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everybody. How do you

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Steve. Hello, everybody. How's

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skipping? I

1:00

don't think you're sleeping.

1:02

How's skipping? You want towels?

1:05

Your towels need sleeping.

1:09

How's skipping? You want mint mopillo? Please

1:12

go away. Let me sleep for the love

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of God. You're listening

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to Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR with Preston

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Elliott. You

1:20

will listen to every damn word

1:23

I have to say! And

1:25

Steve Morrison. Words are like bullets lost.

1:27

Casey Boyd. Lay off that

1:29

starving. Kathy Romano. I'm

1:31

going to destroy everything you want! Nick

1:34

McAway. I'm just not the hero type. And

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Marissa Magnotta. I know our attention to that

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face behind the curtain. And

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now Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR.

1:46

Welcome to the Good Friday Getaway. Best

1:49

of Preston and Steve. Ray Coop here

1:51

to present. A lot of

1:53

good stuff going on. Disneyland.

1:56

Happiest place on Earth. Oh, it's

1:58

magical. Just so much fun. It's wonder

2:00

and amazing, you know, childhood

2:02

memories are born there. If you go as

2:04

a kid and everything, you know, so clean,

2:07

so clean. So

2:10

it's, you know, it's pristine actually, except

2:12

for on the

2:14

lines that you stand in where

2:17

people are dropping their pants and crap. If

2:21

you have the crap and

2:23

you're waiting in line, we

2:25

encourage you to drop trowel

2:27

and let her win in the

2:30

most magical place ever. Yes,

2:34

apparently people are dropping trowel

2:36

and pooping where they stand

2:38

while in line for rides.

2:41

And this was initially thought of as maybe a

2:43

rumor, but apparently it's a bit

2:45

more real than we would

2:48

like to believe. Yeah, this blows

2:50

my mind. Yeah, twice in the

2:52

last month, posters on the Disney

2:54

World subreddit commented in fury and

2:57

horror about the cursed

2:59

things that they had seen while

3:02

waiting in line. So here's an example.

3:04

Somebody said, I am in the

3:06

queue for Rise of the Resistance. Someone

3:09

let their kid take a dump on

3:11

the floor and then they

3:13

just walked out and left it. That's it?

3:16

Yeah. Oh my God. I

3:18

would want to die if I saw it.

3:21

Well, I will say they don't. Listen,

3:25

Disney World has a lot of things figured out, but

3:27

on those rides that have long lines, they don't have

3:29

anywhere for you to go to the bathroom. And when

3:31

you're in line for... Stay in line and crap. I

3:34

mean, Case, the whole

3:37

idea I thought of those devices

3:39

where you can walk away and be

3:42

alerted to the ride being available,

3:45

right? Why

3:47

are those lines so long that people are crapping in

3:49

line? You still have to get in a line. I

3:51

don't know why they don't... Some

3:54

of the water parts... Well, actually that was... Crap

3:56

in the water. No, no, that was the universal

3:58

water part, but what they do... is, yeah,

4:01

so you have a wristband, you scan it when

4:03

you want to get in line for

4:05

the ride and then it'll say, okay, come back in

4:07

20 minutes, come back in 30 minutes. And then when

4:09

you go back, you're still getting in line, but you're

4:11

waiting five, 10 minutes and then you're getting on the

4:13

ride. Like why don't they, if it works for universal,

4:15

why don't they do that everywhere? When

4:18

you, I don't know, especially you had a story, I don't know

4:20

if you want to relay that story about when, like sort of

4:22

when you have to go, you have to go. A

4:25

friend of yours? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

4:29

Oh my God. Yeah. And

4:31

I mean, so I can understand that sort

4:34

of scenario, but this seems to

4:36

be at least reading from this Reddit thread

4:38

and from other people that this is a

4:40

lot, as you said, it's a lot more

4:42

common and more like a convenience rather than

4:44

you hold my spot. I'm going to go

4:46

look for a place to crap. I will relay that

4:49

story in just a second, but it was interesting. Did

4:51

any of you guys see the footage? And I think

4:53

it was during the Eagles game on

4:55

Sunday. There's like security cam footage of

4:57

somewhere in Packer park. I thought, okay,

5:00

yeah, the two, the three girls, what

5:03

happened there? They're at

5:05

a corner where there's a small, um,

5:07

half wall, like a half wall comes

5:09

up, maybe three feet tall, something like

5:11

that. And

5:14

uh, on the other side by the street, you wouldn't be able to see what

5:16

they're doing. But on this other side where somebody was looking out

5:18

their window, the two girls go over

5:20

and they squat, they drop the crown and another

5:22

gal, I think it's Puke. I think so, but

5:24

I didn't see anything come out of her mouth.

5:27

She bends over and she's about to end. Two

5:29

of them just drop trout and they squat down

5:31

and they're either taking a dump or peeing. They're

5:33

probably peeing. But at some

5:35

point you just, you know, it's either

5:38

that or you pee yourself. Yeah. I

5:41

mean, yeah, we're watching right now. We can get the

5:43

video of it. And uh, yeah, two girls doing their

5:45

thing. And another one is either,

5:47

uh, either that's making her

5:50

ill or she was just drunk. Yeah.

5:52

She's peeking. She's peeking. So

5:55

anyhow, yes, according to this, the

5:58

vehicle sighting was supported. This is

6:00

one at Disney. It was

6:02

supported almost in real time by a commenter who

6:04

said that they worked at the attraction. They

6:07

wrote for skeptics. This actually happened. Fun

6:09

fact, this was one

6:11

of three crap-related incidents at

6:13

Rise today. And

6:15

then they said, less fun fact, I was here for all

6:18

three of them. And on

6:20

that thread, a commenter bemoaned the behavior

6:22

of park guests at the wildly popular

6:24

attraction Flight of Passage. They

6:27

wrote, bodily fluids no longer bother me after

6:29

working at Disney. Let's just say

6:31

that the attraction I work at has what

6:33

the cast ended up dubbing the poop hall.

6:36

Because the amount of time guests have gone

6:38

in there and pooped. And

6:41

we even put up a camera and it didn't stop it. She

6:44

said, another commenter wrote, good lord, the poop

6:46

hallway. From a former

6:48

Flight CM, this absolutely gives

6:50

me war flashbacks. I dealt with it

6:53

way too many. I dealt with way

6:55

too many bodily fluids at that attraction.

6:57

That's a mind blower. So

6:59

are we getting the idea this is predominantly children

7:01

or are there adults doing this as well?

7:04

I don't know. That didn't indicate. I

7:06

would guess it's probably going to be

7:09

more kids than adults. But listen, sometimes

7:11

you kind of don't have much of

7:13

a choice. So my buddy Steve was

7:15

just a trooper. We were coming back

7:17

from the shore. You're giving his name

7:19

in everything. Yeah. He

7:22

doesn't care. We're going to the Royal Expressway. We

7:24

were heading back to Harleysville. We get to the

7:26

Conch Hawk and Curve and all of a sudden

7:28

I see him look really uncomfortable. He's like,

7:31

how far are we? I'm like, we're

7:34

about a half hour. You know that look. And

7:37

Kathy, of course, traffic starts getting

7:39

dumped up right there. Of course. We're

7:42

headed westbound and he looks

7:44

like serious. And

7:46

Rochelle goes, do you have to pee? And he

7:48

goes, something like that. So

7:51

she's like, all right, we'll pull off

7:53

it at Conchi. And

7:56

there's a there's a McDonald's right there. go

8:00

zip over there. So and

8:02

I never go to that McDonald's. So we get

8:05

on to 23, we make that right

8:08

and then we pull up and we pull in the

8:10

first parking lot that you can get into that actually

8:12

doesn't pull right up next to the restaurant. It's like

8:14

a lower parking lot with some stairs. You have to

8:16

go up and everything. So I'm like, Oh, that poor

8:19

son of a bitch. He gets out. He's like squeezing

8:21

his butt cheeks together. She's out, walking up the steps

8:23

falls down the steps. And

8:26

he makes it all the way up to the McDonald's.

8:29

There's a sign on the door closed

8:32

for maintenance. We're

8:34

like, you're kidding me. Unbelievable. So he gets in and

8:36

you know, there's a wah wah right around the corner.

8:38

One of the worst parking lots

8:41

in the world for a wah wah, but it's

8:43

right there at this horrible intersection. I

8:46

said, listen, it's a smaller, older wah

8:49

wah. I don't know if they have

8:51

bathrooms. Let's go in there. He gets

8:53

out, he goes in, he's in for

8:55

about 30 seconds. He comes back out.

8:57

He's like, no bathroom. Wow. Fortunately, next

9:00

to that is a mobile gas station. So

9:02

he walks over there. He

9:04

goes in and he's in

9:06

there for a moment. And by this time we, he just

9:08

walked over. So then we pull out of the parking lot.

9:10

We're pulling that next parking lot. He comes walking out and

9:12

he goes, their water is

9:14

turned off and they can't let

9:16

anybody use the bathroom. I'm

9:19

like, well, there's a Marriott across the street.

9:21

You know, there are many rooms with bathrooms.

9:23

So we go over to

9:25

the Marriott. He eventually was able to

9:27

use the bathroom there, but dude, four

9:30

places and he is just like in pain.

9:32

Yeah. Problem with that, with the subsequent failures,

9:34

Preston is that with each one of those,

9:36

you feel like you're about to get relief.

9:38

Yeah. You allow your body to start thinking,

9:41

yeah, it's almost over. You're preparing. And I've

9:43

made it to the McDonald's. Everything's going to

9:45

be okay. And then you have to re-clench

9:47

walk out and go to the Wawa. Are

9:49

you going to fail again? And then go

9:51

to the mobile where you fail again. That's

9:54

three times. You're like, you have to re-clench your

9:56

bottle. Now I've known a couple of different people

9:58

who have gotten citations. or peeing in

10:02

public. Yeah. You know, not necessarily

10:04

standing in the middle of a park in the middle of

10:06

the day, but like this is at night or whatever. Right.

10:08

I wonder if- Public urination. But like

10:11

cops, if you've ever let somebody

10:13

go for defecating in public because you knew

10:16

that they didn't want to do this.

10:18

You know, they were stuck in a

10:20

situation where- Here's a question about public

10:23

urination. Let's say that you have

10:25

a choice. You have a choice to either whip

10:28

it out and do what you got to do. Right. Or

10:31

you got to wet your pants. If

10:33

you were to just full on, stand

10:35

there and just pee in your pants.

10:37

Right. And that liquid is going to

10:39

run down and get on the sidewalk or wherever you're

10:41

standing. That's an interesting question. If you get in trouble

10:43

for public urination, if that is the case. If

10:45

you are peeing your pants in public as opposed

10:48

to whipping it out and taking a leak in

10:50

front of people. Because at some point as a

10:52

human being, you can't hold it anymore. Right. You

10:55

have some sort of incontinence issues or yeah.

10:57

Yeah, but I think it's- Or you're in pain.

10:59

Your responsibility as an adult to not let it

11:01

get to the point where you have to pee your

11:03

pants. I don't think you could go

11:05

to a judge and plead your case. Judge, you have a

11:07

good reason why I pissed yourself, son. Yeah.

11:10

I really had to go. All right. Well,

11:13

let me go do some other calls here. We have Kelly on

11:15

the line. Hi, Kelly. Good morning. Hi.

11:18

Good morning. Hey, what's up, Kelly?

11:20

Hey, so I used to work at Busy World.

11:22

I worked there for like five years and definitely

11:24

on flight of passage. I remember when that ride

11:27

opened. I didn't work on that ride, but

11:29

we got to go on it obviously

11:31

as many times as we want. And

11:34

yeah, the whole line would just smell

11:36

like pee. Wow. Yeah.

11:39

And I had a friend that worked

11:41

there and adults were peeing too. It

11:43

wasn't just kids. Was

11:45

it just poorly managed in

11:47

that there was- And why that

11:49

ride in particular as some other

11:53

rides that people- Well, when that ride opened,

11:55

I remember the first day it was like

11:57

a four hour wait. Yeah. I

11:59

wonder if it happened. on like the Avatar ride because like

12:01

when that first opened that was like a minimum three hour

12:03

wait. Yeah, no, that's the one I'm talking about. Oh, that's

12:05

what it is. Oh, there you go. And

12:07

the knobby pissed out in the open radio.

12:10

I'm going to go on. You

12:12

know? Yeah. Inside that

12:14

ride, it's really dark and there's a lot of like,

12:16

I don't know if you've ever been on it, but

12:19

it's like kind of like a dark cave area. Like

12:21

there's like where you would piss. Yeah. So

12:23

let me ask you, why, why do you think,

12:25

uh, Kelly, that they don't have knowing

12:28

that why didn't they make accommodations to

12:30

allow people the option of going somewhere, keeping their

12:32

place in line and being able to go pee

12:34

if they have to? I don't know. Like

12:37

they should have bathrooms in there. They did start

12:39

putting like, um, things where you can

12:41

like fill up your water bottle, but that's,

12:43

you're making people now. Yeah. Yeah.

