Episodes – 98 Rock Online: Recent Episodes
None
Description Chapter Markers Transcript We explore the intriguing lives of those who love exotic and unusual pets.
00:00:00 Tales of the Escaping Turtle 00:00:49 Exotic Pets and Lizard Enthusiasts 00:02:12 Monkey Mischief and Saltwater Tanks 00:04:01 Tibetan Yaks and More Unique Animals 00:06:02 The Caiman and Chameleon Chronicles 00:08:32 Living with an Angry Iguana SPEAKER 07 : 0:00
Speegs, you often tell tale of the turtle you wedged in the lawn to keep from escaping, and escape it did. Yeah, somehow it got loose. But still, that's a pretty standard animal. No one's gonna scoff or go, what the hell?
SPEAKER 02 : 0:13
Let me just say, that turtle got on my bad side, and even though I eventually buried the hatchet, I have a map of the hatchet.
SPEAKER 07 : 0:27
He knows where he keeps the hatchet. I just imagine the hatchet's on a very long chain attached to your wrist. And if you need to, you can just pull the hatchet back to you for those that yet again abandon you. We always had cats and dogs. We never had anything strange. Got some exotic pet overs here.
SPEAKER 1 : 0:49
410, 338, 1098.
SPEAKER 07 : 0:49
Yeah, the hermit crab. That was pretty standard. How about an Uromastyx? An Uromastyx, otherwise known as a spiny-tailed lizard. You ever know any lizard people? Like, for some of the bigger ones that they can take out of the terrarium and hold?
SPEAKER 05 : 1:09
Uh... I think I had a friend who had a chameleon when we were younger, but those aren't big. Those are maybe six or seven inches.
SPEAKER 07 : 1:18
And a terrarium is just an aquarium you forgot about. But some of those lizards, dude, they will chill. Yeah. You can place them on you, and they like their head rubbed, hit their tummy a little bit.
SPEAKER 05 : 1:32
I always liked lizards. I always wanted a chameleon, but my mom, she wasn't a big on the exotic pets. Yeah. You got to have the fur.
SPEAKER 07 : 1:39
We're really into fur in this country. He loved having his neck and belly rubbed. I would hold him when he was in sort of a sitting position in my hand, scratch him. He would just put his head back and close his eyes. It was so sweet. I would feed him dandelions. This is really funny. My father had a monkey while overseas in Afghanistan. We weren't able to keep the monkey because it would not stop f***ing off. Oh.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:12
I mean.
SPEAKER 07 : 2:13
It just would sit there.
SPEAKER 06 : 2:14
I can't blame him. I mean, yeah. That's the story from last week, by the way. I was out of the studio. Sorry. The monkey that got loose in San Antonio. Remember that that was running around and it had a full diaper? It had a big, gross, full diaper.
SPEAKER 07 : 2:27
And it had a full diaper full of monkey doo-doo? Just full of monkey s. Yeah. What does monkey poop look like? It's got to be awful. I'm going to guess it's somewhere in between human and cat. But yeah, you got a monkey. I mean, famously, they love to throw their s at you and their s at you and then s all over the place and then s*** in your hair. So yeah, monkeys, maybe not the best. Oh, speaks. I had a saltwater tank as a teenager and had an octopus. Oh. She would flash neon blue at you to get your attention. I could feed her dead shrimp by hand, and she would grab onto my hand to pull the shrimp closer to her beak. That's so cool.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:05
On second thought, I don't want to get an octopus because they're escape artists, as everybody knows. I'm not a child. I don't want to play hide and seek anymore. There you go.
SPEAKER 07 : 3:16
All right. You want a pet that wants to be with you, not one that's like, oh, look, I'm hiding behind the chaise. And you have to have some land for this. Hold on. I'm going to Google this one real quick. Yeah, you don't have this inside of the house. Sekinos, I guess she's Greek, writes, I had a Tibetan yak. She made little nests in her hay ring. A what? A Tibetan yak. Look up a Tibetan yak. They're wild looking. She loved peppermint treats and would go crazy for them. She loved, yeah, these things are like crazy hairy. Sometimes they have like the big like steer looking to do's. 410-338-1098. Let's go to the phones. Let's talk to our friend Baltimore Joe. How are you here?
SPEAKER 01 : 4:02
Hey guys, how you doing? How are you doing? Good morning, Josh. Oh, hey. So, yeah, when I was growing up, you name it, I pretty much had it. So at one time, we did have a caiman. We had a hedgehog. We had a savannah monitor. We had a black snake. We had bearded dragons, chameleons, fish tanks, dogs.
SPEAKER 06 : 4:23
Where did you keep all this stuff? Who had all these? You, your family, your parents? Like, who was in charge of all these?
SPEAKER 01 : 4:28
It was mainly my dad and my oldest brother and me, too, sometimes.
SPEAKER 06 : 4:34
You had a caiman? That's like a mini alligator.
SPEAKER 01 : 4:37
Yeah, those things can be nasty, right? It was. I mean, it was a baby, so it was a funny story. So the caiman got a hold of the hedgehog and killed the hedgehog. Oh!
SPEAKER 06 : 4:47
That's why you don't have caimans! What happened to Sonic? That's upsetting.
SPEAKER 01 : 4:53
Yeah, so it was. It was a baby hedgehog, too. It wasn't that old, so the... It didn't have the spikes and all that real prickly yet. And then my oldest brother, he took it home because we live in separate households. And he took it home and his dog ate the caiman.
SPEAKER 06 : 5:10
Oh, my God. And then the dog ate a caiman. So the caiman ate the hedgehog and then the dog ate the caiman.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:18
Yeah, the caiman was only like maybe a foot long. It wasn't that big.
SPEAKER 06 : 5:22
Okay. Out of all the things you had, which, God, seems like a lot, what was the coolest, the best, and what was the worst?
SPEAKER 01 : 5:30
The coolest, honestly, is the chameleons. They're really dope because they're real chill and they go back and forth and stuff.
SPEAKER 06 : 5:37
And they move very slowly. And they change colors and they stick their tongue out to catch the food, right? All that?
SPEAKER 01 : 5:43
So the changing color chameleons are actually a different kind of chameleon. Yeah, they're mainly in the rainforest and tropical areas. You can buy them, but they're a lot more expensive.
SPEAKER 06 : 5:54
Do both their eyes go in different directions?
SPEAKER 01 : 5:57
Yeah, yeah. That's why it was pretty cool. And, like, the bearded dragons were really neat, too, because whenever they wanted to mate, so, like, their calling is, like, they wave to each other whenever they're ready to mate. Hey, get over here.
SPEAKER 06 : 6:10
Let's bang. They wave?
SPEAKER 01 : 6:12
Mm-hmm. Yeah, exactly. And then the worst pet was probably a fish because they're not real pets. They're moving decorations in my eyes. Oh.
SPEAKER 07 : 6:20
A moving decoration. That's hilarious. Thank you, Baltimore. Joe, that was very, very insightful. I had no idea you had that entire like animal sanctuary. Yeah, it's like the Cayman thing. Like, I think we've even met people that just have dogs that like you can't get near it. It's got to stay in this one room. If it sees strangers, it lashes out. I go, do you get any enjoyment out of that?
SPEAKER 06 : 6:40
I never understood people that have a dog that just will attack anything that moves.
SPEAKER 07 : 6:45
Yeah, no, his name's Cupcake, but don't make eye contact. Don't breathe. It doesn't like blacks, whites, men, women, tall or short people. It hates kids, but it hates the elderly even more. So just make sure your back is to it, and don't wear any clothing that has colors or black and white. Otherwise, you'll be fine. He's really a sweetheart.
SPEAKER 1 : 7:03
41033, 1098.
SPEAKER 07 : 7:03
I don't even know. I'm going to try and say this, Ginny. It's a Kinkajou? Kinkajou. Kinkajou?
SPEAKER 03 : 7:11
Kinkajou, that's right.
SPEAKER 07 : 7:12
All right. That's like a perverted Jewish person.
SPEAKER 03 : 7:14
What is that? It's in a raccoon family from Brazil. They look nothing like raccoons, though.
SPEAKER 06 : 7:22
Where'd he get one of them?
SPEAKER 03 : 7:25
I lived in New York, and I had a horse upstate, and somebody bought it into the horse vet to have it euthanized because they were getting a divorce.
SPEAKER 05 : 7:35
They were getting a divorce? Yes.
SPEAKER 03 : 7:38
Yes. So he was a year old, so my mother took him, and we had him for 12 years until he passed away of old age.
SPEAKER 05 : 7:45
Oh, they're adorable.
SPEAKER 03 : 7:45
And what do they do? We would let him out every night. They're nocturnal, and he would just look to get into things, and they have really long, sharp nails, so they could open dressers.
SPEAKER 06 : 7:58
So as you're trying to sleep, a kinkajou is just running around your house?
SPEAKER 03 : 8:03
No, we put him up at about midnight before he went to bed, and he had a cage, and he had, like, things that he could he would do figure eights and just run around at night this thing's got like a six inch long tongue also well hello there yeah they they eat bugs yeah ah snatches it out okay well good for you would you say cool um he was kind of nasty because they didn't treat him very well but um he was he was okay if you know you didn't show fear
SPEAKER 07 : 8:32
If you didn't show fear. I live in a permanent state of. I'm constantly freaked out. I'm just looking at a kick at you. I don't want one of those. That's why horses and I don't get along. Because I'm constantly in an anxious state. And horses can sense anxiety and discomfort. And that's just how I live. So horses don't like me. I don't like them when we're around each other. Plus those freaking teeth. Let's talk to Christina. They have human teeth. You could put braces on a horse. Let's talk to Christina.
SPEAKER 06 : 9:02
Hello, Christina.
SPEAKER 03 : 9:03
Good morning. How are you?
SPEAKER 06 : 9:06
Great phone connection. Sounds wonderful. Tell us about the... Oh, God. Can you tell us about the sugar gliders? I've always been interested with those.
SPEAKER 03 : 9:18
Oh, I don't have a sugar glider. I have a cyanocon.
SPEAKER 06 : 9:21
Okay, we can't hear you. I'm going to put you on hold. I'll come back. Clearly says has pythons and a sugar glider.
SPEAKER 05 : 9:28
Maybe that's what it sounded like.
SPEAKER 07 : 9:30
Yeah, through that one bar connection. Just jump off Bluetooth. We'll go back to you in a second. Let's talk to Brandon that has an angry iguana.
SPEAKER 04 : 9:39
Yeah, I grew up with an iguana. One of our cats died and My mom bought me an iguana. That makes sense. Yeah, it totally makes sense.
SPEAKER 06 : 9:51
Nice transition.
SPEAKER 04 : 9:52
This thing was so angry. Every time I tried to feed it, it tried to attack me. And it's terranium or whatever you want to call it. How big was it? It got up to about a foot and a half.
SPEAKER 06 : 10:11
And if it really tried to take a run at you and attack you, what would that look like and what kind of damage can it do? They got teeth? They got nails? What do they got?
SPEAKER 04 : 10:21
They got all of it. So I'd be sitting on the couch and it would try to cuddle me and I'd like rub its head.
SPEAKER 06 : 10:31
And then all of a sudden just lose its mind?
SPEAKER 04 : 10:32
It would just like slap me in the face with its tail.
SPEAKER 06 : 10:36
Well, was it on purpose or just because?
SPEAKER 04 : 10:40
Just because. He was just chilling. He was like, hit me. Is this your dominant thing?
SPEAKER 06 : 10:49
You had a cat and then you went to iguana. How much did you like the cat?
SPEAKER 04 : 10:55
I was too young to remember, to be honest with you.
SPEAKER 06 : 10:59
Let's say a cat's a 10 out of 10. 9 out of 10 pet. Where's an iguana?
SPEAKER 04 : 11:05
Um... I'd give them a nine, to be honest. Oh, really? Okay. They would attack the owls.
SPEAKER 06 : 11:13
I don't know. I just feel like the reptiles, the cold-blooded things. The reptile brain. Yeah, is there a connection there? What was the one you mentioned earlier? Do they even love you? Do they know you? I mean, that's my whole point, I guess.
SPEAKER 07 : 11:24
What was the other one? You mentioned a reptile earlier that a lot of people have. Oh, damn it. No, the sugar ladder's a squirrel. The kimono dragon will actually kill you. The iguana changes colors. Chameleon. Son of a bitch. Stash had one. The bearded dragon.
SPEAKER 01 : 11:37
The bearded dragon. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 07 : 11:38
People that have bearded dragons love them. I mean, swear by them that they answer their names. Yeah, when you shave already, for God's sake. They'll come to you if you call them. They're like dog-level intellects. They'll lie there. You hit their stomach. They love them. Dude, you have people that have one of those things. They swear by them.
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we are joined by Tommy Sinbazo. Tune in to hear Marianne and Tommy chat with our listeners about poor people habits that we might've done. What habits are we trying to break? One way to find out. Hit play!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript We delve into gripping stories wild chases.
00:00:00 Running from Danger 00:01:24 Meat Jackets and Doggy Chases 00:02:12 Social Media Foot Chases 00:03:18 Fake Bags and Cop Chases 00:04:17 Exploring Creepy College 00:06:23 A Thrilling Escape 00:09:40 Strange Sights at Hell House SPEAKER 03 : 0:00
Why the hell did you have to run? Get the hell out of there! Something's chasing you, whether it be a cop, security guard, pissed-off neighbor, pack of rabid dogs, pissed-off cat in Joe's neighborhood while they're trying to deliver the mail. 410-338-1098, when's the last time you had to run from something? You're on the B&O Trail, out of nowhere. Here comes this man with broad shoulders, holding a handful of murros, Just give and chase. It's Josh Spiegel. What the hell are you going to do? Joe, quick update on the cat mail situation. Yeah. Everything all buttoned up now? Yeah, everything is. You're still getting mail? Everything's good. I'm still getting mail. I think we got a different mail person, and they quickly forgot about the aggressive attack cats. Yeah, for those that are new to the program, and by the looks of the numbers, we're gaining people every day. Joe, they weren't able to deliver mail anymore because his cats would attack the mail deliverer, and he had to have his mail dropped off at a... I had to pick it up. You had to pick it up. Oh, it works. Jess, what's up, love? A few years ago when I was working for a crazy person, I had to run from her, genuinely. What? As fast as I could. I got a new job. I blocked her. I need more details. What the hell? I had to run. Our friend Brandon. I get chased by stray dogs in my neighborhood because I'm wearing my boar's head jacket, which is made of recycled lunch meat.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:24
Probably just reeks of meat. Stinks.
SPEAKER 03 : 1:26
Wow. Nikki, my ex-husband. Jesus, I need details on some of these things. Had to run. Run. That's it. There ain't no chance. We're talking like physically running. Running, like getting winded. I always wonder, too, because my cardio is absolute dog s**t. I do wonder in a survival situation. You know how they say moms get this sudden crazy ability to tear seatbelts for their children or lift cars off of a loved one? My gas tank is bad. If I can run a solid mile, that's impressive. But if I know I'm being chased by somebody, how far I could run before my legs and lungs just give out? Because I know there's a thing behind me.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:12
It's funny you say we're even doing this because that's the new trend on social media where significant others see if they're... a police officer, significant other can catch them or a son and the father, like the father will be the cop and the son's like, I want to see if you can catch me. And the son just takes off running and the dad is there in like full uniform and they just, they do a foot chase. It's all over social media nowadays and they always get caught. Yeah, I watched On Patrol Live this past weekend. It was an Xbox. Dude, this guy showed up to sell an Xbox. Okay. And they just rolled his ass. They just stole the Xbox and shoved it into the ground. They were like, get the hell out of here. And the cops showed up, and they had to chase the dudes with the Xbox. And this one cop was so freaking winded. What? And then he's trying to interview them and he's trying to explain what happened. I felt so bad for the guy because this is his job. He's got to chase kids around that are stealing Xboxes. He's a grown-ass man. He was actually in pretty good shape, but he had a lot of muscle. And muscle eats up oxygen and it's heavy. And then he's got his equipment on and he called the dude, but I was like, man, he was sucking wind for a good 10 minutes.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:18
I was like, God. I think I told you this story. I went to... God, it might have been... Remember when GNR... Axl Rose first put together the new lineup with everybody new. And they were doing the whole Chinese democracy bit. And I went and saw them at the Hammerstein Ballroom. I went down there with friends earlier in the day, and we went to Canal Street. And that's where they sell the fake bags and the fake Gucci and the fake everything. Well, some dude comes booking past us. I mean, it looked like Usain Bolt. It was a blur. A second later, a cop comes chasing. And the cop, 50 more yards, and finally is like... oh, screw it, and turns around, and the crowd starts laughing.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:56
That's when you radio ahead. You can always radio.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:59
I felt so bad for this cop because this guy was not going to get caught. He was like a street urchin type. He knew the alleys to dive through. He knew the tables to hide under. And this poor cop was just getting laughed at. 410-338-1098. Let's go to Rob, who has been patiently holding. Rob, good morning.
SPEAKER 04 : 4:17
Good morning, guys. How are you guys doing? How are you holding up? I'm great. So I got a story to tell you guys about being chased. So me and a friend of mine, Scott, and my girlfriend and his girlfriend at the time decided we were going to go out to Creepy College out there, and I think it's Ellicott City.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:36
What is that? Hold on. Before you continue, I've heard of that. I'm going to turn your radio down. I've heard of Creepy College, but I don't know what it is. Is that like a Hell House thing?
SPEAKER 04 : 4:45
It's exactly what it is. So it was, it was, it was known as hell house and it was, it was right there, like near Ellicott city. And, um, and there was, it was like seven Hills that people would like fly down in cars, like try and jump the Hills before they got there. And then you would get this creepy college. And it was like, Satan worshippers and everything were known to be there. So, like, everybody would go there to try and hunt ghosts or see something, you know, paranormal or something like that.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:13
Yeah, you can look at what's called the Ruins of St. Mary's Seminary, a.k.a. the Hell House, and people have shot documentaries and photos. Yeah, it's a destination for kids that want to go and get their Blair Witch on, do some stuff. Okay, so you're back there.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:26
I like this.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:26
You're in the woods. Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:27
And there's a component where you had to run. This is getting good. Oh, my God. It's going to get good, so... We pull up to Creepy College, and there's a staircase going up before you get there, and it's like a hill that you would slide down on in the snow. You know, there's like a hill, and then it levels out, a hill, and then it levels out, a hill, and then it levels out, and then there's the college at the top. Well, we show up, and one of the guys, we tell the girl, he's like, hey, listen, we're just going to go check it out. Let's see what's up. You guys stay in the car. Well, that was a good idea because when we got all the way up to the top of the steps, We're coming up on the couch and we're just like looking around like, oh, my God, like there's a lot of Satan stuff everywhere. There's an altar. There's an altar way back in the back. Yeah, right. Where there's like it's it's the nativity scene. And it's like, you know, Joseph has got his head cut off. Oh, my God.
SPEAKER 03 : 6:23
jesus is missing and like there's some vile stuff done to mary so like and and this is still like that's still people still go i've been to hell house in the past five or six years there's a there's a company out there who unless they start paying for advertising i'm not going to mention them but they do pop-up comedy shows and they did a stand-up show at this hell house place with like a generator and lights and all that uh that's a pretty good time so you're there What the hell starts chasing you?
SPEAKER 04 : 6:49
Here's the chase part. Here's the chase part. So we're checking it out. We're going all around. We're checking it out. We get to this back where the greenhouse used to be, and there's a dead Rottweiler. And it's got, like, maggots all over it and everything like that. So we're just like, whoa, whoa. Like, all right, something's going on, right? So let's start to get out of here. whereas as we're starting to go back to let the girls know like hey this is everything that we saw we run into the groundskeeper and the groundskeeper has two live big rottweilers not only does he have two live big rottweilers with him he's got a shotgun with salt shot in it so he sees us we see him next thing i know he fires the gun in the air I'm like, did he just shoot a gun at us? Then he's like, then you hear him go, boys, right? So the dogs start coming at us. Then you hear another shot. Then you hear another shot. And that's exactly what I was thinking. Chopper sick balls, right? That's a classic line. So he shoots at us again. And now I know it's salt because it hits you. And there's those, right? It's just like. So we were like. So it's time to go. He's shooting at us. The dogs are at us. So we get all the way to the hill, like I said, where it's like a snow hill and it's going down like three hills. I jump from the top hill. Just over. Forget the steps. These dogs are after you shooting at us.
SPEAKER 03 : 8:18
Land on the second hill.
SPEAKER 04 : 8:20
Did you get back to the ladies? Roll. Get down. Get down to the bottom of the hill. Get in the car. They see what's going on. The dogs are coming after us. So they roll down the window. I'm diving into the car to get in the window. We get in the car, roll up the window. The dogs are running around the car and everything like that. Probably after about five minutes, they finally gave up. It's a great story.
SPEAKER 03 : 8:40
Oh, my God. I'm not sure I believe it, but it's a great story. It's a wonderful story. That's about as long a call as we'll take, but the story's that good that, by God, thank you, Rob. That is great. Another one right there. A.A. Ron, Creepy College. What the hell's going on at the Creepy College? A.A.
SPEAKER 01 : 8:54
Ron, what's up? Hey, how you doing, man? Yeah, I was going off and I heard a guy say the same thing. I've been up there. He's definitely right about the dogs. The dogs will chase you down. Yeah, back in the day, when it was still there, it was all broken down. Now you can walk around it. But there is two dogs. That dude had dogs because it's ridiculous. I went there during snow time. Yeah, dude, it's wild over there for sure. But we were down there. Me and my buddy were like 15, 16 or whatever. We were out there skateboarding and stuff. And then we had our paintball guns. And then all of a sudden we saw... Three people in white outfits or whatever with a pointy hat, and one guy with a red pointy hat. Wait, wait, you saw that? I guess it was. I don't know, but all we saw was there was a fire going on. We thought they were about to do some kind of ritual.
SPEAKER 03 : 9:41
There were fire and dudes with white pointy hats. You saw the Klansmen or Satanic cultists at the Hill House?
SPEAKER 01 : 9:49
No, dude. Wow. There used to be an 18 wheeler that was burnt down. Long story short, there was an orb going around, floating around it.
SPEAKER 03 : 10:01
An orb? Oh, the orb. People see the orb. Thank you for the call, pal. We've got to jump in a sec. They're called the Will-o'-the-Wisp. They just see this orb floating around the woods. Joe, did any of you and your street urchin friends ever go hang out at Hell House? No, I've never been. You've never been to Hell House? I think they've torn down the altar. For the most part, it's been completely torn down, but I've had a chance to go and visit it. I also crawled down into this thing once. Have you ever seen that hole in the ground?
SPEAKER 02 : 10:24
Yeah, I'm looking at a bunch of...
SPEAKER 03 : 10:25
It goes down into a subterranean level that they have since closed that thing off because I went down in that thing once and did sex with someone.
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we are joined by Badflower Front Man, Josh Katz. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne in the Boom Boom Room chat with Katz about "Paws," his songwriting style, and collaborations. Want to know what Josh Katz said? Hit play to find out!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript We dive into the unexpected and humorous stories behind speeding tickets, and the hefty fines.
00:00:00 The Speeding Ticket Chronicles 00:00:38 Caught at 107 MPH 00:01:42 Emergency Situations and Cop Escorts 00:02:23 Costly Convoy Penalties 00:04:21 Racing for Reckless Fun 00:05:22 A Teenager's High-Speed Adventure 00:06:14 The $27,000 Ticket Shock SPEAKER 07 : 0:00
You just can't do it. You're just hauling ass. You're doing 90 in the 20. You're just doing donuts in a parking lot somewhere. Who knows? Maybe your license was expired. Your tag's expired years ago. Stolen car. You're making moonshine in the backseat. Why the hell did you get a ticket so expensive as it was? We found out that Josh, while he was off... He got a couple of tickets in the mail. He paid them. Scott recently got one. Joe's got six. And somewhere out there, I know I popped some speed camera somewhere. I'm just waiting for it to show up in the mail any day now. 410-338-1098. Let's go to the phones. Russell, good morning. Hey, good morning, guys.
SPEAKER 03 : 0:38
How is everybody today? Dude, you were going how fast? I got clocked at 107 on 50 coming out just on the other side of the Severn River.
SPEAKER 07 : 0:47
What was the speed limit around there?
SPEAKER 03 : 0:52
The officer, you know, he said that he could have, at 110, he could have arrested me and taken my license on the spot. Apparently, in the state of Maryland, if you double the speed limit, not only is it reckless, but they have every right to suspend and arrest you on the spot. Damn, so why didn't they? Well, I'm 107, so I had three miles an hour, I guess, grace to double the speed limit at 110. Ah, I got you. Because that area of 50 right there is at 55. And I had got a terrible phone call my father had just coded. And I was on my way back to my house to get what I needed to get back to Washington Hospital Center in D.C. And I just I didn't care. I was in that state of mind where, you know, I wanted to get to him as fast as I could. Yeah, I'm with you.
SPEAKER 07 : 1:42
I can only imagine how many people have had to tell a cop, hey, listen, something's going on with my wife in the hospital. My father just got tagged at the GPS is kicking in. Father just got tagged by a piece of equipment at the job site. And I it's not a zero percent chance. A cop is then offered to give you an escort to where you got to get going. Hey, I'm going to drive with you. And then suddenly you realize, oh, no, he caught me in my bull. That would be fantastic. Or he leads you and he just takes you right back to the police. He takes you.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:16
I'll give you.
SPEAKER 07 : 2:16
Hey, follow me and pulls you right into BCPD headquarters. Like, yeah, your dad's upstairs in cell four.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:22
410-338-1098.
SPEAKER 07 : 2:23
Let's go to Merrill. Merrill, good morning. Morning. Morning. What's up, buddy? How fast were you going? What was the speeding ticket?
SPEAKER 06 : 2:32
So I own a trucking company, and I had two drivers taking excavators to Connecticut, and they were oversized loads. Well, the trooper sighted them because they were too close to each other, so he called a convoy. And the fine alone was six grand per truck.
SPEAKER 07 : 2:52
Oh. $6,000 per truck, $12,000 total. So who's responsible for that, the driver or the company?
SPEAKER 06 : 2:59
The company. Are they taking that out of wages? I flew up there, went to court, and they were like, oh, we usually don't see anybody show up.
SPEAKER 1 : 3:10
I'm like, well, I was up against small print. And so the state's attorney goes, well, I can make your day better.
SPEAKER 06 : 3:16
She was like, I can knock it down to $1,000. If you donate the money to victims, women and children accused.
SPEAKER 07 : 3:26
Okay, I like it. The phone's breaking up just a little bit, pal. Okay, I like that. Instead of 12 grand, one grand and take it and put it towards some nice charity. That was one of the facets. Scott was saying that he caught a ticket for like... 500 bucks forever ago. But he went to court to challenge it because he parked in like this poorly marked handicap spot downtown. And because the curb was barely painted blue, he actually went to court to challenge it like five bucks. You're here. It's five bucks. And the judge was saying to everybody. I want a quick day. I got a tea time at one. How about this? Everyone just plead guilty. It's not going to go on your record. Five bucks for everybody. Scott says the person right in front of him immediately goes, not guilty. Okay, great. Thanks, a-hole. We're just trying to get out of here. Let's go to, oh, Michelle. Michelle, what the hell?
SPEAKER 01 : 4:21
Yeah, I was in Southern Virginia on 81. and was going 90 in a 70, or 65. Okay. And anything over 75, I think, in Virginia is reckless driving.
SPEAKER 07 : 4:33
Why were you going so fast?
SPEAKER 01 : 4:37
Just, there was a car next to me, and we were kind of back and forth, like, not letting the other one get faster.
SPEAKER 07 : 4:44
Okay, so you're hot and running a little bit. I was going to guess you had to poop. A little bit. Maybe you were on your way to a Tinder hookup, but no, you were just playing a little gamesmanship on the road?
SPEAKER 01 : 4:54
Yeah, yeah, just neither one of us wanted to let the other one go faster.
SPEAKER 07 : 4:58
Oh, okay, so just a couple of assholes driving side by side. So did you pay the grand or did you go to court or what?
SPEAKER 01 : 5:08
Oh, no, I paid the grand.
SPEAKER 07 : 5:10
All right, $1,000, all right, doing a little racing on the highway. That's what you get. Let's talk to Greg, line six. Greg, good morning. Good morning, how are you? 99 in the 55.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:22
Yes, sir. Dropping off a girlfriend. I'm 16. I'm like, let's see what my 1990 Honda Accord can do. And flooring it down the road in my five-speed, it gets pulled over by a state trooper. He comes to the car, gun drawn. What are you doing? Oh, yeah, he was pissed.
SPEAKER 07 : 5:44
He popped a button on his holster. If anybody out there, Tucci, I know you're listening, pal. What constitutes taking your piece out?
SPEAKER 05 : 5:53
Yeah, I don't know if that's protocol. And the fine was what? How much now?
SPEAKER 1 : 5:57
$525.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:58
Five points. I went to court. My lawyer made me sit all the way. We asked to wait until all the way to the end to ask for leniency. And I had to do a bunch of community service and pay the fine. I got no points, though.
SPEAKER 07 : 6:14
Okay. Well, no points. That's nice. So hopefully your insurance didn't go insane. Let's take one more before we go. How do you rack up this size of a ticket? Mr. Fred, good morning. Good morning. This is the price of a used automobile. This is a down payment on a moderately sized house. This is a vacation to France for 10 people. How the hell did you get a $27,000 ticket? We were hauling a crane.
SPEAKER 02 : 6:43
Down 301 into Newburgh. And we were heavier than the permit allowed. And the cop pulled us over, pulled our permit, took us back to legal. And over $80,000, you get charged per pound.
SPEAKER 05 : 6:59
Oh, so it was per pound. Did you know you were over?
SPEAKER 02 : 7:02
I didn't think so. I thought we had it balanced right. I was wrong. I realized that. But the funny thing is, we took it to court and fought it. I paid $250.
SPEAKER 07 : 7:14
Hey, I like that. Very nice. Little man wins.
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we talk about stumbling upon free money. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne talk about a mystery man whom seems to be dropping money in random places for people to find. When did we stumble upon something like this? One way to find out. Hit play!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript We delve into the realities of living with untreated or stubborn injuries.
00:00:00 Dental Work and Financial Decisions 00:01:11 Unexpected Injuries and Healthcare System 00:03:08 Military Service and Physical Health 00:05:23 Sports Injuries and Permanent Damage 00:06:09 Skateboarding Injuries 00:07:28 Ingrown Toenails and Their Treatment SPEAKER 05 : 0:00
What did you injure that you're just walking around on? You said, screw it. Sometimes you're stubborn. Sometimes it can be financial. You might work some private contractor, no health insurance gig. I mean, I can't tell you. We're talking to Alex DDS, dentist earlier. I wanted to ask if we didn't get around to it. Um... Me and a bunch of other young, up-and-coming, starving comics would go to the University of Maryland Dental School to get dental work done. Was it free? A student would do it. It wasn't free, but it was very low cost.
SPEAKER 07 : 0:31
You know, my father did that, which would have been decades ago, and I think they found something like... 25 cavities. Damn. You went to a school? Yeah, I think it was at the University of Maryland. Because they have a very prestigious dental school.
SPEAKER 05 : 0:47
The issue with it is, A, students are working on you. Now, you do have a professor next to them. But the wait list is a while.
SPEAKER 07 : 0:55
Yeah, it's like, I mean, nothing to do with teeth, but there was a barber shop near where I lived, and the students, for $3, you could get a haircut, but the students would work on you.
SPEAKER 05 : 1:11
You just go in there and be like, just me up. Yeah. Say no more, fam. And the next thing you know, they're taking a pair of electric scissors to your hair. Yeah, it could be a financial thing, man. You get somebody that's got some big, bad, broken something, dislocated something. But financially, you know, this health care system ain't great. They're like, OK, I can either go get this fixed and pay this off for the next 30 years or I could live with just one arm working. 4-10-3-3-8-10-98. When I was 16, I got jumped by seven guys, cracked the tooth, just left it. Just left it. I was like, I just... Didn't have time to get it fixed. Like, all right, damn, that's brutal. Dislocated my shoulder sailing when the rigging swung and hit me in the shoulder. Dislocated it. We were able to relocate it. Clearly had torn muscles. Just tried to let it heal. It did. Did not heal right.
SPEAKER 04 : 2:08
Yeah, that's the thing. When a heel's wrong, then you're really screwed. And they eventually have to go back in there and, like, redo it or something.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:14
Double fix it? That sucks. I don't know how the hell you do this. Jacob, what the hell did you injure that you just walked around on?
SPEAKER 01 : 2:22
It's called a MPFL. It's your medial pitoral femoral ligament.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:27
Okay.
SPEAKER 01 : 2:28
Basically, it's the ligament that attaches your kneecap to your femur. And... It just hurt. I kept moving, you know, whatever, for about nine months. And then I finally went and got CAT scans and such. Yeah, it turned out to be the NPFL had to get it repaired and was out of work for about three months.
SPEAKER 04 : 2:45
Damn, three months. Oh, so that was an issue. That's the other thing, too, is the recovery time, right?
SPEAKER 05 : 2:49
You've got to be out for a while. You've got some people that know they're injured. Stamboni. Yeah, that know that they have a hernia that's about to explode on the ground. Stamboni. Get that thing fixed, brother. And Tom Nutty, if you're out there, get that thing you showed me fixed also. It's worse than Joe's. It looks like Quatto from Total Recall.
SPEAKER 01 : 3:08
There was another one where I was in my younger years playing football. I broke my pinky. Didn't know it was broke, and I just kept tugging on it to see if it was just a jammed finger. I thought it was jammed.
SPEAKER 05 : 3:20
It's got to look like the, what do they call it? You ever seen the Denzel pinky? Is it the pinky or the index finger with Denzel Washington? It's all wonky. It goes like sideways. Dude, have you ever seen Denzel's hand? Joe, take a look at this. You ever seen Denzel's hand? Yeah, that's his hand. I don't know what he did to that finger, but it ain't right. It is all kind of... Speak something, I might have learned that from you. Denzel Washington's hand? What? That's real? That's his hand. it's just screwed up. If I'm Denzel Washington, one of the greatest American actors to ever live, who's probably got a couple bucks, I'd go crack that thing and reset it so I could start high-fiving people again. Yeah, I'd glue my hand to the inside of my pocket. Start wearing mittens or something. Let's talk to Chris on Line 1. Chris, thank you for holding.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:11
Morning, gentlemen.
SPEAKER 05 : 4:12
How are y'all? 20 years you've served. Thank you, bud.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:16
Yeah, no problem. You're very welcome. Very welcome. Yeah, so... Basically, 20 years in the military, still currently working. My body is basically in a complete state of disrepair. I did around seven years in the Marine Corps. I got out, joined the Maryland Army National Guard. I'm part of the flight crew with the Black Hawk unit out of here. And I'll tell you what, at 40 years old, 20 years in the military... Every morning, everything hurts. Oh, damn. What hurts the most? It's tough because, I mean, especially at 40 years old and being in the military, you want to be able to react and work with the younger generation. It's your back. It's your knees. It's every joint that you have, basically. My wife tells me I look like I'm 80 when I'm walking around in the morning.
SPEAKER 05 : 5:15
When you get up, you're just shambling on a bed. You said a black what division? So I'm with the Blackhawk unit out of Edgewood here in Maryland.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:23
Okay, sorry. Where did you do, like, God, it's probably 10 or 15 years ago. Did you land at the castle, the Raven's Castle, and take people up on flights? We did, yes. I was there. You took me for a flight. Thank you for that. It was amazing.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:39
So I was very new to the unit back then, but the same individuals are still in the organization. Hell yeah.
SPEAKER 05 : 5:47
Thank you very much, buddy. I appreciate you, Chris. Damn, my buddy Shane just texted in. He says, I broke my pinky years ago and just said F it and just let it sit. And now he's got this kind of crooked looking pinky. It's not Denzel bad. Yeah, you can tell it's been through something. Yeah, you got the big puffy knuckle. He still gives great hugs. And he is a fiend on the turntables.
SPEAKER 06 : 6:09
when I was younger, probably 13 or 14, was catching a football and caught it wrong and broke my hand right here. It was like right on a growth plate or something. It was like right here. I have like arthritis in my hand now. Anytime I have to like, if I'm using like a drill, I know it's like a Windex bottle or anything where I have to like do that, this hand gets so sore.
SPEAKER 05 : 6:32
Can I show you something weird that I think I might need to one day get worked on? When I would fall skating, I would just put my hands out. Here's your natural reaction. You're not going to take a face full of gravel. So you put your hands out. And I would skate and put my left hand out more. I think I chipped a bone in this hand right here that every now and then when I grab something, I get a shooting pain. You ever seen this? If I press down on the palm here, look at this little hunk of something that pops up.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:01
That's not natural.
SPEAKER 05 : 7:02
Yeah, because I do it on this hand. There's nothing. I do that there and it's hard and it hurts. I think that's a little floating piece of bone.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:10
Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 : 7:11
And it's been in my hand since I was like 17, just from falling in the small wood village shopping center, trying to learn heel flips, which I could never do. That devious son of a bitch. Let's go. Oh, this is real gross. Stacey, good morning.
SPEAKER 02 : 7:28
Good morning.
SPEAKER 05 : 7:29
Your daughter gets ingrown toenails.
SPEAKER 02 : 7:32
Yeah. That's painful. Those are horrible. She's 16 years old. She's had them since she's been little. But over the past couple years, she has taken care of them herself. But... When she does take care of them herself, rather than just taking care of the ingrown part, she ends up taking the entire nail off herself. Oh, my God. She's ripping off the whole nail. The whole nail.
SPEAKER 04 : 8:02
Why does it keep happening?
SPEAKER 02 : 8:05
Because we need to take her and get them stunted to where they actually do surgery and cut off on either side of the toenail and take acid to the bed.
SPEAKER 05 : 8:19
Oh, I've seen procedures for this, Stacey, where sometimes you almost even need to brace the nail by putting a small what looks like a toothpick underneath it to guide the growth of the nail over the meat. I've had the occasional, again, from skating, from stomping my foot, I would get the nail. It would dig into the meat. An ingrown toenail, I'm going to put same church, different pew, is a bad tooth. As far as something that looks small and is overwhelmingly agonizing.
SPEAKER 02 : 8:50
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It undid the procedure.
SPEAKER 05 : 9:11
Oh, no. Damn, because, yeah, she's got to kick a ball the entire time she's playing.
SPEAKER 04 : 9:15
It's got to destroy her feet. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 : 9:17
And thank you, Stacey. Good luck with your daughter's toes. Tommy and Kirk would hate her. I'm looking at ballerina feet. Oh, God. Dude. It looks like, what was it? Was it Japan or China where they used to bind feet for beauty? I'm looking at some of these women that are older, like in their 60s now, that were ballerinas in the 70s and 80s. Oh, my God. Their feet are destroyed. The tone, the amount of, oh, I got to close this window.
Read MoreRead Less
One this episode of Kirk and Marianne we talk about times we had to step in when we saw something that was just plane wrong. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne speak with our listeners about times we had to intervene in a situation. Not all superheroes wear capes, so where did we rock our capes to save the day? One way to find out. Hit play!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript We welcome back Valerie, who shares her recent ordeal.
00:00:00 Welcome Back, Val 00:00:10 Val’s Incident at the Event 00:00:37 The Aftermath of the Injury 00:02:02 Initial Reactions and Support 00:04:01 Hospital Visit and Diagnosis 00:06:07 Treatment and Recovery 00:08:29 The Impact on Summer Plans 00:10:06 Community Support and Reflections 00:12:13 Looking Forward to Recovery SPEAKER 04 : 0:00
Val, it is nice to have you back.
SPEAKER 06 : 0:03
Yes.
SPEAKER 04 : 0:05
For the reasons we have you back. We'll let you start.
SPEAKER 06 : 0:10
You're not allowed to use any of these photos against me. Okay, you're going to send us some? Because I'm going to send you some photos.
SPEAKER 03 : 0:15
I don't know if I want to see them.
SPEAKER 06 : 0:16
You may not. You may not want to see them.
SPEAKER 03 : 0:19
As Spiegel says, is it going to upset me? Yeah. I don't want to be upset, Val. I'm happy you look the way you look. Should I send them to all of you? Let me ask you this. Yeah, send them to all of us. Okay. Joe included. So you were at an event and you got injured. You got hit in the face.
SPEAKER 06 : 0:37
Yes. I mean, you took a softball to the face. That's what happened.
SPEAKER 03 : 0:42
You took a softball to the face. It was right. Take us.
SPEAKER 06 : 0:44
Let's start from that moment. So I fell backwards because it hit me right on the mouth. And so I fell backwards. I had a hat on. I put my glove over my face. I actually put my hand over my mouth, and I could tell right away that my teeth were out of place. So I wasn't panicking yet, but I knew that there was something obviously wrong. Pain scale?
SPEAKER 03 : 1:07
No, it wasn't painful.
SPEAKER 06 : 1:09
It wasn't painful at all.
SPEAKER 03 : 1:10
It was more like a throb.
SPEAKER 06 : 1:12
Right, probably. And I did feel later on some throbbing in my teeth.
SPEAKER 04 : 1:17
Were you able to tell by knowing your teeth were out of place with your tongue? My tongue. You immediately put your tongue up and you go, my tongue is touching my teeth in an incorrect position.
SPEAKER 06 : 1:26
Yeah. So I walked over to the dugout.
SPEAKER 03 : 1:30
Did anyone run out to you?
SPEAKER 06 : 1:31
I honestly don't know because I had my hat on.
SPEAKER 03 : 1:34
Laughter erupted.
SPEAKER 06 : 1:34
And I was looking down. And so then I just, I don't know who was around me. And I walked to the dugout. And I was really I was fine because I was just waiting for somebody to get me ice for my face. I was all bloody. So I couldn't tell what happened. Oh, my gosh.
SPEAKER 01 : 1:49
Yeah. Oh, no. Pictures.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:53
Were you knocked to the ground?
SPEAKER 06 : 1:54
Yeah, I was kind of like crouching. I had like my knee on the ground. So it kind of just fell back. I didn't like lay down on the ground.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:02
God.
SPEAKER 06 : 2:03
But that was like I washed my mouth out with water because it was all bloody. And so that's what it looked like right after.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:10
Not as bad as I thought it was going to be. It could have been worse. It could have been worse.
SPEAKER 06 : 2:14
But so it's like if I had my... I think I had my mouth open, and that's why it hit me right in the front lip, on my top lip.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:21
Oh, that's terrible. It looks like that one tooth took the brunt of it.
SPEAKER 06 : 2:25
Yeah, it really did.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:26
Looks like you got a blood tattoo on your wrist.
SPEAKER 06 : 2:28
Yeah, I know. Isn't it cute? My friend goes, oh, it looks like you have a little star on your wrist. Did you cry? So I really wasn't crying when it happened because I was panicking a little just because of what I thought I looked like. And then I'm sitting in the dugout and I'm getting some ice and I call my mom. And my mom's in Chicago for my cousin's bat mitzvah. So my whole family's in Chicago. Ha, ha, ha. So I tried to FaceTime her, and it wasn't coming through well enough. And then I just called her, and I go, Mom, I'm injured. I'm injured. My teeth, my teeth. And I sent her the photo. And she's a dental hygienist.
SPEAKER 01 : 3:03
Oh, okay. That's actually the perfect person to call, right?
SPEAKER 06 : 3:06
Discount. As soon as I called her, I started to lose it because I knew she was going to panic. And she goes, you have to get an ambulance. You have to call 911.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:15
Yeah, so what happened?
SPEAKER 06 : 3:16
So we were all we were very far away. So I was like, I'm going to just not leave my car here and drive myself to the hospital. So I drove myself 45 minutes to the hospital. Well, I'm actually exiting the stadium. You have to go through the. through the seats to get to the parking lot. So luckily an ER nurse stopped me in the stands and said, you can't go anywhere around here. You have to go downtown because they have a dental department there. And if you go to patient first anywhere, they're not going to touch you. Like they're not going to help you. So I drive myself downtown to the hospital. And then I realized that I should call the guy that I walk his dog. He's one of my neighbors. He's an ER doctor. So I called him and I was like, this is an emergency. At that hospital? I called him while I'm driving. Meanwhile, I'm driving with like one hand because I have one hand on my ice pack on my face.
SPEAKER 04 : 4:01
Does it hurt to speak?
SPEAKER 06 : 4:04
No, no. It didn't really sound different. Oh, well, before I even start driving, I'm in the car and I'm like, I have to call my sister. Maybe she can meet me at the hospital. I'm like... I'm like hyperventilating at this point.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:17
At any point did you get lightheaded and feel like you were going to pass out?
SPEAKER 06 : 4:20
No, it didn't hurt my head. Luckily, I didn't have a concussion.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:23
No, I was thinking like the adrenaline dump.
SPEAKER 06 : 4:26
No, I think I was like, I needed to be productive. I was absolutely just going. So I called my sister. And she was like, I'll meet you at the hospital. I'm already downtown. I called my best friend who's my dental hygienist. And she was at the beach. And I sent her the photo. And I was like, what do I need to do? And she called the dentist and got right back to me. And she was like, you need to have your teeth stabilized, all this stuff. And so then I call my friend who's the ER doctor and I said, I'm going downtown. What do you think I should do? And he goes, let me call my friends in triage and they're going to be expecting you. You just walk right in. And they called me back to take my blood pressure and put me in a bed. 20 minutes later, I was in a CT scan. Meanwhile, I've never been in a hospital bed in my life. I've never been to the ER for myself in my life.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:09
This is the first time you've ever been to an ER? For myself. For yourself? I've never been in a hospital bed. It's exciting. I highly recommend it.
SPEAKER 06 : 5:16
So it took 25 years. So my sister was there. Thank God. She was so, so helpful. And the CT scan said that I fractured my maxilla, which is the upper part of your jaw. What? So the impact of the ball horizontally.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:31
Right across like underneath your nose and your upper lip, like where a mustache would be. How much damage to the lip?
SPEAKER 06 : 5:38
It was rough.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:39
I was going to say, with that level of impact, did you split it?
SPEAKER 06 : 5:42
And I think the tooth probably cut it on the bottom, so it was bleeding inside.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:46
But no stitches in your lip or anything like that?
SPEAKER 06 : 5:48
No. Luckily, the doctor that I saw, she was like, if I put a stitch in it, it's going to make it bleed more. And then the inside of the mouth healed so quickly on its own that she was like, I think it's going to be fine. And luckily it was.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:59
Eyes, mouth in general. But you fractured the upper part of your jaw where your teeth like go into your upper teeth.
SPEAKER 06 : 6:07
Right.
SPEAKER 03 : 6:07
And is there anything they do for that or that just heals on its own?
SPEAKER 06 : 6:11
So what do you mean? Oh, the fracture will heal on its own. Yeah. From what I've heard.
SPEAKER 04 : 6:16
You can't put a cast on it. You just have to leave it there and have a lot of applesauce. What about eating, drinking?
SPEAKER 06 : 6:23
Yeah, so I was on a liquid diet for a couple of days.
SPEAKER 03 : 6:25
So what about the teeth, though? So your teeth are out of whack. I'm looking at the photos. Right. At what point did they put them back in place and secure them?
SPEAKER 06 : 6:33
When I was at the ER, I left there about 6 o'clock, and she was like, as long as you get somebody to put them back in place and stabilize them in 48 hours, then you'll be fine.
SPEAKER 04 : 6:43
So you've got 48 hours.
SPEAKER 06 : 6:44
So I'm in the ER.
SPEAKER 04 : 6:45
On the first 48 dental auditions. Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 : 6:47
I'm in the ER and I called this guy that I met last night who I went to his practice for orthodontia. I went to his partner. I call him up because I met him the night before at a bridal shower. I go, this is an emergency. What should I do? Who should I go to see? You know, my teeth are in really bad shape right now. And he called me back and he goes, I got you in with an oral surgeon tomorrow at 730. He's going to see you under emergency. I showed up. Luckily, my family flew in. Not my mom, but my aunts and uncles were there and they came to my apartment and helped me eat dinner, and then I went and slept at their house, and they took me to the doctor the next morning, and he literally pushed my teeth back into place.
SPEAKER 03 : 7:25
Just pushed, with what, just his thumb?
SPEAKER 06 : 7:27
Yep.
SPEAKER 03 : 7:28
What did that feel, did he numb you up?
SPEAKER 06 : 7:30
He numbed me up with Novocaine. I called my grandfather, who's a dentist, and he was like, can you push your own teeth back together? Wait, Pop? Poppy. Poppy's a dentist? I didn't know that! Can you hear it when he's doing it?
SPEAKER 03 : 7:41
Yeah, what did that feel like?
SPEAKER 06 : 7:42
No, no, it just feels like pressure, it doesn't, sound like anything, and so he numbed my whole top lip.
SPEAKER 03 : 7:46
When he first sees your teeth, though, what is the reaction?
SPEAKER 06 : 7:49
Well, I said, I go, have you seen this before?
SPEAKER 03 : 7:51
Right, because that's a huge moment. Yeah, if he looks at you and goes, oh my god!
SPEAKER 06 : 7:56
No, no, no. And he knew right away. When you're going in an emergency, this is before the office even opens. But he didn't flinch.
SPEAKER 03 : 8:02
He's like, I got you.
SPEAKER 06 : 8:03
No, he was like, I got you. Let's Novocaine this. He put them together, and I showed him the teeth from the night before. I went out in Canton the night before. It looked so beautiful. Showed him the photo. Perfect! and i was like my teeth looked like this last night can you please make them look like this again look i showed him like this photo i was like look how beautiful my perfect teeth yeah i was so sad because i was like my perfect teeth they looked so nice the night before and i was really just distraught because i had a wedding in five days that i was going to be in because we're
SPEAKER 04 : 8:29
I'm thinking also, too, you speak for a living. You're television ready. We've been going on and on for years. This is a stepping stone to eventually when NFL Network gets a load of you and go, oh, put her ass on the air. It's also you're a young woman at the beginning of summer. This is the best way to start the summer. Are you just thinking this is how I'm starting my summer? I should be going to the beach. I should be going to weddings. I should be going out with my friends. And now I'm having applesauce and broth. Yeah. For three weeks.
SPEAKER 06 : 8:55
I had like liquid yogurt. My sister made me some mashed potatoes. I ate like nothing for the first three days.
SPEAKER 03 : 9:00
I bet the bathroom was a situation. So he puts them back in place and it seems like they put some sort of wire to hold them in place.
SPEAKER 06 : 9:05
So I basically had like braces.
SPEAKER 03 : 9:06
And then from there, they just kind of reroute or they just kind of take holds back into where they were. What is the prognosis moving forward? What did he tell you?
SPEAKER 06 : 9:16
I may need a root canal. Which is really scary for me. On the one that was knocked out of whack. Yeah, that one. And he said the other ones may eventually because of the impact, but it could be months or years even until those start to die. So once your teeth start to discolor and lose sensation or get sensitive.
SPEAKER 04 : 9:34
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 : 9:35
then you know that your tooth is dying and you need a root canal.
SPEAKER 04 : 9:37
It turns gray.
SPEAKER 06 : 9:38
Yeah, it doesn't look good. So right now I just have a wire brace on them. I have wax on top of them. So it just doesn't look like my smile when I smile.
SPEAKER 04 : 9:45
You can't tell. You can't tell. When we came in, I mean, I definitely like looked over at you. They look great. Your teeth are just as straight and white as I remember. Outside of you, you're kind of doing a little bit of a dry suck on them this morning. Because you can feel something's different. It's just different, yeah. Other than that, if you didn't know anything happened to you, you wouldn't know anything happened to you.
SPEAKER 06 : 10:06
Thank God.
SPEAKER 03 : 10:07
Yeah, I'll say this. I'm happy to see the photos and it's not as bad as I thought it was going to be. And that's a good thing.
SPEAKER 06 : 10:16
It feels pretty bad.
SPEAKER 03 : 10:18
Yeah, no, for you it was bad. But I mean, like when you heard the reports like coming in as to like what happened to you, like we were all like, oh, my God.
SPEAKER 01 : 10:25
We heard possible concussions. Yeah, it could have been my head.
SPEAKER 03 : 10:29
I thought like your teeth were like knocked out. Luckily, they held in there pretty strong.
SPEAKER 06 : 10:34
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 : 10:34
Yeah, it seems like they were.
SPEAKER 06 : 10:37
But teeth are crazy because like they're right now I'm dealing with some sensitivity in them. So like anything that's cold is like they it hurts. So it's just because I stopped laughing.
SPEAKER 03 : 10:47
Yeah, Joe was nonstop. I wasn't much better. Did people check like who at work checked on you? Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER 06 : 10:54
My phone, as soon as it happened, my phone's blowing up from people at the event and then also just everywhere.
SPEAKER 03 : 11:00
Like in the subsequent days and weeks.
SPEAKER 06 : 11:02
Oh yeah. My phone was like constantly going off. Everybody, everybody checked in. Everybody did.
SPEAKER 03 : 11:06
Everybody in this room checked.
SPEAKER 06 : 11:07
Everybody in this room checked in.
SPEAKER 03 : 11:09
Yes.
SPEAKER 06 : 11:09
Checked in a lot. You followed up. It was very nice. And I heard from, I heard from Rick. He was great.
SPEAKER 03 : 11:14
Did Joe check in?
SPEAKER 06 : 11:15
Joe did check in. I talked to Joe twice, I think. I also forgot to respond to Joe the first time.
SPEAKER 03 : 11:20
Did anyone not check in you expected to? Did you want to name names?
SPEAKER 06 : 11:24
I'm not going to throw anybody under the bus. Why not?
SPEAKER 03 : 11:26
That's the fun part. What does their name begin and end with?
SPEAKER 04 : 11:31
Give us the first letter. There's nobody in this room.
SPEAKER 03 : 11:33
We are all, despite what some listeners might think, we're all very loving, caring people. You're one of ours. Yes, and we look after our own. But there's a son of a bitch in this office that didn't. Who was it? Who was it? Write down a name.
SPEAKER 06 : 11:46
I think it's unsuspecting.
SPEAKER 03 : 11:47
Write down a name. Oh, no way. It better not be the guy I'm thinking of. I'm writing a name down. It better not be the guy I'm thinking of.
SPEAKER 04 : 11:52
It wasn't this dude, was it? Let me see. Oh, really?
SPEAKER 03 : 11:58
Really?
SPEAKER 04 : 11:59
That's disappointing. That is disappointing. That is disappointing.
SPEAKER 06 : 12:02
Interesting.
SPEAKER 04 : 12:03
He's very busy.
SPEAKER 06 : 12:04
I can't wait to follow up with him today.
SPEAKER 04 : 12:06
He hasn't gone to bed since March. Well, we're glad you're back. Your teeth, lips, everything look fine. So where do we go from here?
SPEAKER 06 : 12:13
The wire will come off either this week or a couple weeks later.
SPEAKER 03 : 12:16
And then back to normal.
SPEAKER 06 : 12:18
Then I have to get a root canal and then maybe orthodontia.
SPEAKER 03 : 12:21
So the root canal is on lock. That's happening.
SPEAKER 06 : 12:23
Probably. When I saw him last week, he said that it is going to be terrible.
SPEAKER 03 : 12:29
I'm really not looking forward to it.
SPEAKER 06 : 12:30
My teeth are trash. I'll cry about it more.
SPEAKER 04 : 12:32
I've had a lot. I've had a couple, I think, and they're just, they suck. You know what sucks about them? You can smell it happening. Okay. Because they're grinding down into it to get rid of it. They'll numb you. It's more uncomfortable, but you smell the grind.
SPEAKER 03 : 12:43
You might want to go to that sedation dentistry.
SPEAKER 06 : 12:46
Oh, interesting. Just get numb. Just don't even be on this planet when it happens. Yeah, she told me to take something.
SPEAKER 03 : 12:52
Yeah, just do that. Yes, your teeth are straightened. Just like me. They got to bore a hole all the way into your tooth. And then they take these little files and they file out the nerve. Like they have to get all of the nerve out.
SPEAKER 06 : 13:03
And my bite's a little off right now.
SPEAKER 04 : 13:04
It just sucks. And they will numb it right. I've had, I want to guess, six root canals. Oh, my God. Five of them were fine.
SPEAKER 06 : 13:13
On your front teeth?
SPEAKER 04 : 13:14
One of them. All back. All back teeth.
SPEAKER 06 : 13:16
See, that's where they usually are. That's why I'm a little worried about this one in the front.
SPEAKER 04 : 13:19
I had one where they did not hit the numb right. And you felt that, son of a bitch. You felt that railroad spike go down into the meat.
SPEAKER 06 : 13:25
So when they take the wire off, we'll see if they numb me up for that.
SPEAKER 04 : 13:28
Welcome back.
Read MoreRead Less
Description Chapter Markers Transcript Join us on a flavorful journey as we dive deep into the world of condiments. Discover the magic number of sauces lurking in the average fridge and get swept away by the must's of mustard and the quirks of ketchup. From mayo preferences to the tangy excitement of a variety of hot sauces like Sriracha and Yucateco, this episode has enough zest to tantalize every taste bud!
00:00:00 Condiment Lines Open 00:01:35 Magic Number of Sauces 00:04:02 Mayonnaise Preferences 00:06:17 Exploring Hot Sauces 00:08:30 Yum Yum Sauce Discovery 00:12:52 Family Visit Recap SPEAKER 03 : 0:00
So I was out on Monday. This is an all-new break to me. So you may be hearing it for the first time. I'm going to be hearing it for the first time. We're opening up the condiment lines, apparently. I think maybe I'll find out coming up that this has something to do with the condiment races famously at Orioles Park, Camden Yards. You got mustard versus ketchup versus relish. I always pick mustard. And I think we're thinking about doing something August 8th at the yard. The Athletics taking on our Baltimore Orioles, getting a little revenge on what happened during that last season. I feel like our series, I feel like we should have won. And we're thinking about maybe doing some other condiment races like barbecue sauce versus ranch dressing versus tartar sauce, salsa versus nacho cheese versus guacamole. Let me recommend something to you that I absolutely freaking love. And this is a condiment that I've been putting on everything from rice to chicken to fish and Hell, if I could do little shots of this stuff while I watch the X-Files and get away with it, I probably would. Going to Trader Joe's and they've got stuff called soyaki sauce. It's half soy sauce, half teriyaki sauce. And in it, they have like diced up little bits of sesame seed and it freaking rocks. You got to give the bottle a little bit of a shake. But if you need like some Asian zip that isn't as intense as a soy sauce bottle, but it's more dippable than a teriyaki sauce. Can't stress it enough. As we open up the condiment lines, soy-aki sauce, Trader Joe's, white label, blue lettering, give it a shot. They opened up the condiment lines, I can't wait to hear, on Behind the Curtain.
SPEAKER 18 : 1:35
Seems like the magic number... Three? Is... Eight. Oh, okay. Eight. Yeah, I guess there was a study done. It says the average person has eight different kinds of sauces in their fridge. Those are rookie numbers. Some strange. Yeah, I'm a big dude. There's certain aisles in the grocery store that I feel like over the last however many years have just ballooned out of control. Yeah. And I mean that in a good way. Like the condiment aisle is it's it's insanity.
SPEAKER 16 : 2:08
Can I just tell you just the subgenre of each condiment? Wow. First of all, I think mustard was the first that really got on this thing. The honey. And I know I'm not a big listen. I like I like a regular yellow, yellow French's or knockoff. I'll buy the store brand, but I want it just to be yellow vinegary. occasionally I will get a brown spicy mustard, but I'm mad if I run out of regular mustard. You try to have a hot dog with like a brown spicy mustard, it's not the business.
SPEAKER 18 : 2:36
So you're going to hot dog, just standard yellow mustard, right? Then you got the spicy brown, then you got like the whole grain mustard, then you got the honey mustard. English mustard. Dijon mustard. Isn't there like, is Dijon, doesn't it have like white wine in it or something like that? Yeah, the mustards are all over the place. The ketchups, Weird ketchups are not for me. Yeah, I don't do weird ketchups.
SPEAKER 16 : 2:58
I dance to the regular ketchup. You've got to get standard Heinz ketchup. You start that fancy ketchup. You ever get fancy ketchup at a place called fancy ketchup?
SPEAKER 15 : 3:10
It's not fancy. It's actually the opposite of fancy. It's a downgraded ketchup.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:15
That's what it is. It's like generic, but they just call it fancy. And with the Heinz ketchup, do you keep it upside down? Yeah, yeah. See, and I do as well, but I'm always afraid it'll accidentally tip over.
SPEAKER 16 : 3:29
If I open the door too quickly, you don't get the you don't have the new ones, the squeeze bottle. I do flat like that.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:35
I do. But the you know, going as far as you when you you're moving up in the ketchup bottle, it does widen. So I am I do. My fear is still there. It is consistent.
SPEAKER 16 : 3:49
Now, the thing I do splurge on, I'll be honest with you, I like a variety of mayonnaises. Really? I'm a strong mayonnaise guy.
SPEAKER 18 : 3:57
All right, so let's go. First of all, they say eight, so you got ketchup, right? Everyone got ketchup. We all have mustard.
SPEAKER 04 : 4:02
We all got mustard. I don't have mustard.
SPEAKER 18 : 4:04
You don't have mustard?
SPEAKER 04 : 4:05
You're not a mustard guy? I am. The honey mustard must. I just, for some reason, I keep forgetting to buy it. And the mayo, I saw a commercial last night for mayo with turkey, and now I want it. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 18 : 4:16
Turkey, too. A turkey sandwich with mayo and salt and pepper is like heaven on earth.
SPEAKER 16 : 4:21
I love mayo on almost any sandwich outside of a hot dog. But for burgers, it's mayo with a little bit of mustard for me. No ketchup on a burger? I don't do ketchup on a burger. What? I don't do ketchup on a burger.
SPEAKER 18 : 4:33
I don't eat it. All right. See, I'm going ketchup, mustard, mayo. I'm going to go BBQ, right? Let's not get nice for mayo.
SPEAKER 16 : 4:40
What kind of mayo do you do?
SPEAKER 18 : 4:42
Well, it's so funny you say that because my whole life I was a Hellman's guy and then Dukes did something. Dukes brainwashed me somehow. Dukes brainwashed me. I was like, you know what? Top notch. I go, let me try Dukes. And then all of a sudden, next thing I know, I'm a Dukes household and not a Hellman's household anymore.
SPEAKER 16 : 4:59
I had to break my household. My old lady, she was a miracle whip person.
SPEAKER 15 : 5:04
But that's not even mayo. That's what I said. This isn't mayonnaise.
SPEAKER 16 : 5:08
This is not mayonnaise. It's not.
SPEAKER 18 : 5:10
This is not mayonnaise. It's got like an extra tang to it.
SPEAKER 05 : 5:13
Yeah, it's not good.
SPEAKER 18 : 5:14
Sometimes the tang can be too much. The Kewpie mayo. What? Kewpie mayo. You had this? No. What the hell are you talking about, bro? Yeah, 410-338-1098. Give us a call. She used to text you. You're a big condiment household. How many do you have? And what's the weird outline?
SPEAKER 05 : 5:29
Like, what is Kewpie mayo? So I think it's like an Asian-based mayo. It doesn't have. It's just regular mayonnaise, but they put a little bit of MSG in it. It tastes just like mayo, but with a hint of MSG.
SPEAKER 18 : 5:41
By the way, MSG is not the devil you think it is.
SPEAKER 16 : 5:44
I like the Duke's pickle mayonnaise.
SPEAKER 18 : 5:47
Yes, I was going to say, so you have different mayos that you like.
SPEAKER 16 : 5:52
Yes, I like a variety of mayos when possible. Duke's Standard is what I love. But then a Duke's pickle mayo? They do have pickle mayo. where it's got a little bit of salty dill in there with it. It's very nice. Dare I say, sometimes I just want to take it out and have a little baby carrot in there, dip it in there, get it right out the dukes. What about Frank's Red Hot? I love a Frank's Red Hot. Now, hot sauces, I got a lot of hot sauces. You do.
SPEAKER 18 : 6:17
I've come to the realization that I just do not like hot sauces. I think I do, but I don't. Like, I watched that show, that Hot Ones with the hot wings, and they got all those fancy, like, hot sauces, and they all have different flavors. Like, not a big hot sauce guy. I'm just like, I like Frank's. It provides a nice little tang. But that's, like, as far as I'll go. I don't really need anything other than that.
SPEAKER 16 : 6:37
Here's my jam right here. This is the one. Sriracha, of course.
SPEAKER 05 : 6:40
Sriracha's good.
SPEAKER 16 : 6:41
This right here, the El Yateko. Yucateco? This is my jam. That's my good green sauce. Yeah, that bright green one.
SPEAKER 18 : 6:48
It looks like... Yeah, yeah. They have that at all the taco joints.
SPEAKER 16 : 6:50
That is... Now, is that hot?
SPEAKER 18 : 6:52
What is that made out of? Habanero?
SPEAKER 16 : 6:53
That's a habanero hot. It is. And I don't go hotter than habanero hot. That's where I like to be. Stop at habanero. Stop there. I'm not... Don't give me – if you bring like ghost pepper and stuff, have I done it? Yeah, but it's not pleasant.
SPEAKER 18 : 7:05
When it gets to the point where you can't enjoy the food, you're like, what is even the point?
SPEAKER 16 : 7:08
Yes. I don't get it. What you got, Will?
SPEAKER 07 : 7:11
Have you guys had the – a caller called in. He unfortunately dropped off. Have you had the Old Bay hot sauce?
SPEAKER 16 : 7:16
Yeah, it's okay. I find it a little bit salty. It's too salty, but it's not bad.
SPEAKER 18 : 7:22
What about – are we including salad dressings in this?
SPEAKER 04 : 7:27
Oh, I like Russian dressing.
SPEAKER 16 : 7:30
Ranch dressing. My other go-to hot sauce before we get off hot sauce. Oh, please. You said Frank's Red Hot. It's okay. But if you're asking me for that level of hot sauces, I like Crystal's. Crystal's hot sauce is the best.
SPEAKER 18 : 7:42
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a little Louisiana.
SPEAKER 16 : 7:44
Get a little Louisiana. Get some slang up in you.
SPEAKER 18 : 7:48
Line one, we have Sam. Sam has bringing one to the table. Yum Yum Sauce? That's right. Yum, yum, baby.
SPEAKER 16 : 7:56
What the heck is yum, yum sauce? That's what they put on, like, the hibachi grill. That's that, like, yellow stuff.
SPEAKER 01 : 8:01
Yeah, yeah. It's in the Asian aisle. But, yeah, it's good on fried rice and anything. Chicken nuggets is the bomb.
SPEAKER 16 : 8:07
I want to believe that yum, yum sauce comes from, like, they milk something that we don't know. Like an animal. Like a platypus milk. It's just yum, yum.
SPEAKER 05 : 8:16
It's like a mix of platypus milk. Yum, yum.
SPEAKER 1 : 8:17
Exactly.
SPEAKER 05 : 8:18
It's a mix of what?
SPEAKER 18 : 8:19
It looks kind of like mayo-y, but what is the flavor profile?
SPEAKER 05 : 8:24
I think it's like mayo with a hit of sriracha in it, and they just mix it up. Oh, is it a spicy mayo, basically? I mean, a little bit, yeah.
SPEAKER 16 : 8:30
I've never gotten the actual yum-yum sauce, but I have made a close substitute. We make rice at the house. What I'll do, we got the Chick-fil-A sauce, like the actual store-bought Chick-fil-A sauce. Don't look at the calories on that thing, Gord. Oh, no, no, no. But if you have white rice and you just do a squirt of it, it's very similar to a yum-yum sauce. Yeah, yeah. The profiles are real close.
SPEAKER 18 : 8:53
I do this one. It's in the Mexican aisle, like over by the Mexican Foods. It is the Old El Paso Creamy Salsa Verde Sauce. Have you had that? Oh, dude, a little green, creamy salsa verde sauce, and it's like a little bit of spice to it, but a nice creamy coolness to it. Oh, dude, that's the best.
SPEAKER 16 : 9:13
I'm getting personal texts about sauces right now. Well, give me some sauces. This is shout-out Jeff. I work with Jeff. What's up, Jeff? What's Jeff working with? Jeff, he said, don't forget about them Kinder sauces, teriyaki and Japanese barbecue affair.
SPEAKER 18 : 9:26
I do the Kinder Rubs. I do the Kinder Rubs a lot. I haven't done the sauces. Oh, yeah, we haven't even gone down. Like the barbecue sauce? Oh, my God. Like Sweet Baby Rage.
SPEAKER 01 : 9:35
Yeah, that's the one.
SPEAKER 18 : 9:35
You got the Kinder ones. I started doing the sugar-free ones that's got the guy's face on it. I can't remember his name. Stubbs? No, not Stubbs, not Newman. It's like LL George or something like that, but there's sugar. Oh, dude, barbecue? Oh, hell yeah. Trader Joe's is where you're going to get it. I hear Trader Joe's has got a lot of good sauces.
SPEAKER 16 : 9:55
There's a teriyaki one that comes in like a little squirt bottle, and man, you make a little stir fry in the pan, you know, and then hit it with that at the end. I like to throw in the teriyaki meatballs in there. You heat them up, a little bit of rice, and then throw that teriyak on it.
SPEAKER 09 : 10:10
Oh!
SPEAKER 18 : 10:11
Good stuff. Dude, you're getting me going right now. Let's go to Lair Bear line two, and then we'll jump here. Lair Bear, what are you bringing? Ranch to the table?
SPEAKER 17 : 10:20
It's a Cheez-It flavored ranch. I'd never seen it before. I was up in Sandusky, Ohio last summer, and I saw it at a grocery store, and I was like, ah, I bet my kid will like this.
SPEAKER 18 : 10:30
Wait, so it's ranch dressing, but it's Cheez-It flavored ranch dressing? Look at this. Yeah. Oh, my God. Oh, my gosh. I'm not a big ranch guy, but my kid loves it. Oh, my God. Well, I love Cheez-Its. Cheez-Its are the greatest snack on the planet. Ranch, I could take it or leave it. You know what I mean? I'm fine dipping a carrot in here every now and then, but I'm not a huge ranch guy. I'm blue cheese. I would be a blue cheese guy if I needed something. Oh, I got horseradish. You got a little horseradish in your fridge?
SPEAKER 16 : 11:00
I love horseradish. Nobody else in my life likes horseradish.
SPEAKER 18 : 11:03
It's good to, like you said, maybe mix it with a little mayo, make like a tiger sauce.
SPEAKER 16 : 11:07
I love a good tiger sauce, man. Shout-outs Smokey's, my favorite spot up in Eldersburg.
SPEAKER 18 : 11:13
So, yeah, this all comes from a study that says eight different kinds of sauces is the average in the fridge. French fries with tartar sauce, pickles and buffalo sauce, ramen noodles with ranch, some weird combos. Buffalo sauce and peanut butter apparently is a thing. macaroni with Worcestershire sauce, honey mustard with pita bread. I mean, why the hell not?
SPEAKER 16 : 11:36
Yeah, that sounds pretty good.
SPEAKER 18 : 11:38
There you go. That's your Sauce Talk.
SPEAKER 03 : 11:40
The Reardons are in town, Ron and Rita. Now, I was off on Monday. I was dealing with some stuff around the house. And thank you for all the patience you, friend of the show, have extended me in being off occasionally this spring and the summer. Clearly, I was dealing with a flood thing. I take a couple of days here and there trying to get the house rebuilt. So, I was out. And I hate it when I'm out on days like this because our fill-ins, Joe, Rob, Eric, Tommy, they get these great Ron and Rita stories. And I get it. Everybody's parents kind of get on your nerves the way my dad gets on my nerves and Josh's family probably gets on his nerves. And occasionally Ron and Rita might get on Scott's nerves. But I love these two so much, especially Ron's stories. They used to call him the horse and then Rita's cooking and the way she loves her granddaughter and the tales of like. Growing up in New York and coming over from the old country, these are the days that when I find out how the show went after I was out, I get bummed out that I missed. So this is going to be my first time hearing it. I love stories about Scott's parents coming to town. It's always a great time. There's always good stories to tell. And may you have a Ron and Rita Reardon in your life. Coming up, Scott's parents are in town on Behind the Curtain.
SPEAKER 18 : 12:56
My parents are in town. They're going to be in town for a week. They got here on Friday, picked them up from the airport. We went to dinner, went to Charlie's on Sioux Creek. You ever go to one of them creek bars? A couple of little ones there.
SPEAKER 16 : 13:12
There's one over... Tucked away in a creek? I like a little creek bar, but I can't say I've been to Charlie's before. It was very nice.
SPEAKER 18 : 13:19
Shout out to Charlie's. Thank you for everything. I don't think they even knew, you know, not like I'm anybody, but the service was good. The food was good. The place is really cool. I hope I'm not blowing up the spot too much. And I'll tell you what, from my house, what, maybe like 15, 20 minutes, I might be popping out there from time to time, especially over the summer. Go down a little creek. What do they got at Charlie's? What did you get? I got a shrimp skewer bowl. It had some tzatziki, some tomatoes, some red onions, some pita bread. It was nice. We got an onion ring tower, crab pretzel, honey old bay wings. Okay. Sounds like a real comfort food kind of place. There was chicken parm on the menu. I saw that. There was a salmon on the menu. My dad got the burger. There were fish tacos. Okay. It was good. It's got a nice, cool little outside bar. The outside's really cool. It's on Sioux Creek.
SPEAKER 16 : 14:13
They do a patty melt. I'm always on the lookout for a good patty melt.
SPEAKER 18 : 14:17
You like a patty melt?
SPEAKER 16 : 14:19
Yeah, it's cheeseburger meets a grilled cheese, man. I love it.
SPEAKER 18 : 14:22
Cheeseburger meets a grilled cheese.
SPEAKER 16 : 14:24
Yeah, it's just make a grilled cheese and put a... Mushrooms? I like it with a little mushroom on there. If it's offered, I'll take it. But good patty melt. Who knows where the best patty melt is in town? That's what I want to know.
SPEAKER 18 : 14:35
So are you guys – let me ask you this. Do you like surprises? I love surprises. You do? I do like surprises. You like being surprised. Josh, do you like being surprised? I don't like surprises. Because I walk – here's what happened. I made a reservation for Charlie's. And I made it for four people, me, my daughter, my mother, my father. We're going to go out to Sioux Creek, and you've got to do it online, right? I did like that open table thing, and then all of a sudden I get an email saying that your reservation has been changed, and it now is for eight people. And I'm like, what is going on? I go, this is weird. I couldn't really put two and two together. I'm like, something's going on. And now looking back, right, obviously hindsight is 20-20. But I walk into the place, and I go to the thing, and the woman's like, I can't find your reservation, whatever, blah, blah, blah. And they go, oh, just follow this hostess. She'll take you to the table. And I walk in, and I turn the corner, and my brother is sitting there. Oh, that's nice. That's a good surprise, though, right? And my sister-in-law, his wife, is sitting there. And I'm like, oh, whoa, hey. And then it's like a good surprise. It was a very good surprise. But also I'm like, man, I don't know. I was kind of like caught off guard.
SPEAKER 15 : 15:47
Yeah.
SPEAKER 18 : 15:48
But I was like happy to see him. I liked it. I was like happy to see him. But I don't know. I don't know if I – I'm just trying to figure out if I like surprises.
SPEAKER 16 : 15:55
I will say if like I went to a lunch and my brother showed up, I'm like, you're alive? This is nuts. My brother is alive.
SPEAKER 18 : 16:03
He didn't come back from the dead, but he does live in North Carolina. I guess they were doing like an east coast. They were going up and down the east coast. He's trying to hit all 50 state capitals. That's like his thing.
SPEAKER 16 : 16:13
Oh, OK.
SPEAKER 18 : 16:14
So I think he just banged off like Vermont, Connecticut. He was in Albany. Montepelier. Oh, nice. That's Vermont. How'd you know that? I know a couple of them.
SPEAKER 16 : 16:25
I used to remember the song by the Animaniacs that would do all of it. And it's the only way if I remember it.
SPEAKER 18 : 16:31
But it was great to see him, and then my mom goes, well, there's two more people coming. I go, all right, it's going to be my niece and her husband. So then they showed up. So it was me, my mother, my father, my daughter, my brother, his wife, my niece, and her husband. And it was fun. It was great. It was great to see him, and it was a nice weekend. But I just – I wasn't expecting – I think I need to like mentally prepare. I know, Spigs, you're a big – like you want to mentally prepare yourself. You want to know what is in store, and I think I'm a little bit like that because – I like structure. Yeah, and I was fine. So Saturday and Sunday, we were all just at my house hanging out. My niece is the coolest person on the planet. She's so great. She's so sweet. Her and her husband, they load up their car. They love to go camping and road tripping. And part of that is they always have a ton of games in their car. car so they bring in like rummy cube they bring in yahtzee they bring in all these board games and my daughter like she loves them so much like the whole weekend we're playing games we're just cooking we're eating it was great it was great but i just can't i think i'm not like a big surprise guy that's all
SPEAKER 16 : 17:36
I like my surprises. There's only one day of the week I don't like a surprise. I like to have my Sundays pretty freed up. I don't like a surprise on Sunday. On Sunday, I like to have very structured, do as little as possible for the most part.
SPEAKER 18 : 17:51
So they're all gone now. My parents are still here. My parents are here until Friday, but my brother and his wife are gone. My niece and her husband, they're gone. But it was. It was cool. It was cool to have them.
SPEAKER 16 : 18:02
You're taking them anywhere cool this week.
SPEAKER 18 : 18:05
We're going to Park of the Park on Wednesday. Tonight, my daughter, we could potentially go to volleyball, which we'll see. Maybe she'll like to do that in front of them. They can go watch her play volleyball. But yeah, other than that, I don't. And then I'm off Thursday and Friday. So I don't know. But they're going to be – I guess I do have to entertain them. But they're getting – they don't really like to – they also don't like to do much. You know what I mean? Yeah, and they're – that's okay. I like a good chill. Yeah, they just want to chill. My dad likes to – my dad's kind of like – he likes to go down into the basement. That's their little space. They have their bed down there. They have their bathroom, the TV. And he just kind of goes down there and puts on like Turner Classic movies or whatever, that AMC.
SPEAKER 16 : 18:47
AMC.
SPEAKER 18 : 18:48
AMC. watching vertigo down there oh he loves black away anytime you look it's always black and white and i'm just like let him be down here i don't care you've been filling the bird feeder speaks they're loving the birds feeders i think i got like five or six bird feeders now okay do you have the little camera bird feeder yet don't have the camera one so i got i got the old lady the camera bird feeder let me tell you she's she's bird crazy she is she oh we got we got a red-breasted woodpecker that came today
SPEAKER 16 : 19:14
I get videos all the time of what's in there. Got a couple raccoons. Hey, now, have you gotten the special seed that the critters don't eat? The hot seed? Yeah, the hot seed. Does that work?
SPEAKER 18 : 19:26
It does, but birds don't have taste buds. But I heard it's not good for the birds' intestinal.
SPEAKER 16 : 19:33
Really? Interesting. Well, here's the thing. We would get it in the little camera. We'd just get a squirrel's... ass for like 30 minutes or just park there and eat all the seed but now he'll take like a couple bites he doesn't like it he doesn't do it it does work i tried some of it by the way i tried some of it it's it's a kind of hot i thought i was like i can handle spicy no oh no this is like mace quality like it's like ah it's straight up caspian extract squirrel's ass really tight that's what i heard
SPEAKER 18 : 20:06
My niece actually described herself as a birder. She's like, I'm a full-on birder now. I think she has the app where you can identify all the birds that you've seen. She's got an app. She's collecting all these birds. She's got binoculars now.
SPEAKER 16 : 20:22
She's deep in the game. Well, we're deep in the bird game at the Woodworth household. I'm trying to break to the next level. I want to make crow friends. You ever seen it with crows?
SPEAKER 18 : 20:30
Crows are very intelligent.
SPEAKER 16 : 20:31
Yeah, they can solve puzzles. They can bring you money, too. Bring you stuff. They'll bring you gifts, too. They will bring you gifts.
SPEAKER 04 : 20:38
Like shiny objects.
SPEAKER 16 : 20:40
Yeah, or if you give them more food, if they bring you a dollar, they'll start finding money for you and just bring it. I'm trying to get crow thieves, and I'm trying to retire off crow money. That's where I want to get.
SPEAKER 18 : 20:51
And just have crows bring you stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to be the Baron of Crows. Oh, we had a, what is it? A golden finch? A yellow finch? We had something. Whatever those are called. I can't ever get over it.
SPEAKER 01 : 21:00
Oh, here's the other thing.
SPEAKER 18 : 21:02
My niece kept going on about the tufted titmouse. Oh, tufted titmouse. She's going on and on about it. And she's like, you know, she's saying that's her favorite bird. And they got this little like gray tuft on the top of their head. These little black beady eyes. And she loves them. She loves them. So we're all talking about these tufted titmouses. And then I get an Instagram ad. About tufted tooth houses? About a shirt that says, hey, nice blank. Oh. And it has all the different species of the tufted tooth houses.
SPEAKER 03 : 21:31
Yeah, there's all different ones.
SPEAKER 18 : 21:32
It's like a yellow one, a royal one. And I was like, they're listening to our conversation. And it was a hilarious shirt. It said, hey, nice blank. And it was all the pictures of the little birds.
SPEAKER 03 : 21:42
I think you should get it. I want to know, since we did this break, and I mean it, what does Johnson & Johnson think about their baby oil product being in the news for the absolute worst reason possible? Johnson & Johnson baby oil isn't in the news because some preteen found a fire in their... living room and took a bucket worth of the stuff and put it out i'm not even sure if you could do that or maybe someone whose head was stuck in the banister of some staircase just so happened to have a small three ounce allowed on a plane travel size container and greased up their neck and was able to pop their head out from between the wooden beams and they were able to get back to their baby in time who'd been crying in the other room No, the reason Johnson & Johnson baby oil has been in the news is because of sick-ass Diddy, who's been using it at all of his weird freak-off parties, and now it's coming up in court all the time. And it occurred to us, none of us have ever actually messed around with baby oil. So, in the true crass JSS nature, we brought in some, and we smelled it, and we rubbed it on one another, and our co-workers hated it, and the entire family. freaking studio became slick. Fun fact behind the curtain on behind the curtain, Joe Stamboni told us a little later on that day, or maybe it was the next morning that he had so much baby oil on his freaking hands. He had trouble driving his car. His big hands were slick to the wheel and he had trouble steering his vehicle to and from where he had to go. Wouldn't that have been hilarious, except more tragic than anything else, if he happened to crash that car into a guardrail at 45 miles per hour because his hands were too slick to grip the wheel at 10 and 2. Baby oil's been in the news, so we brought some in and had a blast with it on Behind the Curtain. We got some baby oil. Do you use it as a part of your regular routine outside of being a baby?
SPEAKER 18 : 23:33
Let me check the text here. Give me one second. Where are they? A lot of people checking in. I guess you could use it for makeup remover. Like you can remove. A lot of people are saying. What's the other stuff? Meisler water.
SPEAKER 03 : 23:47
Yes, that's what my daughter uses. Where is it? Whenever I paint my face for some silly event, I always go through about half a pint of Meisler water.
SPEAKER 18 : 23:58
I use Baby Oil to clean my hands after working on my car. It's more effective at removing grease and oil than dish soap.
SPEAKER 03 : 24:05
Oh, dude, remember Oil of Olay, Skin So Soft? Yeah. My mom, I'm not sure if they had free golf parties in my neighborhood, but she went through about a gallon of that crap a month. And I think there was even like infomercials for it.
SPEAKER 18 : 24:21
I used to date a girl that would have me rub baby oil on her after her showers. Led to sexy time every time. Side note, tomorrow is my birthday. That is Gary Ghost. Dude, you're the goat in my book, bro.
SPEAKER 01 : 24:36
Way to go, buddy.
SPEAKER 18 : 24:37
Rubbing down that chick with baby oil and then having sex.
SPEAKER 03 : 24:41
Now, you might have said this already, Scott. Does this break down sex? condoms oh that i don't know because i know you can only use like water-based yeah no no this is like i believe this is like petroleum-based this is probably not good for condoms well i'll tell you this much it doesn't break down condoms if you don't use condoms brother ain't no condom to break down if they went anywhere in there Uh-huh. What'd you say there, ODB? Ooh, baby, I like it what? 410-338-1098. On Mondays is when they show WWE Raw. 410-338-1098. Do you use this?
SPEAKER 18 : 25:20
Try Neutrogena bath oil. No one will know you just came from a freak-off. Yeah, I guess you won't smell like a baby with different brands.
SPEAKER 03 : 25:28
Do you know that I had just left the bathroom as a kid? Your eyes would burn, as would mine, from the amount of Noxzema Classic Clean. The blue tub. That blue tub of goop.
SPEAKER 18 : 25:42
That was almost like burned. It was kind of weird, like menthol-y. Oh, yeah, dude. That was so good.
SPEAKER 03 : 25:48
It just took off layers of skin. I'm pretty sure it actually bleached your skin at one point. It was a whitening gel.
SPEAKER 18 : 25:54
My friend makes organic skincare products. The body oil is wonderful. Different scents, and you don't smell like a baby.
SPEAKER 14 : 26:01
Whip it up a fresh batch.
SPEAKER 18 : 26:03
As an adult woman, I use this after the shower. I love how it helped my dry skin. Over time, I stopped buying it, and now I have a baby of my own. Give me a second. Order 64 coming. Never put it on my baby. Yeah, I don't think I ever put it on Stella. I don't think we ever used baby oil.
SPEAKER 03 : 26:23
No, we... Oh, dude. I remember, and I love them. I'm going to make sure I'm saying this right. Desitin. Desitin cream that when we were having Ev and we were getting gifts from people, my dad brought over a tube of desitin for diaper rash. Diaper rash. And just in front of everyone, he was like, yeah, duh. Also works great on your crotch. I've used it.
SPEAKER 18 : 26:53
Trust me.
SPEAKER 03 : 26:53
Yeah.
SPEAKER 18 : 26:54
He just proclaimed it. Oh, man. I could have researched that on my own. Back in the day, my mom used to use baby oil to get a tan. Move up and sit in the sun. Hell yeah, dude. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I use it every night to remove mascara and now in the shower to combat dry skin. I think we need to get on the train. All right, poppy.
SPEAKER 03 : 27:17
Can't get through the day without looking at Josh Spiegel and whacking the wiener. I don't know if I ever used this during 1230 time, although I did get a message about this Vaseline Coco Radiant Vitalizing Body Oil. Okay. And apparently it's coming, that we might need to bring this in. Joe, tomorrow Vaseline. Okay. Wednesday, I'll get a hold of the Vaseline. Tomorrow, actual Vaseline. Right. Old school, blue lid, during yellow tub. Yep. There's always two finger swipes missing. A pube. A lawn darted in there. Yep. There's a pube, like someone staked that land for Spain. And what did my buddy John Mooney used to say? He's like, you don't leave... the trench you scoop and then you putty you smooth it over you smooth it over you scoop and then you putty hell yeah and i'll find some of this cocoa butter on uh on wednesday oh dude i'm getting some dr teal's body oil today i am pumped up yeah i wonder how much the difference is between actual i mean we're gonna have to do an experiment uh between just like uh
SPEAKER 05 : 28:33
Regular moisturizer after the shower and body oil.
SPEAKER 03 : 28:38
I want you to try and do pull-ups with these. I want you to get a handful of baby oil and go for a pull-up.
SPEAKER 05 : 28:43
I can barely type on this keyboard right now.
SPEAKER 03 : 28:45
Okay, hand me the baby oil again. John, I'm going to have you do something for me. Where's the baby oil?
SPEAKER 05 : 28:48
Scott's got the baby oil over there.
SPEAKER 03 : 28:49
Oh, it smells like a baby. Okay, here. I'm giving this to you, Joe. Okay. There you go. I want you to hit my elbows. Okay. And I want you to hit my ellies. Uh-huh. There you go.
SPEAKER 18 : 29:01
I'm getting Dr. Teal's. I made the decision.
SPEAKER 03 : 29:04
Don't use too much. Oh, it's so much.
SPEAKER 18 : 29:06
Oh, dude, you're going to lube up them elbows.
SPEAKER 03 : 29:09
Get the elbows. Yeah, the elbows always get dry. Yeah, they needed it.
SPEAKER 18 : 29:13
They needed it. Oh, he's going to re-click a baby. He's got to spread it out.
SPEAKER 03 : 29:21
He put too much.
SPEAKER 18 : 29:21
You got to spread it out.
SPEAKER 03 : 29:22
Ew, dude. Ew. You don't need to go on my wrist like that. Keep going. Oh, that's kind of nice. All right. Keep going. I'm getting close. There we go. All right.
SPEAKER 18 : 29:31
Look at him triceps. Thank you. It was rock solid.
SPEAKER 03 : 29:34
It was so creamy. It was good though, right? Give me one of those paper towels.
SPEAKER 18 : 29:39
I know. It's like I want to hate it, but I kind of love and hate it. Baby oil.
SPEAKER 03 : 29:43
Yeah, that's the thing, too, is that women have the skin care regimen at the end of the night. Still one of my favorite meme questions of all time. You travel overseas. There you are in some sketchy part of town in a foreign nation. Your husband gets kidnapped. Oh my God, what do I do? The police spend all day looking for him. Eventually the sun sets. You don't know what to do. He has been human kidnapped traffic. When the police say we'll continue our search in the morning and they drive you back to your hotel in their police squad car, you go back up to your room. Do you do your skincare routine? Probably not. I would imagine not. You probably go, you know what? Herbert's being chopped up for parts right now. I'm probably not going to put on my Korean skin mask. Those are one of the ones that freak me out. How about that for Friday? Tomorrow, Vaseline. Thursday, we'll do the cocoa butter cream. And I know I have some. I've got some of those freaky looking... Eye, mouth, nose, hole, Hannibal Lecter skincare masks. We'll drape those things across us. I brought a bunch back from Japan to give to the stepdaughter. I don't think she was interested in them. So they're just kind of sitting on a shelf right now gathering dust. We'll just drape those over ourselves.
SPEAKER 18 : 30:55
Somebody says you can buy a 55-gallon drum of baby oil for $1,600 on Amazon. What? 55-gallon drum. If you get it with magnesium, the magnesium body oil is good for the skin, and the magnesium is good for inflammation in your joints and has no smell. Maybe you want a little bit of smell. Dude, they ain't kidding. Yeah, baby oil, great tan. My mother, my grandmother would hit me with some skin so soft as a child to keep the bugs away. That's right. Okay, it's generic. Jojoba is how that's pronounced. Jojoba.
SPEAKER 03 : 31:26
They don't call it Johnson & Johnson baby oil, but it is exactly this. White mineral oil, vitamin E grade. It is in a gigantic 55-gallon drum. Yeah.
SPEAKER 1 : 31:40
$1,700.
SPEAKER 03 : 31:40
Oh, my God. Are you looking at the same one?
SPEAKER 05 : 31:43
I'm looking. It's called Passion Oil. Okay, now that I'm not looking at.
SPEAKER 03 : 31:46
This is 100% made for... Okay, hold on. Yours... It's called Passion? Yeah. 55 gallons.
SPEAKER 18 : 31:55
What's the stuff in the Neuru massages that are on... Neuru massages with the sticky stuff that looks like it's like booger?
SPEAKER 03 : 32:03
What is Neuru? Yes. That stuff...
SPEAKER 18 : 32:05
i've watched a few of those videos me go when they just start grinding bodies on each other god those new room massages and there's always like a blow-up mattress and they shower beforehand and then they like shower afterwards and then like the naked bodies are rubbing all over each other with this new stuff and it's always in a bowl and they scoop it with their hands and it's like goopy but then slippery yeah i want that same
SPEAKER 03 : 32:32
I went to our neighborhood strawberry festival over the weekend. Oh, now what does that entail? Strawberries and whites. They had an area where they had a local body wellness center set up those like table massage or chair massages. And I got in one. Of course I did. I'm like, yes. All right. I'm not just like, don't. I'm like, I'm getting in the thing. Topher, if you're out there, you and I were sitting side by side, brother. The lady, she started doing this joke. Come here. I swear to God, I thought of the new room massage while this was happening. Sit in your chair, but straddle it. Face away. Yep, that's it. So straddle your chair. Yeah, like that, bro. Yes, okay. So like this. But instead of rubbing me hand, which she did, she started the massage by doing this. Oh, putting her body on your body. Body on body. I mean, just doing all this in the middle of a strawberry festival. Now, what I did just now was trick you to get that oil off me. So we think we've settled on what we're going to do with Evan this summer, which is a topic we discuss coming up. It's all about summer camp. And I went to a summer camp as a kid. I went to an overnight one that actually stayed at way too old. I went to a Woodward skate camp. I talked about that coming up. Josh went to an overnight camp. He's got a lot of great stories. And by great, I mean tragic, horrible Josh Spiegel childhood memories from it. And my own boy, Uh, we have him for the summer and I work full time. His mom works full time. So we're thinking about sending him to a day camp for a bit. And there's everything from sailing camps, baseball camps, theater camps, YMCA's boys and girls club. There's all kinds of fun stuff out there we could do. And we think we have settled on one and he's going to follow in his father's thespian footsteps. And we're going to probably send them to this very cool Annapolis children's theater, uh, summertime day camp and at the end of the thing he's going to act clearly there will be all kinds of agents and talent scouts there we're going to send him to hollywood i'm going to be able to quit my job he'll start some sort of youtube channel eventually become a child star get three to four seasons of a hit television show either on lifetime tlc who knows maybe even nbc abc or fox eventually he'll quit the show want to get into hip-hop kind of go the chet hanks route start getting some neck tattoos he and i will have a falling out then i'll come to find out that his mom has been skimming off the top financially he'll sue her i'll have to pay for the legal defense it'll bankrupt me and eventually there'll be a whole documentary five-part series on small town murder or some sort of criminal podcast about evan schlegel the rising star who flew too high we're talking about summer camps on behind the curtain Thinking about sending the son, my nine-year-old, to a summer camp. Probably a day camp. Not an overnight camp. And Scott said it accurately. A lot of these things, these day camps, hell, even the overnight ones. I mean, okay, it's fun to engage the little guys, little gals. But it also kind of helps during the summer months where... Like, child care is at a premium?
SPEAKER 18 : 35:34
Yeah, I mean, during the school year, every day, Monday through Friday, all day, you got a place to send your kid. Yep. And if you don't have, like, family members to watch them during the summer or whatever, you need a place, and that's why these camps exist. Just throw the kid in camp.
SPEAKER 03 : 35:51
Damn speaks. This one kind of rings of what you were discussing earlier. It says here, our friend Britt, I did week-long overnight stays at camp. I don't even know how to say this. It's one of those strange hyphenated names. Overnight stays at a camp. Don't do it. I was miserable. I called my mom every day begging her to come get me. Stick with the day camp. She was too little. He's too little.
SPEAKER 04 : 36:18
Not all kids are meant to go to sleep away camp. Summer.
SPEAKER 03 : 36:22
It can be traumatic. Super social. This might be the first time they've ever been away. Yeah. You know, he's never had to stay the night. He's had stay the nights with relatives and all that, but he's never like stayed at his boy's Declan's house. And now suddenly I'm going to ship him off to some free labor camp in the mountains of the Pawnee Hills.
SPEAKER 04 : 36:37
When I went to sleep away camp for a month, I came back. The basement in our house was completely clean and it had been totally. It was like a hoarder because my parents were semi hoarders ever. You could hardly get around down there, but they cleaned it all up while I was away.
SPEAKER 18 : 36:55
They took the time away from you. Another one says I went to an overnight basketball camp when I was 12, got homesick, and had my parents pick me up a couple of days after I got there. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 : 37:05
Sleepaway camp can be rough. Parents sent me to sleepaway camp. I was excited. I even helped them pick out the camp. It was only 30 miles from home, so I didn't feel too distant from my mom. My third day there, I got my first period. Oh. Oh.
SPEAKER 04 : 37:21
That's rough. And I didn't have any idea of where the sleepaway camp was. I didn't know if it was in Maryland, if it was in New York, if it was in West. They didn't tell me. They just drove you in some random direction. You don't know where you're at. Yeah. And every night I would sit on the steps on my bunk and I would look out through all of these woods and I would fantasize about just going into the woods and walking, running away. But I had no idea where I'd go.
SPEAKER 03 : 37:50
Yeah, you're going to have to fend for yourself amongst the wildlife. Or you had the one thing from the movies where there was the girls camp on the other side of the lake. Yeah, you went over there and stole all their smelly underpants and then hung them from a pole above your cabin like a flag of conquest. Now, these days, I believe that sexual assault. But back then it was quaint. Here's another one here from our friend Jess. Yes. Where are we at? Here we are. Went to a YMCA theater camp at the time. I was about seven years old until I was 14. It was for two months out of the summer. I went every day. My mom picked me up and took me home at night. Most formidable, formative, important time in my life. Sounds like she loved it. My brother went to a sports camp, got to swim. It was incredible. There was an amphitheater in the woods. Played Capture the Flag. Seriously, endless good memories. The ones I'm hearing the most that people seem to like are the day camps. That's probably what we're going to do. Yeah, I enjoyed day camp. Let's go to the phones. 1-10-3-3-8-10-98. Let's go to Shabazz. What's up, bud? What's up, man?
SPEAKER 08 : 39:01
What's up, guys? Good morning. How are you guys doing?
SPEAKER 03 : 39:03
What up, Shabazz? Shabazz, I want to send my kid for somebody to watch for nine hours out of the day while I get high.
SPEAKER 08 : 39:10
Well, all right. I wouldn't say that on the air, but if that's your choice, then you do whatever you so please. I suggest Boys and Girls Club. Me and my little brothers have four little brothers. We went to Boys and Girls Club of Westminster, up in Westminster. We went there for a couple years. They have an after-school program, too. Their summer camp's fun. Man, they go to different places. I don't know if everyone does it, but I know the one up in Westminster does it. We went to Beater Creek, Cunningham Falls. We went to, like, laser tag. And they keep them engaged.
SPEAKER 03 : 39:49
That's the big thing, Shabazz. And I appreciate the call, pal. Look at that. Boys and girls camp is that some people are checking in with some places I won't name on the air, but they say that they got there or we got there. We sat underneath of a tent at a picnic table. They left scrap paper, crayons, pencils, blocks, came back hours later with lunch. Parents came hours later to pick us up. Did nothing.
SPEAKER 18 : 40:14
Yeah, like makeshift arts and crafts.
SPEAKER 03 : 40:17
Yeah, they just sat underneath of a tent for eight hours, bored out of their skull with a bunch of strange kids. That sounds a lot better. Oh, this one sounds fun. This sounds like my tax bracket. Robert, good morning.
SPEAKER 12 : 40:29
Hey, what's up, guys? How you doing? Hi, what's up?
SPEAKER 03 : 40:31
Hi, what's up?
SPEAKER 12 : 40:32
Hey, I went to a camp, right? Camp St. Vincent de Paul for underprivileged kids back in the 70s. Yeah. And it was like, it was like something out of like, you know, like Friday the 13th day. And I mean, but it was, but it was, but I had so much fun. And I remember how I learned how to swim there, did arts and crafts, played a lot of sports, went canoeing, you know, like fire camp tails and stuff like that. Ghost stories around the campfire.
SPEAKER 03 : 41:00
Oh, hell yeah. Roast a marshmallow while some camp counselor that may or may not be on some government list tells you the story about the escaped convict. And that's when the teenagers who were heavy petting in the backseat heard a scraping at the door. So he hopped in the front seat and zoomed off. And when he pulled into her driveway, she saw hanging from the door was a hawk. That was one of the ones I used to tell us in school. Guy with a hook escaped from a place. Joe, you seemed like you were tricked into going to one, weren't you? Yeah, I was.
SPEAKER 05 : 41:33
I wasn't necessarily tricked, but... It sounds like the theme of yours was not what your friend led you to believe. Yeah, he left out a major detail. He told me the same thing. Like Robert just said, oh, yeah, man, there's a pool with a diving board and they have archery and arts and crafts and a guy there teaches you how to play guitar. All sounds good. So, you know, I'm like begging my parents for a couple summers to send me this. And finally, like, all right, fine, we'll send you. And the first day we're rolling up there, it has the name of the camp. And then right underneath of it, it says Christian Camp.
SPEAKER 03 : 42:04
Oh, so you were basking in the light of the Lord while you were doing arts and crafts and canoeing and archery. How heavy was the religion?
SPEAKER 05 : 42:12
I don't think it was overly heavy. It wasn't like you had to wake up for mass? No, no, no. But the guy that played guitar, he was a little weird. Even as a kid, I looked at him and I was like, there's something up with this guy.
SPEAKER 03 : 42:28
Who was the Beavis and Butthead guy? The counselor?
SPEAKER 05 : 42:31
Yes, with the peace sign shirt. That's a guy I'm thinking of. He looked like with the long hair and the glasses.
SPEAKER 03 : 42:38
David Van Draesen.
SPEAKER 05 : 42:39
Yes.
SPEAKER 03 : 42:39
It was Mr. Van Draesen. Yes. Hell yeah, that rules. 4-10-3-3-8-10-9. Oh, this isn't good. You don't want to have this next to this. Jeff, good morning.
SPEAKER 06 : 42:50
Good morning.
SPEAKER 03 : 42:51
I don't like this.
SPEAKER 06 : 42:54
It's true, man. Yep. It's a nudist colony right beside a kid's camp.
SPEAKER 18 : 43:01
Did you see any wieners? Did you see wieners?
SPEAKER 06 : 43:04
Well, I don't know, but the camp's called Camp Barrett for some odd reason. That's no joke. So hold on, hold on.
SPEAKER 03 : 43:12
So there you are. What age are you when you went to this camp? How old? I sent my kids. Oh, good. You had to feel good?
SPEAKER 18 : 43:18
Did they see any wieners? No. No, the fence is too high.
SPEAKER 06 : 43:22
The fence is too high.
SPEAKER 04 : 43:24
Did you find out the camp was, the nudist colony was there before you sent them or once they were there?
SPEAKER 03 : 43:33
Once they were there. Oh, okay. Did you want to pull back up and take them away? No, I wanted to go find me a periscope or something.
SPEAKER 01 : 43:41
Per binoculars.
SPEAKER 03 : 43:43
What the hell were you caught at work doing? A story, a topic ripped straight from Josh's headlines. There's apparently some BGE inspector over there getting away with not going to work and doing inspecting for years. Not only was he not at work doing his job, homeboy was out on a boat and he got caught. So we opened up the discussion to ourselves. What have we been caught doing? I tell a story. When I was a younger man, before I discovered the Lord, I was caught at a video game store in the back, basically getting my Spicoli on. Puff, puff, pass. Let's play a little bit of Tekken. I walked out front to flip the close to open sign back up. And there was my general district manager staring at the door, wondering where the hell I had been. A lot of you checked in. A few of you checked in via the text and the tweets saying you've been walked in during moments of intimacy at the workplace. I think we all remember that scene. Patrick Swayze, Roadhouse. You want to be my Saturday night girl? Pretty hot. Somebody even called in saying that they saw somebody in a state of undress with someone that they shouldn't be in a state of undress with at work. And I love it. Hey, Work is our home away from home, okay? Sometimes we got to go hot box a cig in the janitorial closet. Occasionally, you and the lady in payroll are making sweet eyes. You're going to run out to the shed and do something behind the plant nursery. Who knows? Everybody gets caught at work doing something. As long as it's not stealing or anything illegal, have yourself some fun. You're underpaid, overworked. Go ahead. Smoke a bong somewhere out in your work truck. Well, there, work truck, I don't want you behind the wheel. I'm not endorsing that. Oh, you know what? I take back everything I said. Don't get high at work. Coming up, we discuss what'd you get caught doing on the job on Behind the Curtain. What did you get caught doing at work? Got walked in on, got discovered. You know, it's a big one, a big one in sales. Maybe fudging some expenses. Josh, do you remember you did a story last year about a restaurant who named all of their stuff on the menu office supply items. They had a burger named the printer cartridge. They had a plate of nachos named tall back chair pad. Oh, I'm not a fan of that. And it was so you could take it. and put it on your expense report. You could show them a receipt to your company and go, look, I bought three toner refills. I bought one box of pencils. Diabolical. It's diabolical to be able to get away with writing off stuff. Very smart. Very, very smart.
SPEAKER 1 : 46:19
410-338-1098.
SPEAKER 03 : 46:23
Hold on, I got a couple here. It's funny, when people start to DM you, you're like, oh damn, they're trying to keep this stuff off the grid. Let me pull this open real quick. I'll call you, what am I going to call you? Call you NGPS. Working for the local government, the unofficial saying we had was we got paid by the hour, not by the job. What we would do is the work assigned for the day and make that one job last all day. So they would just take their time just meandering through a job that should have been done in an hour. And they're like, nah, this is going to take all day. 410-338-1098. Let's go to the phones, talk to our pal Jim. Jim, what's going on, buddy?
SPEAKER 13 : 47:08
Hey, how you doing, fellas? What's up there, Jimbo? Hey, Jim. Hey, I had called you guys a couple years ago on Confession Monday because I had been, instead of going to work, I was going to the casino and playing poker. Oh, hell yeah. I mean, it's kind of a job if you're good at it. Yeah, Scott was there. I don't think you were there that day, Justin, but Scott was there. Okay. So that's what I kind of, I didn't get caught by management, but I got caught by a whole bunch of fellow employees that right after I got off the phone with you guys, my phone was blowing up.
SPEAKER 18 : 47:40
Oh, no. You timed yourself out, bro. You blew your spot up. You timed yourself out.
SPEAKER 13 : 47:45
Yeah, I guarantee I get calls from this one too, but it worked out really good for me because I ended up quitting and started my own company.
SPEAKER 03 : 47:51
Oh, hell yeah. So it all works out in the end. Very good. Did you win at blackjack? Did you make money?
SPEAKER 13 : 47:59
I played poker. Oh, poker, excuse me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was killing it at the time. I kind of went on a losing streak after I quit.
SPEAKER 03 : 48:06
Well, now you own your own company, so you could do whatever the hell you want. I just pulled into Maryland Live.
SPEAKER 18 : 48:13
Dude, you got a 1-800-GAMBLER, homie. You all right over there? You just pulled into Maryland Live?
SPEAKER 03 : 48:20
1-800-GAMBLER. Hell yeah, dude. MDGamblingHelp.org. Okay.
SPEAKER 18 : 48:23
MDGamblingHelp.org. 1-800-GAMBLER, bro. Play big to win big. Yeah. It's the only addiction with an upside. What's your own company? What do you do now?
SPEAKER 13 : 48:34
Insulation, like industrial insulation. All right. That's good. All in insulation for all your insulation needs.
SPEAKER 03 : 48:40
All in. Dude, your company's even named after a poker term. Yeah, bro.
SPEAKER 13 : 48:44
Yes, it is.
SPEAKER 03 : 48:45
Good Lord. We got a degenerate. There's a fully degenerate gambler. Love it. And I respect it. Let's talk to our pal. How's it going, Dave?
SPEAKER 07 : 48:55
Well, morning, fellas. Master Scott, Master Spiegel. How's it going?
SPEAKER 18 : 48:59
This is a weird one, bro. I'm looking at the screen here.
SPEAKER 07 : 49:01
Yeah, it's not one of my finest moments. I'm not proud of it, but... I was quitting a job. I worked for a logistics company. We were contractors for a file storage company that I'm sure everybody uses. And on my last day, I decided to take a deuce in one of the law firm's file storage boxes.
SPEAKER 18 : 49:24
So it wasn't an emergency. It was in a box, like vindictively.
SPEAKER 07 : 49:31
Yeah, yeah, it was. And the way I got caught was we were shrink wrapping it on the pallet to deliver it to the facility, and the entire thing had, the pallet had fell over, and of course, you know, there goes a turd rolling across the... The floor of, you know, the file storage place.
SPEAKER 03 : 49:54
I mean, as I read the screen the same way Scott did, I thought it might have been an emergency situation. Get me a box. He was angry. Exactly. You're like Joe DeRosa, comedian, a.k.a. the vile horrendous.
SPEAKER 18 : 50:08
I feel like there's a story that floats around this building of an old employee that at one point he worked at a station somewhere and he took a dump on the boss's desk.
SPEAKER 03 : 50:17
Okay, I always thought that that story... Okay, maybe you can clear this up for me. I know exactly what you're talking about. Same initials.
SPEAKER 18 : 50:24
Speaks, you know who we're talking about?
SPEAKER 04 : 50:26
Yeah, I've heard that. I don't know if that's... I thought that happened here. Yeah, I don't know if that's an old wives' tale or if that's true. Yeah, I don't know either.
SPEAKER 18 : 50:33
I don't know if it was here. Yeah, maybe it was here.
SPEAKER 04 : 50:35
Yeah, if it's just... You know, it's one of those stories that's taken off.
SPEAKER 03 : 50:42
It remains true.
SPEAKER 18 : 50:44
It's incredible.
SPEAKER 03 : 50:46
It's one of the stories that I choose to believe. I need it to be real. I need that story to be real. It is such a take the power back moment where someone's like, oh, this is what you're offering me for a three year deal. And the next thing you know, you need an industrial cleaner.
SPEAKER 18 : 51:01
I just feel like if it was here, he wouldn't have continued to work here.
SPEAKER 03 : 51:06
And be invited back for like retirement parties and stuff. Everyone high fives him when he walks in. You know how many times I've seen that guy and I've wanted to pull him aside and go, sir, I know you don't know who I am. I need to ask you about a story. Did you on someone's desk? I want, you know what? The next time he's here, I'm going to have Joe ask him. Let's go to Brandon on line one. Brandon, good morning.
SPEAKER 11 : 51:32
Morning, guy. Morning, bud. So, I used to work for a board game company. And I had this one sheisty kind of boss. And, you know, it was a small company, so we had to, you know, take shifts like every week of cleaning bathrooms. Walk in, go to clean one of the bathrooms. And he's having relations with one of the secretaries.
SPEAKER 01 : 51:57
In the bathroom? Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 : 52:00
In the bathroom. And I opened it up and it was the most awkward thing because I did like the slow, like, close the door kind of thing. But the one thing that I noticed, like, he had a... They had popcorn in the bathroom.
SPEAKER 18 : 52:14
What do you mean they had popcorn? They had snacks? They had snacks.
SPEAKER 11 : 52:19
Did you work for the Porker Brothers?
SPEAKER 18 : 52:20
Did he have it, like, bent over the sink or something? Were they, like, fully engaged?
SPEAKER 11 : 52:23
Yeah, bent over the sink. Wow.
SPEAKER 03 : 52:25
Eating popcorn.
SPEAKER 11 : 52:28
Yeah, and then, of course, I had the HR found out about it, and I had to sit down and have that conversation. Oh, my God.
SPEAKER 03 : 52:37
That's so weird. Like, I mean, I don't think I've ever... Listen, everybody at one time or another has tried to do the incorporate food into sex bit. A little whipped cream, a little chocolate syrup, strawberry, too. Nice piece of honey ham draped over the genitals. But never have I just had a bucket of popcorn...
SPEAKER 02 : 52:55
like hold on let me let this jiffy pop finish and we can smash you know me can't get off without my kettle corn let's go to john thank you brandon john good morning bud what'd you get caught doing at work hey what's up guys how you doing hi well i kind of we want to uh want a thing in the morning to come here and eat the crabs with you guys oh yeah the old uh the conrad that's right the crab shack yeah that was fun yeah just do that out back there definitely and uh Anyways, I told the shop that I had an appointment the next morning that I could make the crab thing at 6 o'clock, I think it was. And we were all there eating crabs and all, talking and everything. And one of the guys at the shop heard me on the radio and knocked me out.
SPEAKER 03 : 53:40
That's his second call this morning. Okay, did you get in trouble? You get written up? No, they just thought it was funny. It was just a big joke. Okay, good. That's awesome, man. The Rikers Island, the Alcatraz, the Supermax Prison for the Child Juvenile Detention Centers. We discussed them. They were in Josh's news. The head of them has been removed from his position because things haven't been going the way that Governor Moore hopes that they have been going. And we discussed about me growing up around here. It was always a threat that if you screwed up, got caught shoplifting, got caught having premarital sex, got caught with a weapon, got caught with pot, you'd be sent to the hickey school. and we opened up the phone lines and oh my God, we got every possible call I could have hoped to get. We got calls from people that have sent kids to one of these correctional facilities. We've got calls from kids that were at these correctional facilities. We've got calls from people that worked at these correctional facilities. And I gotta tell you, It almost seems like a diet jail. It almost seems like the crystal light of incarceration. And you want these to be what they say they are right there in the title, a reform school. But what worries me is some of these institutions, they don't just take a good person and make them worse. They don't just take a bad person, make them villainous. They can teach you the criminal ways. It almost becomes some sort of crime and criminality university. And you hear about that with this one call, a woman sent a student there that definitely deserved to be there. But when she got out, she was even more of a criminal than when she went in. We opened up the juvenile reform school lines and you did not disappoint with tales of youthful criminal terror on Behind the Curtain. Were you, were they, family member, neighbor? In juvie. Did you guys have to go to Juvenile Hall? Dude, I got people checking in left and right. There's a place called the Abraxas Detention Center. The Abraxas Detention Center, which I looked up. It is in Morgantown, PA. It's a juvenile correctional facility. The thing looks like a fortress. And I guess it's where you send troubled wayward youth. Not where you want to be. No, man. Not off to a good start. No. If you're a parent, if you're, like I said earlier when the guy was talking about the women fighting, if you're a product of your environment, the parents themselves probably could have used, as Josh would say, a correction. But imagine you really meant well. You've got good kids. You're good parents. Nice normal home. You work. And then for whatever reason, just the world gets a hold of the kid and messes with him. You've got to be like, what the hell, man? We did everything right. You played youth soccer. I got you a Nintendo 64. And you still walked into a Kroger with a baseball bat and demanded all $87? Yeah.
SPEAKER 18 : 56:37
Somebody says, when I was a pre-teen teen, I was part of a church youth group at a church that backed up to Hickey. Every Christmas, we would have to go to Hickey and make ornaments with the inmates, the quote-unquote inmates. I thought it was freaking weird, but I did come home with a phone number a couple of times. Whoa! Of course, nothing ever came of that. However, I did end up dating a guy for several years that went to Valley Forge Military Academy. Guess I had a type. Dang. Get the hell out of here. You're getting juvenile delinquent phone numbers.
SPEAKER 03 : 57:10
There is another one here. Okay, Gunpowder Maryland, the Free State Challenge Academy. It's one of those military academies that Josh's dad threatened to send him off to. That's one of the things, like, buddy, if you don't turn that A into an A+, we're putting your ass in some Class C fatigues, and you are heading up to Free State like the thing that Alan Scott was in where he became like a commandant or something like that. 410-338-1098. Let's go. This is a great person to talk to. Good morning, Carol Ann.
SPEAKER 10 : 57:41
Good morning, gentlemen. Hello, Carol Ann. I'm sadly only going to have three more wake-ups with you.
SPEAKER 03 : 57:47
I apologize. Enjoy. Summer's upon us, my sweet. Another great school year in the books. Are you a Baltimore County City teacher, by the way?
SPEAKER 10 : 57:56
I'm a very proud Baltimore County teacher.
SPEAKER 03 : 57:58
Oh, we're thinking of you this morning. Pay you. Pay them what they're owed.
SPEAKER 10 : 58:03
Pay me. I agree. You made a promise. Keep your promise. That's it.
SPEAKER 18 : 58:09
So you're just real quick before we get to the juvie thing. You got three more sleeps. You got you got Thursday, Friday and Monday. And my daughter's got the same thing. You're not even doing anything.
SPEAKER 10 : 58:22
Nope, I got coloring and craft, and I'm a high school teacher, and they love coloring. Hell yeah.
SPEAKER 18 : 58:29
So you got these high school kids that are just going to, for the next three days, sit around and do bupkis.
SPEAKER 10 : 58:36
Well, we're still trying to get kids to finish some of their finals, and then grades go in today, so that's the end of that.
SPEAKER 03 : 58:44
But the kids that did their work, they get to chill out and not have to learn about the Prussian Empire, you know, mess around with some Crayola and let the day burn up.
SPEAKER 10 : 58:53
You say that, but the funny thing is the kids that did their work still want to do more work. Really? They're like very motivated. Nerds.
SPEAKER 03 : 59:00
Nerds. They have a drive to them. And yeah, I'll reiterate, you'll hear about it in Josh's news. A promise was made and a promise is deserved to be kept. Don't wait till January to pay them. You pay them now. Now you say that you know the kids that end up getting sent to these correctional facilities.
SPEAKER 10 : 59:17
So it's so funny because I actually have written recommendations for free state as well. So it's kind of funny.
SPEAKER 03 : 59:22
So you're recommending them to be sent there?
SPEAKER 10 : 59:25
Yes, because when they go to pre-state, well, I've been involved with all of the above. There's Meadowood, which is the day school. There's one in Rosedale. I can't remember the name right now. And then Hickey. I've had kids come and go. And then also Free State, you actually have to apply to Free State. You can't be completely devoid of ability to follow directions. So I actually have written letters of recommendation. What's the worst one?
SPEAKER 03 : 59:49
What's the one that's like the Rikers Island of, yo, this kid keeps bringing homemade knives to school. They've got to go there.
SPEAKER 10 : 59:58
Well, that would be normally the jail schools because that's the one in Towson. It's the jail school in Towson over by the Beltway because you get spent there. You're part of the juvenile system. But there are classrooms. Kids go to school there.
SPEAKER 18 : 60:16
There's classrooms in that? Because I drive by that all the time. That's like right by my house. Yeah, that place is crazy. So you can see it looks like a prison, but that's also a school?
SPEAKER 10 : 60:27
It is a prison. Well, that's a good point.
SPEAKER 18 : 60:29
I guess if you go to juvie, right, you're kind of in jail, but then you also have to go to school while you're there?
SPEAKER 10 : 60:36
Right. So Meadowood, Hickey, all those are school-related placements. When you're talking about JSS getting involved, then you're going into a prison system.
SPEAKER 09 : 60:48
Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 : 60:48
So you might have done something stupid to get you...
SPEAKER 03 : 60:52
put in you know that but typically that's still a school placement well that was my next question for them is okay you could have done something dumb like if you have you know i believe good people do bad things but is it a matter of you did a big dumb thing or is does it take a track record like okay that's you there yeah it's bold it's bold so um and also it takes the designee whoever you're
SPEAKER 10 : 61:16
superintendent designate is it's like a judge so one judge might say hey you messed up you're a good kid don't bring guns to school anymore we'll send you to hickey for art i'm sorry for meadowood for you know three weeks another one might say dude i'm not happy with you and you're going there for six months so it's kind of arbitrary to the individual is making the decision you got a venmo
SPEAKER 03 : 61:40
Yeah, I do. Why don't you say it on the air? If they're not going to pay you, our listeners will pay you. Say your Venmo. Say it.
SPEAKER 10 : 61:46
Get paid. I'm going to tell you, I am very well paid. I do believe there's a promise. I've been in this 25 years, multiple degrees. I'm very happy where I am.
SPEAKER 18 : 61:56
What do you teach?
SPEAKER 10 : 61:58
uh mathematics and special ed as well oh god you're the best math and special ed special ed my mom was a special ed like uh assistant and that's why i've had a lot of contact with kids come and go because we can say there's a larger percentage of special ed kids that end up in these type of settings um and as i brought up i was saying the sadder part is kids are kind of middle of the road and you know you don't want to bust on their parents too badly They do something stupid. They bring an airsoft gun. They bring a knife, whatever. It's a category three or four. And they're decent kids. They go over to Meadowood, which is a half-day program, which I never understood that, why they did half-day. Very well run. I mean, like, you have maybe six kids in a class. Give me 10 kids in a class and I will never have a behavior problem. But I have 30 of them.
SPEAKER 03 : 62:48
Well, let me ask you this.
SPEAKER 1 : 62:49
30.
SPEAKER 03 : 62:49
That's a lot of kids. Let me ask you this before we split. Do you ever see a kid that you go, he's going to get eaten alive. That kid is going to get chewed up.
SPEAKER 10 : 62:59
Well, that's what I brought up to the gentleman I can't remember who answered the phone. That's Joe Stambone who went to Hickey.
SPEAKER 18 : 63:05
He probably is bumped into him at one of these. Possibly. I know Carol very well. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 : 63:11
All right, well, maybe you can take her to prom next time. So what did you say to him?
SPEAKER 10 : 63:16
I said that you get a decent kid that goes over there, and now his new peer group is a level of kids that are in a worse situation.
SPEAKER 03 : 63:23
So it turns a good kid bad sometimes? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 10 : 63:28
That's your new peer group. I had a lovely girl that I had a lot of issues. She went to one of these alternative schools, and she just happened to be in the car when they rocked a liquor store over in, like, Kingsville. And she got sent to one of the big boarding places up in, I think it was Aberdeen or Proving Grounds. That's where she went. But just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and she just did something stupid. Now that's your new peer group.
SPEAKER 03 : 63:52
She came out changed. Did you get to see her on the other side of it? Like, oh, my God, the light in you has gone out.
SPEAKER 10 : 63:58
We lost touch, sadly. But I did have kids come back to where I taught. that now their new peer group were the kids that were breaking into school houses. I wouldn't do that, actually, breaking into houses. Damn.
SPEAKER 03 : 64:11
Oh, well, Caroline, thank you. Yeah, thank you for the insight. Yeah, we got to jump. I do want to take one. One guy's been holding for a while. He was a student at one of these, and we'll jump to Josh's news. Hold on. Let's go to Lair Bear. Lair, thank you for holding, pal. Very patient. You went there.
SPEAKER 17 : 64:27
Yeah, yeah. I was at Hickey and Boys Village. And from Boys Village, I went to the forestry camps.
SPEAKER 18 : 64:33
What got you there?
SPEAKER 17 : 64:36
It's crazy. I think about it now. Like weed is legal. People just walk around and do it. And I sit there and look at it now. I'm like, man, I got locked up all the time. Because this is back in the 90s. I'm 48. And it was crazy, too, because that lady was just talking about school. Like a couple of years in high school, I never took a midterm or a final because I'd be in those placements. everyone does the same schoolwork. And when you go back, when you get out and go back to your school, they just send whatever grades you got there. And like everyone just did a base, like type of schoolwork. And, uh, And like you talk about like hickey, I guess it is all this barbed wire and like, you know, it's like a prison.
SPEAKER 18 : 65:14
Did it maybe like scare you straight in a sense or what happened? I mean, you just got, it seems like you had some weed on you and you got popped and you went there. So were you a good kid just smoking weed or were you a delinquent?
SPEAKER 17 : 65:24
Yeah, I mean, basically I was, you know, shenanigans and stuff like that. But like I learned more stuff being locked up and met more people, which pretty much threatened me for life. you know, the stuff I got into as an adult. The life of crime. I'd go to prison as an adult and be like, hey, I know these guys from Juvie.
SPEAKER 18 : 65:42
Oh, my God. It was like a reunion. Jesus.
SPEAKER 03 : 65:47
That's awful. An old bit taken off of the shelves and brought back. And maybe once a month we'll start doing it again. We brought back sexed roulette. We haven't done this in quite some time. I don't even think we've done this during the Joe Stamboni producing era. I think it's the last time we ever did. This was when Misha was around. Misha McDonald, we love you. We miss you. We hope you're well. The way that this works is that we all agree on a phrase, and then we all text it to a significant other, a loved one, a wife, a girlfriend, a boyfriend, a husband, or in some people's cases, like this one dude who will go unnamed, someone that he had been on a couple of dates with off of Tinder who had yet to hook up. And we texted a phrase that Scott came up with, basically just says, sex tonight, question mark. And I loved, you see, we were going to be coming up with all kinds of, ooh, sorry, I'm backing up on you right now. I've been eating cottage cheese all day long, and I feel like I'm going to have severe diarrhea in a little bit. We were discussing what to actually say. What should we write? And the actual phrase, excuse me, was sex later. And we were going to come up with all kinds of stuff. Can I put some gravy on those taters? Can I butter your little slut biscuit? Let me get a sniff on them stinky flaps. And Scott, being a believer in elegance, in simplicity, he goes, whoa, whoa, whoa. We're probably going to catch more flies with honey than vinegar. Simply write sex later. And it worked. It worked almost too well. Countless of you checked back in saying, my God, I think I'm going to have sex later. Some of you said your significant others were like, who the hell got a hold of your phone? Do you mean to be texting something else? Are you creeping on me? You would have never texted something like this. I texted mine. Joe texted his. And neither one of us got a response. And that's great. Finally, we brought it back and had some fun with it. Sex Roulette returns on Behind the Curtain.
SPEAKER 18 : 67:37
I got some text responses. Yeah, give them to me. We're playing a little sex roulette. People are screen grabbing their phones and sending them to 410331098. This person wrote sex later. Now, hold on. Let me see. Because if this is... There's a name at the top of the screen, right? So that is... So this person sent this to a guy named Michael. Okay. So this was a female, I think, that sent it to Michael? Hell yeah, even hotter. And it says, sex later. And then the response is, of course, at 335, as soon as you walk in the door, I'm going to lay down on the carpet.
SPEAKER 03 : 68:19
Jesus. Okay. There you go. Climb on top. See you, Michael. Way to go, buddy. Our friend Britt writes, I texted my husband sex later. He works from home.
SPEAKER 18 : 68:30
I can hear him laugh down the hall. This person wrote sex later question mark, and they got the kissy heart face emoji. So I guess that's a yes. Okay, there we go. This person wrote sex later with a double question mark. And guess what they got in response? Double question marks. In response.
SPEAKER 03 : 68:51
What? Like, what? Someone writes, I've been on six dates with a girl. We have yet to hook up.
SPEAKER 18 : 69:00
Oh.
SPEAKER 03 : 69:00
I just wrote her.
SPEAKER 18 : 69:00
This is a make or break moment. Sex later. Shoot or shoot. I'm like. Did he get a response?
SPEAKER 03 : 69:05
Not yet. I'm waiting.
SPEAKER 18 : 69:07
Ah. That's a make or break. That is make or break, my man. I text my wife sex later. She responded, new phone. Who dis? Ha ha.
SPEAKER 03 : 69:17
new ass old you see what else i got there's nothing worse than you send when you're sending a text either i don't know sexy important professional and you're waiting for the response you're waiting for the response and your boy just won't stop sending you like instagram links or memes the texts you get aren't the ones you need like there's a secondary text happening
SPEAKER 18 : 69:41
This person wrote sex later, and then the responder wrote, okay, and then he responded back, cool. Cool. Lots of people are going to be having sex later, apparently. This is fun. I love this quite a bit. Joe, did you guys get any responses?
SPEAKER 05 : 69:56
No response yet.
SPEAKER 03 : 69:58
Do you have read receipts on? Do you know if you've been read? Maybe not.
SPEAKER 05 : 70:03
Let me see here.
SPEAKER 03 : 70:03
I'm going to send one more here. I'm going to try it one more time. All right. Let's see what we got here. Okay. Joe.
SPEAKER 14 : 70:10
Yeah. Yeah, dude.
SPEAKER 05 : 70:17
She read it.
SPEAKER 14 : 70:17
No, no, no. What? Look at the top. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 03 : 70:25
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 14 : 70:26
Oh, football Tony. Yeah, I just said that to Tony. I just wrote. Let's see what he says. All right.
SPEAKER 03 : 70:32
Oh, hold on. I'm getting the three dots. From Tony? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What'd you write? Sex later? I wrote sex later. Oh, yeah. Yes, I'm in. Tony, this is a legally binding agreement. We have to.
SPEAKER 18 : 70:45
Somebody wrote sex... I quickly got a phone call asking if I was cheating. Oh, this person wrote sex later with a... Heart, kissy face. So I'm guessing that's a girl sending that. Sex later? Sex later. And then the person responded, was that text meant for me? And then LOL, yes. And then I quickly got a phone call asking if I was cheating and had to explain the sex rule.
SPEAKER 01 : 71:10
Oh, my God.
SPEAKER 18 : 71:11
All right. What the hell? That's what's going to happen with Joe. You've never asked that in six years. Who is that meant for? That's not meant for me.
SPEAKER 05 : 71:20
Clearly not meant for me at all. Oh, my God. What hussy did you mean this for? And the way that it's sent in all caps. She's going to either think somebody took my phone or, yeah, I texted the wrong person. What time does she usually wake up? It depends. She'll probably be up around 7.30, 8. Oh, does she have a cup of coffee? She does. Okay.
SPEAKER 18 : 71:41
Sex later, the response, this was sent to Wes. Hey, Wes. And then he writes, working late. And then they responded, boo.
SPEAKER 03 : 71:51
Boo. Okay. Our friend Smith writes, I'm not asking that. It's been almost three months. That's the reason to text. Yeah. Come on, Smith. Get in there, buddy.
SPEAKER 05 : 72:01
You're our Atlanta contingent. This person said sex later, question mark. Then instantly, whoever was answered yes. And then this guy responds back, oh, time to screen grab that so I can send to the radio. And they said, wait, so I'm not getting sex? First I burn up the blender and now I'm denied. What a morning. Sorry about the blender.
SPEAKER 03 : 72:22
Sorry about the blender, pal. Get one of those Nutri Ninja bullets. Rodney writes, I guess, to his significant other. Sex later, she responds, you going to give it up? Rodney, you being stingy with the crank, dude? Huh? Rodney, old Quaker Rodney, we call him. Holding it back. Come on, dude. Quaker oats, dude. Get up in them oats. Quake them. He's in a prison relationship. You going to give it up? I want you in a perfectly good game of dominoes. We're playing sexed roulette. Type someone. That's not going to get you sent to HR.
SPEAKER 05 : 72:58
Or maybe it will.
SPEAKER 03 : 72:59
Yeah. Roll the dice. Just take your professional career in your hands. Hey, did you finally put your two weeks in? Today's the day.
SPEAKER 14 : 73:08
Look at me. You won't text Dan. Buddy. Two steps ahead of you. Put your phone down.
SPEAKER 03 : 73:17
Right now. I don't even have his number. Do not text him. That's the challenge. I don't want you to be challenged on that. Okay, that man is buttoned up. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I mean, there's probably some people down there you could text that to. We wouldn't have to take training. I'm trying to think.
SPEAKER 05 : 73:34
Yeah, a couple of the sales guys we could...
SPEAKER 03 : 73:38
probably have some fun with there's the one no no i couldn't do that i'm trying i mean no i mean you could easily text eric or tommy that oh yeah and you're gonna get sexed on yeah eric will expect it yeah you're gonna get d picks you're gonna get everything you're gonna get every lap that that i want to see by the way if you happen to get like a pick back if you get them all steamed up oh hold on okay the one guy that wrote I've been on six dates with a girl. We haven't hooked up yet. I just sent her sex later. She has responded. No, no. She writes, Good morning.
SPEAKER 18 : 74:19
Smiley face. Okay, so he's not out.
SPEAKER 17 : 74:21
He's not fully out.
SPEAKER 18 : 74:23
And now he's got to respond with another laughy face. Like, yeah, it was just. I'm kind of serious. Sex later. Tater Tot writes back. Should I say that? Yeah, we can do that. And then he said, can I play with you first? And yes, that's fine. Okay. All right. Good for you. Giving partner.
SPEAKER 03 : 74:50
When it comes to the history of 98 Rock morning shows, everything from Gruggo and Moe, Birdmark and Lopez, Kirkmark and Lopez, Mickey and Spiegel, and now Justin Scott and Spiegel, might I say, the longest reigning morning show of all time on 98 Rock. But I digress. I think that we mentally and physically are probably the most open. We're the most honest with what we're going through, sometimes honest to a fault, physical disabilities, illnesses, mental illnesses. And on Thursday, our producer, Joe Stamboni, kind of let slip something about something that he's been going through monthly, a few times monthly, maybe even weekly for decades. You see, we come to find out that Joe Stamboni, much in the same way you might get after eating some bad shellfish or getting a bad dose of the flu or over imbibing on a couple of those delicious canned cocktails. Well, he vomits almost every week, monthly, yearly for decades now. And we're starting to think. Yo, you need to go and get this checked out right now because no one should be throwing up as much as our own Joe Stamboni is. And Josh, the benevolent news angel himself, did something that I rarely seen him do. And he's done it in the past, but only for those he deems worthy. He gave Joe his personal physician's information. Josh does not give that to just anybody. And mark my words, he's going to follow up. If Josh gives you that information, oh, he's damn well not doing it out of some sort of theatrics. He's not doing it as some sort of virtue signaling. He means it. He's going to find out if you got a hold of his doctor and if you're going to live and you're going to get whatever weird ulcer patched up or whatever weird acid reflux or whatever weird lump you got growing in your stomach handled by Trust me, Josh is going to be on your ass like a shadow Joe Stamboni. We need you around for a long, long time. You make the show better. So stop throwing up. What the hell's going on with our producer Joe and his stomach on Behind the Curtain? Joe Stamboni. Yes. Joining us this morning. Hello. Scott, taking a couple of days to hang out with Ma and Pa before they head back to Florida. And earlier, you let slip. And Speaks, hopefully this doesn't ruin your morning. I apologize, Josh.
SPEAKER 04 : 77:10
The loss of Brian Wilson already has.
SPEAKER 03 : 77:12
Look at him as he dabs his forehead with a square of polyester.
SPEAKER 04 : 77:15
Maybe we shouldn't talk about this.
SPEAKER 03 : 77:17
Josh, let me ask you first, just at the table. When's the last time you threw up? Threw up? Threw up.
SPEAKER 04 : 77:24
Probably a few years ago. It seems like it's... Well, maybe I can only speak for myself, but it's very rare for adults.
SPEAKER 03 : 77:32
Probably some nausea, like a flu?
SPEAKER 04 : 77:34
Yeah, nausea. Oh, nausea. I actually, a couple years ago, I felt so nauseous after leaving work. I almost had to, I felt like I was going to have to pull over on the JFX right as I was getting onto the JFX, and that right-hand shoulder doesn't have a lot of room, okay?
SPEAKER 03 : 77:55
Mm-hmm. Yeah, you're dealing with minimal real estate to get over, get sick, some car clips your head, takes it right off. Right. But it was probably something to do. Like you said, you had a stomach bug, ate something funky. We'll ask you the same thing, pal, on any given year. How often are you puking? On a year? That's the thing, guys. I feel like every wedding I'm going to puke, so probably twice. Twice? I'm about good for a puke a year. I'm about good for one pants mess a year when a fart betrays me. But unless I get a real nice stomach bug or on the occasion where 46-year-old me thinks I'm still 26-year-old me and I'm pounding a bunch of canned cocktails poolside, I get up, I get the spins, I crawl into the grass, and I have a nice vomit. I come to find out this morning that Joe, for how long now? How many years?
SPEAKER 05 : 78:45
Oh, dude, since I was probably like 15.
SPEAKER 03 : 78:47
15 years old.
SPEAKER 05 : 78:48
How old are you now? So 38, 23 years.
SPEAKER 03 : 78:50
Joe throws up twice a month. At least. At least. At least he's getting sick. Purging twice a month. Yeah. But is something prompting that? And that's what we're here to figure out.
SPEAKER 05 : 79:03
Well, there's a couple things that I think directly contribute to it. That's not good, man. No. Poor diet being number one. Typically, I don't eat much throughout the day. Do you eat quickly like a dog? Yeah. A dog will overeat quickly and then get themselves sick. Yeah, I think I do that. Okay. I think I do that. I won't eat all day, and then I'll start to eat around like... I've been trying to eat earlier, but... In years past, I'd wait until 7, 8 o'clock at night to eat and then be in bed at like 9. You only eat at night? Yeah. It's not good.
SPEAKER 03 : 79:39
That's not good. You're driving around on an empty gas tank.
SPEAKER 04 : 79:42
That's so strange. And also, it's not normal to throw up twice a month.
SPEAKER 03 : 79:47
You've got to see a doctor. Yeah, I probably should. First thing I thought, buddy, you've got to get in there and get that checked out. Now, clearly, you're not bulimic. No. But, you know, a lot of bulimics will develop chronic...
SPEAKER 05 : 79:59
esophageal irritation if not cancer yes because of how often they're getting sick i've thought about that and that stomach acid is like washing over their throat the enamel of your teeth dude multiple times a month what do you think the most in in say the past two or three years in one month when i got my wisdom teeth pulled out uh-huh or what in november yeah last year uh just had like the feeling in my mouth i threw up with stitches in my i threw up for like five days straight Just every morning. That's medical, so I'll give you that.
SPEAKER 03 : 80:31
You probably have some opiates as a painkiller, which can kind of mess your stomach up a little bit.
SPEAKER 05 : 80:35
Not enough.
SPEAKER 03 : 80:35
But, like, I had a friend, Bradley. I hope you're doing well. He just had diarrhea for about 19 years, and then he went and got himself a colonoscopy, butt full of polyps. Oh, yeah. Just the whole inside of his ass looked like Mars. Yeah. And, like, well, let's get rid of that, and then there you go. Let's go ahead and have ourselves a nice, solid movement. But for you to be getting sick this often, I'm asking you, not just a co-worker, but as a friend, someone that prepares Josh's audio.
SPEAKER 05 : 80:58
Yes. Can you get that looked at? I'll get it looked at. I think a lot of it is my diet. I love peanut butter, but anytime I eat peanut butter late at night, I wake up with a horrible stomach ache and I'm just burping up peanut butter.
SPEAKER 04 : 81:16
Now, when you throw up, is it a little bit or is it just kind of out of control?
SPEAKER 05 : 81:22
Oh, it's out of control. I purge everything out of my stomach.
SPEAKER 04 : 81:26
And you don't even have that much to eat. No.
SPEAKER 05 : 81:29
Well, it depends. It depends.
SPEAKER 03 : 81:31
Is it sudden? Or like when Josh was talking about him getting sick a couple years ago, you've got the nausea. I don't feel good. I need to get to a toilet. Or is this just one of those ones where just suddenly it's out.
SPEAKER 05 : 81:42
I, uh, it depends. Sometimes it's just out, but, but most of the time I'll start with like, oh, my stomach, I feel nauseous. The food's not sitting right. Then I'll start to get like the full body sweat and I'll like, I'll stand there and I'll like try to like folks like, just breathe through this, breathe through this. And then, uh, sometimes I can get through it. Sometimes I just.
SPEAKER 03 : 82:01
explode vomit in the in the toilet but then after i get it out after i get it out i'm fine yeah you feel well there's always that wave of post vomit relief you're like oh my god it's over but if you have a bug you know it's coming back so you start drinking water to put something in there right why
SPEAKER 04 : 82:20
Look, I'm not – it's not my nature to get frustrated. But it comes from a place of care. But I know you've said in the past that you don't like going to doctors. I don't. But that – God, that just gets under my skin because I know other people who say that. And – You just have to go once. You give an hour of your time to get a physical. I don't want to go to a doctor either. You're right. It interferes with the rest of my schedule, which has nothing in it or on it. Now, maybe they can, if it's nothing, if it's just some weird thing going on with your body, they can give you a prescription. They have anti-nausea medicine. Or there could be something seriously wrong with you.
SPEAKER 03 : 83:05
I've heard of Zofran, which is like an anti-yak medicine. But Spieg's is not wrong. If you're getting that sick that often, a minimum of twice a month, if it's just become a part of your routine, they need to snake a camera down you or up you. I'll be there. I'd be knocking down the doctor's door. I'd be calling them on a Sunday, okay? I don't care if that Chick-fil-A's closed. Get me in there.
SPEAKER 04 : 83:28
Were you writing a name down?
SPEAKER 03 : 83:30
I was when you were referencing someone that doesn't go to a doctor. I wrote a name down earlier, the person that tried to get me to forge a signature. That person's... Oh, come on. That person's parent doesn't trust doctors. Doesn't trust them. Thinks they're all lying, making it up. I'm like, okay. By the way, you're always sick. Your knees are swollen. This eye has been blind for three or four years. You're missing patches of hair, and one of your hands is inside out. Go to the doctor. But you always hear, I don't trust him. I don't trust him. They always have ulterior motives.
SPEAKER 04 : 84:04
Like what? You can always get a second opinion. I'm actually, I won't go into detail, but I am, as soon as I clear my schedule of nothing, I have to get a second opinion just because I want to know about something. Even though I trust the first opinion, I want to get a second opinion just to be sure.
SPEAKER 03 : 84:22
Like I went to 12 doctors that told me I had craps. But I went to a 13th doctor that said it's just a bad reaction to dryer sheets. And that's the one I went with. Go to a doctor. I will. Find out why you're getting puked up on.
SPEAKER 04 : 84:37
Oh, if you need a doctor, I can refer you. By the way, I love referring people to doctors. I love it so much. He's got one of the best. I feel like a hero afterwards because people love my doctors. And if you're listening, don't contact me. I don't give the commoners or civilians.
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we talk about our little fur babies and what we call them. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room speak with our listeners about what nicknames we have for our pets. What do our pets answer to? One way to find out. Hit play!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript We light up discussions around flare guns.
00:00:00 The Flare Gun Incident 00:00:36 Tacos and Flare Guns 00:01:18 Potential Danger of Flare Guns 00:02:54 Doley's Bonfire Stories 00:04:20 The Gas Bonfire Mishap 00:05:05 Shotgun Shells and Flare Guns SPEAKER 04 : 0:00
This came up in your news yesterday with the guy in the flare gun. Yeah. He had a flare gun. Did he, like, set fire to a place with it? Like, he turned on somebody with a flare gun?
SPEAKER 01 : 0:08
Yesterday, 7 a.m., this show, two New Jersey teens, 18-year-olds, mind you, they are accused of firing a flare gun through the window of a home. The curtains catch fire. They managed to extinguish the fire before the first responders got there and nobody was hurt. But still... It raises so many questions about flare guns. I don't know what those questions are, but we're going to ask them right now.
SPEAKER 04 : 0:36
410-338-1098. Thank you to my pal Rad, who's in PA. He's saying the next time I head up to do the Church of Satire, what's up, Tom Nutty? Maybe I'll swing by their compound for tacos and flare guns. Oh. That's not going to end with a burning ass and second-degree welts all over me. And because you can just get anything on there. Uh, here you go. Amazon. 75 bucks. Dude, I was looking at the same one. What the hell? You could just go and buy that right now. Uh, 410-338-1098. The flare gun. No, I've seen it in video games. Like, you can kill a zombie with a flare gun. You gotta get a headshot. Yeah. It's like one of the weaker weapons in the game, but...
SPEAKER 05 : 1:18
Could you really hurt a person with a flare gun?
SPEAKER 04 : 1:20
If movies are to be believed, and I consider most of them documentaries, Viggo Mortensen's The Road. There's a scene towards the end of it where he's under fire from somebody shooting a bow and arrow at him and his kid. He's got a flare gun in his pack, fires it through the window. He hears a scream. He runs up this dilapidated apartment complex, and there's this dead man in there with his wife screaming, What have you done? And he's got a flare in his chest. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's dead.
SPEAKER 05 : 1:48
That's awesome.
SPEAKER 04 : 1:49
Yeah. Have you ever had to fire one? I get I've popped the roadside flare. I've done that to let cars know, hey, watch out. We're broken down side of the road. Yeah. Give us a nice wide berth. But the flare gun itself, I feel like is reserved for like if you're in the middle of the ocean. Right. If you're in some Arctic tundra, you're maybe you got one on a desert island, something like Firing one of these bad boys off, I kind of want one. The same way that we were given a taser years ago by a company called Taserite, and I went to go show my brother in the car, and I accidentally fired it and shot the barbs into the ceiling of my Honda Accord. It was real bad. Sorry about that. Oh, my God! I was literally showing this thing off to my brother. I hit the trigger, and the barbs went up, and I blew out my dome light, and the other barb went into the sun visor, and my brother's looking at me like, this is the reason dad wants me around and not you. 410-338-1098. Let's go to our friend Dooley. What's going on, bud?
SPEAKER 03 : 2:54
What's up, guys? How you doing? You got one of these on your boat. Yeah, so when I grew up, we used to have a boat and we used to go out on the boat for like weekends at a time or weeks at a time sometime. And we used to go out to this place called Still Pond and we would get out there on like a Friday and we would stay out there until like leave Monday. So Sunday night would be like our last night. And I would just start, like, as soon as we tied off the boat and got it, you know, all anchored, I would just start gathering wood. And, I mean, any trees that were falling down, I found a half a canoe one time, and I would just pile it all up into a teepee and make, like, a big teepee, like, probably about a 10-foot-tall teepee. And when you lit it, it would be like a 30-, 40-foot bonfire. And I used to soak it in gasoline and then take the gas back to the boat, and then I'd take a flare gun or just a roadside flare like you said, and that's what I would light it with.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:54
Yeah, that tracks, bud, from our prior calls with you. If anybody gave me the story first and then said, hey, guess what caller did this? First answer, Doley would be the one that fired a flare gun into a 10-foot-tall gasoline-soaked pile of driftwood. If you ever want to watch a really, really funny video, and by funny, I mean I think a man died, there is a video of a guy that builds the gas bonfire. Guy, you seen that? I think it's called the gas bonfire. Thank you, Doley.
SPEAKER 05 : 4:20
Puts gas all over it. He puts gas on the thing. It explodes.
SPEAKER 04 : 4:23
It sends him probably 30 feet into the underbrush. And then the video cuts off. Because I'm pretty sure the guy that was also filming it is blown clean in half. Look at this thing. Dude, this is insane. Look at this son of a bitch. Look what he's doing. Look at this. He's standing on top of this thing. Okay. And then he jumps down it. Not a sleeve to be found. Not a tooth anywhere nearby. That's a pretty nice hatchet man tattoo he's got. He does, and then he leans down to light it, the fumes catch fire, and goodbye, and he is just sent into the afterlife. I shouldn't laugh, but his eyebrows never grew back. Let's go to Alan on line one. Alan, good morning.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:05
Good morning, guys. Good morning, Josh.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:06
Morning.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:07
So when I was... When I was three years old, I found out the hard way that just because a 12-gauge shotgun shell fits into the flare gun does not mean you should pull the trigger.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:16
Whoa, so hold on. You put a shotgun shell into a flare gun. Now, I don't know how a flare gun works, by the way. I get it. You pull the trigger. The big thing goes in the sky. It burns. The National Guard comes to help you and your fat family who hike too far up into the mountains. But does it have like a firing mechanism to hit a shotgun shell? Yeah.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:35
So it has like a breach action, so it breaks open and kind of folds down, and then once you put the shell in, close it back up, and then it has a firing pin that fires the shell after you pull the trigger and the hammer drops.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:48
It strikes the primer, creates the spark, and then the whole thing, the gunpowder ignites and down it goes. So it's got one of those things in there? Yes. Wow. Okay, so, okay, simple you. You're doing some Second Amendment science. You put a shotgun shell into a flare gun. You pull the trigger. Do you still have a hand?
SPEAKER 02 : 6:06
I still have a hand down one eye, though.
SPEAKER 04 : 6:08
Whoa. Did you lose your eye?
SPEAKER 02 : 6:11
Yes, I did.
SPEAKER 05 : 6:13
How old did you say you were when you did this?
SPEAKER 02 : 6:15
I was three.
SPEAKER 05 : 6:17
What were you doing at three years old playing with bullets and guns? Good question.
SPEAKER 02 : 6:23
Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. The divorce attorney asked my dad the same thing.
SPEAKER 04 : 6:26
So they just had, for a three-year-old, the same way that I had the hungry caterpillar a couple of blocks in the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse playing in Alan's household. You had readily available shotgun shells and flare guns, and you loaded that son of a bitch. Listen, as a three-year-old, I've got to kind of tip my hat to you for even being able to get that thing loaded up in place and ready to go. So, hold on. Who finds you? Does your mom find you? Does your dad find you? Were they divorced at the time?
SPEAKER 02 : 6:57
My dad, yeah, they were divorced at the time, or getting divorced. My dad found me, you know, jumped down the basement stairs, took me upstairs, called the ambulance, and they life-flighted me to Hopkins.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:08
Oh, my God. Okay, so they're split up. I'm taking things aren't already great. No one ever gets divorced because things are going too well. So you're there for dad's weekend. She's like, I'll be back on Monday. Make sure he goes to bed at a proper time. Brush his teeth and give him his antibiotics. You know he's got an ear infection. Instead, when mom goes to visit you next, it's in the hospital because you look like an extra from the Pirates of the Caribbean film because dad was upstairs watching UFC 13 and you're downstairs blowing one eyeball out. Did you just stay with mom from that point on? Did he lose custody?
SPEAKER 02 : 7:44
Yeah, it was a few years until I saw him again.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:47
Well, figuratively and literally, yeah. What type of depth perception? Do you have a glass eye or do you have an eye patch? Glass eye. Can you send in pictures? Yeah. 410-338-1098, same number you called. Send in some pictures with it in and with it out.
SPEAKER 02 : 8:03
Wow, that's awesome.
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we talk about going to YouTube University. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne speak with our listeners about things that we learned from YouTube. What DIY project did we tackle? One way to find out. Hit play!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript We explore some of the messiest spills imaginable.
00:00:00 Memorable Spills and Mishaps 00:03:33 Callers Share Their Spill Stories 00:06:37 Car Gas Stations Mishaps 00:07:03 Pizza and Funny Banters 00:08:19 Worst Spills and Their Consequences SPEAKER 05 : 0:00
Oh no, what have I done? The spell. How bad was it? This morning we've heard Tony Thornton. He's covering it. There's a big old oil spill on the road. Josh, you did... I can't remember how many stories. I'm trying to think of one that jumped out. There was one you did of a truck that spilled like septic fluid. Oh. The bad ones are clearly fuel. Something that's like an accelerant. You get a spark. Boom. Nagasaki on the highway. But there's been other ones throughout the years that have been like milk.
SPEAKER 03 : 0:37
Oh, that's disgusting. Yeah, I always... The preferable spills are like when it's honey. Because everybody gets stuck.
SPEAKER 05 : 0:51
Get frozen in place and that's where they have to live now.
SPEAKER 03 : 0:53
Yeah, or bees. Didn't recently something like 40 million bees got loose because a truck full of bees? But I digress.
SPEAKER 05 : 1:01
I'm counting that one. You spilled bees everywhere. That sucks.
SPEAKER 03 : 1:04
That's like a spill that flies. Yeah, I wouldn't want to be caught on the road behind an oil spill.
SPEAKER 05 : 1:12
Where's spill? 410-338-1098 before I jump into the phones. Anybody in here? You talked about yours, Joe. Will, any... Oh, and it's okay. This is a safe place, and you are past the... What is it called? The limit that the... What do they call it when you committed a crime? That's your limitation. Thank you, Commandant Blake. You ever spilled anything here on the back?
SPEAKER 01 : 1:35
Oh, not here. No. Oh, no, but not a coffee spill or anything.
SPEAKER 05 : 1:39
Not a coffee spill?
SPEAKER 01 : 1:40
No, but I remember when I was a kid, I spilled like a sparkling water in the middle of a retail store.
SPEAKER 05 : 1:44
A sparkling water probably made whatever you spilled it on cleaner. Yeah. Dude, remember Anderson and the 2010 car of the year, the Champagne Ford, whatever the hell that stupid was, the Fusion? And he had a big, thick, creamy, milky latte, and he poured it into... The behind the seat, it was all carpeting. Yep. And that cream and everything, it just embedded itself in the fabric.
SPEAKER 06 : 2:07
It starts to get sour.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:09
It starts to get sour. It starts to get a little yeasty.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:12
It's like the whole car had a UTI. During the time I had to stay home after retinal detachment surgery and I could barely see. He was face down. Yeah. I had to have groceries delivered. So one thing I had delivered was a jar of pickles. And so I leaned outside of my front door to grab the paper bag. And I made the mistake of not holding it under. And the pickle jar just crashed. And I couldn't see where the shards of glass were.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:54
So you not only have pickle brine, which is acidic in and of its own right, but now you have shards of glass. Are you just at that point thinking, okay, I'm almost blind. I'm looking through a circular hemorrhoid pillow to watch TV reflected off of a mirror. And now my house smells like a Vlasic factory.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:15
Yeah. And this was on the porch. So I was on my knees trying to, I had my hand feeling around for the shards of glass. Yeah. And I could have gotten seriously hurt. Praise be that you didn't. Josh, call me the next time that happens. Oh, I should have.
SPEAKER 05 : 3:33
Next time, call him. Let's go to Danny. Line one. Danny, what's up, bud? You there, Danny? Oh, God. Oh, no. We're going to go back to Daniel. There's Danny. Everyone exhale. Welcome back, Danny.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:51
What's up, boys? I used to work at a really famous fast food restaurant. The coke came in big gallon, like big tanks. Yeah, yeah. Somebody overfilled it, and it went into a closet and got like 50 gallons of syrup all over this closet.
SPEAKER 05 : 4:06
Dude, that stuff is so nasty. I know exactly what you're talking about from my time working at a restaurant. Ours were delivering these big, huge bags, and you'd put it up into the machine. Heavy sons of bitches. And they mixed with the seltzer water to make the soda. And if you got that stuff on you, thank you for the call, pal. If you got that stuff on you, it was like getting just north of like Elmer's glue on you. And forever, where you would spill near the edge of our soda machine, it would just be as sticky as an adult theater's carpet. Yeah, that cola syrup is awful. Let's go to Dylan. Dylan, what's going on, bud?
SPEAKER 02 : 4:45
Hey, how you doing, guys? How's it going? Morning, buddy. Morning, Josh. Morning, Marna. Yeah, a few years ago, I worked down at BWI, and a buddy of mine, I got a job there. He was fueling a plane, and he opened up the wings, to fill the wings up first, and then you do the center.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:04
Yeah.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:04
So he turned around and... The wing didn't go to 8,600 pounds like it was supposed to. There was a problem with the wing. So he manually opened the wing, and he kept fueling. And mind you, you can't see the other side of the plane. So it's dumping on the other side of the plane. And like how many? 600 gallons? It's going down the... The runway. All the planes park. The runway. Not the runway, but like... The tarmac. The tarmac. I get it. So hold on.
SPEAKER 05 : 5:39
What do you do to clean that up? Are you talking like sawdust, talcum, flick a match?
SPEAKER 02 : 5:44
What are you doing? It's like a... It almost looks like cat litter, but it's like I'll call it something dry.
SPEAKER 05 : 5:50
Oh, my God. Thank you for the call, dude. Yeah, when my son Gavin, he's learning to drive. He's doing great. But it's like, okay, well, you now need to learn to get gas. This poor dude, he goes to a gas pump on the outskirts of Ritchie Highway that you know how these days when you fill your gas tank up and it's got that little metal tab that holds the grip in place? Yep. And there's supposed to be a catch in there that when it fills up, it kicks up. Right. This thing didn't activate. Gas is shooting out of the tank. Jesus. And this poor guy thinks he did something wrong. He didn't. I was like, dude, that's a million to one thing. That's happened to me maybe once before. And the poor guy, there's gas all over him. We got to take his clothes, put him in the trunk. Car stinks. I got to go inside, tell him, hey, you got to go and cat litter this whole thing, which I think it is. It's like cat litter.
SPEAKER 06 : 6:37
yeah yeah yeah uh our buddy uh tommy simbazo yeah if i do recall he uh was getting gas at a gas station this happened twice that he was uh getting gas and just pulled away with the with the things with the hose just sticking out by the same gas station that's an elderly person thing to do tommy's brain's going bad um let's go to another friend here let's talk to our pal gay ben
SPEAKER 05 : 7:03
What's up, guys? Ben, before we get your story about the spill, answer and answer honestly. Is there a camera hidden in the giant stuffed dog you gave Josh? No, absolutely not. All right.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:17
No camera, no tracker.
SPEAKER 05 : 7:20
Okay, very good. You were offering us pizza. You and I actually hung out. I gave your boyfriend a compliment on his pearls. They look lovely. And we were eating food. He grabbed his wrist in a weird way. I did, yeah. Both of them at the same time. And I gazed into his eyes and I said, you're my boyfriend now. And then I ate the rest of that meat lovers, which I thought kind of hacky. But, yeah, you didn't come up to Speeg's at Purple Moose because we looked a little busy. But the morning of Angler's. You should have at least stopped by there and said, you know, later on, fellas, I'm heading off to my private plane. Weren't you sitting at a table at the Anglers?
SPEAKER 04 : 7:53
I was. I was also kind of a little bit hungover from the night before, so, you know, I kind of was like, eh.
SPEAKER 03 : 7:59
Okay. That's a little creepy, but I love it.
SPEAKER 04 : 8:02
Honestly, I mean, I can see it now, and honestly, it was kind of creepy, but...
SPEAKER 05 : 8:08
I'm still not convinced there isn't an AirTag in that stuff, dog. I'm waiting to feel some little microchip in there, some nanobot. What did our friend Gabe N spill?
SPEAKER 04 : 8:19
So, this was a spill. We spill oil and fuel all the time. I work on YASA sport fishing boats. When we spill oil, it's a mess. It takes forever to clean up. It's in an engine room. We've got to clean it all up. It's just bad. But the worst smell is sometimes we have to do major work. We have to take the exhaust off, and that leaves... you know kind of a big hole we cover it up with like a a rubber plug or a plastic bag um and secure it up but sometimes muskrats will come in they'll eat through that bag they'll get stuck in the engine room and they'll die under the motor and then when we come back we got to get it out and the entire engine room smells like dead muskrat
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we talk about movies that triggered certain reactions... and not the good ones. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne chat with our listeners about movies that gutted us. What's a film that has us sleeping with the lights on? One way to find out. Hit play!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript We play 'Sex Roulette' where random text messages stir up an array of surprising and often hilarious responses from our partners.
00:00:00 Sex Roulette Responses 00:02:24 More Text Exchanges 00:03:43 Unexpected Responses and Confusions 00:05:20 Texting Roulette: Workplace Risks 00:06:04 Friendly Banter and Challenges SPEAKER 03 : 0:00
I got some text responses. Yeah, give them to me. We're playing a little sex roulette. People are screen grabbing their phones and sending them to 410331098. Uh, this person wrote, uh, sex later. Now, hold on, let me see, because if this is... There's a name at the top of the screen, right? So that is... So this person sent this to a guy named Michael. Okay. So this was a female, I think, that sent it to Michael? Hell yeah, even hotter. And it says, sex later. And then the response is, of course, at 335, as soon as you walk in the door, I'm going to lay down on the carpet. Jesus. Okay. There you go. Climb on top. Thank you, Michael. Way to go, buddy. Our friend Britt writes, I texted my husband sex later. He works from home. I can hear him laugh down the hall. This person wrote sex later question mark and they got the kissy heart face emoji. So I guess that's a yes. Okay, there we go. This person wrote sex later with a double question mark and guess what they got in response. Double question marks. In response. What? Like what? Someone writes, I've been on six dates with a girl. We have yet to hook up. Oh, this is a make or break moment. Sex later. Shoot or shoot. Did he get a response? Not yet. I'm waiting. That's a make or break. That is make or break, my man. I text my wife sex later. She responded, new phone. Who dis? new ass old you see what else i got there's nothing worse than you send when you're sending a text either i don't know sexy important professional and you're waiting for the response you're waiting for the response and your boy just won't stop sending you like instagram links or memes the texts you get aren't the ones you need like there's a secondary text happening This person wrote sex later, and then the responder wrote, okay, and then he responded back, cool. Cool. Lots of people are going to be having sex later, apparently. This is fun. I love this quite a bit. Joe, did you guys get any responses? No response yet. Do you have read receipts on? Do you know if you've been read?
SPEAKER 02 : 2:24
Yeah, maybe not.
SPEAKER 01 : 2:25
Let me see here.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:26
I'm going to send one more here. I'm going to try it one more time. All right. Let's see what we got here. Okay. Joe. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:36
Yeah, dude.
SPEAKER 01 : 2:39
She read it.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:40
No, no, no. What? Look at the top.
SPEAKER 01 : 2:47
Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:48
Oh, football Tony. Yeah, I just said that to Tony. I just wrote. Let's see what he says. All right.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:55
Oh, hold on. I'm getting the three dots.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:57
From Tony? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What'd you write? Sex later? I wrote sex later.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:00
Oh, yeah. I'm about to kiss your faces. Yes, I'm in. Tony, this is a legally binding agreement. We have to. Somebody wrote sex... I quickly got a phone call asking if I was cheating. Oh, this person wrote sex later with a... Heart, kissy face. So I'm guessing that's a girl sending that. Sex later? Sex later. And then the person responded, was that text meant for me? And then LOL, yes. And then I quickly got a phone call asking if I was cheating and had to explain the text. Oh, my God. All right. What the hell? That's what's going to happen with Joe. They're going to be like, you've never asked that in six years. Like, who is that meant for? That's not meant for me.
SPEAKER 01 : 3:43
Clearly not meant for me at all.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:44
Oh, my God. What hussy did you mean this for?
SPEAKER 01 : 3:46
And the way that it's sent in all caps. She's going to either think somebody took my phone or, yeah, I texted the wrong person. What time does she usually wake up? It depends. She'll probably be up around 7.30, 8. Oh, does she have a cup of coffee? She does. Okay.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:04
Sex later, the response, this was sent to Wes. Hey, Wes. And then he writes, working late. And then they responded, boo. Boo. Okay. Our friend Smith writes, I'm not asking that. It's been almost three months. That's the reason to text. Yeah. Come on, Smith. Get in there, buddy.
SPEAKER 01 : 4:24
You're our Atlanta contingent. This person said, sex later, question mark. Then instantly, whoever was answered yes. And then this guy responds back, oh, time to screen grab that so I can send to the radio. And they said, wait, so I'm not getting sex? First I burn up the blender and now I'm denied. What a morning. Sorry about the blender.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:44
Sorry about the blender, pal. Get one of those Nutri Ninja bullets. Rodney writes, I guess, to his significant other, sex later. She responds, you going to give it up? Rodney, you're being stingy with the crank, dude. Huh? Rodney, old Quaker Rodney, we call him. Holding it back. Come on, dude. Quaker Oats, dude. Get up in them oats. Quake them. He's in a prison relationship. You going to give it up? I want you in a perfectly good game of dominoes. We're playing sexed roulette. Type someone. That's not going to get you sent to HR.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:20
Or maybe it will.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:21
Yeah. Roll the dice.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:23
Just take your professional career in your hands. Hey, did you finally put your two weeks in? Today's the day. Look at me. You don't text Dan. Buddy. Two steps ahead of you. Put your phone down. Right now.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:41
I don't even have his number. Do not text him. That's the challenge.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:45
I don't want you to be challenged on.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:46
Okay, that man is buttoned up. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I mean, there's probably some people down there you could text that to. We wouldn't have to take training. I'm trying to think.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:57
Yeah, a couple of the sales guys we could... Probably have some fun with. There's the one. No.
SPEAKER 03 : 6:04
No, I couldn't do that. I'm trying. No. I mean, you could easily text Eric or Tommy that. Oh, yeah. And you're going to get sexed on. Yeah. Eric will expect it. Yeah, you're going to get D picks. You're going to get everything. You're going to get every laugh. That I want to see, by the way. If you happen to get like a pick back, if you get them all steamed up. Oh, hold on. Okay. The one guy that wrote. I've been on six dates with a girl. We haven't hooked up yet. I just sent her sex later. She has responded. No, no. She writes, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Good morning. Smiley face. Okay, so he's not out.
SPEAKER 01 : 6:44
He's not fully out.
SPEAKER 03 : 6:45
And now he's got to respond with another laughy face. Like, yeah, it was just. I'm kind of serious. Sex later. Tater Tot writes back. Should I say that? Yeah, we could do that. And then he said, can I play with you first? And yes, that's fine. Okay. All right. Good for you. Giving partner.
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we talk about things that we lost in the break up. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne Live in the Boom Boom Room talk about things our exes will not give back to us. What did we lose in the break up? One way to find out. Hit play!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript We share what we've been caught doing at work.
00:00:00 Expense Report Scheme 00:00:56 Making a Job Last 00:01:47 Confession at the Casino 00:03:07 Going All In 00:03:28 Logistics Mishap 00:06:05 Bathroom Popcorn Surprise 00:07:29 Crab Shack Radio Confession SPEAKER 05 : 0:00
What did you get caught doing at work? Got walked in on, got discovered. You know it's a big one, a big one in sales. maybe fudging some expenses. Josh, do you remember you did a story last year about a restaurant who named all of their stuff on the menu office supply items. They had a burger named the printer cartridge. They had a plate of nachos named tall back chair pad. Oh, I'm not a fan of that. And it was so you could take it. and put it on your expense report. You could show them a receipt to your company and go, look, I bought three toner refills. I bought one box of pencils. Diabolical. It's diabolical to be able to get away with writing off stuff. Very smart. Very, very smart.
SPEAKER 1 : 0:52
410-338-1098.
SPEAKER 05 : 0:56
Uh, hold on. I got a couple of here. It's funny when people start to DM you, you're like, Oh damn, they're trying to keep this stuff off the grid. Let me pull this open real quick. Um, I'll call you. Um, I'm going to call you, call you N GPS working for the local government. Uh, the unofficial saying we had was we got paid by the hour, not by the job. What we would do is the work assigned for the day and make that one job last all day. So they would just take their time just meandering through a job that should have been done in an hour. And they're like, nah, this is going to take all day. 410-338-1098. Let's go to the phones, talk to our pal Jim. Jim, what's going on, buddy? Hey, how you doing, fellas? What's up there, Jimbo? Hey, Jim.
SPEAKER 04 : 1:47
Hey, I had called you guys a couple years ago on Confession Monday because I had been, instead of going to work, I was going to the casino and playing poker. Oh, hell yeah. I mean, it's kind of a job if you're good at it. Yeah, Scott was there. I don't think you were there that day, Justin, but Scott was there. Okay. So that's what I kind of, I didn't get caught by management, but I got caught by a whole bunch of fellow employees that right after I got off the phone with you guys, my phone was blowing up.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:13
Oh, no. You timed yourself out, bro. You blew your spot up. You timed yourself out.
SPEAKER 04 : 2:18
Yeah, I guarantee I get calls from this one too, but it worked out really good for me because I ended up quitting and started my own company.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:25
Oh, hell yeah. So it all works out in the end. Very good. Did you win at blackjack? Did you make money?
