Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, arm Strong.
Speaker 2: And Getty and now He arms Strong and Yeddy.
Speaker 3: The trials centered around a track meet in a Dallas
Speaker 3: suburb last year, when Anthony walked under a tent belonging
Speaker 3: to Metcalf's team. After Anthony was repeatedly asked to leave
Speaker 3: police a Metcalf pushed him, and then Anthony pulled out
Speaker 3: a knife, stabbing him in the chest. Metcalf died in
Speaker 3: the arms of his twin brother. Defense attorneys argued Anthony
Speaker 3: acted in self defense, but prosecutors called it murder, plane
Speaker 3: and simple, saying you can meet a shove with a shove,
Speaker 3: but you don't get to meet a shove with a stab.
Speaker 2: Well, prosecutors and jurors yesterday said it was murder, plane
Speaker 2: and simple.
Speaker 4: Yeah, incredibly unfortunate trial, seven long, three hours of deliberation. Murder,
Speaker 4: you know, clearly murder.
Speaker 2: So you go to a track meet and you're gonna
Speaker 2: go into the other team's tent to like try to
Speaker 2: be uh intimidating or whatever. You bring a knife with you,
Speaker 2: my knife with the out of track meet his inte.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, the first part, maybe he was just looking
Speaker 4: for a place to sit and decided I'm gonna sit
Speaker 4: under this team's tent and they asked him to leave.
Speaker 4: But yeah, he had a deadly weapon with him at
Speaker 4: a track meet, and then as soon as he was
Speaker 4: asked to leave, he said, you touch me, you're gonna
Speaker 4: find out, and he reached into his bag, which meant
Speaker 4: that was like his go too when guys were saying,
Speaker 4: you gotta get out of here. And then finally the
Speaker 4: guy shoved him and he did find out with a
Speaker 4: stab wound to the heart.
Speaker 5: And the idea that that.
Speaker 4: Was legitimate self defense is just it's it's self evidently ridiculous. Wow,
Speaker 4: it was very sad because this is a teenage Drew
Speaker 4: who I have a feeling thought he was being a
Speaker 4: tough guy, thought he was going to be a gangster
Speaker 4: or whatever, and by god, his life is over.
Speaker 2: Well, certainly the victim's life is over, so as the
Speaker 2: kid that got stabbed uh to death. We haven't mentioned
Speaker 2: that there's a race issue to this, a racial component,
Speaker 2: which makes the whole thing as jazzy as it got.
Speaker 2: You got a black kid and a white kid, and
Speaker 2: immediately the families turned it racial. A lot of immediate
Speaker 2: turned it racial, and there are family and the lawyers
Speaker 2: raised a tremendous amount of money by making it racialized.
Speaker 2: Carmelo Anthony's mom shouts racist as riles up crowd as
Speaker 2: she leaves the court after the verdict. Jasmine Crockett, as
Speaker 2: we mentioned last hour, black congress person from Texas, suggests
Speaker 2: she would have stabbed Austin Metcalf in stunning defense of
Speaker 2: Carmelo Anthony. I would have also stabbed him because he
Speaker 2: said get out, you didn't and then shoved you.
Speaker 4: She's a racist and a monstrous human being somebody to death.
Speaker 4: There were the yeah, yeah, absolutely ugly. So it was
Speaker 4: so discouraging watching the news last night. I was you
Speaker 4: had the reaction outside the courthouse, rival groups screaming at
Speaker 4: each other's faces. Most, if not all, of the conviction
Speaker 4: was righteous folks being white, and all the people angry
Speaker 4: about the conviction were black.
Speaker 5: Twenty three Michael, I'm sick.
Speaker 2: I'm sick.
Speaker 1: As a jury considered punishment for nineteen year old Carmelo Anthony,
Speaker 1: who claimed he killed seventeen year old Austin Metcalf in
Speaker 1: self defense emotions flared on the courthouse steps.
Speaker 6: I just feel like there was so much that wasn't
Speaker 6: taken into a consideration.
Speaker 2: It was so fast a sad outcome.
Speaker 1: But Justice Weser Anthony is black, Metcalf was white. Last
Speaker 1: night handed Carmelo Anthony a thirty five year prison term.
Speaker 2: Thirty five years well, first degree murder oughtibi. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: a lot of those people. I looked at them and
Speaker 2: I think you or I listened to them, and I
Speaker 2: think you lack the capacity for rational thoughts. So I'm
Speaker 2: not going to stand on a courthouse lawn and yell
Speaker 2: at you and try to convince you of something that
Speaker 2: just don't have the capacity of for rational thought.
Speaker 5: What are you going to do?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I don't get it. I don't
Speaker 2: understand why why you can't overcome whatever racial feelings you
Speaker 2: have and think, well, this would have been a shoving
Speaker 2: match except for one guy had a knife and stab
Speaker 2: the other guy to death.
