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Episode 243: Waiting For The Rapture, A Secret Picasso, & Ireland’s First Taco Bell
In Episode 243 of Madigan's Pubcast, Kathleen Madigan shares her thoughts on the latest rapture predictions, her cat Cedric's health, and the joys of rainy days in Nashville. The episode als...
Episode 243: Waiting For The Rapture, A Secret Picasso, & Ireland’s First Taco Bell
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Hey everybody it's me Kathleen Madigan, welcome to Madigan's pub cast.
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You grabbed yourself a drink, full of the bar stool, let's talk about what's been going
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on.
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Termites, welcome, welcome, welcome it's a very Stevie day, it's very spooky out.
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It's pouring down rain.
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All the cats are hiding out of chairs except for Cedric he remains unbothered.
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Cedric got some medicine though, he's doing much better, he's self grooming, he's not
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gagging.
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His nose is all cleared up.
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Yep, little tiny miracles, and they said give it to him by mouth, I'm like you come
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over and try that, he's not, he's not going to happen, I'm going to put in his food,
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and he fell for it, 10 bowls later, he fell for it.
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Cheers to a rainy day here in Nashville.
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It's a little tornado, we're not getting tornadoes, but we could because it's warm enough.
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What are we drinking, bush light for the farmers?
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That's right, sold in Missouri and Iowa, I don't know where else.
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Find liquor establishment, the liquor barn, that's an honor of the fall harvest.
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Look at bush light, there's cows on this can, tractor, corn, kind, farm rescue for the
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farmers, it was a farm aid, I think they did another farm aid, I didn't get to see it.
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Yeah, I think I saw clips online, by the way, it's Rapture Tuesday, and so far, I
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some guy, I think in South Africa said, he pinpointed the dates, I never understand why
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preacher people do that, because if you're, it's an unforced error, if you're wrong, you're
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completely fine, what's the reason?
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Jesus was tired, slept, overslept, you know, oh, well, come on, it's such an unforced
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error to say when we're all going to be or not be raptured, and when you see my next
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special, you'll hear a little something about that, a lot of something about the rapture.
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Yeah, I don't think I'm going anyway, but and the cats aren't going, and until you showed up,
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I really didn't know, maybe everyone had been raptured, I mean, my brother texted me,
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why no, he ain't going. But outside of this house, I'm like, what if the rapture happened,
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and I'm the only one that's left? Just me and the cats, and then you showed up,
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but what I would do in the Ozarks, I would go steal my neighbor's dog, they have an Irish
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Saturday manger that I would love with, and then I would steal their boat, because their boat
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is super fancy. Yeah, I already have a list of shit that I'm, I'm, I'm gunning for. You steal,
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yeah, which is why I'm one of the left behind, because I'm a goddamn thief. That's right.
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Well, if it's left, and they're happy wherever they went, right?
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I don't, I think it's all over TikTok. So it could be, it's definitely today and maybe tomorrow.
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But I don't understand, is this go by time zones? Have people been raptured in other time zones?
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Everybody online, I posted it on Twitter, is this a time zone thing, because nothing's
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happening in central time. Well, as far as I can see, and I was at a bar when I typed that so
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at Sam's, the lake bar, yeah, all my friends are fine, Greg, the boat guy, he was there,
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the bartender girls, everybody was there. I don't, I really should have looked into it more,
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who said this and why people, there are people on TikTok crying. I mean, they really believe this
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person. But that's the thing. I do pretty much know that this kind of, I kind of sell that for
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or the 24th. He said, oh, it could be tomorrow. Also might be the first day of Rosh Hashanah.
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The first day of Rosh Hashanah is today. No, I think it's today. Oh, it's a 24.
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He wants us to follow him on Rapsure Talk. I'm not doing it. No, because I do know, and I don't know
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anything from the Bible, but I'm pretty sure, I mean, I know the stories, it's a very Catholic version,
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that the thing about the Rapsure is I believe somebody, Jesus or God or both or whatever,
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said you will not know the time that no one will know the time or day. So what the hell,
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you're a preacher, you should know that somewhere in the Bible or I don't know, I might have made that up.
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I don't think so though. I mean, I'm very serious. I think I know that as a fact. Jesus appeared
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before my birthday. That's some bullshit. Well, congratulations to those who were Rapsured.
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I'm sure my friend Andrew went. I'm not texting him today. My friend Aaron might have gone. He's
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pretty devout. Oh, yeah, Aaron's Catholic. We don't get to go. I don't think we know. We don't
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qualify. No, Jeff Foxer would probably go. Yeah, and his wife. Yeah, they're good Christians.
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Like good examples. Yeah. We have Morgan. We have of course she'd go. She'd be the first one.
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She looks so good in an angel outfit. Because she's so tall and blonde. And she looks like an angel.
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I do not. I look like a a wood sprite that came out as some alley. But the hand would be a perfect
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angel. She loves Jesus. And it's accepted. Jesus is a person. But personal savior. Whatever you're
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supposed to do, I don't know. Cheers to those who got Rapsured and cheers to us left behind.
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Here's to the left. Here's to the left. Binds. I have an a beer at night in the morning because
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there's five cast time. I don't have to do another one later. What are we trying? Let's move on to some food.
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This is Whip City, jerky from Massachusetts. Termized Jill and Sarah and their cats. I saw the
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picture and the dogs very cute and a birthday box. All the birthday cards I got my birthday is
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next Tuesday. The 30th of September me. Yeah. Whip City. Where's Whip City? A Massachusetts. Yeah.
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You know why I love it? Third ingredient, sodium. Yeah. It has to be. Yep.
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Barbecue season beef jerky. I was very good. What was that saying? I forgot. Yeah.
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I forgot. You got me on the way on an angel. No, no, not the end after the rapture.
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I don't know. Anyway. Breakfast. No. Doritos. Collisions, pizza and cool ranch from Orange County
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termites. Sandra. Let's see what this is. Oh, whoa. I got a lot of stuff going on here. Sorry.
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Collisions. I mean, they must have a whole department. It's Netflix. Stranger Things.
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It's for the release of the movie. Oh, it's for the really. There's a movie called Collisions.
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Oh, called Stranger Things. Wow. Oh, Collisions is the two chips. Colliding, Stranger,
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pizza and cool ranch. I don't know. Doritos. What's going on? Pizza Doritos. No.
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No. No. Okay. Well, maybe. Shut up. What's up, maybe? I don't hate them.
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Do you like ranch dressing with your pizza? Ranch on pizza? No. No. No. I like ranch on some stuff,
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but not pizza. Okay. The children took the ranch too far. Yeah. Yeah. Delictables are these cat treats.
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And they come in this little like, I don't know. It's this thing. You just squeeze it out.
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Like a squeezeable tube. Yeah. If you put ranch in that every child in America,
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anybody under 16 in America would eat it. Yeah. Just straight ranch. I like them. I don't know how long
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that lasts. That made it. Limited. What? It doesn't matter. I don't understand. Hey,
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line mirror. It's terrifying. I didn't even mean it. I don't know. It was going to be terrifying
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because all that shit could happen. It might be happening right now. Yeah. Where everything. Well,
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the rapture. It's for the life of me. If you are a preacher person,
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please don't do it because there's not probably a lot to. But why pull out a specific date?
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And then you got to make up some whole bullshit if it doesn't happen. And if you're right, so what?
