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[SPEAKER_05]: Welcome to Hazard County.

[SPEAKER_05]: Whalen Jennings tells the story of the Duke's of Hazard.

[SPEAKER_05]: Starting Friday, January 26th.

[SPEAKER_05]: Michael Merra, radio entertainment.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Welcome to our show.

[SPEAKER_05]: We're going to start with the race.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's got to be fucking look at our phone.

[SPEAKER_05]: There's plenty for everyone.

[SPEAKER_05]: It's the Michael Mero Show with Michael Mero.

[SPEAKER_05]: Bye!

[SPEAKER_05]: Josh Rooka!

[SPEAKER_05]: And Rob's Speedway.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, Rob!

[SPEAKER_05]: It's only the beginning.

[SPEAKER_05]: And now, here's Mike.

[SPEAKER_07]: Logie.

[SPEAKER_07]: I just can't roll anymore.

[SPEAKER_07]: That's it's official.

[SPEAKER_07]: I just, I don't have any ability to roll.

[SPEAKER_07]: I used to, I used to be able to work hard, play hard, and now I don't know what's wrong with me.

[SPEAKER_07]: Two days, it takes me to recover from our festive cocktail party auction on Saturday.

[SPEAKER_07]: You would have loved me.

[SPEAKER_06]: You would have loved me after the show ended.

[SPEAKER_06]: By the time that that second coming kicked in all,

[SPEAKER_07]: Well, we saw the evidence, we saw the evidence of it kicking in.

[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, but really, I mean, like just watching Scooby-Doo cartoons and laughing my head off.

[SPEAKER_07]: That's great.

[SPEAKER_06]: It was great, it was great, but I thought, you know what I mean, I think so, yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: You were, you were, you know, you were kind of...

[SPEAKER_07]: testy at the beginning your defensive and then you ate the other half.

[SPEAKER_07]: Did you take a half is that what it was?

[SPEAKER_06]: I think a total of two sixes.

[SPEAKER_06]: So it turned out to be 12 total.

[SPEAKER_06]: You, uh, which is quite, that's a hefty dose right there, my friends.

[SPEAKER_07]: You were, you were, uh, lively as I texted you after the, uh, auction, I, you were making me laugh out loud, uh, towards the, uh, because I, we even were laughing after the auction when we, uh, we're going over who bid for two and, uh, you know, Josh and I, with our lovely, uh, female dates and then we're off with the dude.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, with the dude, it, it, it, it, it, it, it.

[SPEAKER_06]: I, and you know, it's funny to mubber a mubber.

[SPEAKER_06]: I remember making you laugh, but I couldn't come up with a single thing I said, not in the final hour of the show.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, so my apologies if it was embarrassing, but I think we had a good time.

[SPEAKER_06]: It was great.

[SPEAKER_07]: Before we get to the auction, we have Breaking Sports News right now in the world of baseball as the trading deadline.

[SPEAKER_07]: I believe 6pm this evening.

[SPEAKER_07]: Approaches about three hours away as we tape this program and the Red Sox have acquired one of the finest catchers in Major League Baseball and I am here to say they have acquired him from the Baltimore Orioles.

[SPEAKER_04]: Do you want to go to the auction?

[SPEAKER_04]: I've got a jersey for sale.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh dear, that's a problem.

[SPEAKER_07]: You are not as the Orioles' faithful are not.

[SPEAKER_07]: You are not happy about this deal.

[SPEAKER_04]: This guy is one of my favorite players.

[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, that sucks.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I feel for you.

[SPEAKER_06]: Well, you're one step closer to becoming a Red Sox fan.

[SPEAKER_06]: Well, before the Orioles' favorite player is there now.

[SPEAKER_04]: The order was to this before, but you don't do it in division, and the trade it to the red socks who were fighting for a wild card spot with in division and a rival is really annoying.

[SPEAKER_04]: All right, let me ask you this question.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Do you allow that?

[SPEAKER_04]: What we got?

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, you did?

[SPEAKER_04]: Who they get?

[SPEAKER_04]: Anthony Iensen.

[SPEAKER_04]: Who one of your top pitch and prospects?

[SPEAKER_04]: All right, anybody else?

[SPEAKER_04]: That's the only name that came out so far.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's come hoping there's a little more.

[SPEAKER_07]: All right.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, so this guy, what's his name again?

[SPEAKER_07]: Aubrey Ellen, what is it?

[SPEAKER_07]: Adly.

[SPEAKER_07]: Adly.

[SPEAKER_07]: Adly, Rutchman.

[SPEAKER_07]: Adly, Rutchman, an interesting name.

[SPEAKER_06]: Adly, Rutchman sounds like, sounds like something from like, wordle that you messed up.

[SPEAKER_06]: Adly.

[SPEAKER_06]: Or could it be Adly, like, Adly Stevenson?

[SPEAKER_07]: And that would be Adelaide, Adelaide Stevenson for Stevenson.

[SPEAKER_07]: No, I think that sometimes when I first move down to Virginia, and I play with these guys with names like Hooper, Stephenson, and the Southern thing, I don't know about Southern naming, but I think some of these

[SPEAKER_07]: Southern people, uh, give the rule is they give their kids a first name that is the last name of the grandmothers.

[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe it's weird stuff like well, you've been in for when you were a whole lot when you were playing hockey.

[SPEAKER_06]: Didn't you used to miss the hoop.

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[SPEAKER_07]: It's just something that I noticed.

[SPEAKER_07]: And when I asked a guy, he said, it's my grandmother's maiden name, and it was just a weird thing and then said what they're doing.

[SPEAKER_07]: They do it in the south.

[SPEAKER_07]: If anybody in the comments knows what I'm talking about, I am completely out of it regarding that.

[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know why, but I know they do something like that.

[SPEAKER_06]: I know that I went to school with a guy.

[SPEAKER_06]: His name was Clam, and he spelled it with a K. I don't know, but that must be a Southern thing.

[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, there.

[SPEAKER_07]: Uh, welcome.

[SPEAKER_07]: All right, so this was my father's hobby, uh, Ruchman goes to the red socks for a pitching prospect.

[SPEAKER_07]: There's got to be more involved in that.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know, I hope I hope so.

[SPEAKER_04]: I hope it's not one for one.

[SPEAKER_04]: I did see a comparison with Adley and your catcher.

[SPEAKER_04]: and Adley was improved in like 27 of the 30 categories.

[SPEAKER_07]: They were challenged at that position.

[SPEAKER_07]: We have a kind of a backup wheel that's going with our catches.

[SPEAKER_07]: They're so the baseball season.

[SPEAKER_07]: This is on the heels, a double dose of good deals for the red facts on the heels of sweeping your Los Angeles Dodgers, which was pretty amazing.

[SPEAKER_04]: Amazing.

[SPEAKER_04]: Because someone's going to have to beat the Dodgers to win it all.

[SPEAKER_04]: I agree.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: he's so happy he'd look at his face he's not happy I don't feel good I guess I'm maturing I don't I think 30 years ago I would have been going man and and I don't feel that I know I don't have the receiving end of that I think before the auction you might have been then and then and that but I think the luginess is preventing any then and then because the red socks are not that much better than the Orioles

[SPEAKER_04]: I, it's pretty close.

[SPEAKER_06]: Well, now they are now.

[SPEAKER_04]: They are.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_04]: The A-Le, there was no need for the Orioles to trade.

[SPEAKER_04]: It makes no sense that the Red Sox would be buyers and the Orioles be sellers.

[SPEAKER_07]: I would like to point one thing out that is the big giant question mark in the room.

[SPEAKER_07]: And that is that this player for Ruchman for the Orioles is on the injured list right now.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_07]: So claim

[SPEAKER_07]: and inflamed wrist and you never know what the real deal is.

[SPEAKER_07]: I know you did.

[SPEAKER_07]: You're constantly working it out and glad that's come around, although it's still sore most of the time, right?

[SPEAKER_06]: It is, and my vision is really bad.

[SPEAKER_07]: very, very difficult as UH.

[SPEAKER_07]: I have to say that with the red socks, luck factor, and by the way, reversing the curse on all that, yes, we've had great baseball teams since the curse was reverse, but there is still the fan base that says,

[SPEAKER_07]: Hmm.

[SPEAKER_07]: Why that good a guy being sent by one of your big, big rivals?

[SPEAKER_07]: Why was that?

[SPEAKER_07]: So I think be careful.

[SPEAKER_07]: Be very careful.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's something crooked for a foot and the way you explain it.

[SPEAKER_07]: Well, they always try to get over on people.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's what they try to do.

[SPEAKER_04]: I just have to assume our GM is going to work for the Red Soxist offseason.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's kind of a, you know, if he really stays hurt, you know, but I think they did the medical evaluation past that they do that by the way, so they send a guy down.

[SPEAKER_07]: They send something down and the x-rays up to their doctor to look at.

[SPEAKER_06]: I know he has to get their 15 minutes before the appointment to fill up.

[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, or else can you get Carlos Naviaz?