Speaker 4: You can't do that when you're asked over and over
Speaker 4: and over again to leave somewhere, leave, but you know
Speaker 4: that doesn't enter into the crime. Who is polite or
Speaker 4: impolite or had a right to be under a tent
Speaker 4: or not. That's not the way the law works.
Speaker 2: Right man, What an ugly story. I don't know if
Speaker 2: there's anything more to say on that.
Speaker 4: That well, the only thing I'll say is that there
Speaker 4: was an absolutely horrific crime in which a Somali man
Speaker 4: tried to be had an irishman in the street and.
Speaker 2: Didn't they determine it's not Somalia. Oh I think it
Speaker 2: was oh Sudan. My apologies, Yeah, an s named Africa country.
Speaker 5: But anyway, there was a second night of great.
Speaker 4: Violence in Britain as the rampant open immigration, particularly from
Speaker 4: Muslim lands, which has so twisted British society.
Speaker 5: Is the true meaning of that.
Speaker 4: The impact of that is becoming more and more clear
Speaker 4: to more and more Brits, and so they're acting out
Speaker 4: and rioting and breaking stuff which I never condone. But
Speaker 4: I have said this many many times and will continue
Speaker 4: to say it. If only extremist quote unquote groups talk
Speaker 4: about the real problems the people are feeling, people will
Speaker 4: gravitate to those groups. If your mainstream in British politics
Speaker 4: isn't ready to say, you know, this has caused enymous,
Speaker 4: enormous problems and disruptions people are going to act in
Speaker 4: ways you don't like. And you caused it center right
Speaker 4: in Britain. You caused a lot of it. More on
Speaker 4: that another time.
Speaker 2: I want to talk to this about some stuff that's
Speaker 2: a little less serious. Jeff, did you see the Uh,
Speaker 2: I've got all the details on this that Seattle Mayor
Speaker 2: that we like making fun.
Speaker 4: Of the Katie Wilson socialists, Katie Wilson woman child socialist. Yes,
Speaker 4: her latest thing with all those tiny homes that she built,
Speaker 4: well not near as many as.
Speaker 2: They're supposed to build. But what a disaster this is
Speaker 2: turning into and going to turn into a pretty funny
Speaker 2: story actually that we'll have to get to. And uh.
Speaker 2: And then I got a question for you. Does this
Speaker 2: ever happen in your life? That got from a Robbie
Speaker 2: suave of reason? But does this ever happen in your life?
Speaker 2: He asks that question, We asked that question. That's a
Speaker 2: good one too. A lot of stuff on the way.
Speaker 2: I hope you can stay here. Okay, that sounds like
Speaker 2: you got faulting in. Joe is going to tell us
Speaker 2: before we play the clip before what that is? What
Speaker 2: is it?
Speaker 4: There's a couple of dip asses who go out at
Speaker 4: night and hit golf balls into oncoming trafficking it the
Speaker 4: windows of buildings.
Speaker 2: Then they they.
Speaker 5: Tape it and they post the clips to Instagram.
Speaker 2: Did the police immediately show up and say you're under
Speaker 2: arrest and you have to pay for the damage you've done,
Speaker 2: and that's illegal and you've committed these crimes.
Speaker 4: Surprisingly, yes, they're not hiding their faces. They've got over
Speaker 4: followers peared to be doing this nightly across LA, joking
Speaker 4: in the comments about never getting caught.
Speaker 5: Wow, all right, and they quickly were.
Speaker 2: Caught, speaking of idiots. Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is being
Speaker 2: criticized for her tiny homes likened to porta potty drug dens.
Speaker 2: So one of the many people in blue cities that
Speaker 2: have decided, you know what we need to do for
Speaker 2: the homeless, the unhoused drug addicts, is building these tiny
Speaker 2: homes so they have some place to live. These things
Speaker 2: are tiny. They are about the size of a big
Speaker 2: porta potty. She had promised of a jail cell. She
Speaker 2: had promised a thousand of them in time for the
Speaker 2: World Cup. Since they're moving the draw it at drug
Speaker 2: addicts out of the way. I don't know why you
Speaker 2: have to put up with it if you're a citizen
Speaker 2: of the city and you live there all the time.
Speaker 2: But if TV cameras are going to be there and
Speaker 2: foreigners are going to spend money watching soccer, then they
Speaker 2: move the drug addicts out of the way. I don't
Speaker 2: quite sure.
Speaker 4: That citizens, no f you Romanian soccer fans will do
Speaker 4: anything for you.
