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Diabolical Behavior, Holiday Bums, Driverless Cars | Monday Morning Podcast 12-1-25
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Hey, what's going on? It's Bill Byrd. It's time for the Monday morning podcast for Monday, December 1, 2025. What's going on? How are ya? Oh, I got up there. How are you? How's it going? How. How is your day going? My day is going fantastic. Is there anything better than hitting a couple of bets, you know, Gives you a sense of control, makes you feel like you know something, you know? What I mean is you sit here and it's December 1st, and it's 81 degrees out in Los Angeles. These fucking. I will tell you this. Oh, I am on one. Ooh, Billy's on one. These fucking local weather people. I don't know what. I don't know what management is telling them, but they are not bringing up global warming at. They're acting like it isn't happening. They said as the rest of the country's getting snow, they don't want to graze out. It's just like. Even I know, basking in the sunshine out here in the Sunshine State. Even I know as a comedian that extreme weather is happening and that to be like, well, it's fucking snowing in Chicago. It's like it's supposed to be snowing in Chicago, and it's supposed to be cool here. It's 81 degrees out. It feels like the. Like mid September and it's December. I don't know how they do it. I mean, the level of drinking that these media, because they. They actually know what's going on. They've been studying the chats forever. They know what the fuck is going on. Like, Paul Verze knew the Carolina Panthers were gonna give the Rams a game. It's 24, 21, 6, 20 to go in the third. I got the game on the flat screen here. I like what the Panthers are doing here. They're trying to establish the run game here. They're chewing up the clock. Anyway, I. I just lost my whole train of thought, you know, this is. At some point I'm gonna realize with my add, I cannot, I repeat, I cannot have a TV on in the background. But it is what it is. I'll tell you. I'm starting to like my. I fucking play drums, flow helicopters, rode motorcycles and all that. Like, the shit that I hear now. I heard the beginning of this podcast. I thought the guy said, hey, it's Adam and Eve in the broadcast booth. And I'm going like, adam and Eve? What is this, the 700 Club? What am I watching here? Adam and Eve? Oh, what he got Some broad call in the game. And then they cut to them, it was Adam and Drew Brees, just like, oh, it's Adam and Drew Brees, not Adam and Eve. TV was turned down a little bit. Turned down for what? Can somebody tell me why they haven't put Little John in a commercial yet? A commercial? A commercial yet where the, it's for a five star hotel and they're showing all the amenities and then like the, not the waitress, the maid comes in like knocks on the door and he opens the door and he's, he's like, you know. Yeah. And she goes, turn down service. And he goes, turn down for what? Right? And then they cut to the music and they're like, Marriott 5 nights only 69.99. I mean, if I am representing Little John, I'm not waiting for that offer. I'm going out and I'm actively pitching it. Okay? You can't sit on your hands in this business. You can't sit on your hands in any business. Right now with, with the way these nerds, you know, remember how nerds, you know, they used to get picked up on in the sandbox and they take their toy and going home, they're doing that with entire businesses and instead of going home with the toy, they're taking all the money and they're sticking it in their front pocket and they're walking away and then they're just saying, oh, the business is shrinking. Yeah, right into your fucking pocket, you greedy cunt. It's kind of amazing. I always thought that like the end of this shit was good. I just thought that the people doing it were going to be a lot more sinister, you know, I guess classic, like Hollywood cinema sinister. You know, big black mustache, twirling it. That's what I thought it was going to be. I thought it's going to be type A psychos. But I will say that the computer really leveled the playing field when it comes to diabolical behavior. It used to be like nerds were nerds. They nerded off with each other. They put on mascot uniforms and they had their little off parties and you know, in the middle of a Dungeon and Dragon game, I mean that's, that's how they did it. And then somewhere along the line a laptop got invented, websites got invented and then online shopping and, and I don't know what happened. Everything's just. Everything went to like three people. Now I have to wonder because behind the politicians are these nerds that have swallowed up whole businesses. And behind those nerds, okay, are the oil companies and the pharmaceuticals. And behind those people is the Federal Reserve. And behind those people is, Is the blue bloods that evidently go around the ocean in a giant armada that doesn't show up on any radar. They just sail around the world running. So I'm wondering, at what point are they going to feel that these nerds are getting a little big, too big for their britches. Because all of a sudden, if you got a billion dollars, you do have enough money to convince a former high school linebacker not only to be your security, but maybe to take a run at that armada. If you get enough of them, you could promise them, hey, you