0:01

Hey, I told him

0:14

straight drop this and

0:16

zip lock that Right on my waistline,

0:19

that's why I kept that strap I

0:22

remember nights, I didn't remember

0:24

nights I damn near went crazy,

0:27

I had to get it right Now I'm

0:29

your favorite rapper's favorite rapper Now

0:32

I'm your favorite trapper's favorite

0:34

trapper The absolute

0:36

truth, yeah, no joke Ladies

0:39

and gentlemen, welcome in

0:42

to the Trap Draw Podcast. My name

0:44

is Randy. This is a CHOP session,

0:46

which means I am joined by Tron Carter.

0:49

TC, great to catch up with you. How are

0:51

you this morning or this afternoon? However

0:53

it may be.

0:54

Randy, I'm great. I'm great. I do want

0:56

to give a shout out to our friend, Mr. Jeezy. We

0:58

got a tip that

1:00

I think he's getting a divorce. So

1:02

Mr. and Mrs. Jeezy, hate that. Apologies.

1:08

We hate hearing that. Hate hearing that. But

1:10

maybe it's for the best, right? If

1:12

it's amicable, sure. That's all we can hope

1:14

for. I still don't have a copy

1:17

of his book. I still do

1:19

at least want

1:20

to get my hands on a copy.

1:22

I'm not sure if I'm going to give it a full read

1:24

or maybe just a skim. But

1:27

I apologize too for Mr. Jeezy

1:29

for not having a copy of his book yet. But

1:31

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4:43

you, TC. I think right off the top,

4:47

let's just get out in front of the... This

4:49

is not... We're

4:51

going to try to stay away from the Israel-Palestinian

4:56

conflict, and that's

4:58

not because it doesn't obviously

5:00

deserve

5:02

the attention of the world, and it's

5:04

just awful all the way around.

5:07

I was telling you off air, I just

5:09

don't feel qualified to speak

5:11

on it, and certainly not

5:14

our usual sarcastic, jokey selves.

5:16

So I just want to be very

5:18

upfront and self-effacing about that.

5:20

If people are expecting any type of talk

5:23

there, not going to be this episode.

5:25

Would love to bring in Cody or

5:27

some experts to help educate us on

5:30

the situation, perhaps on a future episode,

5:32

but don't really

5:35

feel comfortable going too much beyond

5:37

that, except for obviously

5:39

it's an awful situation.

5:41

Yeah. Support all the people

5:43

there. It's

5:45

awful. Our

5:48

friend Gideon posted something about his grandpa,

5:51

just kind of all the talks that he had

5:53

with his grandpa about Israel

5:55

and all that. It's just a very...

5:57

I don't

5:58

know. I'm bummed.

5:59

out when you see people from

6:02

any race creed denomination get

6:05

killed or injured but you know especially so

6:07

when it seems religiously

6:09

driven so thinking about everybody in Israel

6:11

and awful awful situation.

6:15

Next week's Trap Draw I believe

6:17

is gonna be an NFL

6:19

update with myself and

6:22

you obviously and KVV and Poosh

6:24

is that right?

6:25

It is right yeah and Randy we're you

6:28

know we're gonna have to talk about Shani.

6:30

Shani's gonna

6:32

get a lot of attention and right so

6:34

I you know I want to be

6:36

fair they are they are absolutely

6:38

bawling out and I tip

6:40

my cap to

6:42

them. I think a lot more people need

6:44

to tip their cap I think a lot of people were wrong

6:46

a lot of people came at me oh Shani

6:49

love I've tried to be a class act and just kind

6:52

of rise above it all and and

6:54

say hey listen I've you know I tried to

6:56

warn you guys basically and it's not just Shani

6:58

it's Mike McDaniel it's

7:02

the offensive coordinator down in in in

7:05

Houston all sorts of good things

7:07

happening within the Shani universe.

7:10

Yeah yeah huge game

7:12

this weekend for my Bengals but we'll get into

7:14

we'll get into a ton of NFL stuff next week.

7:18

Shall we start with some may may accomplished.

7:20

Yeah I got one right off the top from you got

7:24

a tip on this one you misidentified

7:26

Delta's flagship A350 and the 737 shitboxes

7:32

that they bought from Lion Air. I believe

7:35

you were you know they so

7:37

Lion Air is basically it's a I

7:40

think a Southeast Asian carrier Delta

7:43

purchased 37 37 900 ERs

7:48

from them and it's like they're like not

7:51

even like to spirit airline standards

7:54

don't have IFE don't have plugs

7:56

don't have any bells and whistles

7:59

whatsoever. That and I just think

8:01

we'll get into some of the Delta stuff here But

8:04

a I think you should apologize on behalf of Delta

8:06

for back that they purchased these When

8:09

they purport themselves to be a premium

8:11

product and and all that

8:14

stuff Which again, we'll get into that and

8:16

then be the fact that you misidentified this

8:19

and Some of the

8:21

relief.

8:22

Yeah, well listen, you know it I

8:25

must have misread the the little aircraft

8:27

brochure that they put in the in the

8:30

back of all the seats That's honestly,

8:32

that's really the only way I can identify airplane,

8:34

so I do apologize for For

8:37

the confusion and for any

8:39

pain or trouble I caused by misidentifying

8:42

that I think to your other point though about Delta

8:44

Purchasing these these airplanes. I'm

8:47

not sure if I have a problem necessarily

8:49

with the act of purchasing But

8:51

let's let's get them Retrofitted

8:54

where you put them. Yes. Yeah. Yeah,

8:57

let's get them up to Delta standards before

8:59

we put them into operation I think

9:02

I must have been flying. I think it was

9:04

in Atlanta to Cincinnati

9:08

Leg that I've yet that's what it was on

9:10

the way back from the Walker Cup I went

9:12

Edinburgh to Atlanta Atlanta

9:14

to Cincinnati and I think this This

9:17

lion air because the the

9:19

flight attendant specifically says we apologize

9:22

no Wi-Fi this is a new aircraft

9:24

that we've purchased and they haven't had a chance

9:27

to retrofit it so

9:29

I Honestly, I would look

9:31

to Delta maybe Tom Brady even I

9:33

think as in his new role This might

9:36

be where he needs to apologize for having these

9:38

aircraft in service Without

9:41

the bells and whistles that we come to expect from Delta

9:44

I got a lot more to say on Delta in a few. Okay.

9:46

All right. All right

9:48

This is not a man call for but an update

9:51

We were alerted that the farting dog couple

9:54

it was affected by the farting dog in the Singapore

9:56

Airlines flight Also received

9:58

a $4,200 refund

10:00

that's not nearly enough I'll

10:02

just say it a refund

10:05

it's not gonna do it credit to I hope

10:08

so I

10:09

mean I

10:11

the dog should have been jailed I it just

10:13

the owners certainly should have been jailed and

10:17

I would jail me I think they were going to Singapore weren't they

10:19

I think there was no joke yeah

10:22

they take that stuff seriously I I

10:24

don't know if I feel comfortable necessarily

10:26

calling for lashings with the

10:28

bamboo but the

10:30

dog or the or the person

10:32

who owned the dog TC I think it's open

10:35

to negotiation and I'm willing I think

10:37

it deserves we need to have a sit down with

10:39

all parties and come to a solution

10:42

that works because that's not a

10:45

13-hour flight whatever it was and just a dog

10:47

farting cuz I that's miserable that's

10:49

absolutely miserable you did move

10:52

the people it did move the people

10:54

okay after they asked so

10:57

listen on behalf of Star Alliance I apologize

10:59

did you sorry I don't know if it's made

11:02

our later sections and I

11:04

apologize if it is but it sounds like

11:06

a perfect candidate for this luxury

11:09

private airline business for

11:12

dog owners

11:13

did you that's

11:14

I saw that I know that it though because

11:17

it

11:18

because it put me in a bad mood

11:19

yeah I know that

11:22

would be like an entrapment situation

11:25

where if anybody buys a ticket for that purpose

11:27

we're straight to jail was like that's

11:30

Scott Hanson let's get him there we

11:33

don't need to ask many questions we're just gonna remove

11:35

you from society speaking

11:36

of which the JSX stuff

11:39

I saw the TSA and the government's looking

11:42

into all these kind of semi

11:44

private aviation that goes out of FBOs

11:46

and stuff kind of skirting security

11:49

more to come on that front I think

11:51

so kind of these you know semi

11:54

luxury things Randy

11:56

this this is the Mayaculva that will not end

12:00

somebody reached out regarding

12:03

us not Uts Uts and

12:07

you know if they were actually tied up with Snyder's

12:09

and Hanover they are in Hanover

12:11

but people have told me that Snyder's is actually

12:14

no longer based in Hanover because they were purchased

12:16

by Campbell's Soup Company in 2017

12:18

Snyder's

12:20

Lance all that stuff so

12:23

again apologies to anybody and everybody

12:26

but I did I did have that announcement a couple

12:29

weeks ago that I switched over my allegiance

12:31

fully on just the hard pretzels

12:34

the normal hard pretzels and listen

12:36

everybody wants to talk about

12:38

you know the

12:39

certain other brands that have darks

12:42

or that have other you know extra baked

12:45

or specialty stuff first of all dots are

12:47

awful

12:48

quit quit

12:49

quit sending me Wow

12:51

I get people coming up to me saying you got to try

12:53

dots apparently they have new flavors

12:55

I've she gets all over your hands I'm

12:58

trying to get the kakana cheddar

13:02

cheese dip or you

13:04

know some beer cheese dip in there and then

13:06

I just like regular

13:08

ass sourdough pretzels there's always

13:10

room for for specialty pretzels

13:12

in there but you know the I just

13:16

think the Snyder's in the box

13:19

versus the the Uts original

13:21

sourdough old-fashioned ones in

13:24

a head-to-head comparison I think the us ones

13:26

are crunchier they have more

13:28

flavor because I think they're baked a little bit longer and then

13:30

more salt

13:32

so there you have it folks yeah

13:34

that's how and that yeah you know

13:36

it's like I'm not putting grip owes in this category

13:38

either because those are you know I can only a

13:41

bag of grip owes like once a year

13:43

and then my salt intake for the year is good

13:47

anyway another one Tony Nadal not

13:50

Rafa's dad it's his uncle sure

13:53

that's a that's an easy apology

13:55

I'm sorry sorry for messing that up folks

13:58

I would like to call on a pre-made from Neil

14:01

on the next booth, all sorts

14:03

of bad Columbia shit, harboring

14:05

predators, some big tax

14:08

breaks that they're that them and NYU

14:11

are getting up there in the big

14:13

city, all sorts of that stuff there. And

14:15

I would like to call on an apology once

14:18

again from Canada. We had the wildfire

14:20

smoke here in Jack's

14:23

a couple weeks ago, not good. Speaking

14:26

of Columbia, how's there, how are

14:28

the Lions doing this this fall on the football

14:30

field?

