Episode Transcript
This is interrupted by Matt Jones.
All Right, Episode nineteen of interrupted by Matt Jones, sponsored by Cornbread Hemp.
This is the good Life.
We are sort of set up here right before college football begins next week.
We've got Governor Andy Basheer as our twentieth guest.
I timed that perfectly.
But before then, you know, Drew Franklin, we've been really busy doing some other things.
But that doesn't mean that there's not like events in the world like that.
The world doesn't stop just because we have Pablo tore No.
Speaker 2I mean, we've been getting our butt kicked around here, but the world is still turning.
Speaker 1There's still news.
I mean, Mina Kimes is wonderful, but the news is still gonna happen.
So if we don't know the news, then I don't know what happens in the world.
So we needed somebody to catch us up on the news.
I looked around.
Billy was the only person here, so I was like, Billy, you can come up with ten news items.
This is the news.
It's the news with with Billy our sports now A little spoiler alert for his first couple of news items, I would get him to give me an idea of the direction he was going this one, no idea.
He can say anything right here, and I have no clue or what's gonna come out.
So if it's if he picks good news items, he deserves all the price.
If he picks bad ones, it's on him.
Speaker 2I trust him.
We've done I think, is this fourth one now?
Speaker 1Thinks?
I mean, he's got a good.
Speaker 2Feel for the news at this point, I would actually trust him over most news sources out there.
So even though we don't know what's ahead, I'm just gonna assume that Billy did his homework.
These are the top headlines, and they're not too depressing like they were a couple weeks ago, and it's We're.
Speaker 1Gonna just be clear.
The Trump administration has not in any way pressured Billy as to what news he's gonna do.
We have not heard from anyone.
Any of This is Billy's news with no outside hindrance.
So Billy, we're ready to get started.
Speaker 3All right, let's do it.
Speaker 1There are You're going to go through ten?
Ten?
Okay?
Yeah, dun dun, dun, dun, dun.
Speaker 3Not as morbid as we have in the past.
As well, We've got some exciting things to get to.
I do want to start.
This is not one of our topics, but we do need to offer some condolences to everybody that was impacted by the shooting in Minneapolis over the week.
A shooter killed two school children in a Catholic church and school when he shot through the church windows, wounding seventeen others.
Speaker 1Yeah, very sad.
It feels like these.
I think the saddest part of these shootings in some ways, besides obviously the tragedy of the death, is how they don't even really make a lot of news anymore.
We just kind of move on like that.
We've become we've become numb to them, and in some ways that's scarier than them actually happening, is that they just sort of are like a blip on the radar.
I mean this this had happened that night, somebody mentioned it and I had not even heard it.
That's that's kind of worrisome to me.
Speaker 2That and just the places, you know, I've had people ask me in the past, don't you get nervous in Times Square these big events.
This is a church in Minneapolis with kids, like I mean literally anywhere.
Yeah, you're not really the first time it's happening to church.
You're exactly right, like there's not a there's no hiding from it.
And you know this happens more and more in more and more random spots.
So I agree with you.
Prayers to all those folks.
Now that does continue your leading with something sad.
Speaker 3Needed to get that out of the way, needed to address that.
Now it's time for more news.
Speaker 1Let's let's get started.
Speaker 3Oh, sticking with the crime category, let's go to the federal crackdown on crime.
It's time to make America safe again.
Speaker 1Okay, so you're not doing any particular crime, this is just a broader crime, exactly all right, to stop crime.
Speaker 3We're talking about the deployment of National Guard troops in cities around the United States.
There's been two thousan two hundred National Guard members in d C with seven hundred plus arrest taking place since August eleventh, and now Trump is threatening to take National Guard troops to Chicago.
The Chicago mayor has said that Trump's efforts are uncoordinated, uncalled for, and unsound.
Yet Chicago has topped the nation and homicides.
Speaker 1For homotrades, homocide are homicides?
You what do you say you corrected it?
What did you say the second?
Speaker 3I'd hate to I'd hate to bring it up again, but.
Speaker 1Don't be too sad.
Answer is homicide.
Oh yeah, not homo sides or homicides that happened only at home.
Yeah, it's not same sex sides.
And it's not.
Speaker 3I don't I don't have a rebuttal to that.
But they're okay, you're doing good, Okay, we're just being us.
Trump might be deploying National Guard troops to Chicago, to Baltimore.
He seems to be on a kick right now.
Speaker 1Yeah.
What a waste of money, Just a complete waste of money.
And then if he takes them to places beyond Washington, d C.
Troubling.
So like, legally, I think he probably has the authority to do this in DC because he sees basically a federal territory.
I think it's unbelievably stupid because it's not what these people are trained for.
You know.
One of the things I have some friends in law enforcement, and they talk a lot about training, and when you throw somebody in to do something they don't have training for, you're asking for disasters.
You put military people in law enforcement training, it would be like, if we just took all our police officers and put them on the front lines of the war, would they be better than me and Drew?
Yes?
Would it be smart?
No?
And they also, this is the thing, Drew.
They're also not putting them where the crime is.
The crime is not on the national Mall for people like me wh've lived in DC, the crime is in neighborhoods like Anacostia and Exce and they're not going there.
They're not going to where the crime is.
They're giving up this thing that's like make it look like we're doing something.
And I will tell you if someone who's traveled a lot in Europe, there are some countries.
I mean, America is not the first place to do this where they'll have military walking around.
And I don't know, Drew, it actually makes me feel less safe.
Yeah, like what's going on?
Do you know what I mean?
Like, it actually makes me feel less safe to see dudes walk around with guns in military uniforms.
I'm like, oh, wait a minute, where am I So?
I think this is stupid.
It's all for visual, it's all to make it look like Trump's tough on crime.
He'll probably try to do it in Chicago and DC.
You know, I don't know if legally has the authority.
I don't know it.
It's gonna make it'll make an impact, but do you want it's like a rock?
Do you want to just stay there forever?
You know what I mean?
Make a short term impact, but long term it does nothing to the root causes of crime or poverty.
Speaker 2You mentioned the National Mall.
I was just there a month ago in my biggest trouble.
I was blowing bubbles with the little girlfriend's daughter and she actually blew them a little bit to someone having lunch, and I had to go over there and apologize, like, sorry, she's only three now she would bubbles?
Speaker 1Are you telling me that?
Now?
Speaker 2There's just ak forty sevens all around where we were blowing bubble guns drawn on them.
I'm not pretty safe there, to be honest.
Before they stepped in.
Speaker 1The National Guard is only supposed to be called in in like emergency emergencies.
And if you're not even gonna send them work like I saw them walking the streets of Georgetown.
Have you ever been to Georgetown?
Nice?
First of all, great shopping, I mean unless you are a Mancha store.
Speaker 2Oh, it's a bad day to be in Bachia in Georgetown.
Speaker 1And you you're you're gonna be fine, Like Georgetown is the is the yuppiest place on earth, and you know they've run out of things to do, so like they had them picking up trash and there's no there's dignity and picking up trash.
But like, I don't know if that's what we want our military to be doing on a daily basis in the middle of summer.
So it's just a waste of time.
I don't get up in arms about it like some Democrats do, because amongst the things that the administration's doing, I don't like that's probably towards the bottom of it.
