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Speaker 5: I would say superstar, but..
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, we just obviously, you know, Sean just said it.
Speaker 3: We found out this afternoon around, what, is it 2.15
Speaker 3: or so? 2 o'clock they released it. Yeah, yeah. That
Speaker 3: the great, iconic Dolly Parton has passed away at 80
Speaker 3: years old. And to be honest with you, do we
Speaker 3: really even know if that's her birthday? Because I think
Speaker 3: that she is one of the mysterious Hollywood legends that
Speaker 3: never really released this. And I'll tell you why. Because
Speaker 3: as I'm reading about Dolly today, they were talking about,
Speaker 3: here are some great facts about Dolly Parton on her
Speaker 3: 80th birthday, dated 2024. So I think she's one of
Speaker 3: those women who really kind of never really told anybody
Speaker 3: exactly how old she was. We knew she was up there.
Speaker 3: You know, she'd maintain herself quite well with a bunch
Speaker 3: of different procedures.
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely. Still beautiful.
Speaker 4: Absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 3: And probably, you know, we were here in the studio
Speaker 3: probably about 20 minutes ago trying to figure out if
Speaker 3: there was a more iconic American entertainer slash musician still
Speaker 3: alive that had that much impact over that many decades
Speaker 3: and Um, and I, it, we, it was tough. We
Speaker 3: were having a hard time. I mean, you know, Bruce
Speaker 3: came up because he's, he's 80. I think Willie Nelson.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I would say Willie.
Speaker 8: Good one.
Speaker 3: I don't think you'll find anyone more beloved.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Somebody did text in, uh, someone who is equally beloved,
Speaker 9: just simply not American.
Speaker 2: The.
Speaker 5: David Attenborough.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but I don't know about Dolly, man.
Speaker 5: There is nobody over Dolly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dolly.
Speaker 9: Dolly was the last American icon that just appealed to everyone,
Speaker 9: young and old.
Speaker 3: Man, you read her life story, and it is absolutely insane.
Speaker 3: You're talking about a deck stacked against somebody. Yeah, humble beginnings.
Speaker 3: Her daddy was a farmer. How many kids do you.
Speaker 4: Think there were?
Speaker 3: She was one of how many?
Speaker 10: Eight?
Speaker 5: I'll say 11.
Speaker 6: 12.
Speaker 4: Oh, okay.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: She was one of 12 kids that lived in a
Speaker 3: two-bedroom house in Tennessee.
Speaker 5: That's when you know it's a farming family because.
Speaker 4: That's your crew.
Speaker 6: Exactly.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 5: You have kids to help you work the farm.
Speaker 3: That is the workforce.
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3: Really amazing talent. Was kind of nurtured by a country
Speaker 3: artist back in the day named Porter Wagner. And if
Speaker 3: you'll ever remember Porter Wagner, Porter Wagner was one of
Speaker 3: the guys who brought on the sequin age of Nashville
Speaker 3: country music. Everybody had the sequin suit. It was the
Speaker 3: late 70s or late 60s going into the 70s, early
Speaker 3: 80s before the outlaw years hit. Country music was kind
Speaker 3: of shiny. A lot of that kind of thing, a
Speaker 3: lot of traveling cowboy kind of stuff. And the song
Speaker 3: I Will Always Love You actually is about Porter Wagner,
Speaker 3: not about a love interest at all. Oh, the song
Speaker 3: that Whitney Houston made famous but written and originally done
Speaker 3: by Dolly Parton. Yeah, exactly. She wrote that song. Everybody
Speaker 3: thought that was her talking about a lover or about
Speaker 3: somebody she fell in love with. It wasn't at all.
Speaker 3: Porter Wagner, when she decided she was leaving his tutelage
Speaker 3: to move on in the business herself, it broke his heart.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And she wrote the song to tell him, hey, look,
Speaker 3: you know, regardless of what happens here, you know, I
Speaker 3: will always love you. So that became a gigantic hit. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And just one of her many.
Speaker 5: And, you know, she just lost her husband last year.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Carl Thomas Dean just passed in March of 2020. She
Speaker 9: was with him for 55 years.
Speaker 3: They met when he was when she was only 18
Speaker 3: years old.
Speaker 9: Her first day in Nashville. She met him at the
Speaker 9: wishy washy laundromat and their first date. I don't remember
Speaker 9: their first date.
Speaker 3: McDonald's.
Speaker 5: McDonald's?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, she was always impressed that when he first met her,
Speaker 9: she'd commented apparently in her memoir that while they were talking,
Speaker 9: he consistently looked in her eyes. Which she wrote was
Speaker 9: a rarity for her, for people to keep their eyes,
Speaker 9: you know, neck and above.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were also talking about how, especially in country music,
Speaker 3: you know, specifically in country music, she was able to
Speaker 3: stay apolitical. And I bet if you asked anybody right
Speaker 3: now how she voted, you'd probably never know.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: Which was so difficult, but she kept that kind of
Speaker 3: out of her music. She wanted her music to be
Speaker 3: like just... your stories over life and things that she
Speaker 3: saw she never really got mired in that which is unbelievably.
Speaker 9: Impressive it used to be that way it used to
Speaker 9: be there are three things you didn't talk about in
Speaker 9: play company money Religion and politics. Those were just three
Speaker 9: things you just didn't talk about.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But, you know, she came up in an age like
Speaker 3: she was very famous in the age of like songwriters
Speaker 3: like Chris Christopherson and Waylon Jennings and a lot of
Speaker 3: those guys that push back against the establishment when it
Speaker 3: comes to country music, you know, Willie even, you know,
Speaker 3: writing songs about. uh, about, uh, you know, tax man and, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, and about, you know, about the government overpowering, uh,
Speaker 3: you as a, as a citizen, you know, Chris Christopherson
Speaker 3: wrote songs like that. And as she grew up in
Speaker 3: that era and, uh, still did not kind of get
Speaker 3: into that whole thing. She just kind of kept it her.
Speaker 3: She really is. I mean, she is an amazing person, dude.
Speaker 3: It's kind of a drag. I was sitting here. I
Speaker 3: was grabbing a little nap before the show. And Deb,
Speaker 3: I heard Deb take that deep breath. I went and said, oh, no,
Speaker 3: I had no idea. And we knew she was in
Speaker 3: bad health at the beginning of the year. She had
Speaker 3: kind of made an announcement that, you know, the way
Speaker 3: that Dolly would, you know, hey, y'all, you know, got
Speaker 3: a couple of things going on. I can't wait to
Speaker 3: see you. But right now, my doctors say I got
Speaker 3: to stay at home. And when you look at her career,
Speaker 3: she's relatively dogged when it comes to making her dates
Speaker 3: and doing her things. But she had also got pulled
Speaker 3: away from– is it Dolly World? Yeah. Dollywood?
Speaker 8: Dollywood.
Speaker 4: That's it. Dollywood, yeah.
Speaker 3: And she didn't make an appearance there a few months
Speaker 3: back when she was supposed to for something I remember.
Speaker 5: It's a grand opening of some kind.
Speaker 3: And then just recently, a couple weeks ago, she had
Speaker 3: to cancel an appearance because– And again, reminded everybody that
Speaker 3: she was just following doctor's orders. So we knew it
Speaker 3: was a little bit more serious than maybe she was
Speaker 3: leading on. Had no idea it was like this.
Speaker 9: And obviously someone was just texting us at 77031 saying
Speaker 9: their uncle worked on the set of Steel Magnolias. Great,
Speaker 9: great movie. When he was in college and said Dolly
Speaker 9: was wonderful. One of the of all the actresses on set.
Speaker 9: She was the friendliest and made sure to speak to everyone.
Speaker 9: And she was a good actress.
Speaker 3: Yes, she was.
Speaker 5: 9 to 5, still magnolias.
Speaker 3: Total natural. She was a total natural. She really was.
Speaker 3: You know, it's so funny. My mother, I remember specifically
Speaker 3: my mom, never watched late night television, never watched it,
Speaker 3: would never stay up that late, didn't care for it,
Speaker 3: didn't care about any of that stuff. But man, every
Speaker 3: time she found out that Dolly was going to be
Speaker 3: on Johnny Carson, she would make a point to stay
Speaker 3: up and watch Dolly on Johnny Carson because she just
Speaker 3: loved Dolly Parton. And back in the day, it wasn't
Speaker 3: like you could go online and. and just kind of
Speaker 3: bring up something about somebody. When you get that longing
Speaker 3: to see a song or hear a tune or whatever,
Speaker 3: you couldn't do it. If you had an album, you
Speaker 3: could put it on.
Speaker 5: You had to wait.
Speaker 3: Seeing people, you had to wait until they made an
Speaker 3: appearance on some kind of a show, which was kind
Speaker 3: of rare back in the day. But when she came on,
Speaker 3: my mom would absolutely love seeing Dolly sing. She liked
Speaker 3: Dolly's laugh, which is one of the things I think
Speaker 3: I'll always remember about Dolly's laugh. That squeaky little innocent
Speaker 3: laugh of hers was so great.
Speaker 4: Infectious.
Speaker 11: She was great on the talk shows, but she also
Speaker 11: did movies. Rhinestone was with Sylvester Stallone.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Remember that one? That's a little whorehouse in Texas. With
Speaker 3: Burt Reynolds. Yeah, she did that one. Nine to Five is,
Speaker 3: I think, maybe her... That was the best.
Speaker 5: That was so funny.
Speaker 4: Such a good movie.
Speaker 3: Well, she only made a few, right? Or did she
Speaker 3: make some of those Hallmark things at the end of
Speaker 3: her life, like Dolly's Christmas and stuff like that? I
Speaker 3: think she made a series of those movies where Hallmark
Speaker 3: got her and, I mean, she just basically turned her albums...
Speaker 3: into small movies, if I remember right. She did a
Speaker 3: couple of those.
Speaker 9: I loved her before, but someone texted, don't know if
Speaker 9: this is right or not, but they said, fun fact,
Speaker 9: Dolly was an executive producer for the Buffy series.
Speaker 13: Oh, really?
Speaker 4: I didn't know that.
Speaker 5: That just gives her an extra layer of cool.
Speaker 3: I know one of the big things that she was
Speaker 3: quite known for was children's literacy.
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 3: And I think if you look at the numbers, she
Speaker 3: donated or made sure, I want to say, guys- Like
Speaker 3: over 100 million books or some ridiculous amount of books
Speaker 3: globally to make sure that people and children had something
Speaker 3: to read and to learn how to read. Well, she
Speaker 3: donated millions during the pandemic towards the creation of the vaccine.
Speaker 10: Yep.
Speaker 3: Unbelievable person. What a tragic day.
Speaker 5: Her and Betty White. I can't think of any.
Speaker 11: As far as iconic status, I think that's as close
Speaker 11: as you get. They're on the short list.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Beloved American icon because you're right because here's the thing
Speaker 3: you know what we we say that kind of thing
Speaker 3: all the time the the american but she was a
Speaker 3: different kind because you're right willie is also a multi-generational
Speaker 3: icon but not like that correct not loved not with
Speaker 3: the weed and not with the tax problems and not
Speaker 3: with all the stuff that willie had right and nobody
Speaker 3: disliked willie for any of those things but he didn't
Speaker 3: have that reputation he wasn't that he wasn't dolly.
Speaker 4: Pizza's here.
Speaker 3: It says spam risk. I'm not going to answer.
Speaker 4: Oh, okay. Whatever you do, keep that on there.
Speaker 5: I was wondering which one of us it was.
Speaker 3: But if I don't turn my ringer on when I'm
Speaker 3: not on the air, I miss every single call.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: I just don't get them. If I want my wife
Speaker 3: to call me, what I do is I turn my
Speaker 3: ringer off because within five seconds of me doing that,
Speaker 3: she'll call. Or if I want her to call me,
Speaker 3: I'll just go to the bathroom or I'll walk to
Speaker 3: the other side of the house. By the way, at
Speaker 3: any time of day, I could go to myself. I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: I haven't heard from my wife in a while. I'll
Speaker 3: just go to the bathroom and come back. Come back,
Speaker 3: three missed calls.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 11: They should have like a mid-ringer option. Just like you
Speaker 11: should have two car horns.
Speaker 4: Right. Like, excuse me. Let you know I'm here, car horn.
Speaker 11: That's the excuse me. Hey, by the way, the light's green.
Speaker 11: That's that car horn. And then the other one is
Speaker 11: get the F.
Speaker 5: How about..
Speaker 9: As soon as you put your phone on mute, your
Speaker 9: light bulbs take over.
Speaker 5: So when you're in another room and the phone rings,
Speaker 5: it flashes.
Speaker 3: They probably have an answer to that.
Speaker 5: Kind of like you're hearing.
Speaker 9: Impaired to let you know that someone is knocking or whatever.
Speaker 5: It would help.
Speaker 3: Bam, how do you think that right now as we speak, how–
Speaker 3: What kind of tribute do you think that they're cooking
Speaker 3: up in Nashville as we speak? I mean, you are
Speaker 3: going to see a tribute to this woman that's going
Speaker 3: to be on national television probably two hours, and you're
Speaker 3: going to have artists clamoring, paying, leaving tour dates to
Speaker 3: go be a part of something like this.
Speaker 5: Well, they damn well should.
Speaker 3: You are not going to experience anything like this. It's
Speaker 3: going to be a two-hour special. On national network television,
Speaker 3: you know, live from the Grand Ole Opry, every single
Speaker 3: legend that can still pick up a guitar or play
Speaker 3: a piano is going to find a way on stage
Speaker 3: to show their love for Dolly Parton. And they should.
Speaker 4: You're right 100%.
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3: She paved so many roads for so many different people.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it'll be huge.
Speaker 3: We'll be talking about it for a while.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Apparently, I read a little something today right after it
Speaker 3: happened that there is a warehouse somewhere in Tennessee that
Speaker 3: has every outfit, shoe, and wig she's ever worn since 1964. Wow.
Speaker 3: And she wore wigs. You know why she wore them?
Speaker 7: No. No.
Speaker 3: She wore wigs because she didn't want to damage her
Speaker 3: natural hair because she knew to keep it looking like that,
Speaker 3: that platinum blonde thing that she's had that it would
Speaker 3: wind up eventually ruining her hair.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: So she wore wigs so that she could keep her
Speaker 3: actual natural hair. And I don't know that anybody's ever
Speaker 3: seen her without. I don't know what she looks like
Speaker 3: with her natural hair. It's probably short, right?
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Well, do you think, I mean, so if they have
Speaker 11: all of that stuff, I mean, that lends itself to
Speaker 11: be a museum, but she has Dollywood, which could be
Speaker 11: the place where that stuff could be used, all of
Speaker 11: the memorabilia and stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: That they could always just rotate in and out and
Speaker 3: keep changing the items. Yeah, considering her humble nature, I'm
Speaker 3: guessing she probably has been pitched that, but probably just
Speaker 3: simply said no because she didn't want something like that
Speaker 3: while she was still with us.
Speaker 4: But I don't know that.
Speaker 3: But I mean, she just she was a painfully humble.
Speaker 3: We know that.
Speaker 11: Well, speaking of American icons, Arnold Palmer, I think is
Speaker 11: another one who is beloved because he like with the
Speaker 11: Bay Hill tournament. He didn't want to call the Arnold
Speaker 11: Palmer Invitational while he was alive.
Speaker 4: Right. To him, it was.
Speaker 3: Oh, no, it was. Can I tell you, everybody and
Speaker 3: everybody in the golf world to this day never says AP.
Speaker 3: They always say bail.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Nobody I know that plays golf seriously or is in
Speaker 3: that game refers to that golf tournament as the Arnold Palmer.
Speaker 3: It's always Bay Hill. And they never call him Arnold.
Speaker 4: It's always Mr. Palmer.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: When you're on property, it's never Arnold. Only the members
Speaker 3: and those dudes are all like the guy who owns
Speaker 3: Rolling Rock and guys like that who are his buddies.
Speaker 3: They called him Arnie. Everybody else called him Mr. Palmer.
Speaker 11: I think also people say Bay Hill because it's easier
Speaker 11: to say than Arnold Palmer.
Speaker 4: It is a little difficult.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 3: Well, God rest her soul, man. Dolly Parton passes away
Speaker 3: at 80 years old today on August 25th of 2026.
Speaker 3: All right, 407-916-1041. Text us at 77031. Deb, got some news?
Speaker 9: Yeah, along with talking about losing another American icon, we'll
Speaker 9: talk about Byron Donald selecting a running mate for Florida governor.
Speaker 9: Altamont Springs may cancel their Fourth of July show and
Speaker 9: a collab you didn't know you needed. We'll talk about
Speaker 9: that and more coming up next during JCS News.
Speaker 4: You got it.
Speaker 3: Take a little break. We'll do Deb's news in a
Speaker 3: few minutes and continue on with the Jim Colbert Show.
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Speaker 3: is right in front of me. I can see his
Speaker 3: beautiful face and his peppered sideburns. Saved my ass last night.
Speaker 4: Jumped me off.
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Speaker 4: All right, Deb, let's get some news.
Speaker 1: It's time for JCS News.
Speaker 4: Wow, has this.
Speaker 1: Guy got to put his name on everything?
Speaker 4: It's in my contract, dude.
Speaker 1: Here's the news on the Jim Colbert Show.
Speaker 9: And JCS News is brought to you by that mortgage guy, Don.
Speaker 9: All right, the news has already spread like wildfire, but
Speaker 9: just in case you haven't heard..
Speaker 15: Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene.
Speaker 5: Unfortunately..
Speaker 9: Country music legend Dolly Parton has died at the age
Speaker 9: of 80. TMZ reports Parton was admitted to a hospital
Speaker 9: in Nashville last night with kidney issues and passed away
Speaker 9: this morning. Parton was also reportedly working on plans for
Speaker 9: a digital performing avatar in the weeks before her death.
Speaker 9: And in an August 21st interview with People, Parton said
Speaker 9: she was working with companies on the project while also
Speaker 9: dealing with undisclosed health issues. The country music legend had
Speaker 9: postponed her Las Vegas residency over those concerns, but was
Speaker 9: still moving ahead with her Broadway musical Dolly, a true
Speaker 9: original musical. Back here closer to home, Republican nominee for
Speaker 9: Florida governor, U.S. Representative Byron Donalds announced his running mate
Speaker 9: from Miami's Freedom Tower today.
Speaker 14: Miami, it is my pleasure and it is my honor
Speaker 14: to introduce to you the next lieutenant governor of the
Speaker 14: great state of Florida, Brian Avalon.
Speaker 9: State Senator Brian Avalos represents Miami Springs and sponsored the
Speaker 9: Stop Woke Act. Donald and his running mate will face
Speaker 9: off against the Democratic nominee for governor, former Republican David Jolly,
Speaker 9: along with his running mate, Gwen Graham. In the midterm
Speaker 9: election in November, President Trump has endorsed Donald. And if elected,
Speaker 9: Donald would become Florida's first black governor.
Speaker 4: I saw on Twitter. It's interesting.
Speaker 3: I guess he did an interview with CBS, their news
Speaker 3: program on Sunday.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 11: When your opponent, and in this case, David Jolly, just
Speaker 11: posts your interview on a news program and says nothing else,
Speaker 11: it says a lot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: It's kind of like doing the work for him.
Speaker 3: Is that the one where he tried to blame the
Speaker 3: measles outbreak on illegal immigration?
Speaker 11: It is, and everything came back to immigration, and every
Speaker 11: question was coming back to that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, brilliant. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: The two people who just died in Pennsylvania is certainly
Speaker 3: because of illegal immigration, not the measles outbreak or how
Speaker 3: they've reduced the– it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4: Go ahead.
Speaker 9: President Trump's plan to lower beef prices is running into
Speaker 9: resistance in Florida. Trump announced yesterday he wants to eliminate
Speaker 9: tariffs on some imported beef to lower prices by as
Speaker 9: much as 25 percent.
Speaker 5: China rejected this beef.
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3: Be careful with your burgers these days.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not kidding.
Speaker 9: China rejected this Argentinian beef because apparently they use a hormone,
Speaker 9: a chemical that's a known human carcinogen. Either way, the
Speaker 9: Florida Cattlemen's Association says it's not sound policy. FCA President
Speaker 9: John Williamson says beef producers are already dealing with record
Speaker 9: high prices for many of the inputs required to raise cattle.
Speaker 9: He also tells News Service of Florida disrupting the market
Speaker 9: threatens producer confidence and the long-term stability of America's beef supply.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you ever want to know what a bad
Speaker 3: deal this is or a bad idea this is, just
Speaker 3: go now on social media and just type in farmer's
Speaker 3: response to this. And by the way, look at how
Speaker 3: those farmers usually vote. It has nothing to do with
Speaker 3: the R or the D. It's just bad or good business.
Speaker 9: As well as some Republican lawmakers in states like Nebraska, Montana,
Speaker 9: big beef-producing states.
Speaker 16: Clueless.
Speaker 9: Governor Ron DeSantis visited a food bank in Tampa to
Speaker 9: announce that Florida will become the first state in the
Speaker 9: nation to place restrictions on using temporary assistance for needy
Speaker 9: families to pay for non-essentials.
Speaker 17: Ultimately save taxpayer money and reduce fraud, but also will
Speaker 17: help our efforts. to be able to get folks the
Speaker 17: true help that they need.
Speaker 9: Prohibited uses include alcohol, tobacco, drugs, adult entertainment, theme park subscriptions,
Speaker 9: and psychics.
Speaker 5: Seems fair to me.
Speaker 3: I'm good with every one of those.
Speaker 11: How am I supposed to get out of these problems
Speaker 11: I'm having without the help of a psychic?
Speaker 3: I'm going to be able to gamble on my psychic.
Speaker 9: TANF benefits are paid for by federal grants. DeSantis says
Speaker 9: he expects the Trump administration to approve Florida's request.
Speaker 18: All right.
Speaker 9: Two acclaimed Cuban musicians are in federal custody today. 39-year-old
Speaker 9: Latin Grammy-winning percussionist Bagnus Bofill was detained at Miami International
Speaker 9: Airport after arriving here from New York, while 30-year-old pianist
Speaker 9: Andy Garcia Palacios was arrested in Los Angeles. Both reside
Speaker 9: in Miami, and both musicians entered the U.S. legally and
Speaker 9: have active pending asylum claims. Legendary artist Chucho Valdez is
Speaker 9: among those publicly urging for their swift release, and a
Speaker 9: GoFundMe page has already raised over $ 50, 000 to help secure
Speaker 9: their release.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 5: From federal holding facilities.
Speaker 3: Chucho's close, right?
Speaker 5: Chucho?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Chucho's a little close.
Speaker 5: It depends on where you're from. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9: Taco in Spain is a completely different thing than taco
Speaker 9: in Mexico.
Speaker 4: Thank you. I appreciate that clearance.
Speaker 5: But you also want to be careful using the word
Speaker 5: fanny in England.
Speaker 4: Okay, very nice.
Speaker 3: I don't know what that is. Fanny is the front part.
Speaker 3: For a woman.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Big fans of the fanny pack.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: That's weird now. I feel odd about that.
Speaker 4: And you should.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 15: All right.
Speaker 9: A 4th of July show in Seminole County could be
Speaker 9: the victim of budget cuts. Altamont Springs City Manager Frank
Speaker 9: Martz is recommending the city stop holding its Red Hot
Speaker 9: and Boom event at Cranes Roos Park. He says it
Speaker 9: would save over $ 900, 000. They're saying with security costs, 200,000
Speaker 9: people there. The cost for putting on this event is
Speaker 9: quickly closing in on close to a million dollars to
Speaker 9: put on. Martz also recommends closing the city library on
Speaker 9: Maitland Ave to save $ 750, 000, saying they don't want to
Speaker 9: duplicate events. Services that the county is already providing. The
Speaker 9: proposals will be discussed at a city commission meeting next month.
Speaker 9: A lot of residents are like, man, get rid of
Speaker 9: this community together. And of course, we'll be talking with
Speaker 9: the Florida League of Cities representative.
Speaker 5: To talk about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what's going to happen with that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 9: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeyer says a statewide child recovery
Speaker 9: operation located 100 kilometers 63 missing children raging in age
Speaker 9: from 2 to 17 years old. Operation Statewide Shield involved
Speaker 9: dozens of law enforcement and child welfare agencies and is
Speaker 9: being called the largest efforts of its kind in state history.
Speaker 9: FDLE Commissioner Mark Glass says while this initiative went far
Speaker 9: beyond the Florida state line.
Speaker 7: That's over six states in recovery, Puerto Rico and 12 countries.
Speaker 7: So that shows you the The tentacles of this are
Speaker 7: where these children may go.
Speaker 9: The Tampa Bay region accounted for 46 recoveries.
Speaker 5: That's the most in the state.
