[SPEAKER_12]: I'm over here now!

[SPEAKER_12]: Michael Mera, Radio Entertainment.

[SPEAKER_12]: You can listen to the Michael Mera Show at michomerasho.com.

[SPEAKER_12]: Wow, what a happy year.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's a podcast.

[SPEAKER_06]: But I want excitement.

[SPEAKER_06]: We have today.

[SPEAKER_12]: It's the Michael Mera Show with Michael Mera and Rob Spuac.

[SPEAKER_12]: Now here's Mike.

[SPEAKER_04]: Two dads with two different start times for back to school in the middle of August.

[SPEAKER_04]: Almost the beginning of August.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, technically the beginning of August with Josh Soroka, his son going back to school today and my son going back tomorrow because they have orientation today for the new students.

[SPEAKER_04]: So it's there.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's still

[SPEAKER_04]: very strange to me to think of this starting it just came up so quickly and so it's the early end of summer in the Omera household and in the Soroka household and the beginning of hurricane watch coincides with that I think I've identified now when we start becoming aware of watching the tropics to see what's going to happen and I the dance that they that they perform with the hurricane watches

[SPEAKER_04]: is at the very best tedious and are they arching anything right now?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, at the very worst fear mongering because they won't tell you that they believe if this develops it'll go this way or that way.

[SPEAKER_04]: They really just want to get there.

[SPEAKER_04]: I watch the guy for maybe five, seven minutes yesterday.

[SPEAKER_04]: And finally, just turned it off.

[SPEAKER_04]: He was babbling to a degree that it was just he obviously wanted to fill the time.

[SPEAKER_03]: This wasn't on your wink news.

[SPEAKER_03]: Was it because they never stood in my head?

[SPEAKER_04]: No, no, they when you're in the areas that really get affected by it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Right.

[SPEAKER_04]: They don't do this.

[SPEAKER_04]: This guy was somewhere in Texas and it was streaming.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, when they make generate more content on these TV stations, that because they like radio, they're just realizing what digital media is.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: They need to get their content on there.

[SPEAKER_04]: And so they come out and they do that.

[SPEAKER_04]: But it is, it does coincide with that.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now on a related note, my bride has her annual pilgrimage

[SPEAKER_04]: to an exotic location.

[SPEAKER_04]: The prayer breakfast, which I am allowed to attend, and they're very nice resorts and very nice places.

[SPEAKER_04]: But the idea of late September, you know, sending us to the Caribbean is not something that I've got to deal with.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's like when CBS wanted to do our Christmas party in February.

[SPEAKER_03]: because they got a better deal than if they did it at Christmas time.

[SPEAKER_04]: Not like that with this company.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's the same time last year was in Mexico.

[SPEAKER_04]: I remember it's in the Dominican Republic next year.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's at lands down.

[SPEAKER_04]: I just it's strange and I guess technically it begins the start of travel season.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, is this new?

[SPEAKER_04]: No, I don't know.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm just rambling.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm just feeling time and it's also our new start.

[SPEAKER_04]: Hi, why you know, no, no, go see.

[SPEAKER_04]: I love you.

[SPEAKER_04]: I love you, but no, not now.

[SPEAKER_04]: Please, maybe later I'll call you.

[SPEAKER_04]: Be way, be available.

[SPEAKER_04]: just materia like the car or your son okay okay I didn't know who this is his last day come here come here you have friends on carry start school on Wednesday too so there's a a lot of excitement around the house what yeah what time must you have to be to school in the morning well we will leave the house at seven thirty is it or do we get there at seven thirty I don't

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't remember either.

[SPEAKER_04]: You better go not pal.

[SPEAKER_05]: My kids moved to middle school this year.

[SPEAKER_04]: Right.

[SPEAKER_04]: You start your kid start middle school.

[SPEAKER_04]: He started in middle school.

[SPEAKER_05]: So they started middle school today and seven a.m.

[SPEAKER_05]: They have to be the school at the school.

[SPEAKER_05]: How are you doing, Josh?

[SPEAKER_05]: I'll tie your today.

[SPEAKER_03]: Especially coming off our four o'clock starts.

[SPEAKER_03]: You really that got it.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's got a suck.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's not great brutal.

[SPEAKER_04]: Is it seven thirty isn't it?

[SPEAKER_13]: No no since I didn't get there early.

[SPEAKER_13]: It's always good to get there.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, but you get there in seven thirty.

[SPEAKER_13]: Oh, yes, get there at some.

[SPEAKER_04]: He's got summer brain.

[SPEAKER_13]: We've had seven.

[SPEAKER_04]: So what are your thoughts?

[SPEAKER_04]: What are your thoughts?

[SPEAKER_04]: You're, you know, you don't go today.

[SPEAKER_04]: Josh's kid goes today.

[SPEAKER_04]: So how do you feel?

[SPEAKER_04]: How are you feeling about the end of summer?

[SPEAKER_13]: It's, it's honestly I woke up and I was kind of depressed like immediately.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's great to hear from a youngster, isn't it?

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I mean, it's school.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't remember.

[SPEAKER_05]: How do you feel when you woke up?

[SPEAKER_03]: I still depressed.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think the pros act is working, actually.

[SPEAKER_03]: So, you know what, you stay depressed and you'll do just fine young man.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well into your fifties.

[SPEAKER_03]: They'll find medication that they say will help, but all it will do is keep you up at night thinking about how it's all going to end.

[SPEAKER_04]: Rob, here's what Rob's medicine does for him.

[SPEAKER_04]: He, he's, he's still depressed, but he just doesn't care as much about it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Exactly, accurate.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's kind of what it is, right?

[SPEAKER_03]: Pretty much.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's a sad medication that's, that's, that's a pro.

[SPEAKER_03]: What I love is that, you know, what you're giving away in sadness, you're, you're also giving away in happiness.

[SPEAKER_03]: You always stay at sort of a zero.

[SPEAKER_04]: We can do a whole show.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, we can.

[SPEAKER_04]: On anti-depressive medicine.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: But getting back to you and school.

[SPEAKER_04]: Did you finish your book yet?

[SPEAKER_13]: Oh, yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, what did he what did he write?

[SPEAKER_04]: What did you read?

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, read.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: He didn't write a novel.

[SPEAKER_03]: I thought he finished it up over the summer.

[SPEAKER_04]: I knew what's gone for a while now.

[SPEAKER_04]: I can tell you.

[SPEAKER_04]: But yeah, but he's advanced.

[SPEAKER_04]: What did you what was your book?

[SPEAKER_04]: You hated it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Sorry.

[SPEAKER_04]: And we probably shouldn't say, right?

[SPEAKER_05]: We probably should.

[SPEAKER_05]: No, no, no, no.

[SPEAKER_05]: But many, that's a standard summer reading for a lot of middle schools.

[SPEAKER_05]: Because I know my nephew had to read the exact same book.

[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, really?

[SPEAKER_05]: What book?

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_13]: the book uh oh the name yeah okay uh it was called restart and it was i i just didn't like it i didn't i think i've heard of this book isn't this a guy who goes around fixing printers no i knew so much hope can you help me with making her today he unplugged it and restarted it i i that's great alright i love you wait wait i need one more thing yeah one more thing oh yeah what do you want to talk about pokey monor fishing pokey monor golf

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, what do you want to talk about?

[SPEAKER_13]: That we got rained.

[SPEAKER_13]: We got rained out the last time we were gonna.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, we did.

[SPEAKER_04]: We got rained out.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's that time of year down.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, how would you rate the summer on a scale of one to ten?

[SPEAKER_13]: Solid nine.

[SPEAKER_04]: Wow.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's terrific.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's a good thing.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's a good thing.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's good.

[SPEAKER_13]: It was a good summer.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_13]: A lot of people said it went by fast.

[SPEAKER_13]: I don't feel like it went by fast.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, let me tell you this, Michael, as you get older, you'll find that the days are long.

[SPEAKER_03]: But the years are short.

[UNKNOWN]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now give me another pill.

[SPEAKER_13]: Oh, by the way, Gorkas is having a mega sale today.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, we'll go.

[SPEAKER_03]: What the hell is Gorkas?

[SPEAKER_03]: It's not a talking monster.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, of course.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's a Pokemon store.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's what we've lived this weekend.

[SPEAKER_04]: What?

[SPEAKER_04]: What?

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, God, he's coming, but okay, fine.

[SPEAKER_04]: shy isn't easily he's now he's he's in a pretty good frame of mind for going back to school so uh... yeah i don't know if i wrote it down today because uh... we did the actual uh... i got rained out on saturday we got rained out on sunday morning rain and i'm talking about rain that uh... you know flooded out the people god love them on sanible island out in south was florida that had flooding over there because

[SPEAKER_04]: It's probably not meant for you in habitation right now.

[SPEAKER_04]: They're probably starting to realize that.

[SPEAKER_04]: However, with the rainout for me on Saturday, he had asked me if I would be willing to get to the GameStop store.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now, I posted a little video of it.

[SPEAKER_04]: The GameStop store on Saturday.

[SPEAKER_04]: And so I decided because I got rained out and it's eight o'clock in the morning and I'm driving back home.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm like, all right, I'll surprise them and say we're going to go.

[SPEAKER_04]: So we got there for a store that opens at eleven o'clock.

[SPEAKER_04]: We got there about eight forty five and I sat in the car.

[SPEAKER_03]: Policy is going to school.

[SPEAKER_04]: then I got in there at eight forty five and he was there put a camp chair in front of the door and was number one maybe a kid showed up an older kid showed up maybe about twenty minutes later to buy these cards yet a buy to buy these cards at at the market value before they get market high stuff I wouldn't even do that for McCartney tickets the good for him he really loves it that's how

[SPEAKER_05]: Was there a substantial line right before the store opened?

[SPEAKER_04]: Right before we could have gotten there at maybe ten, ten, fifteen and been fine.

[SPEAKER_04]: They line up because there are certain number of these.

[SPEAKER_04]: They give you a little card to get there.

[SPEAKER_04]: And the girl that ran the store was super nice.

[SPEAKER_04]: I liked her a lot.

[SPEAKER_04]: She was cool.

[SPEAKER_04]: Is it mostly kids or is it mostly creepy old man?

[SPEAKER_04]: It's a good mix.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's a variety pack.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's the best mix of the eighties, the seventies.

[SPEAKER_04]: No, what it was was it was Michael and then a kid that's college age and then a grandfather and a younger kid, then Michael and then I'm going to say upper teens early twenties.

[SPEAKER_04]: would be the the the the the majority of the people I imagine if you were in the car you were watching the line because you had not much while I write the line up until a certain point but then he gets a keeper pack and an open pack so I got in line too with him so that he would be able to get uh... both its ridiculous did any policeman come up to you and ask for identification when you were standing in line now and and by the way I would rate the uh...