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Right. I mean, what'd you gain? Well, you warned people, but it's too late. Yeah. If I haven't
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done all the things I was supposed to do, these are Girl Scout Thin Mint Pop Tarts from Chicago Scout
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Leader in termite Jessica. I've been wondering about these. I heard they were coming out. Thin Mint
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Pop Tart. Ready? I strawberries my favorite. This is not strawberry at all.
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It tastes like a Thin Mint cookie. Yeah. No, I don't like toasted Pop Tarts. Never have.
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I like them cold. It's a very chocolatey. I don't know. Pretty good. If you're into Thin Mint,
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which my sister always says, what are you in a nursing home anytime? He kind of mint any.
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And I'm like, what are you talking about? I love it. But when I worked, she did
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in Catholic Charities in high school, makes you go work and she worked in a nursing home.
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After school, all the old people like Thin Mint ice cream, what are you doing in a nursing?
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I'm like, well, then maybe they just have good taste. Jesus.
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All right. Upcoming shows. Are we ready? This weekend. This weekend. Eugene, Portland, Seattle,
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then birthday week off. Then St. Louis, big hometown gig. 17, 18 Atlantic City,
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October 24, Monterey, October 25, Santa Rosa, November 7 and 8, Denver. I'm so excited about that one.
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All right. I don't know what you termites did last week. I golfed a lot with a little dwarf.
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I got the golf swing rate and the weather's been great. It's like 85, like 80, 85, what it's
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supposed to be. Nothing. My fantasy football team is doing great. The chiefs look like shit. That's
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why we've let a candle for Patrick and my homes. Yeah, but like that. I don't know. Then last night,
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even one Lamar is terrible. He still gets like 25 points. So I'll keep him. Yeah. I'm tied for
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first to the pick and pull. Pick and pull me. You just pick the winner of the game. No points of up.
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And then the fantasy team. I'm second. I'm second to a man who's never played.
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My friend Jim. Yeah, he's never played. I don't know. I don't know if I want to just play. You
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take the spot for the children. It's for the children. It's a children's league. I need another
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adult to play with. Even though the kids are better than I am most of the time. There's been a lot
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of injuries. Jerry Jones. Can we just. I know people have a fear of sports person. There's a guy.
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Steve or not a sports person. There's a guy. Steve and he's on all the morning shows and he's
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very opinionated and people have wildly different opinions of him. I like him because I think he
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does understand its entertainment. You know, some of these guys are so goddamn serious that you just
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in intense and Steven's funny. When he wants to be he's opinionated. He's silly. He's goofy.
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And he has the thing. He just thinks Jerry Jones has got to stop meddling and everything.
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I couldn't. Well, you know, if you listen to spycast, I said a million times. Jerry needs to stop
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the children, his children that are by the way, like 65. They need to step in, but they won't
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because they're terrified of them or they're enamored with them or something. I don't know.
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In all of him, I mean, all of us would have taken my dad and went, listen, Jack,
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hello, here's your going to sit here and enjoy the game. That's the extent of it. You're done now.
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And then he would have said, well, can I still check your guys' math? Sure. You can check it,
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but you can't change the numbers. They lost again. The cowboys and bad. And you can tell they missed
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Michael Parkinson's. He, Michael, uh, Michael that went to Green Bay and I mean, he, he's
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delusional. They're like, do you still think you're a super super bowl container? Oh, yeah.
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What are you talking about? Dack through interceptions. Like it just,
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nope. No, Aaron Rogers won. So good for him, but it's not pretty.
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The, I know the bills. I don't know what happened there. You can't let the dolphins get that close.
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The Dolpha to it doesn't even know where he's at. He's had so many concussions. I'm surprised he
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even understands when they hand him a football, what to do with it. Like me have all strange shaped
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pig skin thing. What may do now? Like, yeah. So it was quite the weekend football. Uh-huh. Moving on.
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King and Queen news. Uh, Taylor Swift's movie, which is called the official release
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party of a showgirl. Uh, boogies to 15 million day first day pre sales,
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opening forecast 30 to 50 million. Che-ching. Che-ching for Tay Tay. Um, uh, Dali was gonna go to
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Dali wood because they have a new ride. See, will you Google what's new ride? What's the new ride
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at Dali wood? Yeah. The rides there are phenomenal. I mean, I don't get on them, but I see them. And
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that if you're a ride person and there's, it's not like night flight expedition. Night flight. Oh
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God. Is this one that goes at night? Oh, no. See, that's right. Would well, I'm drawing the line
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to getting on any of them, but I sure shit ain't doing it at night. Spring, 2026. Spring to well,
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she was supposed to be there to announce it, but she had a kidney stone and told everybody,
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what are you gonna do? You're eight, 79. Shit's gonna get weird. Um, and then do I have
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chapel out here? Chapples in the shop. The cats, the cats took her down. Yeah. I don't either. I
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think they freak out. They, they like Dali a lot and, and Stevie. I think they like the shorties.
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But Chapples pretty short too. Tate, Tate likes cats. They know it. Yeah. They know it.
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There's two guys that come over here to do work on the house. And the one guy's name is
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Duce. It's a nickname, whatever. Duce has patsums. He told, told me all about him. He's got,
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Duce loves animals. And when they come in, baby cat runs right to him and she's not like that.
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Like, no. And then was weird the other day I had on my phone. I was going through Instagram.
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There's a country singer who's a friend of mine named Terry Clark, a Canadian fellow Canadian
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paddle. And I'm, she's asleep on the couch. I'm scrolling through and Terry, Terry Clark was singing
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in one of her videos. Baby cat went crazy. Jumped up, ran over, was banging her face on the phone.
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Like she wanted to get in the phone and I'm like, oh my god. Wow. I finally unlocked the,
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the like, chapel watch all the videos. He loves, like, he'll sit there and watch them all.
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Kato mildly interested, said he, no. And yeah, Terry Clarks are so they do say she's in love with Terry
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and do the guy, the handyman guy who does great things. But he she runs, they kind of know. Yeah.
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Yeah, she doesn't go, she doesn't go to anybody else. She's never, no, she's never met Terry.
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She doesn't know the real one exists. It's only the one in the phone. That's right.
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I could though. Terry lives here. She could come, they, it's been a long time, but I, um,
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invite her over. Yeah, I should invite her over to a baby cat.
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But I think that's it for King and Queen news. Tom's in so much trouble because he's in the booth.
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He's got headphones on. Now he's coaching on the sideline. And yet he's the announcer and he gets
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the pre-interviews. He's part owner of the Raiders. Why keep the announcing gig, Tom? Just own
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the Raiders. Why, why would you want to do that to yourself? It's hard work. I was friends with Greg
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Gumball and I knew his schedule and he was a sports guy. If you don't pay attention for CBS forever.
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They iconic. Yeah. It was amazing that I got to know him. But he, they had to go in on Thursdays
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to the city. It was just like a comedian schedule. Fly out, uh, Wednesday or Thursday. And then
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Friday, all these interviews, Saturday interviews, all their prep, all this shit. And then Sunday
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do the game. And if you're lucky, fly home Sunday night. If you get a noon game, if not,
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your flying home Sunday morning, just like us. And why would you make, maybe they don't make Tom do
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all that? Because he's Tom. Well, he does have a private jet, which Greg Gumball did not have to
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my knowledge. When he, when he would send me a picture of a lemon drop martini and adult allowance.
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I'm assuming. What are we watching? Oh my God. So there's on Amazon. It's called the Girlfriend.