[SPEAKER_07]: uh... you get the right hand a picture ampani and a simple power stuff right handed uh... you're so you got a major league catcher and uh... and our vases not a bad catcher at all and uh... okay so i think the rest of them are prospects so uh... all be prospecting everybody's given you the drawing of the the orals second trade and it's a bit of a thing the uh... stop now what if we're talking i would

[SPEAKER_04]: Adley Watchman was the face of our rebuild.

[SPEAKER_04]: He was the one pick by Michael Lies.

[SPEAKER_04]: The number one draft pick over all on baseball.

[SPEAKER_04]: He was the face of turning this team around.

[SPEAKER_04]: And now they're just giving up and being like, oh, they didn't work.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's just something.

[SPEAKER_06]: This is going to be a spirited episode of a section three, three, six this week.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's all you got for the tomorrow.

[SPEAKER_07]: Are you recording it tomorrow?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I mean, we might need to bump it up till tonight, but I think it's tomorrow morning we're scheduled.

[SPEAKER_07]: Uh, yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: Well, now, now, hold on, uh, true, the, uh, true BS, uh, Josh, it's okay.

[SPEAKER_07]: They're at sex always choke.

[SPEAKER_07]: No, they don't.

[SPEAKER_07]: No, they don't.

[SPEAKER_07]: They really don't.

[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, I'm not going to go so far as to say that they always show, because they don't.

[SPEAKER_07]: They won World Series Championship.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: But in the past year, you've gotten John Harrell ball from me.

[SPEAKER_04]: And now you're getting Adley Ruchman from me.

[SPEAKER_04]: I know, I know.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's, uh, I'm just hoping to know it's funny that he takes it to the level.

[SPEAKER_04]: And that was the first time it's taken it from me.

[SPEAKER_06]: Oh yeah, the team is the way you feel it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it's the way it

[SPEAKER_07]: That's the way you feel when you're a sports fan.

[SPEAKER_07]: That's the way it goes.

[SPEAKER_07]: And this is a team rod.

[SPEAKER_07]: If you remember, I went online, sat in my easy chair and did a complete worst team.

[SPEAKER_07]: I have ever seen in all the years, I have been rooting for the Boston.

[SPEAKER_07]: I said that.

[SPEAKER_07]: That's it.

[SPEAKER_07]: You can find that on social somewhere where I do that.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's a matter of fact, Josh, if you can find that post from me on my page, I don't put that many posts up anymore, and if you can find that, this might be funny to play because I truly was done.

[SPEAKER_07]: I was done, done, done, done.

[SPEAKER_07]: I really didn't want to root for the team in it.

[SPEAKER_07]: Rob, they went from,

[SPEAKER_07]: absolute disaster to, you know, a team that is now swept the Yankees, they've swept the Dodgers, they've swept the rays, they've swept the white socks, all teams that are in first place.

[SPEAKER_07]: And done the reverse of a choke.

[SPEAKER_07]: They've unchoked.

[SPEAKER_06]: Well, I mean, choking really applies, I think, to the final part of the season and also the series, but postseason, but I'm saying that since the all-star break, they've been excellent where if they were to choke, they would have started great and then fallen apart.

[SPEAKER_07]: There is so much hand-wringing embossed and when this team is really, really bad.

[SPEAKER_07]: And almost all of the pundits in the talking heads, I don't consider myself one.

[SPEAKER_07]: I'm simply a fan that gets on and talks about him occasionally, but I do not consider myself a baseball person at all.

[SPEAKER_07]: Just a fan just watching from the sidelines and I got on there and was just absolutely at my wit's end.

[SPEAKER_07]: They had just played such bad baseball.

[SPEAKER_07]: and I watched one of their games and I think I was getting ready to completely check out.

[SPEAKER_07]: So it sucked.

[SPEAKER_07]: But we'll see what happens.

[SPEAKER_06]: How many seasons let's say in the past 15 years?

[SPEAKER_06]: 15 seasons.

[SPEAKER_06]: Have you gotten close to checking out?

[SPEAKER_07]: at a couple of ten couple of last year a little bit didn't didn't stick with a mind it's not an every year thing this is me and I think may Josh it might have been may or June I'm not sure might have been may because it was pre birthday all right that's all right check this first day season I don't do this very often it's not my area of expertise but I am a red sex fan

[SPEAKER_07]: And after watching their performance today, 15 strikeouts against Tampa, wrapping up a one-and-four road trip, falling further and further and further and further below 500, I have never, and I mean never, seen a team suck as bad offensively as this Red Sox team.

[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know what it is, people say that management doesn't give a fuck, that ownership doesn't give a fuck,

[SPEAKER_07]: Well, it sure looks like the players don't give a fuck.

[SPEAKER_07]: Hack, hack, hack.

[SPEAKER_07]: It sucks to be a Red Sox fan right now.

[SPEAKER_07]: The city deserves better.

[SPEAKER_07]: Better ownership, better management, and better players.

[SPEAKER_07]: Go out and do it John Henry.

[SPEAKER_07]: This is not cool.

[SPEAKER_07]: This is not cool at all.

[SPEAKER_07]: As a lifelong Red Sox fan, I'm saying, get your ass in gear and make some changes.

[SPEAKER_07]: Ship somebody out, do something.

[SPEAKER_06]: And they did.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, sucks being a Red Sox fan right now.

[SPEAKER_07]: Probably the worst team I have ever seen on the field in a Red Sox uniform.

[SPEAKER_07]: And I've seen some really, really, really bad teams in my lifetime.

[SPEAKER_07]: So I ran out of breath.

[SPEAKER_07]: Anyway, do something socks.

[SPEAKER_07]: Just for the fans.

[SPEAKER_07]: Pretending to care, assholes.

[SPEAKER_07]: And that is twenty twenty six ladies and gentlemen not too much just a few months.

[SPEAKER_07]: That's all Wow, you'll see a very similar video by me later today Yeah, well, it sucks when your team is selling and not selling and not to abide now on to the auction Saturday night Mrs. O'Mara late in the afternoon decided to stop by Eguana Rhea

[SPEAKER_07]: And pick up a big gallon jug half gallon.

[SPEAKER_07]: I think it was a gallon jug of margarita.

[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, you see, you were unclear.

[SPEAKER_06]: I because it looked like it was in a to go cup.

[SPEAKER_06]: I thought she just picked up a cup for you.

[UNKNOWN]: Oh, no.

[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, I enjoyed, you know, do a tray with the big straw and the top or the floater as they like to call with little added punch to each one.

[SPEAKER_06]: That's not used that phrase.

[SPEAKER_07]: I did pretty well, didn't I?

[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, I really, you didn't really know.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's not like I was super sloppy, but I was.

[SPEAKER_06]: Well, your enthusiasm was your tell.

[SPEAKER_06]: because I was inebriated.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah.

[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, you were way way into this in a way that you wouldn't be during a normal, non-innebriant show.

[SPEAKER_07]: And then I write before the show because it's the Mondays that we always get on Monday.

[SPEAKER_07]: I was remembering the coolest thing that Rob did.

[SPEAKER_07]: Do you remember when Rob was criticizing me for the limited number of things I had on the auction?

[SPEAKER_07]: That really hurt.

[SPEAKER_07]: The three items?

[SPEAKER_07]: That really hurt.

[SPEAKER_07]: That really hurt.

[SPEAKER_07]: And all I did was give him compliments

[SPEAKER_06]: Well, no, like I would not have said that if you hadn't gone after me first.

[SPEAKER_04]: So many compliments about that Beatles hoodie.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, do we get bids on that at the end of the day?

[SPEAKER_06]: No, that's why it's going to have to come back in another auction another day.

[SPEAKER_07]: We're maybe fine.

[SPEAKER_07]: Well, we're not going to have ably Rocksman gear.

[SPEAKER_07]: So you hate that?

[SPEAKER_07]: Well, no, I think that it had dog hair all over it.

[SPEAKER_06]: Well, Mike, I'm going to have it longer.

[SPEAKER_06]: It was a last minute.

[SPEAKER_07]: If you looked, it looked as though it had been stretched out.

[SPEAKER_07]: It looked like it was a little a little worse for where it would have been never been worn.

[SPEAKER_06]: It would never been worn.

[SPEAKER_06]: No, hanging in my closet since we did when did we see them at the morage it was a long it's eight nine years.

[SPEAKER_07]: I guess would write where it around the house.

[SPEAKER_07]: He would.

[SPEAKER_07]: He would.

[SPEAKER_07]: So it was great, I think everybody had a really good time.

[SPEAKER_07]: I'd love to do it again sometime because it was just an awful lot of fun.

[SPEAKER_07]: We had the commenters going, we had the bidding going, and of course the centerpiece of it was the competition between the three of us for dinner for two, which I thought was pretty fun too.

[SPEAKER_07]: That was a good time.

[SPEAKER_07]: So now it's the next big event.