Speaker 2: They're supposed to build a thousand, and they got fifty
Speaker 2: so far. You're supposed to build a thousand before the
Speaker 2: soccer match started, they got fifty. There's seventy square feet,
Speaker 2: which isn't very many, and equipped with just a single
Speaker 2: bed and a desk. I thought a desk. I suppose
Speaker 2: it so well, so you can fill out your resumes,
Speaker 2: applying for your jobs and all the stuff, you know,
Speaker 2: so they can go out because all they need is
Speaker 2: just a little help to get back on their feet.
Speaker 2: Write your memoir on the desk, right, your memoir. And
Speaker 2: the first thought you might think is there was a
Speaker 2: toilet in there, though there's not a toilet in there.
Speaker 2: They're sharing toilets and other facilities, showers and that sort
Speaker 2: of stuff. So it's just a bed and a desk.
Speaker 2: In this tiny little place and homeless advocates. I think
Speaker 2: it's just awful that we're giving the taxpayers are giving
Speaker 2: them these tiny little places. People on the other side
Speaker 2: of it are saying, what a waste of money. They're
Speaker 2: just gonna pee and poop in them and do drugs
Speaker 2: in them, and they're gonna get destroyed and nothing will
Speaker 2: get accomplished, which is true, by the way, because they're
Speaker 2: drug addicts, they're irresponsible.
Speaker 5: It kind of goes with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So anyway, we'll see how that turns out. Yet
Speaker 2: another experiment and dumb blue ideas. I wanted to get
Speaker 2: this on. I thought it was really good. I came
Speaker 2: across it online yesterday. Robbie Suave didn't We used to
Speaker 2: have him on regularly. I feel like we used to
Speaker 2: talk to him from Reason magazine. He said, I'll read
Speaker 2: what he said before I get to what Ezra Cline wrote.
Speaker 2: Robbie Sabe said, I have never once in my life
Speaker 2: encountered someone expressing this sentiment, either I live in a
Speaker 2: bubble or as Recline does. And I thought, well, I
Speaker 2: guess we all do. And it's really interesting. None of
Speaker 2: us know the extent to which we are bubbled. But
Speaker 2: we're all bubbled a little bait. I try really hard
Speaker 2: not to be because of this job. If I didn't
Speaker 2: have this job, I probably wouldn't try near as hard.
Speaker 2: But but no, I think that the time Hownard argue,
Speaker 2: it still stands. Conservatives cannot help, but it's hardering. The
Speaker 2: arguments of progressives thought harder growing up.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The only way you could do it is if
Speaker 2: like you didn't watch TV, go to movies, listen to music.
Speaker 5: Go to concerts, newspapers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, taking any media, go to concerts, anything. Ezra Kline wrote,
Speaker 2: he's the Opinion college and opinion columnists for the New
Speaker 2: York Times. Over the past few years, I've been asked
Speaker 2: one question more than any other. It comes up at speeches,
Speaker 2: at dinners and conversation. It's the most popular query. When
Speaker 2: I opened my podcast to suggestions time and again, and
Speaker 2: I thought, Okay, I'm interested in this. No matter what
Speaker 2: he's doing, this is the most popular question. It comes
Speaker 2: in two forms. The first, should I have kids given
Speaker 2: the climate crisis they will face? Oh? My lord? And
Speaker 2: the second should I have kids knowing they will contribute
Speaker 2: to the climate crisis the world faces? Holy?
Speaker 6: Yes? I know.
Speaker 2: I know, so if Ezra Klent is being on honest,
Speaker 2: that the one I don't question more than any other
Speaker 2: speeches Dinners his podcast and Robbie Swabe. He says, like me,
Speaker 2: I have never once in my life encountered somewhat expressing
Speaker 2: this sentiment. So I mean, that's quite quite a difference. Yes,
Speaker 2: I have never heard that in my life either ever,
Speaker 2: And as recline, it's the number one question no matter
Speaker 2: what he does. Wow, And again I don't actually know.
Speaker 2: He might be telling the truth, which means he runs
Speaker 2: in very different circles than the rest of us.
Speaker 4: It's like you're describing, you know, some native culture with
Speaker 4: plates in their lips and then no motor cars or whatever,
Speaker 4: and talking about how they drink ox blood for their
Speaker 4: religious rituals. I mean, it so foreign, it's crazy. I
Speaker 4: saw there was an advice column in the New York
Speaker 4: Times I hang. I hung on to it for a while,
Speaker 4: but never brought it up on the show where this
Speaker 4: person says, I'm really feeling guilty about some of the
Speaker 4: things I do. Is it more environmentally irresponsible irresponsible of
Speaker 4: me to use an AI chat bot or to eat
Speaker 4: red meat? They broke it down, and I'm like, shut
Speaker 4: up and give me a hamburger. I'm talking to Claude.
Speaker 2: If you weren't an atheist, which you probably are, you
Speaker 2: should get down on your knees and thank God that
Speaker 2: your life is so pleasant and easy that you can
Speaker 2: worry about whether or not you should eat red meat
Speaker 2: or use a chatbot, because your life must be pretty great.