SPEAKER 04 : 2:32
I played poker. Oh, poker, excuse me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was killing it at the time. I kind of went on a losing streak after I quit.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:39
Well, now you own your own company, so you could do whatever the hell you want. I just pulled into Maryland Live. Dude, you got a 1-800-GAMBLER, homie. You all right over there? You just pulled into Maryland Live? 1-800-GAMBLER. Hell yeah, dude. MDGamblingHelp.org. MDGamblingHelp.org, 1-800-GAMBLER, bro. Gotta play big to win big. Yeah, it's the only addiction with an upside. What's your own company? What do you do now?
SPEAKER 04 : 3:07
Insulation, like industrial insulation. All right. That's good. All in insulation for all your insulation needs.
SPEAKER 05 : 3:14
All in. Dude, your company's even named after a poker term. Yeah, bro.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:18
Yes, it is.
SPEAKER 05 : 3:19
Good Lord. We got a degenerate. There's a fully degenerate gambler. Love it. And I respect it. Let's talk to our pal. How's a home, Dave?
SPEAKER 03 : 3:28
Well, morning, fellas. Master Scott, Master Spiegel. How's it going?
SPEAKER 05 : 3:32
This is a weird one, bro. I'm looking at the screen here.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:34
Yeah, it's not one of my finest moments. I'm not proud of it, but... I was quitting a job. I worked for a logistics company. We were contractors for a file storage company that I'm sure everybody uses. Okay. And on my last day, I decided to take a deuce in one of the law firm's file storage boxes.
SPEAKER 05 : 3:58
So it wasn't an emergency. It was in a box, like vindictively.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:04
Yeah, yeah, it was. And the way I got caught was we were shrink wrapping it on the pallet to deliver it to the facility, and the entire thing had, the pallet had fell over, and of course, you know, there goes a turd rolling across the...
SPEAKER 05 : 4:27
I mean, as I read the screen the same way Scott did, I thought it might have been an emergency situation.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:34
Get me a box.
SPEAKER 05 : 4:35
He was angry. Exactly. You're like Joe DeRosa, comedian, a.k.a. the vile horrendous. I feel like there's a story that floats around this building of an old employee that at one point he worked at a station somewhere and he took a dump on the boss's desk. Okay, I always thought that that story... Okay, maybe you can clear this up for me. I know exactly what you're talking about. Same initials. Speaks, you know who we're talking about?
SPEAKER 02 : 4:59
Yeah, I've heard that. I don't know if that's... I thought that happened here. Yeah, I don't know if that's an old wives' tale or if that's true. Yeah, I don't know either.
SPEAKER 05 : 5:07
I don't know if it was here. Yeah, maybe it was here.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:08
I don't think it was. If it's just, you know, it's one of those stories that's taken off. I'll see to it, but it remains true. It's incredible.
SPEAKER 05 : 5:18
Incredible. It's one of the greatest stories that... I choose to believe. I need it to be real. I need that story to be real. It is such a take the power back moment where someone's like, oh, this is what you're offering me for a three-year deal? And the next thing you know, you need an industrial cleaner. I just feel like if it was here, he wouldn't have continued to work here. And be invited back for like... like retirement parties and stuff. Everyone high fives when he walks in. You know how many times I've seen that guy and I've wanted to pull him aside and go, sir, I know you don't know who I am. I need to ask you about a story. Did you on someone's desk? I want, you know what? The next time he's here, I'm going to have Joe ask him. Let's go to Brandon on line one. Brandon, good morning.
SPEAKER 06 : 6:05
Morning, guy.
SPEAKER 05 : 6:06
Morning, bud.
SPEAKER 06 : 6:06
So I used to work for a board game company. Mm-hmm. And this one sheisty kind of boss and, you know, small company. So we had to, you know, take shifts like every week of cleaning bathrooms, walk in to go to clean one of the bathrooms. And he's having relations with one of the secretaries in the bathroom. In the bathroom. And I opened it up and it was the most awkward thing because I did like the slow, like, close the door kind of thing. But the one thing that I noticed, like, he had a... They had popcorn in the bathroom.
SPEAKER 05 : 6:47
What do you mean they had popcorn? They had snacks? They had snacks. Did you work for the Porker Brothers? Did he ever, like, bent over the sink or something? Were they, like, fully engaged?
SPEAKER 06 : 6:57
Yeah, bent over the sink.
SPEAKER 05 : 6:58
Wow. Eating popcorn.
SPEAKER 06 : 7:02
Yeah, and then, of course, I had the HR found out about it, and I had to sit down and have that conversation. Oh, my God.
SPEAKER 05 : 7:10
That's so weird. I mean, I don't think I've ever... Listen, everybody at one time or another has tried to do the incorporate food into sex bit. A little whipped cream, a little chocolate syrup, strawberry, too. Nice piece of honey ham draped over the genitals. But never have I just had a bucket of popcorn.
SPEAKER 01 : 7:29
like hold on let me let this jiffy pop finish and we can smash you know me can't get off without my kettle corn let's go to john thank you brandon john good morning bud what'd you get caught doing at work hey what's up guys how you doing hi well i kind of we want to uh want a thing in the morning to come here and eat the crabs with you guys oh yeah the old uh the conrad that's right the crab shack yeah that was fun you used to do that out back there definitely and uh Anyways, I told the shop that I had an appointment the next morning so that I could make the crab thing at 6 o'clock, I think it was. And we were all there eating crabs and all, talking and everything. And one of the guys at the shop heard me on the radio and knocked me out.
SPEAKER 05 : 8:13
That's the second call this morning. Okay, did you get in trouble? You get written up? No, they just thought it was funny. It was just a big joke. Okay, good.
SPEAKER 01 : 8:21
That's awesome, man. That was awesome.
Read MoreRead Less
Description Chapter Markers Transcript We explore the fascinating realm of condiments in our refrigerators.
00:00:00 Magic Number for Condiments 00:01:01 Mustard Variations 00:02:14 Mayonnaise Preferences 00:03:05 The Mayo Conversions 00:04:06 Exploring Kewpie Mayo 00:06:06 Hot Sauce Adventures 00:07:18 Salsa Verde Sauce 00:08:18 Ranch and Beyond 00:09:24 Cheez-It Ranch 00:09:32 Unusual Sauce Combinations SPEAKER 05 : 0:00
seems like the magic number three is um eight oh okay eight yeah i guess there was a study done it says the average person has eight different kinds of sauces in their fridge uh those are rookie numbers some straight yeah i'm a big dude there's certain aisles in the grocery store that i feel like over the last however many years have just ballooned out of control Yeah. And I mean that in a good way. Like the condiment aisle is it's it's insanity.
SPEAKER 04 : 0:33
Can I just tell you just the subgenre of each condiment? Wow. First of all, I think mustard was the first that really got on this thing. The honey. And I know I'm not a big listen. I like I like a regular yellow, yellow French's or knockoff. I'll buy the store brand, but I want it just to be yellow vinegary. occasionally I will get a brown spicy mustard, but I'm mad if I run out of regular mustard. You try to have a hot dog with like a brown spicy mustard, it's not the business.
SPEAKER 05 : 1:01
So you're going to hot dog, just standard yellow mustard, right? Then you got the spicy brown, then you got like the whole grain mustard, then you got the honey mustard. English mustard. Dijon mustard. Isn't there like, is Dijon, doesn't it have like white wine in it or something like that? Yeah, the mustards are all over the place. The ketchup's Weird ketchups are not for me. Yeah, I don't do weird ketchups.
SPEAKER 04 : 1:23
I dance to the regular ketchup. You've got to get standard Heinz ketchup. You start that fancy ketchup. You ever get fancy ketchup at a place? No, what is this fancy ketchup? It's called fancy ketchup. It's not fancy. It's actually the opposite of fancy. It's a downgraded ketchup.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:40
That's what it is. It's like generic, but they just call it fancy. And with the Heinz ketchup, do you keep it upside down? Yeah, yeah. See, and I do as well, but I'm always afraid it'll accidentally tip over.
SPEAKER 04 : 1:54
If I open the door too quickly, you don't get the you don't have the new ones, the squeeze bottle. I do flat like that.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:00
I do. But the you know, going as far as you when you you're moving up in the ketchup bottle, it does widen. So I am I do. My fear is still there. It is consistent.
SPEAKER 04 : 2:14
Now, the thing I do splurge on, I'll be honest with you, I like a variety of mayonnaises. Really? I'm a strong mayonnaise guy.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:22
All right, so let's go. First of all, they say eight, so you got ketchup, right? Everyone got ketchup. We all have mustard. We all got mustard.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:28
I don't have mustard.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:29
You don't have mustard?
SPEAKER 02 : 2:30
You're not a mustard guy? I am. The honey mustard must. I just, for some reason, I keep forgetting to buy it. And the mayo, I saw a commercial last night for mayo with turkey, and now I want it. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:41
Turkey, dude. A turkey sandwich with mayo and salt and pepper is like heaven on earth.
SPEAKER 04 : 2:46
I love mayo on almost any sandwich outside of a hot dog. But for burgers, it's mayo with a little bit of mustard for me. No ketchup on a burger? I don't do ketchup on a burger. What? I don't do ketchup on a burger.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:58
I don't eat it. All right. See, I'm going ketchup, mustard, mayo. I'm going to go BBQ, right? Let's not get nice for mayo.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:05
What kind of mayo do you do?
SPEAKER 05 : 3:07
Well, it's so funny you say that because my whole life I was a Hellman's guy and then Dukes did something. Dukes brainwashed me somehow. Dukes brainwashed me. I was like, you know what? Top notch. I go, let me try Dukes. And then all of a sudden, next thing I know, I'm a Dukes household and not a Hellman's household anymore.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:24
I had to break my household. My old lady, she was a miracle whip person. But that's not even mayo. That's what I said. This isn't mayonnaise. This is not mayonnaise. It's not.
SPEAKER 05 : 3:35
This is not mayonnaise. It's got like an extra tang to it.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:38
Yeah, it's not good.
SPEAKER 05 : 3:39
Sometimes the tang can be too much.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:40
The Kewpie mayo. What? Kewpie mayo. You had this? No.
SPEAKER 05 : 3:44
What the hell are you talking about, bro? Yeah, 410-338-1098. Give us a call. She used to text you. You're a big condiment household. How many do you have? And what's the weird outline condiment?
SPEAKER 03 : 3:54
Like, what is Kewpie mayo? So I think it's like an Asian-based mayo. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We talked about this. It's just regular mayonnaise, but they put a little bit of MSG in it. It tastes just like mayo, but with a hint of MSG.
SPEAKER 05 : 4:06
Yeah, by the way, MSG is not the devil you think it is.
SPEAKER 04 : 4:09
I like the Duke's pickle mayonnaise.
SPEAKER 05 : 4:12
Yeah, so I was going to say, so you have different mayos that you like.
SPEAKER 04 : 4:17
Yes, I like a variety of mayos when possible. Duke's Standard is what I love. But then a Duke's pickle mayo? They do have pickle mayo. where it's got a little bit of salty dill in there with it. It's very nice. Dare I say, sometimes I just want to take it out and have a little baby carrot in there, dip it in there, get it right out the dukes. What about Frank's Red Hot? I love a Frank's Red Hot. Now, hot sauces, I got a lot of hot sauces. You do.
SPEAKER 05 : 4:42
I've come to the realization that I just do not like hot sauces. I think I do, but I don't. Like, I watched that show, that Hot Ones with the hot wings, and they got all those fancy, like, hot sauces, and they all have different flavors. Like, not a big hot sauce guy. I'm just like, I like Frank's. It provides a nice little tang. But that's, like, as far as I'll go. I don't really need anything other than that.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:02
Here's my jam right here. This is the one.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:04
Sriracha, of course. Sriracha's good.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:06
This right here, the El Yateco. Yucateco? This is my jam. That's my good green sauce. Yeah, yeah, that bright green one.
SPEAKER 05 : 5:13
It looks like... Yeah, yeah, they have that at all the taco joints.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:15
That is... Now, is that hot?
SPEAKER 05 : 5:16
What is that made out of? Habanero?
SPEAKER 04 : 5:18
It's a habanero hot. It is. And I don't go hotter than habanero hot. That's where I like to be. Stop at habanero. I stop there. I'm not... Don't give me – if you bring like ghost pepper and stuff, have I done it? Yeah, but it's not pleasant. That's what I mean.
SPEAKER 05 : 5:31
When it gets to the point where you can't enjoy the food, you're like, what is even the point?
SPEAKER 04 : 5:33
Yes. I don't get it. What you got, Will?
SPEAKER 01 : 5:36
Have you guys had the – a caller called in. He unfortunately dropped off. Have you had the Old Bay hot sauce?
SPEAKER 04 : 5:41
Yeah, it's okay. I find it a little bit salty. It's too salty, but it's not bad.
SPEAKER 05 : 5:47
What about – are we including salad dressings in this?
SPEAKER 02 : 5:52
Oh, I like Russian dressing, ranch dressing.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:56
My other go-to hot sauce before we get off hot sauce. Oh, please. You said Frank's Red Hot. It's okay, but if you're asking me for that level of hot sauces, I like Crystal's. Crystal's hot sauce is the best.
SPEAKER 05 : 6:06
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a little Louisiana.
SPEAKER 04 : 6:09
Get a little Louisiana. Get a little slang up in you.
SPEAKER 05 : 6:13
Line one, we have Sam. Sam has bringing one to the table. Yum Yum Sauce? That's right. Yum, yum, baby.
SPEAKER 04 : 6:21
What the heck is yum, yum sauce? That's what they put on, like, the hibachi grill. That's that, like, yellow stuff.
SPEAKER 07 : 6:26
Yeah, yeah. It's in the Asian aisle. But, yeah, it's good on fried rice and anything. Chicken nuggets is the bomb.
SPEAKER 04 : 6:32
I want to believe that yum, yum sauce comes from, like, they milk something that we don't know. Like an animal. Like a platypus milk. It's just yum, yum.
SPEAKER 03 : 6:40
It's like a mix of. Yum, yum. Exactly. It's a mix of what?
SPEAKER 05 : 6:44
It looks kind of like mayo-y, but what is the flavor profile?
SPEAKER 03 : 6:49
I think it's like mayo with a hit of sriracha in it, and they just mix it up. Oh, is it a spicy mayo, basically? I mean, a little bit, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 : 6:55
I've never gotten the actual yum-yum sauce, but I have made a close substitute. We make rice at the house. What I'll do, we got the Chick-fil-A sauce, like the actual store-bought Chick-fil-A sauce. Dude, don't look at the calories on that thing. Ew. Oh, no, no, no. But if you have white rice and you just do a squirt of it, it's very similar to a yum-yum sauce. Yeah, yeah. The profile is real close.
SPEAKER 05 : 7:18
I do this one. It's in the Mexican aisle, like over by the Mexican Foods. It is the Old El Paso Creamy Salsa Verde Sauce. Have you had that? Oh, dude, a little green, creamy salsa verde sauce, and it's like a little bit of spice to it, but a nice creamy coolness to it. Oh, dude, that's the best.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:38
I'm getting personal texts about sauces right now. Well, give me some sauces. This is shout-out Jeff. What's up, Jeff? What's Jeff working with? Jeff, he said, don't forget about them Kinder sauces, teriyaki and Japanese barbecue of course.
SPEAKER 05 : 7:51
I do the Kinder Rubs. I do the Kinder Rubs a lot. I haven't done the sauces. Oh, yeah, we haven't even gone down. Like the barbecue sauce? Oh, my God. Like Sweet Baby Ray's. Yeah, that's the one. You got the Kinder ones. I started doing the sugar-free ones that's got the guy's face on it. I can't remember his name. Stubbs? No, not Stubbs, not Newman. It's like L.L. George or something like that, but there's sugar. Oh, dude, barbecue?
SPEAKER 04 : 8:14
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 : 8:14
Hell, yeah. Trader Joe's is where you're going to get it. I hear Trader Joe's has got a lot of good sauces.
SPEAKER 04 : 8:18
The sauce game at TJ's? Yeah. There's a teriyaki one that comes in like a little squirt bottle, and man, you make a little stir fry in the pan, you know, and then hit it with that at the end. I like to throw in the teriyaki meatballs in there. You heat them up, a little bit of rice, and then throw that teriyaki on it. Oh! Good stuff.
SPEAKER 05 : 8:37
Dude, you're getting me going right now. Let's go to Lair Bear line two, and then we'll jump here. Lair Bear, you're bringing, what are you bringing, ranch to the table? Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 : 8:45
It's a Cheez-It flavored ranch. I'd never seen it before. I was up in Sandusky, Ohio last summer, and I saw it at a grocery store, and I was like, ah, I bet my kid will like this.
SPEAKER 05 : 8:55
Wait, so it's ranch dressing, but it's Cheez-It flavored ranch dressing? Look at this. Yeah. Oh, my God. Oh, my gosh. I'm not a big ranch guy, but my kid loves it. Oh, my God. Well, I love Cheez-Its. Cheez-Its are the greatest snack on the planet. Ranch, I could take it or leave it. You know what I mean? I'm fine dipping a carrot in here every now and then, but I'm not a huge ranch guy. No, I'm blue cheese. I would be a blue cheese guy if I needed something. Oh, I got horseradish.
SPEAKER 04 : 9:24
You got a little horseradish in your fridge? I love horseradish. Nobody else in my life likes horseradish.
SPEAKER 05 : 9:28
It's good to, like you said, maybe mix it with a little mayo, make like a tiger sauce.
SPEAKER 04 : 9:32
I love a good tiger.
SPEAKER 05 : 9:33
sauce man gosh shout outs shout outs uh smokies my favorite spot up in eldersburg so yeah the uh this all comes from a study that says uh eight different kinds of sauces is the average uh in the fridge french fries with tartar sauce pickles and buffalo sauce ramen noodles with ranch some weird combos buffalo sauce and peanut butter apparently is a thing Macaroni with Worcestershire sauce. Honey mustard with pita bread. I mean, why the hell not?
SPEAKER 04 : 10:01
That sounds pretty good.
SPEAKER 05 : 10:03
There you go. That's your Sauce Talk.
Read MoreRead Less
Description Chapter Markers Transcript Join us as we delve into the unpredictable world of online dating, where the line between pleasure and peril is often blurred. In this episode, we swap stories about Tinder hookups that didn't go quite as planned and hear about unexpected romances that blossomed out of seemingly one-time encounters. As technology reshapes the landscape of modern relationships, we share cringy tales and heartfelt moments that prove love will always find a way to surprise us. From hilarious mishaps to genuine connections, our listeners call in with their wildest stories, illustrating the sometimes chaotic yet deeply human experience of finding love online. Whether it's a tinder one-nighter that turned into a nine-month relationship or hiding in a basement while trying to date discreetly, these stories highlight the diverse paths love can take. Join us behind the curtain for a candid and often comedic exploration of digital dating mishaps and triumphs. But it's not all laughs and love affairs; we also touch on the moments that stir our emotions. In a light-hearted interlude, we discuss those unexpected bursts of emotion that catch us off guard, from triumphant victories that moved us to tears to the simple joys of an old song resonating during a moment of reflection. We reflect on the power of feeling deeply, sharing laughs and tears as we explore the full spectrum of human emotion.
00:00:00 Hooking Up on Dating Apps 00:06:09 Jake's Sneaky Basement Encounter 00:09:21 Tears of Joy 00:16:17 Clubs and Unique Experiences SPEAKER 07 : 0:00
You see, back in my day, if you wanted to meet a girl online, you had to do it in an MSN chat room and lie about your age and your shape and your hair color and your financial status. Yeah, we had ourselves a discussion about hooking up on dating apps. This all comes from a story Josh does about how Gen Z... has taken over um tinder and sort of gotten it back to what it was originally intended to be which was a dating site to meet people start a relationship and then the disgusting older generations got a hold of it and just turn it into some weird sort of weird online smash casino where you just gamble. Who knows if we're going to get a psychopath that shows up at the front door? Who knows if they're going to be 100 or 400 pounds? Who knows if they're really going to be the gender that they said they were? And with those apps, you can never quite smell what they're like. So we opened up the phone lines, talked to you, shared some great texts, great tweets, cringy stories about some of those one-night-stand hookups that might have turned into lifetime love, might have turned into children, Or in one guy's case, turned out to be hooking up with a girl where the sex was bad, the conversation was worse, and then they got stuck together for days and days and days. And it seems like the premier app these days, we kept saying Tinder, we got so many people talking about Hinge. Maybe we'll do a follow-up about Hinge horror stories. But we discussed your dating hookups one night stands online on Behind the Curtain. yeah i'm getting messages i'm getting calls texts and tweets ralph what's up pal had a few of those tinder one-nighters we're asking you for 10 3 3 8 10 98 did you have a one and done from the dating app we're saying tinder we'll take him uh him uh one was a complete nightmare she did not look anything like her pictures she looked like sloth from the goonies oh But the bedroom time was a 10 out of 10. They try harder. Much, much harder. Where's my other buddy here? Hold on. I got to give him credit where credit is due. What's up, Phil? He goes, yep. Had a random basically online dating app hookup in college. Huge blizzard hits. I'm stuck there. Oh, no. I'm stuck, and it's an away game. I'm at her place.
SPEAKER 09 : 2:23
Is that a good thing or a bad thing, being stuck?
SPEAKER 07 : 2:25
Share to bed with her. Zero chemistry. Horrible conversation. No more sex. Do not recommend. Stuck in this girl's sorority house. After a bad night of sex, you go outside. You open the front door. There's two feet of snow. You're going nowhere. I'm hiking. I don't care. I'm out of there. I'm getting out of there.
SPEAKER 01 : 2:45
i'm fashioning boots i'm stealing a girl's uggs let's talk to who's been for a little bit let's talk to jp jp good morning talking about those dating app one night stands how to go um i went great actually it's the only time i had it happen i got divorced and waited it's like my first attempt to go back on the scene and uh she spent the night i didn't kick her out and then nine months later yeah we were still together uh she wanted to get married so i kind of ended it but um
SPEAKER 09 : 3:13
You got a good nine months out of it, though, huh?
SPEAKER 01 : 3:16
Yeah, I mean, I didn't expect anything out of it. And about three months into it, she said, did you think it was going to be a one-night stand? I said, yeah, did you? She goes, yeah. Well, I didn't. So it's time to work it out.
SPEAKER 09 : 3:29
Hey, that's nice. I like that. You got a little bit of love, a little bit of romance out of it. When she showed up, did she look like what she thought she was going to look like?
SPEAKER 01 : 3:37
better. She was, like, really in shape, really built, and I was in shape and looked like my picture. She looked better than her picture. Wow! And she had a great attitude about everything. I mean, it was easy. Like, I don't... She wasn't easy, but the whole thing was easy.
SPEAKER 09 : 3:51
Yeah, there's a... That seems like a rare.
SPEAKER 07 : 3:53
That is a rare, and there's... Someone I know, I'll leave it at that, but when Rib Eye Reese called up, we were trying to help him massage his dating profile. Come on, add that one pic. Change that one sentence. We're working it out. We've had friends, hell, Rob Mayer helped the guy change his dating profile to such a degree, the next date he went on, married her. He got married. Scott Apple. The story of Scott Apple. When Rob's in next, tell him about, ask him about him changing a guy's profile, and it and it worked to the point where dude got married uh i know someone that i've seen her profile before and she's a lovely woman they're the worst pictures of her i've ever seen she's like hiking she's like sweaty in the yard that i was like yeah you're listen she's way better she's way better than that she goes if they like me okay then they see me in person logic it gives her somewhere to go i'm like that's Brilliant. If you show me, you know, you at the Met Gala, then when I show up in my juicy sweatpants, there's nowhere for me to go. Let's go to Jake online, too. Jake, good morning.
SPEAKER 14 : 5:01
What's going on, boys? How we doing?
SPEAKER 07 : 5:03
How's Jake doing?
SPEAKER 14 : 5:05
Oh, just living that dream, living. So, yeah, so a couple years ago, I was on Tinder, right? I hooked up with or met this gal and went to her place, similar to, like, the first – Went to her house. The first red flag, she told me, she's like, by the way, this is my parents' house. And I was like, well, okay. Are they here? Are they asleep? I don't know, but it gets better. Hang tight. So I'm getting close. And then she's like, oh, don't pull in with the driveway. You got to go about like a half mile down the street. That's right. I was like, okay, cool, whatever, you know. So we get in there. I'm walking up. She tells me then go through the side door in the garage. She met me there. So parents are clearly home.
SPEAKER 09 : 5:53
Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 : 5:54
Oh, yeah, 100%. I didn't know if they were asleep or what they were doing. So I get in through the side door. She takes me down to her room, which was, like, in the basement. So we're hanging out, chatting. And then all of a sudden, you know, we're getting ready to start the fun. She gets up. She turns the dryer on in the basement. Yeah, we just went, had fun.
SPEAKER 09 : 6:21
She did that to create a noise distraction. It sounds like the red that's rattling. You can't hear the banging if they just think it's the dryer.
SPEAKER 14 : 6:29
Exactly, exactly.
SPEAKER 09 : 6:31
When you got there, the big question always is, did she look like her profile? I mean, were you pleased or were you like, oh, man, I'll just do it anyway?
SPEAKER 14 : 6:40
Oh, no, I was pleased. Yeah, she was cute.
SPEAKER 09 : 6:43
One night, one time, one thing, or did you run it back?
SPEAKER 14 : 6:47
Oh, no, one time. That's all I needed.
SPEAKER 07 : 6:48
Could you even relax on that? Because you got a dryer running. You're sneaking through the help entrance. Ma and Dad are 10 feet above you watching murder, she wrote. You can't give her the whole nine yards. You got to keep it down. Okay. Or did it make it hotter? Oh, yeah, yeah. Did it make it hotter?
SPEAKER 14 : 7:04
Um, I wouldn't say it made it harder. I mean, I could still, you know, get active and feel good about everything.
SPEAKER 09 : 7:11
You like adversity.
SPEAKER 07 : 7:14
You rise in the face of adversity. Okay. How long were you there for? How long did it last?
SPEAKER 14 : 7:21
Oh, Jesus. Probably, well, the sex itself, well, that was probably about, you know, 45 minutes, 30 minutes or so.
SPEAKER 07 : 7:29
Whoa. Okay. That's amazing. Well, the reason I asked, Jake, is that most of the people that I've talked to are like, yeah, I got there at 1140 and I was driving at 1152. Like, damn. Got in. How you doing? Got at it. Now, what's the goodbye like?
SPEAKER 09 : 7:44
Yeah, yeah. What was that? What's the goodbye like? Is it like a handshake, a hug, like thanks, thanks? That hit the spot. That hit the spot. I'll never see you again. Bye.
SPEAKER 14 : 7:54
That guy hit the spot. Pretty much hit the spot. No, it was just like, yeah, hey, I had fun, you know. I let her on with, yeah, we should do it again sometime.
SPEAKER 09 : 8:05
You didn't give her the old Derek Jeter hookup basket? Yeah, the minute you leave, you delete all the, yeah, I'll text you. Delete the number.
SPEAKER 07 : 8:12
Block, shut everything down. That's great. I'm going to say pound for pound, tier for tier, Justin Scott and Spiegel is probably the most emotionally sensitive of any of the 98 Rock Morning shows with your Bird, Mark, and Lopez on their way to Kirk, Mark, and Lopez on your way to Mickey and Amelia, now JSS. I don't think there has been a show more emotionally vulnerable than we are. I mean, hell, take a look at one of the stalwart bits that we do, Josh Spiegel does, called Can Josh Make Justin and Scott Cry? And with me, he has a 90 plus percent success rate. Scott, he's probably got in the 70s or 80s. We bare our souls. Now, a lot of the times these tears, well, they're because of stress or sadness or depression or some sort of awful event that's happened. But we did do a break about the good tears. The tears you cry because you just can't believe it. The tears because you got that promotion you've been waiting for. You got those test results back and it turns out it really is an ingrown hair. And it's okay that you didn't wear a condom on that sex tourism trip of yours. We discussed amongst ourselves and you about those times you had a really good cry, tears of joy on Behind the Curtain.
SPEAKER 04 : 9:24
when's the last time you had a good cry uh joe did we get into you uh get to the phones no i'm uh i'm pretty uh dead inside i don't feel much welcome um there was there was a time maybe uh six or seven years ago uh one of my cousins one of my cousins i'm very close with uh he out of nowhere he had like some sort of weird uh a some heart thing a fibrillation i don't know what atrial something um and it was like he had to get surgery and there was a possibility that uh he might not make it and i was overcome with such emotion i cried i cried when i found out he needed the surgery and then i cried again when i found out he was gonna be okay
SPEAKER 05 : 10:14
If he needed a heart transplant, would you have given yours? Absolutely not. Okay, say you would have. Would you have given your kidney?
SPEAKER 07 : 10:24
Would he have taken it, knowing the condition that it's in? No, you don't want my organs. Yeah, I feel like if you cut open Joe with a box cutter, it's just beetles, tar, the occasional Zin packet that he's accidentally swallowed dust. It's just dust. It's just like when you crack open a sarcophagus. Let's go to Brandon on line one. Brandon, good morning, pal.
SPEAKER 15 : 10:47
Morning guys. Happy Monday.
SPEAKER 07 : 10:48
Yeah.
SPEAKER 15 : 10:52
So, um, about a year ago, I coached five fighters and they worked so hard and they ended up all winning. And I was sitting down at the table at the hotel in New Jersey, listening to rancid journey to the East bay. And I'm older now. I've been doing this for 30 years. And I was sitting there just listening to it. And I just started crying. And, of course, they come down. I was like, hey, man, how you doing? Like, thanks for all of your help. And they're like, are you okay? Are you crying? Yeah, you're crying.
SPEAKER 07 : 11:29
Did Greg Jackson from Jackson Wink MMA ever cry after he had Rashad Evans?
SPEAKER 09 : 11:35
To the end, to the end, I'll journey to the end. To the end, to the end, I'll journey to the end. Out Come the Wolves, dude. Incredible album. Yeah, I would cry as well, bro.
SPEAKER 07 : 11:45
You hear that, you hear a little Ransom, a little Operation Ivy after your boys kick out. By the way, you went five for five with an MMA team. You have to feel like a team of assassins when you come home.
SPEAKER 15 : 11:56
Yeah, no, it was just like I was just 30 years from sitting down, and it's like it all hits.
SPEAKER 07 : 12:03
Yeah, man. Thank you, Brian. Let's go to Harley on line three. Harley, good morning. Good morning. Good morning, dear. What's up, Harley? It says two months ago you had a good cry, tears of joy.
SPEAKER 22 : 12:17
Yes, tears of joy. Yeah, my dog actually went into remission from cancer. Your dog?
SPEAKER 09 : 12:25
Yeah. That's awesome. Did you say your dog?
SPEAKER 22 : 12:29
Yes, my dog.
SPEAKER 09 : 12:31
Wow. So what did they do? Did they give the dog chemo or something?
SPEAKER 22 : 12:35
Yeah, they ended up giving him chemo and radiation. Thankfully, it wasn't too far along.
SPEAKER 07 : 12:45
Now, cancer in dogs can be a death sentence more often than not. So to hear your dog's, how's a little pup now? What kind of dog and what name?
SPEAKER 22 : 12:54
He is a gony retriever, and his name is Rocco.
SPEAKER 09 : 12:58
Rocco. Okay. He's good to go in our mission. Rocco's a Freddy.
SPEAKER 22 : 13:03
Yes.
SPEAKER 1 : 13:03
Yes.
SPEAKER 07 : 13:04
Very good. There's a famous Rocco out there. Do you watch a lot of film, Harley? Yes. Um, not too much, no. I want you to look up what you're getting. His name is Rocco Sofredi. His work is incredible. It's so, it's more of an Italian artist, uh, S-I-F-F-R-E-D-I, that I think you're going to feel pretty good. He has a large body of work. A large body of work. It's the largest.
SPEAKER 22 : 13:26
I'll have to look that up.
SPEAKER 07 : 13:30
Yes, do it on a work computer, too, and then click videos on the Google tab. Thank you so much. Uh, and let's talk to our... Do you know I once did that? Joe, you ever watch Rocco? Oh, hell yeah.
SPEAKER 09 : 13:42
Of course. Do you watch the documentary? I don't think I've seen the documentary. The funeral. Dude, the thing he discloses that happened at his mom's funeral is the most bonkers thing I've ever... It's the hottest, weirdest, most bonkers thing I've ever heard.
SPEAKER 07 : 13:55
If you could watch that today and come back tomorrow, trust me, it's a scene worth watching. The whole thing's good. Yeah. But he might be underselling what happens at this funeral. It's when life.
SPEAKER 09 : 14:07
Let's just say grief can be a weird thing. Grief comes in a lot of different forms. Sometimes it's oral.
SPEAKER 1 : 14:15
Jesus.
SPEAKER 04 : 14:16
Is it this super sex? I don't remember what it's called. I think that's it. Okay. I think that's it. All right. I'll check it out.
SPEAKER 07 : 14:23
I love finding things out about Josh Spiegel's childhood. I love just how brilliantly unique, curious, bespoke, a one-off, broke the mold Josh Spiegel was as an adult, an award-winning adult, all the way back to his youth. And we did a break talking about were you ever in a club? Are you currently in a club? in a club corvette club moped club book club uh weird anonymous underground sex club maybe you're in a bare knuckle underground boxing fighting championship club which someone actually wrote in about that they had some sort of weird amateur after hours on the job site fight club i wanted to call the guy we needed to move on but maybe we'll reach out to that guy who talked about Yeah, after hours, we bet cash on bare knuckle fights at the job site. I just assume it's a construction site. Who knows? Maybe it's inside of some sort of build a bear in the mall. Maybe it could be in a pet store. That's a job site. Maybe it could be in a Ross dress for less back in the break room where people are throwing hands. But the thing I love about Josh is that is all emanates from him is a kid where he put together a club. That was all about him. It was the Josh Spiegel fan club. You come by, discuss all things Josh Spiegel. His beautiful mother, Ma Spiegel, set out a delicious plate of snacks, treats, candies for the kids to enjoy. And then they had a second meeting that didn't go as well as the first. And then there was never a third meeting, which turned into a discussion. You had a club. What kind of club you in? On Behind the Curtain. Were you ever, or are you, In a club, there was a... What was that one group around here that was trying to halfway scout us, scout you, the minibike crew? Those guys with the little two-stroke engine? They look like bikers, but they ride the minibikes? They would check in all the time. I haven't heard from them in a while.
SPEAKER 09 : 16:17
I was talking for a number of years. I wanted a Honda Ruckus.
SPEAKER 07 : 16:20
Yes, and every time you'd mention that, that club...
SPEAKER 09 : 16:23
That's a cool club, man. I'd love to be a part of that. And they got like the sleeveless denim. Maybe I'll still buy a Honda Ruckus.
SPEAKER 07 : 16:28
Just call us DeRuckus. Yeah, we're doing a club.
SPEAKER 09 : 16:34
I don't think I've ever been in a club.
SPEAKER 05 : 16:38
Maybe you should have applied to the Josh Spiegel Club. You didn't bring anything to the table.
SPEAKER 09 : 16:41
I'm surprised that after the first week where the guy was like, you didn't do anything. There was no point to the club that you didn't brainstorm and come up with a hook.
SPEAKER 05 : 16:50
Well, I wasn't so creative back then. We really blossomed.
SPEAKER 09 : 16:54
Yeah, like book clubs. Book clubs seem like fun. You all read a book and then you all talk about it. There's car clubs. There's scrapbooking. I guess maybe, I don't know if pickleball is more of a sport or if it could be considered a club, like a pickleball club. I think there might be some pickleball clubs, chess clubs.
SPEAKER 05 : 17:15
Did you ever see the Seinfeld where George Costanza joins a book club and So he has to read a book, but he's bored, so he watches the movie, and there are differences in the book.
SPEAKER 07 : 17:29
That's the most George thing to do, is just to skip the book. Joe, here's one I'd love to find a chapter of for you. Have you ever seen the Cyber Goth Club? Oh, no. You ever seen these guys? They get underneath the bridges. Oh, hell yeah. They get underneath the bridges and they do cyber goth dance. And there's a lot of stuff on it. That guy's wearing a lot of stuff. Wearing the most stuff. Yeah. If anybody out there would like to have Joe join their cyber goth dance club.
SPEAKER 04 : 18:03
I'd be willing to drive him. I'll bring the black lipstick.
SPEAKER 07 : 18:06
Yeah, 4103381098. Edwin, he was in a math club in high school called 24. So I assume you were swimming in. I mean, just fighting it off with a pool cue. Mathletes. Mathletes. Yes. What's up, Nova? I was in an anime club in high school. Didn't last long. It was anime he had no interest in. He's a man of refined tastes. He said, you know what? It's either one piece or no piece. I'm moving on from it. Brittany, sweet Brittany, love seeing you out on that property of yours and nary but a two piece with a drink in your hand. I was in a car club for a few years when I was younger. One of the most fun, independent times of my life. We traveled up and down the coast and met a lot of awesome people. Like, would you? You go to Cars and Coffee. That's more of a gathering than a club. But are there people there that like talk outside of that event? 100%.
SPEAKER 09 : 18:59
You got those Corvette crews. Right. Like if you have the same car, I would imagine the Porsche guys probably have. I mean, there's what is it called? The Porsche. I don't know. Porsche is like a lot of clubs. Corvettes probably have a lot of clubs. Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER 07 : 19:13
The Vespa club. What was it? What was that? What was the mods from Quadrophenia out there with a little scooters, little zip zips wearing their long trench coats? I mean, yeah, you got a lot of these clubs there. You got the chess club, which I have no doubt Evan's going to probably join, and I'll have to teach him how to hold onto your lunch tray extra hard to keep from being smacked out of your hand.
SPEAKER 09 : 19:38
Now, like a club, I mean, I don't know what the proper definition is, but there's got to be some sort of precedence, right? There's got to be some sort of monthly meetings. Maybe there's dues. I don't know if there's minutes involved in the meetings, but it's got to be some sort of official capacity, I would say.
SPEAKER 07 : 19:57
Thank you. Sweet, sweet Colleen downstairs. She found a little something for us. We've got people everywhere. She has found the Elder Goth Introvert Picnic Club. That's going to be... I think it already happened. I'm sorry. You found this. The Elder Goth. I think it's for old Goths that are shy that want to have a picnic. If they do another one. I will put on the finest crushed black velvet I can find. I'm putting Joe an eyeliner. Scott, I'm going to have you just looking like a Sicilian widow with the lace in front of your face. This is a 10. 425 are interested. Only 24 were growing. Let's go to our pal, Lair Bear. Lair, are you in a club? Yes, sir. Hey, good morning, guys. How's it going? What's up? Oh, this seems like something Amelia would be interested in. She loves these.
SPEAKER 10 : 20:50
Yeah, I belong to ACE, called American Coaster Enthusiasts.
SPEAKER 09 : 20:54
American Coaster Enthusiasts, ACE, like roller coasters? Or are we talking things you all put your drinks on?
SPEAKER 10 : 21:02
No, roller coasters. Oh, okay. We pay a monthly, not monthly, yearly due. See? That's what I said. I knew it. We get... We get invited to, like, back in April, I got to go to King's Dominion and be in their commercial for their new roller coaster.
SPEAKER 07 : 21:16
Oh, that's fun. Oh, that's cool. So they reach out to, like, a group if they need to shoot a commercial. Oh, cool. We know where we can grab 50 of these silly geese and put them in there.
SPEAKER 09 : 21:25
So what do the dudes get you? What do you do throughout the year? Do they, like, provide buses to get you to the parks or anything like that?
SPEAKER 10 : 21:32
No, no, you got to show up yourself. But, like, for, like, things like Halloween, Hollis Scream, we get to go in an hour early before the general public. Wow. stay an hour late. We get behind-the-scenes tours of the haunted houses, behind-the-scenes construction tours, new roller coasters. And, yeah, it's just a bunch of those coaster nerds sitting around talking about roller coasters.
SPEAKER 07 : 21:50
Do you have a Mount Everest coaster?
SPEAKER 10 : 21:51
Yeah, a coaster.
SPEAKER 09 : 21:52
What's the best?
SPEAKER 10 : 21:54
I actually want to go to Poland. That's my... No, no, no, no.
SPEAKER 09 : 21:57
But what's the best you've been on?
SPEAKER 10 : 22:00
Probably Iron Gwazi in Tampa, Busch Gardens, Tampa.
SPEAKER 09 : 22:04
Iron what?
SPEAKER 10 : 22:04
What's it called? Iron Gwazi. Gwazi? Gwazi? Gwavi, yeah. Gwavi?
SPEAKER 09 : 22:10
What the hell are you saying? Gwavi Halkins? In Tampa? Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 : 22:14
Iron quasi, G-W-A-Z-I.
SPEAKER 08 : 22:17
The hell's a quasi? Hey, don't get an attitude with us. Twazi? What the heck kind of word is that?
SPEAKER 07 : 22:23
You're like, hey, you don't know what I'm saying. No, because twazi's not a word. Twazi before?
SPEAKER 10 : 22:28
The hell's a quasi?
SPEAKER 07 : 22:30
What makes it so good? It's wild looking.
SPEAKER 10 : 22:33
Yeah, it's by a company that takes old wooden roller coasters and converts them like they're hybrids.
SPEAKER 07 : 22:40
It's a dual track wooden coaster. Two tracks, one named Lion, one named Tiger. Yeah, that drop almost looks like it's like...
SPEAKER 09 : 22:51
Like vertical?
SPEAKER 07 : 22:53
Or like past vertical? Oh, yeah, yeah. There's the American Dream Indoor Theme Park Water Park in New Jersey. They had a past vertical coaster. That's what it looks like. It was horrible.
SPEAKER 09 : 23:08
Wait, so why do you like it? Give me the three selling points on the Iron Quasi in Tampa.
SPEAKER 10 : 23:15
Intense. A lot of inversions. And he had two barrel rolls.
SPEAKER 09 : 23:23
Okay. Are they back-to-back barrel rolls? Double barrel?
SPEAKER 10 : 23:27
No, no, no. They're not back-to-back.
SPEAKER 07 : 23:30
Dude, I'm looking at this thing here. Whoa. He's talking crazy here. And it's wooden, too, which I hear is it rattles.
SPEAKER 10 : 23:39
It used to be wooden. It used to be a dueling roller coaster, but then his company came in, and it's now just a single track. But it's still got the wood frame, but they put steel tracks so it can go, like, upside down. Got it.
SPEAKER 07 : 23:54
What was the one? It was, like, it was the King Cobra or something. Back in the day, it was, like, a loop, and it came off the tracks or something.
SPEAKER 10 : 24:05
That was that King's Dominion. Yeah, King Cobra.
SPEAKER 09 : 24:07
How many times do you think you've been on a roller coaster?
SPEAKER 10 : 24:11
I have an app, actually, for my coaster count, because that's another thing with my group. Dude, you are deep in it. Everyone has a coaster. Hey, man, I was an addict for a long time, and this is my new hobby.
SPEAKER 09 : 24:23
Like a drug addict, you mean? Yeah. And now you're addicted to this. I've been cleaning. Much better.
SPEAKER 07 : 24:28
This is it right here. This is a good type of high. So how many? How many? Joe's a part of the fentanyl club.
SPEAKER 10 : 24:34
Oh, I have 150 bottles.
SPEAKER 09 : 24:37
just on just individual coasters now each one of them i've probably ridden you know 30 40 times oh my god that's 150 times 30 or 40 i'm not a math uh wizard but do any of them get you sick at this point no nothing no i don't know iron stomach okay how much of this of your life does this consume like are you consuming some sort of roller coaster uh information every single day
SPEAKER 10 : 25:02
It's a big part of my algorithm, like Facebook and stuff like that.
SPEAKER 09 : 25:07
I never thought about that. Your Instagram must just be all theme parks and roller coasters.
SPEAKER 10 : 25:12
Everything is. My YouTube, whenever I look at it, that's all that comes up.
SPEAKER 09 : 25:15
Now you said the one in Poland is the one you really want to get to. What's that one?
SPEAKER 10 : 25:23
Energylandia is the name of the park.
SPEAKER 07 : 25:25
Energylandia. The one I hear that you need to get to, I'll be impressed if you went there, falconsflight.com.
SPEAKER 10 : 25:33
Falcon Flight. Is that a ride?
SPEAKER 07 : 25:36
Six Flags, Kidia City, Saudi Arabia. Oh, yeah. It's going to be the world's tallest roller coaster at 639 feet. I'm not sure if it's open yet, but it's like opening soon. And that's going to be the one.
SPEAKER 09 : 25:55
So is Energylandia, are you going to be able to make that dream a reality at some point?
SPEAKER 10 : 26:01
I think that that's more probably doable than going to Saudi Arabia.
SPEAKER 09 : 26:06
Well, here's the thing. Joe Stamboni just waved me down. He said he wants to help fund your trip to Energy Landing.
SPEAKER 07 : 26:13
Feeling generous this morning. Thank you, brother. Payday last Friday. Joe Stamboni over here working for free, flush with cash. He wants to fly you all the way to Saudi Arabia. I am looking at mock-ups for this thing.
SPEAKER 09 : 26:27
Hell f***ing no. Absolutely not. Yeah, have you ever looked at one and been like, or is there one that you won't ride because you deem it to be too dangerous?
SPEAKER 10 : 26:37
No. The bigger the coaster, the better. Have you ever had a mishap? Oh, yeah. You've been stuck on one?
SPEAKER 07 : 26:45
I want to.
SPEAKER 09 : 26:49
Rollercoaster Clubs of America, whatever it's called.
SPEAKER 07 : 26:52
That's awesome. Have you ever knocked out a tooth? This is one of those ones. I had no doubt. The minute we put the question out there, the phones would explode. The texts would be texted. The tweets would be tweeted. And yes, many, many, many of you have knocked out a tooth. We even got a photo of someone that showed their lip and there was a story underneath of it. The lip was split. The tooth was caved in. The nose appeared to be a little bit bloody and they said it was from the airbag in their car. I guess they had an early model airbag that when the airbag deployed, basically the whole front of the steering wheel went out with them, smacked them in the face. They were screaming, caved the entire tooth in. Another horrible story that we got via the text we didn't get a chance to get to was that someone had a tooth cracked in half right down the middle from 12 to 6, north to south, from the root to the tip, cracked in half. you could see the agonizing pain of the soft maw and marrow on the inside exposed to the world and it looked painful as hell and they said they got it when a billiard ball jumped a table during a trick shot flew up and smacked their asses in the mouth it was a rough talk but one worth having with a very special surprise guest at the end by the way who calls in to talk to the show not about this topic and it was a lovely time We're coming up. We talked about the times you've knocked out a tooth on Behind the Curtain. Hey, you ever had a tooth knocked out? You ever lost a whole ass tooth? You ever just, I don't know, maybe in the middle of a taekwondo demonstration gone wrong, somebody swung a door in your face, knocked a whole tooth all the way out? 410-338-1098. Let's see what we got here. Let's go to the phones. Let's talk to our pal John. John, good morning. Hey, good morning. You had a tooth knocked out?
SPEAKER 02 : 28:43
Yeah, I was like 16, 17, playing with my German Shepherd puppy, and she came ripping around a corner and just straight head-butted me right in the face.
SPEAKER 07 : 28:53
I could see that. They get a little excited. They get a little overeager and just pop it up in your mouth.
SPEAKER 02 : 28:59
Yeah, knocked my two front teeth out, but I had braces. So the braces were like holding them on. They were like partially in, partially out. And my dad went and got some like folded up paper towel and was like, here, bite this. And I just smushed the teeth back into the roots. And did they take? I'm alive. They're good to go. Wow. So they were popping.
SPEAKER 09 : 29:24
That's why they say, I guess that if a tooth like pops out cleanly, root and all. You can put it in a glass of milk, and that buys you time, and they can put it back in, and it, like, reroutes.
SPEAKER 07 : 29:35
Am I insane? Did you guys, when you were in elementary school, did you ever get a little tiny thing if you lost a tooth at school, and it looked like a pendant you wore, and it was in the shape of a tooth? Of a tooth, yeah. And you threw it in there, and you'd take it back to your mom or dad and be like, hey, look, hold on to this. This sounds rough. Bob, wait. 1980s, I was going through U.S. Army Airborne on the course to earn my jump wings. On the 30-foot tower exercise, I did not keep my chin to my chest like I was told to do. The right side canapé release assembly on the harness bashed me in the side of my mouth, knocking a tooth all the way out. So I guess he jumped off of the thing and the harness right here just right in his face. This is pretty bad. 13, visiting a lake with the family, dad driving along a section of the beach in his truck with a tow rope behind it so he could belly surf along the water. There's a couple girls on the inflatable platform are watching. I tried to show off by holding onto the rope with my teeth. Oh, then you're an idiot. Dad guns it, tooth comes completely out. So you're wrong. That sounds horrible.
SPEAKER 09 : 30:50
Line two, Mark. Let's go to line two. Line two, good morning. Why would you do this, Mark? What?
SPEAKER 17 : 30:56
Well, you know, we're sort of moving towards a cashless society. Yeah. So we only had $100 bills in the emergency fund in the house. Oh, that sucks. Yeah. Kid loses a tooth at like 1030 at night.
SPEAKER 13 : 31:14
Yep.
SPEAKER 17 : 31:15
Didn't feel like going to the bank or the ATM. So guess who got $100 for a tooth and now expects $100 a tooth every time?
SPEAKER 09 : 31:23
You set the bar too high. That's what I did.
SPEAKER 17 : 31:26
And who has a little sister who heard the story.
SPEAKER 07 : 31:30
So wait a minute. You haven't continued this tradition, have you?
SPEAKER 09 : 31:34
I'm stuck there, yeah. No, you got to say that the one tooth was like a magical tooth. Yes, exactly. And that's why they got 100, and the rest you only get... Yeah, I was only on the hook for a 20 a couple times, because like you said, the ATM only spits out 20s. So I had a 20, and the tooth pops out, and I'm like... Dang it.
SPEAKER 07 : 31:51
You've got to tell her that was like a new Tooth Fairy's first day on the job. She didn't know what she was doing. There was a bunch of other kids that didn't get money that night. You've got to get out from this financial burden. How much money do you think you've got?
SPEAKER 17 : 32:02
I've got to tell her like 18 teeth to go, though. Those were 18 magical teeth. Are you telling me you've spent $1,800 on the Tooth Fairy?
SPEAKER 07 : 32:07
Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. Mark.
SPEAKER 09 : 32:13
Well, make sure she puts the money toward it. Put it in some sort of college fund or something. This is what Mark gets for hustling people at pool.
SPEAKER 07 : 32:19
This is what he gets for hustling people at pool. Let's talk to Aaron on Line 5. Aaron, good morning.
SPEAKER 16 : 32:26
Yo, what's up, guys?
SPEAKER 07 : 32:26
How are you? How you holding, pal?
SPEAKER 16 : 32:28
Good. Good morning, Spiegel.
SPEAKER 05 : 32:30
Good morning.
SPEAKER 16 : 32:32
Hey, yeah, when I was three, I was at the babysitter's. My mom was actually giving birth to my little sister there. And I was at the babysitter's house. I was on the top bunk jumping on the bed. And I fell off and hit my face on their hamper and knocked my two front teeth out and split a hole in my lip. And they didn't grow back. So I was three years old. They didn't grow back until I was in third grade. So for the first three years of my elementary career, no front teeth. And, yeah, I couldn't eat corn.
SPEAKER 09 : 33:11
Oh, yeah, because that's how it works. Your adult teeth start to come in, and that's what pushes your baby teeth out. Yeah. And then it causes them to fall out. But yours fell out so prematurely that you just had no front teeth for three years.
SPEAKER 07 : 33:23
This is one of the things I keep in my wallet. This is my son's junior basketball playing card. It's just one of my favorite things in the world. I keep this in here. I need to get it redone, relaminated. But, dude, look at the missing teeth in that picture. The cutest, though. It's pretty great. Now they fell out naturally, not because he was being lippy and Dad had gotten into the bourbon. One of my favorite things about this card here, Joe, on the back of it, it says age 6, weight 48, height 3'6", season highlights, shattered backboard on monster dunk. You need to write down some season highlights. I'm like, I don't have anything. He barely passed it to the right team half the time. What's going on on line three? That's exactly who I was about to go to. Let's head to line three and talk to my dad, Terrence.
SPEAKER 12 : 34:11
Hey, son. How you doing? How you doing, Dad? I'm doing great.
SPEAKER 07 : 34:16
You coming by tomorrow?
SPEAKER 12 : 34:19
We're thinking about it. We're thinking about it. Nice. If we get out of Ocean City in time.
SPEAKER 09 : 34:24
Okay. Hang you down in the ocean. Dad's everywhere. He's everywhere but home. Dad, can I ask you a question? Of course. So your son Justin is one of the hosts of this show. Can you name the other two hosts?
SPEAKER 12 : 34:35
Todd and Spiegel.
SPEAKER 07 : 34:37
There you go. This guy knows his son's program. He nailed it. Okay, bonus points. I tried to put you on the spot. Can you name their pets? No, that's too hard.
SPEAKER 12 : 34:46
Fort Blossom and... Fort Blossom.
SPEAKER 05 : 34:50
Fort Blossom is an awesome name. I'm going to get a second tongue.
SPEAKER 09 : 34:54
Fort Blossom. Fort Blossom. Oh, my God. Oh, Dad. So what do we owe this honor?
SPEAKER 12 : 35:01
Well, it's my girl's birthday. Miss Donna's birthday today. And we're up in Ocean City with her mother celebrating. Yeah. And I'm just sitting here. She hasn't gotten out of bed yet.
SPEAKER 07 : 35:15
Does she snore? I love my dad. Does she snore at all? Oh, no. Dude, hold the phone up to her face. Oh, dude, Mudge sounds like a freight train. Hold the phone up to her face. I want to hear her snore.
SPEAKER 09 : 35:31
Wait, so you said that you're there with your girlfriend and her mother? How old is her mother? Older than her. Yeah, she's got to be pushing 100, doesn't she? That's remarkable.
SPEAKER 12 : 35:45
Not quite.
SPEAKER 07 : 35:46
Donna's younger than you. She's got to be one of the moms in the 80s.
SPEAKER 09 : 35:51
No.
SPEAKER 07 : 35:53
Oh, she's in her 90s?
SPEAKER 09 : 35:54
That's what I mean. Listen, Tara, let's just call spade a spade. You're no spring chicken, and none of us are getting any younger. So, I mean, if your girlfriend's mom is still around, that should be celebrated.
SPEAKER 07 : 36:05
Dad, we're doing a break right now about times you knocked your teeth out. And although you didn't. You had a story from a couple months back where you could have that I found out when you stopped by and visited him. I'm pretty sure I told the fellas the tale, but I need you to tell it. You ate it falling down the steps.
SPEAKER 12 : 36:23
Took a fall. Oh, over down his house, yeah. Gotta be careful. I came down and it carpeted steps and I stepped wrong and a foot slipped. I put the other foot out to steady myself. It slipped too. I went through the banister and There's a dent in the wall where my head hit.
SPEAKER 09 : 36:42
Okay.
SPEAKER 12 : 36:43
That's dangerous, bro. You got to be careful. What happened when Donna woke up to help? Well, she came down. She stood over me. Are you okay? Are you okay? I said, yeah, I think I'm okay. She says, okay, I got to pee.
SPEAKER 09 : 36:56
Stepped over you. Stepped over you. Went to the bathroom. Your corpse still lives.
SPEAKER 07 : 37:01
When she woke up, she had to pee so bad. She said, you'll still be hurt when I'm done.
SPEAKER 09 : 37:05
I'll be right back.
SPEAKER 12 : 37:07
Something like that.
SPEAKER 09 : 37:08
God, that rural area. Oh, it's so funny. That's why part of the reason my parents moved to Florida is just flat down there. And every house is like one story. There's no steps. Yeah. They come here to Maryland. They're like, what are these?
SPEAKER 07 : 37:20
I'm like, there's steps. You got two. It's like a house on top of a house. You have two houses. Yeah. Dad, please move to like a rancher or something.
SPEAKER 12 : 37:31
Well, we've considered that. We really have.
SPEAKER 07 : 37:33
Okay. Are you guys going to move out of state?
SPEAKER 12 : 37:38
Well, that remains to be seen. A lot depends upon the situation at home, if you know what I mean. That's a yes.
SPEAKER 09 : 37:44
Oh, damn it. Are you going heading south to warm weather? You got to get that warm weather.
SPEAKER 12 : 37:47
Well, I have more than just me to worry about. I've got a cat. Justin will gladly take that.
SPEAKER 07 : 37:56
Brother, give it to me. If I got family that's allergic to it, it'll help ward off some of the locusts that stop by to eat my food. Give me that cat. Are you getting married again?
SPEAKER 12 : 38:06
Yes, we've actually set a date. Wait, are you screwing with me? No, we have. We're engaged. We're getting married February 11th. 2046. You're such a jackass. That's his birthday. That's the day I turn 100. Okay, the day you turn 100, you're going to get hitched again.
SPEAKER 07 : 38:31
Dude, my heart was pounding through my chest just now. Oh my God, what a great question, Scott. Oh my God. Man, you had some stories about your missing pet, the lost pet, the pet you misplaced, or the one that ran away. And we discussed this countless times. We've talked about cats that have disappeared for years and they show back up and their personalities change. Or some dog that'll accidentally get left behind at the Grand Canyon only to walk five, six states to find its long-lost master that it misses. And we opened up the phone lines. All of you had some amazing stories, including some ones with a bit of a plot twist. Some about a cat that maybe you found. Someone lost that cat. It came to you. You nursed it back to health. You paid for vet bills. You found a chip. They found you. And then you thought to yourself, maybe, just maybe, this cat likes me more than its original owners. Maybe I'll keep it. We heard a story like that. But there was another one about a rug pull at the end of a dog that had been missing so, so very long ago. And then it eventually turned back around. Or excuse me, it was a cat. And it showed back up. And this cat, I couldn't believe it. It was there. They couldn't believe their sweet, sweet little fluffins had returned. So they took the cat into the vet to get a wellness check, to get some blood work, to make sure their sweet little angel bear was okay. And the vet looked up at them and said, well, you got to listen for yourself. It's one hell of a rug pull. Coming up, the times you've lost your pet. And for how long? On Behind the Curtain. They're gone. Do you feel betrayed? You fed them. You gave them beds, toys. You let them sleep in the bed with you. You never once kicked them off the couch. There's a whole porcelain jar on the kitchen counter that says treats. And by God, you gave them those treats. And you leave the door open once. One f***ing time.
SPEAKER 05 : 40:22
My dog was sleeping in my bed, and he's not particularly large, but I reached over because I give him belly rubs. He loves that. And I accidentally grabbed his penis. That was the first time, by the way. Accidentally. Yeah, accidentally. I mean, it was fully in my hand, and it's like a carrot nub, like a small carrot nub. and he he turned around uh-huh i'm i promise you he turned around and he stared at me for about five seconds like what the hell did you just do and then he went back asleep i was hoping for the first time ever he spoke english like yeah harder oh my god it was gross it was it was just was it the sheath it wasn't produced
SPEAKER 07 : 41:10
It wasn't like you didn't have a red rocket?
SPEAKER 05 : 41:12
No, no, he never does that with me, and I get really offended. Because he's got multiple boners around me. He does it with other people. He gets erections with other people, and yeah, he does the so-called red rocket. Never in the years and years that I've lived with him has he done that with me. And yes, it is insulting.
SPEAKER 07 : 41:32
Not once has he ever been turned on by daddy. No, no. And you're the only one. Hell, none of the other three of us, all of which have given him an erection. Right.
SPEAKER 09 : 41:39
I've never once touched it. Yeah. Never once. Right. Has he ever gotten out? And if he were to get out, would he just be gone?
SPEAKER 05 : 41:47
No, no. I mean, knock on wood. But he knows, even if the door, the gate open is a little open, he knows not to. Because you only have to tell him once. Yeah. Not to do something. And he'll know forever. So, yeah, once he got just a couple of feet out of the gate, and I said, no, what are you doing? And he knew. That was it. And, you know, even if the gate is open a little bit by mistake, he won't leave.
SPEAKER 07 : 42:17
I had the two cats that betrayed me and died. And the one that ran away was Meowerson's, the little black one. Fuzzlekin's the big guy. I would actually open the front door for him. Yeah. He would walk outside about four feet and he would just scan the horizon and would go, this is not for me. I'm not going to last three hours out here. I'm going back inside. I'm getting on that beanbag chair. I'm going to go throw up on the hardwood. I'm dead by sundown if I go anywhere near the tree line. 410-338-1098. James, what's up, pal? Growing up, we had a poodle named Buster. No matter... God, I sound like Casey Kasem. Growing up, we had a poodle named Buster. No matter what my parents did, he found a way to dig out of the yard, like under the fence. He'd dig under it. He'd escape. He'd do stuff around the neighborhood, probably doing illegal dog business, but he'd disappear for upwards of three days and then would just show back up. He was like an escape artist, like those octopus. You see those people. You showed me the first video of it, Scott. I think it was the dog or the cat that had the collar cam. Oh, yeah, it's fun. That just shows the adventures that they go on all day long, like how many miles from home they'll run. Brittany, one of our Goldens, decided to go down the creek alone, followed all the way down through town. Someone on Facebook saw him on the trail cam posted. Needless to say, Frankie isn't allowed to go swimming without mom anymore.
SPEAKER 05 : 43:44
It's not as alarming if that happens, if they know not to go on the street. Like if they know that there's a sidewalk they have to stay on.
SPEAKER 09 : 43:50
Yeah, my buddy Derek has his dog. Shout out, Derek. He's got his dog Frankie trained so well that Frankie will just kind of know. I don't know if they have an electric fence. I don't think they do. Or maybe they did at one point, but the dog just won't. He's got a huge yard and no fence, and the dog will not go outside the yard. And Max is the same way when I'm over in that neighborhood with all the friends' houses over there.
SPEAKER 07 : 44:12
Kind of keeps an eye on you, even though he's running around.
SPEAKER 09 : 44:14
Yeah, he's just like off-leash, and he just doesn't go anywhere. He knows to stay where the people are. He knows there's also food probably involved. He knows where the food is, the people are, the fire pit is. He's like, all right, I'm just going to hang around here. He'll run around a little bit, but he won't go anywhere.
SPEAKER 07 : 44:28
When I was in first grade, had a chocolate lab named Ernie. We loved that damn dog so much. Ran away on Christmas. Never saw him again. Cried about it for years. Kyrie Creek. Follow Kyrie Creek on Twitter. Go to his shows. He is one of the funniest freaking comedians in and around the city. I had a chance to do a show with him this past weekend. Murdered. Let's go to who's been holding. Let's go to Mike on line one. Mike, good morning.
SPEAKER 19 : 44:57
Good morning, gentlemen. Happy Wednesday. Thank you, sir. So, yeah, I had a dog growing up, and I moved to college. My parents were nice enough to keep the dog for me, but they went on vacation once and said, you've got to watch the dog. So I was like, whatever. I'll watch the damn dog. I don't care. Needless to say, I did what most college kids do. I got banged out, blacked out, drunk, woke up the next morning, and the door was open. And I was like, uh-oh. So, yeah, the dog got out when I was blacked out drunk, and I did happen to find her about a week later, but she had gotten into a tussle and a big chunk out of her head. She had to get a tube put in her head for drainage. Oh, that's brutal.
SPEAKER 09 : 45:37
You didn't fully cop to it to your parents. You obviously lied.
SPEAKER 19 : 45:41
Of course. No, I blamed my friends.
SPEAKER 09 : 45:42
Yeah. Son's a bitch.
SPEAKER 19 : 45:44
I didn't leave the door open. No. Yeah, it wasn't me.
SPEAKER 09 : 45:46
You got to find a patsy. Do they still know? Do they know the truth to this day? They might now. I don't know. You just told the story. Mike's parents, if you're listening, he got hammered, screwed up.
SPEAKER 05 : 46:00
Here's a surprise. They're on the other line.
SPEAKER 07 : 46:02
Gotcha! Let's go to the phones. Here's Mr. and Mrs. Mike. Your son of a bitch son is the reason the dog had tubes sticking out of its head. Let's go to... God, we've got so many calls here. Let's go to Brandy. This might be upsetting, Joe. Brandy. Good morning.
SPEAKER 21 : 46:22
Good morning.
SPEAKER 07 : 46:22
Hey, Brandy. Named after a spirit.
SPEAKER 21 : 46:25
She's a fine girl. How are you boys doing this morning?
SPEAKER 07 : 46:29
Morning. Great, Brandy.
SPEAKER 21 : 46:30
So about three years ago, right before we bought our house in Joppa, we were living in Essex and my husky got out. and ran into Eastern Avenue and got hit by a car. He lived. He survived, but cost us $7,000 in vet bills right before we bought our house.
SPEAKER 07 : 46:51
Oh, no.
SPEAKER 09 : 46:52
God, you're already getting ready to put a down payment on a house. So did you resent that dog moving forward? Was there resentment?
SPEAKER 21 : 46:59
No. No. No, he has three toes, though.
SPEAKER 07 : 47:04
But still, you look at him to Scott's point and go, I would love to give you a treat in the breakfast nook. Oh, that's right. We don't have one because we weren't able to get one put in because you decided to skip the light fantastic in front of an Oldsmobile. Thanks. Never mind. We'll just continue to sit on hand-me-down furniture. Thank you, Brandy. Let's go to Brian online, too. Patiently holding. Brian, good morning.
SPEAKER 03 : 47:27
How's it going, guys? How you doing, Brian? Good. This story just came to an end like two weeks ago. But it started in June. This cat showed up on our back porch. Bony, rib showing, back showing. Beautiful cat. But we started feeding her. She finally got her confidence built up. And then we brought her inside in December, right before it got really cold. And we decided, okay, we're going to keep this cat. So we took her to the vet to get her fixed. They did a pre-surgery thing, put her under, then checked her for a microchip. Well, it turns out the cat was from Leesburg, Virginia. Where do you live? I live up near, I guess, Ski Liberty for you guys. That's in Virginia. All right.
SPEAKER 09 : 48:16
So this cat made it from Virginia all the way to you somehow.
SPEAKER 03 : 48:20
Well, that's part of the story. The girl who owned the cat was in college, and she left the cat with her grandmother. Her grandmother told her the cat got out of the house in December, but we've had the cat since June, right?
SPEAKER 07 : 48:35
Oh, the timeline doesn't match up.
SPEAKER 03 : 48:37
The timeline didn't match up at all. So this girl, you know, we've got a hold of her and told her, you know, you give me the $400-plus for the vet bill, and I'll give you the cat back.
SPEAKER 07 : 48:47
Oh, dang, you got the cat for ransom.
SPEAKER 03 : 48:49
Well, yeah. She was in college in North Carolina.
SPEAKER 07 : 48:52
That's a 57-mile drive, by the way, from where you are to Leesburg, Virginia.
SPEAKER 03 : 48:59
Yeah. And, you know, she drove up from Raleigh, North Carolina, where she's living now, to pick the cat up, gave me the money, took the cat. You know, it was all good. Did you want to keep the cat? Did you want to, after all that, kind of get a little attached to the thing? I wanted to keep the cat, yeah. I mean, I went and talked to the girl's grandmother, and she's like, oh, you guys seem like you're taking care of her. I don't see a problem to keep her.
SPEAKER 07 : 49:21
Yeah, see, and thank you, Brian. We've got to jump to another caller here. Oh, you fall in love so fast. This can happen. You get a cat or a dog or something or a child, and you go, I kind of love this thing. You hear that about people that work at, like, Barks or the SPCA? They'll be a temporary foster while they try and find space or maybe, like, you know, the shelters are too big. too full and then the person's like i'm sorry i just love this thing too much uh you gotta stay with me don't you dare pay me an exposure don't you dare compensate me with experience there's a time and a place for that and the time and the place is usually early in someone's career someone's interest that listen when you first become a professional wrestler right out of a great school for example the mcw maryland championship wrestling school right there in joppa You're not going to make any money. They might give you 20 bucks. They might give you some food. Maybe they'll give you enough for gas money to get to the next show. It's not until you prove yourself, you become a draw, you're able to start getting butts and seats and people clicking on links to find out when you're going to perform next. Then maybe they say, hey, you're worth a chunk of this house. I get that. When I first got into radio, first got into stand-up, I did all kinds of gigs on the house for free just to get some stage time, to get my legs under me. I'm going to attend some radio promotions at WICR, York's Hottest Music, on the house because I know that's what I deserved at the time. But 10? 15? 20 years into something like this into something like what you do and someone comes to you and goes hey listen uh I know you've been painting for 30 years you've had your paintings hung in galleries in New York Chicago Miami Los Angeles people have paid five ten fifteen thousand dollars do you think you could maybe paint something for us and um we'll cook you dinner yeah fat chance you're going to be wearing this canvas over your head like a necklace if you happen to have offer us something like that we discussed they tried to pay you with what not compensation with money compensation was something so eye-rolling you said yeah hard pass but pay attention because we did get to one call that was very very very hot on behind the curtain You know, fun fact, soup was invented in 1927 by a man named John Soup when he decided he wanted to drink a chicken. No way. Yep. Look it up. Wow. 410-338-1098. They offered to pay you what for your services? And I'm not talking like a low amount of money, an insulting amount of money, way too much for your services. Not money. They offered you something else. This one family that owns a will writing business had a client try to pay them with a live crab.
SPEAKER 09 : 52:03
I said, thank you for your services. We got a guy on hold. It shows you that I've never been offered this because this thought didn't even cross my mind. I've gotten free bar tabs. I've gotten free food. I've maybe gotten some gift cards or something. Oh, brother, you and I are rich in exposure. Yeah, exposure. Just a vault. Never once was I ever offered to get paid in this. Tyler, what did you get paid? Not even offered. You did get paid in this.
SPEAKER 11 : 52:32
What is going on, boys?
SPEAKER 09 : 52:34
How you doing, pal? What's up, baby boy? What was the service they asked for from you? Flooring work? What is that?
SPEAKER 11 : 52:39
What do you do? Yeah, I was there to do some carpet. I had to tear up the existing and put down new. Oh, you tore up carpet, all right. I did, and I stretched it as well, buddy. But I also was... On the last day of the job, I was in the closet finishing up, and I hear someone coming up the steps, and I turn around, and bam, she drops her robe, and there she was, naked.
SPEAKER 09 : 53:00
Slow down, slow down, slow down. Short and Adderall, Jesus. God. So you're doing carpet, you're finishing up, you're in the closet. This woman, I need an age, I need descriptors.
SPEAKER 11 : 53:13
Okay, I was probably 22 at the time, and she was definitely in her 50s. Okay. Yes.
SPEAKER 09 : 53:21
And she drops the robe. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
SPEAKER 11 : 53:25
I was so scared. You know, I didn't know what to do with her.
SPEAKER 09 : 53:28
But what did the... I mean, the body, everything. Were you like, yo, damn? Or were you like, uh-oh, damn?
SPEAKER 11 : 53:35
Uh, you know, she wasn't 20 like me. It was, you know... Uh-huh. It took a little effect. She had kids.
SPEAKER 09 : 53:44
One of them lived downstairs who was older than me. All right. So then what happens?
SPEAKER 11 : 53:49
Uh... You know, I look at her, and she sees that my face, she saw, she said, don't worry, everything's, you know, she said, don't worry, or whatever, and I kind of just knew what to do at that point. I stood up, and I just went over, and I grabbed her hips and started kissing on her.
SPEAKER 07 : 54:06
It happened.
SPEAKER 09 : 54:07
So you went over, and you gave her the business, and did you guys have sex? Yeah. And was that a form of payment?
SPEAKER 03 : 54:16
Uh... You know, or job like a job.
SPEAKER 09 : 54:18
Well done. Here's a nice little bonus.
SPEAKER 07 : 54:20
Yeah. Way to go. Thanks for taking care of these floors. Let me get down on it.
SPEAKER 11 : 54:24
Right. Like I wouldn't have ever done the job and then like not got paid cash. But I mean, this is kind of like a little bonus to go on to it.
SPEAKER 07 : 54:31
Very good. And Tyler, quick question. Was this did you work for someone doing flooring or was this your own business? No, I was working for somebody. Okay, because the question I would have then is if it is Tyler Flooring Incorporated, whatever, it's up to you. But if there's a boss that's expecting payment to go into the kitty and you go, hey, man.
SPEAKER 09 : 54:50
Well, I said he got paid and this was just a bonus. But even still, if the boss finds out that you're having sex with the clients, that might come back to bite you in the ass. But I guess it didn't.
SPEAKER 11 : 55:01
Everything worked out? Everything worked out. No, all is good. I mean, I don't do flooring no more. I do that on the side, but... Okay. That's a good old story to tell. That is a good story to tell.
SPEAKER 07 : 55:10
What do I see on screen here about a Pontiac GT?
SPEAKER 11 : 55:14
So, I also... There's another thing about it. After everything was all said and done... She said she has a car that's sitting in her driveway or whatever. And I was like, what are you doing with it? And I was trying, you know, maybe even to buy it. But she said her son is doing nothing with it. It was his. He blew the motor because he didn't put oil in it. And I was like, oh, you know, what a knucklehead. And she agreed. And then she said she could just sign the title over. And when she signed the title over, we wrote it down for one dollar. You got sex and a car? Yeah. Tyler? I mean, I never got a tag entitled, but I mean, I drove around on it for a little while.
SPEAKER 09 : 55:49
A little riding dirty action got you around. That rules. That's so hot.
SPEAKER 11 : 55:53
I rode dirty for a little while, but you know. Hey, you don't happen to have any. Miss Brown, I miss you.
SPEAKER 07 : 55:58
Miss Brown, if you're out there. Sweet Tyler. Sweet. How long ago was this, Tyler?
SPEAKER 11 : 56:04
Probably 10 plus years.
SPEAKER 09 : 56:05
Did you ever run it back or was it the one and done? When I sleep, I run it back.
SPEAKER 07 : 56:11
Your dreams. God, I love you, Tyler.
SPEAKER 09 : 56:13
I would dream about that for the rest of my life.
SPEAKER 07 : 56:15
I would think about that. If I didn't have access to any adult entertainment, if I didn't have access to another photo, I close my eyes and I think about Miss Brown turning around. And most other times, my BS needle would start... Like pinging? I 100% believe him. Oh, no, yeah. I 100% believe him.
SPEAKER 09 : 56:34
Now, you were in her 20s. She was in her 50s. Yes. Did it stink? How is the sex? Because an older woman like that can teach a guy in his 20s a thing or two.
SPEAKER 11 : 56:44
Nah, she didn't teach me anything, man. She was on her back. All right.
SPEAKER 07 : 56:48
That's amazing. Nice and soft. What was the height weight?
SPEAKER 11 : 56:53
I'm 6'2". I mean, she was probably 5'9".
SPEAKER 09 : 56:58
okay dude perfect ugly okay proud of you proudy very proud of you tyler and she offered it to you so i will now uh when i dream i will dream about you doing that and then i will pleasure myself to you doing that yeah i'm gonna think about tyler just wrecking i'm gonna give you that that honor
SPEAKER 11 : 57:21
I love the way you say my name. Love you.
SPEAKER 07 : 57:24
My God. Amazing. Thank you, Tyler. God, Peyton Sachs. I didn't even think about that. So hot. That's like the beginning of every porno. It's the beginning of every penthouse forum, the knock at the door, I can't pay for the pizza. Yeah, the rent is due. Well, I don't have any money, but... Juliette, Broken Plate Jewels. People want to pay her in broken plates all the time. Like, no, you pay her...
SPEAKER 09 : 57:48
For the art, and she will find her own broken plates. By the way, I enjoyed watching your little road trip, Jules, up to pick up some plates, and then you had some food. I was following you along, and you had them in the trunk of your car.
SPEAKER 07 : 58:00
It was very nice. Edwin helped a buddy remodel a bathroom. When it was done, he gave me three pounds of smoked brisket and one quarter of a keg of Stella. I mean, three pounds of smoked brisket is really, really good. And it depends on how much help you did with the remodel, the size of the bathroom. Oh, I know what I'm paying right now to have one redone. And I would cry to only have to pay three pounds of smoked brisket and a quarter keg of Stella. The price is increasing. I found another one here. Where the hell did it go? This is interesting. I am a former executive chef. I had a wealthy family ask me to offer to cook for them. It's only in the evenings, and it's only part-time. In exchange, I would live in the guest house. Nice to live. That's an offer I might take him up on. Kind of like J.B. Smoove it. Curb your enthusiasm. Live out in the pool house with Larry.
SPEAKER 09 : 58:58
So that's a big weight off your shoulder.
SPEAKER 07 : 59:00
Yeah. A couple other people say, you know, I've been offered stock options in place of our traditional stock. salary i mean yeah that's kind of that's money also uh the the big one the big one is just food the big one is just yes uh i'm a musician we all we regularly all get offered uh point of the menu we'll get you what you want so joe i'm still not completely convinced money isn't changing hands somewhere This all started from your gig in New York. You're not getting paid. You're driving. You know what I would do not to cause an issue amongst the band, but find out who the contact person is there at the event and kind of pull them aside. Maybe have a side talk like how this come to be. How did it, is somebody getting paid? I don't know. I don't know how you do that with a level of refinement and eloquence to not roll a grenade into the thing.
SPEAKER 04 : 59:54
I was thinking about hiring Josh Spiegel as my manager, and he can audit the whole band. Oh. Legal counsel, management. Whatever you find. Finance. You keep 50%.
SPEAKER 05 : 60:06
You will have to call me a barrister, like they do in Britain. Prestige Worldwide. Famous company.
SPEAKER 07 : 60:14
You're a little boy, a little girl, a child, barely, barely knee-high to a grasshopper. And that's when you had to go into sex ed class and watch one of the most graphically brutal things that you had seen at that age. Or maybe, just maybe, you were gathered around a television somewhere. Oh my goodness, this is what a wonderful movie. It's about a boy and his mom and his sister on a farm with a dog named Old Yeller. And then as the boy pulls the trigger at the end, the entire family screams. Or maybe, like many, many callers, many, many texters during this break, you guys were all gathering around to watch history be made as a bunch of NASA astronauts sped off into the cosmos to explore maybe the moon and the universe and the stars around it, to do experiments, maybe even to visit the International Space Station. And then the Challenger explodes and everybody in that classroom is screaming bloody murder, wiping tears from their eyes. These are the things we discussed coming up when we said, what the hell did you see in school? What were you shown in school? And we had one particular caller, a friend, a neighbor by the name of Annie that talked about a sex education video. that they showed her in an all-girls Catholic school some of those graphic imagery you could possibly imagine. But what made me laugh is at the very end, they showed them something at the end of the awful blister, lesion, oozing, discharge-laden footage to cleanse the palate. Be sure to pay attention. It's gross and a bit of a head-scratcher. Coming up on Behind the Curtain, we discussed what's the worst thing you ever had to see in school. What did you have to watch as a kid in school that made you go, I'm 11. Why did I have to see this? Or I thought sex education was going to be about kissing and giving somebody a proper massage before marrying them. Joining us on the program, as a matter of fact, a friend of mine. Annie, how are you doing, sweetheart?
SPEAKER 20 : 62:12
Hi, Pumpkin. How are you?
SPEAKER 07 : 62:13
How are you doing, dearest? She's one of my neighbors. I love her husband, Toast. What's up, Annie? Annie's a sweetheart, great children, top-tier athletes, beautiful backyard. What all did they make you watch in school?
SPEAKER 20 : 62:26
So I went to an all-girls Catholic school. Hot.
SPEAKER 13 : 62:31
Yeah. Bunch of sluts.
SPEAKER 20 : 62:32
Super duper hot. And we didn't have sex ed. We had religion class.
SPEAKER 13 : 62:38
Right.
SPEAKER 20 : 62:39
And yeah. So we had to watch a slideshow of STD covered genitalia.
SPEAKER 07 : 62:47
Oh, so you just watched junk after it was a male and female is gonorrhea.
SPEAKER 20 : 62:53
It was. And it was so. Oh, God. OK, so P's and V's everywhere. All the things. And then right when you think you're going to vomit. Then a slide of a field of flowers pops up.
SPEAKER 13 : 63:06
What? A field of flowers?
SPEAKER 20 : 63:08
Yeah, but, you know, to lighten the mood. Oh, a palate cleanser.
SPEAKER 09 : 63:12
Oh, okay.
SPEAKER 07 : 63:13
Notice the pustules. Yes, notice the oozing wound on the labia majora. This is chlamydia. And now here's a field of daffodils. Go out here and have a abstinence picnic where the top-tier way to not get an STD is to keep your pants on.
SPEAKER 20 : 63:31
Herpes! Yep, we watched it before every homecoming where there were also signs up of cartoon dogs that said, pet your dog, not your date.
SPEAKER 07 : 63:41
Yes. Okay, now, you heard Annie. You heard Scott say it, and I'm liking to agree. All-girls school. Just. Well, all-girls Catholic school. All-girls Catholic school. Is that true?
SPEAKER 09 : 63:53
Are the rumors true? Not for me. Not for you. But, I mean, just in general, what you saw.
SPEAKER 20 : 64:00
I really want to give you guys a good fantasy, but I got nothing. I mean, like, girls don't shave their legs because they don't have to, and it's not good.
SPEAKER 07 : 64:10
It wasn't like a sea of skanks in there. It wasn't just like you repressed our sexual desires so much that they came bursting out of us at every opportunity.
SPEAKER 22 : 64:19
Yeah, no, I'm sorry.
SPEAKER 07 : 64:21
I'm convinced you've been with one man and that man is my friend.
SPEAKER 09 : 64:24
Catholic much too late.
SPEAKER 07 : 64:27
There she goes. Thank you, Annie, so much. That is disgusting. And that's exactly what we're talking about. Oh, I remember this, but I don't remember watching it. Tommy, what's up? Simbazo. I think he's going to be in on Monday. Did anybody watch? It was a cartoon called Ricky Ticky Tavvy. Sounds familiar. About a mongoose that has to protect its family from two cobras that are trying to kill it? No. Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 : 64:50
This is a series? An ongoing series? I think it was a movie. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER 07 : 64:54
Hold on. I want to make sure. I remember... I think... Yeah, this looks like one of those Don Bluth animated movies, 1975. Yeah, and it's a short movie about a mongoose that's just trying to defend its family from being torn apart by two pissed off cobras. And he saw that in school. And they showed it to him in school. It's about survival. Resilience. I can't tell you how many people have checked in about The Challenger.
SPEAKER 09 : 65:23
It was huge because like he said, the teacher was on there. There was a teacher that was going up. So we're all like, oh my God, we're making history. We're about to watch history. And little did we know, we were watching history. Not the kind of history you thought you'd be watching.
SPEAKER 05 : 65:35
I didn't actually see the explosion. I remember the TV was in the hall. By the classrooms. The TV was down the hall. It was picture day. So while I was getting my picture day, while I was getting my picture, the explosion happened down the hall. Just one more thing I missed out on. Oh. I saw it, dude.
SPEAKER 09 : 66:00
I watched it live with my own eyes.
SPEAKER 07 : 66:04
Here's another one here. We definitely watched Justin saving Private Ryan in high school during a study about World War II. We had a special needs student in class. Took halfway through the movie for the teacher to remove them as they were screaming. Jesus, man. I mean, this poor student that's trying to just make their way through school and you've got to watch a dude in Normandy Beach looking for his missing arm while his friend in the background just gets cut in half by German machine gun fire. That's a rough scene. That's a rough scene at any age. That's a rough scene at 46 to watch. Yelling for his mom. Oh, the one guy begging for his mom. Worst thing I saw in school, 9-11 happening live on television. Wow, yes. Yes, that one. Oh, look, a plane has hit a tower. Man, what an interesting air disaster. Oh, wait a minute. More planes are falling. That was it. They just kept the TV on. I bet classes were canceled that day. Tommy, Challenger movie. That's right, the Challenger movie. The Challenger footage. Memory serves me correctly. We're in fifth grade. Teachers realized the tragedy before we did. Their shock and tears in their faces that they made the students watch something that was so horribly wrong. Yeah, I'll never forget it. Oh, it's brutal. Let's go to Blake on line three. Blake, what's up, bud?
SPEAKER 06 : 67:24
Morning, gentlemen.
SPEAKER 07 : 67:25
Okay, this is very unique to your high school, but it makes sense.
SPEAKER 06 : 67:30
Yeah, we were very rural, I guess, by everyone else's standards. And I think it was 10th grade, if memory serves. It was mandatory. You could get a note, but I don't remember anyone actually doing that. But it was mandatory. They wanted us to watch a slaughter video. And it was like your staples, you know, barnyard staples. It was chickens, pigs, and cows, I think. Oh, my God. I'm assuming you're talking about Flight of the Angels. they walked through the whole process i mean you know like how you know i don't like them like a worker going up and picking one out or in you know in some like the cows you know walking them up the the ramps and stuff and then the whole process the you know they're taking the skin off everything it was uh did they show you the moment where they kill the animal oh yeah yeah they uh and and the just the the especially the cows i think it's probably the worst You know, because you see, like, that knee-jerk reaction of them just going down. What was the method?
SPEAKER 07 : 68:31
Was it the bolt gun thing?
SPEAKER 06 : 68:33
If memory serves correct, I think so, yeah.
SPEAKER 09 : 68:36
How did most kids react?
SPEAKER 06 : 68:39
You know, I don't recall.
SPEAKER 09 : 68:40
How did you react?
SPEAKER 06 : 68:42
I mean, I don't want to say a messed up kid, but I was kind of like, oh, my God, that's awful.
SPEAKER 09 : 68:47
If I'm a teacher. I probably would have been like laughing. I was an idiot. You know, we're all idiots. I probably would have been like, I don't know, laughing.
SPEAKER 07 : 68:53
I'm looking for evil laughter. I'm going, okay, you're just a jackass, dude. I'm looking for evil grins and erections. I'm looking to find out. Okay. We saw that cow slaughter video. Who hears hard? If I see that, I go, man, guidance counselor trip. You got to go talk to them. You just saw a cow get its brain blown at the back of its skull and somehow your belt buckle got tight. Do you now work in that industry at all or no?
SPEAKER 06 : 69:15
God, no. No, that, you know, I mean, again, rural school, rural school. But, you know, I didn't because we had like the FFA and, you know, I mean, it was definitely.
SPEAKER 09 : 69:24
Did you ever take your tractor to school day?
SPEAKER 06 : 69:28
We did, yeah. We had, I can't remember what they called it, but like more or less like farmer appreciation. So like you were, you know, wear your flannel, wear your bib overalls, bring your tractor, you know, that whole sort of thing.
SPEAKER 05 : 69:40
Did you change your eating habits? Oh. I'll have the salad.
SPEAKER 06 : 69:45
Um, I maybe breathe like it definitely is. I mean, I think only the psychopath walked away maybe with like without some type of reflection from it. But yeah, I mean, I definitely thought about it for a while. Like, oh, now I completely understand where this hamburger comes from kind of thing.
SPEAKER 09 : 70:01
Yeah, but like being from like a rural high school, it wasn't even meant to. It was just meant as like like a how to like an educational thing, because a lot of those kids probably needed to know how to do that moving forward.
SPEAKER 06 : 70:13
Yeah, and, you know, I think about it now every now and then, and I wonder if maybe they don't even do it anymore because I think some of it was the staff at the time. You know, they were very – we had two people that I can – like two staff on, you know, that were very driven to that sort of thing. So it might not even be at my high school anymore.
SPEAKER 09 : 70:33
Probably not. No, dude, very cool, man. Thank you for the call. Saturday morning behind the curtain, Justin Scott and Spiegel. In my book, one of the best guests we've had in a long time. Live in studio yesterday morning, Michael Rappaport. You know him. It's Michael Rappaport. He hung out, man. He hung out for like an hour and a half. He's great. He's going to be at the Port tonight. If you want to go see him, check him out at the Port. Fells Point right there. Team Street. You know where it is. And, God, what a great guest. Just, I don't know, maybe I felt a connection with him. I know I say it ad nauseum, but... I am from New York, and it was just nice to hear the accent and see him in person and know that he's exactly who you think he is. Very sweet guy. He was very gracious with his time. He talked about anything we wanted to talk about. I don't know how many parts of this we're going to get. I don't know how the producers are going to chop it up because there's so much good stuff. But here it is, Michael Rapoport live in studio. Justin Scott and Spiegel behind the curtain. Fells Point, a club that we were just talking about off air that you are now frequenting and loving.
SPEAKER 08 : 71:40
It's still Hats in the Belfry right there on Broadway. Yeah, like half a block away from Max's. Yep, right there. Right next to Abby Burger.
SPEAKER 09 : 71:48
Oh, he's taller. Oh, he's taller than I thought he'd be. Oh, my God! He's so much more handsome in person. Oh, my God! Bro, sit down. Michael Rapaport going to be at the Porsche. What are the shows? Tonight, tomorrow night? What are we doing? Tonight and tomorrow night. Appreciate you guys having me. How's it going, guys? You seem happy. You seem like in a good mood. Every time I see you on social media, you're yelling and screaming about something.
SPEAKER 18 : 72:08
It's performance art. It's performance art.
SPEAKER 09 : 72:11
You're roving around Manhattan yelling and screaming, and I love it. How's it going? You guys good? We're good, baby.
SPEAKER 08 : 72:16
Michael Rapaport in the building. That's right. I'm a big starstruck. You're handsome. You're actually one of my favorite comedians and celebrities. Thank you. Thank you. I'm very starstruck as well.
SPEAKER 18 : 72:26
Don't be starstruck. I'm just a regular guy.
SPEAKER 09 : 72:29
You're a New Yorker.
SPEAKER 18 : 72:29
Yes, I am a New Yorker in Baltimore this weekend. I am performing at the Port. Michael Rapaport at the Port. And I like that neighborhood down there. What is that neighborhood down there called? Fells Point. What is it called? Fells. Fells Point. Point. All right. A lot of... Historic.
SPEAKER 09 : 72:44
Yeah. Yeah. I can feel it. I can feel it. You got to go to the horse you came in on. I think it's like the oldest bar in America. That's where I met my wife or something like that. Is that right?
SPEAKER 18 : 72:51
It's called the horse you came in on?
SPEAKER 09 : 72:52
Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 : 72:52
It's the oldest bar in the country. It used to be Edgar Allen Poe used to hang out there.
SPEAKER 18 : 72:56
Was it called the horse you came in on when Edgar Allen Poe? Yeah, it's been that forever. It's always been that name.
SPEAKER 08 : 73:02
I don't know. I think it used to be called ye old horse you came in on. Right, right. That's what I figured.
SPEAKER 09 : 73:07
If you're into records or record shopping or just like that kind of vibe, Soundgarden down there. Brian, we're sending Michael Rapaport your way. It's the second... Best. Next to Amoeba in L.A., it's considered the second best record store in the country.
SPEAKER 18 : 73:22
I got to check it out. I got to check it out. Okay, cool. Yeah, I had a feeling I was going to have a little walking tour. I'm also trying to find... I've had some suggestions. The best... Oysters in that area.
SPEAKER 09 : 73:34
Tame Street Oyster House. That's it, huh? Tame Street Oyster House. That's the one everybody keeps saying. Yeah, Tame Street's a good spot.
SPEAKER 18 : 73:40
And is there a specific place outside of that for crab cakes, or do I get my crab cakes there? Because I hear crab cakes are the thing down here also.
SPEAKER 08 : 73:50
Oh, yeah, dude. There's also pit beef. You ever hear of Pit Beef? Baltimore is also, it's a pit beef place.
SPEAKER 18 : 73:58
Well, did I say I want beef? I said I wanted it. Yeah, listen. No, no, no, no, no. I'm with you. Are you trying to get me sick here, man?
SPEAKER 08 : 74:04
No, man. Pit Beef. Pit Beef, okay. Pit Beef. You got to go to Chaps. Okay. It's in the parking lot of a strip club. I'll say this.
SPEAKER 09 : 74:14
As a Baltimore transplant. I am also from New York. I'm a Long Island guy. Nice. Okay. What part of Long Island? Bethpage. Okay. Okay. But I moved here 20 years ago. I'll say the pit beef thing is a bit overrated. It's a bit overrated. I was with you on that. I was just breaking your childhood. As an outsider looking in, I do love a good pit beef. Trust me. But it's just like roast beef. It's like fresh roast beef.
SPEAKER 18 : 74:36
Yeah, I'm going to say I'm going to say about the mixing and matching like beef and oysters.
SPEAKER 08 : 74:41
I mean, you seem like you're on the seafood tip this weekend. And I would suggest Ichiban. Have you heard of Ichiban? Ichiban is good. Ichiban. They have a soft crab cake sandwich. Nice. Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 : 74:55
If you want a crab cake, crab cake. At Fell's Point, it's hard to get a crab cake, crab cake. Have you ever seen the crab cakes in Maryland? Dude, they're like six to eight ounces. They're a softball.
SPEAKER 05 : 75:07
Nice. That's what I'm talking about.
SPEAKER 09 : 75:09
Oh, dude, it's all lump crab meat. It's incredible. That's what I'm talking about. I get my crab cakes from Pappas. That's where I like to go. You can go to Coco's. I'm a GNM guy. GNM is great, but all those you're going to have to travel a little bit. I don't know if you're willing to travel. I'll travel. Write those down. Pappas, GNM, Coco's. That's like an official crab cake. GNM ships their crab cakes all over the world. Oprah made Pappas one of her favorite things one year. That was like her favorite crab cake. She put them on the map. Got it. So I don't know if you're an Oprah guy.
SPEAKER 18 : 75:41
Yeah, I mean, who isn't an Oprah guy?
SPEAKER 09 : 75:43
Josh and I are huge Oprah people. I reference everything based on what Oprah does, doesn't do. Do you miss her a little bit? I miss her.
SPEAKER 18 : 75:52
Is she out there? She's not gone. What do you mean?
SPEAKER 09 : 75:55
I don't see her, though.
SPEAKER 18 : 75:56
She's always looming.
SPEAKER 09 : 75:56
She's always looming. You're always looming. I'm always looming, too.
SPEAKER 18 : 75:59
Who am I to talk about looming? So where was Michael Rapaport? I mean, are you in Manhattan right now? Where do you live? Yeah, I live in the city. I live in Manhattan. Yeah, born in Manhattan. Obviously, I spent a lot of time in Los Angeles because I'm a ginormous Hollywood star.
SPEAKER 13 : 76:14
Yes, you are.
SPEAKER 18 : 76:16
But I'm back in New York full time, which I'm happy about. I have no problems with California and Los Angeles. How awful is it? Be honest. It ain't bad. It's a necessary evil. Yeah. I mean, Los Angeles itself, it's a one. City, town, you know, it's just show business. And that is very redundant. Like if you're at a crab cake place, if you happen to be at a crab cake place or a sushi place in L.A., you know, you'll overhear chirpings of conversations. They're only about show business.
SPEAKER 09 : 76:48
And everyone's looking over their shoulder to see who else is in the room. Is there a more important person I should be talking to?
SPEAKER 18 : 76:54
And when I'm in the room, that never happens because they're like, there's the most important. Are you the most important? In any room, pretty much.
SPEAKER 05 : 77:01
I remember watching you on, was it Boston Public? Yeah. You played a teacher. Yeah.
SPEAKER 18 : 77:06
That was one of my favorite shows. Yeah, it was a good show. Good show, Boston Public. I had a fun time. Yeah, but I mean, I'm back in New York full time.
SPEAKER 09 : 77:12
When you're in Manhattan, so I'm assuming you're in some... affluent, high-rise.
SPEAKER 18 : 77:18
I own the high-rise. Me and my wife, we've got 25 floors. We go from apartment to apartment.
SPEAKER 09 : 77:27
The thing about Manhattan is when you come out of that building and you step outside that door, it's just... I mean, anything is possible.
SPEAKER 18 : 77:34
It's the best. The energy of New York City is my natural habitat. That is what I love. I don't even... I kind of stick to the same routine, but there's just a natural habitat of New York City that I just feel most comfortable in.
SPEAKER 09 : 77:54
Do you have a favorite, like, people-watching spot? Like, what square do you go? Like, Union Square or something? Or a park? Or do you just go... Like, you can do it anywhere. You can literally sit on your front steps for three hours and just... Take it all in.
SPEAKER 18 : 78:07
Yeah, that's the thing that's special about it. And it's just hard to articulate until you see it. But, I mean, anywhere. I was downtown the other day chilling and eating and drinking an Arnold Palmer, a half lemonade, half iced tea, which I think at this point should be called the Tiger Woods. Because he actually is like half, you know, lemonade, right? Because Arnold Palmer is just lemony.
SPEAKER 13 : 78:28
He is.
SPEAKER 18 : 78:28
You know what I'm saying? But yeah, I mean, I just love New York. And, you know, I'm happy to, you know, be back full time. But I'm also excited about being in Baltimore all weekend and exploring the various foods that you guys have thrown at me and the people and all that stuff. Is this your first time in Baltimore? No, no. I've been here a couple of times. I've been out here. I've never spent a long period of time. These three days, I think you get a good sense of things.
SPEAKER 09 : 78:56
It's awesome, dude. This city rules. It's so underrated. It catches a bad rap. you know dessert it's a lot of it's deserving a lot of crime a lot of murder a lot of still huh yeah the wire didn't change anything huh nah man but like the people are so good it's a blue kind of a blue collar town that's i feel and i feel like you you fit in here probably you know you're very straightforward like they'll sniff you out if you're not if you're not a real real one they'll they'll sniff you okay okay okay i gotta make sure i smell good if they sniff me out One of my favorite movies of all time. It has been for forever. I'm not a big movie guy. I'm becoming more of a movie guy. I'm trying to invest the time, get into cinema, watch it. True Romance, dude. Good movie. Dude. I mean, it's top. Three for me. Top five for me. Wow. It always has been Alabama Whirly and Clarence. Yep. And he's trying to unload the cocaine. Crazy.
SPEAKER 18 : 79:55
Very, very good movie. What year was that?
SPEAKER 1 : 80:00
93?
SPEAKER 18 : 80:00
93, 94. Yeah. Quentin Tarantino wrote the script. The late, great Tony Scott directed it. Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette.
SPEAKER 09 : 80:08
Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, who else?
SPEAKER 18 : 80:12
James Gandolfini. Brad Pitt. I don't know what happened to him. I thought he was going to have a good career. He looked like he was going to do something special.
SPEAKER 09 : 80:23
I think it was the looks that held him back.
SPEAKER 18 : 80:25
Yeah, it just wasn't, like, no one really took to his looks. Yeah. But I had a great time doing that movie. That movie was as exciting to make as it has been for people to watch throughout the years. And it was probably the only movie I knew where you just had a... I don't know, there was just an energy and the way the casting and everybody that was involved and showing up on set. Samuel Jackson was in the movie. I mean, he had a little, you know, it just was a cool time. And for me as a young actor, like to show up on set and, you know, Val Kilmer was in the makeup room or Val Kilmer was in the wardrobe getting his outfits. Yeah, I mean, like, I was, like, tripping out off of that, like, because I had just, you know, been acting for three, four years at that point, and to be on set and have access and be, like, a co-worker with Christopher Walken and be by the craft service trailer with Christopher Walken, I was tripping out. Yeah, I could imagine. But I had a lot of fun, and I'm proud of the film, and it was a good time, and, you know, people love that movie. I feel like it's...
SPEAKER 09 : 81:27
I don't want to say underrated or maybe it's not. It's not. It's not. People bring it up all the time. Do they? Good, because I want it. Like, I feel like I don't know. It's it was written by Quentin Tarantino, but it wasn't directed by him. So it's not like a Pulp Fiction or like a Reservoir Dogs. It's it got it's but it's. Kind of in that realm.
SPEAKER 08 : 81:43
Yeah, for sure.
SPEAKER 09 : 81:44
But I feel like it's – I don't know. For me, it's up there with those. But I feel like a lot of people maybe don't really know. If you've never seen it, watch True Romance. Great movie. Oh, God. It's so good. The end scene with like – the brilliance of like the end scene with like – it's a big shootout. But the feathers. Like, I mean, everything about that movie is just – The Hans Zimmer soundtrack with that music. And the scene where they're up on the billboard. It's very romantic. And Patricia Arquette says, I've been a call girl for exactly one day. And if you want to tell me Alabama, go F yourself, then Alabama, go F yourself. I cry. Dude, and you were such a huge part of that movie. You were the go-between between your buddy Clarence and Lee. Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 : 82:30
You son of a bitch!
SPEAKER 09 : 82:34
I can go on and on. Michael Rapaport, he's going to be at the Port all weekend long. And, yeah, I don't know. Can I tell you one of my favorite movies of yours? Go ahead. Special.
SPEAKER 18 : 82:44
That's a good film. I love Special. That's a film nobody saw. That's a little... I need to get into Special? Good, weird, cool, small movie. I was disappointed with the way it was put out and marketed. Because it was a good little film. There's some other films that sort of bit the style from that and bit the concept from that. But that was a very, very good film. Small film, but I'm proud of it. And I had a good time doing that movie.
Read MoreRead Less
Description Transcript We sit down with actor and comedian Michael Rapaport during his visit to Baltimore.
SPEAKER 02 : 0:00
Oh, he's taller. Oh, he's taller than I thought he'd be. Oh my god! Look at this guy! Oh, he's so much more handsome in person. Oh my god! Bro, sit down. Michael Rapaport, gonna be at the Port. Uh, what are the shows? Tonight, tomorrow night? What are we doing? Tonight and tomorrow night. Appreciate you guys having me. How's it going, guys?
SPEAKER 01 : 0:16
You seem happy.
SPEAKER 02 : 0:16
You seem like you're in a good mood. Every time I see you on social media, you're yelling and screaming about something.
SPEAKER 01 : 0:20
That's performance art. It's performance art.
SPEAKER 02 : 0:23
You're roving around Manhattan yelling and screaming, and I love it. How's it going? You guys good? We're good, baby.
SPEAKER 01 : 0:28
Michael Rapaport in the building.
SPEAKER 02 : 0:30
That's right.
SPEAKER 01 : 0:31
I'm a big starstruck. You're handsome.
SPEAKER 02 : 0:32
You're actually one of my favorite comedians and celebrities.
SPEAKER 01 : 0:35
Thank you.
SPEAKER 02 : 0:36
Thank you.
SPEAKER 01 : 0:36
I'm very starstruck as well.
SPEAKER 02 : 0:37
Don't be starstruck. I'm just a regular guy. You're a New Yorker.
SPEAKER 01 : 0:41
Yes, I am a New Yorker in Baltimore this weekend. I am performing at the Port. Michael Rapaport at the Port. And I like that neighborhood down there. What is that neighborhood down there called? Fells Point. What is it called? Fells. Fells Point. All right. Historic.
SPEAKER 02 : 0:57
Yeah, I can feel it. You got to go to the horse you came in on. I think it's like the oldest bar in America. Do I met my wife or something like that?
SPEAKER 01 : 1:02
Is that right? It's called the horse you came in on?
SPEAKER 02 : 1:04
Yeah, it's the oldest bar in the country. Edgar Allan Poe used to hang out there.
SPEAKER 01 : 1:08
Was it called the horse you came in on when Edgar Allen Poe? Yeah, it's been that forever. It's always been that name.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:13
I don't know. I think it used to be called ye old horse you came in on.
SPEAKER 01 : 1:18
Right, right. That's what I figured.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:19
If you're into records or record shopping or just like that kind of vibe, Soundgarden down there. Brian, we're sending Michael Rapaport your way. It's the second... Best next to Amoeba in LA. It's considered the second best record store in the country.
SPEAKER 01 : 1:34
I got to check it out. I got to check it out. Okay, cool. Yeah, I had a feeling I was going to have a little walking tour. I'm also trying to find... I've had some suggestions. The best... Oysters in that area.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:46
Team Street Oyster House. That's it, huh? Team Street Oyster House.
SPEAKER 01 : 1:50
That's the one everybody keeps saying.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:51
Yeah, Team Street's a good spot.
SPEAKER 01 : 1:52
And is there a specific place outside of that for crab cakes? Or do I get my crab cakes there? Because I hear crab cakes are the thing down here also.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:02
Oh, yeah, dude. There's also pit beef. Baltimore is also a pit beef place.
SPEAKER 01 : 2:10
Did I say I want beef? I said I wanted oysters. No, no, no. I'm with you. Are you trying to get me sick here? No, man. Pit beef. Pit beef, okay. You got to go to Chaps.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:23
Okay. It's in the parking lot of a strip club.
SPEAKER 01 : 2:25
I'll say this. Nice.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:26
As a Baltimore transplant. I am also from New York. I'm a Long Island guy. Nice. Okay.
SPEAKER 01 : 2:31
What part of Long Island?
SPEAKER 02 : 2:32
Bethpage. Okay. Okay. But I moved here 20 years ago. I'll say the pit beef thing is a bit overrated. It's a bit overrated. I was with you on that.
SPEAKER 01 : 2:40
I was just breaking your childhood.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:42
As an outsider looking in, I do love a good pit beef. Trust me. But it's just like roast beef. It's like fresh roast beef, basically.
SPEAKER 01 : 2:48
I'm going to... Here's the thing about the mixing and matching, like beef and oysters and crab cakes.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:54
You seem like you're on the seafood tip this weekend, Michael. Then I would suggest Ichiban. Have you heard of Ichiban? Ichiban is good. Ichiban, they have a soft crab cake sandwich. Nice. Yeah. If you want a crab cake, crab cake. At Fell's Point, it's hard to get a crab cake, crab cake. Have you ever seen the crab cakes in Maryland? Dude, they're like six to eight ounces. They're a softball.
SPEAKER 01 : 3:19
Nice. That's what I'm talking about.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:21
Oh, dude, it's all lump crab meat. It's incredible. That's what I'm talking about. I get my crab cakes from Pappas. That's where I like to go. You can go to Coco's. I'm a GNM guy. GNM is great, but all those, you're going to have to travel a little bit. I don't know if you're willing to travel. I'll travel.
SPEAKER 01 : 3:35
I'll travel.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:36
Write those down. Pappas, GNM, Coco's. That's like an official crab cake. GNM ships their crab cakes all over the world. Oprah made Pappas one of her favorite things one year. That was like her favorite crab cake. She put them on the map. Got it. So I don't know if you're an Oprah guy.
SPEAKER 01 : 3:53
Yeah, I mean, who isn't an Oprah guy? Josh and I are huge Oprah people.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:57
And we were like, we loved Oprah. I reference everything based on what Oprah does, doesn't do. Do you miss her a little bit? I miss her.
SPEAKER 01 : 4:04
Is she out there? She's not gone. What do you mean? I don't see her, though. She's always looming. She's always looming.
SPEAKER 02 : 4:09
You're always looming.
SPEAKER 01 : 4:10
I'm always looming, too. Who am I to talk about looming? So where was Michael Rapaport? I mean, are you in Manhattan right now? Where do you live? Yeah, I live in the city. I live in Manhattan. Yeah, born in Manhattan. Obviously, I spent a lot of time in Los Angeles because I'm a ginormous Hollywood star. Yes, you are. But I'm back in New York full time, which I'm happy about. I have no problems with California and Los Angeles. How awful is it? Be honest. It ain't bad. It's a necessary evil. Yeah. I mean, Los Angeles itself, it's a one. city, town. It's just show business. That is very redundant. If you're at a crab cake place, if you happen to be at a crab cake place or a sushi place in LA, you'll overhear chirpings of conversations. They're only about show business.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:00
Everyone's looking over their shoulder to see who else is in the room. Is there a more important person I should be talking to?
SPEAKER 01 : 5:06
When I'm in the room, that never happens because they're like, there's the most important. In any room, pretty much. I remember watching you on, was it Boston Public? Yeah, you played a teacher. Yeah. That was one of my favorite shows. Yeah, it was a good show. Good show, Boston Public. I had a fun time. Yeah, but I mean, I'm back in New York full time.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:24
When you're in Manhattan, so I'm assuming you're in some...
SPEAKER 01 : 5:28
affluent, high-rise. I own the high-rise. Me and my wife, we've got 25 floors. We go from apartment to apartment.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:38
The thing about Manhattan is when you come out of that building and you step outside that door, it's just... I mean, anything is possible.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:46
It's the best. The energy of New York City is my natural habitat. That is what I love. I don't even... I kind of stick to the same routine, but there's just a natural habitat of New York City that I just feel most comfortable in.
SPEAKER 02 : 6:06
Do you have a favorite people-watching spot? What square do you go? Union Square or something? Or a park? Or do you just go... You can do it anywhere. You can literally sit on your front steps for three hours and just... Take it all in.
SPEAKER 01 : 6:19
Yeah, that's the thing that's special about it. And it's just hard to articulate until you see it. But, I mean, anywhere. I was downtown the other day chilling and eating and drinking an Arnold Palmer, a half lemonade, half iced tea, which I think at this point should be called the Tiger Woods. Because he actually is like a half, you know, lemonade. Because Arnold Palmer is just lemony. He is. You know what I'm saying? But yeah, I mean, I just love New York. And I'm happy to be back full time. But I'm also excited about being in Baltimore all weekend and exploring the various foods that you guys have thrown at me and the people and all that stuff. Is this your first time in Baltimore? No, no. I've been here a couple of times. I've been out here. I've never spent a long period of time. These three days, I think you get a good sense of things. It's awesome, dude.
SPEAKER 02 : 7:09
This city rules. It's so underrated. It catches a bad rap, which... you know dessert it's a lot of it's deserving a lot of crime a lot of murder a lot of still huh yeah the wire didn't change anything huh nah man but like the people are so good it's a blue kind of a blue collar town that's i feel and i feel like you you fit in here probably you know you're very straightforward like they'll sniff you out if you're not if you're not a real real one they'll they'll sniff you okay okay okay i gotta make sure i smell good if they sniff me out One of my favorite movies of all time. It has been for forever. I'm not a big movie guy. I'm becoming more of a movie guy. I'm trying to invest the time, get into cinema, watch it. True Romance, dude. Good movie. Dude, I mean, it's top... three for me, top five for me. It always has been Alabama Whirly and Clarence. And he's trying to unload the cocaine. Crazy. Very, very good movie.
SPEAKER 01 : 8:08
What year was that?
SPEAKER 1 : 8:12
93?
SPEAKER 01 : 8:12
94, yeah. Quentin Tarantino wrote the script. The late, great Tony Scott directed it. Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette.
SPEAKER 02 : 8:20
Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, who else?
SPEAKER 01 : 8:24
James Gandolfini. Brad Pitt. I don't know what happened to him. I thought he was going to have a good career, that guy. He looked like he was going to do something special.
SPEAKER 02 : 8:35
I think it was the looks that held him back.
SPEAKER 01 : 8:37
Yeah, it just wasn't, like, no one really took to his looks. Yeah. But I had a great time doing that movie. That movie was as exciting to make as it has been for people to watch throughout the years. And it was probably the only movie I knew where you just had a... I don't know, there was just an energy and the way the casting and everybody that was involved and showing up on set. Samuel Jackson was in the movie. I mean, he had a little, you know, it just was a cool time. And for me as a young actor, like to show up on set and, you know, Val Kilmer was in the makeup room or Val Kilmer was in the wardrobe. He was Elvis. Yeah, I mean, like, I was, like, tripping out off of that. Like, because I had just, you know, been acting for three, four years at that point. And to be on set and have access and be, like, a co-worker with Christopher Walken and be by the craft service trailer with Christopher Walken, I was tripping out. Yeah, I could imagine. But I had a lot of fun, and I'm proud of the film, and it was a good time. And, you know, people love that movie.
SPEAKER 02 : 9:37
I feel like it's, I don't want to say underrated, or maybe it's not. It's not. It's not. People bring it up all the time. Do they? Good, because I want it. I feel like, I don't know, it was written by Quentin Tarantino, but it wasn't directed by him, so it's not like a Pulp Fiction or like a Reservoir Dogs. But it's kind of in that realm.
SPEAKER 01 : 9:55
Yeah, for sure.
SPEAKER 02 : 9:56
But I feel like it's, I don't know, for me, it's up there with those, but I feel like a lot of people maybe don't really know. If you've never seen it, watch True Romance. great movie oh god it's so good the end scene with like the brilliance of like the end scene with like it's a big shootout but the feathers like I mean every everything about that movie is just this the Hans Zimmer soundtrack with that that music and the scene on the on the on the where they're up on the billboard and and It's very romantic. And Patricia Arquette says, I've been a call girl for exactly one day. And if you want to tell me Alabama go F yourself, then Alabama go F yourself. I cry. Dude, and you were such a huge part of that movie. You were the go-between between your buddy Clarence and Lee. You son of a bitch! I can go on and on. Michael Rapaport, he's going to be at the Port all weekend long. And yeah, I don't know. Can I tell you one of my favorite movies of yours?
SPEAKER 01 : 10:55
Go ahead.
SPEAKER 02 : 10:55
Special.
SPEAKER 01 : 10:56
That's a good film. I love Special. That's a film nobody saw. That's a little... I need to get on Special? Okay. Good, weird, cool, small movie. I was disappointed with the way it was put out and marketed because it was a good little film. There's some other films that sort of bit the style from that and bit the concept from that, but that was a very, very good film. Small film, but I'm proud of it, and I had a good time doing that movie.
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we talk about a new test that men are doing to see if women they go out with are there for the money or for love. Tune in to hear how a man gave his date the "gold digger" test. How did he test her? One way to find out. Hit play!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript We discuss the art of 'short-timing' at work.
00:00:00 The BGE Inspector's Secret Life 00:00:55 Baltimore Joe's New Chapter 00:01:45 Catching the Slackers 00:02:54 Dave's Professional Fishing Philosophy 00:04:22 Jake's College Coach Challenges 00:07:02 Caught on Social Media 00:10:26 Leadership Lessons from Robert SPEAKER 06 : 0:00
story about this guy he's a bge inspector and they come to find out not only has he been faking inspections not doing what he's getting paid to do he's been just chilling out on a boat for years mind you years he's been doing this it wasn't a one two week two month one year thing i guess it's just been one of the worst kept secrets in the world And if you know anybody out there that truly works at BGE, like I shouted out my friend Frank earlier, Keith's friend, Mr. Push, that guy is waking up at like 4 a.m. He's going to bed at 6 p.m. He's one of the guys I think is on call during emergencies. Like if there happens to be a huge weather system and stuff starts getting knocked down, he's a frontline dude out there. And if he sees that someone is just out on a boat, if I'm him, I'm making a fist and cursing that guy's name. 410-338-1098. Who do you know that is absolutely short-timing it? Let's talk to our old pal, Baltimore Joe. How you doing? Hey, guys. How you doing?
SPEAKER 02 : 0:55
How you doing, Joe? Do you have that baby yet? Yeah, he's four months old now. How's that going? What's that? How's it going? It's going good. He's just tiring more than anything. Yeah, man. What's the fellow's name? Justin Scott and Spiegel.
SPEAKER 07 : 1:17
Good.
SPEAKER 06 : 1:17
This is my son.
SPEAKER 07 : 1:21
Brilliant. Yeah, you found love via 98 Rock. You got married on 98 Rock, and now you have a 98 Rock baby.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:32
That's right. Yeah, Kirk was our minister, and he had one there, Shell. And, yeah, it was a good time. But, yeah, it's going good. He's a baby, so he just keeps us up a lot.
SPEAKER 06 : 1:45
So who do you know that's short-timing at work?
SPEAKER 02 : 1:48
So she was my project manager at the company I just left because she would literally just watch TV on her phone all day long. And we had to constantly battle with her stuff that we needed, jobs not getting done correctly, and all that kind of stuff. And when the big boss would come to town, he would literally sit at her desk right in front of her to watch her actually work. try and do her job because she was terrible at it. But she eventually was. quote-unquote, a mutual separation.
SPEAKER 06 : 2:21
She's seeking new opportunities. We wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors. Where is it at here? Yes, we used to have a regional manager that we knew for a fact was watching movies on their laptop all day. How did we know the shiny wall paint behind them would show the reflections of stuff that they were working? They'd pretend to be sending emails and typing documents, and you could clearly see the Netflix logo behind them on the white wall. Dang. That sucks. You know, the reflections will get you. Let's talk to Dave on Line 3. Dave, how are you holding up, buddy?
SPEAKER 05 : 2:54
Doing well, thank you. How are you, gentlemen, this morning?
SPEAKER 06 : 2:56
How are you doing?
SPEAKER 05 : 2:57
Hard-working Dave, we call you. Yeah, yeah, that's what they all say.
SPEAKER 07 : 3:01
What's your story?
SPEAKER 05 : 3:06
Yeah, I just want to give you all this time to skate, and I'm one of the skaters. I go to work, get my job done. Get it all done. I know the schedule I have to be done by, and then I'm out of there, and I go fishing, and even though I'm getting paid for it, I like to call myself a professional fisherman at times. Professional fisherman.
SPEAKER 07 : 3:25
But you're getting everything done. Yes.
SPEAKER 05 : 3:28
Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're giving a schedule, and I get it done before the schedule, and I'm out there getting paid, and my friends are laughing because I got time to shut up while my boss is on the phone while we're out there fishing.
SPEAKER 07 : 3:38
That's so funny. So if your boss did find out, like, while he was on the phone with you that you were on a boat fishing, how would that go over?
SPEAKER 05 : 3:47
Oh, probably like a lead balloon.
SPEAKER 07 : 3:50
See, but you're getting all your stuff done, right? So then what are you supposed to do? Just sit there? That's what I, that's my point.
SPEAKER 06 : 3:57
That's the dichotomy, dude. You're getting everything done. And do you mind, do you just share the industry you're in? What's the industry? Okay, let's just say the building gets built. Right. And it's done at noon, but he expects you just to sit there and go, that's the building until 5 o'clock. There's fish that need to be caught. There's all kinds of striped bass out there begging to be on my boat. What does he want you to do in your time off?
SPEAKER 05 : 4:22
I always say it'd look better for us to just leave the job and not have that customer look at us hanging around.
SPEAKER 07 : 4:26
Oh, that's another good point. Yeah, they'd be like, why are you sitting down on the job? And it's like, well, the job is done. If you take a look. Yeah, like people that have quotas.
SPEAKER 06 : 4:34
If you hit the quota, then like, yeah. Can I leave? We're done? Thank you. Dave, I'm coming fishing, by the way. Hit me up. I'm putting him on hold. Get his number. He's going to go fishing with you. Let's talk to less than Jake. Jake, you work at a college.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:48
Yeah, man. What's going on, boys? How we doing?
SPEAKER 06 : 4:50
What's going on, buddy?
SPEAKER 03 : 4:52
Hey, you know, just living the dream, man, just living. But yeah, so I work at a college. It's not like a big school like a University of Maryland or anything like that. It's a smaller college, right? So our school lives off of admission, like getting kids in. So our director of admissions is constantly hounding us coaches to get people in, like all kids in, like recruits, all that. Well, if we need anything done like scholarship approval or recruiting trip approval, it's like waiting for an Amazon package without Prime. You have to wait at least a week at the minimum to get approval for anything. And most of the time you try to schedule a meeting too. She's gone. Like, she is never around. You know, we're like, where's she at? And then you go on Facebook and she's out doing, you know, nature hikes and all this other crap.
SPEAKER 06 : 5:41
Oh, the Facebook will get you caught. The hubris of social media gets so many of these people caught. And I get that. I get that she probably needs to travel to meet an athlete. Nick Nolte out there in blue chips trying to get somebody to get on the team. But if she's out there recruiting on the high seas with a margarita and a fishing rod, you're like, I don't think there's any prospective students beneath the waves. You know, I was going to guess, Jake, I work excuse me. I live near a college professor in my neighborhood for AACO, Anne Arundel County Community College. And they they work a pretty rigorous schedule in regards to putting together lesson plans and teaching. There are some teachers in there at the college level. Remember you'd get the hungover substitute that's like, we're watching a movie. Their whole career is we're watching a movie today. They've just never had anybody fail. They're just, that's it. You pass. Just by you guys showing up and being here, we're just going to hit a slideshow and that's it. Or do the work online and at the end of the season. Semester. I'll give you a passing grade. And then if that person has that many kids pass at that high of a level, they get like commendations and stuff. Like, well, of course they're all passing. Your guys are doing nothing. There's no work to look at. Thank you, Jake. Let's go to, oops, someone's getting caught. Phil, good morning.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:02
Good morning, boys. How you doing?
SPEAKER 06 : 7:04
Hello, Phillip. I wish I was in Mexico. I'll say that, Phil.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:08
Hey, I wish I was in Mexico too, but I'm out in the Midwest now. Oh, brother. Hey, I, uh, About 10 years ago, 15 years ago now, we had an employee who went out on some medical leave. This individual had expended all of their controllable medical leave and allegedly expended all of their annual leave. Our organization did two different types based on needs and uses. And then so organizationally, because it's a public agency, They arranged to get leave share donations from employees because, hey.
SPEAKER 06 : 7:49
Damn, they got donated leave, too? You can give someone. They got donated leave.
SPEAKER 07 : 7:54
So medical leave, just regular leave, donated leave. That's a lot of leave. And?
SPEAKER 04 : 8:00
And then on the social medias, we're vacationing in Mexico. Oh! Your ass got caught. When they were at work. You had all this crap going on at work, and they weren't at work. So you had where you'd be at. And it got a little frustrating, you know, trying to deal with making reliable, dependable plans with people and then not being able to carry forward. So we, you know, a little bit of pressure, a little frustration got vented, applied, letting people know. Management kind of hands-tied, couldn't do certain things about it because it was medical.
SPEAKER 06 : 8:40
Phil, let me ask you something real quick. The whole revelation about them being in Mexico, was that a social media thing?
SPEAKER 04 : 8:45
Yeah, yeah. They can't help themselves, dude.
SPEAKER 06 : 8:48
Self-outed. They cannot help themselves. We had, and thank you, pal. So did they get fired?
SPEAKER 04 : 8:54
No, they didn't fire. They quit eventually. A lot of other things. And, you know, part of the medical thing, it was legitimate.
SPEAKER 07 : 9:01
Right.
SPEAKER 04 : 9:02
But then, you know, it's like. They get greedy. It was a line of, you know, what's right and what's wrong. Right. You know, and I get it that, you know, you put time in and everything else. Stick it to the man.
SPEAKER 06 : 9:14
I get mental health is health, but I don't know a single doctor that's going to prescribe you chips and guac seaside, even though it could kind of help. I mean, we have one of the most elite crews of account executives I think this place has ever had, salespeople. I mean, they're great. And if your business needs help, reach out. We'll be sure to spread your message. But no one bats a thousand. And we had that woman back there in the cubicle farm like eight or nine years ago that she lasted all of about six months. And she was just constantly coming down with something. Just constantly. Oh, my chest is tight. And couldn't stay off of Facebook for Margarita Mondays. Just could not stop posting about herself. You give a woman a goblet of Marg. She has to take a photo of it. And at like 1045 on a Tuesday. She's like, Margarita Monday, bitches. And she's surrounded by chips like, you had AIDS an hour ago. Why the hell are you out there at La Tolteca? I want a margarita. Badly, brother. Joe, can we run back Scott's margarita machine? You got it out of storage for us. I would absolutely love to. How about we do a Margarita Monday coming up and I'll bring the stuff. Done. I got a bottle I need to get rid of. I'm trying to get the booze out of my house because it's calling to me. Let's talk to Phil, spelled F-I-L-L, on line one.
SPEAKER 04 : 10:26
Have a good one.
SPEAKER 06 : 10:27
Take care, buddy. Robert, what's going on, pal?
SPEAKER 01 : 10:32
Okay, hang on. Let's switch this thing off. Hey, yeah. Oh, yeah. I get what everybody's saying. I've seen slackers in my time, and it's picked me on the supervisor. I mean, I've worked the jobs. You know, I was in the military, so I've worked the jobs. And when I got up to the – You know, the nine to five jobs, you will be there eight hours, even if you're doing nothing, you're going to be there. And my thing of it was, is when I got in that supervisory position, I never wanted to be that guy. You want to lead by example? Yeah, lead by example. And I told my guys, I was like, you know, I came in, I was a supervisor, brand new. I was like, all right, here we go. You know, everybody's going to work till the work is done. Be that noon or be that midnight, you know?
SPEAKER 07 : 11:21
Oh, so you mean you want to be the guy that kept them there until 5 for no reason?
SPEAKER 01 : 11:24
Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Because once the work is done, those guys are just going to sit there and surf the Internet, you know? Yeah. Like, if you're going to do that, you can do that from home. But understanding, don't go three hours away because if the duty guy calls and something's broke, then you've got to get back in. Okay.
SPEAKER 06 : 11:40
God, I wish I worked for Ron.
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we are joined by Rob Maher! Tune in to hear Marianne and Rob Maher talk about what the heck a Beaver Moon is. Should we be worried? One way to find out. Hit play!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript Brian Posehn gives us a peek into the life of a comedian with a passion for nerd culture before taking the stage this weekend at Magooby's Joke House.
00:00:00 Interview with Brian Posehn 00:00:21 Discussion on LARPing and D&D 00:02:31 Maria Bamford and Comedy Beginnings 00:04:50 Satanic Panic and Growing Up 00:06:10 Brian Posehn's Comedy Mentors 00:09:17 Action Movies and Personal Favorites 00:15:40 Discussion on Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks 00:18:22 Stoner Metal Bands and Music Taste SPEAKER 02 : 0:00
I have wanted to meet and interview this dude because I've seen him in movies. I've played alongside him in games. Huh? What? You've been in games that I have played as a grunt in Halo. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Brian Posehn joins us on the air. Good morning, man. Good morning.
SPEAKER 04 : 0:21
Well, you know I'm not playing that.
SPEAKER 02 : 0:23
Well, you're not actually.
SPEAKER 04 : 0:24
I recorded that in the studio way before you were playing it.
SPEAKER 02 : 0:28
Yeah, good point. Good point.
SPEAKER 04 : 0:29
Good point.
SPEAKER 02 : 0:31
You're also in a film that I would love for like one day people to go back and give either a second chance to it originally or maybe even a sequel. Knights of Bad Aston.
SPEAKER 04 : 0:41
Oh, I didn't know you were going there.
SPEAKER 02 : 0:42
Oh, we're going to deep cut with you. Nice. We have a friend that you've worked with before. His name is Tommy Simbazo. Absolutely. He's like a comedian. He's a leather worker, a printer, an armorer, but he's a LARPer.
SPEAKER 04 : 0:56
Yes.
SPEAKER 02 : 0:56
And Tommy is known to kind of lose his mind out on the LARPing field of battle, and it gets a little too real for him.
SPEAKER 04 : 1:05
Yeah. That's not a thing I've done in real life.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:08
No.
SPEAKER 04 : 1:09
Have you been asked to LARP? Yeah. Yeah. I play D&D, and I like walking. You don't want to combine? I don't want to combine those two things. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 03 : 1:18
You've got to draw a line somewhere. I'm comfortable where your line is at. That's a good line. I like the line. That's a good line.
SPEAKER 04 : 1:23
I'm never putting on elf ears or putting on a costume. That's not – I don't go that far.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:29
You're not going to scream fireball while macing someone? I try not to. Sounds fun.
SPEAKER 04 : 1:35
When you say it like that.
SPEAKER 03 : 1:36
I try not to judge and I try to let people live. But listen.
SPEAKER 04 : 1:41
Yeah, absolutely. Larp away. Just don't ask me.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:45
Yeah, I'll put some. We would we would watch dudes live action role playing game. Imagine the Renaissance Festival where a bunch of asthmatics beat the hell out of each other. And we would put lawn chairs on a hill and just watch. Oh, yeah. And it's exhilarating. Brian Post saying a lot of people originally discovered you from Mr. Show, Bob and Dave. And my first interaction with you was on a pretty legendary comedy special back in the day that was sort of like the anti-special to the blue collar thing, to the Kings of Comedy thing. The Comedians of Comedy with you, Patton Oswalt, Zach Kalifanakis, and someone I'm super fascinated with, Maria Bamford. She is a living cartoon. Yes, she is. What's she like off the stage? Oh, that's her.
SPEAKER 04 : 2:31
That's just her. 100%, 24-7. Yeah. And it's hard for me because I'm kind of a mellow dude and she's just a ball of, you know, just nervousness. So we clashed a little.
SPEAKER 01 : 2:42
A little, yeah. That was awesome.
SPEAKER 04 : 2:44
But she's still an old friend.
SPEAKER 01 : 2:46
You live on the West Coast and you travel, you tour. Yeah, all the time. And you mentioned D&D. I'm not hip. That's Dungeons & Dragons. That's right. So I remember in college, in the dorm, people would sit on the floor and play. Is it online now, or is it still the world?
SPEAKER 04 : 3:04
Oh, it's everywhere. It's become really popular. All right. It's not just nerds anymore. People, yeah.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:11
They have conventions. Some of those conventions, those, like, gaming conventions, and I don't mean, like, video gaming. I mean, like, there's board games. There's D&D. Some of it is video games. Our buddy Halo from Black Lotus Tattoo, what's the name of his game that he just created?
SPEAKER 02 : 3:25
Oh, he built a D&D-style open world game.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:28
We have a tattoo artist who did all the artwork for this game, and it's listed as one of the hot upcoming games. These conventions are gigantic. Yes.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:35
They're huge, yeah.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:37
It's crazy.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:38
I tried to play as a seventh grader. They had a D&D club at my school, and I was not cool enough to join the D&D club. Oh, no! Like, I showed up, and one of the guys went, Poe saying, no way. No way!
SPEAKER 02 : 3:50
Hey, dude, what do you think of that weird, that backroom Hollywood D&D cabal that's run by Joe Manganiello? Yeah. That's a little, that's, it's got like Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine. Really? The big show from the WWE. Yeah, that one. It's got Joe Manganiello. Yeah. Like rumors of like Tobey Maguire. Why aren't you in that? I was going to say, how do you get the invite?
SPEAKER 04 : 4:15
I don't know. I've hinted to Joe. Joe's been to my house.
SPEAKER 02 : 4:19
He has?
SPEAKER 04 : 4:20
Yeah, he's played my D&D game, but I haven't played his.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:22
And he hasn't invited you to his.
SPEAKER 04 : 4:24
And I did his D&D. He did a documentary last year that's coming out.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:28
Yeah, and still no invite.
SPEAKER 04 : 4:30
Ask him. I don't think I'm cool enough. I think, again, they were like, no, Poseidon.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:36
You're cool enough for a documentary?
SPEAKER 04 : 4:37
Morello was like, nah.
SPEAKER 01 : 4:40
Have you broken into the Leonardo DiCaprio posse yet? Have you been on the yacht? Now, if I can't get into the Manganiello, do you really think DiCaprio is going to invite me?
SPEAKER 02 : 4:50
I don't know. He's not getting on that boat. No. That's hilarious. That's so funny. Brian Posehn joining us on air. Magoobies tonight, tomorrow, two shows. Stop by Wits End, get yourself a bourbon, then go watch this gentleman. And you've done, real quick, before I jump to the rest of your body of work, sticking with the D&D thing, did you grow up in the dawn of the D&D meets satanic panic era?
SPEAKER 04 : 5:13
Yeah.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:14
When they thought anybody that was pretending to be a wizard had to worship Satan?
SPEAKER 04 : 5:18
So, yes, I had a cool mom, though. We were Christian, but my mom also knew that all that stuff was BS.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:25
It was total crap.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:26
Like, I was a Kiss fan, too.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:29
Oh, God.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:30
You were really putting your heart into it. So, but a pastor at our school or at our church took down my Kiss poster. He did. And then she made him replace it. She did.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:41
Oh, hell yeah.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:42
Dude, Mama Post ain't rules.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:44
Wait, so your pastor was like, this is the work of the devil? Well, yeah. Was it Knights in Satan's Service? Remember that?
SPEAKER 04 : 5:49
But Gene was covered in blood, and I should have had it. In our nine-year-old Sunday school group.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:57
For me, I remember bringing home Motley Crue's shout at the devil. And they're standing there in front of the pentagram, and there's fire. And my mom's like, what the hell is this? She was cool, too, though. They're shouting at the devil. They're shouting at him to get away, devil. True.
SPEAKER 04 : 6:10
That was always Nicky's thing. It was like, hey, we're not shouting with the devil, man. We're shouting at the devil. Like, get away, devil.
SPEAKER 02 : 6:19
Be gone.
SPEAKER 04 : 6:20
We're Motley Crue. We're wearing little leather straps. I asked my mom.
SPEAKER 03 : 6:24
That photo inside that album is great.
SPEAKER 02 : 6:26
Oh, it's amazing. I wanted a Kiss poster because I thought, I didn't know anything about their music, but I'm like, these guys paint their faces like wrestlers. This is awesome.
SPEAKER 04 : 6:33
It's so cool.
SPEAKER 02 : 6:33
My mom wouldn't do it because she was freaked out by the imagery, but she met me in the middle, and I come home one day after asking for it, And she put up a Def Leppard pour some sugar on me poster. Didn't have the same bite. Didn't have the same. Felt terrible tearing that down when she went on vacation. I remember wrestling with my buddy Justin Dean. It was like, hey, listen. I need you to accidentally bump into this thing and tear it. Because I can't have this above my bed.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:00
No.
SPEAKER 02 : 7:01
I can't have that. Hey, you know a friend of ours, I pointed out again, Tommy Sambazo. He's a great dude. You've worked with him in the past. You have another feature from Detroit with you this weekend. But Tommy's a great dude, and you've really helped him out in the past and have taken him on some shows with you. He seems like one of those guys that would like the blessing of a Poseidon. He can kind of maybe level up, make it to that next game.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:24
I love Tommy. He's a great guy. I think I met him first in Florida before he moved here. He's been kicking around for a while, but who knows?
SPEAKER 02 : 7:31
Yeah, he's a dude that I like asking comedians like you that are men of prominence in the industry that it seems like there's someone that always kind of welcomes you in. I like to say kind of holds the door for you. Like, you know, some guys like you will do it for someone. Patton will do it for someone. Zach will do it for others. Who was the guy that did it for you back in the day or the girl that was like, okay, Poussaint, you're great. Come with.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:55
Well, Odenkirk and Cross, really. When I first moved down to L.A., they put me to work right away. That's awesome. We were doing live sketches around town before we sold the show to HBO. But they were just very welcoming right away.
SPEAKER 02 : 8:08
I didn't know that. The Mr. Show was like a live touring sketch show.
SPEAKER 04 : 8:11
Yeah, well, they were trying to sell it. It was just called With Bob and David, and it had a couple of different names. It was called The Three Goofballs at one point. And I was the third goofball.
SPEAKER 01 : 8:24
That's awesome.
SPEAKER 04 : 8:25
Yeah, they would switch out the third goofball.
SPEAKER 01 : 8:28
Who's one person who really makes you laugh?
SPEAKER 04 : 8:31
Your favorite. I already said him. Odenkirk. Well, pick someone else. David Tell.
SPEAKER 01 : 8:39
David Tell, okay.
SPEAKER 04 : 8:40
David Tell, as far as stand-up, makes me laugh harder than anybody. I've fallen out of my chair because he says stuff that no one's supposed to say.
SPEAKER 02 : 8:47
His last special with the clarinet.
SPEAKER 04 : 8:49
was absolutely brilliant. The one he did at that comedy club, and it just felt like you're watching a comedy club set and not a special, but that is cooler. It felt like you were there. Intimate. Yeah, intimate's a good word.
SPEAKER 02 : 9:00
What did you think when Bob Odenkirk did basically the Jason Bourne action movie Nobody a few years ago? Was that strange to see a dude that you came up with in the alt-comedy scene and then blow up nationally, and now he's like an action star smashing dudes' faces in with a pipe?
SPEAKER 04 : 9:17
Yeah. Strange. Yes. But I wanted it for him so badly. And I knew he was doing the work like he was telling me the whole time. He's like, hey, I'm doing this action movie and they're really kicking my butt and making me, you know.
SPEAKER 03 : 9:29
do this stuff and i knew i'm a big action nerd so i knew all the guys he was working with and i was like you know i can't believe hoodenkirk's doing a john wick movie basically that's what he did all right so you're a big action guy i watched a movie on the recommendation of a lot of people yeah uh just recently and i i don't think i'm i think i'm officially not an action person because have you seen the beekeeper yeah i loved it did you like i mean as an action guy you must have loved it
SPEAKER 04 : 9:56
I liked it. It's not up there with some of the classics like the John Wicks or the Raid Redemption or any of that.
SPEAKER 03 : 10:01
I'm just like, oh. Who's the guy that's in it? Statham. Jason Statham. Yeah. And he's like going up a stair. The whole movie is him just kicking people's asses and killing people. But he's a beekeeper.
SPEAKER 04 : 10:15
But he's also a beekeeper.
SPEAKER 03 : 10:18
But then there'll be a scene where there's, like, ten guys with machine guns, and he somehow dispatches of all ten guys. And, like, the first time, you're like, all right, that's amazing. And then an hour and a half into it, you're like, all right, this guy's still alive. Really? Is this guy really still alive? Like, how many people with machine guns can he just punch in the face?
SPEAKER 04 : 10:36
Every one of them.
SPEAKER 03 : 10:37
Every one of them. He makes it to the end, and then he puts on, like, a scuba suit and just swims away. And you're like, all right. That was that.
SPEAKER 04 : 10:46
A lot of those movies should come with warnings. They should just tell you to take your brain out. I know, I know, I have to. Don't try to watch this like you're watching a real movie.
SPEAKER 03 : 10:54
Yeah, you guys got to suspend the disbelief and just go live for the ride.
SPEAKER 02 : 10:58
I was one of the guys, Brian Posehn, that sold them on the movie because I like looking at a movie and going... I wonder if something happened to the writer of this film that said, I've got an idea. I think David Lynch, it might have been Wild at Heart. There was a scene, and I think Wild at Heart back in the day, where he has a scene in a road rage moment where he pulls the driver out of the car, this evil gangster. It makes no sense to the plot. It has nothing to do with anything. And he's screaming bloody murder how he's going to throw this guy down a canyon and kill him. And then the movie continues. And I go, David Lynch got cut off in traffic that day.
SPEAKER 03 : 11:38
the beekeeper i'm like a writer had someone well the premise is like he has a woman who's an older woman who's his friend kind of like befriended him and she gets taken for all of her money on an online scam and she's literally has nothing left so she kills herself and then he just seeks revenge on the people that did it and it's an hour and a half and i'm wondering just revenge did the
SPEAKER 02 : 11:58
The writer have like his Nana get scammed. I wish I could have John wick murder everyone up the chain and it turns into a movie. If you'd be an action movie fan, have you ever thought about writing one?
SPEAKER 04 : 12:13
Yeah, I haven't come up with the right idea yet, but I'm probably more likely to do that with horror. Dude, what do you think about Terrifier? I'm not... They haven't won me over yet.
SPEAKER 03 : 12:26
You're not an Arthur Clown guy?
SPEAKER 04 : 12:27
No, I haven't seen the movies. I haven't gone, because that's not, in general, the type of horror I like. You're not a gore guy?
SPEAKER 02 : 12:34
You're more the paranormal type, the occult type thing?
SPEAKER 04 : 12:36
Yeah, or just...
SPEAKER 03 : 12:38
But that's what I mean. I think Art the Clown might be a modern-day classic. He may be up there on the pantheon of people.
SPEAKER 04 : 12:46
Yeah, I just did a convention last week, and everybody there is like, you've got to see that. So I probably will. I'm not much of a blood guy. I get a little squirmish. That's what scared me off. They're like, oh, it's so bloody. And I'm like, nah.
SPEAKER 03 : 12:57
It's just gratuitous. It's like he kills someone, and then it just keeps going. It's like that person's clearly dead. This could have ended a minute ago, but it just keeps... He's ripping people's brains out, and you're like, oh, okay. But the character itself is... The character of Art is awesome. It's kind of almost endearing. He's kind of goofy and silly and funny in a way, and he's almost like a mime. He doesn't speak. He's like a murderous mime. And he's an adorable serial killer. Yes, exactly.
SPEAKER 02 : 13:25
What is it about the comedian mind that I think Krasinski with A Quiet Place. Yeah, right. I think Jordan Peele with his trilogy of films. So I have no doubt that a Brian Pussain that, you know, you're a man of each end of the spectrum. This weekend, Mugubi, see the funny side. But then the comedian has this nightmarishly dark swinging of the pendulum to where they write really good, dark, macabre stuff to where I feel like if you wrote a horror film, it would be nightmarish.
SPEAKER 04 : 13:54
I hope so.
SPEAKER 01 : 13:55
How difficult is it to write a film?
SPEAKER 04 : 14:00
It's, you know, it's like anything. It's a skill that, you know, I've been doing it for a long time, but also ask me how many movies I've had made. So it's a tough, you know, it's a tough nut to crack, but...
SPEAKER 03 : 14:13
Yeah. All right, so as the action, you said you like action movies. What's your one and your 1A?
SPEAKER 04 : 14:20
What should I see? Oh, well, my favorite is Everybody Sees. It's my favorite Christmas movie. Die Hard is my all-time favorite.
SPEAKER 03 : 14:28
It's okay.
SPEAKER 04 : 14:29
Classic. Yep. And then I just watched John Wick 4 again. That one really holds up for like a three hour. Isn't that strange?
SPEAKER 02 : 14:37
Is it three hours?
SPEAKER 04 : 14:38
Pretty much.
SPEAKER 02 : 14:39
Oh, my God. John Wick's only got better, which is weird for like single life.
SPEAKER 04 : 14:44
That one might be the best one of the bunch. Well, one is probably the best, but then four is number two.
SPEAKER 02 : 14:52
My Mount Rushmore, it's nothing shocking here. Robocop, Predator, Aliens, Terminator. Oh, yeah, I love all those. Those are all. Those are my classics.
SPEAKER 04 : 14:59
Those are legendary movies. Yeah. Sisu from two years ago.
SPEAKER 02 : 15:04
Oh, my God. Spiegel, you need to see that film because it's a pissed-off gold miner wrecking Nazis with a knife. Sisu?
SPEAKER 04 : 15:11
Yeah, yeah. Where was that from?
SPEAKER 02 : 15:14
Was it Norwegian?
SPEAKER 04 : 15:15
It was Finland. Finland. Yeah, it was from Finland. That movie is incredible. And it was produced by some of the John Wick people. They found it. But it's brutal. If you want to see Nazis get rocked. Oh, I want to see them.
SPEAKER 03 : 15:27
That's great. We have a brilliant mind here. Brian Bosane, McGooby's Joke House this weekend. I will ask you two questions. In or out on Tom Cruise? In or out on Tom Hanks? Oh, wow.
SPEAKER 1 : 15:40
Yeah!
SPEAKER 04 : 15:42
I've never been a huge fan of either one of those.
SPEAKER 03 : 15:45
Yeah, I've been out on Tom Cruise. The doing your own stunts thing kind of rubbed me the wrong way for a long time, but then it came full circle, and I was like, all right, that's kind of badass.
SPEAKER 04 : 15:55
He kind of won me back with the last Top Gun movie.
SPEAKER 03 : 15:59
He won me back, too, and then Tom Hanks I'm still out on.
SPEAKER 04 : 16:02
Yeah, he's kind of a kook. He hasn't done a great movie in a long time.
SPEAKER 03 : 16:11
80s Tom Hanks, I'm in. 90s Tom Hanks, I'm in.
SPEAKER 04 : 16:13
Oh, I was thinking Bachelor Party. Not since Bachelor Party.
SPEAKER 03 : 16:16
I was thinking you were out after that.
SPEAKER 04 : 16:19
I don't think I've seen any Tom Hanks movies. Not even big? I'm kidding. Splash? That would be like... Yeah, right? One and done for me. That's a hill to die on. Bachelor party was the last thing you did.
SPEAKER 02 : 16:33
Magoobies.com tonight. Two shows. Buy tickets now because Poseidon always sells out. And if you can go back in his catalog, Knights of Bad Astem is so epic. It's got Dinklage in it. He kills it in the role.
SPEAKER 03 : 16:45
Given how eclectic all your work is... When you do, you know, you're going to be at McGoobies. What is the makeup of the crowd? Where do most people know you from, or is it just all over?
SPEAKER 04 : 16:55
It's all over. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's Big Bang fans. It's comedy fans. It's metalheads. What do you think about King Gizzard and Lizard Wizard? They're awesome. They have the best name ever.
SPEAKER 03 : 17:08
Are they almost too prolific? They put out so much music that it's hard to, like, even digest.
SPEAKER 04 : 17:14
I haven't even really tried to dive in. I just am aware of them. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 : 17:17
I'm trying to dive in, but there's just so... It's incredible. It's good stuff, but there's a lot.
SPEAKER 02 : 17:22
You ever listen to Electric Wizard, Legalized Drugs and Murder?
SPEAKER 04 : 17:25
Yes.
SPEAKER 02 : 17:25
That song. Yes. Sludgy. Sludgy. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 : 17:29
Hell yeah. Blue Man Chew is still my favorite of the stoner metal bands. Okay. Because they've got more of a groove. Like, they've got that...
SPEAKER 03 : 17:38
I need a groove, too.
SPEAKER 04 : 17:39
Syrupy guitar sound.
SPEAKER 03 : 17:41
Who is it? Fu Manchu?
SPEAKER 04 : 17:42
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 : 17:42
Okay.
SPEAKER 04 : 17:43
He smells like... You can smell the bong water.
SPEAKER 02 : 17:47
You get down to Turnstile at all? They're from Baltimore.
SPEAKER 04 : 17:49
I do like Turnstile.
SPEAKER 02 : 17:50
Turnstile. Yeah, from right around here.
SPEAKER 04 : 17:51
Dude, Joe and I are pretty. Ended is the Baltimore band that I love.
SPEAKER 02 : 17:54
Yes.
SPEAKER 04 : 17:55
Oh, I know Ended. They're more new, relatively.
SPEAKER 03 : 17:59
Yeah, Charlie, one of my barbers, her boyfriend is in Ended. Joe and I went to Grim Reefer Fest.
SPEAKER 01 : 18:05
Yeah, we saw Bongzilla. Nice.
SPEAKER 03 : 18:08
Bongzilla was there, but then there was a band earlier in the day called Sun Voyager. Have you spent any time with Sun Voyager? I don't know them. They got a good groove, dude. They're stoner metal, but they're like three dudes from Long Island, and it's awesome. I took my aunt to see Peter Cetera.
SPEAKER 04 : 18:23
Oh.
SPEAKER 02 : 18:24
That's all I've got.
SPEAKER 04 : 18:25
Foo Man 2 just sounds like what you would hear in Jeff Spicoli's band.
SPEAKER 02 : 18:29
Hell yeah. That's an endorsement.
SPEAKER 04 : 18:31
Hell yeah. I'll listen to that.
SPEAKER 02 : 18:32
Dude, Magoobies.com. Brian, thank you for taking the time for us this morning, man. We appreciate it.
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne Rob Maher is here!!! Tune in to hear Marianne and Rob talk about the dumbest things they've gotten for with our listeners. What idiotic excuse did your boss come up with to 86 us? One way to find out. Hit play!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript We look into the highly anticipated boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson.
00:00:00 Jake Paul's Boxing Journey 00:03:02 The Documentary Insight 00:05:28 The Tyson Effect 00:06:36 Mike Tyson's Legacy and Influence SPEAKER 03 : 0:00
It's the fight that people are going, okay, maybe this is going to be the time we finally see Jake Paul just get knocked into next week. He has lost. But he hasn't been manhandled. No, it was a decision he lost. Yeah, he lost to Tyson Fury's brother. That's right. Uh, Kyle is a guy's name. It escapes me. But, uh, yes. He's had a pretty successful run being a YouTuber alongside his brother Logan Paul. And he got into boxing. Now, his brother kind of did it as a bit of a flight of fancy. Jake Paul decided, I'm going to really take this seriously. He did... He did skew his opponents towards beatable. See, he fought former basketball player Nate Robinson. He fought former MMA fighter Ben Askren, who was known in MMA. I'm not going to get deep in the weeds here. He was a pure wrestler. Right. He barely ever struck. Not a strike. There you go. He fought Anderson Silva and Nate Diaz. I forgot about that. He did. He did. But now he lost to Tyson Fury. Tommy Fury. Excuse me. So he's now about to take on Tyson. You saw, I didn't realize they did this. They did him. I didn't either. Well, this is all in the documentary. It's a three-part documentary. And I guess when they signed the deal with Netflix to have this fight on Netflix, because the fight was supposed to happen July 22nd, if I remember correctly. It got pushed back. Mike Tyson had an ulcer, so it got pushed back. It's happening tomorrow. Do they show that? Dude, it's all on film. Oh, hell yeah. They started this documentary. The minute they decided to do this fight, they started following these guys with cameras. They show Mike Tyson in the hospital with the ulcer. Like, it's all real. He was on a plane. The paramedics had to... Give him aid on the plane. Then they take him to the hospital. They show him in the hospital. They show these guys training. So, like, from day one back, like, so the fight was July 2nd. I don't know how far before that they planned the fight. Like when they signed the contract, the minute they put the names on that contract that did this fight, they started filming. So there's three parts. I guess they're one hour each. I finished two yesterday. It got too late. I had to go to bed. But they follow Tyson and they follow Jake Paul and they go all the way back to the history. Mike Tyson goes to his childhood apartment, to his old neighborhood. They show you Jake and Logan Paul growing up in Ohio. Their father gave them a camera because they were football players. So it got them interested immediately in filming and self-documentation. They were football players and they were athletes to begin with. And they were very good athletes. He gave him a camera because you watch film in football, right? You go back and you watch your games. You watch the plays. You figure out how you can get better. They started doing goofy stuff with the cameras. They follow him all the way through. Dude, he had five. Then Vine happened. He had five million Vine followers by the time he was like 15 or something.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:00
Damn.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:02
Then he got on Disney Channel. They follow the trajectory of these two guys' lives all the way up through their lives and how it takes them to this point where they finally meet and they're about to meet in the ring. It follows their training regimen. It follows... It is... Fascinating. It is so good. It got me. It reignited my interest in this fight tomorrow night, because like you said, when the date had gotten moved from July 22nd to November 15th after the ulcer incident, it kind of lost a little bit of the steam. It did lose some steam, but God bless Jake Paul, the promotional machine that he is. They show you the press conferences they've had, the stuff he's done, the stuff he said. And I'll tell you what, they also show the other side of it. The behind-the-scenes work? A, he's working his ass off. He's training with Team USA like Olympic boxers. He's really, really taking this serious. Will the fight be a real, real fight? We've debated that. We don't know. But... This documentary makes it seem like these two want to knock each other's freaking heads off. That was my favorite part about the buildup to McGregor and Mayweather. It wasn't just the fight. The press conferences. Dude, the press conferences were amazing when he came out there and he had the pinstripe shoe that said FU. McGregor was the best at it. He was great at it. And then the fight itself was rather entertaining. Jake Paul is... Muhammad Ali was great at it. Great at it. Conor McGregor was great at it. Jake Paul is pretty great at it. He also knows that any good story needs a hero and a villain. Mike Tyson's clearly the hero in this. He's the one everybody's pulling for. By the way, JSS98Rock, I put a poll up on Twitter. X, vote who you think's going to win. Okay? Use your head. Use your heart. We'll read the results at the end of sports. We'll take a couple calls real quick. Simply asking, Tyson or Paul tomorrow night? As I sit here now, I think Paul. I got to play. I think Jake Paul wins. I think he's got the youth. I think this is his fight. I think Tyson's better days are behind him. Even though he's still got that knockout power, he could turn your lights off. I think Paul is going to be a decision. But it could also not be. And he could also end up staring up at the lights. They have so many people that are in this documentary, sports reporters, boxing guys. Everybody is weighing in. They're all giving their take on it. And a lot of them are even saying, A, just getting even into the ring with Mike Tyson, you have... It won so much credibility. Oh, yeah, yeah. And then even if you get knocked out, it's still a win. You got knocked out by Tyson.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:39
It's still the coolest thing.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:41
A generation grew up. There's a guy. His name's Peter Rosenberg. He wears a hot 97 Ebro in the morning. He did a small Mike Tyson documentary when he was younger and released footage of. And he's got some guys in there. Max Kellerman is in his documentary. And this was just shot, put out on YouTube. Shout out, Rosenberg. You're from the area. And you see Max Kellerman talking about there's a generation of people that grew up. The scariest human being on the planet was Mike Tyson. So to your point about just getting in there. well that's the other thing they go through when he was training with custom auto and then they go through when all the pay-per-view fights and i forgot that they you didn't know how long these fight you would wait all week all month months and months and months for the pay-per-view you would pay 60 for a pay-per-view you'd all get around tv and the fight would last a minute it was murdered and it was great you'd be like who was gonna it wasn't who was gonna win Who was going to survive? Yes. Who was going to survive the longest?
SPEAKER 01 : 6:36
Guys, get in here.
SPEAKER 03 : 6:37
He made it to the second round. My grandfather was stunned somebody did that. This is a clip. Mike Tyson is sitting there watching the TV. Jake Paul had just won a fight in Vegas. And this is not Mike playing to the camera. This is Mike being real. And the video really doesn't do it justice because at the end, he just stares at the interviewer and the camera. But listen to what he says.
SPEAKER 02 : 6:58
I presume that Mike Tyson is watching this right now. Is there anything you want to say to him? Mike, I love you, but this is my sport now. It's an honor to get in the ring with you. I'm so, so honored you're a legend, but I'm going to take your throne, brother.
SPEAKER 01 : 7:14
Listen to this. Listen. Listen. There's a fundamental difference between me and Jake. He's a manufactured killer. Television and paper made him a killer. He's manufactured. I'm a natural born killer. That's the difference.
SPEAKER 03 : 7:30
Okay, I'm changing my answer. It's Tyson. When he said that and stared at the camera, he's like, I'm a natural born killer. Dude, I got goosebumps. I was like, holy hell. Yeah, Paul might die.
Read MoreRead Less
Description Chapter Markers Transcript Join us as we take a stroll down memory lane as we share our most memorable childhood injuries.
00:00:00 Hurting Yourself as a Kid 00:00:43 Famous Childhood Injury 00:01:31 Sunscreen and Sunburns 00:03:11 Electrical Outlets and Reckless Adventures 00:04:03 Deck Jumping and Broken Shins 00:05:12 The Voltron Incident 00:06:40 Rollerblading Misfortunes 00:09:34 Parade Float Fiasco SPEAKER 06 : 0:00
Hurting yourself as a kid. Scott, you tell a pretty famous story about banging out a tooth. You've had to have a tooth worked on multiple times. We're asking you, 410-338-1098, how did you hurt yourself, rock your ass, as a kid? Well, you're talking about the meaning about electrocuting ourselves. Sticking things into the outlets. Evan's a real fan of the fork. I definitely did that at my Aunt Carol's house in the basement. I definitely stuck something into a socket. Scotty, dinner's ready!
SPEAKER 1 : 0:28
Ah! Ah! Ah!
SPEAKER 06 : 0:30
And look, that'll learn you. You gotta learn, right? You gotta learn somehow. It ain't gonna kill you, but it'll learn you. Yeah, you might read slower for a few years, but you're not gonna do it again. Speaks, famous childhood injury?
SPEAKER 05 : 0:43
Well, I never had a socket injury because my parents kept socket covers in until I was 16. Be extra cautious. He kept eating them. Just any injury?
SPEAKER 06 : 0:56
This one you remember.
SPEAKER 05 : 0:57
I've got one. I think we all have one. I remember when a classmate on the recess field in the first grade threw a rock at my forehead for no reason. Unprovoked. Unprovoked. That was like inflicted on you, though. Did you ever just wreck yourself? Yeah, I think I fell off the bike. That sucks. Probably because I had a radio in the basket blasting and I was blowing a whistle at the time.
SPEAKER 06 : 1:28
Yep, that's the thing you did.
SPEAKER 05 : 1:30
Yeah, that is the thing I did.
SPEAKER 06 : 1:31
Yeah, it's when you met Coach Jones, played by Ed Harris, and Riley Smith as Johnny. Where you were allowed to help out with a local football team to teach them to be a unit. I'm thinking of Keeble Gooding Jr. in the movie radio. If I can get him some goofy teeth to wear, I think we could film a sequel. I famously slather myself head to toe like a basted turkey in sunscreen. And it's not just because I'm pale, but it's because I got one of the worst sunburns known to man where my back bubbled up because my grandmother had me swimming in a kiddie pool. And it blistered up and they popped in the middle of the night and they stuck themselves to the sheets. And I'm like, never again. Back was all jacked up for a while. The itch, the burn, the infection. Joe, I know you had to have fallen off a balcony into some recycling dumpster as a child. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 : 2:21
I did the keys and the outlet bit. Hell yeah. Flipped over the handlebars on my bike. And famously, why I have finning hair to this day. This is the reason. Yeah, this is the reason. I stuck... uh like one of those little handheld cake mixers yeah with the the mixer thing on the end of it i stuck it in the back of my hair and wrapped my hair up in it and literally pulled the hair out from like my head was bleeding you yanked your hair out of the follicles yep with a cake mixer with a cake mix hell yeah jeez what the hell
SPEAKER 06 : 3:02
Things I've never heard of magazines. Cover story. It's like the chick that has the corn on the drill bit. Oh, that's a brutal one.
SPEAKER 01 : 3:09
And then her hair gets caught in it.
SPEAKER 06 : 3:11
That's the same thing. Oh, I was thinking of the woman that did the bit and tied her teeth out. And both her front teeth pop out like chiclets. How the hell did you hurt yourself as a kid? Apparently all of us here at one point or another have reached into an electrical outlet. Ah! I didn't electrocute myself, but I did take two wires and tap them together, and I popped every breaker in the house, and my dad wanted to put me up for adoption. We got a lot of calls. Let's get to them. Let's start with Trucker Ron, who's been patiently holding. Ron, how'd you get jacked up as a kid? Ronald? Ronald? I'm going to go back to Ronald. He's currently on the road right now. Oh, no, not Ron. Oh, Brandon. That's my dad's name. Brandon. Hey, guys. How are we doing this morning? How did you hurt yourself as a kid?
SPEAKER 03 : 4:03
When I was 11, my friends dared me to jump off a 12-foot deck, and I thought that jumping into my grandmother's metal table would help the fall, and I snapped my shin in half. Ah!
SPEAKER 06 : 4:17
You don't want to snap that in half. Man, you did wreck yourself. 12 feet is high, bro. Yeah, that's really high. I would regularly skate an 11-foot vert ramp. Oh, hell no. And I once stood on a 12-foot. I couldn't drop in. It's so hot. Yeah, but even still, I mean, at 11 feet on a vert ramp, were you going up over the piping? I would do, like, a small backside air. All right, so then you're— Six inches. All right, but still, you're 11, 12 feet in the—I mean, technically right in the air. That's only—with vert ramps, there was only 12 to 18 inches of vert, means a vertical surface. Then the curvature began. This kid's straight down to the ground. F that. You got to learn to, like, catch the curve and slide down on your pads. Exactly, which I didn't do properly and broke my knees. Thank you, Brandon. Let's talk to, how do I say this name properly? Is it Paisa?
SPEAKER 01 : 5:12
It's Paz. Paz. Paz. Paz. Yeah, it's actually Paz. It's just Paz for short. But here it is. I was young. School field trip. We was going to the park. We're going to eat out sandwiches and things like that. And my buddy, John, his dad had all the toys. He ran a toy shop. So he bought Voltron in a lunchbox.
SPEAKER 06 : 5:37
Hell yeah.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:39
And boy, we had so much fun. But it was these two kids, and they came out of nowhere. Maybe we thought they was from our school. And they sat and played with us and then took our eye off it. And I guess it was my responsibility. It was in my possession. And I noticed these kids got on a bike and ran off with it. And I chased them and kept chasing them. And before long, I realized I was out the park. I was kind of far. And I kept running because it's like, damn, I want to get this daggone lunchbox these kids just took. It's my fault. And I wound up getting close, real close. And they threw the lunchbox. And I kind of like tripped and fell and scraped my whole leg up, my knee up. Went back to the park, got in trouble. Mom and dad got in, you know, they were pretty mad.
SPEAKER 06 : 6:30
Damn, they were yelling, you got forgiven, Chase. You got the Voltron back, though.
SPEAKER 01 : 6:33
Dad let me off, and they just kept talking about Voltron as I was coming up. He said, that's Voltron. Don't worry about it. It'll be all right.
SPEAKER 06 : 6:40
Oh, man. See, you went to give Chase to get that toy. I mean, I applaud you for going to grab and you split your knees on it. It's a great story. What a great toy, too. By the way, they're doing a Voltron film next year. I will be taking off that day. Jimmy Douglas down the block from us, 8th Street, Bethpage, Long Island. He had all of the lions. He had all five? He had all five, and we made the Voltron, and I was like, we never had that, but Jimmy did. Yep, cannot wait for the movie. You know it's not going to be good. Let's talk to Taylor on Line 5. Wait for the jokes via text. Taylor, how'd you hurt yourself?
SPEAKER 02 : 7:11
Hi, good morning. Hi. I was rollerblading when I was about eight years old, and I had my hands inside my jacket. So when I tripped and fell, I couldn't catch myself, and I busted out my two front teeth and had road rash right before school pictures. Oh, no.
SPEAKER 06 : 7:26
I did that ice skating, but I only broke out of the one tooth. But same thing. Fell face first. Couldn't catch myself. Taylor busted them teeth. Our associate program director, Justin Johnson, yesterday, apparently I can't remember how he said he did it. He wrecked his face so badly. It looks like somebody hit him in the forehead with a bat. And he had school pictures the next day. And he showed us the school picture. It looks like someone cut the unicorn horn off of a mythical beast, this thing off of his head. So what do you have? So you got two fake front teeth now?
SPEAKER 02 : 8:02
It was only a partial chip. So, yeah, I have like a ceramic buildup on there. But they're still the same buildup that I got when I was eight years old. So they're holding on strong.
SPEAKER 06 : 8:12
I'm about to break a radio rule here. Go ahead. Because there is no such thing as this. We know this. Okay. Out of all of our years of broadcasting. But she sounds hot. I was about to ask you, sounds hot. She sounds, but there's no such thing as sounds hot. We know that. No, we've met.
SPEAKER 02 : 8:26
We know that.
SPEAKER 06 : 8:27
We've met women that sound like nines that look like me. Are you, are you attractive?
SPEAKER 02 : 8:34
I think I'm oddly attractive, like fairly attractive. Oddly? What?
SPEAKER 06 : 8:38
Not oddly. What makes that oddly?
SPEAKER 02 : 8:42
I just think I look like a girl next door.
SPEAKER 06 : 8:44
I've got three vaginas.
SPEAKER 05 : 8:48
I'm oddly attractive. I'm hideously attractive. The girl next door to me is 800 pounds. That's right.
SPEAKER 06 : 8:55
That's right. I live next door. I am the house. Could you maybe send us a photo? No, don't do it. Send it right to me. Don't do it. It's at studio at 98online.com. Or link us to the only view. Or you just text it.
SPEAKER 02 : 9:08
Can I text it to the line?
SPEAKER 1 : 9:10
Yeah.
SPEAKER 02 : 9:12
Okay.
SPEAKER 06 : 9:12
Hang up and take your photo off her. We play some bets here. I'm going to bet she is. I'm going to bet she is. And Taylor, if you could just, I don't know, write something.
SPEAKER 01 : 9:22
And the name too.
SPEAKER 06 : 9:23
The name tracks as well. Taylor. Taylor. Usually it might have been a lot of very attractive Taylors. This is interesting. Mark. Good morning, Mark. How'd you hurt yourself as a kid?
SPEAKER 07 : 9:34
Hey, first grade, our class was picked to be in a parade. So we were on this big old float going down the street. And I just got so into it that halfway through the route, I fell off, landed like a lawn dark, hit my head onto the freaking asphalt.
SPEAKER 06 : 9:50
Hell yeah! He got so into it, man. This is amazing. I hope it never ends.
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of the Kirk and Marianne show Wendi is back!!! Tune in to hear Marianne and Wendi talk with our listeners about the stories their families just can't wait to tell about them. What's the deep dish that they can't wait to disclose? One way to find out. Hit play!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript We dive into the comical yet often awkward subject of using the bathroom during work hours.
00:00:00 Can You Use the Bathroom at Work? 00:00:44 Bathroom Challenges at Work 00:03:02 Regular Time Bathroom Breaks 00:05:22 Bathroom Etiquette for Field Workers 00:06:54 Port-a-Potty Horrors at Work Sites 00:07:51 Humorous Bathroom Mishap SPEAKER 04 : 0:00
We're asking you, can you actually use the bathroom at work? Do you have, I'll even expand the scope of the conversation, do you have anybody that gives you grief for going? I was looking for you, Henderson! Where were you going? Well, I drank water and ate food and my body processed it. I had to get rid of it. 410-338-1098, boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I poop. Poop on the company time! Yeah! Oh, I'll give you another one. Dude, going to the back, was anybody here able to go in school? I never went in school. No, school was the number one only. Yeah, number one, yes. Number two, no.
SPEAKER 02 : 0:40
No, it's too easy. Like, people start noticing you're gone for too long.
SPEAKER 04 : 0:44
Oh, they see a set of feet? Yeah, you're a sitting duck. Oh, you're just asking to get got, unless you had to go to the nurse's office. Then she had a single-use room. That was nice. But beyond that, hell no, dude. Yeah, I feel like there might have been a bathroom somewhere in the school where it was like a one-seater where you can kind of go in and lock the door. But if you were just in a stall, oh, man, watch out. Here at the shop, hell no. Been employed here for 25 years. One pan for 18 hairy-ass mechanics. Ugh. Only woman, no thank you. Oh, and you're a woman? You got 18 dudes just wrecking that place? I've seen the thing online where the guys go into the bathroom and they shoot like bottle rockets underneath the door. Dude, the one where it just slides across the top and you hear that explosion. Damn it! That makes me laugh. Here's another facet of this, too. God, there's so many good angles people are taking. I would, if it wasn't for the see-through toilet paper. The TP at work is almost glass. It's so see-through. I've been known to bring my own. Yeah, people around here have brought their own. Like, I'm a cop. Cottonelle guy. That's the only thing that touches my buttocks is the blue Cottonelle. And I'll tell you what. Yeah, you bring your own toilet paper. Smart move. We should start bringing our own in here. No, I do not possess the confidence to poop at work. Why, you may ask? The back of the bathroom wall shares the wall with my supervisor's office. Oh. Oh, dude. You just hear everything that's going on. Just every loud in the back? No. Absolutely not. I'll tell you this. If I'm in there and someone's next to me, sometimes you can look and see the reflection in the tile and you can get a glimpse of their butt. And I'll figure out who it is. Get a little peek at that ass.