[SPEAKER_07]: We'll probably be

[SPEAKER_07]: right around the holidays and then the cruise and we're very, very excited about that because that's where all this good stuff is going to happen if you want to get still plenty of cabins available for the cruise so you go to tmospotcast.com and check out the store and that'll take you down.

[SPEAKER_06]: People need to know if you want dinner with one of us on the cruise, that does not include the cruise.

[SPEAKER_06]: that's in addition to buying a ticket to the cruise.

[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_07]: So you need to have that, but also Mike, I know we were hoping that the people that are bidding on that were aware of that.

[SPEAKER_06]: I think they were.

[SPEAKER_06]: And I know we were effusive about this on Saturday night, but it really should be mentioned again, how Josh pulled the auction together and how great it looked and how easy to follow it was.

[SPEAKER_06]: Really great job Josh.

[SPEAKER_06]: I thought it was great.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and Rob's dinner outperformed everyone.

[SPEAKER_04]: More than Mike and I combined.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, absolutely.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, Mike got third and I got fourth in the dinner in the dinner auction.

[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, that's right, because Carly got the big bid from a jerk.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: And we're all going to do it on the same night.

[SPEAKER_07]: So we're all like to see the tables just like a mixture of tables spread out.

[SPEAKER_06]: I actually was in touch with my guy that won and I traded him for a new catcher.

[SPEAKER_06]: So it's going to be a great dinner.

[SPEAKER_07]: Great success.

[SPEAKER_07]: It says for the seat belt extender as well.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I believe it did.

[SPEAKER_06]: Well, yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: So we're right now.

[SPEAKER_07]: I've got the items over here right next to me getting ready to be shipped when the time comes and everybody followed up and everybody still cool with the the items you got that because we had to start it and restarted so we could get the bids to be.

[SPEAKER_06]: No, I was a big success on my thought it would be was the Boeing shirt.

[SPEAKER_06]: The bowling shirt brought a good, and it just so happens, I have a second one in red.

[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, it's a chance to tune in next time.

[SPEAKER_06]: That's okay.

[SPEAKER_07]: You are the, you know what?

[SPEAKER_04]: If you're in the quarter, he just keeps everything.

[SPEAKER_07]: And he loves, he loves like taking a good thing and retreading it.

[SPEAKER_07]: So, you know, maybe maybe something besides the bowling shirt.

[SPEAKER_07]: No, Mike, just so bowling shirt.

[SPEAKER_06]: That's all I'm going to do.

[SPEAKER_06]: Of course, no more stuff.

[SPEAKER_04]: They'll all have the birthday card from you.

[SPEAKER_06]: That's true.

[SPEAKER_06]: I have to dig that out.

[SPEAKER_07]: Did they get any bids?

[SPEAKER_06]: No, my God.

[SPEAKER_06]: We didn't find a birthday card.

[SPEAKER_06]: We didn't know the headshot.

[SPEAKER_07]: They had the headshot with no facial hair.

[SPEAKER_06]: The only thing that didn't sell was the hoodie.

[SPEAKER_06]: Which shot to me.

[SPEAKER_07]: I think we would have gotten a bid on the hoodie.

[SPEAKER_07]: if it didn't have the hair on it because at the very end of the auction when we were really focusing on it we zoomed in on the picture and you know i think people would be concerned about getting a good thing no one focused on that though so that's probably the best way are you talking to me are you still mad at me all i did was tell you how funny you were and all that and you're you're still in attack mode i know but you're in it you're you are

[SPEAKER_06]: And I simply I asked Josh I didn't even know I said was there anything that didn't get bit on and it was the What I'm saying is that a little help if you would have said of course the do it there might be a dog area But it won't be there when you get it folks a little help like can you help can you help more with the stuff I have you know Right kind of the way I feel every day on the show a little more help

[SPEAKER_06]: Sure, we can hold hands and both do better.

[SPEAKER_06]: But you saw Mike, he was on his side.

[SPEAKER_06]: No, no, no, I'm driving by the show.

[SPEAKER_07]: I know exactly what you said.

[SPEAKER_07]: I can't do better on the show.

[SPEAKER_07]: This is all you got.

[SPEAKER_07]: This is me every day, pal.

[SPEAKER_07]: I'm not directing like that at a 50, 50.

[SPEAKER_07]: Don't work that way, though.

[SPEAKER_07]: I'm talking show.

[SPEAKER_07]: You can direct it at the auction.

[SPEAKER_07]: I was definitely done better on the auction.

[SPEAKER_06]: What I was saying is that, yes, I will do better on the show.

[SPEAKER_06]: And the next time we have an auction, you can support the items a little better.

[SPEAKER_07]: I will not only support the items that I will curate some items that will be I think very very I'll take more time and as time goes I don't know when the when do you want to do the next one Josh one would it be this year next year

[SPEAKER_06]: Hmm, I think there should be pre-Christmas in case people want to use something as a gift.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, that's good idea except we got to work out a trip to Maine.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's right.

[SPEAKER_04]: So that makes it tricky where we might have to wait till post-Christmas.

[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, yeah, I think we'll wait till the after the holidays.

[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, I think you know, you know, be good as if someone wanted to say they were going to give someone something from the auction they could give them a picture of it.

[SPEAKER_07]: Are you talking about my sister?

[SPEAKER_06]: Always.

[SPEAKER_07]: There you go.

[SPEAKER_07]: From never forgot the Kathy, like I'm too separate.

[SPEAKER_07]: The laser crisps is gave me a long furniture or something.

[SPEAKER_07]: The one she gave me was a bench.

[SPEAKER_07]: That's what it was for the front of my house that actually went in my yard before the big divorce and really like the bench didn't get here in time, but here's a photo over.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, it's very very nice.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, it's coming soon.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's absolutely coming soon and speaking of Bench, he was quite a catcher too.

[SPEAKER_07]: He's rubbing your nose in it today, pal.

[SPEAKER_07]: That's what's going on.

[SPEAKER_07]: I want to mention that my mom-in-law is doing it.

[SPEAKER_07]: Got a chance to go down Sunday and see her.

[SPEAKER_07]: And she is on the road to recovery.

[SPEAKER_07]: She's in and out right now because of the medication and stuff like that.

[SPEAKER_07]: But to go down there, and I believe that this subject is going to date me.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's going to make me old as I am.

[SPEAKER_07]: You will realize that.

[SPEAKER_07]: I now realize that when I look at certain professions,

[SPEAKER_07]: I am always in a hospital environment, whether I'm in it or visiting it.

[SPEAKER_07]: I always have the wandering eye.

[SPEAKER_07]: And I realize that the wandering eye and not that I'm going to go, you know, not going to do anything bad, I'm not going to go in, right?

[SPEAKER_07]: Well, no, I know those days are long behind me.

[SPEAKER_07]: That's right.

[SPEAKER_07]: But I still, and I was saying, why do I always have this?

[SPEAKER_07]: I don't want to grow anybody out.

[SPEAKER_07]: So I want to put this the right way.

[SPEAKER_07]: Why when I'm in this environment, do I always feel kind of a...

[SPEAKER_07]: I have a wandering eye when I go into a hospital.

[SPEAKER_06]: I think what it is, and don't make it be the fact that you're just looking at, I don't want to... You're not a dirty old man.

[SPEAKER_06]: Tell me, it's totally dirty.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's all like you're out there looking for trim.

[SPEAKER_06]: You're not looking for trim.

[SPEAKER_04]: You're just like a woman, and that's a gross way.

[SPEAKER_06]: No, and I think what he's doing is you are people watching.

[SPEAKER_06]: And it's not it's not it's not exclusive to ladies.

[SPEAKER_06]: I mean you look at everybody because you I at least mean I've spent so much time in a house But of last year you see someone and you're probably bored so you observe them and try to figure out hey, what's their deal?

[SPEAKER_06]: I think

[SPEAKER_07]: that a a woman in scrubs in medical garb is just about as as as beautiful as a current.

[SPEAKER_06]: I just look ahead.

[SPEAKER_07]: I just look at that.

[SPEAKER_07]: You know, and now, do you know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, I look at that.

[SPEAKER_07]: And it just like, he would just say, crazy anatomy when you say a doctor or a nurse or an x-ray tech or anybody.

[SPEAKER_07]: There's just something.

[SPEAKER_07]: And I think that I was conditioned.

[SPEAKER_07]: To be that way from a very young age when back in the day, there were traditional roles that women were in, exclusively, flight attendant nurse, waitress, teacher, you know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that might, that might, that might.

[SPEAKER_07]: Come hurt worker.

[SPEAKER_07]: I can't there's no I knew when I wrote this down to come in here and talk about it I knew I knew that there was no way without without looking good in this without being weird Ish or gross.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, and I won't be either Do you think it has anything to do with the fact that your mom worked in a hospital?

[SPEAKER_07]: No, a hundred percent not even not you're not because I know she wasn't she was never in scrubs or Wow, no, and it starts to white out.

[SPEAKER_06]: No, but I'm sure you favor.