want to be a billionaire, too? They are worth trillions of dollars. If you take out that fucking armada, I'll be a trillionaire and you guys will all be billionaires. What do you say to that? Yeah, I'll fucking do that shit. That's what I want to see. Enough with them coming at regular people. I want to see them go after each other. That's what I was really hoping for, you know, when that Luigi thing happened last year, man, or when it, yeah, like over a year ago, I, I was hoping that that was an organized hit and that CEOs were finally whacking other CEOs, and it just turned out that it wasn't the case anyway. And that's another Panthers first down. Look at that. Look at that. Just going right down the goddamn field. Anyway, buddy of mine from back east, hey, my family back east, sent me a text last night because, you know, I'm always fucking whining about the goddamn state of sports. And he said, you know, if you get a chance, watch Castellic destroys cider tonight. And he said, visions of McQuaid. Because one of my favorite fights, sort of in the end of the Enforcer era, before it became finesse, you know, which is just a different kind of hockey. You know, it's sort of the Ice Capades mixed with hockey, I guess. More Ice Capades, less NHL hockey that I grew up with. There's this fight, you got to look it up. Adam McQuaid versus Rafi Torres. And I remember Rafi Torres came down on the right side and he jumped up a little bit, and he elbowed Ference right across the face, our other defenseman. And McQuaid without question, went right over, dropped the gloves, and beat the out of the guy. And I just always remember seeing that. I don't think I've ever, in the modern era, well, before what it is now, I, I, it's just Textbook defending of your teammate. Like, oh, is that how you guys are gonna play? If this is how you're gonna play, this is what's gonna happen. And I'll tell you, the Phoenix Coyotes became little Chihuahuas after that as far as their cheap shit. And so he told me, you know, because I was, I was saying, you know, I. I went sat front row down in the front row for that Bruins Kings game. Thank you to the Bruins hooking me and Jackie Flynn up. I was just amazed at the size of the players that could turn. Like Brad Marchand, he had like guys 6, 6, 6, 5, 6, 7. And like, those guys used to just be. First of all, they weren't even that big. If you were that big, you played basketball and now they can actually play hockey. And then it became you just sort of this enforcer guy. And now these guys, they're like that big and they can turn like, like a, like a forward. It's insane. The level of skill. And I will tell you, when I was sort of in the back doing something finessing, I saw one of the players, like, this is the level of savagery of the modern athlete. This guy's a hockey player. It's before the game and he's sort of doing this side, gallop down the hall, juggling three tennis balls off of the wall, slowly galloping to the right and to the left. Like these guys are working out their fucking brains. It's like I thought going like, you know, 30 miles an hour backwards trying to stop Carter McDavid was. Was enough for your brain. But it's like, if we're going to stop this guy, we need to do this. I mean, it's. It's really insane, the human ability. I mean, back in the day, if you could do that, if you could gallop sideways and juggle three balls off of a wall. You were a fucking juggler. You were. You. You were going to work for a long time in the circus or at least doing college gigs around the country, you know, There was nobody in the NHL that could fucking do that. Now I guess they do this before the goddamn game. And it explains their hand eye coordination and the insane level of talent, I guess, you know, try to learn how to do that. My brain gets older. Maybe I'll something new be funny if I tried it and I fainted. It's too much. Taken motor skills and hand eye quarry candy. Anyway, old Billy back on the road, baby Going out tonight Tonight, tonight Remember that Phil Collins song? Oh, whole song gonna make it right Tonight tonight, tonight Whoa and he was so popular, he got away with that. You know, there was guys in the booth going, like, hey, Phil, are you gonna maybe write a better. A little more stuff to say tonight? Tonight? Tonight? Oh, I'm gonna go out to some stand up. I got a bunch of new shit that I'm gonna try out. Very excited, and I'll get myself ready. I'm going up to Bakersfield, One of my favorite places to go. Heading up there. Who the fuck do I got with me? I think Ambria Allen and Dean Del Rey. I think that that's who I got. Should be a good time man. A little up and back there. And you got a good coffee spot up there. By the time I get up there, it's going to be closed. I'll build with the goddamn coffee. When are you gonna stop with the goddamn coffee? All right, here's another. Here's another celebrity ad. If I was Tommy Lee's from Motley Crue's agent, I would get him. There's a clip of him from back in the day doing a drum solo. And, you know, he's talking to the crowd and he. He's in Tacoma. And he keeps going, tacoma, Tacoma. You know, all right, Tacoma. Right? And they edit it all together, trying to make it look all Spinal Tappy. But of course, they cut out the amazing drum solo and all the other shit he said. So it looks like all he said was Tacoma 50,000 fucking times. It has a bunch of views. If