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And as far as sports go, I was really hoping for a Game 7 against the Buffalo Sabers, but the great Lindy Ruff, I feel like they, he figured us out after game two and, you know, and then game five, you. You knew the Sabers weren't going to win at home so their fans could actually have a good time. By the way, overrated. Rooting for Buffalo fans as if they're these good people. You know, there's a thing that happens when your team keeps fucking losing and they never win. There's like this, this, this empathy that other sports fans get or ESPN get, and they start building this fable that, you know what, it's just a bunch of knock around fucking blue collar people, Joe. All they want in life is a fucking wow, fuck you. That's not. They want what everybody else wants. They want everything they do. They just haven't gotten it for whatever fucking reason. I don't know why, but. But let's not overly romanticize these people. Like they're good. These are the same people. I went to a Bills jets game and had a Patriots hat on. I was rooting for the Bills and. All right, you want to give me some shit, fine. I go into the fucking men's bathroom, I'm taking my dick out to take a piss, and some guy pushed me in the back. I mean, f Ck those guys. Okay, I'm not saying I'm not rooting for the Sabers. I'm just saying this whole idea that, oh, gee, they're just out there, you know, crying in their fucking Buffalo wild wings, you know. No, no, they're cunts just like anybody else. The same ratio of cunt to cool people exists in Buffalo as it does, you know, whoever's fucking winning everything right now. Who is winning everything? Is anybody? Has anybody got the whole. I'll tell you what's happening to the fucking Boston sports. I will say this. If we're going to lose, I like the way it's happening. We're getting the old right there, Freddie. I mean, the super bowl was two behind the ear once we came out in the second half. And it was more the same. I, I, I like, you know, those losses don't hurt. What hurt is when it's like, you know, three, two, one, you know, fucking Eli Manning throwing backwards through a fucking walk in closet. Those are the ones you just like. What the, that fucking dropped in there. Another shit pass that somebody had to catch with the fucking side of their helmet. And, and Eli gets all the credit. It's not Tyree. He didn't just put the team on his belt. Oh, I guess it was Eli. I always picture that guy watching that replay now that he's retired. Tyree watching that, like, look, they don't say anything about me. It's all about Eli driving the. He threw it right to Asante Samuel. And then Sante drops it and then I caught it on my helmet. What the. Nobody's ever done that, not even in a regular season game. I did it in a Super bowl to keep a drive alive to, to defeat an undefeated team and I get nothing. I get nothing. That's when he calls the front for the Giants going, do you believe this? It's all Eli. He's the Neil Armstrong of this. All right. Okay. Anyway, so the Sabers beat my Bruins. The Celtics evidently lost the game seven, six or seven to the Sixers. I don't watch the NBA. I watch the NBA. When the Bruins get knocked out of the playoffs or don't make the playoffs, that's when I start watching the NBA. So we got knocked out and by the time I figured out the schedule, the Celtics got knocked out. So, so, yeah, so it's been like, you know, as much as we're taking losses right and left, they're quick. They're ripping the band aid off. First round of the playoffs, you know, never got going in the super bowl, so I can handle that. So now I can just look to the Red Sox ownership has fired the entire management. Not management, the coaching staff. And, you know, and here we Go. I was at my gym this morning. You know, you always got to do a big push right before your birthday. I got Jack Lambert, I got 58 coming up this year and I gotta make sure, you know, I'm, I keep the spare tire, you know, being the right size for this car, if you know what I mean. I don't need a 18 wheeler spare. So anyway, I go down to the gym, I'm doing legs and eggs, foxy lady, shout out. And dude, there's this like, I, I go like, I've always gone to like, you know, I go to low key, you know what I mean? I'm not into the whole, you know, whatever those, those, those, those big gyms are, you know, where you go into workout and you come out with a mistress. Oh, I got a snort. I just made myself snort. Isn't that nice? Anyway, those gyms, you know, where the women show up and it's like, I don't think you need to go to the gym. I think you did it. You're totally in shape and you have on full makeup. Like, what are you doing here? Just over here working out next to the fellas. I stay away from those. I go to the ones where you like, is that person a member of this gym or did they wander in off the street? Those are the kinds