[SPEAKER_07]: No, this goes back to a time when I was in the hospital In one of my very early stays of course anybody following in this show would know that there have been multiples over the years

[SPEAKER_06]: I can tell you when it was in and out it and I just was the first week of April 1992 because is when I started with the show.

[SPEAKER_07]: I always would, when there would be a shift change, or is it there for a couple of days?

[SPEAKER_07]: I would always kind of, if I was feeling well enough, I would always sort of sit by with great anticipation.

[SPEAKER_07]: Now, my last day, which was, you know, last year, the last day, was,

[SPEAKER_07]: A stay where the relationship that I had with the caregivers was one that was very solid, where I was very pleased with the attitudes and very pleased with the care and very pleased with it.

[SPEAKER_07]: But there have been the occasional moments where you get someone that comes in and you're kind of taken aback.

[SPEAKER_07]: uh, based on the, you know, the, you've got somebody who's really a, uh, an attractive person.

[SPEAKER_06]: It is easier to be taken aback and to be observant.

[SPEAKER_06]: And again, trying to figure out what their deal is.

[SPEAKER_07]: Somebody said sponge bath.

[SPEAKER_06]: If, uh, if you're perhaps in the hospital because you're visiting somebody and you're not the person.

[SPEAKER_07]: And that's what it was, yes.

[SPEAKER_07]: to that.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it gives you a little chance to come on.

[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you for getting me back on track.

[SPEAKER_07]: I appreciate that and what happened was I noticed as I went by the station that you know, it was, you know, everything.

[SPEAKER_06]: How old were you hanging out at the nurses station?

[SPEAKER_07]: I was doing no session.

[SPEAKER_07]: In fact, it was a very brief visit because she was very sleepy and we did not stay long, but I will tell you that I noticed that the crew on duty on Sunday was was

[SPEAKER_07]: very, very nice-looking group of people.

[SPEAKER_07]: Sure.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_06]: Did you bring anything to the nurses at the nurses station?

[SPEAKER_06]: But you know I have.

[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, have you?

[SPEAKER_07]: You remembered, well, do you remember that one time that I was at one of my other hospital stays where I had to, uh, I had a surgical site infection when I had my artificial, I do remember that.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: And I had to go to, uh, to get like these mega doses of anti-biotics.

[SPEAKER_07]: I had to go to what's called an infusion center, very sad place, very difficult place for you.

[SPEAKER_06]: A lot of people are getting, uh, just how much you call your dorm room in American University.

[SPEAKER_07]: There it is.

[SPEAKER_07]: Well, welcome to the infusion room.

[SPEAKER_06]: Baby.

[SPEAKER_06]: Mike, I actually have a picture of the nurses that were on staff that you were on, you were looking at, and here they are.

[SPEAKER_04]: They're very traditional.

[SPEAKER_06]: Very traditional and clean.

[SPEAKER_07]: So clean.

[SPEAKER_07]: There they are right there.

[SPEAKER_07]: Fantastico.

[SPEAKER_07]: I lost my trade of thought.

[SPEAKER_06]: You were dealing with a nasty infection, and you brought it to the north.

[SPEAKER_07]: After I was done, I went back to following week, and I brought a like a dozen donuts

[SPEAKER_07]: and for yourself.

[SPEAKER_07]: No, for the for the staff.

[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_06]: Come on.

[SPEAKER_06]: All of them have they were chocolate donuts and and white icing that Mike could put his cell phone number on them.

[SPEAKER_07]: There was a donut joint down here run by a disk jockey.

[SPEAKER_07]: We might have had them on the show.

[SPEAKER_07]: And he, it was a famous donut shop here in Fort Myers, and I stopped by there and got like an assortment of the really, really expensive good donuts they had and brought them to this place.

[SPEAKER_07]: And I, I, I just like that.

[SPEAKER_07]: That's a damn huge set of these have been a few this donut has been infused with jelly Baby it was fun, but Really cool place so much so I am I have no health issues currently.

[SPEAKER_07]: I'm very healthy and I'm very happy, but

[SPEAKER_07]: at my advanced age, you're always thinking about your health and maintaining your health and doing that.

[SPEAKER_07]: And I also said, if anything really hit the fan, the level of care that my mother-in-law is getting is such that I said, you know, for driving the extra 5 to 10 minutes, I wouldn't mind being in this job if something like that.

[SPEAKER_06]: No, you gotta go to the best place.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, save it in the GPS now.

[SPEAKER_06]: So that you're set.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, and I can just hand it.

[SPEAKER_07]: I don't even have to, you know, be verbal.

[SPEAKER_07]: I can just go.

[SPEAKER_06]: Also, you can probably subscribe to Parker.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_06]: That way you have it.

[SPEAKER_07]: Um, you walk in and some of the places down here.

[SPEAKER_07]: I'm sure in some of the city hospitals.

[SPEAKER_07]: You walk in.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's like walking into a, you know, a secure correctional facility where as this place, we just kind of, you know, there's a security guard at the front.

[SPEAKER_07]: We walked in and I think that's cool.

[SPEAKER_07]: No, really the last time I was, I visited someone, where did I go?

[SPEAKER_07]: I walked in and it was like metal detector.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: All that kind of crap.

[SPEAKER_07]: You get that at a lot of hospitals.

[SPEAKER_07]: Now this was much more chill.

[SPEAKER_06]: There was the hospital, my dad was at a lot of them.

[SPEAKER_06]: And the one we liked best.

[SPEAKER_06]: There was a security card and you did get a sticker, but after a while, they were just waving us through because they saw us every day.

[SPEAKER_06]: Right.

[SPEAKER_06]: The lobby was like a roadtondo with beautiful artwork and the hospital smelled like a freshly brewed cup of tea.

[SPEAKER_07]: And that it was just so comforting.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that's similar.

[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, down here.

[SPEAKER_07]: And this is getting really, really good care.

[SPEAKER_06]: And the last thing you need is a bad environment when you enter a house because it's going to be bad regardless.

[SPEAKER_07]: the thing I'll tell everybody is if you know whenever there's any kind of you know doubt in the way you're feeling so this is a woman who was extremely fit and very active and exercised constantly and just didn't feel quite right pursued a couple of things and lo and behold with no knowledge of this whatsoever 80% blockage in the artery they call the Widowmaker.

[SPEAKER_07]: And it is so good that she got that and the outcome could have been a much different situation.

[SPEAKER_07]: Absolutely.

[SPEAKER_07]: And we're really glad that it turned out that way.

[SPEAKER_07]: And I was really, really happy and I'm happy she's making a quick recovery, but boil boy.

[SPEAKER_07]: When you look at somebody as small as she is, and you kind of look at what they've been through, you know, it's a long, long.

[SPEAKER_06]: Josh, have you met, have you met Linda in person?

[SPEAKER_06]: I do not believe it because she's three foot two and very small and that was why the surgery was so hard Mike because the vein itself the artery was tiny but they were able to save her and I think that's great They also got a deal on a room because much smaller short short And it's not even a power bed if you want to be elevated.

[SPEAKER_06]: They just sort of lift and put a book on right

[SPEAKER_07]: I'm trying to send Josh a photograph so that I can show everybody's picture of the doughnuts.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's a picture of me and I'll do it another time.

[SPEAKER_07]: But anyhow, it's good news and that you know what?

[SPEAKER_06]: I'm so happy for you guys because I've been through it and it's the worst.

[SPEAKER_06]: And the fact that you've got a happy start now, it's going to be great.

[SPEAKER_06]: And she's going to feel, Linda's just going to feel,

[SPEAKER_06]: playing better when it's all said and done.

[SPEAKER_06]: Stuff she probably didn't even realize she was dealing with.

[SPEAKER_06]: She's got a feeling great.

[SPEAKER_07]: And maybe because I looked up the hospital that she was in and I did like a double check to see if my plan, which is a Medicare Advantage plan was something taken by the hospital.

[SPEAKER_07]: Here's what I found out because stuff started popping up on my algorithm.

[SPEAKER_07]: Are you aware as you are the next closest one to the age of Medicare,

[SPEAKER_07]: that the good folks on Capitol Hill have arranged things where uh... we're starting to lose funding in uh... in some of these uh... things that take care of people in our sick yeah well way to go congress that's it's a good plan it just thins the herd is a rule did you ever look up mike when you were doing these hospitals of it i've done this have you ever looked up yelp for a hospital

[SPEAKER_07]: They do it and it's nutty the people the stuff they focus on the way I understand that there are multiple Supplement plans advantage plans.

[SPEAKER_07]: They're called that are being not

[SPEAKER_07]: removed from certain hospitals, big ones like Johns Hopkins and big ones like the Mayo Clinic that are not taking insurance from these companies causing people that are on Medicare to go more out of pocket.

[SPEAKER_07]: I just want to say medical system in America.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah!

[SPEAKER_06]: It's not broken, Mike, it's better than ever.

[SPEAKER_04]: My doctor, Kelly's doctor and the kids doctor, three different doctors, all left practices to go private and not take insurance.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's insurance is such a mess right now.