But it's just a waste of time and money.
That's my is.
Speaker 2Completely agree And then you get like the the bickering you see online and everywhere else.
Is like the mayors in these places are like, no, we don't want you, and then it just becomes a conflict when you get.
Speaker 1There and they're But the problem is the mayors of big cities, like our three biggest cities have three of the most unpopular mayors of all time, like has like an eight percent approval rating and probably should be in prison the I think the guy in Chicago's Brandon Johnson, he's like twenty three years old and hasn't exactly been crushed.
Speaker 2She's got some comments out there, yeah, I mean he's not.
Speaker 1And then the woman in California, Karen Bass, she had all the fire issues and she so honestly.
I mean, these mayors don't have a whole lot of you know, they don't have a lot of ground to stand on.
I will say this, one of things Democrats are bad at, and I know there's a lot of Democrats that listen to.
One of things we're bad at is we do deny people's feelings.
So if somebody feels unsafe, billy, and you just tell them, actually, statistically crime is down thirty one like that can be true.
But if they feel unsafe, they still feel insafe, right, And I do think we have to sit there and think why is it people feel unsafe?
One is something happens and it gets poured on your TV and you and it makes it think it's everywhere.
So that's one, But two is also I mean, let's be real, there are parts of a lot of cities that don't feel safe to walk around.
And that's in and that's not just in DC, New York and Chicago, that's in Louis and Lexington, and so we do have to do something about that.
I don't think it is pour the military into the streets and then, by the way, it'd be like coming to Lexington and just putting all the military and Chevy Chase.
That's not that's not really doing it.
What are This is a renovation and it is out of control.
So that's my take.
But thank you for letting me know about the Homo side.
Speaker 3Yeah, we'll work on that.
Let's go to the second biggest news story of the week, and that's the engagement of Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1I'd argue that it might be first.
Speaker 3The three time super Bowl champion and music superstar are now engaged after a joint Instagram post on Tuesday afternoon.
Taylor joined the New Heights podcast just recently, where they had over a million viewers at one time live.
Speaker 1We were both one of them, right, yeah.
Speaker 3And now they are engaged.
There is also some reports that it was done shortly after the interview.
The podcast interview, they were actually getting these things ready while they were doing the interview.
It is taken not just the country, but the world by storm.
This could be one of the biggest weddings in the last couple of decades.
Speaker 1Biggest wedding in America.
I mean, you know, we forget again.
There are other countries, so like in India, I think, like the president got married and it was you know, everybody in the country watched.
But in America, I think this, this could be the biggest.
So I was on ESPN radio when this broke.
It was it was fun to listen to people's reactions.
But now we have more information.
Okay, need to break some things down.
First of all, got married at his house.
Engaged.
Engaged asked her to marry like in the backyard, good or bad?
I mean, like if it looked nice backyard, let me just like, let's say I'm at my house in Louisville, next to my black beat up buick.
Just get down on one knee.
Don't you think the woman might be like, could we've gotten out of the backyard?
Speaker 2I actually thought about this though it's Taylor.
She can't go anywhere.
I'll basically send in a secret service to sweep the place.
So how do you how do you set it up without letting her team and security know what's going on, and you're trying to surprise her so almost I don't even know where you would go except your backyard, because if you're truly trying to do the surprise, and that cause kind of go with the engagement because anything else you would need to like notify so many people to set it up that I think maybe that was his only option because she can't take her anywhere.
Speaker 1The Kelsey father, yeah, he's given too much, Like stop, you need to not talk as much.
I think he sees a moment and he keeps talking about things.
I wonder if they want all this out.
He was like, yeah, he's gonna do a long time ago.
They were gonna do it at the O Charlie's, but he was sleepy, and it's like, yeah, I don't know.
I mean, like Lee had gassed that night, so he didn't want to do it.
Leaves leaves some mystery.
I think a lot of people wanted there to be mystery about it, and he's kind of like dumping all the information.
Speaker 2Hey, I mean I knew he was in the picture, but Donna Kelsey has always been the star apparent.
I feel like the dad here sees this as his time to tell the story and get his own personal brand up a little bit.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, I don't know then.
Of course, there's a lot of things about the wedding, the pre nup.
If you're Taylor, you gotta have a prenup, right, Yes, I mean you gotta have a good, good one.
Oh, absolutely, Travis.
I get the feeling it's just a guess.
Like his lawyer is like a dude that is like in downtown Cincinnati.
Saw Goodman in a shopping center?
Yeah, like yeah, I feel like his office is in a shopping center and Travis might have seen him on television.
It's got the people behind him on his desk.
So I feel like Travis's lawyer's gonna be a little overmatched in the negotiating.
Speaker 2I'll do you one better.
I think Taylor's team could get a stack of papers, only put words on the top sheet, leave the rest blank, and slott it over and he'd sun it and not even.
Speaker 1Look at it.
So when I was in high school, I would do the same.
Stephanie, I'm not gonna say her last name, but Stephanie was a really good writer and she believed her English teacher didn't read her papers.
She just gave her a night because she was such a good writer.
So onetime she wrote a paper.
First two pages were her pages, like three through six were just gone with the wind, and then it went back to her page.
That's what she put in and got an a and no one brought it up.
That's risky.
I did the opposite.
Speaker 2I also copy and pasted into a paper, but I got a zero.
Speaker 1Did you do gone with the wind?
Did good?
Did?
I?
Kind of?
Yeah?
That might be what happens to things, all right?
And then you have the ceremony, like they have so many people in theory they can invite.
Should they just Elope?
I think they have to again kind of with the engagement thing.
It's just too much work to take her out in public for something like this.
Also, I was thinking if I'm in Travis's shoes, like, okay, Pat Mahomes gets an invite, but where did where's your Yeah, you gotta have a line in the locker room, So where do you cut that off?
Because they're all gonna come and there's been a I mean with that dynasty, there's there's some guys that have been there a long time.
They would probably think they're geting invited, but you can't invite the fifty two man roster.
Yeah, that's exactly right, And you can't invite like the KYNESA SA Royals.
Speaker 2Definitely, Bud, I guess Andy Reid and Pat Mahomes would be in.
Other than that, I think there's gonna be some difficult conversations.
Speaker 1There may be other dudes he's actually better friends with that just aren't as famous.
Then you got all the people he played college football with at Cincinnati, right then Taylor's friends, Yeah, got all these singers Blake Lively are split.
Good point.
Okay, what about the last name?
She can't change her last year?
Yeah, I mean you can't.
I mean she's Taylor.
I mean he can change his last name.
Speaker 3Wouldn't you think he would?
Speaker 1I mean it would be more appropriate.
Speaker 3Would you go hyphen or would you just take the entire classes?
Speaker 1You know, I'm amazed, Like, I just want you to think about him for a second.
I mean, this dude had a v H one dating show at one point, Like people don't realize, kind of one of those trashy ones.
It was a trashy one.
It was like girls came out and showed their thongs on and like now he's married to Taylor Swift.
I mean, there's a great Saturday Night Live skit.
Have you seen the thing that has come out since There's got Saturday Night Live skit where this was a few years ago.
