1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 1: Life audio. 2 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:09,399 Speaker 2: Today, I'm talking about that John flies on a private 3 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:13,120 Speaker 2: jet and gets ignored by young people. Meanwhile, I use 4 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 2: two high schoolers as my opening act and invent a 5 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:19,959 Speaker 2: historical new drink, plus a conversation about rage bait and 6 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 2: why politics can never bring his true freedom. Today's episode 7 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:26,279 Speaker 2: is not sponsored by Sally's Seashell Shop. We're right down 8 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:28,640 Speaker 2: by the seashore, which in retrospect was a poor choice 9 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:41,479 Speaker 2: of location. The first a word from my actual sponsor, Johnny. 10 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 1: I think it's time to strap in for a little 11 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:46,880 Speaker 1: journey down the track sta Bentertown. 12 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 2: All aboard the friendship. That would be like a horn, 13 00:00:55,000 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 2: like a fog horn. Either way, we're here Mansard Town. 14 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 2: Strap in, everybody. I was in the air the other 15 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 2: day and on a plane. Oh and we'd been flying 16 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 2: for an hour, and I was like, I think I 17 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 2: had to go to the back. I normally do not 18 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 2: go to the bathroom on a plane. I'm like, trade 19 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 2: make sure I'm empty. I just don't. I'm not. It's 20 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,200 Speaker 2: a very confined. I'm six four, I don't. I don't 21 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 2: like it good. So like we're gonna be empty before 22 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 2: we go on this plane. But it was like a 23 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 2: three three and a half hour flights like I had 24 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:28,480 Speaker 2: to go and then I go to get up and 25 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 2: I go to unbuckle my seat belt and it was 26 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 2: not buckled, Like I had just forgotten son. 27 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 1: The flight attendant really screwed. 28 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 2: If they had if they had done, if anything had 29 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 2: happened during take off. 30 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:41,960 Speaker 1: You've seen those videos where someone was not flying around 31 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: where they're not strapped in, they go straight to the ceiling, 32 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:46,400 Speaker 1: like because you're in a metal tube flying in the 33 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 1: middle of the air. Wait, what if you knew that 34 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 1: again that that time I flew in that private like, 35 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 1: I felt so like, wow, we're we're a really small. 36 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 2: Like everything's exaggerated if anything happened aurbulance wise. 37 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: And you're like, I'm just up here basically by myself 38 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: flying It's almost like I have a jetpack on, but 39 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 1: it's a little bigger than that, so. 40 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 2: More expensive jet I wish I had a John flys 41 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:12,079 Speaker 2: private all the time. 42 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 1: With a jetpack. It's I have flown one time in 43 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: a private plane. 44 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 2: It's pretty good experience, it's pretty great, it's pretty unique. 45 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 1: It's pretty great coming home and going out like because 46 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: again just landed at the air at the Lebanon Regional Airport. 47 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 2: Oh is that where you went? 48 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: Okay, Like when I got there to go, I think 49 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:31,119 Speaker 1: I told the story before, But when I got there, 50 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 1: I just pulled up and strove down the road from 51 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 1: my house and just go. 52 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 2: I literally, you just get in and go. Yeah. 53 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 1: I just pulled up. It just landed, pulled up. I 54 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 1: was like, oh, your car is here. It's like, wait, 55 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: it's an airplane. And I got in and uh, we 56 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 1: flew away. 57 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 2: They didn't call it a car a car flying car 58 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 2: to be a little bit disorienting. Your car, your car 59 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:54,839 Speaker 2: right this way? Sorry, Oh we're flying here today. 60 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 1: Yeah. 61 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a pretty experienced flying You're right. The flying private. 62 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 2: The thing of the luxury of it is one thing, 63 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:05,919 Speaker 2: but the main thing is just how quick you're in 64 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 2: the air and how quick you can get back home 65 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,360 Speaker 2: and you're not waiting in line, and you're not going 66 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 2: through security and you're not doing all those things, and 67 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 2: that's what makes it. Yeah. I wouldn't sy it makes 68 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 2: worth the money because I've never paid the money to 69 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 2: do it, but I have flown private a few times 70 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 2: in on somebody else's dime. 71 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 1: Yeah. 72 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 2: Pretty good. Yeah, I don't know if I'll ever get 73 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 2: to that level, and that's okay, I've made you won't. 74 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 1: But it's all right, I've already predetermined, Oh that level 75 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 1: of success. 76 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:32,119 Speaker 2: Have you? 77 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 1: There's a chart. 78 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 2: So I had somebody posted a I don't know if 79 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 2: it's a review of the show, but I guess it 80 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 2: kind of is. They posted a Facebook post today. You know, 81 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 2: you get a notification if somebody's mentioned you in their post. 82 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 2: So sometimes I'll go and be like, oh my tag 83 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 2: me interesting be a photo of me with somebody after 84 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 2: the show. This was somebody who evidently took photos of 85 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 2: the show that I was at in Morton, Illinois. Here 86 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 2: it's near Poria, Yah okay, so which when Peoria is 87 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 2: the next major city, you know where you are, you're 88 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 2: and you're out there, you're out there. But it was 89 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 2: at this auditorium performing art center. But it was a 90 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 2: high school auditorium that hosts these events and they would 91 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:16,599 Speaker 2: do like the five play series, buy the whole series, 92 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 2: you know, you buy the whole pack. And I was 93 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:19,839 Speaker 2: one of those things. And so they have a built 94 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 2: in subscriber audience. And so it's pretty packed house, four 95 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 2: hundred people or so, and so most of them did 96 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 2: not know me. There were a few people who were like, 97 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 2: we've seen your videos, but most of them were just 98 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 2: and there were a lot a lot of older they 99 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:35,040 Speaker 2: show yeah because they just like they buy it. They 100 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 2: also bought my Fair Lady and whatever other. 101 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 1: Play my Fair, Johnny, My Fair Johnny. 