Episode 21 - It's The News

Summary

Interrupted by Matt Jones

Episode 21: “It’s the News”
Date: October 7, 2025

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Overview

On this lively “news of the week” episode, Kentucky Sports Radio host Matt Jones is joined by regulars Drew Franklin and Billy (“the newsman”) to catch up after a break while Matt was traveling in South Africa. The crew discusses the top national headlines and quirky trending topics Billy has compiled, ranging from dramatic politics and government shutdowns to bizarre celebrity news, pop culture, and even ancient Egyptian thefts. The conversation is freewheeling, humorous, and at times pointed, with the trio offering both genuine and irreverent takes on current events.

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Main Discussion Points and Insights

1. Catching Up: Travel Chat & Returning to the News (00:01–03:24)

• Matt recounts his recent trip to South Africa and muses about global travel aspirations with Drew.
  • Matt: “There were people there who were like, now that you’ve been to South Africa, you need to see the gorillas in Rwanda. And I was like, that’s a big step.” (02:17)
  • Drew jokes about adopting the British “zebra” pronunciation.
• The team introduces their loosely structured news rundown, with Billy selecting the top 10 news items.

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2. Politics & Governance

National Guard Deployments, ICE Raids & The Insurrection Act (03:32–13:01)

• Billy: Tension as President Trump deploys the National Guard to multiple “blue cities,” threats to use the Insurrection Act, and ICE protest clashes.
• Matt: Pushes back on the “war zone” framing, laments militarization:
  • “We are not supposed to be a country like that that turns the military on its own citizens... No one should think, absent a civil war, that we should have the military out there against its own citizens.” (06:37)
• Drew: Agrees most National Guard and law enforcement do not relish these duties.
• All: Media often exaggerates and frames isolated events as mass chaos.

Notable Quotes

• Drew: “Our cities aren’t perfect, but we don’t need boots on every corner like we’re in some kind of Armageddon.” (07:01)
• Matt: “A bunch of different things can be true. It can be true that... the Biden admin post Covid did not do a good job of protecting the border… But what good does it do to take people who’ve been here 10–15 years, established roots, maybe even have children here, and send them home?” (10:38)

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Government Shutdown & Political Polarization (13:01–18:49)

• Two million federal workers’ pay suspended; air traffic controllers calling out sick.
• Matt & Drew debate whether they’d work without pay:
  • Matt: “Would you work if you weren’t getting paid? ...Would you?” (13:56)
  • Drew: “If I have a desk job where I’m not really impacting a lot of people, no. You gotta pay me. But I’d feel a responsibility if I had something like TSA.” (14:24)
• Discussion of deadlock over healthcare, rural Trump voters hurt most.
• Concerns about the country’s deepening polarization and the “team sport” mentality in politics.

Notable Quotes

• Drew: “We’ve taken the sports mental into politics, which is my team always. The ref is always screwing us.” (15:59)
• Matt: “I think the team thing is the big thing. People just are like, you’re my team. You’re my team.” (17:59)

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3. Current Events & Odd News

Mount Everest Blizzard Rescue (22:43–32:07)

• Hundreds trapped by an unexpected blizzard; ongoing rescue effort with some being dug out, others helicoptered.
• Matt is bewildered at the drive to climb Everest:
  • “I don’t know why people climb Mount Everest, do you?... What’s the thought process?” (23:49)
• Group riffs on who should be rescued first and how decisions should be made.
• Brief update: 580 hikers reportedly rescued, one casualty. (33:16)

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Mark Sanchez’s Bizarre Legal Troubles (32:07–40:43)

• Ex-NFL QB Mark Sanchez arrested after a late-night, inebriated altercation with a truck driver—over a parking spot and wind sprints—culminating in both being pepper sprayed and stabbed.
• Panel debates the implausibility and recklessness of the situation.
  • “How could you get so mad at a stranger over wind sprints at midnight, to get to the point where they’re both a bloody mess?” — Matt (35:04)
• Sanchez claims to remember only reaching for a window; faces possible jail time and a civil suit.

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P. Diddy Sentenced (41:11–46:54)

• P. Diddy is sentenced to four years in federal prison (eligible for release in under three years) for transporting for prostitution, acquitted on sex trafficking and racketeering.
• Reflections on “separating the art from the artist,” R. Kelly, and childhood memories tied to songs.
  • “Can you separate the art from the artist? And you’re saying Billy can’t?” — Matt (45:13)

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Taylor Swift Drops New Album “The Life of a Showgirl” (47:28–52:32)

• Billy highlights Swift’s raunchier lyrics and fandom’s frenzy.
• Notable lyric read aloud (“Redwood tree, it ain’t hard to see. His love was the key that opened my thighs.” — Taylor Swift, 49:51)
• Debates on whether misery leads to best pop music; comparison to Howard Stern’s career arc.
• Drew: “She does her best work crying in the corner of her bedroom after breakup.” (49:09)
• Riffs on Travis Kelce, public relationship tabloid fervor.

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Top Slang Words of 2025 (52:35–58:55)

• Billy quizzes the group on trending Gen Z slang based on Google Trends.
  • “6,7” — means nothing, is a meme;
  • “Bop” — someone with many romantic partners;
  • “Huzz” — attractive girl;
  • “Chopped” — unattractive;
  • “Big back” — someone large/eats a lot;
  • “Zesty” — lively;
  • “Glazing” — over-complimenting;
  • “Mogging” — outdoing someone;
  • “Phantom tax” — playfully stealing someone’s food.
• Discussion of Twitch streamers' popularity and monetization.

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Market Trends: Build-a-Bear Boom (58:55–61:52)

• The Build-a-Bear Workshop stock is up 2000% in five years, with new “kid-dulting” strategies—expanding to cruise ships and amusement parks.
• Matt: “That makes a lot of sense to me... places where people are trapped.” (60:11)
• Nostalgia driving increased sales among millennials.

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Ancient Egyptian Bracelet Stolen and Melted (61:53–68:00)

• Outrage after a 3,000-year-old Pharaonic bracelet is stolen from the Cairo Museum, melted for $4,000 in gold.
  • “So you stole something that’s 3,000 years old for $4,000. That seems like you could get a better reward on your risk there.” — Drew (64:21)
• Panel wonders about the black market for stolen artifacts and art.

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Local Outrage Over Stolen Memorabilia (68:00–68:58)

• Matt vents about fans stealing memorabilia (helmets) from his restaurant, comparing it to the Egyptian outrage.
  • “You can’t just be like, I’m going to steal these wings. I’m sure they’d want me to have them.” — Matt (68:54)

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Choose-Your-Own: Jimmy Kimmel Suspension (69:34–74:25)

• Jimmy Kimmel was temporarily suspended over comments on conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s death; reinstated after industry pushback.
• ABC and network responses, FCC threats debated.
  • Matt on companies firing hosts: “Companies should be able to do what they want and then people should be able to be upset about it if they want. What I don’t like is the government getting involved because the moment the government’s involved, that’s a different thing.” (75:12)
• Discussion of the demise of late-night TV and the shifting careers of Kimmel (now a liberal figure) and Adam Carolla.

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4. Pop Culture & Comedy

• Who’s the funniest person in America right now?
  • Matt: Shane Gillis
  • Drew: Nate Bargatze
  • Billy: Drewski
• Billy also plugs the “Club 520” podcast as one of the funniest ongoing.
• Discussion of “least funny” comics (George Lopez, Carlos Mencia, Joe Rogan standup, Matt Rife).
• More on separating art and artists—Louis C.K., Anthony Jeselnik, and personal favorite podcasts.

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Memorable Moments & Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• “We are not supposed to be a country like that that turns the military on its own citizens… No one should think, absent a civil war, that we should have the military out there against its own citizens.” — Matt (06:37)
• “We’ve taken the sports mental into politics, which is my team always. The ref is always screwing us.” — Drew (15:59)
• “You are my team. You are my team.” — Matt (17:59)
• “How could you get so mad at a stranger over wind sprints at midnight, to get to the point where they’re both a bloody mess?” — Matt (35:04)
• On “separating art from the artist”: “Can you separate the art from the artist? And you’re saying Billy can’t?” — Matt (45:13)
• Taylor Swift lyric: “Redwood tree, it ain’t hard to see. His love was the key that opened my thighs.” — Billy quoting lyrics (49:51)
• On Build-a-Bear’s stock: “That makes a lot of sense to me… places where people are trapped.” — Matt (60:11)
• On ancient art theft: “So you stole something that’s 3,000 years old for $4,000. That seems like you could get a better reward on your risk there.” — Drew (64:21)
• “Companies should be able to do what they want and then people should be able to be upset about it if they want. What I don’t like is the government getting involved because the moment the government’s involved, that’s a different thing.” — Matt (75:12)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:01–03:24: Intro, travel, format explanation
• 03:32–13:01: Trump, National Guard, ICE, protest, Insurrection Act
• 13:01–18:49: Government shutdown, polarization, work without pay
• 22:43–32:07: Mount Everest blizzard rescue
• 32:07–40:43: Mark Sanchez stabbing incident
• 41:11–46:54: P. Diddy sentencing & “art/artist” debate
• 47:28–52:32: Taylor Swift album, raunchy lyrics, pop stardom
• 52:35–58:55: 2025’s slang words, Twitch streamers
• 58:55–61:52: Build-a-Bear stock, millennial nostalgia
• 61:53–68:00: Theft of ancient Egyptian bracelet
• 68:00–68:58: Local memorabilia stealing
• 69:34–74:25: Jimmy Kimmel, free speech, late-night TV
• 74:25–end: Funniest/least funny comedians, podcasts, pop culture wrap-up

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Tone

Conversational, irreverent, and sarcastically humorous. The group riffs, debates, and frequently pokes fun at both the news and themselves, maintaining a balance between real analysis and light-hearted banter.

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Conclusion

This episode exemplifies the show’s format: off-the-cuff, wide-ranging, and unfiltered discussions with equal doses of wit, news, and the Kentucky-centric perspective Matt Jones and company are known for. Even if you haven’t kept up with the headlines, “It’s the News” delivers both the facts and the fun.

Transcript

[A]

This is Interrupted by Matt Jones on Newsradio 840 WHAS now, here's Matt Jones. It's episode 21 of Interrupted by Matt Jones, presented by Cornbread Hemp. This is the good life. We've had a few weeks of a hiatus here, as I was in South Africa, but I'm back and, you know, since I've been gone, there's a lot of news, so I feel like we need to go over it. So Drew Franklin is here. It's the news with Matt and Drew. Drew, I. As far as I know, nothing's happened since I'm gone, so whatever. Whatever Billy tells us should be interesting.

[B]

Well, I didn't even go to South Africa. I haven't moved. And I don't know the news because I sit and wait for this show to tell me the news. I'm looking forward to finding out what I missed.

[A]

Over a month, right? An entire month's worth of stuff. Missed you. I was in South Africa. Got to see the country, see the world. You ever have any interest in going to Africa or do other continents? Which. Which country would you go to?

