I
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she goes, I never yelled at you because you're going to beat
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yourself up long. You know, so much more than then
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then I'll ever do that. So yeah.
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Yeah. There you go.
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And and really quick. That wasn't your favorite person
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either though. No.
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Like like not even close. No, like I like I.
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Just let me know that I had that one right.
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Yes, you did. Yeah, OK.
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I mean, you know that I don't like people like that anyway,
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so. Right, Right.
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Yeah. But but you had to work.
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I think you worked a lot longer with her than I did.
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Or did you come a little bit? You were kind of in you were you
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were middays when I got there. You were middays and she was
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doing she was the morning Co host.
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Her her her Co host Rick Dunnett gotten fired.
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Now guess. Guess who's talented?
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He is. Very much so.
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And guess who's still in radio? He is, yes, I completely agree
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with that if. That wasn't, I guess.
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And guess who's friends with him on Facebook?
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Oh yeah, because he he he's a phenomenal talent.
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Like, yeah, he's he is incredibly creative.
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He's an amazing morning show guy.
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And I always give credit worth credit with do so she was
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basically her her wagon was hitched to him.
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I was going to say she's riding everyone else's tail coats,
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basically. I mean she.
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Yeah, because, because it was Dewey for a while.
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Remember, it was Dewey and give Dewey his credit.
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I mean, I'm not the biggest fan, you know.
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I mean, Dewey and I have our warriors, you know, but, but I
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give Dewey credit. Dewey was a great competitor and
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and be loved and a great talent and it's probably still is so.
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But here's her here's her wagon, her rickety old Ragon, her bitch
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wagon, rickety old bitch wagon. Gosh.
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OK, well on that note, let's move on because we beat this
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bitch wagon to death, so to speak.
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I don't know you're going to steal that word.
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You know you are. Oh yes, I am.
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Bitch wagon. It was what?
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What is it? Trifling bitch?
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It was on Suddenly Amish. She used like this word like
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like trifling bitch. Or anyway, I was like, Oh my
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God, I love this. But we'll talk about Suddenly
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Amish a little bit later. I did want to touch on the
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celebrity desk. Yeah.
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I'm ready for February to be over because this is I'm done.
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I am done. Like I cannot handle Eric Dane
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passing away. Who was The Who is the Revenge
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of the Nerds guy that just. Passed away, so Robert Carradine
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of the Carradine family. So that's and was also Lizzie
17:31
Mcguire's dad too. Oh yes.
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So that's so this generation knows him as the dad for Lizzie
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McGuire. But but but for us it was
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Revenge of the Nerds. He played Lewis.
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Yep. Yep.
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So and I did not realize that he'd been suffering with
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bipolarism for the last 20 years and sadly he took his life.
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He was 71 and he took his life. So.
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Horrible, that is. And then we just got news.
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It just broke. Not necessarily famous, but
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Martin Schwartz, daughter Catherine, she's 41 years old,
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passing away by suicide. And apparently she has a degree
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in mental health. And she's a, she was a
18:07
psychologist, psychiatrist, psychologist.
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And yeah, so this is kind of a crazy, not that, you know, every
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life matters, but it's kind of. But she spent her entire life
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trying to to help them the the mentally ill and and it just
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that news just broken. And then, of course, Vanderbeek,
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you got, you got Mox, you know, you got Dawson.
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So a lot of yeah, not a great start.
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No, no, it's just crazy. Again, I am done.
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Done with February. Well, especially when it's here,
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it's by suicide and we don't do enough in this country for
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mental health. That's for.
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Sure. No.
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Not near, no, we don't do we don't do shit basically, besides
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here, take some drugs. That's that's pretty much it
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right now. OK, All right, let's move on.
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That was that was sad. That was somber.
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I don't really know how to pivot from that.
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So it's tough. Think about being on the radio
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when you have to do an announcement of a death
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announcement. It's like, OK, now some more
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bells and whistles and jokes. Like what?
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I don't know how to pivot from. That I know, I know.
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You try to be, you try to be, you know, serious.
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And then you go like, and then you're back to honk, honk, beep,
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beep. Right, right.
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But you still have to talk about it and you still have to touch
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on it. And which I think we've talked
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about on a past podcast about how it is even tougher in radio
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because like you said, you have to and it's like quicker, like
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you got to touch on it and then move on.
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And then it's the next break is like, ha ha, happy, happy.
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And I don't understand too, going back to the mental health
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situation, when people, you know, we don't, we don't make
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mental health part of the conversation, even even in the,
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in the work day. And it I recently just had a
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situation at work where a Co worker, you know, writing these
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blogs that we write. Well, she was like, well, I want
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to meet with you every week. And I'm like, why?
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Why do we need to meet every week?
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I hit the numbers. I'm doing what you're asking.
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Why do we hit, why do we need to, to meet every week?
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Why can't we meet once a month? And it's because somebody up top
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says, you know, I'm your mentor and you need to meet with
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everybody once a once a week or whatever.
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And I put my, I put my feet in the sand with this person and,
20:24
and they were very offended by it.
20:26
And I told her, I said, I said, I've done everything that you've
20:29
asked. And I said, well, number one, I
20:30
go, I go number one, you're not my boss and the person above you
20:33
is not my boss. And then I also broke it down.