12:47

You're filling their bladder. Why don't they have to

12:49

put their one hand in a bowl of warm

12:52

water? Yeah. Yeah. That's

12:54

a good point. You, Kelly Mateson also, Casey

12:56

said it earlier. Like they, Disney does a

12:58

lot of things, right? Like I remember, you

13:00

know, going there and just everything was so

13:02

easy. The stroller in and all, you know,

13:04

in and out, like the, the, uh, whatever

13:06

the tram is that they have, but how

13:08

could they not have bathrooms when you're expecting

13:10

people to wait for four hours? Not

13:12

only that, but like when, cause I have been

13:14

in line and I'm like, I got to go to

13:17

the bathroom and then you have to walk

13:20

like, all right, you stay here and now you

13:22

got to walk opposite everybody else. Just go to

13:24

the bathroom. I'm going to poop. But,

13:27

um, like there, there's no, you know, there's

13:29

no easy way out of line either. Right.

13:32

Right. Actually, you know what

13:34

that, that's not always entirely true. Sometimes there

13:36

is a, those little exits cause sometimes people

13:38

get a little scared before. Right. All right,

13:40

Kelly, thank you. We appreciate it. Yeah, no

13:42

problem. I don't see it, but it can

13:44

be, that should be part and parcel with

13:47

the planning of the ride in

13:49

advance of, look, people are going to be in

13:51

this line for a long long. Some of those,

13:53

some of those, um, passageways that you stand in

13:55

are, they're lengthy. They are long.

13:57

They know that you're going to be in there.

14:00

for a while as the line gets to here, they should

14:02

be something. So

14:05

when your friend Steve

14:07

finally got his, he

14:09

was good. He came skipping

14:11

out of the Marriott. Because if you have like

14:14

a phase six, as we refer to, where no

14:16

force in the universe can stop you, you're going

14:18

to go. It must have

14:20

been at a five. Five can

14:22

be pretty damn bad. Because one and done

14:24

sometimes doesn't cut it. In

14:27

the story, two former Disneyland custodial

14:29

team workers also have written about

14:31

the topic in their book called

14:33

Cleaning the Kingdom, the insider tales

14:35

of keeping Walt's dream spotless. And

14:38

in the chapter titled Disgusting Things, former

14:40

cast members Ken Pelman and Linda Baron

14:43

revealed that there was even a name

14:45

for such happenings. They called it Human

14:47

Code H. Human Code H. A Code

14:49

H, according to the authors, originally referred

14:51

to horse crap. So a Code H,

14:53

many custodial worker needed to clean up

14:55

after one of the horses pulling a

14:57

main street vehicle did its business. The

15:00

term was later modified to Human

15:03

Code H, like a bowel movement

15:05

of the human variety. Their

15:07

gnarliest story occurred at Indiana Jones

15:10

Adventure in Disneyland. They

15:12

said, and I read from the book,

15:14

there's a pair of individual use restrooms

15:16

just backstage from the North Unload. And

15:19

it was mainly for cast members, but guests

15:22

could and did use it. A woman who

15:24

did not know this burst into the control

15:26

room for the attraction and deposited

15:28

her gift right there. It

15:30

must have been challenging for the ride operator to

15:32

stay up their post in there before it was

15:34

all cleaned up. So she crapped in the control

15:36

room. I hate poop. Why

15:39

did it have to be poop? I'm

15:42

going to go to Jenna. Hi,

15:44

Jenna, you are on the air. Good

15:47

morning. Good morning, guys. How are you doing?

15:49

Great. How are you? I

15:51

am doing well. I work at the loom

15:53

down in Philadelphia. I'm a glass artist. And

15:56

Every single day that I go to work, we

15:59

have the Phantom poop. Are you get around

16:01

and troops all around the building. For you

16:03

mean outside the building to building right

16:05

on the sidewalk and like it's a

16:07

it's a one way street so like

16:09

everybody parts on the sidewalk and I

16:11

can't tell you the number time. That

16:13

people have driven through it. And drag

16:16

the scoop up and down the

16:18

snow. We lose region of the

16:20

security cameras excesses person. Other

16:23

security cameras there are data source they'll

16:25

do anything so like clean it up

16:27

either. They. Just. Leave it is the

16:30

on house is doing matters is

16:32

something else somebody else. I think

16:34

it's better than. There's a very large

16:36

homeless population are there to? That's right, Here like

16:38

I didn't take. Any

16:41

chances are high powered attorney see some

16:43

physicists so I just think it's I

16:46

think they have nowhere else to go

16:48

status to fight on a sidewalk and

16:50

it's funny to the second quarter so

16:52

they try to hide it. but it's

16:54

like a doesn't happen that way to

16:56

time. You

16:58

know why I remember seeing a guy

17:01

uses you know guys. The worker likely

17:03

going to something armory on got out

17:05

of his or trucks and is a

17:07

simple up. To this is specific this

17:09

is it was a driveway but he

17:11

pulled up next to the join some

17:13

signs and and then gonna have a

17:15

car and I'm at the subway Machine

17:17

gun and a comprehensive my that's weird

17:20

in houses and my light turns green

17:22

lantern less than and on dry food

17:24

and I just kind of glance as

17:26

I'm driving past assigned to see we

17:28

really do Rio and he is all

17:30

on squatting poo been nice and I

17:32

felt bad for the guy because I

17:34

wish I knew that he had no

17:36

choice between to me like. Know

17:38

that of for a while from where we

17:40

were were was is you know and. We

17:43

talked about basics. this do was in a

17:46

phase six. In a situation where it's you

17:48

know there was ah I'm nowhere public for

17:50

him to go. I wish there was something

17:52

like some sort of thing like memory Lovins

17:54

run me, hit a certain age and see

17:56

him. his moods am in your hand. Return

17:59

a color so. You had a public,

18:01

you know there was it. You could

18:03

prove on face six with it. Might look

18:05

at the nine right? Yeah, I've I've

18:07

got a crap now. Yeah, I know that

18:09

people will leave you alone. Same like

18:11

if a couple up on him rises so

18:14

gauges a sex. Well I mean he

18:16

has. He took himself out of the public

18:18

eye. Yeah, he went behind a giant

18:20

like sign or whatever. Here's a question when

18:22

you do that. Ah, as to Kathy's

18:24

point, like veto, lose a child grows up

18:26

Yeah, do you will? You actually want

18:28

us to try Marine. I had

18:31

this in that's of thing I had the the

18:33

situation whereas it's you know unfortunately go somewhere where

18:35

I didn't want to go the I and I'm

18:37

and then you know I I hide to a

18:40

lot of their but I was. I came back

18:42

to clean it up right and I think the

18:44

onus is on the crapper to do that is

18:46

so yeah we would it make sense like they

18:49

have around parks. they have a free bags. Is

18:53

there is there some version or the

18:55

other thing that you could that needs

18:58

to be invented Actually pouch where you

19:00

could sort of with it to straps

19:02

is almost like you would put behind

19:04

a hop artist. Do not have say

19:07

I know years I mean something that

19:09

won't. Why aren't there are things like

19:11

damage. weird Taking a ah a walking

19:13

tour in Copenhagen and were walking through

19:16

the town and the guy shown us

19:18

all sides how city as someone left

19:20

a do this system. Resists

19:23

a while they're at all my. I

19:25

mean it was in a horse sized

19:27

bigger than a dog. You did clearly

19:29

tell. That there was a as leverage

19:32

food on ah and say we will

19:34

go back to Disney. Let's go with

19:36

third shot care headshots good morning. Good.

19:39

Morning I have to say first on

19:41

my last caller I am surprised that

19:43

there is to from a grammar can

19:45

do to Nalgene. in

19:48

africa and is weird ah yes they

19:50

will not we have to we're lucky

19:52

many runway railway which used to be

19:55

the great movie ride so you walk

19:57

into the chinese theater run a red

19:59

carpet My four year

20:01

old, I just smell something awful.

20:03

I look down and she's got this sad

20:06

look at her face. It

20:09

is running down her leg. There's a pile

20:11

on the floor and they had

20:13

to, it's like where they, you're like

20:16

cattle. They, they, they, you

20:18

know, it's single file into this theater area

20:20

and that's right where she went. And they

20:22

had to like, shut it

20:24

down. It was like monster think they set out the

20:26

hazmat crew 2319 and there's like guys in white suits.

20:30

Really? I, you,

20:32

you, you alerted the workers.

20:35

What happened? I had to very good. Yeah.

20:38

It was in the walkway. Like it

20:40

would have been everywhere if we didn't

20:42

like, but there are people that are

20:44

not telling. They're just letting it

20:47

happen. And let you did the right thing.

20:50

We like stood around it. So people didn't

20:52

like take it with them and like, they

20:55

sent out this hazmat crew and

20:58

it was, it was actually, they're pretty good. They're fast

21:00

and they got it all cleaned up. I think you'd

21:02

have to, but Chuck, in your case, I probably would

21:04

have pointed to the family behind them and said, this

21:06

woman's daughter, will

21:09

craft herself. We'll, we'll, we'll stay

21:11

here and make sure everybody's safe. Yeah. We want to make

21:14

sure. We just want to make sure that you know who

21:16

did this. Ma'am, how dare you? So my,

21:19

my buddy, he's a police officer

21:21

in Pennsylvania and he, and he,

21:23

which is one of the states, he and his

21:25

fellow officers, they had some training exercise that they

21:27

had to do in New Jersey. And

21:30

so they're on their way back into

21:32

Pennsylvania and the van in like a

21:34

police van. And they get stuck in

21:36

all this traffic on the Walt Whitman bridge. And

21:38

so, God damn

21:40

you Walt Whitman. And

21:43

there was no, no

21:45

choice, but to take

21:47

a dump in a cooler in the

21:49

back of the van while everybody else

21:51

was also in the van. Wow.

21:54

I think we generated a city. Yeah.

21:58

Oh my God. It's amazing. base

22:00

wheat but you're forced to

22:02

sometimes. I mean there's sometimes

22:04

you have to revert to a complete

22:07

animalistic scenario like crapping in a cooler

22:09

in the back of a police van.

22:12

Nick imagine being in that van

22:14

with whoever we experienced in the

22:16

bathroom yesterday. Oh my God. What

22:19

happened? Oh Casey, be

22:21

grateful. Preston and I...

22:23

Here's the thing, my eyes were

22:25

hurting afterwards. Preston and I went

22:28

to go pee-pees before after our

22:30

show before the meeting Steve and the meeting was

22:32

across the hall in a different place than it

22:34

normally is. So Preston and I go in there

22:36

and I looked at

22:38

him and he looked at me and then

22:40

we left without saying a word. You didn't

22:43

go to the bath? Well no no no

22:45

we peed and then left but save yourself.

22:47

As soon as we got outside of the

22:49

bathroom door, Preston and I couldn't stop laughing

22:51

but also nearly vomiting because the smell was

22:53

so intense and repulsive and Casey I have...

22:55

I wanted to get out of there before

22:58

seeing who came out of the stall because I never would

23:00

have encountered that person again. I wanted to be

23:02

like, I don't want to know who this guy

23:04

is. I don't want to ever blame him for

23:07

that stink that he created. It's probably Antes but

23:09

I didn't hear white blood.

23:12

Steve Vassilotti walked out of there the other day

23:14

and he just had like a disgusted look on his

23:16

face and he's like it's so bad in there. It's

23:19

just so bad. I will tell you this and

23:21

this is sort of a warning to everyone. If

23:23

you think you're used to your own stink

23:25

so be aware that even

23:27

if you think nothing's happening courtesy flushes

23:30

courtesy flushes. I mean I enjoy my

23:32

own sex to be honest but that's

23:34

in all happiness is the smell of

23:36

your own gas and the privacy of

23:38

your own water clams. Exactly. I was

23:40

at the Eagles game on Sunday

23:42

night and I guess these three

23:44

guys had to go so bad

23:47

because they were all in the

23:49

stall together during the game and three guys

23:51

came out of the stall and I'm like wow you guys

23:53

really had to go do some

23:55

cocaine. How are the bathrooms of link.

24:00

If you're looking to do some blow. Yeah. Well, they

24:02

were in the handicap stall. So

24:06

it was actually extra roomy

24:08

in there, but I they're

24:10

fine. They're fine. I mean, not handicapped.

24:13

It's cocaine capable, cocaine capable. But I also

24:15

try and go at off times. Right. I

24:17

don't go in between. Yeah. The Memorial is

24:19

open quarters and stuff like that time. Yeah.

24:22

Okay. I want to go back to some

24:24

calls here. I have John who's got a

24:26

story to share. Hey, John. Good morning. Hey,

24:28

good morning, guys. Hey, what's up, buddy? Hey,

24:30

yeah. Well, I'm in the plumbing field and uh,

24:33

a lot like a service work.

24:35

So even imagine we don't always have a place

24:37

to go. So our magic trick is

24:39

the old bucket in the back of the truck.

24:41

See the

24:44

trash. Even I'll tell you what, John,

24:47

even that option at a place

24:49

where there's something similar, whether you

24:51

need these long lines, you

24:53

know, I mean, to me,

24:55

anything would be better than just crapping on the

24:57

floor. When you do that, obviously you bag it

25:00

up and then you take it home for the

25:02

kids to play with. Yeah, exactly.

25:04

John, uh, was it, was it difficult the

25:06

first couple of times you had to do

25:08

that? And now it's no problem. Oh, it's

25:10

still difficult today. No kidding. I think there's

25:12

just something in the, in the core of

25:14

who you are as a human being that

25:16

just realizes it's wrong, but you have to

25:18

do it. You have to go. Yeah. Imagine

25:21

doing it on top of the tolls and

25:23

everything in the back of your truck. You're

25:25

a lot of obstacles. John, the ironic part

25:27

is you're a bureau. It's

25:30

like a toilet insulation guy. Yes. Hey John,

25:32

what are your thoughts on flushable wipes?