Speaker 2: Should get down to that concern. Yeah, good God on
Speaker 2: the whole. The number one question everywhere I go, no
Speaker 2: matter what I do, over many years, Ezra Clin says,
Speaker 2: your answer, I hope your answer is you're a moron.
Speaker 5: Man up your.
Speaker 2: Baby, even the women man up. Should I have kids?
Speaker 2: Given the climate crisis they will face? Oh?
Speaker 5: For God?
Speaker 2: If Ezra is not, is that a real question, then
Speaker 2: you're doing it wrong. Should I have kids knowing they'll
Speaker 2: contribute to the climate crisis? What in the hell.
Speaker 4: There is such a quas eye religious thing going on there? Yeah,
Speaker 4: articles of faith, sacred doctrines. You dare not question it,
Speaker 4: lest do you be labeled.
Speaker 5: In an apostate. It's just an infidel.
Speaker 2: How much time? How much time you got here, Michael
Speaker 2: three minutes We played it earlier talking about it, Trump
Speaker 2: just answered some questions about the whole war in Iran
Speaker 2: and specifically the last forty eight hours where Iran shot
Speaker 2: down one of our Apache helicopters, and Trump, to my mind,
Speaker 2: very tepily replied verbally and tepidly replied militarily. Although it
Speaker 2: may be, according to David Ignatius of The Washington Post,
Speaker 2: a shaping operation. It's when you take out various things
Speaker 2: before you do the big hit. I hope that's what
Speaker 2: it is. But anyway, the story that we now know
Speaker 2: that the rocket, the drone lodged into the helicopter and
Speaker 2: didn't explode right, and they landed the helicopter in the
Speaker 2: water and got out of the helicopter, the whole time
Speaker 2: thinking this is going to explode any second, We're gonna
Speaker 2: be dead.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yep, yep.
Speaker 4: They had already pably come to terms with their own
Speaker 4: debts and survived miraculously.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd make you religious. I get so tired of
Speaker 2: saying this, But I guess we'll have to give it
Speaker 2: a day or two to see if the the repercussions
Speaker 2: are appropriate. There is there is reporting that Hegzeth had
Speaker 2: to convince Trump, hey, we got to respond to this. Wow.
Speaker 2: This Trump didn't want to Hey.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 2: So there have been a lot of graduation speeches over
Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks, and we've played some good ones,
Speaker 2: some great ones, and some horrible ones. But there's a
Speaker 2: good one we got coming up. I can't wait to
Speaker 2: play that I really liked, and I'm going to think
Speaker 2: about a lot in my life from a tennis player,
Speaker 2: maybe the greatest tennis player of all time, Roger Federer,
Speaker 2: but he spoke at a graduation yesterday and his little
Speaker 2: spiel was really really good.
Speaker 5: Hmmm.
Speaker 2: So we'll play a little left for you. Hopefully it'll
Speaker 2: be inspiring and like something you can take from this
Speaker 2: show that is not, you know, misery and depression. What's
Speaker 2: the advice, Get to the net as fast as you
Speaker 2: can be born tall and strong and handsome and handsome.
Speaker 2: Then apply it to tennis, and if you're not, try harder.
Speaker 2: I was playing pickleball the other day. We actually read
Speaker 2: the rules. We actually read the rules, and we're trying
Speaker 2: to play it by the rules. Yeah, that's that's quite
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 5: It's incredibly popular.
Speaker 2: Yeah it is. I don't quite get it myself, but
Speaker 2: we prefer tennis anyway. Feature own.
Speaker 5: Look at you.
Speaker 4: You're purest that's why you're wearing your whites today. And
Speaker 4: your head band doesn't look good.
Speaker 2: Can't wear a visor when you're blonde or bald, not
Speaker 2: blonde bald doesn't do you any good. Roger Federer with
Speaker 2: some advice for life coming up. It's really good basketball
Speaker 2: game the other night was the most expensive NBA game
Speaker 2: for a ticket in history, the fourth most expensive sporting
Speaker 2: event of all time in terms of tickets. Who went
Speaker 2: to the game pays that kind of money. Got kind
Speaker 2: of a funny thing on that. I see that nutjob
Speaker 2: Nancy Mace one and are lost in South Carolina and
Speaker 2: is probably done with their political career.
Speaker 5: Yeah she was a distant third or fourth or something
Speaker 5: like that. Yeah what a kook. Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I feel like I had one other thing I was
Speaker 2: gonna mention, but I'm sure it'll pop it into my head.
Speaker 2: Came across this yesterday, one of the many graduation speeches
Speaker 2: making the round. Some of them are insufferably dreamy liberal
Speaker 2: crap that people say up there.
Speaker 5: Or like gripped from today's headlines.