Speaker 9: They've been taken to a specialized hub to receive the
Speaker 9: care and support they need. Additional recoveries were reported in Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando,
Speaker 9: Fort Myers, Pensacola, and Tallahassee. Several arrests were made during
Speaker 9: the operation, but more charges are expected as the investigation continues.
Speaker 4: Wow. It's just shocking, isn't it? It really is.
Speaker 5: 2 to 17. Like, what happened?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: It's just, I don't understand this.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 9: Ending vaccine mandates for kids entering school, meanwhile, could have
Speaker 9: devastating results. That's according to Community Health Northwest Chief Medical Officer, Dr.
Speaker 5: Joseph Klawitter.
Speaker 9: He was responding yesterday to the Florida Department of Health's
Speaker 9: recommendation to remove mandates for four childhood vaccines. The vaccines
Speaker 9: are for chickenpox, HIV, hepatitis B, and pneumococcal.
Speaker 4: Pneumococcal.
Speaker 5: There you go.
Speaker 4: Say it again.
Speaker 3: Pneumococcal pneumonia.
Speaker 5: Pneumococcal disease.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 18: Dr.
Speaker 9: Clawwitter says he's worried this will lead to fewer vaccinations.
Speaker 3: Say those back to back.
Speaker 5: Clawwitter and pneumococcal.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 5: Jack, come on now. There we go, Jack.
Speaker 3: We're going to just do that the rest of the show.
Speaker 6: Jack.
Speaker 3: We're all calmed down because of Dolly. We're just going
Speaker 3: to do the pneumococcal stuff all day.
Speaker 4: Well, Dr.
Speaker 9: Clauwitter says he's worried this will lead to fewer vaccinations,
Speaker 9: less herd immunity, and more illness. He tells Wear News,
Speaker 9: if enough people are vaccinated against the disease, the chance
Speaker 9: of catching it naturally decreases. All right, there is a
Speaker 9: tropical wave forming in the Atlantic off the coast of Africa,
Speaker 9: but no need to panic just yet.
Speaker 4: It's just off the coast of Africa.
Speaker 3: So really... It would not make it towards any land
Speaker 3: area for probably over a week or so, maybe.
Speaker 4: Even two weeks.
Speaker 9: National Weather Service meteorologist George Rizzuto says they have no
Speaker 9: idea if it will be a threat to land, but
Speaker 9: if it does develop into a tropical depression, you guys
Speaker 9: get this.
Speaker 5: It will be named Dolly.
Speaker 3: No, come on.
Speaker 9: Dolly is the next named storm on the 2026 Atlantic hurricane.
Speaker 3: That's just coincidence, right? Either that or.
Speaker 9: Mother Nature is giving her the honor she deserves.
Speaker 4: They certainly didn't change it this afternoon, Jack.
Speaker 3: They didn't gather everybody at the National Weather Advisory Board.
Speaker 4: You know what? She just died.
Speaker 3: Let's name a deadly storm after her.
Speaker 11: I don't know where Deb gets her news from. It
Speaker 11: could very well be that they just came up with
Speaker 11: this this afternoon. She just gets it from Fox and NOAN.
Speaker 4: Everybody knows that.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I love you guys.
Speaker 9: Duke Energy is cleaning up a chemical spill in Pasco County,
Speaker 9: but there's nothing to see here.
Speaker 15: What?
Speaker 9: The company informed state regulators last week, yeah, there was
Speaker 9: a spill at a power plant in Holiday near the
Speaker 9: Anclote River.
Speaker 5: Don't worry.
Speaker 9: Over 3,000 gallons of sodium balsalphite spilled.
Speaker 5: Go ahead, Jack. There we go.
Speaker 3: I mean, you should pick easier, dude. You write this stuff.
Speaker 3: Why don't you make it more difficult on yourself? Just
Speaker 3: put some Mandarin in there for fun.
Speaker 4: They say some chemical.
Speaker 15: Right, exactly.
Speaker 3: A bad chemical.
Speaker 9: Because we have smart listeners, and they'll be like, oh, no,
Speaker 9: that's what this chemical does. You want to stay away
Speaker 9: from this. Duke said yesterday none of it made it
Speaker 9: to the river, though. A spokeswoman says the cleanup is
Speaker 9: almost complete and no actions or precautions are necessary for
Speaker 9: those who live near the plant. Do I sound like
Speaker 9: I believe him? That's my favorite thing.
Speaker 3: Hey, everybody, don't worry.
Speaker 4: I didn't make it to the river. Trust us.
Speaker 3: We put up a dam and we got a couple
Speaker 3: guys out there with rubber gloves and they caught all
Speaker 3: of it. Everybody's safe. Go for a swim today.
Speaker 9: The only reason we laugh is so that we don't cry.
Speaker 4: Exactly.
Speaker 3: It's so crazy that they expect you to believe this stuff.
Speaker 3: That's the thing that's most insulting.
Speaker 4: That's why I laugh.
Speaker 3: I laugh at how insulting it is.
Speaker 4: Hey, everybody, we got it.
Speaker 17: We're good.
Speaker 3: We got Phil and Tom down there. And let me
Speaker 3: tell you, those guys got giant hands, and they're very committed.
Speaker 5: And sponges.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're fine.
Speaker 9: The Florida Department of Environmental Protection tells the Tampa Bay
Speaker 9: Times there have been no impact to local waterways. Meanwhile,
Speaker 9: a sewer project is disturbing residents in Orange County and
Speaker 9: some question if it's worth it. The county closed part
Speaker 9: of Thompson Road yesterday near Apopka as part of the
Speaker 9: plan to convert septic tank owners near Recaiva Springs to
Speaker 9: the sewer system.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they did that in Eustis two years ago. Very
Speaker 3: same thing. They went out to people and said, hey, look,
Speaker 3: if you are near a body of water, if your
Speaker 3: property sheds to any body of water, lake or whatever,
Speaker 3: give us a call. We'll replace your septic tank and
Speaker 3: we'll replace all that stuff. And then they'll maintain it
Speaker 3: for a certain amount of money, which is dirt cheap,
Speaker 3: by the way. It's only a few bucks a month.
Speaker 3: And it has been a godsend. It really has.
Speaker 9: Well, it's the upfront cost for a lot of folks, right?
Speaker 9: So about 2,000 homes are affected. And one of those
Speaker 9: homeowners isn't sure the costs are being distributed fairly. So
Speaker 9: Sherry Brown estimates the project will cost her around.
Speaker 5: $ 10, 000.
Speaker 9: And while she supports protecting Wekiva Springs, she wonders how
Speaker 9: much of the pollution reported there is actually coming from
Speaker 9: her septic systems. She tells News 6 she lives far
Speaker 9: away from the spring, and she'd like to see proof
Speaker 9: the pollution is coming from so far away.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's going to be hard to do that because it's
Speaker 3: just the way that the water seeps over time.
Speaker 5: Exactly.
Speaker 3: It's not like it's running out of her septic tank
Speaker 3: right down to the river through a conduit. It doesn't
Speaker 3: work like that. It gets into the water table and
Speaker 3: then leaks in from there. I mean, it's the same
Speaker 3: thing that happened over at the Indian River Lagoon. It's
Speaker 3: the same exact thing.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 4: Exactly.
Speaker 5: Exactly.
Speaker 9: All right, those who oppose plans to make changes at
Speaker 9: an Orlando attraction can claim victory. The city announced yesterday
Speaker 9: it will not move forward with its plans for Harry P.
Speaker 5: Lou Gardens.
Speaker 9: It's a 50-acre botanical garden on North Forest Ave. near
Speaker 9: Lake Rowena. Absolutely beautiful place to visit. Orlando officials propose
Speaker 9: spending $ 100 million, though, to add amenities to the park.
Speaker 4: A hundred million dollars?
Speaker 5: Like a cafe and shops.
Speaker 9: And you know, parking is already so easy to get
Speaker 9: to Lou Gardens.
Speaker 3: There is no parking. It's on the side of the road.
Speaker 3: That's the facetious part of the joke.
Speaker 9: Are they building a parking garage? No, not that I'd
Speaker 9: heard of. I'd even heard that at one point there
Speaker 9: was even a band shell that was going.
Speaker 5: To be proposed.
Speaker 4: Good Lord.
Speaker 9: But residents complained the changes would lead to more traffic
Speaker 9: and noise. Because, right, with their plant and garden sale,
Speaker 9: I mean, to watch Ross and Olivia have to go through,
Speaker 9: I mean. Glenn usually helps out, but you have to
Speaker 9: plan parking as much as anything else when you go
Speaker 9: visit there.
Speaker 3: So when I lived in Baldwin, which is literally a
Speaker 3: mile from this place, and they did that plant sale,
Speaker 3: which is one of the biggest events of that entire area,
Speaker 3: and I'm not joking.
Speaker 9: Oh, it's as big as the Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival.
Speaker 3: And it's literally right down the street from the hippest
Speaker 3: part of Orlando, that whole Easton Market and the brewery
Speaker 3: down there, Red Light, Red Light. And it's so funny.
Speaker 3: People will go and park their cars there the night before.
Speaker 3: Like they will drive down there with their car and
Speaker 3: they'll park a car there and then Uber there so
Speaker 3: they can bring their plants home. That's how crazy the
Speaker 3: parking is.
Speaker 9: So you can imagine $ 100 million worth of new shops
Speaker 9: and cafes would have made that place untenable.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 9: Two of Florida's three NFL teams are getting in extra
Speaker 9: work this week before wrapping up the preseason. I bring
Speaker 9: this to you guys just to see your excitement. For
Speaker 9: this time of the year, it's finally here. So the
Speaker 9: Jacksonville Jaguars and Tampa Bay Buccaneers are holding joint practices
Speaker 9: today and tomorrow in Jacksonville, giving starters and roster hopefuls
Speaker 9: valuable game-like repetitions. The Bucs wrap up the preseason when
Speaker 9: they take on the Jags Friday night at Everbank Stadium. Meanwhile,
Speaker 9: the Miami Dolphins will host the Atlanta Falcons on Friday
Speaker 9: in their preseason finale. And what better way to wash
Speaker 9: up after a rough-and-tumble football game? They just smell like
Speaker 9: Mountain Dew.
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Mountain Dew fans can now smell like their favorite soda.
Speaker 4: Wow, really?
Speaker 9: Men's grooming company, Duke Cannon. Did they learn how to
Speaker 9: bottle diabetes? There is no more butch.
Speaker 5: Name than Duke Cannon.
Speaker 3: I can spray diabetes.
Speaker 9: Oh, no. You're going to lather up, Jimmy, with that loofah.
Speaker 9: Men's grooming company, Duke Cannon, has teamed up with Mountain
Speaker 9: Dew for a line of products. Mountain Dew scented body washes.
Speaker 9: And listen carefully. Soap Pucks, Pucks as in P-U-C-K-S.
Speaker 3: Soap Puck.
Speaker 9: Puck are now available at select Walmarts. Customers who've been
Speaker 9: able to get their hands on the collaboration have said
Speaker 9: they smell pretty close to the actual soda.
Speaker 8: Really?
Speaker 5: And who doesn't want to attract flies?
Speaker 4: Exactly.
Speaker 3: It's syrup. It really is. Have you ever poured a
Speaker 3: Mountain Dew?
Speaker 4: Yeah. Oh my God.
Speaker 3: It takes a minute. Yahoo!
Speaker 10: Mountain Dew.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man. I didn't know you had that. It takes
Speaker 4: a minute. You know why?
Speaker 3: You honestly know why Mountain Dew was actually invented?
Speaker 4: Moonshine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, to mix with moonshine. That's why it's called Mountain Dew.
Speaker 3: Mountain Dew is also another word for moonshine.
Speaker 6: Really?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Mountain Dew is a slang term for moonshine.
Speaker 9: Yahoo!
Speaker 13: Mountain Dew.
Speaker 3: The citrus soda was actually built to mix with moonshine
Speaker 3: so you could wash it down.
Speaker 4: Oh, I can't.
Speaker 9: Well, this marks the latest outside-the-box collaboration for Mountain Dew
Speaker 9: with others including a Rawlings baseball glove. I don't know
Speaker 9: what that's all about, but a birthday cake-flavored Slurpee with 7-Eleven.
Speaker 4: A birthday cake flavored Slurpee? What is happening? And I
Speaker 4: don't hate this idea.
Speaker 5: I want to figure out what the Rawlings baseball glove
Speaker 5: has to do with.
Speaker 3: Dolly passes away an hour ago and the world is
Speaker 3: losing it. You've had birthday cake flavored ice cream before, right?
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: Really?
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 3: I'm a grown ass man, Jack. It's chocolate or vanilla. No,
Speaker 3: you're missing out. Who's eating sprinkles at my age?
Speaker 2: Dude.
Speaker 9: What you need to do is have that Twix ice
Speaker 9: cream that Jack keeps talking about.
Speaker 3: Have you had it, Deb?
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 8: I haven't.
Speaker 4: Look, the Snickers one is good as hell, too, by
Speaker 4: the way.
Speaker 5: I don't know. That Twix bar.
Speaker 3: What do you mean you don't know where they go?
Speaker 4: Here we go again. It's 7-Eleven. It's Winn-Dixie.
Speaker 5: It's Dollar General.
Speaker 4: It's Wawa.
Speaker 3: They do them in cakes now. When you go to
Speaker 3: Publix and you go to the ice cream cake area,
Speaker 3: they have cakes that are made with ice cream with
Speaker 3: the candy bars.
Speaker 4: The Twix. Get out of here. I was born yesterday.
Speaker 5: And that concludes your JCS News. I don't know what's
Speaker 5: going on.
Speaker 3: We drinking today?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: It sounds like it. We have to have a drink
Speaker 9: for Dolly. We have to have a drink. We got
Speaker 9: any beer here?
Speaker 4: Or you want whiskey?
Speaker 11: I can find beer, but we also have an office
Speaker 11: bottle of whiskey.
Speaker 3: Let's start drinking. All right.
Speaker 16: 916-4041.
Speaker 9: I can't run the board and host.
Speaker 4: You can.
Speaker 3: You're fine.
Speaker 4: You're fine. Step up, girl.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: Back in a sec. Mountain Dew was invented as a
Speaker 3: chaser for moonshine, but originally..
Speaker 2: It tasted a.
Speaker 4: Lot more like Sprite does today.
Speaker 19: I don't believe it got its iconic flavor and color
Speaker 19: until the early 70s.
Speaker 8: I think.
Speaker 4: Yahoo!
Speaker 6: Mountain Dew.
Speaker 17: You really have to ask what's going on with the
Speaker 17: birthday cake slurpee, Jimmy.
Speaker 10: Come on.
Speaker 17: America is asserting its caloric dominance.
Speaker 3: Yahoo!
Speaker 4: Mountain Dew. I appreciate that laugh.
Speaker 2: I didn't get my vaccine feeling in my pneumococcus.
Speaker 4: Ha ha ha!
Speaker 9: Somebody texted us about Mountain Dew being, they call that
Speaker 9: a redneck margarita.
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, I guess. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I didn't think you could mix anything with Moonshine.
Speaker 3: With Mountain Dew?
Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3: Moonshine, that's what they flavored all the time. It's basically
Speaker 3: pure alcohol. It's like when you were a kid and
Speaker 3: you drank what they called Everclear. Everclear. It's Moonshine. It's
Speaker 3: just mash. It's the liquor that you would put in
Speaker 3: barrels to turn into other liquor. So it's just pure,
Speaker 3: I think, ethylene alcohol. I don't know if it's alcohol,
Speaker 3: pure alcohol, but that's what it is.
Speaker 5: That was the stuff that never froze when you made
Speaker 5: Jell-O shots.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man. And then, you know, that's like when you
Speaker 3: make it, like the best I have is peach. And
Speaker 3: then the apple pie moonshine I have when I go
Speaker 3: up to play my golf tournament, there's a guy from
Speaker 3: Punta Gorda that always brings a couple pints of that
Speaker 3: up there. And that is the most dangerous stuff on
Speaker 3: planet Earth.
Speaker 5: Well, I don't know.
Speaker 9: Saturday night, Jack and I may be going to Ma's
Speaker 9: Mountain Moonshine, trying out a little redneck margarita.
Speaker 3: I was just over there the other day.
Speaker 7: Oh, really?
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, not bad at all. Tori got something over there.
Speaker 3: I ordered something that was akin to a margarita. It
Speaker 3: wasn't the best thing, but she ordered this other thing
Speaker 3: that was kind of a fruity summer kind of drink.
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, yeah, I could change my
Speaker 3: eye color with that. In about five seconds, I could
Speaker 3: literally change my eye color drinking those things. All right,
Speaker 3: welcome back to the Jim Colbert Show.
Speaker 4: I'm Jim.
Speaker 3: There's Deb.
Speaker 5: Hello.
Speaker 3: Jack is her as well.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 3: We are still kind of reeling over the death of
Speaker 3: the great Dolly Parton. We do have a lot of
Speaker 3: stuff to talk about today. But it's kind of wild.
Speaker 6: You know what?
Speaker 3: Let's do this real quick. We have a couple of
Speaker 3: seconds before we get to the top of the hour.
Speaker 4: Why don't you do this?
Speaker 3: It's new coming up here in a minute. We'll go
Speaker 3: over Ross's choice and then find out what a jackass offer.
Speaker 3: But I pulled this yesterday. We never had a chance
Speaker 3: to talk about it. But now that we're talking about
Speaker 3: Mountain Dew, this is a story I saw on Reddit.
Speaker 3: Let me see where I can source this from. It
Speaker 3: doesn't say. This is just a map of the U.S., Jack.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 3: And it is the most popular sodas in each state.
Speaker 10: Ooh.
Speaker 4: Okay, let's just start with Florida.
Speaker 9: Well, you know the southern states. There's got to be
Speaker 9: a Mountain Dew somewhere in the south.
Speaker 3: There is a Mountain Dew somewhere in the south.
Speaker 4: Actually, can I tell you something?
Speaker 3: There are one. Let me count them. One, two, three, four, five,
Speaker 3: six states that are Mountain Dew crazy. Matter of fact,
Speaker 3: can I tell you something? Diet Mountain Dew also makes
Speaker 3: the list as well. Are they all part of the SEC?
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 4: One is a major player in the SEC. Alabama. One's
Speaker 4: having a runoff today. Oh.
Speaker 5: Oh, South Carolina.
Speaker 4: South Carolina. That's right.
Speaker 3: South Carolina is a Mountain Dew state.
Speaker 18: Really?
Speaker 3: Another one. As a matter of fact, not only this one,
Speaker 3: but his little brother lives just a little bit to
Speaker 3: the right of him.
Speaker 4: Virginia, West Virginia. Absolutely.
Speaker 3: Both Mountain Dew peoples.
Speaker 5: You know Virginia had to be.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: And then Diet Mountain Dew is up here in what
Speaker 3: would be your Dakotas area. And I think Michigan or
Speaker 3: is that Illinois is a diet Mountain Dew place as well.
Speaker 4: Fibs.
Speaker 12: Okay.
Speaker 3: Where do you think Florida is?
Speaker 15: Dr.
Speaker 4: Pepper.
Speaker 5: Rum and Coke. We got to be Coca-Cola.
Speaker 3: Coca-Cola is the answer.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 5: We're the capital Cooper Libre here.
Speaker 3: And Georgia. It definitely got to be Coca-Cola, right?
Speaker 18: Right.
Speaker 3: Because that's where it is.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 3: So is Pepsi North Carolina?
Speaker 9: Ooh, Pepsi's got to be Texas with boiled peanuts in it.
Speaker 3: You ready for this? North Carolina has only one. They're
Speaker 3: the only state where they say this is the number
Speaker 3: one soda. And if I let you guys guess until
Speaker 3: the end of the show, you wouldn't get it. Root beer.
Speaker 12: Tab.
Speaker 10: Sundrop.
Speaker 4: Sundrop. Interesting.
Speaker 3: Have you ever heard of Sundrop Soda? I think Sundrop
Speaker 3: is akin to your Mountain Dews and your Citrus Sodas,
Speaker 3: I believe. But Pepsi was created in North Carolina, right?
Speaker 15: Pepsi?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I thought Dr. Pepper's in Texas.
Speaker 13: I know that.
Speaker 4: Pepsi.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And Coke was Atlanta. Coke was Georgia, but actually the
Speaker 3: money started in North Florida. You know that, right?
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 5: What was that?
Speaker 4: What was that?
Speaker 3: Coca-Cola, the money to gather to make Coca-Cola. There's a
Speaker 3: small town in North Florida right there on the border
Speaker 3: of Georgia and Florida. where the guy who invented the
Speaker 3: thing of Coke went to the townspeople and his friends
Speaker 3: and said, hey, look, give me all your money. I've
Speaker 3: got a game-changing idea here. And the people who bought
Speaker 3: in are obviously incredibly wealthy, and the people who didn't aren't.
Speaker 3: Pepsi's from New Bern, North Carolina.
Speaker 18: Is it really?
Speaker 4: I did not know that. I did not know that.
Speaker 3: They go to Sundrop. What is the most dominant soda?
Speaker 3: Let me give you this count here.
Speaker 4: One, two, three, four. That's eight. That's 12. That is 16, 17,
Speaker 4: 18 states. Diet Coke.
Speaker 3: It's not Coke? It is not Coke.
Speaker 5: Oh, I said Diet Coke.
Speaker 3: Coke, predominantly only popular in three states, Louisiana, Florida, and Georgia.
Speaker 4: You're kidding.
Speaker 3: Nope, that's it.
Speaker 5: Coca-Cola?
Speaker 4: Coca-Cola.
Speaker 3: It doesn't mean that they don't sell well. They're just
Speaker 3: not the predominant soda in that market. I mean, they
Speaker 3: can lose by 1% and still lose, you know?
Speaker 4: Sprite.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 3: Sprite doesn't even make the list on anywhere on the list.
Speaker 5: You're kidding.
Speaker 3: Sprite's nowhere on the state. It's not the number one
Speaker 3: soda in any of the states.
Speaker 4: Where is Dr. Pepper?
Speaker 3: That's what I want to know.
Speaker 4: All of them. Really?
Speaker 16: Dr.
Speaker 3: Pepper, by far, by far, is the most popular soda
Speaker 3: in America.
Speaker 5: Are you kidding?
Speaker 16: Dr.
Speaker 3: Pepper, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,
Speaker 3: 17 states. And that doesn't count the Diet Dr. Peppers
Speaker 3: that also have a couple as well. And yet, you
Speaker 3: can go to..
Speaker 9: So many restaurants and it's a crapshoot whether they'll even
Speaker 9: have it.
Speaker 13: 100%.
Speaker 3: That's the truth.
Speaker 4: All my life. Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Because I used to only drink that, and then I
Speaker 11: switched to Coke. It was just easier to get. Exactly,
Speaker 11: because they'd be like, no, we got Mr. Pibb.
Speaker 5: You're like, that's not Dr.
Speaker 4: Pepper.
Speaker 3: You guys are so right that when we go to places,
Speaker 3: the first thing my wife asks the server is if
Speaker 3: they have Dr.
Speaker 4: Pepper.
Speaker 3: When they say no, it ruins the rest of her meal.
Speaker 3: She likes it so much with food. That's the only
Speaker 3: one she really drinks. She doesn't drink any other soda
Speaker 3: than Dr. Pepper. Coke Zero in California.
Speaker 5: Of course.
Speaker 3: The odd one is this, and this is what I
Speaker 3: want to talk about a little bit yesterday. One, two, three, four, five.
Speaker 3: From New York up, and I'm being dead serious. From
Speaker 3: New York up, including Michigan, what is the most popular soda?
Speaker 4: We got to go. And I can't understand it.
Speaker 5: You said Sprite doesn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, ginger ale. Why is the Northeast dominated by ginger ale?
Speaker 3: Because that's such a good drink mixer. Is that what
Speaker 3: it is?
Speaker 9: I'm just thinking it's all the politicians and everybody else
Speaker 9: up there drinking highballs.
Speaker 4: Like ginger ale, man.
Speaker 3: Canada Dry or Schweppes ginger ale destroys that Northeast area.
Speaker 3: Like almost every state up there is all that. Everybody else, Dr.
Speaker 4: Pepper.
Speaker 5: Got to be a drink mixer.
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Speaker 3: the Jim Colbert Show. All right, welcome back to the
Speaker 3: Jim Culver Show. We're already at 104.1. Don't forget we're
Speaker 3: going to be out at Taste CFL this Friday. Having
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Speaker 3: A wonderful event where once you pay that one ticket,
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Speaker 3: out there, not only making great food, cocktails, beer companies,
Speaker 3: liquor companies. They have this thing called a wine door, Jack. Really?