I'm his agent, why not get him playing a drum solo, going Tacoma a bunch of times, Going upside down and all that. And then in the end, he drives off in a Toyota Tacoma. Bam. There's another one. See, this is what you do. You try to get people that you like work, okay? And considering the nerds are swallowing up show business and everybody has to do commercials now, you know, I'm gonna look out for people that I like. You know, I went to a Carolina Panthers game. Everybody I did. It reminded me of the old NFL that. That old stadium that they were playing in and all of that. It would be really cool if they. They're. They're kind of a low key, like, good team this year. By the way, does anybody have any winning the super bowl this year? I saw a game Tom Brady did, was announcing, and he, He. I don't know if he was thinking what I was. What I'm trying to say here. He said, this is a weird year. And I think. I don't know, was he alluding to the fact that there's no clear front runner for the playoffs. Like, I think the Chiefs are done unless they win all the way out and, like, 50 things happen. They got a bunch of division losses. I don't know. It's. And the Ravens didn't step up. The Bills didn't step up, and my Patriots, out of nowhere are killing it. But, like, I don't know. I mean, I just don't. I'm just talking, like, AFC here. Oh, by the way, my Patriots are playing the Giants tonight, you know, in the New York sports media, who blows? New York Knick fans? And anytime the Giants play the Patriots, they go back. Now they're going back 18 years. You remember when they were on the feet at the time, you know, and that whole myth that. That Eli Manning beat Tom Brady rather than. It was the Giants front four that destroyed our offensive line and moved Tom off his spot and got a move in which he wasn't comfortable. Or the second one when it was Brady to Welker and it was a little behind him and Welker didn't catch it and gave him the ball back. That's what fucked us on that one. But now it's becoming. Eli just had their number. Oh, was he a coach? Was he out there tackling people? But that's what they're gonna do. That's what they're gonna do. And they're gonna ignore the fact that the Patriots went to five more Super Bowls after that first loss to the Giants. 1 3, lost two, won a total of six, and have more Super Bowls than the Giants, Bills, and Jets all put together. I don't know what to tell you. And Tom went on to win number seven with the. With the fucking Buccaneers. But if you want to act like, you know, Eli's a better quarterback than Tom Brady, you know, go ahead and have that. New York. You guys all know that you don't have to accomplish as much in New York. If you do something in New York, it's never, oh, my God, you do it in fucking Seattle. People Forget Ken Griffey Jr. Ichiro. I mean, those were two of the greatest baseball players I've ever seen in my life. If they did that shit in New York City, oh, my God, they'd have fucking statues in Times Square for. All right, maybe not that, though. Let's fucking relax. Anyway, plowing ahead here. They're playing tonight. We'll see what happens. I have no idea. I have no. I just can't believe that we're 10 and 2. It's like, how the fuck are we 10 and 2. We have the best record in the AFC. It doesn't make any sense on paper. You look at the whole fucking thing. It doesn't make, it doesn't make any sense that it wasn't the Bills, Ravens, Chiefs, other teams got injuries or even like who know, you know, old fucking Aaron Rodgers with the Steelers. So I'll be honest, I have no idea who's going to win basically from week to week. But I need a big week this to catch back up with the bookie. I swear to God, I was right at.500 after having a horrific start. And all it takes is one one in three week, I pick four games a week. And then you just go under somewhere in November, you just go under and you don't resurface. Jesus Christ, look at the size of these concussion proof helmets. You know what they need to do is they need to elongate the human tongue and have it wrap around the human brain like it does on a woodpecker. Because a woodpecker never gets concussions. There's no concussion protocol with the woodpecker. And evidently because it has a tongue. I can't believe that I was on the Internet. Like the tongue, the back of the tongue wraps around the brain and somehow cushions whatever's going on here. Stomach growling. Old Billy trying to drop weight. Oh, Billy diet face. Oh, Billy diet face. I gotta eat more though. I haven't been eating lately. Just been working. Having like a cup of coffee in the morning and then I just had eggs at noon. You gotta eat, dude. You gotta eat, bro. You want to lose the weight, you gotta eat. Hey, I don't have to do anything. Well, you know, if, you know, if you don't want to accept the help that's out there. I'll tell you, when I go to the gym, I always like low key spy on like younger people's workouts. Like when they pick up the kettle bells or they do like body weight exercises. It's just like from the future and I'm just like, like, what is that? That's what a push up looks like now, you know? Or that one where they, they do a squat and they got like one kettlebell. Kettlebell. They squat down and then they push the kettle bell up and then they stand back up. It's like, I guess this guy is. This guy. Is this, is that like an actual exercise or is this guy late for