Speaker 2: Politically, oh right, right, just like the politics of the day. Anyway,
Speaker 2: this is Roger Federer. I don't know if I ever
Speaker 2: watched a single point of him playing tennis. I used
Speaker 2: to love watching tennis back in the day. But Roger
Speaker 2: Feeder maybe the greatest tennis player of all time. Speaking
Speaker 2: to some group at a graduation, I thought this was
Speaker 2: really good.
Speaker 5: Perfection is impossible.
Speaker 7: In the one thousand and five and twenty six singles
Speaker 7: matches I played in my career, I won almost eighty
Speaker 7: percent of those matches. Now I have a question for you.
Speaker 7: What percentage of points do you think I wanted those matches?
Speaker 7: Only fifty four percent? In other words, even top ranked
Speaker 7: tennis players when barely more than half of the points
Speaker 7: they play. When you lose every second point on average,
Speaker 7: you learn not to dwell on every shot. You teach
Speaker 7: yourself to think, Okay, I double faulted, it's only a point. Okay,
Speaker 7: I came to the net, then I got past again.
Speaker 5: It's only a point.
Speaker 7: Even a great shot, an overhead back and smash that
Speaker 7: ends up on ESPN's top ten playlist, that too, is
Speaker 7: just a point. So here's why I'm telling you this.
Speaker 7: When you're playing at point, it has to be the
Speaker 7: most important thing in the world that it is, but
Speaker 7: when it's behind you, it's behind you. This mindset is
Speaker 7: really crucial because it frees you to fully commit to
Speaker 7: the next point at the next point after that, with intensity, clarity,
Speaker 7: and focus.
Speaker 2: I really like that. And I'm something I've been terrible
Speaker 2: at my whole life, and I hope I can get
Speaker 2: better at in the last quarter of my life, assuming
Speaker 2: I don't get run over by a bus or murdered.
Speaker 2: That happened you anything to learn from that? Maybe? Yes? No, whatever, Okay,
Speaker 2: let's move on to the next thing. The end of
Speaker 2: that thing is over. That thing happened. Oh, I'm done
Speaker 2: with it. I thought you meant on the show we're
Speaker 2: going to move on to the next thing. I was like, no,
Speaker 2: I want to talk about this. No, no, no, no, the
Speaker 2: event that I'm just whatever happened in my life, big
Speaker 2: or small, or like he said, and if it went
Speaker 2: really really well, anything need to learn from that? I remember? Okay,
Speaker 2: now let's go forward. It's over. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: They call it having the memory of a goldfish in golf.
Speaker 4: Uh don't don't. Don't dwell on your past failures. They
Speaker 4: don't help you learn from them quickly and then move along.
Speaker 2: Can you can I apply it to life? Though? God,
Speaker 2: what's amazing. How much of the of what we do
Speaker 2: is our brain was wired that way in the womb
Speaker 2: and we have marginal control over and how much of
Speaker 2: it is a personality tendency that we developed for And
Speaker 2: nobody knows actually on all these things. But god, dang it.
Speaker 2: The the dwelling on something bad that happened is pointless
Speaker 2: once you've you know, squeezed any knowledge you can out
Speaker 2: of it. But that happens pretty quickly, true enough, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: fair enough. I was just thinking about to what extent
Speaker 2: is that metaphor useful for life?
Speaker 5: And it is?
Speaker 4: It definitely is. I mean, if you like, spend your
Speaker 4: entire life savings on three magic beans, well that's that's
Speaker 4: more than a point Roger.
Speaker 5: That's the match, that's your career.
Speaker 4: But in general, yeah, I mean, the future happens while
Speaker 4: you're doing about the past.
Speaker 5: That's good. That ought to be on a poster or
Speaker 5: a T shirt or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if I agree with you. Even
Speaker 2: if you spent your life savings on three magic beans.
Speaker 2: There is one Well that was really stupid, stupidest thing
Speaker 2: I ever did, But there's no point in dwelling on
Speaker 2: it anymore. There's just no point.
Speaker 4: Note to self, don't buy magic beans and then move on.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2: Maybe put a post it note on your mirror say
Speaker 2: no to magic beans salesman next time. But yeah, move
Speaker 2: on with your life. Yeah, even a bit bankrupted you.
Speaker 4: I'm reminded of the dozens hundreds of game winning shots
Speaker 4: Michael Jordan missed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he.
Speaker 4: Kept shooting, because that's what life is, you keep shooting. Yeah,
Speaker 4: speaking of basketball, this is not a basketball. This is
Speaker 4: about who spends all that money to go to the
Speaker 4: most expensive sport.
