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The Running Kindergarten Governator
From Arnold Schwarzenegger's remarkable journey to the loss of beloved Gen X icons, this episode takes you through a nostalgic rollercoaster ride that perfectly captures our generation's unique perspective.
Arnold's story is nothing short of extraordinary. Born in Austria to an alcoholic father who favored his brother, young Arnold turned to bodybuilding as an escape. When his parents discovered his walls covered with male bodybuilder posters rather than typical teenage heartthrobs, they assumed he was gay and subjected him to beatings. This early adversity only fueled his determination to reinvent himself in America, where he would transform from champion bodybuilder to Hollywood superstar to California governor.
We can't help but laugh at pre-fame Arnold's appearance on "The Dating Game," where his language barrier led to adorably awkward moments like asking "What does hanky panky mean?" long before he became the action hero we know today. His personal life proved equally dramatic, from his Kennedy family marriage to Maria Shriver to the revelation that he fathered a child with household staff.
The show takes a poignant turn as we reflect on recently departed Gen X icons Ozzy Osbourne and Hulk Hogan. This sparks a deeper conversation about wrestling nostalgia (Macho Man! Andre the Giant! Rowdy Roddy Piper!) and the difficult balance of separating beloved characters from problematic performers. Can we cherish childhood memories of Hulkamania while acknowledging Terry Bollea's troubling statements?
Between dissecting the viral Coldplay "cheaters" scandal and South Park's latest political satire, we showcase the quintessential Gen X ability to find humor in cultural moments while maintaining our skeptical edge. Our generation has always existed in this sweet spot – sentimental about our youth while keeping a critical eye on both past and present.
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Speaker 1:Welcome to Like Whatever a podcast for by and about Gen X. I'm Nicole and this is my BFF, heather. Hello, so on my way here, it takes a little over an hour for us to be together to record this. I was driving down and I listened to last week's episode and man was Pat, a good interview, yes, like holy moly, like I knew in the moment that it was just awesome. But that was the first time I had listened to it and man, he knocked it out of the park. He made us look good for sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we had a good time. It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:It was really fun. I can't wait to have him on again sometime, but I just want to give him a little shout out because nice work and if you haven't listened to last week's episode, you should check it out. Pat Green is an author and his book Hearts of Glass Living in the Real World is out, and it came out on audio last Friday and it is for sale wherever you buy your books online, so check it out.
Speaker 2:If you go to it's barnstormercom right.
Speaker 1:Correct.
Speaker 2:He has autographed.
Speaker 1:Yes, Copies and I got confirmation from him today that my signed copy is in the mail. I'm so excited, yay, yay. So a couple of fun things happened this week. First of all, I cannot get enough of the Coldplay cheaters.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm over it.
Speaker 1:Are you? Yeah, not me, not me, like I think I started to get over it a little bit and then Gwyneth Paltrow came out and did a PR commercial for them. You know she's the ex-wife of Chris Martin and Astronomer hired her to like smooth things over. I just fucking love it, because karma's a bitch man.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I love the dude's soon-to-be ex-wife and she was like I'm not. No, I'm not going to sugarcoat any of this.
Speaker 2:I mean, you really can't come back from it.
Speaker 1:Fuck you, I'm gone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, pretty much. You don't really have much of a choice there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and the memes have died down. I guess Everybody's had their fun, but it was fun while it lasted. Did you see even the Philly fanatic?
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:And the female Philly fanatic did it.
Speaker 2:I have seen all of it.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'll let it go, but I had to bring it up because it was just. Hey, it's your podcast. I freaking loved it, although we just keep hearing about him and how he had to leave his job and blah. Did she get fired? Did she have to leave, like?
Speaker 2:I don't know anything about her.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, she was the head of HR in the same company.
Speaker 2:I don't know. So, Was she married? Yes, oh yeah. I don't know. Was she married? Yes, oh yeah. I don't know Well, she's the head of PR, so she HR or PR HR.
Speaker 1:Oh, so I guess she had to report to herself Monday morning she had a long talk with herself.
Speaker 2:I'm so glad we don't have HR, I'm not going to go there.
Speaker 1:Be good. The other thing from this week that I loved was the South Park episode. Did you watch it? I didn't, because I don't care for South Park. Okay, well, even if you don't like South.
Speaker 2:Park. I have heard about it.
Speaker 1:I know that you have heard about it and when I read like best episode ever, I was like, all right, there are a lot of very good South Park episodes, I don't know, but it really might be the best one ever. And a friend of mine posted something that made a really valid point. I'm pretty sure it was a quote from somebody else, someone's article or something. But that is the way to bring down a tyrant is satire. Yes, to bring down a tyrant is satire. Yes, Like you can say bad things about him and tell what he's doing, even if he's lying about it. But when you make fun of him and it's real, like they made him very heavy set, they made his wiener like the size of my pinky and he climbs in bed with Satan and it's I know my uh, my favorite podcast said that they didn't think that was fair to satan well in.
Speaker 1:In all fairness, satan really wasn't into him. He was laying there like, and trump would jump in bed and be like, come on, satan, come on, you know, running his finger up and down his arm, say it and be like, meh, nah, it was really great. And then, at the very end, um, they want south park to apologize and to do some sort of um, like marketing for trump, uh, to show that they're sorry. So it's Trump out in the desert and it starts in a suit and he's walking and he's like, or the narrator is saying something about how much he loves this country and he'll do anything for it, and blah, blah, blah and he's stripping down as he's walking and it shows him crawling with his flat, fat ass, like, and he finally falls down and it shows like his little wiener stand up. It's just, it's so good. I love South Park, though.
Speaker 2:I had a Facebook argument for like three or four days. Oh, your favorite.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:I do love a good Facebook argument with a friend of mine who I used to work with at fedex and it was just infuriating because it was over the epstein files and through literally every other distraction in the world, and I kept saying that's beside the point of what I because the meme I posted was something about like, um oh, if this was a, if you know there's democrats on the thing, yeah, I know, I know who's on it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know who's on it, right, and they all know who's on it. They need to be punished just the same as everybody else.
Speaker 2:Every one of them should be punished, and they were like oh, because I've seen a lot of people well, what if Obama's on it? I mean, he's not probably, but if he is, then he should be. I'm not a.
Speaker 2:I bet my left arm that he is not on that list also, but I'm just saying that everybody on that list should be punished. Yes, and then it was just back and forth with this and then it was like, oh well, he just hangs out with other billionaires. I wish you could see my face right now, because it's just come on I mean come on and his, his whole. That was well. My wife was an addict, but that doesn't make me an addict. Did you fly to a pedophile island with her?
Speaker 1:no, although, yeah, when they asked him if he had gone there did you see this week? He said he never had the privilege of being invited there. I'm like, wow, I mean his PR. People must just stand with their head in their hands constantly, although nobody seems to care. So I mean, maybe there is still a lot. There is.