work? Because it seems like he's doing his shoulders. Yeah, they, they do it all at once. I don't know. I just look at that stuff. And I think about it for half a second. I was like, you know what? Dance with what brung you. You know, If I was 20, 25 years younger, I would try new exercises like that. I would try that exercise out with like my socks balled up in my hand instead of a kettlebell. Not trying to go out there and blow out an acl, doing a one legged squat, pushing a kettlebell up on the other side to work my core. But anyways, let's get to the holiday. How was your holiday? Did you guys have a good one with the Thanksgiving there? Did you avoid. I didn't give you your pep talk. Your pep talk. This is how you deal with family members. When you, when. Now that. Let's, let's look at the game film. Considering it's after Thanksgiving, one of the things I like to do when I feel like, you know something, this probably isn't going to go well or something's going to get brought up that happened in the past. Politics, ex girlfriends, ex boyfriends. Something's going to, something's going to happen. I do this thing where when I'm talking to somebody that I've had like difficulty with in the past, which I'm taking my, oh, you get out of bounds. I'm rooting for Paul Verse, he's bad here. I've had difficulty with people or whatever. I'm doing this new thing where they start talking and I just let them talk until they figure out that I haven't. I just sit there and I nod and I nod and I nod a little more and then, you know, I nod some more and then they finally stop talking and I just go, yeah, you know, I, I, I hear you. And then they'll just look. And they, they get it. It's not that I don't have anything to add, it's just, I don't want to do this. I don't want to get into this with you, man. Let's just chill out and have a nice, nice dinner. I didn't have any desserts. Oh, Billy's dialed in. I didn't do the Thanksgiving for breakfast every day like I used to. I used to do that. I'd have Thanksgiving and then I would have Thanksgiving for breakfast Friday, Saturday and Sunday. And then on Monday I would go in and I would get my cholesterol checked. And the guy be like, jesus Christ, we need to put you on Lipitor. And I would be like, just relax, I'll come back in a month. It's like, what the fuck are you checking it for the Monday after Thanksgiving. This has got to be a big money day for you, buddy. What do you get 800 bucks per patient trying to get us on this shit? Do you know that they do that? Those fucking goddamn piece of shit pharmaceutical companies? 5, 6, 7, 800 bucks from what I've heard, to get you on the drugs to bring your shit down and fuck up your kidneys or your liver. That's the game, man. Fix this while up that you know, like you ever have work done in your house. And as they're fixing that, they're up the door jamb bringing in and out. It's just never fixed up. It never ends. I don't know. Let's see here. I feel like the Rams are going to win this game, but I don't think they're going to cover. It's 11:15 to go in the game. It's 24, 21. The Rams are driving. They got Matthew Stafford under center, and I just think he's got too much goddamn experience. I think maybe they got a better coach. Who knows he's got a Super bowl ring, right? Spend a two. Spend a two. We won one last time. The Pats won a Super Bowl. We beat the Rams first time. We beat the first time. I don't care what city the fucking Rams are in. Oh, my fucking God. What a catch. Holy shit. Sorry. What the fuck? He's definitely juggling some balls off a wall. That sounds dirty. What the fuck was that? This is one of the sickest one handed catches I've seen in a minute. Stumbles. He catched. He caught it with his inside arm. God damn, that was a great catch, Dude. These today's athletes, okay? I don't like the rules of the game or whatever, but I will never take it away from these are the most talented people that have ever played the game. Touchdown Rams. And same thing with like fighters, like the UFC fighters are the most insane. Just like, how do you want to do this? You want to be on the ground? You want to stand up, you want to kick? What the do you want to do? I can do it all. Like, I feel like UFC fighters are kind of the legitimate like action like all those action heroes that I watched when I was a kid and they were going to a bar and beat up like 80 fucking people. You know, it's funny is all they were doing was throwing punches and grabbing them and sliding them across the bar. It was always a bunch of drinks. They always go up and over the bar and into some glass or they'd Slam them, choke, slam them down onto a table, and everybody waited their turn. Okay? It was a respectful time. You didn't bring up politics or religion. And if 10 of you were going to fight one guy, you all waited your fucking turn. We learned anything from Bruce Lee movies. You wait your fucking turn and then you go in. And then he fucking. You know, it was respect for his. His martial arts, his. The artistic way he did his martial arts, his artistry. That's what I'm trying to say. And, you know, all 100 of them, after they got their ass kicked by Bruce Lee, they all got up and they exchanged notes like, how did he fuck you up? Oh, he did this, he did me, he did that. He fucking. He can do that, too. Like, Bruce Lee could have a hundred guys come out here, a hundred different fucking