[B]

Oh, I'm someone that wants to see the whole world. I'd probably. I still have a lot of Just the basics to get to because I've only left the country one time.

[A]

Where'd you go?

[B]

I did a little Ireland to Liverpool, to Manchester, to Scotland.

[A]

You've really the only person who's been to England but not London.

[B]

Well, I tried to get a train to London, and the tickets were like $450 that day. And I don't know why. Even. Even around me in Liverpool were like, we don't know why it's so expensive.

[A]

450.

[B]

It was insane. I couldn't. I was intending to go for a day and just.

[A]

You've been to the. You know, the British Islands? Yes, in Ireland. So you haven't been to mainland Europe yet?

[B]

Not really, no. No, not really. I get Liverpool. Is that mainland? I took a flight over the.

[A]

I think they consider, like, the British Islands and then mainland Europe, France, Spain, all that. No, no, no, no. That kind of.

[B]

Well, that. I was gonna say, that'd be my first place I would go, but I would love to eventually get to Africa, South Africa, everywhere. I'm just someone that likes to see new stuff wherever it is.

[A]

Well, you'll. You'll get to all of them. If not, then. Then you can cry. But I think, actually I will. I think you would enjoy. I'm trying to figure out what my next trip is going to be that there were people there who were like, now that you've been to South Africa, you need to go see the gorillas in Rwanda. And I was like, that's a big step.

[B]

All right, Bear Grylls over here.

[A]

Although apparently it's amazing, but I'd never thought about seeing gorillas. I'm not a huge animal guy, even though I went on a safari. But it was nice to. It was nice to see him, you know, like, hello, elephant. Hello, zebra. Hello, giraffe.

[B]

I wondered if you'd bring zebra back with you, because we don't say that here.

[A]

We don't. But they only say zebra.

[B]

And it's clear it had an impact on you.

[A]

It did. You know, it feels like a better. It's. That's how it's. That's how it's spelled.

[B]

I'm going to try to start saying it, even though I haven't been.

[A]

I'm going to try to get it going.

[B]

Well, while you were gone, you left me here with your hyenas. We tried to hold it together as best we could.

[A]

Yeah. Well, now we're back. And Billy, there's news to have again for people who've never heard this before. I tell Billy to Give me the 10 most important news items in his view of the week. And here's what he's come up with. Sometimes, early on, I would sort of get him to run by. By me. Not today. Have no idea what he's going to say, and I have no idea if this is actual news or not. So, Drew or. Excuse me, Billy, you are Walter Cronkite. What's up first?

[C]

Thank you, guys. Let's.

[A]

Who are the news network news anchors now?

[B]

By the way, you got the 2020 guy on ABC. David Muir. Koresh Moore.

[A]

Muir. That's the way. David Muir.

[B]

Muir.

[A]

Muir. Who. Who's NBC?

[B]

Oh, couldn't tell you. I just.

[A]

Lester Holt.

[B]

Yep. I guess I could say because that's.

[A]

Before Dateline and then abc. That used to be Terry Moran.

[B]

No, ABC is David Mirror retired.

[A]

Okay. I've got none of them.

[B]

Lama does Nora o' Donnell do something.

[C]

Lamas I don't know how to pronounce his last name. Tom Yamas Llamas.

[A]

Never heard of that person. And who's cbs?

[C]

Katie Couric, John Dickerson.

[A]

Okay, I do know that.

[B]

What does Norah o' Donnell do for cbs? She's something.

[A]

All right, well, there's your nightly news. You know what's crazy is we can't name these people. That's those Nightly News podcasts still get, like, 5 or 6 million people each a night. Like, a lot of people watch those, and we don't even know who, who, who.

[B]

Well, we have Billy. Why would we need the Nightly News when we have Billy?

[A]

Billy is my David Brinkley. All right, what's number one?

[C]

Well, I think we have to start with the escalating tensions as Trump deploys the National Guard to blue cities across this country. The National Guard has already been deployed in Washington, D.C. louisiana, and Memphis, and Trump is looking to deploy it in Illinois and Oregon. There's also been some protests against ICE officers recently in some of these cities that are getting a little violent. Trump is now threatening to use the Insurrection act to crack down on said protest, a policy that allows the deployment of military forces inside the US to suppress rebellion or to enforce the law. Meanwhile, the Illinois governor is accusing Trump of intentionally trying to prevent violence by sending in immigration agents and National Guard troops, which he can then use to justify military action. Every day goes by, and the United States looks like a war zone at times.

[A]

No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't. That's just not true. Like, I mean, everything you read before that was true, but it's not a war zone. Have you seen that? Like, everything in Portland's on, like, one block. It's literally like a block or two.

[C]

Not that specifically. I saw ICE trucks being ran in from behind and forward and in dangerous situations over the last couple days.

[A]

Rammed it. By who?

[C]

Protesters. People that are upset that ICE is in their city.

[A]

Yeah, I mean, so, like, it's easy to lump all this in together. So start with ice. I think we are spending an absurd amount of money on these ICE roundups and rounding up people that are not criminals, and I think it's a waste. With that said, I do. I mean, they have a right to do that, because if someone's in here illegally, I mean, I think they have a right to do it. I also think they're rounding up people who are not here illegally, but that's a different conversation. But the next two things are bigger deals. The National Guard, that's supposed to be only, like, if something serious is going on. Yeah, I don't know if that's happening. Like, I don't know if that's necessary, but I know the military is not necessary. Like, bringing the military in. We are not supposed to be a country like that that turns the military on its own citizens. Like, that is. To me, that should be universal condemnation. There shouldn't be one person in The United States and the fact that the defense secretaries for it is absurd. No one should think, absent a civil war, that we should have the military out there against its own citizens. I mean, am I crazy about that?

[B]

I mean, our cities aren't perfect, but we don't need boots on every corner. Like, we're in some kind of, you know, Armageddon is ahead. Yeah, I don't think it's that extreme. And if you were to ask most of the people that are probably having to go out and patrol, they probably aren't that excited to be there either.

[A]

I don't think they. I don't think a lot of these people want to be doing it. Like you're asking these people. Like, we're sending IRS agents to some of these cities. I'm not kidding you. We are sending, like, in.

[B]

In.

[A]

In Chicago and Memphis. You know, we're sending, like, people in the FBI, the dea, et cetera. But then we're also sending people, like, in the irs. Can you imagine being an IRS nerd and then just getting on, thrown into the streets of Memphis and saying, go, Good luck.

[B]

Stanley with his pocket protector out there trying to enforce.

[A]

Come on. I mean, that's. And here's the other thing about this. Where does it end? Like, we can't leave these people in there forever. Let's just say. Let me take it face value that maybe there's some good in, I don't know, stopping the crime for a little bit. They can't stay forever, right? What's. What are we doing, like, for a month, then there's not as much crime. Then they leave and everybody go. We got a lot of crime to.

[B]

Make up for everybody left.

[A]

Yeah, I don't. I. This is clearly just a show, right? It's a show. I mean, I didn't see what you're saying about ice, but if somebody's hitting an ICE vehicle, then they should be arrested. I'm. I'm fine with that. You shouldn't be hitting police or hitting ice, etc. But this other stuff is just a waste. It's just a waste. It's just a way to get people to hate each other. It's. It annoys me so much, you know, especially the Portland thing. I mean, they ran a marriage. Did you see they had a marathon there last week through the same neighborhoods where ICE is just running a marathon. Must be. Must be a war zone if they're running a marathon.

[B]

I'll never forget this because I learned, like, news tricks. But we went to the political conventions with KSR that.

[A]

Great point. Yes.

[B]

And I remember my family texting me from home about an incident in Cleveland. And I guess on tv, the way it was a tight shot, it looked like mayhem in the streets and we were right there and I'll look over at the exact spot and it looked like eight people just having a gathering. But somehow the way it was framed was chaos and people were legitimately concerned. And there are times where it is chaotic for sure. But this one instance, I remember looking at it like, that's the chaotic.

[A]

That is just a. It's all about how you frame it. You remember last summer when I went to Europe, they had the videos of people being upset about tourism in Barcelona, Spain.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

And they were shooting water and they were like, the streets of Barcelona have erupted as anti tourism process. I was literally there, I literally was walking down the street and I saw these people running and they started shooting water at people in the restaurants. I thought it was a prank. I was like, oh, there's a water fight. You know, I didn't think anything of it. And then I realized they were protesting and, and it's like anytime you see crazy people, you go, well, let's just go to the other side of the street. And then the next thing you know, it's in the BBC and New York Times of protests erupt. I saw it, it was like 12 people with a water gun. And people will still show that video now as like Barcelona hates tourism. I agree with you. It's all in how you and how you frame it.

[B]

And I have a theory on that too. The reason we see the same clips over and over is because they don't have other clips. Like, no, sometimes an unfortunate incident will happen. Big cities aren't perfect things that. But then they'll play that one for five days because that was a one off situation. But they're trying to frame it as this is just mass chaos everywhere.

[A]

I, it's, it's, it's a. So a bunch of different things can be true. It can be true that the Biden administration post Covid did not do a good job of protecting the border. That can be true. I believe that is true. And I do believe that the Trump administration, the one thing I'll give the Trump administration credit for is that they have made the border more secure, which I think is important. So there's. That can be true. It can also be true that there are people in the country who have committed various criminal acts and should be deported. It can also be true that we can't Encourage people to be here illegally. But what good does it do to take people who've been here 10 or 15 years, establish roots, maybe even have children here and send them home? What does that do? Like, what positive does that do for society? You know? And then even if you think that's good, is it worth causing our streets to be in chaos in order to do it? And then when you only do it in blue cities, that's another thing. Like you're just saying we're just dividing the country by party. And I just, I hate it. This is going to be. We will look back in history and say this time, these last post Covid years, Biden and Trump divided us for no good reason. No good reason.

[B]

Well, I hope we're able to look back at one point and say that and that doesn't just continue and get worse and worse and worse. I hope we look back and we're like, wow, we were really going through it there for a few years, but glad we're back together now.

[A]

Yeah, I do. So they're also different issues. D.C. is a federal territory, so I'm less fresh upset by the DC Stuff. But when you go into states like going into Illinois, they don't even want.

[B]

You, you know, and you're just creating tension.

[A]

Yeah. Then you're just creating tension with local. I mean, at least in Memphis, the Tennessee governor asked for it, but I don't even know if the Memphis mayor wants it. It's just a, it's, it's just a way to make people hate each other. Billy.

[C]

Yeah, and the Insurrection act is a little scary. I mean, like you said, when does it stop?

[A]

The Insurrection Act, Come on. That was like, for the Civil War.

[C]

Right? It's old.

[A]

Stop like that. I'm going to assume he doesn't do that, but if you start down that path, we'll just say everything's an Insurrection Act. But what's next?