They had this woman who was like a poet and like an artsy poet, and she was dressed very conservatively and she's like, this is my new boyfriend.
And it was a guy with a hoodie, his hat backwards and a football jersey, going, who she's smart, that's my girl.
And I feel like that and it was predicting Travis Kelcey and and her.
So his change is amazing if you think of it.
It and he just.
Speaker 2Wore a bracelet to her concert and like on his podcast was like, man, I sure would like to meet this Taylor Swift person just completely shot a shot in public.
Speaker 1Yeah, and then she's like, Okay, I'll give this guy a chance.
Yeah.
Speaker 2I mean, you know what a very public shoot your shot moment there with Blake Shelton didn't work?
Speaker 1Do you have a bracelet?
Though?
Speaker 2I've enjoyed the memes that have come out of this, Like what was her caption?
The English teacher married the gym teacher that I saw one that was Belichick and Jordan and it said the gym teacher married the English student.
Just the internet has been very great with a lot of these.
Speaker 1But it seems like everybody likes them, you know what I mean?
Was watching football get her out, like everybody and then and then they'll show like some woman with her with her brass out and they'll be like at the football full.
But besides them, I feel like most people seem I always saw Travis Kelsey was a goober and I kind of like him.
I thought the podcast I was kind of sweet.
The way he like takes tayte He seems so excited.
I got their pet names.
And then like she's she knows he's dumb, but she says to him like you're smarter than everybody.
You are, like you know, and he's like.
Speaker 2Nah, it's the classic our girl jog guides.
Speaker 1You know.
That's that's exactly what it is.
It would be like a movie and then we'll probably have one nineties.
Speaker 2What do you think about the Bachelor party?
Hey, we need a camera on Jason Kelsey.
He's got to the entire time.
He's got to be careful because I feel like I mean, you want to talk about everyone catching you cheety if he were to do one thing, Oh, Taylor, I have snipers, the lefties.
Speaker 1They don't.
He didn't.
She doesn't need like every girl would be like you, I can't believe you did this, Taylor.
So he can.
I don't think he can have a bachelor party.
I think he's just got to be like, look, I've lucked into this.
Speaker 2I need Jason Kelsey on a bachelor party for his brother.
Yeah, maybe Jason will just go have one for him.
Do you like the couple, Billy, Yeah.
Speaker 3I was just a little surprised by the reaction by some of the engagement.
I mean, we had females, you know, just stopping everything that they were doing, screaming, looking for the nearest swifty to hug.
Speaker 1The two hosts, the two host girls at ks Bar, they heard me say it on ESPN, and they gave each other a hug, And I was like, like, that is amazing.
Like if I'd looked at them and I said I'm engaged, they'd have been like, HU, that's good whatever.
I'm like, I employ you can't you feign a little excitements.
Speaker 2Taylor match, She's been through so much.
She's had forty eight breakups in like six years.
Speaker 1So are they When do they have a kid?
I mean, everybody assumes this is Kelsey's last year playing because she's always thirteenth year.
Speaker 2And she's gonna do the super Bowl and he's gonna win the ring and they're gonna walk off together.
Speaker 1Yeah, and so do they When do they have a kid?
Do they have a kid?
You gotta assume they do, right, Yeah, I would expect after the wedding.
Yeah, So you don't think it's a shotgun wedding.
Speaker 3No, No, I don't think they hurry up and.
Speaker 1It's very sweet and uh yeah now that now it's their America's couple.
Would you watch the wedding if it was live on television?
Absolutely?
Speaker 2I mean if I was in the middle of something, you know, I'm not gonna like clear my schedule for it, but if it's on, and I would pick that over anything else that I would be watching.
Speaker 1Yeah, me too, I mean just the people watch.
Yeah, of itself.
I like Love.
I was rooting for Love.
They found it.
Good for them, Yeah, good, good for them, and they seem like good people.
I do like the sort of way you know, all these the Conservatives really don't like Taylor, so they ask him about it and they're like, I hope they have a happy life.
And then they'll go, you know, she needs to learn to submit to her man.
It's like, no one shut up?
Right?
What if do you think?
Can I make a prediction?
If she has a wedding with a famous group of people, Trump will tweet that he's angrily that he wasn't invited.
I could see that.
Wait and see, do you want to put a bet on that?
No, I think he would do that, even though he said awful things about her and vice versa.
He will be angry that he doesn't get in body because it'll be like the biggest event.
I mean, the biggest event since what, Like, I don't have one.
I don't I don't had an American wedding America, yes, since the Roil wet.
I don't think we've had an American wedding like this ever in history, at least that I can that I know of.
I don't remember any.
I mean in modern media, you know, you hear stories about weddings like where the world would follow like a Rockefeller daughter wedding, But that was like before TV, so it didn't exist, and these are two.
Speaker 2People with completely separate audiences that are huge and themselves.
You have NFL fans and Swifties coming together.
Well, good for good for those kids, all right, Well send a gift.
Speaker 1You know.
Summertime means hot days, hard work and fighting to find time to slow down.
That's important.
Thankfully we've got corn bread hemp.
They're here to help.
Their lineup of natural hemp based wellness products are designed to help you stress less, move more, and sleep better.
I use them.
They help me to feel great and whether you're looking to swap your evening cocktail for something without the hangover, If you need relief after a long day of work, you just want to find a moment to chill, they got you covered in few seltzers are light, refreshing and perfect for those moments when you want to feel good but not feel guilty or have a hangover.
Plus, their full spectrum gummies and oils are made with USDA ORGANDIC ingredients that work.
Go to cornbradhimp dot com, slash Matt Jones and go ahead and use my code Matt Jones.
It's thirty percent off your order.
By the way, there are other places you can get this, but this is a better deal.
Cornbreadheimp dot com slash Matt Jones and the code is Matt Jones, cornbred hemp.
This is the good life, all right.
Speaker 3Speaking of forty five forty seven, let's go back to Unpresident Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday requiring the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute people for burning the American flag.
Back in nineteen eighty nine, the Supreme Court ruled that flag burning is legitimate political expression predicted by the US Constitution.
But Trump says they're still room to prosecute flagbird prosecute flag burning.
It is if it's likely to incite imminent lawless action or amount to fighting words to put people in jail for a year if they burn the American flag.
Speaker 1Yeah, okay, So let's say I give Donald Trump the best of motives for this.
So it is the Supreme Court has said you cannot ban flag burning, period, end of story.
So if he intends to stop flag burning, that's illegal.
So you lose.
The second part, though, is you are allowed to punish things that incite violent behavior.
So if you say, like, hey, everybody, let's burn this flag and then go burn.
Speaker 2What we're meeting at the courthouse, burn the flags.
Speaker 1And then take over the Yeah, but that was already illegal.
You're a dis executive board like it was.
That was already illegal.
So either he just tried to do something illegal, or he just did something that was already illegal, you see what I'm saying.
So it either is unconstitutional or it's meaning right.
So I don't really understand.
I mean, this is the classic thing he does, which is he does something that either he doesn't have the power to do, and then when he gets pushedback on it goes No, there's already a low.
So I do think though it's good to have the discussion about why burning the flag is illegal.
I'm against it.