Speaker 2:There is a big pushback from them.
Speaker 1:And Scotland has been amazing. Did you see the front cover of their newspaper the day he showed up?
Speaker 2:And then all the protesters, and then the bagpiper that played louder than trump was talking when he was trying to talk publicly and I hate a bagpipe, but I just I mean I I'm not gonna because we're gonna go on yeah, we could talk the whole hour about this where I don't want to go I I just my only thing is I just really hope this doesn't blow over like everything else does, because I have lost hope in there being any consequences.
Speaker 2:We're only eight months in, like we got another three and a half years of this. It's we're only. I can't. It's like unbelievable that we're only eight months in this much, this much damage?
Speaker 1:yes, and I will tell you, I used um the information you shared last week in the all day training I was in today for work um, the first um speaker talked about um suicide prevention and how to help people with that.
Speaker 1:So she kept bringing up 988. So at the end of her spiel I raised my hand and I was like, because a lot of us counselors work with high schoolers, so I was like, for those of you that are working with anybody in the LGBTQ plus community, just know that the option is not there on 988 anymore, and some people knew, some people were very shocked. And I talked about the Trevor Project and somebody else mentioned that Canada is also picking up some of the slack for us Good for Canada. God bless Canada, I know.
Speaker 2:I hope they are excited that I'm going to be moving there. I'm going to fucking Canada. I don't care, hey, because I can't take this goddamn heat. It's hot, it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 1:I mean, this is the heat. The weather here is the reason you don't go to Florida in the winter or in the summer. This is awful, it's horrible.
Speaker 2:We are in our fifth heat wave and our breaks in heat waves have been like a day, although this weekend is supposed to be super nice. But I just I was telling Nicole earlier I had sweat dripping in my eyes and it was burning me so bad I couldn't see. And it's hard to do your job when you have to read things and you have sweat dripping in your eyes.
Speaker 1:You need one of those like terrycloth headbands. I know I have a hat no, not a hat that covers the top of your head and holds your heat in, I know, but it also blocks the sun out a little bit.
Speaker 2:You need a visor. I'm never going to wear a visor.
Speaker 1:We've both had the Grim Reaper on it. Never, I don't care.
Speaker 2:That's never going to happen. You will never catch me in a visor.
Speaker 1:I can't wear hats because I have a big head, but I like a visor.
Speaker 2:You can like a visor all you want.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But that shit is not going on, this noodle.
Speaker 1:All right, get sweating your eyes.
Speaker 2:I would rather be blind than wear a visor. You could wrap a bandana around your head, I could, but again, the hat. I got a floppy hat and it blocks the sun out from my eyeballs.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Does it have the little vents in the top?
Speaker 2:Yes, it does. Oh, okay, it's a North Face and it has vents that you just oh, and then you could put ice pack in it. I could, probably I didn't think of that, freeze your brain? Yeah, I don't know. Today I would have probably done whatever you wanted me to do to not be hot anymore. I would have murdered whoever you wanted me to. I would have murdered for hire for an ice pack.
Speaker 1:That's all it would have taken earlier today my kingdom for an ice pack. I do want to talk about Happy Gilmore 2.
Speaker 2:Okay, I watched Happy Gilmore 2. But she's not going to tell too much because I haven't watched it yet. I'm not going to say anything about it. And Happy Gilmore 2. Okay, I watched Happy Gilmore 2.
Speaker 1:But she's not going to tell too much because I haven't watched it yet. I'm not going to say anything about it and Happy Gilmore is one of your favorite movies ever.
Speaker 2:right it is hands down one of my favorite movies of all time.
Speaker 1:So for you to say that the second one was excellent.
Speaker 2:It was good. It was everything it was good. Yeah, it was good, I'll just say that, but it was. I was nervous and I had been hemming and hawing about it and I ended up watching it Was it. Last night I watched it. No, yes.
Speaker 1:I don't know. No, it wasn't last night it might have been Sunday. Saturday or Sunday I watched it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was good, it was good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my daughter and her husband watched it. They loved it too. I know I daughter and her husband watched it.
Speaker 2:They loved it too I know I'll love it because half of trey and tav are in there, so oh, trap trap, yes.
Speaker 1:Tay and travis, yes. I'm pretty sure I said that wrong the first time.
Speaker 2:He is actually pretty funny in it, yeah yeah, with a bad bunny I've seen little.
Speaker 1:I've been trying to not look at it, but he's been like blowing up the internet with pictures of him and Taylor, so I'm not missing anything he posts these days and there's a lot of.
Speaker 2:Of course, there's a lot of cameos, because that's what I'm saying, and Adam Sandler puts everybody in every movie yep um his dog. Both his daughters are in it, his wife are in it.
Speaker 1:His wife is in it. I heard he paid tribute to Chris Farley and the kid yes.
Speaker 2:And the kid.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yep, I can't remember that kid's name, but he was in a couple's retreat. Yeah, the one where they all go into the woods. Yes, into cabin. Shit, grownups or something like that yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, which is one of my favorite movies.
Speaker 2:I just I don't know how you. It's not. It's grown up, adam Sandler.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, gotcha, that's not as. Right, I mean, but my favorite, my favorite, and I will say it all the time. I say it all the time. When I learn to do something, or I've done something well and nobody thought I could, or whatever, I always say oh happy, learn to pot. That's my go-to. I say it all the time.
Speaker 1:Don't you see, dion? He's got cancer. He had his bladder removed.
Speaker 2:I'm going to keep my opinions to myself on that one. Okay, you know how, I don't care for.
Speaker 1:Oh, I don't care for him either, but it's still pretty wild, sure, okay, anyway, like share rate review. If you listen and you love it, give us those five stars. You can find us wherever you listen to podcasts. Follow us on all the socials at LikeWhateverPod, we are on YouTube at LikeWhatever, and you can send an email to LikeWhateverPod at gmailcom. You can. This week, my sources come from Rankercom, dailymailuk, popsugarcom, dailymailuk, popsugarcom, biographycom, colandercom and, of course, a little wiki, because I always have to include that. Um, so let's fuck around and find out about Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnold, so Arnold's full name is Arnold Aulosis Schwarzenegger, and I did look that up and spelled out phonetically for myself.
Speaker 1:Because I was like there's no way I'm getting that right. It's only five letters, but no way. He was born July 30th. Oh, tomorrow's his birthday. Look at that Coincidence, I think not 1947. Look at that Coincidence, I think not 1947,. He was born in Thal, austria. He was married to Maria Shriver from 1986 to 2021. He has children named Catherine, christina, patrick, christopher and Joseph, and his astrological sign is a Leo. Good to know. I leave that in there, because all three of my kids are Leos. Yes, they are. So growing up with them was, or having them grow up was, a lot sometimes.