20:36
I said I have done everything you've asked and and I'm the
20:40
only person in the region that even hit goal, so why are you
20:43
bothering me, right And and. Why?
20:45
Why are you being picked on basically?
20:47
For Right. And I said, I said my Yeah.
20:48
And I said my mental health is way more important than having a
20:52
weekly meeting with you. Oh, yeah.
20:54
So and then she and then she goes she you know, she's like,
20:57
well, she's like, well, you used to meet with John Taylor.
21:00
Well, John Taylor is an actual editor.
21:04
Because he's a yeah journalist. John Taylor.
21:08
Worked at multiple publications. Yeah, so if John Taylor wants to
21:12
take a red pen through my shit any day of the week, you know,
21:16
and I'll let him because the man is the man is effing brilliant.
21:20
And I have nothing but respect. And so I've got somebody else.
21:24
But I guess I I, you know, I was, I was doing radio when they
21:27
were in diapers. So I have a real, I have a
21:29
heart. And it and, and what we're
21:30
talking about is not even radio, No.
21:32
So. So I have a hard time with it's
21:34
right and, and, and, and the meeting's not about the
21:37
meeting's not about my content. Like they don't read my content.
21:40
They have no idea the meeting. The meeting is a The meeting is
21:43
a list that they've been given by somebody at corporate to
21:47
basically beat down on the DJs with.
21:50
But if they're not even reading your words or knowing, how can
21:55
how can they come to this meeting and be like you?
21:58
You. You this this this this this
21:59
when they don't even. They don't know it all.
22:04
They don't know it all at all, period.
22:06
And then, and then they're late to the meeting.
22:08
Oh gosh. Yeah, so it's like I have a hard
22:10
time. I I struggle with that.
22:12
I'm trying to be, I'm trying to be on my best behavior, but I'm
22:15
one of those people. So, so they were very hurt by it
22:17
and but I but I also like, well, if you're, if you're performing,
22:20
why, why would you need a weekly one-on-one?
22:23
And and I think what, what hurts their feelings is I don't take
22:26
it. I don't want, I don't want to
22:28
use any of their ideas. I'm not interested in their
22:30
ideas. And I.
22:32
They're just ideas and it's not like this person is like you
22:36
have to write about this. You don't have to do.
22:39
That at all. They can throw out ideas and
22:42
suggestions, but that doesn't mean we have to write about
22:45
them, especially if we have our own things that we're like, oh,
22:48
this is really going to hit well, or we're going to hit our
22:52
numbers with this or, you know, things like that.
22:55
I don't know. It's they're doing it because
22:57
someone else told them to do it. They're not doing it because
23:00
they're not doing it because, because you need it.
23:04
Well, and I, I, I had a little conversation with them and I
23:06
know I don't want to, I don't want to talk, you know, a jerk.
23:09
But I was like, said leaders lead by example said so why I'm
23:12
so I said so I told them, I said, Hey, I'm on every call
23:14
that that work has all the time. And when they ask for a change,
23:18
I make that change immediately in my content.
23:20
So, so to circle back around with me multiple times about the
23:24
same thing, you could just go open up my article and see that
23:27
I've already made the adjustment, I've made the
23:29
change. So what's the constant need to
23:32
meet weekly to beat basically beat me?
23:35
Now they don't see it like that, but I but I look at it from a
23:37
mental health standpoint, I'm like, this is not good for my
23:40
mental health. No, no.
23:43
Right. It's like, yeah, it's it's the
23:45
most ridiculous thing anyway, so get going back to the mental
23:48
health. We don't do enough.
23:49
We just don't do enough. And that that if you're asking
23:52
me what's what's bothering me this week, that encounter
23:56
greatly wears has weighed heavily on me because I feel
24:00
like I was the jerk and I felt bad or that I'm not a team
24:03
player, but I also. Because they were hurt by what
24:07
you said. And so then in turn you think
24:10
now you're the ass. Basically, yeah.
24:12
Well, because they're going to go back and tell they're going
24:14
to go back and tell somebody else not, you know, the hey,
24:17
Rick, was it? Well, you know he's not Well,
24:19
that's. Because like, their boss is
24:21
going to be like, hey, how come you're not meeting with Rick
24:23
every week like I told you? And so they're going to have to
24:26
answer for that. And so then that's going to
24:28
start up that conversation. Yeah.
24:30
But the crazy thing is there are people that aren't even your
24:32
boss. So it's like, so it's like if my
24:34
boss came to me and said, hey, you're going to meet with this
24:36
person once a week, mandatory, OK, so be it.
24:38
I will, but but they're not. And so it's like and and again,
24:42
I'm more frustrated. Like you're not even paying it.
24:44
You're not even reading the you don't even know what content
24:46
I've done. It's.
24:47
Crazy that they are not even reading your shit and they're
24:50
still like. No.
24:53
And you were there at that? Yeah, you were there during that
24:55
time where it's, you know what I'm saying?
24:57
Like. God, yes.
24:58
Like it's a laundry list. Well, if you're doing the
25:00
laundry list and you're hitting the numbers, why are you
25:02
bothering this person? Great.