[SPEAKER_04]: the conversations with people as not doorky, really just kind of friendly, super friendly people.

[SPEAKER_04]: In fact, the grandfather that was there with his grandkids was a lifelong Floridian and grew up on, for those of you that might not know, Florida, Ilamorata, and I was just fascinated talking to him, because I would imagine that back in his head, he was older than I was.

[SPEAKER_03]: Did he look like Ernest Hemingway?

[SPEAKER_04]: No, he did not, but he was white-haired guy and he was an older guy.

[SPEAKER_04]: New Yorker.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: But his parents were from New York and he got the X, but he was a Floridian and knew all the stuff about that area of the keys that I like.

[SPEAKER_03]: The only

[SPEAKER_03]: thing I can compare that line to is when I would go out and do man on the streets with people waiting in line to see a star war and they are they're extraordinarily friendly but I think it's well over the hours so you're looking they're looking to fill time I think is why they're friendly yeah did anyone ask your who's your favorite Pokemon

[SPEAKER_05]: was talking about now.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I know Michael did.

[SPEAKER_04]: Michael had a Pokemon conversation with the kid that was in line.

[SPEAKER_04]: And he was, oh, I thought of you, Rod, because this kid was substantive.

[SPEAKER_04]: He was substitute teaching.

[SPEAKER_04]: Like your son did.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: And good money.

[SPEAKER_04]: And he was getting his teaching degree.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then going on to be a regular teacher.

[SPEAKER_03]: Did anyone, if anyone were to ask your favorite Pokemon, just tell them sporty spice.

[SPEAKER_04]: Sporty Spice is my, I am, it is, it is what his passion is.

[SPEAKER_04]: I feed some of these passions because his intensity exists for all of them.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't think any particular, you know, hobby he has is diminishing the ones that I place more value on, like the sports.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's good.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's good.

[SPEAKER_04]: But later in the back of me, yeah, no, he doesn't do the macro.

[SPEAKER_04]: He makes macaroni art.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now, that's beautiful.

[SPEAKER_04]: The later in the show later in the show, we are going to as a matter of fact, the news today is going to be a little different because the kicker my last story is going to dovetail into the next segment afterwards.

[SPEAKER_04]: So we'll have a discussion about it.

[SPEAKER_04]: But it does concern kids and everybody for that matter.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I think it's one thousand percent true.

[SPEAKER_03]: We'll get to that later in the seeking of kids, Mike restart is a novel by Gordon Corman.

[SPEAKER_03]: And it's a realistic fiction novel about Chase Ambrose, a middle schooler who suffers a head injury and loses his memory, then comes to grapple with his past as a bully and tries to navigate a new reality.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, now I get it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't want.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not going to get on here.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not getting on here and starting his school year if there happens to be

[SPEAKER_04]: You know an educator listening to this.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't think that we're in slippery slope territory.

[SPEAKER_04]: So a lot of kids your kid is read it to your kids have read that my no, but my nephew had to read it this.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, well, I get it.

[SPEAKER_03]: So that's it.

[SPEAKER_03]: You said you said I had to read it this summer.

[SPEAKER_04]: He had a Michael had to read.

[SPEAKER_03]: No, you said that I did that was your homework for me for the show.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, next week, you're a writer book.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, three stars.

[SPEAKER_04]: Every week.

[SPEAKER_04]: Look at it that way.

[SPEAKER_04]: Every week.

[SPEAKER_04]: That would be a wonderful.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Um, so the idea of uh, of back to school is

[SPEAKER_04]: Strange for me, you would think, I'm not that parent that does the dance and stuff because this schedule that I think Josh was excited about the new schedule to a degree.

[SPEAKER_04]: I like this schedule.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm getting more of a spring forward fall back vibe where my morning was a little discombubulated.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, you're not used to it anymore.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I got to get to get the hat.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's what I have to do.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, to get back to it.

[SPEAKER_03]: I was afraid I'd sleep in, so I stayed up all night.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's good.

[SPEAKER_04]: You look like it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_03]: I stayed up all night under a heat lamp.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's right.

[SPEAKER_04]: You're so burned.

[SPEAKER_04]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_04]: What are you going to say, Josh?

[SPEAKER_04]: You're going to say something.

[SPEAKER_05]: I think the listeners prefer this schedule as well.

[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_05]: All right.

[SPEAKER_05]: They like to get the show to them a little earlier in the day.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, good.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, they can join this through April of next year.

[SPEAKER_04]: Um, anyway, getting it.

[SPEAKER_04]: No, I like to set the table so that people know what's going on with that because the shows ended in April or no, no, no, they're just not going to end in April.

[SPEAKER_04]: No, you don't know that.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, well, I don't know if the shows, you know, I mean, you never know.

[SPEAKER_04]: We, we don't ever do.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'll tell you what's a little disappointing today.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is this shouldn't be disappointing.

[SPEAKER_03]: All right.

[SPEAKER_04]: But as much as I, uh,

[SPEAKER_04]: I was delighted with the sellout of our clearance prices on our mugs.

[SPEAKER_04]: The mugs, yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: My shelf today is bear.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm looking at a bear shelf.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I felt comfort.

[SPEAKER_04]: There's not one of these mugs left and I loved them so bad.

[SPEAKER_05]: You know, you still have some of the many shot classes.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, they shot classes.

[SPEAKER_05]: We'll tell as well.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: It'll look like they shrunk.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I just know put them closer to you and the, the force perspective, they'll look the same.

[SPEAKER_04]: I appreciate everybody.

[SPEAKER_04]: And it tells me that our price points if they, you know, come down a bit sometimes, it's great.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now, over the, that's good.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's the dinger.

[SPEAKER_04]: I like that.

[SPEAKER_04]: Hold on, let me see if I've got that.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, it's here.

[SPEAKER_04]: Favorite sound alert?

[SPEAKER_04]: Play it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Nice beaver.

[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_03]: I really thought that might have burned by now, but it seems to be gathering steam.

[SPEAKER_04]: I am very happy with the response, excuse me, that we've had with the listeners for this.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's been a very, very nice thing.

[SPEAKER_04]: And my son off to school, I got that, and then ready for some football.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't want to overstate things as we ease into the football season, because Lord knows Josh's team has been having trouble in baseball and mine.

[SPEAKER_04]: My red socks are, let me just put it this way.

[SPEAKER_04]: With all the success they've had this season, they have the potential of really running off like five losses in a row.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's the way this team is.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I'm fully, could it be ten wins in a row though?

[SPEAKER_04]: No, as much as I love to see the Red Sox win, I bail on them now.

[SPEAKER_04]: If they're having one of those games, which I can recognize early, I'm not going to waste my time.

[SPEAKER_02]: How can you recognize it?

[SPEAKER_02]: Second inning.

[SPEAKER_02]: Third inning.

[SPEAKER_02]: Third inning.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: Third inning.

[SPEAKER_04]: I can go.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Third inning.

[SPEAKER_04]: So, but football, I mean here to tell you, that even in preseason, I know you don't over, you don't over read preseason football.

[SPEAKER_04]: But

[SPEAKER_04]: My New York giants look tight.

[SPEAKER_04]: They looked good.

[SPEAKER_04]: They looked bad.

[SPEAKER_04]: They really did.

[SPEAKER_04]: They were, they were in a situation where I think.

[SPEAKER_03]: They looked bad.

[SPEAKER_04]: Bet.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Did you like to explain the slang?

[SPEAKER_04]: No, I can't.

[SPEAKER_03]: I understand it.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's weird coming out of your mouth.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's like, you know, speaking perfect French coming out of Josh's mouth.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's good.

[SPEAKER_03]: I just don't expect it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I know.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, it's just to, I was really, really kind of excited.

[SPEAKER_04]: And the cool thing is the big thing coming out of the preseason game at the end of the game, Giants first round draft pick Jackson Dart from Ole Miss, the rookie quarterback.

[SPEAKER_04]: He ran over along with Tommy Cupplets, Tommy Devito, and they greeted their moms.

[SPEAKER_04]: And the thing about Jackson Darts' mom, Jackson's Jackson Darts' mom, was ripped.

[SPEAKER_04]: First of all, she looked too young to have a, you know, a quarterback in the NFL and that age, and she had, like, the guns.

[SPEAKER_04]: She was, both mother or adopted.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think it's birth, brother.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I think that's plus.

[SPEAKER_04]: I didn't do a real deep dive about it.

[SPEAKER_04]: I just, it's like what people are talking about with the, with the online presence.

[SPEAKER_04]: She looked good.

[SPEAKER_04]: She looked really, really shabby.

[SPEAKER_04]: How about Tommy's mom?

[SPEAKER_04]: I didn't really get a look at her.

[SPEAKER_04]: She kind of had, uh, I think she was blonde, but I'm not sure.

[SPEAKER_04]: And it's like Tommy, you know, I know he played and everything, but he's last year, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: He's, he's yesterday's news.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but he's still fun.

[SPEAKER_03]: I could imagine him going over to his mom and kissing her and she handing him like a meatball sub.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, because he used to bring the people back to his, is I don't think so.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't think she's ripped.

[SPEAKER_04]: per se, but I didn't get a good look at her.

[SPEAKER_04]: I know this, that she wearing a veil, but it's just more signs of fall.

[SPEAKER_04]: We've got so many different things watching the Trump acts, having my kid go to school, having Josh's kid go to school, and then apparently saying it's fall, the listeners don't like it, Josh.

[SPEAKER_04]: They don't like us saying fall is that.

[SPEAKER_05]: I think the fact that we're saying fall in August, I think, is it?

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't want to worry about everything.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, you get the back to school now being replaced by his Halloween stuff in the stores yet.

[SPEAKER_03]: Of course.

[SPEAKER_03]: We did the whole thing about the whole thing about Home Depot and their Forty Foot skeletons.

[SPEAKER_03]: And here's Mrs. Divido.

[SPEAKER_03]: She on the left.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's dad.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's bad.

[SPEAKER_04]: I guess his brother looks bigger than he is.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, she's interesting.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's cool.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_03]: She's nice.

[SPEAKER_04]: She is nice.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think she's very nice.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's the whole Tommy Cutlets thing.

[SPEAKER_04]: So, can you find a picture of Mrs. Dart?

[SPEAKER_04]: It was a video.

[SPEAKER_02]: Maddie is no Dart.

[SPEAKER_04]: Jackson Dart is that not a great name.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's a great name.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean really Jackson Dart not to say he's gonna start now for the giants over Russell Wilson.

[SPEAKER_04]: We don't know that yet.

[SPEAKER_04]: However

[SPEAKER_04]: He looked pretty damn good.

[SPEAKER_04]: Their superlatives were flying out of the preseason game against Jimmy's team, the Buffalo Bills, who we built.