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With Robin Wright, who looks really a lot like Glenn Close, um, which doesn't serve Robin very
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well because then you're always compared to you don't want to look like somebody who's already
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more famous, if possible. But what else are you going to do? But I forgot about her. She was with Sean
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Penn, remember all that. Um, this show, it's a British show about a psycho girlfriend infiltrating a rich
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family. It was so good. I can't, and they said now at the very end, you're like, oh, come on now.
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But it did set up season two. So yeah. So I'm excited they might have a season two. And then if
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you're into true crime, I don't want to brag. But my state, Missouri, St Joseph, Missouri,
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or no skidmore, Missouri, which is up by there a long, long time ago. And I remember when this happened.
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Um, the town got sick of this town bully. And they did everything correctly. They reported
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him to cops, but we're in a small farming town in, in the northwest kind of corner of Missouri.
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Not it's mostly farmers. Town is very tiny. Everybody did everything they could to, to do this
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the right way to get Ken McElroy in jail. I mean, he shot people, he stole cattle, he's a terrible,
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terrible human being. He raped a 13 year old and then married or trena or something.
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Trena needs some, well, I train, train a needs some therapy.
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Um, she's on trena, trena needs a lot of things. Um, but anyway, the town had had it.
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And they all agreed and they shot him to death. He pulled up into town. He barked diagonally,
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like to go in the store to the grocery store where he already shot that man. And that man old man
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somehow survived. Um, and to this day, nobody knows who did it because they all pulled the trigger
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at the same time. Oh, old school, old school. Let's take them out and then you have to kept,
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but here's what I would count on because my brother-in-law is kind of a rural,
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Missouri person. They're not talkers. So you're not going to have a snitch because my dad used to
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say you tell one person you got 50% chance now of going to prison because you just get, and then
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keep going exponentially. You tell two people, four people, blah, blah, blah. But if the whole town's
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in on it, and everyone agrees, the law didn't work at all. And they've had it. And they shot him.
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I mean, I'm not giving away any secrets. This is all it's a documentary. It's called No One's
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All Thing. It's on Amazon. So if you're a true crime person to this day, if you tell farmers to
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shut up, they'll shut up. It's probably the only group I would, it's probably the only group I
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would trust. Yeah. Maybe the mob. I might, I would trust the mob to not wrap me out, but they
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owe them a lot of them. I end up writing people out too. And then boom, that's all these mob shows
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you got. But show me a show where the farmer rats out another farmer. You won't because they don't.
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So if I was, I had a going along with it, especially after you shot the old man in the grocery store,
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the owner guy. Yeah, ridiculous. You can't have this person out on the streets. But we're also
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dealing with the town that has one sheriff. It was he making 65 grand a year. Right. Does he want
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to fuck with him? No, I know. I wouldn't if I'm him, if I'm that sheriff. So there you go.
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Up day. Up day. I'd just say, and if you like true crime, go watch No One's All Thing. And if you
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want something kind of, it's a little nutty at times, just go with it. But it's, it's very
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exciting called the girlfriend. I'm gonna watch it. And I don't know who the other actors are.
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They're all brits, but it's great because it's a British rich family. Yeah.
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Up day. This is not happening in any other city. It's side for Nashville. But I was driving
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on Highway 40. And there was a billboard. And I actually got off and turned back around.
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Because I thought I did not see what I just saw. That is impossible. Drill got off the exit.
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Well back. But it's a giant billboard that in the new cracker barrel logo says fire the CEO.
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And I'm like, yes, yes, I agree. But who put that up there? It's the guy who owns staked
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shake. And at first, I was like, why is staked shake? Which I love in my top five always.
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Well, yeah, it's just slow. You got it. I love taking the kids there. If you go in and get
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shakes and that their hamburgers are the best. Their hamburgers are the best. Their fries are great.
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They're thin. I love a thin hamburger. Yeah. I don't like all that thick. And I think it's not
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cooked enough. Mad cow. I was in Ireland when mad cow went crazy. Yeah, it is throwback. But it's
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still out there. I can't explain it to the children mad cow disease. It was the thing. If you ate
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hamburgers that weren't cooked enough, you died. But first you kind of went crazy and your limbs
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went nuts. And yeah, it just was terrible there for a minute. It did turn into like a nerve
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palsy thing. But I also, and it happened to the cows first. That's why I always have a well done
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hamburger. But they don't even do that. You say, can I get it well done? I still see pink in
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there. I mean, I don't eat steak like that. But hamburger, yeah. Anyway, the steak and shake man,
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I'm like, why are you getting involved in this? I could see waffle house. But really,
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breakfast places, but you really don't want her to get fired if you're rooting against her. You
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want her to keep the gig because clearly she does a terrible job. I think she should be fired. We
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would all be fired if we lost $600 million. We'd be fired if we lost 60 bucks. And it turns out
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he's a big shareholder. Yeah. So now we're having a personal attack in billboard fighting billboards.
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I'm like, this is so smitting out of control. The guy was put up by Siddharr, big Laurie. He's the
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stay could you see? Oh, if stay could shake and also runs Western Sizzling and Max a magazine.
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What a strange portfolio. First of all, never been in a Western Sizzling. Don't even know what it is.
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And Max a magazine I would about all my money didn't exist. But I guess it does.
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I didn't know we could do that either. Just buy a billboard and put up something hateful about
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someone you hate. Well, elections, I thought that was different because those are paid by
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political packs allegedly, but right. Everything's allegedly the rapture's allegedly happening.
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That's only like quarter after nine. I guess I guess it should shut up because what if it happens
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like a noon? Maybe a knock on wood. Maybe I'm speaking too soon. This is never released.
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But I'm not getting raptured anyway. Oh, if we make it, this is never coming out.
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Right. If you don't ever hear this, you only hear the last one of the last one.
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You'll know somehow I qualified. So how you qualified? You're not even a good Catholic.
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Terrible. Sometimes this Canadian, well, sometimes, no, you try, but I'm saying you guys weren't taught
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right. Like you don't know shit. Like, but you don't know. You small town, whatever you want to blame
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it on. You do not have the facts when I have weather. Those two feet of snow, the priest couldn't get
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there for like seven years. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Whatever. So he's, I can't believe you can do that.
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And I want to know, Google for me, how much does a billboard cost to rent in Nashville?
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Well, I had one for the Ryman, but I didn't pay for it. It was digital though. This one's not digital.
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I don't think so. It's on I 40. Yes. 37 hundred bucks a month. 37 hundred bucks a month. That's
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nothing to the not the stake-it-check guy. No, no, no, no, no. Between four thousand and eight, if it doesn't,
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it is not LCD. Four thousand and eight, if it's not LCD. This was not LCD. Right. So between four and eight.
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Four grand, you could just hurl insults at somebody you're mad at that in your rich. Okay, I'd buy them all.
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I would put a picture of her and write lose or like really get juvenile about it.
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Where are we going for breakfast? She still has a job. I mean, it's crazy. Yeah. Let's see how much they
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this is I'm going to tell you I have it. The rebrand that she went to an earnings report.
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Completely unnecessary rebrand. There was no thought. It's ridiculous.
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In-store traffic is down four to seven percent. It's that they've paused. There's six hundred
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million dollar restaurant remodeling. So she didn't lose six hundred million. I take that back.
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I stand corrected. But the six hundred million dollar remodeling thing has now been stopped.
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And how much they've already done half of them. Yeah. I've around this house there's a lot of old school
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ones, but there's a new one. And then they had at the old school ones, nobody cares. Tiny little signs
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that were the new one. It's it's in motion for sure. And now we got to stop all that. Just
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go go how much has cracker barrel lost since the change of rebrand. In the rapture.