25:03
Leave them alone. Yeah, there's no reason to meet
25:07
with them. I could see, like, if you're not
25:09
hitting the numbers, if you're struggling with ideas, which
25:12
sometimes, yeah, we would struggle with things to write
25:15
about because there maybe wasn't a lot going on or whatever it
25:19
was. And so yeah, like sitting down
25:22
and having some ideas or bouncing ideas off of someone
25:25
helps, but this isn't necessary in your situation, so.
25:29
My own arrogance prevents me from asking for help.
25:34
Joking, joking. It's like for me, for me, yeah.
25:38
No, for me, there's ton of there's content everywhere.
25:41
Yeah. So.
25:42
So nowhere to find it. And right, right.
25:44
So it's it's so, I mean, I don't even, I don't even enjoy the, I
25:47
don't even join. I don't enjoy the brainstorming
25:50
aspect, Michelle, because then I feel obligated to write, to
25:54
write those articles. Yeah.
25:55
So it's like I don't enjoy brainstorming.
25:57
And now my Co host, Patty, she loves that.
26:00
She wants to do everything in a group she doesn't understand.
26:02
I like what Patty brings up. She doesn't understand why we
26:05
have to do it individually when you can just show everybody all
26:09
you know at once. So in our company, you've got
26:11
varying degrees of people doing these things, as you already
26:14
know. Yeah.
26:15
So, so, So one person still can't spell cats, you know, And
26:18
then you got one person over here who's doing every anything
26:21
and everything that's asked of them, and they treat them equal.
26:25
Yes, you. You, you, you equally get the
26:27
beating. That's how it's always been.
26:30
And we talked. About this, in a past podcast,
26:32
people who got their production done, which are commercials that
26:37
needed to be done right away and then you had the other people
26:40
who would not do it and. And then you'd have a meeting,
26:43
Hey, hey guys, get your production done.
26:45
Get your production done. But you're like, well, I'm a
26:48
person who gets my production done.
26:49
Why? Why am I in this meeting?
26:51
And then eventually they stopped giving the production to the
26:54
person who wasn't doing it and loaded up the people who were
26:57
doing it like. That's what they do because that
27:00
person that yeah. So anyway, we're yeah, kind of
27:02
same situation. So that if you were asking the
27:05
one thing that was bothering me this week, that was the one
27:07
place where I thought I was being.
27:08
I mean, I didn't ask you, but. I I've been, I actually wanted
27:12
to talk about it, but I didn't know how to.
27:14
Approach it so. Thank you.
27:15
Thank you for the in on that. Whitey, you could have said
27:18
something we always talk about before we start the podcast,
27:20
what we're going to talk about. And you know, you could always
27:24
be like, look, I want to bitch about this.
27:27
This is bothering me. Well, I felt bad because maybe
27:31
this isn't the place that to to gripe is.
27:33
It air out your dirty laundry. I think we're airing out
27:36
everything at this point. So I think, well, I think again,
27:39
when you got into the mental health situation, I, you know,
27:42
it's like I'm, I'm telling this, I mean, I'm literally telling
27:44
this person you affect my mental health.
27:47
And yet they're literally ignoring me because I got an
27:50
e-mail today going as per our discussion, like, because,
27:53
because they have to recap it for the overlord, they have to
27:56
recap it for the overlord, right?
27:58
But again, again, it's like. So are they upset that you don't
28:02
want to meet with them or the fact that you pointed out that
28:05
when you do meet with them it affects your mental health?
28:09
Like are they, are they just upset with it in general or
28:11
because you pointed that? Out.
28:13
They're upset, they're upset, they're upset because I don't
28:15
want their coaching because they say even the even the QB on the
28:19
team needs coaching. OK, from John Taylor.
28:23
That's their go to, OK. But right.
28:26
But who's coaching me? Right.
28:29
You know who's coaching me? That's like, that's like saying
28:32
somebody who no, well, that's what I'm saying.
28:35
It's like somebody who's 18 years old just started radio.
28:38
I've been doing it 38 years at the end, not to brag, but at the
28:42
highest levels and to say they're going to coach me, I
28:45
don't think so. You've won every single award
28:48
possible at the company that you work at, yes.
28:51
So yeah. Yes, yeah.
28:55
And so to me, it's like, it's like, I mean, I I don't know,
28:58
it's like, and I think, and let's go back to that really
29:00
quick about radio and be an air check back when remember the
29:03
days we did air checks, if you respected the person who was air
29:06
checking you, you listened like give me, oh, give me more, give
29:10
me more, give me more, Give me. You did.
29:11
Everything that they wanted you to do, like you improved and you
29:16
made it a point that you made sure that you hit all those
29:19
improvements and did what they said.
29:22
So that when you go back in for next week or next month, however
29:26
often you're air checked, then they would sit down and listen
29:29
to it and know that you did everything in that last meeting
29:33
that they told you to do. But you did because you
29:35
respected them though, right? Yes.
29:37
Now, now, now let's go back to the bad program directors.
29:39
You had that like couldn't find their whole, you know, I'm
29:41
saying, and you knew they are a bad program director.
29:43
Oh, yeah. It's, it's hard to take
29:44
direction. Yes, from, from, you know, and
29:47
I, and again, I know it always sounds arrogant, but it's
29:49
harder, harder to take direction from people that you know,
29:52
you're smarter than. Right.
29:54
And that we're giving you, I don't know, criticism that just
29:58
wasn't I, it just wasn't what, I don't know, what am I?