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And it's a door and they've drilled holes in it
Speaker 3: and they put bottles of wine in there and you
Speaker 3: can win that. It's $ 7, 000 worth of wine. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3: It's a, And they do a liquor locker. Same type thing.
Speaker 3: You buy your tickets or whatever, then they will draw
Speaker 3: the number, and that person wins that locker full of liquor.
Speaker 3: And that's just where it starts. Tons of cool stuff
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Speaker 4: Absolutely. Welcome back. I'm Jim.
Speaker 3: There's Deb. Hello.
Speaker 4: Jack is right there.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 4: Let's do what you do that's new.
Speaker 2: What'd you do that's new? What'd you do that's new?
Speaker 3: Hey, is it only new?
Speaker 2: Something new to do?
Speaker 10: We're relying on you.
Speaker 5: Tell us something new about to you.
Speaker 10: Bye, Closet.
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Speaker 3: Winter Park.
Speaker 6: 407-917-1718.
Speaker 3: Car crash, call Klausman. Of course, we'll talk to Glenn
Speaker 3: on Thursday for Colbert Court. Until then, one of the
Speaker 3: members of the show will pick something to watch, read,
Speaker 3: or listen to. And then, of course, we'll reconvene every
Speaker 3: single Tuesday at 4 o'clock and do that very thing.
Speaker 4: This week, it was Ross.
Speaker 3: And then we'll find out what the listeners have for
Speaker 3: us because every other after Ross, we put it up
Speaker 3: on our Facebook page, gym members. And we get somebody
Speaker 3: to offer something. And that's what we did. Indeed, we did.
Speaker 11: However, Ross's pick was about Antoine Griezmann. In case you
Speaker 11: did not know, Antoine Griezmann now plays for Orlando City.
Speaker 11: You could say he's our star player. He scored two
Speaker 11: goals Saturday night. helping Orlando City, and they come from
Speaker 11: behind victory over Real Salt Lake. However, this is his
Speaker 11: first year in MLS, and he just joined the team
Speaker 11: following the World Cup. Prior to that, he played in Europe.
Speaker 11: Played for La Liga. Yep, and this is, and a
Speaker 11: few different teams, and that's kind of what the video
Speaker 11: is about. It gives you a little history on who
Speaker 11: Antoine Griezmann is, and it's also, it's called Griezmann's Curse
Speaker 11: a year too late three times because Because he always..
Speaker 3: He joined the team right after they won the World Cup.
Speaker 3: And they didn't make it back. And they didn't make
Speaker 3: it back. Or one of the league trophies.
Speaker 4: Exactly right.
Speaker 11: So it was like he missed it just three times
Speaker 11: he was a year too late. However, it's a good
Speaker 11: primer on who he is and how successful he was
Speaker 11: as a player. So it gives you a little more
Speaker 11: understanding to who is now the most famous... Orlando City Lion. Yeah,
Speaker 11: we've had some good runs here with guys that have
Speaker 11: come out of that league. You know, we had Kaká,
Speaker 11: who at one point was considered one of the gods
Speaker 11: of soccer over there in the Premier League. And now
Speaker 11: we have Antoine Griezmann. Now, look, I don't know anything
Speaker 11: about this guy. I learned a little bit today. And
Speaker 11: it's so funny because Deb and I were talking about
Speaker 11: it before the show. We're like, we hired a guy
Speaker 11: that's cursed. It seems that we brought a guy onto
Speaker 11: the team who was cursed for winning.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: It was, this is not a video.
Speaker 9: Like if you're an Orlando city fan and you're super excited,
Speaker 9: this is kind of like a little bit of a
Speaker 9: bummer video.
Speaker 5: It's like all about the chances that he's missed.
Speaker 11: So you could look at it that way, or you
Speaker 11: can look at his curse was joining a team after
Speaker 11: they already won. Well, Orlando city didn't already win. I mean,
Speaker 11: they had that cup win that, you know, we went
Speaker 11: to one of those games.
Speaker 4: Yeah. a few years ago.
Speaker 11: However, so it's not like he missed anything with the
Speaker 11: Orlando City. So the only place to go is up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: And hopefully that's exactly what we'll do. No, he just
Speaker 3: had a win, right? You were at the game where
Speaker 3: he won just recently, right? He scored twice.
Speaker 6: Two games.
Speaker 4: You know what they call that?
Speaker 3: They call that a not a hat trick.
Speaker 4: But it starts with a B. Come on. I know
Speaker 4: you know this one. I don't know it.
Speaker 3: A brace?
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 3: So when you score two goals in one game, that's
Speaker 3: a brace?
Speaker 4: Correct. Did not know that. Yes. I'll be damned.
Speaker 5: Learning something new every day.
Speaker 3: But they call it hat trick in hockey and in soccer.
Speaker 3: If you score three, is it still a hat trick
Speaker 3: in soccer? If you score three goals?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. I think hat trick now. Because in every sport.
Speaker 18: No, no, no.
Speaker 4: Okay, what?
Speaker 17: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3: In bowling, it's a turkey.
Speaker 4: Oh, that's right.
Speaker 2: You're right.
Speaker 3: In bowling, it's a turkey. Three strikes in a row
Speaker 3: is a turkey. They're not using that in soccer. Two
Speaker 3: strikes in a row is you didn't get the turkey.
Speaker 4: You know what a nutmeg is? A nutmeg?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: What sport? Soccer.
Speaker 3: Not four goals, is it?
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 4: It's not a goal, but it's when you do something
Speaker 4: with the ball.
Speaker 5: Scissor kick.
Speaker 16: No.
Speaker 3: That's a scissor kick. When you score on your own goal. No,
Speaker 3: that is literally an own goal.
Speaker 6: Own goal?
Speaker 4: Own goal is what they refer to.
Speaker 3: Nutmeg is when you kick the ball through your opponent's legs.
Speaker 4: Oh, really?
Speaker 11: Yeah, like he's defending you. You put the ball through it.
Speaker 11: You pass the ball through his legs.
Speaker 3: Cheeky, huh?
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 3: Deb, what did you glean from the Antoine Griezmann video?
Speaker 9: I mean, he's still due for a super-duper win. I
Speaker 9: think he's still young and hungry enough to get it.
Speaker 9: And I think being embraced by Orlando City fans, I
Speaker 9: think this could be a breath of fresh air for
Speaker 9: his career. It was hard to feel that way watching
Speaker 9: the video without him feeling like, Did he take a
Speaker 9: step down coming to MLS because he played with Barcelona?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm watching this video, and every picture they show
Speaker 3: of this guy, it looks like his parents just died.
Speaker 3: It's like every time he was hanging his head in shame.
Speaker 4: I'm like, come on, dude, get out there. What are
Speaker 4: you doing?
Speaker 3: I think there was a couple of them where he
Speaker 3: was playing and looked like he was having fun.
Speaker 11: Yeah, Ross could have picked the video, a little more positive,
Speaker 11: uplifting video. However, he also did it on the fly
Speaker 11: during a commercial break.
Speaker 3: He knew he wanted this topic. And I've got to
Speaker 3: tell you, the guy who did this did a very
Speaker 3: good job.
Speaker 4: It was easy to watch and easy.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's only 14 minutes long, so if you're
Speaker 3: into soccer at the highest level and you want to
Speaker 3: learn about our newest... Addition to the team, Antoine Griezmann. Man,
Speaker 3: I can't get you over there fast enough.
Speaker 4: I really can't. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 11: I'm going to be honest with you. I liked it.
Speaker 11: I'm going to the games. I'm seeing him play. So
Speaker 11: it's nice having a little more history into the impact
Speaker 11: and how big he was.
Speaker 8: I mean, yeah.
Speaker 3: He's a World Cup winner as well with France.
Speaker 4: There's no question.
Speaker 3: This is a tough one for me, though. It'd be
Speaker 3: like me telling you, hey, watch this 14-minute video on
Speaker 3: this golfer you've never heard of.
Speaker 5: And their great swing.
Speaker 3: And their great swing and all the times they almost
Speaker 3: won a major. Yeah. It's that kind of vibe. But, yeah,
Speaker 3: it was a good video, and he did a good
Speaker 3: job at it. And I learned a little bit about
Speaker 3: Antoine Griezmann and how he's cursed.
Speaker 4: He's not. Curse. Jackie's curse. They say it right there
Speaker 4: on the video. I think it's.
Speaker 8: In the, isn't it?
Speaker 4: It's in the title of the video.
Speaker 2: It's not cursed.
Speaker 3: I know, but it's gorgeous curse. The video is called
Speaker 3: Griezmann's Curse, and even more so, the word curse is capitalized.
Speaker 11: Like, they really think he's cursed. He's not lowercase curse, Jack.
Speaker 11: It's this guy, and that guy, and the host, he
Speaker 11: even said he's.
Speaker 4: Rooting for him.
Speaker 3: Well, who cares? The guy in front of the fake
Speaker 3: palm tree gives a damn? Yeah.
Speaker 4: All right, very good.
Speaker 3: I need a fake palm tree in my world. We
Speaker 3: need that backlight. That backlighting is like the whole thing.
Speaker 3: I mean, the monsters do it in here sometimes with
Speaker 3: that red light. I don't get that. Is that proven
Speaker 3: to get more people watching or something? It's aesthetics.
Speaker 4: Is that what it is?
Speaker 3: Do you know what it means to make things look nice?
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: Aesthetics. I just said it. Okay.
Speaker 5: I don't know what that sound was.
Speaker 3: Do we need green lights in here for aesthetics behind this?
Speaker 3: I don't think green would work in there with the
Speaker 3: red walls. I think that's why the red light kind
Speaker 3: of gives a little glow there. What color does green
Speaker 3: and red make when you mix it together?
Speaker 2: Christmas.
Speaker 4: It makes Christmas sound.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 3: What do the listeners have for us for next week, buddy?
Speaker 3: Who was the lucky choice? Cheryl sent us a video.
Speaker 3: This agrees with me. There you go.
Speaker 11: However, this could be longer, but what I'm going to
Speaker 11: do is kind of give you a combination of some
Speaker 11: short videos. Have you heard the name Kareem Rama? Have
Speaker 11: not heard of Kareem Rama. Has an Emmy-nominated series called
Speaker 11: Subway Takes?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know anything about it, yeah. Gab, are
Speaker 3: you familiar?
Speaker 5: I've heard a little bit about it, yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh, I have heard this. The guy goes on the subway,
Speaker 3: sits next to people and asks them questions.
Speaker 4: And take.
Speaker 3: They have what their takes are, right?
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 18: Okay.
Speaker 3: So he does that with strangers, right?
Speaker 4: Yes, he does.
Speaker 11: Now it's where he does celebrity interviews. I watched one
Speaker 11: with Colin Jost. I watched one with Charlize Theron where
Speaker 11: they come with like five hot takes and they have
Speaker 11: to get hotter. And then it's like– and they just
Speaker 11: do the interview on a subway and anything.
Speaker 4: That happens, happens. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 11: So that's– and then he now has one called Leave
Speaker 11: the Meter Running. It's a YouTube series.
Speaker 4: Okay. And it's almost like taxicab conventions. He gets into
Speaker 4: a cab.
Speaker 11: Like he'll interview the cab driver and then– where that
Speaker 11: go it could go.
Speaker 3: Anywhere yeah yeah you know i remember seeing this on
Speaker 3: youtube for the very first time the the subway interviews
Speaker 3: and they were actually very interesting they are yeah but
Speaker 3: you wouldn't think that you could turn like a regular
Speaker 3: joe riding back and forth to work into somebody interesting
Speaker 3: but like everyday people have very interesting takes on life.
Speaker 11: So i'm trying to find the right combination of small
Speaker 11: videos it'll probably be about three of them that i'll
Speaker 11: post there but it's kareem rama yeah and it's uh
Speaker 11: yeah and cheryl wright's He reminds her of a modern-day
Speaker 11: Anthony Bourdain.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 11: But Subway takes, nominated for an Emmy. But the one
Speaker 11: she really loves is his YouTube series, Keep the Meter Running.
Speaker 11: And that's like a 30, 40-minute thing where he'll– like
Speaker 11: he spent one night going around with a guy in
Speaker 11: a cab. They stopped to get food. Yeah, yeah. But
Speaker 11: then they have– you know, they'll pick up fares. So
Speaker 11: keep the meter running. Oh, he picks up fares while
Speaker 11: he's doing it. I figured he would just pay the
Speaker 11: meter the whole time he's doing it. He was, but
Speaker 11: the one I started watching, he's like, Hey, can I
Speaker 11: just drive with you tonight? And so he got in
Speaker 11: the front seat, went with the cabbie, and then they
Speaker 11: just picked up rides. And those, they all end up
Speaker 11: being part of the show. which is almost like taxicab
Speaker 11: confessions on HBO. That's kind of cool, yeah. And the
Speaker 11: guy's interesting. He's really, if I remember right, pretty smart,
Speaker 11: pretty quick, too.
Speaker 3: He is. And not disrespectful, if I remember. He's not
Speaker 3: trying to gotcha anybody, right?
Speaker 4: No. Just looking for takes. That's it.
Speaker 11: Yeah, but I was surprised when I looked at the
Speaker 11: list of celebrities. I mean, Jennifer Lopez and the others
Speaker 11: I mentioned and just– A-list celebrities that he's done Subway
Speaker 11: interviews with.
Speaker 3: Mostly New York. Well, I mean, with Subway, it's always
Speaker 3: New York-based, but even the cat thing, New York-based as well? Yes.
Speaker 11: There's one when he went overseas, I think, to Damascus,
Speaker 11: and that actually is considered one of the most popular ones.
Speaker 4: Interesting.
Speaker 3: There's got to be a compilation video on YouTube of
Speaker 3: this guy with a … With a shorter version, a
Speaker 3: truncated version of what he's doing there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll find the right one for you.
Speaker 11: But I got caught in that wormhole today, and then
Speaker 11: I just kept watching one after the other.
Speaker 4: It's pretty good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, speaking of wormholes, I'll just drop this real quick.
Speaker 3: I mean, we can talk about it later if we want,
Speaker 3: I guess. But YouTubing, wormholing the other day, which is
Speaker 3: turning out to be one of my favorite things to
Speaker 3: do as a pastime, is just kind of scroll through
Speaker 3: and find something interesting. I ran upon a channel called
Speaker 3: The American Hobo. And it's basically this guy is a hobo.
Speaker 3: He just chronicles himself traveling across the U.S. via any
Speaker 3: free way he can. And the clip I saw was
Speaker 3: you couldn't even tell what it was. It was just
Speaker 3: him surrounded by some stuff. And he goes, I think
Speaker 3: we're almost in Cincinnati. Can't really tell because.
Speaker 4: Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 3: And what he's doing is he's hidden himself under a
Speaker 3: train car. Oh, wow. And like this little basket area.
Speaker 3: And he's been riding there for hours. doesn't know where
Speaker 3: he's going, doesn't know where it's going to drop off.
Speaker 3: He does have an idea, I think, of where it's
Speaker 3: going to end. And he talks about it all. He goes, yeah,
Speaker 3: last time I did this, I had to get off
Speaker 3: here and walk two miles to this and do this
Speaker 3: and the other. Then I just come back and he goes,
Speaker 3: you don't want to be seen. I'm not trying to
Speaker 3: disrespect anybody. Like his whole thing is getting caught, not
Speaker 3: because of it being illegal. He doesn't want to disrespect
Speaker 3: the train rider by like taking something free. But I
Speaker 3: just started watching him, and I'm going to watch him
Speaker 3: a little bit more and see how good it is.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 3: I've had a little bit of romance about that, about
Speaker 3: the hobo idea.
Speaker 10: Oh, yeah?
Speaker 3: And a little bit of a romance in that idea
Speaker 3: of just going, you know what? Blanket all.
Speaker 4: Are you going? Are you going?
Speaker 3: Are you going to take it to the streets?
Speaker 4: Just blanket all.
Speaker 3: Just give me some jeans and a bag, and I'm
Speaker 3: on my way.
Speaker 11: You need a handkerchief and a stick, right?
Speaker 10: That's right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: The easiest Halloween costume ever.
Speaker 9: We used to play that as kids. Turn our dad's
Speaker 9: weight bench into the hobo machine. He trucked that across
Speaker 9: the country. Brother and I have our stick with our
Speaker 9: bandana on the back, all of our earthly possessions.
Speaker 3: I have a picture of myself and my uncle as
Speaker 3: hobos back in the day because we couldn't afford... Like
Speaker 3: Halloween costumes, it was just you tore up a t-shirt.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And my grandmother had those bandanas because she would wear
Speaker 3: them when she worked out in the yard. And we
Speaker 3: would tie it around a stick and we'd make ourselves
Speaker 3: look dirty and off we went. You ever burnt cork?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: You take cork, you burn it, and then you could
Speaker 3: like rub the black on you.
Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3: I think we did it with shoe polish.
Speaker 4: Oh, memories.
Speaker 3: Probably wasn't toxic.
Speaker 4: I'm fine.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, exactly. That's no problem there.
Speaker 4: Explains the hair loss. I almost said that. Don't know.
Speaker 3: It may happen today. I'm in one of those moods.
Speaker 3: All right, back in a sec.
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Speaker 2: Hey guys great segue.
Speaker 15: Don't knock this Mountain Dew soap by Duke Cannon so
Speaker 15: quickly because, Jimmy, would you honestly not use a Coca-Cola
Speaker 15: or a Pepsi soap right now the way you're fiending
Speaker 15: for soda?
Speaker 4: I would eat it.
Speaker 15: I mean, I may or may not have used Duke
Speaker 15: Cannon's Buffalo Trace bourbon soap before or their beard oil
Speaker 15: or solid cologne or beard balm.
Speaker 6: Bourbon.
Speaker 3: And the bourbon soap smells great, though.
Speaker 4: I've smelled it.
Speaker 5: Oh, yeah?
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah. So there's a great video you need to
Speaker 13: see regarding the hot take guy. The one that I
Speaker 13: remember last was, he was interviewing a guy. His hot
Speaker 13: take was, gay people need to wear it on their shoulder.
Speaker 4: His reasoning?
Speaker 3: He's gay.
Speaker 13: Doesn't look like it, doesn't sound like it. You would
Speaker 13: have never guessed this guy was gay. Until he takes
Speaker 13: the sunglasses off and they're like, oh, now.
Speaker 4: I see it.
Speaker 13: And that's even what the one guy said. It was
Speaker 13: a pretty funny one because of how he was going
Speaker 13: off about how he.
Speaker 3: Doesn't look it, but he is. Is he talking about
Speaker 3: the show you were just talking about?
Speaker 4: That's what he says. They call him the hot take.
Speaker 3: Oh, I got you, yeah. All right, 407-916-1041. Text us 77031.
Speaker 4: I'm Jim.
Speaker 3: Devin Jacker here as well.
Speaker 5: Hello.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I know somebody about the Mountain Dew and Duke
Speaker 9: Cannon collaboration on the Mountain Dew soap.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9: Somebody had texted us earlier asking, so I can smell
Speaker 9: like a hormonal teenager who sweats while playing video games?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can.
Speaker 3: You're that super attractive to the ladies.
Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3: By the way, I want to apologize for Modern Plumbing
Speaker 3: because I got their website wrong 15 times in a
Speaker 3: 10-second period. It's modernpi.com.
Speaker 4: My apologies, guys. They deserve better from me. They really do.
Speaker 5: Well, upstep professional.
Speaker 3: Dolly expects better from me. So Dolly will get it.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't mean it like that.
Speaker 4: A little gross.
Speaker 11: Rode by Modern Plumbing today. It's on my bike ride.
Speaker 3: Did you really?
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: There we go. Winter Springs, they have a facility. They're everywhere, man.
Speaker 3: I see their vans out there in Lake County all
Speaker 3: the time, too. All right, 407-916-1041. Again, you can always
Speaker 3: text us at 77031. Did you guys see Point Target?
Speaker 3: God almighty, poor Target. You know, I guess we say
Speaker 3: poor Target, but I mean, does Target step in it themselves?
Speaker 4: They did.
Speaker 11: And that's what we learned with that previous What'd You
Speaker 11: Do That's New video is just a.
Speaker 3: Series of Management moves.
Speaker 4: Gaffaws.
Speaker 15: Yes.
Speaker 5: Well, they did another one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they sure did.
Speaker 3: You have that story? What's the latest?
Speaker 5: I do, but yeah.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. So Target apologizes. Let me tell
Speaker 3: you something. I have learned this in all my years
Speaker 3: of doing this job for a living. The minute you
Speaker 3: say apologize and the word Halloween in one sentence, we
Speaker 3: know what happened. We know what happened.
Speaker 4: Some KKK costume.
Speaker 3: You're close.
Speaker 4: What's the other side of that?
Speaker 3: Blackface. There you go. Target apologized. Halloween costume. A circus
Speaker 3: clown costume. Jack, I want you to go to this
Speaker 3: and find this thing. Type in Target Halloween.
Speaker 5: Just offensive costume, and it popped right up as soon
Speaker 5: as I did that. I read an article. I was like,
Speaker 5: show me. And then I saw the photo, and I
Speaker 5: was like, Target.
Speaker 3: Go to JimCobraLive.com. You can actually see it. Jack's going
Speaker 3: to put it up in the fourth panel right now.
Speaker 3: That's Dolly, buddy. Don't besmirch our Dolly. Not today, Jack.
Speaker 3: No disrespect.
Speaker 5: Somebody did make a Mountain Dew joke.
Speaker 4: I had Dolly there.
Speaker 3: You're telling me to change it. Yeah, change it, yes.
Speaker 3: But it looked like I thought you were going to
Speaker 3: change it, and then you put another picture of Dolly up.
Speaker 3: I thought you were doing jokes. No, I'm not doing jokes.
Speaker 3: I'm looking for your little Target thing that you just
Speaker 3: threw to me. It says the costume sold as, quote,
Speaker 3: kids glow under blacklight circus clown Halloween costumes. Promotes a
Speaker 3: social media backlash. And I thought to myself this morning
Speaker 3: when I read this headline, I'm like, how bad could
Speaker 3: it be? And then I– because they don't show it.
Speaker 3: They don't show it. They don't show it in the
Speaker 3: context of the story. You gots to go and look
Speaker 3: for it. You got to go find this.
Speaker 9: You got to go find this bad boy. It's like,
Speaker 9: we don't want you to look at this.
Speaker 3: And man, the minute I popped it in there and
Speaker 3: it came up, I went, oh! I was like– It's
Speaker 3: just like with the Good Good Golf thing. How do
Speaker 3: you make an ad where a guy shoves a woman
Speaker 3: to the ground, then lords over her saying, don't you
Speaker 3: touch my golf club, as if you're Clint Eastwood.
Speaker 9: And that gets cleared. Callaway's part of it. Good Good's
Speaker 9: one of the biggest golf companies out there right now.
Speaker 9: And that story still has legs.
Speaker 3: And then you think, how do you do that? And
Speaker 3: they're just a, look, they're a pretty good company. They're
Speaker 3: nothing like Target. I mean, Target is a gigantic company.
Speaker 3: How does this make it out? Like even the idea. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you got to blow one of those up and look
Speaker 3: at it.
Speaker 9: And the social media part that like a lot of
Speaker 9: people are like, so you get rid of everyone in
Speaker 9: DEI in Minneapolis. So there was no one that went
Speaker 9: through the chain of command that went, hey, you might
Speaker 9: want to rethink this.
Speaker 4: It's even worse.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what. No one's made this comparison yet.
Speaker 3: Not today that I've seen. But you know what it
Speaker 3: exactly looks like? Look at that face of that thing. Jack,
Speaker 3: blow that up if you can. And look at the
Speaker 3: face of this circus clown and tell me exactly what
Speaker 3: it looks like. Something from your childhood. What does that
Speaker 3: look like that scared the absolute hell out of you
Speaker 3: when you were a kid?
Speaker 5: Jack in a Box?
Speaker 3: No, that looks like the monkey from Wizard of Oz.
Speaker 3: That looks like the flying monkey face from the Wizard
Speaker 3: of Oz. Tell me that doesn't look like a monkey.
Speaker 9: Well, when you scroll down, some of the other photos
Speaker 9: will show it next to some of the old drawings
Speaker 9: of blackface, of minstrels.
Speaker 5: It's just such a bad look.
Speaker 8: It is.
Speaker 5: Such a bad, bad look.
Speaker 3: Here's the best part. This is what they put out today.
Speaker 4: Hey, as a company.
Speaker 9: Yeah, if you keep going down, Jack, you'll see the comparison.
Speaker 3: It says, hey, as a company, we know we got
Speaker 3: this one wrong.
Speaker 11: And is the costume on a black kid?
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 4: Are they trying to lessen the blow by doing that?
Speaker 9: No, they said, we know this is especially hurtful for
Speaker 9: our black guests, team members, and partners removing the costume.