of places I've always been members at those gyms because you can get out of the membership. That's basically it. I had a bad, a bad experience with the Bally's Total Fitness. And what they mean by total is like they're going to fucking take money out of your credit card for the grand total of the rest of your life. It's like, it's like I went in there for a gym membership. I came out with a mortgage. So I, I don't go to those places. That's, that's not my jam. So I always go to the weirdo ones sporadically, you know. And I go over there today, everybody's cool. And there's this one guy just working out in street clothes. He reeks. And after every set he's getting up, adjusting his junk to the point it's like, is he sort of low key, keeping himself semi hard? Like, what is going on? You know, he, he looks like he's, he's waiting to like, you know, like, you know, your tag team, you're waiting to tag in. Like he's these, he's in like a porno and he's trying to have himself ready. The guy fucking wreaked and of Course he's using the machine, like right across from me. And what do you do? What do you do? What am I going to do? I'm going to fucking say something to the guy. And then next thing you know, me pushing 60, I'm now rolling around on the floor with a smelly street clothes, semi hard street person. I'm not doing that. I'm just going to continue listening to my music, shaking my head and muttering to myself, oh, can I? Here's like a, just an announcement for everybody. Having people having full on conversations on speaker, in gyms and in elevators is not cool. It's not cool. Although it is sort of a nice like, like fast forwarding through like a whole relationship, you know, where when you're younger you ignore signs like that, where when you get older you're like, oh, this person's a douche and not worth my time. And I'm going, I am going to move on from this. I'm a little wound up, I'm not gonna lie to you. Like once a year somebody will send me, one of my friends will send me like the clip of Ginger Baker. It's one of my favorite fucking lines ever when he's trashing John Bonham in Keith Moon. And I don't know, it used to be funny to me. Now it's like sad when I look at it. Like when you get to be my age, you see a lot of people work on themselves and they turn themselves around and then there's those other people where you just like, they are, they're just never gonna get it. And this guy was still jealous and envious of two drummers that had been dead at that point for like 30 fucking years. And he was still talking about him. This guy couldn't do this, this guy couldn't do that. And he actually kind of made a joke, he said, you know, making a joke about how they were dead, you know, if he, if they were still around, you could ask them, like they would, like, they would agree with him. Like, yeah, Ginger, you're right, you're right. We suck. We suck. And you're amazing. I'm glad you said it because now, now I don't have to say it. Yeah, I don't know that guy. I, I, I, I don't. It's weird. I like that guy. I like the bands that he's played in. But every time I see that clip, it, it like makes me want to like, on him. Like, dude, you are not in the conversation as the greatest rock drummer of all time. And you're not in the conversation even remotely as the greatest jazz drummer of all time. Like, and I think that really bothers you. So you constantly say it about yourself. And it works because he ends up being in the conversation. I've seen that in other areas of entertainment. People who aren't that good and they're just always talking about themselves. And the next thing you know, you know that that kind of works in the media. If you just keep saying something about yourself, if you keep saying it, the media will just start saying it. So they keep bringing him up. Like, I, you know, I would rather listen to fucking. I don't want to. I don't want bring up other drummers that I would rather listen to because then they'll get hate because of what the I'm saying or whatever. I'm just. There's so many other drummers that I just felt like had a better groove, came up with better drum parts. And then that guy, I'm not saying he's not a great drummer. He absolutely was. Look at the musicians he played with. Obviously he is a great drummer, but like, he's just not in the conversation even remotely, in my opinion, as the greatest rock drummer of all time. I mean, I don't know what like. But then what he covers, his basis is that the fact that I don't realize that he's way better than Bonham and Keith Moon is because I'm stupid. Because I'm part of the general masses and evidently I am stupid. So when I listen to Keith and John play and I get chills and Ginger bores me to tears, that's not because they're better, more creative, more dynamic, electrifying drummers than Ginger. It's because I'm stupid. I mean, the guy was like almost 80 years old saying that