14:31

I think the Ivy League schedule's just

14:34

getting just getting going. I think

14:37

the Lions, they lost

14:39

to, no they beat Marist,

14:41

Marist College, which is Marist

14:43

caught not the Marist School. Yeah, these

14:46

are like the Red Foxes, they're up in Poughkeepsie,

14:48

New York, Hudson River Valley.

14:51

Columbia is 0 and 1 in the Ivy

14:53

League, they lost to Princeton a couple

14:56

weeks ago. They've got a big home

14:58

tilt against Penn this

15:00

Saturday.

15:02

So

15:03

we'll see what happens there. But they're currently,

15:05

they lost to Lafayette and their opener, beat

15:08

the hell out of Georgetown, lost

15:10

to Princeton and they beat

15:12

Marist. So they're currently 3 and 1.

15:15

I'm showing 2 and 2. Oh sorry, 2

15:17

and 2, I'm an idiot. Yeah, they've lost twice. Yeah, 2

15:20

and 2, may I call them?

15:24

You put this on there. I'm not issuing apology for the Braves.

15:26

Why not? I think you should. Why?

15:29

They haven't even lost the series yet. That's

15:32

true, I got a little ahead of myself. But if

15:34

they do lose,

15:37

will you apologize?

15:38

Yes, I'll apologize.

15:40

Will Freddie, will your son Freddie apologize?

15:43

Yes.

15:44

Okay, I think we might need

15:46

Max Homa to

15:48

apologize for the Dodgers getting swept 3-0.

15:50

I agree, I agree. You

15:53

know, I think Max may need to apologize to

15:55

me. He accused me of coming out with misinformation.

15:58

Go back and check the receipts. I

16:00

had very very good

16:02

information that was unique

16:06

to me. I didn't have with the

16:08

can't lay hat stuff and all that. We

16:13

can re-litigate that on the main

16:15

pod. Randy,

16:18

we've got to talk about Delta.

16:20

Are

16:21

we talking status

16:24

changes? Are we talking operations?

16:27

What are we talking about? I think

16:29

we're talking all the above. First of all, Neil last night,

16:31

he was flying back up to New York, Delta.

16:36

The flight gets delayed due to a mechanical issue. They

16:38

end up canceling the flight. They

16:41

had to drive a couple of mechanics

16:44

up from Orlando to fix the plane.

16:47

The pilots and the flight attendants basically

16:50

timed out anyway. He had to take a United

16:53

flight to Newark this morning instead of the

16:55

Delta flight. I don't understand

16:57

why we're driving from Orlando to New York. Can

17:02

we drive from Orlando to Jax?

17:10

He took a 6.30am flight on United this morning.

17:12

They got him in early. I

17:17

just wanted to shout out my hitters

17:19

there. Obviously,

17:22

we've got this Brady stuff. We've got all

17:24

these status changes. Dirty

17:26

secret Delta,

17:28

they got a bunch of old ass aircraft. They are

17:30

addicted

17:31

to cheap used aircraft.

17:34

That's why they're buying the Lion Air

17:36

aircraft. They're a little newer.

17:39

No,

17:39

they're 717. They still got all these 717s.

17:41

We've talked about ad nauseam. They've

17:46

got all sorts of cheap

17:48

secondhand stuff that they've gotten. They're

17:53

either buying them outright or they have low lease payments

17:55

on them. Delta loves cheap aircraft. step

18:00

up your game there if you want to be a truly premium

18:03

product. That's very

18:05

stern but fair. That brings us into,

18:07

and also, you know,

18:10

the Delta Charter that the

18:12

Steelers have had got diverted two weeks in a row.

18:14

Did you see that? I did. Yeah,

18:16

I did. The Bengals had an issue with the Delta

18:19

Charter last year.

18:20

Not good. Yeah. Yeah.

18:24

But bottom line, people have been reaching

18:26

out left and right saying, you guys got to address

18:29

these changes. With

18:32

medallion status, qualification,

18:34

all that, I will say there's

18:37

a problem. We got to fix the problem.

18:40

Did they go too hot and heavy? Did

18:43

they go way overboard in fixing the problem? Yeah,

18:45

it was like $15,000 basically

18:49

to qualify for Diamond

18:51

like three years ago. And now it's

18:54

like $35,000. It feels like

18:56

maybe it's gotten out of whack

18:58

off kilter. Are you sure? I

19:00

think it's even more than that, isn't it? That

19:03

seems light. I think it's $35,000. Okay.

19:06

I was thinking it was more than

19:08

that. But you're right. Things

19:12

got out of hand. I mean, we had been saying that

19:14

for a long time. Too many

19:17

people with too high of status. Artificial.

19:20

It was like a great inflation situation.

19:23

The sky clubs were awful.

19:26

Lines out the door. So I

19:29

do appreciate them trying to reverse

19:31

course.

19:32

And it's impossible to get an upgrade. There's

19:35

too many people vying for too few upgrades,

19:37

especially now that 10 years ago, they're

19:41

saying 10 to 15% of first class

19:43

seats were purchased.

19:45

Now it's like two thirds.

19:47

So there's less of them in general as

19:49

well. So you got to take

19:51

care of the people who are your elites.

19:53

There's too many elites. If everybody's an elite, nobody's

19:55

an elite.

19:56

Everybody gets a trophy kind of situation, right?

19:59

Yeah.

20:00

I'm I'm I'm reading platinum

20:03

gold or silver during

20:06

the qualification year will be waived if you make

20:09

$25,000 or more in eligible purchases that you

20:11

guys so that's the MQD That's

20:14

the M way here. That's the waiver

20:16

that

20:17

okay spend twenty five thousand dollars

20:19

on the credit card Get that

20:21

and then you have to spend two hundred and fifty thousand

20:23

dollars To

20:25

get it for done. Yeah for Delta

20:28

said so United American

20:30

Delta's last one to go strictly to like tying

20:32

into how much you spent neither I did this with

20:34

PQPs and all that stuff. So

20:37

MQDs are basically it's just like dollar

20:39

for dollar Basically how much spend so

20:42

platinum is eighteen thousand MQDs

20:44

now diamond is thirty five thousand MQDs

20:47

now Okay, so they've made it so

20:49

we're like you basically have to spend thirty five thousand

20:51

dollars on white

20:54

on flights Yeah,

20:56

okay. I was thinking of the credit card. Okay

20:58

Which this year for 2024 it was twenty thousand

21:03

That's big. I know you you you

21:06

and me and Cody were talking in Spain The

21:09

Sarge is getting hit hard

21:11

by this. He's a loyal Delta

21:14

guy down there in the plex I've

21:16

been trying to hang on to Delta out here in Denver

21:19

honestly, these these changes have

21:21

me thinking I have a Reserve

21:24

Amex my personal card is a Delta Reserve

21:27

Amex feels like I should probably just

21:29

make that a United card But

21:32

I hate to drop Delta, you know, it's been

21:34

a part of my life for a long time now So

21:36

I don't know I'm a little conflicted

21:39

here TC. I think it's one of those

21:41

things too. You can just just book the

21:43

best Look

21:44

the best fare it suits your

21:46

schedule kind of frees you up a little bit too, right?

21:49

They they and I think what

21:51

had me hanging on to Delta. There's a nice

21:54

direct Denver to Cincinnati in The

21:57

afternoons the problem is the return

21:59

flights a six say I'm departure out

22:01

of Cincinnati. So what I usually do is

22:03

I'll book Denver to Cincy on Delta

22:06

and then I book Cincy to Denver on

22:08

United. But I feel like I'm

22:10

missing out. I feel like I'm capping my potential

22:13

with United. You know I can't get above Platinum

22:16

on United. I'm

22:17

essentially Platinum on both

22:20

and it adds me wondering if I drop

22:22

one and just go whole hog

22:24

on the other. Come on over the

22:27

guy. Sweet sweet plus points

22:29

on United. Come on over.

22:31

Yeah I'm you know I still book Delta

22:33

but even like being Delta Platinum it

22:36

doesn't get me anything. Right?

22:38

Usually I'm a hundredth on the

22:41

on any upgrade list. It's

22:43

crazy. Out of Jax yeah. See that's

22:45

where I was flying

22:47

Delta out of Denver though. You do get

22:49

pumped a little bit easier because every

22:52

I feel like trying to join the United crowd out here

22:54

in Denver I'm still gonna be it's still

22:56

gonna be swimming upstream to get those upgrades.

22:59

Yeah

23:00

bottom line I think so they

23:02

also made some changes with the Skyclubs

23:05

and the credit cards and the platt

23:07

you know the the MX Platinum cards

23:09

and all that. Bottom line is these

23:11

fucking airlines they're like they're

23:13

basically like banks at this point. They're

23:16

not even like airlines. Their

23:19

main profit centers credit cards.

23:22

Everybody's banks. Everybody's banks.

23:24

It's a credit economy. You're exactly right

23:27

TC. Disgraceful. Like

23:29

let's get back to being

23:31

being operationally excellent

23:34

and savvy and being proud of flying

23:36

airplanes.