[C]

Well, Matt, currently Americans aren't getting paid. Not all Americans, any of them, but some. Some, yes. Two million federal workers are have their pay suspended as we are entering the second week of the government shutdown. The government failed to pass a funding bill on October 1st, and. And now people have been furloughed. Lawmakers are at odds. They are playing the blame game as Dems demand that healthcare concerns be addressed. Republicans, meanwhile, are saying we need the government to open back up before we can continue those negotiations. During Donald Trump's first term in 2018, the government shutdown lasted 35 days before it was finally resolved. And currently Air Traffic controllers who are required to work without pay are now calling out sick and. And it's shutting down. Major airports for several hours.

[A]

Have shut down. Oh, for several hours.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. I was flying on the first day of this and I was worried about that. It wasn't too bad, but I think it's going to keep getting worse.

[B]

I fly in two days. Awesome.

[A]

When they did it last time, by the end, the airports were really a cluster. Would you work if you weren't getting paid? Because Trump's now saying he might not. Which he. I don't think he can do this. But Trump was saying, well, we won't even back pay you. Which really. That'll show them the federal workers that have nothing to do with this.

[B]

And I would probably still show up if I were something like tsa. What if I was needed now?

[A]

What if you worked like a clerk's.

[B]

Job now that I was going to say, if I have a desk job where I'm not really impacting a lot of people by not being there, no, you got to pay me. But I would feel a responsibility just, just to society if I had something like tsa.

[A]

Yeah. Well, it sounds like I haven't followed this in depth, but it sounds like the debate is whether or not the Democrats are like, you know, we need to figure this out. And the Republicans are going, let's sign something for seven weeks and then we'll figure it out. But they've already done that like two or three times. So this was coming at some point. The thing to watch, though, is they're basically fighting about whether or not people's health care premiums are going to go up substantially. I mean, you've seen some of the prices. If they don't switch the Trump's big beautiful bill. If they don't switch that people's healthcare is gonna, like, in some cases double. And, you know, the people that are gonna get hurt the most are Trump voters in rural areas. That's what's crazy to me is like the people, the people that will feel the biggest thing are people on Obamacare in rural issue areas, which is like his base.

[B]

Some of them still love him, though. I almost wonder if they're even aware of anything that.

[A]

It's a good question. Is he. There's anything for 35% of a marriage. You think there's anything he could do that would. They wouldn't love him?

[B]

Unlikely. I just think it's getting that way both ways.

[A]

I think that's true.

[B]

No, certainly more with him.

[A]

But I mean, all of Our side love Joe Biden.

[B]

No, I just mean in general. People are. It's like. Like, say you have one opinion about one thing, it's just automatically, you're on a team and you think, oh, I agree with that.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Like, you're just automatically.

[A]

We've taken the sports mental into politics, which is my team always. The ref is always screwing us. You know, we. We are. Like, you're exactly right.

[B]

Or you can't even. Like, a couple things from each side. Like, if you say one thing out loud, it's automatically, well, you check all the other boxes.

[A]

You think it'll be like that when Trump's gone, or is that a byproduct of him specifically?

[B]

I'm worried we can't undo this. It used to be you could go play golf with someone, go to church with someone you didn't even know or didn't even talk about it.

[A]

She has a 63% approval rate in Kentucky as a Democrat. Doesn't that give you signs of hope?

[B]

A little bit. But I think people just care way too much what other people believe now when that wasn't the case for so.

[A]

Long, I think they're gonna.

[B]

Part of it is people are just sharing their opinions. It's so easy, like, easier to share. When you would go to church with someone, you wouldn't be like, hey, what do you think about this? But now people are writing a book on their Facebook, sharing it. People are over sharing.

[A]

I do think I'm gonna be optimistic. I think it won't be as big a deal when Trump's gone, because I don't think there's any politician that Republicans like and Democrats hate more than him. You know what I mean? Like, I don't. Do you think people are going to, like, want to go to war for J.D. vance? No, I'm being serious.

[C]

No, no. But, like, Gavin Newsom is acting a lot like Trump.

[A]

I know. And I think that's bad. But the problem is, you know what? It's working.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Unfortunately. Like, I don't like Gavin Newsom, but some of that trolling and all that, which I don't think is good, is getting him attention. Like, we're like, so it is.

[B]

We've got our star players and our.

[A]

I don't think, quarterbacks. And if Gavin Newsom, though, becomes president, I do not see Democrats being like, we'll do whatever he says. I mean, I don't. And I don't see Republicans doing that for J.D. vance.

[B]

I didn't think they'd do it for the reality show star that's orange.

[A]

But here we are. Like, he's got that thing, you know, there's like a star power to him.

[B]

But even that, I think, is laughable.

[A]

I think he's absolutely ridiculous. But, you know, and then there's the. I think the team. I think you hit it. The team thing is the big thing. People just are like, you're my team. You're my team. Do you. So you would. You would not keep working if you had a desk job?

[B]

No, probably not. Especially now, they're like, yeah, we'll pay you eventually. I don't know.

[A]

I don't know if I'm sure. Would you?

[C]

I would. Yeah. I got to keep showing up no matter What.

[A]

How long? Two months.

[C]

Well, 35 days was the last one. That's a little long. I mean, a month. And I'm.

[A]

Well, what if it was two months? You still keep coming. What's the point?

[B]

You have a job that doesn't have a huge impact. It's necessary, but you're just kind of pushing papers around.

[C]

Yeah, I probably go a couple weeks. Honestly, not even.

[A]

That's not very long, though.

[C]

Yeah, but I still show up for two weeks. I mean.

[A]

Okay, well, I mean, we're at eight or nine days, so you're. You're done on Friday. Yeah.

[B]

I think about people like, I just did a vacation this summer at national parks. Imagine you got a trip plan. You show up in, the gates closed.

[A]

Like, and they're saying, do not go in. No one will help you.

[B]

Yeah, no one's here. The government's. There's. There's some national parks jobs you don't think about.

[A]

Yeah. National parks, you could argue are just free for alls right now.

[B]

Yeah, but, you know, people have planned. I know there's bigger problems than someone's vacation, but imagine you bad. Yellowstone on the calendar for a year and a half. You get there, and there's chains around the thing because the government's arguing over health.

[A]

Cumberland Gap.

[B]

Cumberland. Would you show up if you worked at Cumberland Gap?

[A]

No, I would not. I don't think they're considered, though, museums. The Eisenhower Museum. What are they going to do?

[B]

You've had tickets to that for six months. Hotel room, flight. You're going to get there. We're not working.

[A]

Just for the record, I've been to the Truman Museum.

[B]

Exciting.

[A]

This is how cool I was in college.

[B]

Spring break.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Took beads.

[A]

We went. We went to a fraternity softball tournament in Manhattan, Kansas. And on the way home, one of the older guys was like, if we're going this way. We're stopping at the Truman Museum. And we're like, come on, man, it's spring break. Can we go party? Truman Museum. And he just got this car full of frat guys and we all had to tramp around the Truman Museum.

[B]

What is even in there? Just like, here's his tie and his notes from September 3rd.

[A]

Well, I mean, I guess there was stuff about him deciding to drop the nuclear bombs, but it was a little bit of a buzz kill for spring break. You know, our friends were like dancing on the beach with women in bikinis. And we were sitting there going, well.

[B]

He did beat Hoover Club, Lavil Club, Harry S. Truman.

[A]

And it's in Independence, Missouri. Not exactly. You know, they just got a Hampton Inn.

[B]

Well, that helps. At least, you know, you didn't have any other options. You didn't walk past the nightclub to go to the museum.

[A]

I don't recommend that, Billy, for your spring breaks. And I mean, I actually think I would like it more now than I did then, but I. But then it was not a big, big thing.

[C]

Yeah, I can't bring the beer funnel into the Truman Museum either.

[A]

Yeah, my. At that softball tournament. By the way, you'll appreciate this. Most people listening will not know they had parties every night and my group definitely partook in it. And Tall sounds like it the way.

[B]

You'Ve been on the spring break trip. Calm down, boys.

[A]

Tall was playing center field and he got very bored. And I looked, he's just set on the ground with his glove on his head.

[B]

Sounds like him in the middle.

[A]

So we didn't win the tournament.

[B]

Thought you're going to tell me I brought home the championship.

[A]

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[C]

All right, let's talk about the disaster that's happening on Mount Everest right now. Hundreds of people are trapped on Mount Everest currently as we speak after a surprise blizzard struck on Friday. At the time, just under a were trapped on the mountain. Before rescue crews could start the recovery, the blizzard struck on Tibet's eastern slope of Mount Everest, and many people are stuck at an altitude of 16,000ft right now, the summit.

[A]

So this is still happening? Yeah, they're still stuck.

[C]

Yep. The summit is 29,000ft. But the camp that majority people are trapped at right now are 16,000.

[A]

So how are they getting them out?

[C]

They're trying to dig out the snow. They're bringing horses and I believe helicopters. Now more than 400 people have died trying to reach the peak of Mount Everest. No, total.

[A]

Total.

[C]

And a lot of times when somebody dies, you have to leave the body there. There's really nothing that.

[A]

Yeah, I've read about that. Have you read Into Thin Air? No, it's been a long time since I read it. But it's a book about this kind of stuff and it's pretty fascinating. So they think they're going to get all the people out.

[C]

I'm not sure on that.

[A]

So he got trapped with a snowstorm. First of all, I don't know why people climb Mount Everest, do you? I mean, is there my thing. What's the. What's. What's the thought process? Why do you want to do that? I don't know.

[B]

I'm down to do some adventurous stuff, but I can't imagine one something this extreme where I could be buried under a blizzard and have horses coming to get me.

[A]

Is the idea you're just like conquering nature?

[B]

Yeah. And you've probably climbed so many things, you just keep getting hungry and hungrier.

[A]

You're just climbing like they're just. They're just. They're walking, right?

[C]

Yes.

[B]

In most.

[C]

They're not like rappelling or going like, free.

[A]

Like they're walking.

[B]

Yeah, more of a hike. But certainly some areas where you probably have to do a little climbing.

[A]

And so the hard part is what, the altitude and breathing.

[B]

Yeah, it just gets so cold and the altitude so high you can barely.

[A]

And so what. What's the skill set that makes you able to do It. Besides being in shape, I mean, just probably surviving, honestly.

[B]

Desire staying alive. Yeah. Having the willpower to keep going when your body's like.

[A]

So they had. The snowstorm surprised him. But doesn't it snow all the time?

[C]

It does, but like a big rainstorm hit the area and it turned to snow on Mount Everest. And it was just. It was not expected.

[A]

Not expected. Okay. Are there. So they think they. We don't know if we think they're getting them out.

[C]

Don't know. But there have been some people that have been rescued and gone down the mountains.

[A]

How do you think they decided who gets to be rescued? Like, what is the. There's 800 people sitting in a camp. They get a helicopter. What's the order that you decide? See, this would be a movie to me. There's 800 of you. Who gets to go? Is it the sickest women and children? I don't think there's any children climbing up there. Probably not any children.

[C]

I have a child.

[B]

I would lean.

[A]

Anyone that start with the children and then take them to court for making their child climb Mount Everest.

[B]

Please take my newborn. She's only three months old.