Speaker 9: Jack has this up on our fourth box. It's an
Speaker 9: important first step, and we are looking closely at how
Speaker 9: this happened and what needs to change to ensure this
Speaker 9: won't happen again.
Speaker 5: It means having someone in the room that can go, whoa.
Speaker 8: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 4: It's even worse.
Speaker 3: Somebody just text in. I will give you one guess.
Speaker 3: Please don't look at the texting service. What part of
Speaker 3: that glows? What could make that as bad as it
Speaker 3: could possibly be?
Speaker 4: Oh, the only thing. The teeth.
Speaker 5: The smile.
Speaker 4: It's the teeth. The only thing that glows is the teeth.
Speaker 5: Oh, my God. Look at the screen now, Jimmy. Look
Speaker 5: at that.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 3: I guess I'm wasting money working here because I could
Speaker 3: be the CEO of Target and walk into the room.
Speaker 4: They're going, hey, Mr.
Speaker 3: Colbert, we got something for you. I would fire everybody
Speaker 3: in the room for even bringing me in to look
Speaker 3: at it. How do you not know how that's going
Speaker 3: to hit?
Speaker 4: How do you not know that? God almighty.
Speaker 3: Anyway, stultifying. How do you not know that's not going
Speaker 3: to hit like that? How do you look at that costume? Well,
Speaker 3: that's cool.
Speaker 9: Let's roll that out. Let's start selling those in Birmingham immediately.
Speaker 9: And they have a young black child that's that's modeling.
Speaker 3: Oh, my God almighty. It's pulled the costume that was
Speaker 3: sold as part of its seasonal hide and eek boutique brand.
Speaker 3: It was the latest in a series of reputational blows
Speaker 3: that Target has had to undercut sales. These guys cannot.
Speaker 3: This is like a bull in a china shop scenario.
Speaker 3: This is like me anywhere where things can break. I
Speaker 3: literally stick my hands in my pockets and walk around
Speaker 3: like I'm a scolded child that's been beaten my entire life.
Speaker 3: I knock things over on accident all the time. This
Speaker 3: is exactly that. Policy U-turn was widely viewed as a
Speaker 3: betrayal by black Americans who had embraced the retail giant
Speaker 3: and fueled its fortunes.
Speaker 9: Again, it's just for it to have made it this far,
Speaker 9: it had to go through multiple different departments for approval.
Speaker 9: I mean, someone had to look at the catalog and said,
Speaker 9: that looks great.
Speaker 3: Do I think Target's racist?
Speaker 11: No.
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 3: I don't think they're– they're dumb.
Speaker 4: It's clueless.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're just clueless. Which is almost worse.
Speaker 3: Do I think Target's got jokes? Do I think they
Speaker 3: put this out because they think they're getting over?
Speaker 9: No.
Speaker 4: I just think they're dumb.
Speaker 3: Like whoever works in that C-suite needs to go live
Speaker 3: in the suburbs for like two years or something and
Speaker 3: figure out what real people like and what they think.
Speaker 3: Because the people up there in the C-suites in Target
Speaker 3: have no clue, dude. So if the model is a
Speaker 3: white kid, it hits differently, doesn't it?
Speaker 12: No.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 3: It doesn't? No, I don't think so, no, because I
Speaker 3: think that's a mesh. That's mesh over the smile, right?
Speaker 3: So I think the mesh is black, so whomever's in
Speaker 3: the thing, it will be lighter for sure, I.
Speaker 2: Believe, Jack.
Speaker 4: The face.
Speaker 3: That's his face, though. No, isn't there a black mesh
Speaker 3: over it? Isn't that a black mesh, like, hood?
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because, I mean, they have to have something to
Speaker 3: hold the smile. Yeah, that goes around him, but that's
Speaker 3: his face. From his nose to his eyes, that's his face.
Speaker 4: Understood.
Speaker 3: But what I'm saying is, even though that's his face,
Speaker 3: you're saying that's cut out there?
Speaker 4: That is.
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 11: So if it's a white kid, then it's just a
Speaker 11: white kid with a big smile and doesn't lean towards
Speaker 11: the comparison to blackface.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: When I looked at it today, it looked like it
Speaker 3: was black mesh.
Speaker 5: Like a mesh with a smile. Yeah. It's like a... Yeah,
Speaker 5: because then that's what the hat attaches to.
Speaker 3: Large enough to zoom in without... Oh, I bet they've
Speaker 3: scrubbed the internet for every one of those. I can't
Speaker 3: believe you found those.
Speaker 5: They're very disappointed in you, Jack.
Speaker 4: Oh, God.
Speaker 14: Yeah, man.
Speaker 5: I think they're singing the C-suite today.
Speaker 6: Oh, wait.
Speaker 4: There he goes.
Speaker 5: He's got a much bigger.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: See, Jack, I think it has a I think it's
Speaker 3: a I think it's a mesh. It's a mesh like
Speaker 3: it like if you're going to rob a store and
Speaker 3: you're going to put a pantyhose over it because that's
Speaker 3: what the smile is attached to. I don't think there's
Speaker 3: a balaclava. That's his face.
Speaker 5: No, that's mesh.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying it's not his face, buddy. What I'm
Speaker 3: saying is I think that's mesh. I think that the
Speaker 3: smile is sewn onto a mesh cover and you just
Speaker 3: pull that over your head.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 9: So the collar, then the head part, and then the
Speaker 9: hat is attached to the mesh at the top.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 3: I'm not 100 on that because I don't think the smile–
Speaker 3: I think that's what holds the smile in place.
Speaker 5: And the hat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: Let's go pick one.
Speaker 3: I love this. It says– Target has little room for error,
Speaker 3: says Brett Husslin. He's an analyst at Morningstar.
Speaker 5: He's going to be hustling.
Speaker 3: He goes, quote, as Target begins to gain traction repairing
Speaker 3: its brand reputation, this is exactly the stuff they want
Speaker 3: to avoid.
Speaker 4: Thanks, Brett. Yeah.
Speaker 3: We appreciate your input. We kind of figure that out
Speaker 3: now because of the national outrage thing. Mistakes are bad, okay?
Speaker 4: Mistakes are bad, okay?
Speaker 3: As we know, this is especially hurtful for our black guests,
Speaker 3: team members, and partners. Yeah, could you imagine stocking that
Speaker 3: as an African-American employee as they're putting that on target?
Speaker 3: They're like, what the hell.
Speaker 4: Is going on here?
Speaker 5: Who thought this was a good idea?
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 3: It says removing the costume is an important first step,
Speaker 3: and the company is looking closely how this happened and
Speaker 3: what needs to change to ensure this won't happen.
Speaker 4: I got it.
Speaker 3: It's blow everybody out in that department.
Speaker 5: And that includes Brett.
Speaker 3: And bring in new people who don't get that. I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't get it, man. Man, what a mistake. What
Speaker 3: a mistake. And you're right.
Speaker 4: It's funny.
Speaker 3: If this was the first thing like the targeted tripped on,
Speaker 3: I think people would go, well, you know, I mean,
Speaker 3: I guess anybody can make a mistake. But this is
Speaker 3: like the third or fourth thing that these guys are
Speaker 3: getting caught up in and not. I mean, we're not
Speaker 3: like third or fourth thing like in the last like
Speaker 3: five years.
Speaker 9: It almost makes you wonder, like, don't they see the
Speaker 9: need to say, OK, bring in someone from this department,
Speaker 9: that department, this department, everyone sit in the room. What
Speaker 9: do you see when we show you this costume? And
Speaker 9: get the opinions of the people behind closed doors.
Speaker 3: That's exactly what– go ahead.
Speaker 9: No, I was going to say for it to get
Speaker 9: through design to production to having a model to making
Speaker 9: into a catalog to being part of the store circular,
Speaker 9: it went through a lot of leadership who said, yeah,
Speaker 9: I like it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we had Ken the Driver, our guy who's a
Speaker 3: big fan of the show, super nice guy. He says
Speaker 3: Target costume probably slipped through the cracks because the people
Speaker 3: who have to approve or disapprove these costumes are probably
Speaker 3: in their 20s or 30s. And not from that time period.
Speaker 3: I mean, I look, I got to tell you, that's
Speaker 3: the best excuse I've heard so far. And if I
Speaker 3: was a target executive, I'd probably roll with that. Hey, look, sorry,
Speaker 3: the guys who approve this 20, 30 years old, they
Speaker 3: don't really see the minstrel comparisons here. Giant mistake. Throw
Speaker 3: everybody under the bus. Move forward.
Speaker 9: Do you remember when Abercrombie and Fitch several years ago,
Speaker 9: one of their young employees for the 4th of July
Speaker 9: had tweeted out a photo of and the Rockets red glare?
Speaker 9: Not realizing that what they had posted was a shot
Speaker 9: of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
Speaker 1: Oh, no.
Speaker 5: Or Challenger.
Speaker 4: Challenger.
Speaker 9: They had no idea because they weren't alive when the
Speaker 9: Challenger exploded. So they thought it was rockets red glare.
Speaker 4: Right, right, right.
Speaker 9: Not realizing because, again, they weren't from that era and
Speaker 9: they just didn't source where their photos came from.
Speaker 4: Let me ask you, Jack.
Speaker 3: Do you have the chat GPT, like the one that
Speaker 3: you use for everything? Do you have that on a
Speaker 3: computer in there?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a website.
Speaker 3: I wonder if you dropped that image in the chat
Speaker 3: GPT and asked if that was race.
Speaker 4: What it would say.
Speaker 3: Like, do you think this is, is this a racist
Speaker 3: or racially motivated image that you see here?
Speaker 4: And see what it says. All right.
Speaker 3: Let me work on it.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not, you know, you can do whatever
Speaker 4: you want.
Speaker 3: What are you saying? No, I can do it. It's
Speaker 3: not going to happen now. I got to save the photo.
Speaker 4: I got to upload it.
Speaker 3: It says, and marketing had to post it. So, I mean,
Speaker 3: this thing had to go through a number of hands.
Speaker 4: Production.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. The concept of the thing
Speaker 3: from the very onset.
Speaker 9: Photographing the ad, getting the child model.
Speaker 5: I mean, everything.
Speaker 9: It had to go through a lot of approval before
Speaker 9: it actually made it to market. So, you'd like to
Speaker 9: think someone could have said, hey, did.
Speaker 6: You take.
Speaker 3: Well, I wish them the very best.
Speaker 5: That's what you say to something as they're starting a
Speaker 5: new job.
Speaker 4: Sorry, Brett.
Speaker 5: Not looking good for you, dude.
Speaker 3: We wish them the very best.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we do. They're going to need it.
Speaker 3: You are now the target.
Speaker 4: So you've won. All right.
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Speaker 3: You can always text us at 77031. Back in one
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Speaker 17: Talking about soda, growing up in New Jersey in the
Speaker 17: early 90s, I used to go visit my grandmother in
Speaker 17: the eastern side of Pennsylvania, like right across the river.
Speaker 17: And I remember she used to always take me to
Speaker 17: the A-Treat soda bottling facilities, like the little local ones.
Speaker 17: And it was super cool because they had these little
Speaker 17: plastic six-pack holders, and you could mix your own six-pack
Speaker 17: of soda. And they had this whole wall of all
Speaker 17: these different flavors of half-liter bottles. And if you brought
Speaker 17: back your empties, you got a credit. So that was
Speaker 17: a cool thing we used to always do when I
Speaker 17: hung out for the weekend was go mix up soda packs.
Speaker 3: That sounds good. As a kid?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that would be something. Oh, hell yeah. Let's go.
Speaker 3: If you threw me a bottle of Pepsi right now,
Speaker 3: I would chew through the side of it.
Speaker 5: Don't look at me. I'm not.
Speaker 3: That urge is not going away, huh? It is not, dude.
Speaker 4: You need to fix your life.
Speaker 3: I had a dentist appointment today, by the way. Have
Speaker 3: you guys been to the dentist in a while? My
Speaker 3: wife went today.
Speaker 4: Welcome back. I'm Jim. There's Deb.
Speaker 3: Hello. Jack is here as well. I don't know if
Speaker 3: you guys know this. They're giving that away these days.
Speaker 3: They are not. Dentistry is free in America. I learned
Speaker 3: that today. Well, you get your teeth cleaning. That's included
Speaker 3: in your health care, right?
Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: My whole thing today was absolutely free. I walked right
Speaker 3: out of there without paying a dime.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 3: Our dental insurance, though, does not have a whole ton
Speaker 3: of money behind it. I have some work I need
Speaker 3: to get done. These two fakies up front, I'm about
Speaker 3: to get these fixed. That's where I got some, I
Speaker 3: got some crowding here at the bottom. We're going to
Speaker 3: fix that as well. So I kind of went in
Speaker 3: today and got a, a little overview of some things
Speaker 3: I want to do. I've been waiting on it for
Speaker 3: a while. My wife has been really busting my balls
Speaker 3: for a while to get it done. So I went
Speaker 3: in today to get a, you know, get it's a
Speaker 3: new dentist because I've been going to winter park, but
Speaker 3: of course I'm not driving 50 minutes to go to
Speaker 3: the dentist. So we picked a place out there that
Speaker 3: literally is around the corner from the house. She went
Speaker 3: there the other day and loved it. It was really good.
Speaker 3: I went there today and it was amazing. Um, and
Speaker 3: the doctor's very thorough and everything like that. But man,
Speaker 3: I got some.
Speaker 4: Issues, dude.
Speaker 18: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, nothing crazy. It's just that.
Speaker 11: Would you rather drive the 40 minutes and go to
Speaker 11: the dentist that's willing to overlook those issues?
Speaker 3: I don't think he's.
Speaker 4: I just look. He always asks. I just like, no,
Speaker 4: I'm not ready for that now. I'm not ready for
Speaker 4: that now. You can say that to the new guy
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 3: And by the way, you know, they don't do the
Speaker 3: they don't do the goop in your mouth anymore. They
Speaker 3: don't do that anymore. The fluoride? No, no, no, not
Speaker 3: the fluoride. We know Florida hates that.
Speaker 11: Well, that's why you can't get it at the dentist
Speaker 11: since it's no longer in your water.
Speaker 3: Exactly right. When they put that goop in your mouth
Speaker 3: to get an impression of your teeth, kind of get
Speaker 3: an idea of what they're like, they don't do that anymore.
Speaker 3: It's like a camera. It's like a color camera that's
Speaker 3: a wand. And they stick it in there and they
Speaker 3: wand your teeth. Let me tell you something right now.
Speaker 3: You know what you don't want to see in full
Speaker 3: color in front of your face on a television screen?
Speaker 5: Don't say it.
Speaker 3: The inside of your mouth? The back of your teeth.
Speaker 7: Oh.
Speaker 4: You got to brush there, dude.
Speaker 3: I know I brushed there, but man, apparently I don't
Speaker 3: brush there enough because I'm telling you, that was not flattering. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's tough. When they put that up on the screen,
Speaker 3: I'm like, what is that animal? And I'm like, that
Speaker 3: is my teeth. It is not good, Debra. I mean,
Speaker 3: you have perfect teeth. You don't have to worry about it.
Speaker 3: Have you ever had a cavity?
Speaker 5: Of course, yeah.
Speaker 3: You have an absolute gorgeous. But you and Jack both
Speaker 3: have perfect teeth. I got Will Ferrell teeth. No, I
Speaker 3: had teeth growing over teeth.
Speaker 4: Oh, did you?
Speaker 11: Yeah, and I wore braces and had all of that stuff. But,
Speaker 11: I mean, just because your teeth are straight and you
Speaker 11: might not have a nice smile doesn't speak to the
Speaker 11: condition of your mouth and the teeth.
Speaker 3: Truthfully, you know, my wife found out she had her
Speaker 3: first cavity like two years ago, you know, and she's,
Speaker 3: you know, in her.
Speaker 4: She's like you?
Speaker 5: Man, did you learn quick.
Speaker 3: She's in her early adulthood.
Speaker 4: She's had a birthday. You know, she's that old.
Speaker 3: And she'd never had a cavity before and just got
Speaker 3: one here recently.
Speaker 4: In her 40s.
Speaker 3: I'll say that.
Speaker 5: Oh, look how sweet you are.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Also, I found out I may have to wear braces.
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 4: Awesome. Awesome.
Speaker 1: Awesome.
Speaker 3: I actually looked at my dentist.
Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
Speaker 5: It's Christmas in the control room.
Speaker 3: I actually looked at my dentist. She goes, well, you know,
Speaker 3: on this bottom part, if you want to get those
Speaker 3: straightened out, I'm that crowding dentist. is there, and we
Speaker 3: can take care of that.
Speaker 4: I go, Invisalign?
Speaker 3: She goes, or normal braces. And I said, normal braces?
Speaker 3: She goes, yeah, you can do normal braces. And I said...
Speaker 3: I got a buddy at work. And there's no one
Speaker 3: singular human being would love to see me more walking
Speaker 3: to work with braces as a damn near 60-year-old man.
Speaker 3: Just my bottom teeth, by the way. Just my bottom.
Speaker 3: I would look like a John Carpenter monster.
Speaker 9: You got to make sure you get the colored rubber bands.
Speaker 9: That was really hip with kids for a while.
Speaker 4: February 29th.
Speaker 11: 1980, I got my braces on. Had to have them
Speaker 11: for two years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 11: I have a shirt that I can give you. It
Speaker 11: has tin grins are in. And it's got a big
Speaker 11: smile with braces on it. I'd be willing to give
Speaker 11: that to you. I do not believe I will do
Speaker 11: the braces. I think I'll wind up doing Invisalign.
Speaker 4: I wonder why. It was just..
Speaker 3: You think I want to give that idiot fuel?
Speaker 5: I don't know if you can use the Invisalign and
Speaker 5: talk for a living.
Speaker 4: Come on, Metamile.
Speaker 3: You can pull it out and talk, can't you? She goes,
Speaker 3: you have to wear it 24-7, 20 or whatever.
Speaker 11: I'm like, you can pull it out and talk.
Speaker 5: No, you're going to slur. Not for four hours.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can. That's too long. Of course.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you'll have a speech impediment.
Speaker 4: You'll sound different.
Speaker 5: It's literally like..
Speaker 4: It will.
Speaker 3: Welcome to the Jim Colbert show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It will, dude.
Speaker 18: Like..
Speaker 5: That's the gift you're going to give Jackie.
Speaker 4: That's even better.
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
Speaker 4: That's even better. Yeah, let's get Invisalign. Somebody get us
Speaker 4: some drinks or something, man. You don't need it.
Speaker 5: You're getting braces.
Speaker 3: This has been the whack. Look, Dolly Parton passing just
Speaker 3: made this Tuesday. If I had a cone full of S,
Speaker 3: this is the cream on top of it. Do you
Speaker 3: have an appointment set yet? I want to start the countdown.
Speaker 4: To your list. Oh, man.
Speaker 3: It's going to be a minute. And I got to
Speaker 3: get teeth whitening and I got to get all kinds
Speaker 3: of stuff, guys. That's cosmetic.
Speaker 4: You don't have to do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, you have to because here's the thing.
Speaker 3: I got these fakies when I got my teeth knocked
Speaker 3: out by this girl in school. She slung a purse
Speaker 3: at me and had a perfume bottle in it and
Speaker 3: it literally liquefied these two teeth right there. So those
Speaker 3: are fakies. And now you can, because it's old technology.
Speaker 3: And it doesn't look great. And my other teeth are
Speaker 3: naturally getting, you know, when you get older, your teeth
Speaker 3: get that gray or brown color. I just don't care
Speaker 3: what you do.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: And so I've got to get them whitened. But then
Speaker 3: I said, can you whiten them to that tone? She goes,
Speaker 3: let's just replace all of that and just get it
Speaker 3: all done at once. And I go, okay, that sounds
Speaker 3: good to me.
Speaker 5: Ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching.
Speaker 3: Pull them all out and get dentures.
Speaker 4: No, I'm not doing that.
Speaker 5: No, don't do that.
Speaker 3: I'm not doing that.
Speaker 4: Almighty, dude.
Speaker 5: Look at him smile at that.
Speaker 4: Gummy Colbert.
Speaker 3: Nom, nom, nom.
Speaker 9: Now, apparently someone did say at 77031, they won't make
Speaker 9: you slur. My girlfriend wore them for nine months. You'll
Speaker 9: get used to them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a couple of my kids wore them.
Speaker 9: So are you getting pimples as well as you go through?
Speaker 9: Are you using Clearacel?
Speaker 3: Oh, they have these new star patches, these pimple patches.
Speaker 5: Oh, man, you see them on everybody, don't you?
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: Why didn't they have those when we were kids?
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 3: They're bringing attention to it?
Speaker 4: Yes, but it's a star. And it almost looks like
Speaker 4: a tattoo.
Speaker 5: Like everybody knows what's under it. Yeah, but it's great, though.
Speaker 9: Rather than seeing the pimple, there's a little medicated patch,
Speaker 9: but it's in the shape of a heart or a star.
Speaker 3: And kids are doing that?
Speaker 10: Yes.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 3: They're bringing attention to their acne by putting stars on it?
Speaker 11: My daughter used one at work. Someone goes, is that real?
Speaker 11: Is that a tattoo? They get a tattoo.
Speaker 4: Oh, really?
Speaker 9: It's a way to put medicine on it because they're
Speaker 9: going to see it anyway.
Speaker 5: But at least now, at least they see a little
Speaker 5: star or a heart.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the old clear cell.
Speaker 4: You just have the makeup colored clear cell.
Speaker 3: You take control of it.
Speaker 4: You turn it into something different. Like a lisp. Do
Speaker 4: you wear braces?
Speaker 5: No, I was told I needed them.
Speaker 4: You do not.
Speaker 3: Who told you that?
Speaker 4: A dentist.
Speaker 3: Somebody trying to sell you braces? Because let me tell you,
Speaker 3: your teeth are perfect.
Speaker 4: A dentist.
Speaker 5: When I had teeth... growing over teeth.
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Did you have those taken out though, right?
Speaker 4: Obviously. No, they're just.
Speaker 5: Baby teeth that just didn't get out of the way
Speaker 5: of my permanent teeth.
Speaker 4: Got it, yeah.
Speaker 3: I do not look forward to all this stuff, but
Speaker 3: I do look forward to having a better smile. I
Speaker 3: have become a little self-conscious about my smile over the years.
Speaker 10: Really?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: That happens.
Speaker 3: Just taking pictures the other day. We were taking them
Speaker 3: at the Science Center for the poker tournament. I was
Speaker 3: looking at some of those pictures. I'm like, damn, dude,
Speaker 3: that sucks. You get that wacko smile there. I want
Speaker 3: to get that taken care of. And I want Jack
Speaker 3: to make fun of me while I do it. Texter says,
Speaker 3: Jimmy would hate Invisalign.
Speaker 4: It's super annoying.
Speaker 3: You cannot eat or drink anything while you're wearing your retainer,
Speaker 3: and you have to brush your teeth every time you
Speaker 3: take it out if you're going to eat before you
Speaker 3: put it back in.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 11: And they're in HR. They talk 24-7 at work and
Speaker 11: cannot wear it during the day.
Speaker 3: And the other thing, too, is you can get them
Speaker 3: behind your teeth as well, right? But I heard that
Speaker 3: is a complete pain in the ass. Because they're really
Speaker 3: hard to clean. Have you heard that before? No, but
Speaker 3: I think you should try it. But they can put
Speaker 3: them behind. They can put the little things behind your
Speaker 3: teeth instead of in front. And I've heard that. I
Speaker 3: knew people who had that, and they said it was
Speaker 3: a complete nightmare because they're so hard to clean, and
Speaker 3: your tongue always gets caught on it.
Speaker 11: 100%. I can imagine that. Because you just pointed out
Speaker 11: how hard it is to brush behind your teeth.
Speaker 6: It is, yeah.
Speaker 11: Imagine if you have hardware there, and your tongue would
Speaker 11: be constantly hitting it.
Speaker 18: Duh.
Speaker 12: Ah.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 4: Baby's getting braces.
Speaker 3: All right, 407-916-1041. Text us at 77031. Back in a
Speaker 3: sec with more of the Jim Colbert Show. Man, it
Speaker 3: was really sad to hear that Dolly Parton passed away
Speaker 3: today at 80. What a classy lady. Man, she wrote
Speaker 3: so many hundreds of songs.
Speaker 4: She did. What a legend. The tributes will be pouring
Speaker 4: in for weeks to come.
Speaker 3: And you know, Jimmy, she also did a Pepsi commercial
Speaker 3: back in 1990.
Speaker 4: It's true. Google it.
Speaker 3: Is that the guy that always drops the Pepsi thing
Speaker 3: on me?
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I predict you will see one of the biggest
Speaker 3: tributes on network TV that you'll ever see for Dolly Parton.