23:37

Not

23:38

of you know selling like

23:40

basically awards inventory on because

23:43

that's the other thing Delta from

23:45

a from a mileage standpoint

23:47

from a from an award redemption standpoint

23:50

it's a disgrace how

23:52

much they've devalued those. Much more

23:54

so in my opinion than American and

23:56

United. Or like you know

23:59

it's you want to get a lay

24:01

flat it's 300,000 to 350,000 points each way. Yeah

24:07

that's right. Whereas United, I'm

24:10

getting, Randy

24:12

last month I almost booked a

24:13

Frankfurt flight

24:16

on a 747 in first class not even in business class

24:20

first class for 78,000 miles.

24:22

That's it no I can't believe

24:25

that's absolutely

24:28

valid. I was coming home one

24:30

of my many transatlantic flights in the

24:32

last three months I think it was from the women's

24:35

British Open London to Denver

24:38

perhaps

24:40

whatever I know maybe it was

24:42

that Edinburgh to Atlanta from the Walker Cup

24:44

sorry that that that first leg of that same

24:46

trip I cashed

24:49

in miles to get a up

24:51

in the front of the plane a lay flat

24:54

and it was yeah it was like 300 320,000 miles something like

24:56

that but I had to do it I was exhausted it honestly

25:02

it was one of the better purchases I've made

25:04

but it's ridiculous. Yeah

25:07

anyway they had to do

25:10

something but it just seems like it was very

25:12

very ham-fisted the way that they rolled

25:14

it out it didn't communicate it

25:16

well it was too much at one time

25:18

and then they announced the Brady

25:20

stuff you know just feels like

25:23

Delta gets pretty arrogant pretty cocky

25:26

pretty you know they're pretty

25:28

full of themselves I think and

25:31

like their flights are just straight up more expensive.

25:34

There's absolutely a Delta

25:36

premium but like if you're premium you gotta

25:39

like I'll give it to them the Sky Clubs are much better

25:41

than the regular United clubs now

25:43

the Polaris lounges are great that's a separate

25:45

deal but like Delta doesn't even have for

25:48

you know business class lounges. Right. So

25:50

anyway I think

25:53

it's a true monitor the space

25:55

with Delta we got we got our eye

25:58

on them because

25:58

at some point too Like you made the decisions

26:01

that got you there in the first place and like

26:04

why didn't you up some of this stuff? You

26:07

know kind of ladder it a little bit make

26:09

it so that 2023 into 2024 you did this you knew this was an issue

26:13

Yeah So

26:16

anyway, um anything

26:19

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28:22

Randy. And up

28:24

and back the same day, both flights

28:26

were early. It's crazy.

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Randy, I've got a whole section

28:33

here. We can breeze through this stuff. Just

28:36

on American airlines. American. American's

28:39

getting the Columbia University treatment

28:41

here. Yeah, it's

28:43

been a month since we did one

28:45

of these. A lot of things happened in that month.

28:48

This isn't American specific, but it's Miami

28:51

and it's a hub for them. TSA agents

28:53

were caught stealing money from bags in Miami.

28:56

Which, you know what, I don't even blame them. If

28:58

you're putting a bunch of cash in

29:01

your checked luggage,

29:03

do better, you know?

29:05

Make better choices. Where else are you supposed to put it, though?

29:08

Like in your carry-on.

29:10

Yeah, or strap it to yourself?

29:13

Duct tape it?

29:14

Yeah.

29:15

Speaking of Shannie,

29:18

Raheem Mostert, I don't know if it's

29:20

his baby mama, his girlfriend, whomever,

29:23

got bumped from an American flight. She had

29:25

a couple kids with her. This

29:28

was coming back from the Dolphins Patriots game.

29:30

Not good.

29:32

He was not happy on Twitter, or

29:34

X, or whatever we're calling it. There was a naked dude at

29:36

DFW just wandering. I did see that.

29:39

Yeah, did see that. Just wandering around the terminal. That

29:42

was great. There was a hidden camera

29:45

in an American Airlines bathroom.

29:47

That's tough.

29:48

Not good. Yeah, we can't have

29:50

that. You know, in flight. Which,

29:53

I saw that, I think the Buc-ee's, one

29:55

of the co-owners of Buc-ee's, his

29:58

pervert son allegedly. got caught

30:02

with

30:04

a hidden camera in their house

30:06

or something like that. So,

30:09

Randy, it's so bad over there that Ben

30:11

Rector wrote a jingle about American

30:14

Airlines. And I just want to say Ben Rector

30:16

is like the nicest, most non-confrontational

30:20

person there is. So

30:22

for him to go public with a jingle,

30:26

poking fun at demeaning

30:28

American Airlines, you know that shit's bad TC.

30:31

You may have to get Ben on during

30:33

our end of year Airports

30:36

pod and see what really prompted

30:38

this. So I would encourage people to

30:40

go. I'm sure it's on Spotify,

30:42

but go to his Instagram. I know he's

30:45

posted it on there as well. Tony

30:47

Kanan, I'm not really familiar with his game, but

30:49

he's a race car driver. He

30:53

got absolutely boned by American. And he

30:55

said, like, it's, he's like, I knew better. This

30:58

happened to me so many times before I didn't have another

31:00

option though. Fool

31:02

me once. It was kind of a, you know, shame

31:04

on him situation. I

31:07

saw a British Airways

31:09

pilot got sacked after,

31:12

after going on a Coke binge the night before a

31:14

flight. I guess he texted,

31:17

he texted one of the flight attendants. I was kind

31:19

of bragging about it. He's kind

31:21

of like, yeah, hurt, hurt my head, a nose

31:24

injury kind of thing. Pusha

31:27

T the rapper was, he was livid.

31:30

Pusha T?

31:31

Yeah. Pusha

31:32

T. This was on, this

31:35

was on X. He said, damn American

31:37

Air, if you didn't have a first class seat, why

31:39

would you let the agent book it to charge me for

31:42

first class and only offer coach is terrible.

31:44

Hashtag

31:46

poverty airlines. And then American

31:48

reached out to him and said, our apologies.

31:52

Didn't get to see you purchase. We want to take a closer

31:54

look. Please DM. Please meet us

31:56

in the DM with more details. I

31:59

hate it when they say meet. us in the DM

32:01

and then he said no I don't want to DM

32:03

you I'll let my travel agent handle you

32:06

send me a coach so they don't even recline after

32:08

paying for a first class seat is crazy hashtag

32:11

poverty airlines

32:13

and then they they reply with we're truly

32:15

sorry for the confusion cause of your seat

32:18

never are in touch cause any

32:20

discussion

32:21

so that's

32:24

not even it

32:25

they had to apologize to a

32:27

passenger who was traveling

32:29

with his children this is the

32:32

musician David Ryan Harris who's black

32:35

he was stopped on suspicion of trafficking

32:38

his own children who are biracial

32:42

this was this was in the New York Times

32:45

so that's not good I saw

32:48

they had a shuttle bus run

32:51

into one of their regional jets at O'Hare

32:53

the other night couple people got

32:55

injured

32:56

that's not good this is all

32:59

Molly I think I think we might

33:01

have to bring on Sally for maybe

33:03

your airport pod just give

33:06

him maybe 15 minutes give him space

33:08

to apologize he well he

33:11

has to own up to this

33:12

yeah it was funny Sally did make me laugh

33:15

where so you know I got like on the

33:17

upgrade list on the app where it like it'll

33:19

show the first three letters of your last name

33:22

or everybody on the list their last name

33:24

and then the first initial yeah

33:26

so he plays this game

33:28

where

33:29

you know he's like like it's like see you

33:32

like it's he just figures out who the celebrity

33:34

is or the famous person is or who the athlete

33:36

is and

33:37

he like makes up a name so he's like there

33:39

was one like see you II and

33:42

s was the first name so he's like oh it's sunny Quito

33:44

it's Johnny Quito's little

33:46

brother brother yeah

33:49

or just all sorts of different you

33:51

know different little

33:54

like oh like yeah like here's the backstory on

33:56

that guy it's it's it's Patrick

33:58

Mahomes his mom Yeah, yeah

34:01

age I'm gonna start doing that

34:03

That made me laugh

34:06

Randy. I got it in

34:08

an email from Somebody

34:10

who's never flown before okay.

34:13

Tell me about this person. What's their age?

34:15

What's their background? What do we know about this

34:17

person? Yeah, you know what? I don't know. I think

34:19

he's in his 30s late

34:22

20s 30s He's

34:24

flying from Minnesota to Atlanta

34:27

on a Delta flight leave later

34:29

this month early next month He

34:31

sent over his confirmation number. I looked

34:34

in to get him an upgrade But I have

34:36

to be on them, you know on the flight

34:39

to Use one of my regional

34:41

upgrades, but I can't figure out how to use because

34:44

they never clear Anyway, I also

34:46

I also though caution to you I'm not

34:48

sure we need to spoil this gentleman

34:50

his first time flying with upgrades

34:52

I would hate for him to

34:54

believe that's how it normally works. So

34:57

he he he

34:58

had all sorts of questions Like

35:00

how does TSA work? How big

35:02

can my carry-on be? Like

35:05

how early should I get to the airport all this

35:07

stuff? So I was kind of helping, you know walking

35:09

him through some of that stuff. So Genuinely

35:12

like fascinated by this right

35:15

cuz you know, I think I've read alone. I think

35:17

I've flown I think it's taking 65 to 70

35:20

flights this year which Randy I just

35:23

just cleared my premier 1k Management

35:27

thing for the second year in a row. They

35:30

lost my luggage on my on my qualifying

35:34

Which that was Swiss Air's fault cuz

35:36

I think it was partly because I had a auxiliary

35:39

battery in my checked luggage But

35:41

the only reason I checked the luggage was because Swiss

35:44

has outrageous Thresholds

35:46

as far as wheat goes for carry-on

35:49

luggage, but that's not there here nor there Yeah,

35:52

so I will update you after this guy Does

35:55

his flight but you know hub to hub on Delta.