I think if you burn a flag, you're being disrespectful and actually sort of like off at the same time, though, that's what America is is to allow people drew to do things like that, even if you personally don't.
Speaker 2Like, Yeah, I mean, I'm not burning a flag.
I'd rather not burn one near me.
Heck, if had to get rid of a flag and I wanted to take it, seriously, you have to like take it to a flag recycling place like Freddy Maggert's explained this to me.
You can't just like throw a flag away, So and that's how flag recycling.
Yeah, if you're getting rid of a flag, are they I'm going to talk out of my rear in here, but maybe like a legion.
I don't know, there's there's places there you can't just do an American legion kind of place.
You can't just throw away a flag, is my point.
And that's not even like I even thought about how do I get rid of it?
Speaker 1You're not supposed to so very.
Speaker 2Anti burning flag, but you know, we do have this free speech thing and as it's written, people have that right, even though I don't think you should do it.
And as you said, Supreme Court said in eighty whatever, that's how it works.
Speaker 1It's funny to me that a lot of people that get the angriest about things like flag burning, dispecting flag, will also wear it like flag banana hammocks.
When my grandfather, when I was young, my grandfather did not believe you should wear an American flag on anything.
He did not like when people wore the American flag like his T shirts or as shorts.
He was a World War Two veteran and he believed it was disrespectful.
I think one time I had a like American flag socks and he told me to take him off, and he was like, you don't wear the American flag as an accessory.
And he was very serious about it.
And now you fast forward thirty some years and the people who claim to be the most patriotic do that the most, you know what I mean, They almost like do that sort of trivial stuff the most.
So I don't know, I mean, but to me, the reason you don't burn a flag is why would you do something that intentionally upsets people for no valid reason.
It's the same.
I feel the same way about people who would, like want to burn a gay flag, like a gay rights Why would you do that?
What are you accomplishing?
Are you just trying You're just trying to make these people mad.
So feel the same way about burning the Jewish flag or the Palestinian flag or the American flag, Like why are you just trying to make people mad?
You can make your point without doing.
Speaker 2That, completely agree, we all know the answer.
People get the satisfaction of the attention.
Speaker 1And they just want to own the other side.
And I hate that.
I hate that, Like, why do we want to intentionally make other people mad, unless they're Louisville fans, at which point it's perfectly okay.
Speaker 2I'm guilty of what you said, and I honestly didn't even realize till someone pointed out to me years ago.
But like, I have a onesie, that's an American flag.
You go the lake, American flag, there swam trunks everywhere.
I never even really do now, but it was brought to me.
I think my mom even said it might have even brought up my grandfather, like this wouldn't fly with a lot of.
Speaker 1People a generation or two.
That was that that part of culture seems to have just gone away, but it was.
But my grandfather was very very serious about it, that you just that was not something you would do.
And it's just amazing how that is just you don't ever hear anybody say that anymore.
Speaker 2And I'm guilty as anyone.
Let the US play in the World Cup, and I've got five flags.
Speaker 1Everyone does it, yeah, yeah, and and and that's it's just interesting.
So I think also that shows how the power of symbols changed.
To my grandfather, you wearing an American flag on your T shirt would have been as disrespectful a thing as you could do.
Now that same symbol people would look at and say, that's one of the most respectful things you can do.
And it's literally the exact same action.
Yeah, now we put World War champs on top of the flag and we and that's it's just funny.
How So I would say to people, when you want to get really angry about somebody doing something, think about that flag thing and think about how the same action time is just completely changed in people's minds what it means.
Speaker 3So what's next, Well, there was an important update this week to this next news story.
After fifty five years, the popular restaurant Cracker Barrel decided to do something that's worth a minimalist approach inside and also changing the logo, removing the old timer Uncle Herschel from.
Speaker 1The crew that was technically actually Uncle Herschel.
Yes, okay, I didn't know.
I didn't know that they act that was actually who that was.
Speaker 3In a matter of a few days, the company stock dropped fourteen percent and lost one hundred million dollars in value.
Speaker 1Guess who made money from that?
You as soon as I saw it drop all these things.
It's so stupid people always sell the stock to one of these protests companies, they always go right back up.
Happened on Target, happened on Bud on Bud?
Why and hazard Bush happened on this?
It did?
It did?
I think I'm not gonna say the amount, but Uncle Matt made some money just going this will go back up?
So and go ahead.
Speaker 3Oh well, just this Wednesday, Cracker Barrel announced that they are bringing back the old logo.
Many said it was woke that they changed the logo and the interior.
There was a lot of backlash, but they have now since changed back to the old logo.
Speaker 1So why was it woke?
That's one thing I never understood about it.
I understood why it was bad because it was bad, like that was a bad change.
Why was it woke?
Speaker 3Don't know.
I think woke is a term for like being overly politically correct.
And so maybe people looked at taking the old timer off as you know, I.
Speaker 1Mean, could it have been Billy, I'm just spitballing here.
Could it have been at a restaurant didn't want an eighty five year old man any longer to be the symbol of the restaurant.
Yeah, it could be like I don't.
That wouldn't be a crazy thing to think.
No, but now I think it was a poor idea because the new logo sucked.
Speaker 3Well, this is also a restaurant that A lot of it has to do with the ambiance, right, you go in, the things on the wall, the old time feel.
Speaker 1But are they supposed to continue to market to people until their entire audience dies?
Speaker 3Well, you're posing an interesting question.
Speaker 1I mean, you could understand how that CEO would think a lot of our audience the days of people eating biscuits and gravy is going down.
Right.
You don't just see people every morning, like my grandfather getting up and eating beat biscuits and gravy.
So maybe we need you could see why somebody would think that.
Speaker 3Sure, in a vacuum, In a vacuum.
Speaker 1That's exactly right.
What did you think of it?
Speaker 2I just I guess I wasn't designed like everyone else.
I am missing the part of my brain that cares what a corporation is doing.
Bud Light, Target, Sydney, Sweeney Cracker, Barrel, chickfil You, Nay, I can't imagine carring, I genuinely can't.
It has no effect on your life.
I agree it does not matter at all unless you work for Cracker Barrel, Like, why do you care what Cracker Burl's logo looks like?
Okay, maybe you like it and a little bit of nostalgi and you'll miss it.
But this outrage and like being debated on news shows, who actually cares what Cracker Barrel's logo really looks like?
Speaker 1I mean, the answer to your question is no one exactly.
The reason they do it is the outrage exactly.
The outrage is the thing.
And it used to be that my side, the left, was the party of outrage.
We got so angry about everything, and we looked like sticks in the mud.
We'd get mad about it, like we were the outrage Kings.
And then somehow in the last few years it's actually flipped and now the outrage came and queens are on the right now Sidney Sweeney shows we still got it in us, we still can do it.
But I'm with you.
I think it's so stupid.
Why does anyone care?
Why?
Why would you care?
Go back to the bud light thing, Why would you care who advertises for bud light?
Why would you I don't even I don't remember.
Speaker 3Why were people mad at target, I'm not sure.
Probably a rainbow I don't know it, like rainbow flag, something influencer.
Speaker 1That was bud Light, I believe, but I can't.
And then the Sydney Sweeney thing jeans jeans.