[SPEAKER_04]: And by the way, Jimmy, I know you're excited about that stadium.

[SPEAKER_04]: They are building next to the existing stadium, and that was fun to watch.

[SPEAKER_04]: That the way they would do the pan down to the, there she is.

[SPEAKER_04]: Look out.

[SPEAKER_04]: Look at the arms.

[SPEAKER_04]: Look at everything.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, all right, calm down.

[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, she's very pretty away.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not sure I like the headshot to the right.

[SPEAKER_04]: Looks like really it like like she's had a head injury or something like that.

[SPEAKER_03]: No, it's just that's just an earbud.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: Very good.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Or something corrective.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, but it's something in her ear.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but it's the earbud's worn wrong.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: The last football thing since we were.

[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, Thomas, how many games are over the weekend?

[SPEAKER_03]: Because all I saw was someone nailed a seventy yard field goal last year.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: I heard about that, too.

[SPEAKER_04]: But the thing that was making news this morning.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Tom Brady.

[SPEAKER_04]: your legendary quarterback from your new England patriot and beloved has a statue unveiled of him and the you would think oh this is great well people scrutinize everything especially when you put it online and I always love

[SPEAKER_04]: when a sculpture is messed up to a point.

[SPEAKER_04]: And right away, I knew this was going to make me laugh as it did because the sculpture of Tom Brady appears to have an undersized head.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is so funny.

[SPEAKER_04]: I would not be able to juice, but an undersized head.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is so funny.

[SPEAKER_03]: You'd bring this up.

[SPEAKER_03]: I had this in beautiful video.

[SPEAKER_03]: They unveiled a recently a new statue of Martin Luther King.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: And everyone's complaining that the head's too bad.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's a terrible angle.

[SPEAKER_04]: You got to go to the full body angle.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's still too small.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's not as bad as when you see the full body.

[SPEAKER_04]: First of all, the full body statue.

[SPEAKER_04]: It looks like Tom Brady was a more fit guy.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Where is the statue at his house?

[SPEAKER_04]: Where is it?

[SPEAKER_04]: No, it's up at the probably up the stadium.

[SPEAKER_04]: He that is a small head.

[SPEAKER_04]: It is a small head.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's like a size six right there.

[SPEAKER_04]: It is.

[SPEAKER_04]: I guess that's at the new facility.

[SPEAKER_04]: Is that where it's like it?

[SPEAKER_04]: Or I would assume that's where you'd put it now.

[SPEAKER_03]: Would you prefer Mike as I set up this video clip?

[SPEAKER_03]: Would you prefer a small headed Tom Brady to an oversized head on Martin Luther King?

[SPEAKER_03]: Because the city is in an uproar.

[SPEAKER_14]: So they've done it again.

[SPEAKER_14]: The committee and also the majority of this is a sculptor.

[SPEAKER_14]: Actually all of the attendees that came to the unveiling was greatly positive.

[SPEAKER_09]: It just didn't properly characterize Dr. King.

[SPEAKER_01]: He says he's willing to be a part of the tweet to help raise the money to what he says correct the statue.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think the truth is in the middle.

[SPEAKER_04]: The truth is in the middle, but these

[SPEAKER_04]: They got to get this right.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_04]: They've got to get this right to an extent.

[SPEAKER_03]: They respect the statue of Lucy in James Town, New York, Lucy ball.

[SPEAKER_03]: Josh, see if you can bring up a picture of Lucy.

[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, statue from James standing.

[SPEAKER_04]: No, what is the problem with Lucy statue?

[SPEAKER_03]: Just you'll see it.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's, it doesn't honor the woman properly.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think because it doesn't look like her.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is what I've read about this particular dilemma, at least with the Tom Brady issue.

[SPEAKER_04]: that you have the body done by one sculptor and then the facial features done by another one.

[SPEAKER_04]: That head is so stupidly small.

[SPEAKER_04]: And don't you think when you're taking a peek at it, I know you're close to the source that you would maybe

[SPEAKER_04]: Take a look and say, that's just not quite right.

[SPEAKER_04]: And the body looks sloppy anyway.

[SPEAKER_04]: But the face is small and does not resemble him.

[SPEAKER_05]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_05]: But maybe enough of these, that it shouldn't be a mistake every single time.

[SPEAKER_05]: Right.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, no, how do they look at in Canton?

[SPEAKER_03]: They're usually pretty accurate in Canton, right?

[SPEAKER_03]: When they do the bus.

[SPEAKER_03]: Right.

[SPEAKER_03]: Right.

[SPEAKER_03]: Right.

[SPEAKER_05]: So they don't have to really worry about matching up the parks.

[SPEAKER_05]: No.

[SPEAKER_05]: Here is Lucille Ball.

[SPEAKER_04]: That is horrible.

[SPEAKER_04]: That is really the worst.

[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, look at the teeth.

[SPEAKER_03]: Everything about food.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it does.

[SPEAKER_03]: It does.

[SPEAKER_04]: It does.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's so bad.

[SPEAKER_04]: It looks like George Hamilton.

[SPEAKER_04]: That is so.

[SPEAKER_04]: And do they ever go back and like redo them?

[SPEAKER_04]: I think they tried to fix that.

[SPEAKER_05]: That's one they did replace it.

[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_05]: Good.

[SPEAKER_04]: Good.

[SPEAKER_04]: So do we have the replacement?

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, this is the replacement of Lucy.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: Let's see if they improved it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god.

[SPEAKER_03]: Much better.

[SPEAKER_04]: They made a lot better.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh my god.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's awesome.

[SPEAKER_04]: That looks like Lucy on the right.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: And the other one, if you want to see the original statue, just go to the house of horrors at Madame Cousos.

[SPEAKER_04]: The hair.

[SPEAKER_04]: She never had hair that looked like that.

[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe at the very end.

[SPEAKER_05]: Hair looks like it.

[SPEAKER_05]: Maybe it was already started for someone else.

[SPEAKER_05]: And then they changed the very end.

[SPEAKER_03]: The very end.

[SPEAKER_03]: When she and Gary would just play back then.

[SPEAKER_04]: So somebody online is saying that the worst one ever is the Dwayne-Dwayne-Wade Statue.

[SPEAKER_05]: Is that because of size or that is the, that is the, I'm pulling it up.

[SPEAKER_05]: It's the face is the problem.

[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_05]: They wanted him.

[SPEAKER_05]: They tried to make him like excited.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, all right, this is great.

[SPEAKER_04]: I didn't know we had a whole, you know, pop culture thing with these sculptures.

[SPEAKER_03]: They wanted to make him seem like, oh dear.

[SPEAKER_03]: That you know what that's the face.

[SPEAKER_03]: You put on a worm that comes out of a body in a horror film.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh my god.

[SPEAKER_04]: And he's pointing to his balls.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh my god.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's like, hey, right in.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, right in.

[SPEAKER_04]: I get you, Tommy.

[SPEAKER_04]: God, let's write it.

[SPEAKER_05]: This was one where.

[SPEAKER_05]: You know, they don't show these until the unveiling.

[SPEAKER_05]: Right.

[SPEAKER_05]: So it's going way sees that as they pull the curtain off of it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Can you imagine of all the one and really I think I have to go with Rob with the Lucy one.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's the worst of it with the unveiling on that where you were just sitting there with the especially the family around.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I don't

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't think Tom Brady won would get that reaction because you got to really take a look and you have to see the photograph from the right angle to really lock that in because it's not a total beetle juice head, but it's definitely out of proportion to the rest of the box.

[SPEAKER_03]: And it's obviously before he had all of his corrective surgery to his face, but even before that his face was more angular than that statue.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I was saying from the Cristiano Ronaldo,

[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, is bad as well.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know about Christian or not.

[SPEAKER_04]: We have tapped into something rather significant with these sculptures today.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't really, I think so far the, it is a tie between Duane Wade and Lucille Ball.

[SPEAKER_05]: The original way.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, that looks like, that's just not right.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's not right on multiple levels.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, the body is good.

[SPEAKER_04]: The body's good, but the pose list, like, no, it's like, let's say he's right.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Let's see at the same in huge bones.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh my god, look at that well sculpture.

[SPEAKER_03]: So it's so funny you bring it up because one of the things that I will do maybe I've had a gummy or something and I'm just flipping around YouTube I will sometimes watch

[SPEAKER_03]: videos of people going through bad wax museums and I find it as entertaining as anything I can watch because these people are going through.

[SPEAKER_03]: They don't even recognize the people that they're trying to portray and if they don't have name plaques on them, you have to guess.

[SPEAKER_04]: I did a long time ago in art class.

[SPEAKER_04]: I did just a random bust of like an old man.

[SPEAKER_04]: I was doing a face and I remember we kept it.

[SPEAKER_04]: I thought it was, I thought it was like the best thing I'd ever done in art class and we kept it in my house.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know how long we had it.

[SPEAKER_04]: It was there.

[SPEAKER_04]: God loved my parents.

[SPEAKER_04]: They had to be laughing at it.

[SPEAKER_04]: It was there for a long time.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, you middle school probably something like that that I am proud very well I just I I held a hey look what I did because I got the most proud but

[SPEAKER_04]: I think really, I mean, not everybody can do this, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: I think maybe they should think about AI with a three D printer and that type of screen.

[SPEAKER_03]: Obviously, obviously, Brady's in on the gag.

[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's a big deal for him.

[SPEAKER_03]: He could do a life mask.

[SPEAKER_03]: They could actually mold his face.

[SPEAKER_03]: You love his face.

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[SPEAKER_03]: No, yeah, a death mask is what they used to do in the old days.

[SPEAKER_03]: A life mask is what they do to like make make a part.

[SPEAKER_04]: They do death mask back in the old days for the purpose of sculpture.

[SPEAKER_04]: Is sometimes.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, sometimes.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_05]: You know, that picture did not show Ronaldo's face very well.

[SPEAKER_05]: Here's the head.

[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, oh my god.

[SPEAKER_05]: Who's looking at his face?

[SPEAKER_03]: Look at how look at his eyes.

[SPEAKER_03]: The eyes are awesome.

[SPEAKER_03]: His eyes are like a quarter.

[SPEAKER_03]: They're very close together.

[SPEAKER_03]: I will tell you this, if he really had eyes like that, it'd be easy to sneak up on him.

[SPEAKER_04]: What is the deal with these sculptures?

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, they don't, you know, I guess they're all over the place, and some guy gets a reputation as being talented, but he's really not.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's kind of, we'll see.

[SPEAKER_03]: So many of them.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but I mean, but so many sculptures are just close.

[SPEAKER_04]: Did you ever do an actual sculpture in art class when you're grown up?