25:36

Uh, I have a pack in my truck. Okay.

25:38

Oh wow. I thought plumbers hated him. No, because

25:40

he's crapping into a bag. It doesn't matter. Yeah.

25:42

Yeah. You know, I wouldn't, I wouldn't recommend putting

25:44

them in your toilet. If you're going to use

25:46

those crap into a garbage bag. Good call. I

25:48

keep using them for my sake. Sure. Yeah. Right.

25:50

And find a way to work for him. Yeah.

25:52

All right. Thanks John. Appreciate it, man. All right.

25:54

Uh, Lou has been on hold for like 20

25:56

minutes. I'm gonna go to Lou. Hey Lou, good

25:59

morning. I don't even know who the

26:01

hell you are. I don't even know who the hell you are.

26:03

Good morning, Lou. What's up, buddy? Hey,

26:05

listen, my story's kind of not like waiting

26:07

in line type deal, but kind of being

26:09

like absolutely S-faced, waiting around to have

26:12

no choice but to do it. All right. It

26:14

was a friend of a friend, and

26:16

I'd seen the ring camera footage.

26:18

And basically, it was a younger

26:20

girl, was obviously completely S-faced. She

26:23

must have mistaken her as like her

26:26

condo or Airbnb down in Wildwood. But

26:28

it turned out to be my friend's friend. So

26:31

we're looking, and basically, he's got a

26:34

huge back deck. And it's real nice.

26:36

There's swing sets, furniture, the whole nine. She

26:38

just rolls up. She's looking around.

26:41

She's just obviously like stumbling

26:43

everywhere, starts sitting on the couch, starts

26:45

swinging on the swing. And as she's

26:47

doing that, she leans over and just

26:49

starts throwing up everywhere. Oh, no. Was

26:52

she swinging? Yeah, so I

26:54

guess she was obviously woozy. So she was

26:56

right on the verge, I guess. She got

26:58

motion sickness from the swing. I

27:00

think the swing just did her in. So she

27:02

starts throwing up. She gets

27:05

out of the swing, slips into some of

27:07

it. And she's trying to

27:09

go toward the back door. Now, she tries to

27:11

open the door a couple of times. She

27:14

obviously can't get in. She don't know what's going

27:16

on. So then she sits down on these steps

27:18

that are like below the door. And

27:21

then like a minute or two passes by,

27:23

and then you just see her drop trail,

27:25

and she goes and then she tries all

27:27

over the steps. Oh, my God. Are you

27:29

kidding? So she went for the two first.

27:33

No, this is a true story. It's probably one of the

27:35

funniest things I've ever seen on a ring

27:37

camera ever. Yeah. So

27:39

she threw up and she peed or did she poop?

27:42

Oh, she pooped and peed and threw up. She did

27:44

the whole shebang. You did turkey? Yeah,

27:46

wow. Yeah,

27:49

so anyway, to make a long story short, she

27:53

walks away from the deck. Obviously,

27:55

she's not cleaned off or anything. Finds

27:58

my buddy, my friend's buddy. car

28:00

that's unlocked in his driveway and ends

28:02

up falling asleep in the back of

28:04

the car. Now

28:09

he's got to get the inside of his

28:11

car clean as well as hose off and

28:13

clean out the entire deck of human feces

28:15

and vomit. And it wasn't

28:17

even anyone he knew was some

28:19

random person. Oh my God. Jesus.

28:24

That is just. It's

28:26

everything. Hey, Luke, did she

28:28

return so she could also have her

28:31

period on the deck? I

28:37

know, seriously. God, that was the only thing that

28:39

was missing. Yeah. I mean, might as

28:41

well do it all. Was she there

28:44

in the morning? Did he

28:46

encounter her? What I remember,

28:48

I believe the cops were called on top of the

28:50

lane. I know you heard that a little. Oh my

28:52

God. I know the whole line.

28:55

I don't think she got in trouble probably

28:57

like maybe like a citation or something like

28:59

that. I'm actually on my way into work

29:01

right now. So it's my buddy now and maybe I'll

29:03

give you one. Okay. I'd like

29:05

to know. Thank you for hanging on Luke. Love your buddy.

29:08

Thanks, man. Is that a misdemeanor?

29:10

Right. Obviously,

29:12

but I mean, that's a lot of damage. What? Booping

29:15

on somebody's? Booping? Yeah. There's

29:18

some kind of mob. Is that someone's car?

29:20

Yeah, definitely. That's a breaking into the car. So

29:22

although it's open. I'm not. Kate

29:25

is on the line. She's been on hold for a long time. We

29:27

got to take a break here in just a second. But hi, Kate.

29:29

Good morning. Good morning. How are

29:32

you? What's up, Kate? Okay.

29:34

So I was like five or six years old. I am

29:36

40 now and my aunt and uncle

29:39

had taken us to Tyson Lagoon and

29:41

we're in the wave pool and I tell my uncle

29:43

because my aunt had to go back to the room

29:45

that I had to use the bathroom. He

29:47

had three boys, so he was not comfortable taking

29:49

me to the bathroom. But I told him many,

29:52

many times that I had to go. I couldn't hold

29:54

it and lo and behold, I

29:56

pooped in the wave pool. All right. And

29:58

I was in business. You pooped

30:01

in the wave pool at Disney.

30:03

Oh no. It

30:05

was horrible. And

30:07

I remember my aunt coming back and he

30:09

was panicked. He didn't know what to do

30:11

and I'm sitting there with a pile of

30:13

poo in my bathing suit. It

30:15

was horrible. All right. So did

30:18

they alert the lifeguards? They shut the

30:20

pool down and everything? Honestly,

30:22

I don't even remember. You blocked

30:24

it out. I think I did.

30:26

No. Let me tell you something,

30:28

Kate. The wave pool. So, okay, we're all familiar

30:30

with the caddy shack scene and all that stuff.

30:32

But when you have a wave pool, that's a

30:35

whole other area. Yeah. That's a...

30:38

That's Shake and Anster. That's Shake

30:40

and Bake. Wow. Wow.

30:43

All right, Kate. Thank you for sharing.

30:45

We appreciate it. All right. We

30:48

need to go to one more call. I was wrong because everybody, Robert,

30:50

who is an artist at Disney is

30:52

calling in. Robert, morning, bud. Hey, good

30:54

morning, Ed. Good morning to see you.

30:56

How things? Things

30:59

are great. I'm just chilling at the good old

31:01

Disney World. But I wanted to say that actually,

31:03

yeah, the pooping in Avatar got really bad. They

31:05

actually put in a bathroom. Oh,

31:08

there you go. So they

31:10

finally wised up and did that. How

31:13

long ago did they do that? Shortly

31:15

after the attraction opened, it was

31:18

pretty quick. But the problem also

31:20

is it's not just people pooping.

31:22

It's also parents that let

31:25

their kids go in

31:27

cups and leave it. Or

31:29

dirty diapers that are just left in the

31:32

queue. To

31:34

me, the thing I would always associate

31:37

with Disney, and I've never been to

31:39

Disney World, but theme parks like that,

31:41

when they're clean and spotless, that's the

31:43

endorsement. That's what you want. You want

31:45

that cleanly experience. I'm surprised that... I

31:48

mean, are they looking for ways to mitigate that? They

31:52

can only do what they can do. But the good thing

31:54

is, is the peace of mind that you guys

31:56

should have is every night the place is high

31:58

pressure washed and cleaned. All right. All

32:01

right. Wow. Yeah. When

32:04

you walk in and you see, I noticed everything's always wet in

32:06

the theme park, right? When you get there early in the morning.

32:08

Yeah, they've cleaned it. Just be clean. What's the

32:10

worst thing you've ever seen personally? A

32:13

parent changing their child's

32:15

diaper on the condiment

32:17

station. Oh, condiment station. I

32:19

really wish Steve hadn't asked you.

32:22

Try some of that

32:25

chocolate spread over there. Oh,

32:30

my God. Brown mustard. Holy.

32:33

All right. Robert, thank

32:35

you. Thank you. And no, thank

32:37

you. We appreciate it. Never call it again. We'll talk

32:39

to you, man. Take care.

32:41

Bye-bye. Wow. Dude,

32:43

it's just, you know, the leaving behind the cups of pee

32:45

and the diapers and stuff like that. It's

32:47

just some people have this mentality. It's like throwing

32:49

a cigarette butt out of a car. It's

32:53

just like, it's gone now. I

32:56

don't have to deal with that anymore. It's

32:58

the same type of mentality, only more disgusting

33:00

and worse. We know that it's just like,

33:02

it's okay. That's not my problem anymore. It's

33:04

a horrific situation, but if you can at

33:06

least apprise someone of it or look for

33:08

some way to dispose of it. Yeah, it's

33:10

going to be a slight inconvenience, but sorry.

33:13

It's out of concern and consideration.

33:15

For everyone else. Hey, free apple

33:18

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33:20

this. Free apple juice and brownies.

33:22

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33:24

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Steve Show Podcast. Had a bunch

35:43

of people asking about you at cardboard class. Where's

35:46

Kathy? What's up? I know. I can't believe

35:48

I missed it. It was kind of dramatic. They were

35:50

like, is there trouble in paradise? I

35:52

know. I know. It was like so, you know, it was one of those

35:54

things. This has never happened to

35:56

me before where it was like, it was an emergency.

35:58

It was a true emergency. And Thursday,

36:02

we were here, we were working, and I had

36:04

told Nick Chase didn't go to school, he didn't

36:06

feel good. I was gonna drive Nick up to

36:08

Cardboard Classic because Andrea was meeting him there later.

36:10

So we were gonna drive together.

36:12

And from the time I left here

36:14

to like right at the time we were gonna leave,

36:17

I texted Nick, I said, you need to make other

36:19

plans? I don't think I'm coming. Chase

36:21

started to not feel good. He's not a kid that will

36:23

try to get out of school or anything like that. So

36:25

he woke up on Thursday morning

36:27

and said, I can't go to school. And

36:30

so Dennis texted me, he said, Jace

36:32

isn't going to school, okay. And

36:35

then by the time I left

36:37

work, they were at the emergency room, he

36:39

was screaming in pain. Wow. Oh man, that's

36:41

horrible. I had to go there and it

36:43

turns out it was appendicitis and

36:45

flash forward to, which actually I was a

36:48

little surprised. They didn't do the surgery on

36:50

Thursday. It took a lot to diagnose

36:52

it. I didn't realize there was so much

36:54

that was happening. His didn't rupture and it

36:56

didn't perforate. So I think

36:59

if it does that, it's easier to detect in the test

37:01

that they do. So we didn't

37:03

get all of the test results back until

37:05

Thursday evening. So he went for, he was

37:07

the first surgery on Friday morning. Wow. We

37:10

didn't have many details from you on Thursday. And

37:12

I'm, you know, this is your business and it

37:14

was a private matter, but I was, when

37:17

we got the text from you and you know, we were

37:19

talking about maybe going into surgery, I was hoping. So

37:22

was I. And it was just the end of the day. We all said

37:24

the same thing. Bill Burns, everybody, where

37:26

I was going, let it be an appendix,

37:28

an appendix situation because that's a

37:30

routine thing. And that kind of seems like

37:32

what you were describing, or at least in the limited

37:34

information we had. Yeah. I wanted you

37:37

guys to know that I wasn't going to be there, but

37:39

I hate saying something before you know what it is.

37:41

So I was like, I was just like, look, it

37:43

looks like it's a surgery. I'll get back in. And

37:45

then as soon as we knew, I texted you guys

37:47

to let you know what it was. So I think

37:49

the only other, the only person in this room is

37:51

having epinectomy is Nick. And

37:54

how old were you? I'm

37:57

curious how it starts to

37:59

manifest. Is it like immediate

38:01

sharp pain? It was gradual. It

38:03

was gradual at first. I grew into a sharp

38:05

pain. And Kevin and I

38:07

were texting quite a bit on Thursday

38:10

and Friday because I felt terrible for

38:12

Keith and relieved. Steve, I share your

38:14

sentiment. It is a relatively

38:16

routine surgery. If you get to it

38:18

before it's perforated or ruptured, it's very

38:20

treatable. And once you remove it, this

38:22

is my memory of it, Preston. The

38:24

pain was terrible beforehand. How

38:26

gradual, Nick. I'm sorry to jump in here. I took a

38:28

few days to build up and I told this story before

38:30

but I'll tell it again real quick. I was in France. I was

38:33

14 years old. I passed out on the Eiffel Tower. That's

38:35

how intense the pain was. And

38:37

then, sorry, I woke up. I went

38:40

to the doctor's office a day or two later.

38:42

But what I remember specifically is being in a

38:44

straight back chair and having to sit like this

38:46

very rigidly because if I twisted it all or

38:49

moved it all, the pain was a million times

38:51

worse. So, Kathy, what I

38:53

remember about going into the surgery was once

38:55

the surgery was completed, that

38:57

pain was gone. Then you had to recover

39:00

from the pain of the surgery itself, which is what Jace is

39:02

going through now. And I was thinking

39:04

of you, Nick, because you were like, hey, Jace wants to

39:06

talk to me. I will. But

39:08

your mom wasn't there. You were in

39:10

France by yourself. And she couldn't even

39:12

rush there because by the time she

39:14

got there, you would have had the

39:17

surgery already. She needed to bring him

39:19

raisins right away. Yeah. My

39:21

mom was, it was funny to learn

39:23

about the story afterwards because she made,

39:25

she parted the seas

39:27

in order to get to France. So she did go?