[A]

Yeah. I would argue take her children. Leave the parents that decided to take their kids to Mount Everest.

[B]

I think you say anyone that needs immediate medical attention should get priority.

[A]

So let's assume there's 800 people. 100 people needed medical attention. They're gone. Now there's 700 people. We're all cold. We'd all like to go. How do we decide?

[B]

Break a. Break a branch over your leg and go to war.

[A]

Paper, paper, rock, scissors, start fighting. I mean, should it be the oldest off first? You could argue, though.

[B]

See, if I'm the oldest, I would be like, not me. I've. I've had a good run everywhere.

[A]

That's what I was going to say. You can make an argument like, this is going to be tough for us to survive. Let's get the healthy people first.

[B]

I would not. If I were one of the young, healthy ones, I would not say, leave the old man. I wouldn't do that. But if I were.

[A]

If I were the old man left.

[B]

Anyway, I would not do that. But if I were the old man, I would speak up and say, some of you all with more to live for, let's get you out of here. That would not be easy to do.

[A]

This would be a good Netflix series. Yes, you're stuck. I don't even care about how you got stuck. I want the. How do we decide who gets to leave that to me, is human emotion right there. What's the way to decide who gets to go?

[C]

Yeah, it's. It's got to be like rock, paper, scissors or drawing straws. Something that, like, it's not like, based on your status in life.

[A]

Who's going to organize it?

[B]

Me.

[A]

See the. See, that's the thing. All right. So I was at this thing in South Africa. It was the fellowship with 25 people who are. Who are considered leaders. And we had to have this question of, well, I probably shouldn't say what the question was, but there was something we had to decide on. And they said the leaders, the moderators were like, you all go decide. But they gave us no parameters. And I'd done a really good job over the course, Drew, of this thing of not being in charge of anything impressive. I'd intentionally said, you know what? In regular life, I'm always in charge. I'm going to let these people be in charge. But we sit down and we start debating the issue. And then I realized something that was very important, which was we had not yet decided how we were going to decide. Does that make sense? Like the rules? So I raised my hand and was like, I think it would be very important that we figure out after all this discussion is over, how are we deciding? Is it going to be unanimous? Are we going to vote? And I just got yelled at. And they were just like, let's not worry about that. Let's debate the issue. And I'm like, well, when it's over, how are we going to know how we're going to decide?

[B]

You saw the problem on down the road.

[A]

I foresaw the problem. So we do the debate. Everybody gets their point out. Three or four hours of talking, then it comes time to decide. And everybody goes, well, how are we going to decide? And I said, I told you that we need to. And it's what ends up happening. It was just the person who was the loudest. Then they got to decide everything, which was fine with me. I didn't care. But I think that's what's going to happen. You got to decide before you go to Everest how you're going to decide who's going to die.

[B]

Everybody agree who's going to get.

[A]

Not style, but who's going to get.

[B]

Essentially die needs to be considered. This reminds me, it's not the same as getting people rescued, but I was in Moab, Utah, on vacation and listen to just a little bit local radio. And they said, a man completed the toughest climb ever there to Save someone else who had gotten stuck. And I just kept thinking these people that do these risky climbs and get stuck.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Like what you're putting your rescuers through.

[A]

I'm not saying how did the person get there?

[B]

That's fun. They went to an area you're not. No one even is supposed to attempt. I can't remember if they fell down an area, but someone had that person got there.

[A]

So couldn't the rescuer have just followed the same path?

[B]

Well, I mean, I think they fallen or something. Yeah.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

And like the person that had to go get them had to do something that had never been done before. And I'm not saying you should just leave people, but it is pretty selfish to get up there and then just certain people will come get me.

[A]

Do you think in situations like that the person should have to pay?

[B]

Yes.

[A]

For what it costs to rescue them.

[B]

I mean, for some there has to be consequences for people risking their lives just to go get you because you were chasing somebody.

[A]

So do you think that like if the. What is it Nepal? Is that where Mount Everest is?

[C]

On the border of Nepal and Tibetan.

[A]

If the Nepalese government has to spend presumably a lot of money to go rescue you, shouldn't you have to pay them back?

[B]

Yes. People are risking their lives.

[A]

Why not in this instance?

[C]

Well, because they can't control the weather.

[A]

True, but you didn't have to go up there.

[C]

Yeah, but this is more of a natural disaster type of thing, not a stupidity because I walked on the wrong side of the map.

[A]

I agree with you. Except it's not the same as a natural disaster that hit your home. You decided to take to do a life threatening thing.

[B]

It's one of the riskiest things a human can do in their life.

[A]

I don't feel like when there's a tornado, people should have to pay to be rescued. That's part of taxes. But if you decide to do something that by its very nature could end up with you, like I think there's an argument you should have to make amends.

[B]

I agree. And like use the MOAB example, say the person that made that climb had died or something trying to get you.

[A]

Yes. How, how awful would that be?

[B]

You know, so there's a little bit of being selfish, taking these risks and just know, oh well, the government will come save me if it doesn't go well.

[A]

So you can't tell us if they're going to be all right?

[C]

No, I cannot guarantee kind of news.

[A]

Are you.

[B]

You said horses were going to get them.

[C]

Horses.

[B]

How do you definitely have to pay for the horses.

[A]

Can horse. So horses can survive in harsher conditions than people.

[C]

Yeah, I'm not sure on that.

[A]

Well, I'm going to. This is a story I'm going to keep up with.

[B]

Me too.

[A]

I'm interested.

[B]

And we got movie.

[A]

We have. Yeah. Do we have any. What's the latest on it? I'm going to pull up. While you're reading number four. I'm going to pull up the New York Times app and see if we have the latest update, but go ahead.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

Number four.

[C]

You mentioned the New York Times. This person used to play quarterback in New York, Mark Sanchez. And the bizarre story that came from Indianapolis this weekend. The former NFL quarterback and Fox Sports broadcaster was charged with felony battery along with several other misdemeanors after an incident in Indy Saturday with a 69 year old truck driver. Sanchez was hospitalized following the incident and did not work his scheduled NFL broadcast. Sanchez was arrested after being released from the hospital. Allegedly got into a disagreement which led to Sanchez being pepper sprayed and stabbed multiple times. Don't know if you guys have seen the video they just released of him wandering the street looking for somebody to help him after he got stabbed. But the truck driver was also injured. He was slashed in the face. This is a bizarre story coming out of Indianapolis involving Mark Sanchez.

[A]

Crazy story. So I think at this point most everybody has read the. The thing. So let's just play guess what was Mark Sanchez doing when sprints in the alley? Why he was by himself. So explain to me why that was happening.

[B]

Can I tell you, there's so many things where usually I could come up with some scenario. It might not be the right one, but I can at least play out how this would happen.

[A]

By the way, just a second, Breaking news. They've rescued the hikers.

[C]

All of them.

[A]

According to the BBC, a total of 580 hikers who were trapped by severe weather have been guided to safety, according to Chinese state media.

[C]

I don't think that's all of them, but that's great news.

[A]

Oh, you think there's still more there?

[C]

The initial report was just under a thousand.

[A]

Okay. Only one person died. All right. Still though, it was an interesting discussion. All right, go back to. He was doing wind sprints.

[B]

Yeah. So it's now not just speculation. We now know, or both sides have kind of said that they were arguing over a parking spot at.

[A]

At midnight because he didn't. Because Mark Sanchez didn't have a car.

[B]

That's my thing. Okay. You're Mark Sanchez. It's now been established that he smelled of booze. Yeah, Definitely under the influence at this point. It's after midnight. In a city where you're staying at a hotel to work a Sunday night football game, what could make you care about a parking spot?

[A]

Okay, so I. He didn't have a car. So if he's worried about a parking spot, the only thing I can even fathom is that he's worried that the car blocked his ability to do wind sprints.

[B]

I don't know why else he would be mad at the car there. He's not driving a car, even if he had one.

[A]

Why is he doing wind sprints at 12:30 at night?

[B]

It. I don't know. I don't know, but let's just establish. Let's say his wife comes out today and says, hey, you all didn't know this, but every night at midnight he does wind sprints. It's his thing. No, but at that point, we go, okay, we at least know why he does wind sprints. How could you get so mad at a stranger over wind sprints at midnight? To get to the point where they're both a bloody mess.

[A]

So the stranger's job was to get the French, like the oil, the grease from restaurants. From restaurants. And change it out.

[B]

Presumably, that would be a nighttime job. You can't win. They're cooking.

[A]

Do you do it when it's closed? He's at a hotel. We have stayed at this hotel. So I know exactly where this is taking place. He parks the car probably, so he doesn't have to carry the oil as far.

[B]

He's in a loading dock.

[A]

They've even said, right, so he's in.

[B]

A loading dock, presumably where someone loading would park.

[A]

You're very upset at the guy for parking and stopping you from wind sprints. Even that sentence is ridiculous to me. But let's just assume that's happened him. How do you get to stabbing and fighting? The guy said he. That Mark Sanchez entered his car.

[B]

And he said, I thought he was going to kill me. Like he was that angry.

[A]

How could he be that angry?

[B]

I don't. That's what I mean. I don't know how. I cannot think of a scenario where you would get that worked up over a parking spot at a hotel where you don't even have a car.

[A]

Have a car.

[B]

You don't live there. You're there for a couple nights and you're on to the next town.

[A]

I don't get it then. All right. Only the old guy had a knife. From what I understand he pepper sprays him and Sanchez doesn't isn't like stop unfazed.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

What about that? Like, is that superhuman strength? Because I would get worried if I pepper sprayed a guy and it didn't do anything to him.

[B]

It just makes me wonder what Mark Sanchez had in his system at this hour. We've all been with people. I've been that person. We've had a few too many drinks. I can't imagine getting anywhere near a scenario anything even close to this.

[A]

So then the knife comes out. Mark Sanchez is a huge guy. Do we think. Let's assume old man stabs first. Do we think Sanchez took the knife from him and then stabbed him?

[B]

I don't know how. I guess it's. I mean Sanchez probably wouldn't round wasn't doing wind sprints with his own knife. So it almost he would have to some kind of scuffle with that knife.

[A]

And what are the chances they both have knives? Side story. Like what? What? I don't know. Do you?

[C]

No.

[B]

This is.

[C]

This is bizarre. I mean there's a lot of former NFL athletes that have brain injury. Hopefully that doesn't play into this. He's a really bright guy. Somebody that's a lot of people came to his sensor. Yeah. I mean, yeah, but he's a friendly person.

[B]

And most of the accounts of teammates and people, they're just like stunned. It's not someone with the track record of loose.

[A]

So now he's charged with like fifth degree or so whatever. But it's like one to six years in prison. Do you think he serves time? I mean, he has to, right?

[B]

I mean we're talking about stat messed.

[A]

Up an old man.

[B]

Yeah, he sued the man. Sued him in. In sued. It says he's permanently disfigured.

[A]

The man did sue him.

[B]

Yeah, it says. Yeah. He has permanent disfiguration on his face. Like you can't not get in trouble for that. I don't care if you work for a broadcast.