ways of fucking you up, but it was a movie. These UFC guys actually can. Can do that. Could walk into a bar and fight five regular guys. Oh, my God, how quickly would you know, you know you were in trouble? You know, the bar was dark, and all of a sudden he gets in his grill, and that's when you first clock the cauliflower ears, and you're like, oh, no, let me rephrase that. What I was trying to say. Anyway, amazing, amazing, amazing. So, yeah, hockey, the football, all of this. Look at these guys in the steam room. It's an odd thing here. I actually saw a fucking great, really funny commercial today. Have you guys seen that Teddy Bridgewater commercial where the girl's talking to the other girl and then she's, you know, venting about her relationship that isn't working. And then the other girl's not listening. She goes, ah, that's it. And then she calls in Teddy Bridgewater. And he comes in, he said, teddy Bridgewater, backup listener. Then he sits down, and just the choice he makes, the way he, you know, is sitting there listening, was hilarious. He delivered the lines hilarious. And I was like, God damn, that is a funny fucking commercial. And for some reason, I figured I'd share it to you. Forgetting what he said. Hey, you know what? You're not a mechanic. It's not your job to fix it. That's what he said. Something like that. Anyway, did you guys watch Alabama? Auburn, The Red River? Not the Red River. The. The fucking Iron Bull. That was a great game. Alabama pulling it out in the end. But how about Auburn, man? Just giving them a game. That was a wildly entertainment, entertaining game. It's my favorite one out of all of them. How State finally handled the Michigan Wolverines My Michigan Wolverines. I love those guys. But. And now, as always, every couple of years, Lane Kiffin is looking for a new gig. You know what I mean? I was joking with the buddy of mine where he's like. He's like one of those actors that always had, like, a new sitcom that was coming out. Like, Lane Kiffin is forever going to a new college program. Like, he was at Tennessee, he was at usc. He was at Alabama, Mississippi. And now my buddy's an LSU fan. He's thinking, what do you think if he comes in Coaches at LSU as. I don't know. Did he come up to the NFL, too? Like, Lane Kiffin is a made guy, but, you know, I will say, everywhere he goes, he does make the program better. They do become winners. So he knows what the hell he's doing, but he doesn't stick around. He's got that. He's in the Allman Brothers, you know, he just got to keep moving. Lord, I was born a rambling man. I think at the end of it, he might coach every team in the sec. He's already been at three. I know he wasn't the head coach at Alabama, but he's been at all he's been at. He's probably been to Moore. I have no fucking idea. Anyway, I don't have the reads yet. I was trying to knock out a half hour of this because I got to. I got some business. Hey, I got fucking business tomorrow. Just trying to get ahead of it here. Gonna watch the rest of this game, though, wait for my reads and all that to come in. And as always, with the magic of editing, you're not gonna have to wait. All right, I'm back. Jesus Christ. Just went down the improv, shaking the rust off. My God, I was. That was terrible. Terrible, I tell you. All right. Quo Q U O let's talk about something, everybody let's talk about every business owner Wait. 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God forbid you get a good draft pick. Holiday bums. That was the ugliest game winning field goal I've ever seen in my life. All right, holiday bums. Hey, Billy boy. I'm here to a little. Well, you've come to the right place and given me a break from my bitching. People who don't go to town at the holidays are wasting their lives. People who don't. Who don't go to town at their holidays are wasting their lives. I don't mean people who can't afford it. I'm talking about people who are too lazy for tradition. Oh, you mean go all out? I'm taking everything literally. I'm like, well, what town, what town are we talking about? Christmas town? Thanksgiving town? P town for Halloween? Oftentimes, these people will act so enamored by other cultures and traditions, but when it comes to their own lives, they'd rather watch Netflix marathons and stare at their phones. All right, well, which holiday are we talking? We talking Thanksgiving? Because if you tap out on Thanksgiving on Halloween, I got a problem with you. But you. You know, if you don't do for Christmas because you see it for what it is. If you got kids, you got to do something. But if you're an adult, like. Like, what are we doing? Let's just take the day off and save. Save our money. All right, you know what my gift is? My gift to you is you not to give me. I won't get you. How about that? Oftentimes These people act. As you can see, I'm covering a lot of ground here. All right, well Jesus, you're not shy about giving yourself a compliment there. You are covering a lot of ground there. I guess I was supposed to say that. Why yes you are. You are covering a lot of ground. Me and all the listeners. Well, we're going to try to keep up with you, buddy. He said, I think my generation, I'm 38, has given up a lot on tradition because they simultaneously hate themselves and think they're better than everyone. Well, a lot of times when you hate yourself then the ego has to come up to balance you