Speaker 1:Anyway, schwarzenegger's childhood was far from ideal. His father, gustav, was an alcoholic police chief and one-time member of the Nazi party, who clearly favored Arnold's brother, meinhard, over his gangly, seemingly less athletic younger son, oops, which sounds crazy. As an escape, schwarzenegger turned to the movies, in particular those of Reg Park, a bodybuilder and star in B-level Hercules movies. The films also helped propel Schwarzenegger's own obsession with America and the future he felt awaited him there. Getting to his new country was the issue.
Speaker 1:Schwarzenegger found his answer in Joe Weider, the man behind the International Federation of Bodybuilding, an organization that sponsored contests such as Mr Universe and Mr Olympia. Wider loved Schwarzenegger's bravado, sense of humor and the potential he saw in the young bodybuilder. Wider's instincts couldn't have been more dead on. In all, schwarzenegger would win an unprecedented five Mr Universe titles and seven Mr Olympia crowns during his bodybuilding career. Bodybuilding's never been anything. I really I don't get it. I don't get it. I just all the way around I don't get it. Yeah, and I'm not knocking anybody who does it, but it just it's perfectly fine, if you like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't get it.
Speaker 2:It's so much work I don't. You can't eat anything. Yeah, yeah, and you have to exercise like all the time.
Speaker 1:I walked once last week and thought I did something.
Speaker 2:I'm just going to be fat forever.
Speaker 1:Equally significant, schwarzenegger, who immigrated to the United States in 1968, helped propel the sport into the mainstream, culminating in the 1977 documentary Pumping Iron, which tells the tale of Schwarzenegger's defense of his Mr Olympia crown. He became a US citizen in 1983. Schwarzenegger made the move over to the big screen after a few small parts. Schwarzenegger received the Golden Globe Award for Best Newcomer for his performance in Stay Hungry in 1976. With his immense physical strength and size, schwarzenegger was a natural for action films. He became a leading figure in several popular 1980s action movies, includingan the barbarian in 1982. Uh its sequel, conan the destroyer in 1984. Uh. Schwarzenegger also starred as a deadly machine in the future in terminator in 1984 and later reprised the role for terminator 2, judgment day, in 1991. I didn't realize they were that far apart it is quite a difference.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the Terminator 3, Rise of the Machines was in 2003. Additional action flicks from the actor's heyday include Commando in 1985, Predator in 1987, the Running man in 1987, which is one of my all-time favorite movies Total Recall in 1990, and True Lies in 1994. I like True Lies. That is a very good one too.
Speaker 2:That's the one with Gary Oldman, right?
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm, no offense to Arnold, but I love me some Gary Oldman. He also used his oversized physique to comedic effects in Twins twins in 1988, which was with danny devito, and in kindergarten cop in 1990 which was a super cheesy movie. But speaking of his acting um, when I think of Arnold and Gen X, I think of Hans and Franz on Saturday Night Live. We're here to pump you up In the sketch.
Speaker 1:Carvey and Nealon play a pair of muscle-bound Austrian bodybuilders in the mold of Arnold Schwarzenegger, using padding for fake muscles, drab gray sweatsuits, weight belts and speaking with Austrian accents. The background of the set includes several life-size cutouts of Schwarzenegger during his competition years. The sketch's introductory and ending music featured mock Austrian yodeling. Pumping Up primarily consists of Hans and Franz denigrating others for not being strong and as physically fit as they appear to be. Striking bodybuilders poses to show off their muscled bodies, complete with strained facial expressions. Schwarzenegger made one guest appearance in the skit, to much applause, in which he ridicules his cousins for being girly and weak. Another sketch was done in response to recent sports news, where the Saturday Night Live editorial showed Hans and Franz barking back at a recent remark by Jimmy the Greek that African men were more apt to be muscular than European men. One sketch that did not have the pair in their signature sweatsuits and leather belts was a halloween episode.
Speaker 1:Hans and franz both dressed up as their idol arnold schwarzenegger, with hans as the titular character from the first terminator film and franz as the t-800 from the terminator 2 judgment day. The two compared how their Terminators were tougher than derived their derived other girly costumes, even a boy who was Superman. Rather than hand out high sugar candy, hans and Fros gave treats of vitamin C pills, coconut oil and bee pollen to encourage kids to stay in shape. That was just absolutely one of the best gets ever. All right, so now a little bit about his personal life, specifically Maria Shriver. Off screen, schwarzenegger continued his remarkable story marrying into the Kennedy family in 1986 by tying the knot with Maria Owings Shriver, daughter of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and her husband R Sergeant Shriver. According to People, a mutual friend introduced the two at a tennis tournament in 1977. They began dating shortly after and Schwarzenegger proposed eight years into their relationship.
Speaker 2:Have you ever heard? As an aside, do you know? I mean, we all know the Kennedy curse, but did you know that there is a Kennedy who had a lobotomy and it went horribly bad?
Speaker 1:Rose Kennedy Rose. Yeah, that's so sad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's so sad.
Speaker 1:And she just had mental health issues she should have never had it. No because she was basically a vegetable.
Speaker 2:Well, because what happened was is they didn't want her. From what I remember about the what I was watching she when she was being born. They didn't want her born, so they tried to keep her in. Yeah did.
Speaker 1:She think she's staying there forever pushing her back in. So she, because they didn't, they were waiting for somebody to get there.
Speaker 2:One of the kennedys, yeah, so yeah, she lost oxygen and she was like half in and half out and then, yeah, that's what happened to her and then she had yeah yeah, and then nobody ever came to. Yeah, they just shoved her in a mental institution. She's a very, very sad story. It is really sad. You should look it up sometime. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:In May 2011,. The couple announced their decision to separate after Schwarzenegger's acknowledgement that he fathered a son, joseph Boehner, with Mildred Boehner a member of the family's household staff. Schwarzenegger and Shriver finalized their divorce in 2021.
Speaker 2:I can't believe, it's only that, that it was only that long ago. Yeah, four years ago.
Speaker 1:I know it's really weird. Yeah, and I think that son he had out of wedlock. Is he the actor? No, that's Patrick Schwarzenegger. That was in White Lotus. No idea, yeah, he's an actor. He's actually handsome, all right. So there was a time that Arnold Schwarzenegger was the governor of California.
Speaker 2:Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1:Now you do.
Speaker 1:I didn't know that. I know you did. In 2003, schwarzenegger threw his hat into the ring for the California governor's race and won a seat in a special election. In a state that was mired in severe budget woes, the newly elected Republican governor promised to bring economic stability to his adopted state. As expected, schwarzenegger brought his own unique brand of confidence to his new job. If they don't have the guts, I call them girly men. I know I didn't even feel right putting in here that he kept calling everybody girly, because what's wrong with being a girl, but that's how he talked back then, um, and probably still does, but anyway, uh, he said of democrats say it to my face bitch, yeah, bitch, you want to see girly yeah, I got you girly right here.