Speaker 4Okay, who cares about American I'm glad all these people have perfect lives where they can use their brain to worry about a corporation's logo or their commercial.
Speaker 2Go play with your kids, Go get a job.
Like we haven't find something to care about other than a business in their logo.
Speaker 1We have a new burger at Kspar the Bay and Jamberg.
Are we gonna get canceled for calling it the bacon Bam out of bayold Berger?
Speaker 3You might if Bam does something not kosher in the news.
Matt, you know, oh, I can't.
Speaker 1Be responsible for BAM's personal life.
It's just a pun.
Speaker 3You just have to change the menu, I guess.
Speaker 1I mean nobody says, hey, you did chili chili Gillespie, Billy drinks too much?
You know.
Speaker 3Trump added field to this fire by treating it out Cracker Barrel.
Speaker 2Imagine that until Cracker Barrel walks in my house and kicks over my TV.
I don't care what they're doing there good food.
I've been there twice in the last two months.
If every Cracker Barrel fell off the earth right now, my life would not change.
Speaker 1When's last time you've been to a cracker barrel, like a year and a half ago, and you.
Speaker 2Said recently about three weeks Finley, Ohio, And was it good?
Speaker 1It was good?
But also if I never rated again, I would be okay, Yeah, I used to when again now, when I was a kid, Cracker Barrel was like you know, you'd sit and you'd wait outside and sit on those rocking chairs and go joan blonde now party of three and like now, I don't know, I don't think about it a lot.
Older's breakfast was pretty good.
I do love their hash Brown cast role.
Gift shops have kind of gone away in my mind as important now that I could get that Conway Twitty eight track tape online if I want, I don't need to bude in the store.
Speaker 2I used to love to go in there and get a Stuart's Old Fashioned cream soda.
Those are good, But I used to think only Cracker roll help now.
Speaker 1I can get Now you can get them anywhere.
Speaker 3Target opted to forego DEI initiatives.
Speaker 1That was the controversy.
Speaker 2No, I thought it was now they had something in the front of the store.
Speaker 1I thought, yeah, I think that Target's been one that's unluckily been hit by both sides.
I think Target.
Initially the right was mad that Target was gay, and then to show they weren't gay, they got rid of DEI and then that made I think black black people angered just can't win.
I guess now they couldn't win, but just they couldn't get on Target.
Speaker 3Oh where's my bell?
It's in the other studio.
Speaker 2I think they have an opinion about Cracker Barrow.
In these places, we need to see a statement that you're there five times a week and it actually matters to you.
If you're commenting and you haven't been there in six months, shut up.
Speaker 1Like, I don't really have strong opinions about Hardy's.
I don't get work though, haven't been there in Tenu.
I think it would be rude of me to have a strong opinion about Hardy's.
Speaker 2I used to love O Charlie's, great biscuits, great soup.
They've been gone a long time.
You know what, the world kept turning.
It's a restaurant.
There's others.
We'll all be okay.
Speaker 1So let's quickly rank our hash cracker barrel foots, Hash Brown castro.
Number one, number two for me, uh bits, biscuits and gravy, gravy, gravy.
And then number three maybe a little controversial, chicken and dumplings.
Speaker 2Oh, not controversial at all.
That's in my number one.
Speaker 1What's your number?
Speaker 2I will say you can get dumplings without the chickens like a side item.
Speaker 1Sometimes I do that.
Speaker 2I think they're gravy is a little overrated.
I'm gonna go.
I usually end up with some pancakes.
Okay, so I'll say pancakes.
I agree with you on the hash Brown cast role.
Probably the dumplings.
I'll throw on the corn bread if I'm having good corn bread.
Speaker 1Yeah, if it's not dry.
Sometimes they may get real dry.
Speaker 3But yes, yeah, I'm gonna be pretty unoriginal here, but biscuits and gravy is my number one.
I think the corn bread is my number two.
And then I've had good steak and eggs there.
Speaker 1Okay, they also have.
I think Shandon mentioned on our regular show country Ham.
You can't get that.
You can't get country Ham in many devices, and that's pretty.
Speaker 2If I may pay him another compliment since I kind of went off on people who care about Cracker Barrel.
If you get a meal there, you can order a five dollars to go meals.
They're like a full dinner for five dollars.
I'll get like four or five of them on my way out of Cracker Broll.
Speaker 1We have some breaking news one I Dream of Genie star Barbara Eden reveals Genie and Tony were never intimate.
That came up as a text that alert from Entertainment Weekly.
Were people sitting around talking about that show was on TV sixty years ago.
I thought I would have sworn Barbara Eden was dead.
No offense to her.
That's the news.
There you go.
So basically the Genie and the Soldier they never fornicated.
Well, what am I gonna do now?
That was a lot of the room.
That was a lot of the whole point of the show.
Do people think they were actually well they were.
There was like sexual tension between them.
I didn't know.
Was there like rumors of stuff or do people always wondered did it happen?
She wanted to clear the air later, All right, what's next?
Clayton and Croum was founded on a simple idea, all leather goods should last a lifetime.
They make everything bags, belts, wallets, and much more.
And the best part, they're doing it right here in Kentucky.
You can check them out at claytonancroom dot com.
That's c R U M E dot com, claytonancroam dot com, the retail stores in Louisville two sixteen South Shelby Street in Nulu quality leather goods built to last.
If you're listening all around the country, you want great leather goods.
Clayton and Cream C L A Y T O N and croom dot com.
Speaker 3The Apprentice is back?
Speaker 1Is this number five?
Speaker 3I promise this is my favorite, my last Donald Trump story.
Speaker 1This is number I.
Speaker 3Yes, the Apprentice is back.
Trump has made some questionable moves over the last week.
He has fired the Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, accused her of lying on financial documents.
She is now suing to try to keep her job, And in the same week, he decided to fire the CDC director, doctor Susan Monarez, who was just hired on July thirty first, so she didn't even make it a month before Donald Trump fired her.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean, I don't even know what you say, Like he fires all these anybody who has what, in my opinion, seems like a reasonable opinion, like oh, we might want to invest invest in health fired?
You know.
Federals are, I mean, federals are.
Most people don't understand what it does, to be honest with you, It's even hard for me to understand.
But it's pretty clear it needs to be independent, needs to make decisions not based on politics.
He's trying to in that, you know.
I mean, it's almost comes to a point like it's hard for me with him because he does so much stuff that would like bring down other presidencies, and it's just a Wednesday for him, you know.
And it's probably a smart strategy.
It kind of overwhelms you with stuff and then it's hard to focus on anything.
So he's effective at that.
But I think these are bad things.
It's boring as to why I think they're bad, especially the FED.
But I don't think it's good.
Speaker 2My thing is I'm all for, uh, well, let's let's get healthy.
Speaker 1What do we call it?
Maha, ma, maha?
Is that it?
Yeah?
Speaker 2I'm all for for making America healthy.
I'll even wear the hat.
But let's just let's let's include a little bit of science, just a little bit.
Speaker 1When you think of healthy, do you really think of RFK?
No, but I would.
I would like people to be healthy.
I just think we should.
I mean, I don't understand how we got to RFK.
Of all the people involved in the Trump world, the most insane is RFK, and is don't hell like he is.