35:58

He's on your favorite nay 321

35:59

one

36:00

kind of throwing them into the deep end too throwing

36:03

them into the Atlanta Airport

36:05

you know that's a good one yeah welcome

36:07

to the big leagues we got a we

36:10

got a navigate ATL

36:13

I think that's awesome and also in Saturday I think that's

36:15

awesome that somebody felt comfortable

36:18

to reach out to you to help you

36:20

or for you to help them

36:22

guide them through their first flying experience I'm just

36:25

fascinated why this

36:27

is their first flying experience whether it's

36:29

a fear of flying which I get

36:32

I know that's prevalent or like

36:34

surely he's had reason to fly in

36:36

his life up to this point right I'm

36:39

I'm curious why this has

36:42

necessitated a flight compared

36:44

to what he's done to get around

36:46

flying in past situations

36:49

no it's like I think we may

36:51

have to have him on the trap draw right just say

36:53

like I'm like a segment yeah like like

36:56

you know what do you think of the overhead bins did

36:58

you use the restroom would you get to

37:00

drink yeah you know

37:02

like did you sit down like which group did

37:04

you try to board in all that stuff

37:06

you know yeah a couple

37:10

other aviation related notes I thought DT

37:12

was riding hard for the 757 said

37:14

it was an absolute

37:16

disgrace that they've they've you

37:19

know the bad the quote bad maintenance

37:21

Boeing kept putting all their eggs into

37:24

the 737 basket which listen

37:26

I agree with him and then he labeled it

37:28

an unattractive fat and slow

37:31

airplane

37:32

versus that thing would be listen

37:35

DT will have some good takes

37:37

you just got to really get through a lot of other

37:39

stuff to get to them

37:40

yeah there's a business breakdowns

37:43

episode on on Boeing being there

37:45

was those recently released I definitely

37:47

need to listen to that in

37:49

some personal news SAS is joining sky

37:52

team Randy they're they're

37:54

bouncing from Star Alliance

37:56

can you tell the people what SAS is

37:58

just scanning Canadian Airlines. Okay.

38:02

Are they not bad? You are,

38:05

you say good riddance, right? They

38:07

didn't really participate all that much. You

38:10

can't really find award availability.

38:13

You're kind of, Sky, or Star Alliance

38:15

adjacent. Okay. So,

38:17

KL, they've been bankrupt for a while. KLM

38:20

and Air France are taking a stake

38:22

in them.

38:23

I've done two KLM

38:26

legs, the most recent from

38:29

Spain to Frankfurt

38:31

on the way home from the Solheim. KLM's

38:34

wonderful.

38:35

I'm even happy to pay for

38:37

a premium beverage, a snack.

38:40

I just find- Wait, wait, wait. Spain

38:42

to Frankfurt or Spain to Amsterdam?

38:44

Spain to Frankfurt. Or

38:47

no, Spain to Berlin. Spain to Berlin.

38:50

I came home, no, no, Munich. One of those German

38:52

cities. I came home through Munich.

38:54

Interesting.

38:56

So you flew, and then you flew- Berlin

38:59

to Denver. Or Munich to Denver.

39:01

God, why can't I get my city straight? Yeah, Munich

39:04

to Denver. Are you sure you flew

39:06

KLM from Spain to

39:08

Germany? No, it was Lufonza.

39:12

Yeah, you're exactly right. So, Lufonza

39:14

was great, and it reminded me of the KLM

39:17

leg that I took to Amsterdam last summer. They're

39:20

fine. They're both fine. Listen, they're

39:22

clean. They handle their business. Yeah,

39:24

they handle their business. I guess that's what I'm getting

39:26

at. Although I don't love paying for

39:29

coffee, that's a bit of a bummer. But

39:32

hey, I felt like everything else was on

39:34

the up and up, so I was happy to pay. The first

39:36

class cabin is just like the same as

39:38

the-

39:39

on their European

39:41

domestic, quote unquote, like just

39:43

their European flights. It's basically

39:45

like

39:46

the middle seat is just set aside,

39:49

which is a little disconcerting.

39:52

I did pay- I did pay- it was

39:54

like $40 to get

39:57

into an exit row, I want to say,

39:59

to buy one. of those seats, the little extra leg room

40:01

for the kid. And

40:04

what that came with, I was very pleased,

40:07

was that became like a business class

40:10

ticket and it got me into the Lufonza

40:12

Lounge. Center Lounge? Yeah, yeah. Those

40:16

are my favorites, Randy. That was really

40:19

nice.

40:20

What else we got? Any

40:23

other personal notable travel?

40:25

No, TC. On

40:27

that Munich to Denver flight

40:30

home, it was a tight connection

40:32

there in Munich for me.

40:35

My bags did not make it, but I do want

40:37

to shout out United. They

40:39

handled their business. They were very

40:42

easy to file my missing

40:44

baggage claim and they delivered the

40:46

bags to my house in a very prompt

40:48

manner. So I do want to give them respect

40:51

and give them a shout out. Randy,

40:53

I had my first one, like I said, through

40:56

Zurich. I flew into Geneva on the way there

40:58

and then

40:59

went to Basel

41:01

to see a friend. And then on the

41:03

way back, I flew through Zurich

41:05

to Newark and

41:07

my bag didn't make it from

41:09

onto the Newark flight. But

41:12

same deal. I've kind of just put myself

41:14

in their hands a little bit of, hey,

41:16

you know what? I'm not going to bitch about this. I'm not going to

41:19

complain. I'm just going to trust the process.

41:21

Sure enough, the bag arrived the next day and was

41:24

promptly delivered. It was on my front porch.

41:27

Yeah.

41:28

The

41:30

F-35 that went missing. I feel like we need to acknowledge

41:32

that.

41:33

Yeah, we kind of missed, we

41:35

were traveling, we were out

41:38

and about when all that went down. I don't

41:41

know. I think the big takeaway is that guy that

41:43

they interviewed, the eyewitness, kind

41:45

of a bub-rub situation.

41:48

Like the Dale Jr. guy.

41:50

The Dale Jr. guy. Yeah.

41:54

I don't know. I'm glad they found it, I guess.

41:57

It was a fun time. I don't

41:59

know what else to say about I feel like we're a little

42:01

late to the party now.

42:02

We are. It's wild. They're

42:05

like yegan, what? They're like $100 million aircraft?

42:08

Yeah. I mean, I guess it's stealth. It's

42:11

like it's kind of... That's

42:13

why they couldn't find it? I

42:15

had read... You would hope that there'd be something

42:17

on the back end, like maybe a failsafe there.

42:20

Right. I had read people were speculating,

42:23

you know, did somebody hack the control

42:26

panel or the flight computer

42:28

or something? And I was maybe low key rooting

42:30

for that to be a possibility just to,

42:33

you know, who knows where that would have taken us. But

42:35

it sounds like, I don't know, I don't... I'm

42:38

not even sure off the top of my head what the official reasoning

42:41

was or why the pilot had to ditch it.

42:43

But I'm glad it came down in an unpopulated

42:46

part of what, South Carolina?

42:48

Yes. Yes.

42:49

That's good. God, can you

42:51

imagine getting duffed

42:54

by a F-35 out of... Like that would be a bad day.

42:56

That would be a really bad day.

42:58

But it'd be kind of a cool day if you didn't get duffed

43:01

by it, but it landed nearby. Yeah,

43:03

just like a close encounter. Yeah. Speaking

43:06

of close encounters, you see the Bigfoot

43:09

thing

43:09

yesterday? Yeah.

43:12

It'd probably just be somebody dressed

43:15

up, right?

43:16

Of course. Unless

43:18

you believe in Bigfoot. I

43:21

thought... I don't know. I thought I

43:23

saw somewhere where it was like a Bigfoot

43:25

era.

43:26

Some business, like a Bigfoot experience

43:29

or something. I don't know. I think

43:31

it's... I wouldn't put too much stock

43:33

in that being the actual Bigfoot, TC.

43:37

Speaking of

43:39

Bigfoot just being outdoors, has

43:41

fall sprung out in Colorado?

43:44

It's springing. The

43:46

temperature just dropped last night. We had

43:49

a cold front move through. I think highs

43:51

today are low 50s. But

43:53

we're not there to stay. We're going to get back into the 70s this

43:55

weekend, next week. But

43:58

we are getting some change of lead. down here in Denver.

44:01

The mountains are gorgeous. We've been kind of peak

44:04

aspen leaf-changing last

44:07

weekend, the weekend before that. So definitely

44:10

in the mountains, fall has sprung. There's

44:12

been some snow up in the mountains.

44:15

In fact, I think

44:17

this front last night I think was supposed

44:19

to drop some snow in a few places. But

44:22

here in Denver we haven't officially

44:24

slid into like full-time autumn

44:27

yet, but I'm ready for it.

44:28

Do you have your same ski

44:30

set up this year? Are you gonna change anything up? No,

44:33

I'm going. I'm running back the full icon

44:35

pass and then I'm gonna buy, I'm gonna

44:38

augment that TC with the epic

44:41

local for a few hundred

44:43

bucks. Gets me a handful of days

44:45

at you know some of the I-70

44:48

resorts. Gotcha. Alright.

44:52

Randy, big big news breaking

44:55

in the mathematics world.

44:57

At least yeah, how many about this? The

45:00

Pythagorean theorem was

45:02

found in a clay tablet. It was

45:04

a thousand years older than Pythagoras.

45:07

That's unbelievable. Complete stolen

45:10

valor situation with Pythagoras

45:12

potentially. But maybe probably

45:14

act like probably inadvertent,

45:17

right?

45:18

Or are we wondering

45:20

if Pythagoras was up to

45:23

some nefarious stuff?

45:24

You know, it could be, yeah, he could have been a fluffer.

45:28

Right?