I'm the greatest of all time. And if you don't think so, that's because you're stupid. Like, can you fucking imagine that? It's like an 80 year old Ron Burgundy. I'm kind of a big deal. How are you? Well, shouldn't I have known that just by listening to you? I mean, for my money, okay, the band Cream, yet a virtuoso guitar player and Eric Clapton, just an incredible guitar player. And then. But I just thought like, Jack Bruce was the guy, their bass player, his singing, his phrasing, his, his, his just his musical ability. And he, by the way, later on, there's an incredible video of Jack Bruce playing with Tony Williams. And they complement one another so well. And there's no you know, I never heard Tony say anything bad about Jack, unlike Ginger, when he decided to have a drum battle with Elvin Jones. And Elvin was like, all right, I'll do it. You know, everybody's listening to rock music, so I'll. I'll fucking. You know. You want to use me for credibility? I'll use you for eyeballs. And they had a fucking drum battle. And Elvin, in the end, was just like, that guy is like, not it. He is delusional. And they need to send him. NASA should send him to outer space and lose them is what he said. So I don't know. Elvin must have been stupid, too. I don't know. Yeah, he's kind of the Ron Burgundy of drummers. I. I don't think he's that bad. I. I don't think he's that bad. But, I mean, I. I don't. I, I. You know, once a year, I'll put on a Cream album. And I try to, like. And it's Jack Bruce and it's. It's Eric, and then he's just back there down the. In the white room with black, Just like this. Okay, I'm not saying that doesn't work for that song, Right? He's stupid. Because I'm. When I wasn't just going, I was also going one and four, I was doing a poly rhythm with my. My left leg on a hi hat. Oh, is that what you were doing? Well, I must be stupid, right? Me right side was going, 1, 2, 3, 4. In my left side was going, 1, 2, three. 1, 2, 3, 1. Oh, is that what you were doing? Oh, okay. All right. Well, maybe. Maybe you should pick one of those numbers and do that, because I'm too dumb to know what's going on anyways. Out of all the. That I could stir up, I'm gonna stir up something about drummers from 50 years ago. 50, 60. Coming up on 60 years ago. Anywho. Anywho. So that. That was my. That was my week. Old Billy is. He's back in the gym. He's. He, He. He's. He's doing his thing. And I thought I was past this tennis elbow thing, man. I have this great stretch for it. That is. It's been good in my regular life, but when I. When I go to do stand up, just holding the microphone just like that, it just sets it off again. I gotta hold it in the other hand until this. I don't know, till it heals. It's. It's. It's. It's Annoying. It's annoying. I just have to just constantly keep stretching it. And then I gotta. I gotta get, like, some sort of strengthening thing, a massage thing going. I. I don't know what I have to do, but it's driving me nuts. I will say this. I will say this. And you know what? You can't stop me. What? I said it. I'll say it again. I'm a Caucasian with opinions, and I'll stay them. I went down to the comedy club last night, and I went up there and just around and was just saying the silliest, stupidest. Somehow I compared the Holocaust to, like, Aerosmith. I don't even know what the I was talking about. I think it was just about just focusing on that rather than their entire body of work was like, just listening to Walk this Way and not, like, actually buying toys in the Attic. It was one of those sets where somehow that made sense without disparaging Aerosmith and still acknowledging what the Nazis did. I was fucking and, you know, and then I came home and I tried to tell Nia and I fucked it up. And I was just like, all right, that's it. That was it. I'm not gonna try to duplicate that. That was. That just happened, and I. I walk away from it. And that's what I. That's what I learned from musicians who play a song differently every night. I just love that. That cavalier attitude they don't like. Like, a truly great musician does not hang on to every fucking thing they ever did. And just, like, that's what I felt in that moment because the guy in the keyboards played this. So that came out. I'm not gonna. You know, I'm not gonna try to play that again tonight. What I'm gonna try to do is be wherever the I was mentally. So when somebody says something else tonight, I have a different response that surprises me. So music stays fun, so I stay alive and I stay present. And then the band's this living, breathing thing, and the audience is having a great time so I can keep living my dream. I try to do that, but I do that with shit jokes. What Ginger Baker does would be like listening to a comedian on Richard Pryor and George Carlin just saying that, you know, that they. They couldn't. Whatever. You know, you pick. Pick a skill that a comedian