Speaker 1:that's right. Uh, he said of democrats early in his first term they should go back to the table and fix the budget, which is so funny to me because we're always financially better when we have Democrats in power.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yes, you know why? Because they tax everybody, because we have more money coming in than going out which I don't know. If you're aware of this, that's how businesses run well. The whole point is to have more coming in and going out. Yes, yes, okay, thanks for clearing that up, no problem. Economics 101.
Speaker 1:In addition to focusing on the state's financial situation, governor Schwarzenegger worked to promote new businesses and protect the environment. In 2006, he easily won his bid for reelection. Throughout his political career, schwarzenegger credited former US President Ronald Reagan as a personal inspiration, which is not shocking, since they basically took the same path. Remembering his early years in the United states, schwarzenegger once said I became a citizen of the united states when reagan was president, and he is the first president I voted for as an american citizen. He inspired me and made me even prouder to be a new american. I guess, yeah, I mean yeah, somebody's gotta like him. True story.
Speaker 1:His second term in office did not run as smoothly, however, as Schwarzenegger struggled to help the state through difficult financial times because he screwed up the economy in his first term. After leaving office in January 2011, he sought to revive his career in the entertainment industry. In March of that year, schwarzenegger announced plans to work with famed comic book creator Stan Lee on a new animated series inspired by his time in office. Now, I am a huge Stan Lee fan and I had no idea what they were talking about when I read that, so I was like I need to do some more research on this. So out of the Stan Lee Schwarzenegger collab came Superhero Kindergarten. One of Stan Lee's final creations was an animated superhero show for kids.
Speaker 1:The show Stan Lee's Superhero Kindergarten stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as Arnold Armstrong, aka Captain Fantastic, a former superhero who lost his powers after a showdown with the evil Doctor Superior. The pair's battle caused six nearby babies to be affected by residual superpowers and five years later, arnold is tasked with being their kindergarten teacher and superhero mentor. Five years later, arnold is tasked with being their kindergarten teacher and superhero mentor. The show is filled with Arnold-specific jokes for adults, like announcing I'll be Buck, which comes with a wink at the camera, animated Stanley cameos and references to both Marvel and DC superheroes, such as Captain America and Shazam. So basically, it's the perfect show for superhero-loving parents and their kids to enjoy together. Yeah, had you ever heard of that?
Speaker 1:I've never heard of it, yeah me neither, and it's on a channel. The only place you can see it is with a K cartoon with an explanation point. So I'm thinking that must be foreign, probably Because I've never heard of that. Yeah, I'm thinking that must be foreign, probably Because I've never heard of that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm not a superhero.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like superheroes and I like Stan Lee and I can't believe I just never even heard of it.
Speaker 1:But anyway, schwarzenegger made headlines again later in 2012 when he admitted for the first time to having an affair with his Red Sonya co-star, bridget Nielsen, in the mid-1980s, while he was dating and living with Maria Shriver. Nielsen had written about the adulterous relationship in her 2011 memoir you Only Get One Life, but Schwarzenegger didn't publicly confirm Nielsen's account until the fall of 2012, when his memoir Total Recall was published. So that got me thinking. Well, that's around the time she was with Stallone. So was she banging Schwarzenegger and Stallone at the same time? I have no doubt, so I went and did some research.
Speaker 1:Bridget Nielsen was 21 at the time and married to husband Casper, with a baby son named Julian, and she says she knew her marriage was over already, but her affair with Schwarzenegger meant there was no going back. The blonde beauty became a regular in the headlines in 1985 when, after Red Sonja came out, she began dating Sylvester Stallone. The couple married within months and appeared in two films, rocky IV and Cobra, before divorcing in 1987. In her book, bridget describes her brazen approach to meeting the actor, who she describes as the sexiest, most delicious man I'd ever seen.
Speaker 2:Okay, bridget, let's calm down, Get down a notch.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, of course I love Sylvester Stallone and of course I have a crush on him, but the most delicious man I've ever seen.
Speaker 2:No, no, oh, speaking of the most delicious man I've ever seen, did you see that Alice Cooper and Johnny Depp did a tribute to Ozzy?
Speaker 1:No yeah.
Speaker 2:At Alice Cooper's show, johnny Depp came out and they did Crazy Train. I'm pretty sure it was Crazy Train. Maybe it wasn't Crazy Train, I don't know, because I was just. I could only pay attention to Johnny. It's only one thing I can do.
Speaker 1:So now it's time for fun facts, fun facts.
Speaker 2:We need to get a thing for that.
Speaker 1:Fun facts we do Before, just fun facts becomes what it is.
Speaker 2:That's lame.
Speaker 1:It is, although we're pretty lame. So true story. It was actually kind of hard to find fun facts on Arnold Schwarzenegger. I had to read a lot of lists of like. I had to actually type in like hilarious things about Schwarzenegger because the first couple are just kind of sad and depressing. Well, the first one's okay, but anyway, when Schwarzenegger was only 21 years old he was working in Hollywood and had several bodybuilding awards, but he was already a pretty successful businessman. In 1968, he opened a bricklaying business alongside fellow bodybuilder Franco Colombo. The business took off for two reasons the pair had excellent marketing skills, which helped to boost sales, and the devastating 1971 San Fernando earthquake made their particular kind of business one that was suddenly in demand. The pair made over a million dollars. I did not know that that is a fun fact.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I'll bet you that there is a third reason they were successful because these two buff-ass guys showed up shirtless in your yard. I bet a lot of women hired them. That's true, that's very true. Yeah, not my thing, but a lot of people like it.
Speaker 2:I think there's a moving company that does that Shirtless yes Do you remember, back in the day there were topless maids yes, I do remember that I didn't have one, but yes, and. I never did it, I don't like to clean that much, so that already put me out it wasn't about being shirtless. I don't care about it, I don't have no boobs anyway, that's not a big deal. But I don't want to clean. I want to clean my own house.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I bet that's still a thing, but it's probably very low key now, I think, so, yeah, probably more of a prostitution kind of thing, or you have to have, probably a lot of money to have a topless maid.
Speaker 2:Yes, and topless maid probably has two other things besides clean the house. Yeah, if you people would like and share and everything, and we got famous.
Speaker 1:then we could find out for you how much topless maids cost Although are they called maids anymore? Is there more politically correct?
Speaker 2:Housekeeper, housekeeper or cleaning lady, because there was that show called the Cleaning Lady, yeah, so I'm not sure what the proper terminology is. What's politically?
Speaker 1:correct. I'm not sure what the proper terminology is. What's politically?
Speaker 2:correct? I'm not sure. I'm pretty sure it's not maids.
Speaker 1:I'm pretty sure it's not either because I think in hotels it's housekeeping and then I think it's like cleaning ladies or cleaning crew, or because I feel like I know that they have like a domestic servant. That sounds awful yeah, that sounds, that sounds like slavery.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, I'm sure I think it pretty much is probably um in the 1970s, a little show hit the airwaves called the incredible hawk, and it boosted lou farigno into superstardom. While farigno may have won the part in the end, he had some tough competition. Schwarzenegger was up for the role when he was just trying to get his career as an actor going. He ended up losing the role to ferragno largely because of his height. Schwarzenegger isn't a short man by any means, as he stands at six foot two, but that wasn't tall enough for the producers of the show. Ferragno stands three inches taller than schwarzenger.