[SPEAKER_07]: That's such a total mess, and it's not, you know, it's not fixed.

[SPEAKER_07]: Beware of Dr. Boner.

[SPEAKER_07]: I believe the words are your comments are killing me right now.

[SPEAKER_07]: So glad she's happy That's great.

[SPEAKER_07]: And we'll find out later in the show if anyone is avoiding Taco Bell We'll be right back with tidbits on the Michael Mary's show.

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[SPEAKER_07]: I hit the music slimmer ready for the tidbits today, ladies and gentlemen, there it is!

[SPEAKER_07]: We start today with the CDC, they say the cyclospoora outbreak, or outbreak, a link to contaminated trash produce continues to grow with thousands of illnesses now reported in more than 40 states.

[SPEAKER_07]: Health officials say the parasite can cause severe stomach cramps, diarrhea, and fatigue that can last for weeks kind of why I drive by really fast when I go by the bell.

[SPEAKER_06]: We actually, we talked about this on this show about 12 hours before it was a big story.

[SPEAKER_06]: We were on top of this right away.

[SPEAKER_07]: So they are urging customers to thoroughly wash fruits and vegetables.

[SPEAKER_07]: Stay on top of recall notices and remember that pre-washed doesn't always mean risk free-dross-sherocous.

[SPEAKER_07]: And when you get that salad, you like in the bag.

[SPEAKER_07]: That salad.

[SPEAKER_07]: Give it a big scrubbing when you get at home.

[SPEAKER_07]: Thanks.

[SPEAKER_06]: I've been buying romaine, I've been buying romaine and giving it a good wash and I've been fine.

[SPEAKER_06]: I eat salad every day now, so I mean, it would be bad to not be able to have lettuce.

[SPEAKER_07]: I take my iceberg into the shower with me in the morning now just to make sure, you know, kill two birds with one stone, but it is an actual iceberg, it's not lettuce.

[SPEAKER_07]: The outbreak is also renewing questions about how imported produce is inspected before it reaches grocery store shelves.

[SPEAKER_07]: I remember this wasn't this big a deal a few years back.

[SPEAKER_07]: It seems like recently things have been maybe, oh, I don't know, deregulated.

[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I mean- I just get American-made lettuce.

[SPEAKER_06]: Also, I'm not saying nothing about nothing, but I hear that one of the big lettuce manufacturers might have had sort of ties with a political party.

[SPEAKER_07]: I don't really.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: Interesting.

[SPEAKER_06]: Are you familiar with the phrase Superdoner?

[SPEAKER_06]: Superdoner?

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: Wall Street open the week in a positive territory as investors prepared for a hey, huge week of earnings reports from some of the biggest names in tech entertainment and health care analysts say the results could set the tone for the rest of the summer meanwhile oil prices move lower following signs of oh thank god easing tensions in the Middle East.

[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, we're going to win this war.

[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, for instance, you are super snarky today, offering some hope that gas prices could remain stable or even nudge lower as the summer driving season that continues.

[SPEAKER_07]: I really, really, really, really hope that's the case that'll make me happy if that is the case.

[SPEAKER_06]: Speaking of which, I would like to pat my Volkswagen right on its hood.

[SPEAKER_06]: Everyone said you shouldn't have bought a diesel because you know, diesel feels more expensive.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_06]: My last tank of diesel.

[SPEAKER_06]: They're going to say $680 and also $680 yeah, but it is it is moving like a champ.

[SPEAKER_07]: So they take it in your face I thought brilliant move.

[SPEAKER_07]: Hollywood is hoping to keep its summer momentum going with a stacked August release schedule among the biggest films arriving this month.

[SPEAKER_07]: Our coyote vs. Act me weren't we talking about that short time ago?

[SPEAKER_07]: We were going to we never got to it Okay

[SPEAKER_07]: Ridley Scott sci-fi adventure the dog stars that looks pretty interesting to me and the latest installment of the insidious uh... horror franchise after uh... isn't the one where the neighbors like really bad across the street i don't even know that i'm i'm surprised there would be a franchise that i haven't even heard

[SPEAKER_07]: After a strong July box office studios are counting on moviegoers to keep showing up, did I ever talk about the Odyssey?

[SPEAKER_07]: I haven't talked about it yet.

[SPEAKER_06]: No, I don't want to see it.

[SPEAKER_07]: I told you to go see it.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: I did.

[SPEAKER_07]: uh... anyway they're counting on movie doors to keep showing up before the fall awards season begins and i'll uh... you know in our next break i'll talk about uh... the audacity of my son and i went to see it streaming services are also fighting hard for your attention this month peacock has announced a full schedule of new original series i don't care i don't care about peacock i don't get peacock i don't like peacock

[SPEAKER_06]: It smells like Fallen.

[SPEAKER_06]: That's the problem with Peacock.

[SPEAKER_06]: It has an overwhelming stench of Fallen.

[SPEAKER_07]: Uh, they're putting up not only series with feature films, documentaries, and a highly anticipated, have a whole who said highly anticipated.

[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, publicist!

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, of course.

[SPEAKER_06]: What are they put?

[SPEAKER_06]: What are we anticipating?

[SPEAKER_07]: Hey, uh-oh, uh, highly anticipated love island USA reunions.

[SPEAKER_06]: And wait, gonna be great.

[SPEAKER_06]: What they did Mike is around love island is they hid lettuce and taco bell.

[SPEAKER_07]: and they're going to ship their brains out just wait to see who has the diarrhea industry experts say the competition among streaming platforms has never been more intense each service hoping to give subscribers one more reason not to hit the cancel button and uh... i don't know of all the big of the big streamers would would peacock be your least favorite

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I like Paramount Plus.

[SPEAKER_07]: I always have stuff here.

[SPEAKER_07]: I always consider peacock and Paramount Plus to be, you know, in the same ballpark.

[SPEAKER_06]: Well, it's an NBC CBS thing.

[SPEAKER_07]: I like me the tailor-shared and stuff, so that's why I like that, but peacock, you're right, fallinize.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: That's what it is.

[SPEAKER_07]: SpaceX is about to face its biggest test on Wall Street as the company prepares to release its first earnings report since its highly publicized public offering.

[SPEAKER_07]: Investors will be looking for details on satellite revenue starship development.

[SPEAKER_07]: Starship development and future government contracts the report could provide the first real indication of whether the company can live up to the massive expectations created by its record setting market debut I say no I think that SpaceX would be a good category you could search on the

[SPEAKER_06]: The internet.

[SPEAKER_07]: Basics.

[SPEAKER_07]: Basics, please.

[SPEAKER_07]: Please.

[SPEAKER_07]: All right.

[SPEAKER_07]: Finally, folks, police in, yes, my state, Florida.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: What state it is.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: They say a suspect who was wanted for burglary made the mistake of hiding under a bed during a search of a home.

[SPEAKER_07]: Officers say they found him when his cell phone started blaring a romantic playlist at full volume.

[SPEAKER_07]: It might meet me during the day.

[SPEAKER_06]: you're about to be taken.

[SPEAKER_06]: I want you to be very careful.

[SPEAKER_06]: They're going to take you.

[SPEAKER_06]: That was such a great movie.

[SPEAKER_07]: Wasn't it the original, the original taken.

[SPEAKER_07]: I love that.

[SPEAKER_07]: So it blared the romantic playlist at full volume, deputy say the first song they heard was,

[SPEAKER_07]: Let's get it on my Marvin Garbin gay, the suspect didn't get far, but apparently his playlists have great dates Yeah, little Marvin Yeah, all right now.

[SPEAKER_07]: We were supposed to talk about Jimmy's a hot sauce during this commercial break because our continuity department's got their signals crossing it But it was a little distracted.

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[SPEAKER_07]: That's quite all right.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: Well, it's the trade.

[SPEAKER_07]: You know what I do want to talk about.

[SPEAKER_07]: I want to talk about the T. M. O. S. Cruz.

[SPEAKER_07]: That's coming up.

[SPEAKER_07]: Good call.

[SPEAKER_07]: If you were if you were participating in our auction the other night, you will know that a lot of the stuff centered around our visit.

[SPEAKER_07]: to the Margaritaville at sea where we are going to be leaving, we're departing out of Tampa, Florida in January and we are going to bring a bunch of listeners with us and we're all going to have the, well, it's going to be called dinner night when we're all there.

[SPEAKER_07]: Reece Muffin says he wants to do the group poll in the casino again.

[SPEAKER_07]: Excellent.

[SPEAKER_07]: I think that's a great idea.

[SPEAKER_07]: We're going to do a live TMOS podcast as we did and, you know, lots more casual get together with listeners.

[SPEAKER_06]: I love the fact that it's not a Bohemoth of a boat like we were on last time, right?

[SPEAKER_06]: It is a more, a more reasonable size.

[SPEAKER_06]: We'll be running into you left and right all over the boat.

[SPEAKER_07]: That's what people don't realize, Rob.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's a center console.

[SPEAKER_07]: And it's, and we're really, really excited about it.