SPEAKER 01 : 2:36
You ever do that?
SPEAKER 04 : 2:37
You ever look at the shoes and be like, that's the other thing, the shoes. It's like, if you're in there defiling it, all they have to do is look down. I know Joe's shoes. I know yours. I know exactly who the... Who else wears lime green sunkenies? I do feel bad. We have a fellow around here. He's one of our management. Nice fellow by the name of Chris Carlheim. He's rather tall. Okay. And I think when he sits, you could still see his head over the bathroom door. It's like, hey, Chris.
SPEAKER 01 : 3:03
Hi, bud.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:07
Oh, no. 410-338-1098. Oh, I just one of the damn things jumped on me here. Son of a B. Someone sent us. Where's this DM we got? If you take a 10-minute bathroom break every day at work over the course of a year, it will end up over 40 hours of time. Joe, do the math. Let's head to the phones. Bob, Bobbert, what's up, bud?
SPEAKER 02 : 3:30
Hey, good morning. I'm well known for the exact same time every day using the bathroom. My 2.30 time.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:36
You're 2.30! You can set your watch by it! Where's Bob? You know where he is. It's that time. It's 10.30. Why do we need to ask? When we don't see Bob, it's time to meet. So you're very regular, Bob.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:51
I'm a very regular man, and I even get concerned if that time hits and I'm not feeling it.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:56
Yeah, you're just like, what? Something's wrong. Yeah, what the hell could have happened? That was like over the weekend, right? So I had to go help my buddy hang some drywall in his garage. And he it was a nine o'clock start time. And I'm like, OK, fine. But I hadn't gone yet. Oh, no. And I even sent out a text to the group text. I'm like, look, I'm waiting. I got to wait for this to manifest. I got to get this out before I head over there. You don't want this here. You don't want this here. And it was a nine o'clock start time. And normally if I'm up early, if I'm up at like three forty five, four o'clock. It'll come. It'll right around six thirty, seven o'clock, seven thirty. But then when I sleep in a little bit, everything gets pushed back. So I had to like literally drag some coffee, walked around the house. Yeah. Finally, I got it. I got all the gurgling. I got it gurgling. I got it out and I went over there and I was good to go. But yeah, you got to you got to get that out. This is another one. So you have the bidet. Other people, a classic bit of addition to the toilet is the squatty potty. I don't because I have gotten so accustomed to using my squatty potty at home and I don't have one at work. I now can't go without it. Squatty potty works. You get your knees up in the air a little bit. Open up the bottle and, yeah, things get out a little bit easier. Yeah, wow. It seems like most people – I'm going to say if I'm looking at a pie chart of people that are texting in, tweeting in, whatever – Like 70% of people got no problem that they can go. Nature calls, baby.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:22
They can go.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:24
But what about those people that are like out on the road? I think you got to pull into a restaurant. Like I tell the story about the Comcast guy forever ago that came over and he left. He left my bathroom cleaner than I found it because the poor guy, he had to go to the bathroom. And I'm like, go ahead. You're installing high-speed internet and look at all these channels. And I think he felt bad that he had to. And when – I think he took my wand. And, like, cleaned the toilet. Oh, it was, like, cleaner than when he... Because he had to go. And he paused, like, I'm sorry, I need to... May I use your facilities? And it was a one-bathroom apartment. And I'm like, please, feel free. You're installing top-shelf internet. And he cleaned the room up pretty nice. And there was the other guy from a company that will not be named... I remember this. ...that just didn't even ask because I couldn't find it and destroyed it and was also cutting pieces of... A hanger to somehow hook wiring into the wall and was throwing the discarded hanger off my balcony. I was like, what are you doing? Oh, you know, it's getting rid of the scrap. I got a trash can right there. 410-338-1098. Let's go to Tom. Tom, can you go at work? Thomas. Yes. Tom, you able to go at work? Yes. Turn your radio down, you moron. It's down. I'm hearing something.
SPEAKER 03 : 6:54
There you go. Well, if I can go to the bathroom at work, it's usually in a port-a-potty on a construction site.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:03
So disgusting. That's a nightmare. We haven't even breached this yet. That is like the worst place on earth.
SPEAKER 03 : 7:11
You got that right. Usually you sprint somewhere else to take a number two.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:15
You got that straight. Oh, that's so bad. Yeah, when you work at a job site, they don't clear those things out nearly as frequently as they should. Yeah, those things. How often are those things getting cleared out?
SPEAKER 03 : 7:31
Like once every four days.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:34
Oh, no. Oh, no. How about this, Josh? You've heard this. The audio is terrible. Have you ever heard the voicemail of the girlfriend that had to go to the bathroom at her boyfriend's house? She called her friend to pick her up. I don't think so. This is spectacular.
SPEAKER 01 : 7:52
I accidentally clogged my boyfriend's toilet, so I took the poop out and put it in his cat litter box. Then he asked if I pooped in it. I said no, but he said his cat has been dead for a week. Please pick me up. Oh, my God. Oh, yeah.
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we have the well awaited return of Marianne!!! Tune in to hear Marianne and Wendi regale Marianne's trip to Paris, France. What happened while she was there? Did she try new cuisines? Did she go to the Eiffel Tower? Or was she wrapped up in trouble? One way to find out. Hit play!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript Join us as we hear our listeners share their personal stories of unexpected blackouts.
00:00:00 Opening Remarks and Call Setup 00:00:21 Joe Shares a Blackout Story 00:01:22 Costume Contest Memory 00:02:18 John's Gruesome Incident 00:04:08 Caleb's Mysterious Pass-out 00:05:51 Rita's Missing Child Scare 00:07:21 Podcast Closure SPEAKER 07 : 0:00
When the hell did you bully Black Owl? That was it. You don't remember going to bed? You woke up in a parka? Those aren't your high heels. Why do you have makeup on? You walked into a Taco Bell and woke up in a Wendy's. 410-338-1098. We got people holding. Let's go to the phones. 410-338-1098. Joe. Joe, good morning.
SPEAKER 03 : 0:21
Morning.
SPEAKER 07 : 0:22
What's up, pal? Hey, Joe.
SPEAKER 03 : 0:25
It wasn't me. It was my son's mother, my ex. She, um... She was working at a Wawa and was bringing out customers, then turned around and looked at her manager, then turned back around and looked at her customer, and all of a sudden just stood straight up and fell like a tree right back.
SPEAKER 08 : 0:41
Just ate it. Just went down. Why? What's why?
SPEAKER 03 : 0:47
She has this condition called neurocardiogenic syncope, where her blood pressure or heart rate go in one direction too far and just blacked out from it. Does this happen, like, regularly? Yeah. It used to. It stopped for a while. I don't think she's done it that much recently. But it's been two years since I've been with her, so I have no idea, really. But it was quite regular for a while there. A couple years after she had my son.
SPEAKER 07 : 1:12
Oh, that sucks. That's a condition that would just be a curse to live with, where you just start blacking out left and right. I mean, here's a pretty famous one from the world of TV.
SPEAKER 01 : 1:22
Costume contest. We do it every year. It's always a lot of fun. Let's get started.
SPEAKER 07 : 1:26
Oh.
SPEAKER 01 : 1:27
Our first caress. Oh.
SPEAKER 07 : 1:30
And, oh, and.
SPEAKER 06 : 1:33
Oh, down goes Wendy.
SPEAKER 08 : 1:39
That's my famous fainting spell. Wendy Williams dressed as a Statue of Liberty.
SPEAKER 07 : 1:45
Yeah, I've seen some people faint. I still have my questions about that one. It was a lot of, oh, oh, oh. Like her hands are in the air. It was like the version of, it was the fainting version of the national anthem done by a fading R&B singer. That's really got to stretch it out for five or six notes too long. She hit the deck in this thing. Let's go to John. This sounds like a horrifying story. John, talking about times you blacked out, passed out.
SPEAKER 04 : 2:18
Hey, good morning, guys. I got a great one, and it doesn't involve alcohol or violence. Okay.
SPEAKER 06 : 2:22
Oh.
SPEAKER 04 : 2:23
So I was home chilling one night, and my best friend, I'm 17, my best friend pulls up, and he just bought a used car. So I'm like, oh, man, it's pretty cool looking at his old Toyota Corolla. So I said, hey, man, you got a taillight out here. So he says, oh, okay. I said, you know, I was my dad's mechanic. I'm doing some light mechanical work at the time, and I'm like, I can fix this. So I got the bulb in my garage, so I go get it. a light bulb well this car had a cover over where the light bulb was so i had to get a screwdriver and i'm taking the cover off in his trunk so unbeknownst to me he puts his head in there all snooping up on me i didn't realize it and when i went to get out of the trunk i poked him in the eye with the screwdriver you stabbed him in the eye with a screwdriver yes sir okay So I actually felt like, you know, I thought I actually poked his eye. So I was like, oh, my God, oh, my God. So I went to look at it to see, you know, like, is it blown out? Like, how bad? I didn't actually poke it a hole. And I just, like, you know, poked against it. It didn't blow his eye out. But I got so... upset about, you know, like looking at me or just the whole thing of it. He said, you just dropped, dude, like a sack of potatoes.
SPEAKER 07 : 3:46
Your eyes just rolled back into your head and you hit the deck. Damn, dude. Yeah. I mean, if I thought I took out my friend's eyeball with a flathead screwdriver, I'm probably like, yeah, I'm going to take a quick unexpected nap. Well, hopefully he's got a freaked out gypsy eye that he's got a cool story about these days. Who else we got here? Oh, what the hell could have happened here? Caleb. Caleb, where'd you pass out at?
SPEAKER 05 : 4:08
I was at my buddy's hunt club in Cumberland.
SPEAKER 07 : 4:11
You were hunting?
SPEAKER 05 : 4:13
I was not hunting. We were just up there, but it's at a hunt club.
SPEAKER 07 : 4:16
Okay.
SPEAKER 05 : 4:17
Why'd you pass out?
SPEAKER 07 : 4:18
Yeah, what gives?
SPEAKER 05 : 4:19
Honestly, I couldn't tell you. We were sitting around the table eating dinner, and I was like, man, I don't feel good. I think I'm going to be sick. So I got up because I thought I was going to throw up, and I went to throw up off the deck. Next thing I know, my friends are in a circle standing around me, and I'm just passed out on the ground. I was like, what happened?
SPEAKER 07 : 4:36
Is this one of those things where you go to the doctor, or are you just like, well, we'll just chalk that one up to the body being wacky?
SPEAKER 05 : 4:43
No, I chalked it up as it was a one-off thing, and it was four years ago. It hasn't happened since, but it was definitely weird.
SPEAKER 08 : 4:50
Well, you're probably dehydrated. Yeah, I mean, it's the coming, too. It's got to be weird where you're just like, what the hell?
SPEAKER 07 : 4:55
You're on the ground, and everyone's looking down at you, and you're like, what happened? There's nothing I love more than watching a UFC fighter that gets their lights turned out or maybe submitted with one of those blood chokes, and they come to, and they don't know what happened, and they immediately start grappling with the referee.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:13
They double-legged the ref. It would have been even freakier if he opened his eyes, all his friends were on their knees eating his vomit. Oh, man.
SPEAKER 06 : 5:22
You were the thing that was hunted.
SPEAKER 07 : 5:25
They had no idea they drugged his food. Gentlemen, we will be hunting the most dangerous animal in nature.
SPEAKER 06 : 5:34
Man. Yes. Dig in. Keep on sucking. Yes.
SPEAKER 07 : 5:41
He's never been their friend. They've just been friends with him forever. Just a plan to hunt and eat his supple ass. Let's go to Rita. Great name. Rita, good morning.
SPEAKER 09 : 5:51
Hi, good top of the day. Top of the day to you, Rita.
SPEAKER 08 : 5:53
Top of the day, Rita. That's my mom's name. My favorite ice.
SPEAKER 09 : 5:56
So I lost my two-year-old in a Rundle Mills mall. Oh.
SPEAKER 08 : 6:04
Huh? What happened?
SPEAKER 09 : 6:07
I lost my two-year-old in a Rundle Mills mall.
SPEAKER 07 : 6:11
Yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER 09 : 6:13
And so we were all together, though. It was like me and my neighbor and her kids and my kids. I had three at the time. My two-year-old was the youngest. And so we're all just walking together, and I never believed in the leash thing. So, you know, I just so happened to look, and, yeah, he was gone. And I'm like, where is he? And then when everybody else started looking, I just took off running, right? And, you know, Arundel Mills is, like, huge. It's big. I'm running down. Yeah, I'm running down the center, and I'm like... My son, my son. And then a lady, she comes up. She's like, are you looking for your son? I'm like, yeah. She's like, does he have an orange shirt? I'm like, no. So then I'm still like running and I'm screaming. And then finally I see the, I see like the guard, you know, with the hat on. He's like further down and he's waving his hand. And then I see my son and I go, I'm out. Like, I just hit the ground.
SPEAKER 07 : 7:08
You got so excited. You got your beautiful baby boy back that you hit the deck, donk your head. That is, you have a tendency. Rita, you get a tendency to get worked up?
SPEAKER 1 : 7:18
Yes.
SPEAKER 07 : 7:21
Okay, you give her the warm line number because she's allowed to call whenever she wants to. Why are you so giggly? God, you're the best. I love you, Rita. Rita, just listen. Oh, my God. You have a certain sound to you. Australian? Okay, Rita, 5 milligrams, 10 or 20?
SPEAKER 08 : 7:42
Are you high right now? Yes. She's on hold. She's allowed through whenever.
Read MoreRead Less
Description Chapter Markers Transcript Explore the intriguing world of bootlegging as our hosts recount tales of old VHS tapes, pirated music, and the questionable ethics behind buying bootlegged video game systems to capture nostalgic moments. Delve into the discussion on the ethics and legalities surrounding bootlegging, especially in the context of outdated or vintage games. As society's morals evolve, we question if copying a game from a company that no longer exists is truly a crime.
00:00:00 Opening Remarks 00:00:00 Karma and Bootlegging 00:02:24 The Legality of Bootlegging Games 00:05:15 Old School Bootlegging 00:10:01 Reclaiming Childhood through Retro Games 00:15:25 Discussion on Joker 2 SPEAKER 1 : 0:00
Thank you.
SPEAKER 12 : 0:00
Well, here's a fun update. You get what you pay for. Maybe this was karma biting me in the ass for doing something illegal, because I think I did. We talked about bootlegging. You ever bootleg an album, record old VHS tapes back during the Blockbuster video days? Did you download LimeWire and Napster to steal music? Well, these days, what I did, a buddy of mine wanted a video game system because he's stuck at home after some surgery. So I said, hey, I got somebody that makes those Xboxes that are filled with like 30,000 games. That can't be legal. So guess what? I ended up buying one off of Etsy, and it showed up, and I took it over there, and I hooked it up, and we high-fived, and we hit the power button, and nothing happened. And I got another power cable, and I plugged it into another outlet, and nothing happened. And then I went to go message the seller, and they don't exist anymore. I got ripped off. That actually might be another break for down the line. So yeah, I ended up buying junk. I shouldn't have done it, and I paid the price for it. It was only $100, but still, it's $100 I didn't have to lose. We all discussed amongst ourselves, it sounds like there's a bunch of people out there setting the seas of thievery because all y'all been pirating stuff, recording things, downloading things. Maybe you shouldn't have. Have you been bootlegging? We talk to you on Behind the Curtain. You criminal. I got a buddy in the neighborhood. Shout-out Toddy, Chance Tucker, two great kids, Evans friends. He's got to get his knee all but ripped to hell in a camping accident. He had to claw his way back to civilization fighting off bears with a machete. I think he might have just slipped getting out of his Jeep. But he got knee surgery, ACL surgery, and he's on the couch. He ain't getting up for a few days. He's got the compression socks on. Who is this now? My buddy Todd, just neighborhood Todd. And he's just on the sofa. There ain't nothing he can do. So I said, hey, let me get you a video game system. They make them cheap, and he's like a classic game guy. And I got the idea because I saw the ads all over Instagram for the handheld ones that just come out of the box for $80. 21,000 games. 50,000 games. All the games you knew and loved as a kid. Every Nintendo game ever. Blah, blah, blah. And I'm thinking... I don't think Nintendo or Sony or Microsoft or Sega or whoever, they're definitely not getting a cut of that. All that stuff has got to be bootlegged, right? Like, if there's 21, 31,000 games on the thing... I don't think they're paying licensing fees to that many companies. And I wonder the legality. Etsy covered in these things. Oh, really? You just go buy a system. They're like 200 bucks.
SPEAKER 26 : 2:44
Oh, you know, I have an Etsy account.
SPEAKER 12 : 2:46
I love it. I love Etsy. Oh, it's like eBay for the creative. But I was looking at them, and some of the way these downloadable streaming old games go, they have a little warning that comes up going, you must have a physical copy of this game if you want to play this, otherwise it's illegal. And then no one does that. No one's got 30,000 games sitting on a shelf somewhere. And I'm like, I think I might be engaged in bootlegging if I'm buying this thing.
SPEAKER 26 : 3:13
Yeah, I mean, I think for most people... Let me ask you this. Does the age of a game matter to you? If it's like the older ones, do you feel like it's not as big a crime or something? Like ones where the company might not even exist anymore. I don't know.
SPEAKER 12 : 3:29
Jalico games gone, then I don't care. I mean, I'll tell you that.
SPEAKER 26 : 3:35
Or even at this point, like if you're getting a copy of like Super Mario Brothers.
SPEAKER 12 : 3:40
I don't think I'm going to take food off Nintendo's table. I don't think Shigeru Miyamoto is going to need help buying Christmas presents.
SPEAKER 26 : 3:46
Older vintage games. And I don't know. I don't know your answer about licensing or who or who gets the money from that. But I think for me anyway, if it's an old I feel like if it's a vintage older thing, like I don't I don't I'm just going to I'll buy it. Come arrest me, like you said, when you murder snakes. All the time.
SPEAKER 12 : 4:03
Hey, send me the bill. Yeah, come find me. Send me the bill. What are you going to do? It's like that stream box thing that Mudge's parents bought a stream box. And it was this device that I think they got in a Target. I mean, a regular big box store. And you hook this thing up. Watch new movies, new TV shows without the expensive bill, without the price of the admission. And they're selling it on the website as watch Moana 2. Watch the new Beetlejuice. Watch Pick Your Movie Du Jour. And it's all free. And I'm thinking, I think that stuff's being bootlegged, right? Like I watched one of those movies over there at their house. And it was a Disney film. I think it might have been like Encanto or something. And you could clearly see it was someone that tripodded a cell phone. It was not. Wow. Yeah, that's old school bootleg. The audio sucked. Filming the screen with like a, yeah. I'm like, this is not, this is not a straight, this is not real. You didn't get this straight from Disney. You guys jacked this thing somehow. And you saw all the films and you had to find like one that had like a nice bit rate to be able to download from some sketchy server.
SPEAKER 26 : 5:15
That's bootlegging.
SPEAKER 12 : 5:16
Yeah. Bootlegging. I mean, back in the day, you had my old man. I love you, Pops. But there was never a Blockbuster VHS that we rented that you did not try and make a copy of for our own personal. What was the name? It started with an M. VHS blank. Was it Magnavox? Was it Magnavox or Miramax or whatever the hell it was? Tape that we just had an entire bookshelf. Full of just VHS tapes that just had written on the side of the thing in Sharpie. Whatever the hell the thing was. Young Guns 1, Young Guns 2, Unforgiven. You have a bootleg?
SPEAKER 1 : 5:56
4103381098.
SPEAKER 26 : 5:56
I mean, I'm the same way. I think we had that... Back in the day, there was that box that floated around that would give you all the cable channels. Remember that? Yep.
SPEAKER 12 : 6:08
Oh, Max Ellis, I'm thinking of. Yeah, the one that you could get. Or you get a sketchy cable guy. I could juice you up. Music. I mean, Lord knows... Lars Ulrich Napster, he kind of fought back, really on the side of the artist, but in doing so, back in the 90s, kind of made himself seem older than I think he wanted to appear. Now, again, Metallica's gone on, and they've been fine. But they were one of the first to fight. Yeah, and he was right. Being like, hey, this is our stuff. I feel like we should get paid for this sort of thing.
SPEAKER 26 : 6:44
Yeah, but that LimeWire and Napster, I mean, didn't Napster get in big trouble?
SPEAKER 12 : 6:48
Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah, they went to court. LimeWire went in court. If you had LimeWire, Speaks, did you ever, on the home computer, did you ever download anything on MonPause? Oh, and did you have a computer room at home? Did you have a computer room?
SPEAKER 23 : 7:03
Uh... No, we actually did not. Yeah, yeah, we did have a computer room, but not until the early 2000s.
SPEAKER 12 : 7:11
Yeah, we didn't get a home PC until I bought one and brought it into my house in, like, 99, 98, this big honking IBM tower, some 486, whatever the hell else, voodoo graphics chipset, but it was the family computer, but I also LimeWired, and I LimeWired quite a bit of pornography, and then I went and turned it on, and the whole thing just is in Infected with viruses. They would just label a virus a new Limp Bizkit album. Like, okay, I like dookie. And then the next thing you know, somebody in Dadigstan has your dad's finances. 410-338-1098. Let's go to the phone. Big Bill. Damn you, Big Bill. Big Bill.
SPEAKER 16 : 7:56
What up, gentlemen? What up? What's up? What's up? And what is happening? What's up? So I actually, I don't know if you guys are familiar with Torrent. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 25 : 8:12
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 16 : 8:13
Yeah, I used to jack so much stuff, man, that I would have the cable company shutting my Internet down.
SPEAKER 12 : 8:20
Really?
SPEAKER 16 : 8:20
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 12 : 8:21
They could detect it on their end, like, okay, all these homes are using such and such amount of data. Yeah, he's using way too much data.
SPEAKER 16 : 8:27
But the bill household just slurping it.
SPEAKER 12 : 8:30
Could they see what you were downloading?
SPEAKER 16 : 8:32
Yeah, it was actually the company that made the film sent, like, the assist of the Internet connection to my provider and actually shut me down twice.
SPEAKER 26 : 8:44
Damn. So what were you doing? Movies? Did you ever feel bad?
SPEAKER 16 : 8:47
I was doing all kinds of stuff, Scott. I was doing music. I was doing, yeah, movies.
SPEAKER 26 : 8:52
these uh you know porn that kind of stuff yeah i did mostly music because i remember i was like that was back in the mid to like late 90s i was really into fish and like fish uh you know they would play songs live that you couldn't find like other places so i would download all these like fish songs and make like this master mix the first song you ever downloaded
SPEAKER 12 : 9:12
I don't. I shockingly do. I got to look up the year because it was off of a movie soundtrack. It was off of Mission Impossible 2 in 2000. 2000. The Limp Bizkit, take a look around. Hell yeah. I was like, okay, this song goes so hard and I need it. And it was the only MP3 that I had on my computer. And it just basically played in a loop the entire time. And then the second song I downloaded, I believe was Sugar Ray, and it gave me a virus. Let's go back to the phones. Let's talk to Blaine. Sounded like an 80s villain. Blaine, good morning. Hey, man. How you doing? What's up, Blaine? You bootlegging games? Maybe?
SPEAKER 06 : 9:52
Yeah, well, here's the deal. I got into my 30s, so it was about that time for me to reclaim my childhood a little bit. Yes, sir.
SPEAKER 26 : 10:01
Hell yeah.
SPEAKER 06 : 10:02
So I bought a Sega Saturn again.
SPEAKER 25 : 10:04
Oh, there you did. That's my system.
SPEAKER 06 : 10:06
So it was a Japanese Saturn. Well, I know, Justin, if you looked on eBay, you've seen how godly expensive Saturn goes.
SPEAKER 12 : 10:15
Yeah, they're brutal, man. $100,000 for a game. Yeah, they're awful.
SPEAKER 06 : 10:18
Yeah, yeah, it's bad. Like, don't even get me started. The original stuff is brutal.
SPEAKER 24 : 10:23
Don't get me started.
SPEAKER 06 : 10:25
But I wanted to play the version of Castlevania Symphony of the Night for Saturn.
SPEAKER 12 : 10:33
Okay.
SPEAKER 06 : 10:33
Classic. So someone English patched it. Okay. So you can download it and burn it to a disc and then play it on your Saturn. Uh-huh. So that's what I did. And how was it?
SPEAKER 12 : 10:45
Was it amazing? Honestly, it's not that great of a conversion.
SPEAKER 06 : 10:48
Do you feel guilty? Actually, it was really great. They took the PSP English version and put it. to put that English patch to it so you can understand what they're saying.
SPEAKER 12 : 10:58
Yeah, it's all in Japanese.
SPEAKER 26 : 10:59
But to Scott's question earlier, did you feel at all kind of guilty or like, God, I feel... I feel like there's a window that if it's more than 30 years old, it's fair game.
SPEAKER 06 : 11:10
No, because those original... Think about all these guys who are reselling retro game stores. The original creators are not getting any extra money. That's a good point.
SPEAKER 12 : 11:21
It used game stores. When you sell a used game, Microsoft tried to stop that with one of their Xbox systems.
SPEAKER 26 : 11:28
I'm not a big game guy, but when I would finish a game, I would take it back and return the game and then give you like, what, $10 for it or something? And then I would use that $10 and put it towards another game, and I would just buy a new game. When I was done with it, I'd return it. Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 : 11:42
And then they would go and sell it for $5 less than a new game. Being like, damn, the delta between what you're giving and what you're charging. That's a really good point. I never thought about that. Used game sales. Sony ain't seeing any of that. Microsoft. Let's do one more here. Let's go to Michelle before we jump to Josh's news. Michelle, what are you doing?
SPEAKER 20 : 11:59
Well, back in the day, we had one of those eight-foot mesh boards. big dishes outside yeah and uh and uh my father had a box that had a chip in it but it de-scrambled everything oh yeah did you watch the playboy channel remember the playboy channel you can see boobs oh we we used to get everything but here's the here's the real uh the you know the dark market thing he used to have to if they scrambled the channel and he had to get a new chip He had to go pick the guy up at the Carroll County Airport. What? What?
SPEAKER 12 : 12:35
The guy was flying in? Did he have a trench coat on and dark glasses? There was a handoff with like a briefcase?
SPEAKER 20 : 12:44
No, he came to our house and installed the chip.
SPEAKER 12 : 12:47
I don't know how to tell you this, Michelle, but your father was an al-Qaeda. That's crazy. Wow. spoiler alert spoiler alert i mean it we're talking about a movie and it sounds like a movie none of y'all watched so we did on your behalf joker 2 spiegel loved the first one and we thought the second one from todd phillips would be a surefire hit so it comes out people say it sucks it has one of the largest drop-offs from weekend box office to weekend box office in movie history The first one nominated for an Oscar. The second one almost went straight to streaming. Josh finally went and watched it. And you'll hear his full review. I thought it sucked. A lot of other people did. Did Josh take an alternate view of it? Did he actually find enjoyment in the character of Arthur Fleck and Lady Gaga's Harley Quinn? You'll hear... But since we did this review, there's some people that are now trying to frame it as a misunderstood masterpiece that it was supposed to suck. It's actually a commentary on filmmaking. I'll say it again. Irony is the tool of the lazy. Get it? It's supposed to be crap. Well, it's still crap. Todd Phillips, he's acting like the Joker. He wanted it to bomb. I don't think that the hundreds, if not thousands of people that brought this thing to fruition and the people that put up the movie and the other actors that were hoping to have a career come from this film wanted it to bomb. And if you did, that was Hollywood ego and hubris manifest. Yeah, it sounds like some people out there. Everybody from Hideo Kojima. the man that's developed some of the biggest video games in the world, all the way to Quentin Tarantino are saying, no, it's a misunderstood masterpiece, and years from now they're going to be celebrating it. Well, right now, I thought it sucked. What did Josh think of Joker 2 on Behind the Curtain? Speaks, you finally did it. You went around and you watched Joker 2, directed by Todd Phillips, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, a sequel to 2019's Joker, a film that you absolutely loved, to the point where you even mimicked the Joker's laugh. There we are. That's you twirling around in a dimly lit bathroom after shooting three businessmen to death. This movie comes out, doesn't light up the world. As a matter of fact, they're considering it financially. One of the biggest bombs of the year. It's almost a weird case study in what the hell happened. You have films like Warren Beatty back in the day with Ishtar, Waterworld, how the hell did it cost that much and just eat it? You get films that you go, how did something that was such a surefire hit go? Get rejected.
SPEAKER 26 : 15:31
Joker, Philly, ado. Rotten Tomatoes sitting at 32% with both audience and critics, which is considered rotten.
SPEAKER 12 : 15:39
It went almost immediately to streaming. Two weeks later. You didn't bother seeing in the theaters.
SPEAKER 26 : 15:44
I almost streamed a couple of newer movies. Did you stream it at home, Speaks? Yeah. And what'd you pay?
SPEAKER 23 : 15:51
Like 19. Yeah. 20 bucks. Crazy. But I figured.
SPEAKER 26 : 15:55
For like the wild robot. I was like, oh, well, let me watch the wild robot. And it's at $25. I wasn't willing to pay it. I was like, no, I'm not going to do it.
SPEAKER 23 : 16:01
But I figured, you know, I wanted to see it. Let's see if the talk that it's really bad is true.
SPEAKER 12 : 16:08
Form your own opinion. Your own opinion about it.
SPEAKER 23 : 16:11
I could not believe that a movie, the first movie that was so good could be so bad the second time around. I could not believe it.
SPEAKER 12 : 16:25
Wow. Bad? Not bad?
SPEAKER 23 : 16:27
Give me your takeaways. I don't understand why they did a musical. It's almost like they did the songs to fill time. No dialogue. Yes. They didn't do... And then... Did you notice the Joker didn't kill anybody? He didn't kill anybody in the whole movie.
SPEAKER 12 : 16:48
There was almost no crime. There was moments in... Okay, we're going to spoil this thing. Screw it. None of you saw it. None of you apparently want to see it. He would have moments, the song and dance numbers, where he would daydream. And the song and dance sequences were in daydreams. And he killed some people in those, the judge, but then he'd wake back up and snap to, and nothing had happened.
SPEAKER 23 : 17:12
Any time the... any kind of momentum began, everything stopped for another song. It was ridiculous. Look, I like Lady Gaga, her singing, but I didn't think she added anything to this.
SPEAKER 12 : 17:28
A terrible Harley Quinn, which is in the comics and other movies, most famously recently Margot Robbie. She's supposed to be the Joker's main squeeze. She sucked in this. And she can act. She can act. She's not a bad actress. Yeah, she's incredible. It was written badly. The character was... I thought the acting, especially Joaquin Phoenix Speaks, he sold the role.
SPEAKER 23 : 17:54
But what he was given was terrible. Something that made it seem unrealistic was whenever he was being escorted... from his cell or in the courtroom. He wasn't wearing handcuffs. He's walking around. He's just walking around. This is a guy who committed some of the most heinous crimes. He's hanging out having a smoke and gin pop.
SPEAKER 26 : 18:23
I had a question and I just forgot it. Give me a second. What were you talking about? The Joker? The Joker. The acting.
SPEAKER 23 : 18:32
Are there any musicals that, like, you like? Annie. From the 80s, not the new one. I didn't even see the new one.
SPEAKER 26 : 18:40
I think musical, like, yeah, as a grown-up, though, like, as a kid, you almost don't even realize it's a musical. It's just a movie with songs. I like some Disney numbers, like Encanto. Like, some of those Disney movies, some of the songs are really catchy.
SPEAKER 12 : 18:51
They're all musicals. Aren't they all considered musicals? Yeah, a lot of that stuff is kind of catchy. Let It Go with Frozen and Canto Moana. All that stuff has, like, a good song and dance number, but it's usually... Like three per movie? I'm just watching this. I'm like, what?
SPEAKER 23 : 19:04
What is going on? How do they screw up a franchise? And there's no way they could do a third one. No.
SPEAKER 26 : 19:10
How many Murrows out of five do you give it?
SPEAKER 23 : 19:13
Oh. Not even one. Half a Murrow? Half a Murrow? I'll be generous and give it half. Speaks. Generous? I've never seen it.
SPEAKER 26 : 19:24
Not even one out of five Murrows.
SPEAKER 12 : 19:26
Half a Murrow. It was a generous half a Murrow. It was awful. Wow. It was so bad. And this is my question to you. I've never seen it. Joe, have you seen it? No, I have not. Pretend I've never seen it. I'm not going to now. Can you tell me what the plot was? Oh, I like that. Uh...
SPEAKER 23 : 19:42
Well, I thought that they were, that Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix were going to go away and become crime partners. But oh, oh, oh, so he at the end, he... I'm going to spoil it.
SPEAKER 12 : 20:00
No one saw it. Spoil the hell out of it.
SPEAKER 23 : 20:02
No one cares. So at the end, Joaquin is stabbed to death.
SPEAKER 12 : 20:05
Oh, spoiler! So the big twist in this, the big twist is that at the very end, and you notice that they cut to this other inmate at Arkham. They kept cutting to this one guy. They just kept looking at him. At the very end, this inmate comes up to him and tells him a joke. Right. And the punchline is the same line from the first movie. You get what you deserve. Stab, stab, stab, stab, stab, stab, stab. Arthur Fleck dies. And then in the background, you see the guy that just killed him cackling like a weirdo. He takes the same knife and slices his face open like Heath Ledger's Joker. That that... was the Joker. That he, Joaquin Phoenix, Arthur Fleck, was never the real Joker. He's the guy that inspired the Joker. But it happened at the 99.9th percentile. There was no plot. There's no story.
SPEAKER 23 : 21:00
I cannot remember a more horrible movie. Wow. I mean, I haven't seen every movie. I'm not a movie aficionado, but I can't. Maybe 2001 A Space Odyssey. What do you think about the cartoon at the beginning? What was the point of that?
SPEAKER 12 : 21:18
It started with a classic, like, Steamboat Willie, but in color, cartoon to kind of recap the first movie. Yeah. And it went on way too long. You're like, is this bitch animated?
SPEAKER 23 : 21:32
Yeah. I'll watch another Joaquin Phoenix movie if I'm interested, but... I just the whole thing was I was so confused by why for you because you love that first one. I just didn't. My mind was blown by how a movie franchise could go so bad from the first one to the second one.
SPEAKER 12 : 21:57
OK, I'll give it a couple. I'll give it credit on a couple of things. Again, the acting was fine. Joaquin Phoenix is a fine actor. Lady Gaga is a fine actor. I did like some of the set pieces were pretty nice in the courtroom. Even half the thing was either in a dingy jail cell or in the courtroom. And that was it. And it wasn't too long. It wasn't some four-hour slog. It felt longer than it needed to be, but it was only two hours.
SPEAKER 26 : 22:21
It's so funny you say that because I watched three movies over the weekend. I don't watch movies. I watch Long Legs, Cato Lake, and Strange Darling. They were all pretty great. Cato Lake was a little confusing, but I always look at the run time. And I'm good for about – and most of those are like –
SPEAKER 12 : 22:41
90 minutes you got me for two hours yeah two is like yeah that's about it that was one of the biggest things i'll forever crap on those terrible transformers films i love transformers One of those was almost three hours long. They don't need to be more than 90 minutes. 90 minutes long. Oh, damn it. There was another point about the film I wanted to make. Joe Stamboni. How was Tim Dillon seen? Brief. Tim Dillon, podcaster, comedian. The guy's hysterical. Who was he? He was the guard that wanted Arthur Fleck to sign his book.
SPEAKER 03 : 23:10
And then leans over and goes, this thing's going to be worth a lot when they fry his ass.
SPEAKER 12 : 23:15
Oh, I remember the point I was going to make. There's a subtext in the thing. God, we sound like pretentious movie reviewers. About celebrity worship. Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn. By the way, they never say her name. They never call her Harley Quinn. They call her Lee. You see her in the face paint for like three minutes. I hate when movies do that. We're going to give you a little taste. Give me the whole thing. That it was about celebrity worship. She fully made up her own backstory and lied to him about who she was. And she set fire to her parents apartment complex and she murdered a bunch of people and she was committed by the state. No, she was just sad and just checked herself in for a couple of days off. And then her parents are fine. And she worshipped him, the Joker, but not the man. He's like, I'm Arthur Fleck. That's just a character that I do on stage. And she rejected him. It's a lot about celebrity worship. Yeah. But I mean, really. And also Gotham didn't look like Gotham. It just looked like New York City.
SPEAKER 23 : 24:13
And the dancing, he did such a good job with the dancing in the first movie, and it was almost like half-assed this time.
SPEAKER 12 : 24:20
It was either, in some scenes, half-assed, or it went on Fred Astaire long. It was some of the dance scenes, you're like, is there any chance we can get a gigantic hammer and maybe kill Robin? Is that possible?
SPEAKER 23 : 24:32
Yeah, and I don't like the intimacy between Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix. Okay. Maybe it would have been better if it was just him. What do you think of the sex scene? The sex scene? Ew. Oh, I fast forwarded. Why? Do you see Lady Gaga's boobies? I thought it was disgusting.
SPEAKER 12 : 24:53
It was not hot. Why? I hate sex scenes in movies. I'd act it out with Joe if he didn't have guests in the building right now. Can't wait. Less than a week from now, we're going to be at Riley's Oyster for Oyster Fest, broadcasting live 530 to 10. We're going to have that delicious 98 Rock Union Craft Beer Grilled Oysters and more there, and uncensored tickets to give away because that bitch is sold out. Well, the reason we did this break is because I love oysters these days. I love them grilled. I love them barbecued. You give me an oyster, I'm going to enjoy my meal. But it was an acquired taste. And that's what we talked about in this break coming up. Things that were acquired tastes. Things that you didn't like as a kid or didn't like as a younger man and woman. And now you can't live without. And there's an interesting facet to this break. Here when Scott brings up... Brussels sprouts. Now, Brussels sprouts, those tiny little heads of cabbage, lettuce-looking crap that in countless television shows, cartoons, and movies were always punishment for a kid. You have to eat your Brussels sprouts. You don't get dessert unless you eat your Brussels sprouts. No, not Brussels sprouts again. Well, we come to find out that through genetic modification, they were actually able to de-bit her. brussels sprouts and you might have thought that your taste buds changed in regards to them no no science breeding got involved and brussels sprouts actually taste better than they used to i feel like we're messing around with nature in a way that we shouldn't so who knows maybe somewhere along the line someone made oysters super duper delicious and now i love them and i did it when i was a kid but it's an acquired taste and that's what we discussed on behind the curtain What did you develop a taste for as you got older? I could not stand, I mean, could not stand certain types of seafood. As a kid, like clams and all that, I thought were gross, slimy. I was thinking sushi.
SPEAKER 26 : 26:49
Oh, sushi was like this mystery food. You start with the California roll, like that's like the kid's sushi, where it's just like the fake crab or whatever, and like some cucumber. But then you gotta like get to where there's like a big hunk of
SPEAKER 12 : 27:03
Raw fish on there. Salmon roe. You get the fish eggs on the thing. Yeah, I mean, even as a kid around here, I looked at a crab. I'm like, that is an insect. And then I got older, and now I'd eat the damn shell if you wouldn't scoff at me. I love them. Joe, we never really got into it with you. What's something? I mean, I know you probably, as a kid, you loved weed, but as you got older, some of that Afghani black tar heroin you eventually developed a taste for.
SPEAKER 24 : 27:31
Yes, I did develop a taste for it. I was thinking asparagus. That's a big one. Asparagus.
SPEAKER 1 : 27:38
4103381098.
SPEAKER 24 : 27:39
Hard-boiled eggs or a deviled egg?
SPEAKER 12 : 27:43
I still can't cross that. It still smells like farts to me. Yeah. It's still pure fart. Rodney, developed a taste for mushrooms as I got older. Yes, I love mushrooms. Mushrooms, I love. You know what I've recently developed a taste for? Olives. Olives. I didn't like olives a year ago.
SPEAKER 25 : 28:00
I still don't like olives.
SPEAKER 12 : 28:01
And I ordered a charcuterie tray at like Vin 909, some nose up in the air, pinky out Annapolis restaurant. And it had olives on there. I'm like, oh, screw it. And I ate one. And I'm not saying like, oh, my God, where you've been all my life. But I ate the other four. I was like, these aren't bad. I could have these. Yeah.
SPEAKER 24 : 28:22
If you get a good olive, like it changed my life. I got some olives at Whole Foods. And it was, like, another.
SPEAKER 26 : 28:29
Were they those, like, green olives, though? Like, those, like, ones that are, like. Yeah, they were green. Yeah, the green ones are the more, like, accessible ones for me. But you get those, like, really, like. They're so salty. They're almost dry. They, like, make your mouth dry. Like, when people drink, like, a dirty martini. Oh, they want it dirty.
SPEAKER 12 : 28:48
Yeah, they want the olive juice. Pour the juice in. Like, you psychos. And a martini. Is that gin? Is that gin?
SPEAKER 26 : 28:54
Well, you can do a vodka or a gin martini.
SPEAKER 12 : 28:56
traditionally gin and olive juice I believe a traditional is gin that is a nightmare in a glass to me somebody says they have developed a taste for hairless masculine man thighs well sister 3800 Hooper Avenue ask for Justin Joe will send me down the past 10 years and still hot still hot She's developed a taste for sardines and mustard with saltines. Angela, I'd be a year at 10, but right now you're a 9.89. I have had a weird moment. I've actually fallen out of favor with foods where my dad brought home a bag of dried sardines. They were like jerky. They were chewy. And he gave me a couple, and I didn't mind them. But then if I eat them now, I don't do well. Same with liver. I had a moment as a kid where a liver to me was a thin, metallic steak. I like chopped liver. And I tried, I guess, to impress my dad, Speaks, by eating liver. And it was just in the form of just a steak, but it was thin. And now, the smell... Oh, my God.
SPEAKER 26 : 30:10
The texters are checking in. We're missing two of the Mount Rushmore of grown-up foods that you hated as a kid, but now you eat. Onions has got to be on there. No. No, really? Okay. Think about fart. The fart smell. Oh, you're talking broccoli? No. Even more fart smell. Huh. I mean, I thought eggs. Sauerkraut? No. No? Brussels sprouts.
SPEAKER 12 : 30:37
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 26 : 30:38
Brussels sprouts and cauliflower. Yeah. I love them both right now. I will roast some cauliflower.
SPEAKER 12 : 30:46
I'll eat cauliflower. But I didn't eat anything substitute. I don't eat cauliflower trickery. I don't eat cauliflower rice. That's a bag of farts. And I think Brussels sprouts got a bad rap. It had bad PR for a while because it was used as punishment.
SPEAKER 03 : 31:02
In like every kid's book, I wanted to have pizza and cake, but my mom made me Brussels sprouts.
SPEAKER 26 : 31:07
Joe, I know you're busy looking up high times over there, but can you, I think they've actually genetically changed the Brussels sprout. To make it bigger? No, to make it more accessible. I may be completely making that up. Let's see what we have here. I feel like there was something that happened with the Brussels sprout.
SPEAKER 12 : 31:28
This is according to IowaFarmBureau.com. I'm a very well-read man. And let's get into this. It's not your imagination. Yeah. Brussels sprouts do taste better. How gene editing. I knew it. I don't like this. Has changed how we grow and eat food. The first time I tried Brussels sprouts, I couldn't believe how much I enjoyed them, writes Teresa. Her last name's Bjork. Ah. I figured my taste preferences had changed with age, that I'd grown to enjoy the bitter flavors. Yep. But turns out, my taste buds didn't change. I discovered that Brussels sprouts actually do taste better as a Dutch scientist. That's right. 30 years ago, identified the chemical that made Brussels sprouts taste bitter. He selected seed varieties with lower levels of the bitter chemicals. And then just through selective breeding, bred on new high yield varieties that tasted less bitter. Okay, so that actually I'm okay with.
SPEAKER 26 : 32:25
Yeah, they didn't really mess with it. They just took the varieties that were less.
SPEAKER 12 : 32:30
Yeah, like when you crossbreed pot plants, Joe, to get a stronger hit. That's right, Joe. Exactly. That's what they did. They crossbred it. Oh, wow, that's crazy. Brussels sprouts, they taste good for appetite, something, something.
SPEAKER 26 : 32:42
Plus, when you go to the place where they deep fry them, and you get those crunchy little leaves, and they're charred up a little bit, you're like,
SPEAKER 12 : 32:48
Oh, what's the place right down the way? Hamden. Why can't I think of it? Golden West. Golden West. Listen, ear gauges and brain surgery haircuts aside, they're Brussels sprouts. Yeah. The Brussels sprouts in there are really good. And they got that Jake's steak wrap in there. Really good. And it comes with Brussels sprouts. I always get a double order. Incredible. Oh, another...
SPEAKER 26 : 33:10
acquired taste is coffee. I remember taking a sip of my dad's coffee as a kid and I was like, this is the grossest thing I've ever tasted.
SPEAKER 12 : 33:17
Did you pop open the oil filter and let this leak into the mug? You drink this every day. You look forward to this. Also, coffee probably sucked back then. It probably wasn't great. I mean, I'll still drink burnt ass 80s coffee. I love the coffee in a Jiffy Lube. That was the fancy stuff.
SPEAKER 11 : 33:38
It should be important. It's just a woman. Probably is.
SPEAKER 12 : 33:41
And she's got a coffee mug handle on the side of her head. Just treat me like your slutty little mother. Make me chock full of nuts. Yeah, that's right. We definitely had a tin of that as a kid. The tins of coffee. Yeah, let's go to the phones. 410-338-1098. Elliot, what have you developed a taste for?
SPEAKER 09 : 33:59
The development of taste, Justin, was definitely sushi because I didn't like it when I was young, but now I love sushi because sushi is my favorite. What's your favorite roll? What do you get? What's your roll? Shrimp tempura because I love shrimp tempura. Hell yeah. It's crunchy. And the spicy tuna because it's so delicious.
SPEAKER 12 : 34:20
Hell yeah, dude. You're the best, Elliot. I do love a spicy tuna. And trim tempura is my role. And just to really have Mudge want to dive out a three-story window, I pronounce it with a little oomph. I call it tempura. And she's like, do not say it like that. Do not say it like that. Do not become your father and roll your R's. She gets so pissed. I'm like, I'll have the cucumber roll. I'll do a seaweed salad and a shrimp. She's like, don't do it. And every time. Oh, no. When I go back to Japan next year, my friends are going to leave the country without me. I'm going to really lean into it. Yeah, we got other people here. A lot of onions. Smith. Raw onions when I was little. Hated onions. Hated them until I was in my teens.
SPEAKER 1 : 35:08
25.
SPEAKER 12 : 35:08
I don't mind the flavors. Actually add some to my food sometimes. Onions is another one that you just as a kid. Edwin, as a child, could not stand beer or liquor. Couldn't stand anything.
SPEAKER 26 : 35:20
We're getting a lot of whiskeys, a lot of bourbons. Those are definitely grown up acquired taste. I remember my dad gave me a teaspoon full of Cuddy Sark when I was a kid. He was like setting up the bar. We were having like a party and they were setting up the drinks table. Yeah, yeah. And I was like, what's that? And he goes, dude, it was like drinking fire. It burned all the way down.
SPEAKER 12 : 35:45
Come find me in an event and I'll tell you about the characters in this story whose names were omitted to save some reputations of some local people. I heard a story about a brawl. You'll hear it coming up about somebody and a bunch of other people fighting somebody and a bunch of other people. And arms were broken, heads were crashed in, baseball bats were swung, chairs were thrown, and we asked you about times you've been in a brawl. A big-ass Donny Brook, as good old J.R. would say it, a Pier 6 dust-up. And a lot of you apparently have been in multiple brawls. And I've got to tell you, the DMs that I received, the messages that we got, the Facebook profiles that sent us the stories... I hate to stereotype, but y'all look like the people that have been in brawls. There's been a lot of people that messaged in that just, I could say, outside looking in. Hey, pick out of this lineup of these five people, what's the one dude that's been in a brawl? And you can just go immediately, yep, that's the guy that saw his buddy was in trouble and decided to swing a high-top stool at somebody and crack him in the skull over near the bar area at an Olive Garden. I've never been in a big, big, big brawl, but it sounds like a lot of y'all could be pretty effective in the Royal Rumble brawling. We discuss times you've been in a brawl on Behind the Curtain. Were you ever in a big-ass multi-person brawl? A chair comes flying across the bar. One punch gets thrown. One punch turns to two. Two people turn to four. You see your buddy. You go, on principle, I've got to dive into this son of a bitch. And the next thing you know, it's just Roadhouse and that son of a bitch. I heard a story yesterday from some... Folks, I'll say that, yeah, I had a football game go sideways. Two rival teams. Guess some smack had been talked. The smack got real. And then the next thing you know, somebody places a call and half of Greektown showed up to a high school football field. Pop trunks. Some Greek boys roll deep. All right. Something in a docus that you get all kinds of people that defend their countrymen, both neighborhood and, you know. Your hometown, wherever the hell you're from. 410-338-1098. Stambo, you ever engage in a brawl? Street gang, yes. Street gang, that's right. Your gang that was named Street Gang. And the gang that didn't brawl.
SPEAKER 24 : 38:05
No, or commit crimes. That's right. Or do anything gang related. Exactly. But we were a gang, nonetheless. I've gotten a couple little bar one-offs. There was a time... I feel so bad about this still to this day there we were polar bear plunge we went to a Wendy's one night after drinking it was like four or five of us in the car and I don't know what happened with my friend the driver but something got messed up in the order or the guy the guy at the window was just being short with this or something like this it was like two o'clock in the morning and So we get around and words are exchanged. And then the dude that was at the window comes outside. Oh, damn. And it's like five 22 year olds. Yeah. we got out of the car. I don't think I, uh, I didn't throw any punches, but my buddy did get his headset. His headset fell off. My friend picked it up and he drives her headset. Yes. He threw the drive through headset on the roof.
SPEAKER 12 : 39:16
He couldn't get it. Yeah. That's amazing. Yeah. Oh my God. Yeah. Uh, four, 10, three, three, eight, 10 98. We'll go to the phones. Take your texts and tweets. Devin, Devin, what the hell happened?
SPEAKER 04 : 39:29
Hey, guys. What's going on?
SPEAKER 12 : 39:30
What's up, pal?
SPEAKER 14 : 39:32
I've got a quick story for you, I guess, basically. Oh, no. Hello?
SPEAKER 12 : 39:37
Yeah, we just saw what you wrote on screen. It doesn't sound good. Yeah, there you are.
SPEAKER 14 : 39:41
Can you hear me? Yep. All right, cool. So, yeah, basically, I was at a party, I don't know how many years back, when my wife was not my wife, my girlfriend at the time. She... The tension was thick. It was like rednecks versus emos in the party scene. So let me just set that scene a little bit right to start. Which one are you?
SPEAKER 26 : 39:56
Which one are you? A redneck or an emo?
SPEAKER 14 : 39:58
I was the emo for sure. Got it. I was the emo crew. And so like this dude, one of the rednecks, he like lifted up one of our friend's skirts or whatever, like popped it up, like ha ha, whatever. And my wife took offense. So she runs over, slaps him right across the face. And yeah, so he's like... about to lose his mind he like goes into rage mode or whatever and she turns around and runs right behind me oh yeah so then uh and him and like 12 of his friends you know it's like 12 on 12 or however many it was and then my sister's there her boyfriend the biggest man in the room runs out leaves yeah he just abandoned you guys the guy that you thought was the mountain from the game of thrones goes straight bitch and leaves oh yeah who got the better when it was all said and done who who won I'd say they won. I had a complete... My lip was totally split in half. I had to get stitches and all that. It was rough.
SPEAKER 12 : 40:47
Yeah. In the battle of Morgan Whalen versus My Chemical Romance, I'm going to probably go with the former versus the latter.
SPEAKER 26 : 40:54
Let me ask you a question, because there was a skirt that was lifted.
SPEAKER 14 : 40:57
So that is pretty... A little bit of SA.
SPEAKER 26 : 41:00
Yeah. So that is... So then your wife was like, all right, there was some sort of, you know, a little... They stepped over the line, so then she slaps a guy. Yeah. Outside of that, though, does she do this a lot where her ass is writing checks that then you have to cash?
SPEAKER 14 : 41:19
No, so she, at the time when we were, you know, definitely of legal age, in air quotes, she was drinking, and she doesn't do that anymore. So that was a little bit of a thing. Yes.
SPEAKER 12 : 41:28
But to Scott's point, though, a lot of these women will do that. Oh, my God. How many dust-ups at some shore bar somewhere where there maybe is some tiki decoration somewhere? That's right. Where there's a couple of hanging lights. You get some lady, 100-nothing, 5-nothing, starts shrieking through the night, and then looks over at her boyfriend like, handle that for me, Tom. Yeah, I ain't going to do anything. No, I ain't. and then these two guys they don't feel like fighting no but these two hens start clucking and the two dudes go like okay i guess we got to do this and they start throwing hands i loved it was in 2022 i think it was the meme that went around after another fabled 2 a.m waffle house brawl that on the job application they said what's your prior experience and what's your fighting style What a Waffle House application. You had to know if your ground game was good, just in case you get tackled near the flat iron. Thank you, Dev. Let's go to Zach online, too. Zach, we're asking people, have you ever had a brawl?
SPEAKER 02 : 42:32
Yeah, man. Actually, in my early 20s, late teens, dude, I got in a lot of fights. But the one that put the nail in the coffin, I guess, for me, was me and two of my buddies got jumped by like 30-plus kids at a party. dang uh yeah dude it was bad um broke it uh that was probably my fault i threw the first punch when i shouldn't have okay all right 150 pounds wet i was back from uh i lived in orlando at the time and uh yeah you have a little liquid courage in you yeah a little bit of that and that uh that that marching powder oh yeah man it definitely wasn't good i woke up uh The whites in both of my eyes was red. Severe concussions. My buddy had his nose broken like three separate places. Shoes, clothes, hats, all kinds of stuff. We literally crawled out of there while they were throwing bottles at the vehicle.
SPEAKER 12 : 43:32
It had to feel like it went on for an hour. When in actuality, it probably was two minutes tops. How long did the brawl go on for?
SPEAKER 02 : 43:40
Um, yeah, probably a few minutes tops before we started crawling back to the car. I mean, they were still going at it. He left like two girls at the party. And ever since then, man, I'm done. I'm terrified. He ain't got it in you anymore.
SPEAKER 26 : 43:54
I often reference. Hey, go ahead. Please, please. Well, I was gonna say the other thing nowadays that you have to worry about is that like a lot of people have guns.
SPEAKER 12 : 44:00
Yes, dude. Yes. Someone's got a blade. Someone's got a gun. Someone's got something. A brawl is just not a brawl anymore. It's not. No, it just can't be fists and afterwards. And afterwards we shook hands. We all became the best of friends. That doesn't happen a lot. People sometimes romanticize. They'll puff up the tales of an era gone by where we settled it with our fists and then I was the best man at his wedding. On these days, you're going to end up in Josh's News with your skull sprayed on the sofa. John Mumma, buddy of mine in Pennsylvania. He's actually going to be my opening act for one of the two shows. November 30th. uh ram said on stage chaos theory please buy tickets to the 9 30 show he was famously he famously got in quite a few fights he never started them but he would flip a switch the wonderland and i could see that switch the wonderland ballroom brawl of 2007 is still discussed in hushed tones amongst friends That this hipster chick was heckling our friend, Tony Grasick, a.k.a. Larry Poom. And he does this Vegas Lounge Act thing. And she starts jaw jacking. And he gives it back to her. And someone, I think either threw a bottle or something at Tony. Whoa. And he goes to get in their face. She slaps him. Tony can't hit her, but shoulder checks the guy. The guy then hits Tony. John hits the guy. There's five people. I remember myself and another guy named Jay Hastings holding John back while he screamed, I will mow you all down, you mother effers. I will mow you all down. He breaks free, gets a hold of one of them. Now, I know you've been to the auto bar quite a bit in your time. Oh, yeah. Been upstairs? Oh, yeah. You ever want to get thrown down those steps? No. We had to keep John from doing that. John was about to absolutely cripple a man permanently. We're like, let's get you down. Let's get John in the car. And he just sat there like he had to come down. And then he actually took us out to a diner and apologized.
SPEAKER 11 : 46:07
I'm sorry, guys. I don't know what came over me.
SPEAKER 12 : 46:09
Let's go to Matt, line three. Matthew, you ever been to big multi-person brawl?
SPEAKER 15 : 46:15
Yeah. Morning, guys. Morning, Eagle. What's up, brother? Hey, Matt. What's up, Bill? Yeah, about 2014, Hamden, Halloween. We're at a house party, a bunch of people. Cops come, break it up. We go walking down the avenue, get some rofo. A buddy of mine is dressed as Tyrone Biggums. He's walking in front of me smoking a cigarette. Dude from across the street beelines it for him. He thinks, oh, man, this dude's going to ask me for a cigarette. He kind of turns away. The dude sucker punches him right in the face. So I'm behind him. I see the whole thing. I'm dressed as the karate kid. I run over and just jump kick him. A bunch of buddies of mine, they follow up behind me. So I got the brave little toaster, Ash and the Evil Dead. I got me as the karate kid. I think another buddy of mine was a banana toaster. I want to say. And so just imagine all of that on the Avenue.
SPEAKER 12 : 47:09
You just see Dave Chappelle's crackhead character, Tyrone Biggums, a toaster, a banana. What was why? Did you ever find out why the guy made a beeline and threw the punch?
SPEAKER 15 : 47:21
He's just an a-hole. One of the dudes as a bouncer from Frazier said that they knew him. They said, no, you're good. We'll call the cops on him. You guys are cool. We saw the whole thing. He started it. We're like, oh, so this is just, all right, cool.
SPEAKER 12 : 47:33
This is what he does? All right, dude. Thank you for the call, man. I'm still convinced it's the Wi-Fi. I'm still convinced it's the wireless signals that are just floating through our phones and into our brains and out the other side that are eventually going to turn our gray matter into tapioca pudding. We asked you and talked amongst ourselves. We got some pretty great answers about what is killing us in 2024 that we're not going to realize it's doing it until 2054, 2064. Earlier in the week, there was a story about baby powder being recalled that had a asbestos in it oh my god and back in the day decades decades and decades ago they thought asbestos was a wonder fabric it was used in insulation it was used to make gloves it was used to make children's clothing and then you come to find out that when you disturb the fibers you breathe them in they lodge themselves in your lungs like a satanic long dart you're gonna die And we had a lot of people check in saying everything from e-cigs to Wi-Fi to processed foods. A lot of you out there chimed in with energy drinks. And if that's the case, oh, I'm screwed, blued, and tattooed, as my dad would say, because I'm sucking down energy drinks like I've got an endorsement for the things. Everything from your Monsters to your Celsiuses to your Gatorade blasts to whatever the hell else. Don't get me started on those C4 energy drinks. Named after WBAL host C4, Brian Neiman's co-host. Yeah, it sounds like everything we're enjoying today is going to kill us tomorrow. We just don't realize it yet. Coming up, we talked amongst ourselves and to you about what we're not going to realize until it's way too late. That's killing us on Behind the Curtain. What do you think that we're using, consuming, drinking in 2024 that we're going to look back on decades from now and go, oh, that's why we all have portobello mushrooms growing out of our head. That's why an entire generation went blind. I look back in the day. One of the worst things I've ever seen. I'm going to spell this right. Thalidomide. Dude. The thalidomide baby. The thalidomide baby is one of the worst things I've ever seen. It's so... He's laughing at a story coming up in eight that's going to make you love. Yeah. It was just a bunch of kids whose parents' moms were given a drug during pregnancy, and they all came out with lobster hands. Yeah. It's... So rough, like a generation of thalidomide babies, and they didn't know. 410-338-1098. A lot of people saying, yeah, the cell phone signals, the vaping, the GMOs. Let's go to, I agree with Alex here. Alex, good morning. What are we using today that's going to kill us tomorrow?
SPEAKER 06 : 50:16
Yeah, the legitimate answer to this question is plastic bottles because of the microplastics. That's right.
SPEAKER 12 : 50:22
Dude, that's the talk of the town right now, plastics.
SPEAKER 26 : 50:25
Don't we ingest like a credit card's worth of plastic a year or something like that?
SPEAKER 12 : 50:29
We're in our lifetime. Yeah, and it's in your arteries.
SPEAKER 26 : 50:31
they just stay to the stuff it doesn't break down in nature it ain't breaking down in your body either i told you i got a friend diana shout out diana i give her credit all the time i say she's an incredible human being she's really really into like her wellness now and she's gotten rid of all the plastics in her house she'll only drink from like glass or store food and glass because dude i mean you ain't kidding we are just we have microplastics just swimming around our bodies and
SPEAKER 12 : 50:57
The chemicals in those plastics that were reheating food countless times. How many of us have a pasta sauce stained plastic bowl? Yes. And I feel like that that stain is two ways. The pasta's going into the bowl. The plastic's coming out. It's heading in. Oh, yeah. Let's go. Oh, this sucks. Damn it. I use this quite a bit. Michael, good morning. Oh, damn. Hey, good morning, guys.
SPEAKER 08 : 51:20
How are you?
SPEAKER 12 : 51:21
Well, we'll find out in a second.
SPEAKER 08 : 51:25
Okay. My big issue is with NSAIDs, like Aleve and Advil. They were so great, but they're really causing organ problems and stomach problems. I was working at the FDA as a contractor when Aleve went as a counter from Naproxen. And those clinical trials were messy because of the toxicity. And people are used to taking the naproxen and getting relief. And then they take Advil and they don't get the relief. And what do they do? They take more. And I recently had an issue with a leave napperson. And it gave me 12 ulcers in my esophagus.
SPEAKER 12 : 52:08
Dude, okay, so you were a private contractor, FDA, I choose to believe, that some of these trials, some of these clinical trials, like, you have to look into the validity of the trial.
SPEAKER 26 : 52:19
Because on the other side of that trial is tons of money.
SPEAKER 12 : 52:23
Oh, yeah. Who's on the other side of that two-way mirror with their arms closed? Are they being funded by the people whose product it is?
SPEAKER 26 : 52:29
You just got to get past that trial and get it approved, and then...
SPEAKER 08 : 52:33
You're rich. I wish I could comment more about that, but I'm unable to. I got you, man.
SPEAKER 23 : 52:39
I appreciate it. Be quiet. I take so much Advil and Tylenol every day. um mister because of my back and neck pain I take two Tylenol in the morning plus four Advil and then at night if I'm still if I think I can handle the pain and sometimes I can if you know what I mean back shots yeah but if I can't in the afternoon I'll take the same amount
SPEAKER 12 : 53:13
Yeah, man. It's one of those things.
SPEAKER 26 : 53:15
I barely take any of that stuff ever.
SPEAKER 12 : 53:18
Shout out Nick Halkius, Odyssey Strength and Fitness. My lower back is not great. And I'm now trying to work with someone that is going to strengthen it because I've had some lower back pain for years. A, I was just born with a crooked spine. Shout out to mom who loves Chardonnay during all the trimesters. me skateboarding uh mess it up so i'm like you i'm you know shotgun and pills down my throat but then i know one day when they do an autopsy after the incident they're gonna cut me open and it's just gonna be black inside it's just gonna be complete tar uh let's go mark i agree with you mark here's another big one we've all consumed it enjoyed it afforded it mark good morning
SPEAKER 04 : 53:58
Good morning. I yell at my grandson all the time to boil water in the microwave. Don't put those styrofoam ramen cups. Oh, dude.
SPEAKER 12 : 54:07
How about the ramen in the cup? It also may be as healthy as the styrofoam that's being cooked in the microwave.
SPEAKER 26 : 54:14
That coffee came in them styrofoam cups for years.
SPEAKER 12 : 54:19
Yep, and it's hot. Scalding, I can win a lawsuit against a fast food drive-thru.
SPEAKER 26 : 54:24
When that hot liquid hits that styrofoam, it's got to have some sort of reaction that just releases into the liquid. Oh, man.
SPEAKER 12 : 54:34
We are so done. Yeah, the Amish are going to outlive us all. Ed, what's going on, pal?
SPEAKER 02 : 54:38
Hey, what's up, guys? It's going to kill us.
SPEAKER 13 : 54:41
You guys were talking about cell phones earlier, and just last week, me and my wife discovered through social media that there's actually a warning in the settings of your iPhone about radiation. What? Wait, hold on. Really?
SPEAKER 12 : 54:55
Well, you learned that through social media. Where do I find this thing? If you go to settings.
SPEAKER 13 : 55:03
Then general.
SPEAKER 26 : 55:03
Hold on. Slow down. We're going to go to general. You're going too fast. Going down to the where am I going now? Legal and regulatory. And then I'll say RF exposure. RF exposure. Oh, damn, son.
SPEAKER 13 : 55:20
Oh, no.
SPEAKER 26 : 55:21
iPhone has been tested and meets applicable limits for radio frequency RF exposure. Specific absorption rate, SAR, refers to the rate at which the body absorbs RF energy, blah, blah, blah.
SPEAKER 12 : 55:34
September of 2023, France ordered Apple to cease sales of the iPhone 12 because it was emitting too much electromagnetic radiation. Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany all followed suit. And the French regulator gave the detect giant two weeks to look into the probe, saying it provided proof that it was complying within radiation regulations. Okay, walk back. Who's the one making the regulations? Who's the one going, yeah, this is safe enough?
SPEAKER 26 : 56:04
Go ahead. And then it also says to reduce exposure to RF energy, use hands-free options such as built-in speakerphone, headphones, or other similar accessories. Cases with metal parts may change the RF performance of the device, including its compliance with RF exposure. So they're saying you put a case on this, that could screw up the RF. We're just frying our brains.
SPEAKER 12 : 56:24
Okay, I'll reiterate it. Don't place the phone in your head, so there's no need to call me. Don't text me. Would you like to be Joe Stamboni's friend? I am his friend, but we don't hang out. Scott is his friend, but they occasionally get beers, but not a lot. Josh Spiegel, the application is still in. We're going to get back to him. And Sweet Will, he's everybody's friend. Joe Stamboni found this story about how like 39%, 40% of Americans haven't made a new friend in forever. They haven't even been to a party in forever. And we talked to you about why you haven't and where the last friend you made was. But I do want to still somehow find a way. To have the Joe Stamboni friendship pageant 2K25. We're going to have a bunch of people trying to become the Bachelor on Kirk and Marianne's The Hookup. And I hope you find love with that beautiful golden bachelorette. Maybe next year we'll do the bronze friend. you have to submit i want to see a photo i want to see the things you bring to the table i want to see expectations of our producer joe reasons why you guys think you would be a good match you both enjoy yourselves in edible you love adopting stray cats you both love arguing with friends over uh band tracks you guys might have both been in an all-white reggae band called something something vibrations we talked amongst ourselves about why you haven't made a friend in forever Some of us are swimming in friends. Others of us are cutting them off one by one. Well, hello there. And maybe, just maybe next year, you could be Joe Stamboni's friend. Why haven't you made a friend in forever? When's the last time you made one? On Behind the Curtain. You lonely bastard. Sounds like Americans over the age of 30, about half, all just rounded to 40%, haven't made a new friend. Any year. What are you talking about? I mean, all friends do is betray you. They turn their back into man things.
SPEAKER 03 : 58:18
Spiegel? Hey, can you get me into the Ravens game? Hey, Spiegel? Can you get me those Iron Maiden tickets? Hey, Spiegel? Can you get me uncensored passes?
SPEAKER 12 : 58:31
Yeah, what the hell is the deal? Also, we are looking for a new friend for Joe Stamboni. We realized in-house that I think this is maybe a roundabout cry for help. Joe not only hasn't made a new friend, he might not have any outside of the room he currently sits in, which just hurts to say.
SPEAKER 26 : 58:50
Hey, we're already getting off. I'm not. You consider the people in this room your friend? Oh, of course. Absolutely. I love you guys. I don't know about that. You're my friend. I've tried, and you have snuffed me, so. Again, this might be on me. That's what I was going to say. I don't even think we should do the bit. I think he should figure it out on his own.
SPEAKER 12 : 59:07
Oh, I'm here to help.
SPEAKER 26 : 59:08
Figure it out on your own. Be a grown-up.
SPEAKER 12 : 59:10
Go make a friend.
SPEAKER 24 : 59:11
Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 : 59:11
Jordan says, I'd love to play Be Joe's Friend. I'm 28. I play guitar. I love music. I'm in a band. I'm also a huge foodie. There you go. Okay. Oh, the camera eats first. If I'm not playing or listening to music, I'm eating myself into a coma. Also, I have a wink, wink, green thumb. You got to look at his beloved right there, Joe. Yeah, yeah. Jackpot. Jackpot. Underline Jack. That's your special. Brianna and Brian both offering to be your new friends. Do internet friends count? Asks Barb. Great question. In an era of I have 5,000 Facebook friends. I haven't met 4,987 of them. Are they truly your friend? The definition of a friend in 2024.
SPEAKER 26 : 60:01
I guess it depends on how heavy you get, how deep you get, how well you know each other, how much you talk, how much you share, you know.
SPEAKER 12 : 60:09
Like old friends you stay in touch with, like I always refer to Gordon, Waldorf Gordon. I haven't seen him more than twice in seven or eight years, but we talk monthly and I'd see him over social. But if I was to like meet him that way. And that's different. I mean, you've known him your whole life.
SPEAKER 26 : 60:27
You're friends.
SPEAKER 12 : 60:28
We're definitely friends. I know we're friends, but let's just say I had met him via social. That's kind of a different friendship because then you get together and you're like, oh, this is what you're like in person.
SPEAKER 26 : 60:36
Yeah, no, that's the true test. That's how you smell. Yeah, you got to – there comes the moment where – like I've had multiple moments over the last whatever how long I've been in this town, right? When I moved here, A, I moved to a brand-new city. I had to figure it all out. Beginning, a lot of my friends were radio people. Since then, I've branched out. Then I got divorced and moved into a new neighborhood, a new house all by myself. So I either had to just – become a hermit, or put myself out there again. So I've had to put myself out there multiple times. And it's always seemed to have worked out. But there is that moment where maybe you're hanging out with a group, and then you feel like you're vibing with maybe one of the guys or two of the guys where you have to go and do just a one-on-one. And that can be nerve-wracking.
SPEAKER 12 : 61:23
It can be. We're really fun. In the group text, we're fun in a group setting, but then when it's just you two, you're like, oh. Like, I need, there's a couple of friends in the door that Gordon was our, he was the tie that binded. He was the carpet that really tied the room together. But if he wasn't there. You're not hanging out with the other guys. There's a few other guys that occasionally we would and be like, this sucks. We need Gordo. Brittany, I had zero friends since college until I met some awesome fellows from JSS, DLP. Yeah, Brittany, you and your beautiful husband, you're now our friends. Coach says he can be a long-distance friend to Joe. Let's go to the phones. 410-338-1098. Mr. Bill has been holding for a bit. Bill, good morning.
SPEAKER 17 : 62:08
Gentlemen, good morning. How you doing, pal? Hey, Scott.
SPEAKER 12 : 62:11
Hey.
SPEAKER 17 : 62:12
What's up? What's up?
SPEAKER 21 : 62:16
How are you?
SPEAKER 17 : 62:17
I'm good. In my opinion, I think to say a year to make a friend, that's a little hard to do. Acquaintance is yes, but to make a good friend, you've got to spend a lot of time with that person. Who really has a lot of time these days?
SPEAKER 26 : 62:33
That's the other thing. Go Ravens. Go Ravens, Bill. We haven't even talked about Joe Robinson, who has the policy of making one new friend a year. And does it. And does it.
SPEAKER 12 : 62:46
It's wild. He makes a new friend every year, and I'll be damned if they don't stick around. He's like, I think, five years into the bit, and he now has a squad around him on Monday nights for trivia. He does boats with his friend Jack on the weekends and the Minzer family and Dave Dennis. I know his friends. Because he just brings them into the fold, and he does his damnedest to stay social with them. Again, he's doing 19 kids and counting. I'm doing 19 kids and subtracting. I'm just slicing off people one by one.
SPEAKER 24 : 63:18
Maybe it'll kick in when I get older. Isn't one of Joe's, one of the whole reasons he does it, so that when he gets old, he has people that'll be around him, wipe his ass?
SPEAKER 12 : 63:28
I've been designated as that, and I'm not stoked about it. Let's go to Baltimore. Joe, how are you? How are you doing, friend?
SPEAKER 01 : 63:37
Good morning, Josh.
SPEAKER 23 : 63:38
Good morning.
SPEAKER 01 : 63:40
So, yeah, I have a good amount of friends and stuff, and I probably haven't made a friend in probably about, like a good friend, probably in about four years, but I'm calling to be Joe's friend.
SPEAKER 12 : 63:53
Oh, that is so nice. Oh, yes. Okay, sell yourself to Joe. Sell yourself to Joe. Here we go.
SPEAKER 01 : 63:59
So I'm pretty musically inclined. I'm pretty sure that last band was Alien Ant Farm. You know, I heard a good starting...
SPEAKER 12 : 64:07
for edibles is 50 milligrams and uh i'm fat so i like food so wow oh my god joe you just made a new friend yeah i mean welcome to the fold you're in i'll say this about baltimore joe one strike maybe against him is maybe too much of a fan uh okay let me ask you this joe to scott's point would you be friends with joe stamboni if he just worked the hot dog stand in front of a costco
SPEAKER 01 : 64:30
Honestly, yeah. I mean, if I, like Scott was just saying, you know, you're at a party, you're seeing around a bunch of people, and then eventually you're with a group. and then that group slowly shrinks down, and then you eventually start talking to one person, I can definitely see that being with me and Joe Stambo.
SPEAKER 24 : 64:46
I see that. I agree. I see that. Baltimore Joe, he's a good guy. He always puts a smile on my face.
SPEAKER 12 : 64:51
No, he shows up to an event. You know the event's going to be a little better now that he's there. Sean Parks, I consider you a pal, too. He reached out and says, even though we're just internet buddies, we're internet buddies, and that's still a buddy.
SPEAKER 26 : 65:01
I mean, maybe you can have just enough friends.
SPEAKER 12 : 65:05
Maybe you don't need any more. Ron Funches has a great joke that I won't repeat because he tells it much better, and he's 50 times more successful than I am, where he just reads a poem on stage about friendship, and he just screams, I don't need no new friends. Yeah, exactly. Maybe you don't need any new friends. The ones I got are the ones I got.
SPEAKER 26 : 65:22
I have recently tapped into a whole new... that I never really... I was afraid to get into, and I don't know what it was, but I've been... The Baltimore Playhouse. Well, I've been doing the Cars and Coffee a lot more, and I've been opening myself up to people. And I've just been going up there. Actually, you and I were up there. You were at that walk. Yeah, I was at the walk for Alzheimer's. And I was sitting there, and the person I was with, they go... That sounds like Justin. Is that Justin? I go, huh? And I listen. I go, I think that's Justin. He's going on way too long. That's him. Well, yeah, I was right there. I was in that parking lot. I go there every, like, Saturday. And, yeah, I just started talking to more. It's a great little community, the car community. Yeah. Yeah, they're fun. They're good people. I met a guy named Temple who him and I actually drove up there together in my convertible. That was like a first like little official mini mandate. We worked on my car and then we hopped in and we drove up to Hunt Valley, drove back.
SPEAKER 12 : 66:23
You have to open yourself up. You have to gape yourself to meeting new friends.
SPEAKER 23 : 66:26
I'm sorry, what? What's that? What do you have to do? Open yourself up.
SPEAKER 12 : 66:31
You have to stretch open your heart with both hands to really let someone in. I preferred the first word. Boy, I can't remember. I just say stuff and the next thing you know I can't remember anything. So to gape your heart to people, to let them in, to meet, maybe find new people. It's good. You've legendarily had the guys. Every year, you and your boys get together to reconnect Nashville and you went to North or South Carolina, Asheville, Asheville and Nashville. We do the ski trip once a year with the fellas that we go to our buddies quaint little cabin in West Virginia. And we go and snow tube on a bunch of DMT and that does it. Spieg's last friend you made. What do you think was the last new friend that you made? And if you don't say me, I'll reach for this butter.
SPEAKER 23 : 67:25
I suppose I consider... colleagues here, friends. Contractually obligated. Yes, contractually obligated. But, you know, this break actually inspired me to text my childhood friend Avi. Oh, hell no! Who's in Israel? My man. I haven't responded yet.
SPEAKER 11 : 67:50
I'm considering it.
SPEAKER 12 : 67:51
One of the best people we've ever met. You guys played catch at Camden Yards years ago.
SPEAKER 26 : 67:55
Yes, yes. Charmed the pants off of us. You've got to nurture those. A, you've got to plant the seed. You've got to water it. You've got to nurture it. And look, not all of them are meant to grow. Some of them, you tried. It doesn't grow. You let it die. Some will grow.
SPEAKER 23 : 68:08
I'll nurture it.
SPEAKER 26 : 68:10
You know what I mean? Only the best hitter in the Major League Baseball only hits the ball three out of ten times. There you go. So look, you've got to play the odds and just put yourself out there.
SPEAKER 12 : 68:20
Corporate's coming. Corporate's coming. We had the big bosses come and visit the station on Thursday this week, and I'm here to recap and tell you it was actually a very nice time. We got to meet some of the big guys. They were very, very pleasant. They were very, very complimentary, and it felt good to feel good. But it can be scary. Some of these people can be tyrants. Some of them can be despots. Some of them can rule through fear. Thank God the people that we have here, which is very rare in radio, to rule through kindness and leading by example. Not Ask History. These people are genuinely nice. But still, you get a little freaked out when someone that has your future in their hands maybe can come on in and be like, hey, That Justin fellow is nice. Little hyper. I want to see him in the recycling dumpster before the day's end or I fire everybody. So we talked to you about having corporate come and visit. Some stories were good. Some stories were bad. We got texts about saying they visited the home office. And then the next thing you know, they shut our entire branch down. Other people are talking about having corporate be at your location. That's got to suck. I used to work at a chain of video game stores called Video Game Exchange. They turned into Funco Land, a.k.a. FU Land, and then they went out of business. Well, there was a couple of stores that corporate worked out of all times, so that had to suck that the big bosses were in the back at your store all the time with the watchful eye of video game Sauron looking down at you, making sure you weren't stealing Sega Genesis games. Those guys were bastards. They ran the company into the ground, and I was out of work. until I went and got a job at Borders, and now I work for a great company. They visited, we freaked out, we talked to you. What's it like when the big boss visits on Behind the Curtain? Corporate is coming to town. Omni Consumer Products is ready to reveal RoboCop 2.
SPEAKER 1 : 70:10
Ow!
SPEAKER 12 : 70:11
Why did it shoot? What's it like? I got a message here, and I'm not sure what a decision this is. Speaks, you give me. Corporate's coming to town the weekend of the 15th, 16th, and 17th to see me at my position. I'm going to be bringing them to Uncensored. I bought them tickets to come to Uncensored. Will I have a job on Monday? I don't know. That depends on how cool they are.
SPEAKER 22 : 70:42
That's an interesting thing to take them to. Okay, A, they are from out of town.
SPEAKER 12 : 70:50
They might not know who we are and our brand of brain-damaged buffoonery. So they're just going to be seeing a few fellas up there putting each other in pain with some wanton, sexual, Deez Nuts-flavored type of humor. Yeah, I'm not sure if you should do that. I'll just call you Zerks. Zerks, I'm not sure if that's the best thing you could possibly do. 410-338-1098. Let's go to the phones. Well, hey, real quick. Stambo. Yeah. Some of the other places you've worked in and have coordinated heists from.
SPEAKER 24 : 71:23
Yeah. Did they ever visit you? No, not really. I tried to avoid the corporate world for as long as I could.
SPEAKER 25 : 71:33
Yeah.
SPEAKER 24 : 71:33
That tie feels like a noose, brother.
SPEAKER 12 : 71:36
Exactly. Hell yeah.
SPEAKER 24 : 71:37
No, this is like the first place I've actually worked that has... New York offices, big wigs and stuff like that. A lot of the stuff I was either doing freelance or working on smaller things. You were a mercenary.
SPEAKER 12 : 71:49
Do you want me to tell you quickly about the... I was just about to get to it. Spiegel yesterday in the meeting, as we discussed today. Hey, everybody, maybe put on a button-up shirt. That looks very nice, by the way. Oh, thank you so much. Wash your knees, scrub your ass, get your eyebrows redone. I got these caterpillars above my eyes. And then in the meeting... The boss goes, hey, real quick, I'm going to need one of you guys to ask a question. And I immediately looked to the man that's just the closest we have to a poet laureate, Josh Spiegel. And I said, he needs to do it. Do not have me ask a question because I will ask you something about the bloodline angle on SmackDown. You immediately go, no, bad idea. What happened back in the day when a prior bigwig visited?
SPEAKER 23 : 72:38
A prior person, head of the company, visited in 2005. I had just started here, and I met him in the hall, and I said, hi, nice to meet you. And he said, yeah, nice to meet you. And then there was an awkward pause, and I said, so when are you going back to New York? I didn't know what else to say. I was just trying to be friendly. When are you leaving? Basically, you were asking about travel.
SPEAKER 11 : 73:08
And everybody was like, oh, how could you say that? It's so terrible.
SPEAKER 12 : 73:15
What is it? The road to hell is paved with good intentions. You were asking him basically about travel. You know, maybe leave with like, how was your fight? How long are you in town? Basically, it was like, how long are you in town? But it came out. That was the question.
SPEAKER 23 : 73:27
When are you leaving? Mindsight is funny, Tony.
SPEAKER 12 : 73:30
Jesus, that's so funny. In your case, though, you needed to get some cataract surgery done. It was probably already pressing on the eyeball stem. Have you thought about your question today, by the way?
SPEAKER 23 : 73:40
I'm not asking because, first of all, I don't like speaking in public. And I'll be too nervous to ask a question. I don't even know what I would ask.
SPEAKER 12 : 73:52
I do have a boilerplate question I always ask. Which one of our failing, struggling competitors could possibly be acquired? by the company. I always like to ask about growth. I always ask about growth. I go, hey, how are we going to cement our footprint and what a footprint it is in this market even more? I'm looking at a couple of places around town that seem to be cutting back. Might get a deal on somebody. A couple of them dented can stations right now where the janitor is also the afternoon person.
SPEAKER 25 : 74:25
That might be what I go for.
SPEAKER 12 : 74:27
Something like that. 410-338-1098. Did they ever visit you, WGNA? Albany country?
SPEAKER 26 : 74:34
Yeah, they, uh, I can't remember. We changed owners so many times, but then there was a time where maybe it was like Town Square. Nah, can't remember what it was, but they were in, um, actually right outside of Cincinnati. They were a bank. They were, they were Bengals. The guy kept asking me about the Bengals. I was so young and I was such an idiot. You're just drinking it all in? Yeah, I just kind of sat back and drank it all in, but, um. Yeah, I don't know. There's always, like I said, that level of fear that comes along with it. It's a very interesting dynamic.
SPEAKER 12 : 75:09
I think we're more afraid. I think it's the, what was it, catastrophization? That I think we're in our own head thinking there's going to be this nine foot four Elden Ring boss swinging some huge sword around here, just cutting Alec in half. And, oh, God, they got Trenise and they're just furious. Throwing Chris Carlheim out a window. It's not going to be any of that. It's going to be a lot of nice handshakes, keep up the great work. What's that? A legendary six-month run of ratings nobody has ever seen before in the industry? Way to go. It ain't going to be anything bad. But it's just, you know, we're getting our own heads.
SPEAKER 26 : 75:42
They were out of Covington, Kentucky.
SPEAKER 12 : 75:45
Okay. What did you say? Legendary? What was that? We are on a pretty nice tear right now. Don't want to puff my chest out too much because my bra came on.
SPEAKER 26 : 75:52
I just never heard. No one told me that. So what is it?
SPEAKER 12 : 75:54
We are kicking ass and taking names. Hell yeah. Let's go to the phones. Let's see who's been holding on. Oh, we got an old co-worker of ours, Josh. Chip checking in from the CBS days.
SPEAKER 21 : 76:05
that's right hey chip how you doing i'm good man how are you chip from which what what uh where i was i was uh overnight board up and i filled in for tj when he was on vacation for production um at cbs radio baltimore he was a guy that made commercials and voice work he's no longer with us he was the best but uh he worked with us right off the roundabout do i know you Yeah, you do.
SPEAKER 23 : 76:32
Okay. I'd have to see your face.
SPEAKER 12 : 76:34
I'm sorry. Hey, shout out to Overnight Board Ops, brother. I was in there struggling as well. I worked the 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. shift, and it sucked.
SPEAKER 21 : 76:43
Oh, it was terrible. And I remember the memo that you were talking about, too, how we had to keep everything nice and clean. That was the worst.
SPEAKER 12 : 76:50
They gave it to us because we were the overnight people, and I remember them distinctly. They left out, Speaks, when you walked in, you had to walk past the receptionist desk and the memo Chip's talking about. There was the memo, and they left out a little plastic bucket of cleaning stuff. Here's some gloves. Here's a duster. Here's some cleaner. And they're like, hey, in between your nonstop Jodeci music block, go clean the break room. Oh, I didn't know that.
SPEAKER 21 : 77:15
Oh, yeah. And it was you, me, and Spaghetti. Oh, yeah. He works here now. Yeah, exactly. So we all had to keep it clean. But then I also worked at LIF and JFK. And JFK, if you remember, was the Stern Station for Baltimore. And Mel came to those stations. That was probably the most nerve-wracking experience of my life.
SPEAKER 12 : 77:39
Yeah, you get a big, powerful dude. Thank you, Chip. I hope you're well, bud. Oh, dude. Chip will remember this. And Chip, you'll hear my comment off the air. That they would also order an inhuman amount of food. You could have fed small countries that are currently struggling underneath of a civil war between two warring factions for the amount of food that they would order. They'd eat none of it. None. None of it. There would be. And by the way, you don't eat it. Do not. That's for them. That's for them. That's for the entourage. That's for the group. That's for whoever. I mean, around here, they'll put out a nice little spread. We'll get some chow. But there it was. Nope. That chicken cordon bleu. That ain't yours. There's no food today, is there? Is there food today? Is there food today?
SPEAKER 24 : 78:21
I don't think there's food today.
SPEAKER 12 : 78:23
Joe?
SPEAKER 24 : 78:24
I think I heard management talking about some sort of luncheon. But that's not us.
SPEAKER 12 : 78:30
They would order this food and it would just, by the way, they wouldn't let you take any. There'd be like stuffed shells. There'd be bacon wrapped scallops. There'd be food I hadn't even heard of. What the hell is quail? And you couldn't have any. I hated those people. Let's go to John online too. John, it looks like corporate's always around for you.
SPEAKER 10 : 78:51
Yeah, I work for a small bakery down the road from you guys down off Lake Street. I'm not sure if you ever know what that one is. I don't want to say their name.
SPEAKER 25 : 78:59
Yep, got it.
SPEAKER 10 : 79:00
Well, corporate is attached to our bakery.
SPEAKER 19 : 79:03
Oh, right.
SPEAKER 10 : 79:05
And whenever I'm training one of our new truck drivers, that's actually what I'm doing right now. I'm actually out Perryville. And whenever I'm training new drivers, I'm like, look, if you ever see somebody dressed a little too nice.
SPEAKER 25 : 79:19
Right.
SPEAKER 10 : 79:20
Just walk the other way as quickly as possible. Yeah.
SPEAKER 26 : 79:25
Be off the radar, dude. Hey, by the way, I used to live right around the corner from you guys down there. Spee's did, too. And you said you're teaching someone how to drive those trucks. Dude, when I watched you guys back those trucks up into that bakery, it's an art form, man. It is an art form. It's ballet.
SPEAKER 10 : 79:42
I did that for 18 months at night, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Through all the Fells Point drunkenness, holidays. Yeah. Yeah. Damn. You get real good real fast.
SPEAKER 23 : 79:54
I bet. That's awesome, bro. One of the benefits is the scent in the air.
SPEAKER 12 : 79:59
Oh, yeah. I love that Baltimore humor meme. Whoever you are, sir, you're a 10. Cinnamon Raisin Day was the best. They say you can't smell a photo. The hell I can't. You show me that bakery. I know that photo well. Let's go to Scott online for Scott. You ever have the big bosses stop by?
SPEAKER 02 : 80:18
Oh, yes, sir. He stops by a couple times a year.
SPEAKER 10 : 80:22
But I work for St. Vincent de Paul Church. So I've been here 12 years, and the guy is the nicest guy in the world. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, Scott.
SPEAKER 12 : 80:30
Hold on, hold on, hold on. Is your CEO Jesus? As you say.
SPEAKER 11 : 80:34
Well, I mean, technically, yeah. He's always around, technically. He's always around, Scott. He's everywhere, brother. He's always watching. Be sure to look busy. He's returning soon.
SPEAKER 12 : 80:47
Y'all got me wanting to look into these glasses, okay? There's some special magical augmented reality glasses out there that are allegedly going to replace my TV. This is going to be the holiday season of the mega television. If you're going Christmas shopping and somebody wants a TV, 45-inch, get out of here. 55, miss me with that. 65, what is this? A television for ants? We're talking 90, 100, 105 mega televisions. Well, as we did this break and asked you how many TVs you have in the house, how big are those damn things, a lot of people said they've got their projectors, which can be basically as big or as small as you scale them. One of our friends has four 55 inches, love you, Megan, stacked on top of each other like some nightmarish checkerboard. But then other people said, you got to look into these glasses. It was like X something, X real glasses, where they just look like Ray-Bans. And you put them on, but they beamed an image in front of you and high definition that looked like a gigantic IMAX screen floating in space. I looked them up. Shockingly affordable. There's got to be a hook. It's going to give me migraines. It's going to mess with my actual vision. I'm not going to be able to hook anything up to it. I don't even know what the sound is like, by the way. What's the sound like on a virtual TV that's not there? I've got a pretty sufficient 5.1 system. What can these X-Real 5.1 sound HD 4K FBI, CIA, Boy Scouts of America looking glasses be like? I don't know, but I'm fascinated now. We opened up the phones and you bragged about how big your damn TV was on Behind the Curtain. How big is that TV? Hey, hey, Ron. The Santa of the program. He's got an 82-inch MF-er with a sound bar and a subwoofer. They say that he sits 10 feet back from the TV. About right. I feel like you need to sit like...
SPEAKER 26 : 82:41
Well, for that, just did the calculation. They said for an 80 to 85, you got to be sitting about 11 feet back. OK, so he's on the edge right in the realm there.
SPEAKER 12 : 82:51
Maybe scooch back a bit. Edwin, when I remodeled my basement, I bought the TV I wanted first and built my basement around it. That's brilliant. It is a 75 inch Bose surround custom sound. That's badass. Rodney, 85 inch in the living room, but it was too big. Had to return it, downgraded to a 65, perfect for my place. Yeah, you're not going to know. I mean, in America, bigger is better. We're the only country in the world where we refer to amounts of food as piled high. Literal piles of food. You can get too much TV. Yeah, I mean, it's got to fit the space. Yeah, exactly. Jeremy, I got a decent-sized TV, nothing too big, refurbished. That's a perfect space, Jeremy, perfect space. It appears to be a 50, maybe a 48, 52. Got it for $250 refurbished. You know, it might even be a better question.
SPEAKER 26 : 83:48
Who out there doesn't have a TV?
SPEAKER 12 : 83:50
I can take you to a couple of people in Hamden that have bands that don't make it. No, but you can see the people. Brain surgery, haircut. They hold a cigarette like a German does. My sister doesn't have a TV.
SPEAKER 26 : 83:59
Really? You know someone without a TV?
SPEAKER 12 : 84:01
That's right.
SPEAKER 23 : 84:03
They don't want to have that in their, you know, their religious.
SPEAKER 12 : 84:08
Do they have a laptop or any kind of computer in the house?
SPEAKER 23 : 84:10
Yeah, computers they have because they need to stay somewhat connected. But no, they don't want to see inappropriate stuff.
SPEAKER 12 : 84:19
Look at that. They got a bunch of kids. Yeah. So do they watch anything just on their own in bed on the laptop? No, no, they don't.
SPEAKER 23 : 84:26
No, I think they'll get a TV, like they'll roll on the TV for the Super Bowl. Okay, so they'll rent something. That's wild, man. Or they'll get, you know, go to a Super Bowl party. 410-338-1098.
SPEAKER 12 : 84:40
Hell yeah, big football fans. You also, it's a lot more difficult these days to own the TV because now you have to have the TV and you have to have a sound system. And then you got to find out about the connections. Is it a digital optical cable? Do you use RCA? Do you use component? Do you have HDMI 2.1 or 2.0? Do you have the ARC channel, the audio return channel? There's so much stuff you now need to know. I'm telling you, big screen store. Just go to the big screen store. They'll get you all set up. They'll tell you everything you need to know. Get that Samsung. I know this guy's rocking out a big ass set to watch Monday Night Raw. Elliot, what size TV are you working with, pal?
SPEAKER 09 : 85:20
I got a 32-inch, Justin, and it's a Roku one. It's a Philips Roku TV. And also I got some good news of the day. AwesomeCon, they announced Corey Feldman, the voice of Donatello from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Kevin Eastman.
SPEAKER 26 : 85:38
Where is that at?
SPEAKER 09 : 85:40
Washington, D.C. at Walter E. Convention Center. Starting in April. Hot.
SPEAKER 25 : 85:45
Damn. Okay. A, we got to get him up here. We got to get Corey Feldman up here.
SPEAKER 12 : 85:49
And get Elliott some access. Yeah, of course. Reach out to Shane. Reach out to Tina. Get our dude backstage. Okay? Have him get to dress as the Shredder and beat Leonardo's ass. All right. Thank you, Elliott. Love you, pal.
SPEAKER 26 : 86:00
I want Corey Feldman in here with his guitar and amp to play one of those solos.
SPEAKER 11 : 86:04
But first, he needs to get a makeover. I do want him to hit one of those solos. The ones where he just plays. It just looks like a hummingbird's wings.
SPEAKER 24 : 86:14
Have you seen him recently?
SPEAKER 26 : 86:16
What do you mean? He's been all over the Loserville tour.
SPEAKER 24 : 86:19
Well, no. I just saw a picture of him the other day. He did change his look, Josh. Wait, what? Oh, yeah? He completely cut his hair and dyed it, bleached it blonde.
SPEAKER 12 : 86:29
No! I'm a sucker for blondes. Let's see what we have here. Corey Feldman. Let's see what we got. Oh, something's coming up. You're going to have to find me a picture.
SPEAKER 24 : 86:41
Yeah, let me see if I can find it.
SPEAKER 12 : 86:42
He still has the spirit of Michael Jackson coursing through him, which I have questions and found it. Is that him right there now? That's it. That's not great. No. That's like... Tell me he's not trying to audition for Smash Mouth. He's in Smash. He might have accidentally joined Smash Mouth and not known it. I am curious about these. Buzz, we've had a couple people send in messages about this device. The X-Real Glasses. What are these?
SPEAKER 05 : 87:10
Hey, good morning. Good morning, everybody. I just thought about it. I feel so bad for Josh's nieces and nephews. That feeling of rolling into TV like when you were in middle school, that was like the best feeling in the world.
SPEAKER 12 : 87:25
What a treat. You knew you weren't doing anything that day in class.
SPEAKER 26 : 87:28
The AV squad rolls in the TV with the VCR.
SPEAKER 12 : 87:33
The big strap over top of it on the wheels. You knew this substitute rules. So once a year, they get a real nice treat. And then the other 363 days of the year, 64 is just awful. What are these glasses, man? I had a couple people message me about these things.
SPEAKER 05 : 87:50
So, okay, so your eyes can only see so much, like you guys were just saying. Yeah. And I think if you look it up online, I think it's like 104 inches. Well, these things, basically, it's like sitting in front of the biggest TV that you can possibly see, which I think is like 104 inches. Uh, but they're, they're amazing. And you can put these like blackout things on front of it. So all you see is a screen, but you can also take it off and you can kind of see the image in front of it. And then you can see like, you could probably walk around in it. I'm looking at it right now on Amazon.
SPEAKER 26 : 88:29
Almost makes it like a little mini IMAX is strapped to your face.
SPEAKER 05 : 88:33
Exactly. Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 : 88:34
Can I, now, now I like, can I hook a video game up to these things?
SPEAKER 05 : 88:39
Oh, yeah, yeah. It's pretty neat. So I got them on, what was it, Amazon Day. They were only $200. Do they work with any TV? Yeah, yeah. They hook up the capability for a lot of phones. Like iPhones work. My Pixel doesn't necessarily work, but you can get this other thing for it, which is kind of like a racket. But they're actually pretty amazing. For $200, they're great for if you travel, like if you're on a plane.
SPEAKER 26 : 89:11
So you're sitting in a plane and you can watch a movie, and it's almost like you're not watching a movie on your phone. It's like you're sitting in a theater, but you're on a plane.
SPEAKER 12 : 89:19
This is brilliant. These are them. I'm looking them up. They don't need an actual TV. They connect to your phone. So your phone is the entertainment hub. So it beams a signal from the phone to the glasses, and then you just watch it. It says these things are like 4K and the whole do. You can buy an upgraded model that has the hub so you can hook up your Xboxes. Dude. Buzz, how dare you? We don't get paid until next week. Thank you for the call, pal. Happy holidays. Let's talk to Matthew. Matt, how big is that TV you're working with, buddy?
SPEAKER 07 : 89:50
85-inch beautiful Samsung TV. Okay, how much you drop on that? Honestly, great deal, $1,500. Wow. And it was super discounted at BJ's, so shout out BJ's Wholesale Club.
SPEAKER 12 : 90:03
Hey there. Now, when you get that thing, are you hanging it? Are you standing it? What's the sound?
SPEAKER 07 : 90:10
Yeah. Yeah, it's mounted. Got the wireless Samsung soundbar to go with it. Mounted that sucker up on the wall. Actually doing some reno, so it's going to look a lot nicer now, too. Nice. Yeah, you got it, but it's heavy. It is a heavy TV. Oh, really? Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 : 90:26
Wow, there's... Whatever became of the roll-up TV? Remember that thing they tried to put out for a while? It was LG had a television. They might even still have the damn things. It was a flat-screen television. I think they're the only ones that made it. The world's first and only rollable TV. It went into what looked like a bench at the base of your bed, and then you activate it, and it rolls up, and then it can roll down to where you don't need to see the thing when you're not using it. I don't know what the hell the price on this thing. It cannot be. Oh, it's been discontinued to an utter lack of interest.
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we are joined by WENDI!!! Tune in to hear Kirk and Wendi talk with our listeners about the big question we all need to know. Which is worse? Emotional or physical cheating. Which did we think is worse? One way to find out. Hit play!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript Comedian Tony Rock stops by the studuio ahead of his two performances at Magooby's Joke House this weekend.
00:00:00 Tony Rock's Special and Production Journey 00:01:00 Self-Production Challenges 00:01:33 Upcoming Specials and Investments 00:03:49 Performance Dynamics and Material 00:06:28 Supporting Fellow Comedians 00:11:02 Wisdom from Comedy Mentors 00:11:24 Preview and Purchase of Tony’s Special SPEAKER 02 : 0:00
ah tony rock in studio mcgoobies tonight mcgoobies tomorrow two shows yes yes and you got a special it's out it just dropped i'm fascinated with the production where can people find it what's it called it is on all streaming platforms yes uh the special is called rock the world i shot it uh what year is this 24 i think i shot it 22 okay Maybe early 23. Where did you shoot it at? I shot it in Los Angeles at the Laugh Factory in Long Beach. Tried to get the deal. Long story short, tried to get the deal. Couldn't get the deal. Nobody came. Nobody jumped at the offer. Took money out the bank. Fully funded it myself. Paid for everything from A to Z. Oh, you should have called me.
SPEAKER 05 : 0:51
He's got some birthday money.
SPEAKER 02 : 0:52
Yeah. And made an incredible body of work. Executive produced by my child. Oh, wow. That's awesome. It was sweet, man.
SPEAKER 05 : 1:00
Is it better? Okay, it's kind of a double-edged sword. You go out there, you try and shop the thing. Say somebody picks it up. Yeah. But then they're involved in the process a little bit. Right. Then some stuff starts to corral. You hear Andrew Schultz was talking about. He self-produced one after Netflix got involved in the content. Yo, Schultz is so dope.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:17
He produced it. No, they did it. And then started, you know. Can you take this out? Yeah. Can you take this out? No, no, no. He gave them their money back. That's wild. And took his special back. Yeah, I mean, I guess if you're going to have to compromise your art, then you screw that. Yeah, and then put it on one of the streaming platforms and it went bananas.
SPEAKER 04 : 1:33
That's a good question because someone else in the room, I don't mean to take the spotlight away from you, Tony Rock.
SPEAKER 05 : 1:39
Don't do that.
SPEAKER 04 : 1:40
But Justin's filming a special as well at the end of this month. November 30th, Ramset on stage, 9.30 show. I mean, you've got to have cameras, you've got to have lighting, you've got to have all that stuff. Harry, are you self-funding this whole thing? I'll write down how much I'm in. You're going to be so pissed at me. Your own money? Self-funded. Yep. Why would I be pissed at you? You know I'm proud of you for doing this. I think it's going to be the best thing you've ever done.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:04
That's the way to go, man. If you can do it, that's the way to go. Ohio!
SPEAKER 05 : 2:10
Ohio! At the end of it with five camera shoot, gimbal, booms, makeup, editing, social, release. It's going to be five man. It's... It's that.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:27
I didn't even say that.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:27
Am I getting taken to the woodshed, Tony? No. Okay.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:30
No. No, I've heard of some other people. I don't know.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:32
I've spent three to four times.
SPEAKER 04 : 2:35
You know you spent more than that on yours. I did, yes. I know you did. You got to spend money to make money. Is that the thought? That's damn drug deal-a-logic. What are you talking about? I don't know.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:47
I don't know anything about this. I had a professional production company. But I mean, I guess if you want... Right? No? I don't know.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:55
Listen, that's the way to go. You've seen some ass specials that somebody tried to cheapy on. Yeah. And it's filmed with cell phones. Yes. And maybe an Amazon purchase lav mic. Yes. The audience isn't mic'd up right. The lighting sucks. I don't know how to do any of that stuff. So I hired the people that know how to. Yeah. They got it all itemized. And by the way, it's a company called Air Bear Production. Shout out, Ryan. Yeah. And he showed me the whole way. This is what, you know, the red camera, the red box camera. We're going to have a few of those. We've got a gimbal camera that keeps it, you know, nice and stabilized. I like the word gimbal. It's a fun word. And he showed me the whole way. He's like, this is what it costs. This is what insurance is. This is what rental is. And then he's got to then hire a crew. So there's going to be, he's going to direct it, and there's going to be four people in there doing their thing. November 30th where? At Ram's Head on stage, just in 98 Rock, in my Instagram profile. Click the link. 6.30 show, pretty much sold out. 9.30, we could use some help.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:49
So Tony, when you're on stage and you're filming that, is it different?
SPEAKER 02 : 3:57
It's different in that there's cameras rolling. But does that affect you? For the comic, you should just do the set like... Are you able to, though? Yeah, it's just like... But are you able to? I was, I was. You felt like you just did your thing. The first show, I was cognizant of all of the stuff going on, and I felt like I was a little... Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the second show was like, hey, let's just...
SPEAKER 05 : 4:19
do the set that you know nice yes you're answering the questions i was going to ask because i've never done this yes i've never seen like you have the set ready to go it's up it's done you've done it a million times i'm getting sick of the material frankly that's another problem i'm having you know when you worked it out in 2020 you shine that thing to a mirror 2022 shined it to a mirror finish all the audiences that saw it was most likely new to them The Rolling Stones are sick of playing satisfaction. How long do you work on an hour for?
SPEAKER 02 : 4:47
Well, I was told that the material is never really done. Obviously. You just go with what you got. You just say, okay, let's just do it because you're tired of doing it. And you have no material you want to get to. But... So you were sick of yours? Were you sick of yours? I wasn't really sick of it, no, but some of it I was, yeah. Yeah. Because my intro was about COVID. Okay. And I'm like, okay, can I just stop doing this bit already? Yeah, it's done.
SPEAKER 05 : 5:12
Yeah. I'm really trying to also kind of fascinate with this process from someone that's a national, international pro. I'm trying to do stuff in mind that is going to be somewhat evergreen. I'm at the ass end of a pretty contentious election. Whatever. But if I start doing Harris-Trump stuff in two years, there's mold on it.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:31
I'm trying to do that stuff. Yes and no. Because if you watch Richard Pryor, timeless. Yeah, but that's Richard Pryor. If you watch some of Dave's older stuff, it's like he's talking about... You know, what was pertinent to that.
SPEAKER 05 : 5:50
Prominent at the time.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:51
Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 : 5:51
But they're also machines when it comes to putting out stuff. You say you worked on it for a couple of years. Yeah. I'm going to be telling jokes on this thing I wrote during the Obama administration. Like, when it comes to burning material, I'm going to get rid of it. And then in 2025, by the end of it, I'll have about nine new minutes. But look, when you look back two years from now when the special's up and – Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 02 : 6:10
Even if it's stuff from this election, people are going to go, oh, yeah, remember that? The joke's still funny. The joke's still good.
SPEAKER 04 : 6:16
The joke's still good. What about like a year from now when the phone rings and it's Justin going, hey, Tony.
SPEAKER 01 : 6:23
Hey, Tony. I got this special we talked about. I made a huge mistake. It's just not really. You think you can make phone calls for me? Hey, Tony.
SPEAKER 02 : 6:31
I will get on the phone.
SPEAKER 05 : 6:33
Do you need a guest set? Like these guys, I was out one day, and all my boys in here, Burt Kreischer came to town with Fully Loaded, and they fully went to bat for me. They're like, could you please put our dude up for a fiver at Merriweather? And he said yes. And I got up and had a good time. But, like, do you have guys like that that do it to you or you've done to? Because there's a lot of, A, obviously you're talented. You're not sitting here if you're not an elitely talented comedian selling out movies, excellent specials. But there's a level of somebody holding the door for you that you might have held the door for someone. Someone else might have held the door for you. Who are those people in each direction? Like, let's look at someone right now that you're holding the door for. Who else?
SPEAKER 02 : 7:17
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That I'm holding the door for?
SPEAKER 05 : 7:19
Like, get on in here, young blood. You got it.
SPEAKER 02 : 7:23
My younger brother, Jordan. Okay. I'm literally going to put a garbage can and keep the door open for him. That's awesome. Some of my features now. John Grimes, Joe Fox, Trey Elliott. The guys that I just think deserve a look. Yeah. And they don't have anything... on their resume.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:44
This, that would, that would can't hold the door forever though. You hold it for a little bit and then they got it. Then they eventually got to do it themselves. Yeah, you're right.
SPEAKER 02 : 7:50
Yeah, no, that's what, so double-edged sword is the guy, Joe Fox and trail, the guys that I was talking about, uh, I'm starting to see that. Now they're like, hey, why isn't this door open? I held the last one open. You're pushing this one open. We're three doors in. We're four doors in. So when we get there, the door will be open, right? Okay, now it's getting a little... There's this documentary.
SPEAKER 04 : 8:11
It's the same but different, but it's called Hired Guns, and it's about like... Session musicians that like play in bands and stuff like that. And Trent Reznor, who's the guy from Nine Inch Nails. Trent Reznor, I mean, Nine Inch Nails is just Trent Reznor. And then when he would go on tour, all the people that played with him were just musicians. And he famously did not pay. He did not pay. He paid you zero dollars. And they were all like, well, what the hell's with Trent? He's like, look, if you want to do it. You know, go do it. I did it.
SPEAKER 02 : 8:44
Go do it. I know comics. I know comics. Some guys that you and I both know. Yeah. That don't pay their features at all. That just happened. They have to pay for their flight to the city and their hotel because the stage time is supposed to be. The reward.
SPEAKER 05 : 9:00
It's tough. I worked with a guy about a month and a half ago at the Lincoln Theater in D.C., which you're very familiar with. It's a beautiful theater. It sits 1,200. He packed it. It's where Abraham Lincoln was shot. Exactly. They even have the whole thing cordoned off because it's haunted. And I went and did 25. And at the end of the night, handshake, thanks for coming. But I did get some. I woke up to 50 new followers. I woke up to some people buying tickets to the special. Same thing with Bert. Even though Bert's wife, Leanne, handed me a grip at the end of that show.
SPEAKER 01 : 9:32
I did not expect it to be paid for that.
SPEAKER 05 : 9:33
I did 10 minutes, and she pulled me aside at the end of the night and handed me a stack, and I almost collapsed. But sometimes that happens. Now, let me ask the other half. Who was the dude for you? Who was the one that was like, Tony Rock, this guy's got it. The world just needs to see it. Let me shine a light on him.
SPEAKER 02 : 9:54
Jamie Masada, the owner of the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles, California.
SPEAKER 05 : 9:58
That dude's weird.
SPEAKER 02 : 10:00
He's a good weird. Super weird, yes. But he's a good weird. But he's definitely like the world. We actually spoke on the phone. I was leaving DCA. Yeah. Coming here yesterday. And he called me while I was in the car and just... Buddy. He talks like that. Buddy. He's Persian. You're a star, buddy. Buddy. You are a star. I'm going to put money behind you and promote you because I do a show at the Laugh Factory on Wednesdays, Rock the World Wednesdays. Buddy, I'm going to put so much money behind this show and promote it. You are a star, buddy. But that's been since I stepped foot in L.A. He's been the guy that was like...
SPEAKER 05 : 10:36
Didn't he also have – he did this thing for comedians because obviously none of them have health care. None of them got dental. Yeah. But he did a thing for – he had psychiatric assistance for any comedian that's just struggling. Like he had – he was getting comics who none of us are well that do this. There's a huge dad-shaped hole in our chest. And he helped get comics that needed it, Laugh Factory regulars. Yes. If you're not feeling good up top, let me help you because I want you to be around for a while. He does that.
SPEAKER 02 : 11:02
He fought for – you know, better pay. He does the, he feeds the homeless every Thanksgiving. He feeds the homeless every Christmas.
SPEAKER 01 : 11:11
Since like the 70s he's been doing that.
SPEAKER 02 : 11:12
He does like a 3 o'clock, 5 o'clock, 7 o'clock, 9 o'clock serving. That's great. And then the comics. At the comedy? At the comedy club. Oh, that's cool. And then the comics that are volunteering their time to help feed the homeless, they do a show.
SPEAKER 05 : 11:24
So you got the special. Rock the world. Rock the world. Rock the world. I'm looking at it. It's right there at the top of Amazon. Nice. It's a bargain at twice the price. Five bucks. Nice. Five bucks. That's it for a crappy fast food burger. You're getting top tier stand up. By the way, I'm sorry if you said where was the other day the venue again? Laugh Factory in Long Beach. Dude, the venue looks awesome.
SPEAKER 02 : 11:47
The lighting's great. After you shoot your special, you're going to look at it and you're going to see a million things you could have did. Yeah, right. Don't even dwell on it. I have one that I dwell on. Just get it done. Get it done. Have you watched it back? I have. Now, why did you watch it back?
SPEAKER 04 : 12:01
A lot of people don't watch their stuff.
SPEAKER 02 : 12:03
I watch it because there were things that I'm like, I should have... Maybe to take notes for the future.
SPEAKER 04 : 12:10
Yes.
SPEAKER 05 : 12:12
To edit for the next one. That Burt thing was very kindly filmed by the group that did Fully Loaded. They had a bunch of cameras all set up. They film every night that they do it. They get me the footage. You know why I've never, I don't think I told you this, Josh. You never watched it.
SPEAKER 02 : 12:24
You never watched it.
SPEAKER 05 : 12:25
I watched it. Oh, I watched it. I didn't release it. There's a reason. And it's, I could, if I could go back in time, I'd bounce my goddamn head off a brick wall. What don't you like? Before I go out on stage. Of course, I've got the flop sweats. I'm nervous as hell. I got a black shirt on. I know you shake your hand. I shake a lot. My hands get a little bit of the tremors. My face is a little wet. I did this with my shirt. I go out. You then look at the footage. I've got a wet spot near my crank. Wow. It's a huge, gross, creamy face butter splotch.
SPEAKER 01 : 12:56
Wow.
SPEAKER 05 : 12:57
Oh, I can show you the video, the high-def, professionally shot footage.
SPEAKER 01 : 13:00
Wow.
SPEAKER 05 : 13:01
I gave it to the dude, Ryan, that's currently editing mine, and we're trying to crop it out of the frame because it fully looks like I had a nocturnal ambition.
SPEAKER 04 : 13:08
See, but something even like that, you've learned. Oh, yeah. Don't take your shirt and wipe your face off 30 seconds before you go up.
SPEAKER 02 : 13:15
Well, that's the intro to your new special. That should be like, as soon as you hit the stage, that's the first joke. Oh, God, what's on my crotch? Magoobies.
SPEAKER 05 : 13:22
Magoobies.com. Get the special. Buy it. Share it. Send it to other people. Perfect gift for the holidays. Don't just rent it. Buy the damn thing. Tony Rock. After Thanksgiving dinner, sit around, watch the special. Watch the damn thing. Magoobies.com. Tony Rock. Always a pleasure.
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we pat ourselves on the back. Tune in to hear Kirk and Joe Robinson Live in the Boom Boom Room discuss small victories with our listeners. What are some accomplishments we're proud of. One way to find out. Hit play!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript Join us as we discuss the pros and cons of owning a large TV in today's tech-savvy world.
00:00:00 Big Screen Discussions 00:01:21 Living Without a TV 00:02:14 The Complexity of Modern TVs 00:03:13 Exciting Announcements at AwesomeCon 00:04:43 Nostalgia for Old AV Experiences 00:06:03 Exploring X-Real Glasses 00:07:24 Mounting the Big TVs SPEAKER 05 : 0:00
How big is that TV? Hey, hey, Ron, the Santa of the program. He's got an 82-inch MF-er with a sound bar and a subwoofer. They say that he sits 10 feet back from the TV. About right. I feel like you need to sit like...
SPEAKER 04 : 0:15
Well, for that, just did the calculation. They said for an 80 to 85, you got to be sitting about 11 feet back. OK, so he's on the edge right in the realm there. Maybe scooch back a bit.
SPEAKER 05 : 0:26
Edwin, when I remodeled my basement, I bought the TV I wanted first and built my basement around it. It is a 75 inch Bose surround custom sound. That's badass. Rodney, 85 inch in the living room, but it was too big. Had to return it, downgraded to a 65, perfect for my place. Yeah, you're not going to know. I mean, in America, bigger is better. We're the only country in the world where we refer to amounts of food as piled high. Literal piles of food. You can get too much TV. Yeah, I mean, it's got to fit the space. Yeah, exactly. Jeremy, I got a decent-sized TV, nothing too big, refurbished. That's a perfect space, Jeremy, perfect space. It appears to be a 50, maybe a 48, 52. Got it for $250 refurbished. You know, it might even be a better question.
SPEAKER 04 : 1:21
Who out there doesn't have a TV?
SPEAKER 05 : 1:24
I can take you to a couple of people in Hamden that have bands that don't make it. No, but you can see the people. Brain surgery, haircut. They hold a cigarette like a German does. My sister doesn't have a TV.
SPEAKER 04 : 1:33
Really? You know someone without a TV?
SPEAKER 03 : 1:35
That's right. They don't want to have that in their, you know, their religious.
SPEAKER 05 : 1:42
Do they have a laptop or any kind of computer in the house?
SPEAKER 03 : 1:44
Yeah, computers they have because they need to stay somewhat connected. But no, they don't want to see inappropriate stuff. Look at that.
SPEAKER 05 : 1:53
They got a bunch of kids. Yeah. So do they watch anything just on their own in bed on the laptop? No, no.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:00
No, no. I think they'll get a TV, like they'll roll on the TV for the Super Bowl. Okay, so they'll rent something. That's wild, man. Or they'll get, you know, go to a Super Bowl party. 410-338-1098.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:14
Hell yeah, big football fans. You also, it's a lot more difficult these days to own the TV because now you have to have the TV and you have to have a sound system. And then you got to find out about the connections. Is it a digital optical cable? Do you use RCA? Do you use component? Do you have HDMI 2.1 or 2.0? Do you have the ARC channel, the audio return channel? There's so much stuff you now need to know. I'm telling you, big screen store. Just go to the big screen store. They'll get you all set up. They'll tell you everything you need to know. Get that Samsung. I know this guy's rocking out a big ass set to watch Monday Night Raw. Elliot, what size TV are you working with, pal?
SPEAKER 06 : 2:53
I got a 32-inch, Justin, and it's a Roku one. It's a Philips Roku TV. And also I got some good news of the day. AwesomeCon, they announced Corey Feldman, the voice of Donatello from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Kevin Eastman.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:12
Where is that at?
SPEAKER 06 : 3:14
Washington, D.C. at Walter E. Convention Center. Starting in April.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:18
Hot. Damn. Okay. A, we got to get him up here. We got to get Corey Feldman up here.
SPEAKER 05 : 3:22
And get Elliot some access. Yeah, of course. Reach out to Shane. Reach out to Tina. Get our dude backstage. Okay? Have him get to dress as the Shredder and beat Leonardo's ass.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:32
All right. Thank you, Elliot. Love you, pal. I want Corey Feldman in here with his guitar and amp to play one of those solos.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:38
But first, he needs to get a makeover.
SPEAKER 05 : 3:41
I do want him to hit one of those solos. The ones where he just plays. It just looks like a hummingbird's wings.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:48
Have you seen him recently? What do you mean? He's been all over the Loserville tour.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:53
Well, no. I just saw a picture of him the other day. He did change his look, Josh. Wait, what? Oh, yeah? He completely cut his hair and dyed it, bleached it blonde. No!
SPEAKER 03 : 4:05
Oh, I'm a sucker for blondes.
SPEAKER 05 : 4:06
Let's see what we have here. Corey Feldman. Let's see what we got. You're going to have to Oh, something's coming up.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:14
You're going to have to find me a picture. Yeah, let me see if I can find it.
SPEAKER 05 : 4:15
He still has the spirit of Michael Jackson coursing through him, which I have questions and found it. Is that him right there now? That's it. That's not great. No. Tell me he's not trying to audition for Smash Mouth. He might have accidentally joined Smash Mouth and not known it. I am curious about these. Buzz, we've had a couple people send in messages about this device, the X-Real Glasses. What are these?
SPEAKER 01 : 4:43
Hey, good morning. Good morning, everybody. I just thought about it. I feel so bad for Josh's nieces and nephews. That feeling of rolling in the TV like when you were in middle school, that was like the best feeling in the world.
SPEAKER 05 : 4:59
What a treat. You knew you weren't doing anything that day in class.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:02
The AV squad rolls in the TV with the VCR.
SPEAKER 05 : 5:07
The big strap over top of it on the wheels. You knew this substitute rules. So once a year, they get a real nice treat. And then the other 363 days of the year, 64 is just awful. What are these glasses, man? I had a couple people message me about these things.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:24
So, okay, so your eyes can only see so much, like you guys were just saying. Yeah. And I think if you look it up online, I think it's like 104 inches. Well, these things, basically, it's like sitting in front of the biggest TV that you can possibly see, which I think is like 104 inches. But they're amazing. And you can put these like blackout things on front of it. So all you see is a screen. But you can also take it off and you can kind of see the image in front of it. And then you can see like you could probably walk around in it. I'm looking at it right now on Amazon.
SPEAKER 04 : 6:03
Almost makes it like a little mini IMAX is strapped to your face.
SPEAKER 01 : 6:07
Exactly. Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 : 6:08
Can I hook a video game up to these things?
SPEAKER 01 : 6:12
Oh, yeah, yeah. It's pretty neat. So I got them on, what was it, Amazon Day. They were only $200. Do they work with any TV? Yeah, yeah. They hook up the capability for a lot of phones. Like iPhones work. My Pixel doesn't necessarily work, but you can get this other thing for it, which is kind of like a racket. But they're actually pretty amazing. For $200, they're great for if you travel, like if you're on a plane.
SPEAKER 04 : 6:45
So you're sitting in a plane and you can watch a movie, and it's almost like you're not watching a movie on your phone. It's like you're sitting in a theater, but you're on a plane.
SPEAKER 05 : 6:53
This is brilliant. These are them. I'm looking them up. They don't need an actual TV. They connect to your phone. So your phone is the entertainment hub. So it beams a signal from the phone to the glasses, and then you just watch it. It says these things are like 4K and the whole do. You can buy an upgraded model that has the hub so you can hook up your Xboxes. Dude. Buzz, how dare you? We don't get paid until next week. Thank you for the call, pal. Happy holidays. Let's talk to Matthew. Matt, how big is that TV you're working with, buddy?
SPEAKER 07 : 7:24
85-inch beautiful Samsung TV.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:27
How much you drop on that?
SPEAKER 07 : 7:29
Honestly, great deal, $1,500. Wow. And it was super discounted at BJ's. So shout out BJ's Wholesale Club.
SPEAKER 05 : 7:37
Hey there. Now, when you get that thing, are you hanging it? Are you standing it? What's the sound? Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 : 7:45
Yeah, it's mounted. Got the wireless Samsung soundbar to go with it. Mounted that sucker up on the wall. Actually doing some reno, so it's going to look a lot nicer now, too. Nice. Yeah, you got it, but it's heavy. It is a heavy TV.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:58
Oh, really? Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 : 8:00
Wow, there's... Whatever became of the roll-up TV? Remember that thing they tried to put out for a while? It was LG had a television. They might even still have the damn things. It was a flat-screen television. I think they're the only ones that made it. The world's first and only rollable TV. It went into what looked like a bench at the base of your bed, and then you activate it, and it rolls up, and then it can roll down to where you don't need to see the thing when you're not using it. I don't know what the hell the price on this thing. It cannot be. Oh, it's been discontinued to an utter lack of interest.
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode we are joined by Rob Maher! Tune in to hear Kirk and Rob Maher peel back the curtain on the apparent secret life of Abraham Lincoln. What was good ole Honest Ab not so truthful about? One way to find out. Hit play!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript Step into a world where tempers flare and fists fly as our guests recount some of the most intense brawl stories you’ll ever hear.
00:00:00 Opening: Brawl Stories and Listener Calls 00:01:04 Polar Bear Plunge Night at Wendy's 00:02:28 Emo vs. Redneck Party Brawl 00:05:28 When Brawls Get Dangerous 00:06:29 Infamous Brawls of the Past 00:09:12 Costume Party Brawl SPEAKER 05 : 0:00
Were you ever in a big-ass multi-person brawl? A chair comes flying across the bar. One punch gets thrown. One punch turns to two. Two people turn to four. You see your buddy. You go, on principle, I've got to dive into this son of a bitch. And the next thing you know, it's just Roadhouse and that son of a bitch. I heard a story yesterday from some... Folks, I'll say that, yeah, I had a football game go sideways. Two rival teams. Guess some smack had been talked. The smack got real. And then the next thing you know, somebody places a call and half of Greektown showed up to a high school football field. Pop trunks and Greek boys roll deep. All right. Something in a docus that you get all kinds of people that defend their countrymen, both neighborhood and, you know. Your hometown, wherever the hell you're from. 410-338-1098. Stambo, you ever engage in a brawl? Street gang, yes. Street gang, that's right. Your gang that was named Street Gang. And the gang that didn't brawl. No, or commit crimes. That's right.
SPEAKER 06 : 1:04
Or do anything gang related. Exactly. But we were a gang, nonetheless. I've gotten a couple little bar one-offs. There was a time... I feel so bad about this still to this day there we were polar bear plunge we went to a Wendy's one night after drinking it was like 4 or 5 of us in the car and I don't know what happened with my friend the driver but something got messed up in the order or the guy at the window was just being short with this or something like this it was like 2 o'clock in the morning uh So we get around and words are exchanged. And then the dude that was at the window comes outside. Oh, damn. And it's like five 22 year olds.
SPEAKER 01 : 1:52
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 : 1:56
We got out of the car. I don't think I, uh, I didn't throw any punches, but my buddy did get his headset. His headset fell off. My friend picked it up and he drives her headset. Yes. He threw the drive through headset on the roof.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:12
He couldn't get it. Yeah. That's amazing. Yeah. Oh my God. Yeah. Uh, four, 10, three, three, eight, 10 98. We'll go to the phones. Take your texts and tweets. Devin, Devin, what the hell happened? Hey, guys. What's going on? What's up, pal?
SPEAKER 02 : 2:28
I've got a quick story for you, I guess, basically. Oh, no. Hello?
SPEAKER 05 : 2:34
Yeah, we just saw what you wrote on screen. That didn't sound good.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:37
Yeah, there you are. Can you hear me? Yep. All right, cool. So, yeah, basically, I was at a party, I don't know how many years back, when my wife was not my wife, my girlfriend at the time. She... The tension was thick. It was like rednecks versus emos in the party scene. So let me just set that scene a little bit right to start. Which one are you?
SPEAKER 04 : 2:53
Which one are you? A redneck or an emo?
SPEAKER 02 : 2:55
I was the emo for sure. Got it. My friend was the emo crew. And so like this dude, one of the rednecks, he like lifted up one of our friend's skirts or whatever, like popped it up, like ha ha, whatever. And my wife took offense. So she runs over, slaps him right across the face. And yeah, so he's like... about to lose his mind he like goes into rage mode or whatever and she turns around and runs right behind me oh yeah so then uh and him and like 12 of his friends you know it's like 12 on 12 or however many it was and then my sister's there her boyfriend the biggest man in the room runs out leaves yeah he just abandoned you guys the guy that you thought was the mountain from the game of thrones goes straight bitch and leaves oh yeah who got the better when it was all said and done who who won uh I'd say they won. I had a complete... My lip was totally split in half. I had to get stitches and all that. It was rough.
SPEAKER 05 : 3:44
Yeah. In the battle of Morgan Whalen versus My Chemical Romance, I'm going to probably go with the former versus the latter.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:50
Let me ask you a question, because there was a skirt that was lifted. So that is pretty... A little bit of SA. Yeah. So that is... So then your wife was like, all right, there was some sort of, you know, a little... They stepped over the line, so then she slaps a guy. Yeah. Outside of that, though, does she do this a lot where her ass is writing checks that then you have to cash?
SPEAKER 02 : 4:16
No, so she, at the time when we were, you know, definitely of legal age, in air quotes, she was drinking, and she doesn't do that anymore. So that was a little bit of a thing. Yes.
SPEAKER 05 : 4:25
But to Scott's point, though, a lot of these women will do that. Oh, my God. How many dust-ups at some shore bar somewhere where there maybe is some tiki decoration somewhere? That's right. Where there's a couple of hanging lights. You get some lady, 100-nothing, 5-nothing, starts shrieking through the night, and then looks over at her boyfriend like, handle that for me, Tom.
SPEAKER 04 : 4:48
I ain't gonna do anything. All right.
SPEAKER 05 : 4:51
And then these two guys said, they don't feel like fighting. No. But these two hens start clucking and the two dudes go like, okay, I guess we got to do this. And they start throwing hands. It's the worst. I loved, it was in 2022, I think it was, the meme that went around after another fabled 2 a.m. Waffle House brawl that on the job application, they said, what's your prior experience and what's your fighting style? Yeah. What a Waffle House application. You had to know if your ground game was good, just in case you get tackled near the flat iron. Thank you, Dev. Let's go to Zach online, too. Zach, we're asking people, have you ever had a brawl?
SPEAKER 01 : 5:29
Yeah, man. Actually, in my early 20s, late teens, dude, I got in a lot of fights. But the one that put the nail in the coffin, I guess, for me, was me and two of my buddies got jumped by like 30-plus kids at a party. Okay. dang uh yeah dude it was bad um broke it uh that was probably my fault i threw the first punch when i shouldn't have okay all right 150 pounds wet i was back from uh i lived in orlando at the time liquid you have a little liquid courage in you yeah a little bit of that and that uh that that marching powder oh yeah man it definitely wasn't good i woke up uh The whites in both of my eyes was red. Severe concussions. My buddy had his nose broken like three separate places. Shoes, clothes, hats, all kinds of stuff. We literally crawled out of there while they were throwing bottles at the vehicle.
SPEAKER 05 : 6:29
It had to feel like it went on for an hour, when in actuality it probably was two minutes tops. How long did the brawl go on for?
SPEAKER 01 : 6:37
Um... Yeah, probably a few minutes tops before we started crawling back to the car. I mean, they were still going at it. We left like two girls at the party. And ever since then, man, I'm done. I'm terrified. He ain't got it in you anymore.
SPEAKER 04 : 6:51
I often reference. Hey, go ahead. Please, please. Well, I was going to say the other thing nowadays that you have to worry about is a lot of people have guns.
SPEAKER 05 : 6:57
Yes, dude. Yes. Someone's got a blade. Someone's got a gun. Someone's got something. A brawl is just not a brawl anymore. It's not. No, it just can't be fists and afterwards. And afterwards we shook hands. We all became the best of friends. That doesn't happen a lot. People sometimes romanticize. They'll puff up the tales of an era gone by where we settled it with our fists. And then I was the best man at his wedding. On these days, you're going to end up in Josh's news with your skull sprayed on the sofa. John Mumma, buddy of mine in Pennsylvania. He's actually going to be my opening act for one of the two shows. November 30th. uh ram said on stage chaos theory please buy tickets to the 9 30 show he was famously he famously got in quite a few fights he never started them but he would flip a switch the wonderland and i could see that switch the wonderland ballroom brawl of 2007 is still discussed in hushed tones amongst friends That this hipster chick was heckling our friend, Tony Grasick, a.k.a. Larry Poom. And he does this Vegas Lounge Act thing. And she starts jaw jacking. And he gives it back to her. And someone, I think either threw a bottle or something at Tony. Whoa. And he goes to get in their face. She slaps him. Tony can't hit her, but shoulder checks the guy. The guy then hits Tony. John hits the guy. There's five people. I remember myself and another guy named Jay Hastings holding John back while he screamed, I will mow you all down, you mother effers. I will mow you all down. He breaks free, gets a hold of one of them. Now, I know you've been to the auto bar quite a bit in your time. Oh, yeah. Been upstairs? Oh, yeah. You ever want to get thrown down those steps? No. We had to keep John from doing that. John was about to absolutely cripple a man permanently. We're like, let's get you down. Let's get John in the car. And he just sat there like he had to come down. And then he actually took us out to a diner and apologized. I'm sorry, guys. I don't know what came over me. Let's go to Matt, line three. Matthew, you ever been to big multi-person brawl?
SPEAKER 03 : 9:12
Yeah. Morning, guys. Morning, Eagle. Hey, Matt. What's up, Bill? Yeah, about 2014, Hamden, Halloween. We're at a house party, a bunch of people. Cops come, break it up. We go walking down the avenue, get some rofo. A buddy of mine is dressed as Tyrone Biggums. He's walking in front of me, smoking a cigarette. Dude from across the street beelines it for him. He thinks, oh, man, this dude's going to ask me for a cigarette. He kind of turns away. The dude sucker punches him right in the face. So I'm behind him. I see the whole thing. I'm dressed as the Karate Kid. I run over and just jump kick him. A bunch of buddies of mine, they follow up behind me. So I got the Brave Little Toaster, Ash and the Evil Dead. I got me as the Karate Kid. I think another buddy of mine was a Banana Toaster. I want to say. And so just imagine all of that on the Avenue.
SPEAKER 05 : 10:06
You just see Dave Chappelle's crackhead character, Tyrone Biggums, a toaster, a banana. What was, why did you ever find out why the guy made a beeline and threw the punch?
SPEAKER 03 : 10:18
Uh, he's just an a-hole. Uh, the one, the dude says the bouncer from Frazier said that they knew him and said that now you're good. We'll call the cops on him. You guys are cool. We saw the whole thing. He started it. We're like, Oh, so this is just all right. Cool.
SPEAKER 05 : 10:29
This is what he does. All right, dude. Thank you for the call, man.
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we are joined by Joe Robinson! Tune in to hear Kirk and Joe talk about times they knew their kids were lying and they caught them red handed. How did they do it? One way to find out. Hit play!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript We get into getting counterfeit items off the street, and even at home.
00:00:00 Introduction and Neighborhood Story 00:01:54 Ethics of Bootlegging Vintage Games 00:02:27 Bootleg Movie Streaming Devices 00:03:56 VHS Bootlegging Memories 00:04:49 Music Sharing and the Napster Era 00:06:37 Reclaiming Childhood with Retro Games 00:10:02 Used Games and Market Realities 00:10:41 Satellite Dish Hacking Stories SPEAKER 04 : 0:00
You criminal. I got a buddy in the neighborhood. Shout out Toddy. Chance Tucker. Two great kids. Evans friends. He's got to get his knee all but ripped to hell in a camping accident. He had to claw his way back to civilization fighting off bears with a machete. I think he might have just slipped getting out of his Jeep. But he got knee surgery. ACL surgery. And he's on the couch. He ain't getting up for a few days. He's got the compression socks on. Who is this now? My buddy Todd, just neighborhood Todd. And he's just on the sofa. There ain't nothing he can do. So I said, hey, let me get you a video game system. They make them cheap, and he's like a classic game guy. And I got the idea because I saw the ads all over Instagram for the handheld ones that just come out of the box for $80. 21,000 games. 50,000 games. All the games you knew and loved as a kid. Every Nintendo game ever. Blah, blah, blah. And I'm thinking... I don't think Nintendo or Sony or Microsoft or Sega or whoever, they're definitely not getting a cut of that. All that stuff has got to be bootlegged, right? Like, if there's 21, 31,000 games on the thing... I don't think they're paying licensing fees to that many companies. And I wonder the legality. Etsy covered in these things. Oh, really? You just go buy a system. They're like 200 bucks. Oh, you don't have an Etsy account. I love that. I love Etsy. Oh, it's like eBay for the creative. But I was looking at them, and some of the way these downloadable streaming old games go, they have a little warning that comes up going, you must have a physical copy of this game if you want to play this, otherwise it's illegal. And then no one does that. No one's got 30,000 games sitting on a shelf somewhere. And I'm like, I think I might be engaged in bootlegging if I'm buying this thing.
SPEAKER 05 : 1:54
Yeah, I mean, I think for most people... Let me ask you this. Does the age of a game matter to you? If it's like the older ones, do you feel like it's not as big a crime or something? Like ones where the company might not even exist anymore.
SPEAKER 04 : 2:10
I don't know. Jalico games gone, then I don't care. I mean, I'll tell you that.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:16
Or even at this point, like if you're getting a late copy of like Super Mario Brothers.
SPEAKER 04 : 2:21
I don't think I'm going to take food off Nintendo's table. I don't think Shigeru Miyamoto is going to need help buying Christmas presents.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:27
Older vintage games. And I don't know. I don't know your answer about licensing or who or who gets the money from that. But I think for me anyway, if it's an old if I feel like if it's a vintage older thing like I don't I don't I'm just going to I'll buy it. Come arrest me, like you say when you murder snakes. All the time.
SPEAKER 04 : 2:44
Hey, send me the bill. Yeah, come find me. Send me the bill. What are you going to do? It's like that stream box thing that Mudge's parents bought a stream box. And it was this device that I think they got in a Target. I mean, a regular big box store. And you hook this thing up, watch new movies, new TV shows online. without the expensive bill, without the price of the admission. And they're selling it on the website as, watch Moana 2, watch the new Beetlejuice, watch Pick Your Movie Du Jour, and it's all free. And I'm thinking, I think that stuff's being bootlegged, right? I watched one of those movies over there at their house, and it was a Disney film. I think it might have been in Canto or something. And you could clearly see it was someone had tripodded a cell phone. It was not. Wow. Yeah, that's old school bootleg. The audio sucked. Filming the screen with like a, yeah. I'm like, this is not, this is not a straight, this is not real. You didn't get this straight from Disney. You guys jacked this thing somehow. And you saw all the films and you had to find like one that had like a nice bit rate to be able to download from some sketchy server.
SPEAKER 05 : 3:56
That's bootlegging.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:57
Yeah. Bootlegging. I mean, back in the day, you had my old man. I love you, Pops. But there was never a Blockbuster VHS that we rented that you did not try and make a copy of for our own personal. What was the name? It started with an M. VHS blank. Was it Magnavox? Was it Magnavox or Miramax or whatever the hell it was? Tape that we just had an entire bookshelf. Full of just VHS tapes that just had written on the side of the thing in Sharpie. Whatever the hell the thing was. Young Guns 1, Young Guns 2, Unforgiven. You have a bootleg?
SPEAKER 1 : 4:38
4103381098.
SPEAKER 05 : 4:39
I mean, I'm the same way. I think we had that. Back in the day, there was that box that floated around that would give you all the cable channels. Remember that? Yep.
SPEAKER 04 : 4:49
Max Ellis, I'm thinking of. Yeah, the one that you could get. Or you get a sketchy cable guy. I could juice you up. Music. I mean, Lord knows... Lars Ulrich Napster, he kind of fought back, really on the side of the artist, but in doing so, back in the 90s, kind of made himself seem older than I think he wanted to appear. Now, again, Metallica's gone on, and they've been fine. But they were one of the first to fight. Yeah, and he was right. Being like, hey, this is our stuff. I feel like we should get paid for this sort of thing. Yeah, but that LimeWire and Napster, I mean, didn't Napster get in big trouble? Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah, they went to court. LimeWire went in court. If you had LimeWire, Speaks, did you ever, on the home computer, did you ever download anything on MonPause? Oh, and did you have a computer room at home? Did you have a computer room? Uh... No, we actually did not. Yeah, yeah, we did have a computer room, but not until the early 2000s. Yeah, we didn't get a home PC until I bought one and brought it into my house in, like, 99 98 this big honking ibm tower some 486 whatever the hell else voodoo graphics chipset but it was the family computer but i also limewired and i limewired quite a bit of pornography and then i went and turned it on and the whole thing just is in Infected with viruses. They would just label a virus a new Limp Bizkit album. Like, okay, I like Nookie. And then the next thing you know, somebody in Dadigstan has your dad's finances. 410-338-1098. Let's go to the phone. Big Bill. Damn you, Big Bill. Big Bill.
SPEAKER 01 : 6:37
What up, gentlemen? What up? What's up? What's up? And what is happening? What's up? So I actually, I don't know if you guys are familiar with Torrent. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 : 6:53
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 01 : 6:54
Yeah, I used to jack so much stuff, man, that I would have the cable company shutting my Internet down. Really? Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:03
They could detect it on their end, like, okay, all these homes are using such and such amount of data. Yeah, he's using way too much data.
SPEAKER 01 : 7:08
But the bill household just slurping it.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:11
Could they see what you were downloading?
SPEAKER 01 : 7:13
Yeah, it was actually the company that made the film sent, like, the assist of the Internet connection to my provider and actually shut me down twice.
SPEAKER 05 : 7:25
Damn. What were you doing, movies? Did you ever feel bad?
SPEAKER 01 : 7:28
I was doing all kinds of stuff, Scott. I was doing music. I was doing, yeah, movies.
SPEAKER 05 : 7:33
these uh you know porn that kind of stuff yeah i did mostly music because i remember i was like that was back in the mid to like late 90s i was really into fish and like fish uh you know they would play songs live that you couldn't find like other places so i would download all these like fish songs and make like this master mix the first song you ever downloaded
SPEAKER 04 : 7:53
I don't. I shockingly do. I got to look up the year because it was off of a movie soundtrack. It was off of Mission Impossible 2 in 2000. 2000. The Limp Bizkit, Take a Look Around. Hell yeah. I was like, okay, this song goes so hard, and I need it. And it was the only MP3 that I had on my computer, and it just basically played in a loop the entire time. And then the second song I downloaded, I believe, was Sugar Ray, and it gave me a virus. Let's go back to the phones. Let's talk to Blaine. Sounded like an 80s villain. Blaine, good morning. Hey, man. How you doing? What's up, Blaine? You bootlegging games? Maybe?
SPEAKER 03 : 8:33
Yeah, well, here's the deal. I got into my 30s, so it was about that time for me to reclaim my childhood a little bit. Yes, sir. Hell yeah. So I bought a Sega Saturn again.
SPEAKER 05 : 8:45
Oh, there you did. That's my system.
SPEAKER 03 : 8:47
So it was a Japanese Saturn. Well, I know, Justin, if you look on eBay, you've seen how godly expensive Saturn goes.
SPEAKER 04 : 8:56
Yeah, they're brutal, man. $100,000 for a game. Yeah, they're awful.
SPEAKER 03 : 8:59
Yeah, yeah, it's bad. Like, don't even get me started on the original stuff. Don't get me started. But I wanted to play the version of Castlevania Symphony of the Night for Saturn.
SPEAKER 04 : 9:14
Okay.
SPEAKER 03 : 9:14
Classic. So someone English patched it. Okay. So you can download it and burn it to a disc and then play it on your Saturn. Uh-huh. So that's what I did. And how was it?
SPEAKER 04 : 9:27
Was it amazing? Honestly, it's not that great of a conversion.
SPEAKER 03 : 9:29
Do you feel guilty? Actually, it was really great. They took the PSP English version and put it. to put that English patch to it so you can understand what they're saying.
SPEAKER 04 : 9:39
Yeah, it's all in Japanese.
SPEAKER 05 : 9:40
But to Scott's question earlier, did you feel at all kind of guilty or like, God, I feel like there's a window that if it's more than 30 years old, it's fair game.
SPEAKER 03 : 9:51
No, because think about all these guys who are reselling retro game stores. The original creators are not getting any extra money. That's a good point.
SPEAKER 04 : 10:02
It used game stores. When you sell a used game, Microsoft tried to stop that with one of their Xbox systems.
SPEAKER 05 : 10:09
I'm not a big game guy, but when I would finish a game, I would take it back and return the game and then give you like, what, $10 for it or something? And then I would use that $10 and put it towards another game and I would just buy a new game. When I was done with it, I'd return it. Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 : 10:23
And then they would go and sell it for $5 less than a new game. Being like, damn, the delta between what you're giving and what you're charging. That's a really good point. I never thought about that. Used game sales. Sony ain't seen any of that. Microsoft. Let's do one more here. Let's go to Michelle before we jump to Josh's news. Michelle, what are you doing?
SPEAKER 02 : 10:41
Well, back in the day, we had one of those eight-foot mesh boards. big dishes outside yeah and uh and uh my father had a box that had a chip in it that it de-scrambled everything oh yeah did you watch the playboy channel remember the playboy channel you can see boobs we used to get everything but here's the here's the real uh the you know the dark market thing he used to have to if they scrambled the channel and he had to get a new chip He had to go pick the guy up at the Carroll County Airport. What? What?
SPEAKER 04 : 11:16
The guy was flying in? Did he have a trench coat on and dark glasses? There was a handoff with like a briefcase?
SPEAKER 02 : 11:25
No, he came to our house and installed the chip.
SPEAKER 04 : 11:30
I don't know how to tell you this, Michelle, but your father was an al-Qaeda. That's crazy. Wow.
Read MoreRead Less
Description Chapter Markers Transcript Josh's trash cans are mysteriously being placed back in his yard, Justin is dealing with a neighborhood fox situation and Scott has Jury Duty. We are joined by comedian Christopher Titus and Baltimore's own, Dominatrix - Andre Shakti! All of this, plus much more, on - Behind the Curtain!!
00:00:00 The Placebo Effect of Supplements 00:02:07 Fish Oil Woes and Listener Calls 00:03:18 Introduction to Jocko Willink's Supplements 00:05:26 Nootropics and Caffeine Discussion 00:08:30 Metformin and Multivitamin Debate 00:10:13 Eastern vs. Western Medicine 00:15:07 Josh Spiegel's Trashcan Mystery SPEAKER 07 : 0:00
I'm still convinced half the stuff is completely placebo. I'm just eating ground-up cat litter, maybe some branches that a scientist found in their front yard. Probably a chemist's garbage that they're laughing at us by putting them in gel capsules and having some nature-made-looking label on it. We discussed supplements and the things that you're taking and the things that others are taking. Do they really work? Do they have an effect on you? The one that I'm curious about... is the eugenics stuff. If you've ever been stuck on an airline, you crack open the SkyMall. Oh, I love the SkyMall. When you're bored and you have your boyfriend's credit card, SkyMall. But you see the dude in the back that's crazy jacked, shoulders down. He looks like a UFC light heavyweight champion. But from the neck up, he looks like Wilford Brimley. He's just this old bastard. And you see it's all these eugenics, eugenics, sengenics, something-genics supplements. And I saw that dude, and I'm like, well... Give me a Whitman sampler. What are those old bastards taking? Because I'd love to take it. Also, I'm a supplements creator's wet dream because I am dumb and easily tricked. I'll see the people wearing an article of clothing that are 10 times more beautiful than me in the ad and go, if I buy that hoodie, I'll be that beautiful and purchased. If I see an old video game I played as a child during happier times, I'll go, ooh, that game will take me back to a happier time. Let me spend $300 on it on eBay, and I feel nothing after I've played it. Maybe the same way I feel nothing after certain supplements I take. We talked to you. We shared what we're taking, if any of it even works, as we got into supplements on Behind the Curtain. We actually might need to talk to an old friend of ours, Kath. She's a Twitter follower. She says she works in the supplements industry. She's sometimes a little too honest with people and tells them that they don't have to take all those things that are popular on social from influencers. Unless a doctor is telling you to take something, you only need the basic three, multivitamin, probiotic, and a fish oil. And a fish oil. Fish oils. They just give me like grouper burps.
SPEAKER 04 : 2:02
I think they fix that, though. I don't think you get the burp so bad anymore. There's different kinds now.
SPEAKER 07 : 2:07
I would burp up hot bass. Just the big ones that are really, really large. Plus, I need a fish oil that isn't the size of a five, five, six round. Some of those things, they're gigantic. Like, I got to eat the thing with a fork and knife. Yeah, 410-338-1098. Let's jump to the phones here real quick. Talk to our friend Dan. Dan, good morning. Daniel.
SPEAKER 19 : 2:33
Hey, morning, guys. Morning. What's up, Dan? Hey, it's actually Ben.
SPEAKER 07 : 2:37
Okay, Ben. Ben, okay.
SPEAKER 19 : 2:40
Yeah. What are you taking? Oh, I only use Jocko Fuel. Are you talking about Jocko Willink? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I review everything on my website, addictedtothepump.com.
SPEAKER 07 : 2:54
Hell yeah. It's my new homepage.
SPEAKER 09 : 2:56
What's Jocko?
SPEAKER 07 : 2:57
He's a former United States Navy SEAL. He's an influencer. He teaches people about the similarities between being a SEAL and being a business person. Super intense. You've never seen a jawline like this guy. The jaw is just... Oh, God, look at this guy. Oh, dude, Jocko's intense. I love the guy. He was in SEAL Team 1, 2, 3. Lieutenant Commander.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:18
So what do you take? So Jocko is this guy's brand of stuff.
SPEAKER 19 : 3:24
Yep. I do the joint warfare, the testosterone optimizer, the brain power, which is cognitive ability. And then I also use their protein supplements, which has probiotics.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:35
Damn, they got you, son. They got you hook, line, and sinker on this stuff.
SPEAKER 07 : 3:39
The brain stuff is the stuff I'm curious about because I regularly just walk through a fog and forget my own middle name. And I've never found one of those things. That has made me, I have a legendarily bad memory.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:51
Well, yeah, the most famous one I think would be Alpha Brain, right? Yeah, on it. On it. Isn't that the Rogan one? On it. Yeah, yeah. What's in the brain stuff?
SPEAKER 19 : 4:01
Yeah, if you guys, so I was drinking probably a pot of coffee a day. I got on this brain power. I cut all the caffeine out. I mean, I take two of these things in the morning, and I'm on point for eight hours at work.
SPEAKER 07 : 4:14
I'll be damned if you didn't sell me.
SPEAKER 04 : 4:16
That's it? You're sold? I'm sold, yeah. Which one is it? The Brain Power? The Nootropics? Brain Power, yep. Let's see what we got here. We got Jocko Brain Power. Here we go. Thank you, bud. Stained energy. There it is. Look, there it is. No crash.
SPEAKER 09 : 4:27
No crash. Brain Power. Don't you need to check with a doctor first? Yeah. Shit.
SPEAKER 07 : 4:34
but i mean the stuff that i bought off the dark web and see i mean i got a guy from pyongyang mailing me shark adrenaline in small little cans uh here's what's in this stuff um he's it's i can't say half this wait a minute there's hold on he's still there uh hey i'm sorry you see ben yeah ben yep there's 120 milligrams of caffeine in this stuff
SPEAKER 19 : 4:56
Well, you know, yeah, you got to give or take a little bit here and there.
SPEAKER 07 : 4:59
Well, the way you put it, like I was able to cut out caffeine.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:02
I'm reading here it says 100 milligrams of caffeine, which is not a lot.
SPEAKER 07 : 5:05
That's not even like a cup of coffee. No, a cup of coffee is 60 to 80. 120, that's a significant amount of caffeine. I mean, Celsius are 200, bangs are 300. A cup of coffee, an eight or six or eight ounce cup is like 60 to 80. A buck 20, that's a, you're going to feel that.
SPEAKER 19 : 5:26
Well, yeah, but if you're already drinking, like I said, I was drinking a lot of coffee in the morning. It's easier. You know, it's more convenient. It's a little bit less than, you know, two or three cups of coffee. So it's like it's a supplement, but it still also has the nootropic effect. It has some of the essential vitamins in it that will help you, you know, get that cognitive ability going in the morning.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:48
What do you look like? Are you jacked out of your – are you jacked?
SPEAKER 19 : 5:53
I mean, 6'2", 230. Sold. Muscle? Yeah. What's your bench? I got a little fat there, but I'll keep it. What's your bench?
SPEAKER 18 : 6:06
Probably right around 300. Jesus. For one or for multiple? I could probably get 300 two times on a good day. Impressive.
SPEAKER 07 : 6:15
Impressive. Good for you. Send in some pictures of you topless holding the supplement. Hold it right up in between. I want you to take the supplement and squeeze it between your pecs like a walnut. It's very nice. Thank you, Ben. Elliot, what the hell are you taking?
SPEAKER 05 : 6:30
I take metformin, Justin. Metformin? Yeah, metformin. It's my type of diabetes because it's my type 1, Uncle Scott, and it's my type 1, Josh. And actually, I delivered your packages. They will be coming very soon in the mail, and you both have to unbox it on the next show, okay? I can't wait, man.
SPEAKER 07 : 6:50
Oh, hell yeah, dude. Metformin's actually prescribed by a doctor for diabetes, so I'm not sure. Keep taking it. Keep taking it because I want you around for a long time, pal. You give Shane a kiss for me. Tell Tina I said hello. But yeah, Metformin's more of a thing you get from a doctor because if you don't take it, you could suffer the side effects of it. I'm actually stoked to hear that they've gotten rid of the burps from the fish oil because everyone I ever took, I took the nature made stuff that was, you could usually find it near the pregnancy tests, which got to stick a buy on those things. And the COVID tests in a CVS, they've got that whole wall of yellow. And I look like if I bought one of every one of these things. Right. It would be in a family style possible to eat all of them. You mean to tell me I need to take all of these? There's garlic extract, cranberry extract. There's the ginkgo biloba, the St. John's wort, the magnesium, the niacin powder, stuff like that. I just want to talk to somebody that goes, this is the one that your body's going to hold it on to because Kath said you take a multivitamin. Those are the ones. I took like a Centrum, like an everyday Centrum, and I felt like I was peeing it out. It was orange. JoJo, Ariel, I take a multivitamin, a vitamin C shot, oil of oregano. The hell that? She says she gets delicious Italian burps and echinacea. What does oil of oregano do? I don't know. What does that do? She says she hasn't got sick this school year yet. She teaches elementary school kids or caught the bug that Tim had last week that had him in urgent care three times. Damn, Tim, get over here and nurse from my breast.
SPEAKER 04 : 8:29
So she's convinced that all this stuff she's taking is helping her fend off sickness.
SPEAKER 07 : 8:35
And she's basically working in a triage unit. If you think about all those snotty ass kids that aren't covering their mouths when they cough onto their assignments and then hand it to you covered in vile. I mean, teachers, teachers have to have immune systems like people in countries where they drink water from the Ganges. The amount of crap that's all over those kids?
SPEAKER 04 : 8:55
That's the other big thing now. I just got a text about the mushrooms, the lion's mane and the cordyceps and all that. Is that on? Oh, spores. There you go. Line one. There you go. You're on a shroom train.
SPEAKER 17 : 9:10
Hey, guys. How you doing?
SPEAKER 25 : 9:11
Hey, Alan.
SPEAKER 17 : 9:12
Hey, Alan. You're taking spores? So cordyceps mushroom. It's supposed to be really good for energy and inflammation. That's right. There's a company out of Baltimore called Baltospor. Baltospor.
SPEAKER 04 : 9:28
Get it up here. We'll make a note of that. Baltospor. We might have to get them up here.
SPEAKER 17 : 9:33
Those guys are incredible. He's got a lot of stories about... cancer and fungus being able to help with that but cordyceps is the one i swear by so what do you how do how do you ingest it what form is it a capsule i use a tincture it's a alcohol like a dropper like a dropper on the tongue and what do you put it you put it in a drink or right under the tongue either a celsius or a coffee whatever i'm having that morning do you start clicking and chasing after ellie and joel sorry that's the last of us joke does it taste like anything It's not great. So it's good to dilute and stuff. And it's not a gourmet mushroom. It's not one you'd eat.
SPEAKER 07 : 10:13
The ones that don't taste good are the ones that I'm convinced work better. Yeah, exactly. If it tastes awful, they're like, hey, this is worth it. You got to earn the effects. This tastes like dirt. Go for it.
SPEAKER 04 : 10:23
What do you feel it does for you?
SPEAKER 17 : 10:25
Well, I'm a big guy, but it helps. Height and weight. Height and weight. Height and weight. About 350, six foot. All right. Okay. Damn. That's a big boy. Okay. But yeah, it just boosts your lung function. Like in China, they called it like the elixir of the kidney and lungs or something. I find it good for inflammation. It really works well for that.
SPEAKER 07 : 10:52
All right. I'm on their website.
SPEAKER 04 : 10:54
Well, that's the other thing we're getting a lot of is Eastern medicine versus Western medicine. They say, just look at what they do in China that they've been doing for thousands of years, and then find out the standouts from there, and that's the good stuff. They got Lion's Mane ready-to-fruit grow kits. You can actually grow this stuff. Well, dude, I have a bag of it here. It's that mud coffee, that mud stuff. I think it's called.
SPEAKER 07 : 11:17
called mud i think it's called mud yeah whatever the hell it's called and it's all just ground up cordyceps and mushrooms and stuff and you can drink it i'd drink it if it wasn't for that weird ass wannabe shaman hippie shannon blake yammering on about that crap all the time she's the chick that's got a thousand different things in her face and i'm pretty sure shows her butthole on only fans this uh this this dork right there uh she's going on all i can't i just wherever she talks about it if she's pitching it i won't make a cup I walk in the other direction. Speaks, are you listening to anything coming out of her? No.
SPEAKER 09 : 11:49
Yeah, no, but the nose ring isn't.
SPEAKER 07 : 11:51
Yeah, she can tell me. If she coughed into my mouth, it's got the cure for cancer, and I'd be team tumor. 410-338-1098. Let's jump to the phones here. Let's see who's on line two. Is this Gary? This is Gary. Gary. Gary, what are you taking?
SPEAKER 10 : 12:08
Well, it's my wife. She's Irish and Danish, so she's got white skin, and the doctor prescribed her vitamin D. So she started taking that a lot, and now she's tan. Wait, what? Hold on.
SPEAKER 04 : 12:20
Vitamin D replaced to make you tan, huh?
SPEAKER 10 : 12:22
What's it, melanin? It allows you to absorb the sun. Yeah. So instead of getting sunburned, now she's tan. Wow. What the hell?
SPEAKER 07 : 12:32
Yeah, I'm taking vitamin D, too. Huh?
SPEAKER 10 : 12:35
She's Irish and Danish. There's nothing whiter than that.
SPEAKER 07 : 12:38
I was going to say, yeah, she's the king of the Caucasians. Pretty white. I thought it was melanin was the stuff in skin. I always mix it up with melatonin, which makes you feel nice. But melanin is the thing that gives color to skin, hair. Like, if I would not mind, Will is a gentleman of color. Yes. Would it be racist or culturally appropriating if there was a melanin supplement out there that I could darken myself? Not going to take too many and end up in the movie Soul Man from the 80s. I'm just a dude acting as a dude. I'm a dude. Oh, my God. So we got a neighborhood update about Josh Spiegel and particularly his neighbor's opinions of him or maybe their theories about him. You see, it's Josh's busy season right now. His busy season is usually from January 1st of the year until December 31st. And he takes his trash cans down, and maybe, maybe, just maybe, the trash cans stay out there for a couple of extra days. Well, he comes to find out some of the trash cans are being brought up the driveway to his house. He finds out who it is. He sees the individual, and we begin to theorize in this break, do they think he's enfeebled, incapable, his legs don't work, he needs in-home care, and this woman is taking it upon herself? In the break coming up, you're going to hear exactly who it is, some of our theories behind it. I still would like to get a follow-up with her. I'm not sure how comfortable he'd be. Josh is home right now in his basement opium den. But I want to find out exactly who this lady is. I wouldn't mind getting her on the phone. Find out why she's taken it upon herself to be his de facto trash can caregiver and drag these things up the way. Is she OCD? Is she a real... I don't know, meddling maud? Or does she feel bad for the man that she might think is enfeebled? Josh Spiegel's neighbors, sort of without saying it, reveal what they think about him on Behind the Curtain. Today's trash day. I forgot to take mine down. My trash can is full. My driveway is going to stink. Son of a bitch. Well, Spieg's let it slip that occasionally he'll take his trash down. The trash will be collected. And he's had a long day, okay? He's fighting the good fight around here. He gets in. He's tapped. He's got no energy left. He leaves the cans down at the end of the drive. Okay. Maybe for a few days. Tuesday turns into Wednesday. Wednesday turns into Thursday. Well, recently he's been coming home and the cans are back up at the house. Now, you've either got a really over-eager can-do garbage man that says, I love this guy's product. I listen in the truck. I'll bring his cans back to the house. Or you can have happen what Josh saw happen. Can Nick guess?
SPEAKER 06 : 15:21
Who do you think is bringing the cans up?
SPEAKER 03 : 15:23
Who do you think is bringing the cans up? Probably, I would guess, a, you know, very involved neighbor. Okay, break it down.
SPEAKER 06 : 15:33
What kind of neighbor? If you were doing a police description of this neighbor.
SPEAKER 03 : 15:38
Okay, all right. I'd have to say probably a mother. Okay, okay. You're getting close. Maybe in the 40 to 50 range with a AJ Styles soccer-like haircut. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER 06 : 15:49
Wow. Like a Karen.
SPEAKER 07 : 15:50
Yeah. He is closer than we should. Very close. Honestly. Honestly. Okay, you've basically nailed it. You're within 20 years. Except this woman is clearly 70 years old. Josh is sitting there. He hears a rustling out front. This Oldsmobile dreadnought pulls up. This old lady gets out and one at a time pulls his cans up the driveway, gets back in the car, and drives off to drive the car clean through the front door of a coffee shop. And Josh is hypothesizing again what?
SPEAKER 09 : 16:25
That she just wanted to help. That she thinks that I'm a feeble person. I can't do it myself.
SPEAKER 07 : 16:36
Josh seems to think that this lady sees these cans there at the end of the driveway when everyone else has put theirs away and goes, well, there's clearly someone physically incapable in this house. They've got the FDR wheelchair. They're constantly wearing the quilt over their knees. Their food needs to be real soft.
SPEAKER 06 : 16:54
Real soft.
SPEAKER 07 : 16:55
Ain't chewing nothing.
SPEAKER 06 : 16:57
Now, Josh, how do you feel about this person, too? Are you cool with, like, it keep happening? I think it's great.
SPEAKER 09 : 17:03
I'm appreciative. Nice.
SPEAKER 06 : 17:05
It gives her something to do. Keeps her active.
SPEAKER 09 : 17:08
I think there are still good people in the world. Are you familiar with this person? No, I've never seen her before in my life.
SPEAKER 03 : 17:14
So you're not even quite sure if she lives in the neighborhood.
SPEAKER 09 : 17:17
No. She has to, I think, I assume.
SPEAKER 07 : 17:21
The next time she does it, you should just pop open the window and yell, You're all sick! And then see if she continues to.
SPEAKER 03 : 17:28
I hope she keeps doing it.
SPEAKER 06 : 17:29
Get your hands off my can!
SPEAKER 03 : 17:31
I think it'd be really funny if next time you looked out the window and she was dragging your trash back, you should open the window and go, Can you drag the recycling around? Hey, I got some dishes need doing.
SPEAKER 07 : 17:40
I put chores around the house. Dude, leave a chore list.
SPEAKER 06 : 17:46
Leave a chore list out there. Put a ladder up against your gutters.
SPEAKER 07 : 17:49
Just leave a rake and two gloves perfectly laid out. Have you ever thought about inquiring as to who she could be? Maybe hopping in the Jones Nissan Murano and maybe driving around the neighborhood to find the car?
SPEAKER 09 : 18:00
I should do that. When I finally got a peek, I was looking out my window like a cat, a curious cat, waiting for a mouse. Or a squirrel. And instead of a squirrel, I saw an old woman.
SPEAKER 07 : 18:17
I guess I'll be the one to do it.
SPEAKER 06 : 18:19
Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 : 18:19
Hey, could you sick farfel on her?
SPEAKER 06 : 18:22
Is that a thing? Will Farfel attack?
SPEAKER 09 : 18:24
No, he wouldn't attack the woman. Get him, baby! Or a man he would attack.
SPEAKER 07 : 18:32
When I bought my home, my old homeowners left a bunch of stuff in my shed. And what they left me were three, I've never really used them except for light yard work, very light, flimsy, just like from Ace Hardware generic brand trash cans. And they're thin, plastic, and they don't hold up very well. And they're just tucked in my corner. I want to leave out an absurd amount of trash cans, like nine to 12 trash cans. Just each week, start adding an additional can. Just see how much we can get this woman to really do the job. Social experiment. Just to see how much she's willing to do before she drives by. Overwhelm her. Yeah. She's just bent over like... Then you catch a body. She tips over in the driveway. Or have a clearly comically large trap set up with a box and a stick. And underneath of it's a trash can. And you're hiding in the bushes very easily seen with a rope. Like, come on. Pre-dig a grave next to your driveway.
SPEAKER 09 : 19:35
We went through the possible options, the motives behind this for her. And one thing I thought was maybe she's angry. If the person who lives here is not going to do it, I'll have to do it myself.
SPEAKER 06 : 19:49
That's a level of suburban OCD. I don't think she's whistling doing this.
SPEAKER 07 : 19:56
This is great. Hooray! I'm getting my steps in today. I can jump and I can kick. Actually, my mom would do that and be glad to do it. My dad was known to anger mow a yard. We had neighbors on one side that would really let their yard sort of Pandora into ours, and he would mow into theirs quite a bit. My dad kept a pretty decent front yard. Backyard was a mess. But he would anger mow theirs. So this might be that, where you're just like, I'm driving home. My cans are up. This poor guy who clearly lost his limbs in the war can't come out and get it done. Yeah. I think you should start to try and triangulate. You should, in the middle of the night, leave cans in front of her house.
SPEAKER 03 : 20:35
You should take her cans from the back of her house and put it out front.
SPEAKER 06 : 20:39
Hey, cut her brake lines, Josh. Okay, that's a little much. We're going to prank her.
SPEAKER 07 : 20:44
Good. Oh, it's my friend Josh again. I think I'll... It just drives right through the front door. Hey, speaking of your neighborhood, does your one neighbor still have the gigantic garage door with the Ukrainian flag?
SPEAKER 09 : 21:01
I have a neighbor who... They were doing their part. Yeah, they painted their garage door the Ukrainian colors. But then they repainted it. They repainted the whole house. But they do have a Ukrainian flag out front.
SPEAKER 03 : 21:15
Sure. I'm sure that helps.
SPEAKER 09 : 21:17
That's a Ukrainian flag.
SPEAKER 03 : 21:19
I'm sure the whole nation felt the effects of that. And turn the tide.
SPEAKER 07 : 21:22
It's like one of those very effective front yard political signs. Like, oh, no, I was going to vote for him. I saw a sign. I respect their opinion. Love, compassion, and hope. What's banned in your house? Now I'm having quite a bit of fun. Maybe one of those things is true. We got a very cool email, excuse me, actually written invitation, and then an email follow-up. Forever to attend a birthday party coming up midway through November. And at the bottom of the invitation, there was a funny but somewhat serious, hey, thanks for coming over to the birthday party. We're so glad for you to be there. When it comes to gifts, no slime, no glitter. It's banned in the house. And immediately I thought to myself, well, this is somebody that I want to be friends with because that crap is banned in my house. Now, keep in mind, much less the criminal element that still do drugs and still purchase guns and still human traffic. Sometimes laws are ignored. And in my house, laws are ignored because recently I found fresh slime. That's right. We'll talk about all the things coming up that are banned in your houses. Everything from discussion topics to shoes to types of food and what have you. But sometimes laws are meant to be broken. And in my house, it sounds like the kids have no fear of me because I found a big, gross green container full of slime. So I did what every parent should do. And that's lob its ass in the trash can immediately. And now I'm just waiting. The clock's ticking for them to come up and go, oh, did you find a green container under my bed? And I go, yeah, I did. And I Kobe Bryanted that son of a bitch right into the trash can. You should have never had that slime back in the house. Dad decreed it. We talked amongst ourselves and to you about stuff that's banned in the house on Behind the Curtain. what the hell was banned in your home i'm getting a few messages about that people that have pet allergies do you have a friend with dogs that friend is they're staying outside uh cat allergy anybody covered in cat dander front yard dad wouldn't let him in uh now this is one i think this is pretty common rodney good morning pal Certain topics. Oh, yeah. Topics of conversation. No politics, no religion. Yep. Said any and all political talk. Don't care what side of the aisle you're on. We didn't want to hear it. We'll get shut down in a minute. The minute you start bringing up, hey, did you see the convention?
SPEAKER 04 : 23:49
No. No. Shut up. Not doing it.
SPEAKER 07 : 23:51
Shut up. Shut up. No. Million other things to talk about. I love him, but the minute that Pete starts flapping his gums about that in the middle of a game of Warhammer Space Marine 2, I'm like, let's just... Let's just talk about the bolt rifle and the fact that you can counter enemy attacks and gut them with a chainsaw sword. 410-338-1098. Wow, this is a specific one. I'd love to hear the reason. Justin, good morning. What's banned in the home?