39:29

Yeah, but not before the surgery. She made it there

39:31

after the surgery. But when I was coming out of

39:34

the surgery and then like the next day or whatever,

39:36

my mom was there. And as a

39:38

young man and your mom shows up, it's just, all of

39:40

a sudden the world is going to be okay again. So

39:42

I had my mom fly over to France to make sure

39:44

that I was okay. What did you do? It

39:47

meant the world to me. That's amazing.

39:50

I couldn't imagine not being there. Like,

39:52

you know, especially when he woke up

39:54

from the surgery, because like you said, that

39:56

pain's gone, but then He was in

39:58

a lot of pain. Actually you still in

40:01

in? L. But I mean when

40:03

she woke up like he didn't know what hit

40:05

him, she was like why does. It hurt as

40:07

bad. I didn't realize it was going to hurt

40:09

the feds the amount of pain meds said they

40:11

gave him. I was like star. I did. you

40:13

know every time they came in with me

40:16

I like what is that someones? it's all

40:18

with Jaime giving it's who were me know

40:20

like I knew everything. So the list of

40:22

what see.just after surgeries us it was insane

40:25

out as a eleven and were great as

40:27

a Sept. Okay so was around fifth grade

40:29

of one of my close friends of the

40:31

times or is actually ruptured his appendix. yeah

40:34

now as I don't remember too much about

40:36

it but I just do remember there being

40:38

they they let me know in so many

40:40

words that it can kill them. Are

40:43

dead dead Dead And the way it was

40:45

explained to me was essentially it's like a

40:47

poison voice on my mother's appendix. Did rusher

40:50

as decide my friends and seven and I

40:52

did same sort of thing and and done

40:54

a remember that is that unfortunately got us

40:56

aware of other things it was going on

40:59

around to be on the our minds. but

41:01

ah yeah and I remember that was wild.

41:03

Yes so.as the at that point big gotta

41:06

take an opening up right away. right now

41:08

I'm a nice really did with my mom.

41:10

Yeah yeah yeah. I think that that. Means

41:12

that eats them out immediately and I think

41:15

that that most times it has it's an

41:17

emergency surgery because. And they're worried if it didn't

41:19

really. Jesus didn't. Rupture but I think they're worried

41:21

that it will like. Let's get it out

41:23

of, we're not. Half as me thought they

41:25

can. thank you aren't as pretty quickly get

41:28

a was in I'm that's why they needed

41:30

to do a number of tests. odds meets

41:32

were that that's when it was and it

41:34

was indeed that but they kept saying we

41:36

thinking process early enough that i see was

41:38

in you know in pain for to to

41:41

love the funny thing about it is like

41:43

it's a message ordinary would you nominate no

41:45

longer serves any purpose whatsoever so it is

41:47

verizon a school of thought that remotely related

41:49

to have them taken out because it doesn't

41:51

serve any purpose and it just gonna sit

41:53

there and again make you will have one

41:56

boy need to remember when they are diagnosing

41:58

you did they'd like push on on your

42:00

stomach. Yeah, for me, Preston, part of the

42:02

problem that sucked so much so much at

42:04

the time was I'd had

42:06

like a year of French. So my French was

42:08

rudimentary at that. I didn't understand. I didn't even

42:10

know what a penicitis was in English. Yeah. Here's

42:13

a French doctor trying to explain to me what the hell is going

42:15

on on my on my insides. But

42:17

yeah, they tried to

42:20

move me around a little bit and then aired. I

42:22

remember going to the hospital and

42:25

then it was it was a relief

42:27

to know that the surgery was going to solve the

42:29

problem that if you then I had that part of

42:31

explain to me and like once I went to the

42:33

hospital in Pont toise north of Paris was like, all

42:35

right, I can I can handle this. And do you

42:38

remember when they when they examined

42:40

you and they pressed on that the pain

42:42

came from the release of when they were

42:44

like they put pressure, you're fine and

42:46

then they release. And if the pain is

42:48

when they release then they that's one of the signs

42:50

they know. Really? We have your son

42:53

in the hospital. His head

42:55

is grown huge. So

42:58

we have an understanding as to

43:01

what is there a particular

43:03

age range where you're more likely to have an

43:05

answer. Good question. 10 to 20 is what we

43:08

had read when we were looking it up. That's

43:10

the average. Yeah. So

43:13

obviously there are ones that occur. There

43:15

are younger kids who yeah and we so we

43:18

went to CHOP in King of Prussia, which you

43:20

know, I was a little worried. I'm like,

43:23

do we need to go downtown? Is it better

43:25

downtown or they're better doctors downtown? It was the

43:27

same doctors, the doctors that we had

43:29

also practiced downtown. But

43:31

we what was the US development?

43:34

The age range about a new

43:36

set of doctor came

43:38

out after the surgery and he was like, it went

43:40

well. Jesus is recovering. And

43:43

Dennis asked the doctor, he said, what

43:45

typically, you know, causes and

43:47

without skipping a beat. He

43:50

looked at both of us and he said, it's usually bed parenting. Oh,

43:52

that's great. Yeah. And

43:55

I just want to say, uh, so Dr.

43:58

Ellucian is who did. surgery

44:01

and Dr. Simpow was the anesthesiologist,

44:03

both of them, all

44:05

of the nurses, I mean CHOP has its

44:08

reputation for a reason. They were absolutely amazing.

44:10

I mean everyone was great. There was one

44:12

nurse I wanted to choke out for like

44:14

30 seconds after meeting her, but other than

44:17

her, everyone was... There's always

44:19

that one. There's always that one.

44:22

There's always that one. Let me get some calls. Obviously

44:24

people chiming in with their experiences with appendicitis.

44:27

I'm going to go to Kathy. Hi

44:29

Kathy. Good morning. Hi. Good

44:32

morning. Sorry to bother you at work. No,

44:34

what's up Kathy? I just wanted to tell you I had my appendix removed

44:37

in Ghana in 2006. Oh,

44:39

that's exactly where I would want to go. Listen,

44:41

you don't want to have your appendix removed in a third

44:43

world country. I'm just saying. It was

44:45

$180 American, but it's not worth it. Wow.

44:48

You just happened to be in Ghana.

44:51

You didn't travel to Ghana to have

44:53

a rumor. Correct. Did the surgery go

44:55

okay? It did,

44:57

but it was a

44:59

little touch and go because I

45:02

was obviously traveling. I

45:04

was young in my 20s and

45:06

appendicitis is pretty much sudden onset.

45:10

I was visiting my sister

45:12

in the Peace Corps and the Peace Corps nurse,

45:15

we were in contact with her to get advice and she said,

45:17

you need to get to the hospital. The

45:19

hospital was hours away. We went to

45:21

the clinic, which was like an open

45:24

air clinic. Oh my God. Like

45:27

dogs and goats, like in

45:30

the waiting area. Oh my God.

45:32

Okay. You know, so those

45:34

were the doctors. So

45:37

fortunately we met a doctor at

45:39

the clinic who was a Norwegian

45:41

doctor and she took pity upon

45:43

us and said, you know, my

45:45

driver will take you to the

45:48

real hospital. Oh wow. Wow. So

45:50

we went to the real hospital, which by no

45:52

means is like a hospital in America. Just saying.

45:56

Just a better breed of goats and dogs.

45:58

Yeah. So they. they

46:00

performed the appendectomy, and how long were you

46:02

laid up after that? They did. I

46:06

think I only stayed one night in

46:08

the hospital because my

46:11

sister and my friend kept noticing that there

46:13

were air bubbles coming down my IV. You

46:16

can't have that. You can have that,

46:18

and so we kind of busted out of

46:20

there and decided just to take care of

46:22

me ourselves. Wow,

46:25

well you probably saved your own life

46:27

by doing that. Yeah. Wow,

46:29

that's incredible, man. Thank you, that sounds

46:31

a little more intense than your situation, Nick. It

46:34

seems that the appendix is that thing that

46:36

will, you know, that can

46:39

happen at any time, and that obviously in her age

46:41

range, she was in the actual age range, but

46:43

you know, you are not a tribute. There's

46:45

no leading. You're leading, Nick, you said a

46:48

couple of days maybe. I mean, I felt

46:50

ill the morning of. Well, yeah,

46:52

so they were saying that it can go over,

46:54

you think you have a stomach ache, and so

46:56

people wait a few days. Jesus

46:58

was nothing. He was completely fine. Ate

47:01

dinner the night before, and then he woke

47:03

up and was like, something's wrong. And

47:05

by. He had a fever at all? Not,

47:08

I mean, not the night before. I think probably when

47:10

we got to the hospital, he had a, yeah, he

47:12

did. He had a low grade fever, but no, the

47:14

night before was completely fine. Wow, hang on. Doug

47:16

had one outside of the average age

47:18

range. Hey, Doug, good morning. Good

47:21

morning. Hey, what's up, buddy? Yeah, I

47:23

had mine taken out last year. I'm 51

47:25

years old. Wow. It

47:28

came out, I had some pain going down the

47:31

left side, which is a little unusual, because if

47:33

headaches on the right, they thought it was diverticulitis.

47:36

So it takes a while to diagnose it.

47:39

And once they did PMRI, they

47:42

realized what was wrong. Yeah, it

47:44

hurts a little bit, and the pain goes away

47:47

right away after the surgery, but then you're recovered,

47:49

you spent six weeks on the recovery. Right, so

47:51

it took you about six weeks to recover fully?

47:54

Completely before I could get released to go

47:56

back to work, yeah. Wow, man, thank you, Doug. It's

48:00

because they go through that abdominal wall,

48:02

they go through those muscles. Yeah, so

48:04

he has these small incisions. Orthoscopic,

48:07

right? Yeah, the worst of them was through

48:09

the belly button and I think that that's

48:12

what's hurting them the most. Laparoscopic? Yes.

48:16

Oh, that's right. They got my

48:18

prostate out the same way. Okay, but I

48:20

was surprised at the

48:22

recovery period. For some reason,

48:24

I think because you think, oh, it's appendix, you hear

48:26

of that all the time. I

48:28

don't know, in a couple of days, he'd be like, I've been ready

48:30

to go. But you're like, your job's just out.

48:32

And they're like, no, keep in mind, it's still

48:34

surgery. You know, we still cut through some ab

48:36

muscles. Like, it's going to take a little while.

48:38

Like, he's not, he can't, you know, get up

48:40

or get or sit down on his own. He

48:42

needs a distance doing that. Yeah, you use your

48:44

abdominals in a lot. Yeah. Your core

48:47

muscles. I would imagine the same thing if they went through

48:49

your backs or something too. That's why the abdominal still made

48:51

it so angry. Yeah. Because of

48:53

pain. Cass is

48:55

just going to push back his baseball season

48:57

at all. Yeah. So he was actually,

48:59

well, what's, what it's going to probably ruin

49:02

is he was starting to play ice hockey.

49:04

He was doing a learn to play. I think

49:07

that's, he can't do any contact sports for

49:09

like four weeks. So

49:12

baseball, baseball, maybe not. The

49:14

doctor said, batting, probably not, but like

49:16

maybe fielding and throwing. Right. You

49:19

know what? Just don't push it. Yeah. That's

49:22

how we feel. He'll, he'll know when it's

49:24

time. But I mean, thank God you, you

49:26

from the time that he started talking about

49:28

symptoms to the time you had him in

49:30

there was nothing. So you know, good, good

49:32

on you guys for getting over so quick.

49:34

So, Kath, when I was a kid, I

49:36

was probably like eighth grade, my buddy Joe

49:38

moved away. And so he would come and

49:40

stay with me for, you know, week weekends.

49:42

And he had his appendix taken out. And

49:45

then like two days later, stay with us for the

49:47

weekend. And he had like a little pillow that they

49:49

had to like hug and he couldn't even laugh. And

49:52

at one point I made, I did something funny and

49:54

I made him laugh. He's like, dude, don't do that.

49:56

It hurts so bad. Yeah. Yeah.

49:59

He's saying stop making him laugh. One of the nurses

50:01

at the hospital told us about the hug trick.

50:03

You take a pillow, you hug it if you

50:05

have to cough, sneeze, laugh, or even try to

50:07

get up and it's supposed to help them. Okay,

50:09

this is why you were tuning in. This is

50:11

why Kathy wasn't a cardboard classic as they had

50:14

an emergency appendectomy. And I will go to,

50:16

let me go to Mike. Oop,

50:19

wrong line. Here, let me try that again.

50:21

Hi, Mike. Hi, Mike. Good

50:24

morning, it. Good morning, it. What's up, buddy? Hey,

50:27

so I had, I guess you would say,

50:30

the most extreme case that you could

50:32

possibly have appendicitis back in 1997, right

50:36

after Christmas. I mean, it was getting

50:38

ready to go out to New Year's,

50:40

Eve, in that range. But I

50:43

never had any, what you would call, symptoms

50:46

of an appendicitis, more like the flu.

50:49

Okay. So, vomiting and everything like

50:51

that. My mom was treating it as a flu.

50:55

Everything had a fever, but then what happened

50:57

was, the night

50:59

of New Year's Eve, fever finally went down,

51:01

was able to keep some food down.