102 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 2: So this woman was evidently taking photos of the night, 103 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:43,479 Speaker 2: and I didn't know that she was around there doing it. 104 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 2: And I may have met her, but I don't remember her. 105 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 2: But she wrote this is her post and tell me 106 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,840 Speaker 2: when anything strikes you. She goes, well, that was certainly different. 107 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 2: I was like, oh boy, oh no, no moving colored 108 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:59,279 Speaker 2: stage lights, no fancy costumes, nothing but an average looking 109 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:02,359 Speaker 2: guy in a strike shirt and a microphone, plus the 110 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 2: occasional use of a guitar. I was like, or we've 111 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 2: started off ouch and then she goes, I've never photographed 112 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:15,920 Speaker 2: a comedian concert before. Air quotes over concert. Uh, if 113 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 2: you ever get a chance, go see Johnny w I 114 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 2: haven't laughed so hard in a long long time. The 115 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 2: guy is just hilarious. You hear a punchline, I think 116 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 2: the story's over until the next and the next punchline. 117 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:28,360 Speaker 2: The laughter was virtually NonStop, so what kind of photos 118 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 2: could I produce of a guy who barely moves on 119 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 2: the stage, faces his faces, the many faces of Johnny 120 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 2: w enjoy and look him up on YouTube or dry 121 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 2: bar comedy. And then she tagged me, so it is 122 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 2: just a bunch of zoom ins on like the faces 123 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:42,920 Speaker 2: I make on stage, because I really don't move a 124 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 2: lot on stage. But she in the beginning, I was like, 125 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 2: I need to block this person. She came around. 126 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 1: You know, out of all the things they could have 127 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 1: said about you, to call you average looking, yeah, I 128 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:55,040 Speaker 1: mean it could have gotten worse. 129 00:05:55,520 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 2: He was in Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think. 130 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:03,359 Speaker 1: There was some in psychology we would call some of 131 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:04,480 Speaker 1: those mixed strokes. 132 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 2: I can't believe a guy this handsome could also be funny. 133 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:11,920 Speaker 2: It's almost not fair. That's what you hope for, right, 134 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 2: You're like, I just thought he was. It's not when 135 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:16,480 Speaker 2: the prom king is also hilarious. 136 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:18,600 Speaker 1: I thought he was walking a runway for a new 137 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:20,359 Speaker 1: designer and turns out he's funny. 138 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not what I got. What I got is 139 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 2: I was completely underwhelmed by his appearance and stage presence, 140 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:31,360 Speaker 2: and then he won me over with the jokes, yeah, 141 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 2: which I guess I can live here. 142 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,040 Speaker 1: I think that that is sort of my life in 143 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:39,960 Speaker 1: a nutshell, is that what I want to do is 144 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,720 Speaker 1: something to win you over from all the other reasons 145 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:45,479 Speaker 1: you probably will not want to hear anything from me. 146 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 1: I want to like in that moment, Yeah, my god, 147 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:51,839 Speaker 1: that guy I was expecting because when you're an old 148 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:59,159 Speaker 1: white bald dad. I can tell you that never before 149 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:02,000 Speaker 1: in my life have I felt more like in the 150 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 1: presence of younger people now, not like the staff and stuff. 151 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 1: If I have a connection but they don't know me, 152 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:10,680 Speaker 1: the assumption is so like, I don't I don't know 153 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:13,119 Speaker 1: what they assume, but I can just tell they don't 154 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 1: care anything that I have to say. Yeah, you know 155 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:17,239 Speaker 1: usually and that's okay. 156 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 2: They're just waiting. There's waiting for you to finish so 157 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 2: they can right, They're like all right, boomer or whatever. 158 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 1: They Yeah, I don't know, I don't know what it 159 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 1: is so like the idea that I could be like yeah, 160 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:28,119 Speaker 1: but then I dropped this this gold and it really 161 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 1: won over the room. That's such a enneagram three part 162 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 1: for me, Like I'm like, yeah. 163 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 2: You know, for an average looking dude, that guy got 164 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 2: a mind on him. 165 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: You know, though ugly to look at, and I really 166 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:41,680 Speaker 1: didn't like his church. But you know what, when he 167 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 1: got to speak, a couple of things really spoke to me. 168 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 2: I see now why yeah, yeah, but I. 169 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: Want to get that see you got it. I don't 170 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:49,360 Speaker 1: ever get those. 171 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 2: It's an interesting night too, for a lot of reasons. 172 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 2: So we booked it, and then they wanted me to 173 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 2: do like ninety minutes, which is a lot for comedy 174 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 2: one guy talking for night. They go, we'll do an intermission. 175 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 2: Can you do ninety minutes? They never book comedy concert 176 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 2: And I was like, well, honestly, sixty minutes is a 177 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 2: lot to your one guy talk. You do ninety you're 178 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 2: really pushing it. Even with intermission, that's a lot. I know. 179 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 2: You want to get your money's worth. Yeah, I said, 180 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:12,239 Speaker 2: maybe I'll bring an opener. Well, then they booked opener. 181 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 2: They were like, we brought in openers. That's scary, and 182 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:17,800 Speaker 2: I go, okay. They go, we're gonna have two vocalists. 