out. You know what I mean? It's like the old doing, you know, you did too much coke, you drank a little bit of alcohol to try to bring it down. That's my generation and that's. And what's with people showing up to others houses in sweatpants? I agree. I didn't grow up in a buttoned up, no pun intended household. We were middle of the ground when it came to a lot of things. But at least up until at the age of 16, my mom made us dress nice. When we were going to our grandparents house, one set of cousins would show up looking like slobs. You don't need a suit and tie, but at least wear something you wouldn't wear on a sick day. Thanks for hearing me out. Go fuck yourself. You know what, I agree with a lot of that. I'm alright if someone doesn't want to fucking be involved in the holidays. I actually think that's kind of cool. Like Christmas if you like. I'm not fucking doing that shit. I actually think that's great because then you're not behind, you don't have to worry, you're not stressing, you're not going to websites with now when you give them the email they, then you got to confirm that it's you. By the way, you don't, you don't have to confirm. Like I didn't confirm then I was still able to buy something like I was trying to buy these light bulbs today, the overhead lighting, the track lighting. So I'm trying to get the warm, whatever the it is, the warm light, not the soul sucking fluorescent light, you know, like I'm, you know, I don't know, an office building in 1968. I don't want to be underneath that. And I was perusing, they have, you know, bright light, something I want soft, I think it was soft white, that's what I wanted. They had all these different ones and they didn't have the ones that I wanted. So I just keep looking and looking. And then one of the light bulbs you had actually had to download an app for the light bulb, meaning that the light bulb was somehow tracking you and taking information. I told you. I got a new refrigerator in my kitchen, and I opened it up, and by the third day, I looked in, I go, is that a fucking camera? There's a camera. So then they sell these things online to cover up the camera. So I'm like, I'm not using those things. Like, why would you make the camera and then sell the thing to cover it up? I feel like you guys are both in business. You're getting money off me twice. And it's more like sunglasses on the camera. So it looks like to me, you blocked the camera. You really didn't. So I got. I got, like, electrical tape and just put it on. Fucking cunts. You fucking cunts. Definitely with the. The dressing down, like, dressing like bums. If I was a young man right now, I actually think dressing shop would get you a lot of ladies, because everybody else is. I don't know. Maybe he's talking about older people. There is something about if. When you get older, too, if you still dress nice, people respect you more. They notice you, makes you feel good about yourself. If you don't dress nice, like, you send it out to the world that you quit, and everybody's just like, okay, duly noted. Noted. Don't need to deal with that guy. That's the fashion equivalent in my business of being part of somebody's entourage. If you want to make it in this business, the last thing you do is become part of somebody's entourage, because then you are no longer seen as somebody trying to make it. You are seen as sort of an extension of the person they actually want to hire for the movie or give the gig to. And you're just sort of the wacky sidekick. You turn yourself into Robin. And then you gotta. You know, you gotta hang around and wait till whoever's running the entourage is ready to go. And everybody's gonna, like, you know, such a weird dynamic, the entourage. And then is the performer. To have an entourage, that's also a dangerous thing, because then your good mood becomes, like, currency. So no matter what's going on, everybody's gonna act like everything's fucking great to keep you in a good mood. So everybody gets paid. So then you don't start. You stop, like, not understanding if you're doing quality work. These are just my opinions, people. All right? Take it or leave it. Okay, you know, you know what? I covered a lot of ground on that. Like that last listener. He did cover a lot of ground. He went from fucking sweatpants to, you know. Put up a Santa hat. Put a Santa hat on, you bastard. All right. Ordering the dinner. Dear Bill Giblet face. Oh, Jesus, insulting me this year. My sister in law insisted we go to her house for Thanksgiving. Okay, this would be fine, except I'd rather go to my parents house because that's where I. I'm going to feel the most comfortable. Know the food is going to be great and I have to. And I get to have a holiday in my childhood home. The hall, the holy trifecta. All right, I like how you're thinking here. So after convincing my family to have it at her house, we expected her to go all out. Oh, no. But my mother and my wife wanted to bring something like dessert or a side. She refused and said she had it all covered. My spidey sense didn't like any of this. Oh my God. I've been to a Thanksgiving like this and I remember I snuck out. I forget what my excuse was. Oh, I remember I snuck out and said I was gonna go down to the Laugh Factory and feed food to the homeless, which I did for like seven minutes. And then I went next door to Greenblatts and I got a fucking Thanksgiving dinner. All