I mean, the rest of the people are road scholars.
And I know because I his father is like my hero, his father, Bobby Kennedy.
To me, like, if I were to say to you, who's the person whose political life I most admire?
Now, his personal life was whatever it was, but his political life, it would be Bobby Kennedy.
And he's the guy who, before he got shot, went into Appalachia really for the first time and highlighted a lot of the problems there.
He did the same thing in the inner city.
He went to Indian reservations.
He was like, exactly, and the fact that this dude is his son and he has no medical training none.
And with the sentence he's in charge of health and he has no medical training.
That shit in the conversation, no matter who it is that care who it is.
It could be the smartest person in the world, that should end the conversation, and yet we let him.
I mean, he said he was walking through the airport and he saw children and it looked like they they're mitochondria hurt.
What what does that even mean?
Speaker 2All that training he has he can spot those things.
Speaker 1Children are by every measure healthier now than they've been in the entire existence of human history.
I mean, you realize it was only like fifty years ago that the average lifespan was or seventy years ago that the average lifespan was like twenty five years younger than it is.
Didn't realize that, I mean used to be people like God.
First of all, you go back two hundred years ago.
People were dead at my like, no one was mine.
I was I would have been one hundred in the seventeen hundreds at my And I just I can not believe America has allowed Robert Kennedy to be in charge of health.
Robert Kennedy is.
They don't even let him go the family reunions.
Speaker 3You think it's a last name thing he got his job.
Speaker 1No, I think it's because he represents this conspiracy.
He was part of the conspiracy theory left.
Okay, Robert Kennedy people were like Hollywood like wellness people, etc.
And Trump was able to win them over by bringing him in.
But he's a kok He is a cook.
Speaker 2If you had to have a position, it should have been something like the railroad.
Speaker 1Railroad.
Maybe give him some training wheels.
Speaker 2We shouldn't be gone put him on the railroad.
Yeah, just not straight to health.
Surely there was another commissioner he could have practiced at.
Speaker 1And you know, I used to always make fun of his voice, and then I had a woman rite me and say, you know, you always advocate not making fun of people for things they can't help.
And okay, fair enough, but it doesn't he doesn't seem to me like the person that can walk through the airport and tell who's healthy and who's not.
Speaker 2Can you like, dump a bear in Central Park or something.
Speaker 1He like swims in whale blubber.
He kills bears and then leaves them in the park.
Speaker 3But we're getting that die out.
Speaker 1Okay, one positive thing, But you know, like one of the things people in the Maha movement are really for is getting chemicals off of farms, which, by the way, is good.
We need as few a pesticides and things as we possibly can.
Some of them we have to have.
But well, he just ended all regulation of that stuff.
Mister Maha ended all FDA regulation of pesticides or most, not all, but most.
Speaker 3How's that, ma, that's supposed to help farmers.
Speaker 1No, it's pro corporate interests.
I mean he is just as crooked as anybody else.
I mean the Kennedys, God love him, A lot of them are crooked.
So anyway, he just he driving me nuts.
What's next?
He probably did the cracker barrelot.
Speaker 3Could be we'll blame him.
Let's go to some world news.
This Wednesday was the eightieth anniversary of Spain's famous tomatina event, the Tomato Street Fight.
I've heard of that, yeah, it took place on Wednesday.
One hundred and twenty tons of overripe tomatoes are shipped from the town of Bueno twenty two thousand participants.
The event was inspired by a food fight between local children who pelt at each other with tomatoes back in nineteen forty five.
There's no teams, no points, and no referees.
There's just one rule.
To avoid injuries.
People are encouraged to squash their tomatoes before throwing them.
Speaker 1Have you ever seen video of this?
Yes, it's awesome, just soaked, right, it's awesome.
I uh, when I was in it's in what mid August?
Is that right?
Yeah?
Speaker 3It was just just this Wednesday.
Speaker 1I came home last year, right before because I even considered extending my trip for a week because I wanted to go.
And it's in what was in that town in Spain?
Speaker 3Well, actually the tomatoes are from the town Bueno.
I'm not sure of where it's at.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's a it's in a town I can't remember that.
But I think that looks fun.
I like little stupid festivals in towns.
I think they're cool.
Who cleans that up?
Though?
Speaker 2I mean it's not a small it's not a small food fight.
So tripping over tomatoes.
Speaker 3It's done right after, and the citric acid from the tomatoes actually helps clean the street.
Speaker 1Look at this, so the tomato, well then what cleans the citric as people?
Speaker 3I mean, there's just a whole group of people that clean it up.
Speaker 1Do you do you know that?
Are you making that?
I know?
Speaker 3The citric astid thing?
Speaker 1How do you know?
Speaker 3It was in the news article The news Matty.
Speaker 1A lot of towns they have their thing right.
Everybody has their thing.
I went to seeing Italy to the Il Polio, which is one of the most fun things I've ever been to, where the horses raced through the streets.
Have you ever seen that.
Speaker 3I've seen a video that they.
Speaker 1Do it twice a year.
Each neighborhood has its horse right that represents the neighborhood.
It's like six seven neighborhoods and they get in the town square.
They shut off the town and the horses run in a circle around the town square.
The entire town either gets in the center or like it's up in the balconies and all that.
I was in the center.
I had to stand there for hours waiting on it with Tall.
We watched it the horse It was very cool.
So whichever neighborhood wins that night, the city pays for them to have an all night festival.
That's awesome.
And so we were just like, wherever whatever neighborhood wins, we're going.
And that party was amazing, like just an amazing party.
They do it twice a year.
It's called Il Palio.
And Siena, Italy, which is a beautiful city, anyway, but I loved it.
I love things like that.
Yeah, I want to go to someone.
What's the one where they're just like rolling down the hill.
I don't know how people down in Scotland.
I was in Ireland one time and I missed it by a few days.
But they have one I can't think of the name, but they like bowl but like the whole town is their bowling alice.
You'll start at the top of a hill and roll the ball as far as it can go, and I'll roll down and kind of fall off to the side and you go pick it up and roll it again.
But they're like going over the whole town, and the whole town's involved.
So any of these little events and mostly other countries look like a lot of fun.
Speaker 3Except the bulls through the street one.
I'm gonna avoid that one.
Speaker 1I do that one.
Speaker 3Well.
Speaker 1I've been to this town, right, but I didn't the didn't run Pamplona, and I was there during the running of the bulls, but I didn't actually see like they do it early in the morning.
They do it at like seven am, so because people stay up and drink all night and then they run early in the morning.
So I was there in the afternoon, Hubby and Sarah and I went and it was I mean, they were just partying and it was crazy, like you couldn't move and it was and everybody was like a these nothing to night morning.
Oh my, what I like?
Your accents really good?
Like that?
I'd like to learn about that as that could be any country?
Is that Poland?
Speaker 3Little friend?
Speaker 1It is?
How do I say?
What do you say all accent?
You just walk around the Epcot Center in every station.
The good thing about people from other countries, especially in Europe, is if they will look at you and within twenty seconds ago, how do you say.
Speaker 2You're doing the hand can't see but you've got to have the.
Speaker 1Hands of baseball.
How do you say like that that you've just done an impersonation of everyone in Europe?