[A]

So what is his defense going to be?

[B]

I've been waiting for the statement to pop up because I don't know what he could say to make this seem anything but just absolutely psychotic behavior.

[C]

Ambien.

[A]

Okay, but first of all, in the law, if you take a substance and then you do something, the substance is not the excuse. Right. So like you have to consider that when you. But as someone who takes ambient it doesn't make you stab people. It might make you challenge people to races.

[C]

Well, what if you blocked my race that I've set Up then I'm getting.

[B]

To the point of disfiguring a man's.

[A]

Face to be upset about that. Okay, I don't think you can just. And then finally, the man Sanchez is 30 years younger than him. Did he not have a moment where he's like, I'm stabbing my grandpa.

[B]

Even if you're worked up about something, you're about to get in a fight and this is probably couldn't see the guy, whatever, he's in a vehicle. The moment you realize you're in your 30s and they're in your 60s, I don't care what you're fighting about. You have to stop.

[A]

You have to stop.

[B]

You have no business getting physical in that situation, even if you're in the right.

[A]

So predict jail time, yes or no?

[B]

I think he has to. Unless some detail comes out to save him. But with what we know now, he has to, Billy.

[A]

Yes, I'm going to say you have to some. All right. He's going to get sued.

[B]

Already has.

[A]

Is this like. This is what we'll remember? I mean, the butt fumble's gone away. Like, this will be Mark Sanchez.

[B]

Oh, he's begging people to make butt fumble jokes now. Please remember me for the butt fumble.

[A]

Yeah. But it does go to show you your life can change in an instant. Because unless you just think Mark Sanchez, just this awful person, he probably, when he went out to get wind sprints, didn't think his life was going to end up where it was two or three minutes later. Right.

[B]

And that's the guy, as far as I know, squeaky clean image. Like I said, his teammates have come forward, just shocked that this. That he would do this. I mean, he's just there to call Colts, Raiders, and now his life is completely turned upside down and almost killed someone.

[C]

Says he has no memory of the incident besides reading, reaching for a window.

[A]

Who does?

[C]

Sanchez.

[A]

Well, I see that's tough because that's going to make it hard for him to have a defense. You know what I mean? I mean, if he has no memory of it at all, then how do you defend yourself? Like, what are you going to say? I mean, you can't. What are you going to say? You know, that's.

[B]

Again, I'm playing back. Even if it. I don't think you could play. How much alcohol would you have to. Have to do something like this?

[A]

Well, you see the video of him walking down the street after he stabbed. He's stumbling, but he's still just kind of walking. He's not doubled over. He's Just kind of holding his side to this.

[B]

This is a level of messed up that I don't think a trip to Indy, the local bar, could do.

[A]

Be careful going out and drinking in. In strange towns. All right, what's next?

[B]

Or going out and getting oil from your local hotel restaurant.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Well, speaking of jail time, P. Diddy was sentenced last Friday to 50 months in prison after his federal sex crimes case. Just a little over four years.

[A]

Four years?

[C]

It says he could be released in less than three years after receiving credit for time served already. But he was convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. He was acquitted on sex trafficking and racketeering charges, which could have potentially had a life sentence, but.

[A]

So what was he convicted of?

[C]

Convicted of transportation to engage in prostitution.

[A]

Okay, so. But not the sex trafficking.

[C]

Not the sex trafficking or racketeering.

[A]

Okay. So the big ones he didn't get convicted of. Okay. Yeah. I didn't really follow this trial, did you?

[B]

Not as much as you think I would. Being a. You know, I'm big into rap music. Used to listen to Diddy a little bit. Taking that out of my life, but not as closely as I should have.

[A]

If you put what I would read in the public of all the things he was accused of, he's probably lucky.

[B]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Definitely.

[A]

That he only ended up with this, right?

[B]

Oh, yeah. It was looking like he might be gone for life with some of the stuff that was alleged.

[C]

There's hotel video of him and his girlfriend and him striking her and then chasing her out into the hallway.

[A]

Well, that was. But the thing is, a lot of that would be state crimes, so, I mean, I wonder, is he. This was. This was in federal court.

[C]

Correct.

[A]

So I'd be interested to see, are there any state charges against him for any of the assaults or anything like that?

[C]

Not sure on that.

[A]

Yeah. Well, you can't be convicted of the same thing in both or. Well, you. I mean, it's complicated. That would be interesting to see if they end up going after him for anything else.

[B]

But he asked for presidential pardon.

[A]

I mean, I would. Of course, again, what is it getting lined by entire king Jelaine Maxwell is going to get part. I mean, you know, that's. But. But I would. I mean, he's a celebrity. Trump like celebrities.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So he. I mean, he might get it.

[B]

That would be absurd. But that's the world we live in.

[A]

Yeah. Well, would you still listen to Diddy songs?

[B]

No, I had a few I liked.

[A]

But you couldn't listen to them like.

[C]

You like Shake Your tail feather?

[B]

No, like, is that even Diddy? That's the Saint Lunatics, isn't it?

[C]

I thought, I thought Diddy was in it.

[A]

Diddy is like the mo money we come across the mo problems we see.

[B]

Oh, he did have shaky toe feather with Nelly and Murphy Lee. Saint Lymph six.

[A]

Oh, I do think. Give me the strength I need to proceed. What is that? I'll be missing you.

[B]

I've got a video out there I'm a little worried about surfacing. When I was like 8 years old, that song, I'll be missing you. I did like a talent concert where I performed it. So I really need that to stay buried in the VHS box at my parents house.

[A]

I want to see that.

[B]

You. I think my, I think my little sister sang the Faith Hill part and I did the diddy wrapping.

[A]

So you did the. How's it go sometimes.

[B]

Oh, if you got me started, I could do it.

[A]

Get the lyrics out. Okay, Just get the lyrics because I, I, I'd like to hear Drew 8 year old.

[B]

I'm, I'm trying to bury it, not, not bring it back to life.

[A]

Well, I don't think you'll be. I don't think you may hold it again, Harv.

[B]

Do you? Not around. No you in heaven smiling down Watching.

[A]

Us as we pray for you Every day we pray.

[B]

See, you could have been in the video too. Till the day we meet again in my heart is where I keep you, friend. Okay, we gotta stop doing that.

[A]

No, that's where he says shrimp.

[B]

That's what I was trying to say.

[A]

Need to proceed.

[B]

We can't do more. We're gonna get this podcast canceled.

[C]

Drank that. I need to believe.

[A]

So I think the fact that we remembered it. You would you, you see you still. You wouldn't listen to his song, I'll admit. Do you listen to R. Kelly when he comes on?

[B]

Well, yes.

[A]

Wow, Billy.

[B]

That was a quick answer.

[A]

Billy didn't even hesitate.

[C]

Well, you got to separate the art from the artist.

[A]

Okay. I read a book about that just recently. Just finished a book. It's called Monsters. It's about this exact thing. Can you separate the art from the artist? And you're saying Billy can't?

[C]

I try to.

[A]

I mean, can you?

[B]

Well, I have a few songs I can't part ways with with R. Kelly. I've surrendered that one because its lyrics take me to that place that I want to go. But I believe I can fly from the Space Jam, so I can't.

[A]

So what they're singing about makes I'm.

[B]

Not driving around playing that. But if it were to come on. I can't turn off those memories of being in my driveway.

[A]

Cannot give up I believe I can.

[B]

Fly Listen, when I was. When I was in my driveway.

[A]

Just can't.

[B]

When I was dreaming of being Travis Ford and I was getting shots up, the Space Jam soundtrack was a big part of my practice.

[A]

Drew cannot stop. I believe I can fly so I.

[B]

Keep that R. Kelly went around and then, I'll be honest, the Diddy song, I'm coming home.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

If it comes on, I'm still singing.

[A]

I don't think I know that.

[B]

Big blue madness they brought all the NBA players out to at one time. It was really cool and that made me like it a lot.

[A]

So that was Diddy, I don't think. Well, when he gets out, does he have any career?

[B]

No, not at all.

[A]

No chance.

[B]

Well, he'll have a reality show on Bravo or something, but nobody will. Nobody'll latch on. Also, there's all these. Have we actually seen him? We get the sketches where he has like bright white hair and a white Santa beard now.

[A]

Oh, he does.

[B]

Because I guess he had been dying his stuff for so long and you can't in jail. So like all the sketches, they look like Diddy. It looks like an old Santa Claus. Yeah. So might not even look the same when we finally see him again.

[A]

Interesting. Well, it sounds like to me, considering all the things I had heard that he actually kind of got, but was fortunate to only get, only get the one conviction in the 50 months. What's next?

[B]

Billy loves R. Kelly. That's what I took away from that.

[A]

Sounds like Billy has no moral. Billy's just like, yes, I only watch Woody Allen movies.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

I have a Kevin Spacey collection.

[C]

American.

[B]

Waiting on season four House of Cards.

[C]

All right, moving on from Matt Lauer.

[A]

Lives next door to me. Sorry, go ahead.

[C]

Moving on from jail time to the biggest pop star in the world. Taylor Swift released her 12th studio album just recently. The life of a Showgirl. A peek entered into her 21 month eras tour. The 12 tracks on the album takes shots at the industry and fame itself. She also swoons over her fiance Travis Kelce in one of her songs.

[A]

Swoons over particular part of him, Right?

[C]

Yes, that was my next point. In one of the songs titled Wood, she is raunchy and references Kelsey's appendages in the song.

[B]

Hold on, did you say that or did that. Were you reading from a news story?

[C]

A little bit of both.

[B]

No, specifically the appendages oh, that was me. Okay.

[A]

Well done.

[B]

Just needed to know that. R. Kelly.

[A]

So we've gotten to the point with Taylor Swift now where I think people just lose their mind at everything she does. Pro. Incon. Right. I haven't. Have you heard the album?

[B]

I have not. But I do know about the appendage references. Couldn't. Couldn't escape those.

[A]

I did. Like, on TikTok, I saw people are saying, here's my. Here's my impersonation. New Taylor Swift album. And it's like, Travis Kelsey has a beat. Like, it was like. That's the whole. I haven't heard it. But, like, she can have one bad album. Or is it even bad? I don't know.

[B]

I've seen mixed reviews. Most of the people I know, they're die hard Swifties. Of course, they're loving it, but some people out there say it's not very good.

[A]

There are some people I've seen that says she does better music when she's not happy.

[B]

Exactly. She. She. Her best stuff is a good breakup.

[A]

She needs a problem, though. Like, that's a problem with a lot of people I. I've watched over the years. Howard Stern is the best example about this. When he was. When he married Beth and he was, like, fulfilled and happy, his show got worse. But you are happy that he's happy. So would you rather Taylor Swift be happy or shake it off?

[B]

I think she does her best work crying in the corner of her bedroom after breakup. Like, right now. I like Taylor Swift. I don't need to know about Travis's Redwood tree that you're singing about.

[C]

It ain't hard to see. Yeah. His love was the key. I don't need that opened my thighs.