45:29

Again, this is all alleged

45:32

so I want to make sure, I'm not

45:34

even sure where I found this. It just popped up in

45:37

my Instagram.

45:41

Well, I appreciate you bringing it to everybody's attention.

45:44

Can I get an update on your girl, on

45:46

your girl Lobo? This broke

45:49

like a day or two after we recorded our last

45:51

episode.

45:52

Yeah, I think you're referring to

45:54

her first date.

45:57

She and her date attended a Beetlejuice

46:00

production here at a local theater in

46:03

Denver. Close-circuit

46:06

security cameras caught them fondling

46:09

each other during the production. Lobo,

46:12

as you call her, that's a good nickname, Lobo

46:15

was hitting your little vape rig during

46:17

the show. People around him were

46:19

pissed. Eventually security escorted

46:22

both of them out. I think Lobo

46:24

hit them with a, do you know who I am, at one

46:27

point. To her credit,

46:29

I was interested in how she would handle it

46:31

on the back end, once it all came out, and

46:37

the security footage. I think she at first

46:39

tried to deny it, and then I was like, no, no, no, here's

46:41

the tape. You're obviously vaping and

46:43

stuff. I

46:46

thought she kind of played it off. She did her best

46:48

to defuse the situation. She

46:51

said she's going to have to be a little bit more

46:54

picky, choosy about some dates,

46:56

perhaps. What a situation.

46:58

What a world. What a world going

47:01

to Beetlejuice, first of all,

47:04

Beetlejuice in Denver, vaping

47:08

during it on a first date. It's

47:11

a confluence of factors

47:13

and things that just, I

47:16

don't know, it's like a foreign

47:19

world to me. I can't imagine.

47:21

Just for my clarification, what is Beetlejuice?

47:24

It looks like a musical or

47:26

a play. I mean, I assume it's like

47:28

an adaptation of, I got to be honest.

47:31

I don't think I ever watched any of

47:33

the Beetlejuice movies. I think

47:35

there was a Beetlejuice cartoon

47:37

show at one point. I don't really know the story

47:39

of Beetlejuice. It's something that's never appealed

47:42

to me, TC. So, Bober,

47:45

we wish her the best. I'm glad that

47:47

she's out there dating. Everybody deserves

47:50

to find happiness. Of course, her ex-husband,

47:53

he's had some of his own issues. So, if she,

47:55

God, I would love to just see her in and

47:57

around Denver. I would love to. Just

48:00

casually run into Lobo.

48:03

I will absolutely keep you up to date if I do

48:05

TC You see the thing about the the

48:08

it's I'm not sure what she's running for for

48:11

the for the Virginia House of delegates

48:14

for the Democratic nomination

48:16

for the Virginia House of delegates, Susanna

48:18

Gibson. Do you see this stuff?

48:20

Not really.

48:22

So Susanna Gibson. She's a nurse practitioner.

48:24

She's running for for state office

48:26

and and She's

48:29

she's blasting her opponents for

48:32

engaging in quote gutter politics.

48:34

This is according to New York Post After

48:36

videos surfaced online of her

48:38

and her husband performing sex acts

48:41

online for cash the adult streaming

48:43

site chatterbait Which I assume

48:45

is like only fans She

48:48

called the controversy an illegal invasion

48:50

my privacy designed to humiliate me but

48:53

I would say like

48:54

you're the one that like

48:55

you were boning you and your husband were boning

48:58

and you Put this stuff up

49:00

online for people to watch live Like

49:03

in real time and like other

49:05

people are invading your privacy

49:09

Yeah, I mean maybe her point

49:11

is like what does that have to do with running

49:13

for office I've Toughed

49:16

the muster much sympathy for though. I'm being

49:19

Say that right I know she's got to own

49:22

it. She almost has to get in front of it Yeah

49:26

I feel like the only fans stuff though

49:28

is probably gonna be something that keeps

49:30

popping up here over the coming Years

49:33

and decades. Don't you think TC? I

49:35

do. Yeah, it's definitely

49:38

definitely out there I guess her her

49:40

chatterbait profile was called

49:42

a hot wife experience Hey

49:47

Everybody everybody's looking for a side hustle,

49:49

you know TC times are times

49:51

can be tough

49:53

Who amongst us right hasn't

49:55

branched out with a little side hustle? Yeah,

49:57

she yeah summer saying that

49:59

she made have used this like

50:02

the tokens or the revenue

50:05

from this side hustle

50:07

to fund her her campaign

50:10

as well. That's entrepreneurial

50:13

in my opinion. Yeah

50:14

I think she just needs to lean into it.

50:17

I think she needs to be I think she needs to lean into

50:19

it own it and tell people

50:21

judge me on on what I stand

50:23

for politically and my agenda.

50:27

Yeah

50:28

I agree. I agree. My

50:30

guy OJ

50:32

got got dragged a little bit for

50:34

saying that 9-11 is just a bad day

50:36

for

50:37

New York

50:38

after the Aaron Rogers injury. It

50:40

is. It is. Objectively,

50:42

he's not wrong. Stay

50:48

off of it. What'd you think of Aaron Rodgers

50:50

doing the you know running the flag out

50:53

and I

50:53

don't know. I feel

50:54

like that's a unique like New

50:57

York thing. I've never lived in New York.

50:59

I you know obviously that day

51:01

means a ton to everybody

51:04

but specifically for New Yorkers. Yeah

51:07

him getting injured then on like the second play. Just

51:10

incredible.

51:13

We can skip

51:15

this boat stuff. There was a boat there was a porn

51:18

raid on a boat off Nantucket and then

51:20

there's a ship that got stuck off the

51:22

coast of Greenland. We

51:24

were trying to ask our buddy Drew.

51:27

He's a big Nantucket. Martha's been

51:29

your guy. We were trying to get some details on

51:31

it but he didn't really know much.

51:33

And the Obama chef too right? Yeah

51:36

that's right. That's right. So

51:38

some rail cars

51:40

derailed in Nebraska with some toxic shit

51:43

in them but it didn't really turn into anything. Cody

51:45

wanted to make sure we were monitoring that though. Okay.

51:48

Just you know we are monitoring the railways.

51:51

People need to always. Being a

51:53

railway I took the Swiss

51:55

national system from Geneva

51:58

to Basel. It

52:00

was delightful. It's great. I'd expect

52:02

nothing less.

52:03

I may just go over there and just ride around for

52:06

like a week no

52:08

itinerary nothing booked just

52:11

just ride the trains just ride the rails I

52:13

love it. So scenic. We're gonna

52:15

not to jump ahead too much But wasn't there an

52:17

article about some old in

52:19

Korea just riding the subways for

52:22

their payment each day? Yeah Yeah,

52:24

there was a New York Times article

52:26

about Senior subway

52:29

riders in Seoul So

52:31

that's gonna be you and your retirement years just

52:33

riding around Stockholm Adiring

52:35

the subway stations

52:38

DJ was

52:40

all up in arms about this dump this Dunkin

52:42

Donuts pumpkin swirl drink. This

52:44

was circular It's a circular on tik-tok and

52:47

Twitter. I guess it has

52:49

a hundred and eighty five grams of sugar

52:51

in it What do you want honest opinion

52:53

here TC cuz I feel like this is an interesting

52:57

I

52:57

don't know litmus test or just

52:59

where do you fall out on? Should

53:02

should a drink like that with that much sugar?

53:05

Like do we need to ban stuff like that

53:07

to save people from themselves or

53:09

do you believe in just letting people? You

53:12

know, hey if you want to give yourself diabetes

53:15

or whatnot go for it

53:17

That's always a tough one. Great questions

53:20

I mean, I guess like what's to stop someone from just

53:22

like baking some of the worst cakes

53:24

they ever could that has

53:26

Just as much sugar in it, right? Right nothing

53:29

thing. Yeah nothing probably

53:31

Like I can't imagine how flippered you feel

53:34

after drinking that It's

53:35

crazy.

53:37

I don't know why anybody yeah, I do

53:39

not understand what's appealing about that. Um

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55:42

Randy, I got a couple things that we're monitoring.

55:45

Saltwater intrusion in the Mississippi

55:47

River. Very dry summer. Saltwater's

55:50

making its way up the Mississippi River. It's

55:53

creeping in. Not good. Still

55:55

monitoring the canal,

55:57

the Panama Canal.

56:00

you know water there we

56:02

got Wawa potentially

56:05

moving into Ohio they're skipping over Pittsburgh

56:07

but they're moving in the whole Ohio I'm

56:13

impressed with Wawa it's fine

56:15

that's kind of where I net out

56:17

I'm

56:18

yeah I think that's fine I think

56:20

I think I think the players

56:22

in Ohio shouldn't be too scared by

56:24

Wawa moving in I wouldn't think

56:27

I'm a big UDF guy

56:29

you haven't missed a shit PC yeah

56:31

but God especially when they you can find one

56:33

that gets the buskin donuts in the morning

56:36

Oh

56:36

cancel Christmas Randy you

56:39

know what buccies as well I thought the buccies on

56:41

the way up to Tennessee

56:43

and the way back I wish they

56:45

so they have brisket they brisket tacos and they

56:47

have this hippo taco I want like

56:51

the brisket tacos have too much brisket in them it's

56:53

just brisket I want like a brisket

56:55

taco with eggs potatoes

56:58

and just a little bit of brisket in it but they don't

57:00

have that so if anybody's listening

57:02

out there from buggy come up with that

57:05

you can call it the Rhino or the the

57:07

elephant or something like that you know um what

57:12

else we got Randy there was a big article about NFTs

57:15

oh my god about I

57:19

mean NFTs

57:20

what can you say about NFTs

57:22

that everybody didn't really understand

57:25

from the start that they are the biggest fucking

57:28

ripoffs ever created but

57:30

it's you know it's nice to have some some

57:32

real data some some actual

57:35

anecdotes trickling out over

57:37

the last couple years this

57:40

was specifically came on a man my radar

57:42

from Ed Zitron

57:45

who

57:46

you can find him on Twitter Ed Zitron

57:48

or he's got a sub stack channel

57:51

does some good interviews with folks just

57:53

talk to David Roth I actually like his

57:55

sub stack I'm getting more into sub stack PC

57:57

and yeah I like his sub stack

57:59

cuz A lot of his conversations are just like 15

58:02

minutes, so pretty quick, digestible,

58:05

not really to the point where with

58:08

other podcasts I do it while I work out

58:10

or like long car trips. These are more

58:12

in the moment. Anyway, he's got

58:14

a ton of anecdotes on

58:16

NFTs, but some highlights. Okay,

58:20

where can we start with this? So

58:23

he quotes an industry report, I'm

58:25

quoting Ed Zitron now, that showed 95% of NFTs

58:27

on the

58:29

market are now totally worthless.