30:03
What am I looking for here? Like it just wasn't relevant or
30:07
it wasn't something that you needed to improve on or, you
30:11
know, it was just garbage stuff, I guess basically, right.
30:15
That goes back. So that goes back to as as my
30:19
boss told me, because I did go to my boss and talk about it and
30:21
they said, well, Rick, she's got a list.
30:24
She's just going down the list. Right.
30:26
So for for every employee, all right, but but she should know
30:30
as a leader, OK, I know this particular contributor already
30:34
checks all the boxes. Great.
30:36
Like why so? So that's.
30:38
Like one of your best players? Right, right.
30:40
So if you check all the boxes, you know, why would you need a
30:43
weekly one-on-one with somebody who checks your boxes now once a
30:46
month? Absolutely.
30:47
Hey, how's it going? Blah, blah, blah, blah.
30:49
Great. Lego once a month check in.
30:51
And and I laughed at this person because they're like, well, you
30:55
know, well, I hope you feel like you can reach out.
30:57
Yes. Yeah.
30:59
Getty Images was down. You saw me reach out.
31:02
Hey, Can, what's wrong with Getty Images?
31:04
Well, this person. Take picture.
31:06
Yes, this person changed the e-mail and didn't tell everybody
31:09
else. So no, no, but, but I'm, I'm
31:12
not, I'm picking on them. But I'm just saying, is is the
31:15
reason why I couldn't get to Getty Images and get my article
31:17
done is because the same person who's got this list changed our
31:21
e-mail and didn't change the password for three markets and
31:25
didn't tell them? Holy crap, that's crazy.
31:28
Right, so it's not the pick on them.
31:30
It's like, hey, man, you lead by example.
31:33
And so it's like, if I need something, I'll reach out, but
31:35
if I don't need anything, then I don't understand why we have the
31:37
conversation. So yeah, there you go.
31:39
I feel better now. Thank you, Michelle.
31:41
I'm going to check the mail. Now that you've vented that
31:45
you're check your mail. You'll be getting that real
31:47
soon, so not much. My three cents.
31:51
Your three cents. Well, what did Lucy charge?
31:52
Like 5 But then but then she kept pulling the the she kept
31:57
pulling the football out from Charlie Brown.
31:59
Yeah, that was him. Well, Speaking of football here,
32:03
that's a good like pivot and transition.
32:06
I was right. I was right.
32:08
I was right about the Seahawks, wasn't it?
32:11
Wasn't I called it, called it, called it a mile away even
32:14
before like the speculation came out before the Super Bowl that
32:19
they were going to put the Seahawks up for sale.
32:21
I called it. So, yeah, I think, I mean, not
32:23
that I want them to be put up for sale, I I don't, but this,
32:28
this has been in the writing all along.
32:30
We all knew this was going to. Happen.
32:32
It's part of the estate. It's part of the estates.
32:35
And Jodie Allen. Amazing.
32:37
This money goes to charity. I mean, you've got, I mean,
32:41
yeah, you got, you got the win. You're going to be cashing out
32:44
six to $8 billion. Right.
32:46
Your your value just went up because you won the Super Bowl
32:50
again. And so, yeah, so you sell high
32:53
like smart, smart business. I actually, I actually did an
32:57
article about the five billionaires that.
33:01
That could possibly buy the team.
33:02
So, yeah, so I said Bill Gates. I said Bill Gates because
33:06
because of the friendship with Paul Allen, I'm not saying
33:09
they're going to. I'm just saying these would be
33:11
the billionaires you're looking at.
33:12
Bill Gates, Bezos. No.
33:16
The one that I loved is my wild card, and I think she should, is
33:19
Mackenzie Scott. Yes, Oh my God, yes, that would
33:23
be. That's fabulous.
33:24
Right. And then I think it's and then
33:27
Ballmer and then Ellison. But for me, Mackenzie Scott,
33:30
because she she's philanthropic and she's wonderful and she
33:34
gives away so much of her wealth.
33:35
I think she'd be a great. So when you're and I'm and The
33:39
thing is, I said they had to have Seattle ties too.
33:41
So they had to be a Washingtonian, not just not just
33:44
a billionaire. So lots were saying like Mike
33:47
Mark Cuban, which I do love Mark Cuban, right.
33:50
I'd be OK with, I would be OK with Mark Cuban buying that'd.
33:52
Be fine. Yeah, yeah.
33:53
But Mackenzie Scott was my number one pick because of the
33:56
good works that she does. Well, plus and it would be great
33:58
to have another female, you know.
34:01
NFL for Jodi Alder. Yeah, absolutely.
34:03
Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
34:05
So. So you called it.
34:08
Feel good about it. No, I mean, I'm not happy about
34:11
it. Like, again, I'm worried about
34:12
who's going to buy them. But, you know, at the same time,
34:16
like we all knew this was going to happen, so it wasn't hard to
34:20
figure this out, so. Yeah.
34:21
Well, I think what I think what's great about this time
34:24
around and, and whether I agree or disagree with this, because
34:27
I'm not a big fan of the public having to buy big stadiums.