Your impersonations are growing for many years.
You only have I did now diversified all right?
Speaker 3A news story number six.
There's no place like the sphere.
The nineteen thirty nine hit movie The Wizard of Oz will be at the Las Vegas Sphere.
Speaker 1This that would freak you.
Ye.
Speaker 3One hundred and sixty thousand square foot screen will have the movie.
It's one hundred and four dollars per ticket to experience the movie.
Feel the wind of the tornado.
They have twelve foot tall fans that hit you during the movie.
You can feel the ground shake.
The chairs are programmed to move during certain parts of the movie.
But the concept is called AI outpainting, where they fill the rest of the screen with AI because it's obviously not going to be the same size movie that it was shot back in nineteen thirty nine.
But also they have changed the movie from one oh two runtime to seventy five minutes, so they're changing quite a bit of the movie.
Speaker 1They's cut a bunch of the movie.
Speaker 3They've cut a lot of it.
Speaker 1Yes, yeah, a lot of It's kind of boring though people forget, like everybody think about a lot of The Wizard of Oz.
You try to watch it now.
It's a hard thing to get through.
Speaker 3A little redundant at times.
Speaker 1Yeah.
All, by the way, all old movies are like that.
You watch a movie before nineteen seventy, just try to watch it.
You can't.
They're so slow, you know, like watching basketball.
Yeah, it is kind of like the white people playing back basketball in that air.
That's how every movie is.
They just it's i know, everybody go, oh, that's a class you know.
They were like, oh, that's a classic.
Go try to watch Citizen Kane and try to look me in the eye and say that's the best movie of all time.
Speaker 2I mean, it could be a classic, but I don't mean I'm gonna sit down and watch it in the year twenty twenty five.
I can just be like, yeah, sure, that's a classic.
Looks get on the show.
Speaker 1It's so slow.
But anyway, would you want to see the Wizard there?
Speaker 2I want to go to the Sphere really bad, to the point my birthday was in June and we were planning to go to the Sphere.
Whatever the show was, we were just going to go, and it was Kenny Chesney.
I'm like, I do have limits.
But I tried to catch Backstreet in July.
Might try again in December.
Unlikely I got to get to the Spirit out Sphere.
Speaker 1I really want to go.
I wanted to see Dead and Company, and that's the one that probably best.
That would have been the whole thing, right.
I've been out there many times.
Speaker 2If it's being built, I've walked by it when it had like the eyeball thing before.
I've seen it so many times I want to go to the damn place, but it's it's hard to it's a costly ticket.
Speaker 1Whoever you're seeing, I kind of feel like it's gonna give me a seizure.
Company did that to a lot of people.
I'm being dead serious, like I can't you know, if I go into a like a club and it's spinning and the lights are flashing on and off, I kind of have to shut my eyes sometimes, Like when the lights are blinking like that, I feel like I would be they feel like I was.
The spears would be dangerous for me.
But I do think it would be cool to be sort of encapsulated like that.
Speaker 2The Wizard of Oz when I saw like a tornado everyone in the crowd their hair is blowing and there's like pieces of paper flying inside sphere.
Speaker 1Yeah yeah, so that looks kind of wild, and they've added to it a little bit.
Speaker 3I remember my first Imax movie that was insane, So I imagine this would be a lot of the same.
Right just times ten.
Speaker 1I saw the it's all the way around you, like you can't, you know, and I'm actually could at least look to the side.
I don't think you can do that.
Speaker 2I saw the The Muppets Muppets three D maybe at Disney World when I was a kid.
But in the movie, they had like a bunch of like a mice outbreak, and they're just running all over the ground and then they blewe air on your feet.
It was the most terrifying thing imaginable.
Everyone in the They had like on the screen that make you feel like there are a bunch of mice running into the theater.
But then they blow air on the back of your legs and you.
Speaker 1Went to the movie, but the theater itself had a mice outbreak.
Speaker 2Well, they wanted you to think there was, and they hit you with this air and you could fill every set of legs in that place, and people scream shoot up in the air thinking they were actually in the theater with us.
Speaker 1I think theaters and stuff are gonna have to do more stuff like that, Like people just don't go to the theaters like they used to.
And I would, like, I wish I could go to one at the Sphere, but I don't know if i'd be able to.
I just I think it would.
You can't get away, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2Yeah, you're you're committed, You're in and so that I've enjoyed Kevin Richardson doing all his l's down.
I felt like every time Backstreet does a show, we get tweeted a video of him doing a catch chin or an l's down in the sphere.
So he's representing BBN in there.
Speaker 1Let's go all right?
Is this number eight?
Eight?
Speaker 3Number eight?
The twenty twenty five Global Peace Index dropped this week?
Boys, and we have a list of the safetest safest countries in the world.
Speaker 1What does that mean?
The Global Peace Index.
Speaker 3It's a international travel thing where they we rank the or not we somebody, right's the safest countries in the world based on twenty three different metrics stertle, conflicts and terrorists.
Speaker 1Okay, so what can I make some guesses?
Speaker 3Sure, we only have the top ten and then the bottom five.
Speaker 1I feel good about one, right, Well, let me I'll do.
I'll get to the bottom five and a second top ten.
I feel like Switzerland's one.
Speaker 3Of Switzerland is number five, okay.
Iceland Iceland is number one, man, great, good job, Yeah.
Speaker 1I mean it's isolated.
Nobody, nobody's got a beef.
One letter off.
There's Ireland on the number two.
Look at that very good.
It's a little surprising to me.
Ireland is on there, is the safest, Like, I mean, they they did have a history of like hundreds of years of fighting with England, and they I guess they're just over.
Speaker 2I drove all over Ireland.
Never felt safer.
Speaker 1Really.
Speaker 2Yeah, it might be a little little bar fight you see breakout that you're not involved in.
Speaker 1Other than that, it was all over.
Ireland's a surprising country, like Ireland was like the first country to recognize Palestine.
Like, so, I think people don't realize kind of Ireland's probably not the way you would stereotype it to be Luxembourg.
No, that's probably not big enough to be on there.
All right, we'll give me the Redmark.
Speaker 3Denmark is number eight, is on there, filling out there, filling out the list, number three, New Zealand number four, Austria number five, with Switzerland number six, Singapore number seven, Portugal, number nine, Slovenia and number ten Finland.
Now to the worst, Well hang on, hang.
Speaker 2On, yeah, Slovenia, is that what you're said, Yes, whorse Canada.
Speaker 1I had them surprising too, that Slovenia is on there.
Speaker 3Oh nine.
Speaker 1I went to Slovenia, and I actually found the big city there a little scary.
That's that's surprising to me.
Portugal, I can see completely New Zealand I think would be awesome.
I'd love to go to New Zealand.
All right, so the most dangerous one is gonna be South Sudan.
Speaker 3Sudan is one, yes, One is gonna be Ukraine, Ukraine and Russia.
Speaker 1One is gonna be Israel.
Speaker 3Right now that is not in the bottom five right now mm Afghanistan, no.
Speaker 1Hm, Syria mm hm Seri is a good guess.
So we've gotten three of them, right, South Sudan, Ukraine, Ukraine, and Russia.
Uh, there is like Botswana, what is it?