SPEAKER 21 : 24:17
Good morning. So what's banned in my house is Cool Whip. Cool Whip? Really? Yes. So a little back story. So when I was two years old, my dad was watching me, took a nap. My mom was out. And so I went into the fridge, took Cool Whip, had it all over the couch. Took the cushions off the couch, had it in the cushions, everything.
SPEAKER 07 : 24:39
You put on a nice layer.
SPEAKER 21 : 24:41
I am 34 years old, and it's still banned to this day.
SPEAKER 07 : 24:46
Damn, dude. And you were how old when you put on a base coat of Cool Whip? Two. Two? I think you try it again. I think you're responsible enough to not bathe in Cool Whip. I think it's time to sit down with the family and say, hey, the chaise, the love seat. It's safe. What am I doing with this dry-ass pumpkin pie? Come on.
SPEAKER 25 : 25:06
What am I doing here?
SPEAKER 07 : 25:08
We're bareback in pumpkin pie? Come on now. This is the year. Amazing. Just show up with one of them giant tubs of it. The biggest one you could get. Go to Costco and drop a hunch on a 55-gallon drum oven and then emerge from it like a whore. Okay, this one should be in my house considering the cleanup at the end of the season. John, what's banned in the house?
SPEAKER 16 : 25:32
Christmas tinsel. You know, that individual string. Yes, yes, yes.
SPEAKER 07 : 25:36
Oh, well. I know the stuff that's like a... Well, Justin, you had two cats also. Dude. Okay, remember the story? The cats and the tinsel. Remember the story about the tinsel? That I had to chase the cat around because it was coming out of its ass? There was tinsel hanging out of its bucket. Oh, yeah. And I had to chase it, and I had to grab it, and it was anchored in something, and the cat's like... As I try and pull like a champagne popper. Yeah, tinsel. Tinsel sucks. I will do the big string, the long one, like a boa, like a feather boa thing that I can then wrap back up.
SPEAKER 04 : 26:10
Yeah, I know that.
SPEAKER 07 : 26:11
But the one to John's.
SPEAKER 04 : 26:12
The individual strands.
SPEAKER 07 : 26:13
F that. It does look good, though, doesn't it?
SPEAKER 04 : 26:14
It looks cute. Light hits it.
SPEAKER 07 : 26:16
Oh, the light just dances off of it. It really does. It really, really does. Thank you, John. Excellent call. Oh. This is a spooky one. Let's turn this down and turn up the creepy. Let's talk to John. John, what's banned in the house?
SPEAKER 20 : 26:32
When I was a kid growing up, my dad wouldn't let us have a Ouija board in the house.
SPEAKER 04 : 26:36
Wow. Now the Ouija board was invented in Baltimore.
SPEAKER 20 : 26:41
It's his way of parent controls, man, but we snuck one in the house one time. during a sleepover with my sister's friends, and he had a fit, man, threw it out and everything.
SPEAKER 04 : 26:51
Rock and roll. Was he afraid of spirits?
SPEAKER 20 : 26:54
I guess. I don't know, man. It was back in the 60s and 70s, so I don't know what was going on.
SPEAKER 07 : 26:59
I was going to say, if it was like the 80s during the satanic panic era, where there was satanic cults sacrificing local pets, never once happened. Open up a gateway to hell. Exactly.
SPEAKER 20 : 27:10
We had Charlie Manson back there. What more did he need? God.
SPEAKER 07 : 27:14
Hey, come on. Trying to contact Nana. Trying to connect with me.
SPEAKER 04 : 27:18
Well, there's always a yes or a no. So you would go.
SPEAKER 20 : 27:21
I don't know. Maybe my dad had a pass he didn't want to bring back up.
SPEAKER 04 : 27:24
Put your hands on it and it would be like yes or no. You go, is Joe Stamboni's penis small? See? Oh, my God, it's moving. Oh, my God, it's moving. I'm not moving it. Stop moving it. You're moving it. I'm not moving it. You're moving it. You're clearly moving it. It's going over to no. It's going over to no. It's moving back. It's moving back.
SPEAKER 05 : 27:43
It's moving back. Oh, my God. Yes. Oh, my God. Joe has a tiny penis. He has the tiniest penis. Oh, grandma.
SPEAKER 07 : 27:52
I didn't move. Did you move? I wasn't moving. I didn't even touch it, dude. I was floating my fingers above it. Joe's got a tiny penis. Even Satan thinks you have a small penis. Yeah, I love playing around with a Ouija board. Dude, Rory Scovel has a joke for his next special. I probably shouldn't give this up, but it's about his father asking for a Ouija board on his deathbed so he can give everybody his new number. That's pretty funny. This is how you contact me tomorrow. Let's go to Kathy on line 5, 410-338-1098. We're asking you, much like slime, much like glitter, much like shoes in certain households, what the hell is banned in your house, Kathy?
SPEAKER 13 : 28:32
Really? Was it a sugar shot? Wait, hold on. Just Hostess? Well, anything, like Little Debbie's, anything like that.
SPEAKER 04 : 28:49
Junk food. So just junk food.
SPEAKER 13 : 28:51
No sweet cereal, no Captain Crunch, no anything like that. And that carried with me into adulthood. And I was walking through the store one day when I was in my 40s. Don't do it. God, I would really, really like some of that. And then I'm like. I'm a freaking adult. I can buy this now.
SPEAKER 04 : 29:09
Did you? Did you buy it?
SPEAKER 13 : 29:11
And I did. What'd you get? What'd you buy? The cupcakes, the chocolate cupcakes.
SPEAKER 04 : 29:18
And were they everything you dreamed they'd be? No. Yeah, they're not. Yeah.
SPEAKER 13 : 29:23
They're not that great. You know what could happen? I just never had them in our house.
SPEAKER 07 : 29:26
Did you have the friend? Oh, she had them. You just couldn't have them in the house. Yeah, you'd have friends that would have the snack house.
SPEAKER 04 : 29:33
Oh, that's right.
SPEAKER 07 : 29:34
You'd go to the friend's house. Go to the snack house. Yes! The one mom that was divorced and was trying to make the kids happy, so you'd go into the pantry and gushers, Doritos, combos, Funyuns, Hostess, Mike and Ike's, tubs of M&M's, go crazy to sleep over.
SPEAKER 04 : 29:47
So you wouldn't have it at your house, but when you went over to your friend Jane's house, you just went ham.
SPEAKER 07 : 29:52
Hell yeah.
SPEAKER 13 : 29:54
Yep, yep, that was it.
SPEAKER 07 : 29:56
Very nice. Well, hey, you probably lived, frankly, you probably lived a better life. Probably.
SPEAKER 13 : 30:02
Probably.
SPEAKER 07 : 30:02
Are you chubby?
SPEAKER 13 : 30:03
Well, I'm 50, and I'm still looking good.
SPEAKER 07 : 30:05
I was going to say, are you chubby?
SPEAKER 13 : 30:07
No.
SPEAKER 07 : 30:08
See? Damn it. I'm out. No. No cupcakes. No ho-hos. No ding-dongs. I like them fluffy. Hey, curiously, are you over the age? You said 50. You're over 45?
SPEAKER 13 : 30:19
I am over 45. I'm 60. Have you?
SPEAKER 07 : 30:21
Have you? Oh, she's married. Well, how about this? Get a brief divorce and sign up for Kirk and Marianne's, the golden hookup. They're looking for a woman, 45 and older. And you kind of sound like, just ask the husband. Can you just enter? All right. We'd love to see. Listen to that laugh. Are you happily married?
SPEAKER 13 : 30:42
I'm very happily married. But I can find somebody for that hookup. Hey. I will pass the word.
SPEAKER 04 : 30:47
You're 60. How old's your husband? 53. I'm sorry, what?
SPEAKER 1 : 30:52
53?
SPEAKER 04 : 30:52
53, yes. Wow, look at you. You got a younger man. Of course. Damn, he must be looking good.
SPEAKER 07 : 31:03
You know the same number you called. You can also text photos, too. And we encourage you to take advantage of that feature.
SPEAKER 04 : 31:08
Can I ask one more question? It's a personal question.
SPEAKER 13 : 31:13
You can ask. I don't know if I'll answer.
SPEAKER 04 : 31:17
How often is he knocking the bottom out of that?
SPEAKER 13 : 31:20
Enough.
SPEAKER 07 : 31:22
Is that like monthly? Monthly. Where are we at? Come on, give us a little more. I'm good on the winter solstice each year.
SPEAKER 13 : 31:28
What's that personal marriage?
SPEAKER 07 : 31:31
All right, Kathy.
SPEAKER 13 : 31:31
That is my voice.
SPEAKER 07 : 31:34
All right. Good for you, too.
SPEAKER 13 : 31:35
Good for you. He's 45 and older for you guys.
SPEAKER 07 : 31:38
Proud of you, Kathy. Good for him. You give him a peck. You just give him a peck right on the... for us. Just right on the side of his... from your boys. The next time you perform your wifely duties, I want you to look right up at him and go, this is from Josh.
SPEAKER 11 : 31:54
Right before... Josh says... Josh says...
SPEAKER 07 : 32:02
Please start doing that and filming your husband's reactions. Let's go to the phones. This is absolutely allowed in Joe's house, but not in Elliot's. Elliot, good morning.
SPEAKER 05 : 32:13
Good morning, Justin. Good morning, Josh. Good morning, Uncle Scott. Welcome back. Good morning. Hey, Elliot. Elliot. I love cats.
SPEAKER 07 : 32:21
Wait, wait. Hold on, Elliot.
SPEAKER 09 : 32:23
Hold on one second. Josh wants to tell you something. Yes. Thank you for the gift you sent. I got it.
SPEAKER 05 : 32:27
He got a beautiful book. You're welcome, Josh. My cousin wrote that book. Shout out to my cousin, Mark Hendricks. He's a really special father. He is a great father to Liliana and Adrian. I want a big shout out to my cousin, Mark. I love you, Mark. I love you, Angie. And I love you all. And happy Halloween, Josh. And Justin, are you enjoying Street Fighter 4? I got a copy of Street Fighter.
SPEAKER 07 : 32:52
Street Fighter IV on the Xbox 360 in an awesome card that you drew to make yourself look like Ash from Army of Darkness. And it is currently hanging up in my office. And I took that copy of Street Fighter IV home with me. And I'm going to beat my stepson's ass in it this weekend.
SPEAKER 05 : 33:05
Oh, and Uncle Scott, Uncle Scott, did you really love that picture of Kono from Demon Slayer as Jason Voorhees? Yes, of course I loved it. What's not to love? What's not to love? You got to love Atari because Josh loves Atari.
SPEAKER 04 : 33:21
Hell yeah, he does, man. That's what he had back when he was a kid. This kid grew up playing pong. Elliot, what's not allowed in your house?
SPEAKER 05 : 33:29
Well, cats. There was this cat named Loretta. Oh, man. She's my neighbor's cat, but I sometimes look at her and I'll just say, okay, come on, Loretta. And then this one time, years ago, there was another cat by the name of Willie. And one time... He went into the house, and I was like, you crazy little bastard. You crazy little bastard. He snuck in. He was a good little cat. God rest your soul. God rest little Willie.
SPEAKER 07 : 33:56
Little Willie. God rest little Willie. We definitely had a cat in my house growing up. We had a little cat my dad named Blackie because it was all black. And we would feed it. And I'm pretty convinced it was another neighbor's pet that just sort of half hung out. And that's the only reason he called it that. And there was another cat that once snuck into the house alongside that little angel. And, you know, he'd let you pet him. And one day the cat brought a friend over into the house. And my dad was not there. And we let that cat in. And it went immediately into my brother's room and proceeded to spray. Oh! Everywhere, all over the dresser and the floors and the walls.
SPEAKER 04 : 34:37
Wait, when you fix, do both, I have a lot of questions. Do both male and female cats spray? You don't even know?
SPEAKER 07 : 34:46
I don't know.
SPEAKER 04 : 34:47
And if you fix a cat, does that stop them from spraying? Again, good questions. Joe, back me up here.
SPEAKER 08 : 34:54
I believe only male cats spray. Okay. And if you get them fixed early enough, then... Will it stop it? Yeah, I think it'll stop it.
SPEAKER 07 : 35:04
This is mine now! And when they spray it, it shoots really far, doesn't it? It's like when you put your thumb over a hose and it was awful. My brother's room had to be aired out for days. Yeah, the fox situation's getting bad in the neighborhood. You hear coming up, I basically put out the call. What can I do? I have foxes in my neighborhood. Scott earlier in the week was theorizing, because I'm seeing them during the day, they might be feral. They're a nocturnal creature. But we started talking to you. We talked to a neighbor. We talked to some people that are also dealing with it on their farms and their neighborhoods. Some of them might be feral, yes, or maybe rabid. But it's the fact that We're just feeding the things and encroaching on their territories or maybe taking selfies with them from the back deck. They're not scared of us anymore. Instead of them coming out during the day only if they have to or if their brains have gone rotten, now you get some miserable old bat whose husband died 14 years ago, and she's just leaving cat treats and lasagna like it's a Fox version of Garfield off the back deck, and they go, screw it, 2 o'clock in the afternoon, sun shining overhead, old Esther's going to feed us well, so they come out. The issue I'm having is that they're chasing and like barking, howling at my daughter when she walks to school to where our friend's parent is now driving her to school from time to time. You hear them in the middle of the night. Pets are getting snatched up and you hear one of my neighbors call in. He has a very medieval ass solution, deadly and silent. Let's just say I might start cosplaying as Daryl from The Walking Dead after you hear this. Coming up, we discuss what the hell to do about the Fox situation in my neighborhood on Behind the Curtain. I got a real bad Fox problem, but I got a real damn fine neighbor. We're going to jump to him now. This guy's got a son that one day you're going to see, possibly in the offensive line of the Baltimore Ravens or the Washington Commanders. Who knows? But he's as powerful as he is sweet. Love you, Cameron. Don. Don, what's up, dude? Hey, what's up, man? This is my neighbor. He lives down the street, okay? He's got a great son, awesome wife. He has ketchup and mustard Mustangs.
SPEAKER 01 : 37:10
It's awesome.
SPEAKER 07 : 37:11
He basically built his own house. But he is in the neighborhood, so he can attest to what I'm saying. We got a Fox situation going on right now, right?
SPEAKER 12 : 37:20
Oh, there is no doubt, dude. I work at people's houses all around our neighborhood, all the way into Arnold. And they literally, usually if you have a shed, you will have a family of foxes living under your shed.
SPEAKER 07 : 37:33
Yeah, that's when I mentioned Mudge's mother in the morning. She would watch them play like this mom and her little pups running around. When you go outside, they would scurry under the shed. And that's where they'd live. What is with them coming out during the day? Because they're coming out nonstop now. The way that I should one day when I'm honest about who I am sexually.
SPEAKER 12 : 37:52
Because it's the same as any other thing we're doing. Same with the deer, right? I mean, there's just so much building and construction. There's nowhere for them to go. So they're changing their habitat, man. They're starting to feed during the day and at night whenever they can.
SPEAKER 09 : 38:07
This is completely blowing my mind. I am learning a lot. Seriously.
SPEAKER 07 : 38:12
This guy, Don, he's what we call a learned man. This is crazy. Are you also hearing rumors on that almost insufferable community Facebook page of ours that every July 3rd, some widow has to go, did someone hear gunshots? It's a firework, you hen, that there are people in the neighborhood that are feeding these things.
SPEAKER 12 : 38:35
That's another issue I was about to tell you. People think it's great to feed them, and it's not, obviously. And another thing is that's why you use a crossbow.
SPEAKER 07 : 38:45
Oh, hell yeah. Talk to me, Daryl. To feed him? Feed him a bolt. Feed him a bolt to the mouth. Hey, I mean, I know Cam, your son, Gavin's friend. I mean, the kid probably deadlifts 400. He probably reps 225 for 10. He's pushing over 700 pounds with his legs now.
SPEAKER 12 : 39:02
Dude, he's leg-pressing 700 pounds?
SPEAKER 07 : 39:09
He's 16? With his legs, yeah. God, he's going to be in the NFL. But if your boy was getting chased by one of these things, I mean, are you reaching for the crossbow? Are you reaching for the axe?
SPEAKER 12 : 39:22
Baseball bat, depending on what's closest. But something the size of Cameron is actually too big. Now, they will go after your dog, your cat, a small child, but they have limitations. Someone as big as you or Cameron or myself, They're not afraid of you, but they're not going to go after you. They're going to stay there. They're not going to run. Wild, man. But they're not going to go after you. You're too big. Don, you're taking over the neighborhood.
SPEAKER 07 : 39:49
Julie are the best. Everybody should be so lucky to have a Don and Julie in a camera in their neighborhood. Thank you, pal. I appreciate the chicken.
SPEAKER 20 : 39:54
Appreciate you, man.
SPEAKER 07 : 39:55
All right, there he goes. Give Julie a hug.
SPEAKER 06 : 39:57
Do you have any callers that are pro-Fox? Any pro-Fox callers? Don't you dare. There was a woman I saw, Jessica. Jessica, call back.
SPEAKER 07 : 40:04
Is Julie his wife? Julie's his wife. Yes. Beautiful, beautiful woman. Let's talk to a guy here that might have some insight on what they hate, something that might deter them. Reggie the Trucker. Reggie, good morning.
SPEAKER 11 : 40:16
Good morning, y'all. Good morning, Tommy. Can I tell you something real quick? I rescued a cat recently, and I named him after you, Tommy. His name's Simbazo. And last night, I'm like, Simbazo, get off my armoire. Anyway.
SPEAKER 06 : 40:27
Mm-hmm. Anyway, that's actually my family crest or credo.
SPEAKER 07 : 40:33
What are the foxes? What deters the foxes?
SPEAKER 11 : 40:38
Well, I don't know if you guys know this, but they hate techno music. Okay. And especially Danish techno music. My father taught me that. And, yeah, I have speakers on the outside of my house and all night.
SPEAKER 07 : 40:53
Oh, my God. Reggie the trucker breathing in the fumes of the truck in front of him. Yeah, I'm not sure if I'm going to bump like in the middle of the night, like around the clock. Some poor foxes out there screaming. The foxes are out there doing lines. They're doing Molly. They're just loving it, getting down. Loving it. Thank you, Reggie. Let's go to Mike on line six. Mike, good morning. What do I do about the fox situation? Miguel.
SPEAKER 06 : 41:21
Mike?
SPEAKER 14 : 41:21
Mike? Oh, God. The fox is coming. I'm sorry. I had you on mute. Ah, there you go. Welcome. So there are these things out there called automatic BB guns.
SPEAKER 1 : 41:33
What?
SPEAKER 07 : 41:33
Like a turret?
SPEAKER 14 : 41:35
No, like you can go out and buy actual AK-47 or MP-40 style BB guns, and they're automatic. So if you really want to get around the legal situation of this, And just say, hey, I was shooting my BB gun in my backyard. Okay. Come across.
SPEAKER 07 : 41:56
And you could just light this thing up with one of these. That's what the old guy up the street does. He's got an airsoft gun. I wouldn't mind. I mean, I think it'd be pretty easy to make a BB gun turret. Yeah, something that's just automated and just tracks by motion.
SPEAKER 06 : 42:07
Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 : 42:08
Like that deleted scene from Aliens or something?
SPEAKER 06 : 42:10
You could just control it from your ring camera. Like, yes, target. And then...
SPEAKER 07 : 42:14
And you could just pilot it with the thing?
SPEAKER 06 : 42:16
Yeah. If Evan's getting bullied, you could just target.
SPEAKER 07 : 42:18
Oh, boy. I can't wait for his first bully. I'm going to turn that kid into my hobby. I'm going to absolutely play the long game on that child. The revenge will culminate when that child is in their 40s. It's going to be real bad. Everything I can do to turn their life inside out. And no, to Jessica, who I'm pretty sure has a Baltimore, actually, I like it sticker on her forester. I'm not just looking to kill foxes for fun. They're chasing children. They're like crapping in the yard and they're hunting my neighbor's dog. Our friend Sydney writes, foxes are super smart, difficult to catch. You got to call animal control. They are known to sometimes even befriend dogs before turning on them oh so they'll make you think that they're your buddy and then the next thing you know they put a knife in the things back oh my god and friends close enemies closer that's how those kids stole my transformers when i was like eight sorry let's go to john online for john good morning good morning guys good morning josh morning you got a trap i can borrow
SPEAKER 22 : 43:24
Yeah, so I have a buddy, he has his furbearer permit, but he doesn't always kill all the foxes that he hunts at night. He uses a trap that, it works on more than just foxes, but it's called an atesta trap. What's it called?
SPEAKER 07 : 43:38
And a taste of trap. A taste of trap? A taste of what? A taste of these nuts! Gotcha. We had to. I mean, honestly, he was on hold for a little while, and we had to get a taste of... These nuts!
SPEAKER 05 : 43:52
Okay.
SPEAKER 07 : 43:53
It's always worth a good one. Thank you, John. Let's talk to... Oh, Matt's got to deal with these things. Speaks, this dude's got a farm. You live or work on a farm, Matt?
SPEAKER 15 : 44:03
I grew up on a farm, and I live next door to it. My sister bought it for my parents. Very cool. I'm the tenant slave working for my sister. All right. Growing up on the farm and having chickens and whatnot, foxes are very, they call it flies of fox, but gentlemen, we have a new problem out here, coyotes. Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 : 44:21
Oh, my God.
SPEAKER 15 : 44:22
I just want to tell two quick stories. I know we're on the radio, but so April, I'm walking along a trail in Baltimore County. I hear something in the leaves. for about 100 yards, I turn around a freaking coyote. I get out my phone. I videotape it. This guy's staring me down. I had to grab a stick in case he wanted to rumble. He got super close, and finally I was doing the, hey, hey, Andre the Giant. They're going to eat your pets. But also, and then when the northern lights came around a couple weeks ago or whatever, I was up on top of the farm hill, And like 20 coyotes started going off. You can tell the difference between... And where are you? Where's the farm? I... My claim to fame with 98 Rock is I grew up on a farm down the street from Mike Anderson. So I combed Mike Anderson's hair in the dark on acid looking at the sparks when I was a little kid.
SPEAKER 07 : 45:18
Please tell me that's true, that you took elucidogenics and combed Mike Anderson's hair, because that will be the greatest call we've ever had. Also, that didn't answer Josh's question.
SPEAKER 15 : 45:26
It's the greatest call, man. I knew the kid was a killer artist. I'm a couple years older. I'm 45. I think Mike's like maybe 42, 41. I don't know.
SPEAKER 07 : 45:34
He's gained a ton of weight. Have you seen him? He's gotten super big these days. Really let himself go.
SPEAKER 09 : 45:39
So you're in Hartford County? I'm in Hartford County in Darlington.
SPEAKER 07 : 45:45
Josh, please, you continue.
SPEAKER 09 : 45:47
Oh, thank you. The other question, quickly, is what trail were you on in Baltimore County?
SPEAKER 15 : 45:55
So I don't get attacked. I was on the trail along the little gunpowder. Okay.
SPEAKER 1 : 46:00
95.
SPEAKER 07 : 46:01
Got it. Very, very good. All right. Thank you for the call, Matt. Oh, no. Oh, no. There's someone that's going to have a dog that's betrayed. Devin. Devin. Yes, sir. You got a fox that's befriended the dog? Yes. Oh, you got to separate those two.
SPEAKER 16 : 46:18
But I had a fence, right? And they would chase each other back and forth across the fence, like all night long. And I used to feed them all the dead rabbits that the dogs would kill that got in my yard, right? And the boss decided to give me a present and left the head fresh on the pillar of my patio.
SPEAKER 09 : 46:37
Oh, God. These things are a scourge. I have a question. Did this behavior between your dog and the fox start when the fox was a baby?
SPEAKER 16 : 46:50
I'm not really sure. I never got to see the fight close up because, you know, it's dark. It's not rabid. It was out there just playing or whatever. I'm telling you, man, they would play every night. My dog just could not wait to go outside and play with this damn fox.
SPEAKER 09 : 47:04
Well, this morning, I have learned too much. My head is blown. We really need to go home right now. We've got to get out of here.
SPEAKER 07 : 47:13
Joe, we are going to go best of starting at 9. Tell Amelia to hop her butt in here early, and she's going to go ahead and hit us with 40 minutes of commercial-free music for five hours today. Cool? Seriously, I didn't know any of this about foxes. I'm learning all this in real time. I just know that they made sounds at night that sounds like someone being sexually assaulted with a flathead screwdriver.
SPEAKER 06 : 47:34
And that... And they always draw them real sexy.
SPEAKER 07 : 47:36
Yeah, yeah. Hot, sexy cosplay foxes.
SPEAKER 06 : 47:39
I've never seen an ugly fox.
SPEAKER 07 : 47:40
Oh, no, no, no. You get a big... I'm very stupid. Oh, f***. Oh, it's your civic duty. It's your civic duty to when you get called to jury duty to go attend. And we know a lot of us don't want to do it, but Scott went, he did it, lasted a day. Also, learned a couple of things. It used to just be $15 a day, which I'm assuming even decades ago, a paltry amount of pay for a full day's work. But now they've bumped it up to 30. Oh, wow. I'll use that to pay for the parking garage that we were out in front of. So he goes in for a day. He actually recognizes some of our WBAL coworkers downstairs in the training video that teach you about the entire ass process. The person I want to talk to, maybe I'll have Joe revisit this break, is the person that really, really, really wants to be. on the jury. The person that's like, hell yes, it's in the mail. I got it. It's my time to shine. I'll be damned. I get to send somebody to the gas chamber, the electric chair, the firing squad, or maybe just three or four weekends of community service. Those type of people, I'm going to go out on a limb and say they probably get involved in your local homeowners association in the neighborhood if you really want to do that. He went, he came back, he told tales. Scott got jury duty on Behind the Curtain. See that slick-ass baseline? Did you get your hair cut for jury duty? Just in case? No, I got it cut after jury duty.
SPEAKER 04 : 49:09
I wish I would have got it cut before because I looked a little disheveled, which maybe helped my case. You don't want him. He's clearly homeless. Maybe I was a little disheveled. Jury duty yesterday, Towson Courthouse. And Speaks, you've been there, right? You were at the same place? I went to the armory.
SPEAKER 09 : 49:27
Oh, you went to the armory. That's where they picked us. Oh. They didn't pick me, though.
SPEAKER 04 : 49:34
Yeah, I did not get picked, but got up around 7, which was nice. Got to sleep in. You know what I got to experience? A morning. A morning. The hell's a morning? It was very nice. I got up. I made some coffee. I had a shower. I saw my daughter off to school. I stood on my front porch and went, oh, wow, this is what a weekday morning is like.
SPEAKER 23 : 49:56
Dude, dude.
SPEAKER 04 : 49:57
Gross. Got there around 830, parked in a parking garage. I hate parking garages. Holy hell. And a parking garage right there, the one they give you the free parking in, is awful. It is so tiny and so tight. And whoever designed that thing should win an award because he made use of every single inch of that. It was the worst.
SPEAKER 07 : 50:19
Did you have to park yourself or was the guy down there being like, move your car over here? I hate the ones where they guide you in. This is the parking garage. Aircraft carrier.
SPEAKER 04 : 50:28
830 arrival. You go through the metal detector. You're allowed to bring food in. So I brought a peanut butter jelly sandwich, a banana, an apple. You should have brought a crock pot full of stew. And you go through the metal detector and then you go check in. And they scan your jury thing right at the beginning. They give you your money. They say in the envelope is $30 cold, hard cash. Your money's on the nightstand, Hua. So I got $30 cold, hard cash. I got a little pink jury badge. You put that on your shirt. And then you go sit in room number one. And you just kind of sit there for a while. And I think there are close to probably 300 of us. There are a lot of us in there. Were you allowed to have your phone? Yeah, you could have your phone. You could have a book. You could have a laptop. You could have a computer. You just kind of hang out until. So then the woman who's in charge of all of like the jurors, her name was Rachel. Uh, and Rachel is, uh, that's a tough room. Like you're a comic, you know what I mean? And like, you've, you've been in all different types of rooms with all different audiences. If you're in a room full of jurors, like, like Val just said, she doesn't want to go. She doesn't want to be there.
SPEAKER 07 : 51:44
No one wants to be, not no one, but 85% of people ain't into being next. You're walking into a hostel room.
SPEAKER 04 : 51:51
Yeah. So when you're the person in charge of it, it could go, you can get hairy, but she was, uh, incredible. She spelled out exactly. Oh, oh. She do any crowd work? Well, no, they play a movie. They play like a movie about the whole like what jury duty means and how the process works and what's going to happen. You know who you know who you know who who is the people in it are the presenters are. Jason Newton and Debra Wiener. I remember.
SPEAKER 07 : 52:20
Jason Newton and Debra Wiener. I saw that picture yesterday in your story, Scott underscore radio, and I thought you were just watching BAL TV. No. They were in the instructional video?
SPEAKER 04 : 52:28
I am sitting there like, hey, that's my dog.
SPEAKER 07 : 52:30
That's my dog. We got a lot of people, by the way, quick aside, that knew you were off for jury duty. We got so many people kind of in the know. Also, a couple of cops. Shout out to you. They're like, all you particularly needed to do is be like, I'm in the media. And they would send you out of there.
SPEAKER 04 : 52:44
Well, they so then so they sit you down. They play the video a couple of times. Then Rachel comes in and she tells you exactly what's going to happen. She's like, it all happens in this room, which I didn't realize it all happened right there. She goes, the judge is going to come in. The judge's clerk will be with him. The prosecutors will be here, the defense will be here, and the defendant will be in the room. And so they all – and she goes, the case that we're picking a jury for is going to last three or four days. We're hoping to have it wrapped up by Friday. It's a – Double murder case. Oh, hell. Yes. I was like, whoa. Yeah, I was like, this might be interesting. It might have been a murder or double murder. There were two people killed, but I don't know how that works. I'm bummed out about that. I don't know if they were trying him for one of them or both of them. I can't remember. Wow. And they gave his name. And, dude, he was sitting right in the room. And I was like, yo. The accused is right. Yeah. Oh, that's so hot. And I'm like, yo, this just got hairy. Hey, you. This is real deal. Judge Cahill, shout out. That guy is incredible. He runs a tight ship. He's funny. He's engaging. Stop murdering people. He's one of the best judges around from what I hear. Jen, his clerk. Unbeknownst to me, she knew who I was the whole time. And after they had picked a jury and it was all said and done, she like came over to me and she was like shaking my hand and talking to me. So they sit you down and then they ask you a series of questions, right? This is how they weed through the jurors.
SPEAKER 07 : 54:23
Are you gay?
SPEAKER 04 : 54:25
Do you know the prosecutors? Do you know the defendant? Do you know the defense attorney? Do you know anyone in this room? Do you recognize any of the other jurors? Would you have a problem? And if you did, if you said yes to any of the things, you would stand up and you would give them your juror number. And they would write it down and make notes of like, all right, who has a problem with this? Who has a problem with that? They're trying to weed you out. Then if I guess if they really maybe like like someone. Then they would take you into a separate room and do like a little side interview with you. I didn't get a side interview. I didn't get to do all that. I didn't stand for any of the questions either. They had a question like if a police officer testifies, are you going to hold his testimony like to a higher regard because he is a police officer? And part of me was like, you know what? Yeah, probably because, you know, we're... Yeah, we're team cop. We're team cop. So I was like... But I was like, you know what? I'm not going to stand. I'm just going to see what happens. I'm going to see... Ride the wave. I'm going to ride it and just see if I get picked. So then, sure enough, at the end... I don't think I've ever made it this far in the process. Did they pick the jury right then and there in front of you? Yeah. They had 12 seats in the front of the room, and they had three alternates. And they start bringing people up that they've both agreed on, both sides have agreed on. They go, number 32, come on up. Does anyone eject? Does anyone eject? They go, no. All good. All right. You're juror number one. Boom. And you see him. And you see they're number two. Yes. And then the numbers start going. They start going up. Mine was 108. So they had the whole thing full. And I'm like, all right, I'm good to go. But then I guess they have a last minute to reject someone. So they started rejecting people. they go juror 108 i had to walk up to the front of the room and they go is this good for the prosecution they go yep and they go is this good for the defense and i'm like oh god here we go here we go and they go uh no we reject like without prejudice or something like that and i got rejected and i had to go sit back down how good does rejection feel part of me was like i don't know i kind of wanted to get picked and see you let you know go through a murder trial what do you think it was fascinating what do you think it was one of the reasons rejected without prejudice because you didn't say something i think that's what they say they say they they just they got to put that flowery language in it to make you know listen you're fine we like you it's just there's nothing I don't know, but the defense attorney, she had a piece of paper and she kept leaning over to the accused guy and putting the paper up over her face and pointing and asking questions to him. So I guess he had a say in it as well. And between the two of them, they said no to me. And I went and sat back down. So by the end of it, they got their 12. They got the three alternates. So they had 15 jurors. The juror was set up. And then when that was all said and done, I had actually been like – I was like texting during it. I wasn't texting anything about – I don't know what the rules are, but I was just texting like Bruce White from One Promise DUI Counseling. I said, hey, I got jury duty today. He goes, oh, those are my people down there. He goes, where are you at? He goes, I'm in the coffee shop. I'll come see you. So Bruce from One Promise comes down, and he comes into the room, and I stand up. I start talking to him. Then Jen, the clerk, comes over. She starts talking to us. Dude, everybody there listens. Everybody knows the show. Everybody knew who I was. They were all fans. Bruce is like a rock star around there. Judge Cahill was like waving to us. All the clerks were waving to us. Then at the end, the woman, Rachel, came over and she's like, oh, my God. She said, I know you're on the radio. She's like, I'm so sorry. Like, this isn't how it normally runs. And I go, I'm like, what are you talking about? And she goes, well, you know, you guys only got a half hour for lunch and it was like really rushed. And I go, I have nothing to base like this. judge this on? I found it fascinating. I thought it was great. What are you going to do with the $30? I've already spent it on a haircut. But I thought it was a fascinating process. And had I even gotten picked for a murder trial, I think that would have been fascinating as well.
SPEAKER 07 : 58:33
I wonder if this story Josh has reported on I mean, that's what I was doing.
SPEAKER 04 : 58:39
I was like, I was trying to news desk because they say, does anyone have any information about the case? And I was trying to think it was Lansdowne, Maryland in December. Double murder. And I mean, I know the guy's name. I say it. If he's going on trial? Yeah. Yeah, he's charged. Yeah. His name is Michael Devon Eady. Michael Devon Eady. Or Davon, Michael Davon, Davon Eady. And yeah, and I was trying to think. I'm like, man, did Speaks mention anything? I was racking my brain because... They go, if anyone has any knowledge about this case, stand now. And I was like, well, should I stand? You got a lot of knowledge about a lot of cases. I know. That's what I was thinking about. And like you said, I was like, you know, if they did call me into the side room, I might have said, listen, I've been a member of the media in this town for 20 years. I'm a gay man. You know, I know a lot about a lot. I know a lot of people, blah, blah, blah. I did get recognized by a couple of the other jurors. That's a big thing. Like, do you recognize anyone else in the room? Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 : 59:45
But then, oh, and the... People that come over to my house on Sunday to watch football don't recognize me. After this next break, I'm not sure if I'm more or less curious, scared, or enticed to try some of the exotic narcotics out there. We opened up the exotic narcotic lines, and by that we mean none of the traditional stuff. Not just your weeds and your mushrooms and your booze and your coke. We're talking about stuff that you've never even heard of, like... I don't know, MDMA and got Crocodile and other kind of crazy crap out there. Although there was one, and it's been a few hours since I remembered listening to the break. So I'm going to enjoy this break as much as you are. Where it sounded like audio hallucination was the effects of this one particular drug, you took it. And much like LSD or mushrooms or whatever the hell else, you see some things, you feel some things. I guess whatever this stuff is you take, you hear some things. You can see fine, move fine, feel nothing, but you can't tell the difference between voices in your head and the voices outside of it. The only problem was that one of the side effects I do recall of this particular drug, whose name escapes me, was that it could last for days. You see, that's what I don't need, any of these narcotics. It's something that lasts for more than, oh, I don't know, an hour or so, and then I want to get back to the real world. So we talked to you. You gave us one hell of an education about opium and various methamphetamines and stuff made in a trailer park lab as we discussed exotic narcotics on Behind the Curtain. we're talking kind of exotic unique off the beaten path drugs not the weed not the mushrooms not your vodkas of the world not the opiates we're talking the stuff that like you got to watch documentaries about as to how that crap ends up getting made like um would you count ecstasy or molly or is that just that's pretty common though these days
SPEAKER 04 : 61:43
Um, yeah. I mean, I guess, yeah. Well, to Joe's point, like with salvia, it's easily accessible, but it's not common for people to do those. Like, I don't think it's common for someone to do ecstasy. Yeah, it's like the weekend's here. Let's break out the molly. Right. I think it's common for someone to drink alcohol, obviously. I think it's common for someone to smoke some weed. And after that, I think it gets all those like even shrooms could be considered exotic.
SPEAKER 07 : 62:11
Anything like a hallucinatory amount. Yeah. We got some people that are micro dosing, but a micro dose like let's see through our third eye. That's a couple of times a year thing. I mean, speak starts as Monday with a huge eight ball, but that's not everybody. God, there was some other ones up here. Some of these unique drugs. I'm again, some of this stuff I've never heard of. Dragonfly. What the hell's Dragonfly? It sounds made up. It's a drug family that manipulates serotonin to produce hallucinogenic effects. The difference is it's extremely potent. See, this is what I hate here. You smoke a joint, a two, by four or five. You're kind of back to your resting state.
SPEAKER 04 : 62:51
Lasts for hours?
SPEAKER 07 : 62:52
Days. Days. Dragonfly lasts for days. And depending on the amount, seizures, confusion, heart problems, and death has been concerns. Yeah, death is concerning. Dragonfly has earned a reputation in the drug community as being extremely dangerous and scary. And it can be illegally purchased online with a click of a button. Anyone, anywhere, can grab the stuff. Foxy? Methoxy? I feel like these are band names we come up with. It's another hallucinogenic known for... Oh, this is interesting. Okay, so you take your mushrooms, you take your DMTs, and you see some stuff. This is known for auditory psychoactive effects. You take it. I don't know. You smoke it. You drink it. You boof it. You hear stuff.
SPEAKER 08 : 63:42
Wow. What about, what is this, how do you pronounce, cat, cot? Scott, didn't you get some of that stuff? K-H-A-T, cot.
SPEAKER 04 : 63:51
No. K-H-A-T, never heard of it. No? No. I think I had crate them, maybe, at one point.
SPEAKER 08 : 63:59
No, you got something a couple years ago. It was, I can't remember what it was called. Cot? Cot.
SPEAKER 04 : 64:07
No.
SPEAKER 07 : 64:08
Not me, bro. Otherwise known as Quad Arabian Tea. Many believe this truck... This is a funny sentence. Many believe this drug influences terrorism. It's very common in Middle Eastern countries, where in some places, cot, K-H-A-T, is as popular as coffee. It can be chewed or consumed in liquid form. Ingesting in the morning has been known to give a boost in energy. Others says it gives them a sense of invincibility. Oh, hell yeah. Why some members of terrorist organizations consume large quantities before going out on a mission they're not expected to return from. Jesus on his throne.
SPEAKER 04 : 64:50
Somebody says I had a bad LSD trip a couple of months ago. I think it was laced with DMT. Never tripping again. I still smoke plenty of weed, though, so that's fine.
SPEAKER 07 : 65:01
Wow. None of these have enticed me yet.
SPEAKER 04 : 65:03
Has any of these made you curious? I mean, I'm curious about DMT. I've never done that. I think people in the room have done that. I've never done that. I've done shrooms. I enjoy them. I'm fine with that. I don't really want to dance the dance with LSD. That scares me. I've never done cocaine. The foxy methoxy has got me a little curious. Where it just changes what you hear. Ayahuasca is interesting. I mean, you hear all those people that go down. Like a lot of people do those, you know, like vision quest, whatever you call those.
SPEAKER 07 : 65:35
Like a shaman retreat where some dude in a tree house watches over you.
SPEAKER 04 : 65:38
And you go and you drink it and you vomit violently. But then you also kind of. You hear that you can figure some stuff out, maybe come back a little bit adjusted.
SPEAKER 07 : 65:48
You ever want to see a cool story or a unique story about that, the ayahuasca? There was a guy, his nickname was the, what the hell was it? Not the Jersey Devil. Who cares? The Outlaw, Dan Hardy, UFC welterweight, contender, never a champion. But the guy was an absolute maniac in the ring. And he had a couple of fights. And he lost a few of those fights. And it kind of screwed him up. He had a four-fight rip that he lost. And he didn't take it well. He then goes on an ayahuasca journey. Yeah. He describes running through the jungle on all fours like a wolf. He says it felt like days. It came back and changed his chemicals so much, his brain chemicals. He said he could never imagine putting another human in pain or engaging in harm ever again. He never fought again. He came back and was like, nope, I can't believe that I was ever in a state professionally where my job was to hurt a human. It completely, like, locked the door of the old self behind him. It changed his brain chemicals to this day. He did commentary. He did a podcast, as they all do. But never fought again.
SPEAKER 04 : 66:56
Somebody says they've taken mescaline before. Best trip ever. That is from Bob from the Bay.
SPEAKER 07 : 67:03
Let's go to Ted. Ted, I see, to Scott's curiosity, DMT. And I also see sassafras. Sassafras! Yes!
SPEAKER 26 : 67:16
Yeah, it's morning, fellas. Morning. Hello. Morning, Josh Spiegel. Morning. Yeah, sassafras. Very interesting. Actually made from sassafras root. It's kind of like a very dark crystal and very similar high to MDMA. Okay. It basically makes you feel exactly like Molly would, but they like to say it's healthier because it's all natural.
SPEAKER 07 : 67:43
Let me read you some of the effects. Allegedly, you confirm or deny Ted is our sassafras expert. What does it feel like in mild doses? You feel immediate closeness, affection and empathy.
SPEAKER 04 : 67:58
It turns you into a great person. Did you want to give a lot of hugs? Oh, yeah. You're very, very touchy. Yeah. Really? That's the M.D. That's the Molly, all right, the M.D.M.A.
SPEAKER 07 : 68:08
Now, if you increase the effects, it can lead to panic, nausea, poor appetite, or close-eyed visions with jaw clenching and, in extreme cases, liver damage.
SPEAKER 26 : 68:21
Yes, absolutely. You take too much of it, you get what we call the eye wobbles. You can't keep your eyes straight and everything looks like it's vibrating.
SPEAKER 04 : 68:30
You've been there? You've been there too? You had the eye wobbles? Yeah, unfortunately. How many times have you done sassafras? Maybe a handful of times. Where and when and how do you find it?
SPEAKER 26 : 68:42
Mostly festivals. You know, you go to a good rave, somebody will have Fass or Molly.
SPEAKER 04 : 68:49
What kind of festivals are you going to? Like, who's headlining?
SPEAKER 26 : 68:52
You know, all the EDM bands. Back then, when I used to be into that, I wasn't as into the music as I was the drugs. You were just going for the drugs, huh? You were going for the culture, brother.
SPEAKER 07 : 69:02
Hell yeah. Having period sex in a dust storm at Burning Man. Where are you at now?
SPEAKER 04 : 69:07
You still dip back into that culture, or...?
SPEAKER 26 : 69:10
Um, not necessarily the culture. Do take shrooms once a year with a big group of friends. Go camping, take a high dose, have our kind of brain reset. Other than that, smoke a little weed here and there. Don't really mess with it. But DMT, on the other hand, is a wild experience. Yeah, I need to try that.
SPEAKER 04 : 69:28
So you only do a shrooms brain reset once a year, huh?
SPEAKER 26 : 69:31
Yep, once a year we all go camping and just take a whole week to just reset.
SPEAKER 07 : 69:36
Wow, man, you sound like you should teach a class at a community college on responsible hallucinogenic drug use. Hey, real quick, Ted, before we jump, Scott has DMT curiosities. From what I've been told after I got done with Sunday school is that it smells so bad. I've described it as being like you're smoking a rotten tooth. And the things you see are brief but vivid.
SPEAKER 26 : 70:00
So very brief, it does smell of cat piss. I mean, it's awful. It tastes bad. It happens almost instantly. One of the greatest experiences we had, there were eight of us in a tent. We had three pipes. Two people didn't want to do it, but six of us did. We all tried to hit it as soon as we could. As soon as you exhale, you start to feel the effects. Everyone laid back. We had conversations for what felt like an eternity. Everybody felt like they were floating off of the ground. Once we all came to and sat up, They're like, yeah, that was only about 10 minutes, the two people in the tent. And we're all laughing and talking about what we were talking about. People are like, none of you said a word. You were all just laid back with your eyes closed.
SPEAKER 04 : 70:48
I was going to say, you said you're having conversations. I've never heard anyone have a conversation on DMT. I heard you hit it. You lay back and you blast off like through the universe, like at a million miles an hour. But it's amazing. and you feel like it's lasting forever, but in real time it's only like 10 minutes, and then you're back and you're fine.
SPEAKER 07 : 71:05
And you reset to your immediate resting state with little to no rebounding effect. Like I said, from what I was told after I was helping out with that spaghetti luncheon at my church. That's right. Thank you, Ted. Appreciate you, pal. Christopher Titus, he's at McGuby's this weekend. If you ain't got your tickets, buy them now because this dude is going to sell out. And he is a pros pro. I'll pull the curtain back on behind the curtain. I asked to have him in. He's one of my dad's favorite sitcom stars. I've enjoyed his comedy. My friend Micah Ronan has done shows with him before. Homeboy.com. flew in a day early. Christopher Titus changed his flight. We got comics that live in town that I can't get to show up here to help promote their show, and yet this dude gets a hold of United, changes his flight, he comes in, he hangs out for an hour, and again, I love talking about this on Behind the Curtain. Not just what you're about to hear on air, but the dude off air. I'll be the first to tell you if somebody sucked off air, if they were this big, bright, shiny star on, then turned into a miserable bee off looking at you, former mayors. But Christopher Titus is cool on air as he was off, took pictures with everybody, was chatting us up, was celebrating some of our other comedian friends around here that he's worked with in the past. His wife is on the show with him. She's freaking hilarious. And again, I love celebrating and trying to lend credence, money, promotion, whatever we can do in our little kingdom here. to good people doing great things, and he's both of those. So Christopher Titus joined us, and he was awesome on Behind the Curtain. Behind the Curtain. Joining us in studio, Magoobies, this weekend, a friend to our friends. One of the greatest shows, if you ever asked my father, we'd sit around and watch Titus, which deserved 10 seasons, you sons of bitches. Yeah, well. Okay? I got my dad found out that you were coming in today. We caught up last night. Right. And we used to watch Titus together because he was a Mike Hammer fan. Yeah. And when Stacey Keech got the gig as your dad on that show and went full Keech. On that show.
SPEAKER 02 : 73:08
Man, he would come in. So if you want to hear how he got hired, we had everybody come in. We had the $6 million man, Lee Majors, came in. Oh, hell yeah. And what he did was for the audition, he did a great audition. And then he read all his criminal convictions and divorces. And I was like, and one of the executives with me and my co-exec goes, after he leaves, he goes, he's really good, but we want a guy that can play a criminal. We don't want a criminal. That could be a criminal. Then Keech came in, and everyone else was going for the funny. Keech went for the real. I'm sitting there, I'm reading with him in the audition, and he just did that Keech thing where he started yelling at me. And he leaves, and Jack and Brian go, what do you think? And I go, he scares the living shit out of me. I mean, my God. Sorry. And they go, then that's him. And so every time, you know, we called him the cutter because he would come in and do this. The setup would be funnier than the punchline half the time. He made me keep up with him. Great dude, man.
SPEAKER 07 : 74:00
Well, he's also a gigantically intimidating man. Yes. Which I guess you've got to be when you go by the name Stacey. I mean, his first name really is Walter. But yeah, you've got to learn, what, a boy named Sue? Yeah, yeah. But he's Stacey. Good call. Dude, 10 comedy specials. I was talking to a friend of mine that's putting out a special next year that's also been doing it for quite some time. In the evolution of, it used to be go on the road, and then maybe I can get a late night spot, and then maybe I can get a spot on one of the big networks, or maybe sell a DVD. Right. And it's changed so much to the homegrown, now I have to be my own promotional machine. Yeah, the whole world's changed, yeah. everything to where you're getting comics that might not have had a shot, but now they do because of social. Flip side, you're now getting people that are nationally prominent that in the days of your come up wouldn't have even been sniffed at. Would have been kicked out of open mics.
SPEAKER 04 : 74:52
They've got 10 minutes of crowd work on TikTok and all of a sudden...
SPEAKER 02 : 74:55
You know what's weird is that the crowd work thing is like, oh man, he talked to the crowd. First of all, it's like, that guy's done that exact same bit 52 times and he worked on it on the road. I'm not going to slam any comics. Comics are comics. If you have the balls to get on that stage in front of everybody and try to make, do you realize how crazy you have to be to be a stand-up comedian? Here's the level. You have to be so delusional, you think you're going to walk into the room, be everybody's best friend in 30 seconds, make everybody laugh, total strangers, and be the most charismatic, funniest dude that they've ever seen. That's serial killer level of confidence.
SPEAKER 04 : 75:28
You put it that way, right?
SPEAKER 02 : 75:31
Second is morning radio.
SPEAKER 07 : 75:32
Second is morning radio. It can be difficult, especially trying to make people laugh and no audience response. We just have to trust. Plus, in regards to your stand-up and the medium of, and God, I want to hit myself in the face with a hammer breaking down the artistic integrity of stand-up.
SPEAKER 02 : 75:46
And nothing makes stand-up less funny than talking about how it works.
SPEAKER 07 : 75:50
But it is the most pass-fail of performance art. You paint a painting. It can be interpreted a thousand ways. You go to a musical concert, it can make certain people feel a different way. Comedy's pass-fail. I love musical concerts, by the way. They laugh? Musical concerts. Yeah, spoken word, interpretive dance. A musical concert. A musical concert. Would you get someone that will be in there and they feel moved and they feel they dance maybe? Even a bad song, people will sit through. But comedy, you know immediately this is working or this ain't.
SPEAKER 02 : 76:17
Yeah, exactly. Carlin years ago said something about comics that really hit me. Whatever you do for a profession, someone will tell you, an expert will tell you something and it'll hit you in the gut. Carlin said that all you comics get out there and do the same act for eight years. He goes, you're doing your homework. He goes, honestly... He goes, I could do a new show every 18 months. And he goes, that's my job. And that's your job. Do it. And I remember it hit me in the gut because I've been doing Norman Rockwell for about six years at the time. Yeah. And and he was right. So I taped it. We did the show. We taped it, got done with it. And I just every 18 months, I try to write a new show. COVID screwed that up. But there's there's a and by the way, your dad, there's two episodes of Titus we filmed during COVID. You can watch. We wrapped up the show. Yeah. Oh, my God. He's. going to freak out about that. Stacey Keech ends up in a Mexican prison. It's awesome. I have a studio and I wrote a script that ended up being two episodes. I got the whole cast back together. Go to Christopher Titus TV on YouTube and it's called The Homecoming. There's two episodes of Titus that wraps up the whole show.
SPEAKER 07 : 77:19
I have such an affection for that show because it was one of the first shows, there was that football wrestling that my dad and I would both watch. So you're getting a 20-year-old me and a 52-year-old him on the couch laughing equally. It was like a thing that we could connect over. And just the fact that Stacey Keach is such a terrifying individual. Yeah.
SPEAKER 02 : 77:40
But then Offset, is he like the nicest dude in the world, like the gentle giant type? Awesome, man. I'll tell you what, that show, I have so many emails and letters like, dude, my family hated each other's guts. We didn't talk. That show came on, and we would sit down and watch it to this day. You can see all the episodes. If you haven't seen Titus, go to ChristopherTitusTV. We put it up on the website. It's on YouTube. So if you can watch it, yeah. I don't know, man. I wish I had just never smarted off to the network president. Don't send the comedian to the meeting with the network president. Is that what happened?
SPEAKER 04 : 78:12
Yeah, what happened? Because the show was a hit. Explain that to a lot of people. I did a bit about it. Because, listen, everyone thinks like, all right, you see the comics and the comics get television shows, right? Christopher Titus, you've had it. Martin Lawrence. I mean, the list goes on and on and on.
SPEAKER 02 : 78:26
Well, I had three deals before that, and every time I'd get the deal, we'd bring a writer in, and the writer would go, here's your life. And I'm like, no, that's not – I gave you a show. There's a 90 minutes of my life.
SPEAKER 04 : 78:36
So the suits immediately swoop in, and they start to meddle.
SPEAKER 02 : 78:41
They start to make your show like everybody else. What's working? Let's get this comedian and stuff him to a show that looks like the show we just did.
SPEAKER 04 : 78:47
They're being reactive versus proactive.
SPEAKER 02 : 78:49
Exactly.
SPEAKER 04 : 78:49
And they don't want to take a gamble because that – Because then if they take the gamble and they lose, then that's on them. So they just want to take the safe route, make it like everything else. They don't lose their jobs. People also think, okay, well, you're on TV. You've got to hit TV shows. So now you're a gazillionaire, which also I don't think is the case.
SPEAKER 02 : 79:06
Not in show business. Businesses are run by different Barry Gordys. You know, you guys have been doing this show for how long? You're all billionaires, right? You're 11.
SPEAKER 07 : 79:13
These guys hear me make the joke all the time. What's it like working in radio? I have enough money to last the rest of my life. With that said, I've got to be dead in three weeks.
SPEAKER 02 : 79:20
Exactly. Yes.
SPEAKER 07 : 79:21
Exactly. And to Scott's point, though, about some of the meddling, I love another saying that I thought was fascinating. Success has many fathers and failure is an orphan. Yes. So when you go in there and the show's a hit for three years and you're crushing it and all the executives are like, yeah, we have everything to do with that. And then it doesn't. You're the one left.
SPEAKER 02 : 79:41
I can tell you the whole story of how it ended. We had three presidents in three years, which means that everybody wants to piss on it. Everyone wants to put their scent on it, right? So we have this show that's kind of – in a weird way, I ripped off everybody. I ripped off George Burns. He did a show where he talked to the camera. But we did it in such a cool way. We pushed the envelope. One of the episodes I pitched to the network was, by the way, we're going to have an intervention on my father to get him to start drinking again because he stopped – Because he stopped.
SPEAKER 01 : 80:05
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 02 : 80:05
He stopped. Because this really happened. My brother and I, my dad, got with my brother's – I said Dave, not my real brother. His mom, my dad's girlfriend, told him he had to stop drinking or she was going to leave. So he tried. And what happened was we thought he'd get better. He became the same a-hole. He just got more focused. He didn't have the blur of alcohol to see us through. He saw everything we did and ruined our lives. So Dave and I, this is a true story. We got to get him drunk again. We got to get him trashed, man. And so – So that was the idea. And we pitched it to the network. It is so funny. Titus, we pitched that episode. Titus, by the way, his dad tricks him to think he has AIDS. That was another episode we did. The first episode was called Dad is Dead. And so the network at one point, when I pitched Titus, because I pitched the idea, I was like, here's the show. I want to do it. I hate sitcoms. I hate sitcoms. Yeah. Yeah. So we pitched them and they go, at one point they were just like, just okay, whatever. And we were under the radar so far with this dad is dead idea that they didn't pay attention to us. Right. And then the show was so funny when it was done because we had such a great thing, just amazing group of writers. But I would come in with 16 or 22 episodes a year and go, here's what we're going to do. Well, the meeting with Titus got canceled. They have a meeting year three. The new president comes in. She was also helped create Malcolm in the Middle before she became the president. She was very, very cocky. And I was also very tired. I was writing till midnight, then getting up and doing the show. And I'm just setting up my excuse. Just be clear. I'm setting up the reason. You're in an altered state. So we have this meeting. And when you said that success has many fathers, but failure has none, is an orphan. There was 40 people in this room at Fox. The top thing. Murdoch's office is like next door. And then we have to go up to this building. And so she goes, here's what I want you to do. I want you to take Titus. I want you to break up Titus and Aaron. And I want you to have a love triangle. Well, Dharma and Greg had just done a love triangle with Kevin Sorbo. So that's the problem with the network. They saw Dharma and Greg and they're like, let's recreate that. Yeah, let's create that. Because it went from like an 8-share to a 19-share for those three episodes. And I said this. And here's the thing. My job is to go deal with drunk people yelling at me and try to get them to laugh. So when you tell me something dumb, I went into heckler mode with the president of America.
SPEAKER 11 : 82:24
She's heckling me. I don't go to where you work. I don't tell you how to flip the burgers. Shit looks like a curtain.
SPEAKER 07 : 82:36
dominatrix andre andre shakti joined us in studio and she was everything we needed her to be and more fingers crossed we can break bread at the negotiating table and have her join us and you if you got your tickets saturday sold out to uncensored the deez nuts edition she had a bag of stuff with her oh my god oh my goodness it was a collection of toys that we immediately ran back to the livewire studio and said hey turn the cameras away you can't even show these things some of these things i can't get into the specifics of but i have a feeling an er nurse might have had to dispatch somebody to surgery to remove one or two of these things and some of them were electrified attached to chains clamps and more And yeah, she gave some insight into how she got into the world. You hear me talk about some of the stereotypes of people that get into sex work having been through traumatic events. In this case, that ain't it. She just enjoys sexuality. She accepts it. She loves it. She celebrates it. Most of you liked her. Some of you had some issues with. You bunch of Puritans. You bunch of Quakers. But hey, we love you just as much. She's just probably not going to have a very good time with you down in her dom dungeon. We met a real-life dominatrix and asked for her services at Uncensored. Oh, she also electrocuted somebody's crotch on Behind the Curtain. Good morning, Justin, Scott, and Spiegel, and I want to know how our next guest got on our radar and we got on hers, because earlier in the week, we're getting set, we're getting ready to go. Uncensored, the Deez Nuts edition. Deez Nuts. You're going to get a chance to try our nuts. November 15th and November 16th, Union Craft Brewing, two nights right off of 83, plenty of free parking, and we had the idea that there's going to be a segment where we need to be put in a level of comedic pain. And we said, hey, let's find someone that does that professionally, does it well, does it top tier. What we need is a dominatrix. This is a real woman. Oh, it's the realist. It might be the evolution of the species.
SPEAKER 04 : 84:47
I like the way you describe the evolution of the species. She's evolved in certain ways that... Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 : 84:54
It's been described as a great white shark. Joining us in studio, the Baltimore dominatrix herself. It's Andre Shakti. Good morning. Thank you.
SPEAKER 01 : 85:04
Hi, boys. How are you doing?
SPEAKER 07 : 85:05
Super horny and terrifying.
SPEAKER 01 : 85:07
See what she did? She did the thing. She did the reveal.
SPEAKER 04 : 85:10
She just took her shirt off and she has some sort of latex underneath. Bitch. Here we go.
SPEAKER 01 : 85:16
Kids aren't in here, are they? You don't have to run. Relax.
SPEAKER 04 : 85:22
She still has clothes on. Barely, but good morning. Hi. Hi. So, yeah, we were talking about it the other day. We're looking to do a bit where we're in pain, and we said we need a dominatrix. Yep. I heard. well that's what i that's what i want to get at like how how did you what happened that morning did your phone blow up where people or did you reach out you reached out to us but i was curious if someone contacted you like the jss boys need yes so truly i actually didn't know people still listen to radio i'm not gonna lie you're insulting
SPEAKER 01 : 86:00
I know. I'm really good at it. So, yes, actually, an old industry friend of mine was on his way to his job in the morning. Can't curse. Can't curse.
SPEAKER 04 : 86:09
Don't say the S word.
SPEAKER 01 : 86:10
Well, shoot. They didn't explain the rules to me ahead of time. So I said, oh, you know what? These guys are floundering. They have no idea what they're into right now. So let me come in and help them out.
SPEAKER 07 : 86:22
We went to the website, and in wrestling it's called a sellout at the monitor.
SPEAKER 01 : 86:27
Yes.
SPEAKER 07 : 86:27
Because this guy went to your website, our producer Joe, and then another producer came over, and then I came over, and then about four people, and then a gathering, and then there's about 15 people hunched over. Right. Like watching one of those Harambe videos where he's just swinging the kid around. Uh-huh.
SPEAKER 01 : 86:43
I mean, listen, I'm surprised that you kept the desk dry when you all were coming. No, I already said that.
SPEAKER 04 : 86:48
I pleasured myself to your videos.
SPEAKER 01 : 86:50
I know. I have an invoice in my bag for you when we're done. Okay, good.
SPEAKER 04 : 86:53
Thank you so much.
SPEAKER 07 : 86:54
Yeah. Don't do it for free.
SPEAKER 04 : 86:56
So when, how did this sexual journey begin? Take us back. What age did you realize that you were like, there was this, I don't want to, is there like a burning sexual desire? What is it? How does that grow?
SPEAKER 01 : 87:10
From the womb. Yeah, definitely. From the womb?
SPEAKER 04 : 87:14
Was there a watershed moment? Was there a girl or a guy that kind of turned you out and you were like, oh.
SPEAKER 01 : 87:22
No, I turned myself out. I've been in this industry since I was 18. I remember being like 16, 15 watching HBO Real Sex for those of us who have been there. And I swear to God, I would come home and I'd watch that stuff late at night when my parents were asleep and I was like, is it wrong? But I kind of want to be a stripper. I kind of want to be like a working girl. It's kind of cool. I'm a kid. I'm growing up in a farm town. I got no other resources for this. This is like pre-internet. But that resonated with you. And I was just like, you know what? I love this. I want to get paid to somehow work out and also talk to people about sex. And so let's just say my personality lent itself in that favor. And by the time I graduated high school, I had a lot of people being like, you know, you'd be really good at this.
SPEAKER 07 : 88:12
You can make a couple of bucks.
SPEAKER 04 : 88:13
Step on my chestnuts. Andre Shakti, senior in high school. What does that person look like and what are they doing?
SPEAKER 01 : 88:21
Oh, my gosh. I can show you.
SPEAKER 04 : 88:22
Are your classmates like, yo. This tracks or was it a surprise? Or were you like kind of milquetoast?
SPEAKER 01 : 88:30
No. Okay, you know what? I did insult you, so I guess it's fair you got blown back. But no, I've never been... No, I'm saying, like, did you... No, I was a slut. I was a slut, you know? So, like, for what it's worth, I was a slut. Nothing wrong with that.
SPEAKER 07 : 88:44
Rock and roll.
SPEAKER 01 : 88:45
I started having sex real young on my own terms. I, like, kind of became the little Dr. Ruth of my little school. So friends would come to you for, like, insight and stories.
SPEAKER 07 : 88:57
You blossomed earlier than some people.
SPEAKER 01 : 88:59
Yes, I blossomed.
SPEAKER 07 : 88:59
so early i told you yeah a huge part of your story that we've read online and your website and your social is like the advocacy for the acceptance and healthy sex work yes like let's let's normalize it accept it let's do it right let's do it consensually let's get paid let's remove the stigma from it so you know there's there's obviously an opinion about people that get into sex work they're like okay who was he point to the relative but then in your case it's not where did he
SPEAKER 01 : 89:27
touch you.
SPEAKER 07 : 89:27
It's not true.
SPEAKER 04 : 89:28
Was there trauma? I mean, let's not get into that.
SPEAKER 01 : 89:32
No, there wasn't. I'll be right back.
SPEAKER 04 : 89:36
So you say you graduated, you became a stripper, but from being a stripper to being to where you are now, there is a wide delta.
SPEAKER 01 : 89:45
There is.
SPEAKER 04 : 89:45
Being on stage, taking off your clothes is one thing. Having a dildo attached to a sawzall is like a totally another thing.
SPEAKER 01 : 89:51
I know. I just heard you guys were really into the sawzall. So like, you know, I just... It's brilliant. Um, yeah, I started dancing actually here in Baltimore, uh, age 18. There's this place called the crazy Russian, uh, and hot dogs. Don't forget. And, uh, shots of espresso vodka. But, um, I was doing that for a while and, you know, I'd always get like the, the girls would send me the, the more complex characters that would walk in there. You know, maybe the ones that weren't just there for the high heels, but no, the ones that just, you know, were a little kinky. Um, and they were like, most of them are Russian. They're like, Oh, I don't know what this is. And I'm like, Oh, I do. So give them to me. My customer likes my bottom.
SPEAKER 07 : 90:32
This guy wants a cigarette put out on his forehead.
SPEAKER 01 : 90:34
Exactly. Exactly. Are you kidding me? I put a cigarette out my own forehead. Hello.
SPEAKER 07 : 90:40
So describe in the dominatrix world, the dungeon and all that. Now, we're not asking for you to name specific people, but the type of people. Are we talking like we've always theorized that the person that's like the CEO, the head of a business, the top tier general in a military, they feel so powerful during the day. They alpha so much that they need someone like you to flip that. They need to be completely submissive, dominated, owned, disrespected because all day long. They're in the power position. That's right. But at night, they need you.
SPEAKER 01 : 91:14
Yeah. I mean, that is the stereotype, certainly. It's the pervasiveness of all the stereotypes about sex work. Honest to goodness, most of my clients look just like you guys. They come from a variety of different backgrounds. They're looking for a variety of different things. Some of them are more hardcore than others. I mean, you already added yourself as coming to see me after the show. The minute I leave. I know.
SPEAKER 07 : 91:35
Right there. Right there.
SPEAKER 01 : 91:36
But no, normally people will be surprised. I see a lot of couples. I see a lot of women. People come to me. Shoot, shoot, shoot. No, it is freaking phenomenal. Thanks for going over that, Joe.
SPEAKER 09 : 91:47
I told her to cuss more. If it's not too personal, would you say it's like six digits or four?
SPEAKER 01 : 91:54
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, not like that. No, although my money in Baltimore does go a lot farther than it did in California. But no, I would say it's more like any any middle class, upper middle class job. Honestly, it's not glamorous. It's not me rolling around in piles of hundred dollar bills in Las Vegas. It's also not me like standing on the corner waiting for my next fix so I can get.
SPEAKER 04 : 92:17
But you're doing what you love. I'm doing what I love. So important. When someone comes to you, is there some sort of – do you have like a meeting or do you – do they show up and you figure it out as you go or do you already know what they're – when they show up, do you already know what they're – What they're into.
SPEAKER 01 : 92:39
So I always know what they're into.
SPEAKER 04 : 92:40
It's like a pre-interview.
SPEAKER 01 : 92:41
So actually, I have a 1030 call today, actually. So I'm hoping we can get off the air before that. Oh, we'll get you there in time. Because I have to talk to this guy about what he wants to experience. So is he new?
SPEAKER 04 : 92:50
Is he a new client?
SPEAKER 01 : 92:51
He is.
SPEAKER 04 : 92:51
So you got a 1030 call with a new client today. You'll talk on the phone. And then you go, so what are you looking for?
SPEAKER 01 : 92:59
15 minutes or so we'll talk on the phone I'll ask him how he found me why he found me what he's looking for any questions he has and then we'll go ahead and set a date
SPEAKER 04 : 93:07
Is there anything he could say during that phone call that would turn you off?
SPEAKER 01 : 93:11
That he's voting for Donald Trump. Oh! Besides politics. Joe didn't ruin me about that either. See, producer? Honestly, a lot of things. We call some guys wankers. So wankers are when they call you to supposedly talk about a session, but they end up just using it as... so you can hear the heavy breathing in the back of the car yeah oh not not very often but enough that it's become a thing with a nickname right you could probably pick up on creepiness like this guy is it's a six cents yeah someone can send me a three sentence message like justin did on instagram and i can immediately get a profile yeah
SPEAKER 04 : 93:54
Who in the room is putting off the biggest creep vibe right now?
SPEAKER 07 : 93:59
I wonder who.
SPEAKER 04 : 94:03
Joe's included.
SPEAKER 01 : 94:04
Oh, I'm going to include Joe, actually, because he didn't warn me about anything prior to this. Yeah, he's not a good producer. He's terrible. Yeah, no, actually, he's really bad at his job.
SPEAKER 04 : 94:11
We hired a stoner that is just, I don't even know why.
SPEAKER 01 : 94:14
I know. It's all right. He's getting three smacks later.
SPEAKER 07 : 94:15
But you've got to be able to read someone, A, what they're into, B, your own personal safety. I can only imagine sometimes, like, if we're in the thick of it, is this guy going to pop his top or woman pop her top, and I've got to suddenly, you know, go fight flight? So you have to be pretty top tier in reading people and reading them quick.
SPEAKER 01 : 94:33
It is true, and also, you know, I have, like, all these pit bulls in my home, and I have 360 surveillance, and I'm a brown belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and my entire dungeon is covered in weapons.
SPEAKER 07 : 94:43
I took a women's self-defense course.
SPEAKER 01 : 94:46
Yeah, I've never in the, knock on wood, in the 18 years I've been doing this, the worst I've gotten is some guy got really nervous and showed up a little too drunk.
SPEAKER 09 : 94:54
So do you have, like, a word for your dogs to attack if somebody goes nuts? Oh.
SPEAKER 01 : 95:00
No, I don't. I do have an attack pig though.
SPEAKER 09 : 95:02
Lubricant!
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we talk about mansplaining. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne Live in the Boom Boom Room talk about things men say are hard to explain to women. What can be so hard that women struggle to understand it? One way to find out. Hit play!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript Venture with us through vivid tales of psychotropic adventures, from the serene landscapes of shroom trips to the intense journeys with DMT.
00:00:00 Exotic Drugs and Their Uncommon Effects 00:00:53 Discovering Strange Substances: Dragonfly and Foxy Methoxy 00:02:32 Unique Cultural Drug: Khat and Its Impact 00:03:32 Wild Trips and Personal Experiences 00:06:24 Sassafras and Social Interaction 00:09:29 DMT: Brief but Intense Journeys 00:10:09 Exploring Opium at Festivals 00:11:30 Peyote on the Reservation SPEAKER 04 : 0:00
we're talking kind of exotic unique off the beaten path drugs not the weed not the mushrooms not your vodkas of the world not the opiates we're talking the stuff that like you got to watch documentaries about as to how that crap ends up getting made like um would you count ecstasy or molly or is that just that's pretty common though these days
SPEAKER 05 : 0:25
Um, yeah. I mean, I guess, yeah. Well, to Joe's point, like with salvia, it's easily accessible, but it's not common for people to do those. Like, I don't think it's common for someone to do ecstasy. Yeah, it's like the weekend's here. Let's break out the molly. Right. I think it's common for someone to drink alcohol, obviously. I think it's common for someone to smoke some weed. And after that, I think it gets all those like even shrooms could be considered exotic.
SPEAKER 04 : 0:53
Anything like a hallucinatory amount. Yeah. We got some people that are micro dosing, but a micro dose like let's see through our third eye. That's a couple of times a year thing. I mean, speak starts as Monday with a huge eight ball, but that's not everybody. God, there was some other ones up here. Some of these unique drugs. I'm again, some of this stuff I've never heard of. Dragonfly. What the hell's Dragonfly? It sounds made up. It's a drug family that manipulates serotonin to produce hallucinogenic effects. The difference is it's extremely potent. See, this is what I hate here. You smoke a joint at two by four or five. Yeah. You're kind of back to your resting state. Lasts for hours. Days. Days. Dragonfly lasts for days. And depending on the amount, seizures, confusion, heart problems, and death has been concerns. Yeah, death is concerning. Dragonfly has earned a reputation in the drug community as being extremely dangerous and scary. And it can be illegally purchased online with a click of a button. Anyone, anywhere, can grab the stuff. Foxy? Methoxy? I feel like these are band names we come up with. It's another hallucinogenic known for... Oh, this is interesting. Okay, so you take your mushrooms, you take your DMTs, and you see some stuff. This is known for auditory psychoactive effects. You take it. I don't know. You smoke it. You drink it. You boof it. You hear stuff.
SPEAKER 06 : 2:24
Wow. Wow. What about, what is this, how do you pronounce, cat, cot? Scott, didn't you get some of that stuff? K-H-A-T, cot.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:33
No. K-H-A-T, never heard of it. No? No. I think I had crate them, maybe, at one point.
SPEAKER 06 : 2:41
No, you got something a couple years ago. It was, I can't remember what it was called. Cot? Cot?
SPEAKER 04 : 2:48
No, not me, bro. Otherwise known as quad Arabian tea. Many believe this truck. This is a funny sentence. Many believe this drug influences terrorism. It's very common in Middle Eastern countries, where in some places, cot, K-H-A-T, is as popular as coffee. It can be chewed or consumed in liquid form. Ingesting in the morning has been known to give a boost in energy. Others says it gives them a sense of invincibility. Okay. Why some members of terrorist organizations consume large quantities before going out on a mission they're not expected to return from. Jesus on his throne.
SPEAKER 05 : 3:32
Somebody says had a bad LSD trip a couple of months ago. I think it was laced with DMT. Never tripping again. I still smoke plenty of weed, though, so that's fine.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:43
Wow. None of these have enticed me yet. Has any of these made you curious?
SPEAKER 05 : 3:48
I'm curious about DMT. I've never done that. I think people in the room have done that. I've never done that. I've done shrooms. I enjoy them. I'm fine with that. I don't really want to dance the dance with LSD. That scares me. I've never done cocaine. The foxy methoxy has got me a little curious. Where it just changes what you hear. Ayahuasca is interesting. I mean, you hear all those people that go down. Like a lot of people do those, you know, like vision quest, whatever you call those.
SPEAKER 04 : 4:16
Like a shaman retreat where some dude in a tree house watches over you.
SPEAKER 05 : 4:20
And you go and you drink it and you vomit violently. But then you also kind of. You hear that you can figure some stuff out, maybe come back a little bit adjusted.
SPEAKER 04 : 4:30
You ever want to see a cool story or a unique story about that, the ayahuasca? There was a guy, his nickname was the, what the hell was it? Not the Jersey Devil. Who cares? The Outlaw, Dan Hardy, UFC welterweight, contender, never a champion. But the guy was an absolute maniac in the ring. And he had a couple of fights. And he lost a few of those fights. And it kind of screwed him up. He had a four-fight rip that he lost. And he didn't take it well. He then goes on an ayahuasca journey. Yeah. He describes running through the jungle on all fours like a wolf. He says it felt like days. It came back and changed his chemicals so much, his brain chemicals. He said he could never imagine putting another human in pain or engaging in harm ever again. He never fought again. He came back and was like, nope, I can't believe that I was ever in a state professionally where my job was to hurt a human. It completely, like, locked the door of the old self behind him. It changed his brain chemicals to this day. He did commentary. He did a podcast, as they all do. But never fought again.
SPEAKER 05 : 5:37
Somebody says they've taken mescaline before. Best trip ever. That is from Bob from the Bay.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:45
Let's go to Ted. Ted, I see, to Scott's curiosity, DMT. And I also see sassafras. Sassafras!
SPEAKER 03 : 5:57
Yeah, it's morning. Morning. Hello. Morning, Josh Spiegel. Morning. Yeah, Sassafras. Very interesting. Actually made from Sassafras root. It's kind of like a very dark crystal and very similar high to MDMA. Okay. It basically makes you feel exactly like Molly would, but they like to say it's healthier because it's all natural.
SPEAKER 04 : 6:24
Let me read you some of the effects, allegedly, and you confirm or deny. Ted is our Sassafras expert. What does it feel like? In mild doses, you feel immediate closeness, affection, and empathy.
SPEAKER 05 : 6:39
It turns you into a great person. Did you want to give a lot of hugs? Oh, yeah. You're very, very touchy. Yeah. Really? That's the MDS, the Molly, all right, the MDMA.
SPEAKER 04 : 6:50
Now, if you increase the effects, it can lead to panic, nausea, poor appetite, or close-eyed visions with jaw clenching and, in extreme cases, liver damage.
SPEAKER 03 : 7:03
Yes, absolutely. You take too much of it, you get what we call the eye wobbles. You can't keep your eyes straight and everything looks like it's vibrating.
SPEAKER 05 : 7:12
You been there? You been there too? You had the eye wobbles? Yeah, unfortunately, not any place. How many times have you done Sassafras? Maybe a handful of times. Where and when and how do you find it?
SPEAKER 03 : 7:24
Mostly festivals. You go to a good rave, somebody will have Sass or Molly.
SPEAKER 05 : 7:30
What kind of festivals are you going to? Who's headlining?
SPEAKER 03 : 7:34
You know, all the EDM bands. Back then, when I used to be into that, I wasn't as into the music as I was the drugs. You were just going for the drugs, huh?
SPEAKER 04 : 7:42
You were going for the culture, brother. Hell yeah. Having period sex in a dust storm at Burning Man. Where are you at now? You still dip back into that culture, or...
SPEAKER 03 : 7:52
Not necessarily the culture. Do take shrooms once a year with a big group of friends. Go camping. Take a high dose. Have our kind of brain reset. Other than that, smoke a little weed here and there. Don't really mess with it. But DMT, on the other hand, is a wild experience. Yeah, I need to try that.
SPEAKER 05 : 8:10
So you only do a shrooms brain reset once a year, huh?
SPEAKER 03 : 8:13
Yep, once a year we all go camping and just take a whole week to just reset.
SPEAKER 04 : 8:18
Wow, man, you sound like you should teach a class at a community college on responsible hallucinogenic drug use. Hey, real quick, Ted, before we jump, Scott has DMT curiosities. From what I've been told after I got done with Sunday school is that it smells so bad. I've described it as being like you're smoking a rotten tooth. And the things you see are brief but vivid.
SPEAKER 03 : 8:42
So very brief, it does smell of cat piss. I mean, it's awful. It tastes bad. It happens almost instantly. One of the greatest experiences we had, there were eight of us in a tent. We had three pipes. Two people didn't want to do it, but six of us did. We all tried to hit it as soon as we could. As soon as you exhale, you start to feel the effects. Everyone laid back. We had conversations for what felt like an eternity. Everybody felt like they were floating off of the ground. Once we all came to and sat up, They're like, yeah, that was only about 10 minutes, the two people in the tent. And we're all laughing and talking about what we were talking about. Those two people are like, none of you said a word. You were all just laid back with your eyes closed.
SPEAKER 05 : 9:29
I was going to say, you said you were having conversations. I've never heard anyone have a conversation on DMT. I heard you hit it. You lay back and you blast off like through the universe, like at a million miles an hour. But it's amazing. And you feel like it's lasting forever. But in real time, it's only like 10 minutes. And then you're back and you're fine.
SPEAKER 04 : 9:47
And you reset to your immediate resting state with little to no rebounding effect. Like I said, from what I was told after I was helping out with that spaghetti luncheon at my church. That's right. Thank you, Ted. Appreciate you, pal. Oh, this is a guy that might have hung out with Joe in a den. John, the drug that kicked off this break, you have tried opium.
SPEAKER 01 : 10:09
Yeah, so I was told it was opium. You know, I was at a festival, but so. Hey, smoke this, man. It's opium. Let's get wet. All right. It was two older guys. It was me and my friends, and we were all, you know, it was kind of like in the middle of the day, so we were, you know, a little drunk. I was a little on acid, you know, so.
SPEAKER 05 : 10:29
A little on acid. Yeah. A little on acid. I got you. Keep going. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 01 : 10:35
Yeah, and then he was like, hey guys, you know, we grow this opium straight up and you want to hit it and We did. Like I said, I don't know if it was or wasn't because I've never tried it before, but it had a weird taste to it, I'll say.
SPEAKER 05 : 10:50
I'll put it that way. You didn't smoke it for the taste. Jesus, what did it do?
SPEAKER 01 : 10:58
What I remember was, let's say you're looking at something and the border of my eyesight was cloudy. It was almost like I was focused in on whatever was in front of me, but everything else, like my peripherals, were just Gone, like just straight cloudy.
SPEAKER 05 : 11:12
Oh, what's that effect called on the phone where you do the cloudy... What's that? You know, like you do that... What is it called? Not sure. It's that filter on Snapchat. Oh, I know. Paris and Rio de Janeiro on Instagram. It makes you a living Instagram filter. That's awesome.
SPEAKER 04 : 11:30
I don't even know how... How this works, you know, I'm not sure if I have enough time to walk down the Brandon path today. Let's talk to Gary. Gary, you did peyote on a reservation.
SPEAKER 02 : 11:43
Yeah, I'm originally from California, and I was out there, and we all went to a party up on a reservation, and somebody up there had some peyote. So we took it and went on a good 8, 10, 12-hour journey.
SPEAKER 05 : 11:57
8, 10 to 12-hour journey.
SPEAKER 04 : 11:59
Did you do it with Native Americans? I definitely did, yes. Hell yeah, dude. Did you find your spirit animal out there amongst the stars?
SPEAKER 02 : 12:06
No, I didn't find any spirit animals, but, man, it was one hell of a party, but I remember.
SPEAKER 05 : 12:12
So out of those 8 to 10 to 12 hours, were they all enjoyable?
SPEAKER 02 : 12:18
Yeah, we had a blast. You don't have to get sick, do you?
SPEAKER 04 : 12:22
Is this the one where you got to puke before you tripped?
SPEAKER 02 : 12:25
I didn't puke. Some of the other guys did. Oh, they did?
SPEAKER 04 : 12:28
Yeah. Joe, is peyote, is that the one where- Isn't that little green plant or something? Yeah, yeah. Peyote is a cactus. Yeah, right. They're buttons. But if you yak it up, that's when, ba-boom, off to the moon. I know that's ayahuasca. I know you throw that up. Okay. I'm not sure about peyote. Wow. Absolutely fascinating stuff.
SPEAKER 05 : 12:46
Didn't there an episode of The Simpsons where Homer does peyote? Oh, no. I mean, I think it is. And the Simpsons get all trippy. It's an awesome episode.
SPEAKER 04 : 12:56
They even predicted this break. Yeah, they predict everything. Their batting average is in the 900s.
Read MoreRead Less
Description Chapter Markers Transcript In this exciting episode, JSS dive into the thrill of speeding, sharing personal stories of breaking speed limits in cars and motorcycles. Listen as they recount high-speed adventures, near-miss encounters with law enforcement, and the eye-opening realization of speeding's actual benefits (or lack thereof). As the conversation veers from adrenaline-fueled drives to unexpected incidents, we discover a web of compelling narratives about what truly drives these speed-seeking endeavors.
00:00:01 Speeding Adventures and Personal Records 00:01:38 Motorcycle Speeding Experience 00:02:28 Adrenaline Rush and Movies 00:05:01 High-Speed Incidents and Lessons Learned 00:10:31 Recap of Miami Trip: Taylor Swift and Tipping 00:12:16 Observations on Miami's Culture and Roads SPEAKER 22 : 0:01
So, again, while I was gone, the fellas were talking about speeding. I guess Scott was talking about he reached a new personal best, tried to time travel in his Honda S2000, which you've heard so much about. And I guess he got that sum bitch up into, like, the 120s, 30s, 40s. I'm not sure. I'll find out. Interesting stat, though. I speed. I think we all do. Not to the point where we're cracking 100 unless we're chasing someone or being chased ourselves. But, you know, if we're doing the 55, we're doing 65, 68. We're in the 60. We're doing 70, 72. But I read a little stat here I thought was interesting, and this is from Kavanaugh and Thickens. I guess it's some sort of legal thing online. I don't care. The average driver only saves 26 seconds of time per day on average and up to two to two and a half minutes per week. So, actually, it doesn't do a lot for you, the whole speeding thing. If you actually break down the mathematics of it, you're just burning up a ton of gas, possibly putting yourself and others into harm, and maybe legal trouble of someone sitting on the side of the road with a radar gun. But, yeah, I think the fastest I ever went was in my Jones Genesis Coupe on... Ooh, God, what was it? Merritt Boulevard, Dundalk, 2014, middle of the night. Got that bad boy well up over 100, tried to push 110, and I didn't because I saw a cop in the distance and squealed the brakes and almost took my entire-ass car into a tree. The fellas talked. How fast did you go? How much were you speeding on behind the curtain?
SPEAKER 03 : 1:38
Yeah, I washed my car yesterday and I had it nice and cleaned up. I actually went to the gas station, checked all the tire pressure. It's got a fresh oil change, full tank of gas. And I drove it to work today and maybe pushed it a little bit. Felt good, though. Felt good. Sometimes you've got to get all those cobwebs out of the engine. You think you're helping the engine? Yeah, 100%. Line two, Dooley, let's go to line two. Now, you say that you have gone 120 miles an hour, but there's a little stipulation here. What were you driving? So I have a 2017 Harley-Davidson.
SPEAKER 06 : 2:22
And I topped it out, and speedometer says 120, but I guarantee you I was going faster than that.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:28
Now, in a car is one thing, right? You're kind of encapsulated. You got a windshield. What does that feel like on a motorcycle?
SPEAKER 06 : 2:37
Oh, it's the best feeling in the world. You can't even describe it. Nothing even gets close to it.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:42
I mean, but, like, the wind is – are you, like – You don't even feel it.
SPEAKER 06 : 2:47
Like, it didn't even feel like I was going that fast.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:49
Oh, really? Like, are you struggling? Like, I've never ridden a motorcycle, driven a motorcycle. Like, do you feel like you're going to fall off the back of it? Like, you're going to fly off of it or no?
SPEAKER 06 : 3:02
So it definitely gives you pressure, but if you lean forward a little bit and kind of, like, get aerodynamic and let the wind, like, just go right over top of you, you just cut right through it.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:15
It's like breaking the sound barrier. Yeah, you get all down like that, I guess. I was thinking about you being upright and the wind hitting your chest and your head. That's crazy.
SPEAKER 06 : 3:25
That is the best adrenaline rush there is.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:29
Well, some people are built like that. There's some people that climb the faces of mountains. You're not one of those people.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:37
Thank you, Dooley. When was the last time you had an adrenaline rush?
SPEAKER 04 : 3:42
I mean, I know I get adrenaline rushes. That's what I'm asking. I'm trying to think, you know, but I mean, athletically or something like that, I can't think. I really can't. I mean, I'm sure it came from something that occurred in something that I was watching, some form of art, either music or film or TV. You'll get adrenaline rush from a movie? Oh, sure. Of course. Yeah, everybody does. You can't say that. No, no. Yeah, but everybody does. You think that there are people that are watching a movie like The Sixth Sense, and they see the girl thrown up in the tent, and they just look, and they don't feel nothing?
SPEAKER 03 : 4:19
They feel nothing? That's not a thing? Let's go to line three. We have Brandon. Not only was he speeding, it says got pulled over and rolled the car? You rolled the car? Yes.
SPEAKER 10 : 4:33
Yeah, I was going down Route 10, and I rolled the car when I saw the police lights come on. I was going down Route 10 to Ritchie Highway.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:41
Going 110 miles an hour, police lights come on, and what kind of car was it?
SPEAKER 10 : 4:45
It was a Jetta. Oh, I had a Jetta.
SPEAKER 04 : 4:49
You rolled a Jetta on Ritchie Highway? That's a busy route. No, Route 10. Oh, Route 10. Oh, I got you. He was going to meet up with Ritchie.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:55
Yeah. Wow. And you live to tell the story.
SPEAKER 10 : 5:01
Yeah, no, it was a crazy experience. I somehow walked out of that without any kind of injuries whatsoever. I just walked out of the car. Clearly you got a ticket, right?
SPEAKER 03 : 5:09
Yeah, I was going to say, what happened legally? The lights came on, obviously, because they knew you were speeding.
SPEAKER 10 : 5:15
Yeah, no, legally I definitely had to pay some fines.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:20
How much?
SPEAKER 10 : 5:23
It was like almost $400. That's not bad.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:25
Did you go to court? You needed a new car, too. Yeah, true.
SPEAKER 10 : 5:29
My insurance took care of the car.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:31
God, so you just got off your life and 400 bucks. It's not bad. I mean, it could have been a lot worse. It could have been a lot worse. Yeah. You probably should be dead right now. Do you live differently knowing that you should be dead right now? Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 1 : 5:46
100%.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:46
Do you speed anymore?
SPEAKER 04 : 5:48
Yeah. Are you careful in your car?
SPEAKER 03 : 5:50
I drive like grandmother. You do now. See, that's what happens. All right, thank you for the call. God, where are we going? Let's just keep going down. Let's go to MorganOnline1. He says he was driving a Mustang and he maxed it out.
SPEAKER 04 : 6:07
You mean you're pressing the gas and it can't go any faster?
SPEAKER 05 : 6:12
No, the needle just stops. The car keeps yelling, but the needle just stops. What does it go up to? The needle went up to 160. Oh, my God. Actually, I sent you guys a photo of it to your text line. So I have a radar detector in the car. The radar detector read 173. Oh, my God. Tell us about the mustang. I mean, 173, like...
SPEAKER 03 : 6:40
I've gone, the fastest I've gone is 120 basically. Stan Boney said he went 144 in a Mazda, but you were young and you were 20 and you said you didn't feel unsafe. By unsafe, I mean there's certain vehicles that are not meant to go that fast and they get a little squirrely with the higher up you get. Like when you're going 170, whatever you said, are you scared out of your mind or is it?
SPEAKER 05 : 7:07
Oh, no, it's like a nice little Saturday cruise.
SPEAKER 03 : 7:12
So it's just planted and you're just going.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:14
I'd want to be on the salt flats.
SPEAKER 03 : 7:20
That's where I'd want to be if I'm going that speed. Well, like he said, you know, some cars, the faster you go, the aerodynamics like suck the car down to the road and it almost plants. It's almost more stable.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:32
So you're saying it's safer to go 170. He'll tell you. Am I am I am I lying?
SPEAKER 05 : 7:37
No, he's right. It depends on the car.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:40
I contend 25 is safer. I'll stick by that.
SPEAKER 05 : 7:43
Yeah, the Mustang is so planted, the faster you go, the more it pushes itself down to the ground.
SPEAKER 03 : 7:49
All right, well, thanks for the call. Let's get – so that was 160. Let's go one more.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:55
By the way, none of these are females. This is an aggressive – this is a male thing.
SPEAKER 03 : 8:01
You don't have any girls. I do follow some, like, chicks on Instagram that have, like, fast cars, and it's kind of hot. And I think they like speed. I don't know if it's – you think it's a gender-based thing? I think you're right.
SPEAKER 04 : 8:16
I think it's an aggressiveness that you would see more in men than you would see – Why is speed –
SPEAKER 03 : 8:21
I don't know if that's the right word to speed is aggression. I think so. Yeah. No, I don't think that's the right.
SPEAKER 04 : 8:27
I think it is. I think it's the exact right word.
SPEAKER 03 : 8:30
I think it's the wrong word.
SPEAKER 04 : 8:30
I think it has to do with maybe a thrill, thrills, uh, adrenaline. You're a thrill seeker. Usually there's an aggression that's attached to that. Like if you go on a roller coaster, is that aggressive? Yeah, it is.
SPEAKER 03 : 8:43
It is aggressive. Is that considered aggressive? That's right. It is.
SPEAKER 04 : 8:46
That's right. Rolling roller coasters. You eat a big sandwich.
SPEAKER 03 : 8:49
It's aggressive. Uh, Ryan, you've been holding for a long time. Let's get to Ryan. 172 miles an hour in a 2006 Mustang. Where were you? What stretch of road are you hitting 172 on?
SPEAKER 11 : 9:00
Yeah, well, of course it was in Mexico, right? In Mexico? No, that's just what you usually say when you don't want to get caught.
SPEAKER 04 : 9:10
Just tell us where you were. They're going to go back and try to find you. We saw you speeding.
SPEAKER 11 : 9:16
Yeah, so it was the stretch going 95 north, White Marsh to, you know, Hartford County.
SPEAKER 04 : 9:22
Okay. Heading up 95. What time of day? Because that was one thing that Joe Samboni said he did it at noon. Which is a weird time.
SPEAKER 11 : 9:32
No, so it was probably a little after midnight. Yeah, that makes sense. So it was a pretty empty road. Yeah. And, you know, just. leaving basically Sparrow's Point, going to Harper County. And, yeah, the top speed of the car was 186.
SPEAKER 03 : 9:47
I was going to say, was that maxed out or did you lift?
SPEAKER 11 : 9:52
No, I lifted because actually the hood lifted. The hood on those cars were aluminum, and it actually popped up, and the safety latch caught the hood, and I just freaked out.
SPEAKER 04 : 10:03
Oh, my God. I would have pooped my pants. Yeah, I would have pooped my pants.
SPEAKER 11 : 10:08
Yeah, so the goal was 180. I didn't reach it.
SPEAKER 03 : 10:12
Well, there's still time. Do you still have the car? No, no.
SPEAKER 11 : 10:14
This was back in 2012, 2011. What do you drive now? What do you drive now? Just a pickup truck, a Tundra.
SPEAKER 04 : 10:24
Nice.
SPEAKER 11 : 10:24
Drives slow. Can't get it up to 180.
SPEAKER 03 : 10:26
All right, well, there you go. No speeding, all right? Speeding is bad.
SPEAKER 22 : 10:31
Had one hell of a trip to Miami, took the family to see Taylor Swift, and you'll hear the whole recap coming up. It was a pretty wild time, expensive as hell. You'll hear me later on in the week get into some tipping stuff, so I'll kind of maybe do it here. Everyone, everywhere, every business, everything wanted you to tip. They all had tips. The iPad. They had the tablet that they turn around. And I forgot it wasn't just eateries. It just wasn't restaurants. It was like grocery stores and like souvenir shops. They all have the tablet and then they turned it around. The tipping culture in Miami. I've never seen anything like it. By the way, no option to not tip. I just had to hunt around and find the X at the bottom of the screen to go, no, I just bought a pair of swim trunks from you on the boardwalk because I accidentally crapped mine half to death after some bad oysters the night before. I'm not giving you a tip for me finding swim trunks off of a shelf and wearing them in those choppy, sandy, salty, windblown Miami waters. The tipping thing in Miami is nuts, but it is a city for the wealthy and the well-to-do, and my God... It's a beautiful part of town, but I could never live there. I make a very comfortable living here, and in Miami, I would be living beneath the poverty line. So hear me discuss everything good and bad, Taylor Swift and not, about my trip to Miami with the family on Behind the Curtain. Glad to be back here in Baltimore, Maryland. God's country. Yeah. Just got back from Miami. More like Hollywood, which is like, you know, Towson isn't Baltimore, but it's close enough to be Baltimore.
SPEAKER 08 : 12:16
Yeah, we went there for Taylor Swift.
SPEAKER 22 : 12:20
I think it's like her fifth to last stop on her Eros tour. It was Mudge and our daughter's birthday present from last year. I got tickets last year. I got a hotel last year. I bought a cameo from their favorite member of Naked and Afraid. I'm not sure who he was, but he's got a pretty nice ass, and he knows how to start a fire. They're fascinated with him. So I bought a cameo. I put it on screen. I screencast it, and it's like, hey, this is Jiminy Dinglefarts from Naked and Afraid, and you're not going to be afraid in Miami.
SPEAKER 20 : 12:55
Oh, so he surprised them.
SPEAKER 22 : 12:56
He did the thing, and they said, there you go. He was only like 30 bucks. I was 20, but his was 30. And they got him, and it did kind of suck to be like, hey, happy birthday. You have to wait a year and two months to get this. So that sucks. But they were happy. We head down, went through BWI. It was fine. We get there. It was fine. What'd you fly into? Southwest. We flew into Miami, MIA, which was Miami's official airport, sort of like BWI for us or Reagan National for D.C. And we get there, and it's just the whole thing. It's like the Super Bowl. It's just everybody's there to see Taylor Swift. Three nights, 60,000, 61,000, I think, per night. God. Hard Rock Stadium. Okay. Couple of observations. I made a couple of observations about Miami. Everything is under construction downtown. Now, that's not unusual for a major city. Their roads are flawless. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 03 : 13:59
It's shocking. That's what I talk about my parents all the time. Our roads are immaculate. I told you, my parents have... This is what I say. When I say my parents have... They've moved to a place where you eliminate any kind of... What's the word I'm looking for? She'll go, oh, well, I walk. I'll go, I want to take them on a hike or something. I'll walk around the neighborhood. They'll go, well, I walk all the time in Florida. I go, mom, Florida is flat, and the sidewalks are perfect. I go, it's barely walking. It's barely. It doesn't count. Down there, it's barely driving because there's not a pothole to be found. It's flat. The roads are perfect. Are they using different cement or asphalt than we are? Well, it's the weather. Is it the weather? Because when it rains and snows and melts and freezes and freezes and unmelts and freezes and unmelts, it causes the roads to fall apart. Yeah, their roads are just perfect.
SPEAKER 22 : 14:48
It's like glass. It's like driving on Italian marble. I'm like, how is there so much construction? With that being said... everything is under construction doorknobs plants toilets my entire hotel the diplomat was under construction we actually got a credit back because we got there we looked out there like oh my god this place is beautiful and we walk inside which supposed to be this big glass ceiling like atrium room and it's a wooden hallway like what the hell is this like oh sorry the hotel is under construction right now It's completely under construction. It's a labyrinth trying to make your way around the place. Also, took a photo. This was the gym. The gym looked like a nightclub. I almost didn't want to go in there. They had this weird back blue lighting. And it pulsed. As my dad would like to say, it's a mile wide and an inch deep. It is. The douchebag capital of the continental United States. It looks like a city that the Island Boys helped design. Did you see the trucks where the front is raised and the back is low? I did not see that.
SPEAKER 03 : 15:57
Oh, those are the best.
SPEAKER 22 : 15:59
But I saw 30 Cybertrucks. I saw them in different colors. I saw them in different coordinations. If you want to know where the majority of that truck was sold, I can tell you it's South Beach. They were freaking everywhere. So you did go to South Beach. We went to South Beach, went to Fort Lauderdale for a moment. I wanted to check out a skate park that was up there. I didn't skate. Hollywood, Miami. I listened to quite a bit of Mike's show down there. Wanted to kind of test the competition. Oh, our old producer, Mike. Yeah, he works out of Miami now. Yeah, I'll tell you this. Fine show. I think you guys play a little bit too much music. I want to hear you, okay? I love that you play Blondie, but I wanted to hear them.
SPEAKER 03 : 16:36
Did you drive up and down 95 at all?
SPEAKER 22 : 16:38
I did. Awful. Nothing but traffic at all times of the day. Reminded me of LAX. Also, everybody, including the children, dogs, and white female redheads, want to pretend they're Cuban. Everybody says they're Cuban. Listen, I don't know why you say it the way you do, but when you are just as pale and redheaded as me, when you get a Cuban sandwich, you go, yeah, I'm going to get two mojitos, a basket of fries. What are you doing? Stop it.
SPEAKER 20 : 17:07
You've never been to Havana. I think you had talked about getting Cuban coffee. I couldn't find it.
SPEAKER 22 : 17:14
Damn it. I know. I wanted to get Cuban coffee. I wanted to buy something to bring back. I wanted to get a little bit of something. I never got a Cuban coffee.
SPEAKER 20 : 17:20
Yeah. When I was down there a while back, I wanted to try it, too, and I couldn't find it.
SPEAKER 22 : 17:26
What type of coffee?
SPEAKER 20 : 17:28
It's Cuba.
SPEAKER 22 : 17:29
Did you get a Cuban sandwich? I did get a Cuban sandwich. There, I got actually three of them. Two of them were really good. One of them was a sort of bowling alley quality, the one at the resort. What else? Observations. Everybody loves 50-pound gold ornate sunglasses. The sunglass game down there is out of control. I mean, people in a Walgreens. I had to stop into a Walgreens to pick up some feminine products for myself. Of course it would start when I get to the beach. Everybody, sunglasses indoors, big, swirly, evil rock sunglasses. What's some other observations I made here? Best butts I've ever seen. Oh, yeah. Best butts I've ever seen. Some BBLs that you could tell were aftermarket. Others, just thick, juicy Cuban asses.
SPEAKER 20 : 18:16
In South Beach, when you were walking around, did you get hit on? Not once. Okay.
SPEAKER 22 : 18:21
Dude, I was a four in dim light down there. I wanted just to apologize to people. Like, I'm sorry I'm here. I'm definitely bringing your standard rating down. You definitely stood out. Oh, people are like, what is that hairy white zilch doing here? Also, if you've ever been to a Senor Frogs, it's like a kind of tourist trap place.
SPEAKER 20 : 18:39
I've heard of it.
SPEAKER 22 : 18:39
They should have a cruise missile fired through the front door. Just evaporating everything in there. I've never seen this. I got my gas station burrito from that place. Paid way too much for it. Served with a side of salsa and potato chips. And I even asked the waiter, I was like, did you mean to bring me tortilla chips? Mexican place? No, they come with potato chips. I'm like, well, they don't. They should probably come with tortilla chips because this is a Mexican place. And he goes, no, it comes with potato chips. I'm like, I'm not dunking oots chips in the salsa.
SPEAKER 03 : 19:11
In salsa.
SPEAKER 22 : 19:12
It's disgusting. Yeah, send your frogs, get your act together. Oh. Everything. is insanely expensive did you enjoy going to all those uh areas or were you just exhausted it was the traffic kind of got to me a little bit but much had the idea to rent a car and was smart on her behalf because we did one uber from the airport to the resort and it was like 110 120 bucks yeah i mean i'm looking you said you stayed in hollywood we stayed at the diplomat which is in hollywood florida yeah it's like 15 minutes north of miami 15 20 yeah that's uh well here it says with trap i'm looking on google maps i guess it's rush hour now it takes an hour oh yeah it took it took us it took certain times a day like we drove past uh the miami dolphin stadium hard rock stadium just to kind of get a lay of the land ahead of time took 20 minutes to get there then the day of the show for tatey took an hour to get there Two and a half hours to leave. We were stuck in a Walmart parking lot for an hour and a half just trying to leave. It was a nightmare. So it was nice. I could see why people want to retire down there. Culture, a little thin. The beach is beautiful. Boardwalk was great. Everybody, like customer service-wise, pretty great. They were real good customer service. I get older and withered. I'm really into customer service. And everybody there did an awesome job, from gas stations to seaside eateries. It's a pretty pleasant place. But the people down there, dude, everyone, just it looked like a fashion show.
SPEAKER 20 : 20:49
Did you know that 2020, 2024, I believe it was that year that Anna Nicole Smith died in the Hard Rock Cafe Hotel in Hollywood.
SPEAKER 1 : 21:03
What?
SPEAKER 20 : 21:04
Was that there? I would have told you before you left, but I didn't want to alarm you.
SPEAKER 22 : 21:09
Larry Hogan, the old governor of Maryland, now running for state Senate, joined us in studio and you'll hear the whole interview. We have to get a little bit serious. We put on our serious voices for a second. We ask him some fun stuff and listen, politics completely aside. I get it just by virtue of the fact of talking to anybody on the left, anybody on the right. I happen to feel like most people tend to lean a little bit more independent these days. He gets into it. He's just a good dude. He's the same person he is on the air, off the air. We've dealt with some people in studio before on a political level. I think you know who we're talking about, some prior mayors that were completely different when the microphones were off, when the cameras were away. Wasn't so much performative when the red light blinked off. Larry, when you hear him, and we're on a first name basis. He's the same dude on the air that he is off the air. He sticks around, takes photos, shakes hands, talks, remembers your name, remembers your family's name. He's a good guy. So it's just nice to have a politician that isn't some walking male model or some beauty queen or whatever. you know, pounds his fist with all kinds of hateful or cancellation rhetoric. The guy just sort of comes across as a normal dude. And we have also reached out to his competitor, Angela Alsobrooks, to see if she'd like to come onto the air to have her voice be heard because we're an equal time station around these parts. We just have yet to hear back from her. So coming up, our old pal Larry Hogan joined us on the air on Behind the Curtain. This is a gentleman we have waited to return to this studio for quite some time. Joining us, it's an old friend. It's a man from right down the way, a man who I've bumped into as beautiful children, lovely wife, more than one occasion, a guy that once said during the pandemic, he actually kept the liquor stores open just for me, Mr. Larry Hogan. Good morning, sir. Hey, guys. Hey. Great to be back. Do you remember us?
SPEAKER 17 : 23:06
Of course I do. I can't forget. I thought you guys forgot about me. Never. I haven't had any invitation to come hang out. Never.
SPEAKER 22 : 23:13
Hey, first and foremost, let's get right down to it. Some of the more serious topics. We don't like having to do this stuff, but we've got to do this stuff because it's our duties as journalists. How are you able to chug Zelco? That is one of the most, like, teeth enamel stripping, gum rotting, don't have an ulcer and you want one. Vodka's out there, and I saw a little image of you in College Park partying down with the fellas, ripping off the bottle.
SPEAKER 17 : 23:39
Well... It really probably wasn't a wise decision. I had never actually drank Zelco before. I never even heard of it. I didn't hear of it either. It's affordable. It's got like 300 hits on Barstool Sports somehow. And they gave you a chaser, which was nice. I did see that. So I was just walking around, tailgating, doing selfies with people, meeting with alumni and parents and students. And I came across this fraternity party where they handed me this handle, this plastic bottle of vodka and said, you want to do a shot? I was like, damn right I do. Yeah, hell yeah. And they started chanting, Larry, Larry, Larry.
SPEAKER 03 : 24:20
The video's awesome. Oh, hey, that's a good idea. You remember when they used to chant Jerry, like the Jerry Springer? Yeah. Jerry Springer used to be a politician. That's true. I might have a different career then.
SPEAKER 22 : 24:32
Let's get a TV show going. You mean before this? Larry, Larry, Larry. Turns out you are the next member of the Senate.
SPEAKER 17 : 24:41
I think this one might put me over the top. I mean, I had chugged a 16-ounce Natty Bow. I remember that one. But this one, I took it to a whole other level. Yeah, Zelka's different than a Natty. Trust me.
SPEAKER 22 : 24:51
You ever had Malort? I haven't, no. It's the Chicago liquor that just... I think one of the catchphrases is, Malort, today's the day you fight your dad. No.
SPEAKER 17 : 25:00
It's rough stuff. Maybe I'll skip that one.
SPEAKER 22 : 25:02
Hey, you look great. Thank you. Good shape. Obviously, everybody knows about your battle and victory over cancer so many years ago. And, I mean, this is about the most svelte we've seen you in forever.
SPEAKER 17 : 25:13
I'm very svelte. Thank you. The health train? I dropped a few pounds. I mean, my wife doesn't feed me, and I'm getting a little more exercise because we're working 15 hours a day running around the state. Nice. Yeah. I'm not drinking Zelco every day. No, do not. Do not.
SPEAKER 20 : 25:28
So I'm curious, you've been governor twice, long history in politics. Why would you want to be in the U.S. Senate for six years surrounded by some of the most hated people on earth?
SPEAKER 17 : 25:44
Well, that's a great question. And quite frankly, I really did not have a burning desire to be part of all that divisiveness and dysfunction. I really it's not something I aspire to. I didn't need a job and I didn't need a title. But I've never been more concerned about the direction of the country. And I just at the last minute stepped up because I thought I could actually make a difference. And it doesn't seem like it's going to be a lot of fun. But I think it's important because the country is so hopelessly divided. Politics is broken. And I had a pretty good track record of doing things while I was governor. People liked the job we did. And I know it's a different job. But I think I can still be that same strong independent leader that will stand up to both sides and try to get things done.
SPEAKER 22 : 26:27
You're running as a Republican and, you know, as our governor, you did reach across aisles more than other Republicans across the country at the gubernatorial level. We've also reached out to Angela also, Brooks. We'd love to give her a chance to sit in studio and let her voice be heard as well. So fingers crossed that happens where, you know, we're in equal time here. But do you ever foresee a time at any point in this country we could possibly move away from the two-party system? Because it does feel like a sport more often than not that some people, they will vote down party line no matter what. And that's where you kind of did differ from some other Republicans in the country. Sometimes you wouldn't go party first, policy second. You were policy first and party second. Sometimes, to many people's chagrin, we heard the rhino phrase thrown out all the time, Republican in name only, which – Okay, everybody, stop with the open mic night on the social media comments. You said it about 7,000th in line. Can you foresee a time where that goes away? Any generation?
SPEAKER 17 : 27:23
I think that never have more people in America been just completely... Fed up with politics as usual. And I think the you know, I'm talking about putting people over politics and country over party. And I'm not the only one that feels that way. I can tell you in when I left office as governor last January, I had a farewell address. And it's in the same place where George Washington resigned his command to the Continental Forces and in his farewell address. to the nation after being president he said the parties were going to be the ruination of america and it sure feels that way because people just seem more interested in attacking the other side than actually solving anything and right i don't really come from the performative art school of politics they just want to go on cable news or on social media and say some crazy thing and it's the extreme left extreme right um i'm just a guy that likes to get things done and uh i think we need to come together the country's being torn apart
SPEAKER 03 : 28:20
And I think that's why you're so beloved, Larry Hogan, is because you just want to get the job done. And like you said, the extreme left and the extreme right, we're being forced to choose one or the other. And me personally, my answer does not lie on either side of that. It's somewhere in the middle. And it's so obvious. I think you said that. That's such a frustrating thing for people is that now with the state of especially the presidential race, I mean, we are so far divided. And we are just getting further and further away each day. And the answer lies in the middle. It's almost terrifying and it's almost hopeless. But I look and I see... Maybe not so much in the world of politics, but when I have an 11-year-old daughter and I look around and I see the youth and maybe when it comes to, let's say, like the climate or pollution or – I don't know. I see – I see people working day and night, and I trust that they'll figure things out. I'll be like, you know what? We're going to figure out the plastic problem. We're going to figure out all this. But when it comes to politics, man, I look at it and go, I don't know if we're going to figure it out. I feel like even the younger people that are getting into it they get swept up into it yeah they see how you can you know manipulate they see the manipulation they see the power they get drunk on it and they i feel like they just follow in the footsteps of the older and i don't know do you see hope in younger politicians
SPEAKER 17 : 29:51
Well, so I agree with everything you just said, and that's what's so frustrating about it, which is why I didn't really want to go do it. But I think that we need, in times like this when it's so bad, we need leaders that are willing to step up. But you're right, most of the people on both sides are more interested in perpetuating their own career or making a name for themselves. And I couldn't care less about any of that stuff. I'm just going there to try to see if we can't. fix things. But I do see some hope. I did some fellowships around a couple of colleges around the country. I wasn't doing Zelco at all of them, but I was actually talking to kids. And I do see hope in the younger generation, but the system, it's just, it's broken. And we've got to kind of hit the wall where people say, we're going to try something else. And What we do see is now about 40 percent of the people in America are independent, more than there are Republicans or Democrats. More people are coming to the middle. The two parties are moving more to the left and the right. But most of the other people are moving somewhere toward the middle. They're right of center, left of center or moderate.
SPEAKER 22 : 30:56
Isn't it strange how you see the discourse online never translates to in person? Ever. The language used in the post, just by virtue of speaking with you today, we will get comments on our social media, how dare us this, how dare us that, or in the opposite direction, about time, way to go. But in conversation, at a bar, you get someone that's left and someone that's right, and you don't get that vitriol and that rancor. They're more human in person.
SPEAKER 17 : 31:19
Well, that's very true. Social media is not the real world, and it's only a small subset of people who are out there just sitting behind their keyboard saying crazy things or typing on their phone. And real people don't really talk like that or act like that, and they don't really like it much. And so it's important. I just try to tune out all that stuff when I'm out talking to people everywhere at a Maryland game or a Ravens game or I'm stopping by a bar somewhere. People are, you know, they're pretty fed up the way we are. Human. They're human.
SPEAKER 22 : 31:53
I wish I could buy adrenaline. I know that EpiPens have it in there. I don't feel like sticking myself with the damn thing. A, think it's illegal. B, I don't like needles. But we opened up the phones about the last time you had an adrenaline rush. I wish I could control that response to be able to go, okay, I'm about to go on stage. I'm about to engage in some sort of intense physical activity. I'm about to do something I need to have a little bravery in me for. And instead of slugging a little whiskey to get some of that liquid courage in you, I wouldn't mind being able to pop an adrenaline pill. What we do need to do as a follow-up to this break about the last time you had an adrenaline rush is talk to a man we referenced during it, our old pal Travis Pastrana of the Nitro Circus. The things that he does daily, you'll hear us discuss in this break coming up, would be a once-in-a-lifetime event for most of us. The adrenaline rush we would get. backflipping a motorbike, jumping a motorbike, diving out of a plane, racing a rally car, tearing around the woods in a four-wheeler, would send our adrenaline spiking into the red. But for him, it's his job. It's his every day. It's what he does from sunup to sundown better than anybody else in the world. So what gives him an adrenaline rush? I would love to know. Maybe I'll reach out to Street Bike Tommy or some of the other good people at the Nitro Circus about what gives them an adrenaline rush because we asked you, what gives you that rush? On Behind the Curtain.
SPEAKER 03 : 33:35
Nah, I mean, I had to probably be on my bike or something, right?
SPEAKER 22 : 33:38
Yeah. Jumping over a ramp, something on a skateboard, staying up 15 minutes past your bedtime.
SPEAKER 03 : 33:44
That's right. Chased by the cops. I didn't choose the Thug Life Speaks. The Thug Life chose me. As a police officer, I can tell you I get an average of between 6 and 10 adrenaline rushes a day. I'm sure you can probably guess the agency I work for. That's got to be, I wonder if that's, it's got to be draining, right? I was going to say, is that healthy?
SPEAKER 22 : 34:05
Probably not. If you have that many adrenaline rushes. An adrenaline rush is the result of a body's fight or flight response. It's an actual chemical response where your brain sends a message that there is a threat. Adrenaline is then released. It travels through your body, heart, lungs, brain, eyes, airwaves, blood vessels. The organs and tissues react, contracting. Then the effect wears down. Your adrenaline glands stop producing adrenalins, and you actually feel an adrenaline crash. Oh, yeah. It increases your blood pressure, sending more blood to your heart and muscles. I was going to say, if you experience it like this person that said they have them multiple times a day. Can't be healthy. You just got to do damage to your heart. Imagine every time you drove. You drove the S2000. That's what you got, the buck 20, buck 30. Yep. If you drove it like that every day.
SPEAKER 03 : 34:55
Or multiple times a day, at least.
SPEAKER 22 : 34:56
Multiple times a day, every day. You never do anything less than 120. You think I would tear the engine up?
SPEAKER 03 : 35:02
No. The engine in my car, you mean? No.
SPEAKER 1 : 35:08
Okay.
SPEAKER 03 : 35:09
But you would get used to it.
SPEAKER 22 : 35:10
Wait, I'm confused. I'm asking, is it good? The engine is like the heart of a car. Like, if you drive it that much, would it damage it?
SPEAKER 03 : 35:19
No.
SPEAKER 22 : 35:19
No?
SPEAKER 03 : 35:19
I mean, that's what it's meant to do. But, like, your body is not meant to... To do, like, a buck twenty?
SPEAKER 22 : 35:25
A car can handle that much? Genuine question. That it would be... Like, the car's like, yeah, hell yeah. Give this to me.
SPEAKER 03 : 35:32
I mean, I'm not a mechanic. I'd be scared. I get the analogy you're trying to make. So, yes. I'll say yes, just for... Somebody says they were trapped in a house fire. That's adrenaline. Yeah, they were on the second floor trying to figure out if they were going to jump out. Jesus. The love of God. This is why you should own a trampoline. Passed someone in a passing zone. Almost got into a head-on collision. That's an adrenaline rush. Yeah, like just missing in a car accident.
SPEAKER 22 : 36:05
Oh, yeah. I think we've all been there. Yeah, yeah. You get somebody that just misses you. Just misses you. A lot of skydiving, masturbating while riding a roller coaster, surviving a small plane crash. Taking off at a small airfield, single-engine Cessna. We were off the ground 10 to 15 feet, and the engine stalls, and we crash. So it technically is a crash.
SPEAKER 03 : 36:31
That's wild, right? Yeah, but Joe Robinson was in here. This is how they got started, and they said that his adrenaline rush comes from climbing on a wife that's 30 years younger.
SPEAKER 22 : 36:42
That's probably a good adrenaline rush. That's got to be pretty nice. That's got to be pretty good. Let's go to Dan. Dan online, too. Dan, good morning.
SPEAKER 08 : 36:50
Hey, good morning. Good morning, Spiegel.
SPEAKER 22 : 36:52
Good morning.
SPEAKER 08 : 36:54
Am I coming through clear, gentlemen? Yeah. All right. Yeah, scuba diving and sailing. Got into boats about five years ago.
SPEAKER 22 : 37:01
Now, skydiving I get. I've done it. One of the worst things I've ever done. It's probably the place that I went to. But sailing. Is sailing causing an adrenaline rush?
SPEAKER 08 : 37:10
It can, especially if, like, a squall comes through the bay. It's pretty nuts.
SPEAKER 22 : 37:15
Okay, so that wind starts ripping you around because you're at the mercy of the wind. So it's not like, you know, you've got an engine on that thing, which, I mean, maybe you do, but the wind starts pulling that boat around?
SPEAKER 08 : 37:24
Exactly. Yes, exactly. That happened over the summer. It was probably the scariest moment of my life. I really thought we were done for getting pushed out into the bay from the Patuxent.
SPEAKER 03 : 37:35
Oh, damn. Yeah, I mean, being out on the water and, you know, when you're at the mercy of nature, it's like. What have we said about, like, hot air balloons?
SPEAKER 22 : 37:47
Like, you're steering that thing. You see power lines coming. You're about to fly over the smokestack at Calvert Cliffs. Would you go on a hot air balloon? Hell no, man. No, I didn't even like the one that was down there at Port Discovery that was tethered to the ground. That's that thing. I hated that thing. I went up in there once for a field trip. That was awful. And remember the thing broke and people were stuck up there? Like, well, that's where you live now. We'll throw up some food. That was like a part of the Baltimore, like, I'm saying skyline, but you drive downtown and be like, oh, there's a great big balloon. There's a bunch of kids up in there right now starving to death. Let's go to Baltimore Joe, who's been holding...
SPEAKER 01 : 38:27
Good morning. Good morning, Josh. Hi. Hello. So my adrenal rush is every day when I go home to my pregnant wife. Hey, Al.
SPEAKER 19 : 38:38
Hey.
SPEAKER 01 : 38:39
Now, I've done skydiving. I've done bungee jumping. But something I've gotten, I just realized, too, when I was scuba diving in Mexico, a stingray came inches away from me. And I didn't even know it until it was inches away from my chest.
SPEAKER 03 : 38:57
Yeah, that'll do it. Be down there with sharks, maybe. Oh, yeah, yeah. You feel it. You see a fin.
SPEAKER 22 : 39:01
Oh, hell no. You want to give me adrenaline rush? This is a great point. Thank you, Baltimore Joe. Just feeling something brush up against you.
SPEAKER 03 : 39:08
With your water, and you don't know what it is. No, it's a barracuda.
SPEAKER 22 : 39:12
Like, there's no barracudas. It's seaweed. It's seaweed. It's just a leaf. I've convinced myself it's a hammerhead shark in three inches of water. Let's talk to Joanna on line three. Joanna, when's the last time you felt that adrenaline rush?
SPEAKER 13 : 39:28
I feel it every day when I'm at work. I'm a NICU nurse, so I resuscitate premature babies. And so... When you're coding them and doing test compressions, I mean, yeah, it's a pretty crazy feeling.
SPEAKER 22 : 39:41
Oh, my God. Yeah, you're at the edge, the razor's edge of life and death for someone's newborn.
SPEAKER 20 : 39:47
It is so heart-wrenching when you see videos of those little, like, tiny babies in the glass. I don't know what it is. Glass boxes, and they're all hooked up. It's horrible.
SPEAKER 22 : 39:58
yeah that's like the first that's it's their first existence outside of their mother is like jacked into the matrix with all the stuff going up the nose and they're like preemies when a real small so when you bring when you bring one back from the brink and you know this kid's gonna be okay i mean you you can't you can't tell joanna nothing that day i mean you're a you're a hero
SPEAKER 13 : 40:21
Well, it's just the coolest thing. We had a baby that was born less than a pound. And like last week, she's now eight pounds and is like the mother can hold her. It's like the coolest job. It's amazing.
SPEAKER 20 : 40:34
That's incredible. And not to get too sad here, but I've seen stories about babies born to crack mothers. And, you know, people like volunteers come in to hold them. Yeah, they're toddlers. Cuddlers, yeah.
SPEAKER 22 : 40:51
Damn, that's amazing. We're sending Joe. Yeah, we're sending Joe to cuddle you from all the good work you do. Give our best to everybody else there at that NICU unit. I don't think NICU unit. Firefighters, cops, teachers, nurses shouldn't have to pay taxes. Well, now I'm sad. Hey, she saved the baby. She did. Super heavy now. Kid's like eight pounds. Kid's almost fat. They took that one-pound baby and just turned it into this big old butterball. Good for her. Let's go to who's been holding for a second here. Talk to Johnny online for Johnny. You think you can top saving a one pound baby for adrenaline rush?
SPEAKER 02 : 41:25
Well, hello there. Hello there. Yes, I can. I was actually riding on the roller coaster behind the gentleman that you were talking about earlier. And I got quite the adrenaline rush dodging what was coming out of this gentleman.
SPEAKER 22 : 41:39
Ah, okay. Yeah, the guy that tweeted in about that he pleasured himself on a roller coaster. That's got to be tough. Like, oh, man, a bird went to the bathroom on me. But I don't see any birds. Oh, this is a big one. Zach, you were at war.
SPEAKER 21 : 41:56
Morning, guys. Morning. So I was in Iraq in 2016. And we had a radar that picked up the rockets that were coming in. And I sat right behind the guy. He goes, hey, it looks like this is going to be a direct impact. So we all get down and we cover. The whole time that a guy's counting down seconds to impact.
SPEAKER 03 : 42:17
Oh, my God. That like I'm about to die adrenaline rush.
SPEAKER 21 : 42:24
You don't know to duck and cover your head. Do you relax the butthole and just accept it? Yeah, like what do you do?
SPEAKER 03 : 42:31
So what did you do? Did you relax the butthole or brace yourself?
SPEAKER 21 : 42:35
A bit of everything.
SPEAKER 22 : 42:37
Do you know how big the rocket is?
SPEAKER 21 : 42:40
It was a 107-millimeter rocket.
SPEAKER 22 : 42:43
I don't know the sizes. Is that one like, okay, that's going to blow up a base, or that's just going to blow up a cooler? Uh, you're not going to have a nice day. Okay. All right, damn. Well, I'm glad you're still with us.
SPEAKER 03 : 42:55
Yeah, right? Veterans? God, we didn't even think about that.
SPEAKER 22 : 42:57
Yeah, someone that's in a theater of war, your whole day is pure adrenaline. After a while, you've got to feel nothing. When all day your adrenaline receptors are just pumping it into you, come week two, someone can fire a gun near your head, you won't even flinch. It's fried. Monday, I get to hear this for the first time. I was out. I was in Miami. I was taking my family to see Taylor Swift. Meanwhile, back here in Baltimore, Maryland, you got to hear our friend Randolph Rice. Rice, proud sponsor of the program. Call the fellas to discuss that piece of garbage, Jack Callis, John Callis, whatever his stupid name is. You've got a calloused heart because he... Wearing a Ravens jersey that you should never be allowed to put on your body again. Frankly, I think you should be banned from all future Ravens games, events, and just being in polite society in general. Punched and knocked out a Redskins, Commanders fan, and then threw another one into a wall, and then went off to Florida, and then turned himself in, and blah, blah, blah. And this guy, by all accounts, absolutely sucks. And I am eager to hear about this. Not sure if it was asked or not. I'll be hearing it my first time in a moment or two. What priors have effect on a case like this? Say I lose my mind. I go absolutely crazy. And one day I swing on Joe Stamboni and give him a concussion. Then I grab Joe Stamboni's brother, Jim Stamboni, and throw him into a wall. I've never done that before. So do I get some level of leniency for acting like a psychopath for the first time? versus somebody like this callous piece of trash that's got a bit of a track record with assaults and batteries and issues with the law and stuff in school and getting kicked out, and let's not even get started on what he dressed as for Halloween. So coming up, you're going to hear it again for the first time, and I'm going to enjoy it right now fresh as Randolph Rice discusses that son of a bitch from the viral video that punched a Commanders fan, Jack Callis, on Behind the Curtain.
SPEAKER 03 : 44:56
And joining us on the program, proud sponsor of this program, this is a sponsored segment, Rice Murthapasaurus. Oh, hell yeah. It is our good buddy, Randolph Rice. Good morning, Randolph Rice. What's up, Randolph?
SPEAKER 09 : 45:07
Good morning. Is that Joe Robinson from the DLP Agenda? That's right. How you doing, bro? You sound good this morning.
SPEAKER 04 : 45:15
Thanks, man. I'm proudly wearing my Rice Murthapasaurus hat as we speak. Oh, you are? Look at that.
SPEAKER 09 : 45:20
Oh, I like that.
SPEAKER 03 : 45:21
How does Randolph Rice spend a beautiful November-October weekend?
SPEAKER 09 : 45:26
My parents are in town from Louisiana, so I played golf with my father, which is great. He's about to be 80 years old. He still hits the ball a long way. That's awesome. You know what? That is the secret to living a long life, being active.
SPEAKER 04 : 45:40
Yeah, you ain't kidding. My father's been eating gravy for the last 40 years. That's not the secret. Loving the Oak Ridge Boys is not a...
SPEAKER 03 : 45:54
Randolph, we are talking to you today because big news. Big news. Did this make national news? International. International news. Ravens fan right outside the Cross Street Market, Fed Hill, just laying out to Commanders fans. And this was one time where kind of I don't know one time, but you see it more and more. I'll just say that where maybe the Internet gets the jump on a the news stations, the news networks, and they kind of take to the Internet and the video goes viral. And then there's people weighing in saying, hey, we know that guy. We know exactly who he is. We know where he's from. And you have the whole backstory of this person, which was pretty fascinating.
SPEAKER 09 : 46:39
Right. So here's the story is that a video comes out after last weekend's game of some guy walking down the street punching people in commander's uniforms. He turns around and says, I'm not losing or I don't lose or something like that. Right. I don't lose. Right. It goes all over the Internet. It goes everywhere. They ID the guy immediately. And it kind of sizzles for a little while. And all of a sudden it comes out that the Baltimore City Police Department decides they're going to charge him. and they issue an arrest warrant, and they charge him with a felony first-degree assault and three counts of second-degree assault. He's looking at potentially 55 years in jail. Now, he's not going to get 55 years in jail, but these are serious charges.
SPEAKER 04 : 47:19
What could he really get if you were guessing?
SPEAKER 09 : 47:23
Well, the Banner has reported that he has a prior, very similar incident where he was fighting in Towson, got a PBJ for a second result. The judge now is probably going to look at this case and say, what did you learn last time?
SPEAKER 03 : 47:36
Now we need to actually... PBJ, for those not aware, is probation before judgment, right? Judgment, yes. So what does that mean?
SPEAKER 09 : 47:44
Tantamount to a slap on the wrist. You're going to be on probation. Don't do this again. You're not going to jail. It's not a conviction. You can expunge this from your record, right? It's your one bite at the apple. So once you have your one bite at the apple, now's the time to pay the piper.
SPEAKER 03 : 48:00
So let's say the video doesn't come out, right? Then unless those Commanders fans call 911, get the police, make a police report, and they somehow find this guy, and the Commanders fans want to press charges... Nothing comes of this. So the Internet was key in this.
SPEAKER 04 : 48:22
Yeah, it doesn't matter, right, if the victims want to press charges or not.
SPEAKER 03 : 48:27
Well, that's my point. Does that matter?
SPEAKER 09 : 48:28
It does matter sometimes. But in this situation, the state of Maryland is the one pursuing the charges. So they're the ones that are going to say, we have evidence of a crime. We have a video. We have the victims, the witnesses. They're able to at least testify to this. We're going to press the charges. And they did that.
SPEAKER 20 : 48:48
The thing that makes me uneasy is that this just lands in the court of public opinion immediately. There are there are details out there. You don't even know if they're true or not. And the guy is immediately vilified.
SPEAKER 09 : 49:04
Right. Yeah, that's the way the world works now with the Internet and Facebook and people go out there and they scream into the great void with their opinions. All of a sudden, people believe that that's truth.
SPEAKER 04 : 49:16
Yeah, but I get to form an opinion even based on the small sample size of information I have. I could be wrong, but he'll get an opportunity to tell his side of the story, whatever that is. Right. I mean, exactly. He's going to still have his presumption of innocence. But let me ask you this from from the perspective of these these the two victims haven't come forward. And I assume now at this point... I think they have.
SPEAKER 09 : 49:39
Oh, is that right? Yeah, I think the police department actually made contact with them.
SPEAKER 04 : 49:43
Okay, because are they... Hold on, let me finish my thought. Are they potentially entitled to any financial compensation, Randall?
SPEAKER 09 : 49:52
They are. They are. They certainly are. And they could certainly go after them civilly and try to get damages for any injuries, any embarrassment, any pain and suffering. Dang. So they have a lot on the line.
SPEAKER 03 : 50:04
Now, so you could if I'm the victim of a crime like this, I can press. They say, do you want to press charges? Right. Because we've seen where maybe it's a domestic and then the woman goes, well, I don't want to press charges or you do press charges. So when I press charges, that's a it could be both criminally and civilly.
SPEAKER 09 : 50:27
It's criminal to press charges. So you're initiating the charges with, let's say, a commissioner or a police officer in the state of Maryland. The officer's charging the individual to sign either issue a summons or a warrant or arrest them right there. And then the state's attorney's office for the county picks it up and decides are they going to continue prosecuting the case.
SPEAKER 03 : 50:45
And then, so in this case, the state has filed the charges.
SPEAKER 09 : 50:49
Baltimore City.
SPEAKER 03 : 50:51
The city, based on the video evidence, they feel they have enough. And then I've heard, this is all hearsay, we have the JSS Army out there, Randolph. We have a lot of people in a lot of places. And they say that his Snapchat has tracked him at the airport and then in Florida. Okay.
SPEAKER 09 : 51:09
He was heading to the Tampa game because there was a couple of Tampa Buccaneer fans that he wanted to whale on. I don't know that to be the case.
SPEAKER 03 : 51:19
Well, let's just say he did, like, leave the state. Let's say allegedly. Does that factor in at all as well or no?
SPEAKER 09 : 51:26
It can. You know, the judge may look at it as when he comes, because he's going to be taken before a judge when the warrant is served, and the judge is going to say, wait a second, you're a flight risk. When you heard about these charges, you took off. Now, there may be a reason why. Maybe he's going to visit somebody. Maybe he has a legitimate excuse.
SPEAKER 03 : 51:45
And maybe he didn't go anywhere. Maybe this is all just hearsay. Yeah. But, like, okay, but what about turning yourself in? Shouldn't he have, like, done that by now? Yeah, he's had to have heard. Of course, right?
SPEAKER 09 : 51:55
I know. Right. Unless you're living under a rock, I think you certainly have heard that you're wanted by the Baltimore City Police Department. He has a lawyer. Apparently his lawyer has said we're going to cooperate. He's going to surrender. I checked case search this morning. I haven't seen him turn himself in yet. So apparently he's still out in the world somewhere.
SPEAKER 04 : 52:16
Yeah, and the irony is he says, I never lose. He immediately lost his job.
SPEAKER 09 : 52:23
And the insurance company shut down their website because they were getting so many contact forms and people trying to reach out.
SPEAKER 04 : 52:32
That's funny because they're like, hey, we fired the guy. What do you want from us?
SPEAKER 03 : 52:35
Now, Randolph, all this allegedly, this is all just the stuff we've heard. Maybe you've heard this as well, but I heard he comes from a very wealthy, affluent family.
SPEAKER 09 : 52:48
I have heard the same exact thing, yes. How does that factor in?
SPEAKER 03 : 52:51
Or does it?
SPEAKER 09 : 52:52
Well, he's certainly going to be able to afford a private attorney, although maybe his family says, you know what, Jack, we've bailed you out already. We're not going to do it again. Yeah. Yeah. You know, alcohol is going to be obviously a suspicion that he was drinking. So they're probably going to put him into some sort of alcohol treatment program. Anger seems to be an issue if he's done this already in Towson. Right. So, you know, he's. It's not looking great, but I'm sure there's going to be a lot of things his attorneys are going to do to soften the blow, so to speak.
SPEAKER 03 : 53:23
I keep thinking about that one – I believe it was a drunk driving case down in Texas where they used the affluenza defense. Do you remember that?
SPEAKER 04 : 53:32
Yeah, but also – Yeah, it's where they suffer from... They're so affluent. They're so out of touch because they have so much money that they aren't able to view things from a common sense lens or whatever. I don't believe that was a smart defense. But how surprised were you to find out that he was a Division III lacrosse player? I thought that tracked. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 : 53:56
I agree, Joe. Yes, you're right about that. That tracks perfectly. Yeah. To all my lacrosse friends, no disrespect for you, but yes.
SPEAKER 03 : 54:06
Pretty interesting story. Baltimore in the headlines once again for not so great reasons on the global stage. We'll see how it all plays out, Randolph. Thank you for shedding some light onto it when it comes to the legal side of things. Rice, Murtha, Pesaurus, proud sponsor of this program. We love you. Thanks for joining us, and we appreciate the time. See you, Randolph.
SPEAKER 09 : 54:27
Love you guys. Love you guys. Have a great day. All right. See you. Thanks. This has been a paid segment brought to you by Rice, Murtha, and Pesaurus.
SPEAKER 22 : 54:39
I like this. Didn't really pan out the way that we thought it would. I still think it has legs, but who knows? We opened up the ugly line. Scott found an article about some of the advantages of actually being ugly. Now believe me, I think there's a lot more advantages to being beautiful, being gorgeous, but if you want to get to know somebody on a more personal level, a real level, that if you happen to be quote-unquote ugly by societal beauty standards, people might want to actually know more about you instead of your big, juicy breasts or large, bulbous, muscular man ass. Sometimes if you're beautiful, you get stuck at the surface level. Also, sometimes people aren't honest with you about how they actually feel about you their thoughts on you their opinions on you maybe they have some good healthy criticism but they want to sleep with you if you're gorgeous if you're ugly if you're a bunch of trolls like us you get to talk to us a lot more directly We did get some photos. We did get some discussions. We did have a talk around us. I wanted to get more calls from some of you ugly bastards. I've been to our live events, okay? A lot of you, gorgeous. Internally, all of you are. Some of you, outwardly, you sort of look like the leprechaun from the movie of the same name. I still want to find the ugliest person in Baltimore. We do the ugly dog competitions. I want to do an ugly person competition. And I don't know. They win plastic surgery. They win Botox. They win a makeover. Or they win a... I don't know, whatever the hell ugly people are into. Guy Fawkes masks, Bane masks, something to cover that hideous visage. We opened up the phone lines and talked about the advantages of being ugly on Behind the Curtain. Nick, while we got you for one quick second, I don't think you're going to say you look like Ryan Reynolds, but do you think you're ugly?
SPEAKER 18 : 56:20
It depends on the day. No, I don't think I'm ugly. I mean, I don't think the red hair really helps. I think it's part of your charm. And my Italian hook nose. That's a strong Roman nose.
SPEAKER 03 : 56:35
Stop with the nose. Look over here, please.
SPEAKER 22 : 56:37
No, I know.
SPEAKER 18 : 56:37
You got it a little worse than me.
SPEAKER 22 : 56:38
Scott found an article about the hidden power. of being ugly. 410-338-1098. We're asking you genuinely. Do you think you're ugly? I already see Elliot calling on line one. He's not ugly. As a matter of fact, you and everybody in your family, Elliot, we'll go to you, are handsome, if not beautiful. Looking at you, Shane. Looking at you, Tina. Yeah, they find people that are ugly have greater success because they've actually got to try versus some beautiful person that's just exalted. If Hayley Welch, talk to her, talk to her, was ugly... She wouldn't be what she is. She has nothing. They're like, ugh. You have to drive. You have to drive. Well, that's what it says.
SPEAKER 03 : 57:16
It says greater success because you work harder, stronger self-identity. You form deeper connections because people actually get to know you, not just your beauty. You're not obsessed with plastic surgery. You've learned resilience. You become self-sufficient and intrinsically motivated. You can age without freaking out, and you can control what can be controlled, and you learn to work with what you got.
SPEAKER 22 : 57:39
Yeah, you've got to be a person. So that's you. Okay? You're not ugly. But again, you're not going to wee-walk in the Paris runway. Yeah, I feel like a lot of these I can relate to. Let's go to the phones. 410-338-1098. Let's talk to Reggie, the truck driver. Reggie, toot-toot.
SPEAKER 07 : 57:55
Hey, guys. How you doing?
SPEAKER 22 : 57:57
How's your ugly ass?
SPEAKER 07 : 57:58
Very, very ugly. I've been told I look a little uglier than Rocky Dennis, you know, from the movie Mask.
SPEAKER 22 : 58:07
Yes, played by Eric Stoltz with Cher.
SPEAKER 07 : 58:09
Well, and also, too, in high school, I was considered so ugly that they paid a janitor to teach me down in the basement so I wasn't with the other kids.
SPEAKER 22 : 58:18
Oh, my gosh. To keep you away from the normies.
SPEAKER 07 : 58:20
Yep, and I ate lunch down there, you know. It was a rough one. I'm one ugly guy, you know.
SPEAKER 22 : 58:26
I'd love to see a photo. Text in 410-338-1098. Spiegel, once a year, you will do a story I always look forward to, and I believe it's overseas. Isn't it the ugliest dog ever?
SPEAKER 20 : 58:39
Oh, I love the ugliest dog. It's they probably do it overseas. The one we focus on is in California. That's the one.
SPEAKER 22 : 58:49
And I mean, it might as well be another country at this point. If you've been over there, the whole thing's on fire.
SPEAKER 20 : 58:53
They should do the people overseas.
SPEAKER 22 : 58:56
You're in my head. You got the dog that looks like it's got radiation poisoning. Dumb tongue hanging out. One eye's milky. It always looks like it's growling at buttholes. That's the size of a piece of pepperoni. Tail snapped in half. They do beauty pageants. There should be an ugly person pageant. Yeah. For years, I wanted to do the triple B. Best butt in Baltimore. One day we'll get it off the ground. Men, women, pets. Okay. I would love to do... Like an ugly pageant. That's a great idea. How hideous are you? We definitely should do that. And we'll have a runway. We have like a four-piece cello. Something. Okay? And we just have the most hideous MFers. And we celebrate them being, by society's standards, ugly. But in effort of doing so, we prove how worthwhile they are. They've got great personalities. They're funny as hell. You have to be. Okay. They're probably interesting people. I love it.
SPEAKER 20 : 59:53
Joe, find me some ugly people. Should they wear, on the runway, should they come out wearing veils and then be exposed? I'd love that. Like an Italian widow.
SPEAKER 22 : 60:03
And then they pull the veil up and everyone's like, ooh. Okay. And I don't want any, like... Post-birth deformities? Like someone that got attacked by a chimp? Okay. Anybody that went to lick the blender clean and someone plugged it in suddenly? Shredding up their face? I want people naturally born... Straight from the factory ugly. Straight from the... Right out of the can. All right. Clint Howard ugly. Clint Howard is an ugly man. Would you consider Ron Perlman an ugly man?
SPEAKER 03 : 60:38
Yes.
SPEAKER 22 : 60:38
He's the dude that's got that... Big-ass jaw. He's unique-looking. He's got an interesting look to him. He's a troll. There he is, right there. Yes, I would consider him ugly.
SPEAKER 20 : 60:48
But somehow, in his ugliness, he's beautiful. Well, he's shaped that into a career. Oh, 100%.
SPEAKER 22 : 61:00
Remember, he was a weird human-lion hybrid and had sex with Sarah Connor. on Beauty and the Beast, that TV show, which my dad loved. He's the big guy. Who's the big red guy? He's Hellboy. Hellboy. He's Hellboy. The new Hellboy, not bad, by the way. Check it out. Minimal budget. Yeah, I love the idea. Text in pictures, 410-338-1098, maybe next year. We'll do. We've got a lot to get to. We'll do, I want to do a Best Button Baltimore. I still want to do the Dive Bar Tour. And I would love to find the ugliest MF-er. There was none of those in Miami. I was that person. I'd be the person nominated. Can you think of anybody you ever worked with at any point in radio, out of radio, knew, didn't know personally, but saw with any regularity?
SPEAKER 20 : 61:40
Like, Jesus, that person is ugly.
SPEAKER 22 : 61:43
How is that?
SPEAKER 03 : 61:44
I'm wearing a Guy Fawkes mask if I'm you. I can show you a photo if you'd like. Just give me 30 seconds here. If you show me a picture, Joe, I'll spit my coffee. Of who, Joe? No, Joe's beautiful. Beautiful. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 22 : 61:55
We work with pretty people.
SPEAKER 03 : 61:56
Okay, this person. Cool.
SPEAKER 22 : 62:02
God damn. Oh, my God. I love him.
SPEAKER 03 : 62:06
I love him. He's a great guy.
SPEAKER 22 : 62:08
He's a great guy. It looks like his eyes broke up with each other. They look like they're not on speaking terms. Hey. I mean, that eye is looking forward to the weekend on a Tuesday. Oh, that's what I meant. You're sweet.
SPEAKER 03 : 62:21
He's a great guy. He's great. You know what he likes? What's he like? He likes wrestling.
SPEAKER 22 : 62:26
I love him then. He's still ugly. I mean, all of us are ugly in a wrestling arena. If you've ever been to a SmackDown or a Raw or an AEW, there ain't nobody in there that Paul Mitchell wants to have in one of their advertisements. Joe, you've worked with some people. Musicians can be very ugly. But if you play music, you go up a couple points.
SPEAKER 03 : 62:45
Immediately.
SPEAKER 22 : 62:46
You go right up the chain. Jamie Lane from Warrant is an ugly man. But he's up there undulating, singing about cherry pie. He's dead. well when did that happen he's dead did we talk about it i don't think so i probably wasn't paying attention The sugar daddy, sugar mama lines were opened as we discussed what it's like being one, having one. And we got a call from a woman named Courtney. The other boys didn't like her. I frankly did. I thought she was kind of cool. And you come to find out she was a sugar baby at some point. That means she was receiving the money in exchange for companionship, whether it be social or emotional. intimate. And I think her boyfriend, her current boyfriend listens to the program. That tends to be how it works around here. As we see our live events, a lot of really fun loving dudes and their girls who were just dragged to spend time with us. And he heard the break. He put her on saying, babe, remember that time before you and I, you were a sugar baby. And I think she was a little gun shy because she was, I feel, made to call. And she had some pretty good insight on the damn thing. She talked about how they met and what expectations were. She 100% was stealing from the guy. Hear about the rent disparity coming up, what he gave her for rent versus what she actually paid. Hey, girl, get your money. A fool and a horny fool are easily separated from their money. She did end up sending a picture that we didn't know if it was AI or real because it was so hot and so drippingly in the shower wet that we thought, hmm. This might have been generated by some sort of Google meta AI, but I choose to believe right-click, save as, see you at 1230. Coming up, we opened up the Sugar Baby Sugar Mama lines, and we got a bite on the hook that you need to hear. Josh couldn't stand her. On Behind the Curtain. Joe, here's what I need you to do. I want you to respond to somebody on the Twitter. Yeah. We put up a post that just says very simply, let me make sure I got this right here. Do you have a sugar daddy or sugar mama? Do you know somebody who does? Tell us about it. Very, very simple. Okay. And we get a funny response from our friend Brandon. I've been messing around with this elderly lady for a few years and she refers to me as her premature sugar baby because she makes me lay in an incubator in her basement. Very funny. Then you get an absolute parade of freaks that I'm going to guess half of these guys are bots. Brian, DM me now, baby. Sugar Daddy, DM me your PayPal. Dennis Dave, DM me. Smith Long, DM me. They all look identical. They all look like they could be my uncle. This guy, right? Who's the funny Jewish guy that has the bad tattoos and he was caught stealing a bunch of jokes? Bald head, big beard. Son of a bitch. He was in Zoolander 2. What the hell was his name? It was something like the tattooed Jew or something. He's a comedian. Online personality. I don't know. That's clearly his photo. If I knew, I wouldn't turn him in. Thick as thieves, you folks. Thick as thieves. Yeah, so I'm looking at this here, and we got a bunch of freaks. I want you to DM some of those guys. Yeah, I'm going to DM this guy. Just be like, I need my car payment paid. Something. I don't know. You come up with something and report back. All right. I have a friend I think you've told about off air that racked up tens of thousands of dollars traveling the world on credit cards. And when I tell you this guy stuck the landing at the end of it because he then married someone with a trust fund who had no problem just handing him a check. There you go. Out of debt. Let's fly to Turkey. Get your hair plugs. Your life is great. And now they travel the world together on her dime.
SPEAKER 03 : 66:45
I want to talk to Courtney on line three because she says she used to be a sugar baby. I love it. Okay, so what does the female have to offer up is always the question. Let's find out from Courtney. The sugar daddy is the financial windfall. That's their pay and everything. Then there's companionship, but how far does the companionship go?
SPEAKER 22 : 67:06
I did enjoy right around the time of the release of the PlayStation 5, the meme that went around of some guy throwing up into the toilet while an old lady pulled her pants back up and goes, all right, go get your PlayStation 5 now. Courtney, good morning.
SPEAKER 16 : 67:20
Good morning. Can you guys hear me?
SPEAKER 22 : 67:21
We hear you loud and clear. We appreciate the honesty and the willingness to discuss. So you were a sugar baby. Sometimes there's an age difference. Not all the time. But was there an age difference? How did you meet the guy? What was expected of you?
SPEAKER 16 : 67:38
There was definitely an age difference. I was like 19, 20. And he was In his mid-60s. Oh, there we go.
SPEAKER 03 : 67:47
Now we're talking sugar daddy, sugar baby. Yeah, let's go. All right, check. Keep going. Check. What did he pay for? How much was he? Was he paying the car note? He was paying the rent? He was paying the rent. Paying the rent. How much was rent?
SPEAKER 16 : 68:05
He thought it was $900. It was not.
SPEAKER 03 : 68:06
What was it, $750? Six?
SPEAKER 16 : 68:09
No, it was five.
SPEAKER 03 : 68:11
Five. So you're skimming four right off the top. You're grifting this dude.
SPEAKER 16 : 68:15
Well, I wasn't trying to grist. He was actually very nice. He was a very nice person. Right, so you took advantage of a nice old man.
SPEAKER 22 : 68:21
You just accidentally took an extra $400 a month. Hey, by the way, I'm proud of you.
SPEAKER 16 : 68:25
I mean, it paid for my Ubers, too, and from work, so.
SPEAKER 22 : 68:28
What was work? Stripper?
SPEAKER 16 : 68:30
Bartender.
SPEAKER 22 : 68:31
Bartender. Close enough. Topless bartender. How did you broach that subject? Bartender at a strip club, right? At a strip club. No. How did that money, how did that come up? How did finances come up? How did he be like, did he approach it? Did you approach it?
SPEAKER 16 : 68:45
He was just incredibly nice. I have to say, he was an incredibly nice person.
SPEAKER 22 : 68:50
Okay.
SPEAKER 16 : 68:51
Like, the experience is actually not as bad as, like, it kind of comes off as.
SPEAKER 03 : 68:56
I mean, you did lie about it. What did he want? What did he want?
SPEAKER 16 : 69:01
Companionship.
SPEAKER 03 : 69:03
And how far did the companionship go? Yeah, how deep?
SPEAKER 16 : 69:08
I started in the sugar baby world as, like... Come on, just say it. And pay money. Like, I mean, like, basically it was like I would start off his date, right?
SPEAKER 14 : 69:22
Right.
SPEAKER 16 : 69:23
And then I would then, like, you know, kind of get to know the guy who's creepy. Okay. And like, okay, thanks for dinner. This is my fee for you looking cute with, like, a girl.
SPEAKER 22 : 69:38
Right.
SPEAKER 16 : 69:38
You know? So a non-sexual escort? Essentially.
SPEAKER 03 : 69:42
Okay. Is that with the old guy?
SPEAKER 16 : 69:47
Well, it started out that way. That was sort of like my base.
SPEAKER 22 : 69:50
Right. How did he find you?
SPEAKER 16 : 69:52
There's a website.
SPEAKER 22 : 69:54
Oh, wow.
SPEAKER 03 : 69:54
You were on a website. What's it called?
SPEAKER 16 : 69:56
Well, I mean, like, girls in college were trying to make money, you know. Dot com?
SPEAKER 03 : 70:00
All right, so you keep saying it started out that way, that you were just a hot girl that he would go out to dinner with, and that's what he was paying for, to be in your company, you had your cleavage out, your legs out, you're drinking some martinis, you're out at a restaurant, he's enjoying your company, he's with a hot chick. Okay, so it starts out, then what?
SPEAKER 16 : 70:22
Yeah, like... So then, like, if they were cool, if they were nice, then, like, yeah.
SPEAKER 03 : 70:29
You would have sex with them? I have. Okay. Yeah, I mean, I think that's what everyone asks. Okay, the sugar daddy, sugar mama relationship. If they're paying for your rent, which he thinks is $900, but it's really $500. So you're already taking $400 from the 61-year-old man. Good for you. How many times did you sleep with a 61-year-old man?
SPEAKER 16 : 70:50
Well, I didn't plan for it to be like that. He thought that it was $900, and I was not going to knock on it.
SPEAKER 20 : 70:55
What do you look like?
SPEAKER 16 : 70:57
What do I look like?
SPEAKER 20 : 70:58
Yeah. Yeah, he didn't stutter.
SPEAKER 16 : 71:02
Oh, damn. All right. I'm a petite blonde.
SPEAKER 22 : 71:08
Nice.
SPEAKER 16 : 71:10
Buxom. Yes. You could say.
SPEAKER 22 : 71:12
Rock and roll.
SPEAKER 16 : 71:12
So...
SPEAKER 03 : 71:15
Look, you're calling a radio station to say how you were a sugar baby and now you're tap dancing. If we're going to tap dance, we can just hang up and we're going to talk. Are we going to talk or are we going to talk?
SPEAKER 16 : 71:28
So, I mean, the reason I called in is because my boyfriend, who is older... It was like, LOL, they're talking about sugar babies on 98 Rock.
SPEAKER 22 : 71:37
Ah, gotcha. So he's the listener and he handed you the phone.
SPEAKER 03 : 71:40
I'll call him. Well, you're here now and this is where we're at. How many times did you sleep with a 61-year-old man? Like, what is the arrangement there? Is he expecting sex?
SPEAKER 16 : 71:50
Is he expecting sex? Yes.
SPEAKER 03 : 71:52
And are you giving the sex?
SPEAKER 16 : 71:53
Was he forward with it? He was not really forward with it, but it was like, well, I like him. He's doing a nice thing for me. It's an arrangement. Yeah, and I'm not going to lie. He was pretty good.
SPEAKER 20 : 72:07
There you go. Is he reverse cowgirl, baby? Is he reverse cowgirl?
SPEAKER 22 : 72:13
Did you have to give him an extra dose of heart meds before you put it on him?
SPEAKER 16 : 72:17
No, because, I mean, it was sort of like, you know, he was an older man. So it wasn't that long.
SPEAKER 03 : 72:23
How did it end? Was it gross? Was it gross?
SPEAKER 16 : 72:28
It wasn't gross because I liked it.
SPEAKER 03 : 72:29
Old balls.
SPEAKER 22 : 72:31
But yeah, how did it, how did, cause you obviously have a boyfriend now. He turned you on to the break. How did that, how did that relationship cease?
SPEAKER 16 : 72:38
Um, no, he did not. He was very nice. He's actually married to a very tattooed, like younger girl.
SPEAKER 03 : 72:46
Oh, he got married. So he married a potential like sugar. He's probably married a sugar baby.
SPEAKER 16 : 72:51
This girl definitely was a sugar baby for sure.
SPEAKER 03 : 72:53
Oh yeah.
SPEAKER 16 : 72:55
Um, And I'm happy for him. If he's happy, whatever.
SPEAKER 22 : 72:58
But no, how did it end? How did you, because eventually you've obviously moved on. Was it like, okay, it was like, okay, I'm paying for this too long. Or you're like, ah, your balls stink. Like how did it eventually you go, okay, we're done here.
SPEAKER 16 : 73:09
No, it was actually very amicable. I told him I was dating somebody else who was 14 years older than me. But still like that was more of a relationship.
SPEAKER 03 : 73:20
Yeah, 14 is 19 to 61 is a wide delta. Did you see, did you get looks in public?
SPEAKER 22 : 73:26
Because when you get a 60-year-old guy and a 19, 20-year-old girl, it's like, I'm not sure how familiar you are with the NFL, but Davis that owns the Raiders, he's just a gross old fat guy with a bunch of moles and skin tags and a Dutch boy haircut. He's just a 2 out of 10 in his smoke show girlfriend. Right. It's like, I like his smile. Like, come on. Stop. You're just getting stared at everywhere. Were you guys getting looks?
SPEAKER 16 : 73:54
So, I purposefully did not really want to go out with him a lot because of that.
SPEAKER 03 : 74:00
Ah, okay.
SPEAKER 16 : 74:00
Because I was visibly... I mean, I looked... So, I'm a bartender. We play a game. I think every restaurant maybe does this. Where, like, it's like... Father, daughter, sugar baby, sugar baby.
SPEAKER 22 : 74:14
Oh, yeah. You're back there judging us. You're looking at them going, okay, that's an arrangement. She's been paid for. He's dying of an illness. Those two are cousins. So they would do the same thing to you.
SPEAKER 20 : 74:24
You were on the other side of that game. You know the game. I'm just curious. When you're with these guys, are you this pleasant?
SPEAKER 22 : 74:33
Do you turn on a character? Do you put on a front? Or can you act like yourself?
SPEAKER 03 : 74:40
Right now, I'm not paying for your company. I'll be honest. Based on this phone call, I'm not paying for this company. I would give you my Venmo.
SPEAKER 20 : 74:48
This is like torture.
SPEAKER 03 : 74:49
This is almost torture. He paid for this? God!
SPEAKER 22 : 74:53
I'm rather enraptured. I'm, frankly, I'm rather enraptured. She sounds very calm. I feel like we can sit around and have a very nice discussion.
SPEAKER 03 : 75:00
Did you feel like you were taking advantage of him at all, or do you feel like you both got out of it what you were looking to get out of it?
SPEAKER 16 : 75:07
I... Oh, my God. No, he was comfortable paying with it, and I was comfortable doing things that I was...
SPEAKER 22 : 75:16
comfortable with okay so it's all mutual it's all agreed on it's all consensual you know the same number you called you can text us a picture by the way i'm curious if you wouldn't mind text text in a picture you gotta be smoking hot to deal with this personality god i found her she's rather enchanting i find her i find her very pleasant okay yeah so yeah
SPEAKER 20 : 75:40
Oh, we're done with her. That means the bitch line is open. Jesus Christ. Oh, my. I don't remember ever having a caller like that with such a person.
SPEAKER 19 : 75:52
What a chip on her shoulder. I bet she's stunning. How dare she? Oh, my God. God, she's rather soothing. God, what an attitude problem. How dare she? How dare she?
SPEAKER 22 : 76:05
Oh, my God. Thank you, Courtney.
SPEAKER 19 : 76:06
Yeah, no, thank you for calling. Thank you, Courtney. Thank your boyfriend for listening. Yeah, you're a real pleasure.
SPEAKER 22 : 76:15
Reggie, I love you. Bailey, you're pretty great too. But Reggie, I absolutely adore you. Who is Reggie? Well, Reggie is a local pit bull, a sweet little pit bull that came in. It's short for Regina. Rescue dog brought in by her beautiful handler, Bailey. And they came in to promote... And if you're listening to this, Barkstoberfest is tonight at Patterson Park. You can go to Barkstoberfest.org. And this dog was a sweetie. Go to JSS 98 Rock. See me lay down. I let little Reggie crawl all over me, giving me kisses. I tried to get up. She didn't want me to get up. You'll hear me say it on the break coming up, and I'm going to say it again now. There's no such thing as bad dogs or bad people that make bad dogs, which is why in the event of a house fire, I'm running in and saving the pets first and the people second. We truly don't deserve that. dogs and it kills me because i can't have pets anymore i have a family full of people that are allergic as hell to everything cats dogs hamsters bull weevils kangaroos panda cubs anything that crawls or flies or swims or you could pet or give a silly name to or a little name tag uh my entire family is now allergic so i don't get to have pets anymore so having sweet or Reggie Cummins Studio and her handler, Bailey. Scratch that. I miss my pet's itch. Go to barks.org, barkstoberfest.org. Attend the event, and if you can't, please donate, because we do love the Baltimore area rescue shelter, Barks, and everything that they do. Happy 20th anniversary to Barkstoberfest. So enjoy and hear the entire show. Fall in love with this big old sweet potato of a dog, Reggie and Bailey from Barks on Behind the Curtain. This is a group near and dear to us. Love the good people at Barks, the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter. Go to the website, barks.org. And this is a pretty legendary event of theirs, and it's coming back. Oh, get on in here. Get on in here. We'll put Bailey in the Val position, please. Bailey in the Val position. God, we've done 20 of these things. The 20th annual Barkstoberfest, 20 years of Baltimore's largest pet-friendly festival. Bailey joining us in studio. Good morning.
SPEAKER 15 : 78:41
Good morning.
SPEAKER 22 : 78:42
How are you? I am good. I've been to a few of these things. It's a party. There's food. There's drink. There's runways. There's dignitaries. There's John Rollo covered in cats.
SPEAKER 15 : 78:51
Well, we're so excited. This is our 20th annual Barkstoberfest. And in the last, gosh, I'd say five years, I've been to 10 of them. But in the last five years, it has really exploded. It has become our signature event. It raises the most money for our shelter out of all of our events. And it is so much fun. It's not just a great day for people. It's a great day for dogs in Patterson Park.
SPEAKER 22 : 79:14
Now, we were promised a pup. Oh, my God. Come here, you angel. Oh, my God. Come here. Look at the size of your head.
SPEAKER 03 : 79:22
It's like a Volvo. I like dogs. Who is this?
SPEAKER 15 : 79:26
This is Reggie. She's a lady, and she is three years old. And you guys, if you want, you can take her leash off. I feel like it's getting stuck on stuff. But she is going to be available for adoption tomorrow at Barkstoberfest.
SPEAKER 20 : 79:39
Reggie, get out the trash, please. Joe, put that on. Is she a new mom?
SPEAKER 15 : 79:46
Well, so we found her as a stray, and she was not altered. It looks to us like she's definitely been bred quite a few times to have puppies.
SPEAKER 20 : 79:53
She's got nipples. Yeah, she's got nipples. First thing I noticed. Look at that butt.
SPEAKER 15 : 79:59
But we spayed her, so she'll never have puppies again. She's the baby now.
SPEAKER 22 : 80:04
Sweetie. I love you.
SPEAKER 03 : 80:05
Oh, very cute.
SPEAKER 22 : 80:07
Oh, yeah. Oh, she's doing the leg. She's doing the leg. I'm getting in that good spot. There you go.
SPEAKER 03 : 80:12
So what do you think is, what's the name again? Reggie?
SPEAKER 15 : 80:14
Reggie. Regina, but Reggie for sure.
SPEAKER 03 : 80:16
What do you know about, any more about Reggie's story?
SPEAKER 15 : 80:20
Well, so all we know, her backstory is that she was found as a stray. But the great news is we put her in a foster home. So we get to learn a lot more about who she is today. And she is very lazy. All of her notes just say, actually, one of the notes said, what does Reggie like to do to be active? And her foster mom wrote, she likes to rotate on the couch.
SPEAKER 20 : 80:46
What's the best kind of home for her?
SPEAKER 15 : 80:48
So she's actually she's really great dog. She's great with all types of people. Really great with kids. Met a bunch of people on the way in here today. Friendly with everybody. I doubt she is physically able to chase cats, though she's never met one. And she does well with other dogs that are kind of lazy like her, too. So, I mean, really any type of home. And she's a she's a great dog. And I want people to be able to see her. We'll post pictures on our social media, too. But she's a bowling ball. That's how I would describe her.
SPEAKER 22 : 81:16
No, she's a sphere. She's just a big ball of cuddle muscle. Barkstoberfest.org Find out about how you can attend. Find out how you can donate if you can't make it because you can help even if you can't make it to the event. Dogs are stories like this that the dogs are the products of their environment. I believe there's no such thing as a bad dog, just bad people. And you get a dog like this and similar ilk that can come from kind of a rough background. They were mishandled, mistreated. They were bred. They were fought. They were just overall not treated well. And sometimes there's some that... She seems like an absolute sweetie. I mean, I trust an infant around that sweetheart. Then occasionally you get the ones that unfortunately, you know, the dog's been through so much that, you know, they might not be good around another dog or they might not be great around, you know, a home where there's a lot of noise or, you know, are sometimes those a little bit more difficult to get into a good home.
SPEAKER 15 : 82:12
They are. So our average length of stay at Barks is six days for dogs. However, you are correct. We take in all types of animals in all types of conditions. And there are too many of them still that come in that, to your point, did not live in your typical loving home. And so barks becomes that bridge to try and see, you know, get them there. And that's what fostering is so good for, because the shelter is a loud, crazy environment. If anybody is listening to this has ever been to barks, they can attest it is not a home and it's not a home environment. And that's why we are always pushing fosters, because it helps us learn how quickly that dog can adapt to a home. And here's the thing that keeps me there. I've been at barks for almost 10 years now. The resiliency of dogs and cats just amazes me every single day. I've got a dog at home who came from a really, really rough condition. He was full grown, but he was 18 pounds. He is now 55. He was emaciated. He was... bruised he was cut he looked awful and you would look at that dog and think oh my gosh i don't think um he's ever lived in a home and ever truly been loved and i don't know that he really had till he got to us but he immediately was like well you're my person now i'm gonna live in your sweatshirt on you yeah
SPEAKER 20 : 83:28
I noticed when she was over here by my leg, I was petting her, and her right leg was going up and down. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's the enjoyment sign. That's a good spot. Joe, you still going to eat that peanut butter?
SPEAKER 22 : 83:44
All right, yeah. All right.
SPEAKER 15 : 83:45
I think Reggie is a pretty well adjusted one. I mean, she was bred and breeding is not illegal. There's not legal here in the city. So that's not good. It's clear that she's had puppies. But I do think that she came from I think someone clearly loved her and trained her before she came to us from whatever circumstance. She's a really well adjusted dog and was pretty well adjusted before she even got into foster care.
SPEAKER 22 : 84:04
I've got a friend, his name's Pete from Waldorf, and he fosters and adopts dachshunds that were in a breeding center facility. And it's rough. There are lives before with the harnesses and the forced breeding and all that. And of the two or three dachshunds that he has, a couple have adjusted. Some... You need to just, you know, be very careful around and stuff like that. Watch out about slamming doors or loud noises and stuff like that. And they have come a long way. And the reason I bring that up is it's a dachshund. It's a little wiener dog. You look at the thing, you're like, oh, this thing's like a hot dog. And that dog can get occasionally... Again, it's not its fault. No bad dogs, bad people. They all get a little nasty with you. And it's a dachshund. This is a pit. And this thing's about as sweet as a dog as you can find. We know the pit gets a bad rap. The pit catches it on the chin in the media all the time. I'm not sure what the hell it is about the SoundCloud rapper, the wannabe Miami DJ, the wannabe fake gang member that just whatever reason... Like, wants to have the breed and do the spiked collar bit and name it Murder One.
SPEAKER 03 : 85:15
It was funny. It was almost like, I hate that. Remember the decades, like in the 80s, it was the Doberman. In the 90s, it was the Rottweiler. German Shepherd. German Shepherd. Now it's like Pitbull. Probably the new one will be the Cane Corso. It's like they're always, you know. Every decade's got a new dog that gets bad PR. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 22 : 85:34
I mean, look at this thing right here. This is a meatball.
SPEAKER 15 : 85:36
Anybody who's never interacted with a pit bull type dog should come down and volunteer at Barks because what you're going to find out about them is that they are... Well, I can't say that they're all like this, but they're like dummies, and they're so sweet, and they can be smart, too, but they're like Reggie is. They just want to please you. They want to snuggle with you. They don't have a lot of fur, so they're cold, and they really want to get into that armpit, and they want to be your best friend. They want to be like a big old squish mellow.
SPEAKER 22 : 86:07
You know what we were talking about the other day? This is going to sound strange, so follow me here. That there was a fish called the Patagonian toothfish. What? That eventually, you know what they renamed it? Chilean sea bass. You ever had Chilean sea bass? It's delicious. It's a lovely fish. But it wouldn't sell when it was Patagonian toothfish. So you got to rename it?
SPEAKER 15 : 86:24
We got to rename? She's a pitopotamus.
SPEAKER 22 : 86:26
She's a pitopotamus. I've also heard there's a comedian by the name of Rebecca Corey who does a ton of work with pit bulls. She calls them pibbles. P-I-B-B-L-E. And that's kind of got like a cute annotation to it. I feel bad because the brand Pitbull just gets associated with so many negative connotations. I mean, if you go on Livewire right now, this dog and Joe might get married. I think Joe's taking it home. We might need to find a minister. I told her already if I didn't have four cats at home, I'd take it.
SPEAKER 14 : 86:54
I love you.
SPEAKER 03 : 86:54
I think she'd be fine with cats. Yeah, she would love four cats. Are you kidding me? Justin getting down. You're going to cuddle now. The floor is dirty. Get up. I love you. Kisses and cuddles. That's the best feeling in the world. She's going to sit on your face. Watch out now. Take me. Oh, dude. So many kisses. Ah.
SPEAKER 20 : 87:20
How much does she weigh?
SPEAKER 15 : 87:23
There's 50 pounds packed in that little package.
SPEAKER 20 : 87:27
But it's solid muscle.
SPEAKER 15 : 87:30
She is definitely a solid dog.
SPEAKER 03 : 87:34
Oh, Reggie, that was so nice.
SPEAKER 15 : 87:36
I will say she pulls a little bit on the leash, and because she's so low to the ground and so strong and so compact, she can certainly pull someone over. So I'd say she definitely probably needs an adopter that has time to work on the leash pulling, and or is a little bit strong from the get-go.