58:33

So the analysis was of 73,257 NFT collections

58:35

and found that 69,795 have a market capitalization,

58:45

the total value of all NFTs

58:47

in a collection of zero. Oh

58:53

my God. But he just goes, I mean, this

58:55

is where it gets sad because he cites, you know,

58:58

the New York Times, CNBC,

59:00

you know, we had all these different companies,

59:03

celebrities were peddling

59:05

NFTs and

59:07

he boils it down. He's

59:10

like, essentially these already

59:12

rich venture capitalists were just looking

59:14

to take advantage of post lockdown

59:16

desperation. NFTs were never

59:19

really worth anything and the majority

59:21

of the industry as it turns out is made

59:23

up of fake transactions, plagiarized

59:26

or fake collections and outright

59:29

scams. It just the

59:31

whole piece. Yeah, it's just

59:33

a scathing, scathing takedown

59:35

of NFTs, which again, I cannot

59:38

stress this enough.

59:40

If I just think

59:42

if you had an ounce of what's

59:45

the word I'm even looking for cynicism,

59:47

reality to

59:49

you, like the never made,

59:52

never made sense, TC. What

59:54

a gigantic waste of time,

59:57

money and energy. It's delicious.

59:59

I love it.

1:00:00

I love it too. Moving

1:00:03

on, I just wanted to let you get that out. I

1:00:06

know it's been... It always feels good. Loving

1:00:08

to get passionate about something. I want

1:00:10

to just say, glad to see Mackenzie

1:00:13

got knocked with a $230

1:00:15

million fine to settle

1:00:18

or settlement to settle some opioid

1:00:20

stuff. All the stuff they did with

1:00:24

pharmaceutical companies and lobbying

1:00:26

them and all that. Basically

1:00:29

helping them figure out how

1:00:32

to increase distribution

1:00:34

of these things, get around different

1:00:36

policies and all that. It truly is

1:00:39

some disgusting evil shit. You're exactly

1:00:41

right. We talked about Kroger

1:00:44

had to pay out a big fine

1:00:46

as part of an opioid settlement. Mackenzie,

1:00:50

same thing. I think Mackenzie is almost

1:00:52

to the point truly where

1:00:55

we talk about some bipartisan things

1:00:57

that I feel like everybody in the country can

1:00:59

get behind. I feel

1:01:01

like disbanding and maybe

1:01:03

even jailing some Mackenzie folks

1:01:06

might hit the official agenda for STC. I'm

1:01:10

totally with you. Just like some of the consultants

1:01:12

in general. Absolute zero respect. Yeah.

1:01:15

There's just too many consultants out there.

1:01:18

Just go do something. Go

1:01:20

do your own shit. Well,

1:01:22

I realize that there are good consultants. I

1:01:25

realize they're a good consultant. Totally. Some

1:01:27

of them are friends.

1:01:29

Exactly. Don't be a ghoul.

1:01:32

If you find yourself on

1:01:34

a project where you're helping pharma

1:01:37

companies sell

1:01:39

highly addictive dangers, like at

1:01:42

some point you just wonder like people

1:01:44

had to know what they were doing, right? Yeah,

1:01:47

I would think so. Speaking of pharma companies,

1:01:49

I ate at this restaurant in Basel. It's

1:01:54

owned by the people

1:01:55

who like, you know, the family that

1:01:58

owns Roche

1:01:59

Pharmaceutical. Yeah, so like bottles

1:02:01

like Novartis and Roche like

1:02:03

run, you know run the town or whatever and It

1:02:06

was a two Michelin star restaurant was fantastic

1:02:10

It's like the best meal I've ever had 11 courses

1:02:13

or anything

1:02:14

Jesus I Think

1:02:17

the most I've ever had is seven maybe

1:02:20

I think I've had 12 before

1:02:22

yeah, and that doesn't count the amuse-spouche.

1:02:25

I heard something crazy. Was it? Not

1:02:28

Roche. What's the other one? Norta

1:02:31

Oh Novo Nortis where there there's

1:02:34

market now larger than the

1:02:36

entire economy all the rest

1:02:38

of the economy of

1:02:40

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we were talking about

1:02:42

it with Emily

1:02:43

Peterson's. That's right. That's where

1:02:45

on the bus Causing

1:02:51

big problems.

1:02:52

Yeah, it's like, you know, they're they're

1:02:55

their entire cost of living skewed

1:02:57

now um so Randy

1:03:01

RFP your girl Diane Feinstein Honestly

1:03:04

TC. I'm a little disappointed. We didn't lead the show with

1:03:06

this You were pretty torn up about

1:03:09

that one.

1:03:10

I was it felt like you

1:03:13

know, I know we lost the Queen recently

1:03:16

Losing Diane it felt like a little similar

1:03:18

vein maybe with an American slant

1:03:21

on it Absolutely. Let me just say that

1:03:23

absolutely Disgraceful that she was still

1:03:25

in office. I mean crazy. We

1:03:28

talked about that before we got to find a way

1:03:30

to get

1:03:31

These old folks out of office for

1:03:33

their own good Same

1:03:36

deal like George Santos is still in

1:03:38

office

1:03:40

Have Menendez guys. I might be meals

1:03:42

boy. Can we make George Santos? Neil's boy

1:03:44

would love to

1:03:46

would love to

1:03:47

Robert Menendez might be Neil's Neil's

1:03:49

boy, too Cuz he's spending New Jersey

1:03:52

sounds like Menendez. Hopefully These

1:03:54

charges are gonna stick.

1:03:56

I mean just and came out too about his wife

1:03:58

like getting in some car Accident

1:04:00

and it just got kind of waved away. She killed a person.

1:04:02

Yeah.

1:04:03

Yeah. Yeah. I saw that

1:04:06

Randy what do you think about the Senate

1:04:09

dress code? I

1:04:11

Love it, you know, I'm glad

1:04:13

they're spending their time debating the important things

1:04:16

I think it came what it first came

1:04:19

up because of Josh Fetterman.

1:04:21

Yes, Eddie was

1:04:23

dressing a casual

1:04:26

So they changed dressing like

1:04:29

you When

1:04:29

you used to go to a client on

1:04:32

a weekend, I'll never forget. I think

1:04:34

it was MLK day It was either MLK day

1:04:36

or Presidents Day going in on that Monday To

1:04:39

the clients office. I was wearing I think basketball

1:04:42

shorts and a hoodie We

1:04:44

knew none of the client were gonna be there. It

1:04:47

was just the UI audit team

1:04:49

that was gonna be there and yeah Shut

1:04:51

up my guy Joe Moraka quickly disabused

1:04:53

me of the notion that you know You can come in casual

1:04:56

to any office on any day But

1:04:59

you live and learn that's what you know, that's what that's

1:05:01

for But yeah, the Senate dress code and so

1:05:03

then they came back and they changed it back.

1:05:06

Yeah, exactly They changed it back. So now I

1:05:08

think it's like you got to be business casual.

1:05:11

I think there are certain exceptions

1:05:13

I don't know. It seems Like

1:05:16

I said, I'm glad we're focusing

1:05:18

on the important stuff right now Speaking

1:05:21

of important stuff to pock They're

1:05:23

really read this story suspect. Yeah,

1:05:26

can you can you kind of give me the quick

1:05:28

and dirty on this? basically,

1:05:29

they I don't know how or

1:05:33

what used all sorts of jail

1:05:35

house testimony and some other stuff but

1:05:39

Connected this guy who you

1:05:42

know, I think some sort of gangbanger out

1:05:44

there connected him to the Tupac murder

1:05:47

out and out in Vegas I

1:05:49

was kind of just looking. I was hoping

1:05:52

I have no idea. Was there anything?

1:05:54

Yeah, okay. Yeah And

1:05:56

then you know, I was hoping it would be it

1:05:58

would lead into the gym more Jim

1:06:02

Mora, Naje Harris story, which

1:06:04

I guess was debunked, but Jim

1:06:07

Mora and some offhand comment when he was recruiting

1:06:10

for UCLA basically told Naje

1:06:12

Harris

1:06:13

allegedly that he knew

1:06:15

who killed Tupac.

1:06:18

Which is always one of my favorite random anecdote you

1:06:21

could possibly have.

1:06:24

I was going to say maybe the

1:06:27

feds finally got around to talking to Jim Mora.

1:06:30

He may have blown this wide open.

1:06:32

Just tying a knot on hot

1:06:35

dog man stuff, Putin claimed

1:06:37

that hot dog man's plane crashed because

1:06:39

Wagner leadership got

1:06:41

too drunk and high and then set off

1:06:44

and grenades during the flight. Which

1:06:47

I know, that's sick.

1:06:50

Yeah, you know if you're

1:06:52

going to, all these deaths,

1:06:54

right, these murders, they have to have

1:06:57

cover stories. I'm fine

1:06:59

leaning into just being as absurd

1:07:02

and ridiculous as possible.

1:07:03

No problem with this. Yeah, they were playing

1:07:05

with hand grenades. They got shit faced. I

1:07:10

just want to say, Sholly has been seen as

1:07:12

bull bean several times over the last couple

1:07:14

months. Just want to get that out there. Is

1:07:17

the Jacks Beach coffee scene,

1:07:19

has it changed in the few years since I've

1:07:21

left or are we still talking about the same

1:07:23

main players? No, it's still like excessively

1:07:26

mediocre

1:07:27

in general.