Speaker 3: I'm sure it's in the works as we speak.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sure.
Speaker 3: Every name of any musician that was ever influenced or
Speaker 3: ran into her will want to do something to show
Speaker 3: their appreciation for her talent and impact on the music
Speaker 3: business for years.
Speaker 11: Whether it's the New York Times or any major publication,
Speaker 11: you know, they already kind of have the obit outline.
Speaker 3: That was jim's thing for the while right he would
Speaker 3: read the obits well.
Speaker 11: Yeah he would always we'd always have to guess how
Speaker 11: big will her obituary be oh yeah how many pictures
Speaker 11: yeah yeah yeah so it's like is it a full
Speaker 11: page is it two pages i can't imagine that hers
Speaker 11: wouldn't be full page oh easy i mean i just
Speaker 11: simply can't imagine that they could come up with any
Speaker 11: other name that's you know that much more impactful especially
Speaker 11: to country music but i would say music in general
Speaker 11: entertainment in general actually that game is tough because it
Speaker 11: requires you to have the print edition Right, yeah. To
Speaker 11: be able to really confirm it as opposed to, I mean,
Speaker 11: you can look at story length and how many words
Speaker 11: are written.
Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back to the Jim Colbert Show. We're
Speaker 3: already at 104.1.
Speaker 4: I'm Jim. Deb is right there. Hello.
Speaker 3: Greg is here as well. Yeah, somebody was just texting
Speaker 3: and said, hey, be careful with your dentist. They upsell
Speaker 3: like vets. You got to be very careful because you
Speaker 3: don't know the lingo. You don't know anything what's going on.
Speaker 3: You trust them because they're doctors. And you don't realize that,
Speaker 3: you know, they're also a business. And you get in
Speaker 3: there and you think they're like, okay, you're going to
Speaker 3: look good here. You're going to look good there. Next
Speaker 3: thing you know, you're looking at a bill. It's like 10K, 15K.
Speaker 3: It's important to know, just like vets, who's the owner
Speaker 3: of that business?
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 11: Is it a private equity firm where the local dentist
Speaker 11: has to hit a certain benchmark of sales to remain profitable?
Speaker 3: That's a very good question.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 3: By the way, can I ask you a question on that, Jack?
Speaker 3: Do you think it's improper? Because that also has happened
Speaker 3: with veterinarians as well.
Speaker 4: Correct.
Speaker 3: The big vet, the hedge fund guys came in. They
Speaker 3: started buying up these vets, these mom-and-pop vets. They let
Speaker 3: them keep their name, but they are now beholden to
Speaker 3: the budgets that are … The people who gave them
Speaker 3: the money, right? Yeah, and they have to upsell, upsell, upsell.
Speaker 3: Is it not proper to ask them that? Like if
Speaker 3: you go to a vet, can you ask them, hey,
Speaker 3: are you sole owners of this or are you guys
Speaker 3: beholden to a hedge fund that bought you out? It
Speaker 3: is 100% appropriate to ask. Is it really?
Speaker 4: I would just, you know.
Speaker 5: Be prepared they don't have to answer.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah.
Speaker 11: If they want your business, if it's an independent owner,
Speaker 11: I know we are, you know, I think they'd be
Speaker 11: proud to say that if they don't already have that
Speaker 11: somewhere on the wall. I think my dentist has it
Speaker 11: somewhere like in the lobby.
Speaker 3: Interesting because the dentist that I went to this morning,
Speaker 3: actually the dentist's name is in the name of the business.
Speaker 3: It's blank by blank, and the last blank is the
Speaker 3: person's last name.
Speaker 4: I'd still check. Yeah, I will. They may have bought
Speaker 4: the name, too.
Speaker 3: And by the way, it's a beautiful facility. It really is.
Speaker 3: I mean, completely safe. She's an unbelievable professional. I mean,
Speaker 3: she was really, really good.
Speaker 11: It's nice when you find someone who's great, does their
Speaker 11: job well, you like going there, and they're in your plan.
Speaker 3: And by the way, here's the other thing. Check this out, right?
Speaker 3: Because I haven't used any of the dental insurance this
Speaker 3: year yet. So I think we went at like $ 1, 500
Speaker 3: or something for that.
Speaker 4: Is that what it is?
Speaker 3: Is it per policy? I think mine's like $ 1, 500 or something, right?
Speaker 4: To pay for it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it applies that towards your bill for each year.
Speaker 4: Oh, okay.
Speaker 3: So if I get this stuff done at the end
Speaker 3: of this year, I can carry it over to the
Speaker 3: beginning of that next year and boom, boom. You know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying?
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, you got a plan.
Speaker 3: And by the way, I got to tell you, I
Speaker 3: thought it was going to be way more. This is
Speaker 3: one of the few times I went to the doctor,
Speaker 3: and when they showed me the bill or what they
Speaker 3: want to do, like this is a projection.
Speaker 11: And it was way less than I thought it was
Speaker 11: going to be, dude. That's how I feel when I
Speaker 11: check out at Aldi.
Speaker 4: Really?
Speaker 3: Wow, that's way less than I was expecting. Hey, did
Speaker 3: you see the thing today in the sales thing?
Speaker 4: No, what do you got?
Speaker 3: Possibility of a, you know, there's an endorsement deal out
Speaker 3: there for BJ's. Oh, I already... I put in for
Speaker 3: that like immediately.
Speaker 4: Well, so did I.
Speaker 3: And I also sent the video I did on day one.
Speaker 4: Oh, did you really?
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Was it for BJ's?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But you're a Costco member, aren't you? Or Sam's? You're
Speaker 3: a Costco guy. Oh, you have a BJ's thing as well.
Speaker 3: I can't tell you how many times you just repeat
Speaker 3: things I've just said. But you have a BJ's thing
Speaker 3: and you have a Costco thing, but you don't really
Speaker 3: talk about BJ's very often.
Speaker 4: You talk about Costco a lot.
Speaker 11: I talk about what I have the opportunity to talk about.
Speaker 11: Every time I talk about getting gas, where do I
Speaker 11: get gas, Jimmy? Where do I get gas?
Speaker 4: Costco, dude. No, I get it at BJ's. See, you
Speaker 4: don't listen.
Speaker 3: You don't listen. That's the one thing you got right today.
Speaker 3: All right, 407-916-1041. Text us at 77031. So I saw
Speaker 3: a story in the BBC today, and it's a story
Speaker 3: about United States restaurants, about restaurants in this country. And
Speaker 3: I find it interesting. And it's a new way that
Speaker 3: restaurants are handling their business, specifically one part of it,
Speaker 3: the part that we all hate.
Speaker 2: Tipping.
Speaker 4: Tipping.
Speaker 5: I was going to say pang.
Speaker 4: Same.
Speaker 3: So what's happening now is there are a series of restaurants.
Speaker 3: This one that they're talking about happens to be in
Speaker 3: San Francisco, but later down the story, there's another one
Speaker 3: I believe that's in New York. What do you think
Speaker 3: the change is? Including it in the bill? That's exactly it.
Speaker 3: No more tipping at these restaurants. They do not tip.
Speaker 3: But what they tell you is, it says when you
Speaker 3: go in there, It's a set price of $ 140 a
Speaker 3: person to eat at that restaurant. Now, of course, we
Speaker 3: see that a lot in restaurants these days with these
Speaker 3: prefix menus.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: Magical is going on right now. It's a prefix menu.
Speaker 3: You have $ 40 or $ 5 or $ 60, whatever restaurant you
Speaker 3: go to. It usually is dependent on the proteins you're
Speaker 3: getting in that particular meal, right? If you're getting filet
Speaker 3: and prawns and stuff, you can expect your meal to
Speaker 3: be $ 60 for that particular thing. But if it's just
Speaker 3: like a chicken and stuff like that, It won't be
Speaker 3: as expensive. What they're saying is they're pre-setting everything up
Speaker 3: front so that when you come and have dinner at
Speaker 3: the restaurant, it's out-the-door pricing. There is no more, you know,
Speaker 3: you feel guilty because of this or this person did
Speaker 3: this or whatever. That allows them to pay the staff
Speaker 3: equally because one of the things they talk about, and
Speaker 3: we don't talk about this very often. I really have
Speaker 3: never asked this question. When it comes to tip sharing,
Speaker 3: isn't that just with the servers and the bar staff?
Speaker 3: It depends on the place. You have hostesses that will
Speaker 3: run food for to-go orders. If they get tipped, sometimes
Speaker 3: they include the kitchen. Sometimes they don't.
Speaker 11: But servers will tip out the bar because the bar
Speaker 11: is making their drinks for their table.
Speaker 4: Right, right, right. So as..
Speaker 11: I mentioned the hostesses might also bust tables. Then you
Speaker 11: tip out your busser too because as a server, you
Speaker 11: want them to turn that table– you want to turn
Speaker 11: your table over as fast as possible. The sooner the
Speaker 11: busser cleans it, the more you can get another table
Speaker 11: there and make more money. So it's kind of– you
Speaker 11: tip out the people who help you do your job better.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So what I– I did not know this, Deb, but apparently–
Speaker 3: like the kitchen kind of gets forgotten, but they're on
Speaker 3: a different pay schedule altogether though.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 3: Because, you know, they get paid, like, you know, if
Speaker 3: you get a good chef or whatever, maybe they're making 25,
Speaker 3: 30 bucks an hour or whatever. They don't like, they're
Speaker 3: not in that world.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: They don't, they don't get to be part of that.
Speaker 3: And they say that is a gross disproportionate scenario for
Speaker 3: the entire restaurant. I believe this restaurant is doing it
Speaker 3: kind of like we take in all the money. We're
Speaker 3: paying everybody. Well, like as a server, you're going to
Speaker 3: wind up making $ 35, $ 40 an hour. As a cook,
Speaker 3: you're going to wind up making this. And that way
Speaker 3: there's no tipping, no pressure. That's the whole idea of
Speaker 3: what they're doing here. Nice. Now, what that means is
Speaker 3: when you look at your dinner and you see, and
Speaker 3: it's so funny because you almost have to fool yourself
Speaker 3: into believing that. How much was your dinner? It was $ 25.
Speaker 3: But how much was your tab? Oh, it was $ 50.
Speaker 3: you know, or 70 or 80. Like we went to
Speaker 3: the magical dining that are night. And because we got
Speaker 3: a couple of cocktails, what our bill could have been
Speaker 3: was $ 120.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 3: Because it was $ 60 a person. But we didn't stop there.
Speaker 3: We got some wine, we got a cocktail, and then
Speaker 3: your dinner, add that on. And then when you put
Speaker 3: your tip on there, you're like, wow, it doubled. Almost
Speaker 3: doubled just by adding a couple things on. And this
Speaker 3: process doesn't really do that when it comes to that. Now,
Speaker 3: if you order cocktails, of course, it's different. That's just
Speaker 3: the meal experience is that much. And, you know, that
Speaker 3: means no more tipping, no more any of that stuff.
Speaker 3: There's no pressure on that. You know, people in the
Speaker 3: context of the story were asking, well, is that going
Speaker 3: to diminish the quality of my service? Because if the
Speaker 3: person knows that it's a set fee going in, will
Speaker 3: they give me that same service trying to get a
Speaker 3: little extra money on me by doing that a little
Speaker 3: bit much more?
Speaker 11: Or if the compensation is right for them, it's a job.
Speaker 11: They know what they're going to make. They like doing
Speaker 11: that and they want to keep it.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 11: So they're not going to do anything to jeopardize that
Speaker 11: by putting forth poor service.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And that's exactly what somebody just texted into the problem,
Speaker 3: not having a tip structure. There's no incentive for working
Speaker 3: harder or providing a really memorable experience.
Speaker 4: But you know what?
Speaker 3: I think that goes to the culture of the restaurant,
Speaker 3: does it not?
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Because I mean, if you have a good head chef,
Speaker 3: you have a good general manager and they're building a
Speaker 3: culture of, Hey, look, let's go out there and kill it,
Speaker 3: you know, because we can get more covers in here and,
Speaker 3: you know, and, and, you know, make more money and, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, I mean, it doesn't matter. I guess it's
Speaker 3: going to be set at 20%. Isn't it the industry
Speaker 3: standard now, like 20%? Or is that still considered a
Speaker 3: good tip?
Speaker 11: 20% is good. Well, it might be because it always
Speaker 11: starts at now. It used to be 15%, 18%, and
Speaker 11: then 20%. What are the three options when they give
Speaker 11: you those predetermined options?
Speaker 4: 15% is off the board. It starts at 18% now. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it starts at 18%.
Speaker 14: 18%, 22%, 30%.
Speaker 3: Yeah, 18%, 22%, 30%. 30%. That's because you go to
Speaker 3: fancy places.
Speaker 9: But as somebody who used to wait tables, I mean,
Speaker 9: that experience, you could bust your ass on a table
Speaker 9: of eight, and they'll leave you a couple of bucks.
Speaker 9: Or better yet, one of those cards that says Jesus
Speaker 9: loves you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: Because those always help pay your bills.
Speaker 3: You know, it is funny. That does happen. A lot.
Speaker 3: My son is a server, and he's been doing it
Speaker 3: for quite a while, and he's very good at it,
Speaker 3: does very well. Yeah. I wonder how he would react
Speaker 3: to this because I got to tell you, I think
Speaker 3: he would not be for this, and I'll tell you why.
Speaker 3: He's really learned how to do this job. He's learned
Speaker 3: how to be courteous. He's learned how to be charming
Speaker 3: and be funny and give the people a really good
Speaker 3: experience at the restaurant, and they take good care of him.
Speaker 3: If they take that out of his pocket, I wonder
Speaker 3: if that would make him feel like literally are taking
Speaker 3: the opportunity away from him to showcase his skill set.
Speaker 9: Well, what I was talking about was when I waited
Speaker 9: tables at Mark's Big Boy. That's going to be a
Speaker 9: market of difference from where your son is working. So
Speaker 9: maybe for those restaurants where you're not looking for a
Speaker 9: dining experience, but your staff still wants to get paid,
Speaker 9: maybe that would work better for that and let the
Speaker 9: fine dining establishment still allow their waitstaff.
Speaker 5: To determine the size of the tip.
Speaker 3: And look, the place he works, he has regulars. He
Speaker 3: has people that come in once a week, every week.
Speaker 3: They get the same table. They sit in his section.
Speaker 3: They specifically ask for him. And I think that if
Speaker 3: they were to change that process, I don't know that
Speaker 3: that would matter. I mean, I guess they probably would
Speaker 3: because they like his personality, but I don't know. And
Speaker 3: I guess you still have the option, even if you pay,
Speaker 3: if you wanted to throw the guy a couple extra dollars,
Speaker 3: even on top of the tip tip, you could do that.
Speaker 3: But man, I mean... You know, already you're getting hit
Speaker 3: for 20, 22%. I can't imagine people are going to
Speaker 3: start shelling out more cash, even if they do like
Speaker 3: the person. I mean, I like him. I ain't getting
Speaker 3: any more money. All right. 407-916-1041. Text us at 77031.
Speaker 3: Is this Amendment 3? Is that what the number is?
Speaker 3: So this property tax incentive, of course, when it first dropped,
Speaker 3: got as much attention as you can imagine, of course,
Speaker 3: as November approaches and the voting will be happening on
Speaker 3: this amendment. It's really starting to ramp up. Have you
Speaker 3: guys seen it on social? How much conversation is happening
Speaker 3: about this now?
Speaker 11: Yeah, well, when it first came out, I saw a
Speaker 11: lot of, you know, that's when towns, municipalities are saying, look,
Speaker 11: this is our budget, and this is where the money
Speaker 11: comes from. This is what we spend it on, and
Speaker 11: something's going to give here.
Speaker 9: For me, it was seeing conservative sheriffs around Central Florida,
Speaker 9: from Mike Chitwood to Grady Judd, when they came out
Speaker 9: and said, you know, Wayne Ivey over in Brevard County,
Speaker 9: when Grady Judd said, this is a train wreck. I
Speaker 9: thought that's something worth paying attention to because he's a
Speaker 9: conservative sheriff and he's talking about how this is going
Speaker 9: to affect your public safety.
Speaker 4: Yeah, 100%.
Speaker 3: So we have Charles Chapman. He's going to join us.
Speaker 3: He's a legislative advocate for the Florida League of Cities,
Speaker 3: and they deal with a lot of cities around Florida.
Speaker 3: And we're going to talk to him about what that
Speaker 3: could do to cities that you live in as you listen.
Speaker 3: So we'll talk to Charles next.
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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back to the Jim Culver Show. We're
Speaker 3: already at 104.1. Thanks so much for tuning in today, guys.
Speaker 3: We appreciate that very much, as we do every day.
Speaker 4: I am Jim.
Speaker 3: There's Deborah.
Speaker 4: Hello.
Speaker 3: Jack is here as well.
Speaker 4: What up?
Speaker 3: And Jack is the one who gave me the heads
Speaker 3: up on this gentleman. We've been looking for someone who
Speaker 3: can really speak to this issue and make sure people
Speaker 3: understand what they're voting for come November. You guys give
Speaker 3: it up good and loud for Charles Chapman. What do
Speaker 3: you say? Charles, how you doing, buddy?
Speaker 2: I'm doing fantastic. Better than I deserve and totally happy.
Speaker 4: To be with you guys.
Speaker 3: So glad to hear that. This is something that we
Speaker 3: have been talking about since the inception of this idea.
Speaker 3: We've had on a couple of mayors, Mayor of Sanford,
Speaker 3: Mayor of Oviedo up here in the Orlando area. Both
Speaker 3: of them kind of laid it out pretty bluntly exactly
Speaker 3: what could happen if this property tax initiative does go through,
Speaker 3: trying to explain to people what they could lose in
Speaker 3: their community. And a lot of people really for some reason,
Speaker 3: have a real hard take on that. There's this overwhelming
Speaker 3: concern that the government is really wasting everybody's tax dollars.
Speaker 3: And I think we can both agree that certainly has
Speaker 3: happened before. But can you kind of lay out what
Speaker 3: cities and municipalities are looking at if this does make
Speaker 3: it through or what's happening with this?
Speaker 2: Well, great. Thank you for that, Tia. And thank you
Speaker 2: for having those mayors on. I mean, their voices are
Speaker 2: so important. They really have their boots on the ground.
Speaker 2: They know their cities best. Working for the Florida League
Speaker 2: of Cities, we represent all 411 cities in the state
Speaker 2: of Florida, from Pensacola to Key West. So we get
Speaker 2: to see this truism, right, that cities come in all
Speaker 2: different shapes and sizes, right? And it comes down to this.
Speaker 2: Cities are the only government of choice in the state
Speaker 2: of Florida. When you move here, you don't have a choice.
Speaker 2: You're going to live in a county. You're going to
Speaker 2: live in a school district. you're going to end up
Speaker 2: in some sort of a special district for water management,
Speaker 2: most likely, and then there's a variety of other different
Speaker 2: smaller special districts. But you, as a consumer, get to
Speaker 2: make a choice of whether or not you're going to
Speaker 2: live in the unincorporated county for that level of service
Speaker 2: they provide, or you're going to choose to live in
Speaker 2: a city for a different level, most oftentimes higher level
Speaker 2: of service, for your total quality of life experience. And
Speaker 2: so For me to give you a one-size-fits-all answer is
Speaker 2: almost impossible because even in Orlando, the Orange County area,
Speaker 2: you've got Orlando as the major metropolitan area. They're looking
Speaker 2: at a massive loss from this $ 150, 000 to $ 250, 000 homestead
Speaker 2: exemption two-step that this is moving into, where they're losing
Speaker 2: $ 31 million in the first year, $ 59 million in the
Speaker 2: next year. But then you have this case study right
Speaker 2: down the road, and Edgewood is And they're going to
Speaker 2: be losing, in a small municipality itself, $ 453, 000, $ 857, 000 respectively
Speaker 2: year one, year two. Now, those numbers are significantly smaller.
Speaker 2: But what that means is that Edgewood is going to
Speaker 2: be faced with a series of decisions for the services
Speaker 2: that they provide to those residents that call that place home.
Speaker 2: That's not simply going to be, oh, we're going to
Speaker 2: peel back a little service here, or we're going to
Speaker 2: make a little trend there, and you're still going to
Speaker 2: have the same experience. No, this is flesh and bone
Speaker 2: type conversations where some programs may have to end. In
Speaker 2: extreme examples, there are cities in the state of Florida
Speaker 2: that they only receive property tax revenue. And this may
Speaker 2: make them have to have some really tough choices of
Speaker 2: either becoming completely state-funded dependent through grants and revenue shares,
Speaker 2: which means they got to go to Tallahassee with their
Speaker 2: handout and say, can you help us fund these services?
Speaker 2: And that's a whole different conversation than what our current
Speaker 2: representative democracy was meant to make, that you get to
Speaker 2: talk to the decision maker and the public's checkout line,
Speaker 2: and you get to vote on those local city officials
Speaker 2: on how they're spending their money. And it takes the
Speaker 2: decision from home and plants it up here in the
Speaker 2: capital city, which I call this place home. But at
Speaker 2: the same time, do you really want people in Tallahassee
Speaker 2: making decisions for you back in Maitland or Ocoee or
Speaker 2: Edgewood or Belle Isle?
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Charles, I didn't mean to interrupt. My apologies.
Speaker 4: Of course.
Speaker 3: The other aspect is, okay, so Deltona is one of
Speaker 3: those municipalities we're talking about that will lose, that is 100%
Speaker 3: driven by property tax revenue, right? It provides everything that
Speaker 3: Deltona has. And if you do have to go to
Speaker 3: the state, the state still has to come up with
Speaker 3: that money somewhere. All right. That money is now gone.
Speaker 3: That property tax money is gone. Where is the state
Speaker 3: going to provide that grant money they're talking about? Where's
Speaker 3: that coming from?
Speaker 2: Well, that is really the multi-billion-dollar question because we think
Speaker 2: 411 municipalities, 67 counties, nearly 1,800 special districts, which include
Speaker 2: children's services councils, hospitals, mosquito control, water management, fire districts,
Speaker 2: and the like that are dependent on this. How is
Speaker 2: there going to be a trust fund big enough at
Speaker 2: the state level to be able to make up these
Speaker 2: funding gaps, number one? Number two, the state of Florida,
Speaker 2: from their own economists and their pattern for the last
Speaker 2: two legislative sessions, are preparing for a budget deficit over
Speaker 2: the next three years where they're going to have to
Speaker 2: look at their own budget and see what they can
Speaker 2: afford to provide in terms of services. So that's really
Speaker 2: a conundrum. I think that was one of the reasons
Speaker 2: why this mysterious trust fund that was originally talked about
Speaker 2: early on in this process was removed from this ballot language.
Speaker 2: There's no guarantee. There's no soft padding here, folks. This
Speaker 2: thing hits hard like a skateboarder on concrete. It's going
Speaker 2: to be a problem for folks that come to Tallahassee
Speaker 2: and buying for very limited resources. So what's that alternative, right?
Speaker 2: That means cities are going to have to look at
Speaker 2: other ways to come up with funds or they're going
Speaker 2: to have to look at the services that they provide
Speaker 2: and make adjustments accordingly. We've said all along, this is
Speaker 2: not necessarily a tax cut. This is a tax shift.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 2: It's a shift. And people say, oh, no, you're making
Speaker 2: that up.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 2: Do you pay a fire special assessment fee today? If
Speaker 2: you do, that fee is likely to go up because
Speaker 2: I guarantee you there's some property tax subsidies that are
Speaker 2: going in to help fund things like emergency medical services
Speaker 2: in the fire department. Because guess what? Fire special assessments
Speaker 2: don't pay for EMS. They don't pay for EMS. If
Speaker 2: you think about things like your parks and recreation leagues,
Speaker 2: I've got three kids that play Parks and Recreation athletic leagues, right?
Speaker 2: I got one in soccer. I pay $ 400 a season.
Speaker 2: There's two seasons in a year for that young man
Speaker 2: to play in that soccer league. And I know there's
Speaker 2: a property tax subsidy because we're not covering the cost
Speaker 2: of maintenance of the field, the lights, the referees, all
Speaker 2: of that stuff within that registration. That's basically the shirt,
Speaker 2: the coaches, the trainers, and the program itself. Hey, That
Speaker 2: fee is going to go up.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. Again, I'm sorry to interrupt. It's just hard
Speaker 3: to communicate with the Zoom thing. But one of the
Speaker 3: things we talked to Megan Sladek about in Oviedo specifically
Speaker 3: because they have in the Winter Springs area, they have
Speaker 3: this giant Central Winds Park. It's a major area where
Speaker 3: people play Little League baseball and do things. We have
Speaker 3: myriad boat ramps around this area for the St. Johns
Speaker 3: and the lakes and things of that nature. And when
Speaker 3: I'm talking to people about this and look, I would
Speaker 3: benefit from this for you greatly. I would benefit from
Speaker 3: the property tax being gone. Look, it would, it would
Speaker 3: be awesome to not have to pay that. But I
Speaker 3: also understand what that money provides. I said, are you
Speaker 3: ready to pay $ 35 to launch your boat every time?