[SPEAKER_03]: I made I did an alligator once I did an astray once my father still has the alligator I have a bowl that I did but no nothing really great you see my father was a potter he took like ten years of pottery classes and we have dishes that he made that are excellent

[SPEAKER_03]: really yeah he did that's kind of cool to have do you have me your house yeah we use them that's very very cool my favorite coffee cup was made by my dad because he said look great handle I said it's a good handle he says yeah it's hard to throw a handle did he uh did he actually continue it into his adult years

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm talking about this is in his adult years.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is probably from the late nineties early two thousands.

[SPEAKER_03]: He doesn't do it anymore.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but I love the fact that he did it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Does he sign it with the toothpick down at the bottom?

[SPEAKER_03]: Usually.

[SPEAKER_03]: Bob.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, Bob.

[SPEAKER_04]: Josh, did you ever dabble at all?

[SPEAKER_05]: No, no.

[SPEAKER_05]: I remember making stuff in middle school, and I remember thinking I made this Tasmanian devil bank, and it went into kill and they melted it.

[SPEAKER_05]: So we have to solve it.

[SPEAKER_03]: So it was like the Warner Brothers Tasmanian devil or an actual Tasmanian cartoon.

[SPEAKER_05]: Like the cartoon.

[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: I never came out.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think that the issue here that has to be addressed is vetting these.

[SPEAKER_04]: I wouldn't use the word vetting as much as I would say quality control.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, do you think that first off, like the Martin Luther King statue, the sculptor was not chosen by the city, so they got sort of, you know, surprised by it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Do you think they have like a sculptor's sizzle reel?

[SPEAKER_03]: They says, I can do this, I can do this, I can do this.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then they say, go ahead and then they come out with Christian Ronaldo and his faces, the size of a poker chip.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think with the tools available to everybody nowadays, there's no excuse for that perspective being off that much.

[SPEAKER_04]: And the Tom Brady is a gentleman.

[SPEAKER_03]: You should start a vicious letter writing campaign to the NBA.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, look, when mine gets put up at the comedy Hall of Fame, I think that, you know, when I am up there, you know, in between Joe Rogan and Mark Marin, I really, really expect it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Mm-hmm.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I like to have an awful some along.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's what I like.

[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, sixteen percent who said they were very sad.

[SPEAKER_04]: Another twenty five percent say they were neither happy.

[SPEAKER_04]: There we go.

[SPEAKER_03]: On the side.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't care.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's uh, you know.

[SPEAKER_04]: He David said neither happy nor sad.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_04]: There you go.

[SPEAKER_05]: My parents, yes, go ahead.

[SPEAKER_05]: My kids were sad summers over, but kind of excited to get back in routine with their kids and with their friends and stuff.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's hard to read Michael, but in the middle of the summer, like early in July, he was already talking about it.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't really go bad.

[SPEAKER_04]: But now he doesn't seem as phase.

[SPEAKER_04]: So I don't get it.

[SPEAKER_03]: I think back elementary school didn't care.

[SPEAKER_03]: I just, you know, was just part of the thing.

[SPEAKER_03]: I hated going back to school in middle school.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then once I got into high school, I liked going back to school.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: Because there's a lot of people and a lot of stuff going on.

[SPEAKER_04]: Parents with school aged kids were asked how they feel about their children going back to school.

[SPEAKER_04]: Over half, fifty one percent said they're happy about it, including twenty two percent who are very happy.

[SPEAKER_04]: Twenty two percent said they are sad about it, including seven percent who are really down.

[SPEAKER_04]: Another twenty three percent said they're neither happy nor

[SPEAKER_04]: But I don't know if that's dumb as much as like I have had a spectacular summer with my son.

[SPEAKER_04]: I have had just a great time because I prioritized him like I've never been able to with any of my kids and it was you got that nine out of ten.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah, and he was there are things that I have always wanted him to like more that he

[SPEAKER_04]: turn the corner on and the idea of baseball earlier in the year that we watched a lot of baseball.

[SPEAKER_04]: So I'm, but at the same time, yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: The main thing you wanted him to like more was you.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is true.

[SPEAKER_03]: And no, but if you were with Europe, I know, but the thing is, if you go with a nine out of ten, that's a, that's a home run summer.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know, it'd be so easy to get.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I don't mind the idea of you.

[SPEAKER_04]: I like our routine.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think Josh might feel the same way.

[SPEAKER_04]: You like your routine when they're back at school.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's a little free.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's my whole time.

[SPEAKER_00]: Which is always good.

[SPEAKER_04]: The parents who are sad about it might be stressed about school related concerns, though.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's what they said.

[SPEAKER_04]: In the poll, the most common concern parents have bullying, students not meeting learning objectives.

[SPEAKER_04]: Totally get that.

[SPEAKER_04]: I understand your stressed out with the police.

[SPEAKER_03]: The bullying is going to stop this year because everyone is reading restart by Mr. Corman.

[SPEAKER_04]: violence in schools, you know, and I feel for that.

[SPEAKER_04]: There are areas where there's a big deal.

[SPEAKER_04]: Students depression, I think about that is an anxiety, teacher shortages, funding shortages, and the banning of books.

[SPEAKER_03]: Mike, are you doing, are you doing news from nineteen fifty?

[SPEAKER_03]: Or is this new copy?

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm you talking about doing news from the third right.

[SPEAKER_04]: Rob.

[SPEAKER_03]: Excellent.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now, a lot of concerns.

[SPEAKER_04]: I get it, but you know, back to school exists anyway.

[SPEAKER_04]: Morgan Wallen.

[SPEAKER_04]: Does anybody know more than one country singer, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: I believe so.

[SPEAKER_04]: He's got the album is called I'm the problem and it returned to the top billboard to hundred chart giving him a career total of thirty nine non consecutive weeks in the number one spot.

[SPEAKER_04]: this time with Elton John who spent thirty nine weeks at number one between seventy two and seventy five Morgan and Elton have the fourth most weeks among male solo artists that's pretty good for a country artist I would think yeah that is that's very impressive especially nowadays it's hard to you know to move the charts like he does like that that's pretty good from the show the voice

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, really, I'll be star that did that.

[SPEAKER_04]: I got to check this guy out.

[SPEAKER_04]: I want to see what he's all about.

[SPEAKER_04]: That you usually follow the country people, Rob, just to make fun of them, but you don't know much about old Morgan, right?

[SPEAKER_03]: No, but you see that also means I got nothing against him because he hasn't stuck out there.

[SPEAKER_03]: I, you know what, I appreciate all sorts of music.

[SPEAKER_03]: But I always appreciate people to have amazing runs on the chart because it means they're plugged in.

[SPEAKER_03]: And that's really impressive.

[SPEAKER_04]: There was a big long list of artists who have spent thirty or more weeks at number one.

[SPEAKER_04]: I went on it down to you for the number one through number five.

[SPEAKER_04]: The panels.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yep.

[SPEAKER_04]: They're the record holders.

[SPEAKER_04]: One hundred thirty two weeks.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's pretty amazing.

[SPEAKER_04]: Right behind them Taylor Swift with eighty six weeks at number three.

[SPEAKER_04]: There's your man Elvis Presley.

[SPEAKER_04]: seven, uh, sixty seven weeks and number four, Garth Brooks.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's hard to believe, uh, but it's not for me.

[SPEAKER_04]: Fifty two weeks.

[SPEAKER_03]: And that's modern chart music as well because, you know, they cater and there's just not as much variety out there.

[SPEAKER_03]: So I think that

[SPEAKER_03]: what Morgan has done is amazingly impressive not as impressive what the Beatles or Elvis did because there was so much more pop music going on at the time but there's nothing you can't take away the fact that that's an amazing well I mean uh... the next one he beat out uh... Michael Jackson who had fifty one week

[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, ma'am.

[SPEAKER_04]: So congratulations to all of them.

[SPEAKER_04]: Morgan Wallen.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'll check them out.

[SPEAKER_04]: The next time you're in the market for some cheap Swedish furniture, you might be shopping for it at an electronic store.

[SPEAKER_04]: Have you heard about this?

[SPEAKER_04]: Did they teach you that here?

[SPEAKER_04]: Did they teach you that in the spread?

[SPEAKER_04]: Ikea is opening a bunch of the mini Ikea stores inside best buy locations.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now is this desperate I was going to say is this opening up inside best of our taking over best by well I would think I would think that they would probably start with TV stand kind of furniture that kind of entertainment centers.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, the first ten will pop up at best buys in Florida.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, hey good for you

[SPEAKER_04]: And Texas this fall.

[SPEAKER_04]: By the way, IKEA, I've gone across alligator alley to IKEA to get stuff from my clothes.

[SPEAKER_05]: You are looking in the wrong section of Best Buy, then what they're focused on.

[SPEAKER_05]: They are focused on the appliance section and making it easier for Best Buy appliances to go into IKEA, kitchens and laundry areas.

[SPEAKER_03]: Really?

[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, so they're customizing it to the acquired cabinet tree into the appliances.

[SPEAKER_04]: Each mini Ikea will be around a thousand square feet feature cabinets, as Josh said, and other storage solutions for the kitchen and the laundry room.

[SPEAKER_04]: So they're not going to show you like beds or anything.

[SPEAKER_03]: The weird thing though is in these mini Ikea, they have the smallest meatballs.

[SPEAKER_03]: Just tiny.

[SPEAKER_04]: Have you ever had an Ikea meatball?

[SPEAKER_03]: I never have.

[SPEAKER_03]: You remember that?

[SPEAKER_04]: I would think you'd be the first person to hide.

[SPEAKER_03]: I hate the entire notion of IKEA.

[SPEAKER_03]: Why?

[SPEAKER_03]: Because I come from a proper furniture store family.

[SPEAKER_03]: Not a do-it-yourself family.

[SPEAKER_05]: Well, just go to the restaurant.

[SPEAKER_05]: Now, you know what they can do without.

[SPEAKER_03]: All right.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, here has a separate door so you can just go to the restaurant for lunch.

[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, it sounds like we've got an IKEA fan here.

[SPEAKER_05]: You don't get it many times.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I've had many meatballs.

[SPEAKER_03]: So do they have meatballs?

[SPEAKER_05]: They're great.

[SPEAKER_05]: They're great.

[SPEAKER_03]: They're great.

[SPEAKER_03]: Do they have stuff other than the meatballs?

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, they've got their hotdogs are pretty good, too.

[SPEAKER_05]: But, uh, no, they have, they're okay.

[SPEAKER_05]: They're right.

[SPEAKER_05]: You have cocaine in there.

[SPEAKER_05]: And when I walk into IKEA, they have, I don't know what they call it.

[SPEAKER_05]: They are meatballs Sunday.

[SPEAKER_05]: So I'll grab a meatballs Sunday at the entrance.