1:07:31

Last thing I had kind of on the monitoring,

1:07:33

always birds keep flying into this building

1:07:36

in Chicago. Yeah, that sucked. What

1:07:39

was it, like a thousand birds in one night

1:07:42

all flew into the building and died? Perfect

1:07:44

circumstances, full moon, bad migration

1:07:49

pattern.

1:07:50

Yeah, not good.

1:07:52

That's tough.

1:07:54

Got a couple sports

1:07:56

things here.

1:07:58

Alright, what do you got?

1:07:59

May have to bring thg in for a separate

1:08:02

episode on this stuff But Barcelona

1:08:04

is under investigation for bribing refs

1:08:06

just like straight-up bribing refs, which that's

1:08:08

sure that is World

1:08:12

Cup I guess is

1:08:14

being hosted between This is

1:08:16

what 20? 20 20

1:08:19

Yeah, what

1:08:22

are we on now? I? Get

1:08:24

cuz could because kovid screwed

1:08:26

it up a little too, right? Is it I think

1:08:28

this is 28 or is that the

1:08:31

u.s. Year? I

1:08:32

think the 24 so it's

1:08:34

all right. No 26 is us Will

1:08:40

be hosted by three continents, which

1:08:42

it's the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard

1:08:44

Randy. They're hosting it in in Uruguay

1:08:50

Argentina Spain Ukraine

1:08:54

I think and like Morocco It's

1:08:58

it's insane

1:08:59

it that is insane. You're absolutely right.

1:09:02

I knew the Uruguay tie-in was 100 year

1:09:06

commemoration of the first World Cup final

1:09:09

being played in Uruguay, so maybe

1:09:11

I can squint and see that I Don't

1:09:14

know why we're spreading across Europe

1:09:18

Necessarily, I don't know what Argentina

1:09:21

has to do with any of that. I

1:09:23

guess I get if it was just like Spain

1:09:26

Portugal and Morocco because

1:09:28

of their close vicinity I could get on board

1:09:30

with that but this seems like a cluster and

1:09:33

I also I hate that the World Cup

1:09:35

You know I feel like they're kind of dumb and down

1:09:39

Qualification like when you have like 19 host

1:09:41

nations, they're all gonna get in automatically.

1:09:44

It's the same with the u.s. Mexico and Canada

1:09:46

That's that's gonna be a three country Host

1:09:49

situation,

1:09:51

but they're going to 48 teams Yeah,

1:09:53

it's just kind of like oh, yeah, everybody come on.

1:09:56

Everybody makes a World Cup now. I don't

1:09:58

I don't necessarily like that Yeah, I

1:10:00

totally agree. I think they dropped Ukraine,

1:10:03

but it's just it's

1:10:05

outrageous. I saw something else where FIFA Jousting

1:10:09

with the cronkeys about some

1:10:12

of the details of host the World Cup at

1:10:14

so far. It also seems like 2034 It's

1:10:16

definitely going to Saudi Arabia Jesus

1:10:22

So after they just had one in Qatar

1:10:24

that seemed yeah I

1:10:27

know Jerry Jerry would love to

1:10:29

host that World Cup final

1:10:31

Which yeah, I think the worst thing they could do is like

1:10:33

go have it and

1:10:34

it's like the Meadowlands

1:10:37

Yeah, I don't think yeah,

1:10:39

I do have some beef with with the locations

1:10:41

They've chose to host but we can get it we

1:10:43

have several years to get into that TC. We may

1:10:46

have to bring THG and stuff The

1:10:49

issue thinks people don't want them back and

1:10:51

I think that's probably right if

1:10:54

if everybody's being honest, but

1:10:56

It also makes

1:10:58

he see and I want him back very badly So

1:11:00

we're gonna try to convince him to come on for

1:11:02

a first segment here

1:11:05

real quick rush probst

1:11:08

Had to forfeit a bunch of wins. I guess

1:11:11

they were using some sort of ineligible player

1:11:13

hated seeing that

1:11:15

Trent Dilfer guy you seem loses

1:11:18

mind on the sidelines. Yeah Yeah,

1:11:22

they're to it. He's at South Florida, right?

1:11:24

Oh, he's a he's a UAB UAB

1:11:27

UAB in colors beat South

1:11:29

Florida Okay Yeah,

1:11:32

Trent, you know, I can't

1:11:34

Hope he's

1:11:36

doing some stuff to calm those nerves, you

1:11:38

know outside of football

1:11:42

We've addressed some of this but the T Swift

1:11:44

like you need to handle your fucking business on

1:11:46

the T Swift Kelsey Mahomes

1:11:49

I Do you know this man?

1:11:51

They're actually Jackson and Brittany all that

1:11:53

stuff handle your business probably

1:11:55

Yeah, this probably should have been up in the mayor culpa

1:11:57

section. I feel I feel a bit

1:12:00

betrayed by Taylor. I'm not going to lie. I

1:12:02

feel like I went to bat for

1:12:04

her this summer. I had a great

1:12:07

time at her concert. I was

1:12:09

singing her praises literally.

1:12:11

I was all aboard TC

1:12:14

and I feel like she went and

1:12:16

repaid that kindness by

1:12:19

dating one of the thirstiest

1:12:21

guys in the league, Travis Kelsey,

1:12:24

a University of Cincinnati alum,

1:12:26

which we do not like, and

1:12:28

a star player for

1:12:32

the Cincinnati Bengals' biggest rival

1:12:34

over the last couple of years. It just feels

1:12:36

like a slap in the face

1:12:38

to me personally. And

1:12:40

on top of it, she's going

1:12:42

out for lunch with Brittany

1:12:44

Mahomes. The big cozy with Brittany.

1:12:48

You know Jackson was around. I

1:12:52

really am concerned about her decision

1:12:54

making. It feels like

1:12:56

she was of the mindset

1:12:59

that she could see through people

1:13:01

like this, thirst buckets like

1:13:04

Travis. And maybe she

1:13:06

can't. I'm

1:13:09

holding out hope. Maybe it's just all an elaborate

1:13:11

publicity scheme, which doesn't necessarily

1:13:13

make it better. I don't think she needs any

1:13:15

more publicity though, right? No, I don't either.

1:13:18

I'm not sure what the play

1:13:20

is here, TC, but it's not good.

1:13:23

I don't like it. As I told

1:13:25

my niece, I said, I need

1:13:29

to separate myself from

1:13:31

Taylor until this gets resolved.

1:13:35

Yeah, she was understanding. She wasn't happy,

1:13:37

but she was understanding. Okay,

1:13:40

I'm

1:13:40

glad we got that out there. We'll

1:13:43

save this Georgia lady that's accused of

1:13:45

plotting her husband's murder in the Bahamas. Because

1:13:48

he's an ex-football player from Auburn.

1:13:50

We'll save that for next time. We can talk about

1:13:52

our Red Hawks next time too. They're currently five

1:13:54

and one.

1:13:55

Well, do you want to apologize to Chuck Martin?

1:13:57

No, I don't. Because I'm still like, I'm...

1:14:00

devastated that he's not gonna get fired. They

1:14:02

got the bell back, but I think TC, I think now

1:14:04

we almost flip it,

1:14:05

and we just root for as many wins as we can,

1:14:08

and maybe Northwestern or some

1:14:10

Big Ten schools if I just go higher and away.

1:14:12

That's some big brain stuff, Randy.

1:14:15

I know. I have to say,

1:14:17

I am happy they finally beat UC. I

1:14:19

don't care who the coach is. How many years in a row was it? It

1:14:22

was since 2006, but they missed at least a game because

1:14:27

of COVID, so it was like 16 straight.

1:14:30

16 games, 17 years, something like that. Taste

1:14:37

that shit, Wolfie.

1:14:38

I assume, yeah, and my parents. My parents

1:14:41

are both UC alone as well. I know

1:14:43

Peg's listening. Taste that shit, Peg. We

1:14:47

can talk about the association as we get closer

1:14:49

to regular season starting. I thought I came up with- It's

1:14:51

coming

1:14:52

up. It's coming up.

1:14:53

Lowes box, making big moves.

1:14:55

My Celtics, I liked some of their moves.

1:14:58

Nice trade there.

1:14:59

I do. That's, yeah,

1:15:02

it's gonna be really good.

1:15:03

I've read it. There was a nice feature about your guy Keegan

1:15:06

Murray.

1:15:07

I'm excited. And the other day. You

1:15:09

don't, I just, one thing real quick

1:15:11

on this. You don't, maybe as outwardly,

1:15:14

of course, teams bank on guys

1:15:16

improving and growing into roles, but I feel

1:15:18

like the Keegan Murray situation is, they

1:15:21

drafted a guy who was an excellent shooter.

1:15:23

He shot a ton of threes last

1:15:26

year, but he didn't really have

1:15:28

the three level kind

1:15:30

of offensive game. And

1:15:32

the Kings, they didn't do much this off season

1:15:35

in terms of bringing in outside players. They

1:15:38

extended to bonus, but they've

1:15:40

been very upfront and

1:15:43

clear that part of their plan is, hey,

1:15:45

we believe Keegan is gonna take

1:15:48

a big step this year and over

1:15:50

the next couple of years to become like a complete

1:15:53

basketball player. And I think that's fun. I

1:15:55

think, like you said, it was a nice

1:15:58

article and I'm excited. to kind of see

1:16:00

how he goes with that. The Kings

1:16:03

are definitely,

1:16:04

as the trend is, like, let's bring in outside

1:16:07

guys, make splashy acquisitions. The

1:16:09

Kings are like, we really like this core,

1:16:11

at least for now, and let's see

1:16:13

how much we can develop guys and kind

1:16:16

of maximize what they do have. So

1:16:18

I don't know, I at least appreciate them

1:16:20

having a clear plan and communicating it.