183 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,160 Speaker 2: I go, oh boy, okay. So I show up and uh, 184 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 2: not knowing what to expect, and it was two of 185 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:26,240 Speaker 2: their students at the high school who had one like 186 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 2: runner up in a contest for their grade and they 187 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:33,559 Speaker 2: were going to sing like to two tracks each Michael 188 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 2: Boublat songs and Frank Sinatra, and I was like, this 189 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 2: is introdeding. So I met these kids and I was like, okay, 190 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 2: I was so ready for like the not look you 191 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 2: in the eye awkward kids, and they were the most congenial, smart, 192 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 2: sharp kids. Wow. And they were asking questions about my 193 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:53,840 Speaker 2: career and they were telling I would asking about themselves, 194 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 2: and they were just like look them in the eye. 195 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:57,200 Speaker 2: And I was just like, what is good? I go, 196 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 2: you guys are blowing my minds. Well, they were so 197 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 2: nice and they were in the band and they were 198 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 2: in the arts, and they one of them is going 199 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 2: to be a mathematician or like in the engineering. He's 200 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 2: really good at math. And I go, and then plays 201 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 2: the mellow phone in the band and what songs are 202 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 2: you gonna do? And I go, man, you guys chose 203 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:17,440 Speaker 2: them really like big, these are big songs you're gonna do. 204 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 2: And one's a freshman, one's a senior. But the senior 205 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 2: wasn't like hazing the freshman and acting like he was 206 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 2: too cool for school like you would expect. They were 207 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 2: nice to each other. He was nice to the I 208 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:30,079 Speaker 2: was like, this is crazy. Yeah, so I get I 209 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:32,319 Speaker 2: tipped him. I gave him some money for opening and stuff, 210 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 2: which blew. That really shocked him. But they were so nice. So, 211 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 2: Caleb and Trevor, if you're listening, you've restored my faith 212 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:40,839 Speaker 2: in this upcoming generation y. 213 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:43,199 Speaker 1: I often say I wish we would have pushed Sadie 214 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 1: towards the band. 215 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:46,559 Speaker 2: Yeah, she's very musical. I think that is true. I 216 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 2: think that's part of what I was experiencing with them, 217 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 2: is like they've kind of had a lot of their tribe. 218 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 2: They found their tribe, and they're and intellectualism is embraced 219 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 2: in that tribe, and you have your own little silly 220 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 2: inside jokes. But sports has that someone's. 221 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:04,199 Speaker 1: Okay to be awkward in that try. You know what 222 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 1: I'm saying, It's okay to Yeah, no. 223 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 2: No, I was. I was delighted by those two kids, 224 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:10,959 Speaker 2: and then their parents came back and wanted to take 225 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 2: photos of them with me, and uh, they were just 226 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:16,200 Speaker 2: they were so sweet and it was a really it 227 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:17,960 Speaker 2: was a cool experience. So that's I may start doing that. 228 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 2: If I go do some more of these theaters, I 229 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 2: may be like, who can you give me? That's like 230 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 2: a local youth that can just do a song or 231 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 2: something open for me, or somebody wants to do stand up. 232 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:28,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a dangerous game you're playing. 233 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 2: It is a dangerous game. It goes, it doesn't always go. 234 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:34,679 Speaker 1: Well, you're right, you get up and you What you're 235 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:36,680 Speaker 1: basically saying is you found what you feel to be 236 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:39,200 Speaker 1: an anomaly. Now you want to try to replicate that. 237 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:41,679 Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, you're right. Over again, You're right. This is 238 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:43,840 Speaker 2: you're right. I'm playing with fire over here. 239 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:48,720 Speaker 1: Replicated anomalies. That sounds like replic it does. We're a band, 240 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: we are. 241 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 2: Give it up for replicated anomalies rock and roll. I 242 00:10:57,240 --> 00:10:58,959 Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know either. You know what you 243 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:03,560 Speaker 2: can't replicate? Johnny, Well you can. I guess it happens 244 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 2: all the time the time. But john let's take a 245 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:09,119 Speaker 2: minute and hear from a few of our fine replicated sponsors, 246 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:20,680 Speaker 2: and we're back. 247 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 1: I want to remind you guys always to remember our 248 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:30,839 Speaker 1: friends at NICE Nashville International Center for Empowerment. They're helping 249 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:35,640 Speaker 1: refugees in the area. So you can just google NICE. 250 00:11:35,679 --> 00:11:37,400 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna read the whole things normally do. But 251 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:39,600 Speaker 1: Johnny and I both support them. They're an amazing work 252 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 1: and we believe in that. So make sure you're a 253 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 1: part of that. So if you listen to past episodes 254 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:46,599 Speaker 1: or whatever, but if you want to help out in 255 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 1: the Nashville area especially, then you can help out with nice. 256 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:54,080 Speaker 2: Yeah. Man, what a challenging time we're in for folks. 257 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:56,680 Speaker 2: It's like, and I hate that everybody's being lumped in, 258 00:11:56,760 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 2: even folks that are like trying to do things the 259 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 2: right way or we're promises by this country and now 260 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 2: it feels like we're going back on some of that. 261 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:07,320 Speaker 2: It just feels like so against what, yeah, we're supposed 262 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 2: to be about. Somebody posted that the other day. It 263 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:13,440 Speaker 2: was from John Prine. It was an old John Prime song. 264 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 2: I think it was our friend Caleb Edwards. He posted 265 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:18,559 Speaker 2: a John Prime song lyric and it was like, I 266 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 2: really love America, but I can't seem to find my 267 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 2: way back to her. Yeah, And it's like I feel 268 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 2: like we're in this weird We're in this weird spot 269 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 2: where we're getting We're gonna get to decide in the 270 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 2: next this next few months, we get to decide what 271 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 2: we're going to become you know where, whether we go 272 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:38,440 Speaker 2: further down this path or what we're doing, I don't know. 273 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:40,120 Speaker 2: It's an interesting it's a very interesting time, and I 274 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:41,680 Speaker 2: know a lot of people have a lot of anxiety 275 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 2: over it, no matter what side you're on. 276 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:46,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, and the fact that there are so many sides 277 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:48,560 Speaker 1: I think is part of the problem. In fact, that 278 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:49,959 Speaker 1: kind of leads into my quote for the day. 279 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:51,360 Speaker 2: Okay, well you want to go and do it. 280 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 1: And we'll continue. We'll pick up this conversation to the 281 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 1: context of this quote. It's my sevenment we call they 282 00:12:56,280 --> 00:13:10,560 Speaker 1: talked about that, mm hm. 283 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 2: Close enough. 284 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 1: Thomas Merton love Thomas Martin, the old mert ol Merty said. 285 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 1: This is from a book from nineteen eighty five. Actually, 286 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:27,359 Speaker 1: he said, hope of attaining true freedom by purely political 287 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:31,640 Speaker 1: means has become an insane delusion. M hm. Hope of 288 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:35,240 Speaker 1: attaining true freedom by purely political means has become an 289 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:38,959 Speaker 1: insane delusion. So you know, Thomas Merton is a monk, 290 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 1: right yeah. At the he's at a monastery up at 291 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:43,599 Speaker 1: near Louisville. 