51:04

Yeah, that night, fever spiked from 100 to 103.9, within

51:09

a half hour. Oh my goodness. And

51:11

went to the doctor's next day, and

51:14

blood work came in. Yeah,

51:16

rushed into surgery, 3.30 that day. Doctor

51:19

went in to do surgery. There was nothing

51:21

to take out. It ruptured, apparently, five days

51:23

before it came out what the doctor was

51:25

expecting. Whoa! All

51:28

those toxins were in your system? Yeah,

51:31

well, the doctor actually said, my

51:33

white blood cell count was so off the

51:35

chart, that he actually said that if I

51:38

waited one more day, I would not be

51:40

talking to you right now. Wow! Getting man

51:42

on the hand. So, I had massive infection

51:44

throughout my body, was in

51:46

the hospital for a full week, and

51:48

then at home for a full week. And then,

51:52

it's funny when you're hearing these stories about having to

51:54

hug a pillow and everything like that to cough, that's

51:56

what you had to do. I went

51:58

back to school. I was in

52:00

high school. When I sneezed in high school, I

52:03

about died. I had to go down to the

52:05

nurse's office. I heard so bad. Oh, so you

52:07

walked to the nurse's office and said, why are

52:09

you here? I sneezed. Yeah. Yeah,

52:11

that's exactly what I said. Yeah. Wow. You

52:14

sure you got to Ghana because they released you in one day. So

52:17

Mike, they just must have bombed you

52:19

with antibiotics after that happened. You have

52:21

no idea the amount of attention that

52:24

I was getting. I haven't done a

52:26

Chester County hospital. I don't

52:28

remember my surgeon's name. He was fantastic. The nursing

52:30

was fantastic. And like Kathy said, I had one

52:32

nurse that I went to kill. You

52:37

think you're a nurse record your temperature

52:39

every night at 88 degrees and actually

52:41

put it on your chart. Yeah.

52:45

88 degrees. Yeah, it didn't register.

52:47

So normal body temperature

52:49

is 88, right? Wow. Wow,

52:51

man. Well, happy you got through it,

52:53

Mike. Thanks for sharing, bud. Not a problem. I see.

52:56

It's crazy, too. Like it was the first time

52:59

that I've ever had to stay over in a

53:01

hospital. And I know it's what

53:03

they need to do. But I mean, no

53:05

one can really get any sleep there because

53:07

they had to come in every hour to

53:09

have his vitals. So he was up every

53:11

single hour throughout the entire night. What they

53:13

do. I mean, and they had an IV in his hand so

53:15

that they didn't have to prick them

53:17

each time they needed to give them something. So

53:19

he was hooked up. But still, they're coming in.

53:21

They were taking his temperature. They were taking his blood pressure.

53:24

It woke him up every time. It's like Dr. Mike says,

53:27

you know, you want to avoid the hospital as much

53:29

as you can. Did you sleep in one of those

53:31

chairs that turns into a bed? No,

53:34

so they couldn't find any case. So

53:36

I was in like a regular chair

53:38

that like half reclined a little bit. They

53:41

did have like a couch that

53:43

you could put sheets on and kind of like make it

53:45

a bed. So that's what Dennis used.

53:47

Yeah, I slept when my wife had her

53:49

C-sections. I

53:52

slept. But like it's weird. It's a

53:54

chair, Steve. I'm very, I'm

53:56

very familiar. Yeah. And they're

53:58

there. No matter. how you

54:00

try you cannot get comfortable in those things but you

54:02

know you're there and you're there for the long haul.

54:05

When you're there for someone you love you

54:08

know that's what you do. I'm gonna go

54:10

to Nicole. Hi Nicole good morning. Hi,

54:13

can you hear me? Yeah. Oh

54:15

my gosh I can't believe I'm up. You

54:17

are gone. What's up Nicole? So

54:20

I had appendicitis lasting for about six

54:22

to nine months and I didn't know

54:24

I was 16 and I had the

54:26

worst breast and I would chew

54:28

gum at school and at that time we weren't allowed to

54:31

have gum but I would sneak it because my breath stung

54:33

and I said to the dentist I don't know

54:35

what to do. I brushed my teeth, I brushed

54:38

my tongue, I can't get the snow to fill

54:40

up and he said the only thing I could

54:42

think is something has rotten in your stomach. Well

54:44

it turns out it was my appendix and so

54:47

when I had my appendix out PS2

54:49

this was shaped, it was shaped like U-shaped instead of the

54:52

way it was supposed to be and it was wrapped

54:54

around my ovaries and Kathy I don't

54:56

know if they did this to Jake but to

54:58

check back in when I was doing it years

55:00

ago they had to stick your finger up your

55:02

butt and because of the

55:05

way it was shaped they couldn't find mine and

55:07

so they just kept checking and checking and hitting

55:09

on the 16 year old saying this is the

55:11

one that let me die like forget it. I

55:13

don't want to do this. That's why my entomatrous

55:15

does that butt thing. I always question that. That's

55:18

what my index finger

55:22

up your ass. I did read that that is one of

55:24

the ways that they can check for

55:32

it. No, finger in the butt? F-O-B? FIB?

55:34

FIB? FIB? We

55:41

are on the side. We are not doctors. We don't know. I

55:44

will say though once my appendix came out my breath was

55:46

totally dying. You had

55:49

this persistent bad breath and it

55:51

had to do with basically your

55:53

appendix rotting in your body. Well

55:56

right and when they took out my appendix it turned

55:59

out it had little like little

56:01

scabs. Like jimmies. It

56:04

would perforate and then it would heal itself. Oh

56:06

my God! So I was getting sick for nine

56:09

months. I was getting sick all the time. Like

56:11

I had strep. I had ear infections. Your

56:14

system was depleted. Yeah, that makes sense. Once

56:17

it was over, it had to be a, you know, I

56:20

assume you started to feel better almost

56:22

immediately, correct? Oh,

56:24

I don't know. It was like half a

56:26

lifetime ago. I just remember my breath not

56:28

smelling actually. That's 15-year-olds.

56:30

That was a big deal. Yeah,

56:32

absolutely. Especially in high school. Thank

56:35

you. Well, we left with a

56:37

picture of it because the doctor asked Jace before he went

56:39

in, do you want a picture of your appendix? And

56:42

Jace said, yes, I do. And so when

56:44

he came out, he handed us, I mean,

56:47

it was a clear shot. He showed us,

56:49

it kind of looked like a shrimp. Yes.

56:52

And he showed us, you know, which was the good part

56:54

and that the bad part was all red and, you know,

56:56

that's what he removed. Was there not a

56:58

time where they would let you, like when you had

57:00

a tonsillectomy or something like that? Yeah, like

57:02

a jar. They don't do that anymore because

57:04

it's considered by a waste. It's medical waste, yeah. My

57:07

friend's dad is a veterinarian and

57:10

he would routinely neuter cats and

57:12

send my friend the cat

57:15

testicles in a vial. Oh my God. They'd show

57:17

up in college. What'd you get this week?

57:20

I said another cat ball and

57:22

formaldehyde. My God. I

57:24

don't think that was frowned upon nowadays. I'm

57:27

sorry, June 8, all your balls are dead. Oh

57:30

my God. No, no, no, it's a cat not. I

57:35

want to go to Josh. Hi,

57:37

Josh. Good morning. Hi.

57:40

Good morning. What's up, Josh? Hi.

57:46

So I'm going

57:48

in because my appendix erupted when I was

57:50

five years old. I

57:53

had 15 days in the hospital. I had

57:55

to get 14 IV needles in my arms.

57:58

Whoa. The point that they had to get a... surgeon

58:01

to almost put one in my

58:03

neck. Give me the IV. Wow.

58:05

They basically class all my veins.

58:10

Yeah. Wow. Good times, huh? You

58:12

go along with Nick. My

58:14

mom never left my side and fought

58:16

with them to find a vein

58:18

in my arm. Yeah. It's great to have a mom

58:20

by your side. I'm glad that Jay said Kathy and

58:22

I'm glad my mom flew to France. I totally understand

58:24

what you're saying. She spent every day

58:26

there and that's where me and her basically fell in love

58:29

with the French is right. I

58:32

have to watch every day. Thank gosh.

58:34

The food in the French hospital had

58:38

to be wonderful. Yeah. I mean, what's the

58:40

thoughts on her? Listen, once once once

58:43

my mom realized that I was okay, she

58:45

did enjoy her trip to France. You know, I got

58:47

out of the hospital and everybody was doing all right.

58:49

She had a nice

58:51

time. Yeah. Well, nothing kind of

58:54

wouldn't be a blast. Yeah. First

58:56

hospitals, by the way, better than

58:58

Ghanaian hospital. Ghanaian. Steve, we

59:00

were out in King of Prussia. So, uh, we

59:02

actually lucked out because there was that town center. Yeah.

59:05

You were right next to it. We were

59:07

like, oh good. We could eat. Yeah. We

59:09

could get something to eat. Yeah. Oh, oh

59:11

yeah. I thought you want to go shopping.

59:14

Sorry. Oh, no. I wasn't shopping. Although, how

59:16

much for the wax? So let me, okay.

59:18

So when I left here on the, do you

59:20

give an appendix discount? Nordstrom racks over there. No,

59:22

when I left here on Thursday,

59:24

Jesus and a lot of pain, they got

59:26

to the hospital. Um, I had

59:28

to stop home. I had somebody stopping at the house.

59:31

Couldn't get, get ahold of them. So I had to

59:33

stop home. Right. And Dennis says, don't

59:35

worry about it. There's no need for both of us

59:37

to be sitting there. They had gotten to the hospital.

59:39

He wasn't screaming in pain anymore. He's like, look, this

59:41

could be like, you know, back or maybe just go

59:44

to the bathroom. Like don't, you don't have to, we don't both

59:46

have to sit here. So then

59:48

it, then it goes to I fly. Why

59:51

are you wearing a jumper? Listen, I

59:53

feel terrible about this. I, I worked out.

59:56

Yeah. Worked

59:58

out. I'm gonna call

1:00:01

me ASAP." And I was like, oh

1:00:03

no, this isn't good. I was like, this is not

1:00:05

good. Oh no, two more sets. Yeah, come on. I've

1:00:07

got two more sets to go. Oh my gosh. So

1:00:10

then I jumped in the shower and was frantic,

1:00:12

put throwing things in a bag, his

1:00:15

blanket. I didn't even know what.

1:00:17

I showed up with this bag full of like,

1:00:19

I don't even know what it was. Oh yeah,

1:00:21

I do. Yeah, that might actually be another topic

1:00:23

of conversation, which is there was

1:00:25

this thing going on that was really important.

1:00:27

And I... Yeah, so like back

1:00:29

in the day when like

1:00:32

the dads weren't permitted to be

1:00:34

in the delivery room. Yeah. Like

1:00:37

my dad went and played putt putt golf by himself.

1:00:40

I think it was when I was being born. Yeah.

1:00:43

And why did they have a miniature golf course in the

1:00:45

hospital? It was not. Oh, I don't know. No, no, no,

1:00:47

no, no. I had to have been because I was born

1:00:49

a riddle. I had to have been one of my, like

1:00:51

my brother or whatever, because putt putts closer to sterile mercy.

1:00:54

I stumbled on a pretty good idea though. Mini

1:00:57

golf in a hospital. I mean, that's time

1:00:59

to kill. Yeah. I love it. One

1:01:02

last call and then we got to wrap it up because I'm intrigued by this.

1:01:04

I'm going to go to Joe. Hey, Joe. Good

1:01:07

morning. Good morning. Good morning.

1:01:09

Hey, what's up? Sorry. We're

1:01:11

sorry to bother you guys at work. Nah, we want to hear it.

1:01:13

What's up, buddy? Hey, so I've been working on this thing and

1:01:15

there's hope for everybody that lost their appendix.

1:01:18

I invented an artificial appendix.

1:01:21

An artificial appendix. I'm

1:01:23

trying to sell it. All right. Kathy, you're on. I

1:01:25

got to call it for you. It's not going too

1:01:27

well. It'll replace

1:01:29

the non-necessary appendix that you lost. I've

1:01:32

been working on it for years and Joe, let me ask

1:01:34

you, can you wear it externally? I

1:01:38

haven't gotten it. I'm sorry. Can you

1:01:40

wear it externally? You know, like earrings. Yeah. No,

1:01:43

it's got to be put inside. All right. It replaces

1:01:45

the old one. Working just as well as

1:01:47

the original. Okay. Get

1:01:50

a Kickstarter rolling and we'll see if the, uh, the, uh, the,

1:01:52

uh, the, uh, the we'll

1:01:56

see if the, uh, contributions come in. I'm

1:02:01

sure they have about what the appendix

1:02:03

might have done when it was a

1:02:05

yeah that it did have a purpose

1:02:07

one Pelican I thought it had to

1:02:09

do with digestion or something and bacteria

1:02:11

and the foods that we used to

1:02:13

eat that Maybe we're not eating anymore.

1:02:15

It has to do with tiger meat.

1:02:18

Yeah that

1:02:20

we as Humans would consume

1:02:22

that it may have had it would have

1:02:25

been what a rock But

1:02:31

I do want to say that Jason's

1:02:35

a smart kid and when we were there talking

1:02:37

to dr. Luke Ian

1:02:39

and especially the anesthesiologist dr. Simp

1:02:41

out He had like

1:02:43

he got all his his questions in like

1:02:45

nice did it on his own He got

1:02:47

all the information and then approved

1:02:50

the surgery and was like, okay. I'm

1:02:52

ready to go So, you know, dr. Mike

1:02:54

says an informed patient is best customer. Yeah.