[SPEAKER_05]: That's me.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's the meatballs with mashed potatoes, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, meatballs, gravy and cranberry sauce.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's absolutely spectacular.

[SPEAKER_04]: First of all, I think the Swedish meatballs is the definitive meatballs.

[SPEAKER_04]: I truly do.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think they got it right.

[SPEAKER_04]: With the brown sauce on the meatballs, it's fine.

[SPEAKER_04]: Why am I hungry at this hour of the morning?

[SPEAKER_03]: We're not used to broadcasting this hour.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's probably what it is.

[SPEAKER_04]: But Josh was right.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's all like for redesign for the appliances.

[SPEAKER_03]: And you think the reason you like the meatball so much is Stockholm syndrome?

[SPEAKER_04]: That's funny.

[SPEAKER_04]: But a big bit of a look at that.

[SPEAKER_04]: He's so proud of himself.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, you know, it's international joke.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's those with that fall into the what we have to start categorizing your jokes.

[SPEAKER_03]: Why do we have to do that?

[SPEAKER_04]: That should fall into the, well, how would you categorize that joke?

[SPEAKER_04]: That's a dead joke.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's a dead joke.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, because it's a joke based on a pun.

[SPEAKER_04]: How many jokes do you think?

[SPEAKER_04]: So dead jokes are obviously to please dad, not necessarily please the recipient, right?

[SPEAKER_03]: Dead jokes are usually told to please the teller, yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: But sometimes people come along for the ride you never can tell.

[SPEAKER_04]: This can be an entire segment where we configure out the categories of your jokes, because some of your jokes are for, well, good number of your jokes are for you.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'd say, forty percent.

[SPEAKER_05]: Forty percent.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: And I think the dad joke is to get the ground.

[SPEAKER_05]: The grown is what you want.

[SPEAKER_03]: The grown is the satisfaction.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think so.

[SPEAKER_05]: For the dad.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, it's all for the dad.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but maybe after dad is dead, people will appreciate looking back on the dead, Joe.

[SPEAKER_04]: Two of the best buys will also let people have any Ikea product shipped there for pickup, isn't that nice of them?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I appreciate that.

[SPEAKER_04]: And they're in Florida.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: So they are in Florida.

[SPEAKER_04]: Isn't that nice?

[SPEAKER_04]: Electric cars might be easier on the planet for some passengers.

[SPEAKER_04]: They're harder on the stomach.

[SPEAKER_04]: I have no knowledge of this.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm an electric car driver.

[SPEAKER_04]: There's the sound of mine and the dog in the back seat.

[SPEAKER_04]: There is an electric dog.

[SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely.

[SPEAKER_04]: Studies have shown people often feel more motion sickness in EVs than in gas cars.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is big gasoline.

[SPEAKER_04]: sending this out, I guarantee it.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is like, if anything, my electric car is smoother than the other cars I have.

[SPEAKER_03]: Is it because it's too smooth?

[SPEAKER_03]: Because you know when you get seasick on a boat is when a boat is going slow.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's slow.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's fast.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: You don't get seasick.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think I've demonstrated that of the three of us.

[SPEAKER_04]: I probably have the greatest problem with motion sickness based on the ride that I went on at Disney.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, but I'm right there with you.

[SPEAKER_04]: You get sick in the, you get a car sex.

[SPEAKER_05]: On occasion, I have on my phone, I have the little motion sensor thing turned on.

[SPEAKER_05]: So, it puts all these dots on the side if I'm using the phone in the car to stop when we get motion sickness.

[SPEAKER_04]: And oh, guess what?

[SPEAKER_04]: We've got a new sponsor return.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's got the good for that.

[SPEAKER_04]: A wonderful.

[SPEAKER_04]: I believe it's week.

[SPEAKER_04]: They're all in that way.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I can't relief, man.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's the best.

[SPEAKER_04]: Let's see, motion sickness more so in EVs than gas cars.

[SPEAKER_04]: Therefore, some science is behind it without the rumble of an engine or familiar vibrations.

[SPEAKER_04]: Apparently your brain gets fewer clues about when the car is about to speed up or slow down.

[SPEAKER_04]: I buy that.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's the problem.

[SPEAKER_03]: That makes sense.

[SPEAKER_04]: Electric cars also have a feature called regenerative braking.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh my god, I love it.

[SPEAKER_04]: You want to you just feel every time you use it like you are saving your breaks every time you do that.

[SPEAKER_03]: What does it do?

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: So I've got a switch that's on my little.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's a little toggle switch that goes between reverse and drive.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then they've got D and B, which is Dick and B.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now, see, that wasn't dead, Joe.

[SPEAKER_04]: No, that wasn't really for the audience.

[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's in the sixty percent.

[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_04]: The, the B is for breaking.

[SPEAKER_04]: And if you come up like, I have actually been in the car where I've got, say,

[SPEAKER_04]: seventy three percent battery left and I will come off the exit to of seventy five going at a really good clip and I'll hit the the breaking the regenerative breaking and I will actually see the percentage of battery life go up because it regenerates the battery

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, the only thing breaking feature that Marquilla had was it actually broke.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's it.

[SPEAKER_03]: It just broke all the time.

[SPEAKER_03]: If you see the percentage on the, does your car have a feature like an iPhone where you can go into like low power mode to preserve your juice?

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, that's cool.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's what I need.

[SPEAKER_04]: I never use it.

[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know what that could out.

[SPEAKER_05]: What would low power cut out?

[SPEAKER_04]: Like slow power keeps you, it has a governor on the speed.

[SPEAKER_04]: And what else does it do?

[SPEAKER_04]: Turn off the AC.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, the vibrator unit that's on my, the bottom of my seat.

[SPEAKER_03]: More of the center, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: It just slows down.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: It slows down.

[SPEAKER_04]: So anyway, regenerative braking.

[SPEAKER_04]: It creates a slower deceleration.

[SPEAKER_04]: All these things together, you've got a perfect recipe for a possible puke.

[SPEAKER_04]: Researchers say it's all about a neural mismatch.

[SPEAKER_04]: which basically means that your eyes, inner ear and body, aren't on the same page, God.

[SPEAKER_04]: Guardians of the Galaxy.

[SPEAKER_04]: I was in separate states when I was on that.

[SPEAKER_03]: The newest coaster at Kings Dominion is a hanging coaster where the track is above you.

[SPEAKER_03]: And there are several huge turns where you don't see any track in front of you.

[SPEAKER_04]: So you have no idea, oh, you're gonna get a hanging coaster where they strap you in by the neck.

[SPEAKER_04]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_04]: And it's called the Hussein.

[SPEAKER_04]: Only if you're found guilty.

[SPEAKER_04]: Let's see.

[SPEAKER_04]: They're trying to some fixes like adding subtle vibrations, lighting or visual clues like Josh was talking about in his phone to help your brain anticipate what the car is about to do.

[SPEAKER_04]: It should just make engine noises to just make sounds.

[SPEAKER_04]: All of the sounds of my makes.

[SPEAKER_04]: doesn't have a CD player might you get a CD of a good as a CD player and a cassette deck boy you're saying a wooden telephone on the on the past that's just being silly you know telephone uh yeah but uh i've never bought been bothered they said that the most unlikely place to get it is in the driver's seat

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, because you know exactly what's going on.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's your passengers are gonna go through that type of stuff.

[SPEAKER_04]: The universal addiction to smartphones.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is our final story that I would like to continue to discuss when we get done with this.

[SPEAKER_04]: The universal addiction to smartphones is actively ruining our brains, especially Gen Z and at a pace that should absolutely freak everything everyone out.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now listen, I believe this.

[SPEAKER_04]: with all of my heart.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm concerned about it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Schools, my kid school is concerned about it as well.

[SPEAKER_04]: The financial times recently published a devastating analysis of American personality changes using data from the understanding America study and the findings should stop you cold.

[SPEAKER_04]: Listen carefully to this.

[SPEAKER_04]: The cost of all of our devices

[SPEAKER_04]: is attention.

[SPEAKER_04]: Not just I get distracted sometimes attention, but the deep sustained focus that conscientious requires, the skill of delaying gratification, resisting impulse, and staying the course is being replaced by an addiction to novelty, validation, and stimulation.

[SPEAKER_04]: The more we indulge, the less we can resist indulging, and the charts free falling red line for young adults shows exactly where that road leads.

[SPEAKER_04]: The speed of this shift should terrify us.

[SPEAKER_04]: The printing press transformed literacy, religion, and politics, but it did so over centuries, allowing institutions and cultures to adapt.

[SPEAKER_04]: The smartphone has reshaped cognition, social norms, and mental health in barely a decade.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, this is legit folks without any meaningful adaption at all.

[SPEAKER_04]: We didn't get a century to build guardrails.

[SPEAKER_04]: We got a push notification.

[SPEAKER_04]: Future historians will likely look at this as the era in which humans zombified themselves.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is true, presuming of course that there are future historians not addicted to their phones.

[SPEAKER_04]: Is it too late?

[SPEAKER_04]: It might be the genius so far out of the bottle that's running its own TikTok channel and also attention deficit at all kids regulation don't hold your breath Silicon Valley's incentives are too deeply tied to engagement metrics it's true.

[SPEAKER_04]: They don't have the money their money

[SPEAKER_04]: is predicated on you staying online and grabbing you.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, we all work in it.

[SPEAKER_04]: We do it in our business.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's the way it is.

[SPEAKER_04]: Engagement currently defined thrives on keeping you distracted, anxious, and coming back from where anxious is massive.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yep.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, are you tired of your job?

[SPEAKER_04]: Do you want to, you want to do this fix?

[SPEAKER_04]: Here's this new, I mean, it's, it's incredible.

[SPEAKER_03]: You can't believe what she found her husband doing.

[SPEAKER_03]: Wait till you read number seven.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's stunning and it's something that, you know, really, really we have to discuss on the show.

[SPEAKER_04]: Anyone who claims there's a quick fix is selling snake oil.

[SPEAKER_04]: Abtimers, gray scale screens, digital detoxes, these are band aids on a bullet wound.

[SPEAKER_04]: The deeper reality is that smartphones, as the portal to the digital metosphere, have rewired how an entire generation thinks, feels and relates to the world.

[SPEAKER_04]: There is no undo button.

[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, I don't forget.

[SPEAKER_05]: We also had COVID lockdowns during the same time.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, for smartphones took that next step.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it really sort of more reinforced it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now there is one place to start according to this article.

[SPEAKER_04]: They say,

[SPEAKER_04]: recognition is where you start.

[SPEAKER_04]: We must acknowledge that we've engineered an attention economy whose most precious raw material is human focus and we are burning through it like cheap fuel until we admit that there's no hope of slowing the decline much less reversing it.

[SPEAKER_04]: The two thousand tens will be considered the way we look at the dawn of the industrial era.