Speaker 2:I did not know how tall Lou Ferrigno was.
Speaker 1:I didn't either, and I didn't think he was that tall, because they make him just look average when he's just a guy, and I always just assumed.
Speaker 2:Because he was on. What show was he on in like the 90s?
Speaker 1:Was it? It was, it was the King of Queens, king of Queens, yep.
Speaker 2:And Was it? It was King of Queens and he was Lou Ferrigno on that show. That was one of my favorite shows.
Speaker 1:I love Lou Ferrigno. I love the King of Queens. He's deaf, he is.
Speaker 2:Good times.
Speaker 1:Just like Jenny in Hearts of Glass. Yes, good callback.
Speaker 2:By author. Good callback, good job. Packering, that's a good one, that's good, nice Thanks. I love the Incredible Hulk and I can honestly say that here in the last six months or so I feel like the Incredible Hulk Because I feel it physically changing into a Hulk. I haven't turned green yet, but we're getting there, it's coming, it is coming.
Speaker 1:Well, you're tan, which is very weird for you, I know Maybe that's your green and on my way here.
Speaker 2:oh my God, I was like I was so close. It was awful. The trip here oh my God, I was like I was so close, it was awful. The trip here not good. The road rage was out of control.
Speaker 2:Because I'm not allowed to have road rage in my job? No, I can't. You absolutely cannot, and people are such assholes they will cut you off, they give you the finger. Look bro, I'm in the most recognizable vehicle besides UPS and FedEx and Amazon, and you don't know what I'm doing here Exactly Like you know where I'm going and if you pay attention you can see the next mailbox, so you know, probably going to go there.
Speaker 2:And you're doing a whole like five miles an hour Exactly so, precious so when I get in my own car I'm like, oh, I hate all of you, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then you can't road rage in that, because then you'll lose your license and then you can't do your job.
Speaker 2:I never thought of that. That's what I'm here for, but then I could go to jail.
Speaker 1:Oh I know, three hots and a cot. I love that idea. They don't even make you go outside that much.
Speaker 2:I know I'm going to put on death row. Do we have death row anymore here?
Speaker 1:I think we have death row, but not the death penalty yeah. I want the death penalty. You got to go to like Texas or Florida, for that, especially Texas.
Speaker 2:It's really hot there, though, like all the time it's really hot here, I know, but not all the time. True, but you'll be in jail.
Speaker 1:Do they have air conditioning? Probably, probably, yeah, I bet they do. We'll find out, all right. Next fun fact that was not fun, but crazy, just crazy. Arnold Schwarzenegger's parents thought he was gay when he was a young man. This wasn't something that was as accepted back then as it is now. Not that a lot of kids have a good time with it now and they would beat him for it. The reason they believe that had to do with the posters he put all over his room, wanting to become a bodybuilder himself. He put up posters of other men who competed in the sport, like how fucking dumb were his parents seriously I mean, and didn't you say his dad was an alcoholic cop?
Speaker 2:yeah, I mean that. There you have it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe ask your kid, while he has all his pictures up, and he'd be like I want to be a bodybuilder. Oh, okay, you know, rather than beat the shit out of him all the time, but what do I know? Anyway, seeing this, his parents assumed he was attracted to men, since other boys his age put up posters of women, so so they beat him.
Speaker 1:The actor who once portrayed a dangerous cyborg spoke about the issue in an interview with 60 Minutes, when he mentioned that his father ran after me with a belt and beat me, which he expanded on with his thoughts of his mother's approach. I don't know if mom thought I was gay or if she just thought there was something off and let's catch it early. She asked the doctor, can you help me? I don't know, thought there was something off and let's catch it early. She asked the doctor, can you help me? I don't know if there's something wrong with my son, because his wall is full of naked men. All of Arnold's friends have pictures of girls above their bed and Arnold has no girls. So for those of you who are like why do gay kids struggle, there's a little glimpse, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So yeah, that was. That was kind of actually made me feel really sad for him because he wasn't even gay, but yeah, I don't know. All right, before finding Next fact Before finding success in film, schwarzenegger was able to score some work on television in 1973, the year I was born. The Oak appeared, by the way, the Oak was his nickname back in the day. That was in some of the stuff I read, but I didn't include it anywhere. The Oak appeared as a contestant on the new dating game where men and women are tasked with choosing a prospective partner from behind a partition. Schwarzenegger was a tad soft-spoken, referring to each contestant as girl, and yet he tried very much to play into the game. Responding with that sounds sexy when one contestant suggested they should go to Venus Sounds cold or hot. It's very hot. Sounds like there's very little oxygen there.
Speaker 2:Probably wouldn't be so sexy. Does not sound like a good time.
Speaker 1:Doesn't sound sexy, for sure, unless you're into that kind of thing.
Speaker 2:There's no kink shaming here. We listen and we don't judge.
Speaker 1:We don't. But when the actor was reading off the card and asked his questions, the audience would crack up. What does it mean, hanky panky, he asked. When she told him it was like playing around, all he could say was playing around with what See? Language barriers are so cute sometimes. Yeah, all he could say was playing around with what See? Language barriers are so cute sometimes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, poor Arnold.
Speaker 1:I wonder what he called Hanky Panky, because I'm sure he was doing that, Although he was very intensely into his, and he was on steroids which.
Speaker 2:Was he actually on steroids, or we don't know, or we're just assuming. I think it's safe to assume, I mean probably Especially if he was a puny kid, yeah, probably. But anyway, more importantly, I think that they try and keep their. They keep it tight, yeah, like it's a discipline.
Speaker 1:Right, I don't think they have time. No, outside distractions yeah, I don't think they have time for that, right, nonsense.
Speaker 2:Yeah, nobody got time for that.
Speaker 1:So that's all I have today for Arnold, but we did want to save a little time at the end here, because Gen X had a bit of a rough week and we got to touch on it last week, but we had our special guest and we really, really wanted to talk to him, so we want to just pay tribute to what's happened this past week.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So, Ozzy.
Speaker 2:You know Well. Malcolm Jamal Warner first Was a I mean, I guess we all probably knew Ozzy was coming. And then you know the Hulkster which I did see someone say, terry Baleo, who what is his actual name? Is a horrible, racist jackass of a human being. He is but Hulk Hogan. Correct Is not jackass of a human being, he is but hulk hogan correct, is not.
Speaker 1:That's the tough part with all this because, as gen x, hulk hogan's amazing. Like the character hulk hogan, I mean, he was just revolutionary and my dad was really into pro wrestling. It's something that we bonded over. I knew everybody. Randy, macho, man, savage and elizabeth were my absolute favorites.