1:16:23

I think patience and development is something

1:16:25

to be said for that. It's kind of a lost art these days.

1:16:27

So yeah. Amen. I watched

1:16:30

some of the French freak the other night too.

1:16:33

Oh my god, man. He's gonna

1:16:34

be so good. He's a complete freak.

1:16:36

Did you see the little video of him, like,

1:16:38

stretching? He's so flexible

1:16:41

at like 7'5", like, you know,

1:16:44

sitting on the ground, putting his head between his legs.

1:16:47

I'm like, well, that helps explain why he's like

1:16:49

a world-class basketball player. But it's

1:16:51

just incredible. I've never seen that flexibility from

1:16:53

somebody that size.

1:16:55

Baseball-wise, who

1:16:57

you got winning at all?

1:16:59

All about to be eliminated. I mean,

1:17:01

the Braves were probably my pick.

1:17:04

The Dodgers are always a good fallback. Both of

1:17:06

them could be done. I really

1:17:09

hate the Astros, but they're

1:17:12

through to the championship series. Oh

1:17:15

god. Honestly, if it comes down

1:17:17

to like Astros, Rangers,

1:17:20

Diamondbacks, Phillies. I can't

1:17:22

believe I'm gonna say this, but I think the Phillies are about

1:17:24

the most likable endearing

1:17:27

group. So I might be a Phillies guy. I don't

1:17:30

know. I'm hoping my Braves step up. And

1:17:34

they have a chance. You're right. I've been

1:17:37

driving them off way too early, but the

1:17:40

baseball playoffs are just such a freaking crap

1:17:43

shoot. Somebody, I read somebody, if

1:17:46

you were to, based on the length of baseball's

1:17:49

regular season compared to like football

1:17:52

or NBA, I think the equivalent

1:17:54

would be like a best of 29 series

1:17:56

or something that they would need to play to like

1:17:58

determine. the true champion,

1:18:01

it's a mess. So when they're doing like best of threes,

1:18:03

best of fives, yeah, you just get

1:18:06

weird shit. I'll be curious actually if baseball addresses

1:18:08

it because I can't think they're too

1:18:10

happy about losing like potentially the Braves,

1:18:13

the Dodgers, these like 100 win

1:18:16

teams, but we'll see. And in short

1:18:18

series too, like, yeah, not

1:18:20

like, not like, you know,

1:18:22

missing out on commercial load and all that

1:18:24

stuff. Right, right. So

1:18:26

listen to a lot of trap draw too, if you

1:18:28

want to catch up on all things baseball and

1:18:31

the red specifically. Solley,

1:18:33

I geek out about the reds. Yeah. Yeah.

1:18:35

Good part of Texas. He's like, Jesus, I think solid

1:18:38

likes baseball data more than golf data. Also,

1:18:42

I just wanted to shout out Kurt Schilling for,

1:18:45

you know, making light of Tim

1:18:48

Wakefield, who passed away one of my favorite

1:18:50

players growing up, making light of his,

1:18:52

his brain cancer before he died

1:18:55

and, you know, really, really doing

1:18:57

him a solid and, you know, bringing that kind

1:18:59

of out into the public light. Like Alex

1:19:02

Kirshner had a really, really good,

1:19:04

really good tweet. He said, like, I think

1:19:07

basically along the lines, like, I think like, Curt

1:19:09

Schilling being an awful human being is one of the things

1:19:11

that like,

1:19:12

we as a society can agree

1:19:14

upon that, you know, there's

1:19:16

not a whole lot of common ground these days. He said, been

1:19:19

thinking a lot about how awful Curt Schilling is, like a

1:19:21

type of bad that I think even the

1:19:23

worst people in our society mostly cannot get down

1:19:25

with. There are Nazis who saw what he did

1:19:28

to Tim Wakefield in his last days and thought, damn,

1:19:30

man, that was a lot.

1:19:32

Amen. Yeah. No, not to laugh about

1:19:34

it, but that's exactly right. I was

1:19:37

happy to see, I think it was Jason Veritek's

1:19:39

wife getting his ass in

1:19:41

Twitter. He, Schilling deserves every

1:19:44

last bit of it. Yeah. Yeah. And

1:19:47

RFP Tim Wakefield, I'm right with you. What

1:19:49

a unique individual,

1:19:51

unique career, really enjoyed watching

1:19:54

him pitch. Patience and development,

1:19:56

man, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Just something

1:19:58

from scratch. So.

1:19:59

Randy, we'll close it out with what

1:20:02

are you reading right now?

1:20:03

Let me have you start. I'm going to

1:20:06

take the reins here. Why don't you tell... I

1:20:08

kind of spoiled one of your things with

1:20:10

the subway riders, but you

1:20:12

tell me and then I just have a few books I can tell

1:20:14

people about that are in my queue. Yeah. There

1:20:17

was another one in the

1:20:19

Washington Post

1:20:21

that was about these

1:20:22

cafes that they have in Japan

1:20:26

where people who have dementia

1:20:28

are like the servers and the cooks and stuff.

1:20:31

And it's kind of like when they forget your

1:20:33

order, when they bring out something, it's like part

1:20:35

of the charm. It just sounds really, really delightful.

1:20:38

And it's like, they're happy

1:20:40

and they can't really remember what you

1:20:42

ordered, but this keeps them

1:20:44

being socialized and conversations

1:20:46

and all that. I don't know,

1:20:49

man. Old people are great. I love them. It

1:20:51

was... I totally agree with you. It just puts

1:20:53

a big smile on my face. Whenever

1:20:56

I interact with people,

1:20:59

it just gives you some perspective as

1:21:01

well. Yes.

1:21:02

It struck me, the cafes

1:21:05

and one, like, oh my God, I wish

1:21:07

we could have something like that. It

1:21:11

was such kindness and just

1:21:14

so endearing. And I would absolutely

1:21:17

go eat at a cafe where it's like, I don't really

1:21:19

know what I'm going to get, but I will happily

1:21:21

eat and enjoy the

1:21:23

experience. And you just, I

1:21:25

know it would just make everybody feel good.

1:21:28

It was a wonderful story. And

1:21:30

it's cool too. It's not

1:21:32

cool, but 30% of the Japanese population

1:21:34

is over 65 years

1:21:36

old. They have massive aging population

1:21:39

and 6 million people are estimated to have dementia.

1:21:43

Like one in five people,

1:21:44

basically. So it's a good way to keep

1:21:47

these people integrated in society. Yeah,

1:21:50

sorry. I was just going to say this article was September

1:21:53

19th. I would, honestly, I would

1:21:55

encourage people to go seek

1:21:57

it out and read it. It's very, very

1:21:59

good. Yeah, it's

1:22:00

delightful. So anyway, and

1:22:02

then yeah, I would have not I've actually been reading some

1:22:05

golf stuff Randy I picked up the Mackenzie

1:22:07

reader and

1:22:08

you know, I have a copy of that as well. Yeah

1:22:11

I haven't really dug in though yet, but it's a beautiful.

1:22:13

It's a beautiful book.

1:22:15

Yeah, I enjoyed the the

1:22:17

packaging and whatnot about it like

1:22:19

when it came out a year or two ago and then just

1:22:22

Yeah, just kind of haven't had the headspace

1:22:25

to do it until now. So I'm

1:22:27

I'm on a finance

1:22:31

a little kick, you

1:22:33

know this year is the 15 year anniversary

1:22:35

of the layman

1:22:38

Brothers Class or

1:22:41

the Bear Stearns layman Brothers the the

1:22:43

financial crisis So

1:22:45

I'm reading a an extremely

1:22:47

dense book at the moment working

1:22:50

my way through honestly I try to get like 20 pages

1:22:52

a day called taming the mega banks

1:22:55

a case for why we need a new glass steegle

1:22:58

It's by my guy Arthur Wilmarth

1:23:01

who I believe is a professor at George

1:23:03

Mason. I want to say

1:23:06

DC the banks the big banks. We just can't trust

1:23:08

them. I think that's the the big headline

1:23:11

here Beyond that though.

1:23:13

I have the new Michael Lewis book I've heard

1:23:15

mixed reviews obviously, but I do

1:23:18

want to read it I have a copy and

1:23:20

then I picked up a couple basketball books, you know,

1:23:22

we talked about the NBA season starting so

1:23:25

Rich Cohen wrote a book about Kind

1:23:29

of the I forget exactly what season

1:23:31

maybe 87 88 just

1:23:33

goes in on a specific season when you had

1:23:35

Isaiah and Michael and Magic and Larry

1:23:39

So I'm looking forward to reading that and

1:23:41

then I just got a book I'm trying

1:23:44

to read the title here from where I sit but it's

1:23:46

how to watch basketball like a genius

1:23:49

and it kind of Takes the

1:23:51

game through the eyes of a ton

1:23:54

of different people like a ballet choreographer

1:23:57

a scientist all these like

1:23:59

different of life and kind of different

1:24:02

ways you can break down and watch the game

1:24:04

of basketball. So anyway, couple of basketball

1:24:06

books, couple of finance books

1:24:08

to just get my blood boiling TC.

1:24:11

I always like to look forward to

1:24:13

your full reviews, Randy.

1:24:16

We got to tame the megabanks. That's the big takeaway

1:24:19

I got for you right now, TC. We do. We

1:24:21

do. And we got to get THG

1:24:23

back on. We do have to get THG. It's

1:24:26

always a pleasure chopping with you, sir. We're

1:24:28

going to do some NFL stuff next

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week, like we said, with Pusch and KVV.

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Until then, though, man, enjoy the

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weekend. And hopefully

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things, I didn't ask you, are things starting to cool

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off a little bit in Florida? Yeah,

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we had a massive storm this morning. Drench

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City, USA. But yeah, it's been delightful

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last few days. So looking forward

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to the nicest time of the year now, December.

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Looking forward to getting outside. Well,

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great. Thank you, everybody, for listening.

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