has, equivalent to swinging as a drummer and that. Can you. Would you even listen to that fucking comedian? You know what? You'd probably go see them live just to see, you know, how bad they were. I don't know. It's not a good look. Oh, really, Bill? Shitting on your contemporaries is not a. It's not a good look? What, what have. What other fucking gems do you have? I'll tell you. I have another gem I actually think I'm watching. I'm gonna watch the Canadiens, Tampa Bay Lightning, Game 7. And the Bruins fan in me is obviously rooting for Tampa. But the fan of hockey that I am, it's just, it's great for the NHL when the Canadians are good. It's just great, like to have that franchise, their fans sitting on their hands, crying into their little pocket squares every March for the last 30 something years. You know, as funny as it's been, it's been one of the great comedies that I've watched. I mean, they haven't sniffed a cup since last century. It's kind of funny to me, so. But I'm also like a fan of the history and I also don't hate on greatness. And the Canadians were great when I was growing up. They were. They were great and they knew how to win and it was part of their tradition. And when people went to go play, they played above their skill set because it was there. And that has been dormant like a volcano. And I gotta be honest, you watching how crazy those fans are going. I mean, how. You can't hate on that. I mean, I don't like the Canadians. It's really their fans. It's kind of their fans are just funny to me. They're just so not. They just so don't look like hockey players. They all look like CEOs to me. Figuring out a way to underpay you and take more money for themselves. All right, so here's. Here's a segment that I want to do on my podcast. It's called hey, gun nuts. All right? All these second amendment people who are arming themselves in case they need to defend themselves against tyranny in their own country. And I just feel like they seem to just stay focused on non white people, immigrants and liberals. In other words, they look at what the people who are actually oppressing them tell them what to look at. I'm not saying people on the other side don't do the same thing, but I. All you gun nuts out there, you know, here's a great time. I'm not saying to take out your guns. I'm just saying all you guys who are like, you know, of the mindset and understanding that the people that rule you can actually become oppressive and need to be put back into place proper place. By the common man. That's, that's a great mindset and I respect the fact that you guys think that, all right? But it's like you're watching a magic show and you keep watching the hand that's waving other than the other one that's fucking, you know, doing the air quote magic. So in a couple of years, 20, 27, evidently this AI technology is going to be in all cars. And if you don't come to a full stop, all that information is going to go to insurance companies, evidently. And if you don't come to a full stop, they're going to use it as a way to increase your premiums. Okay? So my thing is, where is the AI watching them, right, for when they collect premiums. And then when somebody has a claim, they say go fuck yourself and then sick a bunch of lawyers on you. You know, like all of you guys, you know that, that really are aware that the people that are in power can abuse that power. When are you going to start, folks? When are you going to get past the fact that those are white people doing that to you and that just because they're white doesn't mean you're. That they're on the same team, they're on a different team and they're the ones fucking you in the ass. And I don't care how many people's moms you put in the fucking alligator Alcatraz, it's not going to change until you guys start looking at the right fucking people. Now you can't expect liberals to do it, you know, we're all a bunch of pansies. You guys are the real men. So I think you got it in you to affect change. If both sides complain about that, like what fucking world are we living in that you can't even drive down the street and somebody's going slow and every once in a while just drive around them. That's going to cost you money. And then people are going to be like, well, what's the fucking point of driving? And then we're all going to get those Waymo cars, which is like fucking climbing into a goddamn microwave. And then they're going to slowly cook us all to death as they bring in the robots. Now, God damn it, if you're smart enough to arm yourself, you ought to be able to see through that. This is just a bunch of pencil pushing suit wearing jackasses. I'm actually, I'm really talking to everybody at this point. Like how much more of our fucking lives, like refrigerators are going to spy on you that everything comes like you buy a light bulb. It's a smart light bulb. It's just listening. Like everything that they