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Why why would you remodel if the rapture's coming? Yeah, I got guys going to paint the wall.
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100 million. And Julie. Someone so still has the gig.
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I don't I don't know how CEO land works, but it sounds like a good gig if you can get it.
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94 million a market value update. Have you guys ever been in a Kirkland's home store?
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I've only been in once in my life. I described it as pottery barn with a side of Jesus.
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And a lot a lot of writing on pillows that usually involve Jesus. And smells that I couldn't
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identify. I have a chemical allergy to and so like for breeze and shit like that. It just
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immediately boom. My head just starts going. I got to get away from it. I walked in Kirkland's
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and almost fell over. And I'm like I looked at the lady working there. I'm like, how are you alive?
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Right. Like and I don't even care. I mean, obviously I'm eating sodium most of the time.
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I'm eating. I'm not worried about the health part. I'm worried about like how can you
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anyway, bed bath and beyond completes its 10 million dollar purchase of Kirkland's home. So
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back now here's the thing about Kirkland's home way smaller than what a bed bath and beyond used to
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be, which but here's the other problem with that. But people go to bed bath and be out for like a
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comforter. You're not going to have enough room. You're going to need to have a storage thing out
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back because there's no a Kirkland's home for what they are selling now. Pillows little
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Halloween things. A lot of candles. A candle. I don't know. I had to get out. The smells were just
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the perfume. I don't know what I was smelling. But I'm like, I got it. They're not nearly as big.
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So I don't know how they're going to 10 million dollar purchase. They bought them all.
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They did not specify exactly which ones.
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10 million dollars. Not a lot for a chain.
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There are attempting to make a comeback after filing for bankruptcy and closing all of its
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stores at 2023. It's first reopened. One was here in Nashville on August 8th. And I still
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haven't been. I apologize termites. I'm trying to do the work of the Lord. A lot of things going on.
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They would not open a brick and mortar thing in location in California.
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Bob Clark, you want me to say good things about California. And once again, you're being
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slighted because you can't have nice things because it's too expensive. That's what they're saying.
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Not my words. You will only get deliveries. See? See what happens?
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Oh, that's when Gavin Newsom got mad. They're going to be mid-sized neighborhood stores.
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So there you go. They've already opened a second one in Nashville.
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If you love bad bad me on good news for you, if you didn't care about it, it's going to be
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weird in a Kirkland's because those stores are not that big. They're not even as big as a TJ Maxx.
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No. Yeah. It's like a giant hallmark store. Which I'm going to tell you about that too, today.
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Update. Oh my God. People of St. Louis. You're not even going to believe what's happening.
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Yeah. People who love the Red Rocker.
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Rock and Roll Hall. A famous thing. There's a big, something. Sammy Hagar's returning to last
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Vegas in a big way. Oh my God. He's going to be at the MGM Park for 11 shows in March and September
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of 2026. The Red Rocker. I tell you, I did a gig in LA for a radio stations Christmas show. I
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did a big deal. I turned around. I was the community. They have one committee and every time.
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It was set up well because they let you go. They put them in so many famous people were there.
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And I saw Edgar winner. The children may not know who he is, but he does that song.
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I forget what it's called. I thought Edgar had died. He had a keyboard that was strapped to his
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neck on his lap, but his head was down Frankenstein. And he looked. I think he's in Albino.
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See if it's a put in there at your winter by Albino. He's real. Different looking, if you will.
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I think he has a he's in Albino. Yeah. So I just how old is he? Oh, his brother's Albino's.
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Yeah. Born in 44. Okay. So my dad was born in 41. So he'd be three years. He's 80 or 79. Oh, my gosh.
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Well, anyway, all these famous people. His mom's name is Edwin. And we know. Oh, his mom's favorite.
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We know. Oh, how exotic. Sammy Haggar went out. That was good math. Thank you. And really killed it.
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I mean, his voice was great. He can't drive 55. We all know that for the children. Go Google that song.
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He's got some. Yeah. And then when he I don't know, I probably would go. I love the red rocks.
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He spent half his life in St. Louis, the checkered home. I'd love to meet him one day and ask him about that.
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It was too crowded that night. And I'm always afraid to walk up to people. I did not say anything.
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I wanted to get my picture taken with Edgar winner, but I thought he'd died. And I thought that would be
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kind of morose to go, Hey, isn't it a picture of me in an old dead albino? What?
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But if you heard a song, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.
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Those are our updates. Holy shit. They found it.
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The wreck of the ghost ship schooner that sank 140 years ago, discovered in Lake Michigan.
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How cool is that? The team of researchers led by so and so, the Wisconsin
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underwater archaeology association confirmed on Monday. It was 144 foot vessel. Now,
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this is what's crazy about the Great Lakes to me. The waves could get big enough to sink 144. My
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boat is 26 feet, I think. So that's six of mine. I mean, that's a big ass vessel. Yeah.
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It was 144 foot, three mass cargo schooner built in Toledo, Ohio in 1867. It was carrying iron ore
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from Escanaba, Michigan to Chicago on September 15th, 1886, when a powerful gale tore into the vessel.
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Waves of 10 feet, 10 feet. What? That's an ocean. That's what freaks me out about the Great Lakes.
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When I can't see the other side and you tell me ships that are aren't 50 foot long have disappeared.
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What the fuck? Right. I would be terrified to take my little 25 footer out there and spin around.
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Yeah, I'm not going to like, I'm not going where I can't see land anymore. No way. No, no, no, no.
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Despite efforts by Captain William Griffin and his crew to pump water out the ship sink around 2 a.m.,
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the vessel Stern deck house was also blown away sending Griffers paper just flying 50 feet into the air.
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The crew was eventually rescued after another passing schooner passed by and taken to Bailey's harbor.
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Conflicting reinforce about their location. Long thwarted researchers efforts to find the
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go ship, but they finally found it. Uh huh. It's totally cool. The hull appears to be in
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tax, surprising researchers who expected to find it in pieces due to the weight of the iron ore,
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the schooner was carrying. They don't say if they're going to bring it up or not.
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I don't know. Well, yeah. And should you? Well, nobody died. So it's not a graveyard. I would get it.
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How much is the iron ore? That's what's going to be the kicker. I don't think iron ore is a big
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commodity anymore. I don't, but what do I know? I see a barge every day go down this lake,
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slash river with coal on it and go, what the fuck year is this? It has coal every day.
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And then it takes sand the other way. It takes coal that yeah, I don't know. A little sports news.
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It's a key component in producing steel. It's a key component. It's a producing steel.
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Okay. Well, yeah, let's go get the iron ore that. How much does that cost?
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This was very, very cute. Last week, uh, well, the Detroit, so the Ford family of Ford motor
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coming still owns the lions. And the old lady Martha Firestone Ford. And well, why is her
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middle name Firestone? Is her family Firestone? I didn't. Oh my god. No shit. That's what she's got.
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She can get tires. Wow. She can get everything tires cars. She can get you free tune up.
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Her husband died. She's the principal owner. Well, she served for the principal owners for six
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years before handing the reins to her daughter Sheila Hampe. She celebrated her 100th birthday,
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though, in the locker room and they gave her the game ball. Yeah. I remember she gave a press conference
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once I was working in Detroit and I had the new news on and they said Martha Ford is very pissed off
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and she's coming out here in a minute. She had to have been 85 at the time. Yeah. And came out and was,
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but but she's a Detroit person like she wants the lions to be good. Uh-huh. And she gave everybody
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an ass kickin. She's a Firestone. She's a Firestone. Wow. She married. She married a Ford.