right? But my mother and my wife, okay, My spidey sense didn't like any of this. Well, I was right to have my concerns. We show up and there's a huge spread. But she ordered it from a local place that basically is a whole food type store. I wouldn't be so pissed except that she was hyping up all the work she was doing. The food wasn't that bad, but it wasn't home cooked. It wasn't my mom's work. I didn't go in with the good attitude. But the fact that she was talking up the meal and all she did, all she did was have to pay for it and pick it up. Kind of rubbed me the wrong way. Yeah, like, I mean, anybody could have done that, but she should have said it. You're turning down home cooked meals or like sides and a dessert. He at least could have had that. He goes, I know I sound like a whiny cunt who's not thankful at a time when I should be. No, no, no, you're 100% right. You had another place to go to that was going to be home cooked food and you showed up and she went to Ralph's. Anyway, the person says, I'm thankful that everyone is happy and healthy and that I have access to food, but give me a fucking break. Don't be proud of ordering food. Either you're cooking or you're a live in waitress acting as the face of the food you didn't make. I went to a restaurant today and I had to figure out their fucking iPad and I ordered everything and then in the end they asked me for a tip. So then if you give a tip, the people behind the counter it goes to management and then they give a percentage of that. It's such fucking bullshit. But you know, people use Apple Pay stupid. The same people use Apple Pay are going to use those driverless cars. They're so dumb. They're such stupid people. They just don't think phasing out cash. Jesus Christ. What the are you doing now they're gonna in the future they're gonna know every transaction you ever did and then they're gonna you even harder on taxes. And when you bitch about it online, you're going to get into your own driverless car and the doors are going to lock and it's going to take you to go get fucking re educated. It's a police car. It's your own private police car and you're going to be microchipped and you're going to be in the fucking car and they'll just press a button and it will drive you to them to begin the torture. I'm sorry. Re education process. All right, Getting a little crazy here. We're talking Thanksgiving, Bill. Relax, all right? Let's, let's, let's not fucking not throw the baby out with the bath water. Hockey films, Bill. Hope all is well. Listening to your November 24th Monday morning podcast and thought I would send a message from the state of hockey. Minnesota. Absolutely. This week's podcast you brought up two things that caught my attention. Obscure films and old hockey. Have you seen the 2005 Canadian film the Rocket about Maurice Richard? I haven't. Fantastic film. It shows hockey and life before your or my time. I am older at 64. Very eye opening life both on and off the ice. If you have not seen it, please do. A lot of it is in French so you can polish up on your French speaking skills. I listen to so much French when I listen to Canadians speak French it doesn't sound like French to me. Another off the beaten path watch you might enjoy is the Canadian TV series the Tournament 2005. I got a couple for you, the boys on the bus, which sounds like a gay porno, but I swear to God it isn't, is about the Edmonton Oilers, I think, before they won their first cup. Paul Coffey, Gretzky, Messier, Yari Curry, Grant Fuhrer, Glenn Anderson, all those motherfuckers. Mike Krushelniski. Didn't he go over there from the Bruins? Who else went over there? Oh God, what the fuck. Craig McTavish. Anyway. And of course, Slap Shot. Everybody's seen that one though, right? Another off the youngblood, another off the beaten path. About the tournament. It's a mockumentary style show about youth hockey and how nutty the adults are. The funniest thing I can remember about this series is how a parent talked about Uncle Phil, meaning Phil Esposito. Always stopping over at his single mother's home and ending up making pancakes for him the next morning. Phil does appear in the episode. Having raised two boys in this state, youth hockey was unavoidable. So I lived that nonsense. Happy holiday to you and your family. That's a fucking great idea. I gotta watch that. The tournament, 2005 and the Rocket. I would love to read the or see that. That film. As they say. As they say. As you say. As they say. Anyway, how much fucking time have I done here? 20 minutes plus 29. Oh God, we're up to 50 minutes. Just like that, dude. Just like fucking that. All right, so now we are into December. Have a December to remember. Go online and buy a bunch of. You don't need. Celebrate the bastard in your life. I got my all done. My wife bought some things. My lovely wife bought some stuff. So I have to wrap these. And once I wrap these, I am done. I'm ready to go. I'm gonna go get the goddamn tree. You know, I used to get one on Black Friday the day after Thanksgiving. I would just immediately go right into it. But then the thing like dies, you know, it doesn't like turn brown, but like all the branches are like hanging down. Like it's a. It jumped off a bridge and it's about ready to hit the water. You know, it wants to fucking knife in. Like it threw it through a rock. Down. I still don't get that. Like you throw the rock down