1:02:56

Well, yeah, he did that for sure So,

1:02:58

yeah, he's recovering at home now. It is

1:03:00

gonna take a little while. But yeah, he's

1:03:02

doing well So all right, very good. Well,

1:03:04

we're glad he said we're glad like we

1:03:06

said earlier was something a little bit on

1:03:08

the routine Yeah, I'm not something more serious.

1:03:10

All right, let's take a break Do

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are I wanted to find out if anybody

1:03:58

else has this issue lately and send me an

1:04:00

article that might corroborate this,

1:04:02

but lately, like every day, I've

1:04:04

been getting a text message that

1:04:07

tells me that so and so,

1:04:09

a Facebook friend of mine has

1:04:11

posted or has reached out to

1:04:13

me or has posted

1:04:15

this and they want you to comment on

1:04:17

that and it's clearly not

1:04:19

a Facebook link. You're getting it in a

1:04:21

text message? In a text message. Yeah, which

1:04:23

you think should be the last bastion of

1:04:25

your protection wall

1:04:28

there. So I'm getting it, it'll

1:04:30

have someone whose name that you know, I went

1:04:32

to high school with or whatever has, you know,

1:04:34

has reached out to you through Facebook. You

1:04:37

know, and I've deleted all of them. I've, you

1:04:39

know, I've like deleted the whole chain from my

1:04:41

phone so I don't have the verbatim example for

1:04:44

you. But the the

1:04:46

URL will be like, you

1:04:48

know, HTTP slash

1:04:50

slash FB dot

1:04:53

and then a whole bunch of other stuff. But

1:04:55

the FB is supposed to be for faithful. Hang on. Marissa's

1:04:57

looking at me weird. Do you think it might be legitimate?

1:04:59

All right. So I know what

1:05:01

you're saying about getting spam text messages because I

1:05:03

get them a lot. But Preston, I think Facebook

1:05:05

may have updated its notification

1:05:07

settings and somewhere sometime at

1:05:09

some point you put your phone number on

1:05:12

Facebook and they just like through an update

1:05:14

said, oh, great, we're going to start sending

1:05:16

him text. Like you're getting the notifications you

1:05:18

would normally get on Facebook. If you were to

1:05:21

log on to Facebook on your computer, you know,

1:05:23

you can click the notifications and see people have

1:05:25

commented on your photos or whatever. You're sending that

1:05:27

to your phone. You think so? It

1:05:29

could be. I've what I do.

1:05:31

I'm not going to touch it. No, I

1:05:33

would be suspicious of it because what happens

1:05:35

I get and I never use Facebook. I

1:05:38

only used it so I could activate my

1:05:40

Oculus. Yeah. Basically, Preston, I'll

1:05:42

get that my Facebook account has

1:05:45

been locked. You know, I

1:05:47

get that all the time. You know, your recent usage

1:05:49

has crossed your Facebook account to be locked.

1:05:51

I'll get those. I'm like I immediately dismiss

1:05:54

them. This is also on the this

1:05:56

is coming from Facebook, their help center. It says

1:05:58

if you're receiving email. emails or text notifications

1:06:01

about a Facebook account that doesn't belong

1:06:03

to you, it's possible that someone tried to use your email

1:06:05

or mobile number to set up an account. But

1:06:08

don't click on it. You still don't want to click on the link to see

1:06:10

if it's even your account or not. And this

1:06:12

is a whole series because there's

1:06:14

so many different ones that come

1:06:17

across. I get bombarded with, are

1:06:19

you interested in selling your home?

1:06:22

Hey, here's what happens, Kathy. Every

1:06:24

time it comes to my text

1:06:26

messages, hey, Cory, it

1:06:28

says, Cory, and I

1:06:30

don't ever respond. I just

1:06:33

delete it. I've come to here, come to

1:06:35

Benonas, that when you respond to it, then

1:06:38

they know they have a pathway through you and it would

1:06:40

only increase. So I delete it immediately.

1:06:42

No, don't ever respond. I get the ones

1:06:44

that say like, oh my gosh, I'm so sorry, I'm

1:06:47

just getting back to you. Hey, what's up dinner tonight?

1:06:49

Or like something like that. Like their actual... I'm

1:06:51

going out with Cory. Yeah, I'm like, no, no, no, no, no.

1:06:53

I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no. I just delete them.

1:06:55

Right? Yeah. I made

1:06:57

the mistake of, oh, I'm sorry, you got the wrong number. You

1:07:00

know, somebody sent me a text, you

1:07:02

know, hey, blah, blah. I'm like, oh,

1:07:04

sorry, this isn't, you know, Joe. Yeah.

1:07:07

And then they're like, oh, we got a real person.

1:07:09

Somebody's there. And then you get bombarded, right? Yeah. Two

1:07:12

days ago, I got a phone call and the number that

1:07:14

came up was about like Kim Wood. I'm like, okay, I,

1:07:16

you know, let me try and answer this. And

1:07:19

they were like, so I answer it. And

1:07:22

they said, oh, your son signed

1:07:26

up for these SAT study guides. And I'm like,

1:07:28

okay. And so they just confirmed my address and

1:07:30

blah, blah, blah. And I told my wife about

1:07:32

it. She's like, I don't know anything about that.

1:07:34

My son didn't know anything about it. And

1:07:36

then dude, later on that night, Steve, I

1:07:39

got two phone calls right in a row.

1:07:42

And so I don't know. I don't think

1:07:44

that they're related, but you can. Listen, you

1:07:46

don't know. Dude, the guy calls two times

1:07:48

in a row, starts yelling racial

1:07:51

slurs at me. What?

1:07:53

Yes. Did you sign up for that?

1:07:55

I did not sign up for that. I did not sign up for that.

1:07:57

Um. It

1:08:00

could be racially berated, please. Yes, rent

1:08:02

a racist. Yes,

1:08:05

I was looking for someone to yell racial epithets

1:08:07

at me all night. Oh, we can arrange that.

1:08:10

Telling me to SSC. What? No,

1:08:13

that's a different service. That's a different service. You didn't

1:08:15

get the racial or you got the sexual? Oh, man.

1:08:18

You must have gone for the platinum package. I

1:08:21

blocked that phone number expecting to get new calls

1:08:23

from a different phone number, but I didn't. All

1:08:26

right, Marissa. Well, Casey, it sounds like I want

1:08:28

that guy's number. No, I

1:08:30

think you guys should go onto whatever social

1:08:32

media you use or even don't use and

1:08:34

just make sure that your SMS text messages

1:08:36

are turned off. SMS notifications,

1:08:38

that means your text notifications. So

1:08:41

I think that's where some update may have just

1:08:43

turned them on at some point. Why don't you take

1:08:45

a quick look right now, just so we can get to

1:08:47

the bottom of this and press it on if your

1:08:49

phone is available, because I'll hazard a guess that there

1:08:51

might be something just

1:08:55

outside of that realm, because there's been such

1:08:57

as this article points out, such a preponderance

1:08:59

of these social media related

1:09:01

sort of like phishing schemes.

1:09:04

Hey, WMMR has been the victim

1:09:06

of one of these. Really? People

1:09:08

are going into posts of ours like from 10, 12

1:09:11

months ago and replying to listeners

1:09:14

saying you won $10,000, please give us

1:09:16

your credit card number and we will

1:09:18

give you the Oh,

1:09:20

give us your credit card number. Like, flat out, I

1:09:22

am just going to say a bank,

1:09:25

a credit card, anybody is never going

1:09:27

to ask you for your credit card

1:09:29

number. I am never going to ask

1:09:31

you through a text or a DM

1:09:33

or anything. Marissa,

1:09:35

what am I supposed to do? This is all in my

1:09:37

Facebook app. I'm supposed to look for what? You have to

1:09:40

go to settings, but it's like it's buried in there. So

1:09:42

this might be a photo show. You want to come in?

1:09:44

Yeah, I can do it. I'm giving it to Casey.

1:09:46

Oh, sugar. What'd you do? Wow.

1:09:49

Cheese and crackers. Cheese and crackers. Sometimes

1:09:51

the easiest thing here is to just Google, how

1:09:53

do I turn off SMS text messages and then

1:09:55

they'll tell you the password. How do you use

1:09:57

Google? Facebook changes their settings every couple of days.

1:10:00

of months everybody does. Which by the way,

1:10:02

so real quick, and I'll go to these calls that

1:10:04

are coming in, but apparently we in America are being

1:10:06

attacked by more than 376 million scamming text messages per

1:10:10

day, which poses Netflix,

1:10:13

Amazon, and banks to

1:10:15

steal money or to

1:10:17

steal your voice, which is

1:10:19

a weird thing. Yes, we talked about

1:10:21

that. In fact, we talked about Kathy

1:10:24

not responding, not Casey calling back and

1:10:26

saying, hi someone, you never

1:10:28

do that because they can clip your voice. I just

1:10:30

got a call the other day sitting in

1:10:32

here and again, I'm like, what is

1:10:34

this? I need to answer this number because it

1:10:36

could be a school or whatever. Kathy,

1:10:38

it's me, Kathy. No, but it was

1:10:40

one of those recordings and

1:10:43

they said my name. Really? And

1:10:46

then I say yes. And then they say, can

1:10:48

you hear us? And they want you to say

1:10:50

yes again because they get you saying yes so

1:10:52

that they use it if

1:10:54

they call a bank or a credit card or whatever

1:10:57

and immediately a new one. Don't you just hate

1:10:59

that? Kathy, I got caught yesterday. I was standing

1:11:01

in the room with Connor and the phone rang.

1:11:03

It was the same thing. I was like, I

1:11:05

think I have to answer this number. So

1:11:08

when I answered it, I was like, I

1:11:11

didn't know who it was. And just on

1:11:14

the off chance that it was. And

1:11:18

as it turns out, it was somebody I actually did

1:11:20

need to talk to. I was like, okay, hang on.

1:11:22

I'm so sorry that I answered the phone like that.

1:11:25

Steve, you're right. It'd be great if that person spoke

1:11:27

exactly that same way on the other. I

1:11:29

see you just make fun of me. Call

1:11:32

me from make-away. Can we try and help you? Oh

1:11:35

no. Call me from

1:11:38

the speech impediment institute. By the

1:11:40

way, Rochelle got an email

1:11:42

not too long ago, which was

1:11:44

a flat out attempt at blackmail.

1:11:46

And it was a lie too.

1:11:48

It's like we

1:11:50

have access to your camera on your laptop.

1:11:53

We have seen what you have been watching

1:11:55

and given the nature of what you watch.

1:11:59

We have recorded you. and

1:12:01

the stuff that you watch, you know, saying that you

1:12:03

watch some kind of deviant porn. I've gotten that through.

1:12:05

I've gotten that through. Or maybe even dark web stuff

1:12:08

and you need to send us this money

1:12:10

right now. We're blackmailing you. Yeah. It's

1:12:13

blatant. And so the first time I got it, I was

1:12:15

like, I was out on the patio. I had the laptop

1:12:17

open. I'm like, this is a scam. I put my pants

1:12:19

up and went inside. Come

1:12:22

on. Come on,

1:12:24

man. Steve, my dad, I

1:12:26

got the same thing. And he called

1:12:28

me because, you know, sometimes they pray on the intercessors.

1:12:30

Yes. And he's like, what

1:12:32

do I do with this? And then I was

1:12:34

like, dad, it's the spam. It's, you know, they're

1:12:36

trying to get you to commit anything, make any

1:12:38

type of thing. He's like, I swear I have

1:12:40

never looked at this type of porn in my

1:12:42

life. And I was like, dad, I really don't.

1:12:44

I'm mostly into the chokers. Oh my God. I

1:12:46

like choke. I like choke ponies and stuff like

1:12:48

that. Yeah. I like

1:12:50

choke ponies. Google that all the time. By

1:12:53

the way, Americans lost $10 billion to these types

1:12:55

of scams in 2020 alone. This

1:12:57

is when they ask you to, you know,

1:12:59

give your personal information. And Nick's right. A

1:13:02

large portion of those people are senior citizens.

1:13:05

So the other one, though, the new

1:13:07

type of scam is where con artists

1:13:09

use AI powered tools to capture your

1:13:11

voice and clone it in less than

1:13:14

five seconds. It says the FTC

1:13:16

said you get a call, a panic

1:13:18

voice on the line, it's your grandson. And

1:13:21

this is how they use the voice. He

1:13:23

says that he's in deep trouble. He's wrecked the

1:13:25

cars, landed in jail. But you can't, you

1:13:28

can, you can help by sending money. You

1:13:31

take a deep breath and think you've heard about

1:13:33

these grandparents scams, but man, it sounds

1:13:35

just like him. So they're using, they're trying

1:13:37

to use a voice you might be familiar

1:13:39

with using current take not. Now

1:13:42

this wasn't voice cloning. They didn't have that

1:13:44

say five years ago, right? But now there

1:13:46

are so many, they're actually pressing. There are

1:13:48

free sites that do voice emulators that'll do.

1:13:51

So the technology is all over the place that they're

1:13:53

using it. So now we need

1:13:55

to come up with safe words,

1:13:58

essentially. It's

1:14:00

not a type of a phrase or word

1:14:02

or a question a la a security question.

1:14:04

You know, your mother's maiden name and things

1:14:06

like that. Yeah. To verify who

1:14:08

that person actually is. Give me some of that

1:14:10

sticky icky icky. What?

1:14:15

Who? That's it. I've forgotten already.