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William Clay Ford senior. William Clay Ford senior. The grandson of Henry Ford, if you ever watch
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that thing on PBS, Henry was not a good time, Charlie. Henry was wackadoodle, batshit, crazy, not fun.
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His son died a stomach cancer and he kept telling his dad, I have stomach cancer and he's like,
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no, you don't. Never even believed him. Oh my god. Right. She gets her hair set every day. I can tell
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she gets her hair set every day. I can tell by this picture and she has really fancy sunglasses.
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Good for you and for a hundred. She's my promise. Yeah. For a hundred. She's looking pretty good. So
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probably some good facelift there. She's a Libra. She's a Libra. Yeah. Born in 25. Born in 25.
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25. Well, right. She's a hundo. Wow. Well, she Detroit's doing very well. They killed Buffalo,
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Baltimore last night on one hand football. Good for her. She's going to get to see it.
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This is great. Portland trailblazers. That's that's basketball for those of you who don't follow sports.
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This is just news. It's very exciting. Andrew and Peggy chung. I'm not saying that right.
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That's kind of like Asian. They're very proud of that. They are the founders of what? Another
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one of my favorite fast food restaurants, Panda Express. Yes. They have bought the Portland trailblazer.
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I love Panda Express. Kung Pao chicken. Stop it. Well, these two people are Asian and they say it is.
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What the fuck do you know? Canada. Andrew and Peggy churning. Say it is. I believe them. Why would these
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two old Asians sell me bad food? They have no reason to do that. Why would they sell me fake Chinese?
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And here's the thing. I'm never going to China. Tell me it's Chinese food. I ain't going. I'll
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never know the difference. It's fine. I love it. They're fried rice is great. They're orange chicken.
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Come on. That's the die for. Moving on to news.
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I love the first one. I did not see the second one. There's a second one. There's going to be a third.
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Yep. Amanda C. Freight. She's in and the fellow cast members that are in, including Marl Street,
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Christina Baransky, Pierce Branson, and Stella Skarsgard. They're all on board.
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Oh, some movie. The movie. Mama Mia 3. I lost it after the first one. I'm good on that.
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And speaking of fast food, all my ad, a whole country is getting their first Taco Bell. Who is it?
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Ireland. What? Yep. County Meef. I had a Google where that is. It's North. That's why I don't know it.
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I don't go North usually. I go South. I don't know what's going on there. But
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they're going to open their for it open. It's already open last week.
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Investment by Apple Green and the new motorway service. It's at a gas station,
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but kind of one of those like in the east coast where it's all everything's not a gas station.
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It's like what do you call it? Off the toll road. When you get like in Pennsylvania where it's like
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a you know there's a bunch of stuff like there's a gas station and then there's fast foods and
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then yeah whatever. I'll call it a motorway service station. That's what they're calling it.
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We would have just failed at Sherries. This is how conversations with my mom go.
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What's the place where I take you stuff and they give me a receipt of Catholic charities?
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No. And then she'll get mad. No. Like I'm a horrible game show partner. I don't know mom.
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Goodwill. That's it. But you should have got that on the first chance.
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Fuck why don't you just say it? It's creating a hundred new jobs. A travel plaza. A travel plaza.
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Really? A travel center. Travel center. Yeah. If you don't like truck stuff. Ireland's going to be so
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excited. Is there any Irish termites that listen to this? I want to see I got to see on Tic Tac. There's
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got to be Irish people trying it for the first time ever. It's like watching a baby eat something new.
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Right. Except their adults. And I want one group to be sober and I want one group to be shit-faced.
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I want to see a drunk's reaction to a hard show beef taco and then boom a sober person because
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there would be very different answers most likely. So congratulations to Ireland. We have some art news.
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I love my love. I love the art world. I will never own any of it. But I love to see what's
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happening. Frida, who we have a quote from today in honor of this. She's very dark. Well she had
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an accident that nearly killed her when she was like 19 and she was in pain the entire life.
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She's on all kinds of drugs. You're going to go crazy. I'm surprised she lived as long. But
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what I loved is if you watch the movie, Selma Hayek was the greatest person ever to play Frida
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in that movie. And if you've never seen it, especially if you wanted children, Frida is a really
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little girl. She had a zoo. She had monkeys. She had crazy pets. I'm like, wow, you did a lot of monkeys.
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Not just one that you snagged off the internet, which back then you couldn't do. Anyway, there's a
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Frida painting. It's one of her best notes. One of the best ones thanks to her bold and
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challenge. It's a self-portrait. It's called the dream. It's her and her bed looking up. But she can
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see herself down in the bed, a four-poster bed. They're going to auction it off and they think
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it's going to go for 60 million. Yeah, the record currently stands so far at 44 million paid in
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2014 for Georgia Oakheaf's Jimisin weed white flower number one. No idea. The highest price paid so far
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for Frida, 34 million in 2021 for Diego and I. That was her lover, husband, partner, boyfriend,
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whatever. Well, he was an artist, but she was better. Who's kiddin' who, here? I mean,
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he was like a father figure, boss guy. Yeah, he could have done better. Anyway, I'll let you know.
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Oh, they don't win this. It's happening. God, if you had 60 million dollars, I still wouldn't pay
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that, but you can just go get a copy of it. It's fine if you just want to see it every day in your house.
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But I mean, that's not what these people are doing. I don't think. I don't know. It's coming up. It
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doesn't say exactly one. There you go. Here's another one. Now let's go to the men. Picasso,
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so he has a painting that's been unseen for 80 years. Somebody hoarded this for 80 years.
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It's up for auction. An oil painting by Pablo Picasso, unseen for going next month in Paris.
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The painting, it's called bust of a woman in a flowery hat.
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Depicts front. No, it's really not. It looks like, well, it does look like a lady.
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The geometrical figure thing with him is weird. But yeah, a lady in a crazy hat, a fat lady,
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I'd say in a crazy hat. The painting, it depicts photographer and painter Dora Mar, one of Picasso's
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lovers and most famous muses wearing a bright, bright flowery hat made of pastel green blue and yellow
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strokes. Her expression is one of concern. This was created in 1943 during the Nazi occupation
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of parents. The work is called the canvas of major historical and artistic importance.
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They're expected to sell for 9.5 million. Meanwhile, the girls, we're going for way, way more.
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I'm shocked that you could buy Picasso for 9.5 million bucks. And Frida, she would think we're
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getting 60. That's weird. That's great for Frida. Unfortunately, none of this money came to
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us. They did all the nut of it come still after the dead. But yes, postman's van goes over
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in a psych ward cutting off his ear because he's fucking out of money. His brother's, his brother's
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paying the bill. God, damn it. Are you still nuts? Really? What'd you do this week? You cut off your ear?
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God, damn it. And he's got to go to the front desk and pay how much to keep him every month.
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That'll be $34, sir. No taxes.
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Anyway, she, but her family had money. She was okay. That's all they think it's going to get.
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I will let you know termites. We will keep, we will keep, we need to know where these paintings are at.
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Yes. Yes, keep track. Don't need anymore. Grand Sons and daughters and people of Nazi's
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in the city of Argentina. No, no, no, no. This is, this is just excellent. Mark Zuckerberg. You
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guys know how much I love Mark and the facial book. He unveiled his meta AI glasses. The whole
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demonstration failed. What? Nothing worked. As I keep saying, nobody wants your dorky glasses.