Speaker 2:Um yeah, and then just the whole hawk mania was just a sensation well, we used to have um captain lou albano used to eat in our restaurant all the time because he had a house in bethany, that's right, I remember.
Speaker 1:But yes, we can't say all that without saying he was a huge Trump supporter.
Speaker 2:And a big racist.
Speaker 1:Very racist.
Speaker 2:I mean, he's from Florida, it's not like it's a big surprise.
Speaker 1:Right. But I mean you're growing up around athletes and the public. You would think that would make you less racist, but I guess everybody's different depends.
Speaker 2:I don't know I just feel like sometimes it's hard you have to separate the art, like that's where we struggle separating the art from the artist, so separating call cogan from terry and, like when we were talking about before, separating mar Manson from whatever his dumbass name is.
Speaker 2:I know it, brian something, but I can't remember it right off the hook and I think that's part of the problem is you have to like deal with separating the art from the act. Like how do I enjoy Marilyn Manson and still know that he's an asshole and did terrible things?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's really, really tough having to come to grips with that, but I take a pretty hard stand on things, no matter what I think of you. Once I find out you're a bad person, I'm pretty much done, but I'm a very cut and dry like Black and white. Yeah, I mean when Target dropped DEI, I don't care if I did a car side pickup once a week. Boom, that was it Done. I will shop somewhere else. It's funny. Today I was talking to someone during our all day training.
Speaker 1:She's very bent out of shape about her all day training it's just such a long day and I don't like sitting for that long, like my back starts to hurt and it's just so. Then I have to get pretend like I have to go pee for the 57th time just so I can get up and walk around. But try not to yawn, try not to close your eyes Like it's. It's very hard, but my friend I was. I was saying that something about McDonald's had dropped DEI. She's like you know what was my hardest? And at the same time we said Target. She's like, yeah, I can't go there anymore, but ugh.
Speaker 2:I don't know if I could drop.
Speaker 1:McDonald's? I wouldn't expect you to. I mean, mcdonald's is one of the like five foods that you eat.
Speaker 2:McDonald's has become part of my soul and yes, yes, and it is your absolute favorite. Plus, I'm not telling other people to do with it yeah, you know that's, that's just me um well, I mean going back to deon sanders because I hate him so much. Right, I will not go to jiffy lube ever, ever again. And I have never stepped foot in a pizza hut okay since he did.
Speaker 2:I won't, I just won't do it. I hate him Because he was the reason that Eagles fans ended up all over freaking ESPN over the Michael Irvin. It wasn't because he broke his back, it was because Dion was on the sidelines acting like a jackass. How do I know this, you ask? Because I was on the sidelines acting like a jackass. How do I know this? You?
Speaker 2:asked because I was at the game and I saw what happened and he eyewitness account yeah, a hundred percent. He was being a jackass on the sidelines and getting the crowd fired up on the other side of the field yeah, where. And so those people, because it was at the vet, could not see clear across the vet A, because the vet was a terrible venue.
Speaker 1:It wasn't, I loved it.
Speaker 2:And B, because they didn't know what was going on. They cut all the cameras and stuff and all you could see was him laying on the field, and of course you know he's a cowboy and it was him laying on the field and of course you know he's a cowboy and it was taking longer. So that's fucking Dion was over there, yeah.
Speaker 1:I can't stand him either, and it breaks my heart what he's turned this poor kid into, because that kid has talent and he's never going to get anywhere.
Speaker 2:Because Dion's a jackass.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because he's exactly like his father and that's not going to fly in the NFL.
Speaker 2:I, because he's exactly like his father and that's not going to fly in the NFL. I'm sorry. I mean, I get it. I don't have to go to Pizza Hut anymore and it was really not that hard of a struggle to stay away from Pizza Hut.
Speaker 1:Did you see that Jalen Hurts actually did a commercial?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Sprite and it's actually kind of cute yeah.
Speaker 2:They were talking on Philly News about how weird it is because he just does, he's all business. But it's actually a really cute commercial. Can we talk about the ring for a sec? Oh yes, oh boy, that is a ring.
Speaker 1:Stunner, stunner, like for them to get that much information on one. I say little ring. It's a huge ring, but it's still just a ring. I mean the flag of Brazil is on the inside of it.
Speaker 2:I was there by the way, 145 diamonds for the points in the playoffs, two Lombardi trophies. The wings pop out. Shut your mouth. I know I want one, I do too, but I don't think I mean I, you can probably get it, I don't know. I wonder if they make ones that the wings pop out like the knockoffs. I'm sure they do, but they break probably really easy. But yeah, I don't know. That ring is ringing it's awesome, it is it's a nice ring. I mean it's a little mig for me.
Speaker 1:It's funny because all the haters wanted to be like it's gaudy. They're supposed to be gaudy, they're all gaudy.
Speaker 2:They're all literally gaudy.
Speaker 1:It's like a mini trophy you can wear on your hand. It is a trophy that you wear on your hand, yeah, 100 100%.
Speaker 2:It's gorgeous it is something I do, prefer the first one over the second one mostly I think probably because it's just the first one and it has the Philly Philly on it and I don't know, and it has the name right, All the names of the participants in the Philly Philly.
Speaker 1:And that one has the stadium on the inside of it right. Yes, on the side of it. On the side, I thought it opened. No, it doesn't open.
Speaker 2:Maybe that was some other the inside has the Philly, philly lineup or that play drawn. Okay, and then I can't remember it now and then.
Speaker 1:I mean like pop open top. No, I don't think it pops open. Okay, I don't think it pops open?
Speaker 2:I don't think it. No, it doesn't pop open. Okay, because this ring is the first one that has like a working part to it.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, this is the first of the.
Speaker 2:And I love the video of them all opening their boxes at the same time and they had it on a little turntable inside the box and everybody's like what it was so fun.
Speaker 1:I can't wait to win the Super Bowl again this year, although we lost a lot of defensive players. I'm so sad that Slay all day is gone. The offense stayed about the same, but we lost a lot of our defense, and defense wins, championships, defense wins championships, oh, you know what?
Speaker 2:No, I don't want to talk about Ray Lewis.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to talk about Ray Lewis.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm not going to talk about Ray Lewis, I'm not a fan. But back to Ozzy. Can we go back to Ozzy, please do? Because I don't want to talk about. I mean Hulk Hogan. I did, I was, I saw Hulk.
Speaker 1:Hogan, I met Ric Flair, did you?
Speaker 2:I did See, I wasn't, I wasn't, I wasn't because he was in the other one. It was the wwf, and then they had to change the wwe and then they both merged together, but what was? He in.