Speaker 3Yemen and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Speaker 1Yeah, because that they're in a war.
And then Yemen's just like I think there's a lot of terrorists.
Speaker 3Now would you like to guess where the United States ranks?
Speaker 1Well, I would need to know what the what the what this cause?
If it's like for world peace, then it's pretty safe.
If you're talking about just on a daily basis, I would say twenty ninth one eight.
Speaker 3And Russia was won sixty three.
Speaker 1One twenty eight.
I guess they're considering gun violence in that heavily.
Speaker 3Yes, Wow, homicides, I was gonna say, in the fortiesism, external conflicts, military homicides, no homicides.
Speaker 1One eight is surprising to me, though.
We're gotta do better than that.
Yeah, we gotta get top one hundred.
But then again, we're more relying on guns than anybody.
I mean, like, at the end of the day, we are we have so many guns compared to literally almost everywhere in the world.
I mean, we open this podcast about a shooting at a church, So I guess it shouldn't be that surprising that we're not the safest.
Yeah, well, that's that's surprising.
What was last was very last?
Ukraine?
Yemen?
Right, yeomen Yimen was the last?
Last?
All right, what's next?
Speaker 3All right, let's have some fun with these final two stories.
You know, we are on the cusp of the college football season starting week one just this weekend, but Week zero was also a lot of fun last weekend, and the story of Hawaii's kicker is pretty incredible.
Hawaii beat Stanford with a last second field goal twenty three to twenty.
It was their first win versus a Power four team since twenty nineteen.
So feel good, right, but then you learn the story about the Hawaii.
Hawaii kicker.
Ken Say Matsuzawa is a Japanese born kicker who hit the game winner at age twenty.
He was a waiter at Morton's Steakhouse.
Speaker 1Hey, that's a good place.
Speaker 3On vacation in the United States, he saw an NFL game, so when he returned home, he decided to teach himself how to place kick via YouTube videos.
He eventually convinced a community college to accept him in Ohio.
He was actually pretty good there, and then he transferred to the University of Hawaii, where he hit the game winner just last weekend.
Speaker 1Very cool story.
I would like to know how he convinced the school in Ohio.
Hey, man, I'm over here in Japan, all right.
Been on YouTube.
I think I can kick.
Think I got this thing figured out.
And then the community college in Ohio is like, yeah, it feels like you're a guy.
That is a movie I'd like to see.
That is a great story.
So he was at Morton's saw kicking, decided to wait till he got back to Japan to learn yes, and then taught himself from YouTube.
Maybe he watched Max Duffy in order to learn.
Speaker 2Or Kai Ramsey how to videos.
Maybe I don't want a story though, I want to see the YouTube videos he watched, Like I hope it was just some random guy in his backyard with thirty four views, not even a professional, and he just.
Speaker 1Started there and worked his way up.
You do wonder, like, Okay, so in football specifically, we have taken all of the talent in football as American.
But like I you hear me say, it's a big world out there, and there there might be places all over the world where the people who should be playing this position are and we just don't know.
So I mean, obviously punting has shown to be Australia is not even that big, and now like half the punters in college football are from Australia because as as we learned from Max, they grow up kicking like that kind of motion like that, they grow up with that.
So it wasn't so once Australia was opened up to college football it was like, oh, these dudes are a lot better than ours.
I wonder if that would be true for other positions, like you would think like offensive line, like those dudes in the world Strong's men contest count are like from like you know, Norway, or from Let's get the Mountain from Game of Throne.
Yeah, it feels like those dudes might be even better at offensive line than our guy.
Speaker 2You know, it might be onto a strategy here.
How do we find these guys?
The thing I learned this the other day.
The NFL has a thing where if you are a team and you get someone from Europe or from Asia or whatever and you put them on your they don't count towards a roster spot.
So like every NFL team gets like fifteen players on their practice squad, but you'll get a sixteenth if you'll get someone because they're trying to develop the game in other countries.
Yeah, the NFL know that whole country will be buying merchandise when they were to make.
Speaker 1The team, because the NBA has obviously seen this happen when they had Yal and when they've had all these players, you know, they get themselves into new markets doing that that way.
Speaker 3I think you've had this opinion before.
How about a sumo wrestler as a hockey goalie.
Speaker 1Yeah, I've heard it, But then I've heard people say they have to stand on skates their ankles are not.
Speaker 3Going to be they have to stand or can they sit there?
Speaker 1Oh you want them to just sit on his butt?
Speaker 3Just be as big as the goal.
Speaker 1I still think you're gonna have some openings up in the corner and there's still reaction time.
I watch a lot of hockey.
They can put it through.
Speaker 2Some slots and they're moving around, you know.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean you need a really big Yeah, I don't think it's going to work.
But the kickers, it would just seem natural that place kickers.
Why aren't there more American place kickers from like soccer, you know why?
I mean, I'm shocked that every kicker in football is not front, is not from a you know, Hispanic country or like, I mean, they're better at that.
They'd literally do that motion the theory, they should be better at it than not.
Speaker 2You can get a retired soccer player tired of running around all the time, like, yeah, I'll walk out there, take.
Speaker 1A few steps steps, kick it for you three or four times a night.
Yeah, I mean, I would think there's gotta be dudes in soccer all over the world who could do it better than I mean, how many terrible college kickers there are there have to be other guys who could do it.
Speaker 2Yeah, go get some forty year old to just retire from the Premier league.
They're like, we'll put you up, give you an education.
I gotta just walk out here and take a few steps and kick it for us.
Speaker 1All right, let's do one more.
It's Labor Day weekend, Billy, we got places to go.
What's number ten?
Speaker 3Well, some might think that Labor Day weekend is the unofficial start of fall, but Starbucks would tell you think it was last weekend.
Uh Tuesday, he says, it's the start of fall many people.
Okay, I don't like those don't wear white either.
This Tuesday, pumpkin spice latte returned to Starbucks.
It's been twenty two years of pumpkin spice, Matt.
Now we've got pumpkin spice deodorant, pumpkin spice cat litter.
Fall is here and you can always mark it with a little pumpkin spice from Starbucks.
Speaker 1Yeah.
I mean, I know, people really like it.
I've always wondered why not just keep it all the time.
People seem to enjoy it.
But I do think the thing about the whole pumpkin spice smell it does make me think autumn, Halloween.
So I'm not as against this as a lot of people who don't seem to like when we get to pumpkin spice season, although I do think Labor Day is a little early.
Speaker 2I unfortunately frequent Starbucks.
In fact, I've had two seven dollars drinks from there today.
The pumpkin just doesn't do it for me.
No, I'm not proud of it.
We've been I've needed caffeine from this damn day we have in here been a long day.
But I agree with you that it's kind of like the turn of the seasons, like we got a little colder here in Lexenon this week.
We're kicking off football soon, pumpkin spice is out.
Might have a pot of chili on soon.
It's more of a where we're moving into the new season of the year.
Speaker 1Yes, well, thank you all very much for listening.
Billy A nice job with your ten.
We will be back next week with Governor Andy Basheer.
I hope everybody has an amazing weekend.
And you know what it was the news and now you feel now you are, I guess educated to get along with your weekend.
Enjoy it.
See you next week,