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The last thing I want to put on his glasses that were now nothing's real. Like I have enough time
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with shit that's actually real. And now you want me to put on these glasses where now I'm like
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in blind mirror like that TV show that show and yeah. Oh, here's what he did. Wow. This is so great.
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And there's a picture of him with them on. They're selling for $799. As I said with the other,
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the other virtual ones, my brother for the kid for his boys just went and got the rip off knock off
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ones and they're fine. I put it on. It seemed like I was on a roller coaster. It works just as good.
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He always starts way too high. 800 bucks. To go to an alternate reality. I barely understand the
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one I'm looking at. Can't even imagine. God, settle down. Go enjoy your Hawaiian island. What do
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you own? Oh, I who? The unveiling didn't go quite a Zuckerberg hope. Zeta's Meta Connect 2025 keynote
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is a keynote held at Meta's California headquarters at the unusually late hour 5 p.m. Pacific
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8 p.m. Eastern was expected to really ground ground breaking pair of smart glasses. Code named
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Hypernova. What we got was an upgrade to the pre-existing Rayban Meta frames. A new sports focus set of
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Oakles and a new model confusingly called Meta Raybans. This one of the most special moments
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we get to show you something we poured our whole lives into. Yeah, wait. There's a packed house
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and a live stream with 4,000 viewers. The Meta Raybans had a bright crispy display rated at an
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impressive 5,000 nits. What's that? What's a knit? Knit to me is little tiny bugs you have in
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your head. And you got to pick the nits out. You got it like monkeys pick nits out of each other's
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hair. Gorillas. We need a nerd termites. We need a nerd termite. Then Zuckerberg revealed not
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just the Meta Raybans he walked in with and quickly stashed, but also a companion device called Meta
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Neutral the Band. A light fabric wristband. Oh my god. I really think he's a robot. I don't think he's
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a person. I think he's trying to make us robots. Then he has friends because he does that.
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I said that lady they agreed to marry him. Do you compute me? Not love.
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As you see, so he said, okay, this allows you to enter words onto the smart glasses displayed by
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pretending to handwrite. I'm going to do up to 30 words a minute. Then nothing worked.
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And then the CES stood helpless as a repeated what's app video call from Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth
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appeared on his glasses. So he's now setting messages saying this shit's broke. Fuck take him off.
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Yeah. Zuckerberg's glasses interface was apparently unable to pick up the call. So the guy
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Andrew had to appear with him live on stage. The demo game started strong. The keynote opened
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with the live view through his meta things. But then the live ran aground, the live display,
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which was supposed to be instructing one presenter on how to make it goes on and on and on. He blamed
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the failure on Wi-Fi. No, it's your house. That's like saying I had it in my house and I went,
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I got you Wi-Fi. Well, Kathleen, upgrade your Wi-Fi. To pay for it. It's your place. It's your
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headquarters. I mean, this would be one thing if you were at some Shishi resort in the mountains of
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Colorado. I went, well, you know, we're up in the mountains like, no, he was unable to explain
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though why his meta-raibans could not pick up Andrew's call. Finally, a non-live, non-demo video
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purported to show the ray bands used to design a surfboard and order parts. I don't want glasses on
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my head. No. Stop it, Mark. It's going to work with it. He's so excited. He's so excited.
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Is there anything better than a nerd's meltdown? I mean, I will never feel bad for him,
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because I don't like what he's proposing ever. I don't even think he's a bad human. I think
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Elon might be bad, bad. But yeah, Mark is just, he's like socially inept and well, he's not very
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empathetic to neighbors or anything. No, I know. He's not a great person. And I think Facebook has been
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negative buying islands, kick everyone off. Yeah, there's bad things. You're right. All right, he's bad.
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I'm speaking of white. This is crazy. So, Mola Kai, the land of the lepers, as my parents would say,
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it used to be if you had leprosy, this is for the children. That's a disease.
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And it's very highly contagious. So they took all the people that had leprosy and put them on
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Mola Kai. They put them on an island. And then it got the reputation for being the land of the
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lepers. But now Mola Kai, that's clearly over. One third of Mola Kai is owned by the Hong Kong
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headquarters billion investment from Gua Co Group that physical, but the residents of Mola Kai
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want to buy it back for themselves. Question is how are you going to get the money? On the islands,
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West End, barbed wire fences say no trespassing signs keeping out of Mola Kai ranch. There's a
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ranch with 55,000 acres of these people. As it sits abandoned, almost like a ghost town, not just a
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ranch that's scattered with deteriorating remains of capital, a capital of streams, a high
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enlarge, a glamping resort, a restaurant, a golf court, left behind by wealthy business people
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who bought and sold the ranch throughout the years. Wow, I didn't know that. The current owner,
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Goku, group bought Mola Kai ranch in 2005 with plans to build 200 luxury homes, but it shut down
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operations in 2008. As after the Mola Kai community opposed the development, the company put the
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ranch up for sale and they asked for 260 million ever since the land's been sitting in limbo.
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Wow. Where are the locals going to get 260 million? They need an angel investor.
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Yep. Called Papa Warren in Omaha. He's 91. Papa Warren. Hi. You know what it gets very cold in
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Omaha in the winter. Wouldn't you love to come to Mola Kai? Huh? Yeah, you could fly your own
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plane. So I rude for them, but I don't know where they're going to get them the Mola.
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I didn't realize that it was like abandoned. Yeah, we'll keep track of that.
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Called Papa Warren. He's got a billion dollars and he doesn't want to give it to his children.
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So make them do something nice, something without a profit. Here's a little something. Pennsylvania,
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hold my beer. Wesley Silva, that's a man. He has an unusual support, emotional support animal. He
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has a five foot alligator named Genesis and he was banned from taking it in, which he's been
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going in for years. It's at a Walmart, the gator who Wesley insists is calm, friendly and
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a source of comfort, often rides in his shopping cart and has become a local celebrity.
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A five foot long alligator. That would not bother me at all unless,
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wouldn't bother me at all. An alligator, I've been two feet from an alligator. If you don't
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fuck with them, they don't do shit. They're lazy. And I mean, if it's in his cart,
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it's not going to go attack a child for no reason. I stand by Wesley. If there's any kind of rally,
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I'm going. The story took a turn when the photos at Walmart went viral. Many were fascinated.
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Others raised safety concerns about having a live alligator inside a busy truck. Go in the other
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aisle. If this is, I like alligators though. Especially when they're this young, they're kind of cute.
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It looks like they're smiling. One shopper complained saying they felt uncomfortable and unsafe
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with the alligator and many others like this lady were fascinated, but others every,
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they say service animals are welcome under the ADA rules, but alligators aren't allowed in stores.
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He's got a harness and a vest and a leash. He's fine. He's only five foot long.
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Well, his tail's half of that. I'm saying he's not that strong. Speaking of pets, 24 locations of pet
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cows are closing. No, 25. I don't know that I've ever been in a pet cow, but they got in trouble.
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Did they get in trouble for lovey meals? I've been in pets smart. I was just in there. Somebody brought
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in a puppy blue tick-hound. It's the cutest thing I've ever seen. Then an old lady had an
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enormous dog that just went this petal over aisle for it. Yeah. They competed with pet smart,
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pet coded. They're closing 25 stores in US, Puerto Rico, in Mexico, but I do wonder in pet smart.