Speaker 3: Are you ready to pay the 40 bucks to go
Speaker 3: to your own kids, little league team? I mean, because these,
Speaker 3: this is what you're looking at. You're going to look
Speaker 3: at individual a la carte charges for these services, because
Speaker 3: this is what your property taxes pay for. You're not
Speaker 3: gonna be able to just walk onto the field anymore.
Speaker 3: That thing doesn't cut itself. They're going to chain that up.
Speaker 3: The lights are coming down, all of that. They said
Speaker 3: that one of the first things they'll do is start
Speaker 3: tearing out the playgrounds because they won't be able to
Speaker 3: afford the insurance in case somebody falls and hurts themselves
Speaker 3: while they're playing.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 2: You're spot on, Jim. And one other thing that tends
Speaker 2: to resonate when I talk about this, I'm currently in
Speaker 2: what I call the sandwich generation, right? I've got parents
Speaker 2: that are elderly. We're having to help take care of them.
Speaker 2: I've got three teenagers.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: So I'm getting pulled in both directions. If we didn't
Speaker 2: have valid, you know, great library service programs, a senior
Speaker 2: services center and things for my parents to go and
Speaker 2: do things during the day to free my time up.
Speaker 2: I have a whole different decision making metric at my
Speaker 2: kitchen table. What am I going to do with mom
Speaker 2: and dad who are still at home and still in
Speaker 2: good health? But for how long? You know, those are
Speaker 2: the types of things that, yeah, it's one thing to
Speaker 2: talk about a la carte fees for services. But what
Speaker 2: if that's not enough? What happens when the library goes
Speaker 2: from seven days a week to four? And as a
Speaker 2: homeschool parent, like I am, you're using that library in
Speaker 2: a variety of different things. Libraries aren't just checking out
Speaker 2: books anymore, folks. It is the internet cafe for folks
Speaker 2: that don't have computers at home. It's classrooms for people
Speaker 2: with school choice. We got to get an up-to-date modeling
Speaker 2: on what are these services that people enjoy and Talking.
Speaker 3: To Charles Chapman from the League of Cities, Deb.
Speaker 10: Yes.
Speaker 9: So, Charles, I wanted to ask more specifically, what are
Speaker 9: the potential impacts on hospitals with that lack of property
Speaker 9: tax support?
Speaker 2: OK, so representing the cities, I don't have hard numbers
Speaker 2: on the hospital side, but I can give you the
Speaker 2: theory of it. So it hopefully will help you make sense.
Speaker 2: One thing we hear constantly is, oh, hospitals will be fine. No, ma'am,
Speaker 2: because if they are funded through a property tax levy
Speaker 2: said differently, they apply a millage rate to the tax
Speaker 2: rule to get their funding. So the biggest one I
Speaker 2: can come up with Jackson Memorial, Miami-Dade, right? One of
Speaker 2: the biggest, best known publicly funded hospitals in the country.
Speaker 2: They're going to get hit with this, too. which means
Speaker 2: they've got to look at other things, such as are
Speaker 2: they able to stay on the cutting edge of research
Speaker 2: and development? Are they going to have to look at
Speaker 2: a different cost center model? Are you going to look
Speaker 2: at insurance premiums go up? There's tier two, tier three,
Speaker 2: tier four type decisions that have not been contemplated within this.
Speaker 2: This was rushed through and not very well studied. There's
Speaker 2: so many extra implications. Once you start walking down this
Speaker 2: road of the ripple effect, That's going to lead us
Speaker 2: into what I'm pointing over the next two years as
Speaker 2: summers of surprises or the what do you mean experience
Speaker 2: in terms of what do you mean that's not available anymore?
Speaker 2: What do you mean you've got to shut down my
Speaker 2: county health department? What do you mean I've got to
Speaker 2: go or consolidate my city because they can't afford to
Speaker 2: operate the same way anymore?
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Charles, a lot of people, I mean, on a macro
Speaker 11: level will say, yeah, I see it benefits the community.
Speaker 11: And then they look at their assessment. We had a
Speaker 11: person text in. They said, these people could find the
Speaker 11: money from elsewhere. I need a break. I just got
Speaker 11: my tax bill of $ 10, 000 on a $ 300, 000 home. And
Speaker 11: the house, this is absolutely ridiculous. So When that one person,
Speaker 11: you know, all problems come back to the local and
Speaker 11: the wolf they have to feed at the door. If
Speaker 11: they're like, I need this money, how do you break
Speaker 11: through to that person, you know, to serve the greater
Speaker 11: good of their community?
Speaker 2: Well, I think we have to start with nobody likes
Speaker 2: to pay taxes, period. Nobody likes to. I don't like
Speaker 2: to pay taxes, and I work advocating for local governments.
Speaker 2: I haven't met an elected official out there that loves
Speaker 2: to pay taxes. So I think we have to start there.
Speaker 2: The second bit is you also have to understand your
Speaker 2: property tax bill and understand that it's not one bill.
Speaker 2: It's five bills, sometimes six bills all rolled into one.
Speaker 2: The third part of that is if you are not
Speaker 2: happy with the tax rate you're paying, I would ask,
Speaker 2: have you gotten involved with your local city council or
Speaker 2: your county government to have the conversation about where's that
Speaker 2: money going? What are those services that I get for
Speaker 2: my money? And then see what is that opportunity for
Speaker 2: you to get right size. There's a ton of other
Speaker 2: opportunities to bring that tax bill down. There's the value
Speaker 2: adjustment board. You can challenge the valuation of your property.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of things. Nobody is saying that property
Speaker 2: taxes are not high in this state. They are. We've
Speaker 2: had a real estate boom for the last five years
Speaker 2: post COVID. We're starting to see the real estate market
Speaker 2: begin to levy out. It's a function that we've seen
Speaker 2: three or four times in the last 20 years. The
Speaker 2: market does begin to correct itself. We get that people
Speaker 2: need help now. Affordability is probably the hardest thing to
Speaker 2: define out there because it's highly subjective. What's affordable to
Speaker 2: me is not, say that differently. What's affordable to Jeff
Speaker 2: Bezos is not affordable to me. So that comes into it.
Speaker 2: And anything we're talking about waste, waste is also subjective. Look,
Speaker 2: I don't have any pets, right? I don't necessarily love
Speaker 2: the fact that there's a dog park right down the
Speaker 2: road that I see only maybe three or four people
Speaker 2: using all the time. But those people that use that
Speaker 2: dog park, that's their socialization sphere. That's their time in
Speaker 2: the sunshine. That's a highly valued thing. I may consider
Speaker 2: it as waste, but they may love it as a
Speaker 2: community feature.
Speaker 3: But that evens out everywhere. I mean, you could apply
Speaker 3: that to a number of services provided by any county
Speaker 3: or city that somebody just doesn't use because they're not
Speaker 3: into that particular thing. There are walking trails all around
Speaker 3: Central Florida. I've been on maybe three of them my
Speaker 3: entire life, but I'm not saying everybody else shouldn't have it.
Speaker 3: because I don't go walk on them. I mean, that's
Speaker 3: relatively short-sighted, in my opinion. The one thing I did
Speaker 3: want to ask about this is, when you talk to
Speaker 3: people when the city's around there, what is the mentality
Speaker 3: that the governor has had about this? He introduces this
Speaker 3: as a lame-duck governor. it hits the wall like a
Speaker 3: ton of bricks and then kind of backs off from it.
Speaker 3: Now there doesn't seem to be that same support. What
Speaker 3: is the vibe of that? He's the one who introduced this,
Speaker 3: and now it doesn't seem like he has that same
Speaker 3: fervor for it. Why is that happening?
Speaker 2: I think there's just a lot going on in the
Speaker 2: political sphere right now. And as far as getting into
Speaker 2: the governor, his intentions or otherwise, I'm not willing to
Speaker 2: go down that train too far. But what I will
Speaker 2: say is that all along, since this was introduced in
Speaker 2: February of 25, we've been calling for a full study
Speaker 2: of this to know exactly what you're getting into, know
Speaker 2: what those unintended consequences are going to be. Here we
Speaker 2: are now faced with this real ballot initiative. We're beginning
Speaker 2: to get out and educate and inform the voters. Look,
Speaker 2: cities cannot get out there and tell you to vote
Speaker 2: yes or vote no, but they can tell you what
Speaker 2: the impact of this will be to the services that
Speaker 2: you enjoy on a daily basis that you may not
Speaker 2: even make a connection with. And so I think there's
Speaker 2: a little bit of that realization that's happening statewide, no
Speaker 2: matter who you are. that there's going to be some
Speaker 2: impacts to this. And you know what? The thing that
Speaker 2: I hear most frequently is that, oh, public safety is protected. Well, folks,
Speaker 2: there's no protection in this bill. There's no protection in
Speaker 2: this ballot for public safety. Now, I'm not saying that
Speaker 2: they're going to come after public safety. It's number one
Speaker 2: or number two after you cover insurance and debt obligations,
Speaker 2: and then you find public safety than everything else. But
Speaker 2: some instances in these smaller communities, like you mentioned with Deltona,
Speaker 2: There's not enough money at the end of the day
Speaker 2: that they can keep public safety whole. They're going to
Speaker 2: have to make some adjustments.
Speaker 11: Yeah, Charles, it's part of the trickle-down effect here. Is
Speaker 11: it possible where people would see their own property value
Speaker 11: diminish when they start seeing these services diminish in their communities?
Speaker 2: Well, again, I'm not a real estate expert, so I
Speaker 2: will just say this. If you look up what goes
Speaker 2: into evaluating your home and what makes it marketable to somebody,
Speaker 2: it's usually a couple of key features, right? One, is
Speaker 2: it a safe neighborhood? Two, is it close to a
Speaker 2: fire hydrant and a fire station so that what's called
Speaker 2: the ISO rating, the insurance services rating, which means that
Speaker 2: you've got a reasonable response time whenever you call 911,
Speaker 2: the fire truck's going to be there. If those things
Speaker 2: start getting impact, People are not going to feel safe.
Speaker 2: You're going to have higher property insurance. There's also the
Speaker 2: fact that you have parks that contribute greatly to your
Speaker 2: home value. You have sidewalks. You have well-maintained streets. All
Speaker 2: of those things could start being delayed or just closed
Speaker 2: because you can't afford to maintain those parks up to
Speaker 2: par in the service level the residents expect.
Speaker 3: Go ahead.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: There could be a direct impact to the value of
Speaker 2: your home long-term because those community features... in that community
Speaker 2: you chose to live in are no longer being provided
Speaker 2: at the same level as it was when you purchased
Speaker 2: that home.
Speaker 3: We have a guy that is texting in and he
Speaker 3: says that we're handling this as a one-sided thing. He goes, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's time for pay to play. Pay for the resources
Speaker 3: you use. No taxes! So that would mean this. If
Speaker 3: that gentleman's house catches on fire and he calls the
Speaker 3: fire department, the first question they ask is, can you
Speaker 3: afford the $ 1, 500 or $ 2, 000 or $ 4, 000 for us to
Speaker 3: come out and put out your fire? Or if we
Speaker 3: have somebody lurking around my house and I have to
Speaker 3: call the cops, are the cops going to ask, yeah,
Speaker 3: we'd love to come out, but this is a pay-for-play area,
Speaker 3: so do you have the $ 150 or $ 200 to pay
Speaker 3: us to come out and check out and see if
Speaker 3: there's a bad guy around your house? Is that the
Speaker 3: kind of pay-for-play he's talking about? I'm asking facetiously, but
Speaker 3: it seems like that's what he wants. He goes, no taxes.
Speaker 3: I'll only pay it for when I use it. But
Speaker 3: that's a very interesting concept considering that this is the
Speaker 3: same thing that people bitch about when their insurance hits
Speaker 3: them and goes, yeah, you can't even come in for
Speaker 3: that appointment until you give me $ 200. You've got to
Speaker 3: do that to even get the appointment. And people get
Speaker 3: mad about that, but this is the same scenario, I guess,
Speaker 3: that they're kind of talking about with the pay-per-play thing. Like,
Speaker 3: you know, if your house is burning down, you've got
Speaker 3: to call the fire department. They're like, look, we'd love
Speaker 3: to come help.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But unfortunately, you're in a pay-for-play area, and that's going
Speaker 3: to be $ 1, 000. If you don't have that right now,
Speaker 3: we can't come out.
Speaker 11: Charles, any place you can recommend online for people to
Speaker 11: go to see where the cities are projecting? Is there
Speaker 11: one website or area where people can get more information
Speaker 11: on how this will affect the city near them?
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. So if you go to the flcities.com website,
Speaker 2: It's not hard to find. FLCities.com, you go a little
Speaker 2: bit down from the top of the page, you'll see
Speaker 2: property tax resources. You click on that. There's a ton
Speaker 2: of information, a lot of data that's there. There's an
Speaker 2: academic study we did with the public finance institute out
Speaker 2: of Wichita State University in Kansas. You might ask Kansas,
Speaker 2: why Kansas? We wanted something independent from Florida, someone to
Speaker 2: take a different look so they wouldn't be biased. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of strong information there. Plus, I would also
Speaker 2: look at a website called Local Voices United, which is
Speaker 2: geared toward everyday average Joe citizens. And it gives great
Speaker 2: information as far as what property tax impacts will be.
Speaker 2: Those are the two quick ones right off the bat.
Speaker 2: Without giving you all of the legislative office of economic
Speaker 2: and demographic research stuff that people, I mean, I glaze
Speaker 2: over when I start looking at some of these numbers,
Speaker 2: but There's more data than you can shake a stick at.
Speaker 2: It's just getting the time to sit down in front
Speaker 2: of your computer or on your phone and start looking
Speaker 2: this stuff up. But the best thing that they could
Speaker 2: do is if you're really questioning where your property tax
Speaker 2: money is going, call City Hall. go make yourself available
Speaker 2: of this thing. Most city halls are right in the
Speaker 2: middle of town. Take a two hour trip, go down there,
Speaker 2: talk with some folks, figure this thing out for yourself
Speaker 2: and what that decision making metric might look like for
Speaker 2: you at the kitchen table.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Charles, we're short on time. We've got to go, but
Speaker 3: I do want to ask you this one last question
Speaker 3: because we've got it. You know, somebody just called in
Speaker 3: and said, Hey, look, are you to have somebody on
Speaker 3: the air that is for this? And can I ask you,
Speaker 3: do you know anybody in your circus or in your
Speaker 3: circumference that That is for this. What is the number
Speaker 3: one argument outside of I'm putting that money back in
Speaker 3: my pocket for this that you've heard?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, we hear this talking point quite frequently
Speaker 2: and it's nationwide. It's nationwide is that you never truly
Speaker 2: own your home as long as you pay property taxes. Right. Well,
Speaker 2: then I would offer that as a counter that you
Speaker 2: never really ever own your car. You never truly own
Speaker 2: your cell phone because you're still paying for those services
Speaker 2: to make those things work and make them special and functional.
Speaker 2: You stop putting gas in your car, you stop paying insurance,
Speaker 2: you stop buying your license tag, all those things. That
Speaker 2: car's not going to be worth anything to you because
Speaker 2: it's going to be operating illegally or it won't have
Speaker 2: any gas to run.
Speaker 4: Right, right.
Speaker 2: Cell phone's the same thing. If you stop paying Verizon,
Speaker 2: AT & T, or T-Mobile, great. You've got a piece
Speaker 2: of technology in your hand, but it's got no service
Speaker 2: that makes it work the way it's supposed to.
Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate your time, buddy. And that website is great.
Speaker 3: A lot of people are asking, where can I see?
Speaker 3: And I think most of these cities, if you go
Speaker 3: to their websites, they have their budgets posted. I think
Speaker 3: that has been a big initiative for the Florida League
Speaker 3: of Cities is to get those budgets out there so
Speaker 3: people can kind of go through them themselves and find
Speaker 3: out where they think waste is happening in their community.
Speaker 3: Then they can go to those commission meetings and say, hey, look,
Speaker 3: I don't like this. I don't like the fact that
Speaker 3: we're We're doing this. Flock cameras is a big thing
Speaker 3: I'm hearing about. Like we should be paying for that
Speaker 3: or should be paying for counties to have two patrol boats.
Speaker 3: They don't feel they need that without really getting into
Speaker 3: the idea of how many people they're serving with that.
Speaker 3: But if you go to most of these municipalities, excuse me,
Speaker 3: municipalities websites, it does have that information there.
Speaker 4: It's fully transparent.
Speaker 3: It has to be.
Speaker 4: It's it's the law.
Speaker 2: Correct. It should be right there within a couple of clicks.
Speaker 2: You can get more information than you ever want to
Speaker 2: know about your local city budget right there on their website.
Speaker 3: Charles, always good talking to you, buddy. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Good night for Charles Chapman, guys.
Speaker 4: What do you say? Be a good man.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much.
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Speaker 5: Hello.
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Speaker 3: One, two, three, four, or five?
Speaker 5: Let's do five.
Speaker 3: Five sounds good. That is Cappy. Cappy, how you doing?
Speaker 11: I'm great.
Speaker 14: How are you?
Speaker 4: Good to hear, Cappy. I'm doing great. Want to play
Speaker 4: a little game with us?
Speaker 8: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: Well, let's do it.
Speaker 9: All right, Cappy, this is a real easy game.
Speaker 3: Got a question here for you. Four answers. One of
Speaker 3: these is not true.
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 3: But if you can find it, I'll send you over
Speaker 3: to see Jack. And he's got some nice stuff. Find
Speaker 3: something nice for yourself.
Speaker 4: Are you ready? Here we go.
Speaker 3: On this day in 2026, American country music legend and
Speaker 3: icon Dolly Parton has passed away. Here are three fun
Speaker 3: facts about Dolly and a lie I will always love.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 3: We're talking about Dolly Parton, Cappy. Which one of these
Speaker 3: is not true? You ready? Here we go. Number one,
Speaker 3: her father paid the doctor that delivered her with a
Speaker 3: bag of cornmeal. Number two, she wrote Jolene and I
Speaker 3: Will Always Love You over one weekend. Number three, she
Speaker 3: was only 13 years old when she played the Grand
Speaker 3: Ole Opry for the first time, and she had three encores.
Speaker 3: Or lastly, she was exactly five feet tall. Which of
Speaker 3: those is a lie?
Speaker 1: Number three.
Speaker 3: No, that's absolutely true. She played the Grand Ole Opry
Speaker 3: at only 13 years old and had three encores when
Speaker 3: she did it.
Speaker 5: Wow, that's amazing.
Speaker 3: Pretty damn amazing.
Speaker 4: I agree 100%.
Speaker 3: One, two, three, or four, Debra?
Speaker 5: Let's go two.
Speaker 3: Two sounds good. That is our friend Paul. Paul, how
Speaker 3: you doing?
Speaker 6: Excellent, Jim, and yourself.
Speaker 3: Doing great, Paul. We're talking about Dolly Parton. Which one
Speaker 3: of these is not true? Number one, her father paid
Speaker 3: the doctor that delivered her with a bag of cornmeal.
Speaker 3: Number two, she wrote Jolene and I Will Always Love
Speaker 3: You over one weekend. Or lastly, she was exactly five
Speaker 3: feet tall.
Speaker 4: It's her height.
Speaker 3: She's... I don't believe it's the last one. No, yeah,
Speaker 3: she's only five feet tall. Matter of fact, they make
Speaker 3: a big deal about her being only two inches taller
Speaker 3: than Danny DeVito, who's famously like 4'10, or something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's absolutely true. All right, Deb, one, two, or four?
Speaker 3: Or one, three, or four?
Speaker 5: I'm confused. Let's go one.
Speaker 3: One sounds good.
Speaker 4: We'll do that.
Speaker 3: Andrew, how you doing?
Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 17: How you doing, man?
Speaker 4: Doing good, boss.
Speaker 3: We're talking about Dolly Parton, the late great. Number one,
Speaker 3: her father paid the doctor that delivered her with a
Speaker 3: bag of cornmeal. Or lastly, she wrote, Jolene, and I
Speaker 3: will always love you over one weekend.
Speaker 17: Let's go with the cornmeal.
Speaker 3: No, that's absolutely true. The only rumor there is it
Speaker 3: could have been a bag of oats or cornmeal. Most
Speaker 3: people believe it was a bag of cornmeal that he
Speaker 3: paid the doctor that delivered her for. And then, of course, lastly,
Speaker 3: we'll have to go to number right here. How about Jason? Jason,
Speaker 3: how you doing, buddy?
Speaker 5: I'm doing great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man.
Speaker 3: Tell me if this is true or not. She wrote,
Speaker 3: Jolene and I will always love you over one weekend.
Speaker 4: That, sir, is a lie.
Speaker 3: That is a lie. How long do you think it
Speaker 3: took her to write them?
Speaker 17: Less than that.
Speaker 3: She wrote them in one afternoon.
Speaker 5: Oh, wow.
Speaker 3: Two of the biggest hits of her career, she literally
Speaker 3: wrote back-to-back in one afternoon.
Speaker 4: Wow. How about that?
Speaker 3: Buddy, you're a winner.
Speaker 4: I'm going to put you on hold. Good job, Jason.
Speaker 3: He is going there. A couple other things about Dolly
Speaker 3: before we get to the top of the hour. She
Speaker 3: was one of 12 children. What was her middle name?
Speaker 3: That's a tough one, right? I almost made this the
Speaker 3: question here. Yeah, I mean, there's no way to know this.
Speaker 3: Nobody's ever said it. Her middle name is Rebecca.
Speaker 4: Oh, wow.
Speaker 3: Dolly Rebecca Parton.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 3: How many decades did she win a CMA award in?
Speaker 4: Five. Is the answer.
Speaker 5: Good guess, Jack.
Speaker 3: Five decades in a row she went to CMA.
Speaker 11: I figured from 70 on.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then lastly, she was offered the Presidential Medal of
Speaker 3: Freedom twice and turned it down both times.
Speaker 4: Really?
Speaker 3: She said it was because of scheduling, but people around
Speaker 3: her said that it was her. She did not feel
Speaker 3: she deserved it. She was too humble to take it.
Speaker 5: Oh, wow.
Speaker 4: How about that? That's why we love her. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 3: of the Jim Colbert Show. Stay right there.
Speaker 7: Of course, all the sheriffs want their tax dollars so
Speaker 7: they can spend it on bear cats and boats to
Speaker 7: patrol the beaches and waterways that are so unsafe. Also,
Speaker 7: Volusia County has 8,400 building permits that they haven't kept
Speaker 7: up on and have lost $ 380, 000 in reinspection fees. Yeah,
Speaker 7: let's vote out the taxes, and if it becomes a
Speaker 7: bad idea, we can just vote them back in.
Speaker 5: Constitutional amendment.
Speaker 20: I got a letter in the mail from the tax agency,
Speaker 20: the property tax agency, this week, actually, and it said
Speaker 20: that if that bill goes through, my property taxes have
Speaker 20: dropped to whatever he said, and it's about.
Speaker 13: $ 300 a year.
Speaker 5: So divide that by 12. Is that worth losing all
Speaker 5: the other stuff?
Speaker 17: I don't think so.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I was saying that use that tax that they
Speaker 10: collected from the flight, every flight that comes into Florida,
Speaker 10: rent a car that's rented, hotel that's booked, and wherever
Speaker 10: the city or the county comes up short with whatever
Speaker 10: money they collect for property tax, they distribute that to
Speaker 10: that city.
Speaker 4: Or county to help where the shortfall.
Speaker 10: The police and the fire department and all that stuff
Speaker 10: is not going away. Please, guys, y'all stop the fear-mongering.
Speaker 4: Stop it, please. Who's fear-mongering, dude?
Speaker 5: Who's doing that? F-A-F-O.
Speaker 4: Yeah, who is doing that? God, dog, man.
Speaker 5: Charles talked about that, right? The what do you mean stage?
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, I guess.
Speaker 4: I don't know, man.
Speaker 3: I just, I don't know.
Speaker 11: So, one, he said you just put the law, and
Speaker 11: as Deb mentioned, it's a constitutional amendment, so you have
Speaker 11: to get it on the ballot.
Speaker 4: And guess what?
Speaker 11: Our legislature also made it harder for citizens to put
Speaker 11: things down.
Speaker 3: On the ballot, so they would have to do that.
Speaker 11: As for the guy saying use a tourist tax, well,
Speaker 11: that's individual by county, and there are strict rules on
Speaker 11: how to use it, which we've been, you know..