[SPEAKER_04]: The technological leap that unleashed prosperity, but also a pollution exploitation and the collapse of old ways of life.

[SPEAKER_04]: Only this time, the pollution is in our minds.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's scary.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's surreal.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I think we should continue this discussion about it.

[SPEAKER_04]: And what our personal experiences are, what our kids are doing with it, it's just the way we go.

[SPEAKER_04]: and it freaks my ass out and it should probably freak yours out as well.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Now that article has a lot of information to decipher but I know that personally in my own life I have observed not only my kid but my wife and

[SPEAKER_04]: You'll have a night where we got three people sitting on the sofa, me on my Mac, Carl Honor phone and Michael Honor on their phone, and the focus, destroying our focus that we need.

[SPEAKER_04]: I was thinking just to myself the other night, checking out my Mac, which is the last thing I look at before I turn in, that when is the last time?

[SPEAKER_04]: I really dove into a great novel.

[SPEAKER_04]: And it's to God damn long.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the right.

[SPEAKER_04]: Because we want that fake.

[SPEAKER_04]: And do you get the sense when you're surfing on my?

[SPEAKER_04]: Now, yes, we have a job where sharing little clips can be beneficial.

[SPEAKER_04]: But do you get the feeling of emptiness that exists when you're just scrolling and clicking on video after video after video after video?

[SPEAKER_04]: I feel it is absolutely vacuous.

[SPEAKER_03]: Do you know what it reminds me of is back in the days when we would take phone calls on the show when we were on terrestrial radio.

[SPEAKER_03]: And it would be a break and you just wanted the one call to be a capper for the segment you wanted one decent.

[SPEAKER_04]: So you could go so you could just move the show along.

[SPEAKER_03]: right but you stay with it and that's what it's like what are you looking for what is going to be so good that it's going to you know make this a successful view of my my social media it doesn't exist but i'm guilty of it as anybody you just keep going keep going keep going the end game of this is uh... you know when they say words like the zombification of uh... of america uh...

[SPEAKER_04]: Do you think the genie being out of the bottle is something that we can fix?

[SPEAKER_04]: Do you think this is a fix thing?

[SPEAKER_05]: I think that saying that's only happened in the last ten years is an exaggeration because I think it started with the television and I think it just moved into our consciousness.

[SPEAKER_05]: As far as the one in our attention and engagement, I think I'll start with the TV.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think the TV is a valid comparison because the TV was conceived as a group activity.

[SPEAKER_03]: everything on a phone is just for you.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, and I think it's just progressed along there.

[SPEAKER_04]: Do you remember Rob the movie we both like is Avalon?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: They talk about, they talk about family dinners where people would sit around and discuss and then you move the TV dinners in front of the television.

[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[SPEAKER_04]: And no one was speaking to each other.

[SPEAKER_04]: And they were, I think the similarities are their Rob from that standpoint.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, but you're right.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's, but you demonstrate

[SPEAKER_04]: how much more severe it is when it's only you.

[SPEAKER_04]: How many times are we sitting around the only thing we want to interact with the other persons?

[SPEAKER_04]: Look at this.

[SPEAKER_04]: Look what interests me.

[SPEAKER_05]: That's what I was going to say is Kelly and I have been trying to put our phones away when we're spending time together or out the dinner.

[SPEAKER_05]: And that's why you don't answer?

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah, that's why.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I wake up the other morning on Saturday.

[SPEAKER_04]: We're something I did.

[SPEAKER_04]: I still even after a year, I don't know you.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'll never do that again, by the way, because I mean, that's like, well, you have like one day or two days a week, probably, that you get a chance through the ice and surely apologize.

[SPEAKER_04]: It was like eight, thirty.

[SPEAKER_04]: I would normally be awake.

[SPEAKER_04]: It was a set of hours.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's what I thought.

[SPEAKER_03]: The main reason for the call was just to see if he was awake.

[SPEAKER_04]: No, it was a financial question.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, okay.

[SPEAKER_05]: And it just happened to be that night.

[SPEAKER_05]: I fell asleep with my AirPods in.

[SPEAKER_05]: So I just woke up to ring in and Micomerra is calling.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: Talk to you in your head.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then when he answers, I mean, Josh.

[SPEAKER_05]: It was all, yeah, you're on the way to the Pokemon store.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: You're going to avoid using the phones and it is tricky because so much of our life is on the phone now.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: That it's like, well, I don't want to use the phone, but let me show you this picture I took earlier today and that's now on the phone and then we're in the phone.

[SPEAKER_03]: And another thing that I think is divisive is, we talked about music earlier with Morgan Whalen.

[SPEAKER_03]: Is that music is not?

[SPEAKER_04]: No, I don't know.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was while.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, Morgan Whalen.

[SPEAKER_03]: The music with Spotify, especially where you're making your custom playlist just for you, music has stopped being a shared experience.

[SPEAKER_05]: And I think that all those apps are working really hard at that you make like a playlist that you then share with your friends to try to combat that.

[SPEAKER_03]: But I don't see that happen.

[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I just remember when Mike, you and I were youngsters and the big deal was to have a huge boom box where you could walk through the neighborhood and share the music you liked to as many people as possible.

[SPEAKER_03]: But I can't do that.

[SPEAKER_05]: You're just old.

[SPEAKER_05]: Because they do that.

[SPEAKER_05]: They go on the car and they all have the share play where they can all add songs to the playlist or they go to the party and they can all add their own music to the iPad that's playing.

[SPEAKER_03]: Still divisive because when I was growing up there was a radio station that we all listened to and I'm sure it's the same with everybody which means you were exposed to the same records, the same mix of records and even if you hated them or liked them, you shared that.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was a shared experience because it was coming through mask communication.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now you don't need radios anymore.

[SPEAKER_05]: And that's where TV has changed too.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: We'll watch it on their own time.

[SPEAKER_05]: Very smart.

[SPEAKER_04]: Very smart.

[SPEAKER_05]: Very smart.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: I will tell you that the I can see both sides of what you guys are talking about, but the overall problem I get back to is the lack of focus and the short attention span theater that we have.

[SPEAKER_04]: We know I don't pretty much have the worst part.

[SPEAKER_04]: What's the worst part?

[SPEAKER_04]: It's your brain.

[SPEAKER_05]: You're not worried about learning things or memorizing things because you can just pull it up on your phone.

[SPEAKER_05]: That's true to know these facts because it's in my pocket.

[SPEAKER_05]: I think that's the biggest thing to remember with the younger generation.

[SPEAKER_03]: I used to remember so much more that I don't have to anymore because it's all in my phone at any time.

[SPEAKER_04]: Do you think it is to get really or welling on you?

[SPEAKER_04]: Do you think that perhaps this is something that can be abused in the future to control thought?

[SPEAKER_05]: Of course.

[SPEAKER_05]: Of course.

[SPEAKER_05]: Of course.

[SPEAKER_05]: That's again a discussion we had yesterday in the house, Kelly and I, about the kids and worried about YouTube and stuff on their phones that are

[SPEAKER_05]: At suddenly this phone and TV is gonna have more control over what our kids learn and hear than us as parents.

[SPEAKER_05]: I need to be concerned about what they learn in school, but not worry about YouTube.

[SPEAKER_05]: That's the bigger fear.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think that my Sun School has a policy that we poo-pooed.

[SPEAKER_04]: And now I feel horribly guilty.

[SPEAKER_04]: That no cell phones until eighth grade.

[SPEAKER_04]: And a point of I get it now.

[SPEAKER_04]: They were forward thinking that.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I have to have a serious sit-down discussion with the family about that.

[SPEAKER_03]: I think that... Does he leave it in that situation because he's not an eighth grader yet?

[SPEAKER_03]: Does he leave his phone at home?

[SPEAKER_03]: Does he leave it in the car?

[SPEAKER_03]: Do they store it for him at school?

[SPEAKER_03]: How do they handle it?

[SPEAKER_04]: He leaves it behind.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: And the thing, the thing that freaks me out about this is that I think we've already seen the effects of a population that has short attention span because the only thing that gets attention are sound bites, are slogans.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, the deep thought

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, people just tune out.

[SPEAKER_04]: They tune out from that.

[SPEAKER_05]: And that's where you're already seeing it manipulate culture and all with politics and how they'll make a headline that doesn't match the story in order to control the narrative because they know people only read the headline.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, and they can be and they purposely make it so you're gonna hate the other side.

[SPEAKER_03]: It can be so much more manipulative than anything we've had in the past.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, you go back to the era of my parents were voting in and that where intellectual accomplishment and artistic accomplishment and educational accomplishment.

[SPEAKER_04]: seemingly to me was so much more valued than it is today, where they were put up on pedestals.

[SPEAKER_04]: And you had a lot of people that were, well, I described this show not necessarily accurately all the time, but as being an inch deep in a mile wide, but people seem to be more varied in their interests.

[SPEAKER_04]: They had more interests.

[SPEAKER_04]: They had more focus on things that mattered.

[SPEAKER_04]: And when we keep getting back to the genie being out of the bottle,

[SPEAKER_04]: I can't off the top of my head think of any kind of endgame to fix this, especially with the dollars that are involved.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's like saying we shouldn't use oil in our fuel production anymore because that's not gonna happen because the dollars, this is even more so.

[SPEAKER_04]: Because when you get, when you cut through all the attention deficit and the lack of focus, you know what you get to?

[SPEAKER_04]: You get to, well, there's teamo.

[SPEAKER_04]: There's Amazon.

[SPEAKER_04]: They're selling you products.

[SPEAKER_04]: We're selling a product.

[SPEAKER_04]: We're guilty.

[SPEAKER_04]: We're part of it as well.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's how do you fix this?

[SPEAKER_04]: How can it possibly be corrected?

[SPEAKER_03]: it almost has to be the way it's sort of I would like to think it's sort of began organically and I think people latched onto it and used it for evil that when it began to happen they said hey we can use this we can mind this data we can do this we can sell this but it's sort of happened organically

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm hoping that we can evolve away from it, organically.

[SPEAKER_03]: But it's not likely, it's not likely, but it's something worth hoping for.

[SPEAKER_05]: I think it's more knowledge and understanding, and understanding when you're being manipulated and understanding and recognition as parents that we need to do better with our kids.

[SPEAKER_05]: I agree to understand that.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to start another way in and out of their devices.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think it's absolutely essential.

[SPEAKER_04]: And when you have educators that are working with you like I do thank God, it's something to consider now.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think that it's going to be a tough slog for a lot of parents myself included, but it might be something that can be helpful.

[SPEAKER_03]: When you address it today, are you just going to text Michael?

[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you, Rob.

[SPEAKER_04]: We have more.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just curious how it's going to work out.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know what we need, Rob?