34:30
But but I will say that is the caveat of staying in Seattle is
34:35
that or back in 96 when they almost left was with the Kingdom
34:40
is you got to buy a big, massive stadium, you know, for these
34:42
owners to stay there. And, and it's on, like you said,
34:45
it's on the taxpayers back. But then on the flip side, that
34:48
brings, that brings tourism, that brings people stay in the,
34:52
I mean, the list goes on and on. Billions of dollars.
34:54
For me it's a double edged sword.
34:56
It's a double edged sword. But then you can also use Lumen
34:59
Field for concerts and events and all these different things.
35:02
So. So on one hand, I'm not a big
35:04
fan of, you know, it's, it's same things I'm not a big fan of
35:08
like WSU or the Huskies with their their top employee being
35:12
the coach making $6 million a year for sports.
35:15
No, I I'm just saying I'm not but.
35:18
The doctors are not happy about it either.
35:20
Right, so, but I understand how that you.
35:23
Said Huskies. That's why they're parking.
35:25
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm kidding.
35:27
So I understand what how that works a little bit.
35:29
Yeah. So, so, so to me, yeah, I'm
35:31
going to go with, got to go with Mackenzie Scott.
35:34
The delivery guy is like, why? Why does the delivery guy park?
35:38
There again, right? Every single day.
35:42
We talked about this on another podcast.
35:44
I think they bark in almost every podcast.
35:47
Well. He sits out there and rearranges
35:49
his packages. I'm like, really?
35:50
Yeah, you got to pick our house and sit out in front and
35:52
rearrange the packages so he can.
35:53
So, so, so he sits there and he just barks non-stop.
35:58
So yeah, anyway, my pick is Mackenzie Scott.
36:00
OK, all right, all right. Who are you picking?
36:02
Who do you think? I don't know.
36:03
I haven't really thought about it.
36:06
My concern is that Jeff Bezos would be the one that would buy
36:10
them and I really don't want any type of but the people with all
36:15
the money are people like him. So I don't know, you know, why
36:18
can't like a bunch of us normal people group together and like
36:22
put our money in and have like 20,000 owners of the Seahawks
36:27
like. Well, I think, yeah, whatever.
36:30
It might even be an investment group down the road, like like
36:32
you said, like John Elway or I mean people like that or Tom
36:35
Brady. So because they got to raise 6
36:37
to $8 billion. So.
36:40
So if it's not a billionaire buying it outright, then it's
36:42
going to be some investment group or something.
36:44
Right. Kind of like the Sounders you,
36:46
you know, you have a whole bunch of different people that are.
36:49
Drew Carey is one of them, but he's not the sole owner of the
36:53
Sounders. So yeah.
36:54
Yeah, yeah. So you you called it though.
36:57
I know. OK, I do.
36:59
I have a correction to make. We talked about that my new show
37:02
Addiction in the last podcast, which is suddenly Amish and
37:08
James and Emma, I mentioned were cousins.
37:11
Well, they're third cousins. I saw like I saw it in this last
37:16
week's episode that they were third cousins.
37:19
So I just wanted to correct that.
37:21
Not that that it's any better. It's still weird.
37:25
But yeah, they are third cousins.
37:28
I think I. Wouldn't I think?
37:30
They wouldn't like have any type of flirting like they've been
37:34
doing or anything like with my third cousin, like is I don't
37:39
know, it's it's weird, but it's a.
37:41
Great show, cousin. So yeah.
37:42
So yeah. It's a great show then.
37:44
Yeah, OK. And also last podcast, we did
37:49
touch on Obama talking about aliens and how everybody went
37:52
bananas because he just mentions aliens in the rapid fire
37:55
question that he does believe that there are they are real.
37:59
And so everybody jumped on the fact that, my God, like there's
38:03
proof, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
38:04
And then he had to go back and correct it.
38:05
Like, no, I haven't been to Area 51.
38:07
No, I haven't seen aliens. And then you mentioned Donald
38:12
Trump, that if there was aliens, he would have spilled the beans.
38:16
Easily. And then what happened after our
38:18
podcast? Oh, I'm releasing everything on
38:21
aliens. I'm releasing any and all
38:22
information on aliens. But I'm still waiting on my John
38:25
F Kennedy stuff. I'm still waiting on my my Doge
38:29
checks. I'm still waiting on my SO.
38:31
I'm still waiting on my tariff rebate.
38:33
All these different things. I think.
38:34
I think he is the king of distraction.
38:37
I just thought it was funny that I mean, it's just, you know,
38:40
it's I think it was just because, well, it's a multitude
38:44
of reasons, but obviously because Obama said it and now
38:48
because Obama was getting the I don't attention and then he had
38:53
to go back and say, well, didn't he mention something about like
38:58
Obama's going to be a trouble because that's classified.
39:01
Or. Something he made some kind of
39:03
comment along those lines and in my mind I'm going what, like you
39:08
had classified documents in your bathroom.
39:10
What are you talking about? Like he he didn't say like I've
39:15
seen it. He was doing rapid fire
39:18
questions and he just says like, yeah, I believe we all can have
39:23
our own personal preference on whether we believe aliens are
39:25
real or not. It's not based on he's seen
39:27
classified documents. And so I'm like, Oh my.
39:31
God like. You cannot allow Obama to have
39:35
any sense of anything. And that's what's bothering you
39:38
with this is? Well, I thought it's.