Speaker 1:He was in the other one that wasn't the wwf rick flair yeah, I can't remember what it was shit I don't know but when I worked, um, when I used to work the skyboxes for the NASCAR race at the casino, I worked a box that was called Velocity and the people who bought tickets for there were like diehard NASCAR fans. It was a very nice box. They had their own bar. I was the bartender, we served food. I was the bartender, we served food, but one of the it was very. I think it was like $6,000 or $8,000 for the weekend to just to get to sit in that box. That didn't include everything else, but part of the perks were drivers would come in pit, crews would come in celebrities and the one race, ric Flair, was the. What's the word? Mc?
Speaker 2:No, I don't know anything about.
Speaker 1:NASCAR, it's called all right. So he was the Grand Marshal Grand.
Speaker 2:Marshal, which is Not Grandmaster. Flash no In the break area.
Speaker 1:That's typically where they have a celebrity, or I don't know. I don't know whether it's always a celebrity, but, gentlemen, start your engines. Well, I guess they don't do, gentlemen, anymore, because there are female racers here and there. There's a new one, actually Not Danica Patrick, Not Danica. She's European, but now she's in NASCAR, anyway.
Speaker 2:I can't watch NASCAR.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, I can't I can't do it am not a nascar fan, but I know more about nascar than you ever wanted probably 90 of nascar fans because, no doubt I was in that skybox and I listened to drivers and I did learn some cool things, like the they have spotters that sit on the roof of the skyboxes and that's how the drivers they're their eyes. They can't see anything in those cars, like there's no mirrors. There's. They have no idea what's going on. So they have a crew of like I think five or six guys that sit on lawn chairs with binoculars and watch the cars go round and round and round and they talk on their headset to the driver and let them know what's happening. Yeah, it sounds horrible. That's the worst job ever. Yeah, but, um, and then their dicks about it. Like if the driver pisses them off, they'll turn off their radios and we'll give them any information, which is super safe and smart, but that's what they said.
Speaker 2:But anyway, um, I mean to be fair, NASCAR doesn't seem very safe. No Nor smart, no.
Speaker 1:So yeah, ric Flair was the Grand Marshal that year, so he and LeBond he was with came into our skybox and I got his autograph for a friend of ours who was like super duper wrestling fan.
Speaker 2:But yeah, it was pretty neat. I mean, I used to be a, really because I was a tomboy. I know we're all shocked and surprised. Um, I used to be a very big tomboy and when we stopped living in a van which you can find more about if you listen to dragon's dream when we stopped living in a van, I had a friend that lived down the street and he was a boy and we watched wrestling on sundays every week and I had posters all over my walls of jimmy superfly, snooker and rowdy, rowdy piper and andre the giant and and Andre the Giant and the Sheik and the Junkyard Dog, oh, yeah, yeah. And the Bushwhackers, wow, oh, I know them all. I was in it to win it. I have been to several WWF matches.
Speaker 1:When it was.
Speaker 2:WWF. When I got older, I didn't anymore.
Speaker 1:I just had teen beat headshots all over my walls.
Speaker 2:I had the, who was the one with the Rowdy Rowdy Piper, I think, is the one that had no, no, jake the Snake. Jake the Snake had the snake, of course, macho.
Speaker 1:Man.
Speaker 2:Macho man and Elizabeth? Yes, of course Macho man and.
Speaker 1:Elizabeth. Yes, of course.
Speaker 2:And then they had a cartoon that came on Saturday mornings.
Speaker 1:Sounds familiar, yeah.
Speaker 2:And they had Cindy Lauper was on that with Captain Lou and they lived in a house, yep. And they fought crime or something I don't know actually what they did, but I don't remember that much of it. I do remember Cyndi Lauper was on it and they had a cartoon. I think it was kind of A-team-ish yeah. But yeah, I was a huge, but I never liked Hulk Hogan, never. You're like a?
Speaker 1:dog that can sense a bad person Never.
Speaker 2:I was never a Hulkamani never. I was never a Hulkamaniac. I was never a Hulkamaniac. I always liked the Well. Roddy Piper went bad for a little while.
Speaker 1:He did?
Speaker 2:He wore the black leather jacket.
Speaker 1:And he was such a jerk when he was bad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean obviously later on it was the Undertaker, because like yeah, he's my speed.
Speaker 1:He's later on. It was the.
Speaker 2:Undertaker because like, yeah, he's my speed, he's like still wrestling. No, he did end up retiring what like a year ago. Yeah, it's not been that long, but yeah, because I was going to say.
Speaker 1:I saw Wrestlemania not that long ago and he was still, and it's so sad to watch like he can barely move yeah, all of them, it is really sad all of them.
Speaker 2:It's awful to watch they do put themselves through a lot for our entertainment. But yeah, I was a huge, huge, huge, huge Junkyard Dog used to wear a collar. The Sheik wore his, and then, oh, was it Paul DiBiase? Yes, that was, he was a.
Speaker 1:Mr Wonderful.
Speaker 2:Mr Wonderful, wasn't he, mr Wonderful?
Speaker 1:Yes, and then?
Speaker 2:oh, who was the? We should not talk about him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you want to talk about Ozzy.
Speaker 2:We'll just do a whole episode on WrestleMania, on WWF, mm-hmm, yeah, ozzy, back to Ozzy Osbourne. I did say it. I think in whatever episode I said it in, after I watched that you knew it was over. And my mom coming home, he told us all it was over.
Speaker 1:So have, they said, cause of death? Yet no, do you think it was assisted?
Speaker 2:suicide, yeah, and I think they just probably won't, or they'll just say natural causes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because he was apparently very medicated. It sounds like he was probably in hospice care. Yes, because he came off of all that medication so he could be coherent and be in the moment for the concerts that he did. So that definitely sounds like.
Speaker 2:I mean, I think we all know who was king of hospice Jimmy Carter, because every so many episodes we have to bring Jimmy Carter back. Yeah, but I think, ozzy, I think it was probably.
Speaker 1:As it should be.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it went out on his terms. I don't see anything wrong with it terms. I don't see anything wrong with it. I don't see.
Speaker 1:I think it is far less humane to force someone to stay alive in pain, with their family having to see them like that, not being able to go to the restroom by themselves, like we give that dignity to our pets, correct?
Speaker 2:why, would you not want to give that dignity to one of your family members? Yes, it makes no sense to me at all.
Speaker 1:No, because those people are ready to go, like if they're, there's always hope and there's always miracles that happen, not the Jesus kind of miracles, but there are things that happen that you didn't expect. But people know that and if they choose that that's what they want to do, then they should be allowed to do it To be honest, it's a miracle Ozzie made at the 76.
Speaker 2:Yeah, with the amount of drugs he did and alcohol he consumed, his lifestyle, and you know, and there's some great memes about keith richards who's just like in another one, down like keith is just never gonna die.
Speaker 1:No, keith richard, how that man I swear those rock stars from that era, mick jagger, um, um, uh, steven tyler, the drugs and alcohol must have pickled them like like you pickle vegetables because why aren't they dead?
Speaker 2:why aren't they dead it?