[SPEAKER_07]: No, this is a barrel on a skip.

[SPEAKER_07]: Dude, dude, I know you're saying it's not that small.

[SPEAKER_07]: No, I'm saying it's not, it's big.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's smaller than the other one.

[SPEAKER_07]: No, it's not.

[SPEAKER_07]: Rob, Rob.

[SPEAKER_07]: Right my I have been on a cruise really and seeing the ship so I know what I'm talking about the margarita Though one of the margarita bills the sister ship was in massaw when I got when I Dr.

[SPEAKER_07]: It is a it's a biggie.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's a game of so I mean I it's just I know you want to say it smaller, but it's really not smaller.

[SPEAKER_06]: I always got it was really not going for smaller As long as I was intimate

[SPEAKER_07]: It's not intimate.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's a ship.

[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, he can make it intimate.

[SPEAKER_07]: Let me just say that cruise ships and intimacy go hand in hand, but the actual layout of a cruise ship is rather Marsher.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, it's going to be a lot of fun.

[SPEAKER_07]: January when are we setting sail Josh?

[SPEAKER_07]: Do you happen to know the the day 23?

[SPEAKER_07]: Nobody knows the day.

[SPEAKER_07]: Do you know Rob?

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm free and it's like it's on the most podcast.com.

[SPEAKER_07]: Go to tmoaspodcast.com and check out the TMOs cruise in a 2027.

[SPEAKER_07]: We sail out of Tampa, Florida.

[SPEAKER_07]: We have about 21st January 21st.

[SPEAKER_07]: We will visit Kazimell.

[SPEAKER_07]: We will have wonderful days at sea and of course the live show and all the fun that goes along with an including Sroka gift bags.

[SPEAKER_07]: made by the Josh Roca Laboratories that are going to be fantastic.

[SPEAKER_07]: I told Kelly, hey, we're going to put this in the gift bag.

[SPEAKER_07]: That's exciting.

[SPEAKER_06]: I can't everybody gets a gift bag with a new catcher in it.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's going to be beautiful and we will see you there January 21st, go to TMOespacast.com and get set and sign up for the crews coming up.

[SPEAKER_07]: All right.

[SPEAKER_07]: The Odyssey last week.

[SPEAKER_07]: I forgot what day was early last week?

[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe Wednesday or Tuesday of last week.

[SPEAKER_07]: I took my son to see the movie and

[SPEAKER_07]: I don't want to say the first of all give you the fact right up front.

[SPEAKER_06]: All right.

[SPEAKER_07]: We left early.

[SPEAKER_07]: We walked out.

[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, you walked out of movie.

[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_07]: We walked out.

[SPEAKER_04]: It was the three hour movie.

[SPEAKER_07]: It was the three hour movie and here's the problem.

[SPEAKER_07]: The Matt May.

[SPEAKER_07]: Are you ready for this time to go see a movie?

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: This Matt May was at 9.05 a.m.

[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, that was it was so early and it was so fun to go to the movies at that particular time because nobody goes at that time, but I think when it's 95 degrees outside these fedas get ready to have the packed people and they turn up the air conditioning for a crowd of 50, 60, 70 that are going to be in there and we were I don't think I have ever been colder.

[SPEAKER_07]: in an inside a building that I was in this movie.

[SPEAKER_07]: Now, that's the cold part, so that kind of a grove us out of the theater.

[SPEAKER_07]: The other thing is just, I am not a student of Greek mythology, and I don't know the story and between Matt Damon,

[SPEAKER_07]: And Anne Hathaway, and the other characters that there is.

[SPEAKER_06]: I think though that Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway aren't they both, they're mostly Greek heritage, aren't they?

[SPEAKER_06]: So it was the, it was whisper dialogue.

[SPEAKER_06]: I hate that.

[SPEAKER_06]: It was a dialogue.

[SPEAKER_06]: whisper dialogue.

[SPEAKER_07]: You can't, you can't set up a story.

[SPEAKER_07]: of that magnitude with whisper talk.

[SPEAKER_07]: And I thought the Odyssey was like the main guy going off to sail the 70s.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's Odysseus, right?

[SPEAKER_07]: Odysseus.

[SPEAKER_07]: And I didn't know it was the sun going to find it.

[SPEAKER_07]: I never got to the point.

[SPEAKER_07]: I never got to the point.

[SPEAKER_06]: Did they have argos in it?

[SPEAKER_07]: Who's our ghost is the dog that's a legendary dog in the as they had a they had a one-eyed monster in it The great god trouser

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_06]: Now the the the whole setup you say was was convoluted and it was hard to follow.

[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, and can I throw this into with the thing?

[SPEAKER_07]: Because Elliot pages is transgender and

[SPEAKER_07]: just shut up okay with with all that kind of why do we just obsess about about somebody else's sexuality why is it matter is he's playing a he's playing a warrior a Spartan what you know one of the Greek figures in that but all sorts of weak role that it doesn't even matter it doesn't matter trying to be the big

[SPEAKER_04]: person to do everyone.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, and the thing about it is like people just love to create crap where they're doing crap.

[SPEAKER_07]: So, but once again, whisper talking, and then you see it on an iMac screen?

[SPEAKER_07]: No, I did not.

[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, Tom Holland.

[SPEAKER_07]: whisper talker all the people that were with Tom Holland whisper talkers and at a certain point I'm like I'm freezing my ass off I looked down at Michael and I said are you are you enjoying this and he said not really he was crying

[SPEAKER_07]: I said let's get now you stayed for the whole thing correct.

[SPEAKER_04]: I got you you hate a long movie This is nearly three hours.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, and that's I go back and think about it.

[SPEAKER_04]: I it was good It was not a movie.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'd enjoy at home right enjoyed it because it was on the big screen Did you go to the I'm actually in her to see it?

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not I'm acts but like screen X or something where it pours onto the sides Okay, I don't have a curved screen.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't have a curved screen it like projects like slightly blurry on the sides So it was like it pulls you in it was it was just tedious to me.

[SPEAKER_07]: There was not enough.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's a big it is a big undertaking to make a three-hour spectacle movie

[SPEAKER_06]: and keep it interesting.

[SPEAKER_06]: There's not many of them.

[SPEAKER_04]: If it wasn't just for Nolan, it would this movie would not get praised as much as it does.

[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know what they're praising, because I just thought, well, if I did, if I had been disappointing, I thought the CGI was very disappointing, actually.

[SPEAKER_06]: If I had to do a positive review, I just know my headline, I would say, Tom Holland is a Dutch treat.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I didn't see Tom Holland's Spider-Man this past weekend.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_04]: Much better.

[SPEAKER_04]: I enjoyed that movie.

[SPEAKER_04]: Short ago, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: I think it was still two and a half hours.

[SPEAKER_07]: That's the one.

[SPEAKER_07]: Who was I talking to those?

[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, Michael's pitching coach was going to see that this weekend.

[SPEAKER_06]: Robert saw the Spidey movie the day it opened.

[SPEAKER_06]: He said it's maybe the best Spider-Man movie that's ever been made.

[SPEAKER_06]: I know.

[SPEAKER_04]: Same thoughts to me.

[SPEAKER_04]: If you like the Spider-Man movies, it's the best one.

[SPEAKER_07]: I do you think there's a chance, and I'm asking two guys that don't know Greek mythology, either.

[SPEAKER_07]: Do you think it would be a more enjoyable film if one was more well versed in Homer's Odyssey?

[SPEAKER_07]: Do you think that would make it better?

[SPEAKER_06]: I think any time you're looking at something that is a slow moving story as you have described it,

[SPEAKER_04]: knowing the background would help, but it would have too much you get irritated because there's it's straight from some people because they kind of made it like, they're like dreams of Matt Damon or whatever or not.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, sure.

[SPEAKER_07]: I'll tell you.

[SPEAKER_07]: But I may I just say one thing though.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: Charlize Thuren.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: Just, she's North of 50, right?

[SPEAKER_07]: She's over 50 years old now, I believe.

[SPEAKER_07]: And she did the movie where she was the rock climber.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: And her fitness level is absolutely off the chart.

[SPEAKER_07]: She is, I mean, she is still one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood.

[SPEAKER_07]: Looks absolutely magnificent in this movie.

[SPEAKER_07]: She's terrific in it.

[SPEAKER_06]: She will turn 51 next week.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's incredible.

[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, she really is doing a great, and she has a lot of scenes with Matt Damon.

[SPEAKER_07]: Matt Damon, he doesn't have that kind of international for the same excitement to this that he brought to we bought a zoo.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's just no it just doesn't fit.

[SPEAKER_07]: It doesn't really fit to me.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it really does I gotta say this when you're talking about Spider-Man though that Mike you and I shared like the greatest Spider-Man moment Which is one of in the massive theater in New York City

[SPEAKER_06]: that yeah the first movie where the climax of it was in time square right and we saw the movie in New York City and left in your time square.

[SPEAKER_07]: It was amazing.

[SPEAKER_06]: It was an amazing afternoon.