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we talk about all Hallows even. That's right we talk about Halloween! Tune in to hear Kirk, Marianne, and our listeners Live in the Boom Boom Room talk about our best and worst memories when it comes to Halloween. Did we reangle in a boat load of candy? Or did the neighborhood bully trick us and take our sweet treats. One way to find out. Hit play!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript Our conversation about standing desks takes a turn towards hallucinogens.
00:00:00 Standing Desk Debate 00:00:38 Day of Chaos Concept 00:01:12 Opium Discussions 00:02:38 Hashish and Hash Under Glass 00:04:02 Peyote Pencil Eraser 00:06:10 Dabs and Shatter Explained 00:07:28 Heart Attack at the Bowling Alley 00:08:04 Bad LSD Trip Story 00:09:05 DMT and Hallucinogens SPEAKER 01 : 0:00
We're just asking you, love or shove, if you've got a standing desk. No, this was the first place I ever saw one. This is the first place I ever saw anybody have the standing desk. Now, what's the one that gets under people's skin is when the boss goes, hey, we are all switching to standing desks. Someone theorized that the addition of a standing desk in certain offices might be because they want to get rid of the old desks. They're like, hey, we've had these old metal Soviet era DMV ass looking desks or maybe productivity.
SPEAKER 02 : 0:33
Do they feel like maybe it increases productivity with the blood flow and you're standing and you have to be more alert?
SPEAKER 01 : 0:38
Yeah, maybe you're maybe, you know, you're just sick all the time and you're infirmed and like, hey, maybe if you moved around a little bit. Yeah, I like the idea of having the option. But I don't want to be forced to stand at the desk. I still want to do an entire show laying down. I want to do... Mark, I want to do an idea. It's called The Day of Chaos, where we plan nothing and we lie on cots. Like an opium den. I just want to do a show exactly like an opium den. Will there be opium? We asked. Lawyers shot it down. But there could be candy cigarettes.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:13
Has anyone in the room ever smoked opium?
SPEAKER 01 : 1:15
No, because it's just a son of a bitch to find... Hold on.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:19
Has anyone in the room... ever smoked opium. Oh, look at that.
SPEAKER 04 : 1:23
I dropped my schedule.
SPEAKER 01 : 1:24
Joseph? Oh, no. Yes. I don't know. You could put opium in front of me.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:32
I wouldn't know what it is. We're looking at the corner of the room. Is anyone in the back corner of the room?
SPEAKER 01 : 1:38
Has 25% of the people in this room ever smoked opium?
SPEAKER 04 : 1:44
Yeah, once.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:45
No way. Wait, opium is from the poppy seed, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 : 1:50
How are we going to hash for something? Hash is just kind of an option to marijuana, right? Heroin is derived from opium, but you've got to add a bunch of chemicals.
SPEAKER 03 : 1:58
Has anyone ever done hash under glass? No. No? What? Oh, I dropped one years ago.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:04
Yeah, brother. Hash is like a processed weed, right? It's from the marijuana plant?
SPEAKER 03 : 2:09
It's from hashish, isn't it?
SPEAKER 02 : 2:10
Isn't that a plant? Yeah. I don't know. I thought that was like a... I have no idea. That's like the weed, the powder of the weed or something.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:17
All I know is like it was sticky and it was in a little ball and we stuck a needle through a Reader's Digest. What? Do you remember those magazines? Yes, I do. Yeah, and then took a cafeteria glass, you lit it, and then put the cafeteria glass under it so it would smoke up, and then you went... Lifted it, and what were the effects? Oh, mellow.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:39
Mellow? Mellow, yeah. Chilled out. Loved it. Melt into the couch kind of vibe? Yeah. In a good way, though? Very good way.
SPEAKER 01 : 2:48
Not have to have friends convince you you're going to be okay? Not at all.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:52
Because I don't like marijuana. Because marijuana makes me dizzy and paranoid.
SPEAKER 01 : 2:58
I get dizzy these days.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:59
I have to lay down in the grass and vomit. But back when I did that, when I was a younger man. Yeah.
SPEAKER 01 : 3:07
I'm looking at opium right now. Mark, what's the first thing you think of when you see that? That's smokable opium. Poop. Does it look like poop? It looks like a pile of earwax. Yeah. It's very gross looking.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:17
It looks like a huge pile of earwax.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:20
So, Joe, how was the opium? If I recall, it tastes like perfume. It has a very interesting flowery.
SPEAKER 01 : 3:31
Where do you get it?
SPEAKER 04 : 3:32
I don't know.
SPEAKER 01 : 3:33
How do you come into an opium den? How do you find it?
SPEAKER 03 : 3:36
That used to be very popular in the 1800s.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:38
Yeah, some men that had just been shanghaied. I don't think we had much. I don't think I really felt anything, honestly. It was just more of a... That's because you're so immune.
SPEAKER 01 : 3:47
I'm convinced that someone that I bought peyote from just sold me a pencil eraser. No chance. We ate it, and we're like, yeah, man, I'm feeling something. No one felt anything. We actually went outside and skateboarded. If I'm taking peyote, I should not be able to do a kickflip. No.
SPEAKER 02 : 4:03
Yeah, hash is compressed form of powdered marijuana. It is. And a lot of times they mix it with tobacco. It's funny. I was just Googling hash the other day. Something made me Google it. I never knew that. So that's something. And yeah, it's the Middle East, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, all those countries. It's really big in there. And I guess it's kind of like an offshoot of weed.
SPEAKER 01 : 4:26
There's a new generation of hashish or a hash derivative, Mark. You ever heard of shatter hashish? No. Joe, bring him up to speed on Shatter.
SPEAKER 04 : 4:36
Yes. So Shatter, a.k.a. Dabs. There you go. He's up to speed. Jesus, I don't even know how they do it. Like with hash. So with hash. They get the powder. Yeah. It looks like candied glass. They get like the oils out of the weed or something. No, they just, like, literally, I was just watching something about it the other day, and they were in Morocco, and they just get, they grow, like, all the plants, they put the plants together, and they put them in a bag, like a cheesecloth type thing, and the guys just have sticks, and they'll just, like, beat the plant, and then all the... trichomes or whatever fall out of the bottom and they compress that into hash. Joe, you scare me.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:14
Yeah, I know too much about this stuff. Joe is a worldly man. Yeah, but that's hash, but the dabs are like a goopy thing.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:21
Yeah, it's either... There's a machine that compresses it and it turns the plant into liquid goo. I think you can do it with butane or something.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:32
Super concentrated. Do you smoke it?
SPEAKER 04 : 5:34
You take a butane torch and you heat up
SPEAKER 02 : 5:40
like this um spoon well it's kind of like a spoon but it's like it's attached to a bong it's like a receptacle you get that red hot and then you take the dab on like a pin and you stick it in there and it just vaporizes yeah and you smoke it i've never done it's a lot of work i've oh it's a lot and when you have a torch it's like a little bit too druggy for me that's like yeah what's the pipe
SPEAKER 01 : 5:59
It was glass. And there's a torch.
SPEAKER 02 : 6:02
It becomes a little too druggy for me.
SPEAKER 01 : 6:04
I'm like, yeah. It takes the fun out of it. I'm like, we got torches now. There's two or three people around you don't know. Yeah. Who's that dude?
SPEAKER 02 : 6:10
There's a dog that clearly hasn't been fed. We know someone who's done a dab. I won't say who it was. On their birthday.
SPEAKER 01 : 6:15
I'm trying to find the photo. I'm trying to find it right now.
SPEAKER 02 : 6:17
There was an ambulance called. Yes. Okay. Oh, my God. There is a man. I've never danced the dance. I'm too afraid. But it's super, super concentrated, just like weed oil and weed stuff. And then it just vaporizes and you smoke it. And here's the thing. You'll watch people on the Internet do the dab. You'll see them fire it up. Then you'll see him dip it in and you see him do the dab. But they never show you 20 minutes later. They're not doing great. I want to see the 20 minutes later.
SPEAKER 03 : 6:43
I want to see what happens to the person. So what you're saying is a little dab will do you. A little dab.
SPEAKER 01 : 6:49
Just a dab will do you. Just a dollop of daisy will send you to the ER. Yeah, he's not kidding. We're in a bowling alley with a friend that will go unnamed. But it was either you or him filling in. I wasn't there, but I've heard. And he just leans over and goes, I am having a heart attack at times. And we're like, wait, what? And he's like, yeah, I'm having a heart attack and dying. And then at his birthday, we have balloons. We have cake. There's a great photo of Tommy Sabazo and I as the EMTs are working on it. We're in the background eating cake. We can't help. And his cake's going to dry out. And we paid for the lane for two hours. I'm almost positive Rob Mayer might have bowled or framed. Just kept bowling. Well, someone's like, well, it's time for me to join my ancestors.
SPEAKER 02 : 7:28
You all kind of knew what he did. And assuming that it was a pure form of what that drug is. Yeah.
SPEAKER 01 : 7:35
He wasn't dying. He wasn't dying. But there's been times where I've been like, I'm not not dying. OK, I famously tell the story of me taking LSD back in the day and not having a great time. And skaters would keep this is before the opiate epidemic. We would keep a painkiller with us in case we really hurt ourselves. And I remember having one in my wall, like an oxycodone. And I tried to take one to go to bed because the trip was very bad. I was not having a great time.
SPEAKER 03 : 8:05
No one was guiding you?
SPEAKER 01 : 8:06
So you're on acid and then you take a pain pill to try and sleep. And I convinced myself in my head, I heard something about this in dare class, that if you mix the two, it was poisonous and you'd die. Not true at all. I just convinced myself. So I then went outside and proceeded to make myself throw it up. And that's awful when you're hallucinating. As my friends, both of which are 20 years older than me, are standing over me laughing. So I'm like... They're pointing at the look at the little bitch is throwing up on the sidewalk. Not great. Yeah. Who knows? Maybe we'll open the exotic drug lines. I feel like opium would be too narrow. Yeah. Like people that have done ayahuasca, people that have done peyote, people that have done DMT. People that. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You ever wanted to smoke a rotten tooth? DMT, because that's what it smells like. It's made from like an oil or a sap from a tree. I got to do it. It is. OK, we have access to it.
SPEAKER 02 : 9:05
Let's just say that we may have. We might have a pharmacist. And I hear you just blast through the universe for like 10 or 15 minutes. It's just what I want to do. No, no. But it's amazing. And then you come back and you're totally fine. Like it lasts 10 minutes.
SPEAKER 01 : 9:18
It doesn't last at all. But you hear people when they take hallucinogenics like, hey, man, the walls are melting and the TV grew arms. No, that never really happens. You see some pattern formation and maybe some fractals with the light. DMT 1940s cartoons crawl out of the coffee table and start telling you all your secrets back to you. You see things. So I've heard.
Read MoreRead Less
After Erik Woodworth's situation with a guitar, we delve into the incredible and often cringe-worthy tales of facial injuries.
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we talk about the things that are off the table when it comes to our relationships. Tune in to hear Kirk, Marianne, and our listeners talk about relationship boundaries and what crosses the line- or doesn't. Are we going to the bathroom with the door open? One way to find out. Hit play!
The resurgence of interest in physical media is not just about nostalgia. Listeners from all walks of life share their love for tangible media, from retro video games to film photography. With digital content prices on the rise, many are questioning the value and permanence of their digital purchases in today's streaming-driven world.
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we talk about things that are supposed to be so simple, but we rather make it hard. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne Live at the Hilton Harbor talk about things that they just can't wrap their brains around but everyone else can. What is it? One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we are LIVE at the Hilton Harbor. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne along with Comedians, Eric Jolicoeur and Stefan Subotich talk about things we're surprised someone hasn't come up with yet. Seriously these are good ideas people! What did we say? One way to find out. Hit play!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript Spiegel recorded himself sleeping once again, and the audio does not disappoint.
00:00:00 Introduction to Sleep Talk App 00:00:24 How the Sleep Talk App Works 00:01:08 Classic Sleep Talk Clips 00:02:38 Discussing Sleep Talking With Experts 00:03:30 Fresh Batch of Sleep Talk Clips 00:08:38 Embarrassing Sleep Talking Experiences 00:06:30 Work-Related Sleep Talking 00:12:28 Funny Sleep Talk Clips at Half Speed 00:14:15 Are You a Hooker? 00:14:29 Wrapping Up: Teaser for Tomorrow SPEAKER 02 : 0:00
speaks yes when did you first discover the sleep talk app that's an excellent question it's been eight years it has been uh it was uh it's been a while i don't know how many years but uh So I don't think that I discovered it. So when you discovered it... I don't have the internet.
SPEAKER 03 : 0:24
Josh Spiegel, who invented the internet, what he does is he fires up the Sleep Talk app, you calibrate it to figure out the noise in the room, but then when it hears you... Say something. Scream something. Kill someone. The dog farts. It records it. That's right. And it then saves a little file. You compile them. You give them to us. We clean it up. You haven't given us every file. There are certain things that are between you and your psychiatrist. And I've got some stuff here in the past. I mean, half of the toot board is from Sleep Talk Audio. Such highlights as. But let's not forget. Oh, my God. And how about.
SPEAKER 04 : 1:17
Oh, a little something came out at the end. That one had some baggage with it. A little something, man.
SPEAKER 03 : 1:22
A little juice. But then you have ones that you're talking. This is a classic clip right here. Let's go ahead and hit this.
SPEAKER 05 : 1:30
That's a great idea.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:31
If it was an idea, what's that? That would be wonderful.
SPEAKER 1 : 1:36
Ah!
SPEAKER 02 : 1:38
Sounds like that's a great idea. That would be wonderful. What was between great idea and wonderful?
SPEAKER 03 : 1:45
Let's play it again. Hold on. That's a great idea. I have a good idea. What's that? A great idea. What's that? That would be wonderful. Part of the fun is deciphering what the hell you're saying. Here's a prior clip. Now, these are last year's batch. The ones that I'm playing right now are some of the ones we already had. So this is entitled Sunset. But not even sunset yet.
SPEAKER 1 : 2:10
But it starts getting cloudy. And the clouds get lower.
SPEAKER 04 : 2:22
This is all real, by the way. We've never faked any of this. We don't do that crap. You can go listen to other morning shows for fake stuff. Yeah, you just run the app, and you've been known for years to have... I don't want to say night terrors, but you talk in your sleep.
SPEAKER 01 : 2:38
Yes.
SPEAKER 04 : 2:38
And I wonder if we were to play this for like a sleep expert or maybe if there's a doctor out there who works in this field. Like Shepard Pratt. Well, no, just like sleeping. But I'm saying like in terms of sleep talk. Yeah. There's got to be some sort of like scale. You got to be like high up on that. You're having like full, you know, there's people that maybe utter a few words. He's uttering, he's having conversations, like full conversations.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:04
You're having memories.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:05
You got to be like one of the great sleep talkers of all time.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:08
Yeah, I agree. I talk in my sleep. Evan does also. But what he say, it's nonsensical. Evan will be like, no apples. That's it.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:16
Or, like, you, that's a full sentence. Like, you're having some sort of discourse with someone in your head or something. It's great. Like, you're the world champion. The world champion. You're the best there ever was. Of sleep talk.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:30
Here is another one from last year's. This is the startled school talk. I'm sorry.
SPEAKER 05 : 3:35
Let's keep going.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:36
The startled school talk. Something about county schools, superintendent, and then one where you are very unhappy. I don't really think he's talking to him.
SPEAKER 05 : 3:54
I don't want to talk to him in it.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:59
Well, we have new. Who the hell you think you're talking to? Who the hell? I wonder who that was directing. Who do you think you're talking to?
SPEAKER 03 : 4:06
All right, well, let's head to the Fresh Batch here. Joe. Yeah, Fresh Batch. I got a bunch here. They're beautifully labeled. Thank you. And it does appear to be a little talking, a little tooting. I've got clips that are very, very quick. How many do you have? I have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. I have ten clips here. Wow. Wow.
SPEAKER 04 : 4:29
Fruitful batch.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:30
Which one made you laugh yesterday as you were editing it? You kept looking at it? I think it's titled Sleep Talk 2 Perfection. Okay. Hold on. Sleep Talk 2 Perfection. Let's see. We have here. Sleep Talk 2 Perfection. All right. Here we go. Getting it all queued up and roll it.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:03
That's the dog.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:05
Oh, my God!
SPEAKER 02 : 5:05
That's the dog.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:07
It's so mean! It's so mean! It sounds like the phone is right there. What's the phone in your ass? Oh, my God. The amount. It's like two meatballs rolled out. Yes.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:27
He's got meatballs rolling out his ass. Oh, my God. This is pasta on the bed. Please, one more time. Hold on.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:35
And the snoring. Sleep apnea.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:42
It's the timing with the breath.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:49
I got a longer clip here now. Look at the bumps in this bad boy. Look at that waveform. One, two, three, four big meaty bumps. This is entitled video. But you only get it.
SPEAKER 01 : 6:06
Whoa, what was that?
SPEAKER 03 : 6:08
I need that again. Yeah, the third clip is where you're really struggling. But you ain't dead. Oh, my God. I do kind of want this audio. Baby, what do you mean? Does it stink? Okay. Wow. Okay. That's got to have something to do with all the stuff that we film. I like to try and figure out, A, what you're saying. B, the origin. We're doing more video. than any other radio station in the country, more than any show here prior. Right. I mean, if we ain't filming something, we ain't doing something. So I'm wondering if that's got something to do with that. I'm not going to comment on that, but perhaps. Okay. Another one.
SPEAKER 02 : 6:58
I don't know. It might have something. I like to think a lot of it's work-based.
SPEAKER 03 : 7:02
You take work home with you mentally. And we got people being, hey, would you want to shoot a video? Hey, this client's here. Can you shoot a video? We got to do something for social. Would you like to do something for the TV show? No show has ever stood in front of a camera as much as they've stood in front of a microphone. So I've heard. As we. Yeah. Let's go to, this is another quick one. Stop it. Stop it. Jesus. And that's pretty self-explanatory. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it, damn pony.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:31
Now, do you remember? I mean, do you? No, I have no idea. You just don't know what the context is? No.
SPEAKER 03 : 7:38
You were saying off air yesterday, and we were getting these things ready, that you went to, where was the bungalow with your family? In upstate New York. Upstate New York. Yeah. And the bungalows, these little cabins, they're kind of in a row near each other. Right. And they're not soundproofed at all. Yeah. And you would go to breakfast in the morning. Yeah.
SPEAKER 02 : 7:57
And one of your relatives, was it Morty? Yeah, his wife would say, oh, you were really sleep talking, and I'm always afraid of what they hear.
SPEAKER 01 : 8:05
Yeah.
SPEAKER 02 : 8:06
But even when they come to my house, they will hear me yelling. And it's embarrassing because sometimes I curse. Have they ever said that?
SPEAKER 03 : 8:17
I'm not sure you use the word curse. The F word as much as you do during the day as you do at night.
SPEAKER 02 : 8:23
They'll say that, you know, you cursed or but sometimes they won't because I guess they don't want to embarrass me.
SPEAKER 03 : 8:29
Now, here's a longer clip. And this one, I'm hoping it's something to do with the dog. Maybe you have a very cute voice you do with the dog. I don't know. I haven't listened to it. We're listening to all these for the first time. Right. It's called Wacky Voice. All right, let's take this over one more time. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 : 8:56
Can you pot it up just a little? I want to get it.
SPEAKER 03 : 9:05
It's like you're starting to say something. Yeah, yeah. And then you have a little snore.
SPEAKER 02 : 9:13
I don't know. It could be a conversation with the dog. The dog is the only person in the house.
SPEAKER 03 : 9:22
Because you like to do a little cutesy voice with the dog. Go over you. Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 : 9:30
I mean, it's just, it is what it is. I don't know what it is.
SPEAKER 03 : 9:33
Yeah. Now let's head back to another one here. I believe this might have headed out of the South Mouth. This one is entitled The Wind-Up. These have been creamy. That's the dog. These have been gaseous at night. That's because you don't fart during the day. Pulpy. Wow. Here's a long one. And I guess you're just rambling. Okay. Because that's what it's named. So breathy. It's just you. So breathy. And the dog. But I'll be damned if it doesn't sound like there is a second horrifying, like, ghostly voice.
SPEAKER 02 : 10:29
Yeah, it sounds like there's another person in there. It sounds like there's two people breathing, but I know you're alone. I am alone. And thank you for pointing that out. I mean, you don't know that.
SPEAKER 03 : 10:39
He has a gun trained on him.
SPEAKER 04 : 10:40
You said, I know you're alone, but you don't know.
SPEAKER 03 : 10:42
Yeah. You're not the one he's got a .38 caliber trained on. I'm just saying. We don't know that. Let's listen to this. I chopped out a little bit of this stuff in the middle. Let's...
SPEAKER 04 : 11:02
Towards the end, it's almost like a multi-layered something. People always wonder why you sound like that when you're sleeping. I'm getting a lot of, like, he sounds like he's got cotton in his mouth. I mean, he's laying down.
SPEAKER 03 : 11:17
It's his favorite snack.
SPEAKER 04 : 11:18
He's sleeping. He's asleep. He's relaxed, and he's horizontal. I mean, do you sound the same when you're laying down horizontal?
SPEAKER 03 : 11:26
Everyone's like, he sounds so weird. Using cotton balls before bed as a little late-night treat. Now, here's one here entitled Lustful.
SPEAKER 04 : 11:43
how do you make that lust i don't know i don't know where yeah where do you get lustful from that joe um i was just i kind of imagine like if if josh had somebody tickling his feet that's it wow i imagine he's having his feet tickled yeah
SPEAKER 03 : 12:02
A little tickle?
SPEAKER 01 : 12:03
That first one.
SPEAKER 03 : 12:04
Maybe chuckle? That first one. Let me hear. Okay, one more time. Let's hear Lustful.
SPEAKER 01 : 12:10
Okay. Okay.
SPEAKER 03 : 12:12
All right. Let me play Half Speed. Half Speed. One more time, Daddy.
SPEAKER 04 : 12:28
Hey, play some of them farts in slow-mo.
SPEAKER 03 : 12:30
Done and done. Let's go ahead and rewind you to the Juicy Boy here and roll it. Jeez. Yes, sir. Yeah. Okay, here's the wind-up. Half speed.
SPEAKER 1 : 12:49
Dude.
SPEAKER 03 : 12:51
Sounds like a landslide. If a landslide brought me down here. Juicy. Half speed. Oh, yeah. Regular. And at half speed. Now, this last one I waited on. It's 11 seconds. Wow. And it's labeled hooker. What? Joe? Yep. Why? You'll find out.
SPEAKER 01 : 13:30
What the hell, dude? Oh, my God.
SPEAKER 02 : 13:33
Hooker was clear.
SPEAKER 03 : 13:34
Everything else was sort of... A little fluff out.
SPEAKER 02 : 13:37
I am a hooker.
SPEAKER 03 : 13:37
You are a lady of the night. Okay, I'm getting rid of a little fluff. Here we go.
SPEAKER 04 : 13:49
I can't get... I can't. I don't understand it.
SPEAKER 03 : 13:51
The hooker rolls up like a question. Yeah. Are you a hooker?
SPEAKER 02 : 13:56
I wanted to make sure hooker could be heard clearly.
SPEAKER 03 : 14:00
Are you a hooker?
SPEAKER 02 : 14:02
Yeah. Wow. Dude! Hell yeah. Maybe I was... It wasn't like, oh, are you a hooker? It was... I was kind of offended by someone or pissed off, and I was like, what, are you a hooker?
SPEAKER 03 : 14:15
Oh, they were just slinging their ass around for money. And she responded... Oh! Speaks? That's only half of what we got. Oh, goodness gracious. Tomorrow on the show, more sleep talk audio.
SPEAKER 01 : 14:29
Yes.
SPEAKER 03 : 14:30
Excellent work. What a treat. Thank you. And we've already added a few of these babies to the Toot Orphanage.
SPEAKER 01 : 14:36
We have...
SPEAKER 03 : 14:40
Welcome, children.
Read MoreRead Less
Description Chapter Markers Transcript What age did you start taking your fitness journey seriously? In this episode, we dive into personal stories and listener call-ins to explore various starting points. From working out with a young and energetic 16-year-old son to hearing about inspiring transformations that began in the 50s, we cover it all. Gavin's fitness classes in high school and questions about nutrition highlight his newfound dedication, while we compare it to those who've attained peak fitness later in life, proving it's never too late.
00:00:02 Working Out With My Son Gavin 00:01:13 Inspiration from Late Bloomers in Fitness 00:03:10 Introducing Kids to Fitness Early 00:04:31 Friend's Family CrossFit Journey 00:05:18 Starting Late – Kenny Vaughn's Transformation 00:06:12 Brandon's MMA Journey 00:07:55 Shane's Early Fitness Journey 00:10:33 Balancing Act – Unicycle Troubles 00:12:22 Community Call-ins 00:14:06 Val's Unicycle Attempt SPEAKER 05 : 0:02
What age did you start working out is the question we pose to you. The reason we ask it is I'm working out with my son, Gavin. He's 16 years old. I love him to death. He's just full of testosterone. You know what in vinegar. And he doesn't know quite what he's doing yet. I know what I'm doing because I've been working out for a very, very long time. But to watch a young, virile, just wind at his back teenager work out with reckless abandon, it's pretty freaking impressive. I mean, the kid's got a natural strength to him anyways. His biological father is a big old powerhouse of a man. Proud Navalman. Shout out, Brian. But I'm working out with him, and I didn't have my dad to work out with me probably until I was in my 20s. But then we met some people, talked about them online, that didn't start working out until their 50s. hadn't lifted a weight their entire life, and now they're looking like Rich Piana prior to him dying. And I'm impressed. That's the story that I'm most impressed about is the people that started working out way, way, way, way, way later in life because it's kind of inspiring. It makes you feel like, hey, just because I'm an older guy, older gal, a lot of people start to be settling down, slowing down. No, you go as fast as you want to. And that was something cool about this break that I really held on to. You know what? You could start to do something new, start to take on a new challenge, a new physical fitness at any point in your life. So coming up, we talked to you and talked amongst ourselves about what age did you really start working out, taking your physical fitness seriously on Behind the Curtain. Oh, my sweet boy Gavin. I love him to death. Last year, he started taking his physical fitness pretty seriously. And I didn't know you could do this because I didn't play a ton of athletics in school. Is that one of his classes, one of his periods was weightlifting.
SPEAKER 06 : 1:53
Yeah, I had power lifting in high school.
SPEAKER 05 : 1:55
Yeah, I never did that. I was mostly taking B-level English. Me talk pretty one day. And he did that. He didn't get signed up for it this year. And he's 16, so he wants me to work out with him, which I love. We've already done a circuit this past week. I do feel bad because he kind of wants to work out with his boys. That's a lot of fun. Even though it sucks if you're a regular person at a gym to have a cluster of 19 high schoolers on the one piece of equipment. But still, he's 16. He wants to take it seriously. He's got protein powder. He's asking more about nutrition. He's asking about, you know, how do I use this? How do I do that? And I mean, I have a remedial knowledge of working out that basically I'm just parroting things that former trainers have told me. But yeah, he's kind of taking it seriously. And he wants to start working out. 16, I'd like to think that's probably a pretty good age. Probably a perfect age. Testosterone production. Is it a pro-MD health level? Oh, yeah. But then you get those people that we mentioned prior to the break. You get the little Hercules guys whose parents... You can tell how to make them. It's too young. You can't do all that. You're changing their bodies. Yeah, there was this other crazy power lifter. I can't find his name, but he's got these insane gym, excuse me, garage workouts at this home gym. And he's like making his kids do them.
SPEAKER 06 : 3:21
And you could tell we're not really into it. Well, it's funny you bring that up because one of my really good friends from home, who I don't talk to that much anymore, but he was probably one of my best friends growing up. His name was Sean. He was like an incredible wrestler. He went to wrestle at Cornell. Yeah. Ivy League. He played inside linebacker. Dude was just an athlete. And he's still, to this day, just an athlete. Wrestlers are cut from a different cloth. Don't fight a wrestler. And to the point where him and his wife... Get this. They bought and owned a CrossFit gym. Who blew their back out first? Because he has like this thing in his garage where it's him. He'll be doing it. And then he'll post videos of like him and his daughter and his son all in there, like working out. And I love it because he's getting them into a healthy lifestyle early on. How old are the kids? His daughter maybe is in high school or something like that. But none of them are like six. Not that young, but I bet you they were working out when they were six. But he's smart enough to know not to... The thing with when they're that young is you can't do heavyweights. You can do the motions. You can get moving. Give them a one-pound weight to move around. That'll mess up your... They say it stunts your growth. It messes up your bones and all that with the heavyweights early on. But... Yeah, he's got these kids, and they're incredible athletes now. That's awesome. And they're just in incredible shape. Part of me wishes I had that drive. I never did. You didn't really work out to skate.
SPEAKER 05 : 4:53
You just didn't eat and smoke pot.
SPEAKER 06 : 4:55
Nah, and I played football and baseball, but I just liked to play because my buddies played, and it was fun, and it was awesome. But I was never a gym rat. Even the coaches pulled me aside, and they're like, hey, you know, We'd like to see you in the weight room more because you could be, you know, you could be. It's there. Unlock it. Yeah, exactly. Like you could be way, you know, way better. And I was just like, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 : 5:18
Yeah, but someone showed me boobs. I don't know. I just found out about boobs. And that's kind of my priority right now. So Kenny Vaughn, this is what I'm talking about. He started working out at 50. First time he's ever worked out, he says. He was sick of being a fat ass. Three years later, he's 53. Dude, look at this guy. I'll show you a photo of this guy. This guy's jacked as hell. Looks amazing. He started working out at 50, and that was him before. There's prior Kenny Vaughn. And look at jacked Kenny Vaughn now, UFC welterweight. Looking good, Kenny. Damn, Kenny. Inspiration. Didn't know Joe was gay. When did you start working out? When did you really start taking it seriously? Like 5, 10, 50? I haven't. You did in the past. Hey, don't forget the Baltimore... What's it called? Run? Race Baltimore? Running Baltimore? Charm City Run. Charm City Run was my next guess. Let's jump right to the phones. Brandon's been patiently holding. Brandon, good morning.
SPEAKER 18 : 6:12
Morning, guys. How we doing?
SPEAKER 05 : 6:16
Hey, pal. What's up, stud?
SPEAKER 18 : 6:18
Oh, yeah. I was... So... I've been working out my entire life. I blew my back out when I was 17. Hey, that's my job. And then at 19, I started MMA, and I went down to Alliance to train with Michael Chandler, Brandon Vera.
SPEAKER 09 : 6:36
Damn.
SPEAKER 18 : 6:36
All the pros.
SPEAKER 09 : 6:37
Yeah.
SPEAKER 18 : 6:37
Sat out of shape. Totally got an experience. Got in the cage with Brandon Vera. First hour of a $2,000 trip. He blew my knee out right off the gate.
SPEAKER 05 : 6:49
Yeah, Brandon Vera is a former UFC heavyweight contender. Like, that is the best of the best and the heaviest of the heavy. And they put you in there. You know, they put you in there as cannon fodder.
SPEAKER 06 : 7:00
What do you mean he blew your knee out?
SPEAKER 18 : 7:02
Oh, no, I'm 36, man, and that was when I was 19. I'm totally aware. damn so much love to gavin i hope he's gonna be all right or he comes around or whatever now with your physical fitness um i'm at 245 right now um that's uh yeah kobe kind of changed my life on that one and i've just now really been working on a lot of kettlebells and
SPEAKER 25 : 7:32
Are you muscle? Are you all muscle?
SPEAKER 18 : 7:34
Yeah, I mean, Josh can kick my ass.
SPEAKER 25 : 7:35
Yeah, I could kick your ass. You got that right. Don't you ever forget it.
SPEAKER 05 : 7:38
He's got this great move in the cage. He shoots you just in the chest. That's it. I'll punch you in your chest, and then I'll run. Yeah, as hard and as fast as he can. Josh is the champion of 38 caliber division. Let's go to Shane. Shane on line two. Shane, what's up, bud?
SPEAKER 24 : 7:55
What's up, guys? How we doing?
SPEAKER 05 : 7:56
How you feeling? How you lifting? What age did you start?
SPEAKER 24 : 7:59
You can hear it in his voice, sir. well hey i started lifting when i was 12 years old and it's the weirdest place it was a miniature golf course in pasadena it was a bait yeah i know it's weird i tell people the story all the time and i get the same reaction it was a miniature golf course and it was the basement and it was literally like you walked into like just an old school gym barbells like it was dirty but like It was crazy, and that's where I started lifting. Just been lifting ever since.
SPEAKER 06 : 8:30
I remember in a basement, like my basement. It was a Finnish basement, but we had those plastic weights that were, like, filled with sand. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 : 8:37
Remember, like, the starter weights? Yeah, the ones that were five bucks a weight.
SPEAKER 06 : 8:40
Like, where'd you get them? Sears or something? I don't know where you got them.
SPEAKER 05 : 8:43
You've seen the ones in SkyMall that you allegedly, and I'd love to see a product review, that you could take with you as a traveler and go into your hotel room and fill with water?
SPEAKER 06 : 8:51
Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 : 8:52
Like, that can't be great. And it's better than nothing, I guess. Right. Have you suffered any injuries? I mean, you're how old now, Shane?
SPEAKER 24 : 8:58
I'm 28 right now, and luckily I haven't suffered any injuries. I'm trying to listen to my body.
SPEAKER 06 : 9:05
16 years. You've been lifting since you were 12. Have you been lifting straight through? Like, it's just a lifestyle?
SPEAKER 24 : 9:11
Yeah, it's a lifestyle, like through sports and stuff, too. I started, like, with sports and then kind of have kept with it since. And now I do, yeah. So you have a good body? Yeah. I'm okay, Bob. I'd say, I mean, I run a meal prep service, so, like, I got to kind of keep it tight. Slow down.
SPEAKER 06 : 9:30
Slow down. You got to keep it tight, you said?
SPEAKER 03 : 9:35
Like how tight?
SPEAKER 24 : 9:37
Well, that's just between Josh and I. Oh, Jesus.
SPEAKER 06 : 9:41
Well, go ahead, Josh. Ask him some questions. All right, sir. Ask him how tight.
SPEAKER 24 : 9:46
How tight? Okay. I'd say as tight as the cucumber guy from the story last week. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 25 : 9:56
You know, we need a follow-up on that. Got to find out about that guy. Where was that? That was in the D.C. That was in D.C., huh?
SPEAKER 06 : 10:06
Yeah, D.C. Yeah, pleasuring himself with a cucumber in public. How many abdominals? Do you have a six-pack? Maybe more than six?
SPEAKER 24 : 10:14
No, I'd say it's more of like a power keg. Okay. Barrel chest.
SPEAKER 05 : 10:19
What's that, Joe? Joe wants to know, do you have any photos of you squatting at 12?
SPEAKER 11 : 10:23
What's your bench?
SPEAKER 24 : 10:34
What's your bench? Bench right now, it's kind of light. It's probably like 315 now. I'm like full... That's my one rep max.
SPEAKER 25 : 10:44
Is this Shane Elliott? Shane? Yes, this is us.
SPEAKER 05 : 10:47
Of course it is. This dude's a gladiator. This guy could kick a Cadillac in half. You said meal prep service, and I put two and two together. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know him. This guy, do you want to talk about squatting and deadlifting? Man, I can't believe I hit on a family member. I'm gonna be real with you. I don't think it's gonna happen. I'm trying. I bought the equipment. I'm taking it seriously. I've watched the tutorials. I've done it on the ground. I've done it in the grass. Riding this unicycle just doesn't seem like it's gonna happen. And this further cements my belief that when it comes to balance, I have very good shoulder forward balance on a skateboard, on a wakeboard, on a snowboard. But when it comes to chest first balance, Whether it be a hoverboard, whether it be water skis, or in this case, a unicycle. I just can't do it. I bought a 16-inch diameter unicycle. I found out I accidentally bought a Fisher-Price Childs unicycle. So I got a big one. I got a big 24-inch sons of bitches. This thing was very hard to get on top of. So I had to have Joe's help. I had to have Valerie's help. And I wasn't able to get balance for even a second. The thing's been sitting, gathering dust in the stupid studio. So here's what might happen. I don't think I'm going to be able to do this. I'm just not going to be able to get trained in time. I think I might just give the damn thing away at the .05K, kicking off the Baltimore Running Festival in the month of October. So I'm trying. You'll hear me fail coming up, but it's not looking good for your boy in regards to, Learning to ride a new unicycle on Behind the Curtain. Val, you were a great sport a couple of weeks ago when we brought in a much smaller unicycle. Yeah. 16-inch diameter wheel. 8-inch radius. And I talked to some people. They said, you got the wrong size. It's way too small for you.
SPEAKER 23 : 12:35
It seems fine.
SPEAKER 05 : 12:36
I tried to return it. They said, we'll give you your money back. Keep the unicycle. That's a win.
SPEAKER 23 : 12:40
I got a free car. That's a win. Can you do that with a TV for me? Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 : 12:45
I got the wrong size. Keep it. Here's your money back. So I got this one now. Joe, you want to take it over to her? I don't even know if her leg's going to reach. I don't think mine are going to reach.
SPEAKER 19 : 12:55
I'm also not wearing the right shoes today.
SPEAKER 05 : 12:57
Oh, that's what it is. Here, I'll give you the helmet, too. Safety first, guys.
SPEAKER 19 : 13:02
Thank you.
SPEAKER 06 : 13:02
Safety first. I'm starting to feel bad because I saw another radio person that... Works in the Twin Cities, and they got a big fair out there. The Minnesota State Fair is gigantic. And she said, well, I'm going to learn to ride a unicycle when the fair comes to town. This way I can ride it around the fair. And she did it. And I saw a video where it was like 10 days later, she literally... I took off and ripped down the back alley of her house and it was in 10 days that she had. I mean, she just kept going. She was just riding. And I was like, wow, this is fascinating. But then I asked Justin with the the task of riding, learning to ride a unicycle. And I feel bad.
SPEAKER 19 : 13:43
But I also think after our last time, it's more so you don't have to go forward. It's the back and forth. They always just go back and forth because they're just trying to stay steady.
SPEAKER 05 : 13:52
The wobble.
SPEAKER 19 : 13:53
Right.
SPEAKER 05 : 13:53
Yeah, so I don't know if this is going to be better or going to be worse, but everybody that saw the original video said you got the wrong size one. This one, though, you used to be able to swing your leg over and straddle it. You're going to need help this time, so I'm going to come over there with you.
SPEAKER 19 : 14:06
This handle is not as good either.
SPEAKER 05 : 14:08
It does have a smaller handle, but a better wheel and a seat. So, Joe, I'm going to come over there with you, and we're going to sort of brace her. All right, yeah, get that helmet all cinched up. I don't need her coming here with a speech impediment moving forward. All right, here we go.
SPEAKER 06 : 14:20
Why the hell does the unicycle even exist? I mean, was it actually considered a form of transportation at some point?
SPEAKER 05 : 14:28
It's insane. By insane white people. All right, here we go. Pull that mic close.
SPEAKER 06 : 14:34
Pull the mic close to you so we can hear you. Yeah, so here we go. We're going to go ahead. We're just going to try and mount this thing at first.
SPEAKER 03 : 14:40
Well, hello there. Okay, so I've got you. All right.
SPEAKER 06 : 14:42
Yeah, I don't even know if she's tall enough to get on this thing.
SPEAKER 03 : 14:46
All right. Oh, my God.
SPEAKER 06 : 14:49
Don't even get on it.
SPEAKER 16 : 14:51
Wait, let me jump off this chair. The seat moved. Uh-oh.
SPEAKER 03 : 14:54
The seat moved? Oh, great. That's not good.
SPEAKER 06 : 14:56
No, this is not good.
SPEAKER 03 : 14:57
This is gonna... Yeah, you gotta really cinch that son of a bitch. You gotta tighten it. Did you tighten it? Here we go. Here we go. Oh, I hate this. Oh, no. Oh, no.
SPEAKER 06 : 15:06
We're gonna hurt Val. We are going to hurt Val. Remember when Val was in a wheelchair? Josh, this is not good. Yeah, it's...
SPEAKER 25 : 15:12
Yeah, I'm secretly hoping she falls.
SPEAKER 09 : 15:15
Oh, God.
SPEAKER 06 : 15:15
Wow, she's like up there high. Can your legs even reach it?
SPEAKER 09 : 15:18
Oh, the pedal caught my shin. Oh, the pedal caught my shin.
SPEAKER 06 : 15:21
All right, let's see if Justin... Justin, come right here. Oh, my gosh. Bring the unicycle.
SPEAKER 09 : 15:26
We gotta do the wall. Do the wall.
SPEAKER 06 : 15:28
We gotta tighten up the seat. We gotta tighten up that... Wait, if you can even get on it, I don't even know.
SPEAKER 03 : 15:32
All right, here we go.
SPEAKER 19 : 15:33
You need this.
SPEAKER 03 : 15:34
Yeah, you gotta take... Hold on. Let's take this. I'm going to turn this down. You got to tighten this son of a bitch up right here.
SPEAKER 19 : 15:41
That whole thing just came off.
SPEAKER 03 : 15:42
Tighten this up. Tighten this up. You got to hold the other side of it. All right. There you go. That son of a bitch down.
SPEAKER 05 : 15:49
Okay.
SPEAKER 03 : 15:50
Here we go. Oh, dude, she caught me in the shin with that pedal. No, no, no. I was all up in your space. Okay, so here we go.
SPEAKER 19 : 15:57
Wow, you're tall enough for that.
SPEAKER 05 : 15:58
Come here, daddy. See, it's still moving, dude. The seat's still screwing up on me. Piece of crap Chinese unicycle. All right, hold on. I've got to hold the other side. Here we go. Kind of doing this on the fly here. Might need a wrench. This is not going to work great. Do we have a toolbox? There you go. Let's see.
SPEAKER 06 : 16:18
Maybe that'll work. You got that quick release. Here we go. You're not going to be there, Joe, though. I'll be there. Be there for me. Be there, pal. He's kind of on a unicycle as we speak.
SPEAKER 09 : 16:32
You're going! But you're holding him up! Ha ha ha! Ha ha! This is not good. Val's on one side and Joe is... Why is he panicking if he's supportive? I'm getting worse at it. This is... The unicycle sucks. Oh, no. I want off. Oh, no.
SPEAKER 06 : 17:00
All right, we got a long way to go.
SPEAKER 09 : 17:02
That was pretty good.
SPEAKER 06 : 17:04
No, I mean, it really wasn't. I mean, I'm not nothing against Justin.
SPEAKER 05 : 17:08
It was worse than the first one.
SPEAKER 06 : 17:09
It's just that you guys were holding him up. It was 99% you guys holding me up.
SPEAKER 19 : 17:14
I'm so strong.
SPEAKER 06 : 17:15
She always turns into her. How does it always become about her and how great she is? She's very good at it. Like she did nothing. I can't wait to walk this thing. She's not strong. But, yeah, we got to figure this out.
SPEAKER 01 : 17:27
This might not happen, dude.
SPEAKER 06 : 17:28
You need a YouTube tutorial. We need YouTube. YouTube. There's got to be a trick. Remember they said keep your... Keep your head up.
SPEAKER 19 : 17:36
Head up.
SPEAKER 06 : 17:36
I don't know. I can't give any advice. I can't do it.
SPEAKER 19 : 17:39
You should try maybe underwater.
SPEAKER 06 : 17:41
That's a good idea.
SPEAKER 05 : 17:44
It's a Misconnection Monday, and this time I had a chance to throw my name into the ring. See, I poised myself, positioned myself, pretended to be a young Amish man on Rumspringa who's decided to never return to his Pennsylvania Dutch community because, well, he's seen what the English world has to offer, and he likes it quite a bit. Now... I put that interview, excuse me, that ad up last week, probably around, I'm going to guess Wednesday, Thursday, and I've mined maybe 15 or 20 readable responses. Well, I'll go ahead and tease you for this week coming up. The responses have been pouring in, and yes, I do have pictures now. I'm not sure if people are doing this on purpose, if people are aware of the bit on Craigslist that we do on Miss Connections Monday, but I have even more. More responses to the young, horny, former Amish boy that I've put a Craigslist Misconnections ad up for. So I'll read those, share some of the pictures with the class. Josh will get upset, and I'll get called down to HR. And also, another facet of it in Misconnections is the Bush River bookstore gets brought back up. And man, if you are looking to make a friend, may I suggest the bookstore at Bush River. You'll hear all about it coming up as we do a Misconnections Monday on Behind the Curtain. Ah, perverts on the Internet. It's the reason the Internet was invented. So, Miss Connections, you go to Craigslist, you see somebody out in public. You, man, Tacoma. Huge crank, small dog, love to get to know more. You, man, wandering around with seven murrows. Fat ass, grippable shoulders. Big, beautiful beard. I'd love to smell your neck from a distance. Reach out. We've got a bunch of them here. I also put up my own. Is that on the back page, pal?
SPEAKER 04 : 19:36
Yeah, it is. I was just reading it.
SPEAKER 05 : 19:38
Oh, yeah, there you go. I can't believe that didn't get pulled. Because I feel like yours made it. Will put up one. His got yanked. Yeah. But mine stayed. So I didn't get any pictures. That was the only thing I was bummed out about. Well, who knows? You didn't get any pictures for what? A few days? Yeah, leave it up there for like another week or two. Okay. All right.
SPEAKER 06 : 19:54
I'll leave it up there. Take it away. You want to start with the... You just want to go through some regular ones? Yeah, here's some regular ones. Bush River. Haven't we talked about Bush River before? Is that that bookstore?
SPEAKER 05 : 20:04
Sure is. Yeah, you got a lot of messages about that.
SPEAKER 06 : 20:07
The guy at Bush River, you met me and said you had to get your phone, but you didn't come back. I liked where we were going. If you want to try again, hit me up. He was not interested. I got to go to Bush River. Yeah, and take the hint. If the guy says he's got to get his phone and then never comes back, that's a sign.
SPEAKER 05 : 20:28
Yeah, for example, let me see if I can pull up the name of the place. Maybe he got freaked out or something. Yeah, he got freaked out.
SPEAKER 06 : 20:32
Probably cheating on his wife. Probably there for, you know, some dude on dude stuff.
SPEAKER 05 : 20:37
His dirty business.
SPEAKER 25 : 20:38
The Yelp Bush River Books and Video Reviews.
SPEAKER 05 : 20:42
are a 10. Oh, hysterical. Oh, dude, I went to the A-Town bar. 4-10-3-3-10-98. If you know anything about Bush River, call us now. We need to do a Bush River break. Yeah, I went to the A-Town bar in Carroll County. I've been to A-Town. Shout out A-Town! I went to A-Town, and there was a man there that would not stop asking me how much I made and was starting to get a little aggressive, and I said, give me two secs. I'm going to run to my car and I'm going to grab my phone. And then disappeared. And I said, how'd you end up in A-Town? We got done with the Carroll County Arts Center. Went to this O'Learden's Irish bar. And then someone said, hey, there's a bar right nearby. 20 minutes away. Not right nearby. That is right nearby in that neck of the woods. But not, I guess, yeah. Yeah, for that neck of the woods where your next closest neighbor is two miles away. 20 minutes away. Terrible idea. Yeah, change your Sam Adams gag. It's skunky. I've been there, and that place gets wild. Yeah, there was a disagreement near the billiard table. Loud one. Real loud one. So I love you, but it's going to be some time before I go again. Let's get a look here. Direct deposit, not just for banks only. Yuckers. Mac computer. Retired IT guy looking for older model Mac desktops to have some hard drive manipulation. Let me know if you're interested.
SPEAKER 04 : 22:01
I might just be a guy looking for a computer.
SPEAKER 25 : 22:04
I don't think so. No? Yeah, hard drive manipulation kind of. Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 : 22:09
Makes me think otherwise. Canton Safeway. I used to shop there. Canton Safeway Bananas. I was deciding between organic and regular bananas. You told me it's against the law to make eye contact while eating a banana. You're cute. I'd like to see you after I get my silverback gorilla costume.
SPEAKER 24 : 22:30
What? So, that's a two-parter. Read the one right above that. Now, I don't know if this is... Oh.
SPEAKER 06 : 22:37
This one says Canton Produce. You were wearing green and orange overalls with red boots. Green and orange overalls with red boots and made eye contact at the produce section. You couldn't decide what type of bananas to buy. I've been looking for you at the produce section ever since. Did you decide on regular organic? And then this person talks about the organic Vanessa. This is the two of them? I think so. Oh, my God. This might happen. You're right there.
SPEAKER 09 : 23:06
Connect with each other, you morons.
SPEAKER 05 : 23:08
Get a hold of their account. They're each looking for each other. Group message them. Wow. Take one. Mix with the other. Are you two trying to find each other? One day we will make a connection. Speaks, if you flip to the back page of Craigslist, you'll find my post. If you'd like to go ahead and read that one. All right.
SPEAKER 25 : 23:30
Young, dumb, and full of corn. This former Amish naughty boy is looking for a guide through the English world of sin and sass. Have a wagon, we'll travel. And by wagon, I mean a big old country butt. Jesus. Minimal hair. Dutch speakers move to the front of the line. Lacrosse bros move to the rear. And by rear, I mean my fat country ass.
SPEAKER 09 : 24:00
That's not even like cryptic.
SPEAKER 05 : 24:03
This boy is on a permanent rum spring. Are these replies real? The first one, I laughed. Until I think I woke him up.
SPEAKER 06 : 24:10
I laughed at the one, two, three, four, five, the sixth one down, second from the bottom.
SPEAKER 05 : 24:14
One, two, three, four, five, six. The very first one really made me laugh. Now, after that, one of the first responses I got was, you gay? No, no, he's looking for marriage.
SPEAKER 25 : 24:28
Okay, please. Third one is crazy. Picture. I have some to share if you want it. We can meet in my house, but B-U-T-T, have to be quiet. Pakistani, okay, cool.
SPEAKER 05 : 24:41
Pakistani, okay, cool.
SPEAKER 06 : 24:43
I like the one that says, I can help out. Want to meet now? I can be there now. Let's go.
SPEAKER 14 : 24:49
I can be there now.
SPEAKER 05 : 24:50
There's not a comma to be found in that sentence. Here's another one. Oh, I can't read that last one, dude. That one's got to have some edits. Okay, this is the one that both Joe and I were disturbed by. Do you play with dirty? I have paperwork. Does that person have a full-ass disease? Yeah, that's... Is that what that means?
SPEAKER 06 : 25:11
Do you play with dirty... Some people get off on knowing that they're with someone with a disease. Maybe it says, do you play dirty? Like, paperwork to prove that you're positive? Yeah, I can confirm. I think they're called bug chasing.
SPEAKER 09 : 25:25
Yes, that's right! Yuck!
SPEAKER 05 : 25:28
I have AIDS. What are some professions that would turn you off in regards to dating? If you found out somebody day one embalmed bodies at some morgue, would you go, hmm, this isn't my cup of tea? If you found out maybe they worked in the adult industry, got a lot of those. And to pull the curtain back a little bit, because I think I addressed it in the break coming up, this actually came up. from a friend of ours, a show artist. She's made stickers and paintings for us. A beautiful one by the name of Angela, who she's been a JSS P1 diehard forever. And I encourage you, if you're like Angela and you got an idea for a break, we are always looking for original content ideas. You might have a genius idea. JSS 98 Rock on Instagram, on X Facebook. DM us. Put it out there. She asked me. I said, that's a great idea. I did it the very next day. Ain't no shame in our game. Let's work smarter, not harder. So I love it. And for example, her profession, tattoo artist, I think that's absolutely badass. And I would date Angela. And if she's ever single again and I'm single again, I will ask to date Angela. And she will say no. And I will agree with her. Because I'm an annoying radio DJ slash wannabe comedian. And I should not find love. Coming up, what profession would you go, we're not hooking up if you found out that they did it on Behind the Curtain. What is a profession someone could have that you go, you know what? Can't see myself being with that for a long time or a lifetime. Hey, credit where credit's due, by the way. Our dear friend Angela, show tattoo artist, designer, sticker crafter, all-around great person, J-S-S-O-G. She gave me this idea. She was just talking about, I can't remember what we were DMing about, something with an upcoming event of ours. Uncensored news forthcoming. She says, I'll start with her. I couldn't date anyone in the legal system. I can't date a lawyer because the gaslighting would be real if we were ever in an argument or a separation. How do you argue with someone which happens in relationships whose job it is to argue well? You'd never win.
SPEAKER 06 : 27:43
We're getting a lot of texts. Somebody says, I'm a female polygraph examiner, lie detector. Tends to scare off guys once they find out. Can't date someone that does polygraphs.
SPEAKER 05 : 27:55
Yeah, you're never getting away with nothing. Yeah, I was stuck in traffic. I'm not sure.
SPEAKER 06 : 28:00
Right, she probably knows all the tells, right? Isn't there... I'm sorry, what was that twitch in your left eye?
SPEAKER 05 : 28:05
Your pantomimes.
SPEAKER 06 : 28:07
Those 13 pantomimes.
SPEAKER 05 : 28:09
A woman has 15 pantomimes. Sicilians, the world heavyweight champion of life...
SPEAKER 06 : 28:15
True romance.
SPEAKER 05 : 28:16
Yeah. Dennis Hopper. Christopher Walken.
SPEAKER 06 : 28:19
One of the greatest scenes of all time.
SPEAKER 05 : 28:21
Cop says Ariel. Wait. Yeah, this this sucks. This is an unfortunate statistic that, you know, numbers don't lie and liars use numbers. The domestic violence stats in certain professions are higher. And I don't know what it is, but something about people in policing, both men and women, the domestic violence stats are higher than other professions. I'm going to assume, you know, your job has got you stressed out a little bit.
SPEAKER 06 : 28:48
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 : 28:48
And maybe if you were at the cusp of doing something nasty, but you were like a cake decorator, you wouldn't. But you come home all day from dealing with the criminality. You might snap. Not an excuse. But still, yeah, I mean, they're stressed out as hell. It's one of the most stressful positions. There's one right there. Dr. Glitz. Checks in saying, I couldn't date a cop or a therapist. Oh, imagine having a therapist.
SPEAKER 06 : 29:12
Yeah. That tries to break you down. Well, they're just like constantly psychoanalyzing you. Somebody says, I'm assuming this is a female. They says they couldn't date a gynecologist. He has seen way too many vaginas. Oh, yeah. And not good ones. You know, a lawyer.
SPEAKER 05 : 29:27
would be terrible to argue with yeah yeah he just said that no chance i could argue with the lawyer they're gonna i will get into occasional disagreements with mudge and i go you need to get into the legal field yeah you're so good yeah i have a friend who's a lawyer and i'm it's like you can see there's like that little switch and he cut you know you kind of
SPEAKER 06 : 29:51
He knows how to argue. I mean, you know how to argue. You're a professional arguer. It's incredible.
SPEAKER 05 : 29:57
Joe, Rodney co-signs you. OnlyFans model. Yeah. Which I was shocked to hear you say, considering 50% of your paycheck goes to the government, and the other half goes to OnlyFans. That's right. I don't remember the government doing 50% of my job, but...
SPEAKER 25 : 30:11
Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 : 30:12
I, uh, I support women and, uh, but if your woman was to be naked on the internet, uh, I mean, just like, yeah, no, no, that's fine.
SPEAKER 05 : 30:24
Um, I could probably date an only fans model before I dated an influencer. Or a self-professed influencer. I don't think I could do that. Or like a foodie. What have you said, Scott? The camera eats first? Every single time we ordered waffles with strawberries and a side of hash browns, and there's a ring light that comes out, I'm like...
SPEAKER 06 : 30:46
camera just eat your scrapple why do you have that dumb flat hat on uh i guess maybe this is kind of like a lawyer in a way or what about an actor and actress you never know when they're never know yeah when they're being real or if they're just acting i mean what about a musician comedian
SPEAKER 05 : 31:06
Yeah, I mean, the comedic mind is not the well mind outside of Brian Regan. Brian Regan aside, every other comedian, yours truly included, has a big self-esteem father mom X shaped hole in their pride that they try and fill with the laughter of strangers. That is not normal. So you need to – that's a huge flaw of mine. I've talked about it in the courtesy video therapy that the company has set me up with. Wow. Thank you, Dan. That I have to – why do I need to make strangers laugh? That's weird. Yeah. That's a weird thing. I can't not be liked. And no one has ever 100 percent liked. So comedian, yeah, that's a great one. Musician, how about musician just for the traveling? Yeah. What's wrong with a musician?
SPEAKER 25 : 31:53
For the noise.
SPEAKER 05 : 31:55
He's down there banging on those drums. Sounds like a kid smacking two pots together. Especially you. You're a drummer, dude. That's horrible.
SPEAKER 25 : 32:06
I'm actually looking at buying my girlfriend Bluetooth headphones.
SPEAKER 05 : 32:10
Like a guitarist or a bassist or something, they can plug headphones in and you just hear the strings being strummed. What's bad about a musician?
SPEAKER 25 : 32:19
They're usually poor. I mean, it's, you know, 99% are struggling. The 1% are killing it, but it's few and far between. Usually they have some sort of, like, ego or some sort of narcissistic tendencies to want to be up in front of people and like that.
SPEAKER 06 : 32:40
I just thought about that. See, you work here. Mm-hmm. And then you're also a musician, but your musicianship does nothing to supplement your income, does it? No, not at all. You make no money with that band. No, I spend money to be in that band. And to make my own stuff, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 : 32:55
Local cover band, the Early Americans? That's right. You need to bring back Coastal Vibrations.
SPEAKER 25 : 33:00
I think you guys checked in on it too soon. I think you're right. I think we need to have a reunion.
SPEAKER 05 : 33:05
And this is me maybe stretching, getting into musicians some, but at some point, any kind of douchebag hipster band decides, hey, let's start dressing like a-holes. At what point do you come home and you see Tinkerbell, and you're now covered in beads? You're like, what are you doing? There's a day that the band gets together and goes, all right, guys, let's dress like douchebags. Let's all get the Baltimore band haircut. Which one of us is going to do the cowboy hat that curls in on the side? We doing that? Do you remember who gave you the cowboy hat? No, not him.
SPEAKER 25 : 33:37
The dude in my band.
SPEAKER 09 : 33:39
Yeah? Yeah. I'm not going to say it.
SPEAKER 25 : 33:41
You say it. Never seen him wear it a day in my life, either. Ever? Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 : 33:44
That's Frank Spangler.
SPEAKER 25 : 33:46
He had a singer hat, that cowboy hat. To be fair, he is bald. Okay. It was a sunny day.
SPEAKER 05 : 33:51
But he had that cowboy hat on.
SPEAKER 25 : 33:52
He did.
SPEAKER 05 : 33:52
He looked very Maynard. At some point where you're like, but I've never seen you wear that many rosaries. What are you doing?
SPEAKER 06 : 33:59
Yeah, how do you get to the point where there's 47 bracelets?
SPEAKER 05 : 34:02
Where'd them boots come from? Never seen that before. So suddenly you've got to come home and take off your outfit.
SPEAKER 25 : 34:07
Haven't worked manual labor a day in your life.
SPEAKER 05 : 34:09
While the ticket give may be over, the laughs can still continue as we had Metallica tickets to give away all week long. And usually, just to make it nice and simple, we'll do a good call to win, a text to win. But this time, we mixed it up a little bit. We did everything from trivia. We did everything from playing a song backwards. You had to guess it. Stack three songs on top of each other that we played at the same time. You had to guess all three songs. That was very, very hard. We decided to have ourselves a bit of a talent show on Wednesday and open the Hetfield lines. And my God, did you not impress, but did? No one really sounded like James Hetfield, but I gotta say, a lot of you had the energy. You had the chutzpah, okay? And we even had a woman who I thought to myself, you know what? She's going to be the one that sends it. She's going to be the one that blows the guys out of the water. If you find a woman that can do an impression of James Hetfield as good as I think she can, I bet she's going to be the one to get the tickets. And she was god-awful, and we hung up on her almost immediately. It was worth hearing just how hilariously bad some of your Hetfield impressions were as we tried to give you Metallica tickets for your James Hetfield impression. Please, as you listen to this, don't call in. The tickets are already gone. It's behind the curtain. It's time to dance for your supper. It's time to get your best Frank Caliendo on. I love it. You gotta do your best James Hetfield impression. I don't have one. I'm not sure if I can do one. Let's just go down the line. Let's see who's been holding the most. Let's hop on to Larry. Larry, good morning. Hey, good morning, guys. What's up? How you doing? Metallica, man. Pantera, Suicidal Tendencies. When you sing along to Metallica in your work truck, do you do the James Hetfield voice? Yes, I do. I try to do my best with what I can. Okay. All right. Let's go ahead and hear what you've got. Take it away.
SPEAKER 15 : 36:10
Okay, I'm taking it back to 84. For whom the bell tolls, Mr. Cliff Burton on bass. Aye, aye, aye, aye, aye. For whom the bell tolls.
SPEAKER 05 : 36:24
So far, strong start.
SPEAKER 06 : 36:25
Yeah, not bad. I didn't like it. I don't think he sounded anything like James Hetfield.
SPEAKER 05 : 36:31
You know what it was? He captured the spirit. There was enthusiasm. I'll give him that. What he lacked in tonal accuracy... Metaphor enthusiasm. I'm not hanging up. I'm going to put him on hold. Put him on hold, but I don't know. I'm hoping Blaine can bring it. Yeah, it's never easy to go first. Blaine, you've seen the watermark here. It's not that high a one. Blaine, how are you? I'm good. How about yourself? All right, good. Are you on speaker or Bluetooth?
SPEAKER 1 : 36:56
Oh, I am.
SPEAKER 05 : 36:56
All right, why don't you pop off that bad boy. Let's go ahead and hear the crisp, clean James Hetfield of yours.
SPEAKER 14 : 37:03
All right. All right. All right, I'm going to go a little simple and easy with... with the Black Album. So we're going to do Enter Sandman.
SPEAKER 09 : 37:14
Okay.
SPEAKER 14 : 37:16
Take my hand.
SPEAKER 12 : 37:18
We're off to Never Never Land. Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 : 37:23
Okay. The end. The nose came up on the plane at the end. I'm putting him on hold. Yeah. Plane. That's my front runner. All right. Let's see if Mark can top that. Mark, good morning. Where are you calling from?
SPEAKER 08 : 37:36
Calling from Perry Point. What's going on, fellas?
SPEAKER 05 : 37:38
How you doing, pal? You ever seen Metallica live? I have.
SPEAKER 08 : 37:42
This will be my third time if I'm a winner.
SPEAKER 05 : 37:44
Hot damn. Let's try and make you that, okay? And I want you to have to pay a dime for this thing. You know how it works?
SPEAKER 08 : 37:49
Yes, sir.
SPEAKER 05 : 37:50
Okay, what era Hetfield are we doing?
SPEAKER 08 : 37:52
I'm going with Master of Puppets.
SPEAKER 05 : 37:54
Oh, hell yeah. All right, take it away.
SPEAKER 08 : 37:56
I'm going to go early.
SPEAKER 07 : 37:58
Master of puppets, I'm pulling your strings, twitching your mind and smashing your dreams. Blinded by me, you can't see a thing. Just call my name because I'll hear you scream. Master! Master!
SPEAKER 1 : 38:10
Okay, not bad.
SPEAKER 05 : 38:12
Not bad. Again, the energy is there amongst all of them. Yeah. No one has sounded like him yet, though.
SPEAKER 06 : 38:17
It's not an energy contest.
SPEAKER 05 : 38:18
It's a Hetfield contest. It's not. It's a Hetfield contest. So I've got to work with what we have. Let's mix it up.
SPEAKER 06 : 38:24
Blaine is still my frontrunner.
SPEAKER 05 : 38:26
We're going to go to Kim on Line 7. Kim, good morning.
SPEAKER 11 : 38:29
Good morning.
SPEAKER 06 : 38:31
How are you?
SPEAKER 11 : 38:31
I'm good. How are you?
SPEAKER 06 : 38:33
Now, Kim, I'm assuming you have a vagina and James Hetfield has a penis. So there's an inherent difference there.
SPEAKER 11 : 38:40
True.
SPEAKER 05 : 38:41
Okay. True. All right. So what Metallica, what version of him will you be doing?
SPEAKER 11 : 38:49
I'm going to cover all the versions.
SPEAKER 05 : 38:51
All right. Damn. All right.
SPEAKER 11 : 38:52
Take it away. Hit it, Kim. All right. Yeah, yeah. That's it. Come on, kid.
SPEAKER 05 : 39:02
What? Yeah, yeah. I'm putting her on hold. Okay. I don't know why. I feel like we should give her something. I don't know what. Yeah. We might just give her the unicycle. Yeah, we might have it all. She might have won the unicycle, okay? Because that was so bad it circled back to good. Holy hell, Kim, that is funny. Yeah, yeah. All right, let's see how Michael does on line four. Michael, I got high hopes for you. Call in from Westminster.
SPEAKER 12 : 39:32
Give me fuel, give me fire, give me double genocide. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 : 39:37
Okay, the yeah, good, and he dove right in. A lot of enthusiasm. Josh, has anybody jumped out at you yet amongst these first five?
SPEAKER 25 : 39:45
I like the second guy.
SPEAKER 05 : 39:48
I think we're kind of leaning towards Blaine right now, right?
SPEAKER 25 : 39:50
I was thinking of the guy before Blaine. The first guy, I guess. Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 : 39:54
Larry. Well, we got them all on hold. Let's continue here. You know what? I'm actually going to, you know, I love her to death, but I think we got to send Kim out to save her. Sorry, Kim. Yeah, sorry, Kim. We're sorry. It wasn't the greatest. Joe, grab somebody else. All right, let's go to, who do we have here? Let's go to Glenn. Glenn on line five. Glenn, good morning. Good morning, fellas. What do you think of the contestants so far?
SPEAKER 14 : 40:18
I think I can do a little bit better. All right, prove it. Go.
SPEAKER 12 : 40:23
Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Darkness imprisoning me. All I see, absolute horror. I cannot live. I cannot die. Talk to myself.
SPEAKER 05 : 40:36
Body my whole itself. We might have a new leader in the clubhouse. That was, God, that was pretty great. All right, I'm going to put him on hold. And finally, we'll get to Brendan here on line six. Brendan, good morning. I do like the guys that start singing immediately. There's no lead up. There's no runway. The jet just takes off. Jump jet position. God, we got a real boondoggle here. You want to take one more? Sure. All right, we'll go to John. John's our new contestant, Joe Stamboni. That's John. Let's go to John here. John, good morning.
SPEAKER 11 : 41:17
Good morning, 98 Rocks.
SPEAKER 05 : 41:19
All right, pal. You sound like a Metallica fan. Lay it on us.
SPEAKER 11 : 41:23
Hush, little baby. Don't say a word. And never mind that noise you heard. It's just a beast under your bed. And you pop it in your head. And the night. And the night. Take my hand off to never, never land.
SPEAKER 05 : 41:48
Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. That's good.
SPEAKER 04 : 41:53
Keep going, John.
SPEAKER 05 : 41:55
What's that? Keep going. How about that? I wanted him to sing the whole song? Yeah. I was going to take it all the way to the end. I was going to have him do it for minutes. Wow. Again, we have ourselves a real country boondoggle here. I was impressed with almost everybody except for Kim. Larry, Blaine, Glenn. I'm trying to figure out amongst who. No, Scott, you said you're a Blaine fan. Josh, you like Larry. Joe, did anybody jump out at you? I like John. You like John?
SPEAKER 06 : 42:22
Yeah. John was good.
SPEAKER 05 : 42:23
God, I like Glenn. Oh, no. Oh, no.
SPEAKER 25 : 42:25
We got ourselves a real to-do. Do we flip a coin? You guys can choose.
SPEAKER 05 : 42:33
I like John's energy.
SPEAKER 25 : 42:34
I don't really care, frankly. Same.
SPEAKER 05 : 42:36
Yeah? All right. Well, you know what? Joe, you did the work. John, you get the tickets. Congratulations, John!
SPEAKER 07 : 42:44
Hey, hey, hey, hey!
SPEAKER 11 : 42:46
And I went on, and I went on down that road. You guys won! Hey!
SPEAKER 05 : 42:53
Hell yeah, you're going to go see Metallica, Pantera, Suicidal Tendencies, May 28th, Northwest Stadium, possibly get that big vinyl collection and a turntable. Hey, who are you going with, John?
SPEAKER 13 : 43:04
My beautiful wife. Oh, you ruined it. She was a Christian music person, and she loves Enter Sandman.
SPEAKER 05 : 43:11
Is she there with you right now?
SPEAKER 13 : 43:13
No, she's not. I wish she was.
SPEAKER 06 : 43:15
What's Christian music? King's X?
SPEAKER 13 : 43:17
Just like Catholic, religious. She listens to religious music.
SPEAKER 06 : 43:23
Is there an artist that you could name? Yeah. What the hell? Amy Grant. Love Amy Grant.
SPEAKER 09 : 43:29
Oh, Amy Grant. That's right. Isn't she married to Vince Gill?
SPEAKER 05 : 43:34
Yeah, you betcha. Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 : 43:36
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 : 43:38
Josh suggests it. We watch it. You benefit from it. So far, Josh is down near batting 1,000 as far as great suggestions on things to watch. And him and I kind of line up. We're a little simpatico in our fascination with true crime and serial killers and court cases. And there's a series called Monsters on Netflix that I've finally finished watching. And it is absolutely worth it. It is graphic as hell. It shows you... I can't remember... The name, the phrase of the condition where it's like, how do I put this? You have a condition where you're so opulent that right or wrong doesn't mean anything to you or it means something different that if you're someone that grew up surrounded in wealth, degrading the help, thinking the poors were lesser than you, then you're probably going to go, oh, I didn't realize a human life actually meant quite a lot for me. people at all scales of the tax bracket. Well, Eric and Lyle Menendez shot and killed their parents with shotguns trying to keep the family inheritance to themselves and you come to realize that these guys were completely outside the realms of normal people's thinking. People that have to struggle to go paycheck to paycheck. Maybe they don't have the money to fix their car. Maybe they're in between jobs and struggling to put food on the table. These two people never had to deal with it, Eric and Lyle Menendez. And sometimes that alters, warps your sense of humanity, empathy, decency, and sometimes can create murderous rage. Josh Spiegel had us watch it. I finally finished it. It's incredible. It's a little brutal. At times, weirdly funny. We reviewed the new Monsters, the Eric and Lyle Menendez story on Behind the Curtain. Monsters. This is a Netflix series that admittedly I thought Speaks was a one and done thing. It is a series. It's a biographical crime drama series created by Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan. The very first one dropped in 2022 with Evan Peters playing Jeffrey Dahmer. You want to party, Hardy? Eat your sandwich. Take a bite of your sandwich. Eat your sandwich. It's made of people. And then they released the second one. And that is this one here. The Menendez Brothers story. The Menendez Brothers, pretty famous story. When did that actual murder happen in real life?
SPEAKER 25 : 46:08
August 20th, 1989. Jose and Kitty Menendez at home in Beverly Hills. They're filthy rich. Filthy rich. Filthy, disgusting rich. They're watching TV in the den of their home, their mansion, when their two sons in their 20s, Lyle and Eric, come on barging in with Mossberg 12-gauge shotguns. We're home! And the sons... Shoot the father, Jose, six times, including a fatal shot in the back of his head. Kitty is shot ten times before the fatal shot to her cheek. She was on the ground calling away. Lyle, one of the sons, runs to his car to reload before firing the fatal shot to her face. So they are found dead. Guilty, sentenced to life in prison, no parole. And they tried to use the excuse that they were abused by their father and they were going to be killed by their parents. But the jury obviously didn't buy it.
SPEAKER 05 : 47:16
This thing stars as the Menendez brothers. You have Eric Menendez, Lyle Menendez, Cooper Cook, Nicholas Alexander Chavez. The big names in this are Javier Bardem as Jose Menendez, the dad that was murdered. Chloe Svegny as the mom that was murdered. Now, I'm only two episodes into this thing. There's nine. You ripped off all nine in a weekend. That's right. Is that nine hours? Are they an hour each?
SPEAKER 06 : 47:42
Nine hours. Sam, son.
SPEAKER 05 : 47:45
I had a friend, a guy I trust by the name of Shane, shout out Spice, who goes, you got to see this show. The murder scene is brutal. And I thought it was going to be... leading up to the murder and then maybe at the midpoint of the show, then they get to the trial and the persecution. They hit the ground running with the murders in this thing so quick. And that looked like a house of horrors. Now, the accusations of like sexual abuse from dad and violence and all that, I don't know the specifics of. It sounds like a lot of that was made up, but it does sound like the dad, Jose Menendez, was an absolute psychopath in his own right. A lot of verbal abuse, emotional abuse. He was the ultimate nightmare sports parent where he'd come running out onto the court and want to fight one of the judges and scream and belittle his son.
SPEAKER 25 : 48:35
Yeah, and there were accusations against the sons that they killed their parents just for the money.
SPEAKER 05 : 48:44
What do you think of the reason they gave for killing mom, which was dark? Was it... She was so hopped up on pills and booze after the dad stepped out with the secretary that her life had no value anymore, and they were putting her out of her misery. It just shows her rambling through the house, just ill and booze-buzzed.
SPEAKER 25 : 49:08
Yeah, the thing about it is you don't know who to believe. Obviously, there's no... There's no clear answer even to this day, unless you follow the legal system and find them guilty. I was going to ask by the end of it, do you have a more definitive?
SPEAKER 05 : 49:24
Oh, no. Oh, really?
SPEAKER 25 : 49:25
I don't. Maybe I'm leaning towards that the sons were just greedy and wanted the money. But do you want to hear them discussing the will? Roll it.
SPEAKER 20 : 49:36
Where is it? Well, we're in the process of looking for it. We have to wait until your uncle, who is the executive. I don't know if you remember.
SPEAKER 02 : 49:46
But our parents were murdered. So are we trying to spend our way into some happy feelings? Yeah. Yeah, maybe. I mean, can you blame us?
SPEAKER 20 : 50:04
They were shot in the face. I'm sorry. I don't mean to be insensitive. Let's just go easy on the spending. I mean, when your uncle arrives and the will has been found in red, you know, we'll know more. The clothes and the watches. It's OK. I'll move some stuff around.
SPEAKER 25 : 50:26
A red light was after the murders. It didn't even take a week. The brothers had bought a Porsche. They were spent. They spent, I think, in the weeks after the murders, something like seven hundred thousand dollars.
SPEAKER 05 : 50:42
There's a scene right after mom and dad are dead. They think they might have gotten away with it, and they go to their lawyer, their dad's lawyer, and they start talking about, you know, what can we get? We need security. Wink, wink. We think it was the mafia. That they realize that they now have kind of a blank check. They want multiple limos. They want to stay at the Bel Air Hotel. One of the brothers, I'm going to say the sweeter of the two, Eric, he's kind of childlike, His one coked out brother, Lyle, hears him ordering room service. And he goes, yeah, I'd like a grilled cheese sandwich and something to drink water. Oh, I guess tap is fine. That's fine. No! You do not drink tap water anymore. Give me that phone. How many shrimp do you have? You heard me. How many shrimp are in the building? He's doing coke. He's eating at the finest restaurants. He's flexing and flossing his newfound wealth. Yes, immediately, we get it. You're going through something. You're trying to buy happiness. But Lyle seemed way too stoked. His parents were dead.
SPEAKER 25 : 51:52
Well, if only we had the actual murder scene. We don't, though, so what we probably... What is that?
SPEAKER 15 : 51:58
Oh!
SPEAKER 21 : 52:12
Nice, huh?
SPEAKER 16 : 52:13
Ow! Just 18 more seconds of this.
SPEAKER 05 : 52:49
Is it the murder of the parents or Baltimore on a Friday night?
SPEAKER 25 : 52:52
Well, Stamboni, thanks for ruining everyone's morning.
SPEAKER 05 : 52:56
There is a moment during the kill with some special effects where, like, mom's putting her hands up, please stop. They blow her whole ass hand off. Spoiler! It's brutal. And then Dad, no more headaches for him. Can't get a headache if you ain't got a head. Spoiler!
SPEAKER 25 : 53:16
I haven't seen it! Unless you have delved into the most gruesome graphic. Of films and TV, I assure you, you've never seen a murder scene like this before. It's like a family guy joke.
SPEAKER 05 : 53:33
It just kept going and going.
SPEAKER 06 : 53:35
You guys almost seem like you enjoy it.
SPEAKER 05 : 53:37
No, I'm laughing at something else. Well, they do do a wild job of setting up what work with psychopaths. Absolute pieces of the parents are. To where, by the way, there isn't a hero in this story. Now, the two episodes I've watched, there ain't a hero. I mean, even their doctor kind of sucks. Which the doctor, again, it's hard to say spoiler because this is stuff that happened. But the doctor, I guess they revealed what they did to him or what they did to him. Meaning they said in a moment they need to tell someone they killed their parents. And the doctor is like, I'm going to go get some coffee. You two stay right here and don't go anywhere. And then runs outside to a pay phone, gets on the phone with his mistress.
SPEAKER 22 : 54:29
It's like, you've got to get up here right now. I'm in the office with two psychopaths. You have to come help me.
SPEAKER 05 : 54:38
Drunk mom. Oh, yeah. Drunk mom at dinner. All the parents do is just verbally abuse the brothers. So there's a moment at dinner where the swaggery of the two brothers is really getting lippy with mom because there's some whore she's falling in love with. And she's like, she'd never marry you if you knew you looked like this. And rips his toupee off.
SPEAKER 22 : 54:59
That he's had anchored to his skull. I almost spit a drink on my television. I texted Josh immediately.
SPEAKER 05 : 55:05
I'm like, this is the funniest thing. Watching him get his wig yanked off.
SPEAKER 25 : 55:11
Yeah, it's very highly recommended.
SPEAKER 04 : 55:14
There is a real unspoken undertone of almost an incestuousness between the two brothers.
SPEAKER 25 : 55:23
They're in the bathroom naked a lot. Right. They kiss on the lips. And the family, you know, the real family now is saying that they don't like... How the brothers are portrayed. But who knows?
SPEAKER 05 : 55:38
I'd hate to ruin their image. Their brands. I'm going to rip off the whole thing. Scott, I think you would like it. It's really well done. Well, I'm not a psychopath. He's a good friend of the program, a proud sponsor, my personal lawyer, and a guy that we love talking to about all matters legal, both serious, fun, and in between. He is Randolph Rice from Rice, Murth, and Pesaurus. Again, proud sponsor of the program. And while I was out on Thursday, had myself a little bit of the sniffles, a little bit of a sinus infection, the boys got to talk to Randolph about everything going on. going on with probably one of the biggest cases in the country right now did he he's under lock and key also interrogating minors that's a fascinating concept how do you talk to a minor interrogate a minor get the information you need out of someone that's underage without it being coerced out of them because there's been instances throughout our history where We've scared kids, intimidated kids into giving false confessions to things that they didn't do because we really just need somebody to pay for some sort of crime without getting the actual correct criminal. And it's fascinating hearing about this type of stuff. Again, I wasn't in. And if Randolph speaks it into truth, I believe the man. He's one hell of a lawyer, and we're really glad to have him. So coming up. Randolph Rice, Rice, Mirth, and Pessora starts talking about everything going on with a disgraced hip-hop mogul Diddy and interrogating minors on Behind the Curtain.
SPEAKER 06 : 57:13
Joining us on the phone, Mr. Randolph Rice. Good morning, Randolph. You've reached Noah's Ark. Wow, what's going on out there, man?
SPEAKER 21 : 57:21
My gosh, Lorraine, Cheese, Louise. It's crazy this morning. Where are you right now? I'm sitting in the office, but I had to get here, you know. I drove through all the puddles and the rivers and, you know.
SPEAKER 10 : 57:33
You should never drive through standing water if you don't know how deep it is.
SPEAKER 21 : 57:36
That's right. That's right.
SPEAKER 06 : 57:38
How do you, like, is it your office office? Like, your, like, your.
SPEAKER 21 : 57:44
I'm in Rice-Morthoposaurus Towers right now, yes.
SPEAKER 06 : 57:46
But is it your specific, like, how do you decorate your office? What do you have in there?
SPEAKER 21 : 57:51
I've got all of my first deer I took, one of the big fish that I caught, one of my first ducks that I caught. I've got legal books on the wall. I've got a big leather couch for clients to sit down and talk about their problems.
SPEAKER 06 : 58:07
Are your degrees behind you, like on the wall, the degrees?
SPEAKER 21 : 58:11
I do. I have my degree from Virginia and Loyola and Maryland and the courts and everything.
SPEAKER 25 : 58:17
What I find... challenging if you're, you know, sitting in a doctor's office or another professional's office and they've got degrees on the wall. I'm always distracted because I'm trying to read the degree, you know, what school they're from, where they went.
SPEAKER 06 : 58:33
You want to make sure it's not like some weird, like, South American university of kookamonga. Hey, let's talk. We've got a bunch of things we want to talk about. Let's start with the most high-profile thing going on right now, which is Sean P. Diddy, Puff Daddy Combs. If you were Sean Combs' lawyer, would you have just quit by now?
SPEAKER 21 : 59:00
Man, I mean, that's a tough one. Jeez, the poor lawyer that's dealing with this. I read some of his quotes yesterday where he had a very stiff upper lip and pretty much said, Sean, PDD Combs is going to fight this. He's going to give it everything he's got, which when you're a lawyer and you say that, that's typically one of those, yee, this is going to be a tough one. The allegations are so serious, and there's such a history of it because you've got all these civil lawsuits that lead up to the ultimate criminal charges of trafficking and racketeering. There's a lot of, obviously, smoke leading up to this fire now. And I've got to tell you, he's in real trouble because if he is convicted of the racketeering, he's facing life in prison.
SPEAKER 10 : 59:42
Wow. I read that some woman sued him yesterday for raping her and making a film of it and then selling it. Yeah.
SPEAKER 21 : 59:53
That seems to be his big thing here. He had these what were called freak-offs where he would bring people in and film everything, which... If they've got – if the authorities have a hold of those videos, that's going to be pretty tough evidence to refute on the part of Sean Combs.
SPEAKER 06 : 60:08
And if we do dip into the well of conspiracy theories, Randolph Rice, Rice Murthupasaurus. You guys never do that, right? No, but I mean you hear all these things, these very high – profile powerful people that may be connected to these things and if he starts singing like a canary uh you know some people could really this could affect a whole bunch of people a lot of powerful people could fall while he's like is there a real threat of like they said he's not eating because he's afraid that his food might be poisoned and that he's on suicide watch and uh i can believe
SPEAKER 21 : 60:47
I can believe that, too. Think about it. He went from the best lifestyle with no questions asked. He lived a king's lifestyle for all of his life, at least since he's been famous. And now he's sitting in an 8x10 cell eating, you know, two hots. You know, he's got probably a ham sandwich or something for lunch. I mean... He's probably pretty depressed right now and probably pretty scared, thinking this may be the rest of my life. But going to the point you were previously making, there's got to be some associates. Because all of this in this racketeering is that he used these employees and these associates to bring these women in, to bring these people in, to sex traffic them. They've got to be sitting there thinking, hmm, if he rolls on me, I may be sitting in the same place he's sitting right now.
SPEAKER 10 : 61:29
You would have thought he would have learned from R. Kelly.
SPEAKER 06 : 61:34
Or R. Kelly. I mean, this is very, like, Epstein-esque to me as well with, like, how many big, powerful people were connected to that, and we saw how Epstein's thing ended. And listen, there's people that believe what they want to believe about Epstein. I don't know what I choose to believe, but the guy apparently committed suicide while in prison, air quotes, because a lot of people are saying if you have that many high-powered people, are they – I mean, could they – If we're going full conspiracy theory, Randolph, can they work their way into there and have somebody off? Yeah, what games, Randolph? And it's possible, right? Isn't that true?
SPEAKER 21 : 62:14
Yeah, but you've got gang members in there. You've got people who on the outside were hit men. What's changing that they're behind bars now? So is it possible? Yes. Is it that would happen to Epstein? I don't know. Who knows? Who's ever going to know? But is Sean P. Diddy Combs in the same scenario? Possibly. Maybe that's why he's on suicide watch. He may be in a solitary confinement where he's not having contact with the general population. So I'm sure they don't want to see him dying or killing himself in jail. They want to be able to prosecute him. So I'm sure they're protecting him.
SPEAKER 06 : 62:47
And a few weeks back, Joppatown High School, there was a shooting where a student was killed. And a big thing that came from that, Randolph, was... The idea, and they were saying that it would be a big help to investigations in terms of interviewing minors.
SPEAKER 24 : 63:04
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 : 63:05
And which seems like a slippery slope or a sticky, sticky wicket.
SPEAKER 21 : 63:11
Yeah. So prior to 2022, the police pretty much had free reign in interrogating minors. They would grab a minor for a suspected crime. And very little would have to be done to be able to interrogate them. The legislature said, you know what, 90% of these kids are waiving their right to speak and they're ultimately talking to police. We need to put some protections in place. So what they did was they said, here's two things you've got to do, police. One is you've got to let them have the right to a lawyer. You've got to let them talk to a lawyer before they're interrogated. And two, you've got to contact their parents and get permission and sort of advise them. Now, there are exceptions to that, and one of the big exceptions is if there's a threat to somebody else, a reasonable threat to the police officer, please. For example, let's say that you had that shooter, and that shooter had information that was believed could harm more kids. The police can interrogate them. But if the threat is over with, the police have to have a lawyer present or consult a lawyer with the minor and obviously talk to the guardian or parent to question that minor.
SPEAKER 06 : 64:10
Yeah, I mean, I kind of agree with that.
SPEAKER 10 : 64:12
I mean, you don't want to. If my daughter got charged with something, I'd want to know about it before they talk to her.
SPEAKER 06 : 64:18
Well, yeah, I mean, and it's not even the person that's charged with it. Maybe it's just like witnesses or whoever, right?
SPEAKER 21 : 64:24
I mean, it's kind of. The rub right now is that minors are now committing adult crimes. And so the law enforcement is saying, well, why can't we treat them like adults? And that's the rub because they're acting like adults, but then when you talk to them as law enforcement, it's very hard for them to then logically make decisions like adults, which is why they're probably committing the crimes like adults because they're not thinking, oh, there's consequences. I'm going to harm somebody. I'm going to hurt you. I could be in jail for the rest of my life.
SPEAKER 25 : 64:52
Legally, they haven't been charged yet.
SPEAKER 21 : 64:56
Well, they're investigating. Right. They may have arrested them. They may have arrested them, and then they've got to make that decision. We need to interrogate them and find out what exactly happened. But there's a roadblock of you've got to have a lawyer present, and you've got to have a parent. And if you get a lawyer, 99% of lawyers, if they're worth their salt, are going to say, hey, keep your mouth shut. Don't talk to the police because it's only going to hurt you.
SPEAKER 10 : 65:19
Yeah, so there's these adult crimes being committed, and then when they try to go investigate, it's like... I watch all these procedural shows on TV because I'm just... I've always been hooked on these dramas like Law and Order and all that. Why is it that so many criminals give up their right to a lawyer? They just start talking.
SPEAKER 21 : 65:40
Yeah, I know. I mean, some of them think that they can talk their way out of it. Right.
SPEAKER 10 : 66:00
If cuffs ever went on me, the first word out of my – and the only word out of my mouth would be lawyer. Get me a lawyer.
SPEAKER 06 : 66:07
Hey, Randolph, do you have much time for TV or no? Do you watch TV at all?
SPEAKER 21 : 66:11
Are you able to – I watch a little bit of the news at night, and that's about it.
SPEAKER 06 : 66:15
Because Speaks, he watched Monsters on Netflix, the Menendez brothers.
SPEAKER 21 : 66:21
Oh, my wife was watching that the other day. I was falling asleep to her watching that. I heard it's incredible. Yeah, it's very good. Do you – I heard the scene, I heard the shotgun scene is pretty graphic.
SPEAKER 25 : 66:32
Oh, yeah, you've got to watch the murder scene. You've never seen a murder scene like that before. It's awesome.
SPEAKER 21 : 66:39
Wait, was there something about, I feel like as I was falling asleep, I heard the boys or one of the boys talking about getting hair gel or bronzer or something. Is that true?
SPEAKER 25 : 66:48
Yeah, wanted to get in jail.
SPEAKER 21 : 66:50
There is a scene...
SPEAKER 25 : 66:53
I don't know. I don't want to give away anything, but one of the brothers, it's hilarious what happens with his hair at the dining room table. And he's totally materialistic. They're clueless. They're not in touch with reality at all.
SPEAKER 21 : 67:09
Yeah, yeah. Well, that's, you know, but they're sitting in jail now for a very, very long time. So there was obviously some mental health issues going on there. And that is such a big part of the criminal justice system right now is mental health plays a I think that 99% of cases start with a mental health problem that sometimes forms into a substance abuse problem, which then leads to a crime.
SPEAKER 10 : 67:29
Yeah. I've been watching Unexpected Killer, which is on Peacock. What is that?
SPEAKER 06 : 67:36
I can't keep up with all this.
SPEAKER 10 : 67:38
What's that?
SPEAKER 06 : 67:39
I can't keep up with all these. There's so many of them.
SPEAKER 10 : 67:41
I know. I got done with all the others, and this is still sitting there. But it's amazing. Yeah. It's amazing the bad representation that these guys get from certain lawyers of... Oh, yeah. I don't understand the whole process of, do you ever do any of the free stuff? What do they call that? Pro bono.
SPEAKER 21 : 68:10
The only pro bono we have right now is the Rachel Morin case where we represent the family of Rachel Morin. So that's our only pro bono case. Sometimes we do it. We take a pro bono case, but oftentimes our clients are paying clients.
SPEAKER 06 : 68:21
Okay. All right, Randolph, we got to jump. We love you, Randolph, Rice, Rice, Mirtha, and Presaurus, a proud sponsor of this program. This segment was just for entertainment purposes. None of this is legally binding in a court of law and all that fun stuff. We love you. We'll talk to you again. All right, brother.
SPEAKER 21 : 68:37
Love you guys. Talk to you soon. Thanks.
SPEAKER 05 : 68:40
We like to have fun on JSS. We like to try and make you laugh on Justin Scott and Spiegel. Sometimes people call us crass. Sometimes people refer to the type of humor that we do as low-hanging fruit. But we like to think that our program can be something more than what people interpret it to be. And... Friday was one of those days where we had a beautiful woman, intelligent woman, a nurse, a medical specialist, a mental health care specialist by the name of Amanda Davis join us in studio for a very genuinely serious topic. And it's about Suicide Prevention Month, which is September. And it's something that means something near and dear to me. You hear me bring up my mother. and all of the various ways that you can get help your family can get help your friends can get help 988 it's the number to dial if you're feeling stressed or anxious you start having thoughts we need you here if you are here and you're feeling like not being reach out to us reach out to amanda reach out to brandon novak reach out to somebody at 988 reach out to anybody and Because you'll hear me say a couple of times in this interview coming up, and trust me, I speak from experience, the pain you think you're going to get rid of, the agony you think you're going to shut down, all you do is simply spread it to other people. So Amanda Davis joined us for a couple of breaks, and it was a fascinating, heartfelt, genuine, and much-needed serious talk about on a JSS program that's usually known for not doing stuff like this. From time to time, we gotta, and it feels good when we do. Amanda Davis, mental health care specialist, joins us on Behind the Curtain. Morning, it's Justin Scott and Spiegel. September, it is Suicide Prevention Month every day, every week, every month, every year. Should be that, but during the month of September, you've got to pay special attention to it. And joining us in studio right now, somebody that's as qualified to speak on it, MSNRN. She was the first recipient in Maryland of the Daisy Award for Excellence in Nursing. The Director of the Behavioral Health at MedStar Harbor Hospital for six years. Certified Clarity Catalyst Coach. I can go on for a day. reading about all your accolades, but we're here to talk about something important that needs to be, might be uncomfortable, but you need to. We're joined by Amanda Davis. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning.
SPEAKER 06 : 71:03
Very impressive resume. I mean, I just I feel like I don't I feel unaccomplished. Baltimore Magazine's Nurse of the Year for 2021. I mean, how do you win that? You're Nurse of the Year.
SPEAKER 01 : 71:14
Yeah, I was nominated and I won. That was that was it. You know, a lot of these things that happen, you don't even really realize you're you're doing anything. You're just navigating your normal life. And. Just trying to do some good out there. And then all of a sudden someone recognizes. And it's nice to have that happen every now and then.
SPEAKER 06 : 71:32
It seems like you've done a lot of good. Thank you for being here, Amanda Davis. Yes, Suicide Prevention Month. Something I think has touched. A lot of people, unfortunately, more people than I know it's touched my life. It's touched Justin's life. We've you know, a lot of us have lost loved ones to suicide. And we were going to talk about men, men and mental health. Yeah. I mean, what gives? Why? Why are we not allowed to to feel things and be it's why is it not OK to not be OK?
SPEAKER 01 : 72:10
I think you bring up a great topic, and when we look at statistics, men are four times more likely to complete a suicide than a woman. Women do statistically attempt more often, but men do complete. And when we think about that, there really is no one reason why anyone – attempt suicide or takes their own life. But I personally believe that men aren't always seeking help.
SPEAKER 06 : 72:41
Yeah, well, that's what I mean. Why is this stigma still a thing where it's like we can't go say, hey, I don't feel okay?
SPEAKER 01 : 72:49
Absolutely, and I think that's one of the reasons why I'm here today is to say it's okay to not be okay. And I think we really need to embrace that culture. I think we need to check on each other. I think we need to talk about these things and to say if you're not feeling okay, if you're in a deep, dark space, if you're feeling guilt or remorse or there's something going on that – Suicide is not the answer. There's help out there. There are solutions to even some of the most horrific problems. And reaching out to get help doesn't mean that you're weak. It doesn't mean that you're not manly. It doesn't mean that you can't still watch football this weekend or be bummed out about the –
SPEAKER 05 : 73:29
orioles last night you can still be a man might be the manliest thing to do is to step up and say i'm not okay to i need the help that i need because if i'm not here for reasons of suicide uh it doesn't get rid of that pain it just splashes it on to dozens and dozens more people amanda are you a jelly roll fan familiar at all
SPEAKER 01 : 73:52
I am aware of Jelly Roll. I wouldn't call myself a fan, but I am aware of kind of that. You just went to see him. I just saw him.
SPEAKER 05 : 73:59
He's got that song. I am not OK. And that's what he started. I said we should be playing that song. That song's a 10. It's what he started his concert with. And it's all about that. I mean, the lyrics are, I am not OK. I'm barely getting by. I'm losing track of sleep, losing sleep at night. I'm OK hanging on the rails. So if I say I'm fine, just know I've learned to hide it well. And he gets deep into. Mental health and him not being well. And he really turned it into like kind of a mental health and support sermon at the beginning of it. And it was beautiful to Scott's point about, you know, why is it not OK to not be OK? It does seem like the tide has shifted. I agree. But not so happy. Fully. I think a lot of people came out in probably 2020 when we all were stuck inside and realizing we had some mental health issues and maybe started to show themselves as we're contained in our homes. There was a bit of an awakening, but still not quite where we need to be yet.
SPEAKER 01 : 74:56
Yeah, and I appreciate that. And I do know that that. when we have folks stepping out to be vulnerable and people that can have a large platform or a huge stage to say that it's okay to talk about these things and just know that there are others that feel the same way, that really has a profound impact on our communities, on people seeking assistance and help. When you think about people being locked in their homes and really having time to consider what was going on, that was certainly one piece of it. But then we've also learned through all of that that We need to make changes. We need to start supporting each other. We need to start talking about these things and really making a push. And we're seeing that in communities. We're seeing that in medicine. We're really making these efforts to say it's okay to get help. You're not being stigmatized. There shouldn't be fear there to say I need help.
SPEAKER 25 : 75:52
What are the warning signs that families or friends should look for?
SPEAKER 01 : 75:58
Yeah, that's a great question. I think it's important to think about that. Sometimes they're very subtle. So sometimes they're hard to find or hard to see, but really noticing that there might be a change in someone's behavior. And sometimes, like I said, they could be very subtle, but maybe someone is now withdrawn. Maybe they're talking about things that could indicate that they're not going to be here in the future. Those are certainly some things to think about. You know, sometimes people that maybe seemed maybe depressed or withdrawn now actually seem better. That can really be scary because they have made a decision.
SPEAKER 06 : 76:32
Right. The decision's been made. So like they feel lighter and they're at peace. And then all of a sudden they're happy, like unusually happy. And you're like, that's a big one. I've read about that.
SPEAKER 01 : 76:41
Yeah. Really scary stuff. So I think one of the most important things is that – Talking about it, asking people, checking on people, checking on your good friends, the people that seem OK and can say I'm fine but are really hiding it and just really making this common conversation because the signs are there. But unfortunately, they get missed and sometimes people are very private about these things and we just might not know.
SPEAKER 06 : 77:07
We're talking to Amanda Davis, Baltimore Magazine's Nurse of the Year 2021, 17 years experience, mental health and wellness specialist, MedStar Hospital System. She is way more than qualified. We are honored to have her here this morning. And you use the word help a lot. Help. Help. Help is out there. I mean, what does help look like?
SPEAKER 01 : 77:28
Yeah, that's a great question. I will say here in the state of Maryland, there are so many resources. You can call a national helpline, a lifeline, it's called, the 988 number. That will take you, just like any other emergency number, 988 will connect you with a mental health professional, and that will get you assistance with work. whatever area you are in. So if you're in Worcester County, if you're here in Baltimore, if you're out in Frederick, you can call this number. It is a national number, and they will connect you to local resources. There's also lots and lots of information online where you can look up and look at walk-in crisis centers. So really, help is... accessing professionals, medical professionals to assess you and to interview you.
SPEAKER 06 : 78:20
And I feel like people, when you say medical professional, that in itself has some sort of weird stigma or people think like, you know, dudes in white coats that are going to just throw pills down your throat. And it's like, it's so much more than that. There's people out there that really want to help. I mean, I went to therapy for years and years and years. I'm probably going to start back up again, but it was a guy that came in here one time. I think he came in here to try and semi-diagnose you about, like, OCD. Yeah, I remember him, yeah. And I looked at him. I'm like, damn, this dude's a therapist? I'm like, I never would have imagined. And he was, like, the coolest guy ever. And I said, and I knew I wasn't feeling great, and I was dealing with some stuff. I had very bad anxiety, and I was dealing with a little bit of depression. I said, well, hell, I'm like... It was kind of eye-opening to see a guy that I never would have pegged for being someone like that, and I went and I talked to him for years, and he was great, and I loved it. It was so beneficial to just – did it get me exactly where I needed to be? No. Did I eventually have to explore other options? Yes, but I took the time to do it for years. I tried the exercise thing. I tried a lot of things. Self-hypnosis is incredible. Meditation. There's a lot of great things you can try out there. Did I eventually, yes, get on medicine? I did. Did I feel weird and maybe be like, oh, I don't want to be one of those medicated people? Yes, of course. I was like, I don't really know if this is where I want to be. I fought it for a long time. I tried everything. But you know what? It helped and it worked. And it's like I'm back. It's crazy.
SPEAKER 01 : 79:55
I think you bring up a great point because when we look at statistics, unfortunately, in 2022, which is the most recent update that the CDC has released, there were 50,000 people that took their own life. Of those 50,000 people, over a million people attempted to take their own life. And so when we think about treatment, when we think about getting help, when we think about all of the modalities out there, people are able to survive and recover. And I think that's a really important piece of this, that – Death does not have to be the option. There are resources and there are many, many things that we can do because we're all different. What works for one person might not work for the next person. I'm not going to go run a marathon this weekend to make me feel better. That's just probably not my thing. But maybe that works for somebody else. So taking medication, super beneficial for some. Meditation, talk therapy. So there's lots of options out there. And we do know from statistics that these help people, that they can recover.
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we find out that Gen Z has no problem calling out of work. We want to know: Do you have a problem calling out of work? Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room talk about calling out from work and if it's a good thing or not. We said what? One way to find out. Hit play!
Chapter Markers Transcript 00:00:05 First Memory of Football 00:00:58 High School Experience in Georgia 00:02:01 Early Curiosity and Influence 00:02:47 Interest in History 00:03:47 Travel and Cultural Exploration 00:10:28 Perspective from Travel 00:12:21 Traded to Baltimore Ravens 00:14:16 Motivation and Drive 00:15:45 Seamless Fit in Baltimore’s Defense 00:19:10 Transition from PQ to Trenton Simpson 00:20:03 First Win over the Cowboys SPEAKER 02 : 0:00
Inside linebacker for the Ravens, Roquan Smith. Let's go back to the beginning. What was your first memory of sports or maybe it's football specifically?
SPEAKER 01 : 0:10
Yeah, absolutely. Football, I would say my earliest memory of football, I think, I was five years old. My rec league coach came to my house. I have an older brother, and he was playing and said, hey, how did you feel about your youngest boy? His name was Coach Duke. How would you feel about your youngest boy coming out to play? And then my mom was like, well, I'll have a conversation with him. And if it's something that he's interested in, then I'll probably let him come check it out. And when she asked me about it, well, I'm listening. I'm being nosy, a nosy kid. So I'm listening when he was at the door anyway. And I was like eager to go out to practice that day. But mom said she was going to talk with me. Then she talked with him. I was like, yeah, I want to do it. She was like, there's some big boys out there. And then I was like, yeah, I'll do it. So and then I went on from there.
SPEAKER 02 : 0:58
And you grew up in a small town in Georgia. What was your experience like through high school? Who was influencing you at that time other than your big brother?
SPEAKER 01 : 1:05
Yeah, no, absolutely. Yeah, growing up in a really small town in Georgia, it was not a lot there. And honestly, a lot of the influence came from just family, family all around, older guys throughout the community, as well as guys who you looked up to that played high school football. Because I remember used to being the water boy and different things like that, because I just always wanna be around football and I love the game. Just always, it's so crazy now looking back, used to always see the older guys asking them, man, where are you going to play at in college? And just realizing that not everybody got a chance to play, but when guys were telling me they're doing, I'm going to junior college here, I'm going to this college here, I'm done playing and stuff like that. Because I thought in high school, everybody's going to go to college, even if it's a 5'11", 200-pound offensive lineman. Because I didn't know any better, but it just goes to show that's the type of faith I had in people throughout the community.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:01
And Roquan Smith, you are so curious. Where did that come from in your childhood?
SPEAKER 01 : 2:06
Yeah, it's so funny. It's funny you say that. Who told you that?
SPEAKER 02 : 2:09
Rachel, and I found it too. You're just curious about everybody.
SPEAKER 01 : 2:12
Yeah, that's funny. I didn't know you would know that. Yeah, so I would say it started, I think it started early on. I've always been told I have an older soul, in a sense. Then my mom said when I was younger that I used to enjoy being around older people. So like just soaking up all the knowledge that I could. And I think it's just been something that's just always have gone with me. And I just feel like in this life, you know, just try to learn as much as you can because you only get one. And I just like love the secret of knowledge in a sense.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:47
Not only are you curious, but I also heard you're a big history guy. What's your favorite part of history that you like to go back and look at?
SPEAKER 01 : 2:53
oh my god i can like really talk a lot of different uh aspects of history whether that's u.s history uh you know whether that's uh some world history big and uh you know the world the world wars and things like that uh on up into the cold wars the vietnam war like and different things like that so like i can pretty much go all over the civil war uh i can go Yeah, so I can pretty much go, like, whichever route someone wants to go. And, like, I'm not as in-depth as I used to be, but I still can have a broad, I can have a really good conversation with someone if they actually know what they're talking about.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:31
Okay, because I was going to say, I'm a huge history person. My favorite, like, historical event, other than, like, World War II, Civil War, the Titanic. I'm obsessed with the Titanic. And honestly, like, I'll watch, have you, do you watch certain shows that are like that? Like, have you seen, like, Masters Through the Air or, like,
SPEAKER 01 : 3:47
I don't know if you watch big watch TV during the season, but yeah, I don't watch a lot of that type of TV during the season. I watch a lot of like. World War Two in color. The Vietnam War in color. I've seen the Titanic and things like that, so it's more of like actual not reenactments. It's like real documents with live footage. Oh like. D-Day like and different things like that like when they're storming the beach and so like I'm a seeker of those type things while I see actual live footage so like I'd be like okay this actually happened this is not no reenactment or anything like that and not taken away from that you know.
SPEAKER 02 : 4:22
But to keep going on this trend, because you're also so curious that you love to travel. You're trying to find different foods, all the off-season travels. Where is your favorite place that you've been so far? I know it's a hard question.
SPEAKER 01 : 4:32
Oh, that is a very tough question. And I honestly, I think it just goes back to like, what am I in the mood for? But Japan is so unique. Japan, I would say Japan and probably Peru. Yeah. Yeah, Japan and probably Peru, like and speaking on Japan, it's just the perspective that the Japanese have, like just the way they live their life and just the type of respect that they have for other people and the culture. It just it speaks for itself. And it's something that I was just like, wow, man, these are this is an amazing place. Crime is very low. And then the food is amazing, too, with being a foodie. and then with peru like obviously having one of the wonders of the world there in machu picchu then like just knowing that it's like the food capital of south america and just being able to like dive into the culture there and like just enjoy the time the nature the landmarks and with the amazon river like just so many like great things like that and it's like stuff that like speaks to my soul so it's like why not did you eat guinea pig while you were in machu picchu I did not eat koi. Okay. So it was funny. They call it koi down there. It was funny. I was in Cusco, Peru. Yeah. And then I'm walking back to my hotel. It's like I'm probably the only black guy out there. And it's like this guy, he had this koi restaurant or whatever like that. And he's like, hey, I'm booked up today, but I would love for you to come in here tomorrow to try koi. We have the best koi in Cusco, best koi in Peru. Yeah. And I was like, oh, man, I thought about it, but I was just like, oh, no. Yeah, I probably would, though, because I had like llama. Yeah, I had llama. Apaka. Yeah. So like I've had some. Yeah, I didn't really. It was too gamey, though. And I've had some gamey stuff. But like, yeah, it was a little too gamey for me.
SPEAKER 02 : 6:22
And you've been on the Amazon River.
SPEAKER 01 : 6:24
Yeah, I've definitely seen the Amazon River. Yeah, it's pretty sick.
SPEAKER 02 : 6:26
It's so cool. You go to the line. Did you go to the line between the Negro River and the Amazon River? It's a straight cut. So half of the river is black because it's the River Negro, and then the other half is like brown because it's just the regular river.
SPEAKER 01 : 6:40
insane yeah no damn yeah no the amazon river is insane and i've always that's like one that i've all i had always wanted to see and honestly i was about to do like ayahuasca down there but i didn't do it i didn't do it i didn't do it don't go aaron rogers on us rocon smith i'm not i'm not i thought about it was a thought it was a thought it was a thought it was just some moment in time yeah it was a moment in time so like uh i thought about that and like but speaking on that river and yeah like another river like the nile river i want to like see that as well so like There's a couple things that I want to get to see, then float in the Dead Sea and things like that.
SPEAKER 02 : 7:15
When you look back at, you think about your childhood, did you ever dream that you'd be traveling the world like this as an NFL player?
SPEAKER 01 : 7:22
Honestly, truth be told, Like, as a child, I vividly remember, like, social studies is what the class was. So, like, at the beginning of the book, there's, like, these pages that, like, it's a world map in a sense. And so I used to always look at the world map or the U.S. map and just be like, man, one day I'm going to be able to go here. I'm going to be able to go there. Like, that time is going to come. And, like, it's so crazy how it all just, like, worked out. And I've been fortunate enough to be able to travel to all these places and and just see how much more the world has to offer outside of the little bubble that I was in and just understand that even being in America is a small bubble and perspective to the world.
SPEAKER 02 : 8:03
I was just going to say it totally changes your perspective when you get out, especially a small town like you. So when you go abroad, what are you taking back here and what keeps you grounded knowing that you've learned a few things more than, say, some of the rest of your teammates?
SPEAKER 01 : 8:18
Yeah, absolutely. I think the main thing is perspective. I think it's perspective. And then I think it's culture. Like we're just speaking on perspective. It's just like I've been many places where the last places in Africa, whether there's places in Southeast Asia where there's like people who. you know, are grateful for. Like, I remember this one lady who actually did this. She was doing my boat thing throughout my kayak boat, pretty much throughout like this body of water. It wasn't how long, babe, but it was somewhere else up in in Vietnam. Oh, yeah. And So it was just like that. She's living off $200 a month, like most beautiful smile on her face every day. Talk about her kids, how, you know, she is rice every night for dinner and like just having that type of perspective and like just seeing how grateful she is just to wake up and be able to do like a kayaking job on the daily and like. then go home to her kids that's like her way of life and then maybe she'll get fortunate a nice guy or like give her a nice guy girl will give her like a nice tip like 40 50 or something like that and that allows her to maybe get some chicken for the night or something like that so like thinking of it from like that and like just seeing how special the world is and how many special people there are. Like, you know, there's still a lot of really good people in this world and selfless people who, you know, make no way like make a way out of no way. And like, it just gives you perspective. And so when you come over and I'm living in paradise over here in America doing this, doing that, it just always keep you grounded, just knowing that, hey, you could be a lot of other places, but you're fortunate and blessed enough to be in a position that you're in. And then the culture thing, I think is just like so unique, just like being able to go around the world and like just dive into each culture and like their beliefs their customs their rituals are all so unique to them but it's so different to us because this is the way we live but no one knows what's the right way or the wrong way in a sense it's just their tradition versus your tradition and when you dive into that like the food and the taste the spices and like even just the day-to-day how the person lived their life i think it's just like speaks volume on like just the world in general
SPEAKER 02 : 10:28
Roquan Smith, we've talked family, we've talked culture. When you got traded from the Bears, what kind of drew you to Baltimore? What kind of reeled you in about this team?
SPEAKER 01 : 10:38
Yeah, honestly, so I took a top 30 visit here to Baltimore, and I remember, because I met with Mike McDonald, I vividly remember meeting with Mike, because I knew him from Georgia, back at Georgia, because when I was coming up as a recruit there, he was there, like a GAN or something like that. Then when I came here, I was like, I knew Baltimore had like the 18th pick. And I was just like, yeah, I know I probably won't make it there. And then Mike reiterated that he was just like, yeah, man, I would love to have you here, but I know you're probably not going to drop this low. And so I remember visiting, staying at that Marriott or whatever like that and Owens Mills. And it was crazy because soon as I got traded, like when I go up to the GM's office and then he's telling me, hey, yeah, you know, this tough part of the business or whatever, whatever. appreciate everything you've done, so on and so forth. We found a place that we feel like is a really good deal for the both of us. And then it took him a while to say the eventual team. So I'm in there nervous as hell already. And he says the Baltimore Ravens. And then I was just like, first thing came to my head. I was like, Baltimore. I was like, I went there one time and I was like, at least I know Lamar is there. Like, don't know, didn't know him personally. It was just like, know I'll be competing for a title year in and year out. And then when he said he said that, then I was just like, only thing I remember about Baltimore is my aunt used to live in Manassas. So that's close by. I'm like, D.C. is close, New York and close and everything like that. But I didn't really I still don't know a lot about Baltimore, if I'm being honest, like because I knew a lot about Chicago and the suburbs. Like, that's what I really want to do here. like actually learn more of the suburbs in a different area of the city because I like to dive in, go check out different food spots and in different areas.
SPEAKER 02 : 12:22
We'll have to do like a series in the car with Roquan and I'll just take you around all the places I know because I grew up here. So I'll take you to the barbecue spot you need to go, the Chinese restaurant you need to go, all these places because downtown, like you said, it's different than the suburbs and that's where you guys are up here in the facility. So it's a very different lifestyle in the burbs, you know.
SPEAKER 01 : 12:41
No doubt. I would love that.
SPEAKER 02 : 12:43
All right, so Roquan Smith, you have some iconic quotes that I guess you'll say. How do you think of a pump up speech when you're in the huddle? I feel like you're really good at those words. How do you think of those?
SPEAKER 01 : 12:56
Honestly, I just like say what's on my heart and say what's on my mind. And I think when you do that, it like goes over a lot better, like with humans, knowing when you're keeping it real as opposed to being fugazi, as some people say, or just being, you know, something that you're not really about. And so I just have that perspective and just like what's on my head, what's going through my head. I literally just deliver it to the guys, cut throat, you know, however it's delivery may not be the best, but it's just like what's on my mind. And you've got to respect real at the end of the day.
SPEAKER 02 : 13:28
So, of course, Lamar Jackson comparing you to Ray Lewis, obviously the legend here in Baltimore. You're becoming the next one. One of his quotes that stuck out to me was you pay me Monday through Friday. I'll give you Sunday for free. What are your thoughts on that?
SPEAKER 01 : 13:43
I love that. I love that. And that's like, that's, that's real though. Cause when you think about it, it's like you really, cause you, it's a game, it's a kid's game for a King's ransom. When you think about it from that perspective, it's like, yeah, a lot of time practice sucks throughout the week sucks. You like, man, like freak. But like on game day, regardless, you hadn't practiced all week or whatever the case may be, you want to suit up. You want to you're going to give it a try one way or another. So and it's like that's just what you get to like bring have joy. Like it brings joy, like being able to play the game. And so I just think that's just I think that's real. I haven't heard that, but that's pretty sweet.
SPEAKER 02 : 14:16
And you, of course, came here and said, we're cooking with grease. I don't know why everybody else doesn't know that. I know what that means. Were you surprised when they were like, what are you saying? What does that even mean?
SPEAKER 01 : 14:25
Yeah, I think it's just like one of those southern things. Yeah, like one of those southern things. And I've I've been saying it for a while since like high school. It's kind of crazy because I remember like, yeah, like saying like a lot of little random interesting quotes. So like, yeah, that was definitely one of them. But yeah, cooking with grease, you know, you're cooking with grease. You got to get away.
SPEAKER 02 : 14:47
So Roquan Smith, when you talk with your pads, you're playing out there on the field, I feel like you get in a zone. What does it feel like when you're in the zone and you're ready to finish off your opponent?
SPEAKER 01 : 14:59
Yeah, absolutely. It's like when you get to that spot, it's like it's real special because basically you've broken another man's will in a sense. And like when you break a man's will, it's like you take in like the pretty much one of the only thing a man has like is his will and that is broken out on the football field. And when you think about it, it's just it brings you joy just knowing that, hey, I took what you work hard for just then like and like what you've worked all offseason for and I just bust your ass. And like, and it means like, and I think myself, so that means I bust my ass hard in off season. Like, so just like little things like that, but it's definitely a sweet feeling being able to just know you took a man against it, against his will, something he didn't want to happen, but you said, Hey, this is what's going to go. And this is how it's going to go.
SPEAKER 02 : 15:45
And when you came over to Baltimore, it seemed like just a seamless fit. You just really transitioned easily into this defense, but what does it mean to you to play like a Raven?
SPEAKER 01 : 15:55
I think it means to play like a Raven, a dog fuming at the mouth crazed like whereas like you bite like basically a dog that's been on a leash for a week and having eaten having ate and he get let off the leash and it's time to like go grab something there's food right there and like what's between that food hungry so like I think that and just being relentless in all aspects of whether that's on the practice field or whether that's definitely on game day and just like hitting everything that moved from a defensive perspective and like, yeah, just letting the world know and put a smile on out there.
SPEAKER 02 : 16:33
And Rogan, you come off as such a fearless leader. We talked about it before being grounded, but everybody's afraid of something. So what do you think your biggest fear is?
SPEAKER 01 : 16:41
Failure. Yeah, I think that my biggest fear is failure and just going, like, going back to, like, small-town Georgia, even though I know I'll never, like, as long as I'm breathing and I'm right-minded, like, not something I'll ever go back to, but, like, just being able to go back to small town Georgia and like, you know, after coming so far in life and saying, oh, I have to go back here, go back there. And you see that so many times with so many different countless athletes. And I just don't want to be part of part of that number. So it's like off season in season is just always thinking about that financially and things like that. So just always thinking about what can I do to make sure this never happened to me. And like, I feel like if I just play my part and just bust my tail day in and day out, all those other things will take care of itself.
SPEAKER 02 : 17:31
Do you feel the pressure to make your family proud, you know, show up for your teammates? Is that kind of going to it too?
SPEAKER 01 : 17:37
I think it starts with myself. Honestly, first, like I think it starts with myself personally, like having the mindset for myself, knowing that I can't let myself down because at the end of the day, I have to be with myself 24 seven like family. Yeah, you're with family a lot. Family care for you a lot. Teammates, you're with them a lot. They care for you a lot. But at the end of the day, it's yourself. You're with yourself all the time. And it's like you can never get away from that. So it's letting down yourself is the worst person you can let down.
SPEAKER 02 : 18:04
And you are a leader in this defense. Does that leadership come easy to you?
SPEAKER 01 : 18:08
I think it's just part of who I am as a person. I truly enjoy just being able to get out there each and every day with the guys and then just trying to, as far as leading myself, and then the guys rally behind as well. And it's just keeping it real, being myself. And I feel like it's just something that maybe I was born with, not something that I try to do. It's just who I am as a person.
SPEAKER 02 : 18:30
And this year, Roquan Smith working with Zach Gore for the first time as defensive coordinator. You've got the green dot, right? He's in your head. How has that been adjusting? Because he's a totally different personality than Mike McDonald.
SPEAKER 01 : 18:41
Yeah, totally different personality than Mike. Yeah, it's unique. You know, everyone is unique in their own way. And I truly enjoy playing for Zio and especially just watching him grow as a coordinator day in and day out, game in and game out. and then watching us grow as a defense as well, it speaks volume. And I'm just like really happy to be a part of it. And I just know how hard he busts his ass day in and day out and just want to reward him and the rest of the defense with just great play.
SPEAKER 02 : 19:11
Roquan Smith, how has the transition been from PQ by your side, Patrick Queen, and now to Trenton Simpson?
SPEAKER 01 : 19:18
uh, yeah, it's, it's, it's been pretty, it's been a unique, it's been a unique journey. PQ spoke, speak a little bit more than Trent, but, uh, yeah, no, it's, it's pretty, it's pretty cool. Uh, uh, with having those two guys, they're two, uh, totally different, uh, people, but I respect both of them in the highest regard. And, um, Yeah, Trent's awesome. I'm happy for PQ over in Pittsburgh. And I think Trent just scratching the surface of what he can become. And I think that's been shown game in and game out. He's gotten better every single game from the preseason. I just can't wait to him in mid-season form to see how he's actually playing. I'm excited about his future.
SPEAKER 02 : 19:58
Going into week four, you guys finally get your first win over the Cowboys. How hard was it to get over that first hump?
SPEAKER 01 : 20:03
it was it was definitely a lot easier said than done uh we definitely needed that dub uh there was a lot of a lot of pressure uh around and like pressure within ourselves too because just knowing that you know could have easily been two and oh in a sense and like but you know that wasn't what it was at the time it was oh and two so it's about being in the moment and being in touch with your reality and that was our reality and it was like hey And we started out hot, exactly what we wanted to do, but have to finish. And didn't finish in the manner that we would like to, but that's just add more fuel to the fire for this coming week. And it's like, that was a great dub, but hey, it's on the Buffalo. And we got a big one on Sunday night. People have counted us out. And we know exactly who we are, because we play like that pack of crazed dog foaming at the mouth, just waiting on a crumb to drop and going to attack. We play like that. And our standard, that's what it is. And then we'll be a hard team to beat. And like, but when we don't play that way, then the parity in this league is very small. So any team can beat you on any given Sunday.
SPEAKER 02 : 21:06
Roquan Smith, appreciate the time. Thank you so much.
SPEAKER 01 : 21:09
Yeah, of course.
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we talk about times we might have forgotten how old we were... on purpose. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne talk about times we might've fudged our age to get by. What did we do? One way to find out. Hit play!
We challenge our listeners to channel their inner James Hetfield in hopes of winning tickets to see Metallica live.
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we get a little down and dirty because we are talking about our gross habits. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne confess to some bad habits that they had or still have. What is it? One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we talk about walking with your eyes wide shut. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne talk about sleepwalking with our listeners live from the Boom Boom Room. You fell asleep and did what? One way to find out. Hit play!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript The conversation takes a dramatic turn as we discuss the engagement of an old coworker, Greg the Douche. His surprising engagement to a stunning woman from Brazil sparks suspicions and questions among the crew. Is it a genuine romance, or is there something more nefarious afoot? Finally, we touch on a heated debate - whether it's ever appropriate to cuss in front of children. Join us for this rollercoaster of humor, intrigue, and controversy!
00:00:00 Setting Up Miss Connections 00:01:12 Joe's Fresh Batch of Miss Connections 00:04:42 Reading Craigslist Responses and Analysis 00:08:10 Greg's Engagement Story 00:15:02 Discussion about Greg's Engagement 00:19:12 Cussing in Front of Children SPEAKER 10 : 0:00
We did another Miss Connections. We did this, I believe, on a Monday where we have a tendency to do it. And we read some responses from Joe's fake Miss Connection post. We read some regular Miss Connections responses. And I'll be the first to tell you on a behind-the-curtain Saturday morning that my post is up. It's out in the wild. Do you think you can find it? I left a couple of breadcrumbs to lead you to believe that it could be your boy Schlegel's up there. I had to create an all new email account, which by the way, if you need to create a fake email account, use MSN or Yahoo. Gmail's a pain in the ass. Hotmail's just weird. I don't think AOL exists and who the F is on Netscape anymore. So yes, I did have a Yahoo or an MSN account because I can't have people responding to that with my regular email, my work email. We've seen some of the responses Joe has got from his, some of the pictures he's gotten, and I can't have that on a work server lest I get dragged by my collar down to HR. So I'm going to continue to encourage Joe to mine some responses to his. Mine is now out in the wild. I'm going to grab those over the weekend and compile them. We continue to have a laugh with all those perverts on the Misconnection section of Craigslist on Behind the Curtain. Joe, you prepared another fresh patch. We ready to go? Yep. Let's do it. It is a Miss Connections Monday. People looking for lost love on Craigslist. Before we get to these, do you have any new hits on the fake post that you put up? I sure do. And I should have included them.
SPEAKER 05 : 1:39
I can try to run through a couple if you want me to. This one's good.
SPEAKER 11 : 1:43
Okay, give me one. Give me one. Okay. So you posted your own misconnections. Yes. Saying that, I can't remember what it said, that you were athletic and that you were trying.
SPEAKER 05 : 1:55
He had some very... 34 white male, athletic musician, looking for other like-minded individuals who want to explore outside and inside. Things have been very tight lately, and I could use a hand or encouraging words to loosen up. New to this lifestyle, so anybody that can show me the ropes would be greatly appreciated.
SPEAKER 10 : 2:13
How about this week in preparation for next Monday? Let's each do one. Yeah. Let's make a fake MSN account, Yahoo account, something we'll never access again. Hotmail or whatever. Yeah. And then whip one up and next Monday we'll just read the ones that we've mined. Yeah. I'm going to be a wheelchair-bound Jamaican man.
SPEAKER 11 : 2:30
So you got a new response to that.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:32
Yeah, I got a few. And this one, I might be interested. I might be falling in love. uh okay let's just start hello this is from sassy one sassy like sassy o-n-e one oh number one that's a good dog name sassy hey come here sassy i don't think i will Sassy One writes... A lot of short sentences, but... Stop, Joe. So would you stop, please? Just saying.
SPEAKER 11 : 3:19
But? Are you really taking that bait, dude? No, I'm happily in a relationship. No, but I mean, I think you think it's real.
SPEAKER 05 : 3:26
Oh, yeah, no.
SPEAKER 10 : 3:28
I don't know. Look. Can you see? Okay, so you can't see their email. Craigslist generates an automatic email. There's no way that's real. I don't know, man. If you were to reply to them. Yeah. Do you see their email address? I don't think so. It goes to the one that Craigslist gives you. It's just a bunch of numbers and letters.
SPEAKER 11 : 3:46
I'm not saying it's not real, but that's not what it seems.
SPEAKER 10 : 3:53
It seems a little scammy. It seems like the language that some Nigerian prince uses when he wants to borrow your routing number to get his millions over here.
SPEAKER 05 : 4:03
Yeah. Ride her back? All right, I will. Ride her back? I will. Let's go. Let's start to engage now. Is that a picture?
SPEAKER 18 : 4:10
No, this is the next one.
SPEAKER 10 : 4:11
No, it's another one. Let me see. Move your body. I can't make out the first word, but I see job. Or does that say career?
SPEAKER 05 : 4:20
Low career. 27 Indian, can you drive to West Cold Spring Metro? And we do... favors in your car i will i can't say that yeah west cold spring metro that's right down right here that's a quick that's where i get off to come to work is that a hotbed of homosexual activity it might be oh my god oh i mean i don't know
SPEAKER 10 : 4:44
Let's see what else we got. I can show you a Yelp review for a local barbecue restaurant that's apparently a meet-up for everyone on the DL.
SPEAKER 11 : 4:51
I'm reading through the other ones, Joe. Just the regular misconnections. What does CD mean? Crossdresser.
SPEAKER 10 : 4:58
Why do you guys know all this? Wow.
SPEAKER 11 : 5:02
I am a white male that would love to find a cross-dresser in the White Marsh area. Chats and possibly more. If you are a cross-dresser and live in the White Marsh area, feel free to message me back and we can chat and get to know each other a lot better. I'm currently at work in Hunt Valley at McCormick Spice. I truly hope to hear from you soon. Somebody at McCormick's looking for a cross-dresser.
SPEAKER 10 : 5:23
Here's a legitimate one. Asian lady at Goodwill Superstore. Okay. You're the Asian woman that drove a white Mercedes SUV wearing a white and red top with a denim skirt. Please reply. You're trying on an outfit as I was walking the aisles. I accidentally stared a bit too long. You said the changing rooms are closed, so you tried them on. I still apologize, and you replied, don't be sorry. Oh, yeah. I waited outside to say bye to you. Your smile is still in my head, which makes me smile when I think about your glowing smile. In the off chance you see this, I hope you reply.
SPEAKER 11 : 5:55
I got a chubby.
SPEAKER 10 : 5:56
I felt that. Dude, that gave me a little chub. It was nice. She just changed right there in the aisle. Don't be sorry. Don't be sorry at the soft, smooth, golden, beast in his ass. She's trying to lure you in. Baby mama in ShopRite busted. You caught me staring. Sorry, but damn.
SPEAKER 11 : 6:13
How about three buddies? Three buddies looking for a female to engage with. Serious inquiries only. No games. Be able to verify. There's three dudes looking to have one female.
SPEAKER 10 : 6:25
Okay. There's a better chance of Joe actually hooking up with any of the people that are responding to his fake one than some woman out there being like, one dude isn't sketchy and murderous.
SPEAKER 11 : 6:35
Let's try three filth pigs. I mean, what if there's a financial component? How much are we talking about? I don't know. I mean, everyone has a price, right? Make me an offer. Make you an offer for... To dress like a lady. You're going to be the lady and you come to three of my buddies. I'll give you 500 bucks. Sold. Damn.
SPEAKER 10 : 6:55
Did he or did he not purchase a bride? Did he or did he not find a woman that just wants to marry him for U.S. citizenship? These are the questions that were asked and we have yet to get the answers, but we will get the answers as to what the hell is going on with Greg the douche's engagement. Greg is an old intern, an old promotions guy, a producer guy. He wore a bunch of hats around here and he's been out on his own for a long time he used to work in porn editing i believe worked at a froggy station in the middle of the country we check in with him someone that we pushed out of the 98 rock nest they never flew broke their legs cracked a wing and shattered their beak and we found out greg the douche is getting engaged and we saw the photos of the woman and it is not who you'd pick out of a lineup that would marry greg we love greg but he's hideous This woman is an absolute 10. She looks like a beautiful Bahamanian, Jamaican, Trinidadian island goddess, and she wants to hook up with Greg? We started talking to him. We got the backstory. We started putting two and two together, and there might be something more nefarious afoot here. This is a story that we will follow up on. An old coworker is getting engaged to a woman way out of his league. Is she looking for U.S. citizenship? You be the judge on Behind the Curtain. Joining us on the program is a gentleman that hasn't walked these halls in a decade, maybe two. His name is Greg Hood. We call him Greg the Douche. You have resting bitch face on some women. It's not their fault. Their face is shaped the way it is. Sometimes you have a voice that just barfs out from behind your lips. It's not his fault. He's not an actual douche. But you hear him speak and you go, God, I just want to hit him in the head with a brick. Oh, my God. Joining us on the program now, it's none other than the soon to be wed. Mr. Greg the Douche. Good morning, buddy.
SPEAKER 09 : 8:55
Good morning, Justin. Good morning. Good morning, Stiegel. Good morning, Scott. Can we address something, please? Yes. Can we please address something? Listen, I have a storied career at 98 Rock. I did the countdown. I was assistant producer for years. Oh, yeah, the countdown. I was a production assistant. Okay, can we not forget that I worked there for a long time? Maybe it's not just the voice.
SPEAKER 10 : 9:14
Maybe he is an actual douche. Never mind.
SPEAKER 09 : 9:17
I chopped it up now. We're addressing something. Well, let's hear him out. What I'm saying is you bring me on and say, hey, did he actually work there? Is it easy for you guys to forget?
SPEAKER 11 : 9:29
I admitted that it was all a blur and that I can't remember. There's been so many people that have come and gone and come and gone and come and gone, and you are one of them. But listen, just be happy that you're one of the ones we haven't forgotten. You know what?
SPEAKER 12 : 9:42
One of the big things I remember you for, douche, is how you produced the Christmas album that I sang. Remember that? Oh, yeah. Great job, pal.
SPEAKER 11 : 9:54
Great job. Listen, and I told you, you had a chance to, like, move somewhere. And we sent you down to something in Florida where you had to wear a tuxedo, one tuxedo for an entire weekend. You could not have a change of clothes. And it was like a press junket for a movie. So there's all these TV stations and radio stations down there. And then we send this chubby redhead down there in a tuxedo. Dude, you were the king of that. What was it for it?
SPEAKER 09 : 10:20
It was for The Rock? That wasn't even the whole bit. It was for The Rock. The problem was Justin had his Rough and Rowdy podcast.
SPEAKER 10 : 10:28
Yeah, and they fed you fake questions to ask The Rock. I fed you fake facts about The Rock, and you ate it all up. The Rough House, shout out to the OG538. That podcast still exists, and I'm not a part of it. Well, every now and then I jump on for the Schlegel soapbox, but you went down there. The Rock roasted your ass because you asked him facts. Every question you asked was wrong. What was it like being Prince Iakea in WCW?
SPEAKER 09 : 10:52
That's exactly what it was. Who are you talking about? His dad was the warrior. You told me his dad's name, not the warrior, was Big Chief Indian.
SPEAKER 11 : 11:00
Hilarious. Not a real wrestler. Anyway, but it was great. And then you had a chance to maybe move and work somewhere at another radio station. You bowed out. You're like, I got to get out of this business. And I still to this day don't. I mean, you just seem to be like an entrepreneur. Always had a hustle. That's always hustling. I still to this day don't know if you have a regular job or what you do or how you make money. I'm convinced you're a trust fund baby. But like, what are you doing now, Greg the Douche?
SPEAKER 09 : 11:30
You know, I work for a pest control company, Scott. I work for a pest control company.
SPEAKER 12 : 11:36
Yeah, maybe you should put yourself out there. Yeah, control yourself.
SPEAKER 10 : 11:42
Control yourself. Did you at one point do something, a charity that involved mattresses?
SPEAKER 09 : 11:48
Yes. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that was my gig. I sold mattresses out of gymnasiums and cafeterias to raise money for high school.
SPEAKER 10 : 11:56
Hell yeah, good for you. Someone's got to do it. You also had a podcast network, I believe, at one point. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 09 : 12:02
Yeah, backtotheclassguys.com.
SPEAKER 10 : 12:04
Back of the class guys dot com. Now, Scott's face gets wide, his eyes the size of drink saucers, his jaw agape and goes, oh, my God, he's engaged. And he shows us a photo. You're with this woman who to say you outkicked your coverage is an understatement. She's startlingly beautiful. She's dark skin appears to be maybe from the islands, possibly South America, South America. I mean, an absolute 10. I look at the photo of you two side by side and I go, Greg has clearly photoshopped his face.
SPEAKER 11 : 12:41
Yeah, there is that one photo where you look like a mannequin. What is going on in that photo? Where are the freckles? Yeah, dude, you are so photoshopped. You are so... She had a filter.
SPEAKER 09 : 12:52
What do you want? I reposted one from her. She had a filter.
SPEAKER 11 : 12:56
Oh, she filtered this? Dude, you look like your hair almost looks fake.
SPEAKER 10 : 13:01
You look fake. Your teeth are whiter than my ancestors. For the record, I didn't post that. All right, fine. Okay.
SPEAKER 11 : 13:09
All right, but let me ask you this. I'm Greg the Douche joining us. He allegedly used to work here and catch a paycheck for years. He produced, the system produced. He did a whole bunch of stuff. He was great. We love him. Allegedly. I'm looking at the timeline of your Instagram, and I'm like, okay, you do a lot of traveling, which I noticed and I respect and I admire. You're all over the place. I don't know how the hell you do it. But you are in South America for maybe late last year.
SPEAKER 09 : 13:40
Yeah, Brazil. Brazil. I went to Copacabana Beach, which is Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
SPEAKER 11 : 13:44
And then all of a sudden, cut to six to eight months later, you're engaged to someone who looks like they might be from Brazil.
SPEAKER 07 : 13:55
Interesting.
SPEAKER 09 : 13:57
Yeah. Where is she from? She's from Brazil.
SPEAKER 10 : 14:01
Oh, my God. Okay. When did you meet her?
SPEAKER 09 : 14:05
When?
SPEAKER 10 : 14:06
When did you meet her?
SPEAKER 09 : 14:08
Oh, about this time last year. I met her before I went to Brazil.
SPEAKER 11 : 14:11
What do you mean you met her before you went to Brazil? How did you meet her before you went? Through an agency.
SPEAKER 09 : 14:16
I didn't meet her. She just happens. I got a taste for Brazil. I got a taste for Brazilians, maybe. I don't know. I came back, and then we got a little bit more serious.
SPEAKER 10 : 14:25
Did you go to a show and then get engaged? How did she find you?
SPEAKER 09 : 14:30
Yeah, how did you meet? I met her in Florida. She lived in Florida. And, yeah, we just hit it off. We hit it off. Wait, does she live in Florida or live in Brazil? No, first of all, she lives with me in Georgia. What? Where in Georgia are you? I'm in Alpharetta, Georgia. Alpharetta. You met her. Wait, is she a U.S.
SPEAKER 11 : 14:55
citizen? Obviously will be.
SPEAKER 07 : 15:04
Oh, he got his ass. He got his ass. I knew it. I knew it. Oh, yeah. Whatever. Whatever. Oh, yeah. I knew this had an arrangement. I knew there was documentation. Hell, yeah. Dude, she's gone the minute the ink dries. She is out. See you, Greg. Oh, my God. Hold on. Oh. Are you saying hold on? What are we holding on for?
SPEAKER 11 : 15:29
Hey, dude, rent.
SPEAKER 10 : 15:30
Don't buy.
SPEAKER 11 : 15:31
Hold on what? Hold on what? Go ahead. Listen, love is love, boys, okay? And she loves America. Oh, yeah. Oh, dude, there's a sucker born every minute. P.T. Barnum. I'm going to see you on 90 Day Fiancé, you son of a bitch.
SPEAKER 07 : 15:49
Oh, my God. Get on the horn to TLC.
SPEAKER 11 : 15:52
Shut your mouth! Get on the horn of TLC and be like, hey, I'm a chubby redhead that has an amazing personality and I got this smoking hot Brazilian chick that I'm about to get married to. Get on TV somehow.
SPEAKER 10 : 16:03
It's made for television. It's made for television. They had Big Ed, now they got Big Red. Yeah, Big Red! You're Big Red!
SPEAKER 11 : 16:13
Love is love, bro. Come on. Are you really?
SPEAKER 09 : 16:15
She's a 10, dude. It's the real thing. I'm telling you, she's got a thing for redheads. She's got a thing for redheads. She likes my beard. She thinks I'm a wonderful human being because I am, in case you guys forgot.
SPEAKER 11 : 16:29
Dude, I love you to death, and you know that. You know I love you to death. I would take a bullet for you. She's going to steal everything.
SPEAKER 09 : 16:35
But I don't know, man.
SPEAKER 11 : 16:36
Outside looking in. Don't look good.
SPEAKER 09 : 16:40
I don't know, man. I know. I know. I'm catching a lot of... Listen, you're not the only one that's giving me flack for this.
SPEAKER 10 : 16:47
Do you know the story of a guy that you used to have on the air by the name of Doug Powell and his brother-in-law? Do you remember what happened to his brother-in-law? No, I remember Doug Powell's brother in law, no longer brother in law. His brother in law met a beautiful Vietnamese woman that was smitten as a kitten with him. And they had a whirlwind romance. Oh, yeah. Not terribly long before he went and visited Vietnam. They have a picture book wedding. They have a honeymoon for the ages. And the minute they moved to the States, she never left the couch and turned into an absolute demon. Screeching at him from the other room, throwing things at him from the other room. We went to go visit him. He goes, don't go in the living room. She's in there. And you just hear.
SPEAKER 11 : 17:39
Yes, she basically just became like a squatter.
SPEAKER 10 : 17:42
She did everything she could to get her him to divorce. She became a nightmare. And guess what? He divorced her and she got all of his stuff and now walks out with fresh paper.
SPEAKER 11 : 17:53
What is your family saying, Greg the Douche? Greg the Douche, by the way, joining us, dating a Brazilian woman who does not have engaged, not dating, engaged to a Brazilian woman, recently engaged to a Brazilian woman who does not have citizenship. What is your family saying?
SPEAKER 09 : 18:07
Yeah. Yeah. Hold on one second. Hey, can you wake up? You need to wake up. Hey, they're saying you're going to divorce me in like four months. You're not going to do that, right? No, you don't want to talk? I'm asleep. Okay, you're sleeping. Oh, dude, that was icy.
SPEAKER 11 : 18:25
That was icy. Dude, that ice came through. I'm asleep. Leave me alone. Leave me alone, you fat douche. You fat red-headed douche. I'm asleep. I do not have to wake up. Why do I have a Russian accent? Oh, my God. All right. We got to go. We're late for news. Call us when you get divorced.
SPEAKER 12 : 18:42
Yes. Oh, God.
SPEAKER 06 : 18:46
Oh, my God. I'm so happy.
SPEAKER 1 : 18:48
So nice.
SPEAKER 10 : 18:50
Do you cuss in front of your children? If you're from Waldorf or Essex, there's a good chance you probably do. Hell, your first words as a child are probably the F word because that's what you heard your mom scream at you repeatedly because you didn't clean your room or work on your homework. I have a relative that came over to my house, started cussing profusely in front of the kids, and it's not like he's a bad person. He just doesn't have... We'll be right back. We know you're going to do it, so why not do it under my roof? You've heard people talk about that in regards to drinking. We know teens are going to drink. They're going to steal vodka and head off into the forest. Why not just do it here under my supervision? Well, it seems like a lot of you took the same stance with cussing. You're going to hear this stuff in school. You're going to hear it in video games. You're going to hear it in movies. Why not just have me callous you to it now? Remove any of the heat of hearing a nice S-bomb, F-bomb from grandma and start cussing in front of you immediately. So we talked to you and figured it out. Why do you, do you, cuss in front of the children on Behind the Curtain? Do you cuss in front of the kids? No. Try not to. Not going to say on occasion something doesn't slip out. Also, pray to God she's not listening. Occasionally when I'm around the boy, I'm around the boy.
SPEAKER 1 : 20:25
16.
SPEAKER 10 : 20:25
I'll drop a little spicy language in the car if it's just him and I hanging out. You see that Ravens game? What the f*** was that? And it makes him feel like a little more grown up. And I'll do it on purpose. I'll use it as a seasoning, not an ingredient. Maybe I'll throw a little one out there. Make him like, oh, wow, my stepdad's cool. I hope he teaches me to smoke.
SPEAKER 11 : 20:45
Texter says, pure white trash move to cuss in front of your little kids. Somebody says my dad would call me a worth, a careless, heartless bitch and a worthless piece of ass. So, yeah, curse words were used. Nice to hear from Alec Baldwin.
SPEAKER 10 : 21:02
410-338-1098. Let's jump to the phones. Talk to Beth. Beth on line six. Good morning.
SPEAKER 21 : 21:08
Good morning.
SPEAKER 10 : 21:09
Do you have children?
SPEAKER 21 : 21:11
I had two, but they're grown adults now.
SPEAKER 10 : 21:13
Gotcha. So were you abstaining or were you cussing?
SPEAKER 21 : 21:17
Like a sailor.
SPEAKER 11 : 21:20
At what age did you start? Nothing to be proud of, Russ.
SPEAKER 21 : 21:23
Well, you know what? It really did desensitize my kids from it because to them it wasn't this mysterious new word that they just had to say because it was forbidden.
SPEAKER 10 : 21:35
But did they start parroting you? Yes, exactly. Did they go to school? No.
SPEAKER 21 : 21:38
I forgot my f***ing homework. They did once, and then I explained to them that those are words that adults say, not kids. My one child didn't say a cuss word until he was 20. And my other one, well, he's 26 now, and he cusses like a sailor. But, you know, it's 50-50, but they didn't do it when they were kids.
SPEAKER 10 : 21:58
Okay. Well, you lucked out there, because if I say something at 1 o'clock with Evan at 105, it's a part of his verbiage. Thank you, Beth. Let's go to Darren on Line 5. Darren, good morning.
SPEAKER 01 : 22:12
Morning. How you doing, buddy?
SPEAKER 10 : 22:13
How you doing, bud?
SPEAKER 01 : 22:16
So, yeah, my kid's in ninth grade. He just started his freshman year. I guess I taper the message based upon his... We're losing you, Darren.
SPEAKER 10 : 22:29
Darren, we're going to come back. We're going to come back to you. Please. Please. Okay, you got a real f***ed up signal. Let's head to Larry on line seven. Larry, good morning.
SPEAKER 09 : 22:39
Hey, good morning, boys. What's up, Larry? Hey, nothing. Uh, yeah, my, uh, my son is nine years old. He goes to Kennedy Krieger down in Baltimore. He's nonverbal. Okay. So I don't have to worry about him.
SPEAKER 07 : 22:51
Larry, Larry, that's wrong. You're not wrong, but God, what a backstory.
SPEAKER 09 : 23:02
I mean, it's true. It's horrible. And, uh, the poor kid, like I, I can, I, my secrets are safe with him. Uh, And if he ever does start talking, there's probably going to be a psychiatrist down the road that wants to talk to me.
SPEAKER 11 : 23:14
How old is he, Lair?
SPEAKER 09 : 23:16
He is nine. Nine years old.
SPEAKER 11 : 23:18
Nine, and he's never said a word his whole life?
SPEAKER 09 : 23:20
He sounds like he – I call him R2-D2 because he just beep-bops and boop-boop-boop, you know, just says – Yeah. He can say certain stuff like, yeah, and, you know – You know, just certain things, but actually he has a tablet that speaks for him. You can press buttons on it, and it'll be like that. Oh, that's cool. YouTube, yeah.
SPEAKER 10 : 23:37
And Kennedy Krieger, for those that don't know, is a place you can get autism and spectrum disorder Asperger's properly diagnosed by experts, not just going online because you're quirky on Instagram going online.
SPEAKER 07 : 23:48
I think I'm autistic because I'm awkward around people and don't know how to have conversations.
SPEAKER 10 : 23:54
No, you did the proper thing and got your kid the care and the analysis they needed. Does he have, like, any kind of thing that sort of invigorates him, wakes him up, music, certain programs, anything?
SPEAKER 09 : 24:07
Oh, he loves music. He's nine. I've taken him to see Megadeth, Five Finger Death Punch, Shinedown, Three Days Afraid, Slipknot, Godsmack, Disturbed. He does not leave the house without his drumsticks.
SPEAKER 11 : 24:20
Oh, that's awesome, dude. Listen, he's going to speak. When he says that first sentence, you're going to lose it. You know what he's going to say? He's going to say, Dad.
SPEAKER 10 : 24:29
dave mustaine is overrated hell yeah he's gonna be his first sentence kirk hammett was a much better guitarist he's gonna recite symphony of destruction larry that's awesome give the kid our best man you're a good dad let's talk to uh brandon online to brandon good morning good morning guys how we doing all right so i used to work for a gaming company in a british gaming company across the across the lake
SPEAKER 14 : 24:56
And I had to bring my seven-year-old in one day because my wife and I were going to go out on a date, and it just made it easier to drop him off at my mom's house. Well, my old London boy, as I like to call him, my old boss, he called people the C word all the time.
SPEAKER 10 : 25:14
Yeah, they love that across the pond, don't they, dude?
SPEAKER 14 : 25:17
Oh, yeah, they do. So I guess he said it to one of my colleagues while I was on the phone. My son heard it. dropped my kid off at my mom's my wife and i are having like a really nice dinner and then she starts blowing on my phone apparently he was being a brat and it walked away like he like my boss does and called her a stupid c word
SPEAKER 10 : 25:42
Dude, my dad would throw an entire TV at my head. If I dropped, all right, something, something next Tuesday, Oman Schlegel would have put my head through a television. Let's take a couple more calls here. People have been holding. Let's go to Scott, line three. Scott, you cussing in front of the kids?
SPEAKER 16 : 26:02
I do, and I'm a hypocrite about it, too, because my kids are not allowed to cuss in front of me.
SPEAKER 10 : 26:07
That's not being a hypocrite. You're a parent, man.
SPEAKER 16 : 26:11
Well, my mother passed when I was about 35, and I can tell you, in my mother's entire life, she might have heard me cuss maybe three times because you don't cuss in front of adults, period. What you do in front of your friends, that's fine. You ain't cussing at me.
SPEAKER 10 : 26:25
Hell yeah. No, I'm with you, Scott. Get up, cuss in front of your kids, period. Period. With a T at the very end. We'll do one more here. Let's talk to Darwin. Darwin, what's going on, pal?
SPEAKER 04 : 26:35
Hello.
SPEAKER 10 : 26:36
Hi.
SPEAKER 04 : 26:37
Yeah. Listen, what happened was, We didn't cross around the babies.
SPEAKER 10 : 26:43
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 : 26:45
No.
SPEAKER 10 : 26:46
Were they your babies or were they purchased?
SPEAKER 04 : 26:48
Well, no. You know, the children in the household, they said, Darwin, they said, don't cross around the little babies. They said, no. I said, why not? They said, well, because the little babies will be cursing and cursing all over the street. That's right.
SPEAKER 11 : 27:06
That's right. So you didn't do it?
SPEAKER 04 : 27:10
Well, you know, not too much. You know, I could be lying. I don't lie as much as I used to, but I forget sometimes. But when the babies, they started talking, they were saying bad words to me.
SPEAKER 18 : 27:22
That's right.
SPEAKER 04 : 27:24
And I was like, it was profound. I didn't know what to do about it. So we just, then we started coughing around the babies every night.
SPEAKER 11 : 27:38
Darwin, I'm going to find you. Yeah, save that number. He is on hold. Save that number.
SPEAKER 10 : 27:42
He gets to call. He jumps to the front of the line now. Oh, my God. We have a neighboring station called WBAL Newsradio, and there are quite a few professionals over there that we admire, we adore, and occasionally we're jealous of. In this case, it was sweet, sweet Trenise that we're very, very jealous of because she got to go to a Baltimore Met Gala. I don't know what the hell Mets stands for. I'm not sure if it's MetLife. I'm not sure if it's New York Mets. I don't care. You get dressed up fancy as hell, and you eat a bunch of fine food and drink expensive alcohol, and you hobnob and rub elbows with the wealthy and well-to-do. Oh, look, it's the Prime Minister. Ooh, the ambassador's here. My goodness, another head of state has arrived through the great big golden arch that makes their way in through the purple velvet carpet towards the dining area. We don't get invited to this kind of stuff because, well, we're us and she was her. And she gave us a look into the world of what it's like to be a fancy, wealthy, well-connected socialite at a Met Gala. So guess what? We're going to do our own. We're going to do the Bet Gala. Bet as in bet we look like hell. And we're going to make our own outfits. We're going to make our own clothes. We're going to design our own shirts and pants and shoes and capes. I will be wearing a cape or a cloak. Tommy, I need your help stitching a deep, dark, black, midnight-hued cloak for our Bet Gala. Trenise from WBAL, 1090 AM, 1015 FM, joined us to talk to us. What's it like at one of those fancy Met Galas on Behind the Curtain? Joining us in studio now, beautiful young woman. Oh, yeah. From our sister station, WBAL Newsradio, 1090 AM, 1015 FM, and the app now in color.
SPEAKER 13 : 29:31
In color, huh?
SPEAKER 10 : 29:32
In color.
SPEAKER 13 : 29:33
Is it in technicolor?
SPEAKER 10 : 29:34
It is. Technicolor. Trenise, for those that aren't aware, what exactly is your role, your duties, your position around here?
SPEAKER 13 : 29:41
Oh, I'm just a radio news anchor. God, listen to that voice.
SPEAKER 10 : 29:46
You should do audio book narration.
SPEAKER 13 : 29:48
Yeah?
SPEAKER 10 : 29:48
Uh-huh.
SPEAKER 13 : 29:49
What would you like to read? Green Eggs and Ham, perhaps?
SPEAKER 10 : 29:52
That or one of those Harlequin romance novels. Something like, you know. Charlotte's Web. Oh, that's my favorite. That's my favorite. You went to a local Met Gala. The Baltimore Met Gala. The Baltimore Met Gala. Baltimore Met Gala. Now, we know the New York one were a bunch of AAA stars where outfits made out of ham or, like, pink will show up or the whole Shetland pony on her head. Yeah, was there a theme for this one?
SPEAKER 13 : 30:15
Yes, it was Adam and Eve into the garden.
SPEAKER 11 : 30:18
Oh, really? Okay. All right. Yeah, we kind of had a hand in it. I guess WBAL-TV was the exclusive media sponsor.
SPEAKER 13 : 30:28
Kind of had a hand in it.
SPEAKER 11 : 30:29
Well, that's okay. I stand corrected. We had a huge hand in it. exclusive exclusive media sponsor uh all the anchors from tv were there you were there i saw meg i saw megan rivers was the hostess with the most megan rivers was the host janine was there you were there uh who else glenise was there delencia jenkins uh yeah delencia was there they all looked incredible yes everyone looked fantastic the beautiful people
SPEAKER 13 : 30:57
What happened to you guys?
SPEAKER 11 : 30:59
We weren't there because it was the beautiful people. Yeah, we don't get invited to stuff like that. I don't know. Do you lean more fancy or lean more just kind of regular or a little bit of both?
SPEAKER 13 : 31:11
I can do a little bit of everything.
SPEAKER 11 : 31:13
What do you like more, though?
SPEAKER 13 : 31:16
Right now, what I have on.
SPEAKER 11 : 31:17
Just like sweats, right?
SPEAKER 10 : 31:19
More casual.
SPEAKER 11 : 31:19
Chucks, a t-shirt.
SPEAKER 10 : 31:21
It seems like an event like that runs the risk of being a little stuffy. You can't let your hair down, can't jump up on a table, tear your top off. That's really buttoned up, which is, again, one of the reasons we're not invited.
SPEAKER 13 : 31:34
I think it's all about your own personal decorum. I'm putting my s*** in the punch hole.
SPEAKER 11 : 31:39
Did you while out? How were you? No. Did you behave yourself? Yes. Now, did I talk to you? There are cameras in the venue. Did we talk to you last? Was this the same thing we talked to you last year about? Yeah. Yeah, I seem to remember. But last year you took an old dress and you revamped it and you made like a new dress.
SPEAKER 13 : 31:53
Yes, I had a bridesmaid's dress that I hadn't worn in a couple of years. Elegant. Revamped it. Upcycled it.
SPEAKER 11 : 32:00
What about your dress this year?
SPEAKER 13 : 32:01
I actually designed and created my own fashion.
SPEAKER 11 : 32:05
You did? I wouldn't call it a dress, yes. What does that even mean? What do you mean you designed?
SPEAKER 13 : 32:09
I had an idea about what I wanted to look like and I made it.
SPEAKER 11 : 32:12
Is that you right there? That's me. Is that the outfit? Yeah, that's me. That's my outfit. And you made the outfit or you take it somewhere and have it made?
SPEAKER 13 : 32:19
No, no, no. I did that. That's amazing. It's like a sewing machine and all that? That was a no-sew project.
SPEAKER 10 : 32:25
I know so. Is this the garden from the Garden of Eden?
SPEAKER 13 : 32:29
No, I'm not the garden.
SPEAKER 10 : 32:31
I'm just the blossom in the garden.
SPEAKER 13 : 32:32
Okay, so you're one of the plants in the garden. I'm just the blossom in the garden.
SPEAKER 11 : 32:36
Did your feet hurt in those heels?
SPEAKER 13 : 32:37
They absolutely did. I think I lost my pinky toe.
SPEAKER 11 : 32:41
My toes are still kind of tingly at this point. You gotta do it. You gotta pain.
SPEAKER 13 : 32:45
Yeah, beauty is pain.
SPEAKER 11 : 32:46
Beauty is pain. That's what they say.
SPEAKER 10 : 32:48
Follow her, Trenise Brad... Radio? Radio? I don't know. Trenise B Radio.
SPEAKER 12 : 32:54
Trenise B Radio and TV. God, I'm so dumb. What happens at the gala?
SPEAKER 13 : 32:59
Oh, so it's a fashion show. There's also food. There's also art. There's a lot going on. A lot of local restaurants are highlighted. They had stations that had just about everything.
SPEAKER 11 : 33:12
What was your highlight?
SPEAKER 13 : 33:13
Food-wise?
SPEAKER 11 : 33:14
Just food in general. Oh, wow.
SPEAKER 13 : 33:16
So food-wise, there was oxtail and rice. There was an espresso martini station.
SPEAKER 11 : 33:22
Oh, how many of those do you have?
SPEAKER 13 : 33:23
I only had one.
SPEAKER 10 : 33:24
Did anybody come out of pocket? Was anybody out of pocket? Was anybody out of pocket there?
SPEAKER 13 : 33:28
No, everyone was very well-mannered and behaved. When you're wearing fancy clothes, you can't really, you know, get down and get your eagle on in the same way.
SPEAKER 12 : 33:37
Was there a pie-throwing argument?
SPEAKER 13 : 33:41
No, I don't think any pies were thrown. No food fight broke out? No fighting over food that I'm aware of.
SPEAKER 10 : 33:46
Okay, no one just completely smashed? I'm going to cry. Nothing happened?
SPEAKER 13 : 33:51
No, I don't know that because I wasn't surveilling people for the night, so I'm not sure.
SPEAKER 10 : 33:56
We have a gentleman that's in charge of programming, public relations director downstairs by the name of Jerome. Jerome, yeah. And this is his wheelhouse.
SPEAKER 13 : 34:04
Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 : 34:04
He loves this stuff.
SPEAKER 13 : 34:05
And that's who invited everybody.
SPEAKER 10 : 34:07
Hell yeah. Well, most everybody.
SPEAKER 13 : 34:10
You guys got to pop downstairs more often and make sure you get on those lists.
SPEAKER 10 : 34:14
Right back upstairs.
SPEAKER 13 : 34:16
Where was it held? This was at the Maryland Live Casino.
SPEAKER 11 : 34:19
That's where we had our 10th anniversary show. So they converted that room into a... Oh, it's a good room.
SPEAKER 13 : 34:24
Yeah, it was on the other... There's two because there was actually a wedding happening at the same time. But they were in the event hall.
SPEAKER 12 : 34:30
I love weddings. It was at a Ruby Tuesdays. Very. Did you gamble while you were there?
SPEAKER 13 : 34:37
No, I didn't gamble, actually.
SPEAKER 12 : 34:38
Okay.
SPEAKER 11 : 34:39
That's all right.
SPEAKER 13 : 34:39
You got to have money in order to gamble.
SPEAKER 11 : 34:42
How did this year's Baltimore Met Gala compare to last year's?
SPEAKER 13 : 34:45
Definitely a bigger experience, I would have to say. Last year, it was here in Baltimore City. It was at the M&T Bank Exchange. Still a beautiful venue because it was one of the first events that they had there after it had been remodeled. Was anybody dressed ridiculously?
SPEAKER 10 : 35:00
Ridiculously? That overshot the landing? No. Like the New York Met Gala, it's just a parade of millionaire buffoons.
SPEAKER 13 : 35:06
Oh, no. I mean, people were definitely dressed. They took the theme absolutely and went with it.
SPEAKER 10 : 35:11
No one showed up in a suit of Dorito armor? No Dorito. Okay. No one dressed like the Lord Almighty but with a purple mohawk?
SPEAKER 13 : 35:18
Were there Doritos in the Garden of Adam and Eve? He said, eat of this Cool Ranch Dorito. I mean, you know, most people, you know, stuck to, like, snakeskin. I was going to say, did anybody dress like the serpent? There were some serpents. Rock and roll, man. Rock and roll. There were a lot of very creative and very, very elaborate outfits and costumes.
SPEAKER 11 : 35:37
Do you feel you were overdressed, underdressed, or perfectly dressed?
SPEAKER 13 : 35:42
I liked what I had on, so I don't really care otherwise.
SPEAKER 11 : 35:45
You don't care what other people think?
SPEAKER 13 : 35:46
No, I kind of feel like that most of the time. Like I get dressed for myself, not for anybody else.
SPEAKER 11 : 35:50
You don't care what other people think?
SPEAKER 13 : 35:51
No, as long as I like it.
SPEAKER 11 : 35:53
What's that all about? That's all I do is care what other people think.
SPEAKER 13 : 35:57
I mean, I please myself.
SPEAKER 10 : 35:59
Right around 1230. Oh, gosh.
SPEAKER 13 : 35:59
I forgot where I was. Yeah, you're on the wrong side of the hallway for that.
SPEAKER 11 : 36:04
Listen, I just don't know what it's like to have that confidence. I always care about what people think.
SPEAKER 13 : 36:09
You got to make yourself an outfit then and wear it.
SPEAKER 10 : 36:12
Oh, my God. Should we do a bit where we make our own clothes? That's the next thing?
SPEAKER 13 : 36:17
You guys should absolutely have a theme for your next roast. Are you doing another JSS roast?
SPEAKER 10 : 36:21
At the 20-year mark, which we won't make it to.
SPEAKER 11 : 36:23
What's the one theme where it's, like, clothes but not clothes, where you have to, like, dress in something that's not clothes?
SPEAKER 10 : 36:29
Dude, they're doing something at my daughter's high school where they have school spirit days. But they have like, ah, you know, favorite sports team, wear your PJs. They're doing a day called Anything But Clothes. Yes, that's what it is. Anything But Clothes? Anything But Clothes. At a high school? You come dressed, but it's all like trash bags and cardboard boxes. Dorito wrappers. Anything, yeah. That sounds scary. It's Epstein High. Okay.
SPEAKER 13 : 36:51
We'll watch for them on the news.
SPEAKER 10 : 36:52
Well, Trenise, you're absolutely elegant. Thank you. Thank you so much for sharing us a little behind the scenes of something we'll never get access to.
SPEAKER 13 : 36:58
We gotta have a gala up here. Can we just have our own radio gala?
SPEAKER 11 : 37:00
I see you still got the nails. The nails are still there.
SPEAKER 13 : 37:02
These nails, actually, they're a little old. So they were going to be the nails regardless of what was going on.
SPEAKER 11 : 37:07
No new nails. You didn't get new nails for this?
SPEAKER 13 : 37:10
I didn't actually. The only thing that I bought were the flowers that I had on my dress.
SPEAKER 11 : 37:15
Did you do your own makeup?
SPEAKER 13 : 37:17
No. Someone else did that for me.
SPEAKER 11 : 37:19
You hired a makeup artist? I did.
SPEAKER 13 : 37:21
My hairstylist does makeup as well.
SPEAKER 10 : 37:23
She's very talented. Okay. We're going to make our own clothes. I want to make Joe.
SPEAKER 13 : 37:28
I've got a sewing machine. I've got some extra blossoms and I've got plenty of pearls and rhinestones. Let me know what you need.
SPEAKER 10 : 37:34
Okay. We do the bet gala. Okay. Like, are we going to look like hell? The bet. All right. The bet gala. Bet gala. Okay. Just like, are we going to look like absolute buffoons? Bet. Is it going to be in the hallway down here? Oh, no. It'll probably be at Looney's. Took my boy on a driving lesson. That is making me feel old. My boy, Gavin, my 16-year-old son, he's in that time. He's in that place where he's got to learn to drive. And if I get into a car with Josh or Joe or Robinson Mayer, Tommy, anybody around here, Scott, I'm comfortable. Some people drive faster than others. Some people tend to brake a little hard. Some people tend to read entire novels on their phone while they're at a stoplight and having people behind them honk behind them. Because it's turned green 30 seconds ago. I love you, Robinson. But driving with a kid that's never done it before is terrifying. Because you are at their mercy. And they are terrified. They're looking to you for guidance on what to do. And you're just trying to have them not plant your ass into the back of a flatbed truck. And this was an interesting one. Because as I took him driving, it was under multiple adverse conditions. It was raining. It was traffic. There were roundabouts. There was a drive-thru I had to get him into. Also, listen to what Scott does on the road. Is he being helpful? Is he being hurtful? I think it's an interesting technique. Scott does something very interesting as he tries to maybe help some young drivers when he sees them on the road as a student driver and tell me if you agree, do it the same, or disagree. Very interesting. He puts them under duressful situations. Coming up, I'm teaching my boy Gavin to drive and I'm white-knuckling it the whole time. On Behind the Curtain. Yesterday. Oh, God.
SPEAKER 11 : 39:19
Who taught you two to drive? I assume pops? My father. Well, pops I call is my grandfather. He's dead. My dad. Ron Reardon. Ronald Reardon, who changed his Facebook profile photo, by the way. Have you seen that? No. Dude's looking good. He's still deep into the Facebook. Wait, not profile. What did he change? Did he get a fade? It's his... Look at that.
SPEAKER 10 : 39:42
Look at that guy.
SPEAKER 11 : 39:43
Hard part.
SPEAKER 10 : 39:45
Tell you what, that dude's DTF. He's looking good. Hell yeah. He's got the Army shirt on. Yeah, I mean, just my dad, I guess, right?
SPEAKER 12 : 39:53
Speaks. You know, I don't even remember. I assume it was my father. I just remember failing the first official test and then passing the second test.
SPEAKER 10 : 40:07
I also failed my first driving test to get my license because I parked the effing car. My wheels touched the white line. And the dude was like, fail. Like, oh, cool. And then I took too long the second time on the three-point turn. Fail. Had to wait a month. And then I came back and I got it. I was taught in driver's ed, we had one of the last classes at Maurice J. McDonough, the trashy one, not the fancy one, to give us driver's ed before they pulled it and made it something that the parents had to do exclusively. These days, Gavin, who took a driving class, but they don't teach you to actually... Let me back up. They teach you to drive. They don't get behind the wheel.
SPEAKER 11 : 40:46
It's just a class, but there's no actual simulator. At least I remember, dude, I remember in my high school when we had a driving class, we had these driving simulators and no joke. These things were from like the 50s or the 60s. They were these big shot. God, I wish I could find a photo of it. It was like a projector, right? Big, giant metal thing you sat in, and it had a wheel and the pedals and the turn signals. And it seemed like it was like, yeah, some sort of weird projection on the screen. It was all grainy. And you had to do the correct inputs at the correct time. And after a while, you kind of figured out how it worked. The trick to it all?
SPEAKER 08 : 41:24
Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 : 41:26
But we definitely had those. But then we also, in driver's ed, we also got in the car. We got in the car. Remember, it was me with Steve McEnany.
SPEAKER 01 : 41:33
So did we.
SPEAKER 11 : 41:34
Because me and Steve McEnany goofed off the whole time. Because Mr. Cinelli was the best driving instructor on the planet. He was there forever. He wore slippers to school. He was an old dude. Oh, we had so much fun with Mr. Cinelli. I wish I could remember my lady's name. Well, you know what happened was I had gone and gotten my junior license. You can go, at least in New York. Is that like a permit? Like a large permit? You could pay, I think it was $120, and you go to what's called a five-hour course. And you go sit there for five hours. You take a written exam. You pass the exam. You get a junior license. So I already had a license before. But I was taking driver's ed anyway. So, like, it didn't matter. You were just doing it because that's the process you had to do? Yes, but I had already, I kind of, like, circumvented the process. Dude, we just, I goofed off. It was so much fun. Just winding up. Ah, you're unlocking memories.
SPEAKER 10 : 42:27
Yeah, our driver's ed instructor, she was cool, this hot old French broad, and she took us driving around town to do her chores. Today we're going to learn how to drive to Comcast. And then I took her to pay her bill. All right, today we are going to learn to pick up my dry cleaning. And then we would go to the laundromat for her. I took Gav out yesterday, my boy, and he now has an app on his phone that logs drive time. You have to show like insurance or the DMV or NBA, whatever. They want to see that you're logging some flight hours in the car. So whenever he's in the car and I guess it uses the GPS or whatever, you know, internals are on your phone to track that you're actually driving. And they would like a certain amount of miles or a certain amount of hours. It's like 20 plus hours behind the wheel. Dude, yesterday, white knuckling. I go to pick up food. It's my daughter's birthday. I say, let's go somewhere fancy to eat. Where do you want to eat? She says, I want to go to my favorite fancy restaurant. I say, what is that? She says, Chick-fil-A. I say, I'm on my way. I put in an order on the Chick-fil-A app. I'm earning points towards free food. Mom goes, do you want to take Gavin for a driving lesson? Now, in my head, I'm like, oh, no. No. It's raining. It's in the middle of rush hour. It's Ritchie Highway. It sucks. You're near York Road. That's right. York Road's a nightmare. Also, York Road and Ritchie are sister roads. There is just light, light, light traffic. Dude, turn it out.
SPEAKER 01 : 43:54
Dude, turn it in.
SPEAKER 10 : 43:55
Oh, yeah. It's horrible. It's like 540 in the afternoon. We get behind the wheel of her SUV. She's got a Highlander and we're driving down and there is a merge from college on to Ritchie Highway. That is a blender. It is a bullet. You have to keep moving. There's a merge lane that you're asked better. It's one of those ones where, as a young driver, your tendency when you're freaking out is to stop. You want to be defensive. You've got to move it.