292 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:46,160 Speaker 2: The Merten Monk Monastery, the Merton Monastery. 293 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:53,199 Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting because I think just the word 294 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 1: political is so divisive, and I think that it's what's 295 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: really hard about life is we've never been so navel 296 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:07,320 Speaker 1: gazing as now, like looking at our own emotions. We 297 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 1: talk about it all the time, like the therapy talk, 298 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 1: the self reflection, the self improvement. But I think what 299 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:23,440 Speaker 1: we're missing and all that is the ability to objectively 300 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 1: look at where we are on say a political spectrum 301 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 1: or a sociological spectrum, and find, you know, whether or 302 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 1: not we're moving in our inter right direction. Because there's 303 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:40,840 Speaker 1: like this assumption with all the therapy kind of talk we 304 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 1: have is that wherever we're starting from, it's the right 305 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 1: place right, it's it's the zeroline right. 306 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 2: And so. 307 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 1: I forget where I read this the other day. It 308 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 1: was talking about like, you know, only those who can 309 00:14:54,240 --> 00:15:00,160 Speaker 1: really honestly evaluate themselves with the help of others, can 310 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:03,120 Speaker 1: look at that painful truth. That's the only way to 311 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: truly grow into an integrative type of existence. And I 312 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 1: think what we're missing today is is like the political 313 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 1: world lacks it lacks uncertainty. And when you're certain about 314 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 1: really complex, nuanced things and you have a pure certain viewpoint, 315 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 1: that has no room for anybody else's viewpoint. That's politics today. 316 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:38,520 Speaker 1: But by that definition it is anti politics because the 317 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 1: definition of politics is supposed to be multiple sides of 318 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 1: a spectrum working together. As you guys know, I got 319 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 1: to write for mister Jim Haslam, who's ninety five now, 320 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:57,560 Speaker 1: who founded Pilot Corporation, and his son was Governor Bill 321 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: Haslam is a two term governor of Tennessee and Governor 322 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 1: Hasn't wrote a book. It's right here on myself. It's 323 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 1: called Faithful Presence. He wrote with Thomas Nelson and he 324 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 1: talks in there, gives a story about he went on 325 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:14,080 Speaker 1: it was a right wing news network as the governor 326 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:18,040 Speaker 1: they had just passed some legislation. Yeah, and they were 327 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 1: like asking him, so, how did you finally beat the 328 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 1: Libs and whatever? And if you've ever met Governor Haslam, 329 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:29,160 Speaker 1: that's what the whole book is about. He's a guy 330 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 1: that wants to followed Jesus and he believes that there 331 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 1: is a way to be a Christian as you serve 332 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 1: a common good in the public square. That's what that 333 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:38,600 Speaker 1: book's about, how to be a believer in the public square. 334 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 1: And he was like, actually, no, I didn't beat anybody. 335 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 1: We came together in the table and bro our sides. Yeah, 336 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:49,320 Speaker 1: but and they kept going at him, trying to get 337 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:53,359 Speaker 1: that sort of bait, and he said, actually, we all compromised, 338 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 1: gave something, lost something so that we could all win something. 339 00:16:57,080 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 1: And that's kind of how the process is supposed to work. 340 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:04,640 Speaker 1: And the interview because they couldn't get this is not helpful, 341 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 1: like they just think where we're going to go now, 342 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 1: to bob over and whatever. And it's so telling that 343 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:13,679 Speaker 1: we're addicted to the rage because we really believe we 344 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:16,439 Speaker 1: can have some sort of freedom by purely political means, 345 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:18,840 Speaker 1: and we don't know that's the thing. We can't look 346 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 1: at ourselves enough to know it, because we've been told 347 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 1: that if anybody disagrees, then they're the enemy. We're literally 348 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:32,840 Speaker 1: using words today in from like public offices like vermin. 349 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:39,800 Speaker 1: And they're not just we're describing immigrants. Certainly invaders were invaders. 350 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: We're using words like I'm quoting, I can go find 351 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:48,400 Speaker 1: these I'm not making out. This is not some garbage 352 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: words like garbage, words like scum, words like animal. These 353 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 1: are all dehumanizing terms and the only way someone would 354 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:04,919 Speaker 1: entertain them is if you have to believe on a 355 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:10,960 Speaker 1: high level that they're true. Otherwise, if you're dealing with 356 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:13,480 Speaker 1: humans and I'm just I can only speak to those 357 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:17,040 Speaker 1: who claim to follow Christ. If you're talking about other humans, 358 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: then you have to deny the ways of Christ in 359 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:22,520 Speaker 1: order to use those those terms. So the only way 360 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 1: it works is you have to believe it. You have 361 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:25,560 Speaker 1: to be a true believer. 362 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 2: It has to be your new religion. It has to 363 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:30,480 Speaker 2: be higher than it's a new belief system. Yeah, that 364 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 2: says this is the way forward politics will since we'll 365 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:34,440 Speaker 2: find this are of true freedom. 366 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:36,000 Speaker 1: Like you said, right, and if it has no tension 367 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:39,800 Speaker 1: with your faith, yeah, then I just would stop and 368 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 1: say again, I have zero judgment. And that's the thing. 369 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:44,480 Speaker 1: This could be triggering for so many people hearing the 370 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 1: words because we have been conditioned to be triggered. Now 371 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:51,680 Speaker 1: we've been conditioned to that everything on your phone makes 372 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:54,720 Speaker 1: more money when you're upset. That's just guys, that's straight 373 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:59,480 Speaker 1: up in the data getting you upset, just more money 374 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 1: for the people. 