[SPEAKER_07]: It was a really middle of the day going to see Spider-Man.

[SPEAKER_07]: It was so much fun.

[SPEAKER_07]: Alright moving on Rob to we talked about this I think briefly on the auction.

[SPEAKER_07]: We're talking about Rob's new discount grocery store.

[SPEAKER_07]: There it is.

[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know if it's a chain, but I assume it might be the grocery outlet.

[SPEAKER_06]: It is a chain, Mike, and there are, if there's a few of them in the Washington DC metro area.

[SPEAKER_06]: I know this one in the monassus.

[SPEAKER_06]: I saw there's one in false church.

[SPEAKER_06]: They are all independently owned and operated, though, like franchises.

[SPEAKER_06]: And when I went, it's on Liberia Avenue in manaces.

[SPEAKER_07]: That's a great name for a rose.

[SPEAKER_06]: So if you're driving through the Main Street of Manaces, which is technically still, I guess, root 50, but it's, you know, the Main Street that goes down that road, you get yourself right up to the, you know, you can get close to the Jimmy's, the Jimmy's real residents.

[SPEAKER_06]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_06]: And you might drive through, you go past all the tombstone stores and all the used tires, places.

[SPEAKER_06]: If you turn left onto Liberian, you go down past the automobile dealerships and get sort of to be industrial and then there's a big shopping center and that's where you find of course, grocery outlet.

[SPEAKER_07]: Now, what is that string or cable or why does that look like a hard to hold the overhang?

[SPEAKER_06]: I don't I really hope it's not it's not needed.

[SPEAKER_06]: I think it might be decorated.

[SPEAKER_04]: No, no, that's holding that's holding up that cover.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's the awning.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's holding the awning.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's holding the awning.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_06]: Well, good for them then because it doesn't look all that sturdy.

[SPEAKER_06]: The place, I don't know what it used to be, but it is a big, big place.

[SPEAKER_07]: And it is not necessarily, that is a 136 IQ that's giving that description.

[SPEAKER_07]: I, you know, let's go to the expert grocery analysis.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's really, really big.

[SPEAKER_06]: What would you have preferred?

[SPEAKER_06]: shut up.

[SPEAKER_06]: Just keep going.

[SPEAKER_06]: So the problem that I had when I initially walked in, it looked clean.

[SPEAKER_06]: It didn't have any appreciable smell, which is a good tell for a bad grocery store if it smells.

[SPEAKER_06]: But the, it was for such a huge space.

[SPEAKER_06]: It didn't seem full.

[SPEAKER_06]: Like, you know, they had too much stuff, not enough stuff to fill the space.

[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_07]: So can you, can I, can I interrupt you there for a second?

[SPEAKER_07]: Of course.

[SPEAKER_07]: that immediately gives me feelings of like a railroad salvage kind of store.

[SPEAKER_07]: Like when they when they are just, you know, throwing stuff where they when it comes in, no particular order.

[SPEAKER_07]: What an eyes it.

[SPEAKER_07]: What an eyes it.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it is, but what they had was stuff that was quality adjacent.

[SPEAKER_06]: Let me explain.

[SPEAKER_06]: For example, you've all heard of the company Code Act, right?

[SPEAKER_06]: They make cameras.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's great company.

[SPEAKER_06]: And if any batteries, you know, batteries are a great thing to have.

[SPEAKER_06]: But never once, if I ever saw,

[SPEAKER_06]: Hodec batteries?

[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, I'm sure they're fine, but that's not what I think of them.

[SPEAKER_06]: I think of batteries.

[SPEAKER_06]: So I'm thinking there's some company... That's probably a problem.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's probably an issue that brands went out of business and other brands bought their names.

[SPEAKER_06]: Could be, but I'm not seeing those in any other store.

[SPEAKER_06]: I think what's happened there is that they got a deal on Codec batteries and put them out.

[SPEAKER_07]: Also, those are probably products that are sold in other countries.

[SPEAKER_07]: Could be, could be.

[SPEAKER_06]: I did see some evidence of international flair like sometimes you'd pick up an item and the Nutrition information would be in another language sometimes not even a romance language.

[SPEAKER_06]: It would be characters like from the orient Mike.

[SPEAKER_06]: I think one of my babies

[SPEAKER_06]: I think one of my favorite things that I saw, most of them were by lingual.

[SPEAKER_06]: Like if it said, you know, something like love by non for banana, it would also say bananas.

[SPEAKER_06]: But this sign for an neighborhood.

[SPEAKER_06]: Mike, this was for animal crackers, or animal cookies, and this was the sign.

[SPEAKER_06]: This made me laugh so much that I actually came back later to take the picture of it, because it stuck with me.

[SPEAKER_06]: Who doesn't want to buy some delicious,

[SPEAKER_06]: But yeah, a dollar 29 for the whole bag.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it's a deal.

[SPEAKER_06]: They have deals, they really do, but the problem, like, for example, now that I've tried to change the way I eat, I've been eating magic spoon steer cereal and other sort of the high protein low carb cereals.

[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_06]: And they had a box of, I believe it was magic spoon, it was a great price, but it was a flavor, I'd never heard of.

[SPEAKER_06]: It wasn't the flavors that you see on their website.

[SPEAKER_06]: It wasn't the flavor you see at Target.

[SPEAKER_06]: It wasn't the flavor you see at Giant or Safeway.

[SPEAKER_06]: It was just called Smore.

[SPEAKER_06]: And it was not the best.

[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, it'll do fine, but it's not one of theirs.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's not fruity.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's not peanut butter.

[SPEAKER_06]: And you see people that are already?

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it's fine.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's fun.

[SPEAKER_07]: How soon after you got home, did you pour yourself a bowl of this?

[SPEAKER_06]: I sat down cross like in the aisle.

[SPEAKER_07]: And when you got home, that's the thing you were probably excited to talk about.

[SPEAKER_07]: I had it the next morning.

[SPEAKER_07]: I had it the next morning.

[SPEAKER_06]: All right.

[SPEAKER_06]: So then there was like, there are also those things you don't expect.

[SPEAKER_06]: Like, you know how they have end displays where they put stuff that are impulse buys.

[SPEAKER_06]: They put them on the end.

[SPEAKER_06]: So you can grab them and you know, say, I need that.

[SPEAKER_06]: Three end displays impulse by of bubbles just bubble like so bubbles the kids make that was obviously that was a big Purchase they had to move they had stuffed animals.

[SPEAKER_06]: I peruse their alcohol section the beer deals were not that great I so remember what a good deal on that is the meat was off putting because the stuff that was sort of vacuum packed You

[SPEAKER_06]: looked all right, but even if it's vacuum pack, I don't ever want to buy a steak that has like a month left on Josh, this is where we saw Rob.

[SPEAKER_07]: Mr.

[SPEAKER_07]: Timing because of course if you remember Rob decided to buy his diesel Volkswagen right around the time of the Iran conflict and when they shut down the straight and poor moves and now that we have the cyclist for it, I'll break Rob is decided to go to the grocery outlet too.

[SPEAKER_07]: Like I didn't buy any produce, I

[SPEAKER_06]: Good to know.

[SPEAKER_06]: Because I, I didn't know there was so many people that really cared about bananas and so they had the hell one number one grocery store sales item produce.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, but don't you think you can tell the difference between a green banana and a ripe banana?

[SPEAKER_06]: Sure.

[SPEAKER_06]: Well, they put up a chart for us and it's just fascinating.

[SPEAKER_06]: For example, the banana ripeness guide starts with a green banana.

[SPEAKER_06]: and as it gets riper how did the bananas look that were there they were mostly in the very ripe stage really they'd been around a while yeah okay now about the meat I don't like pre-packaged meat that is like vacuum sealed and says this is good for nine more weeks I don't trust that no matter how good the steak looks

[SPEAKER_06]: The big packages of chicken wings looked like probably not.

[SPEAKER_06]: I won't think I would buy a perishable there.

[SPEAKER_06]: I wouldn't buy anything that requires refrigeration.

[SPEAKER_07]: Was there anything, was there anything that was a winter, a real winter, like a real real, real winter that would get you back in the store?

[SPEAKER_06]: Spices.

[SPEAKER_06]: because I needed ground black pepper and ground black pepper was cheap enough and also because of its international flair they had some spices that I was unaccustomed to and also I will give them this the staff was very friendly and because they were new they were actually for the asking packing your groceries in reusable shopping bags

[SPEAKER_06]: Normally you have to pay 50 cents for those, and you know, and then you get to try.

[SPEAKER_06]: So that was nice.

[SPEAKER_06]: But one of the other great discoveries, Mike, and I sent you a photo of this, because I know you were having a rough Friday.

[SPEAKER_06]: I wanted to cheer you up.

[SPEAKER_06]: This was another end cap unit.

[SPEAKER_06]: It was chocolate pies.

[SPEAKER_07]: Delicious.

[SPEAKER_07]: Now those are individual servings correct.

[SPEAKER_06]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_06]: Well, it depends Mike.