sell you now is to gather information. If I could do this all over again. Like, I love the fridge I have in my office. You know what I love about it? It's just a refrigerator. I got one of those smegs. And as of right now, a smeg. There's no video, there's no microphone, there's nothing. It's a device that keeps things cold so they don't go bad. Why are you bugging my house? I'm not in the fucking mob. Like, what are we doing here? Um, that's the. See people, that's the world I would like to. I would like to live in a world where the left and the right go like, why are we yelling at each other over this stupid over pronouns or, or fucking gun control. Why don't we focus on what really matters, huh? Our existence and our ability to live a comfortable life. It really has nothing to do with illegal immigrants, a guy who's now a woman, or somebody with 20 AR15. It had nothing to do with that. It has to do with the fact that the cunts at the top keep squeezing out all the juice out of the lime for themselves. In a perfect world, in a fucking perfect world, we'd all get on the same page, be like, yeah, you know, I think that's about enough of that, okay? I think you have plenty of fucking money. There's a finite amount of money, and if you take any more of it, you're going to put more people under a bridge. Ask yourself this, could you have a bunch of fucking money if you. Having that money made other people live under a bridge. I'm not saying, you know, if you invent something or whatever, if you get into my business, you start selling tickets, you make a stupid amount of money, but nothing that you're doing is making is. Is, is preventing somebody else from doing it too. These fucking nerds, they're just like, you know, we're making refrigerators and we're going to be the last ones to ever make them. We're going to take over all the whole fucking refrigeration, you know, and everybody else can go fuck themselves. And you will deliver them for nothing. And you will be thankful to have a job. Or you can keep cheering when, you know, I don't know what, you know, somebody's mom gets put in a van. You know why billionaires can go to an island and underage chicks and nothing Happens to them. But, like, you know, if you come in here illegally and you're making food in the back of a restaurant, you go to a jail surrounded by alligators. All right. Okay, that makes sense. I like that math. I'm into that. You know what else I'm into juggling lately? I used to juggle when I was a kid. Never did it professionally. You know what it was? I juggled really good. I just couldn't afford a unicycle. And that just really ended my dream. No, I, I, I got up to three balls. No homo, I got the three balls and then I, and then I could do with them with the hand over the top. I could juggle them that way. And lately, I don't know what it's. It's the, those, when they judge, juggle those bowling pins. It's something I revisit every five to seven years. And I was just like, I don't know, you know, that's kind of cool. And I also think it's kind of cool for your brain to learn how to do that, because now I'm not just, like, juggling. I got to like, flip that, you know. You know what it was is I, I saw one time they had this backstage footage of the Bruins, and one of the guys in the Bruins was juggling like three balls up again, three bulls up against a wall as he was going sideways down a hallway and he was going back and forth. And I was thinking about, like, cognitively what he's do, cognitively what he's doing with his brain, considering, you know, all the muscle memory, you have to be like, you're skating backwards. You have to stick, handle the puck and not be looking at it, keeping your head up so nobody gives you the Scott Stevens treatment. And I don't know, as I get older, you know, I really realize, you know, learning a language, learning an instrument and like, that is like going to the gym for. At least that's what they say. Okay? And I love ending a statement that I made with. And that, you know, at least that's what they say because you get to just walk away from the three minutes you just wasted in somebody's life presenting an opinion. You know, the second they ask you to confirm what you said with a really, you, you can just bail me. I mean, I don't. I mean, that's what they say. What do you mean? But that's. What, what the fuck was that? I just. You just spoke with authority for 180 seconds, and now you're just going to Walk away like that. No, I don't need to calm down. Those were my minutes too. Um, anyway, let me. Let me do some reads here. Oh, look who it is, everybody. Oh, would you look who it is? It's Quo. Q U O. You know when everyone on your team thinks someone else handled it? You know when they think that shit, the call, the text, the follow up, whatever it is, it's like that Spider man meme where they're all pointing at each other. I don't know that one. 