Speaker 2: There's a game that's ever happened. I thought this was
Speaker 2: kind of funny. It's a map of Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 2: You got celebrities, that's obvious, finance tech bros obvious by
Speaker 2: the way it has you outside of the arena, that's
Speaker 2: most of us, right, we didn't spend the money or
Speaker 2: go celebrities, finance tech bros, your boss's boss's boss, and
Speaker 2: then real fans who are terrible with money. And I
Speaker 2: would say that that is probably a good description about
Speaker 2: everybody in the arena, if.
Speaker 4: You could put Well, let me just preface it by
Speaker 4: saying this. I have been hardcore sports fan at times
Speaker 4: in my life.
Speaker 5: I'm not now.
Speaker 4: I just enjoy it as entertainment. I don't take it seriously.
Speaker 4: If my team loses, I think and I go do
Speaker 4: something else. But I've betten the other guy. Why do
Speaker 4: you think that is because I'm the same way. You
Speaker 4: think it's low t Yeah, it's complete lack of testosterone.
Speaker 2: I have none.
Speaker 4: As I've mentioned on the show more than once, I
Speaker 4: believe I am totally testosterone free. I think part of
Speaker 4: it is having moved a bunch of times and gone
Speaker 4: places where I can't really follow my favorite team practically anymore,
Speaker 4: so I pay attention to a different one and all.
Speaker 4: But you know, I grew up being an absolutely hardcore
Speaker 4: Cubs fan, for instance, in Chicagoland. Loved the Cubbies, lived
Speaker 4: and died with them when they'd lose a playoff series.
Speaker 5: When they finally got into the playoffs, I was just devastated.
Speaker 2: So if I'd stayed in that environment and was still
Speaker 2: a hardcore Cubs fan. The cachet I get from saying
Speaker 2: yeah I was behind the plate in Game seven, people.
Speaker 5: Were like, wow, dude, what Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was there.
Speaker 4: When you know hood at Carrie Woods through his fifteenth
Speaker 4: strikeout or whatever.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. See that that sort of pride, whether
Speaker 2: it's justified or healthy or makes it any sense or
Speaker 2: not once, yeah, exactly, the discussion for another day. I
Speaker 2: could see that, over the course of a lifetime in
Speaker 2: that culture being worth a lot of money.
Speaker 4: I'm the king of the hardcore fans. Everybody knows it.
Speaker 4: I was at Game seven. Yeah I don't know, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I get it. I'll bet there is a lot of
Speaker 4: that though. Oh yeah, people who were oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: that too. But New York sports fans who are please
Speaker 4: they're a different level and a perennial loser like the Knicks,
Speaker 4: and they finally break through. Oh yeah, they probably get
Speaker 4: their ticket, the replica their ticket tattooed on their chest,
Speaker 4: have it blown up. It's on the wall of the
Speaker 4: man cave in the garage, and they said they'll they'll
Speaker 4: bring it up at the local deli.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, give me up, Astrami on ry And I
Speaker 2: was at the Knicks game, you know, right right? So
Speaker 2: game did I go to recently? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: So my financial investor got me his ridiculous suite tickets
Speaker 2: for the local NBA team where I live. I will
Speaker 2: not be specific, even though you can figure it out.
Speaker 2: It's Jeffrey Epstein as his financialist and hide the shame
Speaker 2: of the team. I wasn't exactly rooting for them, but anyway,
Speaker 2: I took my kids to the NBA game and we
Speaker 2: got to sit in this suite, which was really awesome.
Speaker 2: I mean, and we sat in the row in front
Speaker 2: of the suite where you have these big recliners, I
Speaker 2: mean big giant leather recliners feet up and oh, you
Speaker 2: have your waitress bringing his stuff and so like.
Speaker 5: It's just ridiculous.
Speaker 2: But not only that, because I was thinking about this
Speaker 2: with Timothy Shalamay and all the stars are of the game.
Speaker 2: There's a different entrance on the ticket. I didn't go
Speaker 2: in the normal way. I went through some door that's
Speaker 2: like on the side street that you wouldn't even know
Speaker 2: as an entrance to the arena.
Speaker 5: Enter with the poor people walk. Can you show up and.
Speaker 2: Now you look at a camera and you hold up
Speaker 2: your special ticket and they open the door and you
Speaker 2: take a special tunnel thing.
Speaker 5: You go to your seat with a come on in
Speaker 5: brother foot rub.
Speaker 2: Before you you go, you go through an empty hallway
Speaker 2: to like a mostly empty elevator and go up to
Speaker 2: your thing. You don't have to fight through the ground.
Speaker 2: I had our own bathroom that was always completely empty
Speaker 2: and clean. Manicure while you're riding up in the elevator,
Speaker 2: sir right, I thought, that's quite the that's quite the deal.
Speaker 2: You hold her rub perhaps a trim while you're sitting
Speaker 2: in your easy chair. Does your hair need a trim?
Speaker 2: Anything for you, your highness.