1:14:17

Yeah. Yeah. To that point. So I had,

1:14:20

you know, they have those questions. You're what

1:14:22

was your favorite pet? You

1:14:24

know, so and I actually had

1:14:26

one for our own service here. And

1:14:29

it was and it was not a

1:14:31

question that I had put down. So I

1:14:33

was like was wondering is as this information

1:14:35

been walked because what was your favorite stuffed

1:14:37

animal as a child? I that's never a

1:14:40

question. I go to right.

1:14:42

So mine was either favorite pet or something

1:14:44

like that. You're going to remember and even

1:14:46

then I jotted down. But any

1:14:48

I am so weary of giving information.

1:14:50

It's almost like a built-in firewall every

1:14:53

time someone calls because I'm like this.

1:14:55

I assume everything is a scam. Have

1:14:57

you got sort of toad attacks? No,

1:15:00

they are telephone oriented attack delivery. It's a

1:15:02

type of social engineering attack that lures potential

1:15:04

victims to contact fraudulent call centers. And these

1:15:07

is exactly what you're talking about president's

1:15:09

threat actors and attempt to steal credentials or

1:15:11

install malware and they use Steve like

1:15:13

when they give the email. Yeah, it's Norton

1:15:15

PayPal McAfee. Yeah, all of these legit companies

1:15:17

and that's what baits you into thinking. Oh,

1:15:20

this actually might be some kind of real

1:15:22

security threat. I have an alarm on my

1:15:24

phone that indicates when a toad attack

1:15:26

is coming in Preston. You

1:15:32

can avoid that. Let

1:15:37

me go to some calls. I've Barry will

1:15:39

start with hi Barry morning. Hi,

1:15:42

Grandma was up Barry at

1:15:45

least once a week at least

1:15:47

once a week. I get a

1:15:49

text message from a random number

1:15:52

saying is just put

1:15:54

a local organization and they switch the

1:15:56

organization up. Every text local

1:15:58

organization get your. shirt, make your

1:16:00

t-shirt 10% off, click this link. And

1:16:03

it's local stuff, it says my name

1:16:05

in there. But so

1:16:07

what I do, T-Mobile has a text

1:16:09

spam service, you forward that text to

1:16:12

their, to their like short number.

1:16:16

And then Apple has

1:16:18

a junk like notification button

1:16:20

underneath it. And so it'll

1:16:22

apply that notification to it.

1:16:27

So I'm asking, will it apply

1:16:29

that notification, that junk notification if you were to

1:16:31

get it again? Yes,

1:16:33

every time I've gotten those texts, that junk

1:16:36

notification, it looks like because it's from

1:16:39

a random number. So I guess Apple assumes

1:16:42

that it's a junk message, a random

1:16:44

number. I'm reporting this Facebook thing as

1:16:46

junk and it still comes back. So

1:16:48

when I get a new one,

1:16:51

I'll show it to you. Did you check your settings, by

1:16:53

the way? And was it in fact? I don't know, Casey

1:16:55

handed my phone back. Yeah. So his notifications were turned on.

1:16:58

Oh, they were? Yeah. Okay.

1:17:00

By the way, somebody texted and said the best safe word

1:17:02

you could, you could possibly use would

1:17:04

be, wrap it. I'll

1:17:07

tell you this, the, the,

1:17:12

the ones that are very,

1:17:14

I don't know, polished,

1:17:16

I'll say come in the form of emails

1:17:18

and Preston, you've talked about it. They'll actually

1:17:21

grab the like Apple

1:17:23

tech graphics. And

1:17:25

so that'll appear in the email, make it look

1:17:27

like you need to provide us with your access.

1:17:30

I've gotten those before, but I mean,

1:17:32

you just have to, you call, you

1:17:34

have to look close. Yeah. Yeah. Apple

1:17:36

has one P. Yeah. Yeah.

1:17:38

Let me go to Mike. Hey,

1:17:40

Mike, good morning. Hey, is, is

1:17:42

Corey there? What's

1:17:45

up, Mike? Hey,

1:17:47

so I actually, the same thing going

1:17:50

on that Steve has going on, except

1:17:52

not Corey, I get texts asking for

1:17:54

best all the time. Maybe

1:17:56

we should introduce them. I don't think I think Corey and

1:17:58

Beth had probably got a lot. Yeah, and

1:18:01

and they're always asking about my house. Do I want

1:18:03

to sell my house? Yes so

1:18:06

I googled my number and

1:18:08

the word Beth and named Beth and Someone

1:18:11

down the Jersey Shore has

1:18:13

their contact info as

1:18:15

my cell phone number and it's best

1:18:17

Wow Interesting. I can't keep

1:18:19

getting these text messages asking for but so what

1:18:21

did you what did you do? Just as you're

1:18:24

a minute was somebody down the down the shore

1:18:27

Yeah, so I just Google this number and

1:18:29

it comes up as somewhere down near like

1:18:31

LBI All right. Wow Somebody

1:18:34

somewhere along the line and written down

1:18:36

your number as their contact info. Yeah.

1:18:39

Wow. All right. Well, I Just

1:18:42

write back not best and I block that

1:18:44

number and I think they're actually legit. I

1:18:46

don't think they're spam I think it's actually

1:18:49

like people in real estate asking if I

1:18:51

want to sell my house Mike

1:18:54

do you think that divide by responding to it?

1:18:56

You're inviting more Because

1:18:58

now they know you're you're the you're there and

1:19:00

you're ready to receive messages Yeah, I just I

1:19:02

can't but I can't imagine that that it would

1:19:05

be best as like why is it best? Yeah

1:19:08

None unless they're a fan of the kiss

1:19:10

song. Thanks Mike. We had for years I

1:19:13

guess the number that that we had

1:19:15

at my house or landline number I

1:19:18

think the people that had it before were total Criminals,

1:19:22

okay So we were in

1:19:25

in a sense that they weren't scamming money,

1:19:27

right that for years and

1:19:29

I mean 15

1:19:32

years something like that we would get calls

1:19:34

regularly of people looking for them Mmm calling

1:19:36

from prisons trying to access gotta be a

1:19:38

little It was unnerving and we

1:19:40

couldn't shake it and finally they stopped I

1:19:43

think it's because really just don't use the

1:19:45

landline much anymore. I can't listen I don't

1:19:47

even have a phone connected to the landline

1:19:49

anymore. Let me go to Hang

1:19:53

on a second here Steve's works in IT security.

1:19:55

Hi Steve. You're on the air. Good morning, bud I.

1:20:01

Pods one of the call one of

1:20:03

the best things you can barely see

1:20:05

what if you ever get any I

1:20:07

call was sent to be or text

1:20:09

message was pretending to be some I

1:20:11

was given An organization is a lot

1:20:13

of my parents you are elderly at

1:20:16

this point at Zola.response. Is just a

1:20:18

company on your own? Economic.

1:20:21

Somebody on your own. Okay now

1:20:23

or Texas is pretending to be

1:20:25

Amazon's yeah for example, That was

1:20:27

a common problem. Pas what they

1:20:29

do was say okay, let me

1:20:31

call Amazon or check Amazon or

1:20:33

my own seat. You're You're You're

1:20:35

absolutely right. Because the winner. As

1:20:37

I was getting one of those

1:20:39

Amazon notifications, your account has been

1:20:41

lox and so I never respond

1:20:43

directly to the message. I call

1:20:46

customer Support at Amazon. And guess

1:20:48

I'm on the phone and every time see

1:20:50

was like know everything's fine So yeah as

1:20:52

as as a guys have a guy is

1:20:54

as your Cv at an incident ones I

1:20:56

know about your uncle's. Yes, yes it was.

1:20:58

I saw my father they call my father

1:21:00

and tried to pretend that my uncle's kidnap

1:21:02

smart. As you know, my uncle, you know

1:21:04

this may not go anywhere with an hour

1:21:06

without at least five. Gonna. Miss

1:21:11

it was real Just as we want to see my

1:21:13

father in. Law

1:21:15

that states and I wonder if

1:21:17

the are The converse is as

1:21:19

I guess exactly the proper The

1:21:22

opposite of this would be mostly

1:21:24

that would be there are people

1:21:26

have gotten legitimate. Measures

1:21:28

and I believe in had alley leave them

1:21:30

passed on him and it was something important

1:21:32

as and I think I would. I would

1:21:34

easily fall into that camp. guess I just

1:21:37

don't believe anything on he was. It has

1:21:39

to say there's a specific said of are

1:21:41

things that I have to see before me

1:21:43

even going to remotely entertain at. I thought

1:21:45

you guys the story before but I won

1:21:47

my son a homer aids to yeah man

1:21:49

see got the call you'd like I was

1:21:52

no no and then he hung up and

1:21:54

then they call him back to their like

1:21:56

are you sure you want. And eight as

1:21:58

soon as. believe that

1:22:00

I know never I feel like yeah no

1:22:02

I'm good I'm you're absolutely friend it entered

1:22:05

you without your knowledge no I answered him

1:22:07

oh okay press I think the

1:22:09

best thing to do is forward the link to your

1:22:11

work email and then open it on a work if we

1:22:14

have not learned anything our training

1:22:16

our training our IT

1:22:18

training here I have a foolproof method

1:22:20

Kathy I never look at my work

1:22:22

email you never open I never do

1:22:24

and bill bill knows it Bill will

1:22:26

come down I'm gonna tell you in

1:22:28

person because I know you'll never check

1:22:30

your email and that's how

1:22:32

I avoid opening up stuff in that'll

1:22:35

it that'll infect the system our email

1:22:37

systems horrible and then it randomly selects

1:22:39

other like and

1:22:42

nine times out of ten I got

1:22:44

sick of finding things that were very

1:22:46

relevant to my current day to day

1:22:48

activities here at MMR and your other

1:22:50

in the junk folder in the spam

1:22:52

yeah and now they have a new

1:22:54

feature where every email outside of the company says

1:22:57

it's from outside of the company so that's what

1:22:59

you see in the preview instead of like what

1:23:01

the person's right on you know it's a major way

1:23:03

one of my pet

1:23:06

peeves is this thing about making it

1:23:08

part of an email chain so

1:23:10

they respond you

1:23:14

never see it because you don't sit there

1:23:16

in front of the computer watching for activity

1:23:18

oh another response you've not the side track

1:23:21

too much but last week I had to

1:23:23

do a lot of corresponding with people universal

1:23:25

and there were two dozen

1:23:27

emails in one particular chain and like trying

1:23:29

to navigate through all those and figure out that

1:23:31

if the tiny bit of information you need an email

1:23:33

chain right is exhausting you know sitting there like 30

1:23:36

pages about him says

1:23:38

where ago exactly I need this number yeah

1:23:40

by the way back to the topic though

1:23:42

a text says I work for a bank

1:23:44

and the fraud department and the scams that

1:23:47

get people to give info are wild yes

1:23:49

and here's the deal they've now not

1:23:51

that it's brand new but it's been

1:23:54

escalating but you're getting more text scams

1:23:56

like straight up to your phone how

1:23:58

did they get this number pretending

1:24:00

to be something else and if you're

1:24:03

not careful you will touch

1:24:05

it you know and no you're right it wasn't

1:24:07

long ago when you say oh this is a

1:24:10

text it has to be someone who knows me

1:24:12

and that's not the case anymore yeah let's see

1:24:14

we have a ton of calls up here I

1:24:16

will go next to Jared Jared you're on the

1:24:18

air good morning I'm

1:24:30

like Hulu and Disney Plus with

1:24:32

a verification number yeah so I

1:24:35

went on my account Tuesday

1:24:39

and I was like wow I'm paying

1:24:41

$26 every month and like I just

1:24:43

haven't noticed that it's been coming out

1:24:45

since October of last year Hulu

1:24:48

when they're like yeah you're

1:24:50

subscribed to HBO Showtime Mac

1:24:53

I was like I never did any of

1:24:55

that you have an account

1:24:57

in the Ukraine I said of

1:24:59

course not I live in

1:25:02

Douglasville pencil they're

1:25:04

like oh well someone from Ukraine has

1:25:06

your account and they are streaming all

1:25:09

these platforms on Google you

1:25:12

know you do here's what you do here's what

1:25:14

you do you call them and you say this

1:25:16

back off for child series no

1:25:19

dude that's so so they someone from

1:25:21

the and this happens quite often too

1:25:24

they'll get your streaming information now

1:25:27

mind you if if you've paid

1:25:29

for a now you never subscribe to any of

1:25:31

this no so

1:25:33

that that's that's a problem if they'd simply

1:25:35

gotten your access information that would be a

1:25:37

different thing but the fact they were able

1:25:40

to activate a streaming account and it's not

1:25:42

you that so how did it end up

1:25:44

getting rectified so

1:25:47

they actually reimbursed me you know all

1:25:49

that money thank God right but uh

1:25:52

yeah they said I changed the password and

1:25:54

everything so we did all that but they told

1:25:56

me on the phone that this is actually happening

1:25:58

a lot to Hulu people that share

1:26:01

their accounts, because once they

1:26:03

hit two or three platforms, then

1:26:05

your email is actually open for

1:26:07

other people to access. It's like

1:26:09

a virus. I never do that.

1:26:11

I never share that stuff. And

1:26:13

I will always periodically,

1:26:15

if I change or have to update information

1:26:17

on one of the accounts, I'll hop into

1:26:19

the other ones and just check the status.