SPEAKER 11 : 44:22
Sometimes you've got to be offensive.
SPEAKER 10 : 44:23
So I'm next to him going, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. It starts pouring rain. We're in, I mean, bumper to bumper traffic. It's pouring rain. A box truck pulls out in front of us. We can't see nothing. So he's like, hold on to it. I'm on the dashboard. He must have been crapping his pants harder than you. He's leaning into the wheel. His eyes are just as wide as saucers. I go, all right, you can't see. You got to mimic some of his movements. He starts to brake. You start to brake. He speeds up. You speed up. Give me two car lengths in between each other. Then I got to send him through the drive-thru. At Chick-fil-A when everyone's coming home. And the Chick-fil-A drive-thru is one of those double drive-thrus. So it's like you got it. It's a mini zipper merge. You got a mini zipper merge. We get out the back of the thing. So far, so good. This is where we ran into a little problem. Behind Ritchie Highway, there's some little access road that you can kind of circumvent going on Ritchie. It's got a circle. And it's a tight circle. Tight. Tight. And I get him on the circle. And he misses the turn I need him to. So he goes around. Big Ben. Parliament. Big Ben. Parliament. Big Ben. Parliament. He just starts going around. I'm like, all right, buddy, here we go. You got to get off here in three, two, one. And he zips off of it. But for a minute, we're on the circle, just going around in a circle. And he finally gets off the thing. He does good. But it was about every condition you need to learn to drive in. Plus, what do they say about when's the most time the road is dangerous when it starts to rain? Right when it first rains. Right when it rains. Because all the oils are on the road and brings them up. And I'm telling him that stuff. So he's being double cautious. Like, he's doing, like, 30 in the 45. I'm like, got to go, bud. Got to give it some gas, bud. Got to give it some gas. But he's, like, tapping on the gas. So we're kind of jerky. So, yeah, the people around us, they were patient. No one gave him guff.
SPEAKER 11 : 46:13
Oh, you know what I do? And this is – I'll admit it, and I don't care. Judge me all you want. When I – I did it two days ago. I was going up 83, and there was a – A driving school car, a person like, you know, that was taking a driving class. Every time I pass one of those, I just lay on the horn and I like hog at them to like kind of maybe... What an a**hole move. Well, not just the... I mean, look, they're out of the roads. They got... I'm helping. Yeah, I'm giving them like... They have to face adversity, right? So I'm like, I'm giving them like some sort of like... Oh, dude, I do it all the time. Like, hey, let's – it's like they're just cruising along, and it's like if they want to be ready for – they got to be ready for anything, right? Anything. Giving them a little adversity.
SPEAKER 10 : 47:00
The boudoir photo shoot is going to happen. I feel real good about this. The boudoir photo shoot, I believe, can happen. Karen Rainier from Velvet & Suede, boudoir photography expert, came up and joined us. She joined us for a couple of breaks. She talked to us about the history of boudoir, why people do boudoir, what the hell it actually is. And then she actually took some kind of on-the-fly guerrilla photos. I gotta say, I love them. She made Joe look like a piece of ass. She made me look like some New Year's slut. Scott was getting his little butt spanked. And that was just in studio with a couple of basic props. What I want to do, and you'll hear me reference it in this break coming up, is I want to get these done over the course of the next couple of months. We're going to go to her studio. We're going to take a bunch of beautiful photos. We'll film it for the TV show and then release a digital calendar next year. JSS, the men of the morning with a calendar only to be viewed every... at night Karen was awesome her husband is about as patient as hell to let her come up here and do something so lovely or not let be accepting of she's great and we felt sexy and my butt was up in the air and if you'd like to see some of those photos I believe you can go to JSS 98 rock now and peruse them we talked to Karen from velvet and suede about getting boudoir photos done on behind the curtain joining us in studio From Velvet and Suede, it's Karen. Karen, you do boudoir photography. How long have you been doing it now?
SPEAKER 02 : 48:28
This will be my eighth or let's see, since 20. This is over 10 years, actually.
SPEAKER 11 : 48:33
Wow. I asked off air. We didn't get like super detailed, but I asked about financials and it's a successful business.
SPEAKER 02 : 48:41
Absolutely, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I make a lot more than I did as a teacher. That's not too much, unfortunately, for my teacher friends.
SPEAKER 10 : 48:48
By the way, I mean, God love that profession, but overworked, underpaid, and no, there's no way the kid's just an idiot. It has to be your teaching methods. And you were only a second grade teacher.
SPEAKER 11 : 48:59
I couldn't imagine you being like a middle school or high school teacher. Those kids would have been like... crawling out of their skin. Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 : 49:06
Teachers didn't look like you when I was in there. Oh my god.
SPEAKER 02 : 49:09
My little second graders were... They still thought I was pretty. You're pretty.
SPEAKER 07 : 49:14
It goes from being pretty to like...
SPEAKER 11 : 49:17
My dad said things about the way you're shaped in the car. Well, they start to smell weird and get boners for no reason. Yeah, they start to smell like onions. Remember when you used to have to cover your boner with your trapper keeper speaks? Remember that? Still do. No.
SPEAKER 02 : 49:27
I hate this conversation because I have a 13-year-old boy. It's happening, right?
SPEAKER 10 : 49:31
Is it not happening? It's happening right now. I cracked a blanket in half.
SPEAKER 07 : 49:35
No comment. In half. He's not quite there yet.
SPEAKER 10 : 49:38
I got a 16-year-old and we're waist deep.
SPEAKER 07 : 49:41
Get out of the shower.
SPEAKER 10 : 49:43
It takes hour-long showers, and I look under the door, and I still see feet sitting at the edge of the toilet. I know you're not in the shower. All right. So I said earlier in regards to these things, pose us if we could, please. I don't know. Joe, how about this? I'll give you an example. Joe, stand over there and up against this countertop here. Joe, I'm just going to give you an instruction. Be sexy. Go.
SPEAKER 11 : 50:04
That's it. See, we don't know how to be sexy. Go ahead and get started. We don't know how to be taken away. That's what he's doing. That's his sexy. That's it? Sexy.
SPEAKER 02 : 50:12
It doesn't actually look that bad. I'm not going to lie. That's not that bad.
SPEAKER 18 : 50:16
Just exuding it just naturally.
SPEAKER 02 : 50:19
It's the confidence, really. That's all what it's about.
SPEAKER 11 : 50:22
That's the big issue.
SPEAKER 02 : 50:24
Can I get up? Yeah, do whatever you got here.
SPEAKER 11 : 50:26
Oh, yeah, yeah, please.
SPEAKER 10 : 50:27
You got to kind of try and stay on mic. So come over here. Yeah, yeah. All right, so if you'd like to, we'll move this out of the way. Come right here. Get right over there. All right, now position him.
SPEAKER 02 : 50:38
So I think the first thing would be what I ask my clients is like, what are your favorite parts of your body? Areas of insecurity? What do you want to show off? What's the vibes?
SPEAKER 05 : 50:47
Love handles. It's my favorite part of my body.
SPEAKER 02 : 50:49
Okay.
SPEAKER 05 : 50:50
No, I'm kidding. It's my least favorite. What is your favorite part? Decent arms, decent legs. He does have good shoulders. He's a drummer.
SPEAKER 02 : 50:55
Okay, okay. So if you're trying to show off arms, you're going to want to kind of bring your arms up over your head. Oh, yeah. Engage your shoulders. Let's get that outer shirt off. You have too many clothes on, honestly.
SPEAKER 10 : 51:07
Yeah, get that outer shirt off, Joe. Come on. Here we go. There we go, Big Daddy.
SPEAKER 02 : 51:10
So now you're going to turn around, face away. All right. You're going to keep your... Knees nice and loose, okay? Get that loose knee. I like how you've adjusted there. So you're going to bring your arms up over your head. Let one leg be casual there, all right? Pop that butt out. All right, yep, you already got it.
SPEAKER 11 : 51:28
Dude, I'm not even kidding. Like, whatever he did with the legs, that, like, made something pop.
SPEAKER 10 : 51:34
It shifted the butt. It added a little bubble. Joe, get the hat off. Take the hat. There you go.
SPEAKER 02 : 51:42
Now we're working.
SPEAKER 11 : 51:44
Karen, here's your phone. Oh, my God, dude. I'm watching Karen do it right now.
SPEAKER 10 : 51:50
Holy crap. You can tell she knows that position. All right, here we go. Go to live wire, by the way. See this happen in real time. Why do her jeans fit so much better than yours, Joe?
SPEAKER 11 : 52:08
What do you do about his thinning hair? Do you have wigs? Here. All right, there we go. Get right into that microphone, by the way. Joe, dude, I'll tell you what. If you just go to a bar and just stand like that.
SPEAKER 07 : 52:21
You want paper and drink all night?
SPEAKER 11 : 52:22
Just stand like that.
SPEAKER 07 : 52:25
Yeah. All right.
SPEAKER 10 : 52:27
All right, turn your head. And he'd be like, Joe, come over here. I can't move. I can't. Someone just bought me a Mike's Hard Lemonade.
SPEAKER 11 : 52:33
Dude, she is literally posing him like, oh, look at her getting down. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wait, hold on. Get a little ass cheek. There you go. She knows. There he goes. Tuck it up in there. This is Karen. We are posing Joe Stamboni boudoir style. These photos will be up on social media for you to see. Feel free to use them on your Grindr account. Look at this. Tilt your head back, she's saying. Okay, let's see.
SPEAKER 10 : 53:01
She just took a photo.
SPEAKER 02 : 53:02
I got to edit a little bit.
SPEAKER 10 : 53:04
Okay, are you going to add like a filter, something softening? Yeah. Okay. Again, we will be posting these photos. That's the photo of the day. Okay, maybe a nice sepia tone. Do we go black and white?
SPEAKER 02 : 53:15
We're going to go black and white.
SPEAKER 11 : 53:17
Okay. Joe, you look hot, bro.
SPEAKER 10 : 53:18
Look at this piece of ass.
SPEAKER 11 : 53:19
Joe, you look hot.
SPEAKER 10 : 53:20
I had no idea. What I was looking for was right in front of me the whole time.
SPEAKER 11 : 53:24
All right, let's edit later. Okay. I want Joe to hold this. Okay. I want to bend over the radio console, and I want him to smack me in the ass with it.
SPEAKER 10 : 53:32
Yeah, I'm going to switch with you.
SPEAKER 11 : 53:33
I'm going to switch. Okay, you get over here. Okay. All right, let me move. All right. So you've... Pose me over the console.
SPEAKER 02 : 53:42
Okay, so what you're going to do... Yep, you got to... Exactly. You're posing yourself. So you pop those heels up. That gets your butt popped out of the back. Okay, I got the heels up. Get out of my balls, dude! And then...
SPEAKER 11 : 53:59
Dude, why would you do it? You, like, immediately, like, you go from just, like, kind of normal to, like, super sexy in, like, half a second.
SPEAKER 02 : 54:08
But, no, you're just going to heel drop your hips in. Yep, there you go. All right. Fully present.
SPEAKER 11 : 54:14
Am I fully presenting? Wait, get your camera out. Get a photo of this.
SPEAKER 10 : 54:17
Present the whole.
SPEAKER 11 : 54:19
I want you to get the moment when he whacks me and then my face, like, goes, like, I'm in pain.
SPEAKER 1 : 54:24
Okay.
SPEAKER 10 : 54:24
All right. Get his ass, Joe. Should I do it?
SPEAKER 11 : 54:28
Wait, what should I do with this hand? What should I do with this hand? Like this?
SPEAKER 07 : 54:35
Go! You son of a bitch! Did you get it?
SPEAKER 11 : 54:43
Did you get it? Dude, I feel so sexy.
SPEAKER 10 : 54:47
Coming around. Pretty nice. Now, you also brought some costumery. I did. Okay. I put on a little bit of it. Not a lot, but I put on a little bit of it. Okay, now, if you could. If you could. I put on a slutty bunny outfit.
SPEAKER 02 : 55:05
I love it. Okay.
SPEAKER 10 : 55:07
And I've got these long vinyl gloves. What are these made of?
SPEAKER 02 : 55:10
I don't know.
SPEAKER 10 : 55:11
I don't know, but they're very unnatural. Now, I've got these on. Now, how do I stand in a get-up like this that says, I'm going to eat your toes while you sleep?
SPEAKER 11 : 55:19
I'm feeling all fours for some reason.
SPEAKER 02 : 55:20
Are you going all fours? Oh, yeah, you can go all fours. But I also feel like you could do, oh, yeah, you could do an all fours. Okay. So let's go on all fours. Okay. And then you're going to reach one arm out like a cat. Okay, so right there? All right, so reach one arm out like a cat. Here I go. So knees apart a little bit, feet flat. So like your ankles flat. Yep. Yep. Let your abs drop. Abs drop! Bring one. Yep. Exactly. Exactly. Yo!
SPEAKER 11 : 55:47
How do you make his ass, like, immediately look amazing? That's just his ass. Bro, your ass looks incredible.
SPEAKER 02 : 55:54
No, like, that's the thing. This is what boudoir is about. Like, it's really... It's the posing. When he's doing stuff like this, this is why. Should I bite my lip? Yes.
SPEAKER 11 : 56:03
Bite your lip. And pop that. Dude, your ass and your back.
SPEAKER 02 : 56:07
Yes. Thank you.
SPEAKER 11 : 56:07
No, no, hold on, hold on. Engage the right tricep. Engage the right tricep.
SPEAKER 07 : 56:12
Yes!
SPEAKER 11 : 56:14
Oh, yes! Oh, look at this angle. Dude, she's going aerial of your ass. Aerial fart. I dare you to fart. Fart right now.
SPEAKER 02 : 56:23
That was probably my main concern when I did my own photo. Is farting? Yeah, I was like...
SPEAKER 10 : 56:30
Did you guys go to Wingstop before you got there? Come back. I'm on that one. Can I take a look at the photo you just took? I want to see what it was like with me and my cat outfit on all four. Whoa, that is really skanky. Oh, I need that one.
SPEAKER 07 : 56:42
That's what I'm saying, bro.
SPEAKER 10 : 56:47
I'm never going to be able to run for office.
SPEAKER 05 : 56:49
I think we all just got new Instagram pictures.
SPEAKER 11 : 56:51
Wow. It is in Westminster. She's been doing it for 10 years. She was a second grade teacher. She says, screw this. I'm taking some boudoir photos. They're incredible. I'm looking at everything. So you can go there, do a photo shoot. You said you have over 800 outfits. You have all the bells, the whistles, the whips, the chains, everything you need all right in one place to show up, have fun, spend basically a day.
SPEAKER 02 : 57:14
yes just uh dip it into that world losing yourself and then you can get everything from in terms of finished product at the end you can get everything from just regular photos all the way up to wall art is my favorite like i said um we also have albums which obviously like the perfect keepsake for your grandkids to like see you know 100 year or not 100 50 years from now your grandkids oh my gosh grandma what's
SPEAKER 11 : 57:37
Grandma was hot. Grandma was such a slut.
SPEAKER 10 : 57:41
Well, now that we're all nice and turned on, again, where do people go online to find you?
SPEAKER 02 : 57:47
um velvet and suede boudoir.com we will find you shortly for the men of the morning at night calendar and when you get there click the community button because that's my facebook group and that's where all the fun stuff happens too wait what does that mean um it just means that i post a lot in there and we just like we have a good time that's probably why a lot of the ladies were calling in me like velvet and suede um love it yeah i need a virginia slim
SPEAKER 10 : 58:10
Tim Montana is the best. We love Tim Montana, the devil you know, savage. He is a guy that he's been on our radar for a little bit, and the man that put him on our radar is none other than Travis Pastrana, one of the greatest extreme sports athletes in the world, dear friend of ours. I got a text from him years ago saying, hey, you and any of your friends, get to my place. We're shooting a music video. I need bodies. I said, yes, sir. Travis calls. We answer. I get down there. It's a video shoot for this dude, Tim Montana. And he's got this rebel country. If you're sick of Nashville, if you're sick of the Florida-Georgia line type people, Tim Montana is going to scratch that itch. Then we put him at the beginning of our Spring Thing concert. We only had him backstage in the VIP, which frankly, at the end of the night, miscalculation, because his ass should have been on the main stage all night. crushing it he did so good at vip that he gets invited back by other people he's going to be with seether skillet he's touring his album and the guy is not just an amazing musician you'll hear coming up he plays us a track he's also just a good dude and he lives off the grid he has a bar with billy gibbons uh the man is amazing he's a friend of ours oh and he touched scott's balls in this break just hear it you'll understand we had our friend tim montana join us on behind the curtain The only way you can make a good show greater is if, by the grace of God, Mr. Tim Montana could also be on the bill. Slight oversight from the Metallica camp, but one that I have no doubt they'll make good on at some point. Hetfield joining us in studio now. It's Mr. Tim Montana.
SPEAKER 1 : 59:51
Good morning.
SPEAKER 10 : 59:51
How are you doing?
SPEAKER 08 : 59:52
Where's Papa Het? Why am I not on that tour? Papa Het, you listening? What's your favorite Metallica album? Somebody asked me that the other day, and I'm like, I'm a weirdo. I like hits. That ain't no problem. Hits, man.
SPEAKER 10 : 60:04
Put on Enter Sam, man. I'll bop my head.
SPEAKER 08 : 60:06
Bread fan, I'll get down on.
SPEAKER 10 : 60:08
As long as it ain't Lulu, I'm straight.
SPEAKER 11 : 60:10
I am the table. So you, Cedar Skillet. Yeah, you, Cedar Skillet, Royal Lynn. Tonight, CFG Bank Arena, Tim Montana. And I was looking through your... Instagram, and you got the new wrap on the new vehicle. You know what I like? I like the font that you did for your name. Where the hell did that... That is the coolest looking font I've ever seen.
SPEAKER 08 : 60:34
Custom designed by a great graphic designer in California. He did a lot of Foo Fighters stuff. He does a lot of rock album covers. But the strange thing is... For some reason, old ladies keep asking me if I'm a pagan at the meet and greet.
SPEAKER 11 : 60:46
It's a little pagan-y.
SPEAKER 08 : 60:47
It's a little satanic, Nordic, Viking-y, but I like it. I just go with it. I'm like, yeah, I was raised in Catholic school, but I guess I'm pagan.
SPEAKER 10 : 60:56
Make sure you say that with an A and not an E, because otherwise they're going to try and sneak up on your six. Yeah, like pagan like we did in the van? And by that, he means they just sped to get here. That's all they meant. That's right. And it's actually Pier 6 Pavilion tonight.
SPEAKER 01 : 61:09
Oh, my bad. Pier 6.
SPEAKER 10 : 61:10
Yeah, Pier 6. Cedar Skillet, Tim Montana. The rap is awesome. We're also fascinated with the bar. Yeah. What's the name? Where is it at? How do you get there? People are fascinated that you got this awesome roadhouse.
SPEAKER 08 : 61:23
Yeah, yeah, so me and Billy F. Gibbons from ZZ Top. I've heard of them. Yeah, yeah, you might have heard of the guy. He's got a glorious beard. Anyway, we bought a bar in Montana, in Wise River, Montana, between Butte and Dillon called the Wise River Club. You can look up wiseriverclub.com. Opened its doors in 1896. Apparently was a stagecoach, then went on to be a hotel, then for 100-plus years has serviced the Big Hole Valley. It's the Big Hole River.
SPEAKER 11 : 61:48
The big hole valley.
SPEAKER 08 : 61:49
And every Thursday morning is the big hole ladies meeting. And I'm not kidding. And we're cooking them breakfast as we speak. And they're the sweetest gals you have ever met. But I can't walk in there without smiling like, good morning.
SPEAKER 12 : 61:59
How does that conversation come up between you guys to open this establishment?
SPEAKER 08 : 62:07
It was for sale and I was up there last summer and the owner's like, if you like this place so much, why don't you buy it? And she threw out a price and I'm like, I know what Montana property is going for. And I'm like, this is my shot back.
SPEAKER 10 : 62:18
Just the real estate itself, even if you didn't keep the place, which I'm glad you did.
SPEAKER 08 : 62:22
Yeah, we kept it very original. It looks like the Old West. It is not fancy like they have up the street in Boz Angeles, Montana. This is authentic Montana. And so I went outside, called Billy, and his response to everything is, bag it up.
SPEAKER 12 : 62:35
Does it have those cowboy-style doors? Saloon doors?
SPEAKER 08 : 62:39
Saloon doors, no, but there's... There's elk antlers all over the ceiling. They're nailed to the ceiling. But it's not like an elk that somebody went and hunted. It is a pet elk named Bully that lived there in the 70s. And every year when he shed his antlers, that's awesome. They put him on the roof. I didn't know that either.
SPEAKER 11 : 62:53
Because you see those big chandeliers made of antlers. And I go, man, that's like a lot of antlers. But they shed them every year.
SPEAKER 10 : 62:59
So around Montana, they're just everywhere. Oh, yeah. You walk through the woods and find them. And funny story about that same elk. Evil Knievel used to get drunk in the 70s and ride the elk everywhere.
SPEAKER 08 : 63:07
Through the field, because Evel Knievel loved hanging out at the Wise River Club. And Hank Jr. hung there. Kid Rock. And then who was the actor we had this week? Kyle something stopping. Some big actor came in. So it's very random. It's in a town of 44 people. But it's on the big whole river. How many people? You said 44?
SPEAKER 1 : 63:22
44?
SPEAKER 10 : 63:22
There's more people on this floor right now. Yeah. So it's rare to ever see a new face walk through the front door? No, because it's a tourist destination. Ah, I get it.
SPEAKER 08 : 63:30
It's a European cyclist. Thank God he speaks French, because my first customer, they literally handed me the keys. I signed the closing document, and this guy comes in. He's like, from France, no English. And I'm like, what? Why are you here? You lost... And I called him because he speaks French. I called Jackson, so it was great. He was able to talk to him. It's a big cycling thing out there. Highway 43, which runs right in front of the bar, is like a bucket list place for European cyclists to come, motorcyclists. And then the river out back, the big whole river, is a blue ribbon trout fishing river. We got Arctic grayling, trout.
SPEAKER 07 : 64:01
We should stop by the Wilds River Club on the way to grab a little pin on your arm.
SPEAKER 10 : 64:06
Do you have a she's thread? Why am I having a knife pointed at me?
SPEAKER 11 : 64:10
I should leave. Talking to Tim Montana tonight, Pier 6, Seether, Skillet, Tim Montana, and Royal Lynn. You mentioned Montana and Los Angeles. What did you call it? Boz Angeles. Now, I know that's where a lot of the big celebrities now go to. Is that becoming a thing out there with people from Montana? Are they happy, not happy, pissed off?
SPEAKER 08 : 64:31
Yeah, they're pretty pissed off about it. I'm kind of in the middle. I'm like, guys, we need tourism. We need this. It helps the state. But there are some people in Montana that are like, are you an out-of-stater? And I'm like, run. Run if you are. You know what's dealing with that? Texas.
SPEAKER 10 : 64:46
Texas right now has had an influence from Austin. It might as well name it Rogan, Texas, because the city is now huge.
SPEAKER 08 : 64:54
hits the tourism because of the comedy scene now it's dwarfing new york and la la has like branched out to montana uh nashville and austin and they're kind of like getting there they're sinking their claws in slowly they're filming a ton of movies up there now and yellowstone came and filmed there and then filmed 1923 in my hometown so then you got harrison ford hanging out my mom kept calling me being like i saw indiana jones at safeway jimmy i'm like
SPEAKER 10 : 65:21
He has a name, Mom. Mom, it's Dr. Jones, okay? He didn't go to eight years of archaeology school to be called Indiana. Mom, you belong in a museum.
SPEAKER 11 : 65:29
Having grown up out there, what kind of outdoor skills do you have?
SPEAKER 08 : 65:33
I grew up off-grid, so a random one is I know how to trim wicks pretty well because we had lanterns when I was a kid. So on Sunday, I'd trim the wicks, fill the kerosene on the lanterns, and yeah.
SPEAKER 11 : 65:42
What about, like, you ever kill a moose? No, a lot of elk, deer, porcupines. Water. And can you slice it all open all yourself and all that?
SPEAKER 08 : 65:52
Yeah, I learned to process meat. I always wanted to be a butcher because I did so much meat processing. We were poor, so we couldn't afford to take it to town. So I would end up processing the meat, wrapping it, freezing it, all that stuff. So it gets pretty fast.
SPEAKER 10 : 66:03
You're a dude when the world falls, you're going to be okay.
SPEAKER 08 : 66:06
Yeah, I'm so ready.
SPEAKER 10 : 66:06
Like, when stuff crumbles, you're like, whatever. This is what it was like me growing up. How much wood have you chopped?
SPEAKER 08 : 66:12
Oh, my God, countless amounts.
SPEAKER 10 : 66:13
Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 : 66:13
At a very young age, too. I look at my kids now, and I'm like, you guys suck. Soft. Yeah, soft. Dude, my daughter had to work.
SPEAKER 11 : 66:20
I literally live right across the street from the middle school. She had to walk to school in the rain yesterday. She had a raincoat on. You would have thought, I go, Jack, wait, come on.
SPEAKER 10 : 66:34
My son's thumbs got tired from chopping fake wood in Minecraft. Yeah. You're chopping actual wood. Don't forget tonight, too, Kirk McEwen is going to be bringing on Skillet right after Seether. So you've got our boy Kirk McEwen from the Boom Boom Room alongside Mary Ann. Have you played Pier 6 before? I don't think I have. It's awesome. Really? It's such a cool place. It's like a big amphitheater. Half of it's undercover. Half of it's lawn. It's kind of like a Merriweather Post pavilion. But it's on a pier.
SPEAKER 11 : 67:01
It's literally like... It's a pier.
SPEAKER 10 : 67:02
Wow. It rules, though. We've done a couple of concerts there. The acoustics are great. Backstage, the staff is awesome. Fantastic. You're going to love them. There's no creepy sound guy. The sound guy's kind of normal.
SPEAKER 08 : 67:12
You've got to have one creepy sound guy. Come on.
SPEAKER 10 : 67:14
not the type of guy that like grimaces and growls at you. And, uh, don't like the cables that way. Like he's, he's pretty nice. You're going to dig. Uh, I was told we might be able to sneak a tune out of you too. Yeah. I was thinking about playing the new single Savage. I would love nothing more. I would love that very much. I would enjoy that. Joining us in studio, Tim Montana. It's unanimous.
SPEAKER 08 : 67:35
It's a little early to sing this high. So if I mess up, it's Jackson to the left of me that messed up, but if I nail it, it's definitely Tim Montana. How's that audio? Can you hear it at all?
SPEAKER 10 : 67:45
Sound real nice, baby.
SPEAKER 08 : 67:46
Let me see.
SPEAKER 10 : 67:46
Let's get them pants off.
SPEAKER 08 : 67:55
We got our sound guy coming in.
SPEAKER 06 : 68:13
Can't pretend that my blood ain't cold. There's no fire, but I smell the smoke. Pounding like a heartbeat, building up inside me. Ain't no way to fight these animal instincts. Down with the damage, we gotta have it. We want it all. Living in towers, chasing the power like animals. Everything can go down. Keep it for ourselves. Beating the habit. Watching the madness. Everything is savage. Everything can go to hell, we can keep it for ourselves. In the habit, watching the madness, everything is severed. Everybody's headbanging. They're rocking out so hard. God, Jackson messed up the words. That wasn't mean.
SPEAKER 07 : 69:42
I'm going to fight a security guard. Oh, my God. It's so savage.
SPEAKER 11 : 69:47
Jackson's going. Go, Jackson.
SPEAKER 07 : 69:49
Go, Jackson. Send it, Jackson. Oh, wee, wee.
SPEAKER 06 : 69:53
Oh, wee, wee. And the crowd would get quiet. We're all lost, lost in the madness We're all lost, lost in the madness Down with the damage, we gotta have it, we want it all Living in towers, chasing the power like animals. Everything can go to hell, we can keep it for ourselves. Feeding the habit, watching the madness. Everything is savage.
SPEAKER 15 : 70:46
On 98 Rock, it's savage. Hell. Oh, hell. Way better than getting a street bike, Tommy.
SPEAKER 11 : 70:57
Ah! Woo!
SPEAKER 07 : 70:58
Ah, damn!
SPEAKER 11 : 71:02
I mean, we're at 925 in the a.m. I'll take it, baby.
SPEAKER 06 : 71:05
That is sick.
SPEAKER 10 : 71:06
Tell James Hetfield I'm coming.
SPEAKER 11 : 71:07
Coming.
SPEAKER 10 : 71:08
And Hale's coming with me. Tell Kirk Hammett to duck and cover. Yeah. Tiny little lures to get behind the kid. Dude, that is awesome. It's you. It's Seether. It's Skillet. Tonight, Pier 6. The only thing that would have made that any better is if you were actually dressed like the Macho Man. So I've been pretty lucky. I haven't had to get a lot of stitches in my life. I've had a few. I've had a few. I've had some on my cheek where a dog bit me. I've had some on my ass where I slipped and fell and gave myself an all new fresh smoochable hole on my left cheek. But it's only been like two, three or four. And we opened up the phone lines yesterday. This is one of those instances where sometimes I feel bad when someone calls early and we can't get to them. We had a woman who called in that said she got 450 stitches. And we know she had to head into work or head into the nonprofit she works out to make no profit. But I'm still curious. I believe your name was Debbie. Debbie, if you could reach out to the station, I'd love to know. Joe Stamboni joining me here on Behind the Curtain. Joe, did she say when you did the call screening why she had so many stitches?
SPEAKER 05 : 72:09
No, she didn't. She was just very excited about it.
SPEAKER 10 : 72:12
okay all right well if you want to hit us up joe where should people be able to email you if they want to do a follow-up studio at 98 online.com and don't email me because i'll block your ass don't do well with the stitches the whole uh santa strips haven't benefited me there's been a couple of things i've needed to get stitched but i've got the santa strip which holds it together but they always pop i do like the ones that now just dissolve that's what i recently got in my booty hole was the ones that actually they put in, and they stay there, and then they just melt into the body. Those ones are a lot of fun. You shared some horrifying stories and some terrifying pictures on the text board of why you had and how you got them, the stitches on Behind the Curtain. Why y'all bitches get stitches? How? Our friend Eric took a whole ass guitar head to the face, blew his lip open. He's got like three or four. Kind of an odd spot right in his upper lip. He's doing everything he can to mitigate the scarring so he doesn't look like, you know, Lisa Cleft Eye Lopez. He doesn't seem like someone that would really care, though. He's a mustache guy, so it helps. So he's going to be able to maybe just have a little something that goes over it. And we're going to wait to see. This thing's fresh. He just got his stitches.
SPEAKER 11 : 73:28
Yeah, he doesn't strike me as the guy that would. I mean, he's married. He's got kids. You know, it's just kind of like it is what it is type thing right now.
SPEAKER 10 : 73:37
Oh, he's taking it in stride. I still feel bad that a friend of mine had to cancel his show and go to the ER and get his face all stitched up. Plus, by the way, he just bought that guitar. He brought this. Eric, is it a steel guitar? What type of guitar did you buy? He bought this gorgeous guitar. And it was like his first night out there. And then the guitar strap breaks. Wham! Right in the face. Splits his lip. So he started talking about stitches. And then you had 40-something? Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 : 74:05
Yeah, I was in a bike race as a kid, and I was trying to pass this. His name was Eric Callhouse. And I was clearly faster than him, and every time I tried to pass him, he kept swerving to make me not pass, and he hit my front tire, and I flew over the handlebars. I landed on my chin. Just, you know, kid stuff, kid stuff. But the parents were not happy because this was this was a doozy. It was a pretty decent one. You know, you have your broken bones. You have your few stitches here and there, your scuffs and your scrapes. But this was I think this was the pinnacle of my childhood accidents.
SPEAKER 10 : 74:42
Yeah, you're a young kid, too. It's like when you get a brand new cell phone and scratch the screen in the first week. You're like, are you serious? I just got this thing. Like, I got that beautiful new town appliance, aluminum refrigerator. Three days in, there's a dent in it. There's a dent in it immediately. Tommy Sabazo has 70 staples. For when he lost his spleen, he got 70 staples, and he once gave a man a wound that needed 66 stitches with a box cutter because somebody came at him, and he went and got himself revenge. What do you mean he lost his spleen? Yes, he has no spleen. You know Simbazo is like Portuguese or something for without spleen? His real name is Ler, but Simbazo is like without spleen.
SPEAKER 11 : 75:26
Was it an accident or just because his spleen went bad?
SPEAKER 10 : 75:28
I don't know why he got a spleen taken out.
SPEAKER 11 : 75:30
Damn, 75 staples.
SPEAKER 10 : 75:32
Yeah, he also says that, God, what else? He got a bunch, like, on his eye or something like that, too. Yeah, he's got some work done on him before. My buddy Shane, oh, my buddy Shane's, that's what it is. He got 20 stitches in the eye to hold the lens in place. I think he got, like, a knife fight or something, and he got a blade to the eyeball, and they stitched into the eyeball. Wow. 20 to keep the lens in place. Doesn't your eye just pop?
SPEAKER 11 : 76:01
I don't know. Isn't it like a balloon?
SPEAKER 10 : 76:03
He had from the same fight, 24 in his right hand, back of his head, 7, left ankle, 7, left arm, 10, chest, 36. He was basically made love to by Edward Scissorhands. Let's go to the phones here. Ben, thank you for patiently holding. Ben, how many staples did you get?
SPEAKER 1 : 76:21
- 75?
SPEAKER 10 : 76:24
What was the reason?
SPEAKER 03 : 76:25
So I used to vape them big box mods, and I was driving to work one day, and the vape exploded in my pocket and just lit my pants on fire.
SPEAKER 11 : 76:37
Is your name Mickey?
SPEAKER 03 : 76:39
No. So when I was... I was driving at the time, so I had to pull over. I was on fire for about a minute.
SPEAKER 11 : 76:49
I think burns. I don't think stitches. I guess, yeah. Did they have to graph something or something?
SPEAKER 03 : 76:57
The guy behind me saw me on fire. I saw a cloud of smoke, so he pulled over. He was like, what do I do? I was like, I don't know. Take my pants off.
SPEAKER 10 : 77:08
I'm sorry.
SPEAKER 03 : 77:09
No, it's fine. It's funny. He took my pants off, and I was like, you know, some lady pulled me in a blanket and I was like, can you look at it? I was like, how bad is it? And then she looked down and all I saw her face is like cringe. And I was like, Oh God. So it was the upper part of my thigh burned 85% of it. And I still think the funniest thing, the first thing I asked paramedic, I was like, I was like, are my testicles there?
SPEAKER 11 : 77:35
Because you thought that that vape blew your balls off. I think we moved on from those. The homemade, modded vape things. That was a moment in time where the custom chopper universe and the e-cigarette universe crossed over.
SPEAKER 07 : 77:53
And dudes that have never built anything.
SPEAKER 11 : 77:56
Give me the, in maybe layman's terms, what were the specs on that thing?
SPEAKER 03 : 78:03
So I know the battery is called an 18650 battery. Okay. I'm trying to think how many bolts it put out.
SPEAKER 11 : 78:13
It was a lot. What is the point? So you could just get more vape in you? You just needed more vape? You didn't have enough vape? You got to pump it in you?
SPEAKER 03 : 78:21
It was the big clouds. It was like that...
SPEAKER 11 : 78:24
fab in like 2016 era yeah do you look back and go that was the dumbest thing like the you just wanted to barf out a big vape cloud that's what you wanted yeah okay i mean for everyone it's like oh it's a healthy alternative to cigarettes let me ask you this bitch how many chicks looked at you and went wow that was like the biggest cloud i've ever seen i hope he picks me absolutely zero
SPEAKER 07 : 78:50
I love this guy. He's honest, Ben. You're a friend.
SPEAKER 10 : 78:57
Let's go to Joanna on line six here. Joanna, how many did you get for what? Stitches?
SPEAKER 20 : 79:03
I think they were close to 80. So I had a prophylactic double mastectomy and I... Yeah, so instead of implants, they took from hip to hip, cut open my, did like a tummy tuck and took all of that fat and made boobs. So I had stitches from hip to hip and then all my boobs. So, yeah, it was pretty intense.
SPEAKER 10 : 79:25
I know that procedure. That procedure is preventative. Is it preventative for breast cancer? Yeah. Did they have breast cancer detected? Did you have the gene?
SPEAKER 20 : 79:33
I don't have the gene, but I had strong history on both sides. Yeah, so I just was like, I'm getting taken off. I'm done having kids.
SPEAKER 10 : 79:41
Did you get them replaced? Well, they said that she took the fat and they made the boobs out of the fat.
SPEAKER 20 : 79:46
Yeah, they're like boobs, but they're made of my fat. And then I'm getting nipple tattoos.
SPEAKER 11 : 79:52
Oh, yeah, the nipple tattoos. Fascinating.
SPEAKER 20 : 79:55
How do the boobs out of the fat look? I mean, they look good. They're heavier because it's like all fat.
SPEAKER 11 : 80:02
Yeah. All right. Maybe you got to come up here. We might need to get eyes on those. Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 : 80:06
If you're wearing a one of those things that the the Taliban women that the women that are forced to wear the full cover robes.
SPEAKER 10 : 80:16
Yeah. Yeah. Only if you do that, you can come up. Or you can text in a picture to 410-338-1098. We can get pictures and videos.
SPEAKER 11 : 80:22
Yeah, do that. Send us a picture of your Frankenboots.
SPEAKER 20 : 80:25
No, but wait, that's a great... Yeah, they do look like Frankenboots when they were first done. Good for you for getting it done. The scar is all done. Like, they don't even look like I had surgery.
SPEAKER 10 : 80:34
Hey, well, good for you. Yeah, getting it done. Preventive maintenance. Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 : 80:39
I'm against health.
SPEAKER 11 : 80:41
Josh is anti-health around here. Smoke more. No, but we're just thinking about, like, accidents, really, but we're not even thinking, like, cosmetic surgery. Like, if you get a tummy tuck or something. Oh, my God, yeah. Like, that's a whole. That's a roll across.
SPEAKER 10 : 80:56
Yeah. For the people that lost a ton of weight and then have to get the skin removal. I mean, our pal Russell, all right, the tech guru, he's in immaculate shape, and he went from, like, 40. 450 down to like 180 and he's like riding bike races and running marathons, but he had to get the excess skin. Dude, remember what happened to him when he got the surgery? No. The stitches popped. He got the surgery to remove all the extra flap and he woke up and his body just leaked all over the place. He's since gotten himself an order and Russell, I miss you.
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we talk about gaming. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room talk about how sitting back and playing a video game is good for you. Who knew! One way to find out how. Hit play!
Join us for a lively and unfiltered conversation with Tim Montana where he talks about the tourism boom in Montana, influenced heavily by big celebrities and popular media. The episode also features a live performance of his single 'Savage.'
During this rapid-fire segment, we recount the movies that kept us up at night and why. Plus, we reminisce about school days filled with pranks, detentions, and the friendships that got us through.
Shhhhhh! Be very quiet... we're hunting wabbits! On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we channel our inner Elmer Fudd and we talk about hunting. Tune in to hear Kirk, Marianne, and our listeners talk about the different rituals people do whenever they get their first kill hunting. They're taking what and putting it where?! One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we talk about something Marianne did with her daughter. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room talk about bad words, Marianne's "bad mommy" moment, and more. What did she do? One way to find out. Hit play!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript Craigslist is a treasure trove of human connections, and on this Monday, we explore some of the most intriguing missed connections.
00:00:00 Introduction to Missed Connections Monday 00:00:16 Discussion about Fake Craigslist Post 00:00:55 Plan for Next Monday's Missed Connections 00:01:14 Reading Response from Sassy1 00:02:45 Skepticism about Craigslist Responses 00:03:10 Interesting Meetup Locations 00:04:27 Misconnection about Crossdresser 00:04:33 Misconnection with Asian Lady at Goodwill 00:05:34 Discussion: Three Friends Seeking One Woman SPEAKER 02 : 0:00
Joe, you prepared another fresh patch. We ready to go? Yep. Let's do it. It is a Miss Connections Monday. People looking for lost love on Craigslist. Before we get to these, do you have any new hits on the fake post that you put up? I sure do.
SPEAKER 01 : 0:16
And I should have included them. I can try to run through a couple if you want me to. This one's good.
SPEAKER 02 : 0:25
Okay, give me one. Give me one. Okay. So you posted your own misconnections. Yes. Saying that, I can't remember what it said, that you were athletic and that you were trying.
SPEAKER 01 : 0:37
He had some very... 34 white male, athletic musician, looking for other like-minded individuals who want to explore outside and inside. Things have been very tight lately, and I could use a hand or encouraging words to loosen up. New to this lifestyle, so anybody that can show me the ropes would be greatly appreciated.
SPEAKER 02 : 0:55
How about this week, in preparation for next Monday, let's each do one. Yeah. Let's make a fake MSN account, Yahoo account, something we'll never access again. Hotmail or whatever. Yeah. And then whip one up, and next Monday we'll just read the ones that we've mined. Yeah. I'm going to be a wheelchair-bound Jamaican man. So you got a new response to that.
SPEAKER 01 : 1:14
Yeah, I got a few. And this one, I might be interested. I might be falling in love. Okay, let's just start. Hello. This is from Sassy One. Sassy, like, O-N-E? One. That's a good dog name.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:31
Hey, come here, Sassy. I don't think I will.
SPEAKER 01 : 1:35
Sassy1 writes, Hello. I saw your ad on Craigslist. I'm Sapphire. I live in Baltimore. I like meeting new people. Having fun and just overall good vibe. Let me know if you're interested. Maybe we could become friends. I'm athletic as well. Indian and black female. I create and perform music as well. A lot of short sentences, but... Stop, Joe. So would you stop, please? Just saying. But?
SPEAKER 02 : 2:02
Are you really taking that bait, dude? No, I'm happily. I think you are. No, but I mean, I think you think it's real.
SPEAKER 01 : 2:08
Oh, yeah, no.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:10
I don't know. Look. Can you see? Okay, so you can't see their email. Craigslist generates an automatic email.
SPEAKER 01 : 2:17
There's no way that's real. I don't know, man.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:19
If you were to reply to them.
SPEAKER 01 : 2:20
Yeah.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:21
Do you see their email address?
SPEAKER 01 : 2:23
I don't think so. I think it just goes to the one that Craigslist gives you. It's too easy.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:26
It's just a bunch of numbers and letters. OK, because that one is not real. But I mean, I don't like that's not what it seems. It seems a little scamming. I mean, it seems like the language that some short sentences. Yes. Some Nigerian prince uses when he wants to borrow your routing number to get his millions over here.
SPEAKER 01 : 2:45
Yeah. Ride her back? All right, I will. Ride her back? I will. Let's go. Let's start to engage now. Is that a picture?
SPEAKER 02 : 2:52
No, this is the next one.
SPEAKER 01 : 2:53
No, it's another one.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:55
Let me see. Move your body. I can't make out the first word, but I see job. Or does that say career?
SPEAKER 01 : 3:02
Low career. 27 Indian, can you drive to West Cold Spring Metro? And we do...
SPEAKER 02 : 3:10
favors in your car i will i can't say that yeah west cold spring metro that's right down right here that's a quick that's where i get off to come to work is that a hotbed of homosexual activity it might be oh my god oh i mean
SPEAKER 01 : 3:26
Let's see what else we got.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:27
I can show you a Yelp review for a local barbecue restaurant that's apparently a meet-up for everyone on the DL. Sign me up. I had no idea. I'm reading through the other ones, Joe. Just the regular misconnections. What does CD mean? Crossdresser. Why do you guys know all this? Jinx, owe me a halter top. Wow. I'm a white male that would love to find a cross-dresser in the White Marsh area, chats, and possibly more. If you are a cross-dresser and live in the White Marsh area, feel free to message me back, and we can chat and get to know each other a lot better. I'm currently at work in Hunt Valley at McCormick Spice. I truly hope to hear from you soon. Somebody at McCormick's looking for a cross-dresser. Here's a legitimate one. Asian lady at Goodwill Superstore. Okay. You're the Asian woman that drove a white Mercedes SUV wearing a white and red top with a denim skirt. Please reply. You're trying on an outfit as I was walking the aisles. I accidentally stared a bit too long. You said the changing rooms are closed, so you tried them on. I still apologize, and you replied, don't be sorry. Oh, yeah. I waited outside to say bye to you. Your smile is still in my head, which makes me smile when I think about your glowing smile. In the off chance you see this, I hope you reply. I got a chubby. I felt that. Dude, that gave me a little chub. It was nice. She just changed right there in the aisle. Don't be sorry. Don't be sorry at the soft, smooth, golden feet in his ass. She's trying to lure you in. Baby mama in ShopRite busted. You caught me staring. Sorry, but damn. How about three buddies? Three buddies looking for a female to engage with. Serious inquiries only. No games. Be able to verify. There's three dudes looking to have one female. Okay. There's a better chance of Joe actually hooking up with any of the people that are responding to his fake one than some woman out there being like, one dude isn't sketchy and murderous. Let's try three filth pigs. I mean, what if there's a financial component? How much are we talking about? I don't know. I mean, everyone has a price, right? Make me an offer. Make you an offer for to dress like a lady. You're going to be the lady and you come to three of my buddies. I'll give you 500 bucks.
Read MoreRead Less
Description Chapter Markers Transcript Join us as we discuss truckers' time-tested tricks for staying awake during long hauls and listen to listener call-ins sharing their terrifying experiences of near accidents due to drowsiness. We also touch on some unexpected medical procedures and the surprising admissions of our own Joe Stamboni's dermatological escapades.
00:00:00 Introduction to Neil Wood's Invention 00:01:12 Personal Stories of Falling Asleep at the Wheel 00:04:08 Josh Spiegel's Near Accident 00:05:12 Trucker's Tips for Staying Awake 00:09:13 Interview with Trucker Jim 00:11:09 Discussion on Unusual Surgeries and Removals 00:14:00 Joe Stamboni's Dermatological Procedure 00:18:32 Listener Call-ins About Medical Procedures SPEAKER 04 : 0:00
Shout out, congrats, big ups to Pennsylvanian inventor Neil Wood. You say, who's Neil Wood, Justin? Well, he's the guy that's kept you alive unknowingly as you fell asleep behind the wheel. He came up with the rumble strips on the highway, those things at the edge of the highway that as you slowly drift because you're blacking out, start to rattle. Apparently, that dude came up with them in 1989. Highways adopt them, and they've kept us awake, alive, for many, many years. We discussed on Monday, falling asleep at the wheel. It can be as dangerous as drinking and driving when it comes to operating a motor vehicle. What we didn't get into... is some of the stuff you do to prevent it or what you do when you start to find yourself asleep at the wheel. Got a couple of great truckers that checked in with some tricks on how to stay awake that involve sunflower seeds. But there's been times myself where I've had to pull over in a relatively sketchy parking lot, maybe behind a hotel, maybe at a rest stop. There was a time my ass pulled onto a dirt road in Pennsylvania and just Fell asleep in the back of my car for 45 minutes. Could have been set upon by a bunch of redneck cannibals. Luckily, I wasn't. To catch an hour of sleep, wake up somewhat refreshed, and drive home. But it can be scary. You've done it, and so have we, as we talked about falling asleep behind the wheel on Behind the Curtain. Falling asleep at the wheel, man. It is gnarly. I think it's one of the reasons rumble strips were invented. So you start to hover a little bit, wake your ass up. There's a feature on my car, the Genesis, where there's this little camera on the inside that can detect. Like whether or not my head's starting to dip or if I'm like swerving and this coffee cup comes up on screen, making a little ding sound saying pull over, coffee break, take a rest. There's a venue that I work at with some of the DLP fellows for a murder mystery called the Bright Box in Winchester, Virginia. It's about two and a half hours away and it's a relatively straight shot. And it doesn't feel like two and a half hours, but it is. And there's been nights where I'm like, all right, do I drop $150 on a hotel room and double up with two or three, triple up with a couple of guys, or do I just say screw it, I five-hour energy it, and I power through? Yeah. And there's been a couple of nights that I have made it home by the skin of my teeth. I mean, I'm slapping my thigh. I'm holding my arm out the window. I'm turning on Watain as loud as I can listen to it. It's scary. I've luckily never off into a ditch, but there's been times that the rumble strip has saved me.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:40
Yeah, I've never fallen asleep. I've come close, like you said, but never.
SPEAKER 17 : 2:44
Josh Spiegel has. I came close. Maybe I had an accident. Did I have an accident? Your Nissan. You fell asleep and crashed up your Nissan, I thought. No, I never had an accident from falling asleep. I don't think I've ever fallen asleep fully. The one event. That was scary. And I think it was the one where I fell. I was I became I was closest to falling asleep was I was driving from I was on the Baltimore Beltway and I was driving to to visit my parents in in Silver Spring. And I was very tired. Yeah, and I was in the left lane, and they have that white little, what is that called, the little barrier? Like a jersey wall? Yeah. It's about hip high? Yeah, that's right. And I guess I started to, my eyes began to flutter. And I sideswiped it. Oh, damn. Yeah, it was very scary. Fortunately, nobody was hurt, especially me. Thank goodness. Yeah, but that was, as far as I know, that was the only incident. I think that's what I was thinking of.
SPEAKER 04 : 4:08
Like our friend Brandon, who fell asleep on his motorcycle and slammed into a light pole. Sadly, his mom was in the sidecar, and she was whipped headfirst into a local olive garden. Luckily, the unlimited salad and breadsticks. Oh, my gosh. When you're here, you're family. Have you fallen asleep at the wheel? 410-338-1098. Let's jump right to the phones. This was the industry I wanted to talk to. John, you're a trucker. I can only assume you're putting in some brutal, brutal trips.
SPEAKER 14 : 4:44
Yeah, good morning, guys. Good morning, Josh. Good morning. Yeah, we push usually through the whole night in the winter, so we'll have 15-, 16-hour sessions where we're pushing and it's pitch blackout. But I've fallen asleep a few more times than I'd like to admit. The one time that I did fall asleep, I woke up about three minutes or so later when my plow hit a manhole cover and the blade went almost underneath the truck, and that'll wake you up.
SPEAKER 10 : 5:12
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 14 : 5:13
Right on. A trade secret that's kind of well known now is if you're starting to fall asleep, if you eat sunflower seeds one at a time, it kind of distracts you from being tired and will help you stay awake a lot longer.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:25
Yeah, someone else told us that.
SPEAKER 17 : 5:27
The sorcerer.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:29
Sunflower seeds, because the process of eating a seed isn't just like snacking on peanuts. You've got the shell. You've got to spit the shell. You've got to eat the seed in the middle. You suck the spice off. You choke off. Yes, you can. That's always a hazard.
SPEAKER 05 : 5:43
As a truck driver, though, don't you have logs and you're not legally allowed to be driving longer than you should be?
SPEAKER 14 : 5:50
Yeah, we drive more than we're supposed to. We're supposed to take a break every six to eight hours. But when you're pushing and you want to go home the next day, you kind of cheat the system a little bit so you can get out a little quicker.
SPEAKER 04 : 6:04
I knew it. I knew it. Yeah, I think some of them logs are more performative based.
SPEAKER 05 : 6:09
Hey, John, I got a log for you. Hey, what are you doing later? He's very back there. You got that extended cab? You got that bed in the back of that truck?
SPEAKER 04 : 6:17
Oh, what do we have here? Let's go to Jim. Jim, you ever fall asleep at the wheel?
SPEAKER 12 : 6:22
Yes, sir.
SPEAKER 04 : 6:23
What happened?
SPEAKER 12 : 6:25
Well, I worked night crew out of a grocery store up in Westminster. Westminster? Yes, Westminster. And I live in Parkville. Oh, okay. That's a bit of a hike, isn't it? Yes, it is. I was coming home. It was still dark out.
SPEAKER 10 : 6:48
Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 : 6:49
I was so tired. I think I had tunnel vision.
SPEAKER 10 : 6:52
That's right.
SPEAKER 12 : 6:52
All I could do was follow that LH in front of me. Mm-hmm. I come off a 140 on a 695. I was fine all the way following this same person. I don't know who the hell it was. Right. Followed him all along. I missed my exit to get off on Harper Road. Watch out now. I kept following him, and he made it to the bottom of 702 and made a left, and I got T-boned.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:26
Damn. So did he hit your side of the car or the passenger side?
SPEAKER 12 : 7:32
My side.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:33
Oh, so you took the whole ass hit.
SPEAKER 12 : 7:36
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:36
What did it do to your body?
SPEAKER 12 : 7:39
Actually, nothing. He hit his head. I climbed out the passenger side. And the state trooper wanted to know where I was coming from.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:52
I'll tell you, bud, you sound no worse for the wear. Thank you for the call, Jim. Let's talk to Jason. Jason says on screen here, you fall asleep while driving a lot.
SPEAKER 02 : 8:06
Yes, I do. I work in the Port of Baltimore as a line handler, so I'm on call 24-7. And I live in Bel Air, so I drive back and forth a lot. And I've fell asleep at the wheel a few too many times. I've only ever had one accident, though.
SPEAKER 04 : 8:23
Might be narcoleptic.
SPEAKER 05 : 8:25
How long do you think you're out for?
SPEAKER 02 : 8:30
Sometimes I'll be out for six to eight hours, and then I'll come home and might get a couple.
SPEAKER 05 : 8:35
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. When you fall asleep at the wheel.
SPEAKER 02 : 8:37
I'm falling asleep just crossing my eyes and making it really hard to drive. A few seconds here and there. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's not like I'm completely falling asleep. It's just my eyes start to cross, makes it really hard to drive. But now with these newer cars, if you change lanes or go across your lane, it rumbles.
SPEAKER 04 : 8:59
Oh, yeah, dude. My car starts screaming at me. The steering wheel shakes. Yeah. Yeah, it ain't good. Yeah, damn, bud. You know, maybe keep a five-hour on the car. Let's talk to Reggie the trucker who has some other ways to stay awake. Good morning, Reg.
SPEAKER 07 : 9:14
Hey, fellas. What's up, Reg?
SPEAKER 04 : 9:15
What's up?
SPEAKER 07 : 9:17
Well, if you can imagine, I'm hauling ice cream sandwiches to Vermont right now. Okay. And so there's a couple things that, you know, it's not a trade secret, but it's my secret, you know?
SPEAKER 10 : 9:30
Right.
SPEAKER 07 : 9:30
So the first thing is always have Jamiroquai playing. Okay. Always. What?
SPEAKER 17 : 9:36
What?
SPEAKER 07 : 9:37
Jamiroquai.
SPEAKER 17 : 9:39
Jamiroquai.
SPEAKER 07 : 9:40
Yes. Virtual insanity.
SPEAKER 17 : 9:42
That's right.
SPEAKER 07 : 9:43
Virtual insanity. And the second thing. Yep. And the second thing is five simple words. Methamphetamine.
SPEAKER 09 : 9:51
Methamphetamine. Thank you, Reg.
SPEAKER 04 : 9:57
That skin tag, that goiter, that cyst, that weird parasitic twin that's been growing under your skin. What the hell did you have to get cut off? We talked about this because our producer, Mr. Joe Stamboni, if you're nasty, he had a staycation about a week or two ago. And he didn't go anywhere. He stayed home. But he did tell us that while he was gone, he got some procedures done and got some moles lopped off of his body. He had a bad one chopped off years and years ago that left a big golf ball-sized dent in his back. And he got this new one done, and he showed us the wound. God, it looks like he got shot with a .22. It looked to be no fun. Maybe next week we'll get an update on how his skin's looking. But then we talked to you about the various things you needed to get lopped off the warts. A lot of circumcision talk. A lot of people sending in pictures of the gazank to gazoid that had just had the turtleneck removed. Damn. Some days I wish we can get texts and other days I wish we couldn't because some of the pictures that you sent were real, real nasty. I hope this break did Dr. Pimple Popper, Dr. Sandra Lee proud as we talk to you about what did you get cut off your body on Behind the Curtain. What the hell did you get cut off your body? Big, gross goiter. Big, ugly-looking skin tag. My penis. Scott got what they call an extreme circumcision. They took it off right at the middle. It's finally that nice six he's been looking for. 410-338-1098. How'd he get a six-inch penis?
SPEAKER 05 : 11:35
How's that?
SPEAKER 04 : 11:36
Chopped mine in half.
SPEAKER 03 : 11:37
What are you doing? Save some for the rest of the show.
SPEAKER 04 : 11:43
Yeah. There's some people that you see out there that you go, get that cut off you. The children are crying. Joe Stamboni, you returned from a week-long staycation. Yep. And you revealed in the meeting yesterday you got some stuff lopped off. Yeah. What did you get done? That big one on your face that everyone sees every day?
SPEAKER 18 : 12:01
No.
SPEAKER 04 : 12:01
Oh, that's still there.
SPEAKER 18 : 12:02
That's still there. Tight. Yeah, I had some dermatological issues in my younger days. I had a couple moles cut off and they were... Suspicious looking. That's why I have those giant scars on my back. It looks like I was shot with a shotgun. So it had been a while, like too long since I've been. It's probably been like 10 years. I should be going like at least once a year. Now, is this primary doctor or dermatologist? Skin doctor. Skin doctor. Braille looking ass. Yes. So it was last Wednesday and I was, I was so nervous. So you just made an appointment just because?
SPEAKER 05 : 12:37
Yeah, no.
SPEAKER 18 : 12:37
Or did the girlfriend behoove you? Well, she's been pushing me to do it for a while, but I had like this thing on my nose and it started as like, it was like a little zit. And I, like, picked it, and it healed over, but not completely, so I picked it again. Sounds good. And it kept coming back. Yeah, and I'm like, oh, this is cancer. So that's why I went initially. That turns out that's nothing. But... What was it? Nothing? It was some sort of, yeah, fibrous papule or something. I forget what she called it. Okay. Um... But then she looks over the whole body.
SPEAKER 05 : 13:11
Yeah, she does. Get undressed, get in the gown, look at the whole body.
SPEAKER 04 : 13:14
I'm going to go get the melon baller because there's a sketchy one above your perineum.
SPEAKER 18 : 13:18
Yeah, there really is. Yeah, it's right between. Betwixt. So, I'm nervous as hell. A, I'm like, I think most of us. I don't like... derobing in front of people for the first time. They've seen it all.
SPEAKER 03 : 13:34
They're doctors.
SPEAKER 05 : 13:36
I mean... You're not the worst and you're not the best. You're in the middle. You don't want to be the worst.
SPEAKER 18 : 13:40
The best is fine. They always have the young assistant with them. Oh, I know. Trust me.
SPEAKER 17 : 13:45
Megan Fox looking self. You know, I always get annoyed when the doctor, without telling you... We'll bring in the student. Oh, this is a student. They don't even ask, are you comfortable? And then you can't say you're uncomfortable because the person is right there. I don't get to be someone's final exam.
SPEAKER 04 : 14:00
No, no, no. You get Doogie Howser out of you. Guess what?
SPEAKER 05 : 14:03
I'll tell you what. They want to learn a lesson, these people, these people that are trying to become doctors.
SPEAKER 04 : 14:07
You people.
SPEAKER 05 : 14:09
You people. If you want to learn them a lesson, be like, yeah, I'm uncomfortable. Get out.
SPEAKER 04 : 14:12
Get out of here. I don't like you at all. Get used to. Get used to that, homie. Yeah, because bedside manner also counts towards the patient. That's right.
SPEAKER 18 : 14:20
Where were the moles at? So I have one. One was on my front side on my stomach. Show me. All right. Hold on. Flip it up. Just throw it slowly.
SPEAKER 05 : 14:29
Oh, he's got a band-aid on it. Take your time there, sugarpuss. God, you and I have the same exact body. Only I'm, like, a lot older than you. Let's see what we got here. You're on a bad path.
SPEAKER 04 : 14:39
That looks like a cigarette burn.
SPEAKER 05 : 14:40
Damn, they got deep. They got the root out. Now, what did she say that made that one would have to go? It was irregular or it was raised or it was... Yeah, it was... Certain, like, signs.
SPEAKER 18 : 14:50
Right, it was asymmetrical or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, so that when, uh, she actually, she cut this one off and it wouldn't stop bleeding. So she had to cauterize it, which was, that's awesome.
SPEAKER 05 : 15:00
Like Rambo in the cave with a gunpowder.
SPEAKER 18 : 15:02
Yeah. I can smell flesh burning and it was pretty cool. Uh, and then have one on my back. So anyway, I'm, uh, waiting for another thing.
SPEAKER 05 : 15:09
So I asked them as yesterday, they cut these two things off and they got to send them off for biopsy. Right.
SPEAKER 04 : 15:14
Oh, 10 days.
SPEAKER 05 : 15:15
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 : 15:16
Oh, good. So that's 10 sleepless nights. I need to find out if my family needs to make arrangements.
SPEAKER 03 : 15:21
Yeah. How do they make a guy wait 10 days? He might have cancer.
SPEAKER 04 : 15:25
I wait less time to get a handgun. What did you get cut off your body? Our producer, Joe, went on vacation last week. He said, I got a couple of sketchy moles. That's definitely not a nipple or a herpes. It's got to go. So you went and you got one lopped off on your chest. Where was the other one? Oh, my back. On your back. Yeah. Your neck and your back. Let's go talk to Chris. See what Chris had lopped off of him. Chris, what did you have cut off you?
SPEAKER 08 : 15:50
I had an 18-year-old cyst cut out of my back.
SPEAKER 05 : 15:54
Did it break open?
SPEAKER 08 : 15:56
No, I actually tried to squeeze it, and it wouldn't pop at all. So my doctor begged me to have her cut it out. So I told her under one condition that she had somebody in the room that could tape it for me while she did it.
SPEAKER 05 : 16:10
Oh, you got a video?
SPEAKER 08 : 16:11
I got a whole video.
SPEAKER 05 : 16:12
Oh, dude, send that in. Did it smell at all?
SPEAKER 08 : 16:15
Oh, the smell that permeated that room was unreal. That's the worst. You feel better now? Yeah, well, I have a big dent in my back now, but yes.
SPEAKER 05 : 16:26
Better to be concave than convex. Yeah, dude. I mean, Dr. Pimple Popper, them cysts, oof. And you got to get the whole cyst wall out of there, otherwise it might grow back, and it's just all filled with dead skin. Did they say what it looked like? Dr. Pimple Popper always compares the consistency to something.
SPEAKER 08 : 16:44
Uh, she did not. I mean, it was dry, and it smelled really bad. Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 : 16:50
I have trouble eating Cadbury eggs these days because of her comparing some of the goop within. We're glad you're better now, Chris. Send a video of that. I want to see it. Like a dry mashed potato. Yeah, like a hard-boiled egg. Oh, a hard-boiled, yeah. It's solid, but you knew at one point it was goopy. Uh, am I saying this name right? Is it Travis?
SPEAKER 06 : 17:09
That's me.
SPEAKER 04 : 17:10
Trev. Trev.
SPEAKER 05 : 17:11
What's up, Trev? Trev. What's the origin of that name?
SPEAKER 06 : 17:16
Trevis. I'm called Trev. Okay.
SPEAKER 05 : 17:21
What's the country of origin?
SPEAKER 06 : 17:25
Country of origin?
SPEAKER 05 : 17:26
Lutherville? I heard it's nobody cares.
SPEAKER 04 : 17:29
Nobody caresville. Moving on. Jesus. Who gives a f***onia? So what do you got going on on top of your head?
SPEAKER 06 : 17:38
Yeah, I had a big bubble or a bump, and the dermatologist said to have a plastic surgeon take it out. So long story short, I go in, I get all numbed up, and the surgeon opens me up and pulls it out, and she's like, Trev, this is like a grapevine. There's a big grape at the top, and there's several followers. And I was like, okay. So she gets the grape out and she tells the assistant, okay, I think I got them all. Let's go ahead and sew them up. And I was like, okay. So they sewed me up, and three weeks later, I go to get my stitches out, and the surgeon comes in all nervous-like, and I'm like, what's going on? I thought something was wrong. I figured, oh, my God, here's the big C word coming.
SPEAKER 10 : 18:32
So they say...
SPEAKER 06 : 18:36
She says, I have to be transparent with you. She says, my assistant had two vials. She put your skin in one of the vials and the tumors in another vial. And she accidentally sent in the skin and the tumors are gone. And she goes, I go, so what's that mean? She goes, well, I've been doing this for 40 years. I'm pretty sure it was just a lymphoma.
SPEAKER 05 : 19:06
Right.
SPEAKER 06 : 19:07
So she scatters out of there and then comes the assistant. The assistant sews me or takes the stitches out and she scatters out and I'm sitting in the chair saying, what the does happen? So anyway, long story short, I walk out of the office. I said, am I done? And she goes, yep, you're done at the front desk. And he called the lawyer. Well, I have a good friend that's a lawyer.
SPEAKER 05 : 19:33
They lost your damn samples. That could be cancer.
SPEAKER 04 : 19:37
May I suggest RiceLawMD.com. You might have yourself a case. This was an episode four years ago, TLC Australia, Dr. Pimple Popper. It's just the cyst. It's not cut out or anything. It's just in his leg. Look at that thing. Oh, God. Dude, how do you put pants on with this thing?
SPEAKER 05 : 19:51
Is this the one that looks like a ball sack? Cut off the leg.
SPEAKER 04 : 19:54
Just take the whole leg with you. The guy has to wear shorts in the winter because he can't get skinny jeans over top of it. If there's one thing Spiegel's good at, it's suggesting really, really good films or books or television shows. More often than not, the guy suggests something great. So we always feel like we're responsible to somehow return the favor. And Spiegel has developed a system, and I like it. His time is valuable. It's one of the assets you can't get more of. And for a man that's as busy as him, to ask of his time is to ask of his soul. So he's developed a Spiegel 20 system. And what that is, is if we suggest a movie, a television show, something, he says, you got it. You got 20 minutes to get me. 20 minutes and I'm out. And recently we've suggested some movies here and there. They escape me. But one of the most recent ones was the classic Michael Keaton, Catherine O'Hara movie. Winona Ryder film Beetlejuice. There's a sequel out. I've actually finally gotten to see it as of Friday. It's great. And we said, Speegs, you've never seen the original. He goes, I'll give Beetlejuice the Spiegel 20. Did he like it? Did he not? Did he make it? Did he bail? You're going to have to listen and find out. But I got to tell you, the new Beetlejuice is... It is a sequel, remake, reimagining done right. Cannot sign off enough on just how kick-ass Michael Keaton is. I'm so glad he is back on a national stage. Between him and Brendan Fraser, we're getting some real comebacks from some great actors. Spiegel gave it the Spiegel 20 with Beetlejuice on Behind the Curtain. 1998 comedy horror, I believe, written, directed by Tim Burton, Beetlejuice comes out. Was it 1998?
SPEAKER 1 : 21:39
1988.
SPEAKER 04 : 21:40
Michael Keaton is the aforementioned Beetlejuice, a very young Winona Ryder. You've got the Maitland family with Barbara and Adam, Gina Davis, Alec Baldwin. Then you have the evil rich interlopers, Catherine O'Hara and Jeffrey Jones, Charles and Delia Dietz. And the new Beetlejuice is out. I still don't know why it didn't come out at Halloween. Whatever. Jeffrey Jones, not in this new one, and yet somehow is in this new one, I've been told. And if you look into him, he's got not a good past. The man, not the character. So we said, Josh, you should see the original Beetlejuice, directed by Tim Burton. I love Tim Burton. He's also done Nightmare Before Christmas. I forgot that he did Big Fish, a film that's made both of us cry. Love Big Fish. Pee-wee's Big Adventure. Love Pee-wee's Big Adventure. Which I think that was his directorial debut. Pee-wee's Big Adventure might have been his first film. That movie might be a 10 out of 10. Dude, listen to this rip of films he had. Listen to this five-film banger. Pee-wee's Big Adventure, followed by Beetlejuice, followed by Batman with Keaton, then Edward Scissorhands, and then Batman Returns. Love them all. All of them. So, Speaks, you try.
SPEAKER 17 : 22:56
Yeah, I turned on the TV, and I gave it a shot at your... recommendation and i was spiegel 20 so yeah we wanted to see if i could pass the uh spiegel 20 i usually just last 20 minutes i'm very impatient so uh first of all i was shocked i didn't even realize that uh alec baldwin and gina davis were in it and i was shocked to see how young they were it's crazy alec baldwin doesn't even look like alec baldwin no he's like a sweet mousy man yeah not the scotch swilling psychopath he is now yeah So I really thought they were endearing. I did not like Catherine O'Hara. And now I'm a fan of hers, but I didn't really like her. Now, at the beginning, when they just had Alec and Gina, I was good. When they introduced Catherine O'Hara and her weird husband, I sort of got bored, but I stayed with it. And when they reintroduced Alec and Gina Davis, they I was I became more interested. And I I kept I kept watching. I was a little bored when when they first of all. I didn't realize that they died, that Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis were killed in that car accident. Well, that's kind of what happens.
SPEAKER 05 : 24:31
I have it open here. I actually have the movie on my computer right now, and I'm at the 20-minute mark. Yeah, but about maybe 15 minutes in, you see them, and you think they're alive. You're like, oh, they're just alive. They made it.
SPEAKER 04 : 24:44
home after missing the dog.
SPEAKER 05 : 24:45
Right, and then you realize through a series of events, like when he runs up the stairs past them, and they look at each other and go, did you feel something? Not, did you see something? Did you feel something? Because he's a ghost. They're now ghosts.
SPEAKER 04 : 24:57
Remember when he tried to walk out the front door, the dad who's now dead, he goes outside, and it's just that wasteland? Yeah. Whoa, something's wrong here. With the giant worms and all that?
SPEAKER 17 : 25:05
Yeah, that was disturbing to me. I didn't really understand that.
SPEAKER 04 : 25:10
It's a Dune prequel.
SPEAKER 17 : 25:11
Yeah. Okay. So I actually started losing my patience right at the 20-minute mark. I took a look. Now, one thing I did appreciate very much was the Harry Belafonte. Damn!
SPEAKER 03 : 25:25
Oh, you did see that scene. Oh, you got to that scene. Yeah, I did.
SPEAKER 05 : 25:28
So these people, these new people have moved in. They're all artistic. They're from like Manhattan or whatever. And they're trying to take this beautiful farmhouse and renovate it and make it weird. And they're trying to scare them out of the house. And it's not working. Right. And that was one of the ways they tried to scare them was to get a dance number, possess them and have them sing that, which they ended up loving.
SPEAKER 17 : 25:47
Yes. The dance number at the table was probably my favorite part with where everybody was dancing with the shrimp cocktail that grabs everyone's face.
SPEAKER 04 : 25:55
Six foot, seven foot, eight foot. punch and just knocks him through the air.
SPEAKER 17 : 26:00
Yeah, so bottom line, I watched the whole thing.
SPEAKER 03 : 26:03
Yay!
SPEAKER 17 : 26:05
I did.
SPEAKER 03 : 26:06
Did you love it?
SPEAKER 04 : 26:07
When Michael Keaton appears as Beetlejuice, he's a 10! It's showtime. It's great. model. Yeah, with the cockroach that wants a Zack nut. It's showtime. Dude, it's really, it's a really, really funny movie. It's very kitschy. It's as Tim Burton as Tim Burton anything you're going to see. And I loved it.
SPEAKER 05 : 26:28
But when they're in the waiting room and the shrunken heads and the faces and stuff. The waiting room is great. The woman in the waiting room, the woman that like the football team that comes in. That's another great scene. The model where like Beetlejuice lives up in the attic is super cool. Yeah, I loved it.
SPEAKER 17 : 26:46
Was that was the daughter Winona Ryder? That's what I thought. Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 : 26:51
Yeah. She's now the mom in the new movie. Jenna Ortega is the daughter. Catherine O'Hara is now the grandmother. to this whole thing she's like a grandmotherly character so you got all three generations of women but the uh the banana song isn't until the 54 minute mark so yeah you made it i'm stoked you made it what did you think of the uh those sandworms in the movie are all stop motion animation there's no cgi like even that the town square model right i like to model that was cool they say this new one they leaned heavy a lot of practical effects that's
SPEAKER 17 : 27:26
very little cgi well beetlejuice beetlejuice over the weekend made 110 million dollars awesome second biggest september opening of all time before the behind the first chapter of it you think you'll see the new one did you like this one enough to see this in the theater or wait till it's home I think, I don't know. I usually make plans to leave my house and then find a reason not to. But will this one be available at home at the same time?
SPEAKER 04 : 27:55
I'm going to guess they're going to give this thing all of September. You watched the whole thing. 1988 Beetlejuice.
SPEAKER 05 : 28:01
Wow. What do you give it? How many Murrows do you give it? I give it a four. Four out of five.
SPEAKER 04 : 28:09
Very nice. Get this break over to Tim Burton. I hope this happens. I really do. I want to do some boudoir, dude-oir photo shoots for me and the boys. I think it's funny. I think it'd be hilarious as hell. All of us wearing a bunch of teddies and nighties and lingerie and whatever the hell else. We put the images online. We make a calendar out of the things. If you've ever seen Stavros Halkias' annual erotic calendar, it's one of the funniest effing things out there. I used to do it back on the show when I was working in evenings. My old friends Steve and Vince and Christoph, the Good Afternoon crew, we used to do the Men of the Night down on the farm calendar. Some of those pictures might still exist out there if you scour the internet deep enough. But we think we found somebody in Westminster that we're going to connect with. And maybe she can come in, bring some cameras, bring some props and outfits. And some of the photos that you sent in, legitimately so effing hot. Your wives, your girlfriends, yourself. And you'll hear me make a point in this break coming up about how some of the pornography adult entertainment these days has gotten so crass and so gross and so violent. And something like this, a nice, tastefully done, lewd, erotic photo, it's kind of a palate cleanser. It kind of helps reset the lizard monkey brain and maybe actually lets you appreciate the female figure a little bit more, or in our cases, the male figure, as we get ready for the Dewdwar photo shoot on Behind the Curtain.
SPEAKER 09 : 29:43
The boudoir pick.
SPEAKER 04 : 29:50
Usually done with soft lighting. Occasionally black and white. They're not nudes, but they're lewds. They leave a little something to the imagination. Like burlesque. You've got full-on The Block, Route 40. There's my butthole-style dancing. But then with burlesque, you've got feathers over the unmentionables. Maybe like a nice peacock getup. Oop, give you a little flash. That's it. A little more tasteful. Exactly. A little more artistic. Yeah. Yeah. And I like them almost in the same way that I liked getting those old-timey photos done on the boardwalk. I still to this day can't thank you two enough. I have that photo hanging in my bedroom.
SPEAKER 17 : 30:32
I have it in my house. It's in the room that is completely covered in hoarding paraphernalia. I'm afraid to hang it because... Your family? Yes.
SPEAKER 04 : 30:45
I agree. Don't hang it.
SPEAKER 17 : 30:46
Yeah, I'm afraid my family will... I don't know what they'll think.
SPEAKER 04 : 30:51
They're going to think you're in a triple gay relationship because you're dressed as a pimp and Scott and I are prostitutes from 1840.
SPEAKER 05 : 30:57
Or they could just look at it and go, wow, that's funny. They don't have a sense of humor.
SPEAKER 17 : 31:01
That must have been real fun.
SPEAKER 04 : 31:03
I'm going to guess mine.
SPEAKER 17 : 31:04
They don't have a sense of humor. Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 : 31:06
I'm going to say it depends. Old man Schlegel will slap his knee. The sisters will pull you aside and say you should maybe stretch out on a sofa. So I've seen some of these... These boudoir photo shoots, I think they're pretty tastefully done. Hell, I think Mudge might have done some back in the day. Not like naked. Nothing like that. But like knee-high boots. Very common. It's a very common thing. Classic like boy short little lace. Something like that. Looking nice. Looking nice. I would like to do something. I would like all of us to do some, and I'd like to release the images online as a possible 2025 calendar. I would love nothing more than to see Joe's supple, twice-baked potato-looking ass in leather and lace. Have you stretched out on some nylon? Oh, my God. Nice, tall champagne filled with good boy vodka. Something. Josh with a Cruella de Vil cigarette extender. Just to see Scott crawl in like a sensual little minx while he's got some kind of slutty Stevie Nicks meets a lady that works at Xscape. Not escape. Xscape. Look and get up on. And I'll just completely, completely nude.
SPEAKER 18 : 32:20
I think we all have to get mustaches for it.
SPEAKER 04 : 32:27
Deal. Okay, I'll meet you in the middle. I don't think she minds me putting her business out there. She puts it all over her social. Lila, who does weekends and nights and fills in, and she's deeply into the music scene. She's fun as hell. I love Lila to death. I think she's done some of these.
SPEAKER 05 : 32:44
Oh, yeah, this is kind of her world.
SPEAKER 04 : 32:46
Yeah, she does them well. They're, like, well done. I can see that. I mean, real nice. Hold on, let me take a look here real quick. Be sure to give her a follow. Yep. Yeah, they're they're awesome. And they're like you could tell this is a real photographer that's done them. They're not like a I'm trying to scroll through right now. They're not like a dude with a cell phone and a ring light in a garage. These are properly done stuff like I would almost consider that that fellow right there. Look at that fellow. That's kind of like a punk rock meets boudoir. Is that Lila? Yeah, that's her. Looking awesome. Got the leather jacket on. Got the studs. Hair's all done up awesome. Big hoops. Again, it's tasteful, but with like a nice scoop of erotic. I mean, Joe, come on, brother. Wear that exact outfit. Yeah, I would love to. See the big, meaty ham hocks of yours? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I want it on that sofa. See if you'll let me borrow it. I bet she could probably Sherpa us to the top of Mount Boudoir. We're going to call them dude-oir. Yeah. Dude-oir photos. We do, you know, three, three, and three. Three for Scott. Actually, four for Scott, four for Josh, four for me. There's 12. Boom. We got ourselves a calendar for this. All the money that we raise from it goes to us. And Joe, you could be in the background. Will? Oh, my God. Have Will on the damn thing? Yeah. Dress like Madonna from the Vogue era? A couple of cones on that? Good Lord, I might need to reach into the chiffonier. Yeah. If you have any of those boudoir photos, please. Damn. 410-338-1098. We can receive pictures.
SPEAKER 05 : 34:20
You didn't scroll far enough down on someone's Instagram. Oh, my God.
SPEAKER 04 : 34:25
I'm telling you, she rules. Dude, she's awesome. Wow. Lila kicks ass. Oh, my gosh. Lila puts a damn. Never mind. You ignore that order. Yep. Yeah. But again, it's all tasteful. It's nice. It's well done. Well lit. The outfits are cool as hell. The settings are cool.
SPEAKER 05 : 34:46
I got to turn my head for this one. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 04 : 34:49
I want some, like, vintage chaise to stretch out on. Yeah, you need that. I want a cloth, like, bathtub.
SPEAKER 05 : 34:55
Where's the one where she was just in this chair? Like, this kind of chair? Look, dude, this is exactly what you're talking about. That's the chair! That's the chair! And it's kind of, like, got a haze to it, like that 70s filter haze that they used.
SPEAKER 04 : 35:08
Yes, it needs to be, like, from the 70s. Uh-huh. Oh, my God. Who was... God, who was the old DC broadcaster... Not Pete Steele. Damn it, Pete. Steele. Who was the guy? Petey Green. Remember Petey Green?
SPEAKER 17 : 35:25
No, I never heard of him.
SPEAKER 04 : 35:26
From D.C. Oh, legendary D.C. media personality who would sit in a chair. Petey Green, who would sit in a chair like that. Oh, yeah, Petey Green. You know Petey Green? No. What is it, the 70s? Yeah, it was like a 70s, early 80s type thing. Oh, dude. I wasn't born yet. Petey Green ruled. What else could be great is seeing Josh in maybe some red nylon, maybe some pull-up fishnet stockings. Maybe we have some friends that do this sort of thing. Isn't that right, Thomas?
SPEAKER 07 : 35:58
I have a college buddy that now does boudoir photos, and every picture I see, I'm like...
SPEAKER 04 : 36:06
Yeah, Tommy Simbazzo has a friend that maybe does this. We were told by a couple of people, shout out to Lacey Macy, who says there's a place in Westminster that crushes this. Velvet and suede boudoir. Let's go, baby. And I'm looking at some of velvet and suedes. This is exactly what I'm talking about. Hear me out. Here's where I think this is a good idea, and maybe we can push an all-new sexual agenda. Pornography has gotten... So grotesquely out to sea. I mean, I'll start link jumping. Joe, I know you do the same damn thing. Yep. Where you get to the video that gets you there, and it's like nothing but octopus, fires, and a foreclosure on a family farm. There's not even people having sex in it. Five videos prior to that, there's like 15 people. There's a fainting goat. The Macho Man. How about we pull it back?
SPEAKER 05 : 37:11
I've been so desensitized that I just I keep going. I keep wading out into the dark, deep water.
SPEAKER 04 : 37:19
You're in the San Mariano's trench of porn.
SPEAKER 05 : 37:21
You can't kink hard enough for me at this point.
SPEAKER 04 : 37:23
See, I see this. I see velvet and suede. I'm looking and I'm. I feel my heart beating behind my shirt because I think I've just looked at so much vile, marinated in man.
SPEAKER 05 : 37:37
Well, the other thing that makes this sexy is that they're just regular women. Yes, they're regular, gorgeous women.
SPEAKER 04 : 37:43
They're not like some painted up, altered harlot that's only doing it for the paycheck. These ladies, they look beautiful. They feel beautiful. And we as four beautiful women in here. You count too, Will. I think we should get these things done. We're actually getting some pictures sent in, Joe. Yeah, that's right. Let's take a look here. What do you got there? Oh, okay. Show me one. You said, ooh.
SPEAKER 05 : 38:04
Damn, the owner, Karen, is...
SPEAKER 18 : 38:07
Yeah, let me see here. Poor girl stuck with that name. Swayed boudoir. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're going to reach out to this.
SPEAKER 04 : 38:13
Oh, that ain't it. That ain't it at all.
SPEAKER 18 : 38:15
Yeah, Grandpa took some photos. Oh, dude. Uh-huh. Dude. Hold on. We actually got some good, like.
SPEAKER 04 : 38:20
Okay, here we go. Here we go. This is.
SPEAKER 18 : 38:23
That's something.
SPEAKER 04 : 38:24
Look at the way in a black and white. The light dances off the crack of her ass. Oh, my God. Right there. Yep. Look at that. Perfect. It's just enough before giving you the whole kit and caboodle. Something right there. Like a little outer edge of the areola universe. That's all you need sometimes. But you're not doing... Joe, you ain't doing this here. You're not doing that. You're not doing that. You ain't doing that. Okay? You don't need to open up the handbook. Uh-uh. No. I don't need you to crack open the turkey wallet. I want to wonder... I want to. There you go. There's another great one. Dude, these are hot as hell. This is going to be on my 1230 today. Look at her. Stretched out, hair done beautifully. Let me see. Is this a listener? Yeah, yeah. Dude. That's a text? Check that out. It's cascading off the edge of the bed. Oh, my God. I love these. Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 : 39:18
Did we ask for pictures or are they just volunteering?
SPEAKER 04 : 39:20
Oh, no. Yeah.
SPEAKER 18 : 39:21
We might have solicited.
SPEAKER 04 : 39:23
We might have been like, send us your booty. Oh, my God. Would you? I mean, Speaks, you were down the clown with the old timey photos. Four, ten, three, three, eight, ten, ninety eight. Could you see yourself? maybe donning some of these outfits. No nudity, but you definitely might have a garter on. Okay.
SPEAKER 17 : 39:43
I don't think I'm...
SPEAKER 04 : 39:46
confident enough in my body to oh yeah oh i am not either trust me mine will be very very uh very tasteful and the fact that i will be about 80 covered up and see i'm so pale and splotchy and my legs are covered in scars i gotta have stockings on or something all right joe i want you to have those nipple tassels yeah that have like the things that hang down that you have to walk through to visit a gypsy yep to get a reading yeah i want those oh man these are great click on that one down there This one here? Yeah, we promised not to reproduce any of this stuff. The minute we're done.
SPEAKER 01 : 40:16
Where's the other one?
SPEAKER 04 : 40:17
Check that one out. Move your big fat ass. Oh, yeah, I saw that one. That's nice. She's got her nails all done. Because that's another thing about some of these boudoir photos. The hair's done nice. The nails are done nice.
SPEAKER 05 : 40:27
Well, yeah, I'm looking at this. I don't want to keep promoting this place if we're not going to go with them. But the velvet and suede boudoir. Why not promote them? They have a whole team of people. They have makeup artists. It's like a whole experience.
SPEAKER 04 : 40:41
I want them up here. I want to have them bring some stuff. I want feathers. I want a great big sash.
SPEAKER 05 : 40:46
I would say we probably need to go to that. Oh, for the shoot? Definitely. Yeah, because that is like they have... Look at these settings.
SPEAKER 03 : 40:54
God, look at her butt! Everyone settle down! I just want to put a candle in it, man!
SPEAKER 04 : 41:01
That's a birthday cake. Yeah. That ass is cake. Luscious. And it's got the boy shorts. Like, I'm over the thong. I'm done with the thong. It doesn't look like it's comfortable. I couldn't wear one myself. But she looks comfortable. Yeah, I think I'm going to... Man, this is it. I'm going to start... I'm getting rid of my OnlyFans. I'm going to start Googling committed married couples kissing. That's going to be my new porn genre. I'm taking all the way back. I'm going to start searching first base. I'm going dirtier and dirtier.
SPEAKER 05 : 41:29
Getting to know each other over clam chowder. You can bring the clam chowder.
SPEAKER 04 : 41:34
Now we're talking. Yeah, we're talking, yeah. So, yeah, if you have any insight into this world, maybe we'll reach out to them. Send in some photos. Have you done them? I'd like to know of some ones that have gone bad. I mean, there's been a bunch of perverts with a camera before that have just declared themselves photographers. Like, yeah, I do boudoir. Come over to 785 Chestnut Lane. It's behind the... automotive shop and then the next thing you know you're in some dude's garage and you got your butt in the air doing whatever uh how much these things cost i want to know yeah i want to know the whole kit and caboodle because i think we can maybe we can really make some we can make some cash or sponsor the thing for like an online counter The amount of money you say you spent on in-app purchases, in-game purchases, you're giving me anxiety. I thought we'd get some stuff where someone's like, oh, I spent $100, I spent $200. Somebody on the show you'll hear coming up spent hundreds and hundreds of bucks, and shocker, it wasn't me. But then we started getting the texts in, the tweets from some people that are deep into these addictive mobile games. They're free. Play them for free. And it wasn't hundreds. It wasn't thousands. It was tens of thousands. And we even got a guy that sent in one of those cool video screen grabs of him going through all of his Google Play purchases from some online mobile game. And at first it was $10 and $5 and then $20 and then $30 and then $40 and then $20 and $20. It wouldn't stop. It was a 20-second long video. You'll hear me play it. Scott reads it. Of how much money this guy has spent, thousands, in this mobile game for no reason. Is he having fun? I hope he is because you spent thousands on it. How much did you spend on in-app, in-game purchases on Behind the Curtain? You, I have, I've been playing games since the era of the Intellivision, the Coleco, then the Nintendo and blah, blah, blah. It was in the mid 2000s that you could start to buy add-ons for games. You could start to buy a little DLC. Shout out to all my Oblivion fans out there that got suckered into buying horse armor. And now you get games that they just give you for free. Minecraft is free. Fortnite is free. Yeah, it is. I play Fortnite. But then they get their hooks in you, and they go, hey, you want that sweet-ass gun based off that Deadpool Wolverine movie? It's two bucks. Hey, man, you want that Mad Max skin? It's five bucks. Hey, you want to play as the alien from Romulus? Oh, that's just four bucks. And they price it... Very a la carte. Very bite-sized. Two bucks? Who doesn't have two bucks? I'd have sent Joe to the store for coffee. It's going to cost me $3.50. But then you spend $3, $5, $2, $8, $15, and it stacks. And the next thing you know, a $59.99 game would have been cheaper than what you did. Listen to this. I'm trying to get a hold of Rodney. What's up, Rodney? Rodney, on a game called Lords Mobile... Lords Mobile. I spent a little over five figures on. Hold on.
SPEAKER 05 : 44:59
So three. That's tens. It's 10,000 or more.
SPEAKER 04 : 45:04
Wow. On another game. What?
SPEAKER 1 : 45:07
10,000?
SPEAKER 04 : 45:08
Top War Battle Game. And I believe Rodney. Rodney, he's not the hyperbolic, facetious type. He's not the smart type either. He spent $5,000 on top war battle game before he had to quit. Bro, come on, man. What are you doing?
SPEAKER 05 : 45:27
You're the person they're looking for, dude. That's it. I will be honest. I have been very good with this Fortnite crap. And my daughter will ask me, it's the V bucks. Like you said, you got to buy V bucks and then use the V bucks to buy new skins and this and that. Maybe we've bought like two or three skins over the course of 10, 15 bucks. Yeah, well, no, because the V-Bucks, they'll price them like a certain amount will be like $30 or something. Do you get the drift with those, too, with those sons of bitches doing the V-Bucks? Yeah, of course. Yeah, of course. Because then you can't use them all, so then you have like $100, $200 left over, so then you've got to buy more. Well, let me just add up. I've got some change. Yeah, exactly. You always have some left over, so that makes you buy more. Yeah, I remember the Microsoft Points era. I may be in for like $100, a couple hundred bucks. Damn, really? I mean, over years, though. Okay, but all Fortnite or multiple games? Just like all Fortnite.
SPEAKER 01 : 46:23
I'm surprised here.
SPEAKER 05 : 46:24
If it's 30 here, 30 there, I mean, that's already 60, right? Yeah. Yeah, so maybe 100 bucks. Here's a little insight into Rodney, by the way.
SPEAKER 04 : 46:33
Okay, you say, you know what? If you got the money, brother, if you're one of those 30 under 30 top five CEOs to watch around town, look who struck it big with Bitcoin. You do you. He says five figures he spent on this game speaks. I said, could you please call us? He goes, I wish I could, but I'm on a new trash route today and need to concentrate. Oh, is that Rodney the Trash Man? I think that's Rodney the Trash Man, which I know they're making good money. Yeah, they make good money. Are you making five figures on a mobile game money? No. Oh, my goodness. Oh, no.
SPEAKER 11 : 47:06
Steven, good morning. Good morning. I woke up in the middle of the night to my son knuckle deep in my phone. I roll over. I'm like, hey, what are you doing? He says, I just want to look at your Snapchat real quick. I didn't think anything of it. I wake up the next morning. I'm like, I don't have Snapchat. What? Here's... His Xbox account was connected to my email. So what he was doing was going in and deleting that paper trail. Completely the nuts that my ex-wife gets all of the notifications sent to her phone. So she wakes up and she begins to raise unholy everything. How much? She spent like 50 to 60 bucks overnight.
SPEAKER 05 : 47:54
Yeah, it's not terrible. It's not terrible. It ain't cool. Still, he better be mowing some lawns. I'm waiting. I mean, she's only 11 and she doesn't really know. I don't even know how it all really works either. I don't know what's tethered to what. I'm so confused. But like, I'm waiting till she starts to figure out like how to do it and figures out passwords and figures out all that.
SPEAKER 04 : 48:14
Oh, we somehow the step kid years ago, Gavin, he backdoored his way. That's what I mean. Into a DoorDash account. And we woke up, Mudge and I, to a ring doorbell notification at 1.45 a.m. What, the food was there? And we're like, who the hell was... Well, we woke up to it, so it happened hours earlier. And I'm watching the footage, and a guy is dropping off two garbage bags of McDonald's. Oh, yeah. Gavin went ham. Because he's having a couple buddies over. I'm waiting for that moment. And we're like...
SPEAKER 05 : 48:48
wait we knew you had buddies over who's got a doordash account well i do you ain't got a credit card we did and yeah i'm waiting till they figure out like oh this is tethered to that or i could do this through that and i don't know we'll see but like yeah i don't know um tens of thousands of dollars is a lot i guess now you're making me think about it i mean i've spent uh I don't know, but we play a lot, and over how many years has it been? A couple years, maybe?
SPEAKER 04 : 49:17
It ain't $10,000 on Lords Mobile, which I'm looking at pictures of that game. It looks awful. Oh, my God. We're talking about in-app purchases. You've got a phone game. There's some that aren't games. For a while, I was playing around with that AI fake voice bit. And it came with two stock voices, Biden or Trump. And you type in a bunch of stuff. A couple minutes later, it spits out some audio. There must have been 200 voices on the thing. But each extra voice cost five to ten bucks. So if I wanted to buy all the voices and use everybody, it would have cost me hundreds and hundreds. I referenced earlier our buddy Trucker John. And Trucker John, he's spent some money on a game. He spent on a game called Mafia City. I've never even heard of Mafia City. Why have I not played Mafia City? Since 2018, he spent around $6,000. 20 bucks here, 10 bucks there. That's how they get you. At one point, my account was worth thousands. And just to prove his point, look at this video he sent.
SPEAKER 17 : 50:27
Dude, I'm looking at it now. This is insanity. If you don't buy it, they put a hit out on you.
SPEAKER 04 : 50:32
I don't know why you didn't download the extra character pack. I'm hitting play. It is a scroll of all of his purchases in the game.
SPEAKER 1 : 50:43
20, 20, 20, 15, 20, 20, 20, 20, 25, 5, 20, 25.
SPEAKER 04 : 50:44
It's not stopping. Dude. This is on one game. This is madness. Yeah. That's crazy.
SPEAKER 05 : 50:58
It's almost like, God, excuse me. I can't. I got to go to the doctor. I'm exhausted. Oh, is there something wrong? You weren't here earlier. I slept all day yesterday. Oh, my gosh. I'm very tired again this morning. You went to bed at 6 o'clock. It's like, you see the people sitting at those slot machines. Oh, that's what it is. I don't know. Maybe because it's not... If you had a pile of cash in front of you. Yes. And you had to peel off those amounts in actual real money. And you see it in real time disintegrate.
SPEAKER 04 : 51:31
Right. Because it's all digital bucks. Yes.
SPEAKER 05 : 51:34
I think that's a huge part of it is that it's all digital. So you're not really... It's kind of, you know, you have a credit card on file, but you're not really... There's not legislation in place.
SPEAKER 04 : 51:44
I think it's been floated. Has Stella ever gotten into the blind box stuff? No. Yeah, dude. It's an introduction to gambling for kids because you don't know what you're getting.
SPEAKER 05 : 51:55
Okay, but you can't really. Go back 100 years. I don't even know 100. Maybe 80. Baseball cards, dude. The baseball card was the original blind box. Yeah, me up. I can see baseball cards. You never knew what cards you were going to get.
SPEAKER 04 : 52:10
Yeah. Yeah, you never knew. You could either get a bunch of garbage or, oh, my God, a Cal Ripken rookie card.
SPEAKER 05 : 52:14
And that was what kept you coming back? The very first ones were the baseball card. I mean, I would imagine there might be something before that, but the first thing I can think of was like a baseball card because you never know what you're getting. And it's like, yes, but the blind box is like you're the LOLs. Those are those LOL things where you open them up. Those were blind box things like you open up. You don't know what's going to be inside. Our friend Chen, show psychologist.
SPEAKER 04 : 52:39
These numbers are baffling to me. Chen, one of the smartest listeners we had, head screwed on straight and she'll help fix yours. I spent $3,000 playing mobile Scrabble. 3K playing Scrabble in a home decorating mobile app over the course of 2020.
SPEAKER 05 : 52:58
That's a vacation. Does it matter how much enjoyment you're getting out of it? What price happiness?
SPEAKER 04 : 53:05
Yes, of course. You've heard that said.
SPEAKER 05 : 53:06
So that's bringing you happy. So at the end of it, where you like- And how much you're making, how much you're able and willing to spend. Yeah. How much joy it's bringing you. I mean, it's a big equation.
SPEAKER 04 : 53:17
Our buddy Rob, he hosts the JSS International Gaming Crew. Mobile games are nuts. Their ad budgets are out here to get people hooked. Start, stay playing, and to get you to get your friends playing. Yeah. They try and get you to go, hey, if you sign up a buddy to play the game, we'll give you this extra golden chest with an epic weapon.
SPEAKER 05 : 53:37
A texter says Game of War got me for $7,000. I leave Vegas sometimes.
SPEAKER 04 : 53:43
I go every few years, and I'll lose between $300 and $500. I've never emerged in the black. In the whole flight home, I'm thinking what I could have spent that $500 on, and that's $500. $500. $10,000 is a pretty nice used vehicle from Jonesusedcars.com. Mike, good morning.
SPEAKER 16 : 54:05
Good morning, gentlemen. Hi, Mike. I personally haven't spent all that much. My blood-sucking parasites, my wife called children, they're the ones. Hell, yeah. First and foremost, the Genius is just like Fortnite and Call of Duty. It's free, so you don't have to buy anything. Yeah. But then it's the cost. It's only, hey, a dollar, five. And next thing you know, you're $1,000 in the hole. The real bad ones are the ones that you don't realize are reoccurring payments that have come.
SPEAKER 04 : 54:35
Oh, you sign up for a subscription. Stupid me did that once with Febreze on Amazon. I don't need a subscription to Febreze. I meant to just buy one bottle. And then three or four showed up. How much did the kids spend total on what?
SPEAKER 16 : 54:52
I don't know what the hell it is. Thousands. Not crazy, but definitely thousands.
SPEAKER 05 : 54:58
Here's the other thing a texter sent in. It says, I paid $100 a few times, so $200, $300 after drinking. Thank you, Mike. So someone gets deep in the bottles, You're thinking, you know, we're not even thinking about that. We're just assuming that people are of a clear mind and body. You get a few in you. You're at home. You're, you know, you're playing. You're depressed or whatever. I don't know.
SPEAKER 04 : 55:22
Drunk Justin's favorite activity is to buy sober Justin a present. Yes. He loves drunk. Justin loves buying sober. Justin presence. He's going to love this.
SPEAKER 05 : 55:35
He needs a Michael Jackson set of pajamas. Happy Saturday morning. Justin Scott and Spiegel. It's behind the curtain where we get a little deeper into some of the past week's And a big topic of conversation this week was Dave Grohl. Dave Grohl having a baby outside of his marriage with a mistress person type thingy. And yeah, I don't know. We kind of posed the question to the listeners. We actually asked Lila, lovely Lila from the station. Just been asking around like, um... And I saw it on social media, too. I think that's why I wanted to talk about it was because I saw a lot of people being like, totally lost all respect. I'm done with him. I'm done with him. And, you know, I still don't know where I stand. Marriage is an institution, obviously, and you're supposed to remain faithful to your spouse. Yada, yada, yada. We all get that. But we're also human beings. We all have cravings. I don't... I don't know. I don't know where I stand. Listen, I'm still going to listen to the Foo Fighters. Okay, let's start there. This is not egregious enough for me to stop listening to the Foo Fighters. I'll still enjoy their music. I'll still watch Dave Grohl perform. I'll still see him in the news and be there. I haven't written him off. Was it cool what he did? Nah, it wasn't cool. But do we all make mistakes? Are we all fallible? Yes, of course. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. We all know someone who's been cheated on. We all know someone who's cheated. These things happen. Maybe he should have wore a condom. I don't know. We wouldn't be in this position. But it is a hot button issue. And he is the nice guy. Everyone thinks he's the nice guy and the good guy. But then I'll pose the question, does this make him a mean bad guy? I don't even know if I could go that far. It's a tricky situation. Here it is. Dave Grohl and the baby. Behind the Curtain, 98 Rock.
SPEAKER 04 : 57:29
Uh, yeah, we saw the news Tuesday night, Josh starts reporting on it Wednesday morning, the national media steals his coverage, and then we begin to chew on Dave Grohl. Yeah. He came out with a statement about having a child out of wedlock. That's right. A child outside of his marriage. And the reactions were varied. They're all over the place. We got a rock star doing rock star stuff. How dare the, you know, anointed good guy of rock and roll do something so horrendous? I'm out on you forever. And, you know, there's a bunch of stuff in this thing to to rifle through. A lot to unpack. Oh, don't say that. Remember the Letterman thing years ago when the dude tried to blackmail him?
SPEAKER 17 : 58:12
Yeah, I remember that. You reported on that. I was that man.
SPEAKER 04 : 58:15
You were the guy that said, I have been sleeping with David Letterman, and you either give me $100,000 or I tell the world. Letterman had the worst luck with...
SPEAKER 17 : 58:28
Women and stalkers and five. The same woman broke into his bedroom five times.
SPEAKER 04 : 58:36
Change the locks, homie. Good God. But I remember him having that guy that was going to blackmail him. He just got out in front of it. He's like, hey, heads up. I hooked up with an intern. This guy was about to tell you. So he completely heads it off at the pass. They arrest the guy for blackmail. It's illegal. The guy doesn't get a dime. And people moved on from it like that. He defanged it. It feels like Dave in a way did that this time instead of it being discovered as some woman goes to the tabloids with a baby that looks like Grohl. He jumped out in front of us like, hey, I'm having a child out of wedlock. Sorry.
SPEAKER 05 : 59:14
Yeah, I mean, I've already kind of moved on. I'm just like, it is what it is. I don't know. I was on social yesterday, and I saw some people commenting on the situation. Somebody said, respect is gone. Why is it so hard for some people to respect their spouses? And I wonder if this is, you know, just the bridge too far for some people.
SPEAKER 17 : 59:35
I was just reading this morning that turns out... Dave Grohl filed for divorce before this announcement. With his current wife?
SPEAKER 05 : 59:48
What's that? With his current wife. Yeah, that's right. So does that change things? So maybe they're technically still married, but are they estranged? Yeah. Or not doing well? Separated?
SPEAKER 17 : 59:57
What if they were separated and this happened? Well, I don't know if they're strange. That's a little hard.
SPEAKER 04 : 60:01
Well, is that not the right word? Separated? No, I'm just playing with you. They're not strange. They're all strange. But yeah, who knows? We don't know the timeline of the whole thing. Time and everything matters here. Did he get separated and there's no reconciliation? And then he goofs in someone's hoo-hoo and now it's time for a half-sibling? Or is this the reason they did? I also think of Will Smith. Will Smith was kind of, you know, one of the good guys in media. And then he goes up and hauls off on Chris Rock and everyone's like, whoa, what the hell was that?
SPEAKER 05 : 60:36
Well, I thought you were going to say that his wife was sleeping with his...
SPEAKER 04 : 60:42
There's that angle. I'm taking the good guy angle that Will Smith has always been the shiny OG golly until that. And Dave Grohl, for the most part, has always been the sort of the clown prince of rock and roll. Kind of silly, not setting fire to hotel rooms, not punching bus drivers. For the most part, he's kind of fun and frivolous and, you know, real gregarious. Sex is fun. Sex is a good time. But it seems like kind of un-Groll-like.
SPEAKER 05 : 61:11
Some texts. Dave Grohl is a sick POS, which stands for a piece of. His wife should divorce him and take all of his money. Here's another text. Who cares if he had a kid out of wedlock? He's not abandoning his kid. Also, he who is without sin shall cast the first stone. That's kind of where I'm at. Come on. Like we're all fallible. We all know somebody who's done something or had – this is not shocking and it's not – I had Joe out of wedlock. It's almost like his – I don't know. It's like the institution of marriage too big an ask nowadays.
SPEAKER 04 : 61:47
In considering someone that is a rock star, and again, I'm not excusing it, but trying to make sense of it, that you have the adoration of millions at your fingertips, and you go... Like, I don't know if he ever has. I'm not saying he has. You ever seen Hugh Jackman's wife? Yeah, not that great. And by God, the dude is as loyal as a puppy. Or even The Rock. The Rock also. And you look and go... People have to throw themselves at you. Yeah. And, you know, you're with your childhood sweetheart and God bless you for doing it. But in his line of work role, good looking guy, great personality, talented as hell.
SPEAKER 05 : 62:26
Probably going to come up. Here's a text. 410-338-1098. Give us a call. Shoot us a text. Where do you stand on Dave Grohl? I still love all their music, but he is a douchebag now. And every nice thing he does is clearly a front to look over there while he does this. The only true good person in Hollywood is Keanu Reeves. Don't let us down, homie.
SPEAKER 04 : 62:49
Yeah, Keanu might be the last golden child in there. I can't remember the last time he had a run-in with the law. Oh, let's go to the phones real quick. Let's talk to our old pal, Mr. Mikey Positive, no longer falling off the roof, because if he does, I'll catch him. Papers. Good morning, boys. What's up, handsome? Morning.
SPEAKER 08 : 63:05
How you doing? Hey. Hey, I'm doing great, man. I'm doing great. As for this Dave Grohl thing, man, it is so... Marriage is a sacred institution and when you choose a partner, you can't, I don't care if you play rock and roll. I don't care what you do. You do not do that. That is the worst thing that you can do to your partner. The way that that makes your partner feel. Um, It doesn't matter what we think in the end. It matters what his wife thinks. That's true. That's really where it stands.
SPEAKER 05 : 63:43
What was your opinion of Grohl last week? Yeah, how has it changed? Last week to today.
SPEAKER 08 : 63:48
Man, I always thought he was a happy, fun-loving guy. And what is he now? It's very sinful what he did. And I've found Jesus and all that kind of stuff. So it's just... it puts a bad taste in my mouth that makes me look at him much differently.
SPEAKER 04 : 64:07
All right. Yeah. Pastor papers, walk on the golden path. Appreciate you, bud. Have a good weekend. Uh, let's talk to Robert here real quick. Rob, what's up?
SPEAKER 15 : 64:15
Good morning guys. I kind of agree with most things that, uh, Scott just said a couple of minutes ago. Humans are, you know, we're fallible. We're, we're unfallible. Um, the only difference is this guy, no matter what Dave's reputation is, um, The only difference is he's a rock star. He's a person that's in the limelight, and everyone sees and hears about his life, his business. That's nothing different than what we have going on in our city and cities all across the world. The only difference is it's under a microscope because he is who he is. However... One good thing about it is the man has all the resources to ensure that that child lives a good life, the education.
SPEAKER 04 : 64:59
I was thinking about that too, Rob, is that this kid, and thank you for the call, this happens to somebody that's like, I don't know. Eventually going to be on Maury. Exactly. That this is not somebody that's like, all right, you're this forgotten bastard out there that's just struggling to get by. Remember Schwarzenegger? Yeah, I mean, that's a great example.
SPEAKER 05 : 65:21
Schwarzenegger banged his maid and had a kid with his maid. People still love him.
SPEAKER 04 : 65:26
Exactly like him, too. We're like, we're not sure if it's his kid or not. Look at him.
SPEAKER 05 : 65:31
It seemed like people moved on from that real quick. They were like, oh, okay. And he was still married to Maria, right? Maria Shriver. When that happened, they were. But that caused the divorce. They got divorced. And now, I mean, but I mean, like, he's still beloved. Yeah. Crazy.
SPEAKER 17 : 65:49
If I were... Oh, Dave Grohl. Totally disown that kid. Totally disown that kid.
SPEAKER 04 : 65:57
I don't know who you are. I don't want to know who you are. You're on your own. You don't get a name. You don't get a name.
SPEAKER 05 : 66:03
It's Scott, and we are behind the curtain on a Saturday morning. Hello to ya. Justin didn't pay a bill for three or four months. It was his Comcast bill. He only found out because it got shut off. You'll hear coming up, he'll tell the story. He got home and was trying to turn on the TV, the Internet, the whatever he was doing. And it didn't work because he didn't pay for four months. What had happened was you'll hear coming up credit card issue, man, like his credit card got shut down or something. He had to shut down his credit card and get a new one. And he didn't realize that that credit card was tethered to his Comcast. He didn't realize that two or three months had gone by where that charge hadn't gone through. And it was crazy because you'll hear coming up, I actually... My credit card just expired in August of 2024. So I got a new credit card. It has a new... Same credit card number, but it has a new expiration date and a new security code. So yeah, now I have to go through... And you've got to try and sleuth and figure out all of the accounts that this credit card is tethered to. Yes, and I'm sure there's some of you out there that are very organized and have all that written down somewhere and know each and every account that your credit card is tethered to. Well, I'm not one of those people. I don't know. I know it's like connected to my iPhone and it's my iTunes. It's also... But I went on the air. I went on my Xfinity app right while we were on the air and I go, look at that, dude. I said the same thing would have happened to me because my credit card was tethered to my Comcast and I got a new card and it wasn't. It said card expired, needs new card. So thankfully I went on there and changed it. But man... You know, technology is great. It makes things convenient. It makes it a lot easier to pay bills. But it's also, I feel like it's harder to keep track of all of these apps and all of these credit cards and these accounts and what's tethered to what and when the payments go through. So here, I mean, you have it adjusted. So here it is. We're talking late bills behind the curtain. Herboy.com.
SPEAKER 04 : 68:05
I get home on Tuesday. Tuesday. Tuesday. And I run downstairs. It's 1230. It's time for me to log on to X Hamster. And I start clicking and... The hell? The hell is this? What the... I got no internet. Oh my God. Damn it. So I use my phone. I do my dirty business. I'm like, all right, well, let me head upstairs. Watch a little Netflix. Want to finish off that Adam Sandler special. Bupkis. I got nothing. Oh, God. What's on my DVR? Nothing. Wow. I go, why don't I have any in my Comcast? So I go back downstairs. I do the bit that you do. We unplug everything. You let it sit for 30 seconds. Plug it back in. The router. That's exactly it. This guy knows his IT. The router, the reboot, and I get nothing. And then I get this notification on screen. They're able to still send me a notification. Your account is overdue by four months. I crack open my bank account, and I type into the search bar in my checking withdrawals, Comcast. And I haven't had a dime withdrawn from that thing since May. I was watching TV and jumping online to do my foulness for June, July, August, in the beginning of September, essentially four months. And they gave me a long bit of runway to try and land that financial claim. I found out what happened. I had my credit card compromised months ago by that stupid GameStop thing. Some a-hole was trying to use my GameStop and my credit card in Galveston, Texas. So I had to cancel the card. I had to sign back up for effing everything. And I didn't do it with them. And I go, okay, what's my balance? What do I owe you? I owed them $1,200. Oh, my gosh. I'm like, ugh.
SPEAKER 05 : 70:01
That's probably about to happen with me because I did the same thing. Well, my credit card expired. I had a credit card for, I don't know how long you have them for. Six years, I think they're good for? Yeah. And mine finally just, you know, it was expired in August, so I just got a new one, and it's got a new expiration date, a new security code. It's the same number, but... security code is different all that so everything that's tethered to which i can't remember what what it is gotta be 30 things uh i'm gonna need to re-enter all of that on all the so eventually i'm probably going to be right where you are like a month or two from now being like hey uh you haven't paid i'm like oh crap i gotta go hot water it's i mean it's everything is tethered to everything at this point and like speak said if you're not getting paper copies and you can physically see oh okay i owe this i got i used to you know i would have a stack and i would put it in my check checkbook and i would put it on my desk and then like you know towards the end of every month i would grab it and i would go through everything and i'd take an hour make sure everything was paid now that they're going paperless and stuff you don't know what the hell's do what's not do what you paid what you didn't pay
SPEAKER 17 : 71:07
Now the problem is you'd have to make 15 phone calls to get them to do paper.
SPEAKER 04 : 71:12
Yeah, to go back to paper. The phone calls to get this stuff reactivated with a gentleman whose manager assigned him the name Jason. That ain't your name, brother. That ain't your name. I won't say where, and I'm not going to do the accent because I'd like to work here next week. But like yours, yours was an auto pay thing, right? It was all auto. And then you didn't realize it wasn't auto pay. It wasn't auto paying. I had more money than I should have. I said it and forget it. So, yeah. Angela, I just got a shut off notice from BGE. All my bills minus rent auto pay. They still can't explain to me why the money wasn't taken out. I got the notice yesterday and have until the 15th to pay almost seven hundred dollars. That is one thing is I spoke very slowly to, and I'm using air quotes, Jason, to get the late fee taken off. Because the late fee, I think of the $1,200, it was like $82 in late fees. Jason helped me get rid of that as a courtesy for being a customer in good standing. God, there's another one here. Where'd that son of a bitch pop through? Tolls. Thomas wasn't paying attention to my tolls. I thought six bucks wasn't much. $25 late fees, eight tolls, actual toll price, $48 total late fees in total, $200 all totaled up. Oh, that sucks. Same thing happened to me. Rodney says, my stuff got hacked. I forgot to register the new card for a few things. This happened three months ago. I'm still finding things I forgot. I haven't been paying for months and months and months. So then you owe them that money. And you got to pay that money. And that sucks. I mean, me dropping $1,200 to Comcast, they're owed that money. I've used their services. I just felt like such a dummy. Then you have the opposite of that. The bill for the service you ain't used in years. Oh, yeah. Dude, I was paying for a game on a system that I didn't play for two years. Fifteen bucks a month. I was playing for some service called Play Online, and I just didn't look at it. I think I gave them $360 for nothing.
SPEAKER 17 : 73:40
Have you ever seen a service you've never... used and then it's $20 and you say, it's too much trouble to cancel it.
SPEAKER 05 : 73:54
They know that. Trust me, they know that too. They make it so difficult. They're just going to get your money.
SPEAKER 04 : 74:02
I'm going to put you back on hold very quickly.
SPEAKER 05 : 74:05
That's that thing now I see the commercial for all the time where you can log on and it tells you everything you're subscribed to. Oh, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 : 74:12
I think it's a rocket product. That you can have all your things tethered to. Do you know I downloaded that app? It's not that app, but it's one like it. The amount of work. you need to do to get that app functional you have to give that app right all the information the information so that i can find all the information exactly that app doesn't know about any accounts until you give it to them but you're not kidding man they will do stuff to you on the phone to just make it not worth it all right we need to take this up a chain real quick we're going to place you on a brief hold
SPEAKER 05 : 74:49
17 minutes later. Dude, I swear to God, I just opened up my Xfinity app. You get hung up on it. Look at this. What does it say? Hold on. Wait a minute. Hold on. uh wait would you mind taking a brief survey what does it say in red it says in red card expired i told you my credit card just expired and i got a new one look if i didn't if i didn't go in here and do this i this is xfinity i'd be the same exact bone dude i thought you forget you i can't keep track of what oh dude it's
SPEAKER 04 : 75:19
And I'm not good at a lot, okay? I'm a self-proclaimed idiot because that's what I am. But I'm pretty good about making sure my debts are paid. I don't like having debt outside of a good debt. A car note, a house payment, things like that. But credit cards, I try and keep it a zero balance. I'm not trying to catch a late fee. I'm not trying to have the credit card impact hit. And I get it, man. Times are tough. People are just hand to mouth. You heard Val just now. She says every time she gets paid, that 100% of that check is getting dropped to the man.
SPEAKER 05 : 75:49
We've got a new beer. Thirst Down. If you haven't heard, we have a new beer. It's behind the curtain Saturday morning. Justin Scott and Spiegel. And yes, Adam and Jenna from Union Craft Brewing. They joined us this past week to debut. The new 98 Rock beer, Thirst Down. It is a hoppy lager just in time for football season. We got one can with my boys, Justin, Scott, and Spiegel. We're on one can. Amelia's on another can. Kirk and Marianne are on a third can. The six packs will all be mixed and matched. Go to your local store. It's coming out this week, and you'll be able to find it and enjoy it this football season. But we had our first taste on air. I loved it. I love working with the folks at Union. They are a great brewery, a great Baltimore business. I don't even care if it's a brewery, but it's just someone that started something from the ground up. They had an idea. They made it work. You see Union beers everywhere you go. They're on tap in every bar, every restaurant. They're all over the distributors and the beer stores everywhere. It's just good to see. Adam went to the University of Maryland. He's a Baltimore guy. He's a Maryland guy. He actually said they came out with a new beer. It's called Testudo, which is the terrapin down at Maryland. They came out with a Testudo lager. And he went to a basketball game to Maryland, and it is now the number one selling beer at the Maryland Stadium basketball place. And he looked around, he saw all these people drinking Testudos, and he said he actually teared up a little bit because it was just awesome. It was a full circle moment for him. Here's the university he went to. He created this thing. Now he's got this incredible beer that all these people are drinking and enjoying. Number one selling beer. Let's hope ours is a great selling beer. Get out there. Look for Thirst Down, 98 Rock Thirst Down. Here it is, Adam and Jenna in studio this past week, debuting the Hoppy Lager Thirst Down, available at a store near you.
SPEAKER 04 : 77:51
It's finally here. We've seen the label. We got to see the process. We got to go to the lines. We got to help put some stuff on pallets, wrap it up, ship it, get it the hell out of there. It's our friends from Union Craft. Good morning. Good morning, everybody.
SPEAKER 05 : 78:06
Oh, my goodness. Scott, who do we have with us this morning? Adam and Jen are here. And yes, Thirst Down, which is our... Hoppy fall presentation. The Hoppy Lager. Yes. Our fall presentation. Ravens home opener this weekend. Josh Spiegel will be at Game Day Firehouse. The first time the public will be able to get their hands on a thirst down will be at... Game Day Firehouse, will it be on tap? Will it be in cans? Do we know?
SPEAKER 13 : 78:37
We've got cans heading down there tomorrow.
SPEAKER 05 : 78:38
Hell yeah!
SPEAKER 13 : 78:39
So we'll be enjoying these in our hand as we get excited for the first game of the season. Thank you, pal.
SPEAKER 05 : 78:44
I was thinking about you guys the other day because I saw Luke Martin hanging a banner off the side of your building who is an incredible local artist. If you don't know Luke, I've got a bunch of his stuff hanging in my house. He got in with bands. He does a lot of band posters and he's coming out with a... A book, right, of all of his artwork. And I saw the building, and I'm like, God, is that the Union Building? And it's so big. And what else is in that building that you guys are in?
SPEAKER 01 : 79:12
We've got the Wine Collective, Baltimore Spirits Company, Movement Gym where people go bouldering, Bent Coffee Roasters.
SPEAKER 04 : 79:20
Is the ice cream shop still down there? The Charmory.
SPEAKER 05 : 79:22
The Charmory. And you know what it made me think of? It made me think of your first location because I used to go to the first location. I used to get stuck on the street while you were unloading the cans out of the back of the truck with the forklift. We've upgraded a little bit since then. Yeah, and I've thought like how far you've come. And then now we're going down there today to... film a commercial, and then we were there messing around with the canning line the other day, and you were telling me how it's the biggest canning line in Maryland. I was like, I'm very proud of you guys. It's very impressive what you did, and I know how much hard work goes into it. And I could never even, I can barely do this every day. I don't know how you get a brewery off the ground, make it successful, run it, grow it. Growing it's a huge thing, so bravo. And we're just happy to be a part of anything you guys are doing.
SPEAKER 04 : 80:08
We don't really know how we did it either, but we're happy to be here. But you did it, and Jen, last year we had the JSS, basically a 10th anniversary Well Hello Beer. And we wanted to do a small batch, and we knew it would be good, and we put it out around the summer. It was a perfect drinkable, sippable, some people cooked with it, summertime ale. That thing flew off the shelf very quickly. Actually, we kind of underestimated its popularity. And then you guys are nice enough to do a second run and, I mean, off the shelf pretty quickly. So instead of just going back to that well, which a lot of people can do, let's just punt each year and do the same, Oktoberfest this, have a vice in that. We went and we have a new recipe now. So tell us specifically about the notes, the ingredients of Well Hello Beer's successor, Thirst Down, which is now a full 98 Rock beer, by the way. It's not just JSS. It's JSS. It's Amelia. It's Kirk and Mary Ann. We've all got cans. It's a full station beer. We all got cans. We all got cans.
SPEAKER 13 : 81:08
Yeah, we're excited about the six packs. We're going to have three different labels in them, so you can collect them all, find your favorite 98 Rock team members, and have fun with the labels.
SPEAKER 01 : 81:18
Yeah, and if you actually take the labels off, cut the government warning off, you can piece them all together and make it one big piece.
SPEAKER 04 : 81:24
That's awesome. I've seen people in the garages. You've seen people in their bars. They love to peel those things off, almost tile them. So what's different about the flavor last year to the flavor this year? Yeah, we went from summer lager to hoppy lager.
SPEAKER 13 : 81:36
Yeah, and this is a silo beer hoppy lager that we love playing around with. We've done a few different iterations of this over the years, and we keep coming back to it as like, a style we want to perfect. And so this is the next iteration of it. This one's a couple tenths of a percentage lower in ABV, a little bit easier drinker, still 6.1%. It's got a little bit of punch to it, but not too much. And it's got that great kind of lighter body that you'd expect from a lager. And we paired it with some exciting new hops to create a floral, tropical fruit hop aroma and flavor to it.
SPEAKER 05 : 82:10
I'm loving everything I'm hearing.
SPEAKER 04 : 82:11
I heard tropical fruit.
SPEAKER 05 : 82:13
When it comes to the hop world and all that, hops are... They grow up on those big vine things, and they look like a beautiful little... What is it? A flower? Is it a flower? It's a bud. It's a bud? Yeah. Is there... new stuff? Yes. Are there people out there creating new hops and flavor profiles? Absolutely.
SPEAKER 13 : 82:36
There are hop farms that are creating new hop Fridays. It takes a couple years for a hop Friday to really become something that can be used in beer in a real way and And that's what we're continuing to play around with. There's one hop in here, Strada, that's relatively new that we love playing around with. We've got that new in here. We've only used that a couple times, and we love it. And I was excited to kind of use that in this beer.
SPEAKER 04 : 82:59
I like that it's still got a little punch to it, too, because one of the things that people liked last year is they said, if you had two Well Hello beers, you knew you had two Well Hello beers. I love the smell, by the way. It had some meat to it.
SPEAKER 05 : 83:09
Have you smelled it?
SPEAKER 04 : 83:10
Yeah. Joe, you got one over there, pal? Cheers. It's floral.
SPEAKER 05 : 83:13
It's hoppy.
SPEAKER 04 : 83:14
Yeah, it smells delicious. It is bright. Sounds like beer. Hell yeah. Here we go. That rules, man. Oh, yeah. That's good. Oh, yeah. Pour yours into mine. I want it. I need more. I need more already.
SPEAKER 05 : 83:26
It's very good. It's tasty, right? This is... It's got the... Remember we talked about the malty, kind of bready, toasty finish, which goes nice cold. Once the weather starts to dip a little bit, October, fire pit. Oh, yeah. This is...
SPEAKER 04 : 83:44
bursting with fresh country flavor I can see this is exactly what I wanted it to be this is a beer I could see drinking in lot B behind the Ravens broadcast area you got somebody with a mobile propane grill they're doing dogs they got wings out there big bowl of stinky potato salad and you got one of these things I want people to tailgate the hell out of a Ravens game and in the winter too you could feel it in the winter if you like it cold Josh you should try it piping hot don't drink it like that One of those suckers tried to trick me into doing that with Dr. Pepper.
SPEAKER 05 : 84:17
It sucked.
SPEAKER 04 : 84:19
Here we go. I love it.
SPEAKER 05 : 84:20
Yeah, it's really good. That's kind of what I was – I mean, as the beer guy in the room, I mean, I've slowed down a lot just because of my waistline and life and everything. I've become a Molly guy. I had a few – like, there's a few standout beers that you drink throughout your life that you're like, all right, that's – I really like that. I really like that. I really like that. And I gave you a few that I really liked. And I was like, hey, maybe we can lean towards that. And this is bringing all those beers that I liked. This is it, man.
SPEAKER 13 : 84:47
That's awesome. That's what's fun when we get to collaborate with some fun partners like you all and get feelings from you and how we can translate it into the beer that we make. That's when the fun stuff happens.
SPEAKER 05 : 84:57
Now, as I sit here, Adam, owner, proprietor of Union Craft Brewing, I'm looking down at a can here that this. Can we talk about this?
SPEAKER 13 : 85:08
Sure. This is another collaboration we did with another neighbor here to the station, Evermore Cannabis Company. We worked with them to help them develop a THC-infused seltzer. This is not that. This is uninfused that I'm drinking right now just for hydration.
SPEAKER 05 : 85:25
But that's the can. This is the... Well, the can actually... Because I've had one, I'll be honest. Hey, listen, come arrest me, management. I've had a cannabis... It's legal. It's legal.
SPEAKER 04 : 85:34
I had one of those about a month back, and they hit the spot.
SPEAKER 05 : 85:37
I can't remember where I got it. It was won over by me on York Road, I think.
SPEAKER 13 : 85:42
Yeah, they're in most of the dispensaries around the state, and pretty exciting to see that type of product out. It's one of the first beverages, THC beverages, in the state, and it was a great project to figure out with them and...
SPEAKER 05 : 85:53
So you teamed up with Evermore, and you came out with Tall, T-A-L-L. It is a Union Evermore product. It is a THC-infused seltzer. Now, there are other ones out on the market, like a Cycling Frog. There's Delta. This is different, though, right? And I've done research, and I've tried to figure out what the difference is. There's a Delta 9. There is. And then there's the – this is – How's it different? Delta 9, correct me if I'm wrong, uses hemp and takes the whole plant and then kind of derives some THC from that. But this is actually a cannabis product.
SPEAKER 13 : 86:33
This is cannabis, right. So the things you can buy online or at a convenience store are... hemp-derived THC, which is a little different. It'll get you there, but it's a little different. It's not its full spectrum. Yeah, whereas the cannabis-derived THC kind of does what you would expect it to do. How's it selling? What is the response? People are loving it.
SPEAKER 05 : 86:51
Is this the new big market that people are starting to get into? You're getting into the THC seltzer space. Is this space about to explode?
SPEAKER 13 : 86:59
Maybe. We love beer, first and foremost.
SPEAKER 04 : 87:03
You know what else you love there? Because you gave me a sip of it? Coffee. Yeah, that vent coffee is fantastic.
SPEAKER 13 : 87:09
Awesome. I almost ran back to Annapolis. It's dangerous working where we work because there's ice cream, there's coffee, there's whiskey, there's wine, all manufactured in the same building.
SPEAKER 04 : 87:16
There's palm tables. There's like little arcade-y looking areas. Honestly, we're in here with Jen and Adam, Union Craft Brewing. The new beer is out this Sunday for you to try in Union Craft, and it's going to start appearing in stores next week. And it's so incredibly drinkable. And getting back to what Scott said about your space, This space is awesome. The first thing that I remember us doing there was we had a guy named Aaron Jones, and he was at Spring Thing, and he was incredible. He helped kick off the evening. We did a little concert there. And if you enjoy the 98 Rock Games of Summer, you guys were nice enough to open up your house, your home there for us to compete in a bunch of that stuff. So to piggyback what Scott said about you guys keeping all these different balls in the air, you could just brew, sell, ship beer and have a small little brewing tasting room. But you have these amazing events also. You got killer food inside. All right. You got a man back there who has glasses so thick he can see the future. And then you got these space. He knows I love him. And you've got these awesome events like what's coming up this fall into the winter. You've always got something playing there.
SPEAKER 01 : 88:20
Yeah, I mean, this weekend we have our Oktoberfest event that we're actually kicking off with the Hamden Toilet Bowl races. Hell yes. So those will start at 11 and then got the Bratwurst boys playing live. The Bratwurst boys. Very fun. We're going to be doing a German spelling bee musical chair.
SPEAKER 04 : 88:40
Are you spelling German words?
SPEAKER 01 : 88:41
Yes. We have two people who are fluent in German on our staff who are going to lead the German spelling bee. And then getting later into the fall, one of our favorite events is Oi Fest, another local neighbor, the local Oyster Nick.
SPEAKER 04 : 88:54
Is that punk or Jewish? I hear Oi. Both. It could be one of the two. A little Rancid, a little Goldberg. Hey, Joe. Yeah. Schnitzel. And spell it.
SPEAKER 18 : 89:05
S-C-H-N-I-T-Z-E-L.
SPEAKER 04 : 89:08
Schitzel.
SPEAKER 05 : 89:09
Congratulations.
SPEAKER 04 : 89:11
Wow. You got to enter the German spelling bee. What are you doing on Saturday? What are you doing, brother?
SPEAKER 18 : 89:15
I like food.
SPEAKER 04 : 89:16
Hell yeah. That's awesome, man. I love the events. I know Scott comes to them all the time. He's always coming back, singing the praises of music.
SPEAKER 05 : 89:23
I missed the one anniversary party that I'm pissed about with the new Master Sounds, and I'm still upset. I was just listening to them the other day, and I'm like, God damn it. I'm so upset I missed that one. But I was there for Carl Denson. I've seen Billy Strings there. Who else have I seen there? God, I've been to a bunch. Yeah, it's great to have you guys in Baltimore. It's awesome.
SPEAKER 04 : 89:43
And thank you for the label.
SPEAKER 13 : 89:44
You have a great artist. Their name, Alex Fine, illustrated this label as well as the last one. And he is just fantastic.
SPEAKER 04 : 89:50
The same guy that did the Well Hello Beer did this as well. Made us all look real nice. Thank you for that. You look like a legit football player on the label.
SPEAKER 17 : 89:57
Yeah, I saw that. Yeah, I like that.
SPEAKER 04 : 89:59
You do look like an absolute badass. Oh, I'm a football player. Amelia looks awesome. Kirk and Marianne. Everything just, it lined up perfectly. But the most important thing, the beer in the can is a 10 out of 10 again. So this Sunday, Game Day Firehouse. Go see Speaks. Go have one of those new Thirst Downs. And then it's going to be in stores next week, Scott.
SPEAKER 05 : 90:19
Yeah, I was going to say, so after. Sunday next week. If we're talking to our listeners, just start looking around for Thirst Down popping up.
SPEAKER 13 : 90:26
Yeah, it'll start popping up probably towards the end of next week. It takes about a week to get it to the distributor on the shelves. So by the end of next week, you certainly should see it on the shelves for next weekend and beyond. made a lot more of this and plan to keep it on shelves for the next two or three months so that people can get their share and fill and get a six-pack and get another six-pack and get another six-pack.
SPEAKER 04 : 90:46
I'm begging you. Bella's Liquors in Annapolis, Maryland. The Sullivan sisters, I love them to death. They got a pool they call Thunderdome. They had a ton of Well Hello beer, and they moved it the minute they got it. So if anybody can see to it, they're my friends at Bella's. Get some. Jen, Adam, please extend our thanks to everybody down there for another big batch of hard work making this happen. I had a quarter of one and I feel it. I'm going to say something. Yeah, I feel great. I'm going to be real honest. I'm going into the meeting without my shirt on. He's going to see my chest, my entire chest.
SPEAKER 18 : 91:16
He needs to. Oh, Christ, they're still here.
SPEAKER 04 : 91:18
Adam, Jen, thank you guys so much. Thank you guys. Appreciate it.
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne Wendi's back! Tune in to hear Marianne and Wendi talk about getting a prenup for your pets. Who gets the dog and who get's the three cats? One way to find out. Hit play!
Paul Virzi joins the show ahead of his performance in Baltimore, and shares his intense experience with a 72-hour water fast.
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we have Wendi!. Tune in to hear Marianne and Wendi live in the Boom Boom Room talk with our listeners about pawnshops and how they work. What do we do when we walk in? Have we been paying full-price? One way to find out. Hit play!
Explore the real-life frustrations of dealing with expired credit cards, late fees, and the tangled web of subscription services.
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we talk about online trolls. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room discuss online trolls and if any of our listeners are one. You said what online? One way to find out. Hit play!
Join us as we discuss the profound impact of data collection in retail, from simple security cameras to advanced RFID systems like Zebra SmartSense. Get insights into how stores gather data to optimize stock levels, ensure merchandise is correctly placed, and even predict what customers might want to buy next.
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we are joined by Wendi Townsend!!! Tune in to hear Marianne and Wendi talk to our listeners about being homeschooled. What was it like? Was it a prom of one? One way to find out. Hit play!
In this episode, we explore the hilarity and awkwardness of first sexual experiences. Joe Robinson kicks things off with a memorable story from his youth that involves an abundance of layers and a very short encounter. As the episode unfolds, the hosts share their own humorous and cringe-worthy tales of their first times.
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we talk about times we should've gotten the pick slip, canned, 86'ed. We talk about times we should have been fired but we got away with it. Tune in to her Kirk and Marianne in the Boom Boom Room talk about things we did that almost got us fired. What did we do? One way to find out. Hit play!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript Join us as we dive into an incredible story of bravery and expertise. When a homeowner discovers a massive 10-foot Burmese python in their backyard, it’s up to our guest, Ihab Sahal, and his team to step in where others wouldn’t.
00:00:00 10-Foot Burmese Python in Backyard 00:00:47 Snake Lover: Passion and Past Encounters 00:01:54 Dealing with the Heavy Python 00:02:44 Deciding to Help the Caller 00:03:05 Initial Call and Skepticism 00:04:37 Drive to Lutherville and Preparation 00:05:33 Capturing the Python 00:07:53 Transporting the Python 00:09:04 Taking the Python to Animal Control 00:10:05 The Exotic Pet Market 00:10:46 Possible Origins of the Python 00:11:32 Conclusion and Reflections SPEAKER 03 : 0:00
Yeah, Ehab, Sahal, All-Star, Pest Management, right there on the border of Lutherville and Pikesville, 10 foot, is it Burmese? Did it have an accent? A Burmese python, 10-foot Burmese python in a fella's backyard on his deck, you said?
SPEAKER 01 : 0:21
Yeah, that's where he first saw it.
SPEAKER 03 : 0:24
He calls all around. Everyone tells him to go kick rocks. Hell no, we ain't coming to... We're busy.
SPEAKER 02 : 0:30
We can't come home. What is it? What did you say? What is it? A 10-foot python? We got something else to do. We got a pregnant raccoon, so...
SPEAKER 04 : 0:43
Oh, but you answer the call. Yeah. What size team do you show up with? You and another dude?
SPEAKER 01 : 0:47
So, yeah, my other snake guy, Ryan, right? So he also really enjoys snake calls, right? Wait, so you really enjoy this? Oh, yeah. I mean, this is like. Is this what you live for? We normally. So we have like two divisions, right? We have our sister company. It's called Rapid Wildlife. They do a lot of our wildlife stuff. And then we do pest control side. So we used to do like a lot of the snake calls and stuff. They do a lot more of the wildlife now. But I love snakes. I've always grown up loving snakes. Explain to him, please. Explain to him. He doesn't get it.
SPEAKER 04 : 1:20
Don't pretend like this is a common thing.
SPEAKER 03 : 1:22
I'm not saying it's common, but I'm saying there are people out there that like love a snake the way people love a dog.
SPEAKER 01 : 1:28
If I didn't love my marriage as much as I do, I would have one, but my wife would absolutely kill me. Now, what about, explain that love. I mean, I've just always... They're cold-blooded reptilians. They're terrifying. Yeah. Something about them. The patterns, the fact that there's so many different kinds, you know, just to hold a snake if you've ever held one, it's the coolest thing ever. I mean, they're like solid muscle.
SPEAKER 04 : 1:54
Do you know who did? I think you know. Who? Scott's ex. He's very well endowed.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:01
He's very well endowed.
SPEAKER 04 : 2:02
Hey, you were pointing out something off air. You get there, you see this thing, and you see a lump in the middle of it. You think this thing was eaten and eaten something big before you got there?
SPEAKER 01 : 2:14
Yeah. So, I mean, one of the things I kept remembering, like thinking back to is just how heavy it was. So like 80 pounds, I feel like I was really on the conservative side of things. Like between both of us, between Ryan and I, when we were moving it up front, like to the front of the house, we had to like constantly re-grip. And, like, re-pick it back up because it was so heavy.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:35
It was pure muscle.
SPEAKER 01 : 2:36
It's crazy. And, like, when it... I'm so glad it just ate. You know, whatever it did, you know, hopefully it was just... Oh, that makes him a little more lethargic.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:44
Oh, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 01 : 2:44
Good point. So, otherwise, I mean, who knows? Because that thing was just, like, just... it was moving you and we just kind of flowed with it and got it to the, the, the real funny thing was figuring out what the heck to put into it. So when I first pulled up, I'm thinking it's like a smaller, well, that's what I was going to say.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:59
So you get the call and the guy says, I got, what does he say? I got a, like a giant snake.
SPEAKER 01 : 3:05
So it's funny. My office gets the call first. They taught, like I call here back and he's like, do you guys remove big snakes? We've heard this one before. You're assuming a black snake. He goes, about a 10 to 12 foot python.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:20
And you think he doesn't know units of measurement.
SPEAKER 01 : 3:22
Yeah. I'm like, yeah, we've heard this before. Everybody calls. They're like, I have a giant something. And then it's a small little whatever it may be. But they call me immediately. They put the guy on hold. And I'm like, you know what? Transfer the call to me. I get the call. And I go, so you say they... You have a 10-foot python in your backyard? And he goes, yeah. And I go, okay. First thing, anytime I don't believe in somebody. In this case, you know, you don't believe something like this. I'm like, all right, take a picture and send it to me.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:51
Because if you're like me, real quick, I have a phobia of snakes. I can't stand them. I'll kill them on sight. And if I see one that's two feet... Yeah, and send me the bill, bitch. Feel free. Send me the bill, bitch.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:01
Oh, it's illegal. That means you're going to get arrested.
SPEAKER 04 : 4:04
Stop on by. I'll be out front with snacks. Bitch. So... If I see one, every snake to me is 20 feet long. Right, exactly. Every snake I see is 20 feet.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:13
But then he sends the photo, and you're like, oh, this guy, he's not making this up. This is a real deal.
SPEAKER 01 : 4:18
So does your adrenaline immediately start flowing? Oh, I mean, I was at a stop, and at the same time, I mean, this is not really something we do, but I'm like, this man, I could hear it in his voice. I was like, he needs help. And I'm like, I'm somewhat nervous at the same time. It's a 10 to 12.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:37
How much excitement as opposed to nervousness?
SPEAKER 01 : 4:39
There was a lot of excitement. And then the drive there, I just finished up one of my stops. And I'm not even anywhere near Lutherville. I'm 30 minutes away from Lutherville. The guy called at like 1245. Bro, you had plenty of time to turn around. And I was, I was like, I was, I sent out, he sent me a picture. I sent it to our group chat and Ryan, who also just loves the snakes. And he's like, I'll drop whatever I need to do. We will help this guy. So he immediately drops what he's doing. And we're like, we're, we're, we're moving. We're, we're moving, you know, heading to get nervous. Yeah. So the whole drive there, I'm just like, all right. You formulating a game plan in your head? He's two minutes behind me. I'm like, all right, I'm going to get there first.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:20
Are you doing an inventory in your head of the equipment you have? Because you've got to put gloves. You've got to get the cooler you put the thing in. Our buddy Kirk McEwen checked, and he asked about the cooler. Would it have died if it got cold?
SPEAKER 01 : 5:33
um no i don't i don't think it would have been okay yeah with the cooler so you guys are on your way so we we get you know we're on the way getting there as quickly as possible uh i pull up first i tell the guy hey you know uh you kept an eye he's like yeah i was just sitting underneath the tree out back so get out back uh i look at it and i at this point i still don't believe the guy i'm like okay i'll see it with my own two eyes get there Boom, it's just sitting underneath the tree. I'm like, okay, this just became very real. It's so real. And keep in mind, any snake that I'm going to run into on a day-to-day basis, I'm just handling with my hands, putting it in a bucket, and we go and relocate it at that point. So on the way there, I'm talking with the customer. I'm like, hey, look, it's a Burmese python. Probably shouldn't be too bad. I was like, if you have a large pillowcase, just have that ready. Immediately, we get this pillowcase, and I'm like, this thing is not going to go. We're going to need a bigger boat. We're going to need a way bigger boat for this.
SPEAKER 04 : 6:29
Exactly. And you can't just relocate this, like take it somewhere in the woods and drop it.
SPEAKER 01 : 6:34
This is a whole new ballgame. No, no. So, you know, and I drive a van that has like somewhat access from the back of it to the front of the cab. So we get there at this point. One of us were like, hey, distract. One of us distracted. One of us gets on.
SPEAKER 03 : 6:50
Did you draw straws as to who was grabbing the head? No.
SPEAKER 01 : 6:53
No, honestly, we both wanted to grab it. We're just like, hey, I'll get it. And I was like, yeah, look, I'm your manager. So probably I don't want anything happening to you. So if I go down, I'll go down. And we had our gloves on everything. We made sure from the beginning we were safe and distracted. It grabbed it. That's when we snapped a couple of pictures. And then we started like just discussing, OK, what the heck is this thing going in? And the customer's like, I don't really have any. And he grabbed it before you had something to put it in. But we were just like, let's grab it. And we'll figure it out as we go. Yeah, exactly. We're ready firing. Two of us are holding it. And at this point, the customers run around like, I'm like, you got a trash can. He brings me a trash can. No lid. I'm like, what are we going to do with this? We got to contain it. I was like, we have to contain it. So he's like, do we have anything else? We tried like a tarp. I'm like, this thing will rip straight through this thing. How fast is it? I mean, it's not going to be too fast right now. Did it at any point get dicey? No, it just ate. No, we hadn't. It was just docile the whole time. It was very, very calm. And, you know, I was like, okay, let's take this. Because I remember his garage door was open. I saw a bunch of stuff in there when I pulled up. And I was like, let's take this around front. We get around front. And I spot this cooler right there. And I go, you know, we're looking for a tote. I'm like, listen, how bad do you need that cooler? And he's like, just take it.
SPEAKER 03 : 8:07
Take it. You can have it. Yeah. I mean, when we used to have the zoo up here and they would bring reptiles, they'd always have them in a cooler.
SPEAKER 01 : 8:12
It's just kind of, you know, exactly. So that was my first thought is, you know, I was like, I got to put it in something. And, uh, you know, he was like, yeah, just take it. So we, I mean, it took up, it was a 60 gallon cooler, right? So it's not no small cooler. Um, it took up every bit of that cooler. And then the next step is how do we strap this thing in? Because it'll easily pop the top of this, the cooler off. And you used bungees? Yeah. So we looked for ratchet straps. Somehow, nobody had ratchet straps between me, my coworker, and the customer.
SPEAKER 03 : 8:43
You do now.
SPEAKER 01 : 8:43
I was going to keep them in the truck, right? And so we go to – we're looking around. We have two sets of bungees. And I'm like, oh, these are elastic. This is going to be a nightmare. I'm just going to be driving down 695 and all of a sudden – Like a couple years back, I did have a snake get loose in that. As you're driving. As I'm driving.
SPEAKER 04 : 9:04
That's my hell. You worry about a bee being loose in the car? You get a snake.
SPEAKER 01 : 9:10
So you're going, you've got to go to, how did you notify? county right animal control they're like no we do cats and dogs and i'm like i understand i don't think they had the the facilities to take care of that and uh i know howard county is always really you know pretty good about that stuff so i give them a call and uh howard county is like yeah just bring it in we can't say no and i'm like perfect so drive down there i'm trying to get there as quickly as possible so this thing doesn't have to sit in the cooler Get it to them. And, you know, they were they were very nice about it. They seemed like one of the staff members there was is very familiar with with snakes. So she she was like, yeah, I mean, she just no gloves, nothing. She's like, yeah, no, this thing's nice. She just picks it up. She's like, yeah, identified it. It was a female snake. Puts it in the cage.
SPEAKER 04 : 10:00
What's the value of a snake like this? Is there a price on something like that? I was wondering that myself.
SPEAKER 01 : 10:05
I was looking it up. It's an exotic pet. It's huge. Like $1,000? I wouldn't even know. It's got to be a couple hundred bucks. I would imagine it's got to be a couple hundred bucks.
SPEAKER 04 : 10:15
Like a nice purebred dog is going to run you quite a bit. And something like this that's exotic.
SPEAKER 03 : 10:20
Well, that's what someone was saying because we were... All right, so these things aren't native to Maryland. So we're hoping this thing just didn't like... you know, live here its whole life. So it was either got out, escaped or was dropped or someone dumped it. If it got out, escaped, someone would know it was gone and they're probably looking for it. And if you do, where is it at the Howard County? Yep. Give him a call and get your snake back. But if someone were to dump it, they're like, why would someone just abandon this thing? Because they could have sold it for good money.
SPEAKER 04 : 10:46
Yeah. No kidding. Yeah. So this was, um, I don't got, cause I'm feeling in scenarios. I'm mad living in my head.
SPEAKER 01 : 10:51
Like,
SPEAKER 04 : 10:52
pissed off roommate wife that didn't want it maybe they didn't know they could sell it for money because yeah that that snake someone will take that so yeah you will find someone to take it i am glad that there are people out there like you everybody else at all-star pest management yhab sahal who's the guy that ryan ryan thank you your wife does your wife look at you differently now like that's my man yeah i know she was just uh she was just texting me she's like famous now i know you're a badass you feel a little different that day when you went number one you know i It's so smooth. This is so easy to hold. Dude, thank you for joining us, man. It's a fascinating story. We appreciate the time. Thank you guys for having me.
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we talk about times we decided to not go to school and have a little fun. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne talk with our listeners about playing hooky. What did we do when we were ditching school? One way to find out. Hit play!
Our listeners recount tales of being hit by cars, with stories ranging from a flagger's narrow escape to an unexpected run-in with a Dodge Colt.
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we ask our listeners "what do you do? What do you make?" Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room talk about the jobs we all have and how much we make from them. You make how much?! One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we go back into the history of our different love stories and we talk about the times we met our significant others parents. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room talk with our listeners about times were we met the one, but had to meet the one's parents. Did their parents like us? One way to find out. Hit play!
We delve into personal stories of getting lost in various situations, from childhood mishaps in retail stores to harrowing experiences in the deep wilderness.
Listeners call in with their own horror stories of lumps, bumps, cysts, and other things that need to be removed.
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we talk about unattractive hobbies men have according to women. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room talk about what activities men have that are not the most palatable to attract women. What are men doing to repel women? One way to find out. Hit play!
Transcript SPEAKER 03 :
0:01
Joan loves the Oreos. Oh, yeah. We know she does. Joan, we've missed you.
SPEAKER 01 :
0:07
Hello. Hi. How you doing?
SPEAKER 03 :
0:09
Hello. Actually, we've got the lovely Wendy in today.
SPEAKER 02 :
0:12
Hi, Joan. Hi, lovely Wendy. How you doing? I'm good. I haven't seen you since the Orioles game, and I missed you.
SPEAKER 01 :
0:20
Oh, well, next time.
SPEAKER 02 :
0:22
I know, that's right.
SPEAKER 03 :
0:22
We talked at, was that 98 Rock Night at the Orioles?
SPEAKER 02 :
0:26
Yeah, at the rooftop bar when you did the first pitch, and I was like, oh, I get to see you in person this time. That's right.
SPEAKER 01 :
0:32
It was so much fun. I had a good time.
SPEAKER 03 :
0:34
Yeah, looking back, do you feel like you would do a first pitch again, or is the pressure too much, or now do you feel like you got it out of the way?
SPEAKER 01 :
0:40
No, I'd do that. That was fun. That was easy. I just don't want to. influence the game in any way or be looked at as any kind of an omen. That's right. Yeah, Wendy. That's the only reason I wouldn't want to do it.
SPEAKER 03 :
0:55
She said, Joan has said before, like, somebody said years ago, like, oh, you're good luck. You were there. She's like, no, no, no, no, no. Don't put that on me.
SPEAKER 01 :
1:02
And I get it now. It's true. Totally. I wouldn't be attached to that at all.
SPEAKER 02 :
1:08
I haven't spoken to you since then, so I apologize if it's been asked already, Jen. But tell me, because I have been begging and pleading for years to do it, how amazing was it to be Mr. Splash? Because it's something I've always wanted.
SPEAKER 01 :
1:24
It's a lot more physical than you think. It's very energetic. You've got to have some reserve calories in there. I thought it was fun. It was really fun. I thought it was fun. I will say this. I did get in trouble. Oh, did you? I squirted too close to the ranger's bullpen and blew on them. Whoopsie. I mean, come on. You know, that's really to me. I'm sorry. It wasn't even close to one purpose, and it wasn't bleeding. If I wanted to squirt them, I would have got them. Yeah, of course. I had a couple of drops that came from the stage.
SPEAKER 02 :
2:00
Oh, they got wet.
SPEAKER 01 :
2:01
Excuse me.
SPEAKER 02 :
2:02
Yeah, and also, what baseball player is going to complain?
SPEAKER 01 :
2:05
It was a hot day. Yeah, you're welcome. I don't know.
SPEAKER 02 :
2:09
What grown man is going to complain that Joan Jett hit me with a hose?
SPEAKER 01 :
2:11
I'd be like, yes. That is a calling card. A lot of grown men.
SPEAKER 02 :
2:14
A lot of grown men on the Rangers, apparently. Oh, man. I would love that.
SPEAKER 03 :
2:17
So, Joan, the season is going well, but I don't know. How do you feel the season is going? Is it going the way you'd hoped? I mean, apparently their record going into tonight, 73-53. Is this how you anticipated or... I almost feel like knowing you, you probably didn't have any expectations, but how do you feel?
SPEAKER 01 :
2:34
No, I don't. I don't have expectations. That's too much. And to have to, like, I know you have to have a gauge. The team has to gauge themselves against the other teams and all that throughout the season, get a sense of where they are. But, you know, first of all, with the amount of injuries that the Orioles have had to their starting rotation, I mean, the fact that they're where they are is incredible. Yeah. And a testament... to everyone who works with the Oils, from Brandon, you know, on down, to work with getting these pictures together, because that's not an easy thing, and that's a heavy toll. You know, who would know that Suarez would come up and do as well as he's done for the Oils. Yeah, he killed it the other night. Yeah, he's great. Yeah, so, I mean, it's... I think I'm very happy to be who we are. That's what I'll say. And, you know, we still have a ways to go. So I'm not worried. I'm just going to wait and see what happens and just let them play it.
SPEAKER 03 :
3:31
I'm reading Albert Suarez extended his scoreless innings to 17 and two-thirds of an inning, which is career long. And then Chris Carlheim, the producer, wrote, this is a positive thing because he knows I don't know as much.
SPEAKER 01 :
3:44
Definitely. I mean, I don't know what people expect from these guys, you know.
SPEAKER 03 :
3:49
Right.
SPEAKER 01 :
3:50
When you're in this division, and it's always the toughest division in baseball, And, you know, it's like, you know, don't get too... Don't get weird to the baseball gods, man. You should be really happy where you are, you know? Absolutely. And just let them play this season and see what happens.
SPEAKER 02 :
4:11
Joan, so Gunnar was crushing it as, like, our home run king earlier on. Santander now surpasses him. He's tied for third in Major League home runs. Gunnar sneaking in at sixth. If you had to guess from Anthony Santander or Gunnar Henderson, which one of these two dudes do you think is going to end up with the most by the end of the season? Interesting.
SPEAKER 01 :
4:30
Oh, boy. So you guys try to make me pick this. She doesn't like it.
SPEAKER 03 :
4:34
She doesn't like to say anything conclusive.
SPEAKER 01 :
4:38
Yeah, because you can't be conclusive and I don't want to put any kind of weight on either player.
SPEAKER 03 :
4:43
Right, right.
SPEAKER 01 :
4:44
You know, it's like, oh, you know. Not that they would care, but I'm just saying the energy, the energy of it for me in the universe. You put out the energy. I believe in that stuff.
SPEAKER 03 :
4:55
She's truly just, she is truly, Joan, you are a fan. You love to observe. She does not like to pontificate.
SPEAKER 01 :
5:03
All right. I don't want to have anything. I know what, how hard it is. I know how similar it is to what I do. And I know that you can't, have solid expectations. You have to be able to flow to be fluid. And if you sit there and you're too rigid, it's like, I don't know, man, what are you doing?
SPEAKER 03 :
5:22
Are you superstitious like a lot of baseball players are?
SPEAKER 01 :
5:26
I could be, certainly. I jump over the cables on stage. That's like not stepping on the lines.
SPEAKER 02 :
5:33
Oh, nice. Oh, that's good to know, Joan. Yeah. So, yes, I think the answer is yes. This is one where you don't have to put any weight on it. Okay. If we went to the team store right now, Joan, and you had to pick a jersey you were going to wear for the game tonight, say we were going, whose jersey would you choose? Oh, okay.
SPEAKER 01 :
5:53
That is, well, that is still... She doesn't want to say it's his favorite. Pick a jersey, though. I pick Brandon Hart. Oh! That's so diplomatic.
SPEAKER 02 :
6:02
Yes, that is so diplomatic. That's a good answer. That's a good answer. She's good. Good for you, Jen. She knows she's jumping over the cables verbally.
SPEAKER 01 :
6:11
You know, it's like being a manager. You can't pick on one guy. Yeah. You got to expect them all to do it.
SPEAKER 02 :
6:17
I wasn't expecting that when she got me.
SPEAKER 03 :
6:20
And the Orioles are third in the MLB power rankings. I'm assuming you don't put too much stock into that stuff as well. It's sort of more just...
SPEAKER 01 :
6:28
It's kind of like a good accolade, yeah. Yeah, I mean, you know, what the hell does that even mean? I'm sorry. I have no clue. You know, I know we've got a lot of guys with over 10 home runs, more than most teams. So, you know, to me, that's power.
SPEAKER 03 :
6:42
Continued, yes. Well, tonight, Orioles play in the Mets at 7-10.
SPEAKER 01 :
6:48
I know. I can't believe they're in New York and I'm on the road. When are you back?
SPEAKER 03 :
6:52
When can you get back?
SPEAKER 01 :
6:54
I'm back and forth to the next month. Okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
6:58
Yeah, that's a bummer that it's in your hometown there and you can't go. Do you get to go in New York at all?
SPEAKER 01 :
7:07
I would if I was here, yeah. Okay. My band, they're Mets fans. Yeah. Um, my guitar player went to a game last week and I have to be back, you know, just between gigs. Right, right. We're taking off today. All right.
SPEAKER 03 :
7:24
Well, let's hope there's no weather. I didn't look, but it's beautiful here. Hopefully the, I mean, you know, it's always a threat.
SPEAKER 01 :
7:29
It's beautiful here. It's beautiful in New York right now. So I know you're south of us, but, uh, It's beautiful there now.
SPEAKER 03 :
7:35
Yeah, it's a great fall-feeling day. It's the second game in the series. Hope they can secure a win tonight.
SPEAKER 01 :
7:43
And thank you so much.
SPEAKER 03 :
7:45
Yeah, let's chat again next week. And let's go O's. Let's go O's! Thanks, Joan.
Read MoreRead Less
Join the conversation as we blaze through random topics, including recounting our favorite smells that bring back great memories, contemplating which generation they would choose to be born in, and more!
On this episode Kirk is back! Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room recap Kirk's experience at the doctors office getting his colon checked. How did his exam go? Is Kirk the picture of health? One way to find out. Hit play!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript We dive into the alarming increase in rental prices across the nation. With average salaries lagging behind rising costs, renters are finding it increasingly difficult to afford housing.
00:00:05 The Surge in Rent Prices 00:01:34 Leaving the Big Cities 00:02:25 Renting Strategies Near New York 00:03:16 Rental Costs by the Water 00:04:22 High Costs of Living in D.C. 00:05:02 The Pros and Cons of Renting 00:07:05 Affordable Housing Options 00:08:36 The Violent Price of Homeownership SPEAKER 04 : 0:00
the rent is too damn high way too damn high it has gone up a shocking amount 23 percent since 2019 the average renter household let me throw some numbers at you uh $55,000 a year is the average salary of a renter, and that's $11,000 less a year than they need to pay the average rental price, which is currently sitting at $1,650. That's the current one-bedroom rental price nationwide, $1,650. It's going nuts right now. Joe, what did you find? What did you send me?
SPEAKER 02 : 0:41
This is just a breakdown of the averages by state. Dude. And Maryland.
SPEAKER 01 : 0:48
Every state. Starting at 15.
SPEAKER 04 : 0:52
Well, Speaks, how about this? Let's just go with the top five. Okay. New Jersey. Number five. Average rental price, $1,368. In the fourth place spot, Maryland. Of the 50 states, we're almost near completely the top. One thousand four hundred fifteen. Then California third. Then D.C., which is might as well be right around here in Maryland. And then Hawaii. Yes, I get it. There's, you know, minimal land. A lot of people. You want here's what you want to live. West Virginia. Medium monthly rental. Seven hundred and thirty two dollars.
SPEAKER 05 : 1:34
Listen, that's what's going to start to happen, and I think it's already happening. They're leaving the coasts. Well, yeah, they're leaving the coasts, and they're finding these smaller, like, little quaint towns where the rain... And those are the towns that are starting to be on the come up. Like, Lancaster, like, our buddy Steve, he lives out in, like, Kingsville, like, White Marsh area. And I think if you shoot up, like, an hour, I don't know how far it is to Lancaster, maybe an hour, he says all of the... Like restaurants there are people from New York City, like Brooklyn or Manhattan or like a big major city like New York. They can't afford the rent. They can't afford to live there, but they've got a great product and they're really good at what they do. They're all moving to these small towns, buying up like the little main street restaurants that are now defunct and starting a new life in these smaller towns. And you become like a big fish in a small pond.
SPEAKER 04 : 2:25
Exactly, dude. Loving it. I knew when I had a couple of friends that moved to New York to find their fame and fortune, the gimmick was that instead of moving to New York, you'd move to Hoboken. Yep. And you would save $500 to $700 a month by living just outside the city. Right across the river. I did the same thing. I used to have all kinds of people clown on me for living in the valley. Where you wanted to live if you needed to be near the avocado toast art dispensary, whatever. You lived in Silver Lake. Oh, Silver Lake. I lived in Burbank. I lived on the other side of the mountain in the valley. And my rent was hundreds and hundreds less. And I would just have to commute a little bit to get going where I had to get going. Let's go to the phones. 410-338-1098. Now, this sounds kind of nice. I love the good people of Essex. It's near the water. Ryan, what do you got? What are you paying for it?
SPEAKER 08 : 3:16
Right now I'm paying $18, man, and it's just a small little cottage, two-bedroom. It's just me and my soon-to-be wife. I mean, the water's nice, man, but I'm over it. You know what I mean? We're in the market looking, and it's outrageous no matter what you're trying to do.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:37
It's rough, dude. Do you use the water at all? Do you got a craft, or is it just cool to say I'm near the water?
SPEAKER 08 : 3:43
No, I mean, we got a pier. I mean, you can go swimming right out there. Right off of Back River Neck.
SPEAKER 05 : 3:49
You don't got a boat?
SPEAKER 08 : 3:51
No, not yet. Canoe? Nope. Kayak? Kayak.
SPEAKER 05 : 3:56
Inflatable donut. Paddleboard? Nope. All right, I'm pointing you on hold, Joe. Can we get him an inner tube? Joe, get him an old inflatable. We've got to get this guy out on the water, man.
SPEAKER 04 : 4:07
Congratulations. You've won a pool noodle. Okay? We're going to get you a pool noodle. Pool noodle? Anything? I'm going to get a hold of the guy. Oh, no. Someone lives just to our south in the district. Love to know what Jordan's paying. Jordan, you live in D.C. What are you paying? What are you getting?
SPEAKER 06 : 4:22
Hey, guys. Yeah, I live in D.C. Me and my fiance have a one-bedroom apartment, and we are currently paying $2,400 a month.
SPEAKER 04 : 4:30
Oh, my God, dude. How big is it? You want to be asking how big? What's the square footage?
SPEAKER 06 : 4:37
Not big. You can do a cartwheel in the living room, maybe a cartwheel in the bedroom. That's pretty much all the room you have.
SPEAKER 05 : 4:43
Yeah. I mean, that's a mortgage payment, man. That's tough.
SPEAKER 04 : 4:45
Now, sometimes, also, let's think about this, too, with rental. Yes, you're not building any equity into the damn thing, but it's kind of nice when you're like, something's broke. Come fix it. Something ain't working. Come fix it. As a homeowner. Yeah. Yeah. You have to be able to rely on yourself or your contractors to fix stuff for you.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:02
Shout out, Window Nation. When I lived in an apartment, I stopped up the toilet, and it's just very embarrassing. We had to sneak out the poop. I mean, the water was pitch black. It was so disgusting.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:20
That means you're digesting blood. These days, you've got to use that CO2 cartridge. I think Scott got you. Oh, damn it.
SPEAKER 05 : 5:27
Oh, hell, let's head to... I just re-upped my... You can get those CO2 cartridges on Amazon. I re-upped. Ready to go. Oh, I've got those. You bought me that plunger that explodes. Did I get that to you?
SPEAKER 04 : 5:43
Steven, what are you paying? What did you used to pay? What do you pay now?
SPEAKER 07 : 5:49
I used to pay $450 for a two-bedroom apartment, 1987, with a pregnant wife, And she opened up the cabinets one day, and a ton of roaches were just crawling all through the place.
SPEAKER 04 : 6:04
Adjusted for inflation, by the way, that's $1,250 in today money.
SPEAKER 07 : 6:08
Okay, I pay a little over $2,000. I am in the Essex-Back River Deck Road area. I live near the water, but I have a four-bedroom townhouse, and it's 1950. So I should be pretty fortunate.
SPEAKER 04 : 6:20
Yeah, it's gone up some. And, you know, there's some of those areas. I love Essex. I love Dundalk. I miss Dundalk every damn day. Dundalk gets bad rap from people that ain't never lived there. Shout out to the Dundalk Diner, everybody at the Poplar. You know, you live in an area that's not, ooh, I live in Ruxton. Ooh, I live in Canton. Ooh. Well, I lived in Dundalk, and every day I woke up, the sun was shining, the birds were chirping, and my car was always there. And my rent was $800 less than what I paid when I moved to the city. That place right around the corner that I loved, the rent was so much more expensive there compared to the house that I rented. I rented a single-family home in Dundalk and got a lot more for a lot less. Let's talk to Phil, Mr. McCracken. Good morning, sir.
SPEAKER 03 : 7:05
Morning. Morning.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:06
Hey, Phil.
SPEAKER 03 : 7:08
So I purchased a home in Dundalk in 2010 for $75,000, I believe it was. And my mortgage ended up being $850 a month. Well, my son was born in 2022, and we had five drive-by shootings within seven months right in front of our home, directly in front of our home. And I had no choice. My wife and I, we had no choice, so we had to move. We moved to Joppa town, and now we're paying $1,800 a month. And it's a nice house. But the house I had before was like a luxury home because it was so cheap. We were able to fix it. And it's brutal now. It's brutal.
SPEAKER 04 : 7:50
I'm sorry to hear that, dude. There was an article. I wish I could find it. It was years ago. And it was the violent price of homeownership. And it was these people that had dream homes in nightmarish parts of the city. And there was one in Detroit that I remember that looked like a castle in one of those neighborhoods that since like disappeared. And there was one in Baltimore. And the one in Baltimore, it was one of those like 1950s mansions that some head of industry owned. And this family bought it for a nickel on the dollar. But someone had to be awake at all times to patrol the grounds that they had this home, but they felt trapped in it. They had to install security fences and lightings and flood lamps. And they spent all this money on security that they felt trapped in the home. Yeah, I like Big Town.
SPEAKER 05 : 8:36
They got some nice breweries there now, right adjacent to the stadiums. And shout out Picket Brewing's there. They got some other breweries, checker spots on that side of town now. But back in the day, those houses were, I think... they were like extra wide. They were row homes, but they were the extra wide row homes. They were like three stories, giant windows. Like you said, they were incredible. And you can get them super cheap. But like you just said, you were a prisoner in your own row home because you just couldn't go out.
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we are joined by the lovely Wendi Townsend. Tune in to hear Marianne and Wendi reunite to talk about times we were ditsy. What did we slip up and do? One way to find out. Hit play!
We dive into some of the most unimaginable medical mishaps shared by listeners, complete with personal anecdotes about scars and surgeries, uncovering the often overlooked horrors that people face in medical settings.
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we discuss Kirk's upcoming colonoscopy. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room discuss with our listeners the steps Kirk should be taking leading up to his colonoscopy. What advice did they gave him. One way to find out. Hit play!
The school year is starting up in Maryland. We ask teachers what they need for their classrooms this year.
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we talk about our happy places. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room talk about the places we get pure enjoyment. Where do we go to feel like sunshine and rainbows? One way to find out. Hit play!
Our hosts present their bathwater samples for Producer Joe to drink with varying degrees of cleanliness...
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we talk about red flags. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room talk about times we've had "rose-tented" glasses on and we chose to ignore the signs that they might not be "the one." What signs did we ignore? One way to find out. Hit play!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript From tattoos and tags to the grim realities of gang life, this episode offers a unique look at how different groups form bonds and the drastic measures some take to initiate and exit.
00:00:00 Steve Buscemi's Cousin 00:00:44 Buscemi Family Tree Follow-up 00:01:09 Street Gang Vibes 00:07:03 Neighborhood Cliques and Tattoos 00:07:04 Dating a Gang Member 00:08:40 Riverdale and Suertreza Gang SPEAKER 06 : 0:00
I didn't, but you know who I did run into? Stop it. Steve Buscemi's cousin. laughter That's oddly another good name for a band. Steve Buscemi's cousin.
SPEAKER 04 : 0:33
Is he related to Scientology? I probably shouldn't say that on air. Buscemi isn't. No, but his cousin is. What's his cousin's name? I cannot remember.
SPEAKER 06 : 0:44
Stan? Stan Buscemi? Steve Buscemi. John Buscemi is the cousin of famous actor Steve Buscemi, and he could not look less like... Steve Buscemi. Is he a Sea Org? Is he Sea Org? Yeah, is he on the ship? No, I don't think so. Hold on, hold on. Is this him right here? God, now you got me following down a Buscemi family tree. Is that him? No, that's not him. That's not the guy? That's not him.
SPEAKER 07 : 1:09
All right, let's stick with the street gang vibe. Up here, street gang.
SPEAKER 05 : 1:12
Street gang.
SPEAKER 07 : 1:12
Did you reach out to your fellow gang members?
SPEAKER 05 : 1:13
I did. And you couldn't get one? I couldn't get one. They have jobs now. Oh, wow. They've gone straight. Look at this.
SPEAKER 07 : 1:19
They've gone...
SPEAKER 05 : 1:20
On the straight and narrow. They turned her back on that thug life? They did. Well, sort of. At the end of one minute, I said, are you guys available to come on? Blah, blah, blah. They're busy. They're working. At the end of the text message, street gang for life. Street gang for life. He says one of the members, he reminded me, one of the members got SXGX tattooed on the inside of their lip. Wow. That's the most gang thing I've heard so far. Now you're getting back into gang territory. I got an update on the dude that I would consider like one of the leaders. We called him Opie. And we were in like ninth grade. Yeah, we were in ninth grade and this dude was like 6'4", like big dude. He was the enforcer. He was the heavy. The heavy, right. I mean, yes, he's dead. No. Doing great. Living in Richmond. He's a tattoo artist.