375 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 2: Even in the old days of like radio, like I 376 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:07,160 Speaker 2: remember watching Howard Stern did him book called Private Parts 377 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:09,520 Speaker 2: about his stories, like his biography, and then he did 378 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:12,440 Speaker 2: a movie about it. And it was basically just stories 379 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:15,040 Speaker 2: from him being like on terrestrial radio before he went 380 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:16,600 Speaker 2: to serious, but like when he was in Testrail he 381 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 2: was the number one show and he was so shy. 382 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:21,600 Speaker 2: He was the original shock jock. He was so offensive 383 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:24,200 Speaker 2: and whatever. And they were doing the data and they 384 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 2: said it really laid the groundwork for what social media 385 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:29,919 Speaker 2: is now and what you know, Fox News, INSBC all 386 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:34,320 Speaker 2: of it. And they said, we've done the data and 387 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:39,000 Speaker 2: his drivetime show. The people that love him listen for 388 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:41,600 Speaker 2: an hour and they go, okay, and they go the 389 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:45,119 Speaker 2: people that hate him listen for three hours. Wow, that 390 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:48,840 Speaker 2: was the real data. Yeah, so they just rage listen 391 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:51,199 Speaker 2: to this guy so they could have more detail for 392 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 2: their angry letters to the station or whatever. And now 393 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 2: that's evolved into what we have now. He already saw it. 394 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,240 Speaker 2: I mean this was thirty years ago. Forty years ago. Yeah, 395 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:00,800 Speaker 2: it's crazy. 396 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 1: Well, I think we got to always that's fascinating and 397 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:06,080 Speaker 1: I think we have to always realize that. And I 398 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:10,040 Speaker 1: tell the church all the time, if you let's just 399 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:14,199 Speaker 1: simplify it down to a couple phrases, if you just 400 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 1: really live your life trying to do justly, trying to 401 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:21,119 Speaker 1: love mercy, not just tolerate mercy, but loving the idea 402 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:25,119 Speaker 1: that people get mercy, and walking humbly with God. Which 403 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:30,240 Speaker 1: other ways to say this would be you disadvantage yourself 404 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:34,120 Speaker 1: to the advantage of somebody else, and you leave your 405 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 1: well being to God's providence, sovereignty care for you. You give 406 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:42,480 Speaker 1: something up so others can have because you trust that 407 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:47,440 Speaker 1: God is your provision. Then just living that kind of life, 408 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:50,359 Speaker 1: trying to do that every day will take all the 409 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:53,720 Speaker 1: energy you have in all the best ways. You will 410 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:55,760 Speaker 1: use your life up. You will waste your life in 411 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:58,399 Speaker 1: the best of ways. You might not have fame, you 412 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 1: might not have fortune. You probably won't. You will gain 413 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:05,199 Speaker 1: something much better. You'll gain real life, eternal life. And 414 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 1: I don't mean the future eternity. I mean you'll live 415 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,560 Speaker 1: in eternity in the present. Which is one of the 416 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 1: prayers from the Book of Common Prayer is that strengthen 417 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:16,520 Speaker 1: us in all goodness and by the power of the 418 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:19,840 Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, keep us in eternal life today, like keep 419 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:24,359 Speaker 1: me in eternal life today. But to hate or to 420 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:29,520 Speaker 1: even go down the rabbit hole of information beyond what 421 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 1: is just good civic, educational. I think we all need 422 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:34,920 Speaker 1: to have a civic education. We all need to kind 423 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 1: of know what's going on somewhat, but to go down 424 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:39,880 Speaker 1: the rabbit hole of obsession, which is the way all 425 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 1: the media is. And I'm not anti media, I'm just 426 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 1: pro responsibility to understand what the media is. Yeah, you 427 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:48,840 Speaker 1: should look at guys, if you have never looked at 428 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 1: ad Fontes media bias chart, it's a great thing. It'll 429 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 1: tell you what you're listening to, where there is in 430 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:57,800 Speaker 1: the left, right, or middle. And if you don't, if 431 00:21:57,800 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: you want to listen to the right or the left, 432 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 1: great also go listen to the middle on the other 433 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,199 Speaker 1: side and get a balanced viewpoint on it. So the 434 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:06,440 Speaker 1: media itself doesn't have to be bad. It's only bad 435 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:08,919 Speaker 1: if you can't balance or understand its nature of what 436 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,439 Speaker 1: it's doing to you, because it's no longer meant to 437 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:12,880 Speaker 1: be just purely informational. 438 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:18,440 Speaker 2: No, we have a more miserable and enraged population than ever, 439 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 2: and it's because we have little propaganda machines in our pockets. Yeah, 440 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 2: that are feeding us things, yeah, and then occasionally selling 441 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:29,320 Speaker 2: us popcorn too, whatever else we want. 442 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 1: Yeah. That is spiking your dopamine every time. It's spiking 443 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,040 Speaker 1: your Cortisol when you get stressed. I mean like it's 444 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:40,720 Speaker 1: literally we're writing a roller coaster of political rage. And 445 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:43,359 Speaker 1: I think back to Martin, there is no hope of 446 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:46,719 Speaker 1: attaining any true freedom through this. There has to be 447 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:50,640 Speaker 1: and I've had this conversation just by today. It is offensive, 448 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:55,159 Speaker 1: but it must be the case. Like our allegiance to Christ, 449 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:58,200 Speaker 1: there must not be a second, a close second to that. 450 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 1: It's the first commandment, right, have no other gods. You 451 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:03,399 Speaker 1: can have other interests, you can have other things that 452 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 1: you're even responsible for or that you have some allegiance too, 453 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:10,880 Speaker 1: but they shouldn't be anywhere on the level of your 454 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:14,760 Speaker 1: one God. The rest should pale in comparison, because, as 455 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,160 Speaker 1: the Psalms say, you alone make me dwell in safety. 456 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:20,400 Speaker 1: It's offensive you alone. There's nothing else. There's not gonna 457 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 1: be money, there's not gonna be a political figure, there's 458 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:24,679 Speaker 1: not gonna be a policy, all the things. So if 459 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,800 Speaker 1: I'm gonna engage in the civic processes, I should as 460 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,560 Speaker 1: a believer. It's got to be it's got to be 461 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:35,920 Speaker 1: almost like yeah, again, it's civic responsibility, not spiritual allegiance. 462 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:37,920 Speaker 1: There has to be a difference between that so because 463 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:40,640 Speaker 1: hope of it taking true freedom about purely, purely political 464 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 1: means is an insane delusion. That's what Merton said. I'm 465 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:48,480 Speaker 1: agreeing with him, guys. That's my secment for today. 466 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:55,000 Speaker 2: The Mertenn Monastery. John, let's do some old jokes today. 