1:26:21

And a lot of times, you know,

1:26:23

it's a good idea. Cancel the search. Even

1:26:26

if you want to use it, cancel it and open another

1:26:28

account. My dad's going

1:26:30

to be mad. I texted him yesterday. I'm like,

1:26:33

sorry, dad, but you can't have my platform no

1:26:35

more. Yes, no, you know what he's up

1:26:37

to. All those trips to the

1:26:39

Ukraine. Thanks, Jared. Appreciate it. We did one

1:26:42

time we stayed at a hotel and you can

1:26:44

sign into your Netflix accounts on the TVs and

1:26:46

some hotels. And I did that and

1:26:48

did not sign back out. And whoever

1:26:50

rented after us, whoever had the room after

1:26:52

us got on board our account.

1:26:55

Somehow or another, they were able to. It

1:26:58

took a while, but we eventually got it off

1:27:00

there. I forgot how we ended up handling it.

1:27:02

But I didn't say they were able to access

1:27:04

your camera and they watched you watch massive media

1:27:06

men for your hotel room. They did the class.

1:27:08

Did they do like bad things with it or

1:27:11

I forgot how we found out. I

1:27:13

think that like we were getting logged out

1:27:15

at our own home because we found out

1:27:17

someone else

1:27:20

had access to it. And

1:27:22

so I managed to get in there and find a way

1:27:24

to cut them off. Yeah. I

1:27:27

remember how that happened because this was years ago.

1:27:29

They need to stop doing because I won't I

1:27:31

won't log on to any of my streaming things

1:27:34

in the hotel. I'm not going to do it.

1:27:36

No, no, no. In fact, some of them will

1:27:38

include a complimentary hotel subscription. Right. And I don't

1:27:40

know. I guess that's they have some sort of

1:27:42

corporate thing. But no, I would never

1:27:44

enter in password information on a hotel

1:27:47

television. I'm going to go to Nick

1:27:49

next. Hi, Nick, you're on the

1:27:51

air. Yo, what's up? You guys

1:27:53

rock. Yeah, buddy. All right.

1:27:56

What do you want to share here? Yes. So I

1:27:58

get a lot of these. calls

1:28:00

on my cell phone and sometimes they come up with like

1:28:02

a real name and it looks like it's somebody in their

1:28:04

contacts. So I get

1:28:06

one about three months ago and it says Karen Hill.

1:28:09

I just watched Goodfellas. I

1:28:14

love to mess with these guys. So

1:28:16

I pick up the phone and I go, Karen,

1:28:19

that was $80,000 you flushed down the room. Yes,

1:28:22

you did? They never would have

1:28:24

found out, Karen. Oh

1:28:28

my God. And I'm screaming and the

1:28:30

guys on my loading dock are cracking up. Oh

1:28:32

my God. Finally, I go

1:28:35

totally quiet and then I go, I'm

1:28:38

looking for Nick and I go,

1:28:40

uh, he goes, oh,

1:28:43

he goes, this is Brian from our corporate

1:28:45

office. He's like, I need to talk to you.

1:28:48

Oh my God. You did a routine.

1:28:50

Yeah. And the whole

1:28:52

bit is about flushing drugs. I

1:28:55

felt like the biggest tool. I was like,

1:28:57

oh no. What

1:29:00

you did, what you did transcended the toolness

1:29:02

and it was so genius that we're going

1:29:04

to give you points for that one. Yes,

1:29:06

they never would have found it. Oh

1:29:08

my God. We needed that

1:29:10

money. That's hilarious, Nick. All

1:29:13

right. Thanks, man. Uh, yeah, the

1:29:15

call stuff, I have no problem. I just pretty

1:29:17

much, if I do not flat out recognize that,

1:29:19

I'd forget it. And I'm not answering that. And

1:29:21

even now, you know, for a while they were

1:29:23

doing the thing that it's a number that looks

1:29:25

similar to your number. I've stopped. I've

1:29:28

that had become desensitized to, but now the

1:29:30

text thing has started to happen more often

1:29:32

and that kind of throws me off. I'm

1:29:34

like, just ignore. Listen,

1:29:37

the mindset is this. It's really something

1:29:39

important and it's really something that's going

1:29:41

to impact you. They will contact you

1:29:43

in person or they will contact you

1:29:45

with a certified piece of mail. And

1:29:47

that's the only way you can really tell. A couple of

1:29:50

quick calls and then we got a break because we're going

1:29:52

to give away this trip and I'm going to go to

1:29:54

Dan next. Hi, Dan. Morning, bud.

1:29:56

Good morning. What's happened to

1:29:58

the man? Yeah,

1:30:01

I got. A call from Can't Get as

1:30:03

they say they're gonna see Me

1:30:05

to Resettle Five The film? Yes!

1:30:07

As it's Oh My. God. That.

1:30:11

Is tough shots a forty six up

1:30:14

from a separate maria? Yeah, I'm fine.

1:30:16

Up until I called back, I think

1:30:18

I can. I talk. Your superman is

1:30:21

a okay, you're a guy. Get back

1:30:23

on the phone like I. Say

1:30:26

she knows what's going on your why

1:30:29

do on him run like I did

1:30:31

You say your panties and it a

1:30:33

litany of over trump Kim Philby of

1:30:35

madness. Of. The

1:30:38

hang up now. So I hang

1:30:40

up and actually call Comcast or

1:30:42

Activity and they're like this. Like

1:30:45

the third call today we'd gotten

1:30:47

your security lot. Be sure everything's.

1:30:49

Okay, Yeah.

1:30:53

Yeah. I mean it's this is Leonard

1:30:55

Salons game. They're just trying to get

1:30:57

to fork over whenever you can. Any

1:30:59

any. Goes

1:31:02

to the point the company Damocles

1:31:04

talk to one of the representatives

1:31:06

will certainly have it in the

1:31:08

system if doing something. My dad

1:31:10

yes and you've never been eating

1:31:12

up front but the the tags

1:31:14

are purely stepping we are. I

1:31:16

noticed it. Ah yep I definitely

1:31:18

have. Snow is major and especially

1:31:20

talk to or if you have

1:31:22

some awesome elderly family. Members or something

1:31:24

like that that might fall for this type thing.

1:31:26

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1:31:28

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1:31:30

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1:31:33

address for hims who. Good piece of advice from

1:31:35

a friend of mine who's a Nigerian prince. He

1:31:39

needed the money on your hands you know

1:31:41

nothing about is a good guy and normally

1:31:44

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December. Yeah it sticks around

1:34:16

you get to get some of those little nooks

1:34:18

and doesn't go away. And my car too like

1:34:20

the little like you know crevices sometimes you can't

1:34:23

get perfectly when you go you know vacuum your

1:34:25

car. Oh yeah if you ever go also if

1:34:27

you're going to the Caribbean or you go to

1:34:29

the weather the sand is like you

1:34:31

know flour you'll find that stuff

1:34:33

forever. I had to go to

1:34:35

North Carolina years ago and

1:34:38

I had a crack in the back of my bumper and

1:34:40

so my buddy got married on so

1:34:42

you get to I don't remember the name of the

1:34:44

town but at a certain point the road ends and

1:34:46

in order to get to the houses you have to

1:34:48

drive on the beach. Right. So I drove on this

1:34:50

beach for miles and miles and miles and I had

1:34:52

a crack in the bumper of the car that I

1:34:54

was driving and so much sand ended

1:34:56

up getting caught in that bumper that it was

1:34:58

coming out of the bumper for weeks

1:35:01

after I got back. That makes sense.

1:35:03

Yeah. Yeah. I was talking to Steve

1:35:05

Azalotti from her sister's station MGK yesterday

1:35:07

he's going to do an Outer

1:35:09

Banks trip and I've never been there but

1:35:11

he said where they're going to the particular

1:35:13

area they're going to be is in the

1:35:16

most northern portion of this

1:35:18

Valor Bank area and he

1:35:20

has to drive 45 minutes south to

1:35:23

get the bridge and then drive 45

1:35:26

minutes back up north. There's only one

1:35:28

way in. Right. And

1:35:30

he's going all the way up I think it's called Corolla he's going

1:35:32

all the way up so you basically yeah you have to come in

1:35:34

and then you got to drive back up to get to that little

1:35:36

town. I've heard so many people who

1:35:38

love the Outer Banks and talk about

1:35:41

it glowingly but then you get them on the topic

1:35:43

of getting there. Yeah. And they go.

1:35:46

And he was saying it's a two

1:35:48

lane road and it's kind of

1:35:50

like the keys if you're on that you

1:35:52

have nowhere to go. There's nowhere else to go. There's no

1:35:54

other road to take and anybody who goes to

1:35:56

the Outer Banks they leave at like 2 3

1:35:59

in the morning. like that's what he's doing

1:36:01

extremely early hours to try to get there.

1:36:03

Yes to beat it. My neighbors go every

1:36:05

year and they actually leave the

1:36:08

night before they stop somewhere halfway they stay

1:36:10

overnight and then they still get up at

1:36:12

that like two thirty three o'clock in the morning

1:36:15

to get there before the traffic so they can get

1:36:17

to their destination without sitting in it. But then if

1:36:19

you did it right you got a house on the

1:36:21

beach with a pool everything you need you just you're

1:36:23

in paradise as far as just letting loose and not

1:36:25

doing anything goes. I don't know if this is still

1:36:27

the case but it used to be you could get

1:36:30

much more house for a much cheaper price in the

1:36:32

out of banks and that was why a lot of

1:36:34

people decided to go there. Jersey Shore relatively is expensive

1:36:36

and people like and it is a drive I mean

1:36:38

you know you got to prep yourself to get down

1:36:40

there but I think it's a lot more bang for

1:36:42

the buck. More bang for the buck but also

1:36:45

you it's it is cost prohibitive to do

1:36:47

it by yourself so you'll see a lot

1:36:49

of families getting together. They're like big houses.

1:36:51

Oh they're huge like you know 10 bedroom

1:36:53

houses with you know with all that stuff

1:36:55

and that's like my buddy got married down

1:36:57

there and that's exactly what they did is

1:36:59

that a whole bunch of people stay in

1:37:01

one house and I had actually heard it's

1:37:03

actually it takes you less time to

1:37:05

get down there from like the Jersey

1:37:07

Shore if you were to take the ferry

1:37:10

the Cape May Lewis ferry over to the

1:37:12

lowest Delaware and go from there but only

1:37:14

just a few hours. I could see that.

1:37:16

Yeah I could see that being a bit

1:37:19

of a short car. Drive two hours to

1:37:21

get to know but if you were down

1:37:23

there already or something like that yeah but

1:37:25

you were asking about oh so the my

1:37:27

buddy's sister has a house down there and

1:37:29

they said that rentals this

1:37:32

year were off big time down

1:37:34

there. Yeah as far as not

1:37:36

selling out. Yeah okay. Yeah

1:37:38

interesting. But I don't know

1:37:40

if I know that

1:37:42

we've got a residence and yeah you're a

1:37:44

wild guy. That's your thing that's what you

1:37:46

do and you also if

1:37:49

you make the investment you want to use it. I

1:37:51

mean everybody I know once you get it like

1:37:55

and there's so many people I know it depends

1:37:57

it doesn't whatever your financial status

1:37:59

is. People have had

1:38:01

houses grandfather to them or whatever or get

1:38:04

a condo or whatever So

1:38:06

once you have that that's what you do.

1:38:08

Well, and also if you're gonna go to

1:38:10

another Beachtown You want it to be significantly

1:38:12

different than what you have? Like I don't

1:38:14

I don't think that the Outer Banks is

1:38:17

all that much different Listen,

1:38:19

I know it's different than the Jersey Shore But not that

1:38:21

so that you would not go to your house and go

1:38:23

down there and rent a house, right? This is so different

1:38:27

But those houses are pretty damn cool Really

1:38:31

awesome. Usually have a pool to hang

1:38:33

on a second Chrissy moved to the Outer

1:38:35

Banks in a Chrissy

1:38:38

good morning. Hey, good

1:38:40

morning. How you guys doing? Do you live there

1:38:42

now? So I was one

1:38:44

of your coolest teachers the first year you did

1:38:46

it and I was living in South Jersey and

1:38:48

Tim Creek And so because of that

1:38:50

recognition did fame and fortune come your way

1:38:54

And I just had to get out of town We

1:38:58

were actually we sold our

1:39:00

house at the Jersey Shore and Decided

1:39:03

you know what you only live once my

1:39:06

daughter's a freshman in high school and she was ready to

1:39:08

go and She's a

1:39:10

softball player. So softball is really big down here.

1:39:12

Yeah, I have off and I bought from school

1:39:14

today and tomorrow because of the Storm Freaking

1:39:17

love it. Oh, you love the out.

1:39:19

It's so living there year-round you love

1:39:21

it Love it now now it

1:39:23

is true Now the kids where you were talking

1:39:26

about at the Corolla at the beach They actually

1:39:28

take a ferry to the high school that I

1:39:30

now work at. Oh, no Kidding.

1:39:32

Yeah. Yeah, and that's where the horses

1:39:34

are too. Could you go to

1:39:36

school? You know like Walker's could you swim if you

1:39:38

wanted to? No, I'm gonna

1:39:40

check. Okay, actually. Okay, just Well,

1:39:44

so what about as far as getting around we're talking

1:39:46

earlier about you say you say you have the ferry

1:39:48

But I mean when you're on

1:39:50

see when you're in season, I assume

1:39:52

it's much more congested But is it

1:39:54

relatively desolate when it is offseason? Yeah,

1:39:58

okay Definitely

1:40:00

a lot slower. Of course, this is

1:40:02