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Oh, by the way, I'm one MotoGP race behind. I was on the road and I missed that one from Spain. Congratulations to Alex Marquez. It really sucks that Mark crashed out so early because I saw something I've never seen in all of my years of watching that I can recall. I saw Alex Outbreak, the greatest guy ever at it, Marc Marquez to take the lead. I got up off the couch going, is he going to Outbreak him? And then I just thought usually when people try to do that, they go wide and then Mark ducks underneath him and they didn't. He didn't. Congratulations. And I gotta tell you, what's his face there, the Giantonio. If, if he could just, you know, he's just gotta work on his starts. He's always like in third place and then goes down to seventh and then he finishes third. If he could just hold his spot. Who knows, maybe he just, he just has two people to overtake rather than five to get back to third place. I really, I'm a fan of that guy, you know, and I'm sure they're working on that. And also what I love about I just like the colors of the teams. It's really easy to for an old guy like me to see where the people are. Anyway, I know that they have the one in France, I believe today, so I'm going to watch that one. Okay. Mushroom coffee. This is something that I was talking about that, you know, they say it on the Internet that it's supposed to be really good for you. So I brought it up and I'm worried that now that once they start marketing to you, that means the corporations have gotten a hold of it. It's like mushrooms. Eventually, when those things become legal, like the same thing that happened to weed is going to happen to mushrooms, which is going to be a really sad thing. And these corporations, they don't give a fuck about the healing abilities, the personal growth of it. What they care about is the money. So the first thing they're going to do is they're going to lace it with sugar because most people don't like the taste of them. And then that's going to be the end of it. Because, I don't know, people have said, like, if you feel too high when you're tripping, that if you eat a candy bar, sugar kind of breaks up the whole thing, which means that will fuck their product, which means they're going to have to come up with some sugar that isn't sugar. And they'll take these beautiful things and they will actually make them cancerous and detriment detrimental to your health, as all of our food is in this fucking country. And I feel like the pharmaceutical company gives the food people a kickback. You make them sick, we'll. We'll nurse them along so they have a slow agonizing death and we'll all make money and get bigger fucking yachts. All right? But along the way is the topic of mushroom coffee. Hey, Bill. I use mushroom coffee on the regular because the cognitive focus it grants the brain is tremendously helpful with managing my brain injury symptoms. For normies, it still helps your brain stay focused and energetic. It just doesn't have as powerful an effect as it does for someone with a TBI traumatic brain injury. I guess. I'm sorry that happened to you, but I'm psyched there's something to help you. The reason it helps with the brain is because it contains ground lion's mane mushroom, which is the source of the cognitive stimulation. When brewed either as a tea or with coffee grounds, the effects are even more potent. Wow. So you can buy prepackaged mushroom coffee just like you can buy normal ground coffee, or you can just buy the ground lion's mane and add it to your coffee when you brew it, which is what I do. You can buy lion's mane at four pharmacies. Them again because the healthy cognitive effect or at health food type stores. Also, fuck them because most of them are imposters. I even think Trader Joe's has it. Fuck Trader Joe's. I got to find some hippie at a farmer's market that doesn't have a contract with Ralph's, which is difficult since you've probably heard about what, like 130 now, based on how natural your podcast rants fly off the rails each day. What? Since you're probably about what, like a hundred thirty now, based on how naturally your podcast rants fly off the rails each day, you'll probably find it almost as helpful as I do. I see he's making fun of my mental situation. All right, I'm gonna try that stuff that's exciting to me to like. You know, anything that can help me chill works. All right. Data center pushback. Hey, Billy Butterfingers Butterfly. I wanted to share the article below about a little town here in Missouri named Festus. Festus. Their city council was not being transparent about a data center being built in and the townies went ballistic. That's what the fuck I'm talking about. Essentially the town said, hell no. There you go. Shout out to these people. I don't know the story. Good for them. While the council was up for reelection. And the town said, fuck