467 00:23:55,160 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 2: We call it joke about that John tough time. I 468 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:04,360 Speaker 2: don't know if I told you this, but I got 469 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 2: home the other day. I had been robbed, someone had 470 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:11,440 Speaker 2: stolen my limbo stick. I mean, how low can you go? 471 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:15,800 Speaker 1: I like that? 472 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:20,639 Speaker 2: That's John. A pastor announced, if you know your wife 473 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 2: is controlling you, moved to the left. All the men 474 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:24,680 Speaker 2: in the church moved to the left except one man. 475 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 2: The pastor was happy there was at least one strong 476 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:29,359 Speaker 2: man and asked, how come your wife can't control you. 477 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:31,919 Speaker 2: The man quietly replied, my wife told me not to 478 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 2: move John. While Irene is calm, I'm thinking of this 479 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 2: person a name I like it. While Irene is calmly 480 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 2: cooking at home, the phone suddenly ranks, ma'am, please come 481 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:46,560 Speaker 2: to the hospital right away. Your husband was run over 482 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 2: by a steamroller. She rushed to the hospital in the 483 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,040 Speaker 2: panic and asked the front desk, please, where's my husband. 484 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:54,280 Speaker 2: He was run over a steamroller. Oh yes, rooms fifteen, sixteen, 485 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 2: and seventeen. 486 00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 1: That's dark. 487 00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 2: That's Darry. It is dark, tough. Our heart goes out 488 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:01,760 Speaker 2: to all those who were run over by steamrollers in 489 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:08,680 Speaker 2: the audience today. If you're still with us, right, John, 490 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:11,359 Speaker 2: let's do this week in history. We call it talk 491 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 2: about Then, John This Week. Nineteen fifty two, the Today 492 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:24,000 Speaker 2: Show debuted on NBS. It's a long running show, the 493 00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:28,680 Speaker 2: first early morning show. Dave Garaway was Today's first host, 494 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 2: hosting until nineteen sixty one. Still running, it is now 495 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,640 Speaker 2: the fifth longest running US television series. In nineteen fifty three, 496 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:39,679 Speaker 2: to boost sagging ratings, the chimpanzee Jfred Muggs was added 497 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 2: to the cast. Yeah, this was the thing they did 498 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:44,000 Speaker 2: a lot in shows in the fifties and sixties. It 499 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:45,680 Speaker 2: was like, we need to get a little kid, who's 500 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,520 Speaker 2: the cute hit. We gotta get a chimp on this show. 501 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 2: We gotta do some stuff. He was an instant hit, 502 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:54,399 Speaker 2: and it's estimated that Muggs earned the network over one 503 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,399 Speaker 2: hundred million in advertising and merchandising. You know what, they 504 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 2: gave him a couple of bananas. Jay mugs got a 505 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:03,960 Speaker 2: hundred million dollars. This is one hundred million dollars in 506 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,159 Speaker 2: the fifties. You know what, which one of us is 507 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 2: the chimp making all the money? That's what I was 508 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,440 Speaker 2: going to say. We need us a J Edward Muggs. Yeah, 509 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,000 Speaker 2: j Fred Muggs. Sorry, I don't mean to smirch about 510 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,240 Speaker 2: J Fred and Jay Edgar Muggs. 511 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:21,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, there's too many things here to say. 512 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 2: Sesh. Yeah, anyway, j Fred Muggs, he's probably not with 513 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 2: us anymore, but I want to know what he would. 514 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 1: Don't you miss the old days of using your first initial. 515 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:35,520 Speaker 2: And name any more of that? Yeah, that sounds very prestigent. 516 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:37,240 Speaker 1: You know this, This is a quote from from J 517 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 1: Carl Driver that actually, doesn't that sound pretty? 518 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,359 Speaker 2: That's not too bad, doctor Jay. I guess sounds like 519 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 2: he's of he's got average looks. 520 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, but but and probably average content too. 521 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 2: Wait, but he's three names. That was one of my 522 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,120 Speaker 2: favorite jokes ever that I heard a couple of years ago, 523 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,880 Speaker 2: which was that guy was talking about serial killers. He goes, 524 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 2: you know why these serial killers all have three names? 525 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:01,919 Speaker 2: So that was announced the name John Wayne Gacy and 526 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 2: he gave like four or five examples, and he goes 527 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 2: because they're in big, big trouble. It's so funny. That's 528 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 2: a good thing. John, Wayne Gacy, you get down here 529 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:15,719 Speaker 2: right now. What have you done? John? This week? Will 530 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:20,520 Speaker 2: Booth so help me this week? John Sterling Holloway was 531 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:24,919 Speaker 2: born in nineteen o five, Sling Sure. He was an 532 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 2: American actor. He was the voice of some of your 533 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,399 Speaker 2: favorite characters, most beloved characters, Winnie the Pooh, Okay, he 534 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 2: was the voice of the snake in Jungle Book Wow, 535 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,720 Speaker 2: and the cheshire Cat in Disney's Alice in Wonderland. I 536 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 2: didn't know he did all those things. 537 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:41,399 Speaker 1: Yeah, I was. I was a big Winning the poof fan. 538 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:41,600 Speaker 2: Oh. 539 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:45,399 Speaker 1: Yeah he had that. Ye had that very Yeah. I 540 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,680 Speaker 1: had two stuffed animals. One was a Winning the Pooh, 541 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,280 Speaker 1: of course, and the other was a Snoopy. And I 542 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,600 Speaker 1: still had the Snoopy at home my mom. Yeah I 543 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 1: found Did you pass it down to Sadie? Yeah, yeah, 544 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 1: it's it's with the rest of her stuff old. Most 545 00:27:58,080 --> 00:27:59,880 Speaker 1: of her stuffed animals are gone now, but we've kept 546 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,960 Speaker 1: well she's seventeen, I know, but she has a girls 547 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:06,840 Speaker 1: kid animals. Yes, but you understand we have bins of stuff. Oh, sure, 548 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,480 Speaker 1: she can make whole Disney parades out of stuffed animals 549 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 1: and did so. 550 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:13,919 Speaker 2: Oh the Old Disney Parade. None of those were Disney characters, 551 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,720 Speaker 2: but okay, Peanuts was. It was Swinny the pood Disney. 552 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 2: I don't think so. I don't think so. 553 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,440 Speaker 1: I don't think she used well, yeah, Snoopy, and I 554 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:22,159 Speaker 1: don't know if he was in the. 555 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 2: Pre You're just lumping them with all cartoons or Disney 556 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,320 Speaker 2: now saying this is like Google search engine happens, uh 557 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:30,280 Speaker 2: huh Google that all tissues are clean ext Where I 558 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:35,960 Speaker 2: meant bing, I meant ask Jeeves. John Benedict Donoald was 559 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,520 Speaker 2: born this week seventeen forty one. He was an American 560 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:43,760 Speaker 2: general comma trade horror. He attempted to betray you would 561 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 2: you would hate to have that kind of legacy that 562 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:47,720 Speaker 2: like they can just put a comma in like your 563 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:52,240 Speaker 2: your bio was like he was this guy trader he attempted. 