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They do offer dog training. They do have a pharmacy. I mean, aren't people just buying a lot of
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stuff online? I don't know. The cats don't require that much. Where does everybody? Is everybody
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going to these places anymore? There's no animals in there except gerbils and guinea pigs and maybe
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a few fish. It's right. It became bad. Here's another one. Oh, here's a random entertainment piece
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of news. I forgot to announce this is for my friend, Bronson. He's going to be so excited. I,
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personally, could care less. Madonna is returning to Warner Records to have a dance album in 2026
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called Back to Where It All began. Bronson, put on your dancing shoes. You get down to the
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Abbey. Goddamn it for the release of this. And you send me every video you film. I want to see
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every single person in West Hollywood going absolutely apeshick. I'm not a dancer, so I don't
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care about a dance album. God love you, Madonna. Here's a little something. Almost did my video
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out in front of one of these stores. Hallmark stores. I have never understood how they remain in
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business. Even like back when I was a teenager, like a late teen, 18, 19, 20, I worked at the restaurants
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and all that. We had to go to baby showers. I would go into a hallmark store because I was told
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to to get a fucking precious moment. I must have bought like 20 of those in a five year period.
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It's not my thing, but hey, if it's the correct wedding, the baby shower or marital, they have them
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for everything. If the person's into it, easy buy. Great. Run up to the hallmark store. But I mean,
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these days, you could get all that online and greeting cards are expensive. It's insane. It's great.
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It's actually crazy. Like you go with the CVS and put a greeting card and I have a travel size
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hairspray. That'd be $87. What? What are you talking about? Well, the hairspray was $350. I mean,
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at greeting cards, $84.50. Like, well, here's the thing. I kind of greeting card chain files for
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bankruptcy. No one's ever in the one by my house. And I know it's because I go to the nail place
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over there. Hallmark is a company or hallmark. Well, here's the thing. They are not the same,
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but it does fly under the banner. The hallmark company. No, but it's mostly hallmark cards in
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there because it's, yeah, I kind of greeting card. That's how they're going to make all their
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movie on Christmas movies. I kind of greeting card company hallmark has been our operation for
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more than 100 years, securing its about as a household name for distinct portfolio cards, media
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predicted and more. It was good for like back in the day, like a wedding present or, but that's
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for four people registered online. I mean, it's very old school. Despite the brands, like I see,
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the paper companies have long struggled to stay afloat. And the hallmark namesake is no exception.
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Here, whoops. Earlier this week, banners hallmark and independently owned operation,
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operator of hallmark gold crown stores filed for bankruptcy. While these stores are not owned by
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hallmark cards, ink, they are licensed under the hallmark brand and sell many hallmark brand items.
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Hallmark banners hallmark and 40 of its affiliates filed for bankruptcy. They owe,
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oh wait, for assets. So this is to cover to protect their assets from 10 to 50 million.
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These, the majority of these stores are based in Virginia. That's weird. We had only
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a Missouri. What about you guys? I just almost. I don't know how to get the company's site of cash flow
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as a primary reason for filing and noted strains related to the acquisition of seasonal retail products.
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What? Because it's Halloween. You had to go by Halloween shit. Yeah, that's how a store works.
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Right. Especially if you're that kind of store. Oh my god. Christmas is coming. We better get
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Christmas cards. Right. That's what you're supposed to fucking do. It's already in lows. What?
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It's already in lows. Christmas stuff is already on. I know. I took a video because the Halloween
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store is still so it says if it gets if it gets protection, it plans to pay its outs and
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it gets and reorganize its business while continuing to operate. I don't know. There's never anyone in
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the one by my house. Never. I just think those things. You don't need to like you had to go if you
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had to go to a wedding shower or a baby shower. That's the place you went, but we don't do that
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anymore. Like so. It was way easier back then. Hold on. Oh, that's at the end. Hold on.
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Give me a second. Yeah. Okay. This is weird. And I'm not throwing a shade here.
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The most romantic city in the United States for Valentine's Day. Yes, it beat Chicago, Austin,
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and even DC. Okay. DC. What? DC. Romantic. Jesus. Yeah. I love DC, but it's for history and learning.
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And it's not romantic. Maybe I have a different definition. The number one romantic city.
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Baltimore. What? It's like combination of a bunch of travel places.
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I mean, I have fun in Baltimore because down in the harbor, they have Loch Ness Monster
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paddle boats and it makes me laugh. And I always rent the purple ones. They have purple in green.
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And there's some streets downtown with really fun pub bars. But I don't think of it.
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I would say Charleston or Savannah. I must want person. But moving up north,
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there's places in Pennsylvania. Boston. Boston? Yeah. Yeah. That's just a very strange. Maybe that
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was paid for. It could have been. By the way, if you're people, all people my age go, I want to go
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on a Viking cruise. It always happens with the same. Everybody was going Viking. My friend
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Juan Ron went and he got off at the second stop and never reborted. Yeah, he left. He got mad.
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He got mad because he was, he smoked pot on the deck, but he was told he could smoke.
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And then they said he smoked it in the room and he did not. And he was real mad because he'll
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always tell you the truth. He never lies. Ever. He will tell you no matter what he did. It was so
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terrible. He'll tell you I did. I just fired up a joint. He did not do that. He goes, I just got
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so mad that he yelled at me in front of other passengers that we just left. I go, did you tell anyone?
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I think that's against some sort of maritime laws. You can't just be.
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He think that matters to him. He goes, I was in the Navy. I never heard nothing about that. I'm like,
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right. Okay. Well, he was. He was discharged. Well, guess what, Viking? You got a new competitor.
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Celebrity cruises. They're doing rivers now. And this boat is beautiful. I still don't,
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I'm definitely never getting on a cruise ship on the ocean. On a river? Maybe. Maybe.
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They're going down the Rhine and the Damube and they've got infinity pools, eight bars and restaurants.
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That's pretty cool.
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Booking sold out in under 30 minutes. This boat is gorgeous, but it's a little large.
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I don't know, but that's for the old people. That's for the old termites. If you think about Viking,
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go check out celebrity too. Just saying it's now, it now has a competitor. Yeah.
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This is some summer news. Just because summer is ending, it's actually fall now.
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It was official day fall. I saw your video. This lady, Betty Kellenberger, became the oldest woman
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to hike the whole Appalachian Trail at age 80. Oh, I wouldn't hike it because you might get killed.
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80. 80. Wow. Being healthy at 80, being healthier at 80 than your doctor expects you to be as such a
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joy. Betty, legend Kellenberger tells me over email that might be an understatement. On September
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2nd, she made the history by becoming the oldest woman to complete the through hike of the Appalachian
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Trail with 2,200 miles under her belt. She admits she's tired and in need of a nap, but she still made
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time to answer my questions. The previous older lady was 74. She didn't set out with the goal.
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She just wanted to hike. She's been dreaming of through hiking. It's called. I never heard of that.
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Bear in mind the trail was only 20 years old when I was born. When this lady was born, I read about
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an elementary school, Georgia domain and everything in between. Pure magic caught my attention.
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She was very fairly active through her life. More of her energy went into cycling rather than hiking.
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And she did a lot of trekking in the Canadian Rockies. So there you go. 80 years old, just because
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you think she's already had one knee replacement boom, go get a new knee. You're off hiking.
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Through hiking. Yeah, I figured it meant all the way through, but I never heard that used term used.
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All right, we are now. I'm going to do a couple of feel good stories. One's kind of sad, but it's
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feel good. So in Nashville, if you ever come to Nashville, this bar is not downtown. It's not by all
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the honky talks, but it's not far. It's probably a 10 minute Uber at the very most. It's called
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Santa's pub cash only. They used to let you smoke inside. I don't know if that still goes on,
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but when I smoked, that was a big seller selling points of me. I'm like, this is so old school.