[SPEAKER_04]: We need robot rabbits.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's what we need.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I know we do.

[SPEAKER_04]: We do.

[SPEAKER_04]: We need robot rabbits.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, more than you know, more than right now after that discussion, I, I have to lighten the mood a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_05]: You're robot rabbit.

[SPEAKER_05]: It looks not real.

[SPEAKER_05]: It is a robot stuff or it is a stuffed animal rabbit that they gutted and they put sensors and heat lamps and stuff inside of it so it'll put up the heat signature of a rabbit and move a little bit like a rabbit and it's filled with motion sensors and cameras stored in this box.

[SPEAKER_05]: and they are dropping forty of these rabbits into the Everglades last week.

[SPEAKER_05]: Oh.

[SPEAKER_05]: Oh.

[SPEAKER_05]: Python this rabbit looks real.

[SPEAKER_05]: It's a stake.

[SPEAKER_05]: It's a layman, young.

[SPEAKER_05]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_03]: Knowing the Florida, I thought sure these were being designed for the dog track.

[SPEAKER_04]: I was sitting here getting ready to just hear the stupid of stupid.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I still want to put on a stupid.

[SPEAKER_04]: But it does to thank you, a mic for the super sticker.

[SPEAKER_04]: We appreciate that.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I will tell you this that the idea of of doing this.

[SPEAKER_04]: to lure in the Python's.

[SPEAKER_04]: They can't find these things.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's why they multiply the way they have and the idea of dumping them.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I think if it works,

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, this invasive species, they eradicated a lot of the wildlife in the emperors.

[SPEAKER_05]: They're going to put, they put these out last week, they're working on a new model that will smell like a rabbit that they're going to put out as well.

[SPEAKER_03]: Can I just buy the smell?

[SPEAKER_03]: Is it possible to just get the odor?

[SPEAKER_05]: Bring it on.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_05]: It's because the pythons

[SPEAKER_05]: are they shouldn't be there, so they're trying to lure a man and get rid of him.

[SPEAKER_05]: And the men still have the contest every year in Florida, right?

[SPEAKER_05]: Where you can go and catch the biggest Python and win ten grams.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now, there are benefits.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I don't think people might not want to hear this of the Burmese Python explosion in the in the Everglades, but one of the biggest ones, of course, it gives Redneck something to do on the weekend, which I don't think should be discounted.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, you should be

[SPEAKER_04]: You'll wear them, the fact that they go out there.

[SPEAKER_03]: No, the fact of the matter is people make they go out there are not governed by their cell phone.

[SPEAKER_03]: They are going to America.

[SPEAKER_04]: It really is something that I would like to see because I don't like the the main thing.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't like the idea of them eradicating the other wildlife.

[SPEAKER_04]: By the way, Florida is the king of invasive species anyway.

[SPEAKER_04]: The fish, the reptiles, everything.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, a great picture of a bottle with an iguana in as a the the people.

[SPEAKER_04]: I thought you said pit bull.

[SPEAKER_03]: No.

[SPEAKER_03]: It would be easy to eradicate Mr. Three one nine.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's just one guy.

[SPEAKER_04]: What I would like to see is success.

[SPEAKER_04]: I wish them.

[SPEAKER_04]: Otherwise, you got these people that go out there.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's a big spot.

[SPEAKER_04]: The lot places to hide.

[SPEAKER_04]: So they don't do it that way.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know who knows.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, now the you say Josh the Python is an intruder.

[SPEAKER_03]: It doesn't naturally occur in the Everglades.

[SPEAKER_03]: So then you got to you got to do it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Because they can kill everything.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: And that's why they have the contest.

[SPEAKER_05]: But last year's guy, one, ten thousand dollars because he would call twenty of them.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: I would love to do that.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to see if I can do that.

[SPEAKER_04]: I would love to go on a ride to ride along.

[SPEAKER_03]: Why does Mike have, why does Mike have locked joy today?

[SPEAKER_03]: I want to go.

[SPEAKER_04]: I want to go.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know what I want to do?

[SPEAKER_04]: I want to quietly observe.

[SPEAKER_04]: I do not want to get in there and get tagged by one of these guys all the, you know, because really they can, they can give you an nasty bite.

[SPEAKER_04]: What if you nasty?

[SPEAKER_03]: What if we just arranged for a lovely fanboat ride?

[SPEAKER_04]: And you didn't necessarily have to kill any because because first of all, it's not a fanboat.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's an airboat.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's what they call it.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's not a fanboat.

[SPEAKER_04]: Why did you call it a fan boat?

[SPEAKER_04]: That's when I always heard it was called.

[SPEAKER_03]: A fan boat?

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, because that's a big fan on it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Right.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I mean, it's an airboat.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's what we're talking about here.

[SPEAKER_04]: It was called, doesn't fly.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I mean, how did you create that?

[SPEAKER_04]: Did you?

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, we're the boat that was used in like, uh, supper.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's a boat.

[SPEAKER_03]: But also if you type it in, the first thing that Google says is what are fan boats called?

[SPEAKER_03]: So obviously, there's other idiots out there.

[SPEAKER_04]: John L says, join the guilty, Mike.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm.

[SPEAKER_04]: You look you and Michael next summer.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh my god, we much this year.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's the mid July.

[SPEAKER_04]: Much like my fear of flying where I go out and watch planes land.

[SPEAKER_04]: This would be the same thing.

[SPEAKER_04]: I have a fear of the pythons, but I wouldn't mind watching them get hunted by, you know, one of the guys that goes out there with the mallet.

[SPEAKER_03]: And airboat is also known as a plane boat, a swamp boat, a bayou boat.

[SPEAKER_03]: Ooh, share.

[SPEAKER_03]: And a fan boat.

[SPEAKER_03]: So I guess.

[SPEAKER_03]: No, no, it's not a fan boat.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, all right.

[SPEAKER_04]: Don't buy it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Look at his eye.

[SPEAKER_04]: His eyebrows go like up almost to where his hairline used to be.

[SPEAKER_04]: What he does.

[SPEAKER_03]: No, no, no, no.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's right.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's Rob's way of saying.

[SPEAKER_04]: That was the whole tone with a sea.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's a fan boat.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, yes.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm telling Josh that he doesn't have to believe it.

[SPEAKER_03]: But I'm saying that I had some backing there.

[SPEAKER_05]: Are you saying the bunch of dummies saying, look at that fan boat?

[SPEAKER_04]: Look at that fan book!

[SPEAKER_04]: Are you saying that Josh's opinion might trump your reality, Rob?

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't like when people trump my reality.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't have anything left except my reality.

[SPEAKER_03]: Let me have it.

[SPEAKER_04]: You have beautiful video for us though.

[SPEAKER_04]: I do and it's all about fan boats.

[SPEAKER_04]: Very exciting.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's very very exciting.

[SPEAKER_04]: Rob's got video coming up.

[SPEAKER_04]: But first, hey, we're excited about it.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's the TMOS Family Cookbook.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's fantastic.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I know I have the copy.

[SPEAKER_04]: I just don't know where it is.

[SPEAKER_04]: So I'm just going to tell you about it on the top of my head.

[SPEAKER_02]: Good.

[SPEAKER_04]: Here it is.

[SPEAKER_04]: We have decided that we are going to produce the greatest cookbook in the history of recipe gathering.

[SPEAKER_04]: We are putting our family recipes, our own personal recipes, Rob is a cook, Josh cooks a little bit, I cook and we have listeners that are very recipe oriented.

[SPEAKER_04]: We're getting all these recipes together and we are gathering them in a TMOS family cookbook that is available for pre-order right now, yes Rob.

[SPEAKER_03]: I got a few submissions from the friends of the show this weekend.

[SPEAKER_03]: I will not spoil anything to say, but Julia, my daughter, has submitted the first vegan recipe for the cookbook.

[SPEAKER_03]: So this is a cookbook.

[SPEAKER_03]: Mike, I've had this recipe.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's A, okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: We'll tell you what it is.

[SPEAKER_03]: What is it?

[SPEAKER_03]: It's vegan brownies.

[SPEAKER_03]: They're not as good as your mom's.

[SPEAKER_03]: They're not as good as your mom's.

[SPEAKER_03]: No, they don't require.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: Brown.

[SPEAKER_04]: He can brownies that time.

[SPEAKER_05]: I've had him.

[SPEAKER_05]: They're pretty good.

[SPEAKER_05]: Did you take a look at my brother's recipe as I didn't have submitted a recipe?

[SPEAKER_05]: I didn't yet.

[SPEAKER_05]: What?

[SPEAKER_05]: I believe it is also vegan.

[SPEAKER_05]: Oh good.

[SPEAKER_05]: It is rice and beans.

[SPEAKER_03]: Let's have a vegan section at the very end of the book.

[SPEAKER_04]: You're both bringing up a vegan stuff that I am all on board with the brownies, although they won't be comparable to the best brownie recipe.

[SPEAKER_04]: No, not at all.

[SPEAKER_04]: In fact, by the way, who's going to be the editor-in-chief of the book?

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I am the editor, but that's a cheat.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm selecting which recipes are in there.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, that's kind of, I know you're the editor for putting the book together, but the final recipe, Decider, we might have some conflicts.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, who's going to do that?

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't even know if I'm qualified to do that.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm making a list as recipes come in.

[SPEAKER_04]: Are we going to do it by committee?

[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, we're all going to meet on a fan boat in vote.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think we should be the three.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think really the fair thing to do would be the three of us to hash it all out.

[SPEAKER_04]: And in the dessert section, my mom's brownie recipe, the greatest brownies in the history of brownies.

[SPEAKER_04]: Don't want me to question that.

[SPEAKER_04]: I've made them their fantastic.

[SPEAKER_04]: They are wonderful.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then we'll just have to figure out who's going in and who's not.

[SPEAKER_05]: Well, it's gonna be like I was in a town in Italy and on one side of the street was the world's best gelada and a crawl.

[SPEAKER_05]: Did you stay gelada?

[SPEAKER_05]: He did.

[SPEAKER_05]: He did.

[SPEAKER_05]: It's a lot too.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: All right.

[SPEAKER_05]: And across the street was the world's most famous gelada.

[SPEAKER_04]: Did you ever watch the show everyone loves Raymond?

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm familiar based on Ray Romana.

[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: So, gelato?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, gelato.

[SPEAKER_05]: And also, Josh just stopped talking.

[SPEAKER_05]: I'm sorry.

[SPEAKER_05]: I was just... No, I'm waiting to hear how my pronunciation has to do with Raylamana.

[SPEAKER_05]: Your pronunciation, you mean?

[SPEAKER_05]: That's exactly what I said.

[SPEAKER_05]: You got to get your ears checked.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: All right.

[SPEAKER_04]: No, it's fine.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's fine.