you all and got rid of all of them. They may be going after the mayor next quote. They crooked, bro. End quote. These companies have to be buying the councils and the mayors because with so much pushback from the town. And they were still going forward. Yeah, absolutely. And it appeared to be selective and sketch, as the kids say. I thought about you and your numerous ramblings on about data centers and tech bros. You know, it really offends me that you say I'm rambling, but the logical side of me is like, you're not lying. I am rambling. You're completely right, by the way. Hey, every once in a while, old Billy broken clock. Anyway, I love you and go fuck yourself. Well, that's. We need more of that fucking sellout. Goddamn local politicians. You know, anybody who's a decent fucking person stays in politics. They can only stay in there so long. They're just like, I this is just madness. What I need. What I. How dirty. I have to get to get one thing done. It's so fucking gross. It's so gross. It's Just. It's how we are, I guess. I don't know. Spirit Airlines closure is a disappointment. I wasn't aware of that, Bill. I'm guessing you heard about the closure of Spirit Airlines. No, I didn't. I'd like to share an abbreviated version of what the specifics here are and once again point out of much of our. How much our leaders hate us. JetBlue offered 3.8 billion in cash. They got that much cash laying around and we can't get snacks or fucking. You got to pay for everything. Oh, no, you know, they. Whatever. JetBlue offered 3.8 billion in cash to buy Spirit Airlines in 2022. Shareholders voted in favor. This included flight attendants, union pilots, mechanics, and all other staff. The combined company would have held 9% of the U.S. market against a big four that already owned 80%. 9% isn't a monopoly against 80%. Well, you're combining a bunch of different airlines, so that's probably how they work their way around the math. But I agree with you. A prominent senator wrote letters. She pressured the travel secretary and lobbied for Biden's Department of Justice to sue and stop the merger. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024. I bet he's got his toes in the sand somewhere. Her argument? The merger would cost consumers 1 billion a year. Now look at her collateral damage. She dusts under the rug. 510 pilots gone in the months after 1800. Flight attendants furloughed in December. 14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week, zero tonight. And that's just because. That's just the people in Spirit uniforms. Catering goes. Fuel goes. Baggage crews, gate agents, airport coffee shops, hotels and rental cars. And 70 City Spirits flew to. Every airline job carries three more on its back. 40,000 people out of work because of one woman's moronic crusade. It wasn't moronic. She was getting paid. She sold out. Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark, 135 to 288. Fort Myers to San Juan, 92 to 219. Kansas City to Newark, up 66%. A senator who never made payroll, thinks she knows how. Never made a payroll, thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company. That's a quote. 14,000 plus will go from working to welfare. This is just another sign of the de industrialization. Everything is being gutted, and it can only be done with the help of politicians. Yeah, sellout Politicians. I'm not saying they're all bad, but, you know, hopefully the next time, you know, elections come up, we don't keep putting grifters and mentally ill or mentally ill grifters in positions of power. I don't know. It's just. It's a show right now, and it's been a shit show since Obama left. Even if he didn't like Obama, I mean, the guy had his faculties. I mean, it has just been a. It's been Hee Haw ever since. All right. Quote. You know, when everyone on your team thinks someone else handled it? The call, the text, the follow up. It's like that Spider man meme. Wait a minute. What did I do here? Oh, I. I went back up telling you guys what we need to do with this country, and I just started reading the advertising over again. Well, there you go. So there you go. Now you know. Now you know what a moron I am. But I am, you know, despite how stupid I am, I do realize that this whole. I don't know, it's just really frustrating watching everybody just at each other's throats while shit like this is going on. We should be having each other's backs, but that doesn't seem to be how the world's working. I feel like all the bad people have control of the technology and they're just manipulating our opinions to hate each other. So who knows? Maybe there'll be a wave of crusader nerds. Crusader nerds who actually give a shit about people rather than making an app so you can marry the weird science chick and then rent out an Italian city for your wedding. All right, that's it, everybody. That is the podcast. Go yourselves and I will check in on you on Thursday.