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I can sit here and have a beer and smoke. I judge all you want. I know. But anyway, I don't even
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think that I have. I think the smoking has gone. But anyway, there was a guy who looked like Santa Claus.
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The karaoke is what kills it because famous people show up all the time. But even without famous
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people any night of the week. And it's kind of it's a trailer. I mean, it's basically like you
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pull up and you're like, huh, I mean, I've been in enough red and that he places that I'm not
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freaked out about it, but I could see where people might be like, oh, I don't know about all that.
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Beer and Seltzer's. Yeah, but you could buy. Well, I shouldn't advocate that.
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Some people are just hard liquor drinkers. They don't like all that shit. What's my friend door?
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You're going to do without our little bottle of gin somewhere.
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Santa. So so the guy who owned it, he looked. His name is Denzel or when he looked exactly like
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Santa. He had the big old beer and all that. Well, he died recently. Very sad. But he was 74 years old.
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He purchased it in 2010. That's weird. Seems like it. Why maybe somebody else owned it before then.
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The family is going to keep it open. Yep. To honor him. To close his stores, there would be a
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disservice to the community that he and Angelina built together. It'll be a remain a place for
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strangers and friends and everybody's treated alike. The Gulf Christmas lights. It's on the
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karaoke in the spirit of kindness that defines Santa. We live on through the bar. He loved. Yeah.
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So if you're ever natural, you want to get out town for a hot minute, getting an Uber, go out to
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Santa's pub. Still open. Here's a feel good thing. Yep. What a great gig this would be.
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Unfortunately, you will have to live in China. You're going to have to relocate.
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Don't you just do you want to relocate China? There's a job. This is real.
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China. China. There's a job at its real. It's called Panda Nanny. China's giant panda protection
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and research center. A caretaker role paying 200,000 when? That was called. Yeah. A year.
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That works out to about $32,000. And your fee, your job is to feed and raise the cubs.
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Oh. Oh. And there's a lady with a picture of a baby panda. Oh. Fantastic. It's part of a
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giant panda's reach about 700 57 of a worldwide in 2024. That's awesome. If I lived in China,
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that's what you would do. I would totally go do this. Even if I have to live like an
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attempt, who cares? Because unless you're super rich in China, you're not getting the good shit
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anyway. So at least every day you go to work and get to see the face of this guy and his giant
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little fat paws, $32,000. All you got to do is hug and play with baby pandas. That would be so fun.
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And they're so silly. If you go online, I don't even know how they survived as a species. They
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just fall over. They're clumsy. They can't haunt. They, I mean, they, I think they just eat leaves
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anyway. Yeah. All right. I got a couple of thank yous. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Then we'll do
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a quote. Uh oh. What did I do with it? I know I have to do another. Someone else's. So here's
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a few thank yous. Gosh. I'm not very organized. Um, the girly drinks book, Haribo, Haribo, I always
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do. From Asa Watami, Kansas, termite DJ. Oh, Asa Watami. Um, the Callaway ball,
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Delway golf balls in her bright yellow love him. It says, uh, Holy shit, you found me very funny
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from Lee and Vera Beach, Florida. Um, I got a Lewis Black anger button. Yes, I'm actually
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probably sent that to my mom. She loves Lewis more than anybody on earth, more than me from
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and some peanut shoes from Philly, uh, termite Jason catnip, uh, snuggle pillows. Oh my god,
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those have already been released and it's just. Is that what's going on with all of them? It's
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like throwing mounds of cocaine throughout your family room. They love it. Yeah. That's her termite,
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uh, I mean, it's always termite Lisa. A couple more stuff. Bigfoot, cool production tea for
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repattles. You got a good t-shirt that was from Paul in the air, termite Mike and my
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fluorescent Missouri brewed tea. Love it from Ferguson termite, uh, Jennifer. Cool. Yeah. So we got
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that on take care of it. And now we're going to go to a saint and then a couple quotes.
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Let me shut all this down. All right. You know what? Nobody really, really probably knows.
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So I picked this. Why not? Joan of Arc. Famous, but people know kind of. Yeah. But not really.
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She lived from 1412 to 1431. What's that math? I don't know. As a little girl in Dom Rebe France, Joan
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watched the French burgundy in this burn, her peasant village for the king of England who was
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trying to seize the French throne towards the end of the hundred years war. When she was 12,
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in a field beside her home, she visited, she was visited by the archangel Michael St. Catherine
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and St. Margaret. Look, if I'm getting visited by angel, let's do one at a time because I barely know
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the first guy. I would not know that that's Michael. I wouldn't, she was filled with great joy,
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joy, all by their beauty. At 17, her holy friends came once again and told her to go to Charles
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of France and ask him for an army to defeat the English. Wow. That's really balsy as a teenager.
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Amazingly, the young, uncrowded king gave her a small army, which she led to victory in Orleans
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in 1429. The victory changed the course of the hundred years war. Eventually, Joan was captured
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by the burgundians and sold to the English. She was tried in a bias court, found to be a heretic
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and burned at the stake. Well, happy. Yeah, it's 19. I mean, people back then.
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19, she had an army and got burned at the stake. I have friends who still have their
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quote to children on their health insurance at 30, just saying, maybe we've gotten too soft.
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Maybe you need to have a threat that you're going to get burned at a stake. How about that?
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You don't pay your own health insurance. Somebody's going to come over here and behead you and
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burn the rest of you. Little quote from Tate. I agree with this one. I don't want this was,
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um, this was on heartache. I don't want to wait any, I don't want anyone to wait four hours to
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text you back. And I don't want anyone to mess with your head. I want you to be happy because
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waiting four hours to text someone back is rude. It's not flirting. I agree. Unless you were at
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well, she's not busy in the day. What if she was at her own show? That last three and a half
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hours, how are you texting people back? Do you have AI glasses on? That don't work?
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Frida, after all the things that woman went through, every bone in her body was broken in a
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a train crash. It wasn't a train. It was like a street cart thing. It was horrible. This is a
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leave this world without having having had a little fun in this life. See, she's not all negative.
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All right, termites. There will be no podcast next week because I am going, I'm not going to tell
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you where I'm going, but I'll be posting. You'll see. It's a big birthday and it's totally
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go-go-ball. It's not like you can lie about it. I wouldn't lie anyway. I've always felt 60.
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I'm finally the age I felt. Actually, I feel more like a 72-year-old. When I get excited that I'm like,
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whoa, Ken Burns did the Civil War in color? That's where me and my dad would have hunkered down for
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a solid 10 hours and pissed my mom off to know when. You two just like persecution. That's all you
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care about. I'm like, no, this is a war, mom. It's not persecution, Jesus.
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Happy birthday. We're thrilled. Thank you. Thank you. I already got a bunch of cards. Thank you for that.
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And I will not. I will be back after that, though. I'll manage to keep up with the news and the
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ongoing and have a podcast upon returning. Now, I have to go do someone else's podcast about aging
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parents. Do you know anything about that? I know a little bit about aging. Yeah, I know. I asked my
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mom, are you coming to the show in St. Louis? Maybe. Yeah, she's a Facebook maybe. That's what she gives me.
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I don't know what it's depending upon. Well, who's going to give me a ride? I said, the same person
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always does. I'm sending Kate. I'm busy, mom. I ain't saying Louis. I can't be driving down the
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video. I was just going to get your eyes. I'll send a downcar if you want. Probably cost $20
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$20 million. All right, that's it. Are we ready?