39:40
Funny that he's like, I'm I'm ordering everyone to declassify
39:45
any documents with UFOs or aliens and we haven't seen those
39:49
documents yet so. Well, he blames everybody else
39:52
for having TDs and then he can't get well, tonight's going to be
39:55
the State of the Union address. By the time this airs, it'll be
39:57
long, long come and gone, right? A couple days, yeah.
40:00
After, yeah. And so, I mean, again, it's
40:02
going to be, it's going to be like you said earlier, you know,
40:05
blah, blah, blah, blame Biden, blah, blah, blah, blah Biden,
40:08
blah blah blah, blah Biden, maybe Obama, blah blah, blah.
40:12
Right. Exactly.
40:13
And so it's like, and again, it comes down to a leader.
40:17
A leader leads by example and and so for me, picking fights
40:22
and name calling and that that for me is the lowest common
40:26
denominator when it comes from from a.
40:29
A leader is you. A leader takes the High Road.
40:32
The leader always takes the high.
40:33
Road and takes responsibility. A true leader takes
40:37
responsibility for anything and everything, whether or not they
40:41
are directly responsible. It's like you.
40:44
Are at the top, yes, like. It's on their watch.
40:47
It's your responsibility. Well, even from even from a
40:52
Nixon standpoint, anybody like the guy or not, he resigned.
40:56
He like he's like, I have to resign, you know, I have to
40:58
resign the presidency. He's taken, you know, full, you
41:02
know, he just, he had to. So it's one of, you know,
41:06
Trump's not, you know, death, death and, and even and and
41:11
they're already saying Robert De Niro just did a big interview
41:15
and had said that he's not leaving.
41:17
Wasn't he? Wasn't that with Nicole Wallace
41:20
on? She has her podcast The best
41:21
People. I love her podcast.
41:23
Yes, and and about smiling and all that.
41:25
But but, but she was talking to Robert De Niro and she's like,
41:29
well, do you think he'll leave? And she and he goes, No, he will
41:31
not leave. Yeah, I've seen several people
41:33
that have said that. Well, just just even to the
41:36
point of when, when he was the successor to to Biden, he just
41:41
refused to even be there at the inauguration.
41:44
That again, that speaks, that speaks to leadership.
41:47
That speaks to leadership. Well, we're we are still
41:50
litigating. Well, they are this whole 2020
41:53
stolen election stuff. It's.
41:56
All ridiculous. Which I have some drama about
41:59
that, but I want to touch on since we're talking about the
42:02
state of the union, I really want to know who the designated
42:06
survivor is going to be whenever we have stain of the union
42:10
dresses, because it's normally like someone who's not important
42:13
in the. Cabinet.
42:14
Yeah. Like, it's like the
42:15
transportation secretary, yeah. Yeah.
42:17
Or like, yeah, the commerce secretary or, or whoever.
42:20
They even tell you they don't tell.
42:23
You they do? Yeah.
42:24
Something, yeah. Usually they realize the name of
42:26
who the designated survivor is going to be.
42:29
Yeah. Now I got to know.
42:30
They usually do, but they have it.
42:34
Democrat Mike Thompson. That's for the Democrats.
42:38
OK, so who's the Republicans? They haven't released it, and
42:41
normally they release who the designated survivor's going to
42:44
be. You don't know where they are.
42:46
Like we don't know where the location is because they have to
42:49
be kept separate and then, you know, they have the.
42:53
So one of the 15 cabinet secretaries is selected.
42:57
Yeah, and this all started during the Cold War.
42:59
Yep, of course. So it's been going on forever.
43:03
My thought was because they haven't announced who it's going
43:05
to be yet, maybe they're not willing to pick one.
43:08
I don't know. Like maybe they think like it's
43:11
not necessary anymore because usually you announce who your
43:15
designated. Survivor is going to be so last
43:18
year, Secretary of Veteran Affairs Doug Collins was the guy
43:23
who Rick Perry was one year. Yeah, I remember.
43:25
I. Was thinking oh God watch it be
43:30
RFK Junior. Like that's going to be the
43:33
designated survivor for this one.
43:35
So doesn't that scare the didn't that?
43:39
Yeah, don't really. Start his video with Kid Rock is
43:41
creepy as shit. Link.
43:43
Yeah, but does not say right now.
43:45
No. And usually they release it.
43:47
I don't know if they're just going to release it right
43:49
before, they're just not going to, you know, a multitude of
43:52
things. But normally it is released.
43:55
Yeah, the Democrats already released their guy, so.
43:57
We can talk about it, but yeah. That's crazy.
44:01
Anyway, that's a great show if you ever want.
44:03
To if you ever love it. Yes.
44:05
I do love it, yeah. It kind of fell apart for me in
44:08
later seasons, but I love the first few.
44:10
First few seasons was an absolute watch for me.
44:13
I loved it. Kiefer Sutherland.
44:14
Great, great, great, great. Maggie Qi, love that.
44:17
Oh yeah, that whole show was great.
44:19
Yeah, Yeah. Well.
44:21
Michelle is the designated survivor.
44:22
So there you go. OK.
44:25
Thanks. I would do not pick thee.
44:27
Do not. Since we're talking about family
44:30
drama and the president, the 2020 election and all that, I'll
44:34
just roll right into this. So more family drama is
44:39
involving my mom. So she randomly sent my oldest
44:43
son Matthew this text message. I have it, I had to write it
44:46
down. It says handsome.