Speaker 3: Talking to Scott Maxwell about for eight years.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 11: And beyond about how they won't use it for anything
Speaker 11: but building more hotels.
Speaker 3: So many armchair experts out there. Nobody reads anything. They
Speaker 3: call in, well, here's the easy solution. You don't even
Speaker 3: understand what the hell's going on, dude. We're trying to
Speaker 3: explain to you. That's why we have these people on
Speaker 3: the air to try to explain exactly what's going to happen.
Speaker 3: Like I've told you a thousand times, everybody in these
Speaker 3: rooms will benefit from their property taxes going away. But
Speaker 3: everybody in these rooms is knowledgeable enough to understand what
Speaker 3: that will cost us as communities.
Speaker 4: It's that simple. It's that simple. I do not have
Speaker 4: a dog in this hunt.
Speaker 3: You just look at the logical information and realize, look,
Speaker 3: this could be really gnarly for a lot of communities.
Speaker 4: He just said it.
Speaker 3: Like a lot of these smaller communities that rely on
Speaker 3: property taxes for all of their money will be consumed
Speaker 3: by other counties, which means your services and the quality
Speaker 3: of them will drop whether you like it or not.
Speaker 3: I don't give a damn what you say on the
Speaker 3: air or what you think. Go read, dog. It's right there.
Speaker 4: Anyway.
Speaker 6: 407-916-1041.
Speaker 3: Text us 77031. I hate taxes as well, but I
Speaker 3: understand the mechanism of what they are. Here's what else
Speaker 3: is going to happen, right? So let's say they do
Speaker 3: pass this, and everybody's like, they're going to tax you elsewhere.
Speaker 3: The revenue has to come from somewhere. There is no
Speaker 3: Florida slush fund. You just heard him say it. That
Speaker 3: was dangled like a carrot when this first thing got
Speaker 3: rolled out. There's just going to be some giant billion,
Speaker 3: multi-billion dollar slush fund that if some city fell short,
Speaker 3: they could just ask the state nicely and the state
Speaker 3: will look at it and go, oh yeah, we agree.
Speaker 3: You should deserve this money. Where's that money coming from, buddy?
Speaker 3: You just heard the guy who does this every day
Speaker 3: of his life. Talks to cities around the state.
Speaker 4: 400 plus.
Speaker 3: There is no money. There is no slush fund. The
Speaker 3: state isn't producing this out of thin air, dude. The
Speaker 3: money has to come from somewhere. But then it also
Speaker 3: gives Tallahassee the discretion.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 11: They get to decide whether they want to give you
Speaker 11: the money, whether they think your cause is worthy.
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3: Or are you politically aligned with them?
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: By the way, where do you think that gentleman was
Speaker 3: from who called earlier?
Speaker 4: Tallahassee. No, no.
Speaker 3: The text that just came out. The talk that just
Speaker 3: came out. He had an accident, right?
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 3: What if the community center that supports those people in
Speaker 3: your community is now shut down? Because that's what's going
Speaker 3: to happen. They're coming to that first. All those community
Speaker 3: centers that you love that support the community, whether it
Speaker 3: be for reading, whether it be for learning, whether it
Speaker 3: be for support, for assistance, that's gone. And that is
Speaker 3: not fear-mongering. That's math. It's big difference. I'm not– it's math.
Speaker 3: It's just simple math.
Speaker 11: So if you live in an apartment, and many people
Speaker 11: do because they're building more and more apartments because people
Speaker 11: can't afford homes. If you live in an apartment and
Speaker 11: you see services dwindle, you're just losing services without any
Speaker 11: of the benefits of the tax break.
Speaker 5: Actually, it's– The renters– Renters, it's going to hit even harder.
Speaker 9: So people who have small businesses– who rent apartments, manufactured
Speaker 9: homes are the also next one on the list because
Speaker 9: they're going to see services reduced, but they're not going
Speaker 9: to get any of the benefits because they own their
Speaker 9: manufactured home, but they lease the land on which it
Speaker 9: sits on.
Speaker 5: So there's whole groups of.
Speaker 9: People in this state that are not going to benefit
Speaker 9: at all, but they're going to see a lot of
Speaker 9: their quality of life actually be reduced. And it's going
Speaker 9: to be very difficult with it being a constitutional amendment
Speaker 9: to actually get it reversed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and like Jack said, and look, another thing that's very,
Speaker 3: very important, right, if whatever political party is running Tallahassee
Speaker 3: at the time, right, if this goes through, right, let's
Speaker 3: say it's Republicans, Democrats, whomever, you can bet your ass
Speaker 3: that your initiative that you want money for in your city,
Speaker 3: if it doesn't align with Good luck. Good luck. You
Speaker 3: got no shot. And we've seen that everywhere. We've seen
Speaker 3: partisan things like that happen across the board, whether it
Speaker 3: be Democrats or Republicans.
Speaker 5: Well, look at what happened with the Fringe Festival. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9: I mean, because the Fringe Festival and the governor was
Speaker 9: unhappy with some of the performances that very next year,
Speaker 9: arts grants across the state were cut. For things that
Speaker 9: had nothing to do with what happened in Orange County.
Speaker 3: And then they selectively gave some back.
Speaker 9: There you go. And if they liked it or didn't
Speaker 9: like it, you got your grant money.
Speaker 3: Sent 10 state troopers down to the Pulse area the
Speaker 3: other day to keep them from painting the crosswalk again.
Speaker 3: An army of state troopers to keep people from chalking
Speaker 3: a crosswalk.
Speaker 5: That they had already approved.
Speaker 3: So you're getting braces, huh? Yeah, right across my eyes.
Speaker 3: That way I can't read anymore. That'd be the best
Speaker 3: thing that ever happened to me. All right, 407-916-1041, text 77031.
Speaker 3: I've been wanting to tell Deb this story because we have– look,
Speaker 3: I'm not reveling. Let me get your music ready. I'm
Speaker 3: not reveling in this.
Speaker 4: Stop it.
Speaker 3: It's not even close to that. I'm not reveling in this,
Speaker 3: but Debra and I have a fascination with Final Destination
Speaker 3: kind of things.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And, again, we don't want any harm to commit to anybody,
Speaker 3: but these are things that have happened. But we use
Speaker 3: it for our entertainment. I'm not wishing this on anybody,
Speaker 3: but we have this thing. And I have one of
Speaker 3: the ones– I've never heard of anything like this. Did
Speaker 3: you hear the story out of Minnesota, the tree trimmer?
Speaker 9: No.
Speaker 3: So this Minnesota tree trimmer was charged in a co-worker's death,
Speaker 3: all right, because here's what was happening. the tree trimmer
Speaker 3: guy was running the crane with the grapple right it's
Speaker 3: got the grapple thing it's got the saw in it
Speaker 3: you guys have seen this on online right it grabs
Speaker 3: the tree wax it turns it sideways and cuts it
Speaker 3: up an amazing machine by the way considering how heavy
Speaker 3: those trees are. And it's pulling trees down like that
Speaker 3: and just handling as if it's a pencil. No big
Speaker 3: deal at all. But do you remember that? Do you
Speaker 3: remember that bit on Saturday Night Live? And I can't
Speaker 3: remember what era it was where the guy was going,
Speaker 3: I'm going to crush your head.
Speaker 8: Yes.
Speaker 3: And I'm going to crush your head. It was far,
Speaker 3: far away, but it made his head look small, and
Speaker 3: he would take his fingers, and he would pinch the head.
Speaker 3: It was from Boys in the Hall. Was it Boys
Speaker 3: in the Hall?
Speaker 11: It was Boys in the Hall used to do it,
Speaker 11: and in the distance, and you put it so your head,
Speaker 11: like I'm looking at your head between my fingers, and
Speaker 11: I'm clutching your head.
Speaker 3: I clutch, clutch, clutch your head.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, apparently, the crane operator was going to pull this
Speaker 3: joke because the worker that was on the ground said,
Speaker 3: was working and the sun was casting a shadow or
Speaker 3: something like that, right? And he thought he was doing
Speaker 3: it to the shadow, but I guess in the light
Speaker 3: that he was in, he couldn't tell, and he actually
Speaker 3: did it to the guy. And he took the grapple
Speaker 3: and did the, I'm going to pinch your head thing,
Speaker 3: but he actually did it on the dude. He said
Speaker 3: he and the victim were blanking around and saw that
Speaker 3: the sunlight was casting shadows of both the grapple and
Speaker 3: the victim on the street. While looking at the shadows,
Speaker 3: he allegedly maneuvered the grapple so that its shadow appeared
Speaker 3: to grab Lynch's shadow. However, he didn't realize, but the
Speaker 3: grapple itself was grabbing him. He thought it was the
Speaker 3: shadow of the grapple, but it was not the shadow
Speaker 3: at all. It was the actual grapple.
Speaker 4: Bruh.
Speaker 3: He gets charged with secondary murder.
Speaker 4: By the way, or manslaughter. Aye, aye, aye.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's gonna..
Speaker 9: That's right up there with the South Carolina story from
Speaker 9: last week.
Speaker 3: Which was that one?
Speaker 9: A man on his first day on the job as
Speaker 9: a sanitation worker.
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: Riding the back of the sanitation truck.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 9: When he falls off, first day on the job, hits
Speaker 9: his head, dies a few hours later.
Speaker 5: His father was driving.
Speaker 18: Oh.
Speaker 4: The garbage truck.
Speaker 5: It's just.
Speaker 4: Crazy.
Speaker 5: And again, it was just a workplace joke.
Speaker 9: There was nothing even, oh, and now this guy's going
Speaker 9: to face second degree murder and have to go to
Speaker 9: court for this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Kids in the hall. It was kids in the hall.
Speaker 9: I thought somebody did What'd You Do That's New and
Speaker 9: had assigned kids in the hall, and I remember seeing
Speaker 9: that in it.
Speaker 3: Oh, I was a gigantic fan.
Speaker 5: It must have been you that did it.
Speaker 3: One of those guys, actually two or three of those
Speaker 3: dudes had pretty massive careers.
Speaker 4: David Foley. David Foley went on to be on news radio.
Speaker 4: It was news radio? Yeah.
Speaker 3: Mark McKinney went on to be on SNL.
Speaker 5: I thought it was foreign.
Speaker 3: Was it Mark McKinney who went to SNL? One of
Speaker 3: those guys wound up on Saturday Night Live for two seasons.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not sure. I have to look that up.
Speaker 4: It's Canadian.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's another.
Speaker 5: Oh, okay.
Speaker 3: A guy named Kevin McDonald, I believe, that did some
Speaker 3: stuff as well, but it was Canadian for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, Canada, our enemy now.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 5: You mean Lake America?
Speaker 3: Our foe.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: No more Lake Ontario.
Speaker 4: Yeah, brutal.
Speaker 3: By the way, super funny stuff. If you haven't seen that,
Speaker 3: one of the greatest sketches of all time. is a
Speaker 3: Kids in the Halls sketch where it was like middle
Speaker 3: school kids, and it turned out one of them was
Speaker 3: burdened with a gigantic.
Speaker 17: That.
Speaker 15: Nose?
Speaker 3: Not nose. But the thing that made it so funny
Speaker 3: is they made it like a documentary, like they were
Speaker 3: following him around, and they had to pixelate it out everywhere,
Speaker 3: so he'd be on the swing, and he'd be swinging,
Speaker 3: and the thing would hit the dude in the face.
Speaker 4: Ha ha!
Speaker 3: It was amazing, like one of the most amazing things. Yeah,
Speaker 3: super funny show. If you haven't checked that out, you
Speaker 3: can probably YouTube episodes of that. Yeah, a lot of
Speaker 3: those dudes, those guys went on to have good careers, though,
Speaker 3: writers and such.
Speaker 5: A lot of good Canadian comedy troops.
Speaker 3: SCTV was brilliant. I mean, how much television and how
Speaker 3: much entertainment did SCTV give us? Catherine O'Hara.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 3: John Candy. Eugene Levy. Rick Moranis.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 3: Um, and every one of those guys has been in
Speaker 3: blockbuster movies in Hollywood or block. I mean, the levies
Speaker 3: are still met. The levy son now is still a player.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's such players Catherine O'Hare until she died
Speaker 3: was a player. She was, she had still working, still
Speaker 3: killing it. All right.
Speaker 7: 407-916-1041.
Speaker 3: Text us at 77031. Our buddy Scott Brown up next
Speaker 3: with it's only money.
Speaker 2: Hey, JCS crew.
Speaker 8: What's going on?
Speaker 6: How you doing?
Speaker 8: This is Ray Molo. A pretty sad day. Um, She
Speaker 8: was more than just an American icon. She was a
Speaker 8: global icon.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 8: And I heard at the beginning of the show about
Speaker 8: if there's anybody of her statute that is beloved. The
Speaker 8: other person I can think of, you guys mentioned Bruce Springsteen.
Speaker 8: I was thinking about Stevie Wonder as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8: And Dylan as well. So a great artist, a great musician,
Speaker 8: great songwriter.
Speaker 4: She's amazing. What up, guys?
Speaker 5: Sport from Duval.
Speaker 4: Duval.
Speaker 6: Jim.
Speaker 14: Yes.
Speaker 4: I know you love this show.
Speaker 8: I do.
Speaker 4: Your name's on the damn show, Jim.
Speaker 8: It is.
Speaker 17: So I know you love it.
Speaker 4: And if you do love it, you've got to get
Speaker 4: metal braces, dude. Imagine the joy.
Speaker 9: And laughter Jack will bring to the show every single day.
Speaker 4: Knowing you have braces when you get there.
Speaker 3: At the cost of my misery, sir.
Speaker 4: Do it for the show, man.
Speaker 2: Do it for us.
Speaker 15: All right.
Speaker 4: Get the braces. I'm not doing it. I don't know yet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, dude, I had a weird dentist appointment today. Well, yeah,
Speaker 3: what's going on? Yeah, well, I got some crowding in
Speaker 3: my bottom teeth, and I wanted to straighten that out.
Speaker 3: And they're like, dude, it's two things. It's braces or Invisalign.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yep, your face says it all, buddy. All right, 407-916-1041.
Speaker 3: Text us, 77031.
Speaker 4: I'm Jim.
Speaker 3: There's Deb.
Speaker 6: Hello.
Speaker 3: Jack is here as well.
Speaker 8: Yo.
Speaker 3: Let's do It's Only Money.
Speaker 6: Helping people passionate about planning for their future rise above
Speaker 6: investment myths to build real wealth.
Speaker 5: Isn't that really just common sense financial advice?
Speaker 4: It's both. Oh, okay.
Speaker 6: It's Only Money with Scott Brown from Edgewater Family Wealth.
Speaker 3: Good night, Scott Brown!
Speaker 18: Yeah!
Speaker 3: Just like the– how's it going, buddy?
Speaker 4: It's going.
Speaker 6: It's going.
Speaker 4: So braces. Yeah, yeah, braces. I had braces for like–
Speaker 4: it felt like 10 years when I was in middle school. Oh, really?
Speaker 4: And it was.
Speaker 3: Probably two, right? They were huge.
Speaker 4: That's correct. They were huge. I mean, back then they
Speaker 4: had the big– they pushed them onto your face terribly. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: And so I don't know if you've noticed this, but
Speaker 3: I am not in middle school.
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 18: No.
Speaker 3: No, I'm not, Scott. I just graduated from middle school
Speaker 3: just the other day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. Well, I remember distinctly eating corn on the
Speaker 4: cob and what a fiasco that was. You know, and
Speaker 4: I was a kid, so I didn't. I pay attention.
Speaker 4: I walk around with corn coming out of my face.
Speaker 3: Oh, the ladies.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: That's how I get all the chicks. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Scott Brown joins us from Edgewater Family Wealth at edgewaterfamilywealth.com.
Speaker 3: In town almost 40 years as a fiduciary, making sure
Speaker 3: that your money lasts as long as you do, maybe
Speaker 3: even a little bit longer, making sure your portfolio is
Speaker 3: earning the way it's supposed to, and just giving good,
Speaker 3: solid advice on your finances as you get a little
Speaker 3: older in life, how you can save money, how you
Speaker 3: can make that compound, and how you can take that
Speaker 3: money and make sure you have a good life after
Speaker 3: you stop working.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the idea is not– I thought about this coming
Speaker 4: over here. I brought something with me on the habits
Speaker 4: of millionaires. And I really– I almost kind of hate
Speaker 4: saying that these days because people take it so literally
Speaker 4: and they get so caught up in, well, I have
Speaker 4: to have a million dollars or I have to have
Speaker 4: two million dollars. And I can tell you that I
Speaker 4: have several clients that I've had for 30 or 40
Speaker 4: years living– on their social security, maybe they have maybe
Speaker 4: one other small source of income, and $ 300, 000 or $ 400, 000.
Speaker 4: And they make it work. They're not going on a
Speaker 4: world cruise every year, but they're not doing nothing either.
Speaker 4: They play their round or two of golf every week.
Speaker 4: They have their poker night or whatever it is. They
Speaker 4: take the RV up to northern Georgia, wherever their place is.
Speaker 4: And so one of the things I try to get
Speaker 4: across in this show is everybody– I mean, I guess
Speaker 4: it's cliche to say everybody's situation is different, but everybody's
Speaker 4: situation is different. It is. I'm thinking of a client
Speaker 4: off the top of my head. She's about my age,
Speaker 4: so she's 62. She just turned 62, actually. And she
Speaker 4: works locally, and she makes probably about $ 70, 000, $ 75, 000 a year.
Speaker 4: She's got about $ 400, 000, $ 450, 000 saved. With her Social Security
Speaker 4: and the income that that $ 450, 000 throws off, she's literally
Speaker 4: going to make the same income plus a little bit
Speaker 4: when she retires. And you think, well, that's not a
Speaker 4: million dollars. No, is it?
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 4: The point I want to make is that I think
Speaker 4: people get down on themselves. They kind of give up
Speaker 4: or they get frustrated or they hear, I need a
Speaker 4: million or I need two million, and then they just
Speaker 4: kind of want to quit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they think it's too late, Scott. That's the thing
Speaker 3: I hear more than ever. I mean, on this texting service, like, oh,
Speaker 3: it's too late. I'm already 45 years old. I'm already 30. Oh, stop.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. 45?
Speaker 3: You don't retire until you're like 67, man. You still
Speaker 3: have 20-plus years of savings. Well, and the other thing
Speaker 3: to keep in mind is we're kind of living in
Speaker 3: a different era. You know, back in the industrial age
Speaker 3: when people wore their bodies out or they were farmers
Speaker 3: or they were doing some really hard stuff, building cars
Speaker 3: by hand or whatever it was. Yeah, from 10 years old.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure. Their bodies gave out at 50 or 55.
Speaker 4: It made sense to retire at 65. Most of us
Speaker 4: are not doing back-breaking work anymore in the outside, which
Speaker 4: allows us to work longer. You know, I have plenty
Speaker 4: of clients who... either by choice or somewhat through necessity,
Speaker 4: might work part-time. They might work. I had lunch with
Speaker 4: a guy today. He's a former engineer for a surveying company.
Speaker 4: He works five hours a week, I'm sorry, five to
Speaker 4: ten hours a month, and he makes $ 15, 000, $ 20, 000, $ 25, 000
Speaker 4: a year. That supplements his Social Security performance. plus the
Speaker 4: savings from his 401k. So the other thing I think
Speaker 4: people need to get past is that I got to
Speaker 4: retire at 65. You don't got to retire at 65.
Speaker 4: In fact, I think that's somewhat outdated since people are
Speaker 4: living well into their mid-age.
Speaker 3: Sure thing, man. I mean, I think that really that's
Speaker 3: when you, and I think once you get to that 61,
Speaker 3: 62-year-old range, when you're like, you know, when you're in
Speaker 3: that age, you're like, okay, well, I can see it
Speaker 3: from here. That's when you start kind of thinking about, well,
Speaker 3: what's the plan I have? Because I think one of
Speaker 3: the most prolific things or profound things you've said to
Speaker 3: me since we've been doing this segment together is the
Speaker 3: idea of retiring from something instead of retiring to something.
Speaker 3: I was just talking to a gentleman the other day
Speaker 3: who's a workaholic. Admittedly so. Came out of working for
Speaker 3: a massive business for years. Now just opened a business
Speaker 3: that's a franchise, but he's doing very well with it.
Speaker 3: and we were having dinner, and I was like, what
Speaker 3: do you guys do for vacations? Where do you go
Speaker 3: and stuff? And he just kind of blank stared at me.
Speaker 3: And this guy's in his early 60s, and I'm like, what, dude?
Speaker 3: He goes, yeah, yeah, I haven't really thought about that.
Speaker 3: I work all the time. I'm like, man, you got
Speaker 3: to figure that out because, I.
Speaker 4: Mean, You can actually– and as you age, you get
Speaker 4: in your 60s or whatever, there's a little bit of
Speaker 4: a vacuum of workers below that age group. And wherever
Speaker 4: you're at, if you're a nurse or you're a physician's
Speaker 4: assistant or you're a paralegal or whatever it is, there's
Speaker 4: probably opportunity at that company because a lot of times
Speaker 4: you can subcontract back. Here's an idea. You can subcontract
Speaker 4: back in your 60s. Companies love that. My mother-in-law does it.
Speaker 4: They love it because they don't have to pay for benefits.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 4: So when you get to Medicare age, you go on
Speaker 4: to Medicare and you say, just give me a 1099
Speaker 4: for the 20 grand a year for working a few
Speaker 4: hours a week. Companies love that.
Speaker 3: My mother-in-law worked for this company for a year. She
Speaker 3: was a payroll specialist and one of their finance managers.
Speaker 3: She retired, and they kept her on, and she works
Speaker 3: like five hours a week. They have access to her
Speaker 3: a couple hours a day in the mornings when she
Speaker 3: gets up and has her coffee. She settles any problems
Speaker 3: they have and logs off. By 9 o'clock, she's not
Speaker 3: doing anything, keeps her in the game, makes a little
Speaker 3: bit of extra money, and still doesn't burden her with
Speaker 3: work down the road.
Speaker 4: Yeah, again, I mean, not to beat a dead horse,
Speaker 4: but I think there's a lot of dogma surrounding retirement
Speaker 4: and what it should look like, what it should feel like.
Speaker 4: But you can, in your early 60s, you can already,
Speaker 4: you know, if you have enough vacation time trying to
Speaker 4: figure out what you like to do in your free time.
Speaker 4: And I'll tell you flat out, doing nothing ain't all
Speaker 4: it's cracked up to be. Yeah, it's not. I've seen
Speaker 4: a lot of people retire due to doing, I'm going
Speaker 4: to sit in the easy chair, Scott, and I'm going
Speaker 4: to watch television, I'm going to read a book, and
Speaker 4: I'm going to play some golf.
Speaker 3: Go crazy a week later. Those people go insane.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Like you just really need, as you said, you need
Speaker 4: to retire not from something but to something. And the
Speaker 4: reality is you could kind of do both. You could
Speaker 4: kind of keep your work life active, keep your brain active.
Speaker 4: And that's another thing we have. I can tell you
Speaker 4: based on what I do that dementia is a real thing.
Speaker 4: And I'm sure keeping your brain active is something most
Speaker 4: people are going to want.
Speaker 3: Yeah, 100%. Let's get to it today. First thing you
Speaker 3: say is dementia. Debt with an exclamation point. Yeah, we
Speaker 3: got some of that, don't we, in this country? Yeah,
Speaker 3: we have about $ 40 trillion of it. You know what's
Speaker 3: hilarious to me? Is it $ 2 billion a month.
Speaker 4: In interest or something like that? It's over a trillion
Speaker 4: a year, so whatever that equates out to be. It's
Speaker 4: now $ 0. 14 on every tax dollar collected goes to pay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: Not the debt, but the interest on the debt. Only
Speaker 4: behind defense and Social Security, it's the third largest item
Speaker 4: on the balance sheet. But what's funny to me is
Speaker 4: this last week after we went over $ 40 trillion, I
Speaker 4: noticed everybody suddenly aware of the debt. Like $ 38, $ 37,
Speaker 4: it's not a round number.
Speaker 11: It's the same thing with gas. At $ 399, you're like, three.
Speaker 11: It goes to $ 401, you're like, oh, my God.
Speaker 5: The same thing with the Powerball. I'm not going to play.
Speaker 5: It's only $ 100 million.
Speaker 3: Who can get by on that?
Speaker 4: But it's so funny to me how these round numbers
Speaker 4: get people's attention. Every senator, every congressperson is like, oh,
Speaker 4: my God, 40. Where were you at 37?
Speaker 3: You were adding to it.
Speaker 4: 37, too. You were voting on legislation that drove it up. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, come on. I just find that so bizarre.