564 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,240 Speaker 2: He's literally, what's not like when you think of somebody, 565 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 2: you call somebody an Benedict Donald if you mean trader. 566 00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 2: He attempted to betray West Point to the British during 567 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:01,479 Speaker 2: the American of a. Before this, he was considered an 568 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,600 Speaker 2: American hero of the Revolution. Arnold helped capture the British 569 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:09,320 Speaker 2: garrison of Fort taekwonder Roga hindered by hindered the British 570 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:13,040 Speaker 2: invasion of New York at the Battle of Lake Champlain, 571 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,080 Speaker 2: and played a c crucial role in the surrender of 572 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:21,040 Speaker 2: the British General John Berg joins army at Saratoga. However, 573 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 2: he began spying for the British and plotted to surrender 574 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:27,600 Speaker 2: West Point. When his plot was exposed, he began fighting 575 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 2: for the British. I used to have an idea for 576 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:36,360 Speaker 2: a drink and it was one third t one third lemonade, 577 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:41,000 Speaker 2: and one third betrayal, and it was a Benedict Arnold Palmer. 578 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 1: Never really So there is a new documentary from ken 579 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:52,280 Speaker 1: Burns about the the Benedict Arnold stuff is fascinating because 580 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:55,760 Speaker 1: he really was. It's hard to explain, like he wasn't 581 00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:59,560 Speaker 1: quite George Washington level fame, but he was probably the next. 582 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,080 Speaker 2: So it fell big when he was exposed. He was a. 583 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 1: Big, big deal and he was a hero. But also 584 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:10,040 Speaker 1: you don't realize quite the horrible conditions that the Revolutionary 585 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,520 Speaker 1: soldiers went through. Also, the idea of trader is so 586 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:16,720 Speaker 1: interested to me because like, as a loyalist, I look 587 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,040 Speaker 1: back and it would have been hard for me to be, like, 588 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:20,280 Speaker 1: we're going against the British Crown. 589 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,600 Speaker 2: You're you're British, you're being a trader. To start doing 590 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:24,080 Speaker 2: what you're. 591 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:29,040 Speaker 1: Doing, revolutionary things have to betray something, and so it's like, 592 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:33,960 Speaker 1: you know, Benjamin Franklin's on son was a loyalist to 593 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,560 Speaker 1: the British crown, so like it really was a civil 594 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,000 Speaker 1: war as much as it was a revolution for them. 595 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:40,920 Speaker 2: So anyway, scientild just to have a bit about that, 596 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,680 Speaker 2: about people who are cheaters in their relationships and then 597 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,160 Speaker 2: some people cheat on the people that they were cheating with. 598 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:48,400 Speaker 2: He goes, it's like you're robbing a bank and then 599 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:49,720 Speaker 2: you turn to the guy next you go, now give 600 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:54,600 Speaker 2: me everything you have that you were robbing the bank with. Yeah, 601 00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:59,400 Speaker 2: bennedic Donald. Anyway, John, the first super Bowl this week 602 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,160 Speaker 2: nineteen sixty seven. What do you know about the first 603 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:04,240 Speaker 2: Super Bowl? I did not know some of this stuff. 604 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,240 Speaker 2: It kind of blew my mind. I know nothing. Do 605 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:10,280 Speaker 2: you remember the teams? No? What could just guess colts? No? 606 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:11,920 Speaker 1: Okay, Packers. 607 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:16,480 Speaker 2: Okay, they beat the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs thirty five 608 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 2: to ten in Los Angeles. The first AFL NFL World 609 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,120 Speaker 2: Championship game was actually called the Super Bowl until later, 610 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 2: so it was almost like World War One. 611 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, you didn't call it World War One Bowl. 612 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:28,800 Speaker 2: You just said, I don't know what you said. You 613 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:30,720 Speaker 2: said the NFL World Champion. 614 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 1: It'd be really dark to call the Warrior in World 615 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:34,640 Speaker 1: War One. 616 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,960 Speaker 2: Yeah right. It remains the only Super Bowl simulcast by 617 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,200 Speaker 2: two television networks. NBC had the rights to nationally televise 618 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 2: AFL games, and CBS had the rights to broadcast NFL games, 619 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,239 Speaker 2: so both networks were allowed to televise the game. This 620 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,680 Speaker 2: is the part why it makes the list. Both CBS 621 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:52,120 Speaker 2: and NBC erased the tapes of the game to save costs, 622 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:55,480 Speaker 2: a common practice at the time. In twenty eleven, a 623 00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:58,080 Speaker 2: tape of the first half and most of the second 624 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:01,720 Speaker 2: half was found in twenty sixteen after exhaustive searching of 625 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,360 Speaker 2: their archives. The NFL had located individual recordings of each 626 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 2: play and stitch them together to form a complete game. 627 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:10,320 Speaker 2: So we just lost this to history until very recently, 628 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,360 Speaker 2: and it's kind of hodgepodge together by other angles and 629 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:16,720 Speaker 2: tapes to even get a full game unbelievable. And now 630 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 2: the Super Bowl is like the biggest thing in the world. 631 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 2: Even people that don't watch football watch the super Bowl. Yeah, 632 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,720 Speaker 2: but back they were like, erase it. It's not as 633 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:28,560 Speaker 2: product gonna take Wow, John. Finally, this week is why 634 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:30,440 Speaker 2: I horde things. By the way, honey, if you're listening, 635 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:32,800 Speaker 2: it's it's like every man has a box of cables 636 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,360 Speaker 2: because you're like, what if they bring back the red, white, 637 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:36,160 Speaker 2: yellow cable? 638 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:38,480 Speaker 1: That's my super Bowl one? It is, you know what 639 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,400 Speaker 1: I'm saying. Who knows if you might need it someday. 640 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:43,920 Speaker 2: Okay, don't get rid of that cable, my friend. That's right. 641 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,600 Speaker 2: I've done it, and you regret it immediately. You will 642 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,160 Speaker 2: find a use for that cable or that adapter, that dongle, 643 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 2: whatever it is. John. This Week nineteen ninety two, uh 644 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:58,960 Speaker 2: US Vice President Dan Quayle stated, George Bush will lead 645 00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:05,200 Speaker 2: us out of this recovery get away with words that 646 00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:07,720 Speaker 2: man did. He was probably above average looking. 