44:48
Wow, I was right. 2020 was a proven stolen election.
44:54
Georgia is under FBI investigation.
44:57
Only took six years. Nana isn't crazy lol.
45:01
Now keep in mind, my oldest son volunteers during the elections
45:06
as a poll worker. He's done this since I can
45:09
remember. He's been involved in politics
45:12
since he was 18. At 18.
45:14
That was when the 2016 election was happening.
45:17
And he on his own found the where his caucus meeting place
45:23
was going to be during the 2016 election so that he can go and
45:27
caucus for his pervert preferred candidate at the time, it was
45:31
Bernie Sanders. He might get mad at me for
45:33
saying Bernie Bro yes. And so he, on his own, founded,
45:38
he went, he caucused at 18 years old.
45:42
So this kid knows his stuff about elections and being a poll
45:47
worker. And here's the kicker, my mom
45:51
used to work in the records department at the County
45:55
Courthouse. Granted this was like 30 years
45:58
ago, but that's they are they sit next to the elections
46:03
department and on like election night or whatever, she would
46:07
have to work late because she would have to help be like
46:10
getting all these ballots and getting them all counted,
46:13
getting them all organized. So she of all people knows kind
46:17
of like how this how this functions and works.
46:20
So it just blows my mind that she is just sucked into this,
46:24
that it's like, just because they seized the voting stuff
46:29
from 2020 in Georgia, that doesn't mean that it was fake or
46:35
whatever they're trying to say that it it was rigged.
46:39
But now that the affidavit has came out as to like the
46:43
reasoning that they have to give for this to happen, the person
46:46
at the heart of it is one of those election deniers.
46:49
And a lot of the things that they listed in there has proven
46:52
not to be true. So I don't know.
46:55
That's that's mine. That's mine.
46:57
Sorry. About it.
46:59
You know, no matter what, there's 36 months left of Trump.
47:02
So, so Nana, when it's all said and done, you, we, you know, we
47:06
just got to, we got to buckle in barrel down for, for 36 months
47:10
and then he's gone now. De Niro says he's not going to
47:14
leave. No, no, he is not going to
47:15
leave. But I'm saying what I will.
47:17
I will give Trump credit for one thing and one thing only is all
47:23
the other Republicans the Magas could care less about.
47:26
They don't like like the Magas. They they only care Trump's
47:30
people only care about Trump and I, and I will give them credit.
47:34
So once Trump is gone, that will happen someday, either by death
47:38
or being yanked out of the White House.
47:41
Then what? What you going to do?
47:43
And I'm not saying they're going to go out and immediately vote.
47:45
Oh, I will, I will. I had a great conversation with
47:48
our buddy who's a libertarian. You know what you want to talk
47:52
about. Yes, yes I do.
47:53
Mr. Esquire, out of the blue, he called me, had a great, we had a
47:57
great conversation to talk for about an hour.
47:58
We haven't talked in haven't talked in years, but I but I
48:01
adore him and Kerry and they're wonderful.
48:03
Anyway, Mr. Libertarian guess, Guess who he don't like?
48:06
Who does he not like? I mean, besides Trump,
48:08
obviously. He didn't like him at.
48:10
All no, because as a libertarian like they are taking away all
48:14
kinds of rights and blurring on the lines.
48:18
Exactly. So, so, so.
48:20
And it was interesting how he was talking about, I think his
48:23
one, one son's a right winger, the other one's a left winger.
48:27
And he's a libertarian down, right, straight down the middle
48:29
of it all. So it's like, it's like, yeah,
48:33
so but they but it, but the interesting thing about that,
48:35
it's Trump. That's it, period.
48:37
So it's they're not, they're not Marco Rubio fans, they're not JD
48:40
Vance fans. They're not all these other
48:42
people. So once this is said and done,
48:45
you know. I don't know who's going to be
48:47
the new person face of. Well, the new, the new poll
48:51
right now, if there was an election held today, he wouldn't
48:54
win. No, you know, then he's like
48:56
he's like at 30% now he's like, he's falling hardcore.
49:00
Again. Even even among his, even among
49:02
his own people. Oh yeah, like he his, like I've
49:05
said, there is this the underground resistance to him?
49:11
Now if if the if the yes, there's an underground
49:14
resistance and isn't. Being seen by the news, the
49:18
pollsters, yeah, all that kind of stuff.
49:20
So. If he loses the midterms, then
49:22
he's then he's just a gnat on. He's just a he's what they call
49:26
a lame duck. Yeah, then the last two years of
49:28
his presidency, like you can't do well #1 the tariffs, he got
49:32
shot down, Supreme Court shot him down.
49:34
He's like, he's like a like an effing baby.
49:36
He's like 15% across the board for everybody.
49:38
I I, which would probably be the only reason I would watch the
49:42
State of the Union, because they're all going to be sitting.
49:45
Oh yeah, he is. No.
49:46
Raw, raw and I know. He's going to attack him.
49:49
Oh yes. He's going to attack him.
49:50
He's. Going to like say your shit
49:52
right like right to them and they.
49:54
Except for. Except for Kavanaugh.
49:56
Except for Kavanaugh. God, yeah.