Speaker 4: I go in with the poor people and drink the
Speaker 4: poor people's beer, and it's good time.
Speaker 5: I'm down to earth like that.
Speaker 2: I have had more. This is memorable in its own way. Obviously,
Speaker 2: the special entrance in the elevator, in your own bathroom
Speaker 2: memorable in its own way. But I have had. My
Speaker 2: best sports memories have been the not the best seat
Speaker 2: with the riff raff, me me being part of the
Speaker 2: riff raff, you know, standing at the trough, waiting in line,
Speaker 2: half drunk. You know, those are great sports memories.
Speaker 5: I hate troughs.
Speaker 2: That's funny. We're at a burger. I don't mind the trough.
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm home. This is my people. The meantime,
Speaker 2: I'm urinating in a trough. I think I am home.
Speaker 2: This is me, this is my life. I love this.
Speaker 2: But we are at a burger place yesterday that has
Speaker 2: a trough, and my son wanted to hold it because
Speaker 2: they didn't have to use the trough. About how did
Speaker 2: things change in so many generations?
Speaker 4: So I have a number of questions in your primitive
Speaker 4: trough society. Do you use money or do you trade
Speaker 4: beads and trinkets and seashells.
Speaker 2: I know I'm at a bar. I like if it's
Speaker 2: got a trough in the bathroom. Oh, good lord, that's
Speaker 2: the way to go. I used to work at a
Speaker 2: country bar at a giant trough because it's a place.
Speaker 2: Put three hundred people in there on a busy Friday
Speaker 2: and Saturday night, so you needed a really long trough.
Speaker 2: There'd be twenty guys around them.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 4: Speaking of vexing questions, a couple of really interesting property
Speaker 4: rights cases for you. I want to get your opinion
Speaker 4: check because I know your big property rights guy, including
Speaker 4: the infamous dog walking feud in Wisconsin.
Speaker 2: I don't know this one. Oh it'll tear, it'll tear
Speaker 2: families apart. I don't know vexing that and other stuff
Speaker 2: on the ways. Figure, Oh my god, I have got
Speaker 2: a good final thought. I got a good final thought
Speaker 2: that tells you everything you need to know.
Speaker 5: So staying wow, Wow, that's a tease.
Speaker 4: A couple of property rights stories in a way, both
Speaker 4: of them interesting. Wyoming. And I did not know this
Speaker 4: is undergoing an enormous boom in these giant data centers,
Speaker 4: these monstrous computer facilities. For instance, they're building this one
Speaker 4: near Cheyenne, uh that they they have so many workers
Speaker 4: needed to build it. They're erecting a temporary workforce housing
Speaker 4: complex for as many as fifty six hundred laborers and
Speaker 4: trades people. The complex would be larger than eighty four
Speaker 4: of Wyoming's incorporated cities and towns, according to state data,
Speaker 4: would instantly become one of the biggest towns in Wyoming.
Speaker 4: And here's these folks who bought this beautiful high deserty
Speaker 4: spread of land with nothing but nature in every direction.
Speaker 2: And they're gonna be staring at that data center now
Speaker 2: that's right out their back door. Oh my god.
Speaker 5: Oh, I'll be driving.
Speaker 2: I'd drive through shy In a couple of times a
Speaker 2: year headed to Kansas, so I'll have to I'll check
Speaker 2: that out next time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, for two hundred bucks and just take the loss.
Speaker 2: Oh, you'd be so unhappy. Yeah, he used to watch
Speaker 2: the sunset that direction over the plains now to the
Speaker 2: Giant Data center.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's just sad. Here's the one that's kind of controversial.
Speaker 4: It's pretty interesting. So you got these two people in Shorewood, Wisconsin,
Speaker 4: and it's right on the banks of Lake Michigan. I'm
Speaker 4: sure it's very, very beautiful. And this guy Floorsheim. He's
Speaker 4: a retired I think academic or something like that.
Speaker 5: He walks his dogs every day along the shore.
Speaker 4: And one of the neighbors has he bought the place,
Speaker 4: I think a couple of years ago. But he walks
Speaker 4: his dog past the Lake Michigan property of Dennis Daniel Domagala,
Speaker 4: known locally for the time he spends in a tiki
Speaker 4: style boat house in deck that doubles as a surveillance post.
Speaker 4: From there, Domagala monitors traffic and sets off alarms to
Speaker 4: scare walkers, swimmers and kayakers away.
Speaker 5: He has signs that read private property.
Speaker 4: Beyond the sign, only water access beyond this point, and
Speaker 4: he keeps calling the cops over and over again about
Speaker 4: his neighbor who walks his dog by on the beach.
Speaker 2: Sounds like he's really enjoying his life.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, he seems like a miserable son of a bitch.