[A]

What? Read that again.

[C]

Redwood tree. It ain't hard to see. His love was the key that opened my thighs.

[A]

That's. Those are lyrics?

[C]

Yes.

[B]

I just don't need to hear that.

[A]

But I mean, to be fair, though, other people do that. Why does she get criticized for it? Like, other people have songs like songs like that because they're open my thoughts.

[B]

Yeah, she's America's sweetheart. The other people, they have a brand. Like, you know, when Cardi B. Is rapping about, you know, her. That. That song, you know, it's just kind of a brand. This is. This is America's couple. This is America's sweetheart.

[A]

Travis Kelsey will be married in 20 years.

[B]

I'll say yes.

[A]

So you think this is. This is.

[B]

He can't. He can't leave her. So he'll. He's. Dead on site the moment he breaks up with her. I mean, that's facts.

[A]

Well, that's probably true.

[B]

He cannot leave. He's too far in. He cannot leave. So she would have to get tired of him. But she's learning football concepts.

[A]

I didn't see that. She was asked why she didn't do the super bowl halftime, and she said it wasn't because of not being able to own the performance. She said, my boyfriend is playing and I'm locked in on him and can't focus on the choreography.

[B]

It's a good answer. It's good. Supportive fiance.

[A]

Is that a good answer? Like, you can't. Like, your husband's playing, so you can't.

[B]

I mean, if she. Assuming he were to get there, if she just truly wants to go as a fan and enjoy the Super Bowl, I wouldn't want to work.

[A]

Have you listened the album, Billy?

[C]

Just the one song.

[A]

Oh, so you only listen to wood?

[B]

Let me learn about that.

[C]

Kelsey meet in remix to Ignition.

[B]

Where's that Kelsey?

[A]

That, by the way, should be the name of your fantasy football team. Kelsey meat.

[B]

Oh, I thought you were gonna say redwood tree.

[C]

Redwood tree.

[A]

So you did. You did go and listen to that song.

[C]

Only because the guy I was playing golf with was playing it in his.

[B]

Oh, the guy you were playing golf? I have more questions.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

So the guy you're playing golf with just like, hey, we're just some. Some bros. Just some boys out here, play a little golf, drinking some brews, listening to Travis Kelsey wood.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And I'll be honest. After wood, I was pretty much over it.

[B]

Did he fill you out? Was he like, hey, man, do you like the Chiefs? There's a song I want you to hear. Learn a little bit more about Travis.

[A]

He just throw it out there?

[C]

No, he just threw it on like we were.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

At least you want to listen it. His little bon. His little bitty bonsai tree. I mean, it's. Guess it's good thing for Travis there are worse things for your fiance to be singing about.

[A]

Yeah, well, I learned a lot from. About Billy during these things.

[C]

Also learn the news.

[B]

It's a big episode. I didn't know most of this.

[A]

Yes. All right, what's next?

[C]

Okay, the top slang Words of 2025 are in.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

What does that mean? Like, this is like, official, the slang words.

[C]

Yeah. Analyzing Google trends.

[A]

Okay, what are they?

[C]

The top six or seven? I wanted to know if you boomers know these.

[B]

These terms better not have any of that bad bunny in there.

[C]

The first one is a winner by far with over 141,000 Google searches. It is 6, 7.

[A]

So I accidentally said this on the air and didn't even know it was a thing and had people come up to me and go, man, I didn't know you knew. Six, seven. And I was like, so I still don't know what that is. What is it?

[C]

According to my research, it means nothing. It is actually just brain rot humor that kids was mentioned in a song and now kids, every time they hear that, they just. It's like an inside joke.

[B]

Six, seven, six, seven.

[A]

Okay, so it doesn't mean anything.

[C]

Yeah, it's just. It's actually a song, a popular song that kids are reenacting.

[A]

Okay, well, that's helpful.

[B]

I keep hearing it be referenced and I'm like, I still know what that means. But I think that is the point.

[A]

The point is it doesn't mean anything. People that are old will try to see what it means and it won't mean anything. And that's funny.

[B]

That's my understanding.

[A]

Okay, so six, seven.

[B]

Six, seven.

[A]

But I'd heard of that one, so I'll count that as a.

[B]

Me too. Eli Manning said it on the Manning cast last week. Week.

[C]

If someone is considered a bop, do you know what that means?

[A]

I mean, I. I think I do, but I'm hesitant to say it in case I'm wrong.

[C]

That means it has. They have a lot of romantic partners.

[A]

That's what I thought.

[B]

That's what I thought around.

[A]

Because they call it like. Like there's like bop houses or whatever. Right?

[C]

I think I've heard that before. Yeah.

[B]

People go bop.

[A]

Yeah. So I'd heard of that one. I'm two for two. All right. What's third?

[C]

Do you know what the huz is?

[A]

The huzz? I do not know what that is.

[B]

I have a guess. Is it like a female?

[C]

It's a term for an attractive girl or someone you want to impress. You got the huzz around you, Matt. You need to act. Right.

[A]

So it's a girl. So like if I want to impress a woman that I think is. She's the huzz.

[C]

That's the huzz.

[A]

See, I would have thought it would have been huzz like husband. Huh. All right, good to know.

[C]

And the opposite is also popular. If somebody is chopped, it means that they're ugly, undesirable, or unattractive.

[A]

I've heard that one. I've heard chopped. Yes, I've heard that. So I don't. I didn't know Huz, but I Know, chopped. That's mean to say someone's chopped.

[B]

Oh, chopped in my house is when Abby picks out six ingredients and I have to make dinner from them. I play Chopped like the TV show.

[A]

Yeah. All right. Anymore, not as cool.

[C]

Yeah. If you call somebody a big back, it means they are physically large or someone who eats a lot of food.

[A]

See, we use the phrase stops the run.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

If somebody is zesty, do you know what that means?

[B]

This is where we need Mario to do it.

[A]

Zesty. See? And after all that. Yes.

[C]

Yeah. Somebody who's lively, exciting, or energetic.

[A]

Zesty, I like. I think zesty is a good phrase.

[C]

If you were doing some glazing, Matt, what would you be doing?

[A]

You'd be kind of like, over complimenting someone.

[C]

Correct, Right. Yeah.

[A]

A lot of people glazed Donald Trump.

[B]

There's a good meme that going around.

[A]

Did you see Van Latham with Scott Jennings talking about that? No. You need to see this guy. You need to see. Van Latham was on, I guess, cnn, and there was. I think it was Scott Jennings and then there was a woman. They were both like Trump supporters. And he was like, do you all ever get tired of glazing Donald Trump? And the woman's like, glazing like donuts. And he was like, yeah, precisely. And Scott Jeans was like, I don't really know. Glazing. And it was. It was just a funny, funny clip.

[C]

Two more. Mogging.

[B]

Don't know what that is.

[C]

It means outdoing someone by being more attractive, skilled or successful. Mogging.

[B]

Somebody never heard that one at all.

[C]

And then phantom tax. It comes from a popular streamer on Twitch. It means to playfully steal somebody's food from their plate.

[A]

Phantom tax.

[C]

Phantom. F A N U M. He's a popular streamer. He has a phantom tax. People's food.

[B]

I don't think he gets to do that. People say, like, you cook, you pay the dog tax. If I go get you food, you pay the Drew tax. I don't think phantom.

[A]

This guy's created a term that just allows him to take food off people's.

[C]

Plates with the younger generation.

[B]

Yes, But I hear this, and it's not. Phantom doesn't get. Other people do this. This is, like, not that uncommon. Like, if I were to get a pizza and I went and delivered it to your house and I took a slice. That's the Drew tax. You know, it's more of, why does Phantom get to take credit for it? Who's this Phantom guy?

[C]

A Twitch streamer.

[A]

All the kids are watching the Twitch stream thing. I Mean, I know it's been around a long time. I mean, I'm now to the point that I know, like, I know I show Speed. Kai Senat.

[B]

Like, is he the biggest guy on the planet? He and Speed, they're huge.

[A]

And they're both tiny. Like, physically tiny. They're both short. I don't know. Phantom. What does he do? Does he play video games?

[C]

Yeah. He is a friend of Kaisannat. They actually live in the same house. So that's part of his popularity.

[A]

That's another thing I don't understand. All these people that make all this money from Twitch. Why don't they want their own houses? They all live together.

[C]

It's content.

[B]

So just constantly streaming.

[C]

Yeah. Better for people to interact.

[A]

So do people just sit and watch them live their lives?

[B]

Yes. Huh. Which is not something I would do, but it is huge.

[A]

I also don't think it's healthy, right, for kids to sit and watch, like, go live yourself.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And they donate a lot of money, too, to these streamers.

[A]

Who does?

[C]

The people watching.

[A]

So people just pay them to exist.

[C]

They will pay them, and then, like, their comment will get flashed on the screen or maybe they have to do something funny if they reach a certain dollar amount.

[A]

Why are we not doing that?

[C]

Mario and I have talked about us streaming.

[A]

We could stream this. Give us a dollar and we'll read something.

[B]

We occasionally get tips on our YouTube streams on, like, KSR Football Podcast. We'll probably get one a show.

[A]

How much is it?

[B]

We've had a couple generous people, but usually it's five or ten bucks.

[A]

Do you ask for them?

[B]

No, never. Never. In fact, I didn't know you could do it till somebody did it. I wouldn't ask for, but it'll pop up. We have someone that's pretty regular. It'll be like, here's $5, and I have a question. And we'll be like, oh, thank you for the tip. So and so, huh?

[A]

Boy, I've been doing this the wrong way.

[B]

No kidding.

[A]

Yeah. All right, well, what's next?

[C]

Well, let's try to make a little money, guys. Remember when Tom hart gave us $5.

[A]

And I'll get time to read your question.

[C]

Remember when Tom Hart told us to invest in Zoom right as the pandemic hit?

[A]

For people who don't know, we were at the SEC tournament. They had just announced the tournament was canceled. And I said, tom, what are we going to do? And he said, if I were you, I would invest my money in Zoom. And I don't even Know, if I'd heard of it at that point, I hadn't. And then it just went through the roof. And Tom himself didn't put any money on it. He told me it's. Now, is it worth less than it was back then?

[C]

I'm not sure how Zoom's doing, but I got a new stock for you, Matt. It's the Build a Bear stock. It's one of the best performing stocks, not only this year, the thing in the mall, but the last five years. The build a bear stock is up 50% since January 1st and up 2000% over the last five years. There's a new term that's being added to the dictionary, actually. It's called kid dalting. Kids. Going into, like, I guess the kids that were born in 1997 that went into Build a Bear workshops now have kids, and they are, you know, appealing to them. There's a lot of promos that are geared towards millennials, and with affordable price points as low as $10, they have a new strategy. They're no longer in malls, but on cruise ships and amusement parks to take care, take advantage of.

[A]

That's interesting. That makes a lot of sense to me, actually. Actually, places where people are kind of trapped.

[B]

Nice pivot.

[A]

That is a good pivot.