49:58
But they can't. React they they just have to sit
50:00
there like stoic. They can't be like a Marjorie
50:03
Taylor Green and be yelling you. Well, that's what a lot can't do
50:07
that and that's what a lot of people are saying.
50:09
Someone was was talking about the disruption during the the
50:14
speech or whatever. And someone says Democrats
50:16
better, somebody had said on the on threads, Democrats better,
50:19
you know, sit down and shut up, blah, blah, blah.
50:22
And someone brought up Marjorie Taylor Green and said Ryan's
50:25
talking about his dead son and Marjorie Taylor Green yells liar
50:28
or whatever. I mean, so, so I know our own
50:32
Patty Murray's not going. She's not attending at all.
50:35
Do you agree that that the representative should be there
50:37
or not be there? I know some of them are going,
50:40
you know, like ROH Khanna, who's part he and Thomas Massie are
50:44
the ones that have been spearheading getting the Epstein
50:47
files released. And I know he is going, but he's
50:50
taking a Epstein survivor with him.
50:53
And I know a lot of the Congress people, Democratic Congress
50:58
people, a lot of them are doing that.
51:00
They're taking Epstein survivors with them.
51:04
I'm kind of on the fence. I, I don't, it doesn't, it's
51:08
not. It's not really going to make a
51:10
difference either way whether you go or you don't go.
51:13
Like, yeah, not going is saying I don't support whatever, but
51:18
even going isn't you saying I support whatever because both
51:24
sides of the aisle usually go. So I'm not, I don't know.
51:29
Well, it's not going to make a difference and it just gives
51:32
people other it just takes away from stuff that's important to
51:35
talk about. And now you've given them this
51:38
to talk about, which is a trivial thing that you're not
51:41
going to the speech if. That yeah, I think, I think, I
51:44
think Nancy Pelosi a few few years back when she ripped up
51:47
the speech would for me said it all.
51:49
Now also and, and the crazy thing about the State of the
51:52
Union, people don't even realize that even that in itself is
51:55
political, because when he makes that long walk to the podium,
51:58
yeah, they purposely put up and coming and it's all about who's
52:02
in favor, yes, who gets to shake the hand of the president, Who
52:06
gets who gets talked to. It's absolutely 100% set up.
52:11
So if you're an upcoming congressman and wherever in
52:13
North Dakota and you've got enough political currency, I got
52:16
to be seen with the president. They set it up so where when
52:19
he's shaking hands, oh, there's there's the junior Councilman
52:22
from congressman from he's the next big rising star in the
52:25
party. Yes, because, you know, millions
52:28
of people are going to be watching this.
52:30
And so that is the whole key is to tee that up.
52:33
Who's exactly the rising star in the party?
52:37
But I wanted to bring up since we were talking about what my
52:39
mom texts about the 2020 election and that how it was
52:42
stolen. It's like if that was the case,
52:45
if we were stealing elections, we would have stolen this last.
52:48
Why would we let this guy win again?
52:50
And we would have stacked like the Senate and the House so that
52:53
we could have gotten some shit done.
52:55
Like it just, it doesn't make any sense at all when you think
53:00
about it. Even if we were doing that like.
53:03
The problem is the problem is half the country at the time was
53:05
apathetic and didn't want either.
53:07
And so they just chose to stay home.
53:09
And that's why that's why you got what you got.
53:11
It's like that. That's why they teach you that,
53:13
that, you know, I mean, I it sucks to pick the sucks to pick
53:17
the lesser of two evils in your mind, I guess, but you damn
53:20
right. Do you know, you're like, OK,
53:22
I'm going to pick this one because I don't want that one.
53:24
Even if you just disagreed with that, that, that situation.
53:28
So it's like, and then and then I'm always blown away by.
53:31
And, you know, I didn't vote till later in life.
53:33
So I understand. I'm always blown away by how
53:36
many people don't vote. Like, yeah.
53:38
That agitates me so much. And like, the American Idol gets
53:44
more votes than people. It's like other countries do not
53:48
have this type of democracy and freedom.
53:51
Like, it just should be a thing that you vote.
53:54
It should be a holiday. Like we should get the day off.
53:57
You should go vote. Well, now, well, now they want
54:00
to pull tax. I mean, now they want they want
54:03
they want to pay 160 bucks, 160 bucks that you can, that you can
54:07
vote and that's great. Again I'm I'm highly all hog
54:10
shit which a lot. Of people don't have a passport,
54:13
a lot of people don't have a driver's license or can afford
54:16
those kinds of things. Well, they're not American.
54:19
They're not American no matter what.
54:21
I'll never vote for their guy anyway.
54:23
So it's like, so I'm I, if I need to roll up with my birth
54:26
certificate and my passport, my driver's license, mother
54:29
humpers, I plan on doing it. And guess what?
54:31
I'm still still not voting for your guy.
54:33
You, it's going to be women. We're the ones in that save act
54:37
whatever they're trying to get past right now that because if,
54:40
especially if we take our husband's last name when we get
54:43
here, it's really going to like affect all of us.
54:46
I'm like, what the hell? This is some shit.
54:49
Like you're just trying to keep women from voting is what you're
54:52
trying to do. Yeah, no, it's all, it's all a
54:55
bunch of hard crap. So it'll be interesting to see
54:58
the State of the Union, or at least pieces of the State of the
55:01
Union. So God, God Bless America.
55:05
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