SPEAKER 06 : 2:12
Oh, okay. I thought you were going to say HIV positive. He kissed a girl before marriage. What a badass. Yeah, 410-338-1098. Sorry, I wish I had something to contribute. No street gangs that I was aware of or knew of or was a part of in Southern Maryland. We did have some cliques. There was the Westfield. Not Westfield. What the hell is the name of that school? Westlake. Westlake Boys. It was like a skate set that they skated at Westlake. And we were the Pinefield crew. That's just where we skated. But we weren't a gang.
SPEAKER 07 : 2:47
Were there any beefs between the guys?
SPEAKER 06 : 2:49
Yeah, there was actually one. Westlake and Pinefield. You weren't a gang. Squared off at one point.
SPEAKER 07 : 2:55
That might be kind of gang.
SPEAKER 06 : 2:57
There was a kid named Rat Boy who didn't like our buddy Jason Willis. And they said they were going to pull up on us at one point. Nothing ever happened. Nothing ever happened. 4-10-3-3-8-10-98. Oh, God. Sounds like Kathy's going through it. Kathy, what's going on with the gang life in your house?
SPEAKER 08 : 3:13
You know, when you have seven girls and one token boy, they all just click together, and we started calling them the Terrace Drive Gang. What? So much so, the Terrace Drive Gang, it's our street name.
SPEAKER 10 : 3:26
Okay.
SPEAKER 08 : 3:27
And we couldn't call them girls because there was one token boy, so we started calling them the gang. Oh, okay. So much so we all did field trips together and everybody hung out. But my daughter has it as her tag name on her Xbox.
SPEAKER 06 : 3:40
Again, I don't think the Crips are going to feud with her at any time soon. I'm not sure if MS-13 is going to feel like their territory is in danger. Yeah, Texter said maybe these aren't gangs. Maybe they're just cliques. Street gang is a gang.
SPEAKER 07 : 3:53
Street gang is a gang. You did no gang activity.
SPEAKER 06 : 3:56
There's no gang. We did. You were a clique. You were a group of like-minded individuals. Yes. Do you know who does have gangs in it? And it is a scary read, and I'm trying to remember the name of the book. The LAPD. In the LAPD, there are gangs in the LAPD. Cowboys, Compton Executioners, Grim Reapers, the Cavemen, and the Jump Out Boys. In LAPD, there's like certain subsets in there that they've tried to like... brewed out for years. That did sound scary. I mean, imagine being, I mean, the cops are looked at by a certain contingent of less trusting people that they're a gang in and of themselves just authorized by local governments to do their dirty business. But there's actual gangs. In?
SPEAKER 07 : 4:46
In the police force.
SPEAKER 06 : 4:47
The police force. That's horrifying. I mean, it's really scary. Yeah, 410-338-1098. Speaks. Anybody ever click up in your school? Gather?
SPEAKER 03 : 4:57
No, we didn't have gangs. I once... created uh oh wait a minute here we go a uh a club a book club uh no not a book club it was chicken soup for the soul a well i did read that very inspirational but it was a uh just a club and i invited some friends over to my house on a sunday the problem is there was no agenda oh we just sat around and everybody got bored and uh It didn't continue from there. And when I called somebody else. A couple weeks later, because I wanted to do it again, he said, well, there's nothing going on during the club.
SPEAKER 06 : 5:45
Yeah, we need an agenda. Yeah, there's no minutes to read from the former meeting. Page one, dead silence. Page two, Josh's mom offers us a snack. Page three, we leave. I think I branded it the Josh Spiegel Club. Hell yeah. The Josh Spiegel Appreciation Society. What's up, Brando? What's up?
SPEAKER 01 : 6:03
Hey, what's going on, guys? What's going on? Yeah, we had on our neighborhood, we had a group of us, you know, friends. And it's more like a clique, same thing, gang. But we were from a neighborhood called Baltimore Highlands. And we all got a tattoo on our right hand by our thumb, either 2.8, the 2 being the second letter of the alphabet, 8 being the eighth letter, or the B8. But, yeah, we were a little gang. We would go to school where we didn't put red and black beads on our neck.
SPEAKER 06 : 6:31
Oh, so you did have a color scheme. Colors, tattoos. Okay, okay. I love it. Fashion designers and street gangs love to coordinate. What was the most crime you ever got into?
SPEAKER 01 : 6:41
And while we were in school, we would write, like, BH boys in the school. Tagging up.
SPEAKER 07 : 6:47
Okay. We got tattoos, colors, and tagging.
SPEAKER 06 : 6:50
That's way more gang than Joe's street gang. Than the street gang. Thank you, street gang member Brandon. Let's go to Sierra. I loved her mist. She says, you dated a guy. Uh-oh. That was in a gang. Gangbanger.
SPEAKER 09 : 7:04
Hi, it's actually Sophia. But, um, when I was 15, I dated this guy. He was 21 and he was in a gang and yeah, I was in my rebel phase. Um, Actually, on our second date, we were out getting ice cream in the middle of Rockville Town Center, and these guys who were in the opposing gang, I guess, recognized him, and they held me at gunpoint.
SPEAKER 07 : 7:32
All right, stop, Carson. Hold on. Don't say that word. All right, so you're out with your gangbanging friend. He's 21, you're 15, and you're getting ice creams because gangbangers love ice cream. And then the rival gang pulls up, puts you at gunpoint, and takes you with them?
SPEAKER 09 : 7:45
No, they took him with them. And once he went with them, I had to leave.
SPEAKER 07 : 7:51
And what'd they do?
SPEAKER 09 : 7:53
I don't know. And he wouldn't tell me.
SPEAKER 06 : 7:55
When you saw him the next time. They did butt stuff. They did butt stuff to him. How did he look? Did he look banged up? Was he shook?
SPEAKER 09 : 8:01
He was fine. I have no clue what happened. He wouldn't tell me. I knew it had to do with drugs.
SPEAKER 07 : 8:07
They definitely covered him in kisses. Yeah, that's another aspect is drugs. And Joe was a straight edge gang.
SPEAKER 06 : 8:14
Straight edge street gang. They didn't want to help move product. A bunch of people are saying. They're like selling granola. The epic. They had a lemonade stand. The LAPD gangs were the ones that got big. The gangs in LAPD were the ones that dropped Notorious B.I.G. That's very scary. Let's do one more here. We'll go to Jamie. Jamie, it says you were definitely in a gang.
SPEAKER 02 : 8:40
Yeah, I grew up in Riverdale, the heavy populated PG County. Yeah, I was involved in some stuff. What was the name of the set? Suertreza, S-U-R-13.
SPEAKER 06 : 8:54
S-U-R-13, as in, wait a minute, there's another one with 13 that's very scary. Did you have to get beaten into the gang? Oh, dude. Yeah. Oh, dude, you were in the Serranos. Oh, dude, they've done, doc, dude. Did you ever kill anyone?
SPEAKER 03 : 9:10
No. Hang up while you're still ahead, buddy. Jamie's not your real name?
SPEAKER 07 : 9:17
Do you have gang tattoos? A couple. Let me ask you this. You get beat in, you get into that life, but then I thought, isn't it hard to get out? How did you get out? That's the hard part.
SPEAKER 02 : 9:32
I happen to be related to somebody that was
SPEAKER 06 : 9:36
Okay, so when you were able to exit, they understood?
SPEAKER 02 : 9:41
Yeah, yeah. It's not as deep as those guys in the other side. Got it.
SPEAKER 06 : 10:01
Does anybody ever see the tattoos and ask about them or recognize them?
SPEAKER 02 : 10:07
Yes. Just one time, a guy, it was actually a white guy that was in jail. He had the 88 on his neck.
SPEAKER 06 : 10:15
Oh, that's, is that the Hitler one? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, 88. I think it's the eighth letter of the alphabet, which is H, H as in Heil, you know who?
SPEAKER 02 : 10:25
Heil Hitler. Yeah. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, he was a doctor guy at my old job, and he just saw it, and he's like, hey, are you involved? I'm like, I'll get rid of it eventually. And then I looked at him, and I was like, are you involved?
SPEAKER 06 : 10:37
But I'm glad you're still with us and able to call in. You know, we've all got a past. Street gang. That's a real gang member, Joe.
SPEAKER 05 : 10:45
Yeah, that scared me. You still think you're in a gang? Did you or not in a gang? I have to rethink.
SPEAKER 06 : 10:51
That guy was in a gang.
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we talk about how it's a right-handed world. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne talk with our left-handed listeners about things in life they have struggled with by being left-handed. What's something made for right-handed people they have to use? One way to find out. Hit play!
Join us as we explore the strange and often harmful practice of huffing. This episode features real stories from listeners who have experimented with substances like glue, nitrous oxide, and markers.
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we talk about some of the deadliest jobs in the world. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room talk about some of the high risk jobs with potential high reward. What jobs are know as the deadliest one's in the world. One way to find out. Hit play!
Chapter Markers Transcript 00:00:00 Introduction and Career Highlights 00:02:12 Current Influences and Genres 00:03:19 Brother Dynamics and Band Longevity 00:04:31 Touring and Travel Experiences 00:05:06 Upcoming Tour Details 00:05:17 Conclusion SPEAKER 02 : 0:00
Kirk and Marianne back in the Boom Boom Room and Ed Kowalczyk from Live, Robert DeLeo from Stone Temple Pilots. 30 years from some really historic music coming out, Throwing Copper. Ed, I was just looking at the song list and Robert Purple. And I'm just wondering, both of you can answer, was that the high point of your career? I know it's been 30 years, but those albums were both so good. Was it hard to follow that up? And was that the pinnacle of your career? Ed, what do you think?
SPEAKER 04 : 0:27
You know, it's hard to say it isn't because you look back and you know that it was such a peak moment and so many artists, so many records and so many incredible, unique voices at that time. Yeah. Robert, what do you think?
SPEAKER 03 : 0:40
Man, I think the high point now is looking back at 30 years and being able to celebrate that. I mean, here we are, man. And we're going out and doing that. Not a lot of people get to have that opportunity. And I feel extremely grateful, as I'm sure you do too, Ed, to be able to achieve, you know, have the opportunity to achieve what we've achieved. Don, it feels great being at this point in time and being able to celebrate this.
SPEAKER 04 : 1:07
Absolutely. You know, when you look back on it, the careers of both bands and these records in particular, those records right around 94 and our lives that are just, it's an irreplaceable time. It was a unique time. It was a time of not just what we were doing in our little monolith is live, but also being inspired by the incredible amount of great music coming out at that time. You look at it like, okay, I was doing what I was doing, but it wasn't in a vacuum. was in this incredible time that I think co-created this. We all did it together. It was like this movement you felt part of. As much as you take credit for your success, there was also this element of the community of artists at that time that was super important to me and a super important part of, I think, why Throwing Copper is such a good album still and such a deep album for people is the fact that it came out in this amazing time where it wasn't alone it was it was by far you know it was surrounded on the chart at the time by such incredible music it's it's uh it's hard not to look back on the time and think peak moment
SPEAKER 01 : 2:12
So who are you influenced by now? Who are you digging right now? Because there's so many, you know, it's a whole new ballgame. Every decade is a whole new genre.
SPEAKER 04 : 2:20
Wow. Robert, I tell you, I've got this guilty pleasure song right now. Tommy Richmond, Million Dollar Baby song. Have you heard this yet? No. It is so good. Well, I've been riding around with my 10-year-old, my now 11-year-old son. He's hip-hop. He's, you know, he's active. So I've been listening to a lot of that, which I dig. A lot of pop music, but not necessarily by choice. But some of it's really good. I love my Dua Lipa. Yeah, yeah. I gotta have my Dua Lipa. Right, right.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:46
How about you, Robert?
SPEAKER 03 : 2:47
You know, I have way distant tastes from rock music. I'm a huge... fan of jazz. I rarely get past the 70s, but it's mostly Bill Evans, Paul Desmond. I listen to Bill Evans every day. I love Bossa Nova. I still love singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot. You know, that stuff moves me. That's the stuff that really inspired me to listen to music and not only listen to music, but be influenced by it on a life level.
SPEAKER 01 : 3:19
So Dua Lipa's not on your playlist.
SPEAKER 1 : 3:22
No.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:23
I'm always open to new things, but I know where my comfort lies and I kind of stick with that.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:29
That's cool. It's Kirk and Marianne with Robert DeLeo from Stalking Pilots, Ed Kowalczyk from Live. They're going to be at Jiffy Lube Live, the Jubilee Tour, Wednesday, September 4th. And Robert, for you, I mean, there's been a lot of brother acts in rock and roll over the years. Ray and Dave, the Davey Brothers also. You got the Van Halens. Some get along and some don't. The Gallaghers. How hard or easy has it been for you and Dean to be in a band for so many years?
SPEAKER 03 : 3:53
Well, I guess I should put on an English accent when I say that, but You know, Dean's five years older than me, so he he's the one who inspired me. So I always I'm always eternally grateful for that. You know, he would go out of the house and I would grab his guitar under the bed and play it. And then when he came home, I had to put it back under. And we respect each other on so many levels. And that's what's kept it going and kept us appreciating each other's talents. There's no fighting or any of that stuff. We've never had that.
SPEAKER 01 : 4:23
Really?
SPEAKER 03 : 4:24
No, not really. No, it's just been really harmonious on different levels, especially musical.
SPEAKER 01 : 4:31
Have you been to Virginia? Are you going to see any sites when you visit? Like I know this is probably like a hacky question, but what's your favorite thing about, you know, different areas? Because I know it's tough to get out of the car and see stuff or the plane. Anything you're looking forward to in Virginia?
SPEAKER 03 : 4:45
I carry my fishing poles in my wardrobe case. So anytime I have a day off, I'm on the water fishing.
SPEAKER 04 : 4:52
Yes. I love that. I know that we're, I think that we're hubbing out of Washington, D.C. for that, for Virginia. So I will be traipsing around D.C. and getting my fill of the sights. I like to see the White House. He'll go fishing. Yeah.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:06
Well, we're really excited.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:07
Maybe I'll go fishing. Maybe I'll go fishing.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:09
Go with them. Get dinner. Get dinner. September 4th, Bristow, Virginia. Thanks so much for joining us. We're really looking forward to having you nearby.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:17
Thank you very much. Robert DiLeo at Kowalczyk, STP and Live. See you guys. Thank you.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:23
Thank you.
Read MoreRead Less
We share stories that highlight the struggles and laughs that come with caring for aging family members, from the touching moments of ensuring your parents are safe to the outright hilarious blunders that occur with age.
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we recap Marianne's beach trip with her family. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room regale the tales of Marianne's trip to New Jersey. How was her trip? Did she run into old friends? What did she record? One way to find out. Hit play!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript We bring you an entertaining guessing game: Boxer or Wrestler? Valerie goes head-to-head with some of the most famous names in both sports. Will she guess them correctly?
00:00:00 Introduction and Valerie Pre-actor's Achievements 00:01:06 Val's Perspective on Combat Sports 00:02:20 Introducing the Game: Boxer or Wrestler? 00:02:34 Val's Guessing Game Begins 00:04:17 Ronda Rousey and Wrestling Gimmicks 00:05:03 The Final Round of Boxer or Wrestler SPEAKER 02 : 0:00
hell yeah hot damn put some respect on her name valerie pre-actor smoked joe like a brisket on tuesday of last week neck and neck with eric woodworth and defeated him on wednesday quite the race yeah yeah the flying tomato not sean white a man that looked like a legitimate tomato in that red onesie of his i thought he looked sexy On Thursday, she took on Tony Hurton-Thurton and Ava Marie, who ended up winning the damn thing. But a respectable showing, if there ever was one. Thank you. Last week, Val, people absolutely loved it. You don't strike me as someone that gets into combat sports, boxing, MMA. You're more ball sports. You're more track and field sports.
SPEAKER 03 : 0:48
Yes, absolutely.
SPEAKER 02 : 0:49
But... Seeing two people square off against each other, one trying to turn the other's lights off, not the most appealing thing to you?
SPEAKER 03 : 0:56
You know, it's a little too violent for me. And I'm going to say, I truly am. And I know that football can be a little violent at times, but it's not on purpose.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:06
The goal of football is not to knock the other person out or submit.
SPEAKER 03 : 1:11
And I have learned, you know, I'm going to blame this again on my mother because she If you go to a sports bar and I have like a visceral memory of us, like in a green turtle with all of the screens are on like MMA or whatever. She's running out the door. Forget it. We're leaving.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:25
Oh, she'll leave.
SPEAKER 03 : 1:26
Oh, she will not sit in the room and watch it.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:28
Was it because of the sight of blood?
SPEAKER 03 : 1:30
No. Yeah. She can't do it. Not even just blood. It's just it. It's just not necessary. It's not entertaining for us.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:35
Yeah. It's not. I get it. I'm going to take you to a show. I hate to trash this point. It's just Justin's favorite thing in the world.
SPEAKER 03 : 1:41
I hate to yuck your yum. It's just one of my favorite things ever.
SPEAKER 01 : 1:45
Not for me. She hates MMA, skateboarding, video games. No, I don't hate skateboarding.
SPEAKER 03 : 1:49
I do not hate skateboarding.
SPEAKER 01 : 1:50
I'm just listing things that Justin likes.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:51
She spit on my skateboard.
SPEAKER 03 : 1:52
I do not. She called Evan ugly. I love Jagger Eaton, by the way.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:55
Yeah, she looked at it because he's cute. It's the same reason you like Joe Burrow. And he's good. Let's be real. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:01
Cute and good.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:01
That's all you have to be. Who the hell is in my front door? Save that, by the way, Jim. Ah, nice. Okay. So today, Valerie, this is from, again, the guy is an effing content factory, Rob Mayer. That's what I try to do. You're so not into combat-type sports that boxing and wrestling, you don't even really know the difference.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:20
It's going to be great for you.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:21
So what we're going to do, Rob Mayer, is, please, I'm going to name a person that's either a professional boxer or a professional wrestler.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:30
Present only.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:31
Nope. Could be past. Could be past.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:34
Okay.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:34
Yes.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:35
I could be good at that.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:36
All right. Professional wrestler or boxer? Marvelous Marvin Hagler.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:43
Wow. Wait. Wrestler or boxer? I'm going to say wrestler.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:49
That is one of the greatest middleweights of all time. A boxer. Marvelous Marvin Hagler. Yes.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:55
Never heard of him.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:56
Mr. Wonderful Paul Orndorff. That's a wrestler. That is a wrestler.
SPEAKER 01 : 3:02
That is.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:02
As a matter of fact, I've even got his music in the system. Because that's what you are, Val. They call you Mrs. Wonderful. They do. All right. She's got a point on the board. One and one. James lights out Tony.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:17
That's a boxer.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:18
That is a boxer.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:19
That is a boxer. Hell yes. I'm pressing myself.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:22
I ran the blade Barkley.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:25
That's got to be a wrestler.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:26
That is a boxer. Boxer. King Kong Bundy.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:31
Wow. Wow. I'm going to go boxer.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:36
That's a wrestler.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:37
Dang it. Yeah, I'm sorry about that. Okay, sorry.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:39
King Kong Bundy's famously for demanding that you do a five count. Yes. Not three. Usually in professional wrestling, it counts one, two, three on the mat. He goes, no, no, no, no. You count five. What a nut flex that is. Greg the Hammer Valentine.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:57
Boxing.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:58
Wrestling.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:58
Dang it. What is this pattern?
SPEAKER 02 : 4:00
She started to really impress herself. Please, Rob. Rowdy Roddy Piper.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:09
I'm going to go boxer.
SPEAKER 02 : 4:11
Are you guys for real? Yep. That is one of the most famous wrestlers.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:14
If you can't tell, I like boxing more than I like wrestling.
SPEAKER 02 : 4:17
Ronda Rousey stole the gimmick, the rowdy. Okay. Even I knew the Roddy Piper thing. Was a wrestler. When she came to the ring to wrestle in sports entertainment, she wore one of Roddy Piper's old leather jackets. Loved them. Had the kilt on even. Rob Mayer, please.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:34
You just went on a rip of wrestlers. I was trying to go back and forth.
SPEAKER 01 : 4:38
Hector Macho Camacho.
SPEAKER 02 : 4:43
yeah i i i like boxing it's gonna go boxing it is a boxer i was getting there eventually um jake the snake roberts wrestling yes nailed it she's on a street sean michaels the heartbreak kid
SPEAKER 03 : 5:04
Aw, that's nice.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:06
One of the biggest scumbags ever in a sport. Yeah. Lazy eye. Pretends to be into God now. And everybody's coming out telling stories about what an absolute horrible person he was. Boxer. The rest of them. All right. Thomas. Did I do this one?
SPEAKER 01 : 5:22
Thomas the Hitman Hearns.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:25
No, but that's good. It's a good name. Hitman.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:27
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:28
Sounds like boxing.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:28
There you go. There you go. I got five. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:31
Kicking ass.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:32
Ruben Cain Carter.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:34
Wrestling.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:36
A boxer. American Idol. That stuttered. He's actually a boxer that Denzel Washington, didn't he portray in a movie?
SPEAKER 02 : 5:44
Yes, he did.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:45
A violent, violent man.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:46
There's a new episode of Crime and Sports all about him. Yes, if you wronged him, he'd hit you. Yep. The Golden Boy. Oscar De La Hoya. Oh, this guy's famous outside of the world that he is in. Boxing. He is a boxer. He is a boxer. There we go. Tommy the Duke Morrison.
SPEAKER 03 : 6:07
Boxing.
SPEAKER 02 : 6:07
Yes. Hell yes. Rest in peace.
SPEAKER 03 : 6:10
Get some, Val. You're tied up.
SPEAKER 02 : 6:11
All right. Thank God. Big Van Vader. Wrestling. The wrestling. Yes. Is that it? Did she? Could she? Or did you add more to it? We'll add one more. Is it a tie? Right now it's a tie. Okay. We're going to add one more. Off the top of your head? Off the top of my head.
SPEAKER 01 : 6:33
Okay.
SPEAKER 02 : 6:33
Let me see. Here, I've got one for her here. Okay. You got one? Here. Ask her this one.
SPEAKER 03 : 6:41
You're really going to fool me here. Throw me for a loop.
SPEAKER 02 : 6:48
All right. Go ahead, Val. Mr. Wrestling?
SPEAKER 03 : 6:53
Are you serious?
SPEAKER 02 : 6:53
Boxer or wrestler? Mr. Wrestler.
SPEAKER 03 : 6:56
It's got to be a trick question. Mr. Wrestling?
SPEAKER 02 : 7:00
Mr. Wrestling 2, actually. Mr. Wrestling 2. Mr. Wrestling 2.
SPEAKER 03 : 7:03
He's obviously a boxer.
SPEAKER 02 : 7:06
We gave it to you. It's a wrestler. His name is Mr. Wrestler. Got her. Hell yeah, Val. Thank you so much.
SPEAKER 01 : 7:15
Well done, Val.
Read MoreRead Less
In this episode, we dive into the story of a con man discovered on Facebook by our guest Rob Mayer and... It's race week! Valerie Preactor takes on a revolving cast of "runners". Who comes out on top?! We also debut a brand new Friday song featuring Tony Thornton! All of this, plus much more, on - Behind the Curtain!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript In this episode, we relive the excitement of yesterday's Amazing Race and catch up with Tony Thornton, who delivers a new take on Rebecca Black's classic Friday song. Listen in for the world premiere and audience reactions!
00:00:00 Introduction and the Paul Mittenmeyer Friday Song 00:00:48 Discussion on Yesterday's Amazing Race Incident 00:01:32 Checking in on the Floor after the Incident 00:01:56 Behind the Scenes of Tony's Rebecca Black Friday Cover 00:04:26 World Premiere of the New Friday Song 00:05:18 Josh Spiegel's Literary Readings and Future Projects 00:06:02 Audience Reactions to the New Friday Song 00:06:28 Closing Remarks and Thank You SPEAKER 03 : 0:00
thank you to paul minimire for so many years now we've heralded bookended really our fridays josh with two things we usually start the day with the paul minimire friday song and we end it with the legendary super spiegel sign off that's how you know you had a damn good day ahead of you is that we kick it off with a man that sounds like kermit the frog getting a prostate exam And we end it with a seven-time, soon-to-be eight, and eventually ten-time award winner, Josh Spiegel, doing the Super Spiegel sign-off. This is the original Paul Mittenmeyer, Rebecca Black Friday. 7 a.m. That's enough. All right. 7 a.m. 7 a.m. Yesterday, we had the pleasure of enjoying this man's company in the somewhat amazing race, the actual legitimately amazing race. People all morning long, Joni, checking in on your condition after one of the more tragic moments in American sports, the trip and fall out the gate. People have been asking, how are you?
SPEAKER 04 : 1:08
Yeah, and I'm doing well. I have some rug burns, as you would expect, based on the fact that I was wearing shorts. There are some rug burns.
SPEAKER 03 : 1:15
You should see Josh and I on New Year's Day. I know. That's right.
SPEAKER 04 : 1:18
But I am fine. A little sore because of the burns, but it's okay.
SPEAKER 03 : 1:22
Good.
SPEAKER 04 : 1:22
It is what it is.
SPEAKER 03 : 1:23
No worse for the wear. All the video is up online. It's YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, X, Vine, Friendster, ABC, CNN.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:32
Has anyone asked the floor how it's feeling? No.
SPEAKER 04 : 1:37
The floor is destroyed.
SPEAKER 03 : 1:38
The floor needed to actually be disinfected. There was some biology left over on the floor. Tony, you sit down with our bop rock over here, our music producer, Joe Stamboni, to put together a new version of Friday. Do you want to get into the creative process or do you just want to play the damn thing?
SPEAKER 01 : 1:57
We can talk about it for a second. It was very straightforward. I told Tony to just be Tony and do the best Rebecca Black he could. Well, not the best. The best worst. Were you familiar at all with Rebecca Black's Friday? Yeah, of course.
SPEAKER 04 : 2:11
I've been hearing it over the last three years. On Friday morning. And I do know the song. I know she is an influencer. She might be a one-hit wonder.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:21
I believe she is truly a one-hit wonder. Did her parents pay for that? That's the story behind the legend of Rebecca Back. Mom and dad financed a wannabe pop star's career. By all accounts, a sweet girl who suffered the slings and arrows of internet harassment, a lot of which we are responsible for. But she's laughing all the way to the bank because she is a multimillionaire. Here's a chunk of the original for those that have never heard it.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:44
We're driving on the highway.
SPEAKER 04 : 2:52
Jesus, that is hard to listen to. Well, let me ask you, have you guys heard this? Because I have not heard the final, you know, the final production. Have you guys? This will be the first time. So this is a world, like, premiere, if you will.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:04
This is an MTV world premiere.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:06
I'm going to watch Josh as we react.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:08
I have friends sitting in traffic right now. Cassie, tune in. Turn it up. All right. Put the windows down. Blast it. Yeah, this is original world premiere.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:26
That was what MTV would play before they showed it. Oh, I thought that was it. No, nothing that good. Roll it!
SPEAKER 04 : 3:44
Gotta be fresh. Gotta go downstairs. Gotta have my bowl. Gotta have cereal. Seeing everything. The time is going. Ticking on and on. Everybody's rushing. Gotta get down to the bus stop. Gotta catch my bus. In the front seat, sitting in the back seat. Gotta make my mind up. Which seat can I take? Which one, Tony? What is it? Well, you know, it's Friday. It's Friday. Gotta get down on Friday. Everybody's looking forward to the weekend. The weekend. Friday, Friday. Getting down on Friday. Everybody's looking forward to the weekend. And the weekend.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:26
Partying, partying.
SPEAKER 04 : 4:27
Yeah. Partying, partying. Fun, fun, fun, fun. Looking forward to the weekend. I love it. That's great. It's better than I could have imagined. It's better than I could have imagined.
SPEAKER 01 : 4:45
I was so nervous. It's right.
SPEAKER 04 : 4:47
It's right. I was nervous, too, because I don't need another pitfall.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:50
No.
SPEAKER 04 : 4:50
Cartwheel, racing, and now this. I need a whole spoken album like William Shatner.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:56
I want to hear you do Rocket Man. Yeah. And I'm... Dude, if we could get you to do Rocket Man, I would bust. Oh, my God. Between Josh Spiegel reading Jaws early in this week, which, by the way, you gave yourself some unknowing more work to do. Every day, multiple people are submitting chunks of classics.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:19
Tale of Two Cities, Moby Dick, Sarah Plain and Tall.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:23
But now, Tony Thornton's Friday. Paul, we love you dearly. And yours is not being deleted. You are still in the good graces of 3800 Hooper Avenue. But Tony, did you have a good time recording 2024's Candle in the Wind?
SPEAKER 04 : 5:38
No, it was fun. I mean, you know, Joe, fun, fun, fun. You know, Joe was... You might be AI. Yeah, yeah, Joe was, he was very good with me. He made me do a couple of lines, you know, over again. Good. He was like, you put too much feeling in that one. I mean, he was like, stop it, just cut. You know, it was like a producer. How much prep did you listen to it before you went into it? I've been hearing it every Friday morning, so I knew the song that I knew.
SPEAKER 03 : 6:02
But no, no, to your point, did I put prep?
SPEAKER 04 : 6:03
No, I had to have the lyrics because I didn't know the lyrics all the way through. I just knew some of the chorus.
SPEAKER 03 : 6:08
We got reviews pouring in. Rodney, oh my God, the new Friday song is everything I needed to be. My friend Anthony, the wingman, I'm effing crying. BCB throwing hands in the air, gifs of people going yes, yes.
SPEAKER 02 : 6:22
Can you name that song? This song is now called Friday After Next.
SPEAKER 03 : 6:28
that actually is pretty cool Tony again thank you for taking the time out of your busy week to record that that is now a staple on Fridays alongside Josh Spiegel's Super Spiegel sign off Tony Thornton's Friday you're damn right it's getting played again before the end of the show Tony thank you my friend
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we talk about times we have been hacked. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room rehash Kirk's credit card store while catching up with listeners about times we might have been hacked. What happened? One way to find out. Hit play!
We chat with Jason Newton of WBAL-TV 11 about his adventures in Paris during the Olympics. Find out about the vibrant atmosphere, the enthusiasm of the international spectators, and some unexpected tales from the games.
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we talk about jobs that we do that are and are not on our job descriptions. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room talk about what's not asked of us on paper but it has to get done. What do we do that isn't on our job description? How bad is it? One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we circle back to a conversation we had not too long ago. We talk getting roofied. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room talk with our listeners about their unfortunate tales of being roofied? What happened? Were they robbed? One way to find out. Hit play!
From soaked clothes to uncomfortable couches, Justin, Spiegel, and Rob Maher share our hilarious and often bizarre experiences of trying to catch some sleep on short notice.
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we ask the hard questions and the question of the day is... Why are you single? Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room talk with our listeners about why they are single. Is it by choice? Is it by necessity? One way to find out. Hit play!
After giving a report on a shark sighting, Spiegel brings to life the eerie and thrilling scenes from the novel, Jaws, that inspired the famous movie.
Have you ever heard your neighbors in compromising situations? This episode takes you on a journey through the wild and sometimes awkward scenarios where listeners have caught their neighbors in the act. Join us as we talk to callers who share their personal stories ranging from humorous to outright shocking. Plus, find out what happens when surveillance technology catches something unexpected, and how people react to their caught moments.
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we get personal and we talk about our families. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room talk with our listeners about being the "black sheep" or the "star" of our families. Who got the praises? Who got the short end of the stick? One way to find out. Hit play!
We dive into the latest updates from the Orioles as broadcaster Brett Hollander provides insights into the team’s new acquisitions and how these changes could shape the rest of the season.
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room we talk about Gen Z and how they are choking but not in the way you are thinking. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne talk about how choking is the new pleasure for teenagers. Is this a concern? Or is this harmless fun? One way to find out. Hit play!
We sit down with Luke McFadden, the man behind the YouTube channel @FVSouthernGirl. Luke shares the latest updates on the investigation into his recently vandalized boat and reflects on his journey from crabbing to YouTube stardom.
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room we go back into our childhoods and we talk about things that our parents never allowed us to have or do. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne along with our listeners talk about the "haves" and the "have nots" when it comes to what we could and couldn't have. What was it? One way to find out. Hit play!
From custodial jobs that were more about naps than cleaning, to delivery drivers making unscheduled stops, the conversation takes a humorous dive into the world of time theft at work.
Description Chapter Markers Transcript Join us for an engaging conversation with comedian J.P. McDade as he discusses his new comedy special, 'In Brooklyn.' From his early days in the comedy scene with Stavros Halkis to the challenges faced during the taping of his special, J.P. provides a candid look into his journey and comedic style.
00:00:00 Introduction and Guest Introduction 00:01:31 Origins and Early Comedy Days 00:02:19 Comedy Styles and Comparisons 00:05:08 Launching the Comedy Special 00:09:15 Challenges During Taping 00:12:18 Favorite Jokes and Writing Process 00:13:28 Closing Thoughts and Future Prospects SPEAKER 02 : 0:00
Hey, it's Justin from the 98 Rock Morning Show, and this is a guy that I heard a lot about almost a year ago. Friend of ours, international comic at this point, the fat rascal himself, Stavi Baby Stavros Halkis. He comes to town. He sells out the legendary Lyric Baltimore. So he adds a second show. He sells it out. Then a third. Then a fourth. The place fills up. And at the end of the weekend when we were capping it, a bunch of people said, hey, Stavros was great. We knew he was going to crush. His opener was nuts. And the gentleman is joining me now. He's got a new special out. I've watched it. It's maddeningly brilliant. And I'm joined on the program by J.P. McDade. Good morning, man.
SPEAKER 01 : 0:44
Justin, what's up, man? Good to be here. Good to be tapping in with the beautiful city of Baltimore. How we doing?
SPEAKER 02 : 0:49
Dude, I'm so pleased to talk to you, and I'm so fascinated with you. You really weren't on my radar until I heard about the lyric show. And everybody that came out of the lyric show said, obviously, Stavros crushed. He always does. He's great. He does great crowd work. But then everybody else was saying the guy he brought with him. Obviously, the first thing you talk about, you're like seven foot four. All right. So physically, you are sort of the Schwarzenegger to his DeVito in regards to the size differential. But then your style of comedy compared to his also polar opposites, completely different, equally as funny. How did you get hooked up originally with Stavros?
SPEAKER 01 : 1:31
Well, I think you nailed it there. I think you nailed two things. The reason why we go great together. One being that I'm kind of the Abbott to his Costello size wise. It's just a funny image right off the bat. But you mentioned before I wasn't on your radar, buddy. I wasn't on anybody's radar. So that's fine. You're in good company there. I got linked up with Stog years and years ago when he first moved to New York from doing comedy in Baltimore and DC. We were like doing open mics together and stuff. So we go way back. We've done a lot of shows together over the years. And I think when he was going on his super famous world tour, He was saying, hey, I need a big lanky guy with some dry jokes to kind of balance me out, so I'll bring him to open for me. That's where I come in.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:19
No, it's a brilliant juxtaposition because Stavros is kind of being called the modern godfather of the crowd work specialist. You've got some people that are... You know, they'll point out comedians throughout the years that have done it, but really Stav was the guy that launched the crowd work ability that he had that brought him to national prominence, along with some other podcasts. Dude, I'd love to say the name of, but I can't. But then you have a perfect juxtaposition. The entire special, you know, full disclosure, I do stand up as well, but I'm more of the run around fart cartwheel finger gun type guy. Your joke writing is so immaculate. It's so incredibly well-crafted. Have you ever been compared to a Chad Daniels?
SPEAKER 01 : 3:05
I love Chad Daniels. I think the comparison I've gotten a lot more, though, is Anthony Jeselnik, just because I literally sound like him from the very beginning. They say when you first start out, you're basically doing an impression of the people who influence you. I was basically doing an impression of Anthony Jeselnik. So I appreciate you saying that. I'm working on the cartwheel, runaround, finger gun, fart aspect of my comedies. That's the skill set I'm trying to develop.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:30
You don't need that. No, no, no. That's the colors with which I paint. Stavi rips apart a crowd. I act like a goddamn buffoon, and you have incredibly well-crafted material. Hey, the special, it's called In Brooklyn. I mean, it's only been online. It's been less than two weeks. It's already cracked into the six-figure viewership. I mean, the thing's already exploded. I'm looking at it right here. Overwhelmingly positive response. 619 comments, and I'm struggling to find a single person in there that doesn't enjoy it. The response so far, it's got to feel good. It doesn't seem to be anybody crapping on this thing. Everybody loves it.
SPEAKER 01 : 4:09
Thank you, man. I appreciate that. I'm feeling, you know, too blessed to be stressed right now, but it's, uh, you know, there's a, there's a lot of, uh, anxiety that goes into like putting out your first, your debut special. And, you know, this is material that I've been working on in some cases for many, many years. There's some jokes on there that are probably eight years old. So I was like, I don't know, you can't control what the response is going to be. Right. So I was, uh, a little bit, you know, worked up over that, but then we did the premiere at, uh, at Stav's studio and the, you know, the results started coming in and people seem to like it. So it's a, it's a huge relief. And I'm, I'm just glad it's reaching the audience that I wanted it to reach. You know, I wanted to hit people who really like appreciate good comedy and hopefully I could hold my own in that space. But yeah, I feel really good about it, man. It's a, it's a great feeling to have this first one out. and I'm already cracking on the next hour, so it feels really good.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:08
Comedian J.P. McDade joining me. The full special, it's up, it's free, it's start-to-finish fantastic. It's called In Brooklyn. It's a part of Stavros' YouTube network. And there's a really funny moment. Have you ever scrolled a YouTube video and you hover the mouse right over top of the timeline? And you could see sort of the peaks and valleys of where people watch it the most, where you can sort of hover and see, okay, there's a big spike in viewership at this exact moment. If you go and watch your special right at the 10-minute and 10-second mark... You tell that incredible James Bond joke. I'm not going to get into it. Watch the special. There's some material on there I do want to ask you about. It's just, like I said, pound the counter smart that you're like, damn it, it's right in front of me. How did I not think of that? But in the middle of the special, the lights just go out. They just fade quietly. And you play off of it perfectly. And other comedians might have cut that out. They might have done a second show. You left it in. And I loved it. I love that it showed one of the dents, one of the hiccups. Because comedy is not flawless. It's not perfect. It's not completely shined up. There are hiccups and road bumps in the middle of any good performance. And in the middle of yours, the AV goes and gets screwed up. Talk me through about keeping that in the special, which I frankly love.
SPEAKER 01 : 6:34
So I'll first tell you my point of view on just comedy specials in general. Everything's measured by the hour, right? You put your hour into a stand-up comedy special. But to me, it's more about moments. than it is about ours. So I had built up all this material. I had rehearsed the hell out of it for months and months. I'm getting ready to record my special. We recorded at the Bell House, which is a beautiful venue. And, you know, there were some hiccups here, but I have nothing against the venue. We record two shows. So to peel back the curtain a little bit, we recorded two shows in one night and we edited them together and that became the special. That's usually how it works when a special is taped. The first special went up, the first taping went off without a hitch. That was fine. Then we get to the second one. The second crowd is really hot. I'm rolling through those first 10 minutes. I'm feeling great. And then all of a sudden, the lights lower while I'm on stage. And I don't know if I'm being pranked. I don't know if someone hit a switch. What happened? But I just said, hey, I'm going to roll with it. Try to riff on this a little bit and have some fun. Because the first show went well. And that's what we got. That malfunction that you see. in the 10-minute mark of the special was the first time that happened in my second taping. And that happened about seven or eight more times throughout the second hour. So it almost made it unusable. But thank God we had an amazing group. We had a crew that's based out of Baltimore. They're called ATB Productions, headed up by Joey Malinsky, the director. And they did an amazing job. There was a production person on staff there who actually wrote down all the jokes that got messed up by lighting malfunctions. And I was able to come back out later on and take another crack at those and have some fun with the audience retrying the material that got messed up. So all in all, it was a little bit chaotic. It was this weird wrench that got thrown in the works when I was trying to record my debut special, but it turned out fun. I remember people after the show were like, how are you not furious? How are you not so upset that your second taping practically got ruined. And I was like, it's free riffs, man. It was free material that kind of fell into my lap. I was like, I want this to make the final cut.
SPEAKER 02 : 8:51
And I love that you kept that moment. And see, I would have never had any idea, had you not let me in behind the curtain, that there was all these other screw-ups. So, I mean, again, shout them out one more time, the name of the company and the director of this thing, because they did an absolutely flawless job putting that thing together to where I would have never have known that. I would have thought it was just first show, first night, great crowd, quick little hiccup and moved on. Who's the name of the company again?
SPEAKER 01 : 9:16
ATB Productions, and Joey Molenski is the director, all Baltimore-based. God.
SPEAKER 02 : 9:22
JP, of all the material on there, because, again, you're a joke writer, and you get a lot of respect from other comedians that love a well-crafted joke. Again, a Chad Daniels, a Jezelnik, a Nate Bargatze, a Sam Morrell, Joe List. You think of people that... You have performers and writers and improvisational specialists. You've got a bunch of... freaks and psychos coming out of the Kill Tony thing like you know I love Casey Rocket the guy is just he's from a different dimension he's fascinating as hell but you have that joke that even as sort of a layman that watches it can go and take a chunk of that material and go and tell a friend about it And the point you make is hilarious. You try and tell somebody, and for those that aren't familiar, look up Casey Rocket. If you try and tell your friends about Casey Rocket, they're going to think you're paranoid schizophrenic. That it doesn't make any sense until you see it.
SPEAKER 01 : 10:18
The government is tracking him, and Biden is furious. Yeah.
SPEAKER 02 : 10:21
he's uh this is this is a hack that scientists hate okay real trap ass but you're you're what's one joke because i have one that jumped out at me what's one piece of material from the set that most people comment on afterwards like i love the whole thing but oh my god that one bit was just like that was it that was the one that sent me is there a particular joke during the special that's really taken off it seems to be a pretty good balance um
SPEAKER 01 : 10:46
but I think there was one, I'll tell you the one that stood out to me that I, that kind of became my pet piece of material that I liked on this. There's a bit in there about Elon Musk and his, his takeover of Twitter. Yes. And I know it's like, you know, Elon Musk is a divisive guy, whatever your opinion of him. I think the point of view on that was just kind of ridiculous and weird and took some big risks. And I think, you know, throughout the tour, when I was touring the style of it, that was, One of the jokes of my set that would tend to hit the hardest. And it's probably one of the ones that I'm most proud of from the special because it's just very weird and out there.
SPEAKER 02 : 11:25
Of the comics I've shown the thing to, and I've shared it as much as I can. I mean, I haven't had anybody speak a terse word. The one that comes back is we need to rethink our thoughts on herpes. Dude, your comparison at the end with, I'll just say, The Cave is, God damn, dude, it's just one of those jokes that there's not an ounce of fat on it. It's every syllable's where it's supposed to be, every word is where it's supposed to be, and it's great. And, you know, JP, with all this material that's on there, you say you're going to start working on the next hour. Is it hard to let go? of some of this material as you move on, or will you break it out now and then as the situation calls for it, or do you do what some people do? Famously, Louis C.K. takes all of his old material and just throws it in the corn thresher, never to be spoken again. Will you break out some of the old bits here and there, or are you going to start over from square one for the next piece?
SPEAKER 01 : 12:19
I would love to take the corn thresher approach, and that's kind of what I'm trying to do, just throw out everything that I've done before, never speak it again. I've built up another probably 20 minutes of material in the months since I've recorded. So we're on the way. But I think in some instances when I have like longer shows, you know, I'll have to dip into some older material. But the hope is that the special gets big enough where enough people have seen it where I can't get away with that anymore. And then I have to write all new material, you know, just keep it going.
SPEAKER 02 : 12:55
I can promise you, man, this special, I remember Stav did, what was it, The Lodge? I believe it was his YouTube special. Yeah, Live at the Lodge Room. That was a YouTube special. And then his next one, it's on Netflix. I have no doubt that this one, much like the man I keep comparing you to, Chad Daniels, who self-released a lot of stuff, and then the next special was on Netflix. Anybody worth their weight in Hollywood, New York, California, wherever that's got to say, they're going to see this and they're going to go, oh, the next one. We need to put a big, fat, juicy budget behind this thing. Put it on Max. Put it on Netflix. Put it on streaming. Because this first one, as far as a first special, I mean, it's just about as flawless as a piece of production as you can get. And the comedy's great. It's just honestly one of my favorite specials I've seen all year between Empty Nester and some of the other stuff that's coming out. It's incredible. And you and Stav bounce off each other perfectly, and I'm excited. And hopefully one day you'll be able to do for someone what Stav did for you, bring them on, bring them up, take them around the globe, and make them your JP. They will have to actually be short and super hyper. You've got to continue the physical differentiation between you and who you work with.
SPEAKER 01 : 14:10
Of course. I appreciate you saying that, man. That's really nice. When I look back at it, it's absolutely crazy all the stuff that Stomp has done to help me out these last couple years, just sharing his success with me. That's a true baller move. That's just the Baltimore way.
SPEAKER 02 : 14:28
Yeah, he's a great dude, great comic, and so are you. The special in Brooklyn, J.P. McDade. Go online, follow him at McDade, D-A-D-E, baby. Get on there, follow him for all of his tours. Follow him on the Stobbies World appearances. Oh, my God, the Kush Bros, so funny. And the next time you're in town, dude, let us know, and we'll have you up. We've got to get you in studio because I feel like this is the beginning of a journey. This is going to be something that we're going to start talking about the guy that we got to interview back in 2024. Now that he's on that movie, that sitcom, that HBO Max special. And I appreciate your time, JP.
SPEAKER 01 : 15:05
Thank you so much, man. Really appreciate it. We'd love to pop in next time. I'm going to be more.
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room we talk about times we have been in lawsuits. Tune in to hear Kirk, Marianne, and Producer Kobe talk with our listeners about times we have been a part of lawsuits with our listeners. What was the lawsuit? What did we get out of it? Was it successful? One way to find out. Hit play!
We explore our unconventional and surprising life stats! From DJing thousands of gigs to riding hundreds of roller coasters, the feats discussed will leave you amazed.
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room we want to know. Is it a conflict of interest to be a parent and a coach? Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne talk with parents that have been coaches and how they would coach their kids compared to others. Is it favoritism? One way to find out. Hit play!
We share times that we heard people, and ourselves being loud while being in the throes of passion.
Description Chapter Markers Transcript Join us as Scott shares his experience of undergoing triple hernia surgery. Initially expecting only one hernia, Scott was surprised when the doctors discovered three. He takes us through his recovery journey, the hurdles he faced, and the small victories along the way. We're joined by comedian, Chad Daniels to discuss his new special "Empty Nester" and we're joined good friend, Randolph Rice, to discuss pro bono work.
00:00:02 Scott's Triple Hernia Surgery Discovery 00:01:14 Scott's Recovery Experience 00:03:17 Shopping Post Surgery 00:06:09 Decision to Undergo Surgery 00:08:10 Concerns About Recovery 00:09:27 Upcoming Surgery Plans 00:10:43 Dinner Experience at Ruth's Chris SPEAKER 14 : 0:02
got it done i'm proud of him scott had been considering getting hernia surgery for a while and then he went and got looked at shout out dr swope the same guy that did mine and he discovered that he didn't have one hernia he had three and that might be a break for down the line you went in to get one thing looked at and found out oh my god i've got something else i got a buddy in my neighborhood Shout out Mr. Strausberg, Todd with that sweet red Jeep. He thinks he jacked up his ACL, PCL on a camping trip. He goes in there to get it looked at. Something's wrong with his meniscus and he's got a baker's cyst. So he went in for one thing. They found a bunch of other stuff. Scott goes in for one hernia. He finds out he's got three. So he takes off about a week or so ago for a couple of days, gets it done, and he recaps the whole experience. And his was a little bit more than mine. I recovered in a couple of days. His has been a little bit longer because I had one, he had three. The guy's got to have a cane to get around. He says he's been laid up. He's also been saying, ladies, or gentlemen that enjoy gentlemen, he's been having some testicular discomfort. So... I don't know, maybe a helping hand, an angel of mercy, a skanky little nurse out there wants to help our boy and his achy plums. Scott returned on Tuesday and discussed everything and how it went with his hernia surgery and the continuing recovery on Behind the Curtain. Scott has returned from his hernia surgery. Triple hernia surgery. You take a few days off. At what point, obviously you've jumped on live right today, so you've got that cane, the pimp with the limp. Did you go, I need something to help me get around?
SPEAKER 12 : 1:47
Friday morning. So the surgery was Thursday. Shout out to everyone at Mercy. Shout out to the nurse in the recovery room, by the way. Gabby, Gabrielle. She was stunning. Please call me Gobble. And I'll say this. You know, she's over hanging out with me, making sure everything's good, this and that. And all of a sudden you hear from behind the curtain. Gabby, can you come give me a hand? Gabby, I need a hand over here. It's going to take two of us to lift this thing. She had to go over behind the curtain next to me, and I hear them fumbling and doing some stuff and this, that, and the other. Damn it! She had to help put in a catheter. Oh! Just imagine, like, Rachel's sitting there hanging out, checking somebody's blood pressure. Hey, can you come over here for a sec? Like, that's the gig. That's the gig. That's what you're paid to do. It's like, hey, this guy's not, because you've got to be able to pee before you leave. Did you have to pee before you left? Yes, and I was able to. She goes, you've got to go to the bathroom and pee. She goes, don't flush. I need to see that you peed. So she had to come in and look at my pee. And I go, I peed. And I go, all right, you can go home now. Yeah, you know, I go to Target. I go to Target. I had to pick up the prescriptions. I'm zipping around a little cart. That was fun. Dude, I was laughing my ass off at that footage of you in the harbor round in the Target. Dude, I needed it, man. I couldn't really get around. I mean, I'm fresh out of surgery, right? You're still you're still kind of drugged up.
SPEAKER 17 : 3:17
Did anybody give you a look like, you know, you're a young guy? You're a young.
SPEAKER 14 : 3:23
Yeah.
SPEAKER 17 : 3:24
It's always been my fantasy to just do that.
SPEAKER 12 : 3:26
Who's going to say anything?
SPEAKER 14 : 3:27
Just say F you. Badly, I want to steal one and zip around. They're so slow.
SPEAKER 12 : 3:32
But Friday morning, dude, sleeping Thursday night was awful. Friday morning, I woke up. I'm like, oh, this is not good. I'm like, I can't move because the umbilical, it is what it is. I almost don't even notice that. They actually use that. hole that was already there because it was an umbilical hernia they stick a cam that's where they stick the camera and everything looking around they stick well you go down that through that hole and then they cut two other holes and that's where the tools go down let's make them air tight telescopic um i was literally laying in bed friday morning and i door dashed a cane to my house i was like i need something to help me get around so i just kind of uh I guess, what is this, CBS or something? You can door dash from CBS. And a cane showed up at my door, and it's been really, really, really, really helpful. How's bruising? No bruising. Not at all? It's just, like, right now the pain is zero. But you'll move in a certain way, and it activates.
SPEAKER 14 : 4:34
Sleeping was the one for me. Because I have a tendency, I spiral at night. I go back, left side stomach, right side stomach.
SPEAKER 12 : 4:40
Same, I sleep on my stomach, yeah.
SPEAKER 14 : 4:41
Yeah. And I wrote and I was like, there ain't no rotating. It is flat back cryostasis on the Sulaco.
SPEAKER 12 : 4:47
And that's the thing about recovery really is like you really are like recovering. Like I'm just I was just tired. Yeah. Even like yesterday, I'd take my daughter, get her braces. I was able to put together like two, three hours, get out of the house. She got her braces. By the time I was done with that, I'm like, I got I got to go sit down. You're spent. You're just spent. They tell you to take a walk. to take walks i've been walking i've been taking walks making sure i've been having good bowel movements i did dance the dance with a little oxy a couple of nights just for the rock and roll the pain just so i could sleep really uh and before but there was one night before i dozed off i was like whoa i am high right now yeah oh yeah but then i just i just went to sleep because you can't really sleep um They dry your peeps out too. Friday sucked. I'll be honest. Friday really, really sucked. But then like Saturday I woke up. I'm like, okay, like marginally better. Yeah. And then marginally better. I'm getting there. I'm getting there. Today is a little bit, I don't know. There was mild that I've taken one more day probably, but I'm fine, I think.
SPEAKER 14 : 5:50
As you led up to the surgery, you were kind of joking, not joking about not getting it done. Are you glad as you sit here now that it's done? It's in the rear view.
SPEAKER 12 : 5:57
I still have to worry about it. It's been fixed. I have been hitting the one life fitness. I've been working out. And I just didn't want to have to, like, worry. I don't know. I was really worried about making it worse.
SPEAKER 14 : 6:09
You engage in some activity or you go to dive and save Max from jumping off a dock or something. You tear something. So now it's over. It's all fixed up. Also, I meant to ask you about the surgeries itself. I was given two options. I only had umbilical. You had umbilical and the vulvatic or whatever it's called.
SPEAKER 12 : 6:27
Two inguinal. Two inguinal. Right and left.
SPEAKER 14 : 6:30
I was told you could either have it sewn up and there is an 85% chance it stays fine. Or you can get it sewn up with mesh, and it's like 98% it stays fine, but you're going to have a little mesh in you. So is there mesh in you?
SPEAKER 12 : 6:43
Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 : 6:43
Oh, you got the mesh. Is that a vaginal mesh? It's a vaginal mesh. I think it's actually kind of the same. It might be the same screen door as my pop pop's back porch.
SPEAKER 12 : 6:51
Well, the vaginal mesh was bad, though, right? There's lawsuits about this. They made it taste too good. This is like the new and improved mesh.
SPEAKER 17 : 6:56
Oh, yeah, like it was bad, like talcum powder. Yeah, right. Giving kids cancer.
SPEAKER 12 : 7:02
Okay, so you have three pieces? Bing, bing, bing? I mean, I'll show you. My belly is fat and gross and probably a little bloated. Let's see what we got here. Okay. Okay, no, it's not terrible. Yeah. Okay, it looks similar. So they go through here with a camera down to here so they can see what's going on. Then through here are two little tools.
SPEAKER 14 : 7:21
That had to be a nice day at work for the nurses.
SPEAKER 15 : 7:24
Look at that party sub. I heard they fill you up with gas.
SPEAKER 12 : 7:27
Yeah, they inflate your belly so they can work in there. Well, I don't know. They don't inflate your intestines, so I don't think I really had a lot of farts. You know what I mean? I think the air is just in your... In your cavity? Yeah. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Uh, I'm just trying to think of what else. I don't know. I watched a bunch of movies. Uh-huh. Got some pain meds. I asked if I could be filmed. Just been laying around, just kind of been... They said no.
SPEAKER 14 : 7:57
I asked if I could have the procedure filmed, and it was like a, that was a no-fly. I wanted to shoot it.
SPEAKER 12 : 8:03
Like, at this point, I'm assuming the worst is behind me, and if, like, that was the worst, then it was, you know, I'm fine. You're on the mend. Fine, I guess.
SPEAKER 14 : 8:10
Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 : 8:11
We should auction off the cane. I'm just afraid, like, you hear, like... that you can pop it back open or something. I did sneeze.
SPEAKER 14 : 8:18
I sneezed once. Did he teach you to sneeze? No. One of the nurses did. It wasn't him. The nurse was like, hand, hand, right over here. Treat it like a belt. She was like, hand, hand, elbows in, and then go for it.
SPEAKER 12 : 8:30
Yeah, that's what I did. I haven't been coughing, really, and me, with my allergies, I was really worried. I've only sneezed once, and it was like, oh, boy. Ejaculation is quite a big deal, too. I did that twice already.
SPEAKER 10 : 8:42
Now, the thing you've got to worry about is... With the cane, tripping over the cane, that could be a hazard.
SPEAKER 14 : 8:50
That is un-noble. Yeah, you'd trip and eat it from falling over your own cane. It's time to start making plans. It's a thing you've got to worry about. Yeah, I think at some point when you no longer need it, we... We either put the cane next to the leg lamp, put it in the leg lamp, we auction the thing. But in the meantime, we should sticker that son of a bitch up. Yeah, give me a JSS sticker. Yeah, we can get that thing all handled up. All right, let's doctor that bad whip. I'm glad you're on the mend. I'm glad you got it done. Stan Boney, you're on deck, right? Yep. Yep. You're not going to do it. I am. You know what? If you let me pay for it, I'll throw in some boobs.
SPEAKER 11 : 9:24
How much is my bill going to be?
SPEAKER 14 : 9:26
Not good.
SPEAKER 10 : 9:27
It's on its way. Oh, you know, this is what pet insurance is for.
SPEAKER 14 : 9:32
comedians friends from the DLP agenda podcast patreon.com slash the DLP agenda Joe Robbins and Rob Mayer joined us on Monday and they caught up with me about a fancy dinner that they went to I guess I missed my invitation and We talked about what they ordered, how much it was, the most expensive dinner you had. One of the people I bring up during this break is my friends at Jimmy's Famous Seafood. It's my favorite restaurant. I make no bones about it. We've worked for Jimmy's for years. I hope to continue to. It's my favorite place in the world to eat. My favorite thing about Jimmy's is that at any moment, it can be a blue-collar place to grab lunch or it can be fancy pants and have a wedding reception there. Some of the places that they describe, Rob and Joe, and some of you describe, Smith and Walensky and your Roots Chris and your Shula Steakhouse, sometimes a restaurant could be almost too fancy to where I can't relax. I can't feel comfortable. I kind of like to kick my feet up a little bit. I don't want to be trying to enjoy a $300 tomahawk steak if I have a necktie choking off my jugular. Sometimes one of those restaurants can be maybe a little bit too stuffy to where I can't relax, and those don't interest me. And you know what else doesn't interest me? Having to finance potatoes, having to get a good APR on some spinach, having to go Dutch after seeing a financial advisor on a dessert. We talked about Rob and Joe's fancy dinner and yours on Behind the Curtain. Joe Robinson, Rob Mayer, joining us, the Fancy Boys. Hey. These two fellas.
SPEAKER 13 : 11:07
We are fancy.
SPEAKER 14 : 11:08
Went and had themselves a pretty nice-ass dinner. When I think of very nice restaurants, I always think of, you know, a place that's both nice and accessible. It's both to the white-collar, blue-collar. I love a Jimmy's Famous Seafood. But you also have the Capitol Grill downtown. Delicious. Big fan. And one of the regular ones that's considered to be pretty fine dining coast-to-coast, wherever you can find one, is Ruth's Chris.
SPEAKER 11 : 11:32
You know, what's interesting is that, you know, I live in Annapolis. There are great restaurants in Annapolis. We talked about Vin 909. It's my favorite restaurant in Annapolis. But honestly, you know, and I know it's a chain, so people get a little whatever. But, you know, right next to Ruth Chris's Lunas's, which is a locally owned steakhouse. It's great, by the way, Lunas's. But Ruth Chris, they... That's the place. Our meal, it couldn't have been better. It was a 10 out of 10.
SPEAKER 14 : 12:00
There's a place I've always wanted to eat called Smith and Walensky. Okay. Where is that? It's in New York. It's in Boston. And it's like a Rook's Crisp. I once heard, you know who famously would eat there? And they would let him eat there with no reservations. The nature boy, Ric Flair.
SPEAKER 13 : 12:14
Nice.
SPEAKER 14 : 12:14
It was one of his brags. I got alligator shoes, limousine riding, jet flying, opponent beaten, Smith and Walensky eaten. He would be allowed into a place.
SPEAKER 13 : 12:24
That's good marketing.
SPEAKER 14 : 12:25
It's one of those places where if you want to eat there next December, you better get on the list now. There's like an 18 month wait.
SPEAKER 13 : 12:33
But here's my – go ahead, Rob. What were you going to say? No, I was saying Joe called two days earlier. Okay.
SPEAKER 11 : 12:37
I did. Yes, I had no problem seating six people. No, when do you want to come in? Yes. All times are open. No matter how big your party is. You're going to go back into the kitchen?
SPEAKER 01 : 12:45
You can sit.
SPEAKER 11 : 12:46
But it might – look, the food was great. You guys can guess the bill, but my story is this. So, you know my deal. I try to make a friend every year. Yeah. Okay? I try and lose one every year. Yeah, yeah. And, Stambo, you're next. I try to make a friend this year. You know, Joe Stamboni might be the friend this year. Okay. Yeah.
SPEAKER 13 : 13:03
I thought you guys had been friends for years, but okay.
SPEAKER 11 : 13:05
But, no, but to add as a regular friend, you know what I mean? We've hung out a couple times. Joe Stamboni is definitely a friend. Yeah, so maybe that's the guy to add. I have nothing to bring to the table. I know. One thing that I... That I've noticed is that Rob, he's a little bit of a pilot fish. Okay. What's that mean? That means, you know how the whale swims, but there's a little fish that they just... Oh, the thing that's kind of along for the ride. Yeah, yeah. It's along for the ride and eats the algae off your back or whatever. Rob's circle of friends is huge. And other than the comedy world, they're all my friends.
SPEAKER 13 : 13:38
We went out to dinner with... It was Joe and I and four people. All four people... Or original Joe friends that you've since been adopted into.
SPEAKER 14 : 13:48
Okay, so you didn't bring anybody from Virginia with you, which is your... Yeah, me and Todd Moore don't hang out.
SPEAKER 11 : 13:53
I'm just name-dropping here. He's a friend of Rob's. But then you know what Rob did yesterday? You know what Rob did? Rob golfed with all those guys. All those guys. All those guys.
SPEAKER 13 : 14:03
And let's take it a step further. Katie, your wife, had mentioned about going to Montana. And then I said, Montana? I've never been. I've always wanted to go. That's a good golf destination. Outside, I don't want to go. I go, and Joe's like, I talk to Joe and Katie. Let's make a golf. Let's do a Montana trip. Then I talk to Jason Menzer and those boys the other day. I go, we should do a Montana golf trip. I go, let's do it. I go, and the wives come. They go, no chance. Yeah, so now you're being iced out, homie. And then they said, no golfers. So Joe and Katie's Montana trip. I'm not in it.
SPEAKER 14 : 14:41
You got cut out of your trip. Yes. You got removed from your own idea. Your idea, your friends, you're not going. It's a bad time to tell Katie we are going to Mexico without her.
SPEAKER 11 : 14:51
Yes.
SPEAKER 14 : 14:51
You want to guess what our meal was?
SPEAKER 11 : 14:53
It was six people.
SPEAKER 14 : 14:53
Okay, so six people. Joe, when's the last time, Stambo, you went to a Ruth's Chris? He's never been. You can ask more questions about drinks and appetizers or whatever you want. I was just about to ask. But no, Stambo, you've been to a Ruth's Chris? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was the one about a year ago. You should have seen the old man the first time he went down there and found out that it did not come with three sides. But he was beside himself. The sides are extra. Longhorn provides me with the baked potato. Lost it. Okay, so I'm going to guess six people, cocktails. You're not much of a drinker. I don't know.
SPEAKER 11 : 15:26
Rodman's or some of the other are. There were four drinkers. I'm sorry. There were four drinkers, one light drinker, and one basically non-drinker.
SPEAKER 14 : 15:35
At JSS98Rock on X. Get your guesses in. On the other side of Val, we'll have you reveal. Okay, so I'm going to guess six cuts of meat. No one's getting the wedge salad. There was a wedge salad. There was a wedge salad.
SPEAKER 13 : 15:48
Along with six cuts of meat. But not as an entree. Oh, yeah. No, no. I got a wedge salad, but it was not. Yeah. It didn't take anything off the list. It was an addition. Just added. Yes.
SPEAKER 14 : 15:58
I sometimes feel like they have that really low cost chicken, lower cost chicken dish.
SPEAKER 11 : 16:02
No one got that.
SPEAKER 14 : 16:03
If you order that, it's a test and they kick you out. Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 : 16:06
We have a pour on our hands. There were two desserts also ordered. I should give you that. Two desserts. Home style sides. I think every. Family style sides. I think there was. Four or five appetizers. Yeah. Four or five appetizers. Five or six sides. Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 : 16:18
Yeah. Now, you know, I've taken my family to Thanksgiving twice to the Capitol Grill, which is one of their rivals.
SPEAKER 13 : 16:25
It's the Coke to their Pepsi. Excellent restaurant.
SPEAKER 14 : 16:27
I love the Capitol Grill. But I know what a meal for 10 is there. So I'm going to guess this is with tip we're doing. With tip?
SPEAKER 13 : 16:36
Yeah, with tip. We'll do it with tip.
SPEAKER 14 : 16:38
I'll do it round. I'll do it round. And it's just Stambo and I guessing because you two are obviously there. I'm going to guess for that many people, we're looking around $800. $800. Stamba? How many people? Six. Six. Drinks, meats, desserts, sides, apps. I'm going to guess $800.
SPEAKER 15 : 16:55
Yeah, that's a good guess. I'll say $1,000.
SPEAKER 14 : 17:00
Rob, Joe, some friends, some wives, some significant others.
SPEAKER 13 : 17:03
No, no wives. Not a single one.
SPEAKER 14 : 17:05
Straight dudes. Our friend Tim in a wig, big ally. He, all of you, pretty fancy dinner. I suggested that the final tab at the end of the night It was $800. Joe, you said, Stan Boney, $1,000.
SPEAKER 13 : 17:19
Yes. And there were six of us. There were appetizers. There were multiple sides. They were all steak. Everyone had a steak. Couple desserts. Four of us were drinking. And then one had one beer, and then Joe, you didn't drink anything. Can I adjust my number?
SPEAKER 11 : 17:34
No, don't adjust your number. Stand by it.
SPEAKER 15 : 17:36
If you want, I mean, I'll... No, it's fine. I'll stick with it. You can adjust it.
SPEAKER 14 : 17:42
$1,300. Okay. All right. You're locked in there now. I'm locked in at $800. He says $1,300. Final bill.
SPEAKER 1 : 17:50
$1,000.
SPEAKER 14 : 17:50
$1,000. That's why I was like, no, go ahead.
SPEAKER 13 : 17:54
$300 over. I am right.
SPEAKER 14 : 17:55
You would have won both showcases.
SPEAKER 11 : 17:56
Screwed up.
SPEAKER 14 : 18:02
I love to say what mine was, but it was my old pal Harlan Williams took me to dinner with a friend of his who ended up being the guy that wrote and directed Shrek 2, Conrad Vernon.
SPEAKER 11 : 18:18
Oh, wow.
SPEAKER 14 : 18:18
He took me out to a place in Malibu that I don't know the name of. This sounds expensive. But they got it for me, and I just got a sandwich and all that. And I asked, you know, how much was the bill? And he just shook his head like, oh, okay. And apparently we had just missed Sean Penn coming in. I'm like, got it. You got a sandwich? We're getting lunch. Okay. It was like a midday two o'clock thing. It was like, do you want to stop for food thing? Yeah. Not like a sit down and eat a fancy pants to do, but it was one of those ones where I looked down at the menu and like an iced tea was $25. Okay. A burger was 50 something. He's making up numbers. I'm like, I'm just not going to even look at that anymore. He's like, I'll get whatever you want. It's on me. We're both effing millionaires. So 410-338-1098, what is the most expensive dinner you've ever been to? Jeff, you went to the place I was curious about. You went to a Smith & Walensky in Miami.
SPEAKER 06 : 19:08
Absolutely. So let me set it up for you. Set it up. We went to a Christmas party at Smith & Walensky down in D.C. Okay. And the wife won a $100 gift certificate to a Smith & Walensky. So she said, hey, our daughter's turning 13 in March. Let's go to Smith & Walensky down in Miami. So I called my client, and I said, hey, do you have any contacts down in Miami? And he said, sure. He said, I'm in that restaurant all the time. He said, I'll get you guys a great table on a window. It's right on the causeway where the cruise ships come in. Nice. But you have to tip the maitre d' 200 bucks when you go in. Jeez. Okay. Good. Fine. So I take my wife, my daughter, and my wife's parents to dinner at Smith & Walensky. We get in there. Beautiful table. Cruise ships are coming in. Looks like they're going to slam into the restaurant at any second. That's how close we were. And the menus come, and there's no prices on the menu.
SPEAKER 14 : 20:08
Ah, I hate that. That's a bad sign. No prices or market price. When I see market price next to crab or something, I'm like, the market's never great. The market's like, hey, you have no idea how cheap this lobster is today. It's free.
SPEAKER 11 : 20:19
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 : 20:19
Well, it's funny you say lobster. So my wife and everybody's drinking except me because we were driving to the Keys after dinner. And my wife orders the Australian lobster tails.
SPEAKER 13 : 20:32
Yeah, Australian Epsom, a double.
SPEAKER 06 : 20:35
Yeah, so the waiter goes, great choice, excellent choice. He starts dropping all these names of these musicians and stars and everybody that that's all they order when they come in there are these Australian lobster tails. Yeah, so we all eat dinner, five of us. And my wife just plows right through the lobster tails. And so the bill comes.
SPEAKER 13 : 21:02
Oh, no.
SPEAKER 06 : 21:03
Yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah, $1,500.
SPEAKER 1 : 21:06
Whoa.
SPEAKER 13 : 21:07
Damn. Four of you. Plus the $200 tip. Plus the $200. So you're in for about $100 off.
SPEAKER 08 : 21:12
Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 13 : 21:13
$100 off. Do you even throw that up there? That makes you look so cheap. Oh, I have this coupon. Oh, by the way. I got this on Groupon for 2% off. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 14 : 21:23
Our associate program director, Double J. Justin Johnson, he says he went to a Malibu steakhouse with a record label. Sometimes record labels were like wine or dine. They'll try and like, you know, schmooze you, get you to play the new, I don't know, stained album or whatever. He says me, his ex, the rep, her husband, four people, $3,200. Jeez. The server, it better have been nude. Okay.
SPEAKER 13 : 21:46
So that better have come with like sexual release. I went to a kid's lemonade stand in Malibu.
SPEAKER 14 : 21:52
$75. $75, one glass of Country Time pre-mixed lemon powder. And what is sure to be a highlight moment for the JSS crew as we make our way towards the second half of the year, summer into fall, and eventually the JSS best of at the end of the year, the cartwheel of fortune, the JSS cartwheel invitational as we're getting ready for the summer games, particularly the gymnastics. It's always a big, big moment. for athletes and people that watch the summer games as people love the gymnastics. And Valerie Preactor said she was a great gymnast. We put her up to the task to do a cartwheel. Then Joe said he could do one. Then I said I could do one. Then Tony Thornton said he could do one. And then Trinise from WBAL Newsradio, an incredible reporter, copywriter, and someone that we occasionally have a sound effect play. If you ever hear a sultry woman play a sound effect on the air that goes, oh. Boop. Yeah. That's Trenise. And she came in and did a cartwheel that blew all of ours clean out of the water with a direct torpedo hit. If you want to see all this stuff, it's on our YouTube channel. It's on our Instagram, JSS98ROCK. I was pretty proud of mine. There were some criticisms on there saying I was a little too stiff, I was a little too robotic. I thought I was being accurate and precise. People called me specific. I thought I would have gotten good grades from many of the judges, even those sticklers in Germany. It seems that Trenise and Val were the winners amongst you, and my God, wait till you hear and see Tony Thornton's Yikes. It was the JSS Wheel of Cartwheel Fortune Invitational on Behind the Curtain. It is now time for the 98 Rock Cartwheel Invitational. Someone will be hurt. Someone has already been hurt. Joe Stamboni, how do you feel after your warm-up yesterday? Not great. Fantastic. What happened?
SPEAKER 15 : 23:51
So, yeah, what hurts on you? I feel kind of back to normal now, but yesterday I had to ice my ankle. And my wrist.
SPEAKER 11 : 24:04
Tweaked that ankle.
SPEAKER 14 : 24:05
Will to the FM studio, please. Will to the FM studio. We're going to have him videography this bad boy. Unless Anders is floating around. Yeah, I think we got Anders. We're going to get Anders on this bad boy. Okay. So right outside of Josh's big news window, it is time for the 98 Rock Cartwheel Invitational. Amelia, would you care to try a cartwheel? No, I don't. Fantastic. All right. Here we are. Val, where would you care to go in the lineup? This was sort of your jump. You said that you're an amazing gymnast.
SPEAKER 02 : 24:34
Yeah. I mean, I don't know. Do you want to be wowed and then underwhelmed the rest of the way?
SPEAKER 14 : 24:39
Or do you set the bar high to begin with?
SPEAKER 02 : 24:42
Val, may I? I'm not sure.
SPEAKER 14 : 24:43
May I, Val?
SPEAKER 02 : 24:44
Go for it.
SPEAKER 14 : 24:44
I'm going to smoke your ass in this. You're going to see someone that should be.
SPEAKER 02 : 24:48
What's the grading qualifications? Like straight legs? No, but like what are the details? Like straight legs? How you land? What do we do? You're going down.
SPEAKER 12 : 24:56
Whatever we feel. Okay. Whatever we feel.
SPEAKER 02 : 24:59
How long you hang in the air? Hang time? I think it's just the quality of car.
SPEAKER 14 : 25:03
We don't expect anybody flying through the air. I'm so nervous.
SPEAKER 02 : 25:06
Joe's probably sweating over here already. I don't want to start. I don't want to start.
SPEAKER 14 : 25:09
Who goes first?
SPEAKER 02 : 25:10
Is it just the three of us? Val, you're up. I'll go.
SPEAKER 14 : 25:12
There she goes. All right. Do me a favor. Will, if we could have the door propped open. Can we do it right here? Is there enough room right here? Do you think there's enough room here? Move those trash cans. I'm pretty sure. You think there is?
SPEAKER 08 : 25:21
Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 : 25:21
What do you think? Yeah, I could go this way. You could go? Okay. Head on over to Livewire.
SPEAKER 13 : 25:26
All right, here we go. Oh, she's moving monitors.
SPEAKER 12 : 25:31
She's moving chairs. Oh, be careful. She's moving trash cans. Here we go. This is it. Here we are. Speaks, you watch carefully here. Yeah, I'm watching. Wow. That's a very nice cartwheel. She did a little, like, zhuzh at the end, too. It looked fine to me. How are we grading it? It's up to you guys. It is judge's discretion. It's judge's discretion. You know what I mean? A, B, C, D? A, B, C, D. Yeah. So not, like, out of 10? See, I could do a running one if you were outside. I give that an A-. Wow. Starting off pretty high. I mean, what was wrong with it?
SPEAKER 17 : 26:09
There was nothing wrong with it. No, I'd give it a B. All right. I felt like it was a B. B plus. The B plus is better than B, right? Hey, I only got A pluses in school.
SPEAKER 15 : 26:24
Joe, you're up. Here comes Joe. I don't think I can do it in here. I'm going to break something. No, you'll be all right. You'll be fine.
SPEAKER 02 : 26:29
If I can do it. I've got longer limbs than you.
SPEAKER 12 : 26:31
Listen, if you can't accomplish a cartwheel in this amount of space, you shouldn't be doing one.
SPEAKER 14 : 26:35
Don't forget, this is all in honor of us beginning the 98 Rock Summer Games, JSS versus the Boom Boom Room this Friday, brought to us by Jones Junction on Very Local. Do we have paramedics? Here goes Joe.
SPEAKER 02 : 26:46
No, I know. I tried.
SPEAKER 12 : 26:50
Why are you nervous? It's just the cartwheel. Oh, God. That wasn't bad, I guess.
SPEAKER 16 : 26:57
That was terrible.
SPEAKER 02 : 26:57
Landed.
SPEAKER 16 : 26:58
How do you feel? I was more concerned about him hitting me, so I didn't really pay attention that much.
SPEAKER 14 : 27:06
Joseph. Are you guys surprised?
SPEAKER 16 : 27:09
C plus, I give up.
SPEAKER 14 : 27:10
Trinise to the FM studio, please.
SPEAKER 12 : 27:13
You know what? I'm going to give him a...
SPEAKER 17 : 27:17
I was so impressed with him. I thought he would totally bomb. I'm going to give him a B. Thank you, Josh.
SPEAKER 02 : 27:22
Okay.
SPEAKER 17 : 27:23
You're putting your socks on?
SPEAKER 14 : 27:25
The Israeli judges give him a B. That's the most important score. Okay, Trini's.
SPEAKER 02 : 27:30
Wait, Justin, are you doing it?
SPEAKER 14 : 27:31
I'm actually seeing Trini's put on these socks. Hey, no free feet pics. Get that camera off her. Okay? You want to see them? You're paying for it. I'm not looking at your feet right now.
SPEAKER 12 : 27:38
We have 98 rock socks. Who knew?
SPEAKER 16 : 27:42
I didn't even know that.
SPEAKER 02 : 27:44
Who knew?
SPEAKER 12 : 27:44
Will, are you doing it? Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 02 : 27:47
That's a hard no.
SPEAKER 12 : 27:49
There's a crowd forming around the window.
SPEAKER 14 : 27:51
Okay, here she goes. Janine's preparing. Watch out for the TV. Do not crescent kick the TV. Here we go. We got a new leader in the clubhouse. We got a new leader in the clubhouse.
SPEAKER 12 : 28:08
Okay. What say the judges? I mean, I feel like there was a little more pizzazz than Val's. Yeah, she ended better for sure. I gave Val an A-, so I got to give Trenise an A. Wow.
SPEAKER 17 : 28:22
That's great. What did I give Val? I gave a B+. B-plus. B went to Joe. I would give...
SPEAKER 16 : 28:31
I would give Trinise... Oh, she's back. Uh-oh.
SPEAKER 17 : 28:35
Are you trying to intimidate me?
SPEAKER 11 : 28:37
I gave you an A. Oh, thank you.
SPEAKER 17 : 28:39
All right. Yeah, I'll give you an A, too.
SPEAKER 14 : 28:42
An A! Yes, from the Italian and the Israeli judges. Now have an A. All right, I'm up.
SPEAKER 02 : 28:47
Yes, Justin! All right. We got to do this play-by-play here. Here goes Justin. So Justin, again, trying to move the monitors. We've got... We definitely do have some crowd. Oh, size it up. We do have a crowd outside the window. You got to use all the floor like they do in gymnastics. Yeah, go all the way back. Yep, to the corner.
SPEAKER 12 : 29:07
Well, I mean just to give yourself as much floor as you want. Oh, wow. He's really concentrated. Yeah, he is focusing. He's lining up. He is.
SPEAKER 02 : 29:15
Oh, that's good. That was so good.
SPEAKER 17 : 29:19
Very nice.
SPEAKER 02 : 29:19
See, I actually don't think it helps going first because everyone else is better.
SPEAKER 17 : 29:23
Yeah. Yeah. How's it feel?
SPEAKER 14 : 29:25
I beat you, Val. Thank you, Trinise. Thank you, Trinise. Appreciate you saying that. Oh, f***. Is that everybody? I believe. What did you give Justin? Did we do Thornton? Is Thornton on his way?
SPEAKER 12 : 29:35
No, where's Tony?
SPEAKER 14 : 29:36
Grab Tony. Will, grab Tony, bud. I gave Justin a B+.
SPEAKER 12 : 29:40
Really? That was good.
SPEAKER 14 : 29:42
It was a little stiff.
SPEAKER 12 : 29:44
I went for robotic elegance. Yeah, that's... Did I not have much of a flow?
SPEAKER 02 : 29:48
Next after this... After this, can we do a handstand competition?
SPEAKER 17 : 29:52
No. I thought it adjusted and looked pretty good.
SPEAKER 02 : 29:56
What do you give me?
SPEAKER 17 : 29:58
Let me gaze at you while you say. My first instinct was A+.
SPEAKER 14 : 30:03
Wow! There we go. I'll take it. Here goes Tony. Tony, watch out for the television above you. Just make sure. Watch out.
SPEAKER 02 : 30:11
There's long limbs.
SPEAKER 07 : 30:15
Yoinks.
SPEAKER 14 : 30:16
Yoinks.
SPEAKER 07 : 30:17
Sorry, sorry. That's a D. I give Tony a D. That's a D minus. D minus. D minus for me. A for effort.
SPEAKER 12 : 30:25
Sorry. The guy's coming up on 60. Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 : 30:31
Impressive. Impressive for the AJ. There we go. And that is day one of the JSS Gymnastic Basics. Wow. Incredible. I think at the end, we do have to honor her contributions to the competition. None of Trenise. Trenise with a runaway success. That was so great. A's all the way around.
SPEAKER 16 : 30:49
I'm so proud of her.
SPEAKER 13 : 30:50
Good for you, Trenise. Oh, goodness.
SPEAKER 14 : 30:55
I hurt myself. ever bailed on a date before bethany frankel one of those waspy annoying real housewives she had an instance where she was going to go on a date she saw the date walking across the street she immediately goes nope not for me and then bails on him and continues on her way not wanting to waste her or his time and we started talking about it amongst ourselves we shared some stories And it seemed to be the big consensus amongst people on the text and the tweets. We read some stories off of a thread that I found about it and some of your texts and tweets as well. But it seems to be that in the age of the dating app A and the photo filter B, people are being sold on a bill of goods. And hey, we got a bunch of guys checking in too. Not just a bunch of women saying, hey, this guy said he was a business owner. Nope, he owns crypto. Hey, this guy says he's a sponsored athlete. Nope, he's a wannabe pro gamer. There's a lot of guys saying, man, I saw this woman in her photo and she just had skin like fresh Italian marble. And then she shows up and she looks like the surface of Jupiter. Because, oh, that's right, someone put a bunch of filters on their stuff. What you need to do is the reverse altogether. Ugly yourself up. Make yourself more hideous looking. Jack your hair up. Have a booger hanging out your nose. Blacken an eye with theater makeup. And then when you show up with none of that stuff, they're going to go, my God, I'm dating a supermodel. You've got to flip the script. We talked to you and discussed amongst ourselves, read some great texts and tweets about the times you just had to bail on a date. On Behind the Curtain. How quickly did you bail on that date? Bethany Frankel, real housewife, author, the proprietor of the Skinny Girl alcohol beverage line.
SPEAKER 12 : 32:45
Somebody's saying she got speaks. You remember this? It says Bethany Frankel got her start on Martha Stewart's run of The Apprentice. I didn't know that.
SPEAKER 11 : 32:54
Back in the day, she was on The Apprentice. I did not know that. I did not know that. Let's see here.
SPEAKER 14 : 32:58
That is news to me. Let's get a look. At her origin story. Yeah, 2005. The Apprentice, Martha Stewart, runner-up, 13 episodes. And then immediately, like a couple years later, jumped right to Real Housewives, New York City, and then she was off to the races. Oh, she was even on Beat Bobby Flay. I bet she didn't. Yeah, we got a bunch of stuff here. Let me read some of these to you. I left 45 minutes into a dinner, says Razzle. The guy was nice, really sweet, but all he did was talk about his mother and how much he loathed her and ruined his life. 45 minutes of this. That was it. I just drank my water and nodded. I promptly went to the bathroom, had my roommate text me, come home, there's an emergency. Fast forward later, ran into him in public, had a very sweet exchange, and got to meet his husband.
SPEAKER 12 : 33:54
Somebody says, I went on a date in high school. Ten minutes in, we were in Barnes and Nobles listening to music. Remember when you would go listen to the CDs?
SPEAKER 14 : 34:02
Yeah, yeah. I used to have a local media personality come into my store drunk and listen to jazz.
SPEAKER 12 : 34:07
It says, I saw her with the headphones on. I took my chance to go to the bathroom and never came back.
SPEAKER 14 : 34:13
Damn. This has to suck. Again, 410-338-1098. I went to the bathroom in the middle of a movie date. Never came back. Guy seemed cool at the party where we met. Kind of edgy, kind of funny. Bit of a smartass. I like that. But I realized that that smartass, edgy attitude carried over into the movie. He talked and commented very loudly through the entire first half of the movie. And then when the old woman in front of us quietly shushed him, he told her to go f herself. Oh, he told an old lady that on the first date? Quiet the f down, Gretchen. And then she went to go pretend to make a dumpy and never returned. And he watched the rest of Inside Out, too.
SPEAKER 10 : 34:56
I like when you go to a movie with someone and they say, what?
SPEAKER 17 : 34:59
What did they just say? What? What did they just say in the movie?
SPEAKER 12 : 35:03
Why is he going in there?
SPEAKER 14 : 35:05
Why is he going in that room? That's where the guy with the hatchet is.
SPEAKER 07 : 35:08
Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 : 35:09
Watch the movie. Oh, wow. Oh, this is bad. J.H. Boy, I'm going to really try and edit this. Went to dinner with a ma'am, and it was a Mexican restaurant.
SPEAKER 07 : 35:26
Oh.
SPEAKER 14 : 35:26
And he said the better not mess with my food. One was a cuss word and the other was extremely racist. And she just got up and left. Didn't even like like I'm going to run to the bathroom. The minute he hit her with the he's like, I'm going to head to my car. Take care. Enjoy. Wow. The hell she called. Yeah. Hashtag unexpected racism. What the hell are you doing? Wow, there's a bunch of these. Oh, wow, thank you. Rodney forwarded me a whole Reddit thread full of this stuff. Oh, my God, these are brutal. Oh, my God. I went out on a girl. I went on a girl. I went out with a girl who I met at a party. Tell me if this isn't petty or not. Okay. I went out on a date with a girl. I met at a party on a Saturday. I said we should get dinner later this week. She agreed to. On Tuesday, she arrives wearing the same exact outfit head to toe, and it smelled like she wore the same outfit head to toe.
SPEAKER 12 : 36:28
What about this one? I may do the same exact thing this person did. I was waiting in the parking lot of a restaurant for a date to show up for the text. When she pulled up, she had 14 Beanie Babies on the front dash of her car and a ton of bumper stickers on the rear bumper. I left before even saying hi.
SPEAKER 14 : 36:47
I'm with you. I think that's the right decision. You did a good thing. The Beanie Babies I might be able to look past. Maybe you're childlike. So says the Transformers owner. If I see a quilt of causes on the back, I'm out. Coexist bumper sticker. The minute I see a thousand stances on your car in any way, shape, or form, I'm out. I'm like, you got nothing going on.
SPEAKER 12 : 37:12
I'm going to go on a date with a parrot. I have two stickers on my car, and they're... The only thing I care about the most. And there's stickers for this show. Hell, yeah.
SPEAKER 14 : 37:21
I got a JSS sticker. That's right. And I have my neighborhood identification sticker, so I'm allowed into the pool. JSS. That's about all I got. Oh, my God. Yeah. Wow. Some of these are wild. I'm sorry, man. Too long. Too long. Halfway through, I came to the conclusion. Whoa. Halfway through a date with a man, I told him that I came to the conclusion that I was gay. Wow. Holy hell.
SPEAKER 12 : 37:47
Damn, person converted you. Yeah, told him I'm in love with someone else. I'm sorry. I'm done with men. Plot twist. Yeah, plot twist. Yeah, I mean, listen. Part of me is like, you don't owe anybody anything in this world. You're free will, you're a human being, do whatever the hell you want. But then part of me is like, do you owe it to the person to at least... Be kind and cordial and be like, hey, give him an hour. Give him a reason. Or give him an hour and then be like, no.
SPEAKER 14 : 38:23
Yeah, we're here. Let's figure it out. And at the end, you go, you know what? Didn't work out. There is someone, and I'll tell you off the air.
SPEAKER 12 : 38:32
Because then otherwise, if you just leave like that, you're standing them up. Dude. And then they're sitting there by themselves. You know how awful that is?
SPEAKER 14 : 38:42
We had a story yesterday while you were out. Somebody around these parts went out on a date, and I guess it didn't go great. Maybe there was intimacy. Whoa. Can I read the text? Go on. Can I read the date text? I want to ask first. I want to ask first. I don't want to dial them out. What do you think of the text that we read yesterday during the meeting about the date gone wrong, the date that was bailed on? Speaks, you remember that? What am I saying? You weren't even yesterday. Joe. Joe. Yes. The date text we were laughing about in the meeting.
SPEAKER 15 : 39:22
Oh, my God. It was great.
SPEAKER 14 : 39:24
It was brilliant. Oh, come on, man. I don't want to say this thing because it's very specific. It's someone around here. But they went on a date and it didn't go great. And she tried to dunk on him. And he came back with just the calmest, sweetest. Oh, man. Okay, I'll have to maybe do this during neglected text. It's delicious. So at the technologically advanced, crystalline, futuristic halls of 3800 Hooper Avenue, the citadel of 98 Rock and WBAL TV 11, we still have what you probably have at your place of work, and that's a communal employee fridge. And unless everyone's in on it, together every single cog in the machine works in perfect unison that fridge can get funky and our fridge is no different than yours at your place of business where somebody leaves a sandwich that they bought eight months ago in a deli crisper drawer where it does not stay crisp it liquefies somebody puts their old thai food in there and then that same somebody gets let go and they forget to come and pick up their old asian lunch and what happened was what happened was is recently we've been walking past that fridge because it's on the way to our super secret number two bathroom and there has been a stench in the hallway there has been the stink of a rot a funk from 50 000 years ago and finally we cracked open that fridge and the smell was so gross so noxious that we said to ourselves we got to clean this thing out and bring in the food to smell to find out how long ago it had gone bad. Some of it had merely gone bad weeks ago. Some of it months. Some of it years. And I am concerned that maybe Scott has got something going on with the schnoz because he goes to smell this one bottle of milk. It doesn't hit him very hard. I smell it, and I almost had an eyeball pop out of the socket because I wanted to throw up so hard. We broke it out. We found what was in it. We tried to clean it out. The hallway fridge that reeked of death on behind the curtain. Speaks, do you ever use the secret bathroom in the hallway, or do you go upstairs to the executive floor?
SPEAKER 17 : 41:38
I've never used the secret bathroom. That's not been your thing? No, it's not.
SPEAKER 14 : 41:42
No, no. It reeks back there right now, and not because someone got some bad oysters. The fridge.
SPEAKER 12 : 41:55
Yeah, there's a fridge, a full-size fridge, which used to live in the newsroom, and then they moved it to the hall, and yes, it's on the way to the secret bathroom. So as you pass it to go pee-pee or poo-poo. You catch a whiff of stank. And I'll just say this, Joe. I don't know what the hell you brought me. Can you go back to the fridge and get me something good? Something good? Yeah, there ain't nothing good in here.
SPEAKER 15 : 42:20
What are you talking? Look at the expiration dates on that stuff.
SPEAKER 12 : 42:24
I don't care, but I want to see, like, food that someone brought in.
SPEAKER 15 : 42:27
I don't want to see. There's no real food that anybody brought in, but there is so much expired dairy product.
SPEAKER 14 : 42:34
That's kind of gnarly. What was in there? You went back there. Oh, God. I think that's watermelon.
SPEAKER 15 : 42:41
Watermelon soup.
SPEAKER 14 : 42:42
Okay, so at this point it's just liquefied. Let's look underneath here.
SPEAKER 12 : 42:45
But I mean, I don't need salad dressings, bro.
SPEAKER 14 : 42:47
But that's what's causing the stink.
SPEAKER 12 : 42:49
I don't think it is. I smelled the whole bag. I'm not getting anything.
SPEAKER 14 : 42:52
What am I getting here? Best of use by March of 2024.
SPEAKER 12 : 42:56
Yeah, all these have so much preservatives. I want like a sandwich that somebody brought in that now has hair.
SPEAKER 15 : 43:02
There's none of that. There's got to be.
SPEAKER 12 : 43:04
Well, go look back there.
SPEAKER 15 : 43:06
Look at that. That expired in 2021.
SPEAKER 17 : 43:08
If I go in my refrigerator and go around and I'll throw stuff out even if it's like two weeks before the expiration date. Before?
SPEAKER 14 : 43:21
yeah that's right yeah i just i gotta protect myself yeah i mean you're a high value target i know that they say that the expiration dates are real cya that some of the stuff can last long beyond it but not in regards to years oh what do you got did you get a stink did you get a i haven't gotten it absolutely reeks in the in the refrigerator do you think it's from the drippings in the fridge i oh i'm not smelling nothing you brought me smells
SPEAKER 15 : 43:49
Dude, I mean, it's four years expired dairy product. I don't know how it can't smell.
SPEAKER 12 : 43:54
Here, smell that. Tell me if you get a smell from that. This is June 10th, 2023. So what's that? Dude, it's chunky. What are you talking about? Get a smell. Smell that. I didn't get a smell. Put your nose in there. I mean, you got to shove. It's chunky. Yeah, but you got to shove your nose like. Whoa. You didn't smell that? But I mean. Is this your allergies? No, but I mean, it's not like permeated.
SPEAKER 14 : 44:15
Dude, get back in there. No, you might have a nostril thing. You don't smell that? That's not.
SPEAKER 12 : 44:21
I mean, you had to stick your nose in it. My point is, it's not like.
SPEAKER 15 : 44:27
That hangs out in a confined space for long enough.
SPEAKER 12 : 44:30
April 2022. This is a Fair Life 2% reduced fat milk. This is milk.
SPEAKER 14 : 44:39
Josh, this is my nickname as I get older. Classic white.
SPEAKER 12 : 44:43
This is milk that has been in there. This was best by April 23, 2022. I hate it. This is two-year-old milk.
SPEAKER 14 : 44:53
Dude, you're... Oh, boy. We have to throw that whole fridge away.
SPEAKER 12 : 44:57
I get nothing.
SPEAKER 14 : 44:59
You're getting nothing.
SPEAKER 12 : 45:00
That's two-year-old milk.
SPEAKER 14 : 45:04
It's lightly turning. It ain't this. It ain't whatever Fair Life Yup is, reduced fat, whole filtered milk. This smells like it's going lightly sour. That I'm not getting. That's not really turning my stomach. Go through this.
SPEAKER 08 : 45:16
This on the other hand.
SPEAKER 14 : 45:17
I'm going to run to the fridge real quick.
SPEAKER 08 : 45:18
Go through that.
SPEAKER 14 : 45:20
All right, here, Joe, take that from me. Give that a little whiff. Give the milk milk a whiff. Oh, what do we got here? Big old thing of mayonnaise.
SPEAKER 15 : 45:27
Yeah, this two-year-old milk, not nearly as bad as the four-year-old milk.
SPEAKER 14 : 45:30
This stuff, the mayo, expired in 2020. Yeah. Okay, I'm not... What do we got here? Let's go crack this open. It's been... It smells tangy, but it's not repulsive. The yup, the yup messed my stomach up. The yup has ruined my day. Yup should be called nope. Oh, is that an egg? I don't want anything to do with that. Hardwood eggs suck when they're fresh. Shake it real good. Ew, dude, it's got liquor. Oh, yuck. Work with savages, man. Absolute savagery in this building. Is this a bag of shredded cheese? Someone back here making pizzas? Someone got a brick oven pizza somewhere around here? Oh, it's so dry. All right. This is from our, again, we're looking at our hallway communal fridge that, okay, for a while now, we're doing what a lot of offices do. They want to actually fix the problem. They'll leave a note for someone to fix the problem. And then there's a funny game of note tennis where some of them will write a note on the note and then the original note writer. And meanwhile, something could just be getting done, but we'll just make zany notes. Yeah. Here we go.
SPEAKER 07 : 46:36
Oh, that's bad.
SPEAKER 14 : 46:38
That smells like BV. Get a little pull on that. Get a little tug on that. How's that treating you?
SPEAKER 07 : 46:43
Go ahead. Oh! We found him!
SPEAKER 12 : 46:48
That's what I wanted. That's what I wanted.
SPEAKER 07 : 46:49
That. Go for it. Take that to the guy.
SPEAKER 14 : 46:54
Take that to the OBGYN Kenobi. That's it. We found patient zero. That's definitely a culprit. Whoa. Wow. Someone was swimming in the water at Secrets.
SPEAKER 13 : 47:09
Here, hold on. Look at this.
SPEAKER 14 : 47:10
Oh, dude. Oh, my God. Oh, no.
SPEAKER 12 : 47:14
I can't. I can't. I can't. I already know I can't. I already know I can't. What is that? Veggie cream cheese that's turned. It's turned. It's turned. Get it away. Get it away. Dude, we are disgusting in this building. Throw my lunch away. That has turned. Dude, look at this. Look at this. What is that? Look at that. That's what I'm talking about. Oh, my God. I can't even look. Oh, my God.
SPEAKER 14 : 47:41
This is the one. Okay. You know what? Maybe we do need a sign in the secret bathroom teaching us how to wash our hands. Because we don't know how to throw away food years after we should have. Oh, no.
SPEAKER 1 : 47:54
What is that?
SPEAKER 12 : 47:55
Oh, no, no, no.
SPEAKER 15 : 47:57
Oh, dude. It looks like it's alive.
SPEAKER 12 : 47:59
That was salad.
SPEAKER 15 : 48:00
That looks like afterbirth.
SPEAKER 12 : 48:02
I can't.
SPEAKER 14 : 48:05
I want to die. Get that out of here. Oh, my God. Take this bag from me. Take that. Get it away from me. Look at this.
SPEAKER 12 : 48:13
I can't.
SPEAKER 14 : 48:13
Okay. Coffee will be the second worst thing that's ever gone on this board.
SPEAKER 12 : 48:17
Get pictures of all this. Put it up online. People need to see the filth we live in. Oh, my God.
SPEAKER 15 : 48:23
Oh, man. It smells toxic. Yeah, it is.
SPEAKER 14 : 48:27
That smells hallucinatory. Like if you ingested that, you would trip balls. I hurt my hernia by coughing. Oh, my God. Both my eyes are watering now.
SPEAKER 15 : 48:36
Let's get this out of here. We put Josh through enough.
SPEAKER 14 : 48:40
Everything sucks and I want to die. Frederick Police Chief Jason Lando. This is a guy that we wanted to talk to because the Frederick Police Department was recently on a pretty popular program, one Scott loves, On Patrol Live. It's the new version of COPS, but it's actually live. COPS was prerecorded On Patrol Live. embeds a camera crew with men and women of various police departments around the country, and they recently did it in our very own beloved Frederick, Maryland. So we said, hey, let's get into the specifics. How does this happen? Who reaches out to who? Who gets paid? You'll find out a very interesting fact about people being paid or not paid to appear on this show. But Police Chief Jason Lando is a guy that I am glad is out there. The man himself is fascinating. Not just the fact that the Frederick Police Department was on On Patrol Live, but this guy himself. He's got bachelor's degrees. He's got master's degrees. This guy was put in charge of massive thousand-person programs to reunite that sort of stretched, broken, torn bond between police departments and maybe a less-than-trusting community. This guy, Jason, Police Chief Jason Lando, he's pretty incredible. And I wish there was a thousand more of him out there. And he's the type of guy that if you love police officers the way that I do, this is the guy that you show as a shining example. And if you're one of those people that don't trust police officers, maybe somebody like a Chief Jason Lando could help change your mind that there are amazing men and women that do truly have your best interests in mind as being a police officer, a police chief, and someone that got to have his entire department on On Patrol Live. Enjoy. Chief Jason Landau on Behind the Curtain. Live PD.
SPEAKER 12 : 50:35
And now it's On Patrol Live. One of Spieg's favorite networks, Reels. Friday, Saturday nights, 9 p.m. to midnight, On Patrol Live. They follow somewhere in the ballpark of seven or eight police departments from all around the country live on Friday and Saturday nights. And I guess the last two, three weeks, he'll let us know. A new police department was on board with On Patrol Live. Dan Abrams and everyone there in New York City in the control center. Frederick P.D., Frederick Maryland. And joining us, Chief of Police Jason Lando. Good morning. Morning. Good morning. How are you guys this morning?
SPEAKER 14 : 51:14
Very well. Is it officer? Is it chief? How do I give your just desserts for the title?
SPEAKER 01 : 51:21
Well, I've been told I'm the chief, but you can just call me Jason. Okay.
SPEAKER 14 : 51:24
Well, I'll call you Chief Landau. You've got a bachelor's degree in emergency medicine. You've got your master's degree in legal studies. I mean, you're a man that even – I'm looking at a picture of you. You look like you were physically put on this earth to fight crime.
SPEAKER 01 : 51:42
Well, you know, I'd like to think so, but, yeah, thank you. You guys obviously have done your research on me, I see.
SPEAKER 12 : 51:49
How does it all go down, Chief, where Frederick is now on an extremely highly watched show Friday and Saturday nights where they showcase the police departments around the country? I would say a lot of police departments do not want to be featured on the show, but now you guys are a part of it. How long are you going to be on it? How does it go down? How do you make it on to On Patrol Live?
SPEAKER 01 : 52:14
So one of their producers reached out to me about a year ago and said, I guess they don't have any departments in Maryland, and they were doing some research, and they read up on the Frederick Police Department and just some of the things that we're doing, both to, you know, take care of our cops and also the way we take care of our community, some of the programs we have. And they just felt that we would be a good department to highlight. And obviously, you know, as a chief, you're a little bit like – A little skeptical, you know, you want to, is this going to be something that's good for the department? Is it going to be good for the community? So we got together as a command staff and we talked about it. And, you know, I understand why some chiefs would turn down this opportunity, but I've been so impressed with our officers and our professional staff since I have been here. I've been with the agency for a little over three years. And, you know, on a daily basis, I get emails and phone calls from the community that just talk about the way our officers have taken care of them on a certain incident or when, when above and beyond, um, you know, to do something to take care of people. And, uh, I thought, you know, I owe it to our team to highlight the great work they do. Uh, and I don't have concerns that they are going to do something to embarrass the agency. Um, I think that, uh, I really want to, you know, shout them out and highlight the great work they do every day. So we ultimately did agree to do this. It's been a year in the making. Um, kind of behind the scenes working with the attorneys, the command staff, various people to come up with the contract language. So this was not like an overnight development. This has been in the works for a while.
SPEAKER 14 : 53:50
And I know a lot of police departments around the country, you know, sometimes they can struggle with recruiting. And, you know, after I watch an episode of Deadliest Catch, all I want to do is just go out on the Bering Sea. Or after I watch some stupid house flipping show, I'm like, I could do this. I definitely can't. When you have an episode of an On Patrol Live that shows the excellent men and women in the Frederick Police Department, do you ever get calls or anybody that might have seen the television show that might have seen Frederick Police in action and go, I think I might want to do this? It could kind of be, in a roundabout way, an interesting recruiting tool.
SPEAKER 01 : 54:26
Well, 100%. I mean, that's one of the biggest reasons why, you know, obviously to showcase what our is for those that are looking potentially for a career in law enforcement to consider the Frederick Police Department because of the way we portray ourselves when we're on the show. So absolutely, we're hoping this is a recruitment tool. Way too early in the game to tell, but I can tell you that the hits to our website and our social media have gone up dramatically. Now, is that just people that are kind of interested in the show? That could be. But we do plan with our recruiters to find some way to collect that data so when we start accepting applications in the next round, we can see, like, is the show having an effect on that?
SPEAKER 12 : 55:13
It's Chief Jason Lando, Frederick Police Department. Now part of the lineup, Friday, Saturday nights, 9 to midnight, Reels, On Patrol, Live. Is there any kind of financial compensation? How does that work?
SPEAKER 01 : 55:27
No, thank you for asking that. Some people think that we're getting paid for this. That is not the case. The officers do not get paid. The city doesn't get paid. The only thing that we are compensated for is... Our command staff members are monitoring the live feed. They take turns monitoring the live feed just in case there's anything that we think shouldn't be aired, any sensitive material or sensitive information. There's a slight delay, so we have that opportunity to pull anything that shouldn't go to air. And those... commanders are reimbursed for their time because they're doing it off duty. And that's the only money at all that's involved in this. Otherwise, we just, you know, we do it because of the benefits to the agency.
SPEAKER 14 : 56:08
And you have a fascinating history, Chief Lando, that obviously 2015, you know, the killing of Freddie Gray and, you know, the disturbances, riots around here. And then nationally, there became a much more pronounced, amplified distrust of the police. And you yourself were a part of this national initiative for building community trust and justice where you actually led a three-year program for 1,000 officers that it seemed like the purpose of was to create community-facing versions of your practices and training where you kind of leaned into it and tried to rebuild the trust by the sounds of it amongst police departments and the community that you serve. You did that, I believe, in Pittsburgh and then took it to Frederick. How important is that, that work that you did with the NIB, was it NIBC, into now?
SPEAKER 01 : 57:08
Yeah, no, thanks for asking. I did 21 years with the Pittsburgh police and retired as a commander before I came here. And, you know, I was, as a younger officer, I was very traditional, right? Like I went to work every day and it was like, You know, we chased cars and we pulled people over and wrote tickets and arrested people. And I was lucky that at a fairly young age on the department, I worked for a very forward-thinking chief. that at the time said, hey, you know, there's a lot more in policing than just pulling people over and writing tickets and making arrests. We have to do the work to build the trust of the community. And it was the first time I'd really kind of given thought to that. And so I was asked to become part of this initiative and eight of us. joined six other police departments around the country we got some some formal training from some professionals in the field and then we then trained our entire department on some some community building type training building trust and and justice in the community and there was so much momentum in the community when they found out that we were doing this internally that we began receiving requests to do this training externally so we began working with the community doing sessions where we brought cops and community members together to talk about the expectations on each side. And it really, for me, it really opened my eyes. Like, this is a team effort. Like, it can't just be the police on one side and the community on the other. We have to work together if we want to have trust and have safe communities. And so that's kind of where I, what took me into, like, the next level in my career, which was becoming a police chief. And that's kind of the philosophy I use every day.
SPEAKER 12 : 58:53
Speaking of the next level, we're talking to Chief Jason Lando, Frederick Police Department. You can catch him now on On Patrol Live Fridays and Saturdays. With these big national cases, whether it be like a Freddie Gray or George Floyd, where – Policing is now under a microscope, and I see it as I watch the show that some things needed to change, and I feel like they are changing just in the way – Police officers conduct themselves. I see a lot of – I know de-escalation is a big part of it. I'll see a lot of times when there is like a high-speed chase, the officers that were involved in that chase where the adrenaline can be going and they hop out of a car and they are jacked up, they will take that officer, kind of remove them, and maybe swap out some officers that are maybe a little more – Relaxed. Can you speak to that, how policing and police training has changed over the last maybe five to ten years?
SPEAKER 01 : 59:58
Yeah, I think you kind of hit the nail on the head when we talk about de-escalation. That's a huge piece. I remember when I was a young officer, I was working in the narcotics unit. There hadn't been a lot of focus on de-escalation. And I got complaints filed against me. I got involved in some situations that I probably did not need to be involved in. And so I think that focusing on the de-escalation Really focusing on a robust use of force training in the police academy and talking about different options that are available to us, different tools.
SPEAKER 12 : 60:34
You know, we didn't even have tasers when I was going to say nonlethal is a huge part of this point.
SPEAKER 01 : 60:40
Yeah. And then the other thing we talk about is sometimes like. creating distance like right when when is it when do we say hey it's okay right now to like create some distance call for more help let's let's let's bring the temperature down a little bit yeah and so you know one of the things we did in frederick was about three years ago we started a program it's one of the only uh you hear this uh called the co-responder model where they often put like a police officer and a therapist together or a firefighter and a therapist We have a model in Frederick, we call it the tri-responder model. We have a police officer, a paramedic, and a therapist, and every day they go out together and they handle calls. for people in mental health crisis. And I think about how many incidents across the country did the police get called and someone's in the middle of a mental health crisis, and that police officer, through no fault of their own, is not the best person equipped to deal with those.
SPEAKER 12 : 61:36
I'll watch, like, Live PD, and there'll be a guy who'll be whacked out on drugs. And you know he's whacked out. And they're like, bro, sit down. Bro, sit down. And it's like the guy can't. He's not going to respond like a sober mind would. Right. Like you're trying to speak to him like he's a sober man and he's not. And I get you're trying to. But it's like you need to figure out a different way. Like you can't just force this guy to sit down. So the fact that you have therapists and people there to help these officers navigate situations. One last question before we let you go. And this is a big question, but I'll just throw it out there. When you look at Baltimore, what are your thoughts? Thank God I live in Frederick.
SPEAKER 01 : 62:13
No, I mean, listen, they have different issues. You know, it's just it's totally different. And this is not this is not a slam on anyone else. It's just they have different issues. They have different struggles than we have. And so I certainly am in no position to pass judgment on another department. They're a very busy agency. I think they do the absolute best they can, and I'm certainly not the guy to make judgment on another department. You know, it's just we have different resources, we have different call types, and I think we're all just doing the best we can. Can you find hope? Yeah, I absolutely do. But this isn't something that's going to change overnight, and I think a lot of places think that you're going to bring in Like you're going to bring in a police chief or you're going to do a program and overnight it's going to change. And this sometimes, I mean, this can take a generation. This can take two or three different police administrations to get things where they need to be.
SPEAKER 14 : 63:09
It almost feels like when your team drafts a new quarterback fresh out of college, you're like, there we go. All of our team's misgivings and failures are now over. And then they still end up going four and 13. Well, you're doing great work in Frederick. It's so cool to see a city that I love. I kind of want to retire in. Frederick, get to be on On Patrol Live. And we're glad you guys were able to put your best foot forward nationally. It's on reels. And we appreciate your time, Chief Lando. Thank you for having us on. Wow, all of you have dislocated something. How many of you have tripped, fallen, blown out a shoulder, taken out a knee, a hip, wrists, and more? We started talking about dislocations on the air. Baltimore Orioles had a player suffer a dislocation of the elbow this week, and poor Jorge bent that damned elbow in the wrong direction. And we thought to ourselves, God, I bet some of our listeners, we've seen you stumbling drunk at an event before. Had to have fallen down, I don't know, a steep hill, maybe a slippery linoleum floor, maybe up or down a fire escape and dislocated something. What we didn't know was how many of you have done that and the pain. The pain therein, many of you described as, over the calls, over the texts, as feeling like hot boiling water had been poured down you, but internally. like a wave of pain. You could feel the pain, not just at the site of the dislocation, but you felt it like down the arm where the shoulder had been dislocated, down the leg where the hip had been dislocated. And I don't wish it upon anybody to suffer a dislocation. You popped it out. Could you pop it back in? What the hell happened? We talked to you about what you dislocated on Behind the Curtain. What the hell did you do to that limb? What did you dislocate? Jorge Mateo, Gunnar Henderson slam into each other. Mateo's elbow bends in a way that an elbow should not bend. The still shot is one of the ones you look at and you have an immediate visceral reaction.
SPEAKER 12 : 65:10
The way after, too, the way it was like he had that, like it was just hanging. You know what I mean? He's like, he got up and the arm was just like hanging. Just a dead limb hanging. Mine, too, has always fascinated me with Mike with the term in parentheses there. Yeah, Mike, good morning. What's up, buddy?
SPEAKER 14 : 65:29
Hey, how you guys doing? You used to be double jointed. Yeah, double jointed.
SPEAKER 03 : 65:37
Well, yeah, when I was growing up, my mother always said I tripped over my own feet all the time, so they took me And for a doctor appointment, doctors told him I was double-jointed.
SPEAKER 12 : 65:47
That's an actual, like, diagnosis? Like, you can go in there and a doctor will be like, hey, you're double-jointed?
SPEAKER 03 : 65:52
Well, that's what they told my parents. I don't think it was, like, a diagnosis, but I guess the reason why I was so clumsy as a kid.
SPEAKER 12 : 66:00
And how did that, like, so what was double-jointed and what could you do?
SPEAKER 03 : 66:04
Well, what I could do, I could grab... My hands in front of me, both my hands grabbing together, and I could take them all the way over my head. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Down my back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bring my feet back through them without ever letting go.
SPEAKER 12 : 66:17
That's right. Damn. The shoulders could just go all the way around.
SPEAKER 03 : 66:20
So does that lend itself to being... Yeah, and I guess it would pop out a joint.
SPEAKER 14 : 66:22
I was about to say, is that a version of having them pop out of the joint? Would it lend itself to them dislocating?
SPEAKER 03 : 66:33
Was it ever painful? When I was growing up, it wasn't painful. I could do it back and forth, back and forth. It never bothered me. That's a good party trick.
SPEAKER 14 : 66:41
That is a pretty sweet party trick.
SPEAKER 03 : 66:42
Yeah, a good party trick.
SPEAKER 14 : 66:43
Yeah, thank you for the call, Mike. I'm trying to find a picture. All of Mudge's fingers, all ten of them, are double jointed. Can she bend them all the way back? They're double jointed. So it looks like a Z. It is. She calls them her witch fingers. Yeah, the witch fingers. The witch fingers are pretty crazy. Mudge, if you're listening, send a picture. I'm going to show the fellas. Let's go to Ray on line three. Ray, good morning. What did you dislocate?
SPEAKER 05 : 67:16
Hey, good morning, fellas. It was my right shoulder back around maybe 10 or 11 years ago. Mm-hmm. And, uh, so I was in one of our police academies here in Maryland and we, uh, we were doing our ground fight and, um, the guy was, you know, the guy was fighting with, he was, you know, trying to put me to sleep and, you know, he was laying on his back on the mat and I had my back to his chest. Well, when I went to roll out of it, he grabbed a hold of my arm and You know, the force, that counterforce just popped that shoulder right out.
SPEAKER 14 : 67:54
So what do you do in that moment? Do you wave it off like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, stop this, stop the match?
SPEAKER 05 : 67:59
Well, after that immediate rush of what felt like somebody pouring just boiling water down the inside of my arm, you know, I kind of stood up and realized I couldn't really move it. And the instructor started coming over, and I just grabbed my arm and just pulled it back forward, and it popped it back in.
SPEAKER 14 : 68:19
Oh, my God. And think about that, too. So you were training in a training scenario to be in a street fight with a criminal. Maybe you don't have access to your weapon. In a situation like that, you are allowed to just stop, hold on. Right. Exactly. In a street fight.
SPEAKER 12 : 68:34
In real life?
SPEAKER 14 : 68:34
Hell no. You're not going to get a timeout with a crackhead who's got a pipe wrench. Oh! I've seen that before in some MMA stuff. A guy will just get slammed to the ground, the shoulder pops out, and they've got to, like, pop it right back in, or there's a medical. It's over. They call the doctor in, and the doctor will usually wave it off. Thank you, Ray. Let's go to Kyle, who's been patiently holding. Kyle, what happened to your knee?
SPEAKER 18 : 68:58
So I shattered my knee playing tackle football in high school. We were playing in an open field and everything and didn't realize there was like this concrete cement block hidden in the grass. And I just happened to be tackled coincidentally in the exact spot as this cement block was and it shattered my knee on impact.
SPEAKER 14 : 69:20
That's a little bit more than a dislocation. I would say, what do they call that, like a flower fracture or something?
SPEAKER 18 : 69:27
Yeah, that's probably a good term for it. It looks nice and pretty.
SPEAKER 14 : 69:31
I mean, when you hit the top of a kneecap, it flowers outward. It's essentially what I did to mine. Yes, they looked down at the bleeding marigolds in my legs. Yeah, I don't think you're going to be popping that thing back into the socket. Oh, God, what a great name. Josh, Josh, what the hell did you do to your elbow at work?
SPEAKER 04 : 69:51
Morning, guys. I worked. I worked at a middle school, and I was in a custodial closet, and it apparently had been flooded. So I went in to turn off the water real quick, slipped and fell, landed on my right arm. And when I landed on it, it dislocated. So when I stood up, I looked at my arm and noticed it, freaked out, and immediately tried to, like, get it back in place, which I did. But I ended up fracturing the piece that keeps it from dislocating.
SPEAKER 08 : 70:21
Uh-huh.
SPEAKER 04 : 70:22
So thankfully, I didn't need surgery or anything. It healed on its own. But I actually ended up passing out from the pain after I went and got myself some help. So that was pretty brutal.
SPEAKER 12 : 70:32
Well, that's what I was going to ask. Like, I wonder, sometimes you see these things that happen, and they're so traumatic that the body almost shuts off. You don't feel anything?
SPEAKER 14 : 70:42
When your body goes into shock because...
SPEAKER 04 : 70:44
yeah your internal computer knows we can't handle this level of pain we're just going to turn you off so like when it first happened was the pain immediately excruciating or was it almost like no pain so at first it was almost like no pain but then when i reset it reset it and that's when all the pain set in um and like i said i had to kind of it was the summertime so there wasn't a whole lot of people in the building so i actually had to go get myself some help and When I finally did, they sat me down. No sooner did I sit down, I actually passed out.
SPEAKER 12 : 71:13
Yeah, you had a light, had to pass out.
SPEAKER 04 : 71:16
Yeah, the ride to the hospital was pretty brutal, though, because that's when the pain was probably the worst. And it was a bumpy ride all the way to the hospital with no pain medicine. Why?
SPEAKER 12 : 71:24
They didn't give you nothing? Did they give you anything good, a little morphine or something?
SPEAKER 04 : 71:28
They gave me nothing in the ambulance. I had to wait until I got into the hospital and into a room before I got anything pain-related. Wow.
SPEAKER 12 : 71:37
I just got a photo. No, no, I don't want it. I don't want it. I don't want it. Okay, I want it.
SPEAKER 14 : 71:43
Okay, you're gonna.
SPEAKER 12 : 71:44
Okay, I want it.
SPEAKER 14 : 71:45
One of my neighbors. Yeah, I want it. She was a cheerleader and a stunt cheerleader. Yes, she was. She was not caught. Dislocated knee and ankle.
SPEAKER 12 : 72:00
That leg is going every which way.
SPEAKER 14 : 72:02
Want to get a look?
SPEAKER 12 : 72:03
Oh, that leg is going all sorts of ways.
SPEAKER 14 : 72:05
I've seen worse. You want to see worse? Yeah. Want to see the other leg? Yeah. That's leg one. That's leg two. You ready to shock me yet? What the hell? Oh, my God. How have I danced with this woman? What a treat getting to talk to a man in studio who I've loved in films both horror and comedy, Lil Rel Howery. He showed up on Friday. He's at Magoobie's tonight. Get Out, Us, and Nope But then you look into the career prior to that, in the early 2000s, up until that big break. This is a dude, Lil Rel, that slugged it out in the trenches of comedy, in the trenches of improv, in the trenches of sketch, in Chicago. A hard-nosed comedy city that we actually discussed. We talked to him about where he came up in Chicago. Because everybody's always talking about New York this or L.A. that. Now these days, everybody's... running after Rogan's balls in Austin. Well, he came up in Chicago with some absolute heavyweights, and he was awesome. And I'll tell you this, behind the curtain, on behind the curtain, he was even nicer off the air. He's one of those guys that you get to hang out with and talk to when the mics are off, when he could be cold, when he could be buried in his phone. He could not have been cooler, more complimentary, and it was a pleasure. So we got a chance to talk to him. Go see him tonight at Magoobies. We were joined in studio by Lil Rel Howery on behind the curtain. All right. Lil Rel joining us in studio. And you and I were catching up off air. Magoobies this weekend. Magoobies.com. Joe, get that link up because I want this thing. I want people hanging out of the rafters for this bitch. You and I knew a guy by the name of Jermaine Fowler who was in a sequel to one of the most legendary comedies of all time, Coming to America. Yeah. And he was in Sorry to Bother You, Great Shows, Superior Donuts. That should have lasted longer than it did. Yep. You knew him around, where did you first meet Jermaine?
SPEAKER 09 : 74:26
So we first met for the Unliving Color reboot. So that's how we met before we even did Friends of the People. Friends of the People is actually because of the Unliving Color reboot. Okay. But we met, and it's so funny because even to this day, I was, at that time, I'm still the oldest, but everybody got kids now. But at that time, I was the only one with children. He wanted to use the per diem to go buy video games. I was sending it home today. he was like yo let's go get xbox i was like no no i have to buy diapers fam yeah you know i got a little one that relies on me but he got on my i like was so irritated with him and it wasn't until i saw him at a comedy club yeah and i was like i get it and we figured out we both were huge eddie murphy fans and that is how we actually connected but at first He annoyed the hell out of me.
SPEAKER 14 : 75:13
I think every scene has got someone like that where at first you're like, I don't like him. I don't get him.
SPEAKER 09 : 75:20
He was just too happy. He was like a happy little kid.
SPEAKER 14 : 75:24
I never saw Jermaine upset ever. The thing is, he'd get off stage and he'd keep going back in the couch in the back of the room out front when people are having a smoke. and the car ride there. I mean, he was so young at the time. We'd give him rides to and from shows. Famously, you'd hear about Dave Chappelle, D.C., was so young, other people like Tony Rock were sneaking him in. The Fat Doctor were sneaking him in. Jermaine was like that to us. But your career, you come from Chicago, which, I mean, you think about it now. I know everybody's migrating to Austin for comedy, but the real unsung epicenter of comedy for the longest time Chicago, you got Second City. You got you. You have Kyle Kinane. Hannibal Buress.
SPEAKER 09 : 76:10
Hannibal Buress. T.J. Miller. Oh, T.J. Miller was in there. It's a gang of people. And, you know, Dion Cole. Like, it's a gang. And this thing about, you know, I'm doing a comedy festival there in September, the What's Funny Comedy Festival in Chicago. It's our first year. And that's one of the reasons why I wanted to bring a comedy festival to Chicago, because I think Chicago still is the mecca for stand-up.
SPEAKER 14 : 76:32
Yeah, it really was. I mean, you had Second City. Some of the greatest improvisational sketch artists that went on to an SNL, that went to a Mad TV, they went through Chicago.
SPEAKER 09 : 76:42
You had to go through Chicago just to get on those shows at the time. Kumail Nanjiani, another dude, Chicago guy. It's people I'm still learning to this day that went through the Second City part of it. Wow. And that's so crazy to me. That's like huge stars on SNL had to go through Chicago.
SPEAKER 14 : 76:59
We were talking earlier about the horror genre and you get a comedian like a Jordan Peele that directs something like Get Out that you got that first role in. Another guy that jumps to mind that you're like, God, you're so funny. Where did this darkness come from? Is John Krasinski from The Office?
SPEAKER 12 : 77:14
Yeah, that's right.
SPEAKER 14 : 77:14
He goes and does A Quiet Place. And you're like, what the hell? Or before that, Robin Williams, One Hour Photo.
SPEAKER 09 : 77:22
Dude, I used to love that movie. Robin Williams is literally my favorite comedic actor of all time. Really? It's between him and Bernie Mac. Oh, my God. Honestly. Talk about a legend. For Robin to be the silliest person we can see and then make us cry in another movie, that's crazy.
SPEAKER 14 : 77:41
Who would you think, and I've heard this before because you said the name Bernie Mac.
SPEAKER 05 : 77:44
Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 : 77:45
Around here, I can't speak to other comedy scenes, there's a lot of dudes doing Bernie Mac. Yeah. During him, when he was still with us, and after he passed. You're like, you're doing a Bernie Mac impression. Who do you think is the most imitated comedian right now? Like the young comics might be inspired by. And then you go, I think you're kind of doing a tribute version.
SPEAKER 12 : 78:04
Yeah, there's that like fine line right between being like inspired by and then kind of just like doing you're doing the right.
SPEAKER 09 : 78:11
I don't know. It always kind of depends on who's on fire. Right. Because I mean, at one time, like when Kevin, I mean, Kevin, still Kevin, but like when Kevin was on fire, Kevin Hart. But right now, it's hard to tell because stand-up is just in a weird place. With the internet comedians, it's just a weird time. I don't know what's going on. You think it's a good time or it's a weird time? It's kind of weird.
SPEAKER 14 : 78:35
It seems like they're selling out stadiums.
SPEAKER 09 : 78:37
You got Kill Tony filling up the... But the shows are like... Because now people are just doing crowd work and not necessarily doing bits. It's a lot of... It's just kind of weird.
SPEAKER 14 : 78:48
Have you seen Casey Rockett? No. Look this guy up. He's one of the guys that came out of the womb of Kill Tony that he's there. They call him like the riff master. He's not doing crowd work, but he's not doing bits. He's like riffing off the top of his head. And some of it is so maniacally genius. And then some of it you feel like you've taken hallucinogenics. It's very interesting. It's just it's a different type of comedy. The crowd laughing. Well, people did that before Sinbad was dead.
SPEAKER 09 : 79:13
Sinbad didn't write that stuff. Sinbad was freestyling most of those specials. Really? Yes.
SPEAKER 14 : 79:18
Like his specials, not even just like showcases.
SPEAKER 09 : 79:21
Specials he was riffing. My last special was that. I didn't write anything. I just did it because I was shooting too many movies at the same time. You didn't have time to get up and work stuff out. Nope. Just went and had a great time. It was like, well, that's it.
SPEAKER 12 : 79:33
Damn. It's our little rally. It's going to be at Gooby's Joke House this weekend. Go see him. He's hilarious. Of course, Wolverine, Deadpool coming out. Ryan Reynolds is just white hot right now. You were in Free Guy, which the concept for that movie, it's still like I remember I watched it. I was like, I watched it. I sat down. I'm like with my daughter. I'm like, you got to watch this. And I didn't know if she was going to get it because it takes place inside of a video game. And Ryan Reynolds is what's called an NPC, which is a non-playable character that just kind of fill out the world. They're just there.
SPEAKER 09 : 80:09
But then he starts to realize... You explained that movie better than any press thing I did for that movie. Yeah, because it's hard to explain. You're really good. You explained it.
SPEAKER 12 : 80:17
But then he becomes self-aware that he's like, hey, wait, I'm in a video game and I'm like an NPC. But then he starts to realize that he can... Like think for himself. Yeah. And it's such a brilliant idea. And just give us some insight into because Ryan Reynolds is he has solidified a place on my man crush list. He is hilarious. He's stunning. He's everything. He's one of my favorite people in the world.
SPEAKER 07 : 80:40
Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 : 80:41
I mean, in general, he's like one of my favorite people. And I'm a huge Ryan Reynolds fan. Yeah. And so, like, even when we shot the movie, I remember, like, our first scene shooting, and he did his line, and I was just staring at him. You're supposed to speak now, bro.
SPEAKER 08 : 80:56
You have a line.
SPEAKER 09 : 80:56
I literally told the whole crew, like, look, I'm sorry. I never met him before. I'm nervous. I'm entranced. I'm sort of enchanted. I'm not even lying to you. Oh, yeah. Because it was like, oh, you really do look like you.
SPEAKER 12 : 81:09
Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 : 81:09
In person. And you're funny and you're doing the right. I felt like I was standing there watching the movie and I forgot I was in the movie.
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room we talk with people that have sugar daddies and sugar babies. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne find out how people get sugar daddies or babies and what the relationship is like. What are people asking for? How much is their allowance? Hit play and find out!
Lil Rel stops by the studio to catch up on his latest projects. Discover the humble beginnings of his career, his encounters with comedy greats, and behind-the-scenes stories that are sure to make you laugh.
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room we talk with the former assistant to John Lennon and Yoko Ono then lover of John Lennon, May Pang! Tune in to hear May Pang tell tales of her time with John Lennon, her love of photography, and so much more. You don't want to miss this. So hit play! It's that easy.
Join us as we celebrate Josh's birthday with a stream of unexpected and delightful gifts.
Are you divorcing someone over sitting in the car? Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room talk about a woman divorcing her husband over sitting in his car before coming home from work. How do we feel about sitting in the car after work? Hit play to find out.
We talk to Chief Jason Lando about the Frederick Police Department's participation in the show "On Patrol: Live". We discuss the reasons behind joining the show, the preparations involved, and the benefits of showcasing police work on national television.
We delve into some of the most cringeworthy date moments shared by our listeners, so bad that you had to leave early.
Description Chapter Markers Transcript Join us as David Arquette opens up about his journey from Hollywood to the wrestling ring. Hear firsthand accounts of his time filming The Good Half under director Robert Schwartzman, and the intense physical and emotional demands of professional wrestling featured in the documentary, You Cannot Kill David Arquette.
00:00:00 Introduction with David Arquette 00:01:03 Role in The Good Half 00:02:20 Working with Director Robert Schwartzman 00:03:24 Overview of The Good Half 00:04:47 You Cannot Kill David Arquette Documentaries 00:06:57 Fan Reactions and Wrestling Journey 00:08:03 Character Dynamics in The Good Half 00:08:50 Closing Thoughts SPEAKER 02 : 0:00
Good morning, Justin Scott and Spiegel. Joining me on the phone, this guy you've grown up with through, I mean, God, where do you even start with a guy like this? I still have multiple copies of Ready to Rumble. I still watch Never Been Kissed when it's on. Eight-legged freaks every Halloween. And he's got a new film out, The Good Half, alongside Nick Jonas joining me on the program. Good morning, Mr. David Arquette. How are you? Hey, good. How are you, Justin? I'm good, man. I read the bio for this new film, and I'm kind of fascinated with what I read here. The good half, you're in it, Nick Jonas is in it, and I like the description of your character because you see David Arquette in something, you're thinking, there's going to be a good guy. There's going to be a comedic foil. There's going to be somebody you're cheering for. But I immediately read, untrustworthy stepfather. And I go, oh, my God, did they put him in a bit of a son-of-a-bitch role? Talk to me about you, the good half of your role, and working alongside Nick Jonas.
SPEAKER 01 : 1:03
Yeah, I play Rick, the stepfather. I kind of make all the plans. I make all the plans for the kids coming home, but I don't really take any of their feelings into consideration. So Nick Jonas plays a character named Ren who's returning to Cleveland to – unfortunately, bury his mother. And his sister is Brittany Snow. And I'm their stepfather. And I just, I do all these weird things where I hire a priest, even though she's Jewish. I take them to this funeral place. I have a, you know, casket budget, all this stuff. We get into this big blowout argument after the memorial gathering, and we kind of have it out there.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:55
And I like this director. I've seen some of his films before, but I wasn't aware of who he was. Robert Schwartzman, he was from the band Rooney. And he did some projects like The Virgin Suicides, some stuff, Princess Diaries. He recently directed a film I love called The Argument with Dan Fogler, Emma Bell, Maggie Q, Mark Ryder. Tell me about working under a director like him.
SPEAKER 01 : 2:22
He's tremendous. I mean, he's got such a grasp of everything, like directing, but acting as well, and music, and just the way he constructed this film. He really would let us rehearse and find some really funny stuff. He's got an incredible cast that includes them, and also Alexandra Shipp, who's one of the Barbies. Matt Walsh, who's just such an improvisational genius. Elizabeth Shue, such a legend. So getting to work with that whole group was really awesome. I just had the best time. But I also had these funny situations because we would ad-lib something and... I would have a first response in my head, which would be closer to my own personality. So I'd have to almost go in the opposite direction and take things personally, not care about what people feel or thought, you know, do things for my own benefit rather than taking anyone else into consideration.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:24
David Arquette joining us on the program. The film is The Good Half alongside Nick Jonas. And I would be remiss, as the pro wrestling fan in the room, I've followed your career before the ring, in the ring, outside of it. And even if you can't stand the sight of a wrestling ring, I cannot stress it enough. If you want to see a man dedicating himself to a craft that the fan base tried to turn their back on you within... You cannot kill David Arquette. 2020, this drops. And if you read the bio for it, by the way, 85% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. The thing is beloved. It's labeled as the most hated man in professional wrestling wins a controversial WCW World Heavyweight title in 2000, much to the ire and angst of the fans. And it's a documentary. about you trying to do right by an industry that you love to such a degree that you even travel to Mexico to train in the Lucha Libre style. And there's a scene where you're doing stoplight Lucha Libre. It's one of the most insane things I've ever seen, where instead of somebody walking up panhandling or lost my house cardboard sign, you're doing planches off a Nissan Sentra. Could you please talk to me about You Cannot Kill David Arquette, in particular time in Mexico, for a moment?
SPEAKER 01 : 4:48
Yeah, it was amazing. I mean, I went down there and worked with some luchadors. inframundo junior was one of them uh just i learned so much just you know training with them there is the uh you know roadside lucha that they do which i was so like i didn't know we were going there and it was just i was so green at that time i was just sort of learning stuff but i uh you know i got to wrestle and learn the They taught me all kinds of technique. At the end of that wrestling match, it was one of my first ones back, I fractured two ribs. And then I had to, like, continue wrestling for two years on these fractured ribs. I was in so much pain, I couldn't even, like, breathe or cough or laugh it was I didn't know what was going on I thought it was just the most painful thing to be able like to have to take you know wrestling bumps on broken ribs just It shatters your whole, like, I don't know, it triggers all the nerves.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:54
You can't breathe, you can't cough, going to the bathroom's a nightmare. And, you know, for the longest time, a pretty, I'll say kindly, passionate fan base, when I'm amongst, you know, they could be as supportive or as bad as Star Wars fans and Marvel fans and comic fans and, hell, even fans of certain sides of a political aisle. Pro wrestling fans can be both supportive and incredibly nasty. Do you feel like you have finally earned their respect so many decades later after seeing a film like You Cannot Kill David Arquette and finding out that during your entire time in World Championship Wrestling, you donated every dime you made to the families of wrestlers who'd passed away, including Owen Hart, Brian Pillman, Droz, Duncombe Jr. Once that was finally made public, do you finally feel... Like that pretty toxic fan base has come around on you and said, no, this man truly respects it. He is one of our own.
SPEAKER 01 : 6:57
To a certain extent, yeah. But I mean, I still get comments like the worst, you know, champion ever, you know. that's a worse idea than making David Arquette the champion. So it still happens up until this day. I mean, especially with Who Killed WCW, which is out right now, so my name keeps being brought up. But there was a really incredible moment in that documentary where I did a death match, and a lot of people frown on that type of wrestling. With Nick Gage. The idea was, Yeah. The idea was to really get, you know, go to the heart of like the hardcore wrestling fans. And when I walked into that bar, they were just hating me. They like really wanted to beat me up. You know, it was true heat that they just wanted to kill me. And by the end, when I walk out, they were cheering. And there was this deathmatch wrestler legend named Nick Mondo who saw it. And he was like, I was in the arena, man. I'd never seen, like, someone go from heel to baby face so quickly. It was just insane.
SPEAKER 02 : 8:03
to watch that's incredible and I'm excited to see the good half Brittany Snow Alexandra Shipp Matt Walsh who I absolutely love by the way Matt Walsh is hysterical and I'm kind of excited to see you a guy that I love and respect and I've enjoyed all his films as more often than not the good guy play I mean is there a better name for an evil stepdad than Rick I mean, just, if you're named Rick, you just sound like you were born to be a son of a bitch stepdad.
SPEAKER 01 : 8:34
Absolutely. And he lived up to it. It was really fun to play. I really loved working with everyone. The tone of the film really captures the awkward, cringey moments that some people go through during that time.
SPEAKER 02 : 8:50
I'm excited to see it. I appreciate your time on the silver screen, big, small, and as a deep pro wrestling fan myself, just seeing your love of an art form, of a sports entertainment medium that I've loved so much, how deeply and sincerely you take it seriously and cherish it. Let me be at least one fan to tell you, I don't want to kill David Arquette. I hope you never die. And I respect all of your contributions to it. I know you had nothing to do with winning that title. You didn't want to win that title. The fact that you were standing at the top of a three-story hellish nightmare end-of-the-world cage is nothing I could possibly fathom doing myself. So let me just simply say thank you for all that you've done in wrestling.
SPEAKER 01 : 9:35
Hey, thanks so much, Justin. That means a lot to me. It really does.
SPEAKER 02 : 9:38
Take care, sir. We'll talk again soon.
Read MoreRead Less
Description Chapter Markers Transcript Join us as we dive into a world where a robot might bring you your meal but don't hold your breath for impeccable service just yet. We also catch up with comedian Chad Daniels, who brings his wit and humor to the show, sharing insights into his latest projects and his choice to live outside the comedy hotspots. We talk surgeries as Scott prepares for TRIPLE hernia surgery and.. Producer Joe has a moment of clarity and contemplates Ozempic. Whether you're intrigued by the future of dining or love a good comedy special, this episode has something for everyone.
00:00:00 Dawn Robot Cafe 00:01:13 Scott's Robot Dining Experience 00:03:44 Robot Serving Process 00:05:57 Future of Automated Restaurants 00:07:35 Restaurant Vibes and Robots 00:09:33 Vietnamese Coffee Experience 00:11:49 Interview with Chad Daniels 00:18:52 Living Outside Comedy Hubs 00:20:42 Pretend Problems Podcast SPEAKER 16 : 0:00
So we're all worried about AI and then you see some of the crap pictures it draws, terrible commercials it writes and some of its products and go, eh, maybe they're not going to take our jobs yet. And then you also hear about the robots that are going to be apparently filling factories and working at the job site or maybe taking over the waiter and waitress's job. Well, last year I went to Japan. I got to go to a robot cafe. It's called Dawn, as in the dish, grease, buster, washer, scrubber substance like Palmolive. And it sucked. And the robots were incapable. And I'm pretty sure not only were they not autonomous, they were being driven by somebody with a remote control from behind the bar. Well, Scott went to a place and he got served by robots as well. As to where the robot that I went and got serviced by, well, hello there, in Japan actually kind of looked a little robot-y. The one that Scott gets serviced by looks like a trash can with trays attached to it. And also very unimpressive. So the AI, the robots, They're not there yet. T-800s aren't bringing you your tapas table side. Mr. Connor, John, table for one. Oh, is your mom Sarah with you today? Be sure to try the Robocorn. It sounds like the robots are coming for our jobs, but they're not there yet. As Scott went to a restaurant and got served by robots on Behind the Curtain. So where the hell did you go to eat and what the hell brought you your chow? A robot. I'm sorry. It's the future. We live in the future. A robot brought my food. I'm sorry. I forgot your calamari. I'll be right back. Didn't you do this in Japan? Yeah, it sucked. Yeah, I mean, it's underwhelming. I don't know how much of a gimmick it is. It's in Hunt Valley. It's called Izakaya 68. Okay. And my daughter was like, I love this place. I guess she's gone with her mom a few times. And the food ain't bad. I guess it's... Japanese? I'm not sure. I'll say it's Asian. Let's just say that. You can get the gyoza. You can get the dumplings. You can get the spring rolls. You can get some sushi. They have little skewers of meat. The place was really cool inside. It's in a strip mall, so you don't know what to expect. But it had the little Japanese booths. The ceiling was real low. Once you walked in there, you did not feel like you were in a strip mall.
SPEAKER 10 : 2:26
Like rice paper.
SPEAKER 16 : 2:27
dividers yes like rice paper dividers they have like a fake cherry blossom tree in there um so i walk in and i'm immediately like wow this place is cool uh you sit down and then i'm just kind of sitting there and they give you the menus obviously right away and i'm just kind of sitting there stella and her friend we're all just kind of talking and a woman comes over she's like do you know how it works she goes you just scan the qr code and i said oh okay so i mean if You scan the QR code, the menu comes up, you order through your phone, you put the order in, and then a robot brings your food. So, I mean, you literally... You don't have to see anyone. Outside of the QR menu, that sounds like heaven. I like to hold a menu. Well, no, you have a menu, but you have to order. Oh, you got to order it through. Yeah, so you can kind of hold the menu and look at it, and they have pictures on it, and it's great. But then you scan the QR code. Dude, I'm not even kidding. It was so easy. See, the woman seats you. I'll give my dad a shot at it. Watch him screw it up. You're sitting there. And you scan the QR code, you order your food, and then your food starts to come out via robot. So describe what the robot looked like. By the way, the place I went to is called Dawn Avatar Cafe in Tokyo. If you want to look it up, don't go. It looks nothing like a robot. It's basically a bunch of trays. Okay. It does have a face on it, though. It's got, like, a little screen with, like, a face, and it's saying, like, oh, your food is here.
SPEAKER 14 : 4:01
Your food is here, Mr. Reardon.
SPEAKER 16 : 4:03
And then you just reach on one of the trays and, like, grab your food off of it. Then you hit finish, and then it zips away. And there was one that came zipping by like it was going, like, full speed. I was like, damn, those things can boogie. Here's our fries. And there went our fries. Yeah, this was mine. This was the robot that they had at ours. Yours looks like a robot. It looks like a robot. It's got hands that held a tray. Now yours. This is what our robot looked like. Let me see yours. Oh, damn. That thing's just like a shelf. It's just shelves with wheels. Not very elegant. I mean, it's more functional. It does have a face. Here's the front of it. Japanese nailed the aesthetic. Okay, so it's got a little screen face on the thing. Oh, it's got a face on the front, like a little cartoon character.
SPEAKER 10 : 4:47
Yeah, it faces you. Does it emote at all?
SPEAKER 16 : 4:48
Yeah, it emotes and talks to you. Oh, I don't like that. What bummed me out about the one I went to, and I'm not sure if yours was like the... the facade was broken the minute that i saw behind the curtain at oz everything was piloted everything was made by people they just placed it yeah that's all this thing's hands and there's like a guy back there like steering it towards me like oh never mind i thought this thing had like ai um here's it like loaded with food and it has like different colors i think like When it's blue, you can take the food. Then when it's green, it means it's finished and zipping away. I'll say this, though. So you get seated, right? If they didn't have that, if they said seat yourself, you can literally walk in, seat yourself, order through the app. A robot brings your food. But then for some reason, when I had to pay... I couldn't pay through the app. I had to wait for them to drop a check off. But I mean, you could literally go to a restaurant and not see anyone, not interact with a worker at all. And I was like, I don't know if I like that or if I don't like that. I guess it depends on the place. Like when you go to like, you know, the aforementioned Jimmy's or my friends at the cantina. What's up, Dave Ray, their mother's. I got real nice table sign, have a little conversation. That's what I'm saying. Maybe I'm just – we're all just, I think, used to the normal restaurant routine where they drop the thing off, they bring your drinks, that and the other thing. This was like you didn't even need to speak to anyone and food just appears. I think there's a new taco place up by me too called Tacos Away. And if I'm not mistaken – Just launch it at your face. Pretty much. You just walk in and there's screens. You order on a screen. You don't even talk to anyone, and then out of a window pops your tacos. Fire taco! We've got tacos away! Tacos just pop out of the window, and then you get your tacos. You don't even see them. You don't talk to anyone else either. That's crazy. I think. I haven't really been in there, but I'm pretty sure that's it. But I've heard restaurants like that. For one, you've got what's called a ghost restaurant. And now it goes to kitchen where they just make food to give to delivery drivers that there's no actual restaurant restaurant. Right. That's the future. And I've seen some modern day chains. I think some McDonald's are doing it where it's just a wall, man. And there's screens and kiosks. And then the food comes out on a tray. You never see anybody. There's some places I wouldn't mind that fast food. Fine. Fast food. I'm cool with that. There's other places. I want to sit down up here. Food, pier, mouth, now, bye. That's kind of what DoorDash is. You don't even have to contact the driver. I just want food on my doorstep. There's a place in Hamden I like to eat, but the staff, they're so awful, and they just love the smell of their own farts so much that I don't want to eat there. Because their food's great, and the people are awful.
SPEAKER 14 : 7:35
It's kind of the vibe, though, at that place.
SPEAKER 16 : 7:37
Yeah, like, I hate that vibe. Your vibe sucks, all right? Why don't you charge me for a steak wrap and those delicious sprouts? I don't need a guy that listens to bands you've probably never heard of. We get it. You've been to Burning Man's Zilch. Dad paid for it. I like the food. I wouldn't mind having a robot there, and the robot had his ear gauge. But fast food places, I could really be into this. Well, that's where that's headed. Fast food will be heading that way. Now, the next question is— Why are there even registers and people taking your order at this point? I have no idea. Is there any tipping mechanism at all? With this, if you're not seeing anybody, if the food's brought to you by that thing, you ordered on an app— Is there at the end of it, are they still asking for a tip? Yes. Blow it out your ass if you're asking for it. I don't know. Someone's making the food, and I guess maybe it all goes to, did I tip? I think the usual 18, well, the usual is 20, but I did go 18. I'll say that. You're getting nothing if it's a robot. They did the math for me. They said like 18, 20, 22, or something like that. And I normally go 20 to 22, but because of that, I was like, well, what did they really do? I went 18.
SPEAKER 10 : 8:42
Yeah. I mean.
SPEAKER 16 : 8:45
And then we went next door. There's another Asian place. Gong Cha. Do you know Gong Cha? Gong Cha. And Coyote Matcha Desserts. Do you know any of this stuff? You're the Asian guy in here. Let me show you a picture of these desserts. They look like this. Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah, it's all that green stuff. It's all green tea, right? Matcha and bubble tea. It's like sweet dirt. General Tau's chicken. That's the guy. Thank you for your service, General Tau. And I'll tell you what, on a Sunday, that place was packed. It's called The Sweetest Spot, and it's, I mean, it is Asian. Yeah. I can't get into the matcha much. It's the sweet green tea stuff, right? Yeah. I mean, green tea is just like sipping a cup a yard. I got a Vietnamese coffee, though, that was incredible.
SPEAKER 14 : 9:33
That stuff will wake you up. Is it really good? What does it taste like? Oh, dude. It's a robust coffee.
SPEAKER 16 : 9:38
I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what I order. And this you can order through a screen, too. You just order the... Vietnamese coffee with like foamed milk. And then you only got to go like 50%, maybe 30% sugar because it's just, it's so good. I only do like half the ice. This thing is, I don't know what they put on the foam on the top. It almost, it almost tastes like they put like a little sprinkling of salt. Salt or something. You know how you like when you get a chocolate chip cookie and like the chocolate chip cookie has like that little bit of salt in it. It's some sort of weird flavor coming. Dude, I would drink it all day every day. It's so good. We got to get Josh one of those. No, no, no. I don't like milk, though. Yeah, he might not like it. It's foam, though. It's foam. Like a Vietnamese coffee has condensed milk. I mean, it is thick. It is fork tender milk. Oh, do what my mother used to do. Hide the milk in the mac and cheese. I'm going to work on my boy's bones one way or another. I used to get so mad when she did that. He's an old friend with an amazing special, Mr. Chad Daniels, Empty Nester. It's out now on Netflix. And as I have been likened to say, it would be a personal favor if you watched it, shared it, blew it up. This is the guy, Chad Daniels. He's already moved out of the clubs and into the smaller theaters. Like, I don't have any doubt that he could sell out a lyric. This is a guy that I feel like should be at a Nate Bargatze level. Definitely at a Bert Kreischer, Tom Segura level. This is a guy that has 10 specials under his belt, and he's an old friend. He's a guy that took me on the road a little bit when I was younger. You'll hear us laugh about that early on. I had a guest set go horribly badly because of something I did that neither one of us will ever forget, and he'll never let me forget, nor should he. And I actually texted him. Later on that day, thanking him for the event or for the interview, I should say, we had a fun little back and forth. And he is a good man. And what's interesting about him is that he's never left Minnesota. He's traveled around the world, around the country, worked some of the biggest venues. But as far as his home base, he's never moved to L.A., New York, Chicago, any of the big three. And we even get into that and how he's made it possible. We talked to an old friend who I miss dearly. He's got a great new comedy special on Netflix. Enjoy Mr. Chad Daniels on Behind the Curtain. Hey, it's Justin Scott and Spiegel, and look at this, look what I'm doing with the prep. Watch this, look at this. No, don't. Oh no, don't do that. I don't need the prep.
SPEAKER 14 : 12:10
Don't do that.
SPEAKER 16 : 12:10
I don't need prep, okay? You don't need prep. Did you tear it up?
SPEAKER 12 : 12:14
I tore it up.
SPEAKER 16 : 12:14
He tore up the prep! I tore up, you know I'm gonna tear it up. Margot! Margot! I just tore it up again, Chad Daniels, because I don't need prep for an old friend with a brand new comedy special. It is out today. netflix empty nester it's your latest stand-up comedy special before we get into the specifics your incredible podcast with your beautiful partner we're all friends and i missed you i missed you quite a bit yeah i've missed you too and we almost we almost weren't friends because you did a 48 minute guest at one time in front of me
SPEAKER 12 : 12:47
He remembers. I knew it. I almost said, you know what? I don't ever want to see you again.
SPEAKER 16 : 12:52
How big of a faux pas is that? What did you give him?
SPEAKER 1 : 12:54
15?
SPEAKER 16 : 12:54
Did you give him 10?
SPEAKER 12 : 12:55
Oh, no.
SPEAKER 16 : 12:55
A guest set is three to five. Three to five. And I did. Can I quote what you said? Do you remember what you said when I got off stage? Because I'll never forget it. Okay. Yeah, I sure do. I told a therapist this. Please.
SPEAKER 12 : 13:07
Oh, I said, I believe what you're talking about when I asked you if you were recording an album.
SPEAKER 16 : 13:13
Yes. Yes. He goes, are you recording a goddamn HBO special? I'm like, oh, how long was I up there for? Oh, I don't know, 27 minutes, jackass. Yeah, I learned from various comedians what to do, what not to do. Gary Goleman, he was a guy that taught me the F word was a seasoning. Not an ingredient. And Chad Daniels taught me that a guest set, it's a privilege. It's not a right. And ever since then, I've done... Chad, you'll be glad to know these days, I do well under my time.
SPEAKER 12 : 13:46
You went 45, you got 30. It's nice to know that the person that taught you how to go over on a guest set was D.L. Hugel.
SPEAKER 16 : 13:54
Dude, this is your 10th special. The one last year was absolutely brilliant. To see you on Netflix now, and this guy's very unique to me because he was one of the first headliners that ever let me, after that initial faux pas, open for him quite a bit. He was... You've also been described as one of the easier comedians to hang out with offstage because comedians can be kind of shot out of a cannon. They can constantly be on. Even. Even-keeled. Even-keeled, Scott. Very even. Have you gotten that compliment before that you're not just incredible onstage, but you're very easy to be around off? Easy to look at, too.
SPEAKER 12 : 14:36
Yeah, I mean, if you mean by, have I heard that before, do I hear it always? Yeah. Yeah. every single time. Let me tell you guys a joke. Um, I'm kidding. Okay. Uh, yeah, I mean, it's, it's just like, I, I love people that aren't a comedy faucet, right? That it's like when you're sitting down and having an actual conversation. I mean, I remember I was, uh, I was working with Emo Phillips one time and everybody's like, he doesn't talk to people off stage. And I didn't have anyone else to ask about a mortgage rate. So I asked him and he talked to me for two hours about mortgage rates and what to do to protect yourself. And I thought it was like the funniest conversation in the world.
SPEAKER 16 : 15:18
Yeah, for a guy like Emo Phillips, who's one of the kings of the alt comedy scene, to be able to sit down and actually have a real heart-to-heart with somebody about a real-life thing is pretty unique. And you have another very interesting place in comedy, and I didn't know this until a couple of months ago, but you were the inspiration behind a pretty famous Mitch Hedberg joke.
SPEAKER 12 : 15:42
Oh, yeah. So Hedberg has a joke about it goes, you know what my friend said one time? He goes, you know what I like? Mashed potatoes. Hey, man, you got to give me time to guess. If you're going to quiz me, there has to be a pause. And so that joke is about me. We were out eating and I said that. And then I saw as soon as I said it, I saw him pull his little notebook towards it.
SPEAKER 09 : 16:03
That's amazing.
SPEAKER 12 : 16:05
What is this going to be? And I actually use that as a credit. Mitch Hedberg was so famous that how famous was he? He was so famous. that I used being in his act as a credit to go on to.
SPEAKER 16 : 16:19
I mean, it is. Imagine being the inspiration behind a Stones song or like a Zeppelin song or whatever, a Metallica song. But Mitch Hedberg, considered to be one of the greatest joke writers of all time, you were the inspiration behind it. That's absolutely a credit. Yeah, to see him reach for the pad, that's incredible. Talking to Chad Daniels, Empty Nester is out July 16th, which is today. And I don't know... What size rooms you're filling nowadays or what the deal is. But I feel like I haven't seen you or we haven't seen you here in studio in the flesh. And it's been a minute, Chad, and I miss the beautiful face. Now there's tattoos. There's giant beards. There's I mean, what are you trying to do? Make me horny. I mean, what are we doing?
SPEAKER 12 : 17:08
That's actually the, yeah, the genesis of it all was to make you horny. I remember sitting down in the tattoo chair, and I said, he goes, what do you want to do? And I said, anything that's going to make him horny in Baltimore. I just want to make sure. Yeah, and I'm glad I did. You know, one of my favorite radio moments ever was in your studio. I came in there, and Ric Flair was in there. Oh, hell yeah. And I tied a bed sheet around my neck and pulled my boxers up like tighty-whities kind of in my butt crack. And I pretended to be a wrestler that wanted to wrestle Ric Flair. Oh, hell yeah. And he fake slapped me on air. He just slapped his hand. And then he went, whoo! and it remains one of my favorite radio interviews of all time.
SPEAKER 16 : 17:57
God, I love radio. What a valid medium. Chad Daniels, another fascinating thing about you that people are so curious about is that you can live pretty much anywhere these days, but for the longest time, decades and decades, L.A., New York, L.A., New York. Now we know Austin's got a pretty big scene down there with the comedy Mothership. Chicago's always had a really cool scene. You have always lived... in Minnesota that you've you never went to any of the big ones you've been there but you never relocated there how are you able to make that work in an era where it seemed like 99 of your contemporaries percent of your contemporaries myself included and he did it before it was like before I feel like COVID changed things and it was like you know now you can do anything from anywhere but you've been doing that forever 100% yeah I lived in northern Minnesota like town of 14,000 people but
SPEAKER 12 : 18:53
Um, it, you know, internet and airplanes, you can, you can do anything anywhere. And, uh, I would say that the main ingredient is support. I mean, the reason I lived in Minnesota is families here and stuff like that. So when you have kids got to have help with that. And so, uh, You know, we just made it work. It's like the kids came first. Comedy, I will say, if my kids aren't listening, so I'm going to say a very close second. And then, you know, you just make it happen. Drive three hours to the airport, go to your gigs, drive three hours back and be dad for another week and then head out on the road again and blah, blah, blah.
SPEAKER 10 : 19:34
Do you ever wonder what it would have been like or maybe who you would be or how it would have changed you had you moved to, like, in L.A. or, I don't know, somewhere else?
SPEAKER 12 : 19:44
I don't think – I try not to think about it because I picture myself putting rocks in my pockets and walking into the ocean just having to drive anywhere in that godforsaken city. Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 : 19:56
And something else, too, is you got an incredible new podcast, one that I've actually texted you about and sang the praises of your comedian girlfriend, Kelsey Cook. You guys do a podcast called Pretend Problems, which is so good. Just give it a listen to any description I give you is not going to be honoring it enough. But being in a relationship with another comedian. That's kind of interesting because in some cases, you know, you kind of want to date, I'm going to say, a civilian so you can unwind. But in your case, you date someone as funny, if not funnier than you. What is that dynamic like when maybe one of you is getting something and the other isn't? You're both succeeding. That can be volatile, a comedian on comedian relationship.
SPEAKER 12 : 20:42
Yeah, well, we... we don't compete, right? We have different goals. We have different careers. We have different trajectories, all that stuff. So we don't compete. We're just very supportive. And, uh, that's very helpful. It's also like, you know, it is nice to have somebody that knows they get it. If you are dating somebody that's not in the comedy world and you're like, Oh, I can't believe this happened. And they're like, who cares? Tell another comic. It's like, you know, you're just, you're hanging out in a green room at that point and you're commiserating together, which is nice or celebrating together, which is, you know, most of the time. But, um, I actually, um, really like it. I didn't know how I was going to like it, and it turns out it's better than I could have imagined.
SPEAKER 16 : 21:27
Well, I can't wait to see Empty Nester. It's on Netflix. It's right now. Your 10th special. This guy churns out material. Good material. Top tier material. I can't stress it enough. Watch this. Go back. Watch everything else. Mixed reviews. Everything before it. It's all great. And this was one of the guys... that early on I realized there are actually kind people, good people, people of decency and worth in stand-up. Chad Daniels, thank you again for the time, man. It's so good catching up with you, and please get back in the studio soon.
SPEAKER 12 : 21:58
Thank you. I would love to. You can't see me because I'm on the phone, but I'm actually giving you the light from your guest set.
SPEAKER 16 : 22:06
We actually just got the light from your manager to say, hey, wrap it up, jackass. You're doing it again. Chad, take care, man.
SPEAKER 12 : 22:13
All right, you too.
SPEAKER 16 : 22:13
See you guys. Oh, I love these. I love a fun, lighthearted game that you could gather the children, the family, Nana, Pop Pop, Meemaw, Uncle Timmy, and Aunt Scooter to play alongside the morning show. And we did that on Tuesday as we had the narcotic nickname quiz. And I found this online, gave it to Joe Stamboni. Did we do? You're going to find out somebody knew a lot more than the others about the nicknames of drugs. Some of us knew next to nothing. And that's one of the good things about knowing next to nothing is that you're not a big, big drug user. You don't get involved in the narcotic trade. If you know a ton about some of these nicknames that were quizzed on, then, wow, you're really... Telling people a little something about yourself without telling people a little something about yourself. If you happen to know, every single nickname for meth, every single nickname for heroin, every single nickname for crack. Some of these, though, I've never heard. And Joe Stamboni, he was our drug-saturated Alex Trebek. He's the guy that administered the quiz. Some of these nicknames for narcotics, crystal meth, opiates, I've never even heard of. Some of the ones for LSD, whatever. He's never encountered in all of his days in the underground drug trafficking trade, so part of me thinks a little of them were made up. But we had fun and played the drug nickname quiz. How many did you get right? Tell us on Behind the Curtain. Josh, you cover a lot of stories dealing with drugs. Yes, unfortunately. Crystal methamphetamine, to crack cocaine, to marijuana, to heroin, to the opiate crisis, which has had a grip on the short and curlies of Appalachia. If we were to give you a quiz about drug nicknames, how do you think you'd do? Who? I might do okay. I mean... Let's find out! Because it's now time for Do You Know That Narcotics Nickname? With your host and your peek into the world of narcotics. Our ambassador to the underground drug-running mules, none other than Joe Blow Stamboni. Good morning, Joe. Good morning. Hi. Yeah, I found this quiz online about drugs. Yeah. And the nicknames therein. Yeah. And I said, wait, I'm going to hand this to Joe. Uh-huh. And Joe, if you would, please. Okay. Start to hit us with some of these questions. A lot to do with nicknames. Anything that's visual, just skip. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. All right. But yes, if you would, please.
SPEAKER 02 : 24:47
Okay, question one. Ooh. Benny's. Refer to amphetamines, cocaine, heroin, or marijuana.
SPEAKER 16 : 24:58
Hmm. Give me the choices again. Well, those are the benzodiazepines, right? Isn't it Benny's? Can't, cannot, can neither confirm nor deny.
SPEAKER 14 : 25:06
What is a benzo?
SPEAKER 02 : 25:07
Benny's refer to amphetamines, cocaine, heroin, or marijuana. Amphetamines. I'll go amphetamines.
SPEAKER 03 : 25:17
Josh? Um, it's, I'm going to go with, uh, What was another one? Give me another one. Cocaine?
SPEAKER 16 : 25:28
Heroin or marijuana?
SPEAKER 02 : 25:30
Cocaine.
SPEAKER 16 : 25:31
Okay.
SPEAKER 02 : 25:31
Two for amphetamines, one for cocaine. Let's do amphetamines.
SPEAKER 16 : 25:35
Amphetamine.
SPEAKER 02 : 25:36
Okay.
SPEAKER 16 : 25:37
Submit. Correct. All right. Amphetamines.
SPEAKER 02 : 25:42
Amphetamines.
SPEAKER 16 : 25:42
Benny's, okay.
SPEAKER 02 : 25:43
Yes, also known as Amps, Wheels, Uppers, Debs, Diablos, Leapers, Coast to Coast, Marathons, Pixies, and Zoomers.
SPEAKER 16 : 25:50
You're a better person for not knowing, Josh. You're a better person for not knowing, okay? All right, next question.
SPEAKER 02 : 25:55
Next question, please. Okay, this one's so stupid. Broccoli, Buddha, skunk, and bush. Weed. Refer to kinds of.
SPEAKER 16 : 26:04
Weed. Weed.
SPEAKER 02 : 26:06
Are you sure it's not oxycodone? No, it's not. Yes.
SPEAKER 16 : 26:09
Oh, man, yes. Someone's got a real bad bush problem ever since they blew their knee out. Josh, would you agree that, one more time, broccoli, you said?
SPEAKER 03 : 26:17
Broccoli, Buddha, skunk, and bush.
SPEAKER 02 : 26:20
Yeah, skunk gives it away. It's marijuana. That's the weed. All right. Marijuana, also known as ganja, or Cali reefer, purple haze. Other names for cocaine, including all of the below, except. Oh, except.
SPEAKER 16 : 26:35
Oh, so you're going to give us four names. Which one is not cocaine? Right. Okay, please. Cola. Crank. Schoolboy. What? Yayo. Yayo is definitely it.
SPEAKER 02 : 26:45
Yayo is definitely it.
SPEAKER 16 : 26:46
Schoolboy definitely is. So it's between Crank and Cola. Which one's not cocaine? Crank and Cola. Crank. I was going to say Cranko because I thought Crank was meth.
SPEAKER 02 : 26:57
Crank is something else.
SPEAKER 16 : 26:58
Crank might be meth. Okay, three for Crank, please. All right. Correct. Cracky!
SPEAKER 02 : 27:03
Fantastic. All right. This is stupid. The drug slang term white girl could refer to cocaine, cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl, LSD, MDMA, and mushrooms.
SPEAKER 16 : 27:19
I don't think it's hallucinogenics, so I'm going to knock out the bottom two. So it's either coke or... Or Coke, Fent, and Perron?
SPEAKER 03 : 27:28
Yeah. Yeah, that's a tough one.
SPEAKER 02 : 27:31
That's a trick question.
SPEAKER 16 : 27:32
I'm going with B. B. I'm going with G. I always go with G. He wants the D. Okay, Josh is going to go D. I'll go A. I'll say it's just Coke. Coke, heroin, and fentanyl.
SPEAKER 02 : 27:44
All right, let's go Coke. Wrong. No. Cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl. I got it. Scott was right.
SPEAKER 16 : 27:50
Okay. All right, next question. What do I win? Crank. Yep. We got a big old bag of crank.
SPEAKER 10 : 27:57
Deez nuts.
SPEAKER 16 : 27:59
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 02 : 28:00
That's a nickname for children's melatonin gummies. This is a picture one, but you don't really need to see it. What's a nickname for the drug pictured? And it's just tabs of acid. I'm sure we've all seen that.
SPEAKER 03 : 28:11
Get up to look at that picture.
SPEAKER 02 : 28:12
LSD. That's fine. LSD. What's the nickname for the drug LSD? Okay. Applejack, Charlie Horse, Contact Lens, or Jackpot? I've never heard of one of those.
SPEAKER 16 : 28:24
Applejack? Yeah. What's the second one? Charlie Horse. I'll go Charlie Horse. It's 100% Applejack.
SPEAKER 02 : 28:30
Jackpot. Jackpot.
SPEAKER 15 : 28:34
Contact Lens.
SPEAKER 03 : 28:38
You're all wrong. We were 0% correct. Those are tricky. Don't drop those. You might step on it.
SPEAKER 02 : 28:44
Okay. Bone crusher, groceries, pebbles are nicknames for bone crusher, groceries, and pebbles are nicknames for crack, fentanyl, heroin, or LSD.
SPEAKER 16 : 29:00
I'm going to go Pebbles is the one that gives it away for me.
SPEAKER 03 : 29:02
I'll go Crack.
SPEAKER 16 : 29:03
That's how I was thinking.
SPEAKER 03 : 29:04
Yeah, Pebbles. I'm going to go with Heroin and just decide. My girlfriend used to call me Bone Crusher.
SPEAKER 16 : 29:11
Yeah, he turned her insides into soup. All right. Crack Cocaine. Crack Cocaine. Yes. Okay. And let's do one more before we jump. I feel so dirty with this quiz. I feel better for not knowing. Okay. This is really a morality test so far. All right. Two of the three of us are real dirtbags.
SPEAKER 02 : 29:30
All right. PCP is also referred to as Bars, Bliss, Blue Star, Toxie.
SPEAKER 16 : 29:40
I've never heard of any of those. I'll go Bliss, Shot in the Dark. Bliss. I'll go Bliss. Yeah, sure.
SPEAKER 02 : 29:46
Bliss.
SPEAKER 03 : 29:47
I'll go with Toxie.
SPEAKER 02 : 29:49
Just to be different. I'm going to say Toxie as well, Josh. Let's see. Okay. Blue Star. Blue Star. Zero. We are done.
SPEAKER 16 : 29:58
So congratulations, Scott. You have won Narcotic Nickname Trivia. Joe Stamboni, tell him what he's won.
SPEAKER 02 : 30:06
You got some crank.
SPEAKER 16 : 30:11
Did you bring crank in the building?
SPEAKER 07 : 30:14
I got something you can crank.
SPEAKER 16 : 30:20
Damn, all of you have undergone some sort of surgery. We talked about Scott getting his surgery on his umbilical hernia, his groinocological hernia, his ovarian hernia. And then we opened up the phone lines to you. And man, many of you have gone under the knife for a variety of procedures. The one that always freaks me out is the spinal surgery. We did talk to a guy, too, about him getting a spine surgery. fused together. It's like something that when a wrestler or a mixed martial artist or a boxer gets their neck fused, they can no longer compete. That always freaks me out. Somebody in the NFL, if they have to get their back worked on, it could be a career ender. We never got a chance to talk to anybody that did the big, big, big, big open heart surgery. They had to crack your chest open. I've always read, and I'm probably going to have to go under it myself because I've got a bum ticker, that once you have heart surgery, open heart surgery, you never feel the same again. Something is forever just a little bit off. A little tiny piece of you dies when somebody actually has to put a scalpel to heart. So who knows? Maybe we'll open up the cardiovascular issue lines at some point. You love telling us stories about all of your... Physical failings, and we talked to you as Scott got ready to go into surgery on Wednesday into Thursday. What was your last surgery on Behind the Curtain? Can we talk about what happened, like, just off air with Chris Carlheim? What is his title here? I don't even know. He is, I guess, his management. Assistant Program Director. Assistant Program Director for WBAL? Yes. That was everybody on the way to mine.
SPEAKER 10 : 31:59
Yeah, I mean, he just came in here and he goes, Hey, Scott, I had a hernia surgery, too.
SPEAKER 16 : 32:03
I had three just like you. And then he proceeded to use the word awful about five times in three minutes. It was awful. Yeah. It was awful. It was awful. The entire lead up to mine. He said it was out for ten days. Yeah. Yeah. Ain't great. Yeah, but you weren't out for 10 days. No, mine was very small. Might as well get maternity leave. How long were you out? Two days. When was your surgery? Monday. I was out Monday, Tuesday, back Wednesday. The surgery was a Monday? Yes. So day and a half, not even. Yeah, day and a half. So Monday, Tuesday, back Wednesday. Luckily, you're doing yours on a Thursday, Friday.