Speaker 4: It's baffling, and it's so human. It's so human nature
Speaker 4: to attach yourself to a number like that. But yeah,
Speaker 4: right now, I laugh because I think I remember the
Speaker 4: days when we used to laugh at Greece and France
Speaker 4: and all these countries in Europe that were up to
Speaker 4: their eyeballs.
Speaker 3: Insolvent almost.
Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 4: And boy, did we feel high and mighty back then. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we ain't feeling so because we are literally one peg
Speaker 4: behind Greece. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, for sure. We're at 125%
Speaker 4: of our gross domestic product, which, P.S., dropped 20%.
Speaker 3: Two quarters in a row. Absolutely.
Speaker 4: So not only do we have high interest rates on
Speaker 4: the treasuries and we have this over a trillion dollars
Speaker 4: in debt to service, but we also have a GDP
Speaker 4: that's starting to move backwards a little bit. So these
Speaker 4: things are not wonderful. So next time you vote, you
Speaker 4: might want to ask, hey, man or lady, where are
Speaker 4: you on this debt issue?
Speaker 3: This might be a good question to ask. uh, habits
Speaker 3: of the wealthy. I know that, uh, you kind of
Speaker 3: hit on that a second ago, but you know, um, I,
Speaker 3: do you think the word wealthy is a word that's
Speaker 3: been like kind of demonized, uh, with people like they
Speaker 3: automatically think that wealthy people, uh, just, you know, have
Speaker 3: gotten it through greed or inheritance, or they, they believe
Speaker 3: that there's a mentality there. And you've said this a
Speaker 3: hundred thousand times, and I will tell you straight up
Speaker 3: every person I know that has any wealth of note,
Speaker 3: you could never tell. I mean, you could never look
Speaker 3: at what they drive. You could never look at what
Speaker 3: they live. You could never look at their watch. You
Speaker 3: could never look at what they wear. And guess ever
Speaker 3: that these people even have $ 20, much less $ 3 or
Speaker 3: $ 4 million. That's why they got it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Why can't people get past that misconception of that and
Speaker 3: just kind of understand that wealth is just like putting
Speaker 3: it in first gear, letting the clutch off, and then
Speaker 3: not touching the bulldozer for the rest of your life
Speaker 3: and being consistent? Why is that such a hard idea
Speaker 3: for people to get? It took me a while to
Speaker 3: understand that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, and most young people struggle with that. They
Speaker 4: want instant gratification. They want to be rock stars. I
Speaker 4: know I did, or athletes, or whatever it is. And
Speaker 4: that seems glamorous and fun, and especially in this day
Speaker 4: and age with social media getting into people's heads. But yeah,
Speaker 4: slow and steady does. I know it's old and tired
Speaker 4: and nobody wants to hear it, but slow and steady
Speaker 4: does win the race. And the term rich is the
Speaker 4: term I always think about. It's not liking because it
Speaker 4: just conjures up images of the Monopoly guy or something.
Speaker 4: I don't think that's fair. I think people who spend
Speaker 4: money carelessly, drive Ferraris and do a bunch of stuff
Speaker 4: like that, and you see it on TikTok or whatever
Speaker 4: it is, I consider those people rich. The people I
Speaker 4: consider wealthy are the people that are first-gen money. They
Speaker 4: failed a few times. In fact, if you look at
Speaker 4: studies show that any millionaire has failed at least once
Speaker 4: or twice in a business endeavor.
Speaker 3: And they persevere. Perseverance is the critical term. And learning
Speaker 3: from those mistakes. Yeah, don't repeat them.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you keep doing the same thing over
Speaker 4: and over again, I believe they consider that insanity. So
Speaker 4: the reality is perseverance to me, when I look at
Speaker 4: all the, and I do business with a lot of millionaires,
Speaker 4: they're clients of mine, and I can tell you to
Speaker 4: a person, you wouldn't know it when they drove up.
Speaker 4: You wouldn't be able to tell. I think the most
Speaker 4: driven car, this is dating back to the millionaire next
Speaker 4: door days, but back in the day, it was a
Speaker 4: Ford Taurus or an F-150.
Speaker 3: Wasn't the number one car for millionaires?
Speaker 8: Number one cars.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And not one of those, the average cost of
Speaker 4: a watch for a millionaire, and again, this is going
Speaker 4: back a few years, was nobody had paid over $ 300
Speaker 4: for a watch. Right, right, right.
Speaker 18: Right?
Speaker 3: And most of them lived in the same home.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 4: For 20 or 30 years. Famously with Warren Buffett. Yes,
Speaker 4: Warren Buffett being the classic example. I think Warren's still
Speaker 4: driving the Lincoln Continental. He got in like 82. Exactly.
Speaker 4: Not that he's driving anywhere at 90-something, I hope. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, these are all habits. I actually took down
Speaker 4: a few. Most of them are frugal. The studies show
Speaker 4: that they're frugal. Most of them had mentors. And this
Speaker 4: is something I've said on the show a lot of
Speaker 4: times is, The opportunity to learn has never been greater
Speaker 4: in this country. You can go on LinkedIn or any–
Speaker 4: by the way, follow me on LinkedIn. You can go
Speaker 4: on LinkedIn and you can hear from Mark Cuban. You
Speaker 4: can hear from Richard Branson. You can hear from Elon
Speaker 4: Musk if that's your guy. Scott Galloway, guys like that?
Speaker 4: Scott Galloway. They're all telling you how to do– there's
Speaker 4: so much information available. I tell the young guys in
Speaker 4: my office, now, you know– You know what I know
Speaker 4: 30 years before I knew it.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 4: You're so far ahead of the curve. You have so
Speaker 4: much information available to you. I have a nephew who's
Speaker 4: just graduating from college. And, I mean, I'm sending him
Speaker 4: Carnegie's book. I'm sending him Jim Ferris' books. I'm sending him.
Speaker 4: There's so much great information, and it's really on you
Speaker 4: if you're not taking the time to find it out.
Speaker 3: Did you read Tools of Titans?
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 3: That's what I sent him. Yeah, yeah. That's the one?
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, Tools of Titans is almost like a reference book.
Speaker 3: That's exactly what it is.
Speaker 4: You have anything from Schwarzenegger to Mark Cuban to Richard Branson.
Speaker 4: Celebrity athletes have told you, Kobe Bryant, those kinds of people.
Speaker 3: And the reason I love that book, and I've only
Speaker 3: read part of it, but the reason I love the
Speaker 3: book is this. It's different perspectives with the same goal.
Speaker 3: It's a business person. It's an athlete. It's someone from
Speaker 3: a different country who came here and didn't have anything.
Speaker 3: And those unique perspectives show you that regardless of your
Speaker 3: beginnings or your surroundings, these things really do apply across
Speaker 3: the board. I thought that was its greatest value to me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, even like somebody like Arnold Schwarzenegger, if
Speaker 4: you see what he went through to become … who
Speaker 4: he is, I mean, he was told countless times, you
Speaker 4: can't speak English, nobody understands you, you're just a muscle guy,
Speaker 4: this will never work. Well, turns out it did work
Speaker 4: because he refused to take no for an answer. This
Speaker 4: is what I've been trying to tell my nephew. Mark Wahlberg.
Speaker 4: Mark Wahlberg, another classic example. I try to tell my nephew, listen, dude,
Speaker 4: People are going to tell you you can't do it.
Speaker 4: And the reason they're going to tell you that is
Speaker 4: because they know they can't do it or they don't
Speaker 4: feel like they can do it. You just have to
Speaker 4: ignore those people. And like I said, to me, what
Speaker 4: a wonderful time. I know we have other issues in
Speaker 4: this country, but aside from that. This time is like
Speaker 4: there's so much great information if you know where to
Speaker 4: look for it.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you something else, Scott. The whole you can't
Speaker 3: do that thing, I learned this early in my career
Speaker 3: here as well. Those people don't want you to succeed.
Speaker 4: They don't.
Speaker 3: They don't want you to do anything better or bigger
Speaker 3: than them. That's why they tell you that. Some of
Speaker 3: the times they may believe it, but most of the
Speaker 3: time I have found that those are the people that
Speaker 3: do not want you to succeed the most because it
Speaker 3: will reflect on what they didn't do in their life.
Speaker 3: That's why they keep saying it. You'll leave them behind. Yes, 100%.
Speaker 4: It's crabs in a bucket, and people don't– I think
Speaker 4: people just– it's easier for them to drag you down
Speaker 4: than to pull themselves down. 100%, yeah, Jack.
Speaker 3: I have a text question for you, Scott.
Speaker 11: It says, other than your book, what one book would
Speaker 11: you recommend to give your son or daughter in their
Speaker 11: 30s for financial benefit?
Speaker 4: Good question. I think Carnegie's book, When Friends and Influence People,
Speaker 4: is probably the greatest book that's ever been written on
Speaker 4: human interaction, whether it be in business or otherwise. So
Speaker 4: if you had to pick one from a personal development standpoint,
Speaker 4: I think that's a great book. Millionaire Next Door is
Speaker 4: a wonderful book. Even Morgan Housel's new book, The Psychology
Speaker 4: of Money, is a really good money book as well.
Speaker 4: And they're all very common sense. you know, do this,
Speaker 4: then do that kind of books. It's not complex.
Speaker 3: And the millionaire next door kind of breaks down the
Speaker 3: whole idea of what you think people are as opposed
Speaker 3: to what they actually are.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It gives you all the data.
Speaker 4: Again, people would be shocked to know that, you know,
Speaker 4: there are millionaires living in your neighborhood that you don't
Speaker 4: even know. They got a 2,700 square foot house that's block.
Speaker 4: It looks like an old Florida house. And the guy
Speaker 4: keeps his lawn really nice. That's the guy. I mean,
Speaker 4: they're right there in your neighborhood.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The richest guy, one of the richest guys I've ever
Speaker 3: met in my life drove a Ford Ranger just like mine.
Speaker 3: He was a cardiologist, heart specialist, Shands. Actually, he's the
Speaker 3: guy who worked on Reagan. When Reagan had his heart attack,
Speaker 3: he happened to be the uncle of a good friend
Speaker 3: of mine from my hometown. We went over there to
Speaker 3: his place in Gainesville. He was out in the garden
Speaker 3: and we pulled around and said, when do I get
Speaker 3: to meet this big important uncle? He was the guy
Speaker 3: doing the gardening. He was the guy out there knee-deep
Speaker 3: in the plants. He'd much rather do that than anything
Speaker 3: else he was doing.
Speaker 4: Well, the other thing you'll learn is being wealthy or successful,
Speaker 4: however you define that, you want to be a little
Speaker 4: anonymous with that because people will look to take advantage
Speaker 4: of you as you make progress through life. So kind
Speaker 4: of keeping your mouth shut and moving forward is a
Speaker 4: good plan.
Speaker 3: 100%. I know we have an event coming up here
Speaker 3: in Lake Mary soon.
Speaker 4: We do. It's on September the 26th. It's at noon
Speaker 4: at the Rooskris in Lake Mary. We do have room,
Speaker 4: although we are filling up quickly. It is everything 401k.
Speaker 4: So whether it's fees, whether it's fund selection, whether it's
Speaker 4: how to use a Roth inside your 401k, if it's
Speaker 4: understanding your statement and how to do financial planning while
Speaker 4: using a 401k. This is the event for you. We're
Speaker 4: literally going to cover every one of those topics in
Speaker 4: how to maximize your 401k. Again, September 26th, you can
Speaker 4: go to edgewaterfamilywealth.com, hit the pull down, and sign up
Speaker 4: for the Lake Mary event.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just reserve your seat. There's no money involved, and
Speaker 3: not only will you get the information, no hard sell,
Speaker 3: no nothing like that. This is not like a cruise
Speaker 3: where you have to sit through some pitch to get it.
Speaker 3: It's not like that at all. You'll also get a
Speaker 3: wonderful meal, and the restaurant's great.
Speaker 4: Well, and as I think I said last week, we
Speaker 4: get paid to do this event for companies. What you're
Speaker 4: going to see on Saturday, the 26th, is what we
Speaker 4: get paid to go in and teach employees at companies
Speaker 4: throughout Central Florida. So this is a free opportunity to
Speaker 4: do it, and if you're good, we'll give you a
Speaker 4: steak or a piece of chicken.
Speaker 3: And Jack went to the one last year for the
Speaker 3: 401k special, and he said it was amazing.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you learn so much, and it's something that I'm
Speaker 11: putting money in my 401k, but it's great to get
Speaker 11: knowledge of, okay, And then what happens?
Speaker 4: Yeah, right. Yeah, sure. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Find out what happens next.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, Scott, always good seeing you as always. Again, that's edgewaterfamilywealth.com.
Speaker 3: Go to those pull-down bars, pull that thing down, make
Speaker 3: yourself a reservation, get yourself a seat. That's September 26th
Speaker 3: right there at the Lake Mary Ruth's Chris. That kicks
Speaker 3: off around 12 o'clock.
Speaker 2: It does.
Speaker 3: And you better get your seat. We look forward to
Speaker 3: seeing you. That'll go quick. You heard it here first?
Speaker 9: Yeah, property insurance is trending downward in Florida. An Orange
Speaker 9: County fire chief faces a prostitution charge and new details
Speaker 9: emerge in the arrest of the 49ers owner.
Speaker 5: We'll talk about that next during You Heard It Here First.
Speaker 3: I gotta get me one of these hookers. Everybody's doing it.
Speaker 3: Only the rich got the billionaires, buddy.
Speaker 4: Is that what it is? That's it.
Speaker 3: That fire chief is like a billy?
Speaker 4: Oh, okay, man. All right.
Speaker 3: Back in a sec with Debs News. We'll get the
Speaker 3: hell out of here on a Tuesday.
Speaker 1: It's time for a Talkback Purge on the Jim Colbert Show.
Speaker 4: Hey, how's it ohana? I was a career bartender.
Speaker 19: CJ's gave me my start, trained me how to 10 bar,
Speaker 19: and boy did it take off from there. It was
Speaker 19: nothing to fling an extra 50 or 100 for good service.
Speaker 4: And that's how we rolled back in the day.
Speaker 19: But I think this tip included idea really rewards the slackers,
Speaker 19: and it doesn't reward that exceptional waiter. that knows his stuff,
Speaker 19: provides that extra level of service, and I just don't
Speaker 19: think it's a good idea.
Speaker 4: Aloha. Aloha, brother. Aloha.
Speaker 18: Jim James, I want to respectfully raise a beer, hence
Speaker 18: why I didn't crack it, and this is a somber
Speaker 18: tone from me, because we lost one of the greatest
Speaker 18: performers ever, And let's face it, one of the most
Speaker 18: famous chests.
Speaker 5: We raise a beer to Dolly Parton.
Speaker 2: Oh, just thought of this. With Dolly Parton passing away
Speaker 2: being so well known, are we about to see the
Speaker 2: start of another big three?
Speaker 1: Or did someone else pass away who we're not noticing?
Speaker 3: Oh, that's a good question.
Speaker 5: Mitch McConnell.
Speaker 4: Oof. Easy. Hello, hello, hello.
Speaker 12: Jim, Jack, Deborah.
Speaker 4: Hey, Jack, I owe you an apology.
Speaker 12: This is Paul from Ormond. I called in meaning a compliment.
Speaker 12: When you picked up the phone, I said, Hey, Jack,
Speaker 12: you're the hardest man in radio. I meant hardest working
Speaker 12: in radio. Don't flip me off your list.
Speaker 3: I've talked to people. Either way, he's not wrong. He's
Speaker 3: just a blue chew away, sir. That's your purge. All right.
Speaker 4: Thanks, buddy.
Speaker 8: 407-916-1041.
Speaker 3: Text us 77031. I'm Jim Debjack and Scott Brown here. Scott,
Speaker 3: by the way, I know that you have two books
Speaker 3: that people can download for free on your website.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can go to edgewaterfamilywealth.com, download I Never Made
Speaker 4: Anybody Rich by Scott Brown, and or you can download
Speaker 4: I Got a Guy, which is a guide to using
Speaker 4: a financial advisor. So if you're a little Worried about
Speaker 4: what to say, what to ask, that is the guide
Speaker 4: for you. Yeah, also in.
Speaker 3: The September 26 gig in Lake Mary, Roost, Chris, we
Speaker 3: just had somebody who's a listener, a long-time deputy. Scott said,
Speaker 3: if we have 401k information that we have for ourselves,
Speaker 3: should we bring that with us as cross-brand? In other words,
Speaker 3: if people do come out, should they bring the information
Speaker 3: they have or make a few notes about what they
Speaker 3: have to ask questions like that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, they could bring it as a reference. Don't share
Speaker 4: it with your neighbors, by the way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't do that.
Speaker 4: Don't feed it into AI. or anything. But yeah, we're
Speaker 4: happy to have you bring it along. And if you
Speaker 4: have a direct question, say, line four on paragraph five,
Speaker 4: what does that mean? We'll happily answer those questions.
Speaker 3: And you guys actually, in the context of this, don't
Speaker 3: you kind of do that almost? Like take somebody through
Speaker 3: the steps while you're.
Speaker 4: Doing the seminar?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, we actually give you a hypothetical 401k and show
Speaker 4: you how to use it. And we can be very
Speaker 4: specific about funds and how to select them and Ross
Speaker 4: and all those sort of things. So yeah.
Speaker 3: We actually walk you through as if you were our
Speaker 3: 401k participant. And then just another question for me, because
Speaker 3: I find this interesting. So when you have a 401k now,
Speaker 3: let's say it's a Fidelity 401k, which most of them are, right?
Speaker 4: A lot of them, sure.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 3: So they have selections they make from them, right? That
Speaker 3: money is invested and it's from them. When you decide
Speaker 3: to retire, is that a situation where you go into
Speaker 3: the 401k and then you kind of, you figure out
Speaker 3: what funds are the best post-retirement or does it always
Speaker 3: stay the same?
Speaker 4: Generally, it does not. I would say somewhere around 70%
Speaker 4: or 80% of folks roll their money out of their
Speaker 4: existing 401k into their own IRA. And the primary reason
Speaker 4: for that is they get a wider selection because most
Speaker 4: 401ks have very limited menus to choose from. So people
Speaker 4: want a little more selection and planning to go along
Speaker 4: with it. Yeah, yeah, cool.
Speaker 3: You're going to have a lot of questions like that because, man,
Speaker 3: it can be very confusing. People are going to ask,
Speaker 3: if I do this, I do this. And the cool
Speaker 3: thing is you'll see that simple math. And if you
Speaker 3: have an idea in your mind when you come to
Speaker 3: the event of when you want to do this, how
Speaker 3: much you think you need, the good thing is Scott
Speaker 3: and those guys can kind of confirm where you are.
Speaker 3: If you're close, if you're not close, what you need
Speaker 3: to do to get there, which is awesome. That's 100% correct.
Speaker 3: Are you on track? Are you not on track? And
Speaker 3: if you're not on track, why? How do we fix it?
Speaker 3: That's really what it's all about.
Speaker 11: Got one more listener text in. They said, will there
Speaker 11: be a recording of the event on September 26th? They
Speaker 11: will be out of the country and cannot make it.
Speaker 4: Well, there will not be a recording, but we certainly
Speaker 4: will have more events before the end of the year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very cool. All right, let's do Yard of Here first.
Speaker 1: Time for You Heard It Here First on the Jim
Speaker 1: Colbert Show.
Speaker 9: There may be a silver lining to this year's hurricane season.
Speaker 9: Former Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater says private insurance
Speaker 9: companies are no longer fleeing the Sunshine State.
Speaker 16: There are insurance companies coming into the state. of Florida
Speaker 16: to offer their products and services. And when you know
Speaker 16: that happens, it drives the ultimate cost down. There are
Speaker 16: big brand name players that ran from us 15 years ago.
Speaker 3: Hold your horses.
Speaker 9: State data shows Florida property insurance premiums are still 40
Speaker 9: to 50 percent higher than the national average.
Speaker 5: Especially along the coast.
Speaker 9: According to the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, the average
Speaker 9: annual homeowner premium is approximately $ 3, 815 statewide. An Orange County
Speaker 9: fire rescue official is under arrest and now suspended following
Speaker 9: a prostitution sting. Stephen Sherrill has been relieved of his duties.
Speaker 9: He was taken into custody on a prostitution-related charge by
Speaker 9: the Altamont Springs Police Department.
Speaker 5: If anyone's going to get you, it's always going to
Speaker 5: be Altamont.
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9: Cheryl was hired in 2002 and served as battalion chief
Speaker 9: before his arrest.
Speaker 3: Did you hear anything about the crime I read today? Remember,
Speaker 3: we were talking the other day is a Facebook marketplace
Speaker 3: when the girl says, oh, yeah, I heard that it
Speaker 3: was a Facebook marketplace meetup for $ 80 for a sexual favor.
Speaker 3: And I did a hand thing and I shouldn't have
Speaker 3: done that.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 3: You didn't need to illustrate there.
Speaker 11: Thanks for telling the larger audience who didn't see it.
Speaker 9: In the meantime, a newly released police report details the
Speaker 9: weekend arrest of San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York in Ohio.
Speaker 9: The law enforcement task force says they were contacted three
Speaker 9: times by York, who used a fake name while arranging
Speaker 9: an encounter with an undercover agent posing as a prostitute
Speaker 9: for $ 140.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 9: York was pulled over in a trailer park while searching
Speaker 9: for the address of the rendezvous. He pleaded no contest
Speaker 9: Monday to disorderly contact and possession of criminal tools, which
Speaker 9: police say was the phone used to arrange the meeting.
Speaker 9: He's also facing discipline under NFL's personal conduct policy. Yeah,
Speaker 9: the league's owners are meeting tomorrow in Atlanta. They're saying
Speaker 9: his punishment could be swift.
Speaker 4: Oh, really? You know what I'd say?
Speaker 3: Hey, do to me what you did to Robert Kraft.
Speaker 4: Exactly.
Speaker 3: I'll take that to go. No fries, Diet Coke. Get
Speaker 3: out of my face with this crap. You guys aren't
Speaker 3: going to do anything to that guy.
Speaker 4: Get out of here.
Speaker 3: Me embarrassing publicly a little bit. Guess what? He'll be
Speaker 3: back in the box next week. Who do we have
Speaker 3: to thank today, Jeff? You're talking to the luxury box
Speaker 3: at an NFL game, right?
Speaker 5: We want to thank Scott Brown with Edgewater Family Web.
Speaker 2: Yay!
Speaker 4: This was a family show. He's so happy to be here.
Speaker 3: He laughs at the worst jokes, people.
Speaker 9: Just in case you missed his timely financial advice, his
Speaker 9: podcast has already been posted at the Jim Colbert Show,
Speaker 9: where we also want to thank Charles Chapman with the
Speaker 9: Florida League of Cities. His podcast is also there, along
Speaker 9: with our review of What'd You Do That's New. And
Speaker 9: last but never least, Sam Bowen, Candice Rich, and Alicia
Speaker 9: Boulware for running our YouTube chat.
Speaker 20: Thanks, peeps.
Speaker 4: We appreciate it. Jack, question of the day. Best Dolly
Speaker 4: Parton movie.
Speaker 11: Your choices were 9 to 5, Steel Magnolias, Best Warehouse
Speaker 11: in Texas, or Rhinestone.
Speaker 3: Steel Magnolias wins with a 33% percentage. 9 to 5.
Speaker 4: Nine to five wins, 49%. Damn, really?
Speaker 11: Steel Magnolias had 23. Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, 24%.
Speaker 11: I can't believe Rhinestone with Sylvester Stallone only came.
Speaker 4: In at 4%. It's one of the worst movies. Have
Speaker 4: you ever seen it?
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It is terrible.
Speaker 3: Scott, is this part of your day or part of
Speaker 3: your week the part that you have to explain away
Speaker 3: to people?
Speaker 4: This show? Yeah, this show.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of explanation that goes with this. A
Speaker 3: lot of apologies.
Speaker 4: It's really odd.
Speaker 3: It's the rose of your day, I believe. All right,
Speaker 3: Animal House tomorrow, Debra?
Speaker 5: Yeah, we'll have Daryl Payne from Pawfection Dog Training.
Speaker 6: Awesome.
Speaker 3: So if you have problems with your dog's behavior, call
Speaker 3: us tomorrow for some free advice. We'll also have Scott Maxwell.
Speaker 3: All of that, plus fun stuff to talk about as well.
Speaker 3: On behalf of Deb, Jack, and Scott, I'm Jim. We
Speaker 3: follow the News Chucky. They follow the monsters in the
Speaker 3: morning after us. It's Tom and Dan with The Corporate
Speaker 3: Time and our friends from Real Laughs. We'll see you
Speaker 3: tomorrow at 3 for more of The Jim Corporate Show.
Speaker 3: Until then, have yourself a fantastic Tuesday evening.
Speaker 5: See you tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Bye.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
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