[C]

So it's up 2000% over the last five years.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

They're very popular.

[C]

50% since January 1st.

[B]

Also, the Zooms, the pelotons, they're all dead.

[A]

Peloton. Yeah. Way down. I kind of predicted peloton would be, like, at some point, we will go. Why don't we just go outside? Yeah, but Build a bear and open.

[B]

The space for the teddy bears to rise.

[C]

Yeah. It's also a fun process. You stuff the bear.

[A]

Oh, you have to stuff the bear. I thought you just decorated it.

[B]

You literally build a bear.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

That's what you do.

[C]

Put a little heart in it.

[B]

You put a little message in there where you squeeze it.

[A]

That was interrupted. Oh, you can make sounds.

[B]

Sounds.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

The Build a Bear technology is out of control, huh?

[A]

Well, this is a piece of news. I did not know. I had heard some of the other things you said, but I did not know about the build a bear increase. Is there one in Lexington, or. I guess.

[B]

I think the one in Fayette Mall is still open, isn't it? I heard. So did I dream that. I think it is still open.

[A]

It is.

[B]

Think, huh? Might be the only thing that's surviving over there. There's a lot of stuff, and I do it, too, where, like, businesses like as a kid kind of you get older, you get your 40s, and you go backwards a little bit.

[A]

Yeah. Nostalgia.

[B]

I'm playing my Nintendo. People build a Bears Abercrombie stock is like soaring right now from people that couldn't afford it when it was cool in high school.

[A]

Now go out and now they buy it at 45.

[B]

Yeah. Oh, well, a lot of brands like that right now. Makes sense, the nostalgia.

[A]

All right, what's next?

[C]

This, this has happened over the last couple weeks. Egyptians are outraged right now after Officials announced a 3,000 year old bracelet that belonged to an ancient pharaoh was stolen from Cairo's Egyptian Museum and then melted down for gold. Four suspects have been arrested, including a restoration specialist at the museum who confessed to giving the bracelet to a friend who then gave it to a guy at a silver shop.

[A]

So who took it first?

[C]

A restoration specialist that was working at the museum.

[A]

So he just took it, just took.

[C]

It when he noticed and then gave it to somebody else who melted it down.

[A]

I like how you said Egyptians are outraged. Like the whole, whole country is up in arms.

[C]

Yeah, pretty much. The bracelet which contained a lapis lazuli bead, belonged to the pharaoh. Good luck, amenophobe.

[A]

Wow, how brazen to just be like, I'll take this. Be good.

[B]

It's been here for 3,000 years. It's now time for it to leave with me.

[A]

My buddy can melt it down and we can get a Big Mac could.

[B]

Be earring made out of it.

[A]

So there's nothing they could do about it, right? I mean, it's just gone.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

That's actually kind of sad. Do you have any interest in going to Egypt?

[B]

I would definitely go to Egypt. It was on the.

[A]

What was?

[B]

King Tut. They're on the COVID of my social studies book in seventh grade. Used to draw on that. But I would love to go see it in person.

[A]

You know, they say that Egypt and Morocco are the two countries that you go to where people like come up to you the most to try to like scam you, scam you, sell things to you. Cat call women. I don't know this, but if you read like what's the worst place to travel where you'll be just annoyed. People will always say Egypt and Morocco. In Egypt it's got to just be because people are like selling little fake pyramids and all that, right?

[B]

Yeah. I mean if they'll, if they'll steal their own $3000 ring, they'll certainly take whatever you have. 3000 year ring. Excuse me. They'll take whatever you have on you.

[A]

Did they say what it was worth?

[C]

It wasn't a lot. I'd have to look it up again. But it was like less, much, much less than you think they could get.

[A]

See, I would have thought it would have been a million.

[C]

Yeah, it was like, well, wait a.

[A]

Minute, was it not a lot? Just in melted down gold because at that point the history doesn't matter. Or was the actual bracelet not worth.

[C]

While the melted down product is what they sold.

[A]

What is it?

[B]

Guess what it sold for.

[A]

What?

[C]

Like three grand.

[B]

3,000 year old ring.

[A]

I was gonna say. Well, first of all, if it was still the bracelet, I would have said millions of dollars. So if it's just gold, I have no idea what gold goes for. But let's say $8,000.

[B]

This says the bracelet was sold for $4,000. So you stole something that's 3,000 years old for $4,000. That seems like you could get a better reward on your risk there.

[A]

But I've always wondered this about art. When you steal like a famous work of art, in theory they can say, okay, Picasso's art is worth $20 million. But if you steal it and it's known to be stolen, who's buying it? Because they know they're buying stolen property, they can't ever show it or they'll go to prison.

[B]

Rich people on the, on the dark market.

[A]

But, but let's say you buy a stolen work of art. What are you going to do with it?

[C]

Man cave?

[B]

Show it to show it to who? Your other rich friends come over just knowing you have it.

[A]

Like we've talked about this in other. I've. In other things. I don't understand art that people get that they don't show to people. Why are you doing that?

[B]

Oh, when you just keep it safe?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Why?

[B]

It's got to be an ego thing just to know you have it. Just self serving for you.

[A]

So you just sit there and just at night just lay there naked and go, yes, I've got a dolly.

[B]

I have this thing that no one.

[A]

Else in the world, no one else can see it.

[B]

I think you have to have a level of.

[A]

To me, there's no reason to have art if you don't show it to people or show it to yourself.

[C]

Is there no appeal of having something nobody else would have?

[B]

That's what I have to be. Just I have this. You don't. Nani.

[A]

Nanny.

[B]

Boo boo.

[A]

But like, don't you want to look at it?

[C]

Well, I can look at it and so can My wife.

[A]

But.

[B]

But you can look out on Google image search. I can look at my own Lisa right now on my phone.

[A]

You would. So if I said to you, Billy, let's say you were really rich and I said you could have the only like the pair of shoes that Michael Jordan wore for his first game, but you have to put it in a safe and never look at it. Do you want that?

[C]

No, no, not really. Not motivated like that.

[B]

I have to have a level of rich where that money there's just nothing to me.

[A]

Wouldn't have mattered to you.

[B]

Yeah, I'd take it. What else am I gonna do with that?

[A]

Okay, now I'm telling you, someone stole Michael Jordan shoes.

[B]

See, that's where I'm not committing any crimes. But there are people out there that probably get a thrill out of that.

[A]

So this is just gone now.

[C]

So why the outrage for $4,000?

[A]

Just out of curiosity, who have you talked to about the outrage? You said like, Egyptians are outraged. Like, have you been.

[C]

Did you interview some of them Egyptians?

[A]

You did?

[C]

Yeah. It wasn't firsthand, but based on their accounts.

[B]

All right, next week we need an outrage Egyptian on the show. This week we got the play by.

[C]

Play guy, Eric Collins, who is.

[A]

Oh, how's that going?

[C]

It's tough. I mean, FanDuel Sports Network is not very responsive. Charlotte Horns don't even have his number apparently. So, I mean, I don't know how that works.

[A]

All right, well, we'll talk about this tomorrow. But outraged Egyptians, well, that does stink because, you know, when history is gone, it's gone. You're not going to get. I mean, it's going to. Not gonna get back. Do you. Do you like time capsules?

[B]

Yeah. I saw one was open recently in like another country and it got my brain thinking like what we would leave now?

[A]

Usually it feels like when they do open them, it's kind of disappointment.

[B]

Oh, my church had one back in Madisonville and I think we opened it and it was like, oh, here's. Here's a picture of our church. But as a kid, I was like, there's gonna be dinosaurs in here and all kinds of stuff.

[A]

I mean, it's just the same stuff we have just a worse version of it. Yeah, right.

[B]

Maybe we should leave one KSR time capsule.

[A]

I don't know what we put in though. I feel like that's a lot of pressure. I don't know. A draft Kings helmet.

[B]

Yeah, done.

[C]

Not all stolen.

[A]

They have. They are all stolen. I know. Said today, every single one of them got Stolen. The Egyptians think about that. They come into our restaurant. I specifically said, dude, not steal. We have cameras and they steal them anyway. In a restaurant of people who presumably you like us. If you're there, why are you stealing our stuff?

[B]

I don't think the people doing it are actually considering that they're committing theft. Like you wouldn't walk into Target and just take something off the shelf and go to your car.

[A]

What are they considering? They see a helmet and they just walk out with it. What do they think? Do you think they're just there for everyone?

[B]

Just love this radio show, Love the guys, love riding lemon. I'm going to take this keepsake with me to remember him.

[A]

You can't just be like, I'm going to steal these wings. I'm sure they'd want me to have them.

[C]

You sound outraged.

[A]

I am. Just like the Egyptians. All right, what's last? Clayton and Croom was founded on a simple idea. All leather goods should last a lifetime. They make everything, bags, belts, wallets and much more. And the best part, they're doing it right here in Kentucky. You could check them out at clayton and croom.com that c r u m e.com Clayton and croome.com the retail stores in Louisville at 216 S. Shelby St. In Nulu. Quality leather goods built to last. If you're listening all around the country. If you want great leather goods. Clayton and chrome. Clayton and Kroom.com all right, our final one.

[C]

It's a little choose your own adventure here. Would you rather talk about Jimmy Kimmel or Amy McGrath?

[A]

Good question for our national listeners. Should probably do Jimmy Kimmel still on the air, right?

[C]

Still on the air. His suspension was reversed after a few days off the air. Disney pulled his show because of ill timed comments after the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The suspension was met with a lot of concerns about freedom of speech, including Hollywood actors signing an open letter condemning the suspension.

[A]

I'm sure that made an impact.

[C]

But after thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, they suspended him to avoid inflaming a tense situation. But many major networks like nextstar and Sinclair decided not to show the return of Jimmy Kimmel.

[A]

But they've picked him up since then, correct?

[C]

Yeah. Now he is back on the airwaves everywhere.

[A]

So how do you think this really played out? Like not what they've said. Because first of all, the thing that they said was the last straw. I didn't understand why everyone was so upset about it. Like he, you know, like he said, why? What was it he said that Everybody was upset about.

[C]

He characterized the shooter of Charlie Kirk as Max.

[A]

Okay. Which seems it was likely wrong. But are we going to kick everyone off the air that says something wrong? I mean, there would be no one left on the air. Right.

[B]

And didn't he say something about politicizing it?

[C]

Well, yeah, it was all in a state of mind that this shooter was a MAGA guy.

[A]

Okay. And that was incorrect. Incorrect. Okay, but then what?

[C]

Well, I think the, the development was he was going to inflame the situation the next night, that he was going to come on the air and not apologize.

[A]

You believe that?

[C]

I. Yeah, I'm not sure because the.

[A]

The FCC guy went on TV and was like, we can do this the easy way or the hard way.

[B]

That seems like a bit of an over step there.

[A]

Yeah, I mean, that's like a mafia line. We could do this the easy way or the hard way. I mean, what. All right, Ray Liotta, calm down.

[B]

He's gonna have a dead fish on his side.