Speaker 1:makes no sense. You are not wrong, so there is something to it. I don't advise. I don't advise people. Well, the drugs were probably. I don't advise people to try it. Well, the drugs were probably Cleaner, cleaner.
Speaker 2:More pure, there's probably not a whole lot of crap.
Speaker 1:But a lot of booze too, and booze has always been bad for you.
Speaker 2:Good point. Yeah, yeah, booze are booze.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how are their livers still working?
Speaker 2:You know, I don't know, maybe they just steal the livers of other people. I don't know.
Speaker 1:Well, there is a black market for organs.
Speaker 2:So maybe that's the people that are buying them. I did hear about the black market, for I don't know if you know this, but and I'm not going to say who told me, but you know who posted it on Facebook. There is apparently Obama is the ringleader of not only a sex trafficking ring, but also not only did they traffic young children pedophile trafficking but they also trafficked organs.
Speaker 1:Oh, he's a busy man.
Speaker 2:They are also lasering land from out of space.
Speaker 1:I don't even know what that means.
Speaker 2:I wasn't sure either.
Speaker 1:And I didn't ask because, like some of the shit people post is like and it's not like I don't. I avoid all news. I try to find the most neutral news that I can find. I feel like the 630 evening news on a network.
Speaker 2:Apparently that was on local news. According to the post that I read, this person was watching the local news and apparently it is only happening in Hawaii and Maryland.
Speaker 1:Oh, Maryland is so close to us. Yeah, all right. By local news do they mean Truth, social?
Speaker 2:No, On their phone they were watching the local news. So what were they? I?
Speaker 1:have no idea news. So what were they lasering? I have no idea.
Speaker 2:I have no idea because I thought to myself I just cannot see WBOC putting that on the news.
Speaker 1:Even if it was real.
Speaker 2:First of all, I feel like WBOC is more.
Speaker 1:Now, if they lasered a chicken house in Sussex County, boc might cover that. Oh yeah 100%.
Speaker 2:They'd be like whoa, did you see? The chicken house got lasered.
Speaker 1:Exactly how did that happen? That would be big news.
Speaker 2:But they also and here's my other thing about the cloud seeding, because that was. I shouldn't stop this whole thing right now. Not that anybody who knows this person listens, thankfully. Oh there might be one, but whatever, apparently the cloud seeding is what happened in Texas. Now here is my question about the cloud seeding, because if you can cause floods in Texas, all right wait.
Speaker 1:Can you explain what cloud seeding is they dump?
Speaker 2:some kind of chemical in the clouds to make it rain. I know what you're going to think. I know what you're thinking Because that's my issue.
Speaker 1:Is somebody up there with like a seed spreader?
Speaker 2:It's a plane.
Speaker 1:That they're pushing and it's making little cloud seeds.
Speaker 2:It's a plane and they dump some kind of chemical that makes it rain?
Speaker 1:Is that the laser thing too? Because I know that the end trails are.
Speaker 2:I think it has something. It might have something. I don't know what the trails have to do with. Okay, I think that's just poison. Okay, not really up on my crazy conspiracies, I shouldn't be.
Speaker 1:But it just aggrav poison. Okay, I'm not really up on my crazy conspiracies. I shouldn't be, but you can't keep up anymore, you really. I mean, there's more conspiracy theories than there is reality.
Speaker 2:But here's my thing about that conspiracy. So if you spent all this money or whatever I'm not, I don't even know who does it but if you did all this work to just dump this on texas, to prove whatever point like, just to kill a bunch of Republicans, I guess, because you know little girls.
Speaker 1:Well, they were.
Speaker 2:Christians.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 2:But when, like say, an entire Democratic state is on fire, why that's God?
Speaker 1:Would you not?
Speaker 2:God's trying to kill all the gay people. Why would you not see those clouds like? Why would you not use the technology for something?
Speaker 1:and if these goddamn people would just learn a fact once in a while, because where that flood happened floods all the time. It is a low point and there it's made of limestone, so there is nothing to absorb water. It has flooded numerous times and yet those fucking morons set up a kids camp in there and put everybody in there. So like it's not rocket science, it's not. It's not anything crazy. It's low ground that the water cannot absorb into and it floods. So you shouldn't put any park or any camp or anything there where people are going to be asleep and then suddenly they're going to drown. So God damn, it's not that hard.
Speaker 2:I don't understand Jesus, but why are if you believe that they are seeding clouds to just take out a Republican area? Why would they not quench the fires in a Democratic state, just so they didn't have to kill their own people? Like, wouldn't they use it for good as well as evil? If they're going to use it for evil, you might as well use it for good too. And when the whole state is on fire or I don't know, in a huge drought, drought, why wouldn't you just drop some rain there if you could?
Speaker 1:I mean, it's the same thing as sending nuclear weapons into a hurricane, which is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of my entire life by the way, I was watching some documentary show on one of the channels that have science on them for real yeah and did you know there is a firenado? Yes, and that bitch gets like it's taller than the empire state building yeah, this one that they had documented was it's.
Speaker 1:It's a tornado made of fire traveling at 200, 250 miles an hour. So there was the one that was huge and I don't think they had photo evidence of it. But then something very similar happened. That's what it was. It was what in the World on, I think, discovery. I love that because they find something obscure and then they're like like, well, is it aliens or is it? It's almost always the government, but it always has a very regular explanation to it. But anyway, this similar thing happened in ohio once and it wasn't as big as the other one, but it was fucking terrifying and there's nothing you can do about it. Like firefighters were just like, yeah, yep, there it is, that's it and it's the destruction of a tornado, only everything's burnt like crazy, crazy.
Speaker 2:There is some crazy stuff that happens in this, in this world yes yes, this is a complex planet I just learned the other day about point nemo, which is the only the there. It's in the middle of the pacific. Okay, one of the oceans okay and it's the point that is furthest away from any point of land. You are actually closer to the space station yes when you are at point nemo than any piece of land. Yes, I just was learning about this.
Speaker 1:I have heard of that.
Speaker 2:And it's insane. Yeah, yeah, you were closer to the space station. Yeah, that's mind-blowing. Like that blew my whole thought process.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just can't grasp, like I think I have trouble grasping space. Think about the ocean.
Speaker 2:There is so much about the ocean, we don't know because and that's where they try to drop all this shit that they that is orbiting us and they want to bring it down. They try and drop it out there because it's you know, no, there's nothing around, so they can just there's probably, like it's all probably piled up with like space garbage.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and in the meantime, the ecosystems and the animals that live there are all fucked up.
Speaker 2:Like we don't even know what's coming up from there.
Speaker 1:We don't even know what lives down there. Well, they say aliens.
Speaker 2:That's where the aliens hide, oh Jesus.
Speaker 1:Is that?
Speaker 2:where the lasers come from.
Speaker 1:Maybe. Okay, I can't do this anymore. I'm getting stupider the longer that we talk.
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