[SPEAKER_04]: So, where were we?

[SPEAKER_03]: Are you going to submit your back and cheese recipe featuring Pecorino Ramana cheese?

[SPEAKER_04]: That was a stretch.

[SPEAKER_04]: That was a long way to go for that was, but I mean, we're still food related.

[SPEAKER_03]: I understand.

[SPEAKER_03]: I. Partial credit.

[SPEAKER_04]: So we will be gathering these recipes.

[SPEAKER_04]: We're taking them from listeners.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's recipes at micromarishow.com.

[SPEAKER_04]: If you'd like to submit yours, we're going to vet them.

[SPEAKER_04]: We're going to go through them.

[SPEAKER_04]: We're going to edit them out.

[SPEAKER_04]: We got Charlie's candy recipe.

[SPEAKER_04]: We've got lots of good stuff coming, and the recipe book is coming your way.

[SPEAKER_04]: Probably right before Thanksgiving, is that when we're going to drop it?

[SPEAKER_03]: That's when we expect to do plenty of time to get the food cake recipe and make your food cakes this Christmas.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's right, Rob.

[SPEAKER_05]: It's going to put the food cake recipe in the cookbook.

[SPEAKER_05]: And fake recipes are going straight in the trash.

[SPEAKER_05]: So it's always in your time.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's not going to happen.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's just a comedy book, okay?

[SPEAKER_04]: Will we put a craft recipe?

[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe that's where I am with it now.

[SPEAKER_04]: All right.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's where I am with that right now.

[SPEAKER_04]: So we'll have to wait and see.

[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, that's it.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's time for now without to let's do it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I guess choosing a favorite jingles like choosing a favorite child, but I really do like that all hits all summer long.

[SPEAKER_03]: My, I asked before the show as far as race cars go and NASCAR, if either you were Josh, had heard of Connor Zellish or Zillish.

[SPEAKER_03]: And neither of you had, but he had a victory this weekend, and it would have been perfect.

[SPEAKER_03]: if he didn't break his collarbone.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now you think, uh, guy in a car going a hundred and fifty miles an hour.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's probably gonna break his collarbone.

[SPEAKER_03]: Probably gonna get injured.

[SPEAKER_03]: He didn't get it injured during the race.

[SPEAKER_11]: He's climbing out of his car.

[SPEAKER_11]: Standing on his car.

[SPEAKER_11]: Whoops.

[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, no.

[SPEAKER_05]: Oh my god, did his foot get caught in that net?

[SPEAKER_05]: He's gonna be okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what happened.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'll roll it again.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's too one more hard.

[SPEAKER_03]: I mean when you take a header then off the top of the car.

[SPEAKER_03]: I mean when you take a header then off the top of the car.

[SPEAKER_03]: I mean when you take a header then off the top of the car.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean when you take a header then off the top of the car.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean when you take a header then off the top of the car.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean when you take a header then off the top of the car.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean when you take a header then off the top of the car.

[UNKNOWN]: I mean when you take a header then off the top of the car.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean when you take a header then off the top of the car.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean when you take a header then off the top of the car.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean when you take a header then off the top of the car.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean when you take a header then off the car.

[SPEAKER_03]: I mean when you take a header then

[SPEAKER_04]: He might have lost got knocked out for a second.

[SPEAKER_03]: I love the insightful commentary.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my gosh, he fell.

[SPEAKER_04]: He's having trouble with that netting.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's what's getting up.

[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, he got caught in that.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I think the one foot fell in the car and the body fell the rest of the way.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, we wish them a speedy recovery.

[SPEAKER_04]: Wow.

[SPEAKER_04]: Talk about from happiness to sadness, just like that.

[SPEAKER_03]: Mike, uh, speaking of which I used to be happy when the office was on television.

[SPEAKER_03]: I like the office.

[SPEAKER_03]: I thought it was very good.

[SPEAKER_03]: I thought it was the best show of its type at the time.

[SPEAKER_04]: I agree with you there.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know that bringing it back in a new variation is going to work, but peacock is going to do it.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is called the paper.

[SPEAKER_03]: And it's the same people, including Oscar from the original show, but they're running a newspaper.

[SPEAKER_12]: Here is one of my articles, um, particularly proud of her.

[SPEAKER_04]: Great.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, let's get us to it.

[SPEAKER_04]: So I'll see you in Vurgarra.

[SPEAKER_12]: We're learning a lot.

[SPEAKER_12]: My name is Ned Samson.

[SPEAKER_12]: I am your new editor-in-chief.

[SPEAKER_12]: He's a good actor.

[SPEAKER_08]: You read this paper?

[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, they're trying to make a bear's attention.

[SPEAKER_05]: He might like the office and set something different.

[SPEAKER_03]: But it essentially is the office.

[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's just a different setting with a blow-hard boss, a young up-and-comer that comes into try to fix things.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is not where we need to be focusing all of our store.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's for what do you mean?

[SPEAKER_05]: Who's going to be excited for this show?

[SPEAKER_03]: People that love not my kids love the office, but I don't think I'm not going to be excited for this because it's not the same character.

[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_05]: It seems like a clone.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you've got you've got the you've got the template there, but not the right ingredients.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is, I think, and I hate to bring everything back full circle, but this is a result of the lack of focus and lack of creativity and lack of original ideas and suits that are more concerned with the metrics than they are with creating something special.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's it.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's what it is.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's like, how do I guarantee I hate it?

[SPEAKER_04]: It's always been like that in Hollywood.

[SPEAKER_04]: It always has.

[SPEAKER_05]: But I mean, this is worse now because there's more outlets for.

[SPEAKER_05]: And it's an odd character to bring back that the crossover between the two shows is Oscar.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I think he probably worked cheaper than anyone else.

[SPEAKER_05]: Sure.

[SPEAKER_03]: You're not going to always the bad guy.

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[SPEAKER_11]: The next started moving out and that sent her running to Mary Beth McDade live at downtown LA with now by the way on a snake scare.

[SPEAKER_11]: This is a Los Angeles reporter right here.

[SPEAKER_04]: You bet.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, that's right.

[SPEAKER_06]: It was a bit of a scary situation out here for some residents for a while, but fortunately some people came up with a good solution.

[SPEAKER_06]: She's eighty three.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm glad she quit smoking.

[SPEAKER_03]: Look at this, I've heard of this snake on the dumpster.

[SPEAKER_06]: I'm not coming home to this.

[SPEAKER_07]: A twenty-foot python in the parking garage of your downtown LA High Rise.

[SPEAKER_07]: You know, I was just driving in and I saw something that looked like a snake and at first I thought it was maybe like a stuffed animal.

[SPEAKER_07]: But I'm like, who would leave such a huge stuffed animal?

[SPEAKER_07]: And then as I got closer, I looked to realistic so I thought it was maybe taxidermy and then it moved.

[SPEAKER_03]: They eventually called a reptile guy who came and scooped it up and put it back where it belongs.

[SPEAKER_04]: They're in LA now, too.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Taking over the world.

[SPEAKER_03]: Let's close with this, Mike.

[SPEAKER_03]: I found this delightful.

[SPEAKER_03]: The five hours that you don't do it work.

[SPEAKER_03]: And this guy lays it out from an eight hour day.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is how his day falls out.

[SPEAKER_03]: I like him because he's awfully truthful.

[SPEAKER_10]: It's top five hours of the day where I'm not doing at work.

[SPEAKER_10]: Coming in at number five, we have the hour before lunch.

[SPEAKER_10]: By this stage, I've been at work for a couple hours.

[SPEAKER_10]: I'm hungry.

[SPEAKER_10]: All I'm thinking about is breaking for lunch.

[SPEAKER_10]: I want to get the hell out of here.

[SPEAKER_10]: I'm not doing the hour before lunch.

[SPEAKER_10]: Coming in at number four, we have the hour directly after a meeting.

[SPEAKER_10]: Paying attention during the meeting has absolutely cooked me.

[SPEAKER_10]: My attention span is done.

[SPEAKER_10]: I need a break.

[SPEAKER_10]: And for that reason, I'm not doing shit for an hour after a meeting.

[SPEAKER_10]: Coming in at number three.

[SPEAKER_10]: Number three.

[SPEAKER_10]: The hour after lunch.

[SPEAKER_10]: Lunch times over and I'm depressed.

[SPEAKER_10]: All I can think about now is how badly I want to have a nap.

[SPEAKER_10]: My mind now wonders to what I'm doing after work.

[SPEAKER_10]: I don't want to be here.

[SPEAKER_10]: I'm not doing shit during the hour after lunch.

[SPEAKER_10]: Coming in at number two, we have the first hour of the day.

[SPEAKER_10]: Look if I'm completely honest, I'm probably not going to be here for the first fifteen minutes of the day anyway.

[SPEAKER_10]: Then I'm going to come in quick socialise with the colleagues and then I'm immediately looking to get a coffee.

[SPEAKER_10]: I might turn my computer on and see if I got an urgent emails, but other than that, I'm not doing shit for the first hour of the day.

[SPEAKER_10]: And coming in at number one, we have the last hour of the day to go to that saying, I busted my ass all day, meetings, life breaks, coffees.

[SPEAKER_10]: Now it's time for me to start wrapping things up and look for the exit door.

[SPEAKER_10]: Chances are, again, I won't be here for the last fifteen of these minutes.

[SPEAKER_10]: So with that in mind, I'm not doing shit for the last hour of the day.

[SPEAKER_03]: So Mike, I always, I just have to wonder.

[SPEAKER_03]: What line of work do you suppose he's in?

[SPEAKER_04]: I have no earthly idea.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_04]: We got to get out of here.

[SPEAKER_04]: We'll be back with a brand new episode.

[SPEAKER_04]: Good luck with the first day of school in the Josh Land.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then tomorrow in my land, which means I'll talk about it on Wednesday.

[SPEAKER_04]: So there's that.

[SPEAKER_04]: And we'll figure out

[SPEAKER_04]: this whole phone thing.

[SPEAKER_04]: We'll solve the world's problems tomorrow on the show as well.

[SPEAKER_04]: So I want to stay tuned for that.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm taking my phone and turning it upside down right now.

[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_04]: Forget it.

[SPEAKER_04]: What a protest.

[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_04]: Way to go out on a limb.

[SPEAKER_04]: Fantastic.

[SPEAKER_04]: You ought to do that in the middle of Main Street is what you really are.

[SPEAKER_04]: In Fairfax?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's probably only when there's heavy traffic.

[SPEAKER_04]: For Josh Soroka and Rob's people.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is Michael Maris saying, so long, everybody.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Well, I was pleasant to stop by, don't you think?

[SPEAKER_04]: You must have been the class clown, and I say, no, I wasn't.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I sat beside the class clown, and I studied him.

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