SPEAKER 14 : 32:35
What are you, some sort of wuss?
SPEAKER 16 : 32:37
I will sell you. His, he showed me his. What the original one looked like. And then this guy in the corner over here just keeps going, dude, guts were pouring out. I just had a neighbor got one done.
SPEAKER 02 : 32:49
I forgot about this. Two weeks. Two weeks until he was back at work. Oh, inguinal. Midemeyer got my effing head, too.
SPEAKER 16 : 32:56
The umbilical is different. Umbilical is. Well, I have both.
SPEAKER 02 : 33:00
Well, you're screwed.
SPEAKER 16 : 33:01
I have two of the inguinal. We should probably start making plans. Yeah. Yeah, we should definitely set up a fund. I hope you're good to come back Monday. I truly do. But get a Kickstarter going.
SPEAKER 02 : 33:10
Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 : 33:10
Yeah, bowl and oyster roasts always tend to make a nice profit. Get some of that tiger sauce for some of the pit beef. Ask for extra fentanyl. Tell me about your neighbor. What age? He's about 40. Athletic? Not athletic? He goes to the gym. Predictive painkiller. Also, you've got to realize some of these people are probably milking you. Well, that's that's that kind of is what I was thinking, too. But what do you know about that Demerol?
SPEAKER 10 : 33:39
Yeah, it's good stuff. And that's the other thing I'm reading. All they don't even give you any kind of pain meds. You get you take Tylenol and Advil.
SPEAKER 16 : 33:45
Yeah, they gave me just a big old honking ibuprofen. That son of a bitch was the size of a chess piece. I'm like, can I cut this with a steak knife? Why couldn't you just take four of the small ones? I don't know. Maybe it's because it wrecks your stomach up. But yeah, they gave me the ones out. I'm like, am I supposed to play checkers with these things? Now Carl Himes got me all freaked out. You can see the guy that texted in and said he got his done. Look at the text. The texts are all very telling. It's like Google. They never show you the mild or medium version. They always show you the worst thing if you click images. That's what happens when you tell somebody about a surgery that you're going to get. Oh, no, I'm having flashbacks when I got mine done last year. And just every story I was told was an absolute waking nightmare. Yeah, I mean, like I said earlier in the hour, I normally don't get freaked out by these things. It's very routine. Like Spiegel said, surgery is very safe nowadays. It's routine. It's minimally invasive. Until it's not.
SPEAKER 14 : 34:35
But now, Jesus.
SPEAKER 02 : 34:37
The surgery is going to be fine. I just think the recovery is going to be a little longer than anticipated.
SPEAKER 03 : 34:41
There was a complication. You just have to make sure they don't... Well, don't do it. You gotta... No, don't do it. They gotta write with the magic marker. Don't tell them to remove the left arm.
SPEAKER 16 : 34:54
Just... They should write hernia. Sir, your left arm removal went just about as textbook as it could possibly go. I'm sorry. What? Let's head to the phones and find out what the hell happened in your neck of the medical list. Apparently my balls are going to be three different colors. It's true. I did get some drainage. Yeah, it drained, and my balls look like fresh, ripe plums. Tim, thank you for holding. What was the last surgery you had?
SPEAKER 10 : 35:25
So, I haven't had my surgery yet. Hey, thanks for having me on, by the way. Thank you, Tim, of course.
SPEAKER 16 : 35:31
It's their pleasure.
SPEAKER 10 : 35:34
So, I am supposed to have my gallbladder out, but the serious thing a while back, I had pancreatitis, and yeah, it was real bad. I went into the emergency room, and mind you, I had no idea what was going on when I went in. And I just it felt like a knife in my chest. I was dry heaving constantly. I had nothing in my body, but my body kept trying to
SPEAKER 16 : 36:01
throw up you know get everything out there's nothing worse than the dry heaps yeah when the body's like nope we're getting more you're like there's no more there's nothing in there it's air and stomach acid and the stomach acid is slowly running out tim godspeed check back in after your surgery uh this sounds like one of the worst things you can go through yeah i mean uh all these calls and texts like a hernia is nothing compared to some of the surgeries joe you had spinal fusion surgery Yes, I did.
SPEAKER 09 : 36:31
The hell's that like? C5, C6, C7 had to be fused together in my neck. So what happened? I don't know, just degenerating disc.
SPEAKER 16 : 36:45
Okay, so no injury. There was like a car accident. I know he dropped anything on your head. It just rotted.
SPEAKER 09 : 36:50
Well, I dove into a rock 20 years ago. Maybe that could have helped. And how was it? The pain before was excruciating. The pain after, I mean, during the first couple days was a little painful, but after I got used to it, everything was relieved.
SPEAKER 16 : 37:08
Yeah, that's the ones where you have that surgery that provides you relief. The ones that are like, oh, my God, I have my life back. You see people that live in pain, and then they get it done. I know some people are like, oh, my God, don't ever get your back worked on or your neck worked on. Your life is never the same.
SPEAKER 03 : 37:23
That could screw you up.
SPEAKER 16 : 37:25
There's a lot of wrestlers that try and either work through the pain or PT their way through the injury because once you have the surgery, you're kind of done. How long does a spinal fusion surgery go for?
SPEAKER 09 : 37:38
I was only in there for a couple hours. I was out of work for three months. Damn.
SPEAKER 16 : 37:46
That's kind of chill. Yeah, your surgery will be like 15 minutes. Line one with John. It says had 20. What is an ECP? We're about to find out. John, good morning. Good morning. What does 21 ECPs mean?
SPEAKER 15 : 38:01
Depression. I suffer from depression. ECT is electric convulsive therapy. Okay.
SPEAKER 03 : 38:08
Oh, that's when they zap your head.
SPEAKER 15 : 38:09
Yep. You know, the one who flew over the cuckoo nest. Hey, brighten up, you. Ah!
SPEAKER 10 : 38:15
Wait, so it says you had shoulder surgery, and then that's completely different than the ECPs.
SPEAKER 15 : 38:21
Oh, God. That guy was just talking about spinal fusion, and three months, I had my right shoulder done in 2019, and every time I spoke to the doctor, yeah, you might have a tear the second time. It's a little bad in there. Once he was done the surgery, he said, we had to put you, Mr. Potato Head, back together.
SPEAKER 16 : 38:40
No one cares about that. We want to hear about your brain being sapped.
SPEAKER 15 : 38:44
That gets fun. That gets fun? Yeah, because they put you to sleep. You don't feel nothing. But afterwards... So I went into a very bad depression. Not for a very long time. And... Therapists just kept telling me, hey, you know, we're trying all these medicines. Have you ever heard of ECT? No. Electric convulsive therapy, don't ask how it works. They have no idea how it works. They just know it does for depression. Nice. And you go in, you get rubed, they... Tell you what they're going to do. They do a bilateral or unilateral. A unilateral, they put two probes on your forehead in specific areas. Bilateral, they put three probes on your forehead in specific areas. I only had the unilateral done, and they send you into a small controlled seizure. You're all sleep during this time. But the waking up part and the memory loss is the worst part.
SPEAKER 03 : 39:42
Somebody told me. Somebody told me. Somebody told you. Would he talk about this? Yeah, and it was a conversation over dinner. This is, like he says, he had a lot of different medicines. This is a last resort. Damn. And just short-term memory is a major problem.
SPEAKER 16 : 40:03
Watch Requiem for a Dream with Jared Leto, and his mom gets ECT in it, and she has her ass just hooked up to a car battery, and they zap her brain, and she has to have a bite put in so she doesn't chew through her tongue and lips.
SPEAKER 03 : 40:18
It's not as violent as the kind that they would show in movies in their 30s.
SPEAKER 16 : 40:23
We're going to do it at Tiki Lee's. Sometimes you got to throw yourself out of the nest to see if you can fly. Sometimes you have to dive into the water to see if you can swim. Sometimes in comedy, you got to go to an open mic to see if a bit works. And sometimes on the air, you just got to kind of blind fire and see if something is going to work. And we did that on Thursday. And the results? TBD. We tried the overreaction lines. It didn't go the way that I thought it would go. And maybe it was my fault. Maybe I got a little salty towards a caller's attitude. Maybe I need my boy Scott in here. But what we tried to do. was that you call and tell us something going on in your life. Maybe it could be something good even if we do try this again. But this was framed as something negative, something bad that happened, something you were frustrated with. And we wanted you to be heard. We wanted your problem to be our problem. And then we were going to overreact, like violently, loudly, screamingly overreact. And a guy called and complained about being on hold too long. and I didn't realize that that might have been his thing for us to overreact to. Rob Mayer tried. I just put him on hold, went to somebody else. I'm not sure if it worked. I do think we're going to try it again, but that's the reason we do Behind the Curtain, to hear both our successes and our failings. We gave it a shot. Maybe we're going to give it one more before we either put it to bed forever or continue to do it. We tried out early Thursday on the show the overreaction lines on Behind the Curtain. We're going to try something. Rob, when you have a complaint of sorts, and no, this isn't a pitch a bitch Wednesday on a Thursday, but... We used to let people call in, they'd pitch a bitch, we'd hear them out, move on and say, you know, Godspeed, good luck next time. But sometimes you just want to be heard. Yeah. Okay. Sometimes you want to be heard. A small complaint, maybe a medium-sized one. You travel quite a bit. And sometimes somebody at TSA might not be doing their job to the best of their ability. Sometimes the airline might not be fulfilling their end of the bargain for the expensive ticket you've paid for. Of course. Maybe you'll get to a comedy club or you say, hey, we're here in town. The hotel does not have a reservation. Where are we staying? Just happened. Just happened. Okay. And all you want, all you want is just to be heard. That's it. But you know what feels good sometimes, Speaks? You know what feels real good? When someone overreacts to your complaint. In your favor. In your favor. So we're going to have people call 410-338-1098. And we want you just to sort of, you know, we want you to be heard today. But we are going to overreact to everything you say. The overreaction lines buy way too much. Okay. Do you know recently I believe that the price of a transponder unit for an E-ZPass has gone up? The fancy one, the one that goes around your license plate or on the front. You had a fancy one back on your Red Infinity. I was always envious of that E-ZPass. I think they'll send you one to suction cup into the window. But if you want the car to be a little bit more elegant, you get the one that goes on the bumper. And I think it might have gone up a buck or two. Oh, my. Yeah. You called a complaint about that. When does it stop? We will lose our minds. Okay. We will go full. You know what? Here's what we're going to do. We're going to do ourselves a little role playing here. We got our pal Will on the corner there. Will always does a great job. Will, give me a... What's a complaint in your life outside of the studio that, you know what? You just want to get it off your chest. You just want to be heard. Our friend Will deserves to be heard. You know what?
SPEAKER 02 : 44:19
I am so tired of people leaving their shopping carts outside of their corral bin.
SPEAKER 16 : 44:24
Okay.
SPEAKER 02 : 44:25
At the parking lot.
SPEAKER 16 : 44:26
Yeah. Okay. Hey. All right. In three, two, one.
SPEAKER 14 : 44:34
What whore? What whore of Babylon? What godless slut? What absolute sycophant from the devil's ass? What hell-sent demon? What should have his throat slashed, son of a bitch? This is how people die. This? They're driving to get some milk. There's a cart in the road. Their kids are now dead. They're dead. Unbelievable. They will never get married, have children. Damn you. It's over. Damn you to hell. Society is over.
SPEAKER 16 : 45:12
Now, that is an overreaction to your complaint. I don't think so, actually. Well, the push cart at the grocery store thing does put a burr in my saddle, as my elderly grandmother would say. She never even owned a horse. Your complaints, our overreactions. You just want to be heard. It feels good to be heard. It feels good to be listened to. We got your back. Yeah, we got your back big time. We're going to make you feel heard. We're going to make you feel like someone has your back. Let's go to Nick, who's been patiently holding. Nick in Reisterstown, good morning. Good morning. How are you holding up, pal?
SPEAKER 01 : 45:50
Doing all right. I haven't been on hold this long in a while, but I'm all right.
SPEAKER 16 : 45:55
Ah, yeah. All right, well, you're about to be on hold a little bit longer. Let's head to Nicky online, too. Now, you asked for callers, Justin. He calls in. He did. To help us have a bit here. Yeah. To fill some time. Yeah. And then you hang up on him.
SPEAKER 14 : 46:10
I didn't hang up. I put him on hold. The longer?
SPEAKER 16 : 46:12
Because he's never been on hold this long. Hold on. Let me find that real quick. Nick, how long are you usually on hold for? It's tough to say. But usually like a couple of minutes or longer? Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, let's see if we can break the record today. We're going to head to Nicky. What, at 24 minutes? Yeah, 24. And we're going to see if we can get it all the way to 30. That's a TV show. Yeah. Nick felt like he deserved to get through a lot quicker. Sorry, but we had some songs to play. Also, hey, real quick before we don't get back to Nick.
SPEAKER 03 : 46:43
I was doing the bit and you were being serious.
SPEAKER 16 : 46:44
Yeah, I know. When somebody calls up and they have a complaint about being held on hold, guess what? You're going to go way longer. But I was overreacting because we take the call and then they do the thing and I overreact to the minor complaint.
SPEAKER 03 : 46:55
You're going to lose your voice.
SPEAKER 16 : 46:56
I was right on it. I was trying to stay in the... Oh, you were staying in the pocket? Exactly. No, no, no. I didn't realize you were actually... You called an audible. I like to complain about that you didn't stick to the bit, so... No, I'm just going to put him. It's more proof of concept. Yeah. We're working it out. Yeah, it's one of those things we're sort of working out. I just noticed on the call screen software, by the way, I see we have name, age, location, city. Did you know that, Josh, have you ever seen the tab on this call screening software? Yeah. It says f***ing mood. Are you serious? Look, in between age and topic on the software.
SPEAKER 03 : 47:31
What are the options for mood?
SPEAKER 16 : 47:33
I guess, can you type in, Joe, whatever their mood is?
SPEAKER 03 : 47:36
Jazzy.
SPEAKER 16 : 47:37
Saucy. I don't see a mood. Right there on the screen, on mine. Let's head back to Nick. Nick, if we were to type in mood for you, what would we type in?
SPEAKER 01 : 47:48
I'd say blit. Blit. Oh, blit.
SPEAKER 16 : 47:55
Lit. Okay, cool. Lit as in you're like a really cool guy or you've been drinking? We're never going to find out because I put my back on hold. Now, you have emojis you can put on the software? Yeah. The hell? Wow. Okay. Nick, what's your emoji right now? Nick, what do you think your emoji would be under the mood tab on our call screening software?
SPEAKER 01 : 48:18
The guy with his... Fantastic. All right.
SPEAKER 16 : 48:21
Let's head to Kiki on line two. Kiki, your complaints, our overreactions.
SPEAKER 04 : 48:29
Hello.
SPEAKER 16 : 48:29
Hi.
SPEAKER 04 : 48:30
My complaint is there's too many live action movies. Can somebody in Hollywood put two brain cells together and make an original concept for me, please?
SPEAKER 09 : 48:41
You go, girl.
SPEAKER 15 : 48:43
I mean, when you remake something, you're just having a worse version.
SPEAKER 14 : 48:47
Exactly. It's already been made. Thank you. You get paid millions of dollars. Come up with an original idea. You're just going through life doing the same crap. You're reheating the same dish. Give me something new and great and awesome. Give me something fresh. Not something old and lame. How dare you? Do your job.
SPEAKER 16 : 49:04
Just do your freaking job. What are we paying you for? You mean money's coming out of my check for me to get another 48-hour sequel that we didn't ask for? Give me something fresh. With that said, they have tried to do a couple of original concept films this year, including The Fall Guy and Wish, and they both just bombed in theaters. The Fall Guy's not original. That's not an original concept? The TV show? I do know the TV show, but it's the Ryan Gosling film? Yeah, it's based off the stuntman, the TV show.
SPEAKER 15 : 49:37
Yes.
SPEAKER 16 : 49:38
I had no idea it's based off... Really? Is it really based off... Did you know they made the A-Team movie?
SPEAKER 14 : 49:42
I had no idea. It was based off a TV show. It's based off of the... Son of a bitch! I had no idea!
SPEAKER 16 : 49:50
I am overreacting to the thing I didn't know! Thank you! Now, hold on. Let's head back to Nikki real quick. Hey, Nikki. Kiki. Kiki. Excuse me, Kiki. She hates when she's called Nikki. Nikki. Hi, Nikki. We're getting some loop back. Nikki. When you said, do you meant remakes or live action? Because on your screen... I meant...
SPEAKER 04 : 50:10
Remakes, live action, same concept.
SPEAKER 16 : 50:13
Completely different things. Live action is when you take a cartoon and you make it live action. I knew what she meant. A remake is when you remake something. Right. So one could be one or the other. I would never remake Kiki because she's perfect. Thank you, Nikki. Let's go to Trucker Ron on line three. Trucker Ron, good morning. Your complaints are overreactions.
SPEAKER 02 : 50:33
God.
SPEAKER 14 : 50:52
Are you up there, God?
SPEAKER 16 : 50:55
Okay, this is actually, like, not a minor complaint. Yeah, your boat blew up.
SPEAKER 14 : 51:00
Yeah, like, we can't really overreact. Yeah, it's hard to overreact. You bought something, and it blew up.
SPEAKER 16 : 51:05
Yeah, a boat, which from what I've heard, kind of exploded.
SPEAKER 14 : 51:08
Yeah, but still, when you buy something...
SPEAKER 16 : 51:11
The only thing you buy and it blows up that you hope is, like, dynamite. Or a balloon. Yeah. But you bought something that's supposed to transport you in water, and instead it blew up. Now, I've never owned a boat. Is the motor important? Yes, very. Yeah, I figured as much. Look, I will say this, Ron. If you're going to go buy a trucker, Ron, stick to land. Do I think he's got a couple of extra pounds on him? Yes. Do I think he's Ozempic fat? No. But Joe Stamboni, our producer, JSS, he had a moment of clairvoyance or clarity, however the hell it's supposed to be said, in the pool on Monday this week. You'll hear him talk about it coming up. He had his shirt off. He was hanging out with some other beautiful, slender people. Looking at you, Marianne. Looking at you, Kobe. And he said, I'm done being heavy, and I think I need to get an Ozempic. I would still like to hold off on sticking Joe with a needle, pumping him full of peptides, and maybe just go to the gym with him a little bit, maybe work on the diet a little bit, and then if that's not the case, boom, let's silver bullet that ass, have weight fall off of him, and he can look like Kelly Osbourne or... Or he could just continue to be the cuddly, lovable, pot-smoking, dino, microwave, nugget-eating fellow we love so much. Yeah, we opened up the phone lines, discussed amongst ourselves. Somebody did bring up a very good point, though. You don't get to get Ozempic unless you're a diabetic, because if you just want to pay out of pocket, it's very expensive. So Joe's also concerned about maybe being pre-diabetic. So in a weird, macabre way... Him actually being discovered to be pre-diabetic or diabetic could be the most financially beneficial thing to him as insurance would probably then pay for the Ozempic. So we'll get an update in a couple of weeks, months to come if he's stuck himself with that magic weight loss diabetes needle. Joe Stamboni is thinking about getting on Ozempic on Behind the Curtain. Joe, how are you feeling? Feeling fat, guys. Yeah. We see on the schedule here that Joe is, and I quote, seriously, that's what it's written, seriously considering Ozempic. Yep. All right.
SPEAKER 02 : 53:24
Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 : 53:24
After our little pool day the other day.
SPEAKER 02 : 53:28
Look, I was a little bloated that day, admittedly. I ate too much peanut butter over the weekend.
SPEAKER 16 : 53:33
What are you, a dog?
SPEAKER 02 : 53:34
Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 : 53:35
Is someone trying to hide medicine from you?
SPEAKER 02 : 53:37
No, I've tried to stop eating junk food at night, so that's just turned into me eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich before I go to bed.
SPEAKER 16 : 53:43
But you know, you can try and fail. I can try and be a part of the X Games. I will fail at it. Yeah. Are you succeeding in not eating junk food?
SPEAKER 02 : 53:52
I mean, yes, I am succeeding in not eating junk food. Okay. But... I still feel like crap. And, you know, I'm about a good 30 pounds, maybe pushing 40 overweight. If you say so. Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 : 54:05
What's the lightest you've ever – do you mind me asking how much you weigh right now, man? I'd say 230 to 240. Okay. So you want to get down to 200. Yeah.
SPEAKER 1 : 54:11
- 210.
SPEAKER 16 : 54:13
Yeah, 2205. How tall are you? Same height as me, about 5'8", 5'9". Yeah, 5'9". All right. Okay, so yeah, you should be right around 190 to 200. So you said the pool brought it out. That made you really self-conscious?
SPEAKER 02 : 54:28
Not really self-conscious, but... It made it less hideable. I feel like...
SPEAKER 16 : 54:33
Because I don't do anything anymore.
SPEAKER 02 : 54:34
I feel like I'm wearing a hoodie in a 100-degree wind. No, I know. It's hot as hell in here right now.
SPEAKER 16 : 54:37
You do have a decently proportioned body, though, because you can be a big man. Yeah. You can be a big man. There's a guy... What the hell is his name? Not Omos. Who's the big fat fella? Otis. Otis.
SPEAKER 07 : 54:50
Otis. WWE. One of the Alpha Academy. I can see that vibe.
SPEAKER 16 : 54:53
He's a big, large man, but he's kind of proportional. I don't think anybody's going to mistake Eric Woodworth for Kate Moss, but... He carries it nicely. Eric is perfectly proportioned. He's a big dude, but he's got the rugby player build. It works for him. But he also has a good personality. He's also very funny and incredible in bed. Yeah, smells good. You, on the other hand, Joe, are not those things.
SPEAKER 03 : 55:16
Not good in bed at all. Really no redeeming qualities.
SPEAKER 16 : 55:20
You always get yours, but me, I'm left out in the rain. Joe, what... Now, the issue with Ozempic is not the Ozempic itself. It's the timing of this.
SPEAKER 10 : 55:28
Right.
SPEAKER 16 : 55:29
You're... We're approaching the back end of the summer. You start getting into that fall, the football season, Halloween, the candy, the holidays, all the eating. Damn it, I didn't think about that. You're about to hit the food gauntlet soon. You want to start this in January.
SPEAKER 02 : 55:44
Yeah, I might as well put on a few more pounds before I actually commit.
SPEAKER 16 : 55:48
Anything you lose now as Olympic, once we hit those, the October, November, Decembers, then you're going to be putting it back on. So I think maybe try to level off. Maybe lose five or ten just counting calories. Naturally. Naturally. And then maybe you gain five back through the holidays. Not crazy. I say you go on one last bender and just go full 600-pound life. By the way, we're doing a New Year's Eve show at Magoobies. Can you do it? Do sound? Yes. I thought you had no plans.
SPEAKER 08 : 56:17
I thought you had no plans.
SPEAKER 16 : 56:19
Exactly. I was positive you had no plans. Mark, what say you?
SPEAKER 11 : 56:22
Mark, good morning. Good morning, fellas. Good morning. I've been on Ozempic for about three months. I woke up 6 o'clock this morning, 6.30 range. I had to throw up because of Ozempic. I took it last night. Now, it doesn't make me do that all the time, but I've noticed my doctor upped me because I have diabetes. I don't do it just because I'm a fat ass, but I will say I lost 20 pounds.
SPEAKER 16 : 56:46
How quickly did it take to lose the 20? I'd say about over a three-month period. Okay, so you kind of off-ramped into it. It wasn't like a crash, weights falling off. That is one thing I have heard from some people that have been on it, some friends of ours. Yeah. How do you do with nausea? I throw up once a week already.
SPEAKER 13 : 57:08
Well, that does help losing weight.
SPEAKER 02 : 57:09
Yeah, it does. But, you know, the main thing is I'm getting older. My dad had diabetes. My whole family's fat. I don't want diabetes. And I also saw somewhere that Ozempic, since you do throw up and you do feel like crap, but since you lose weight, you lower your risks of heart conditions and cancer.
SPEAKER 16 : 57:29
Let's ask Beth if she's fat and throwing up. Beth, good morning.
SPEAKER 05 : 57:32
If he can, why not? I was turned down by my doctor because I don't have diabetes, even though I have a heart condition. And the weight I gain from steroids can't be good for heart failure.
SPEAKER 16 : 57:46
True. You think I might have something to do with that negative attitude? Yeah, there's a bit of a tone there. Beth, I think you're perfect right now. Beth, did you try and do the whole workout diet routine bit first?
SPEAKER 05 : 57:59
Actually, I was. I did start going to a gym, but because of my heart failure, excessive, I mean, for lack of a better word, movement, I have a hard time breathing.
SPEAKER 16 : 58:12
Are you scared to fall in love again because of the bad heart?
SPEAKER 05 : 58:15
Oh, no, no, no. I'm already in love.
SPEAKER 16 : 58:17
Are you having trouble breathing right now?
SPEAKER 05 : 58:21
Yes, because I'm... Okay. Let's...
SPEAKER 16 : 58:24
What the hell is this? Real quick. Yeah, we just lost Beth. RIP. She had a good run. Paul, what are you on? What's this called?
SPEAKER 13 : 58:32
Hey, it's Jay, actually. Oh, sorry, Jay. I'm on Zetbound. It's Eli Lilly's version of Ozempic. So they have Wagovia, Zempic, and Manzara, and all of them are from different manufacturers.
SPEAKER 16 : 58:46
How much did you weigh when you started, and how much do you weigh now?
SPEAKER 13 : 58:50
So I started at 216, and I actually just weighed myself. I lost 11 pounds yesterday. I just lost another pound between yesterday and today. And, yeah, short, black, high blood pressure, sleep apnea. I took all the boxes. So my doctor jumped at the chance to give it to me. And, yeah, I've only taken two doses. I've lost 11 pounds so far. Do you think it will work for Joe?
SPEAKER 16 : 59:17
He's not short and black. but I end short and white. I think it'll work.
SPEAKER 13 : 59:21
Yeah, it'll work for you, man. It's working. All right, you're going on.
SPEAKER 16 : 59:25
It's called Zepbound.
SPEAKER 03 : 59:26
Yeah. Zepbound. And the major issue is if your insurance will pay for it. Yeah, I think I can convince my doctor. Oh, can you? Well, I'd like a follow-up on that. For sure. Hostage negotiator. Oh, goodness.
SPEAKER 16 : 59:40
Scott made mention of something interesting in this next break about things that you take from places you're at. Famously, a lot of hotels, everybody takes either the towels or they'll take the robe that's inside of the bathroom. A lot of people like to take the little tiny mini jars of condiments from either a restaurant or some hotel resort that they're staying at. But Scott talked about glassware. Glassware, particularly at a brewery, something that's got its name on the thing, they have to factor into the losses in their budget. But they kind of think to themselves, you know what? Go ahead, steal it. Our logo's on it. You're basically advertising for us with it. Our product was so good, so memorable. that you had to take it with you, that kind of says something great about what we do. And maybe whoever sees it at your barbecue, lunch, dinner, when you break out the glassware from our brewery, our restaurant, maybe they'll go, damn, I got to eat there. It was worth risk getting arrested for. It was so damned fine. We all talked amongst ourselves and to you when you go somewhere, hotel, restaurant, Holiday Inn, Motel Hotel, Holiday Inn. What the hell do you always take with you on Behind the Curtain? What the hell do you steal from the restaurant, from the hotel, from the place of business? What is the thing that you just got to get sticky fingers with and say, guess what? It's coming with me. I love little bottles of condiments. The ones that they will leave you if you order room service. Yeah. We got a little food at the... Resort we stayed at, it's called the Ashore, which from a distance, through the fog of the weekend, the sign looks like it read, Ass Whore. Oh! And had a laugh at that. The kids cried a little bit when I said it out loud. We take the little things of mustard. They had little things of mayonnaise, which I hate, but I still want it. And some syrup.
SPEAKER 14 : 61:38
You're talking about the little bottles? The little tiny fellas. I love those.
SPEAKER 16 : 61:41
It's like one ounce. But it looks just like a full-size jar. It's got the... a lid. It's made of glass. I feel like, oh, I could use those. I don't know. I always tell myself, I'm going to make my own tea candles. And I end up just throwing them in the garbage like three days later after I forgot that they were in my carry-on. Right.
SPEAKER 03 : 62:00
I love taking notepads and pens from hotel rooms. I just love it. I love it so much. In fact, I think it's hereditary. My father used to Do it as well. One time we he had to use the bathroom and he went into a hotel and whole family followed. We went into the lobby and before he went to use the bathroom, we went to the pay phones. There's a line of pay phones. And by each pay phone, there was a little notepad and he proceeded to take it. Every single notepad and pen. That's right. It runs in the family, okay? Uh-huh. That's right.
SPEAKER 16 : 62:38
So then if someone needed to write something down, the next time they used the phone, they couldn't do it? That's how the Spiegel's roll. You got nothing. I remember a story you did. 21 years ago. How is that possible? Remember when Holiday Inn declared Nationwide Towel Amnesty Day? You reported on this, I believe, at another station, where for one day, all the towels that you stole, you took from Holiday Inns. I guess they were soft, downy. They had good wicking. They would allow you to bring them back with no penalty. 8-28-03. Nationwide Towel Amnesty Day. I'll still take them.
SPEAKER 10 : 63:23
We talked about that at my gym. Do you remember that? I got an email saying, hey, you stole a towel from the gym. And I'm like, how the hell did that? A, I don't think I did it. B, I think I was being framed.
SPEAKER 16 : 63:35
How the hell did they know? I never understood it because all the towels are in this little heated locker. And you have to scan your code. You scan your code. The door opens. You can grab a towel. Then when you leave, you're supposed to put it back in the other side. There's a return where you put the towel. And they're all microchipped. So they all know what towel goes out and what towel gets back into the return. The towels are microchipped? Have the price of microchips just plummeted? What? So we could just sew them into the fabric? Really? That's wild. So they know this towel has a number. It's got like a little mini, mini, mini, mini microchip just sewn into like one of the corners.
SPEAKER 10 : 64:12
And they know that you took that towel, and then that towel never made it back into the return bin. They know it.
SPEAKER 16 : 64:18
When I get coffee, maybe I'll grab a couple extra sweeteners. I haven't paid for Splenda in 20 years. I'll grab a handful of Splenda. Oh, I wait for Homeboy to go back behind the counter.
SPEAKER 10 : 64:31
And a bunch of napkins.
SPEAKER 16 : 64:32
I'll take like 50 napkins. I'm living real well. Napkins in the car and then the Splenda. Sometimes I keep a couple in the car just in case my coffee isn't right. They'll let it back at the house or here. I bring them here a lot of times. Our diner in Annapolis had stopped. Maybe they brought it back out, but it was a while that they did not have sweetener on the table anymore. You can imagine how much money loss. In sweeteners alone. Dude, a year. Pocketing wads, wads of sweet and low packets. Jen, her husband, piece of ass that he is, is incapable of staying at a hotel without taking all the mini shampoos, conditioners, bars of soap. They'll never be used. He just has to take them. And Rodney, he's not proud of this. He says if he's at a hotel, damn, Rodney, he will steal the spare blanket. He just takes the... Buddy. And now we're getting a little... Okay, that's big time. Yeah, now you're getting... That's thievery. That's thievery. You're going into felony territory. You stay at the hotel. You go to your favorite restaurant. You just can't help but take what... Remember on one of the first dates about 10 years ago, Mudge and I had downtown Annapolis, Maryland, and there was a place, a little taco spot that served the sour cream. Oh, they didn't have salsa. They had pico de gallo. And they came in these little tiny ramekins. Love a good ramekin. Yeah, it's a little tiny dipping dish.
SPEAKER 03 : 65:56
Oh, yeah. Yeah, I knew that. You didn't have to explain it. What are you looking at me for?
SPEAKER 16 : 66:00
Making sure Joe knew. He has no idea. And God, what's that word? What's that word when you're really, really smart, but you can't remember anything and you don't know anything about anything? Stupid. That's me. And it looked like a little sombrero. It looked like a little tidy sombrero you could, like, dip chips in. And I see her eyes dart around, and I go to the bathroom, and I come back, and nothing on the table is missing except for this little sombrero ramekin. And later on, she opens up her purse. I'm like, criminal. Criminal's hot. 410-338-1098. You can't help but take it. Joe, you strike me as a matchbook guy.
SPEAKER 02 : 66:44
Uh... No, I don't really take anything. I don't really go anywhere to take things.
SPEAKER 16 : 66:50
Juliet, the salt box jewels. Her kid gets a strange thrill from stealing huge stacks of napkins. Yeah. Every time he goes to Chipotle. And our friend Jen, she takes the full-size shampoo, conditioner, body wash bottles that they have in there now. You know that those things come in the little metal shelf in the shower. They're not like small guys. They're like big pumps. She's wrangling them sons of bitches free and walking away from them. And everybody loves to steal themselves a fork. 410-338-1098. Let's go to the phones. Tracy, you've been patiently holding. Criminal Tracy, what are you taking from where?
SPEAKER 06 : 67:32
I take them from, like, Chili's and Outback's. I'm with your friend. You get the food. You order it. They bring the sauces. That's the best part of the meal. And the rat bastards, when you go to leave, you're like, can I get the go-to-go container? And they give you the big thing. Nothing for the sauces. So I have at least a dozen of those metal, plastic, all colors. And I use them for taco nights and other things because I'm taking them.
SPEAKER 16 : 67:54
There she goes. Look at you. Where have I heard her before?
SPEAKER 06 : 67:57
I have some Imodium. I have some Pepto.
SPEAKER 16 : 68:00
Uh-huh. I knew it. A big thing for breweries is their glassware. Oh, they have proprietary glassware? Yeah, I remember Big Truck had really cool glasses, and I talked to him about it. I go, dude, people just must walk off with these all the time. He goes, you literally factor that into the cost of business nowadays. In a weird way? In a certain year, X amount of glasses will go missing. Is that kind of like mobile promotion for them? Sure, they don't want their glassware stolen, but that's now out in the world. Someone sees that logo somewhere at a barbecue background. Oh, I've been there. Oh, where's this? And you start talking about the place. There was a great topic bucket done this past Thursday. Rob Mayer joined us, and there was a question contained therein that I feel like we should revisit. And the question was, you'll hear tucked into this podcast. topic bucket was what is something that you could own that's not illegal but it's suspicious and I don't know why this bubbled up a little later on and I thought to myself a second cell phone a second phone is sketchy to me okay Maybe it's issued to you for work. Maybe you've got your regular phone. Maybe you've got the government-issued phone you used to watch on, what was it, the Jersey Shore or Hills or Laguna Beach, one of those trash shows that morons watch. The bro phone and the ho phone. I feel like if you own two phones. completely legal to do but it does give off an air of suspicion so who knows maybe coming up on monday tuesday and beyond we can have another discussion about this topic bucket topic what do you own that's totally legal but could be looked at as suspicious we had ourselves a good time doing a topic bucket with our special guest rob mayor on behind the curtain Rob Mayer, are you familiar with the topic bucket? I am very familiar. Let's fire away, rapid fire this thing, right? All right. What's your most prized possession? My friendship with Josh Spiegel.
SPEAKER 03 : 70:10
That's mine.
SPEAKER 16 : 70:10
That is, you know, that's very nice. Okay. I know I should say my kid. But I do have an original in the box 1984 Optimus Prime. And the box is designed by Peter Cullen, the guy that voiced Optimus. I do have that. That's good. I also have an O.J. Simpson rookie card. For real? I do, yes. Wow. Yes. Do you have it like in one of those little plastic cases? I do, yes. When did you get that? I got it. My mom got it for me for my birthday when I was, you know, like 13 or something. Oh, so this is in like a recently procured thing.
SPEAKER 01 : 70:45
This was before you knew.
SPEAKER 16 : 70:46
Right.
SPEAKER 01 : 70:47
Before we all knew.
SPEAKER 16 : 70:47
Yeah, it was before the murders. Can you write down how much it's worth? I don't want you to give it away. You know what? I need to go get it like graded or whatever.
SPEAKER 01 : 70:56
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 16 : 70:56
Because I see different things online. So I know it went up after he died. Wow. I didn't know you owned that. I mean, it's kind of famous, now infamous. But then when someone dies... Yeah.
SPEAKER 1 : 71:06
The...
SPEAKER 16 : 71:07
Skyrocket. Hopefully it comes out that he killed other people. Yeah, all kinds of people. He was responsible. Oh, my God. They somehow tie him to JonBenet Ramsey or something.
SPEAKER 10 : 71:16
Oh, I'm a millionaire.
SPEAKER 16 : 71:17
Speaks. Most valuable possession. My beloved terrier dog, Farfel. Okay, Evans wine. I'll say it all. Talking about it. Sticking with OJ. What is suspicious to own but not illegal? Uh, stun gun. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah, it was suspicious to own, but not illegal. Like, it was in your car, like rope and duct tape and the stun gun. World War II memorabilia on the wrong side.
SPEAKER 03 : 71:51
Ah, there you go.
SPEAKER 16 : 71:52
Axis powers memorabilia. Like, you're really into the Axis group. Why is that? I think as an adult, if you have like a Backstreet Boys poster in your house, it's not illegal. No, but every person knows their way around it. Speaks. What do you own that's not illegal but suspicious? The walk-in freezer?
SPEAKER 03 : 72:17
I don't own it, but I would say the large plastic wrapping. A big bag of lye.
SPEAKER 16 : 72:27
A small scale. How to bear... Bearing bodies for dummies. Yeah. We have... Oh, I think I might have showed you guys the picture forever ago. Not illegal, but you go... Someone in the family bought one of the kids as a stocking stuffer a telescopic back scratcher. It's just got the little thing that looks like a fork and it telescopes. I have one of those. Big fan. It replaces a woman. But you could unscrew the far end of it. Go on. And you pull it out. It is a Coke spoon. Oh. And someone was trying to sell me on. Also replaces a woman. Like, yeah, no kidding. Come on, let me do it off one of your boobies. This one was like, oh, no, it's for earwax. Like, this thing.
SPEAKER 02 : 73:10
Okay.
SPEAKER 16 : 73:10
And that's for a massaging. Your back, your neck, your blank and your blank. Your blank as well as your blank? Yeah. Topic bucket.
SPEAKER 03 : 73:19
Yes. Teleportation or mind reading? What are you choosing and why? Mind reading. Yeah, mind reading. I'm teleporting.
SPEAKER 16 : 73:29
Mind reading will screw you up. You'll start reading people's minds when you're not sure if they're telling you the truth or not. It'll affect your relationships.
SPEAKER 03 : 73:36
You'll end up going crazy.
SPEAKER 16 : 73:37
Yeah, you probably would go insane. Now that I think about it, yeah, I might go crazy. It's like the things you don't know. Ignorance is bliss.
SPEAKER 03 : 73:43
Yeah. And you know what? If you're a mind reader, you can read the mind of a teleporter.
SPEAKER 16 : 73:49
Oh, wow. I know where you're headed. You're going to transport yourself to Glen Burnie suddenly? Wow. We get it. They've got a bonjour.
SPEAKER 03 : 73:57
The question is, can you still read their mind as they're in that other place? Or does it stop when they're in the car?
SPEAKER 16 : 74:06
Do you have to be within, like, close proximity? Like, could I read my dad's mind right now and play to Maryland? I think you can turn it off and on because you clearly make tons of money reading minds, playing poker or whatever. Oh, my God. Yeah. We're teleporting. Let's say you can only do it. 20 times a year. That's plenty, man.
SPEAKER 03 : 74:23
Teleporting.
SPEAKER 16 : 74:24
How often are you just going to work? You don't want to drive. You want to sleep an hour and a half in. Exactly. You know what? I'm going to sleep in today. Blink. I just night crawler into the studio. That would be pretty cool. You could also, like, transport into out of vaults. Oh, they're going to say something else. Grab a little. Into out of what?
SPEAKER 1 : 74:43
Oh!
SPEAKER 14 : 74:44
And then suddenly, out of nowhere, where'd you come from?
SPEAKER 16 : 74:47
I teleport inside of Joe. Topic bucket. I read your mind. That's what you wanted. I read your ass.
SPEAKER 02 : 74:58
What's one thing that's worth spending money on?
SPEAKER 15 : 75:00
My mind's telling me no. But my body, my body's telling me yeah.
SPEAKER 16 : 75:09
You were saying, John? Yeah. What's one thing that's worth spending money on once a month? Oh, a really nice going out to eat a nice restaurant. Yeah. I'd agree with that. If I had a couple of bucks more to rub together, I'd say massage. Like a well-done once a month massage. I would say a really high-end golf course, but that's me. But I think a really nice meal.
SPEAKER 03 : 75:28
Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 : 75:29
Or something that just makes you feel. Okay.
SPEAKER 02 : 75:31
Would you say $100?
SPEAKER 16 : 75:33
Just spending money.
SPEAKER 02 : 75:34
Just once a month. Hey, once a month. Just once a month. Just treat yourself.
SPEAKER 16 : 75:39
Fresh and clean. What would that cost?
SPEAKER 03 : 75:41
What's a high-end prostitute?
SPEAKER 16 : 75:43
At least 50 or 60 bucks, right?
SPEAKER 03 : 75:45
Yeah. Yeah, there's some risks with one that cheap. Dude, I was talking about that. You might do it more than once a month. That's the risk. $800? $800? Let me tell you this. I bet you it's more than that in this economy. What I hear, I don't know firsthand, but what I hear with $800, that'll get you one who ignores an overgrown bush.
SPEAKER 16 : 76:15
They just work around it. She shows up dressed like she's in Jumanji. Doesn't care. We're about to go on penis safari. Hell yeah. My specialty. We're going to find the lost city of beef somewhere in this fur jungle. Holy hell. God, that's funny. Topic bucket.
SPEAKER 02 : 76:33
Yes. Where would you like to live if you had unlimited money?
SPEAKER 16 : 76:38
A moon. I mean, San Diego's nice.
SPEAKER 03 : 76:42
Yes, it is. The weather's perfect. San Diego rules. Hawaii, but then you're so far from everybody that... But, I don't know.
SPEAKER 16 : 76:49
A place like that, just on some sort of water, lake. Have you ever performed in Burlington, Vermont? No, you know, I've always wanted to go to Vermont. I've been to New Hampshire and... No, I've been to Vermont, but I haven't performed in Burlington. Burlington, it's a college town. Yeah, it's Bellows Falls, Vermont. Incredible. No, we drove through it. Vermont's one of the few states that you, it's illegal to have a billboard. They don't want any on the highways. I didn't know that. Because they want you to be able to just look at the nature. Oh, and not mess with the natural beauty, the aesthetics of the state. Okay. Yeah, okay, I'll go Vermont. Speegs, you going to co-sign on San Diego?
SPEAKER 03 : 77:25
Yeah, I would. I love San Diego. All right. You and Speegs are hanging out together. Only one of two cities I've been to outside of Baltimore. What about you, Joe? I'm going to guess Upper Marlboro. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 : 77:35
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 : 77:36
Fantastic.
Read MoreRead Less
How much is too much to spend on crabs? Live in the Boom Boom Room Kirk and Marianne talk about how Marianne's never had crabs. Tune in to hear our listeners tell us how to cook crabs and teaching Marianne a humane way to kill and cook them. How did they tell her to prepare them? Hit play and find out.
Description Chapter Markers Transcript In today's episode, JSS dive into the intriguing world of missed connections. They discuss Joe's daring move of posting his own missed connection and the hilarious and unexpected responses that followed. Along the way, they share stories of a lobster-clad hero and other entertaining encounters that highlight the bizarre and sometimes touching nature of missed connections.
00:00:00 Joe's Missed Connection 00:01:07 Flooded Inboxes 00:02:13 Lobster-Clad Hero 00:03:52 Meal Connections 00:04:08 Wawa Friend 00:05:03 Missed Connections Pick SPEAKER 02 : 0:00
joe you ready to go ready let's roll it it's missed connections and before we get into today's crop you say the first page sucks so guess what is she going the second page you said nice and juicy yeah pick some i love it i love what you've gone and done you scallywag i've been waiting for you to do this for a while Joe posted one. He didn't look for them. He posted a missed connection. One of these is Joe's? Is one of these yours, Joe? It's not on there. It's not. I was going to see if we could pick it out. The reason I wanted Joe.
SPEAKER 01 : 0:34
Maybe for a woman to change clothes with.
SPEAKER 02 : 0:35
Yes, exactly. Care to swap panties? I'm a quad XL. A woman that listens to the program months ago. She loves Miss Connection. She came up to me at an event. She goes, I wanted to put one on there to see if you guys can find it. And I didn't read it. I thought it'd be fun. Biggest effing mistake I've ever made. She said within a day, her inbox flooded. She had to get a new email account. She said the amount of perverts that poured in. I'm like, what did you write?
SPEAKER 01 : 1:07
This is a real thing that people are actively doing.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:09
I bump into you. Man, golf cart, hat on. Great short game. Work on your drive. Very funny. Something happened while you were there. Find me, lady, wheelchair, hair lip, missing left arm. They're truly trying to find someone. And then in some cases, they're just looking for anybody that looks like them because they're just horny.
SPEAKER 03 : 1:31
Well, that's the thing. The blue-eyed cicada of this is a woman who's looking for a man. Exactly.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:37
Ali Wong, her special where she was on Craigslist discussing she wanted a very forbidden sex act done to a small, cute Asian woman. She was one of one. Too strange to live, too rare to die. So you put one on here, Stamboni. Can you please, before we read any of these, what's the gist of yours?
SPEAKER 05 : 1:59
An outing at the Inner Harbor. Okay. We're already getting emails.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:05
Give me yours. Can you read what you wrote? Is it proper? Yeah. Okay, give it to me, and read one of your favorite responses to it.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:13
Okay. It's so stupid. Forgive me. To the lobster-clad hero at the Inner Harbor. Last Saturday, around 3 p.m., I saw you at the Inner Harbor wearing a full-body lobster costume. You were dancing with the street performer, holding a balloon animal sword and making everyone laugh. I was the one in the I Love Crabs t-shirt, trying and failing to eat my crab cake without staring at you. You caught my eye, and I think I caught yours when you winked at me. Or maybe I was just adjusting your giant... Or maybe you were just adjusting your giant claw. Either way... It was a moment I'll never forget. I had to leave before I could introduce myself because, let's face it, eating crabs is serious business. If you see this, let's meet up. I'll bring the butter. You bring the claws. P.S. If you're not the lobster hero, but just someone who enjoys a good laugh and seafood, feel free to reach out, too. I don't discriminate when it comes to good company and great food.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:05
You did not annotate gender. No. Age. Nope. Height. Nope. Weight. Anything. I have no idea who wrote that. None at all.
SPEAKER 01 : 3:13
Everyone's welcome, Justin.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:15
Everyone's welcome. It's an all-you-can-have buffet. So there's nothing in there like me, short brunette, you man in lobster outfit. Not even a lot of innuendo.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:23
No. Just slight seafood innuendo. Give it to me. So you've gotten responses. Oh, this is great. Yes.
SPEAKER 05 : 3:29
The best one we've gotten so far is just a dude, I'm not going to say his name. He just replies, I do enjoy seafood.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:38
Nice. Okay. He's clever. He's clever.
SPEAKER 01 : 3:40
Okay.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:41
You're actually going to end up actually going out and having seafood.
SPEAKER 01 : 3:43
You're actually going to have a nice seafood dinner at the Red Lobster.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:46
You're going to go out with Dorothy Mantooth for a nice seafood dinner and never call her again. Joe's usually just have food with people.
SPEAKER 01 : 3:52
That's it.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:53
Yes.
SPEAKER 01 : 3:53
Missed supper. Yes. So I'll keep you posted. Yeah. Keep me posted.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:57
Meal connections. Meal.
SPEAKER 01 : 3:58
Yes, please. Meal connections. Do more of those. I saw you eating a Wawa the other day at Royal Farm. Sorry. Who's our sponsor? Anyway, whatever. Yeah. Yes. Stop eating a big bite. I love this.
SPEAKER 02 : 4:08
Continue to, please. And then mine some. And maybe lean in a little bit. Yeah. I'm essentially asking you to catfish strangers. Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 : 4:14
This was just the first round.
SPEAKER 02 : 4:16
Give your real phone number and find it. All right. Here we go. Wawa friend. I'm looking for that beautiful little blonde in Dunkirk. When I met, I paid for your soft pretzel and we talked in my truck and had great conversation. I was the white 35-year-old guy. You said you love my tats and smile. I would love to meet again in my truck and see you.
SPEAKER 01 : 4:36
Okay. Lazy. You want to comment on that? Lazy, quiet day. Just out running errands. Kind of a dull day. Would like to find a nice woodworker. Get in touch. Just want to watch and check out the skills.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:51
Okay. I think you guys didn't see this one or you would have read it. Younger guy who used to come by and admire how hairy you were. Jesus. Miss playing in your forest. Oh.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:06
That was actually me too. That was disgusting. All right, here's another one here. Nature Trail. You asked if I needed help with my bike and I refused. It's only because you almost caught me putting on my pink unmentionables. That's a word I use. If you see this and would like to give me a chance to thank you for the offer, send me an email if it's you. I'll make sure you get the call. Needed help with my bike. Dude. Was he changing into panties in the forest?
SPEAKER 01 : 5:36
I think so. Okay. Okay. Fishing Buddy. Yeah, hell yeah. Looking for a guy I fish with off and on during my weekend trips on the shore. You camped in the area most weekends, too. Hope you see this so we can get our holes wet again.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:51
Oh. God, it's not even... That much double entendre. Did you see this thick, plump white girl walking down the street wearing tight-fitting leggings? We know you're not running.
SPEAKER 02 : 6:05
Hell yeah. Obesity runs in my family because no one runs in my family.
SPEAKER 03 : 6:08
Here's what this girl's wearing. Tight-fitting leggings. Okay. A Diamondbacks jersey.
SPEAKER 01 : 6:14
Okay.
SPEAKER 03 : 6:16
And a baseball cap.
SPEAKER 01 : 6:17
Very specific.
SPEAKER 03 : 6:18
I asked you what position you played. I was the tall black guy walking by.
SPEAKER 01 : 6:22
All right.
SPEAKER 03 : 6:24
Sounds like he missed his opportunity.
SPEAKER 01 : 6:25
Well, Joe. No, please. I like this one. Looking for fresh peaches. That'd be from Atlanta. Right to the point. I'm hungry and looking for those black men with fresh peaches to eat.
SPEAKER 03 : 6:37
Ew. I mean, are they farmers?
SPEAKER 01 : 6:39
I don't know.
SPEAKER 03 : 6:40
I always thought peach referenced a different, like a part of the female in that.
SPEAKER 01 : 6:44
I guess. Is it like butt cheeks? Is that the peach? I don't know. Peaches? Joe, you know about the peach. Joe, go to Half Roots.
SPEAKER 02 : 6:51
Buy every member of the female staff until you get yelled at. Lost info for Tool Guy. Met you in the tools section at the hardware store. Good conversation on your set of tools. If you or anyone else needs help with your tools, let me know.
SPEAKER 03 : 7:07
I don't think I can read this one. Look at the one that says dinner plans.
SPEAKER 02 : 7:11
It's on page. You can't read that one. I saw that one. You saw that one? Yeah, yeah. But someone, big Melissa Etheridge man.
Read MoreRead Less
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room we talk about our unusual collections. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne talk with our listeners about the things we collect. What are you collecting? Toenails? Coins? Postcards? One way to find out what people are collecting. Hit play!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript Contestants step up to showcase their talents in an effort to impress the unflappable Josh Spiegel. From physical stunts to endearing gifts, witness a variety of acts that aim to win Josh's favor.
00:00:00 Introduction and Voiceover Discussion 00:00:37 Contestant 1: Principal McVicker 00:02:10 Discussing What Impresses Josh 00:02:49 Contestant 2: Captain Boomies 00:04:50 Contestant 3: Ed Pickering 00:08:01 Contestant 4: Edwin's Birthday Surprise SPEAKER 02 : 0:00
He impresses you every morning with his award-winning news. Now it's your chance to impress the news genius.
SPEAKER 05 : 0:13
I say we try to impress Josh. Still haven't upgraded on the voiceover guy.
SPEAKER 03 : 0:19
Yeah, I was going to say, we might want to get that re-recorded. I'm not sure who exactly reached out to a Make-A-Wish kid to voice that, but it's cool. That was sweet little Timmy McElhaney. He was born without a skeleton. Do better than him.
SPEAKER 05 : 0:32
Yes.
SPEAKER 03 : 0:33
I might not be loud.
SPEAKER 05 : 0:34
Make me louder. I can't hear myself. Jack his ass up.
SPEAKER 04 : 0:37
This man is squeezing his nipples. No, not my ears.
SPEAKER 03 : 0:40
My right.
SPEAKER 04 : 0:40
Oh, sorry.
SPEAKER 03 : 0:41
Got it. You have exactly one minute on the clock to try and impress a man that impresses us each and every morning through news, stories, acts of physical strength. He almost once concussed Paul Mittenmeyer by squeezing his head with his bare hands. And this gentleman up here with some fresh shorts, big, fun, dad energy, seems to be one of the first guys that's going to attempt, to impress Josh Spiegel with one minute on the clock before we begin. Josh, what tends to impress you in the past? We've done this before.
SPEAKER 05 : 1:11
You know, that's a good question. I think that animal-related stuff. Okay. You know, if a human can turn into an animal. I don't know. He just left. You said animals, and he ran away.
SPEAKER 06 : 1:28
I remember singing.
SPEAKER 04 : 1:29
He had a story about killing animals, so...
SPEAKER 03 : 1:31
Remember the ladies that came up to the original Green Turtle beach bash? They sang. They impressed you. Right. You know, it depends.
SPEAKER 05 : 1:38
What about physical acts? Yeah. Physical acts are possible. I don't know. I have to see it. It's like the Supreme Court said. You're not going to know. Pornography. You'll know it when you see it.
SPEAKER 03 : 1:49
That would impress them, by the way. Some pornography right there. Pornography is going to impress them. So we have our first contestant up here. If we could, please.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:56
He's back.
SPEAKER 03 : 1:56
If you could hold that up for him. Sir, right over here. Here we go. Sir, what's your name? Where are you from? Principal McVicker, and I'm from Essex. A pleasure to meet you, sir. You are about what? I'm going to guess 6'3", 6'2"? Closer to 6'1". 6'1"? Nah, you're 6'2".
SPEAKER 04 : 2:10
Good shape. You're an impressive man.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:13
Golden skin, powerful shoulders. You appear to be, I'm going to guess, early, mid-50s? A little later 50s. Okay. All right. But you still keep yourself in great shape. You look like you go to the gym. Great teeth. Good goatee. It may be scratchy, but it gives nice back rubs. Sir, I'm going to put one minute on the clock. Before we begin, what's the theme of how you're going to impress him? Is it going to be physical, psychological, romantic? What is it?
SPEAKER 02 : 2:38
We'll say physical.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:39
Okay. Physical. Here you go, sir. One minute on the clock. Principal McVickers attempting to impress Josh Spiegel in three, two, one. Oh, for God's sake.
SPEAKER 04 : 2:49
He's taken his shirt off.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:51
No. He flashed you.
SPEAKER 05 : 2:52
I agree. Not impressed.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:55
That was five seconds of one of the palest torsos I've ever seen.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:58
If I was a girl, would you be impressed? No.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:00
I'd say, ma'am, you need to get to an esthetician to get that chest taken care of.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:04
Nice try.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:04
It's not a good girl chest that you have there. Well, yeah, he tried. He tried. What impressed me is... Why did you bring four phones? Why does he hold... Why has he got five phones in his hand? I don't understand that.
SPEAKER 02 : 3:13
Why is he holding five phones? That was... Because all my friends were going to take pictures.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:19
I get it. No one wanted to take pictures of that. No, that looked like you thought that would impress Josh. Okay. Okay. That was real bad. Yeah, that is. So the bar has been set exceptionally low.
SPEAKER 04 : 3:32
We now have a beautiful woman. We have a qualified captain. Didn't work for one. Wouldn't necessarily not work for another. Just putting it out there.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:45
Why don't we go ahead and introduce ourselves to our next contestant here. Ma'am, you've been on the show before. Your name, your YouTube channel.
SPEAKER 01 : 3:55
Ahoy, hoy. I am Captain Boomies. How's everybody doing? Ah, yes. Great.
SPEAKER 04 : 4:00
You have a very sexy voice.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:02
Oh, she's incredible. Great YouTube channel. Hundreds of thousands of followers. I like this.
SPEAKER 01 : 4:08
You're blowing up online.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:09
I like this a lot. Evan Woodard, I'm telling you, we've got to somehow combine these YouTube kingdoms into millions. This has got TLC, Bravo, Discovery Show written all over it. You have one minute on the clock.
SPEAKER 01 : 4:20
We're doing physical. Physical, okay. And I'm going to try to stand over here so that I'm not giving you guys feedback. What is the YouTube channel? I am Captain Boomies. That's B-O-O-M-I-E-S. How dare you?
SPEAKER 03 : 4:34
Captain Boomies, yes. Our co-host who isn't here today, Scott, in recovery after hernia surgery. Very horny for you. Fabulous. Fantastic. And I will fill that chair for him. Yes, you will. Okay, Rob, nice to meet you. Let's impress Josh Spiegel in three.
SPEAKER 05 : 4:50
Skip a little closer to me here. Joe, can you hand me my bag? There's a cyanide pill in it.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:55
You got it. Fabulous. I love this. All right, here we go. Impress Josh Spiegel in three, two, one. Well, he's not even looking at me. Well, hold on a second. I'm slightly disappointed.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:04
This hurts my feelings a lot. I don't know how to feel about this.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:08
He's intimidated by you, Captain. Go ahead. I'm so sorry. Okay, resetting the clock in three, two, one. Impress Josh.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:13
I can touch my nose with my tongue.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:15
Okay. Oh! Oh! Hold on.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:18
Show the crowd.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:19
Show the crowd.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:20
Show the crowd.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:20
One more time. Whoa. That is. Okay. I can't do it. Wow. If this was. The principal is impressed. If this was impressed, Rob and Justin, you've won. Yeah. Okay. Right. But it's not that.
SPEAKER 05 : 5:34
It's impressed Josh Spiegel speaks. It's impressive, but do we have other candidates and we can make a decision?
SPEAKER 01 : 5:41
Oh, you know what? I happen to have another candidate here.
SPEAKER 04 : 5:45
And guess what he can touch with his tongue. No. Her heart.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:51
He is my co-host on the Funny Boat podcast, and you need to see this. I'm going to give him the rest of my seconds.
SPEAKER 03 : 5:59
How about that? Get on over here, Eric Rowan. Look at you. Like one-third of the Wyatt family. Okay, sir, your name, where are you from?
SPEAKER 06 : 6:04
I'm Ed Pickering. I'm from Rockhall, Maryland. I'm the broker with the beard.
SPEAKER 03 : 6:07
All right. I'm already impressed by the beard. John, if you can go over there and hold the mic for him, please. Very good beard. If you can hold the mic for him. Great beard. I'm already impressed by it. So you're going to get the remainder of Captain Boomy's time. She only used 11 seconds to shove her tongue up her nose. Got you. Pretty incredible. So you have 49 seconds left on the clock. Impress Josh in 3, 2, 1.
SPEAKER 06 : 6:28
Okay. Josh, what I have is this long beard, and it's this long when it's soft. And supple.
SPEAKER 03 : 6:35
You've got to touch it. You've got to touch it. No, no, I'm not touching it. He's not going to touch it. I can assure you. No, he'd rather drink out of the toilet. I'd like to touch it. Okay.
SPEAKER 05 : 6:43
All right.
SPEAKER 03 : 6:44
Oh, that is nice. May I, sir? Oh, that. Thank you so much. Oh, yes. That is a Wendigo's puce. Oh, that's a crowd pleaser. That's very nice.
SPEAKER 04 : 6:53
Do you put stuff in there?
SPEAKER 03 : 6:54
I put a ton of stuff in it, yeah. Balm, oil.
SPEAKER 04 : 6:57
I bet a lot of things get put in there.
SPEAKER 03 : 7:00
Beard butter. And as they say, sir, does the ceiling fan match the basement? Hello. No. Okay, fantastic. And that's time.
SPEAKER 05 : 7:08
Josh Spiegel, were you impressed? Okay, so those are all the choices. I'm going to... I'm sorry, I wasn't impressed with the beard.
SPEAKER 03 : 7:19
He wasn't impressed. We're sorry. We apologize. Not impressed. Does anybody else want to step up to try and impress the unimpressible? Hold on. This gentleman here. Hold on. We're going to go with our guy here first. Please, come on over here, shoulders.
SPEAKER 05 : 7:31
By the way, the walnut is still in the running.
SPEAKER 03 : 7:35
I don't think it's a contest. It's just yes or no to the impression. It's a pass-fail.
SPEAKER 05 : 7:38
Oh, it's not a winner?
SPEAKER 03 : 7:39
No, it's a pass-fail. Multiple people can be impressing you. All right. We were impressed by the hot woman with the tongue. There we go. We do have someone that's impressed, Josh, with the tongue to the nose. Let's hold it up to Essence Zone Brock Lesnar here. Sir, what's your name? Where are you from? Edwin from Essex. Edwin from Essex. Very nice. What are you going to attempt to do to impress Josh Spiegel?
SPEAKER 02 : 8:01
I can't really impress Josh, but I do know when his birthday is, which just so happens to be next week. And give us the date. It is July 25th. I'm impressed. I'm already impressed. Josh is impressed. I'm impressed. I'm very impressed. Very impressed. Continue, sir. Seeing as how there's no live event next week, I figured I'd bring Josh his birthday gift today.
SPEAKER 05 : 8:19
We're very impressed. Very impressed. We're very impressed. Wait, before I take it. Is there glitter on any of it? There's no glitter. He's still impressed.
SPEAKER 03 : 8:29
Very nice. Oh, there's a card. It's a lovely gift bag. Look, the dogs. A brilliantly chosen gift bag.
SPEAKER 02 : 8:37
Oh, my. What is this? That looks so comfortable. Women owned. They are very soft washcloths.
SPEAKER 05 : 8:43
Oh, two hand towels. Very nice.
SPEAKER 02 : 8:46
Very nice, Edwin. Way to impress Josh. There's more. There's more.
SPEAKER 05 : 8:50
Advanced dry shampoo refreshed without water.
SPEAKER 02 : 8:53
I know he's strong for power outage and water.
SPEAKER 05 : 8:55
And what is this from DoorDash?
SPEAKER 02 : 8:57
A $25. Everybody on your feet.
SPEAKER 05 : 9:00
On your feet.
SPEAKER 03 : 9:01
This guy has impressed Josh Spiegel. Sure, she was able to put her tongue in one of her own. Oh, yeah. Hold the card. Whatever. Oh, Josh, please, the card. Yeah, Tom Dash.
SPEAKER 05 : 9:10
That is so nice. What's your name again, by the way? Edwin. Edwin, okay. Are you going to read the card? It looks very lovely.
SPEAKER 04 : 9:17
Yeah, I think I will, Rob.
SPEAKER 05 : 9:18
Okay, stop pressuring me. There's a dog on the front with glasses. And it says, you're a living legend. Happy birthday. And to the hero, the people of Baltimore need it. Don't stop being awesome. Happy birthday, Colonel. Hey, this guy right here.
SPEAKER 03 : 9:33
That's it.
SPEAKER 05 : 9:34
We have today's winner. Way to go.
Read MoreRead Less
I think the boss is looking?! Run!!! Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room talk about times we've been caught by our bosses doing things we probably shouldn't have been doing. Where we sleeping on t eh job? Took a long lunch? Or faked being sick? One way to find out. Hit play!
Joe opens up about feeling self-conscious after a pool day and considers starting Ozempic to lose weight.
How did we go from pick pocketing to men's bathroom etiquette? Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room talk about Men's Bathroom etiquette and the differences between a men's restroom and a woman's restroom. What are the do's and don'ts one way to find out. Hit play!
Line up Pledges! Tune in to this episode to hear Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room talking about times we've been hazed. What happened to us? One way to find out. Hit play!
Justin, Scott, and Spiegel dive into the concept of Wet Look Wednesday! We explore various ideas and trends that all contribute to the wet look.
After Spiegel talks about his harrowing tale over the weekend, JSS discusses the times where explosions startled us.
Ratatouille! The King of Queens! Parks and Recreation! On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we talk with Comedian and Actor, Patton Oswalt. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room talk with Oswalt about his acting and comedy career.
Join us as we delve into Scott's unique dining experience at a restaurant where robots bring your food! We explore the technology behind it, how it affects the traditional dining experience, and whether we prefer this futuristic approach.
Governor Wes Moore enlightens us about the billion-dollar cannabis industry in Maryland and the necessity of re-educating the public on cannabis legalization. We also celebrate the Orioles’ outstanding season and share some cautionary tales about the perils of synthetic weed. All of this, plus much more, on - Behind the Curtain!
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we are joined by Miss Maryland USA, Bailey Anne. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne pull the curtain back into the life of Bailey Anne and learn what it takes to become Miss Maryland USA along with her preparation for the Miss USA pageant. How did she do it? One way to find out. Hit play!
In this episode, we dive into the world of fun aunts and uncles, who allowed us to do things our parents never would! Hear some outrageous tales that make you wish you had these experiences too.
On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we try smores flavored noodles. Tune in to hear Kirk, Marianne and Producer, Kobe try flavored noodles live. Did we like the noodles? Were they a lost cause? Hit play to find out!
Description Chapter Markers Transcript We honor the 98 Rock Morning Show's Josh Spiegel, hailed as Baltimore's Top Radio Personality for 2024. The guys discuss his prestigious recognitions, and the hard work he's put into our beloved morning show.
00:00:00 Opening and Awards 00:00:44 Discovering the Award 00:02:22 Honorable Mentions and Competitors 00:04:28 Recognition of Various Categories 00:05:09 Plaques and Recognition 00:05:46 Best Food and Services SPEAKER 01 : 0:00
And yet again. Yet again. Yet again. The award shelf grows like an unpruned bush, like the bush behind his belt buckle. It grows and grows and grows. And much like his own bush, he never takes time to look back at it. He's always looking forward to the next award. Josh Spiegel, the Baltimore Sun, Baltimore's best people and media, voted as the best person in Baltimore 2024. In regards to radio hosts. Josh Spiegel from the 98 Rock Baltimore, 98 Rock Morning Show. Congratulations, Josh. Thank you.
SPEAKER 03 : 0:42
Thank you. No, you don't have to stand. That's all right.
SPEAKER 01 : 0:44
Matter of fact, we'll start jumping.
SPEAKER 03 : 0:46
Yeah, I didn't even know this happened until last night. I saw a tweet. I rarely go on the Twitter, the X, but I saw something. And I immediately vomited.
SPEAKER 01 : 1:02
I don't deserve it. Would you looky here. Yet again, hey, we got honorable mention in regards to best radio station. And wouldn't you know it, NPR won again. Oh, really? We get it. Oh, my God. You're intellectuals, okay? That's amazing. It's like, okay, we get it. All right. I was a Mark Steiner fan growing up, too. Chill. All right. Actually, I preferred the book over the television show. Yes. NPR. For people that say they don't own a TV. We get it with your stupid tweed jacket. So you beat out some people from 88.1, from country music stations. Bob Delmont. Bob Delmont. What's up, Bob? Bob Delmont.
SPEAKER 02 : 1:51
Every time I see him, he's just so complimentary. He's like the nicest guy. Where did I see him last? We talked for a really long time. I can't remember where it was. 90 Rock Night?
SPEAKER 01 : 2:02
No, maybe. Me and my man get tacos from time to time. You think I've got a couple of muscles on them? You should get a good look at those boys' shoulders.
SPEAKER 02 : 2:11
And you also beat out T.J. Smith, who works right across the hall here. Hey, when you see Spiegel today, T.J., you acknowledge. Move out the way.
SPEAKER 01 : 2:22
Winner coming through. Ah, yes. But, oh, the winning ain't over because none other than Sports Talk Show. Oh, really? Ravens game day radio on 98 Rock. Oh, really? That's right. Now, I need to know exactly who in the blue hell, because he must be good at his job. He must be great at his job in regards to weather. Justin Weather. No, it's not me. It's got nothing to do with me. That's his last name?
SPEAKER 03 : 2:56
Justin Weather?
SPEAKER 01 : 2:57
Justin Burke is his name.
SPEAKER 03 : 2:59
Oh. He's not even on TV. Is that TV category?
SPEAKER 01 : 3:04
It's Best Meteorologist. Oh. Beating out. Everybody on BAL. Okay, now I'm feeling like something's rotten in Denmark. Tommy T, Ava Marie, Tony Pan in the place to be. They all got the honorable mention. Hey, Justin Burke could be a fine guy. I know nothing about him. All I know is that the team downstairs is the special forces of weather.
SPEAKER 03 : 3:27
Burke isn't even on TV. He used to be on TV. He was on MAR. Yeah, is that where he was? Yeah, he was on our channel, too. But he's got his own computer thing. He's got a big weather thing on the computer. He enjoys weather. Yeah, but I don't know how he would, like you say, beat out these excellent TV broadcasts.
SPEAKER 01 : 3:48
I mean, luminaries. Yeah. I don't like that. I'd like there to be a recount. On the categories we won, they were perfect. But on the other ones, I want to go ahead and head back into those Diebold machines and make sure that there was no funny business. Okay.
SPEAKER 02 : 4:04
Raven, Justin Tucker. Cheers. Oriol, Gunnar Henderson. Double cheers. What else? Personal trainer. Kelly Whalen. What? My sister? What? Okay. I don't know who else. Clergy person. No one cares. Stage actor. Bruce. Rack.
SPEAKER 01 : 4:28
Nels. Are there any rabbis in the clergy? Let's get a look. Hold on. Let's head on up to the clergy. Just curious. Let's see what we got here. Scroll to the top.
SPEAKER 02 : 4:39
Baptist. Christian. St. Luke. Old Otterbein. Methodist. Jews took it on the chin this year.
SPEAKER 03 : 4:46
Going to need a second to recover. Yep. I guess they lost the address of every synagogue.
SPEAKER 01 : 4:50
Will they send you something? Do you have one of these already?
SPEAKER 02 : 4:54
No, not that I know of. This is the Baltimore Sun, Baltimore's best people and media 2024 winners. The best people. Yeah, just wondering if we can get a plaque to add to the plaques. Oh, you know, that's not necessary.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:09
It's very necessary. And one will be made if one isn't presented to you by the good people of the Baltimore Sun, including the entire staff and Matt Wyrick, who was the man that helped put this list together. Together. What's this one here? Best podcast. No pics after dark. Not familiar. Irreverent health. Conversations with Rich Bennett and Aaron Palmer. DLP didn't even get a nod. Are you aware of any of those? Not a one. Not a one. I mostly listen to a lot of serial killer stuff and some old pro wrestling things. Okay. Shout out Crime and Sports. Shout out to the DLP, Patreon, Palooza all day today.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:46
When it comes to food, best Asian food, Ekiben.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:49
Shout out.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:50
We just had them in studio.
SPEAKER 01 : 5:51
That's what I'm talking about.
SPEAKER 02 : 5:52
They brought us up some food. They're great. What else? Bakeries, the Flavor Cup Cakery, Barbecue Mission, Barbecue, Breakfast, Sunny Day Cafe. I still got to get out there. Brewery, Independent, and honorable mention, Union Craft. Shout out Union Craft. Burger is, of course, the Abbey Burger Bistro. Love me some Abbey.
SPEAKER 01 : 6:13
Park in the arts and entertainment section. Patterson Park, which should have been in parentheses between the hours of 10 and 9 p.m.
SPEAKER 02 : 6:22
Best Chinese, Joey Chu's, Greenspring. That's where you and Val went, isn't that right? Yes, yes.
SPEAKER 01 : 6:27
That's where I had that drink. Best Suburb, honorable mentions. Towson, Lutherville, Timonium, and Parkville with your winner, none other than Bel Air, Maryland. Yes! Big fan of the good people of Bel Air. Some of the best. Some of the best we've ever met.
SPEAKER 02 : 6:41
Best Deli, Di Pasquale's Italian Market. Shout out Joe and everybody over there. We love you. What else? Double T Diners. People and services.
SPEAKER 01 : 6:53
Best Chiropractor. Pamela Woodward. First Step. Dr. Joe Got Snubbed. That's my guy from Cardinal. Best Computer Repair. Bite right support. And dog trainer facility. Oh. Sit means sit. Dog training. Oh, wow. Congratulations to the only winner that we care about this year. That's Josh Spiegel, radio personality of the year. Oh, thank you very much. Thank you. Well deserved. There had better be a plaque up here before the end of the day or someone doesn't get to see their children grow up.
Read MoreRead Less
Don't look under the bed! On this episode of Kirk and Marianne we talk about our phobias. Tune in to hear Kirk and Marianne live in the Boom Boom Room talk about what we are afraid. What keeps us up at night? Hit play to find out!
Paul de Gelder, a major contributor to Discovery Channel's "Shark Week," joins the show to talk about the event and share his own experiences with sharks, including an attack that altered him forever.
Experience the chilling tales of employees who found out they were fired in the most mysterious and impersonal ways. From key cards that suddenly stop working to being taken out for breakfast only to be let go before the meal, we delve into the various ways employers handle layoffs. Hear firsthand accounts and reflections on how technology is replacing jobs and the emotional impact of such experiences.
In this episode of Behind the Curtain... We dive into the harrowing experience of Wendi choking on a sandwich and being saved by a coworker. This leads to a broader discussion about near-death experiences. We also get into technology addiction. From the increasing dependency on smartphones to the physical and mental toll it takes, we explore how modern tech is affecting us. Join us as we revisit these stories and many more, on - Behind the Curtain!
Justin, Wendi Townsend, and Mark Ondayko talk about the movies that made us grab the tissues.
Justin, Wendi Townsend, and Justin Robinson discuss this shared, painful experience on the show.
This week on Behind the Curtain... We're talking about items that you've held on to for too long. The AI revolution has begun! We officially know somebody that has lost their job to AI. We recap Justin's night opening for Bert Kreischer and we're joined by the adorable Lucy. She is a four year old in need of a kidney and we talk with her mom about what we can do to help. All of this, plus much more, on - Behind the Curtain!
On this episode of JSS we talk about our longest times we've been behind the gaming sicks. Tune in to hear JSS along with a few of our listeners talk about our personal records for our longest gaming times. What games were we playing? How long did we play for? How much sleep did we get? One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we talk about the danger of AI and how it is taking over the workforce. Tune in to hear JSS talk about how jobs maybe in jeopardy. Who should be scared? When are our jobs going to be AI centered? Am i a robot? One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we talk about times where we go tic for tac with our significant others. Tune in to hear Scott and Josh talk with Producer, Joe Stamboni and Joe Robinson about checklist and who does more in the house. Who does more? Should we switch chores? Or is a "thank you" all we need to say. One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we talk about times we might not have taken the high road. Tune in to hear JSS along with our listeners talk about times we sought out and acted on our inner thoughts by serving a dish best served cold, revenge! How did we act out on petty revenge? Who was the recipient of the cold dish? What were we feeling after we did it? One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we talk about times we were arrested. Tune in to hear JSS along with our listeners talk about times we were in the "silver bracelets." How did we get arrested? What were we arrested for? Did the crime fit the punishment. One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we ask the ladies of JSS to tell us what their ideal height for a man is. Tune in to hear JSS along with our listeners talk about men and their vertical stature along with a man giving some hacks for those on the shorter end of the spectrum. What are some hacks that shorter men can use? What height do women prefer? Where's the love for the short kings? One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we recap Josh and The Earwig but this time we talk to our listeners. Tune in to hear JSS along with our listeners talk about times we might have accidentally consumed something we didn't intend to. What did you consume? Was it safe to consume or did you need medical services? How long did it take for you to notice? One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we talk about Josh's travels through Baltimore and the energy that he picks up. Tune in to here JSS along with Kirk and Marianne's, Marianne Sierk talk about energy we pick up on when we go to different places. How do we react? How do we pick up on the energy? What do we do when we get that feeling? One way to find out. Hit play!
This week on Behind the Curtain... We try to diversify Josh's alcohol palette by trying "Mixed Drink Week". We try Ramen that is so spicy it was banned in Denmark and award winning Sports Broadcaster - Valerie Preactor got in on some of the fun lending herself to maybe one of the greatest moments of the year . All of this, plus much more, on - Behind the Curtain!!
On this episode of JSS we end off the week of diversifying Josh Spiegel's palette for an adult beverage. Tune in to hear JSS along with Tommy Sinbazo help Josh drink a Fireball concoction to see if we can expand his taste. Does he like it? What did we mix the Fireball with? One way to find out. Hit play!
JSS along with Erik Woodworth help Josh Spiegel open his palette to new drinks by combining banana Moonshine and Fireball.
JSS is joined by Reality TV star and DJ, Jon Gosselin in studio. Tune in to hear JSS along with Gosselin and DJ Spice as we talk about Gosselin's DJing career, Jon and Kate Plus 8, and more.
Josh gives "Godzilla: Minus 1" the ol' Spiegel :20 and reviews the movie based off of the first 20 minutes.
This week on Behind the Curtain… Associate Program Director, Justin Johnson, is reunited with his lost dog, Mal! We discuss the trend of “sharenting”, and.. Why have you never gotten a license? We also setup “Mixed Drink Week” where we plan to have Josh try a different mixed drink per day. All of this, plus much more, on – Behind the Curtain!!
On this episode of JSS we ask our listeners if they prefer ruffing it or fluffing it. Tune in to hear JSS along with our listeners talk about if they prefer to camp out doors in a tent or to camp in an air-conditioned cabin. Which style of camping do our listeners prefer? Why do you prefer that style? When was the last time we camped? One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we talk about our occupations and how they change our appearances. Tune in to hear JSS along with our listeners talk about how the places that make us “bread winners” can make our faces thinner. Or not. How did our jobs change us? Are we looking better? Or are we disintegrating? One way to find out. Hit play!
This morning the guys had the chance to sit down and talk with Cheers legend and Pixar superstar – John Ratzenberger!
On this episode of JSS we talk about some of the worst pain we have ever felt in our lives. Tune in to hear JSS along with our listeners talk about some of the most crippling and mind numbing pain they have ever had in there lives. Where was the pain coming from? What caused it? What was the remedy?
On this episode of JSS we ask our listeners to give us an update on their Ozempic journeys. Tune in to hear JSS talk about Ozempic and what is does to your body along with talking to our listeners to see if they are on Ozempic or not. How much weight did they lose? Are their any side effects? Do there butts look good? One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we talk about “Sharenting.” Tune in to hear JSS along with our listeners talk about parents that share their kids entire lives on social media. How much is too much sharing on social media? Is sharenting a bad thing? Where is the line and have parents crossed it? One way to find out. Hit play!
This week on Behind the Curtain… You tell us and we try your “Gross Childhood Snacks”. We are joined by leader of the Healthy Harbor Initiative, Adam Linquist, and he gets us prepped for the 2024 Harbor Splash. Scott had a rather rough Friday morning and.. The Slight of a Century.. Josh is confronted with evidence of a deed that was so dirty we thought we might never see him again. All of this, plus much more, on – Behind the Curtain!
On this episode of JSS we talk about times we have dealt with mold. Tune in to hear JSS along with our listeners talk about mold and where they found it. Where did we find the mold? The house? The car? Under the bed? How do we get rid of it? Should we be concerned? One way to find out. Hit play!
Brooke Haney joins the show to talk about their job working with actors on intimate scenes for film and TV.
On this episode of JSS we talk about the markings on our bodies that made a memorable impression. Tune in to hear JSS along with our listeners talk about scars on our bodies and how we got them. Did we get in a nasty accident? How big of a scar is it? Is there a cool story that comes with the scar? One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we are joined by the Healthy Harbor initiative’s Adam Linquist. Tune in to hear JSS talk with Linquist about how clean the Harbor is, and how we are in the near future able to swim in the Baltimore Harbor. How safe is the water? What activity can we expect in the Harbor in the near future? When will the waters be clean? One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we go back into our childhoods and we talk about the unique snacks that we put together as kids. Tune in to hear JSS along with our listeners talk about the gross combos together in our youth in order to fill our bellies. What were the combos we put together? How long did we eat this snack combo? Did we ever get sick? One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we are joined by Joe Robinson and we get an update on Robinson and his connection to Midshipmen. Tune in to hear Joe Robinson go into detail about how he sponsors Midshipmen and what that encompasses. What does Joe do to sponsor them? How does this work? Is Joe still connected with any of the Midshipmen after they graduate? One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we take a look into our homes and we assess how muck junk is in our homes that does not belong to us. Tune in to hear JSS along with our listeners talk about items that are in their homes that don’t belong to them at all. Who does it belong to? How long have you had it? What are you going to do with it? One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we discus the anticipated release of Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA 6) and if it is worth the rumored price being passed around. Tune in to hear JSS along with our listeners talk about GTA 6 and if the rumored price is the start of a trend of inflation within the gaming industry. How do we feeling about GTA potentially being more expensive? Do we think it’s worth the inflation? What other games do we think should go up in pricing? One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we test out our new espresso machine. Tune in to hear JSS take their first swigs of espresso from freshly grounded coffee beans in our new espresso machine. Does our machine work? How did the espresso taste? Should Joe and Kobe quit their jobs as Baristas’. One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS were are joined by Joe Robinson and we talk about his mysterious trip to the ER. Tune into this episode to find out how Joe got his kidney stone and when he realized he had one. Did it hurt? When did this happen? How big was it? Did he name it? One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we are joined by the great Tommy Sinbazo. Tune in to hear JSS and Tommy talk to our listeners about tricking ourselves into thinking unhealthy food is healthy. What are we eating? Is it actually good for us? What are we doing wrong. One way to find out. Hit play!
Along with the weekly check in, we share details for 98 Rock Night at Oriole Park for 2024.
On this episode of JSS we talk about our dental hygiene. Tune in to hear JSS along with our listeners talk about how much of our teeth are missing. Did they fall out? Where they knocked out? Do we have dentures or veneers? One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we talk about times where we have been caught off-guard by an unexpected fist. Tune in to hear JSS along with our listeners talk about times we have been “sucker” punched. Did we deserve it? When did it happen? How did we react? One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we talk about needed a shot of energy while being behind the wheel. Tune in to hear JSS along with our listeners talk about times we have fallen asleep behind the wheel of our cars? When did we sleep at the wheel? Did we cause any damage? How bad were we hurt? One way to find out. Hit play!
This week on Behind the Curtain… We recap Joshes trip to see family in New York, talk Boy Scouts, and speak with Col. Estee Pinchasin on the process of the Key Bridge clean up. Are you balding? Because we want to GET you a hair tattoo! We talk hair tattoos, explosions, vacation, and get into some Gen Alpha slang. All of this, plus much more, on – Behind the Curtain!
We talk to Steven, owner of Kent Island Express, to talk about people’s fears of crossing the Bay Bridge.
On this episode of JSS we talk about times where things blew up in our faces. Tune in to hear JSS and our listeners talk about things that may have exploded around or on them. What exploded? Was it an expensive repair? Was anything salvageable? One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we talk about the pile of junk that we let sit in the corner for days on in. Tune in to hear JSS along with our listener talk about laundry, furniture, junk, etc. that sits in our homes. How big of a space does the problem take up? Do we plan on getting rid of it? Is it now a staple in our homes? One way to find out. Hit play!
Hey there troop 98 on this episode of JSS we welcome 98 Rock’s Promotions and Events Coordinator, John Moore into the studio to talk about his time as a Boy Scout leading to him becoming an Eagle Scout. Tune in to hear Moore talk about his time as a scout and skills that he had learned. What did Moore learn from being a scout? What does it take to be an Eagle scout? Will Justin sign his son up to be a Boy Scout? One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we are graced by the return of JOSH SPIEGEL!!! Tune in to hear all about Josh’s trip to New York to see his family. How did the trip go? Did he have fun? What happened while he was there? One way to find out. Hit play!
This weekend on Behind the Curtain… We were joined by Joe Robinson on news ALL week! He shared a story about his trip to Jazz Fest where he took quite a spill. We talk with Gary Smith, professional skateboard and owner of Vu Skateshop. We recap a successful night at Spring Thing. Producer Joe was late and we have to “discipline” him which leads us to our next topic… Are you chronically late? We also speak with legendary rockstar – Jon Bon Jovi. All of this, plus much more, on – Behind the Curtain!!
The lead singer of Godsmack joins the show ahead of the band’s performance at MGM National Harbor on May 5th to close out the “The Vibez Tour.”
On this episode of JSS we discuss the fine art of haggling. Tune in to hear JSS along with our listeners talk about the art of haggling and how it is done. Were we able to talk someone down on a price? Were we able to up sale someone? How do you even do it? One way to find out. Hit play!
Kirk and Marianne talk with comedian Dave Attell ahead of his performance at Hollywood Casino in Charles Town, West Virginia!
On this episode of JSS we talk about our High school reunions and reliving the “glory days.” Tune in to hear Justin along with Erik Woodworth and Joe Robinson talk with JSS fans about their high school reunions and if they are worth going to or not. How long has it been since we graduated from high scho0ol? Are high school reunions still a thing? Who would we look forward to seeing? One way to find out is to hit play!
On this episode of JSS we talk about “time-blindness.” Tune in to hear JSS along with our listeners talk about why we cant get anywhere on time. Is this an actual condition? What’s your go-to excuse? More importantly. How late are you? One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we talk about going down. Tune in to hear JSS along with our listeners talk about times we have fallen? How bad did we fall? Did we break anything? Only one way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we are joined by no other than Joe Robinson. Tune in to hear Joe Robinson talk with JSS about his experience going to Jazz festival and how Joe might have fallen a little too hard for the music. When did Joe fall? Did he hurt himself? How long did it take him Joe to bounce back? One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we pull out the cardboard and we break it down in studio. Tune in to hear JSS narrate ourselves breakdancing. Are we more athletic than we thought? Did we do the “spinnaroonie” correctly? Who can actually breakdance? One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS Scott recaps his hernia appointment. Tune in to hear Scott give the diagnosis on his hernia and how severe it may be. Does Scott need surgery? Is this an easy fix? What else did the doctor find wrong? One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we talk about times that we have been flashed. Tune in to hear JSS along with some of our listeners talk about times we’ve been surprised by a quick sneak peak. When did it happen? Was someone wearing a trench coat? What did we do when it happened? One way to find out is by hitting play!
On this episode of JSS we talk about times we play a little too close to the fire. Tune in to hear JSS talk about times we have cut or slashed ourselves accidentally. How bad was the cut? Did we need stitches? Or was it a Band-Aid job? One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we talk about sleeping with secrets. Tune in to hear JSS talk about any confessions that they may have or want to hear from people on their deathbed. Who do we want to hear one from? Have we heard any before? What would we say? One way to find out. Hit play!
This week on Behind the Curtain… Tragedy struck when Josh Spiegel and Farfal were attacked on a leisurely stroll. The guys are convinced that producer Joe’s house smells of cat urine and we discuss ways that you keep your house smelling fresh. We check in with our pal, Attorney Randolph Rice, and try to figure out “squatters rights”. We talk near death experiences and we open The Prostate Lines! All of this, plus much more, on – Behind the Curtain!
On this episode of JSS we talk about “The Devil’s Lettuce.” Tune in to hear JSS along with our listeners talk about their plans for April 20th. How are you celebrating? Are you not celebrating at all? One way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we talk about being a “woman-child.” We know what a “man-child” is, but we want to know what’s a woman child like. Hear JSS along with out listeners attempt to define what a “woman-child” is. What do they like? How can you spot them? Is this a thing? Only one way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we expand our vocabulary by learning another language. Tune in to hear Josh Spiegel teach the boys Yiddish words and what they mean. Is Josh a great teacher? Did we pronounce the words correct? What does are we more fluent than we thought? Only one way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we are joined by a Professor of Entomology, Mike Ruapp. Tune in to hear JSS talk with Ruapp able the different types of cicada species that exist and what to expect from the new brood of cicadas that are on their way. How many species of cicadas exist? Which insects creep Josh out? Who brought bugs in the studio? One way to find out. Hit play!
This week on Behind the Curtain… We get into tattoos vs your profession, talk about yoga pants, and the eclipse! Where did you watch it and what did you think?! And… What the hell did Scott find in Joe’s truck?! Find out, plus much more, this week on – Behind he Curtain!!
On this episode we find out what attacked Josh over the weekend. Tune in to hear Josh Spiegel talk about his ambush encounter and how he overcame it. What attacked Josh? How did he escape? What will the news genius do next? Only one way to find out. Hit play!
On this episode of JSS we want talk about maneuvering through conversations like the Matrix. Tune in to hear JSS along with our listeners talk about how we bail out of unwanted conversations, parties, and other events. Are we able to leave? Are we stuck in conversation? Did we learn anything? Only one way to find out. Hit play!
Dax Prescott apparently went under anesthesia for 11 hours just for a tattoo. We’ve all heard some horrible anesthesia stories over the years so we ask you.. Have you had a terrifying anesthesia experience? We share our
This came to us from a story out of Joshes news. A couple asked for a refund of their flight after a dog “farted” during the whole flight. We share the last time that we asked for
This morning we were joined by Papa Roach frontman, Jacoby Shaddix! He recapped his performance at Rams Head Live and has a special message that he shared with us!
This week on Behind the Curtain… We catch up with Keith Mills, Justin plays “Corn Nuts” and Josh takes a boat ride. We talk to you about the most successful people in your life, we give our health a letter grade and we’re joined by the Head of Engineering, Kerry Plackmeyer, as he shares his experience from the time he went to Burning Man. All of this, plus much more, on – Behind the Curtain!
It’s been awhile since we’ve done one, so we run it back. It’s a “Big Decision Friday”! We share our big decisions and take your calls/texts!
This might be the start of a new weekly break that we will call ” The Weekly Report Card”. This week we ask to give your health a grade. We grade our health and take your calls!
Today we were joined by our Director of Engineering, Kerry Plackmeyer. Kerry has been to Burning Man 3 times over the years. He shares his life changing experience and gives us the low down on the do’s and don’ts of Burning Man!
Its that time again for another Missed Connections Monday, on a Tuesday! We curate a list of the best Missed Connections on Craigslist and try to help these lonely souls make a connection!
This week on Behind the Curtain… We catch up with our pal, Erik Woodworth, talk back to school, and we guess your weight based off of your voice. Justin considers going back to school as an adult, Scott wants a boat and we share our stories of skipping school. All of this, plus much more, this week on – Behind the Curtain!
It’s been a rather school-centric week on the show, so we keep it going! What was your High School yearbook quote? We share ours and take your calls!
So, the kids started back to school this week. This got us reminiscing about our school days and which of us skipped the most classes. We share our school skipping stories and take your calls!
Technology can be a wonderful thing. We’ve all been there… You take something apart with the best of intentions and then can’t figure out how to get it back together. What is the last thing that broke
It’s that time of year again! The kids are going back to school! We share some of our back to school stories and take your calls!
This week on Behind the Curtain… Scott is out on vacation and we’re joined by a revolving cast of DLP members. We talk exotic diseases, greatest athletic achievements and what has gotten more expensive but worse in
The phones blew up when we asked “What is the furthest you’ve traveled for sex?”. Producer, Joe Stamboni, kicked it off with admitting to an 11hr drive to Poundtown. He was quickly beat out by one caller
It seems like everything is getting more expensive but the quality isn’t keeping up. This morning we ask “What is getting more expensive but the quality is getting worse”? We share our thoughts and we take your
This morning we were joined by comedian Rob Maher. He recently shot his first and hopefully not last, hole-in-one while golfing. We ask you.. What is your greatest athletic achievement?! We share our stories and take your
Day 2 of the Energy Drink Combine! Spiegel is still searching for ways to perk up. Today we up the ante and he tries a Reign Energy Drink with 300mg of caffeine!
This week on Behind the Curtain! We ask “What Sentence Changed Your Life”, Ever tore a musle and we have a Missed Connections Monday on a Tuesday. We ask what your retail stores shoplifting policy is and…
This came from a reddit thread that Scott stumbled across. It isn’t as obvious as you may think. Take a listen and find out what woman find unattractive about men!
We’ve all spent countless hours learning a skill or career that ended up not panning out. We share our stories and take your calls about things that you practiced for hours that ended up being pointless!
Work in retail? With all of the “shoplifting mobs” that have been hitting retail stores, we ask you.. What is your stores shoplifting policy and have you ever engaged a shoplifter?! We share our stories and take
Most of us have broken a bone at some point in our lives but the torn muscle… Not many of us have a torn a muscle. We ask you and you share your horror stories of lacerated
This week on Behind the Curtain.. How were you conceived?! We ask you and share our stories. The Cataract Finale- Josh Spiegel has finally gotten his vision back and couldn’t be happier! Scott recaps his trip to
Today we were joined by world record hot dog eater, Joey Chestnut. The man is a legend. He has broken multiple world records and wins just about every eating competition that he enters. He will be at
Producer Joe Stamboni has been trying to quit smoking for quite some time. In an effort to ditch the smokes he has resorted to ZYN nicotine pouches. Curiosity got the best of Justin and he took the
Josh reported on a story of a woman that was bitten by a snake and then a hawk swooped in and ripped the snake from her arm. This got us thinking.. What’s the worst bite or sting
After months or surgeries and eye sight issues, Josh Spiegel is finally on the mend. With eyes healed and high hopes, we put together a home eye test. Josh participates and proves that his eye sight is
Today we welcome Josh back from his much needed surgery recovery. The surgery was an overwhelming success and he is seeing clearer than he has in years. He walks us through the trials and tribulations of the
This week on Behind the Curtain… We talk with “Runner-in-Chief” for Runner’s World magazine, Jeff Dengate. Josh goes to war with Traffic guy, Tony Thorton, over a parking spot, we get a fresh batch of “Horrible Childhood
This morning we were joined by comedian, Ron Funches. He is a hilarious comedian and actor known for his work in “Get Hard” and “The Eric Andre Show” to “Loot” and “Jellystone!”. He has a bit of
Recently Scott shared a wholesome moment from his Ring camera where Stella reunited with a friend after 2 weeks. Producer Joe recently caught a clowder of kittens on his porch with his Ring doorbell, so.. We ask
Its time for a new batch of Josh Spiegel’s “Horrible Childhood Memories”! We psychoanalyze the childhood memories that make Josh the News Genius that he is today!
Josh Spiegel was voted “Employee of the Month” for July. He grew quite accustomed to the upgraded parking spot. Traffic guy, Tony Thornton, just got voted “Employee of the Month” for August. There will be blood!
This week on Behind the Curtain… We learn that Val is still crying and recording it, Evan wants to be a ninja, and we check in with Josh after cataract surgery. We also celebrate Joshes 22nd Birthday,
There seems to be two schools of thought when it comes to men powdering their boy bits. All of us on the show are firm believers in powdering but we hear from callers and texters who are
We stumbled across a story that actress, Kristen Bell, lets her children drink non-alcoholic beer. Is this setting them up for failure or is it normalizing social drinking? We share our thoughts and take your calls!
It’s that time of year again when Scott forgets to buy somebody a Birthday gift. However – Justin, Joe and Val all wished Josh a Happy Birthday with their own creative touch!
We keep getting older and time isn’t slowing down for anybody. What do you feel has passed you by? We share our dreams deferred and take your calls!
This week on Behind the Curtain… Scott needs advice on when to get his daughter her first cell phone, we ask you how you’re holding up during this heat wave and we check in about the double
We’ve been talking about disappearing quite a bit this week. We cannot figure out a way to fully disappear in 2023 with modern technology and tracking. We take your calls/texts and may have figured out how to
He finally did it! Josh got the first part of his cataract surgery done on Tuesday and was back to join us today. He explains the whole procedure and his first meal after seeing with new eye(s)!
This morning we were joined by former Associate Producer, Nick Testoni, on news. He is contemplating renting his first place with a group of friends. We give him some tips and share stories of our first time
So… The office saga continues. After being vehemently denied an “official” office, the news genius is now being forced to relocate his cubicle. How much can one man put up with before becoming completely unhinged?!
Work outside? How are you holding up in this record breaking heat? We share our thoughts and take your calls!
This week on Behind the Curtain… We recap the JSS 10th Anniversary Birthday Bash, we talk extreme body modifications, and our friends, Adam and John from UNION Craft Brewery stop by for an update on the next
Earlier this week, Justin caught his son in the yard picking mushrooms trying to be like Mario. Fortunately he caught him before he ate any. What have you had to save your kid from? We take your
Scott is recently dealing with a mid-life crisis with the thought of purchasing a bike or a boat on the JSS Morning Show.
The JSS Morning Show is back with “Missed Connections Monday” after the 10th birthday bash.
Justin, Scott, & Spiegel discussed their funny summer camp stories with the callers before the 10th-anniversary bash.
Are we just too old? Too many distractions? Maybe VR? Fireworks just aren’t hitting like they use to and we have some theories as to why…
This week on Behind the Curtain… We talk with Dr. George from Pro MD Health, Scott gets Scrotox, and we review the new Arnold Schwarzenegger documentary. Producer Joe shaves his beard into a Fu Manchu for vacation
The JSS morning show welcomes back “Pitch – A – Bitch” Wednesday for the 10th-anniversary tour.
Do you have a clunker car? We share stories of our first cars and how trashy they were. We are going to be broadcasting live from Jones Junction this Friday (06/30). We want to see your trashy
This week on Behind the Curtain… What the F is wrong with you? Physically, tell us about your physical abnormalities, Gabby DiPaula is obsessed with comedian Matt Rife, and we talk with our guy, Lawyer- Randolph Rice.
The guys start the show with a story from lead producer Joe Stamboni on changing his tire recently.
We welcome host Josh Spiegel back where he’s concerned with recent migraines before the 10th-anniversary bash.
Gabby DiPaula has been filling in for Josh Spiegel on news for a couple days. She had a hilarious verbal flub yesterday when she said “stay tuned for news and notes”. We all have verbal flubs from
Scott admitted that he is addicted to hats. He revealed that he purchased three new hats just this past weekend. He’s still putting food on the table and paying bills, so its a relatively harmless addiction. We
This week on Behind the Curtain… Producer Stamboni witnesses a public freak-out at a home improvement store, Josh reveals that he has had a change of heart with Taylor Swift, and we speak with a Wheel of
We check in LIVE from The Stables in Westminster. It was a great show and an even better crowd! We we’re honored to be gifted an incredible cake from Blue Crab Cupcakes. We served some cake and
Justin’s friend Pete took a spill in the middle of the night and broke a few ribs. We’ve heard it’s one of the most annoying, painful breaks. We share our stories of taking hits to the ribs
The morning show was joined by Farfel the Terrier. We discussed Farfel’s appearance for the 10th-anniversary birthday bash & his bathroom habits.
Today on the show Josh revealed that he has had a change of heart about Taylor Swift. He pleads his case and maybe even swayed a couple of us!
Scott and Justin both had interesting weekends with family. Both still have to deal with their aging parents treating them like children. They break it down for us and we get behind the reasons that we are
This week on Behind the Curtain… We discuss the BOOM! Did you hear the jet break the sound barrier? We also talk about the phenomenon known as “Gooch Grease”. Scott was out so we were joined by
Today, Producer Joe reviewed a movie that starred a young Justin Schlegel. Before he was the radio host that we have all come to love, he was a budding actor. This particular role he played was one
Today on the show we get into the phenomenon known as “Gooch Grease”. Men all over have apparently been using Maxi Pads to soak up the “grease” betwixt their thighs. We discuss the what/why and scenarios in which the “Manpon” may be acceptable.
Today on the show we got a little side tracked talking about our favorite ice cream. Scott mentioned Taharka Brothers and we went on a wild goose chase to track some down. Stay tuned!
Today we were joined by our good friend – the man, the myth, the legend, Brandon Novak! We caught up with him and talked about his new treatment center, growing up skating in Baltimore and even touched on close pal, Bam Margera!
The A.I. app ChatGPT listed things that people secretly hate doing, but how accurate is it?
Today we were joined by John and Adam from UNION Craft Brewing. We have been working with them closely over the last few months to develop a JSS branded beer. We finally got to taste a sample and it is delicious!
This week on Behind the Curtain… We talk professional breakups, mushroom foraging, and bamboo! Justin was out all week so we were joined by Rob Maher and Tommy Sinbazo. We talk Die Laughing Productions, Tommy brings in homemade Mandalorian armor and we chat with Chamie from The Louder than Life Festival! All of this, plus much more on – Behind the Curtain!
Last week Scott locked himself out of his phone and couldn’t remember his password. He tried various avenues of unlocking his phone and resetting his password. Finally over the weekend he was able to make some progress and we put an end to the cell phone saga!
Kirk and Marianne catch up Smashing Pumpkins lead singer Billy Corgan shortly after the band’s release of the third act of their new rock opera “Atum,” and ahead of their performance at Jiffy Lube Live on August 31st.
We had Tommy fill in for a couple days while Justin is in Japan. He brought in some Mandalorian armor he’s been working on. He gives us the details and backstory of how he builds it along with a demonstration!
The Bush frontman joined Kirk and Marianne ahead of the band’s performances in DC later this year!
This morning, Josh was caught running a few minutes behind. We get into why and discovery a morning routine that may make some blush!
Today we had Rob Maher filling in for Justin while he’s on vacation in Japan. Rob dropped a few throw-away jokes alluding to what he has in store for the JSS 10th Birthday Bash. Tickets are going quick! Grab yours now before they sell out!
Justin finally did it. After decades of ruminating he finally got to Japan. Today Scott let us know that he wants to take a cross-country road trip. This got us thinking… What is a bucket list trip you would love to go on?
Do you have your regular that you go to for haircuts, home renovations, etc..? Well, today we ask if you’ve ever had to cut it off with your “regular” and how you went about it. We share our stories and take your calls!
This week on Behind the Curtain… We clean out the employee fridge, wrap up the Josh Spiegel office saga, and talk slow driving. We ask how much do you tip, how stoned is your customer base and.. why was producer Joe Stamboni late? All of this, plus much more, on Behind the Curtain!
This morning we’re talking home renovations. Producer Joe recently came into some inheritance money and is investing it back into his home. We get a rundown on the renovation work and share our stories of renovation nightmares!
This morning our producer, Joe Stamboni, was a few minutes late. He came in and admitted he may have a problem. He is addicted to a certain type of pizza which he ate way too late last night. Needless to say, this morning was a bit of a situation for him!
Earlier this week, Scott was getting dinner and overheard a young man from Frederick talking with a very thick urban accent. We’ve all known somebody that changes the way the talk at some point. We share stories of people we know that went through a “phase” and we take your calls!
This morning Joe came in with an upset tummy. Apparently, Justin and Joe both ate some questionable meats over the weekend. We share our stories of sketchy food choices and take your calls!
Josh sat down for a one-on-one interview with award winning author and columnist, Dave Barry!
This morning we all had an interesting drive in to work. Scott passes a guy on the regular who is always going WAY under the speed limit. Fill-in, Erik Woodworth, almost went bathroom in his pants and Producer Joe experienced a real day ruiner!
We read a news story today which said that children are more burned out than their parents. We said, “screw the kids! We’re burnt out!” So we ask you.. Are you burnt out? Overworked, underpaid? We take your calls and share our stories of burning the candle from both ends!
Justin recently purchased a marital aid for an upcoming vacation. He wasn’t completely sold on it so.. Producer Joe had the honor of taking it on its maiden voyage to pleasure town!
Josh’s news goes slightly off the rails when we find out producer Joe hasn’t been to a dentist in almost 6 years. Then the texts started pouring in.. Needless to say, 6 years is far from the worst we heard!
This week on Behind the Curtain… We catch up with our old pal, Roy Wood jr, we call a phone sex line, and we discuss “Missed Connections Monday”. Josh goes to Urgent Care and the Officegate 2023 saga is started. All of this, plus much more, on Behind the Curtain!
For the last week we have been occupying an office for Josh. Over the weekend it appears that somebody took it upon themselves to “share” the space with Josh. Today we go full phase 5 and Josh draws a line in the sand!
Josh reported on a news story the other day about a father who was arrested for piercing his sons ear. We share our own stories of self mutilation and take your calls!
Its been in the works for years but its finally happening. We have commandeered an office for the News Genius! Today Nick and Joe went into action and fully decorated Spiegel’s new office to suit his aesthetic. We’re taking bets to see how long before he’s kicked out.
Today on the show we had a “Tune-up Tuesday”. As men, we don’t always take the greatest care of ourselves, so we’re making a point to give ourselves a little extra self love each week. This week, Scott brought in an ear wax camera to check out our dirty canals. The things that we found inside of our ears was terrifying!
Josh has been dealing with a cold for the past couple weeks. He finally went to Urgent Care over the weekend and it was quite the debacle.
This week on Behind the Curtain… We talk the Adderall shortage, horny moms, and Producer Joe gets a waxing. We also talk with legendary comedian/actress – Sarah Silverman, we ask about your worst childhood injuries and we discuss the “Airplane Popcorn Incident of 2023”. All of this, plus much more, on Behind the Curtain!
Today our good friend from Salvage Arc, Evan Woodard, stopped by. He is promoting his 24hr Earth Day Magnet-thon. Grab your magnet fishing gear, head downtown and meet Evan for a day filled with exploration and discovery! Also, we heard they may have free pizza!
We read a statistic that said people are wasting, on average, $63 a week in groceries that go bad or never get used. Justin is constantly throwing out leftovers and unclosed bags of stale chips. So we ask you.. How much money are you “throwing away” weekly on groceries that go unused?
On this edition of “Tune-up Tuesday”… Producer, Joe Stamboni, gets his crack waxed. The screams that came from him may haunt your nightmares.
Ever been in excruciating pain but couldn’t bail? Today we talked about “playing through the pain”. We asked you and you delivered the goods! So many stories of broken bones and stitches that just had to wait until the job was done!
This week on Behind the Curtain… We talk to Val about her first apartment, ask you what you regret selling, and brainstorm some new “punishments” for Time Machine Trivia. We’re joined by our good friend, Broadcaster for the Baltimore Oriole- Brett Hollander. We talk to EMP expert – Dr. William Forstchen, and we discuss getting engaged at a young age. Phil Yacuboski brings us some delicious, homemade limoncello and we discuss simple things that you cannot do. All of this, plus much more on – Behind the Curtain!
Yesterday, we learned that Nick doesn’t know how to make Instant Oatmeal. We asked you what simple tasks can you not do. Apparently, a lot us don’t know how to tie a tie or ride a bike. Also, Nick’s mom calls in to defend herself.
The text lines did not let us down on this one. We shared our phone backgrounds as well as a few people around the office and inevitably went off the rails at some point. We received a ton of hilarious backgrounds and… We get into Producer Joe’s love life!
Get ready to make more basketball bets this week as the NBA playoffs start this weekend. Rob and Joe are here to guide your bets for the playoffs while also looking at the NFL draft coming up in two weeks.
Episode rundown: NBA playoffs 7:00, NBA first-round series 13:15, NFL draft 18:15
Learn more about the show at https://www.98online.com/lock-it-up-with-rob-and-joe/
This content is sponsored by the FanDuel Sportsbook. Opinions expressed are for entertainment only and do not reflect the opinions of WIYY 98 Rock. Must be 21 years or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Please play responsibly. For help, visit mdgamblinghelp.org or call 1-800-GAMBLER. ©2023, FanDuel Sportsbook.
Legendary actor William Shatner chats with Kirk and Marianne ahead of his appearance at Monster Mania Con 54!
Did you get engaged at a young age? Today on the show we talked about actress Millie Bobby Brown getting engaged at 19. We shared our thoughts on young love and took your phone calls!
Scott was trolling on Instagram the other day when he asked “best offer” for his Honda S-2000. He will never sell, but that got us thinking… What items did you sell that you regret selling? We share some of ours and take your calls!
Today on the show, we welcome Josh back after a few days off and he shares how his Passover holiday went while visiting family in New York!
This week on Behind the Curtain… We talk inheritance, lying to the doctor, and school-bus stories. We discuss discontinued items and what you would love to see make a comeback. And last but not least.. We are joined by one of our new favorite guests – Lisa Ann Walter. All of this, plus much more, on another -Behind the Curtain!
Today we had actress, comedian, and producer – Lisa Ann Walter IN STUDIO! Famously known for her role on the show “Abbot Elementary”, we discussed being from Maryland, Italian heritage, and raising kids. She was hilarious and it was an honor to have her in-studio!
Today we had the great AC debate. When do you turn it on and what temp are you setting it to? We share our ideal indoor temperature and when we finally turn on the AC. We take your calls and read your texts!
This week, Rob and Joe turn their betting attention to the golf world as the Masters takes place this weekend. The guys will also give you their thoughts on UFC 287 and the latest Lamar Jackson drama.
Episode rundown: Masters 6:30 odds to win, 8:00 Trends, 17:00 Picks to win, 19:00 Top 5, 10 and 20, 20:00 Match bet and to miss the cut, 23:00 Tourney specials, 25:00 UFC 287, 26:00 Lamar Jackson
Learn more about the show at https://www.98online.com/lock-it-up-with-rob-and-joe/
This content is sponsored by the FanDuel Sportsbook. Opinions expressed are for entertainment only and do not reflect the opinions of WIYY 98 Rock. Must be 21 years or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Please play responsibly. For help, visit mdgamblinghelp.org or call 1-800-GAMBLER. ©2023, FanDuel Sportsbook.
Yesterday Josh reported on a news story where a school-bus driver lost it on the kids. We all started thinking about times we got in trouble on the bus. We share our bus stories and take your calls!
Scott recently had a physical and lied to his doctor about a few things. He still got told that he needs to do better. So, we ask you.. Do you lie to your doctor and about what?!
This week on Behind the Curtain… We ask you how much you’ve spent on your “hobby”, we get a tour of the new CFG Bank Arena, and we have our favorite lawyer- Randolph Rice IN STUDIO! We also check out a Tom Brady AI comedy special, review a Pornhub documentary, and.. Scott gets a physical. All of this, plus much more, on Behind the Curtain!
Scott got a physical yesterday and thankfully, no major health concerns. However, he is not thrilled with his (and Spiegel’s) doctors “bed side manner”. He lets us know how he feels about the experience and Josh gets defensive of his “thorough” doctor.
A.I. is advancing faster than we had predicted, especially in the last couple months. Justin stumbled on an A.I. generated, Tom Brady comedy special and it is amazing. We discuss the upcoming changes that are going to impact ALL OF US!
This week will be a huge week in sports betting thanks to the Final Four and the start of the Major League Baseball regular season. Rob and Joe are here to guide you through. Plus, the guys will give you their thoughts on the latest Lamar Jackson drama.
Episode rundown: 3:30 Final four, 12:00 Orioles odds, 19:00 MLB WS and pennant odds, 21:00 MLB win total, 23:45 MLB MVP, 25:00 Lamar
Learn more about the show at https://www.98online.com/lock-it-up-with-rob-and-joe/
This content is sponsored by the FanDuel Sportsbook. Opinions expressed are for entertainment only and do not reflect the opinions of WIYY 98 Rock. Must be 21 years or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Please play responsibly. For help, visit mdgamblinghelp.org or call 1-800-GAMBLER. ©2023, FanDuel Sportsbook.
Why do we still have banks? With direct deposit and digital money transfer services it seems like they are sort of now defunct. Josh brought this to our attention and got us thinking… Do you still go to the bank? Why or why not? We take your calls and share our banking proclivities!
Today we were joined be our good friend, lawyer – Randolph Rice. We discuss what you are actually agreeing to in those “User Agreements”. We also discuss how the state will deal with the coming legalization of cannabis!
Producer Joe recently had a much needed bathroom renovation. This got us thinking.. What are you putting off that needs to be fixed? We share our procrastinations and take your calls!
This week on Behind the Curtain.. We chat with legendary actress, Lorraine Bracco. We talk unjustified crying, nervous pooping, and how you get over on your job. Josh brings us some delicious Jewish baked goods, Scott gives us a vasectomy update and we run another batch of Open Mic audio! All of this, plus much more!
How long has it been? Hours? Days? Justin went down a YouTube rabbit hole a few days back and discovered his new favorite channel – “Camping Kelana”. That got us thinking.. What is the latest YouTube rabbit hole you’ve gone down? We share our favorites and take your texts/calls!
This morning we are joined by our great friend – Greg Nivens! He puts on the best eating and drinking events on the east coast from New York to Florida. We were more than happy to have him stop by and sample some of the food and drinks that will be a part of this years Beer, Bourbon, and BBQ! Thanks Greg!
It was a great week for games but a rough week for brackets in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Rob and Joe are here to guide you through the rest of the bracket bets. The guys also chat about the upcoming NFL Draft and this weekend’s WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play at Austin Country Club
Episode rundown: 4:45 NCAA Championship odds, 5:00 East region, 10:15 West, 13:30 South, 17:30 Midwest, 19:45 NFL Draft number one pick, 24:00 Ravens pick, 26:15 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play at Austin Country Club
Learn more about the show at https://www.98online.com/lock-it-up-with-rob-and-joe/
This content is sponsored by the FanDuel Sportsbook. Opinions expressed are for entertainment only and do not reflect the opinions of WIYY 98 Rock. Must be 21 years or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Please play responsibly. For help, visit mdgamblinghelp.org or call 1-800-GAMBLER. ©2023, FanDuel Sportsbook.
Scott has been dealing with a now confirmed raccoon in his attic. This got us thinking… What is the craziest animal encounter you’ve had? We share our stories and take your calls!
This week on Behind the Curtain… There is a mystery in the Schlegel household. Somebody spilled water in one of Justin’s arcade machine and he does his best to get to the bottom of it. Gabby DiPaula filled in for Josh and let us know that her car was in the shop due to not getting the oil changed, we ripped out our nose hairs with wax, and we ask you what is the dumbest way that you hurt yourself..? All of this, plus much more, on another – Behind the Curtain!
This morning Scott came in fired up! Apparently he was up all night due to a “squirrel” trying to get in or out of his attic. Throughout the course of the show it became apparent that it might not be a squirrel…
So… It seems like we have all hurt ourselves in the stupidest ways. Whether it be a broken neck from pool wrestling or a broken foot from showing off in front of the kids. We take your calls and share our stories of the dumbest ways we’ve hurt ourselves!
Today on the show we talked about walking out on your job. No two week notice, no exit interview, just – take this job and shove it! We take your calls and share our own stories of having enough of our job and walking out!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! The NCAA tournament kicks off this week and Rob and Joe are here to bring you their thoughts on where to place your bets. Plus, hear what the guys have to say about the latest Lamar Jackson news.
Episode rundown: 3:00 Lamar Jackson thoughts, 7:00 March Madness and Final Four picks, 20:45 First-round games, 26:00 Terps
Learn more about the show at https://www.98online.com/lock-it-up-with-rob-and-joe/
This content is sponsored by the FanDuel Sportsbook. Opinions expressed are for entertainment only and do not reflect the opinions of WIYY 98 Rock. Must be 21 years or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Please play responsibly. For help, visit mdgamblinghelp.org or call 1-800-GAMBLER. ©2023, FanDuel Sportsbook.
This developed from a segment that we did last week and we thought it deserved a little more time. It seems like everyone has rolled a car at some point. We take your calls and share our stories of rolling cars!
This week on Behind the Curtain… Our sports broadcaster, Valerie Preactor, gets some professional headshots in an interesting outfit choice. Our good pal, Travis Pastrana, stops by to discuss his recent race in the Daytona 500, and we try the worst Fruity Pebbles syrup on Earth. We all watched and discuss a new Jared Fogle documentary, test out old man strength and try out a new segment called – The First Time Lines. All of this, plus much more, on Behind the Curtain!
Today we’re talking about butt dialing. Ever thought you’ve hung up with someone only to bad mouth them and realize they are still on the line? Ever sent an accidental nude text? Scott shares a story of accidentally sending a pic to somebody who was not so thrilled to be seeing his member. We take your calls and share our stories of embarrassing butt dials!
Today we’re talking “Old Man Strength”! Are you lifting cars with one hand or moving livestock without breaking a sweat? We take your calls and read some facts about the type of strength you gain in old age.
This has been in the news the last few days, so it got us thinking.. Would you/have you ever gone to a different country to get a medical procedure? Whether it be cheaper cost or experimental procedures that aren’t done in the U.S. We share our thoughts and take your calls!
This week on Behind the Curtain… Producer Joe Stamboni gets a perm! Assistant Producer Nick gets a new job, and we try a little male self care with exfoliating face masks. We talk to a man that claims he hooked up with the hottest stripper in Baltimore, critique Stamboni’s new music, and we are joined by comedian Jay Pharoah IN STUDIO!
This week on Behind the Curtain… Producer Joe Stamboni gets a perm! Assistant Producer Nick gets a new job, and we try a little male self care with exfoliating face masks. We talk to a man that claims he hooked up with the hottest stripper in Baltimore, critique Stamboni’s new music, and we are joined by comedian Jay Pharoah IN STUDIO!
This week on Behind the Curtain- We talk to Adam Carolla, we try Durian fruit, and Nick tries Ramen for the first time. Gabby is late filling in for Josh and pays the price, we get into Josh’s thighs, and we’re visited by our good friend, Randolph Rice, of Rice, Murtha, and Psoras law firm. All of this, plus much more!
Today we have Jay Pharoah IN STUDIO! We discuss what’s coming up for him and his career. We also get a little sample of his MANY amazing impressions!
It seems like we’ve all been in a crappy band at one point. Today we ask you, were you in a band with a bad name. We also check in with Stamboni and he plays us some new music!
So it turns out that we all pretty much hate the same things. We take your calls and share some of our common, and not so common annoyances!
Scott came to the table with this one.. Quite simply – when was the last time that you were proud of yourself? Childbirth? Lost your virginity? We ask you and share some of our proud moments!
We all have friends that have been engaged for 5-10+ years. Whether its procrastination, lack of funds, or avoiding it altogether… Today we ask you – Why the long engagement?!
This break is quickly becoming a benchmark of the show. We love to play them so please keep them coming! Hit us up on the Open Mic tab of the 98 Rock app and maybe we’ll play yours!
Today on the show, Josh has a “Happy Childhood Memory” about going to get ice cream with his father. They use to go to an ice cream shop called “Gifford’s”. They went out of business over 10 years ago, or at least Josh thought… We find some Gifford’s Ice Cream and make the News Genius a happy boy.
Live from Orioles Spring Training in Sarasota, Florida, Kirk and Marianne catch up with Orioles Executive Vice President and General Manager, Mike Elias.
This morning, Assoc. Producer Nick mumbled a sentence under his breath that has probably never been said in the history of speech- “Boats are the most sensual vehicle”. Perplexing, introspective, though provoking. We dig a little deeper to decipher exactly what he meant.
Do you think the Baltimore Ravens will hang on to Lamar Jackson this season? Rob and Joe start off this episode by exploring some thoughts on the future of Jackson in Baltimore before moving on to chatting about some possible NBA bets. Plus, the guys look ahead to this weekend’s Honda Classic golf tournament.
Episode rundown: Lamar Jackson thoughts 1:20, NBA futures 9:00, The Honda Classic 19:00
Learn more about the show at https://www.98online.com/lock-it-up-with-rob-and-joe/
This content is sponsored by the FanDuel Sportsbook. Opinions expressed are for entertainment only and do not reflect the opinions of WIYY 98 Rock. Must be 21 years or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Please play responsibly. For help, visit mdgamblinghelp.org or call 1-800-GAMBLER. ©2023, FanDuel Sportsbook.
Scott picked up on the fact that Nick Testoni still wears boxers. He bought him a pair of old man briefs in an effort to school him in the ways of proper support for his boys. Nick was thoroughly offended.
Producer Joe’s father passed recently and chose to be cremated. He had a specific request for his ashes – it might include a gofundme and a future trip to South East Asia!
This week on Behind the Curtain… Scott recaps his vasectomy procedure, we find out that associate producer, Nick Testoni, sleeps in socks, and we chat with comedian Nate Bargatze. We also talk life changing items under $100, mistaken nationality, and…. We give away some tickets to the new movie “Cocaine Bear” and ask – have you ever accidentally gotten too high?! All of this, plus much more!
Today we gave away tickets for the premier of “Cocaine Bear”, a movie about a bear who accidentally eats kilos of cocaine. In true Cocaine Bear fashion, we ask you- Have you ever accidentally gotten too high?
The NFL season is over, but it’s not too early to look ahead to next season. Rob and Joe start off this episode looking at what bets to place for the NEXT Super Bowl. The guys also turn their attention to the hardwood looking at NBA and NCAA basketball games as well as this weekend’s Genesis Invitational golf tournament.
Episode rundown: 7:00 Early Superbowl and MVP odds, 14:00 NBA, 21:00 Wednesday Men’s NCAA BB, 24:30 The PGA’s Genesis Invitational
Learn more about the show at https://www.98online.com/lock-it-up-with-rob-and-joe/
This content is sponsored by the FanDuel Sportsbook. Opinions expressed are for entertainment only and do not reflect the opinions of WIYY 98 Rock. Must be 21 years or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Please play responsibly. For help, visit mdgamblinghelp.org or call 1-800-GAMBLER. ©2023, FanDuel Sportsbook.
Whether it never caught on, you’re too old to be hip, or its just ridiculous – we ran through a list of phrases and words that need to be retired.
We found out that Associate Producer Nick still wears boxers. Scott bought him a pair of briefs so that he can have a little more support for his boys. In doing so, Nick reveals he also sleeps in socks. This is odd to say the least.. We poll the office and find out who wears socks to bed!
In celebration of Valentines Day, we’re talking childhood romance. We dive a little deeper into the backstory of “Helen”, Spiegel’s long lost pre-school love and we take your calls about your long-lost childhood loves!
It’s the little things that you take for granted. Maybe it’s a meat thermometer. Maybe it’s just a nice pair of underwear. Today, we discuss item’s under $100 that changed your life!
This week on Behind the Curtain… We are joined by Rich Cuce and his son, Thomas. They are renovating the Hooper’s Island Lighthouse and give us some insight into their project. We talk about assigned seating on an airplane and when that goes wrong. We discuss eye problems, things that you should have removed from your body but you haven’t for whatever reason, and… We celebrate Justin’s birthday with a very nice, unexpected call from his pops. All of this, plus much more, on another – Behind the Curtain!
This week on Behind the Curtain… We ask you what you have torn, we solve the age old debate over Circus Peanut vs. Peeps, and David Koechner joins us!
Scott dropped a bomb on the room when he revealed he is scheduled for a vasectomy today! We open up the phone lines and take your calls to see what our guy is in store for!
Do you have moles? Maybe you’re like today’s fill in, Erik Woodworth, and have a whole gang of skin tags? We take your calls and share our home surgery stories!
It will be a big weekend for betting and Rob and Joe are here to guide you through it. Take a listen to the guys’ thoughts on this weekend’s Super Bowl showdown between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs.
Episode rundown: 2:45 Super Bowl betting nuggets, 7:00 why to bet the Eagles, bets to make, 21:00 why to bet the Chiefs, bets to make, 27:00 bonus bets
Learn more about the show at https://www.98online.com/lock-it-up-with-rob-and-joe/
This content is sponsored by the FanDuel Sportsbook. Opinions expressed are for entertainment only and do not reflect the opinions of WIYY 98 Rock. Must be 21 years or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Please play responsibly. For help, visit mdgamblinghelp.org or call 1-800-GAMBLER. ©2023, FanDuel Sportsbook.
Today the guys get a fashion lesson from Val. Apparently leather is back in style? Sounds like somebody is going to be dressed in leather from head to toe very soon.
Today, on his way into work, Rob Maher gave a complete stranger a 15 minute ride. That got us thinking.. When is the last time that you picked up a hitchhiker?!
After Josh expressed his desire to try night vision goggles on the show yesterday, we had a couple ex-military friends reach out to us. Today Drew and Beth stopped up and let Spiegel test drive a pair of night vision goggles.
So… Yesterday in the post show meeting, Josh let it slip that he wants night vision goggles. We don’t know why and we’ve been advised not to ask. We talk to hunters and ex-military to get the run-down on night vision goggles!
Justin has been dealing with the kids taking EXTRA LONG showers. He thinks they might be getting up to some “funny” business. So, we ask you… How long are your kids spending in the bathroom and what the hell are they up too?
This week on Behind the Curtain… Tommy Sinbazo stops by and shares some snowboarding stories, we write JSS themed stories using an AI bot, and we compare utility bills. Rob Maher stops by and proposes a JSS Seinfeld trivia night, Josh poops in a box and recounts the tale of the Russian masseuse, and finally… We receive one of the best organic phone interviews we’ve ever done with Neuroscientist – Dr. Hall. All of this, plus much more, on another – Behind the Curtain!
This week we got an opportunity to interview Tony Kahn, owner of AEW – All Elite Wrestling. 98 Rock/WBAL producer and all around wrestling fan, Nick Testoni, talked with him and got down to business in an incredible interview!
Is it grown men watching wrestling? Maybe its crypto? Or is it 30 and 40 year old women that collect stuffed animals? Today we ask you… Which hobby is an instant red flag?!
A few years ago Josh told us a story about how his father use to get massages by a large Russian man. He would come by the house to massage clients and one day Josh took him up on his offer. The rest is history…
Only four teams remain in the NFL playoffs. Listen in as Rob and Joe gear up for the two conference championships and update various Super Bowl odds, including possible Super Bowl MVPs.
Episode rundown: 3:15 Super Bowl and Super Bowl MVP odds, 7:15 NFC title game, 19:00 AFC title game, 26:30 FanDuel weekly specials.
Learn more about the show at https://www.98online.com/lock-it-up-with-rob-and-joe/
This content is sponsored by the FanDuel Sportsbook. Opinions expressed are for entertainment only and do not reflect the opinions of WIYY 98 Rock. Must be 21 years or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Please play responsibly. For help, visit mdgamblinghelp.org or call 1-800-GAMBLER. ©2023, FanDuel Sportsbook.
So… He finally did it! Josh produced his sample for Cologuard and gives us a rundown of the whole process!
Ever been part of an “arrangement”? Got a Sugar Mama/Daddy? Josh reported on a story about a famous actor offering an actress an “arrangement”. Nice house, sports car, etc.. But we all know what the catch is…
This morning our good friend, Tommy Sinbazo, is IN STUDIO! Tommy stops by to share some stories of his weekend snowboarding trip with Justin. We also discuss the upcoming Polar Comedy Show @ FPX Events coming up this Friday, January 27th!
This week on Behind the Curtain… Justin discovers a coffee hack that helps reduce the afternoon crash, we review the new HBO series “The Last of Us,” and we get into an unexpectedly deep conversation about bankruptcy. Our friends from the American Heart Association stop by and teach us how to perform CPR, Erik Woodworth stops by for some laughs, and Evan Woodard from Salvage Arc drops in to show us his newest findings from “Magnet Fishing” the Inner Harbor. All of this, plus much more, on another – Behind the Curtain!
This week on Behind the Curtain… We’re talking dumpster diving! Ever tried it? Ever found any trashed treasures? We also discuss epidurals and their uses outside of pregnancy. We chat with our old pal, Governor Larry Hogan and… Sadly, we say good-bye to long time producer, Mesha. All of this, plus much more, on another – Behind the Curtain!
Today on show we have.. Erik Woodworth IN STUDIO! He talks with us about the upcoming Polar Comedy Show at FPX Theatre next Friday. We also dive into the open mic feature on the 98 Rock app and react to some of your recordings!
Before she departed for greener pastures, our beloved Mesha McDonald left us an official JSS Producer Manual. It is extremely thorough and has direct instruction for future producers to execute an exemplary program, but, we ask you… If you could add anything what would it be? We take your calls and share our thoughts!
The playoffs continue this weekend in the National Football League. Rob and Joe start the show by recapping the rough end of the Baltimore Ravens season and what they think will happen with Lamar Jackson in the offseason. From there, the guys focus on the NFL divisional round trends and bets.
Episode rundown: 3:00 Ravens recap, 12:45 SB and Conf odds, 14:50 Divisional Round Trends, 16:00 Jags Chiefs, 19:30 Giants Eagles, 21:00 Bengals Bills, 23:00 Cowboys 49ers, 25:15 Fan Duel Weekly Specials, 28:45 cashing out
Learn more about the show at https://www.98online.com/lock-it-up-with-rob-and-joe/
This content is sponsored by the FanDuel Sportsbook. Opinions expressed are for entertainment only and do not reflect the opinions of WIYY 98 Rock. Must be 21 years or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Please play responsibly. For help, visit mdgamblinghelp.org or call 1-800-GAMBLER. ©2023, FanDuel Sportsbook.
Today on the show we had our good friends from Special Olympics Maryland in studio! We spoke with Kira and Candice and they give us tips to prepare for the Polar Bear Plunge on Feb. 4th. We plunge, they play!
We’ve played the game, now its time to review the first episode of “The Last of Us”. Love it? hate it? The reviews are in and we LOVE IT! We highly suggest playing the game and or watching the show!
Today on the show we are talking child surveillance apps. Do you use them to track your kids? What are the pros and cons? We share our thoughts and take your calls!
This week on Behind the Curtain, we talk exotic pets. Do you own one? Would you own one? We also open the epidural lines. We get some behind the scenes on what they can be used for other than pregnancy. Governor Larry Hogan stops by for an impromptu interview to discuss his future in politics. Annnnd last but not least.. Our beloved producer Mesha is moving up and moving on. We check in with her and she gives us some details on what’s next for her and her career. All of this, plus much more on another- Behind the Curtain!
Today on the show.. Another edition of Topic Bucket! This week is a sports themed topic bucket to kickoff the upcoming Baltimore Ravens playoff run!
It’s playoff time in the National Football League. Rob and Joe start the show by tracking their preseason predictions. Then the guys break down each match-up in the NFL’s Wild Card Weekend.
Episode rundown: 4:00 NFL preseason predictions recap, 6:00 NFL Playoffs, 11:00 Ravens Bengals, 15:30 Seahawks 49ers, 17:00 Chargers Jags, 19:20 Dolphins Bills, 20:45 Giants Vikings, 25:00 Cowboys Bucs.
Learn more about the show at https://www.98online.com/lock-it-up-with-rob-and-joe/
This content is sponsored by the FanDuel Sportsbook. Opinions expressed are for entertainment only and do not reflect the opinions of WIYY 98 Rock. Must be 21 years or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Please play responsibly. For help, visit mdgamblinghelp.org or call 1-800-GAMBLER. ©2023, FanDuel Sportsbook.
Today on the show we are talking exotic pets. Do you own one? Have you ever thought about getting one? We talk to a few callers who own everything from 10ft pythons to sugar gliders and everything in between!
Spiegel is in the market for a Colonoscopy. His doctor was able to pick up on the fact that he was apprehensive about the procedure, so he offered him a modern solution- Cologuard. We walk Josh through the process and try to ease his worried mind!
Today on the show, we talk about reinventing yourself. Ever had a moment of clarity and wanted to change your ways? We have all reinvented ourselves at one point or another to get a job or for a relationship, so we ask you… Have you ever reinvented yourself?!
This week we talk to you about your bite size resolutions, we finally gift each other, and joe gets face tatts, wonder what they are!?!?!?
ENJOY!
We talked to all the deer hunters out there! This weekend Rifle hunting for deer comes back for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday!
Rob and Joe start off a new year with new ways to win. Hear the guys run through the final week of the NFL regular season and break down some NBA parlays.
Episode rundown: 4:30 Ravens, 9:00 FanDuel weekly specials, 13:00 NFL Saturday, 17:00 NFL Sunday, 23:30 NBA Parlays, 26:30 NCAAF National Championship
Learn more about the show at https://www.98online.com/lock-it-up-with-rob-and-joe/
This content is sponsored by the FanDuel Sportsbook. Opinions expressed are for entertainment only and do not reflect the opinions of WIYY 98 Rock. Must be 21 years or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Please play responsibly. For help, visit mdgamblinghelp.org or call 1-800-GAMBLER. ©2023, FanDuel Sportsbook.
Today on the show we let you Pitch A Bitch! Best wishes and prayers for our new friend Charles!
This morning on the show we welcome back Josh Spiegel! Rob Maher fills in for Scott and we discuss sibling rivalries. Everybody has that one person in their family that they secretly despise for doing better. Who is it for you?!
This morning on the show we are joined by Eric Woodworth and Joe Robinson. We do a little Christmas recap! What did you want and what did you get? We share our favorite and least favorite moments of the holiday!
In the final Lock It Up of 2022, Rob and Joe are doing a deep dive into the second to last week of the NFL regular season starting with their thoughts on the Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers. Later in the show, the guys talk about the College Football Playoff.
Episode rundown: 1:00 Steelers at Ravens, 18:10 Browns at Commanders, 12:21 Jags at Texans, 15:30 Colts at Giants, 20:00 Panthers at Bucs, 23:20 Jets at Seahawks, 24:30 Minn at GB, 25:30 Bills at Bengals, 27:00 College Football Playoff.
Learn more about the show at https://www.98online.com/lock-it-up-with-rob-and-joe/
This content is sponsored by the Caesars Sports Book at Horseshoe Casino. Opinions expressed are for entertainment only and do not reflect the opinions of WIYY 98 Rock. Must be 21 years or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Please play responsibly. For help, visit mdgamblinghelp.org or call 1-800-GAMBLER. ©2022, Caesars License Company, LLC.
This morning on the show… We have our annual JSS gift exchange! Check out what the guys got each other and the special treat Assistant Producer Joe got Justin and Scott!
We here at JSS are deep into the Christmas game, might be our favorite holiday!
Sports Reporter Val brought in the bombs and we got down!
What was the result?
ENJOY!
Coming off an amazing week in sports, Rob and Joe head into Christmas week going through what should be some exciting NFL games. Hear the guys’ thoughts on what to bet on with the Baltimore Ravens and Atlanta Falcons game as well as the rest of week 16 in the NFL.
Episode rundown: 1:00 Ravens, 13:00 Thurs NFL, 17:00 Saturday NFL, 28:15 Christmas NFL games
Episode rundown: 1:00 Ravens vs Browns, 6:20 NFL MVP, 13:00 NFL Thursday night game, 15:30 NCAAF bowl games, 19:45 NFL Sat/Sunday, 26:00 World Cup
Learn more about the show at https://www.98online.com/lock-it-up-with-rob-and-joe/
This content is sponsored by the Caesars Sports Book at Horseshoe Casino. Opinions expressed are for entertainment only and do not reflect the opinions of WIYY 98 Rock. Must be 21 years or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Please play responsibly. For help, visit mdgamblinghelp.org or call 1-800-GAMBLER. ©2022, Caesars License Company, LLC.
Today on the show, we open the ecstasy lines!!! Ever tried it? We’re wondering what all the hype is about. We take your calls and wow… You guys party!!
Today on the show.. Scott joins a Facebook group that is trying to solve the stabbings at the University of Idaho. He gets deep into some conspiracies and we join in on the sleuthing.
Scott is planning on visiting family in Florida for the holiday. He’s never travelled with a pet before and is apprehensive about the trip. We take your calls and discuss the pro’s and con’s of traveling with pets!
This week on Behind the Curtain… We talk about things that give you “the ick” or “the heebie-jeebies”. We recap “Sick Day Shaming”. Does your boss shame you for calling in sick or taking vacation time? Joe Robinson fills in a couple days for Justin and we get a much needed Gramps update. We get into an OnlyFans debate with caller Rodney and… What did our Sports Reporter Valerie Preactor do?! All of this, plus much more, on another episode of- Behind the Curtain!
Today on the show, we talk about verbal crutches. Being in radio it’s very easy to fall back on “filler” words but we ask you.. What words do you overuse when telling a story?!
There are a lot of sports to bet on coming up this weekend, and Rob and Joe are here to guide you through as many matchups as they can. Hear their breakdown of Ravens vs. Browns, the rest of the NFL slate, the NCAA bowl games and the World Cup. Plus, they look at possible bets on this year’s NFL MVP Award.
Episode rundown: 1:00 Ravens vs Browns, 6:20 NFL MVP, 13:00 NFL Thursday night game, 15:30 NCAAF bowl games, 19:45 NFL Sat/Sunday, 26:00 World Cup
Learn more about the show at https://www.98online.com/lock-it-up-with-rob-and-joe/
This content is sponsored by the Caesars Sports Book at Horseshoe Casino. Opinions expressed are for entertainment only and do not reflect the opinions of WIYY 98 Rock. Must be 21 years or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Please play responsibly. For help, visit mdgamblinghelp.org or call 1-800-GAMBLER. ©2022, Caesars License Company, LLC.
Odafe Oweh is back again to talk about win over the Steelers, and the upcoming game against Cleveland.
The most entertaining part comes when the conversation delves into an analysis of Marlon Humphrey’s tweet about the winner between 100 humans and one gorilla!
Join Odafe on Monday at 6pm on the radio home of the Ravens: 98 Rock! Sponsored by 212 Realty.
This morning on the show we have WBAL-TV Meteorologist, Ava Marie, in studio for an ICE UPDATE! Spiegel gets a personalized weather forecast to ease his worried mind. We also find out what Josh is taking to bed at night!
This morning on the show, Joe Robinson brought up the Onlyfans account of a local comedian. Caller Rodney took a very firm stance on his dislike of said comedian. We push back a little bit and get to the bottom of Rodney’s animosity!
Today on the show… We recap another successful Bacon and Beer at Jimmy’s Famous Seafood and dive a little deeper into Josh’s new rocking chair!
This weekend on Behind the Curtain… We catch up with our old pal, Maryland’s own – Travis Pastrana! What do you consider yourself an expert in from watching too much television? Justin got invited and went back stage at a Juggalo festival and finally.. We chat with world renowned actor- Joe Montegna!
Today on the show, we were running through a standard topic bucket when we were unexpectedly derailed and hit with a surprise Spiegel childhood memory. This is one for the books. You will not be disappointed!
Rob and Joe kick off this week’s podcast by taking a look at Lamar Jackson’s injury and how it will impact betting on the Ravens over the next few weeks. The guys also provide a quick guide on parlay bets and set their sights on the college football playoff.
Episode rundown: 8:00 Ravens, 15:00 parlay rules, 21:20 NFL, 26:40 College Playoff, 28:15 UFC 282
Learn more about the show at https://www.98online.com/lock-it-up-with-rob-and-joe/
This content is sponsored by the Caesars Sports Book at Horseshoe Casino. Opinions expressed are for entertainment only and do not reflect the opinions of WIYY 98 Rock. Must be 21 years or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Please play responsibly. For help, visit mdgamblinghelp.org or call 1-800-GAMBLER. ©2022, Caesars License Company, LLC.
Travis Pastrana joined us in studio today to talk all things Gymkhana!
Looking for part 2? Click here!
On this edition of the Purple Power Hour, Ravens linebacker Odafe Oweh discussed the team’s Week 13 win over the Denver Broncos. He also told us his favorite Christmas song.
Today on the show, Josh schools us in fashion and opulence- The Pinky Ring… We love it and support Josh expressing himself so powerfully. How do you feel about pinky rings on men?!
Scott shares with us a personal moment from his life. His daughter Stella is getting older(like we all do) and has a new doctor. Everyone is getting teary eyed in here !
This week on the show, we have accordions IN STUDIO! We try to cook a steak in the toaster, does it work??? Brian Johnson and Alfonso Ribeiro talk to us as well!
Enjoy!
Today on the show we try out a new TikTok “food hack”. Apparently people are cooking steaks in toasters. Yes,
Today on the show we talk about odd things you have been pulled over for. Assistant Producer Joe shared a
Rob and Joe are coming off some solid wins after the first week of online betting in Maryland. The guys
Today on the show we’re talking Christmas gift shopping. Are you one of the people that have their Xmas shopping
Scott Reardon has been known to suffer from prostate related issues from time to time from too much caffeine, bad
Today on the show, we recap Thanksgiving… Who brought up politics first? Who got asked to leave? Were you the
It has taken a couple of years to get to this point, but online sportsbooks are now up and running
Today on the show, we have a special Thanksgiving themed addition of THE TOPIC BUCKET!!
On this edition of the Purple Power Hour, Ravens linebacker Odafe Oweh discussed the team’s Week 11 win over the
Today on the show, we have Gabby DiPaula filling in for the News Genius. She works as a bartender when
Today, Joe Robinson is in for sports! He has a story for us from his trip to mexico recently, and
This we on the show we talked to you about you awkward interviews, Duff Goldman joins us to talk cookies,
Today on the show, we have our old friend Duff from Ace of Cakes! We catch up with him and
Today we have our old friend, Doctor Joe the Chiropractor, on the show.. He gave us all an adjustment and
With Joe on vacation, friend of the show Mike Quindlen joins Rob to look ahead to this year’s World Cup.
Its that time for another… PITCH A BITCH! We share some of our bitches for the week and we take
Well, its happened to all of us at one point or another. Today on the show, we talk crotch shots.
Everybody has that one story that nobody believes – You got backstage with the band and they asked you to
Today we take some time to thank our veterans! Whether currently active or retired, we appreciate you! Thank you for
Today on the show, we talk about pandemic habits that stuck. Are you a compulsive hand washer? Do you balk
Odafe Oweh joins Kirk & Marianne for Purple Power Hour! Aside from questions football-related, Odafe delves further into other interesting
As the Baltimore Ravens hit the bye week, Rob and Joe look around at possible NFL future bets. Plus, the
Well, you did it. After years and years of law breaking debauchery, we’ve finally got the blessing of the state
This came to us from a texter yesterday… Tired of constantly refreshing your news feed and the impending anxiety that
We’ve said good-bye to Paul Mittermeier a number of times but it seems that this time it is for real.
This Saturday on Behind The Curtain, we dive a little deeper into some topics from earlier in the week. We
This idea came to us from an Instagram post. People are having their pets (dogs, cats, etc..) taxidermied. We ask
Yesterday we had a caller reveal that he has his divorced in-laws living with him. That got us thinking.. Who
We are in the thick of football season, and Rob and Joe are here to give you their thoughts on
Scott came to us with this one based off of a Zach Bryan song. The idea is to start living
Today on the show we recap Halloween night. Did you go trick-or-treating with the young ones? Hand out candy? Or…
So… Pete Davidson apparently had a meltdown and trashed his trailer, broke TV’s and threw hot coffee everywhere. This got
This week on Behind the Curtain.. We talk to WBALTV Meteorologist, Ava Marie, about wrestling! Ava is a low key,
What is the protocol for Halloween costumes at your kids school? Today we discuss the ever changing landscape of inclusivity
Today on the show, we’re talking Goth kids. The Goth kids have stood the test of time. Fashion trends come
Rob and Joe start off this week’s episode by giving their thoughts on the Thursday primetime matchup between the Tampa
Today on the show, we talk school troubles. Were you the class clown? Taking things to school that you shouldn’t?
Today on the show, we discuss oral hygiene. How often are you brushing? Once a day? Twice? Are you flossing?
Last week in Josh’s news we learned of a Maryland native who has won numerous lottery scratch offs, so we
This week on the show, we talk to you about how good a cheater you were in school, Brandon Thompson
Today on the show, we discuss head injuries! Blurred vision, eye crossing, and cranium splitting moments, we talked to you
Today we welcome back our friend Stephanie Murdock from The Skatepark of Baltimore. We talk about the progress of the
Rob and Joe are back for an episode full of betting tips centered around the next Ravens matchup, the upcoming
Today on the show Josh hits us with a tidbit about his morning routine. We’ve never heard sex and food
Today on the show, we talk aging. With modern medicine and plastic surgery being the best its ever been, have
After a news story about a cheating law student, we talk to you! How did you cheat??? Enjoy!
This week on the show, we talk to you about your Adderall usage, if you were born beautiful, and are
Today on the show we talk ADDERALL! Are you taking it for focus, function, or fun? We check in and
What and who are you scamming in 2022? All we know is that the self service line at the grocery
Today the guys are joined by Magician Spencer Horsman to try out some new mentalism tricks! ENJOY!
Baltimore Ravens linebacker Odafe Oweh joins Kirk and Marianne on 98 Rock. The trio talks about the loss to the
Rob and Joe are back for another week of big bets. The guys start by looking at the Baltimore Ravens’
Today on the show, we talk adoption… Were you adopted? Do you know someone who was? We take your calls
Over the weekend Scott was able to treat his parents to a Ravens game, how did it go? take a
Today we hash out this text Josh received and what exactly we were supposed to do with the unsolicited story!
This week on the show Assistant Producer Joe gets a mysterious call from the cops, Dr. Sandford Siegel comes in
Today on the show, we make time to revisit some ideas we didn’t have a chance to get to earlier
Today on the show, we dive into Josh Spiegel’s random thoughts and get a chance to see things from the
Today we welcome Josh back after the long Rosh Hashanah holiday. Apparently he has some regrets that he wanted to
Rob and Joe begin this episode with Joe explaining his love for Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson and talking about
On this edition of the Purple Power Hour, Kirk, Marianne and Odafe recap the Baltimore Raven’s big ‘DUB’ over the New
Today on the show, we’re talkin weird kids. Between watching Dahmer all week and having a kid mysteriously bite a
Today Rob Maher fills in from Scott and he tells us how he got banned from Facebook. Have you ever
This week on Behind the Curtain… We talk getting hacked, OCD, and soap preferences. Assistant Producer Joe goes to a
Today on the show, its the TOPIC BUCKET! We take time to revisit some ideas that we didn’t have a
Assistant Producer Joe dropped a bomb on us yesterday when he mentioned that he went to prom with this English
Today we hear from Scott about a recent incident with his pup, Max. Is it on the owner to make
Kirk and Marianne catch up with Baltimore Ravens linebacker Odafe Oweh after the team’s devastating 42-38 loss to the Dolphins on
Assistant Producer Joe brought it to our attention that he sees a psychic, that is apparently open at 4am, every
Over the weekend, Scott took his dog with him to a car show. Poor little Max was almost eaten by
This week on the show Justin went crabbing, we talk to Bret Michaels from Poison! Justin has never had a
Today on the show, we catch up with our old pal, Jake Nodar from Naked and Afraid. He fills us
Today on the show, Justin shares stories of traveling abroad and how not to disrespect the locals in a foreign
Today, The guys are joined by Promotion Coordinator, Nick Comito, to talk about his recent win of 98 Rock Radio’s
Get ready to place some bets as Joe and Rob center on the start of the NFL season. The guys
Today on the show, we talk back to school. How was it? Tears? Screams? Happy to be back? Then… Josh
Today on the show, we have Gabrielle Balassone and Ky Furneaux from Naked and Afraid XL: Frozen, in studio! They
This Saturday on Behind the Curtain… We dive further into happenings throughout the week. We discuss bad texters and get
Today on the show, Scott recaps the Jack White concert at Pier Six. Most notably – Jack doesn’t allow cell
Get ready to place some bets as Joe and Rob center their sights on the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup happening
Today Scott gets a few controversial texts. We reach out to the haters and GET THAT PERSON ON THE PHONE!
This morning was pretty eventful for our production team- Mesha was pulled over on her way to work. Did she
Today on the show, we talk to you about rich parents- Do they hurt or help shaping the person that
This weekend on Behind the Curtain, Justin recaps his guys trip to Vegas. Josh expresses his desire to go to
Today on the show, we revisit Josh’s desire to visit a Jazz club. Specifically a jazz club where you can
Today on the show, we find out the parking situation for an upcoming Orioles appearance. Josh finds out his parking
The host of The Tonight Show joins Kirk and Marianne to talk about the return of the game show “Password”
Today on Pitch-A-Bitch, we hear from Rob Maher about his gripe with airport shuttle services. We check in with Assistant
Today on the show, Rob Maher fills us in on a guest spot he got offered last minute to open
Today on the show, we hear from Justin and Joe Robinson about their guys trip to Las Vegas. Maybe somebody
This week on Behind The Curtain, we talk to… Pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles – Spenser Watkins! We also check
Today on the show, Val the sports gal proposes a friendship between her and Josh Spiegel. Josh is uncertain of
Today we were joined by Scott’s mom, and show mom, Mama Rita, to talk about what recently happened to her
In this week’s show, Rob and Joe are excited that there is football to talk about! Listen in as the
Kirk and Marianne catch up with SNL aum, actor, and comedian Jon Lovitz ahead of his August 12th performance at
Today we talk with Evan Woodard from Salvage Arc. He brought by some antique pieces that he has excavated from
Today on the show we find out Mesha and Joe both have friendships on the rocks. We rundown the disagreements
This week on Behind the Curtain we recap our interviews with Rod Woodson and Dan Abrams. We talk to Val
Yesterday on the show, Justin healed a rift with ex trainer Buck. In doing so, we learned that a couple
Joe Robinson fills in for Scott and we learn that his father in law is (still) cutting his grass!
Today we hear from six time Murrow award winner, Josh Spiegel. He got trapped in his garage and almost didn’t
There is a LIST…. a full list of nick names for our News Guy, Josh Spiegel! Do you have a
This week on Behind the curtain we try smelling salts, celebrate Josh’s B-day, and ask you what you do naked?
We talked with OnlyFans millionaire Allie Rae on how she got started, and her adult entertainment website that only uses
During an Award winning news broadcast, we go off the rails a bit due to a details of a news
You know we love to side line sports! You know we love to side line sports MORE when Paul is
As the NFL season gets closer, Rob and Joe give their thoughts on who will lead the league in passing,
Today we were joined by Orioles Broadcaster Melanie Newman, we talk Baseball and her journey within the league!
The Choco Taco is being discontinued, and we are crushed, time to remanence, will you join us?
Today we discuss nudity, specifically being naked at home. How often are you naked? Doing chores? Yardwork, etc..? We ask
This week on Behind the Curtain – Scott has a gym beef that gets a little out of control. We
Apparently, there are more reasons than we think for dads to miss the birth of their children.
This morning on the show, our traffic guy Tony Thornton made us aware that he hit a deer on his
Do you slap the bass? Joe’s band, Early American, is looking for a bass guitar player. If it sounds like
Ever feel like you can’t keep up with trends? So do we… Today we talk about a few that have
Today we talk dress code! Do you have a strict dress code where you work or is it more casual?
Today on the show we talk to Scott about an encounter he had at the gym recently. Ever had to
This week on Behind The Curtain.. We talk about big families. Did you have 5+ siblings growing up? How did
ok, we know we’ve been talking about it all week, but it was finally time!!! Go check social for pics!!!
Marianne and guest co-host Tommy Sinbazo welcomed comedian and impressionist Craig Gass into the studio. With his talents, Gass gave
Kirk is still sidelined, but Marianne, with the help of Rob Maher and Joe Robinson, created a new tune based
Today on the show, we talk about sex! Specifically, falling asleep during the act. Ever happened to you? We take
Rob and Joe kick off this show talking Orioles magic and the rest of Major League Baseball as the league
Today on the show we talk with Dr. Jeffrey Sternlicht about the recent surge of fentanyl contaminating the drug supply.
Today on the show, we welcome back Josh! Its short lived, though. He leaves us again, too soon, to attend
This week on Behind The Curtain we get your Summer School stories, talk to you about your Good Bosses, and
Today on the show, we ask you – Ever have a boss that has really looked out for you? Bonuses,
Its Wednesday and that means… Another Pitch-A Bitch! We take your calls and let you bitch!
Joe is back from vacation and rejoining Rob to help you get in on some bets this week. For this
After reading a study that correlates hours worked with amount of alcohol consumed, we ask you… How much do you
Today on the show, we ask you… Do you have a combover? We take some calls and Scott is open
This week on Behind the Curtain… We talk with Comedian/Actor T.J. Miller and have live bag pipes in studio! We
Today on the show, we finally have guests back in the studio and kick it off with one of our
Scott mentioned that his grandfather had a “secret” family. One family in the suburbs and one in the city. Today
Today on the show, we talk Ketchup. Do you love it/hate it? We take your calls and talk condiments!
Today on the show our sports guy, Paul Mittermeier, tries his best to impersonate some of our favorite celebrities…
Do you wear glasses? Are you proficient at economics and finances? Today on the show, we ask you… What is
This week on Behind the Curtain… We meet sports fill in- Brent Harris. We talk karate scams, NFT’s, and girl
Have you ever had to abandon your car on the side of the road? We take your calls this morning
Today on the show, we talk pheromones. Do you like your significant other to be squeaky clean to do the
With Joe on vacation, Rob enlists the help of 98 Rock’s Justin Schlegel for this week’s episode. Get ready to
This morning on the show we ask you… What do you have to talk yourself into doing? We take your
Today on the show, we talk Karate! The beloved Stella Reardon has begun her journey to the black belt, but
This week on Behind the Curtain we talk to Comedian/ Impractical Jokers host – Joe Gatto! We also talk about
We talk to you about the worst things you found in a bathroom! The stories we heard…..hold on to
Today on the show, we ask you… What hazard in your workplace is going to get you seriously injured?!
Today on the show, we discuss which attributes add or subtract from a person being attractive.
This week on Behind The Curtain, we talk… Dating older people, taking drugs with your parents, kayaking and… We talk
After Scott left his credit card at a bar in Ocean City, we ask you… Have you ever lost your
Join us as our old pal Keith Mills stops by at The Original Green Turtle as we celebrate Beach Bash
Welcome back to Beach Bash with JSS!!!! Sticking with tradition we decided to send our news guy to the ocean,
Rob and Joe are back to guide you through this week’s biggest bets. First, the duo analyzes the NBA Finals.
Today on the show, we ask you.. Have you ever done drugs with your parents?! We get an unexpected call
This week on Behind the Curtain we discuss carpooling, treehouses, and Josh Spiegel’s graduation. Speaking of Josh Spiegel… He is
Powerhouse Hobbs from All Elite Wrestling joins Justin to talk all about Team Taz and this weekend’s AEW World Tag
This week on Behind the Curtain we speak with former Baltimore Ravens Head Coach, Brian Billick! We also talk Preakness
Today we learn that somebody on the show may have been overlooked in the Baltimore’s Best Readers’ Choice Contest.
Rob and Joe are back to the podcast and are looking at some of the way early lines on the
Today on the show, we talk PDA! Are you a lady in the streets and a freak in the sheets?
This week on the show, we talk to Cedric the Entertainer, shout out 3rd shift workers and.. what do you
Today on the show we talk life stats! What stats about your life would you like to know!?
Today we make time for ideas that we didn’t get to throughout the week on another.. TOPIC BUCKET!
We pickup where we left off yesterday but this time we take YOUR calls. Can we make Josh feel anything
This week on the show we talk to you about the worst thing you’ve witnessed your parents do. We discuss
“Lock It Up” is back this week as Rob and Joe recap the 2022 NFL draft. The guys will also
Today on the show we talk illegal or unsavory actions that your parents may have passed on to you!
Justin sits down for an interview with comedian Andrew Dice Clay to talk comedy and his upcoming show at Magooby’s
After Josh reported how Olivia Wilde was served Custody papers in…..seemingly inappropriate matter….we asked you about your experience, and spoke
On today’s “Topic Bucket” we revisit some topics that we weren’t able to get to throughout the week.
This week on the show, we talked to The Fonz! Also known as the beloved Henry Wrinkler, we ask you
Rob and Joe are back to help you get your bet on. This week, the guys give you their thoughts on Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte battling for the WBC heavyweight title. Plus, the guys break down the NBA playoffs and the PGA’s Zurich Classic taking place this weekend in Louisiana.
Episode rundown: Tyson Fury vs. Dillian Whyte 2:30, Zurich Classic 19:45, NBA Playoffs 24:30
Learn more about the show at https://www.98online.com/lock-it-up-with-rob-and-joe/
This content is sponsored by the Caesars Sports Book at Horseshoe Casino. Opinions expressed are for entertainment only and do not reflect the opinions of WIYY 98 Rock. Must be 21 years or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Please play responsibly. For help, visit mdgamblinghelp.org or call 1-800-GAMBLER. ©2022, Caesars License Company, LLC.
This week on the show, we remember Gilbert Gottfried, we receive a special story from Josh, and take a listen to Evan and Stella’s new favorite songs! It’s Driving Justin and Scott and crazy !
Enjoy!
Rob and Joe hope to continue making profits on the NCAA tourney as they give you their thoughts on the Final Four. Plus, the guys run through some NFL trade news and talk about this weekend’s Valero Texas Open.
Episode rundown: 6:00 Villanova v Kansas, 14:30 UNC v Duke, 19:20 Tyreek Hill and 21:45 Valero Texas Open.
Learn more about the show at https://www.98online.com/lock-it-up-with-rob-and-joe/
This content is sponsored by the Caesars Sports Book at Horseshoe Casino. Opinions expressed are for entertainment only and do not reflect the opinions of WIYY 98 Rock. Must be 21 years or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Please play responsibly. For help, visit mdgamblinghelp.org or call 1-800-GAMBLER. ©2022, Caesars License Company, LLC.
This week on Behind the Curtain, we find out from you what it’s like to tear a muscle, we remember a 98 Rock Legend, and new things going on with josh, they involve cars and bling!
Enjoy!
After a successful start to NCAA tournament betting, Rob and Joe are back to offer some tips on the Sweet 16 and beyond. The guys also talk about how the Deshawn Watson trade may impact the NFL.
Episode rundown: 6:00 Deshawn Watson trade, 13:00 Sweet 16 West Region, 17:00 South, 22:30 Midwest, 24:30 East and 27:00 Golf’s WGC Match Play.
Learn more about the show at https://www.98online.com/lock-it-up-with-rob-and-joe/
This content is sponsored by the Caesars Sports Book at Horseshoe Casino. Opinions expressed are for entertainment only and do not reflect the opinions of WIYY 98 Rock. Must be 21 years or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Please play responsibly. For help, visit mdgamblinghelp.org or call 1-800-GAMBLER. ©2022, Caesars License Company, LLC.
What did your parents say that you never got over?! We talk to Mesha and take your calls!
This week on the podcast, we talk raising a jerk, tongue rings, dating Paul’s daughter and we open the meth lines! Enjoy!
We found out our beloved, Josh, LOVES macaroni salad, BUT NOT JUST ANY MACARONI salad….only from….Graul’s Market!
Listen to us enjoy different ones!
Coming off another profitable weekend, Rob and Joe turn their attention to the best time of the year for college basketball fans as they dissect this year’s Men’s NCAA bracket. The guys also give their predictions on this weekend’s Valspar Championship.
Episode rundown: 4:45 NCAA odds, 7:00 first round picks, 13:00 regional picks, 18:30 National Championship and 25:30 Valspar Championship.
Learn more about the show at https://www.98online.com/lock-it-up-with-rob-and-joe/
This content is sponsored by the Caesars Sports Book at Horseshoe Casino. Opinions expressed are for entertainment only and do not reflect the opinions of WIYY 98 Rock. Must be 21 years or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Please play responsibly. For help, visit mdgamblinghelp.org or call 1-800-GAMBLER. ©2022, Caesars License Company, LLC.
This week on the podcast, we talk gas prices, the activities we do with our kids, and we ask you to share your scar stories!
Enjoy!
We talk to you and get some of these wacky names you all give cars, what name won? Here’s a clue, Scooby Doo !
Enjoy!
The big college basketball conference tournaments kick into full gear this week and Rob and Joe are giving you their picks. Plus, the guys look at the PGA Tour Players Championship taking place this weekend.
Episode rundown: SEC, B10, B12 Conference Tournament picks 1:45, Players Championship first round bets 13:00, winners, top 5 and top 10 16:20, top 20 and margin of victory 23:00.
Learn more about the show at https://www.98online.com/lock-it-up-with-rob-and-joe/
This content is sponsored by the Caesars Sports Book at Horseshoe Casino. Opinions expressed are for entertainment only and do not reflect the opinions of WIYY 98 Rock. Must be 21 years or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Please play responsibly. For help, visit mdgamblinghelp.org or call 1-800-GAMBLER. ©2022, Caesars License Company, LLC.
Fresh from the Topic Bucket, we have a topic, you loved! You called! You texted, You sent pictures in abundance….we’re now disturbed, ENJOY!
Today we talked to you about what your doing with you kid, or what special thing you did with your parents? What is Scott doing with Stella, Justin is getting his butt beat by Evan in WHAT?
ENJOY!
This week on the show we talk to you about things you thought made you rich as a kid, Your irrational fears, and Jon Taffer from Bar rescue joins us on the program. Enjoy!
We know you love learning new things about Josh’s history! This surprised us too! ENJOY!
From ultimate fighting to golf, this week’s Lock It Up covers a wide range of sports. Rob and Joe will give you their thoughts on this Saturday’s UFC 272 featuring Covington vs. Masvidal and then will do a deep dive into this weekend’s Arnold Palmer Invitational set to take place in Orlando, Florida. The guys also discuss their own potential fighter nicknames.
Episode rundown: UFC 272 4:00, Arnold Palmer Invitational course info and odds breakdown 16:45, first-round group 19:45, winners, top 5 and top 10 23:00, top 20 and margin of victory 28:30.
Learn more about the show at https://www.98online.com/lock-it-up-with-rob-and-joe/
This content is sponsored by the Caesars Sports Book at Horseshoe Casino. Opinions expressed are for entertainment only and do not reflect the opinions of WIYY 98 Rock. Must be 21 years or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Please play responsibly. For help, visit mdgamblinghelp.org or call 1-800-GAMBLER. ©2022, Caesars License Company, LLC.
Today we sat down with Viral Influencer, Frankie Lapenna about his recent rise to stardom from going virus (…we mean viral) on Tik Tok using WHAT?
Check out some of his videos in the links below!
https://app.mediakits.com/frankielapenna
https://www.instagram.com/frankielap/
https://www.tiktok.com/@frankielapenna
When we’re kids sometimes our perceptions can be jaded, we have a quick conversation with you about the things we thought made someone “Appear” rich !
This week on the show, we discuss if we need to keep or loose alcohol in airports, we ask you about your financial situation with your partner, and who needs a new toilet and why???
After a previous conversation brought up our favorite school lunch meals and some of our worse….we ask you what were you eating at school? Any faves? Any horror stories? of course, as always, you delivered!
Enjoy!
It’s February 8th, and you know what day it is!!!!
It’s Jeff’s Birthday!!!!
Justin…we meant Justin, it’s Justin’s Birthday!
You called and shared your love, enjoy!
Today we went through an article and Article from Livestrong telling us we shouldn’t pick our noses, but we’re independent and can make our own decisions!
This week on Behind the Curtain, Scott finally gets to talk to his all time crush Snooki, Josh gives great commentary on the loss of the fire fighters that unfortunately passed, and we talk to you about which body parts your missing when you wash. Enjoy!
Rob and Joe say they are just as amazed as you are to see a Rams/Bengals Super Bowl and they have thoughts on the new name for the Washington Football Team. Listen in as the guys start a deep dive on big game prop bets, plus they start some college basketball talk and a look at men’s Olympic hockey.
Episode rundown: Superbowl Prop bets 9:15, College Basketball 15:20, Olympic Hockey 23:50.
Learn more about the show at https://www.98online.com/lock-it-up-with-rob-and-joe/
This content is sponsored by the Caesars Sports Book at Horseshoe Casino. Opinions expressed are for entertainment only and do not reflect the opinions of WIYY 98 Rock. Must be 21 years or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Please play responsibly. For help, visit mdgamblinghelp.org or call 1-800-GAMBLER. ©2021, Caesars License Company, LLC.
After we learned NYU is now teaching a class centered around Taylor Swift, we just knew you could tip the pointlessness ! Did you? Take a listen!
This week on Behind the curtain we look back at some great breaks! Can you buy your happiness? Would you drink beer if NOTHING happened to you? and we remember Louis Anderson!
Today we ask you to come and let us know how you honest feel about the Washington Football League’s new name since it’s new unveiling, we hate it! can you convince us otherwise?
You know it’s Wednesday, we give you the mic, WHAT could you possibly have to complain about? (Everything)
Enjoy!
Today we just take a few moments to appreciate black people and people of color giving affording us a piece of their day!
Marcus Brimmage from PFC3: Pound Down joins us to talk about his recent 2nd place win in the fight!
Rob and Joe are continuing their winning ways with a total record of 23-14 over the last six weeks. In this edition of the podcast, the guys review the amazing NFL games from last weekend and they give us their thoughts on this weekend’s conference championship games. Plus, Rob and Joe will reveal their favorite player prop bets.
Episode rundown: Bengals/Chiefs 11:15, 49ers/Rams 16:00, Bengals/Chiefs props 20:20, 49ers/Rams props 25:15.
Learn more about the show at https://www.98online.com/lock-it-up-with-rob-and-joe/
This content is sponsored by the Caesars Sports Book at Horseshoe Casino. Opinions expressed are for entertainment only and do not reflect the opinions of WIYY 98 Rock. Must be 21 years or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Please play responsibly. For help, visit mdgamblinghelp.org or call 1-800-GAMBLER. ©2021, Caesars License Company, LLC.
So yesterday we find out that Scott has, on a few occasions, door dashed ONE slice of cheesecake for himself….can you top that? Take a listen and find out!
Three letters that made every high school student stressed and annoyed – SAT. Our question: what did you score and what do you do now?
We remember and celebrate our neighborhood heroes on the program by sharing texts from listeners and opening up the phones to talk with our brave firefighters.
This week on Behind The Curtain, the mythical being known as Prison Mike enters the pages of JSS lore, X-Mensuperstar Famke Janssen phones in for a chat with the guys, and a listener discovers a match made in heaven between a slice of Spiegel’s sleep farts and an Usher classic!
If an endless supply of cash came your way, would that be able to buy the source of your happiness? The guys open up the lines and feeds to hear your take!
Rob and Joe hit a bit of a hot streak on super wild card weekend going 5-2 in games over the weekend. The guys hope to continue the winning as they break down the four games in the NFL divisional round of the playoffs. Rob and Joe also discuss the best parlay and why Jerry Jones is like M. Night Shyamalan.
Episode rundown: Bengals/Titans at 8:50, 49ers/Packers at 14:10, Rams/Bucs at 20:50 and Bills/Chiefs at 26:45.
Learn more about the show at https://www.98online.com/lock-it-up-with-rob-and-joe/
This content is sponsored by the Caesars Sports Book at Horseshoe Casino. Opinions expressed are for entertainment only and do not reflect the opinions of WIYY 98 Rock. Must be 21 years or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Please play responsibly. For help, visit mdgamblinghelp.org or call 1-800-GAMBLER. ©2021, Caesars License Company, LLC.