Speaker 4: In his defense, there is a public beach like very
Speaker 4: close and so as he says, look, my backyard, my
Speaker 4: property is this sand, and I got members of the
Speaker 4: public just camping out in my backyard. Wisconsin law says
Speaker 4: free passage in the water. You can boat, you can kayak,
Speaker 4: you can do anything you want, go back and forth
Speaker 4: across the water, or even what walk through the water.
Speaker 4: But if you come a foot beyond the water's edge
Speaker 4: wherever it happens to be tidally, at that point, you're
Speaker 4: on this guy's property.
Speaker 2: So it's different in California. Must be then, right, because
Speaker 2: we've had this story many times, like in La Area
Speaker 2: where super rich celebrities sometimes have put out signs saying
Speaker 2: private beach. But you can't really do that. The beach
Speaker 2: is not private.
Speaker 4: Likewise, Hawaii is our recall, But yeah, it varies state
Speaker 4: to state. But this is happening all over the country.
Speaker 4: They mentioned Florida, Rhode Island, a couple other ones. It's
Speaker 4: an interesting legal question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so much of it would be about degree a
Speaker 2: guy quietly walking his dog through once a day, who
Speaker 2: cares people camping there, and like having a party would
Speaker 2: be a different thing, right, But I have known people
Speaker 2: like this. There's a guy I knew, a guy who
Speaker 2: sat outside his house, a retired guy. Neighborhood that I
Speaker 2: lived in years ago. Gladys, do you still work here?
Speaker 2: Years ago? I knew this.
Speaker 5: She's tuning up her harp.
Speaker 4: It goes out of tune quickly this time of year.
Speaker 5: It's so hot.
Speaker 2: In human she uses real catgut strings, so it sounds
Speaker 2: so good. I knew this guy lived on the corner
Speaker 2: of this nice, quiet neighborhood I lived in. He was retired.
Speaker 2: He'd sit on his porch and man, he just was
Speaker 2: vigilant about making sure nobody let their dog when they're
Speaker 2: going around that corner pee on his lawn. Hey, just
Speaker 2: all right, you know, I understand why you don't want that,
Speaker 2: but that is not how I want to spend my life. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it just seemed like he seemed miserable trying to stay
Speaker 2: on watch for that sort of thing.
Speaker 4: Wow, now that's even better than Roger Fetter or speech
Speaker 4: that we just featured all right. Granted, the dog's pee
Speaker 4: is bad for you, lawn, it can cause you know
Speaker 4: long to look bad. On the other hand, vigilance against it.
Speaker 4: I decided a long time ago playing golf, there are
Speaker 4: guys who cheat, and I don't get it.
Speaker 5: I'm talking to you, what.
Speaker 2: Do you want my ten dollars that much or however
Speaker 2: much money? Or or does your ego think, wow, I'm
Speaker 2: a really good golfer even though you cheat? Or is
Speaker 2: it that you just can't accept that you've got a
Speaker 2: really bad break anyway, quit cheating. But I decided, want
Speaker 2: to know what kind of cheating is it?
Speaker 5: Usually what's most improving your lie?
Speaker 4: Oh, bumping the ball, so it's sitting up because you
Speaker 4: got a crappy liar, you're right behind a tree and
Speaker 4: yank you not get a little bit. I decided a
Speaker 4: long time ago I was not going to waste my
Speaker 4: life constantly vigilant against guys cheating.
Speaker 5: Figure cheat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna enjoy myself great, definitely a better life. Now.
Speaker 4: If a dog peede on me while I was playing golf,
Speaker 4: I would have a problem with that.
Speaker 2: You's final, so beautiful harmonies comments closure for the show
Speaker 2: I'm not sure I've ever paid attention to the lyrics.
Speaker 2: Give us closure, that's what we do. He delighted. There's
Speaker 2: your old for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 4: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
Speaker 4: to wrap up today. Michael Angelo in the control room
Speaker 4: will lead us as always.
Speaker 5: Michael final thought.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been gotten very good at messing up and
Speaker 2: just forgetting about it. I've become very comfortable with being mediocre.
Speaker 4: That's yeah, I will I will debtail off that final thought.
Speaker 4: I've said this several times. The key to being an
Speaker 4: idiot is not wishing you're not an idiot. It's crafting
Speaker 4: your life to minimize the impact of your idiocy.
Speaker 2: That's been my motto for a long time. Jack final thought,
Speaker 2: My final thought that explains everything. Here's a poll. So
Speaker 2: they're talking on Fox about, uh, what it costs to
Speaker 2: watch this game or that game or whatever, and you
Speaker 2: have to have Netflix to watch this in Amazon, and
Speaker 2: then this football game is there Fox poll? Most major
Speaker 2: sporting events should be legally required to be free on TV,
Speaker 2: saying a majority of people, all right, that makes you
Speaker 2: a moron. It's unworkable, and that's why democracy will faire
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