[A]

So let's assume that's for whatever reason they can say it was so they didn't inflame it. I kind of think it was because the fcc. It happens. So then what is the thought process that leads him to going back on there? Because Trump and all these people are celebrating he's fired, but then they bring.

[B]

Him back and then like a lot of markets didn't carry it for one.

[A]

Night, but then they did after that.

[B]

Okay. I didn't know that they went back to it.

[A]

Yeah, they, they didn't carry his return, which is the night he gets the high ratings. Like, that's the one you should want to carry.

[B]

And when he's actually trying to explain it a little bit.

[A]

Yeah, I know. I'd be fascinated to know what, here's what I think happened. I think the FCC pulled it. It. I hear Jimmy Kimmel. I think they probably are like, like late night TV is probably going to go away in the next few years.

[B]

I used to not miss it. I can't remember a time after late night TVs.

[A]

And so ABC is probably thinking, all right, how do we. At some point we want to get out of this? And here comes this moment that kind of gives them an excuse. Right? Then the FCC guy comes along, is like, ooh, get my goons and come after you.

[B]

Paulie Walnuts is on his way.

[A]

And they're like, oh, no, we don't even necessarily want. We want to end this anyway. Now let's just do it before they get all angry at us. Right. So then they do it. But then I think they underestimate the outrage because companies are all risk averse. At the end of the day, people always talk about companies being woke or being mad. They're risk averse. People do not. Companies are like, we want to make money.

[B]

We want to fly under the radar, not be talked about, not want to.

[A]

Be talked about like this. So then they're like, oh, no, now we've made people mad on the other side. Let's just bring him back. That's what I think happened.

[B]

I think so too. And they pretty much admitted as much with kind of, I guess you would say, caving to the response. They went too far in one direction and then they went swaying back. Now they're just trying to get back in the middle. As you said. Just stop talking about us. We want to get rich in peace and not get any attention.

[A]

That's what I think. That sounds like a sweet. What do you think, Billy?

[C]

I'm not sure.

[A]

Good answer. You're not sure?

[C]

No, no, I'm not sure. There's probably, you know.

[A]

Are you worried about what you're going to say? Are you worried he's going to come after you next?

[C]

No, I hope. Hope I don't get taken off the air. Hope the FCC guy doesn't make me do it the easy way or the hard way or anything like that.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

You know, you mentioned the death of late night television, Colbert. That's gonna happen too. Yeah. So.

[A]

But the Colbert one, I think was because of that merger, all these shows are probably gonna go away. I got no problem. Here's what I got no problem with ABC saying about Jimmy Kimmel. You said something at a time we didn't like. We're tired of you doing that. We're firing you. I actually have no problem with that. Like, you're a pride. It's a company. It's not private, but it's a. It's a publicly traded company. Companies should be able to do what they want and then people should be able to be upset about it if they want. What I don't like is the government getting involved because the moment the government's involved, that's a different thing. That's a different thing because then it's like the force of law. And I don't know why Republicans that were celebrating Ted Cruz was the only one that had a reasonable. He was like, well, if they, if we do this, they'll do it to us. Yeah, they will.

[B]

Can't close that door.

[A]

Which is why you can't do it. You can't do that. So I didn't, I was. The FCC guy was an idiot for saying that. Right?

[B]

Yeah. And to your point about, you know, their company, like everybody wants to talk about freedom of speech. We don't have the freedom to work for abc. No one's saying put him in prison, but if ABC doesn't want him to work there, that's up to abc.

[A]

I agree. But. But if ABC really wanted to let him go, like for real, the FCC screwed it up because then it looked like they were being forced to do it. You know what I mean? Like, let's just say the ABC was just like, we want to get rid of Jimmy Kimmel. They made it to where they couldn't. At least to me.

[B]

Yeah. Like they're caving into the. Well, that weird.

[A]

Easy Kimmel.

[C]

I mean he's, he, he's fine. He's in the same category as Jimmy Fallon.

[A]

See, I don't think Jimmy Fallon's funny. I think Jimmy Kimmel's a little funny.

[C]

You like Colbert?

[A]

I mean, I don't watch any of those shows, but I would probably rank them. Colbert one, Kimmel two, Fallon three. But I wouldn't really watch any of them.

[B]

Probably that's where I am back might have been being younger in the times. I used to just flip back and forth from Leno and Letterman every night.

[A]

Well, I love Letterman.

[B]

Yeah. But I mean I like, like those shows. You, you wanted to see it every night. Now I couldn't tell you the last time I've watched a minute of any of them. Anything that's good is on social media the next morning.

[A]

Isn't it really odd that the co host of the man show has become the spokesman for like liberal comics and.

[B]

Now girls jumping on trampolines.

[A]

How did that happen? Like that's an amazing change. And his co host is like Mr. Conservative.

[B]

I would love a documentary on the Corolla. Kimmel. How they went completely opposite directions but they're still friends. Still friends, still successful in their own ways. But from that show they just went completely different directions.

[A]

I mean they would just have women in skirts jumping on trampolines. And that guy is how it ended every night.

[B]

And now women jump on. That was every night. That was the end.

[C]

And Colbert was a bit the entire time on the Daily show, right?

[A]

Yes. And I actually thought that bit was very funny. Funny. That was him playing a character. I actually thought that was really good. But I don't watch any of these shows really.

[C]

Yeah. Anymore watching Twitch and Kai Sinat, do you watch Twitch? Not. Not often, no.

[B]

So you do not know?

[C]

It's not a.

[A]

No.

[C]

I'll flip it on every now and then.

[A]

What do you turn on?

[C]

It's like when Drew Ski and Kevin Hart was with Kaisanat. That was comedy. That was pretty good.

[A]

But it's just. Who's Drew Ski?

[C]

Who's Drew Ski?

[A]

Is that that sort of chubby comedian, blonde hair? Okay, I've seen him.

[B]

He's funny.

[A]

What's his thing? Like, how'd he get famous?

[B]

He was making sketches.

[C]

His own skits on what, just like TikTok and Vine?

[B]

Yeah, he might have been Vine. Yeah, he might have been a Vine guy.

[A]

So does he do stand up? I've seen him, but I don't.

[B]

He's more skits than stand up.

[C]

I haven't seen stand up of his. But like the collabs in the streaming world are the big things. So like all these athletes will join them.

[A]

I've seen LeBron was there.

[C]

Tom Brady just did something with speed.

[A]

I saw Speed was with Giannis.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

This week.

[B]

Did you see Drew Ski at the NASCAR recently?

[C]

Oh, and in what, whiteface?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Oh, I did see that. Yes, he was.

[B]

And he does the stuff with the Alabama fan about Nothing but the Tide. So he's more. He's not going to stand up and do stand up comedy. He's more skits and bits like that. He's really funny.

[A]

Before we finish here, who do you think as of Today, right now, 2025, today is the funniest person in America. If you were to say who is most likely to make me laugh today, who would it be?

[B]

Aline Bergazzi. But his is very scripted and like true standup. It is like he's got a routine that he does and he doesn't really shy from it, but I would still say him. You know, I've been around him in real life, but I would think he'd still be pretty funny in just day to day.

[A]

You hit it because it's all like scripted, but it is great.

[B]

I will say our friend Aaron Fleener played golf with him and said everything that came out of his mouth for 18 holes was hilarious. Like off the cuff stuff.

[A]

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think it's Shane Gillis just in terms of like laughs. Every time I see him pop up on something mine, it makes me laugh. Like I think he. I also think he's one of the few people who will call out everyone, which I think most people won't do anymore. So I think today I would say him. What about you?

[B]

He's good at the standup and the sketches.

[A]

He is.

[B]

His sketches are really good.

[C]

Shane Gillis is really good on podcast interviews.

[A]

I think he's great.

[C]

I love listening. I can listen to him for hours at a time. I think Drew Ski is probably.

[A]

You're picking Drew Ski?

[C]

Just follow him on Instagram. Just see some of the stuff he posted.

[A]

Do I have to? How many followers does he have? Probably a lot, right?

[B]

I bet he's got a bunch of.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Shane Gillis's Trump is also one of the best trumps.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So he's got a wide range. Drew Ski has 11 million.

[A]

Who's the least funny person that's in a comedic role?

[B]

George Lopez.

[A]

George. I don't know if he's still.

[B]

What? Carlos Mendoza. Mencia.

[A]

Carlos Mendoza, I think plays in the Guardians.

[B]

Well, he's not funny either. Neither one of them are funny.

[A]

You know, for somebody. People think it's funny. Joe Rogan's not funny.

[C]

His stand up's not great.

[A]

No, it's awful. I mean, he's not funny at all.

[B]

I saw Matt Rife in person and if the crowd interactions hadn't been good, then the show would have been terrible now. He got lucky. Some of the people in crowd were great people for him to work with. They had some crazy stories, but if they hadn't been sitting there, I don't think Matt Rife would have been funny whatsoever.

[A]

I think Anthony Jeselnick is really funny. Funny. You still see his podcast ever?

[B]

He's. He's slowly coming back. He was in the canceled territory there for a long time. He was so dark. Oh, his old comedy is dark.

[A]

Dark, yeah.

[B]

But no, I like Jesnick.

[A]

In terms of podcast, the guy that makes me laugh is that Stavros guy.

[C]

Oh, yeah. Big Baltimore Ravens fan.

[A]

He. I don't know about his stand up, but in the podcast form, that guy makes me laugh.

[C]

Louis CK still doing stuff.

[A]

Louis CK is really funny, but it's hard. Like it's back what we were talking about earlier.

[C]

Separate the art from the.

[A]

Can you do that? Because he's definitely funny. I mean, when he and Shane Gillis, they spend like six hours talking about the history of presidents. That's great, hilarious stuff. But you do have the image of him. And I did see an interview with him. Him and Theo Vaughn talking about. They both apparently are like sex addicts.

[C]

Really?

[A]

You all are acting like this is breaking news.

[B]

I was just listening.

[A]

They were talk. They talk about it. I saw this clip on. You should. You should watch it. They both talk about it and how, like, I don't know. I mean, you may not even think that's a thing, but they. They do talk about it.

[B]

One more thing on funny podcast that's not even a comedian and you like it too. The 520 Club podcast. And now they've added Marcus quite a bit. Those guys are so funny.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And they're not comedians, but they could be. They are hilarious.

[A]

And they. They go every day nonstop. Nonstop. I. One of the hardest I've laughed was Club 520 went through the draft like the year that. Like last year after the draft. And they just made fun of all the picks and what they wore to the draft. And it was. It was. You're right. That's really, really.

[B]

They don't hold back on anyone. Like LeBron is not even off limits.

[A]

Yeah. Jeff Teague does not care here.

[B]

And really, Jeff Teague is the great. And his storytelling is good. But their buddy Behen, very funny. He needs to be more famous than he is because he could be his own stand up comedian.

[A]

I agree. Well, good job with the news.

[C]

Thank you.

[A]

Feel like we learned a lot.

[C]

Your new nightly news anchor.

[A]

All right, we'll see you next week.