so the water is moving. If the water is moving, it's not. It doesn't feel as hard. It doesn't feel as bad as concrete. I finally understand why at a certain speed water hurts. I guess it just. It can't get out of the way fast enough. I've jumped off a few things that are a little higher and my feet hit the water. I remember, like, ow, that fucking hurt. Oh, Jesus. The worst is when you jump off a bridge to kill yourself and you don't die. That's got to be the worst. Then you're, like, suicidal and, like, stinging. Oh, God. And you wanted to kill yourself before your body was all fucking red and stinging. Jesus Christ. Now, how fucking suicidal are you anyway? How the fuck did I end up start talking about suicide? You should reach out for help, though. I learned that one. You know, not when I was suicidal, just when I was going through some shit. I used to. There's so much shit you hear, and you just don't think it applies to you. You know, like. You know, if you're going through something, you should reach out, talk to people. I always hear that. I was always. I used to. You know, when I was younger, I was like, that's fucking gay. Right? Yeah. This year, you know, I kind of went through some shit, and I reached out to some people, and I was like, yeah, it does. That actually makes you feel a lot better, as opposed to just sitting there doing the. The John Wayne thing. Well, I'm just gonna sit here and deal with it myself. You know, that's not the way to go, because you don't have any answers. And then you come up with the solution, and then. Then that's. That's how that goes. Man, it is a slippery goddamn slope. All right, so Monday Night Football, The Patriots verse, the Giants. I got a good feeling. I know the Giants got a bunch of injuries. I don't know. We will see. We will see. It will be funny to watch Giants still living their glory days. I do. Whenever they give me, I. I go. You. You realize that was, like, 17 years ago? Hey, you remember two decades ago? Yeah, yeah, I do. It's fading, but, yeah, I do. You know, do you remember the decade after when we won three more Super Bowls? Do you? Some reason you don't remember that part. That's weird. You also remember we also lost to the Eagles. You weren't the only ones. So. I mean, I don't. Fucking New York is weird like that. They always get, like, they. They get something on. They just want to keep doing it for ever long past when it matters. I like that they finally said Boston. They finally, like, moved on from that 1918 cadence when they were trying to go Boston sucks. That right there should let you know. All right. You know, what New York and Boston have in common is most this Most of the smart people there are from somewhere else. Like, Boston has this weird thing where it's like, the meathead capital of the world. You know, You've been listening to me for an hour, so obviously, you know that's true. And then we also have, like, MIT and Harvard, BU and all these smart schools. Dude, nobody I knew went to those fucking schools. I knew a bunch of people that went to Quincy Jr. Or Bunker Hill Community College, UMass Amherst. Dude, go out there, Come out of there with, like, back in the day, like, you come out, like, 30 grand in debt and fucking cirrhosis of the liver. And you know at least one person that knew somebody. That was the person that fell off the elevators. They used to ride elevators. Like, they jump back and forth. And people. Kids would, like, they would have fatalities at their parties out there. It's fucking insane. Insane school. I. I don't think I ever went there. I went to UMass Boston, but I. I never went to. I didn't tell you guys that I went to UMass. I went to UMass Boston for a few semesters. I did tell you this story. It was this told. Everybody commuted, so everybody just came to class and they got the. Out of there. And one time the Kinks were playing, and we were all thinking, like, that's not like the Kinks. The real Kinks. That's like. Is it spelled with, like, a lowercase K or some? What is this? And I took a chance, and it was the actual Kinks, and they didn't promote the gig. And there was, like, 80 people there, and I. And the Kinks destroyed. And that was the best. That was my best memory of going to UMass Boston. Used to take the Red Line in from Quincy Adams then, you know, and I was psyched. Taking the train in. I felt like I was. You know, because I was a suburb kid, I felt I'm taking the subway, so I feel like I'm taking the Red Lion. Like, I'm some badass, right? Then after about a month, I'm like, the fucking subway sucks. So then I would go to Quincy center, and then I would go to Walston Beach. I would go all the way to that last one, North Quinn, not North Quince. What are the. What was that last stop called? And I would just take it, like, one stop over that goddamn bridge, and I would. I would be right there. I would park my truck. But then I'd be more towards the inner city. Then you get your radio stolen. Those were the days. And you knew when you were there all right. That's the podcast, everybody. I was serious about that. You know, if you're going through some, call up a buddy. You'll feel better. You'll feel better. Don't just sit there by yourself sulking. You'll get through it. Then you got a story, and then you're stronger because you got through it. All right, that's it, everybody. Go yourselves and I'll check in on you on Thursday.