647 00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:14,160 Speaker 1: That would not even make the feed today. No, yeah, yeah, 648 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:15,160 Speaker 1: that's like today. 649 00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:16,680 Speaker 2: No, it's like crazy. 650 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,400 Speaker 1: We could put the president a fighter jet dropping poop 651 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:23,479 Speaker 1: on people tweeted by the White House, and that doesn't 652 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:24,760 Speaker 1: it barely makes. 653 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, It's like it's like eight hours of the news 654 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:27,960 Speaker 2: cycle and then we move on to the next thing. 655 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,320 Speaker 1: Dang well, I mean today he might be a king, 656 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:32,440 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying if this was his time. 657 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,160 Speaker 2: Teach that got a spell potato and we're off to 658 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,680 Speaker 2: the races. He put an e on it? Right, he 659 00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:39,600 Speaker 2: put an e on it. Isn't there an eve if 660 00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:43,080 Speaker 2: you if you're plural or is it? Yeah? Potatoes has 661 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:46,080 Speaker 2: any potatoes? We'll make fun of him, But could you 662 00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:50,320 Speaker 2: really spell potato? Mm hmmm, I think I could. I 663 00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:55,840 Speaker 2: think I have a good Yes, yes I can. It's 664 00:33:55,920 --> 00:34:03,360 Speaker 2: p right, give me, give me started. Yeah, anyway, dan Quayle, 665 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:06,200 Speaker 2: that's interesting. That was an interesting election too because that 666 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,120 Speaker 2: was where the recession had a hit because he was 667 00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:11,080 Speaker 2: coming off the First Gulf War, which was one hundred 668 00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:14,440 Speaker 2: days yea, the decisive victory, and then it was like 669 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:18,480 Speaker 2: he had a ninety percent approval rating and then we 670 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:22,440 Speaker 2: hit a economic recession and then he lost to Clinton, 671 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:24,560 Speaker 2: and so that this was dan Quayle trying to do 672 00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:27,920 Speaker 2: some like damage control and somehow botched it. 673 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:32,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's yeah. That was a real high 674 00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:35,160 Speaker 1: on brad moment. If you listen to the past episodes 675 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:37,920 Speaker 1: for you, Dane, if you're listening. 676 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:43,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, Yeah, it'd be interesting. Yep, I 677 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,560 Speaker 2: don't know, man, But we got to political today. I'm 678 00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:50,240 Speaker 2: sorry everybody. We tried. I think it was just enough. Okay, 679 00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:52,480 Speaker 2: John thinks was just enough. Just enough, that's fine. 680 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:54,839 Speaker 1: Yeah, our hearts do go out to all those men 681 00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:56,560 Speaker 1: in the world that are suffering in our country right 682 00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:58,839 Speaker 1: now and around the world. I mean, I hope we're 683 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,520 Speaker 1: all about the work of trying to and yeah, I'm glad. 684 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:02,560 Speaker 1: We talked about a few things. 685 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:04,240 Speaker 2: Which, hey, we want you to enjoy the show. 686 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:06,960 Speaker 1: We're not trying to take it down the dark path, 687 00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:09,080 Speaker 1: but we also don't want to a dark path. And 688 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:10,839 Speaker 1: I also don't want you to think that we are 689 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:12,839 Speaker 1: not aware of what's happening in the world. So there's 690 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:17,040 Speaker 1: a balance there. Johnny too aware, Yeah, painfully aware. A 691 00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,080 Speaker 1: lot happening. How you guys should go check out Johnny 692 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,160 Speaker 1: W's show though. Man. When's the tour start? 693 00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:25,279 Speaker 2: February twelfth, Tour first dates twenty four, Spring dates twenty 694 00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,600 Speaker 2: four fall dates and we're coming to a city near you. 695 00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,520 Speaker 2: I guarantee you. Yeah, So go to my website Johnnyew 696 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,719 Speaker 2: dot com and check it out. Go to talk about 697 00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:36,600 Speaker 2: That podcast dot com if you want to find our 698 00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:40,920 Speaker 2: archived episodes. Four hundred almost. Yeah, we've been we've been 699 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:42,480 Speaker 2: kicking around the idea of the live show. I think 700 00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:43,919 Speaker 2: we're gonna make it out. I don't think we'll wait 701 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,960 Speaker 2: till five hundred. Probably, No, Oh, it's a good number. 702 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:49,520 Speaker 1: Never mind, Well, we're gonna do it four. 703 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,320 Speaker 2: Hundred because we may not be five hundred. That's a 704 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,040 Speaker 2: little I've been very presumptive. But that's two more years. 705 00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:57,560 Speaker 1: Hey, no, it's not. Yeah, it's fifty two weeks, fifty 706 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,839 Speaker 1: two years. It's not quite too but it's close enough. 707 00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:03,120 Speaker 1: They weren't be friends in two years. 708 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,920 Speaker 2: You better keep it between the lines, my friend. You 709 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:07,960 Speaker 2: better hold it together. 710 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,560 Speaker 1: It is amazing to me how many viewers regaining every week, 711 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:14,479 Speaker 1: and we appreciate you guys being a part of the show. 712 00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:18,319 Speaker 2: People are listening in John like eaves dropping on a 713 00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:23,520 Speaker 2: conversation between two erstwhile friends who may or may not 714 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:26,160 Speaker 2: be firstwhilestwhile. 715 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:28,680 Speaker 1: It's interesting because that is the premise of the whole show. 716 00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:29,879 Speaker 1: Just sitting with two friends. 717 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:34,200 Speaker 2: We're just hanging out. It's two guys, two regular guys, 718 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:39,320 Speaker 2: two average looking, average looking dudes, highly successful. Maybe I 719 00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:41,920 Speaker 2: should be happy about average looking, you know, like it's 720 00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:43,120 Speaker 2: better than nothing. 721 00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:44,680 Speaker 1: It might as well be. What else can you do? 722 00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:46,560 Speaker 1: If this or. 723 00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,400 Speaker 2: Worse from here on out? Probably you know you're not 724 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:50,120 Speaker 2: going to get better. 725 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:50,960 Speaker 1: I don't know. 726 00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:52,080 Speaker 2: You don't think. 727 00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:54,920 Speaker 1: Maybe I can have like a old man glow up. 728 00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:57,799 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, their surgeries. I'll give you 729 00:36:57,800 --> 00:36:59,360 Speaker 2: a card to be what it takes. I'll give you 730 00:36:59,360 --> 00:36:59,880 Speaker 2: a card. 731 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,759 Speaker 1: So that don't mean where it takes. Hey, guys, thanks 732 00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:03,680 Speaker 1: for time you gave us this week. 733 00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:04,759 Speaker 2: It was a lot of fun. Let's do it again 734 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:08,920 Speaker 2: next week. I'll talk about that.