[SPEAKER_06]: I like to think of each one as about a quarter of a serving.

[SPEAKER_07]: Um, what is the brand name on the chocolate pies to I can't see it's a jeez bakery, and they also had lemon and cherry It does not look bad.

[SPEAKER_06]: No.

[SPEAKER_06]: No.

[SPEAKER_06]: They also look like they may have been around a while.

[SPEAKER_07]: That's okay

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that they have a good shelf stable life, don't they?

[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, they do.

[SPEAKER_06]: Not a lot of dairy goes into the hose.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, so it's the same brand Walmart carries.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, JJ's.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, maybe those are ones that Walmart couldn't sell.

[SPEAKER_06]: That was general.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[SPEAKER_06]: Or I'm most of my groceries.

[SPEAKER_07]: I don't like it all.

[SPEAKER_07]: It sounds wonderful.

[SPEAKER_06]: Anyway, um, yeah, I'll probably go back as now that I know what they have, but no, no produce and no meats or or dairy or anything like that.

[SPEAKER_06]: If you need I did you know what I did by Mike let's that spring loaded tongs They had a set of two spring loaded tongs for three dollars.

[SPEAKER_06]: You mean the things you grab all the the grapple things No, no, the things like for yeah for like a little like salad and yeah for Josh's bag breakers again.

[SPEAKER_07]: Did you break yours again?

[SPEAKER_07]: Damn

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, well, I've, I, I had a bit of my back pocket.

[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_06]: And I've sat on.

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[SPEAKER_04]: So yes, so we're talking about Josh who has another what bins are you picking well now bins, but I'm intrigued after the trip to Detroit because in Detroit, I traveled by Uber and I said I have a nice car.

[SPEAKER_04]: I should try to Uber.

[SPEAKER_04]: Like drive for Uber.

[SPEAKER_04]: Like driving for Uber.

[SPEAKER_04]: So I signed up and I drove last night and I drove this morning.

[SPEAKER_04]: I've driven seven hours as an Uber driver so far.

[SPEAKER_04]: And it is great.

[SPEAKER_04]: I enjoy it and I think Rob would be excellent about it because the people getting the car, you talk to them while they drive to their next place and you let them out.

[SPEAKER_06]: Now are you and you're in your super terrific happy electric car?

[SPEAKER_06]: Oh yes.

[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_06]: So you don't really drive.

[SPEAKER_06]: You just started there.

[SPEAKER_04]: You're like the hostess.

[SPEAKER_04]: I was talking to one of them and I was like, this job's going to last about two years.

[SPEAKER_04]: Because all I do is type in the address and hit go.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: So you're doing the car literally does all the drive.

[SPEAKER_07]: I can't afford it.

[SPEAKER_04]: All the drive and it is it's been great.

[SPEAKER_04]: I put my audio book in my ear.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then I have my laptop in there too, so when I'm between picking people up, I'm doing work on the laptop, and then I pick someone else, I put the laptop to the side, and I listen to my audio book while I drive them to their destination.

[SPEAKER_07]: All right, here's the thing, and when you think about this particular line of work, the only thing that would weird me out.

[SPEAKER_07]: would be the on and here's the thing with with Uber you get to kind of pick and choose right Oh, but you're not going to have to go to the frat house and get like 16 drunks in your life I think that actually the person who's hiring the Uber is the one that gets to pick and choose I think you're kind of assigned right?

[SPEAKER_06]: Yes to excite.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, really you don't but I have to accept it So that's the thing you can accept the game.

[SPEAKER_04]: I encourage you to accept everything

[SPEAKER_04]: But yeah, you look and see where they're coming from or whatever.

[SPEAKER_04]: So I made a list of the people I picked up between last night and today.

[SPEAKER_04]: Any celebrities?

[SPEAKER_04]: I know celebrities.

[SPEAKER_04]: I picked up a person who was working at the Mexican restaurant.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: To pop after work, took him to 711 to grab a two liter bottle of mountain dew and then I dropped him off at his house.

[SPEAKER_04]: Cool.

[SPEAKER_04]: I took a father and son to the fancies hotel that we have here.

[SPEAKER_04]: Right outside the TPC,

[SPEAKER_04]: I then took around midnight last night.

[SPEAKER_04]: I took 14 age boys to see Spider-Man.

[SPEAKER_07]: That's hysterical.

[SPEAKER_04]: So then I get up this morning and I go out around 730 this morning.

[SPEAKER_04]: And at 730 this morning, I took two construction workers to a job site.

[SPEAKER_04]: I picked up one friend who slept at her friend's house and I took her back to the apartment.

[SPEAKER_06]: Look out.

[SPEAKER_04]: I picked up on three different drives.

[SPEAKER_04]: I took three different hotel maids to a day's in,

[SPEAKER_04]: I took a mom and her son home from the car dealership because their car was broken down.

[SPEAKER_04]: I took a church video tech to the airport and then I took a bucky's employee to Bucky's.

[SPEAKER_00]: Ah, that's it.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Here's a question.

[SPEAKER_04]: Here's a question.

[SPEAKER_07]: Did you use all the people?

[SPEAKER_07]: Did you get out of the car at Bucky's?

[SPEAKER_04]: No.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I did.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I did.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now I did go to Bucky's first in the morning and just top off the car a little bit.

[SPEAKER_04]: Charts are a little more than it did at home overnight.

[SPEAKER_06]: Now, will you also drive for a lift?

[SPEAKER_06]: Because I see a lot of people that do both.

[SPEAKER_06]: I haven't seen it yet.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to sign up for a lift and I'll see.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I told Kelly, I loved it.

[SPEAKER_04]: I just sit in the car and work on myself on the computer and listen to my podcast or today it was an audio book.

[SPEAKER_04]: and it was great, and I made about $25 an hour.

[SPEAKER_06]: I, and it's not bad.

[SPEAKER_06]: I could do, I could see myself do it.

[SPEAKER_04]: I could see, that was my first thought was, Robert loved this.

[SPEAKER_04]: You just meet strangers and talk to them.

[SPEAKER_07]: I will tell you this that it's not Uber and it's not Lyft.

[SPEAKER_07]: I am exploring the idea of driving for a company that only picks up people that are in domestic situations.

[SPEAKER_07]: No, they're actually a couple's couples that are separate.

[SPEAKER_07]: He's called Rift.

[SPEAKER_07]: And I'm, I'm, I'm Dachian.

[SPEAKER_06]: That's a direction I would have gone, but I get it.

[SPEAKER_07]: That's it.

[SPEAKER_04]: I did wonder about that at one point when I was picking up a guy, late at night at his house.

[SPEAKER_07]: Mm-hmm.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's leaving his wife.

[SPEAKER_07]: Here's the thing I worried about the, you know, the big creeps.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's what I had the creep factor would be.

[SPEAKER_04]: I had no creeps.

[SPEAKER_04]: Everyone I had was nice, and I do want to say hi to Jamal, the guy I dropped off at Bucky's, who once he found out I was a podcast or downloaded the micro-marish show.

[SPEAKER_06]: You have a celebrity driving you around your mouth at the next time you indulge in your Uber and will you have mince and small bottles of water to offer to your people?

[SPEAKER_04]: I offer the teenage boys a cord to plug in their phone because it was dying.

[SPEAKER_04]: Let me ask this question.

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[SPEAKER_07]: an Uber XX, okay, so that what is that different than a regular Uber or Yes, because I thought it was Excel.

[SPEAKER_04]: I thought that's why you sure said Excel, Excel means it's a larger vehicle, okay.

[SPEAKER_06]: When I order Uber, I give you triple X, my

[SPEAKER_04]: No, I think Uber was when it first started and then when they let anyone drive like the Toyota Tacoma that picked me up in Detroit, I think that's just your standard Uber now.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_07]: That's one.

[SPEAKER_07]: Good idea.

[SPEAKER_07]: Get the Uber.

[SPEAKER_07]: He works from seven to midnight.

[SPEAKER_07]: Get the Uber guy.

[SPEAKER_07]: The one week appointed here.

[SPEAKER_04]: I used to the liquor store.

[SPEAKER_04]: I did not say save my number.

[SPEAKER_07]: Now, her name is Steve Hernandez wants to know if you had praise bands on when you were in the year.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now, what I did is I put on, I went to Spotify and I hit play, I had said like pop music or something and I put that low one in the car and because I wasn't listening to it, I had my audio book in my ear.

[SPEAKER_07]: When did you start last night and when did your wheels hit your own driveway?

[SPEAKER_07]: What was your time table?

[SPEAKER_04]: Last night was, last night I went out around nine to midnight.

[SPEAKER_04]: Today I went 730 to 1130.

[SPEAKER_07]: And is that do you like those time frames?

[SPEAKER_07]: Is that I do?

[SPEAKER_04]: OK, I'm going to experiment more with that and figure out.

[SPEAKER_04]: What days I can do that and bring in some extra income?

[SPEAKER_07]: Would your car rob?

[SPEAKER_07]: Would your diesel?

[SPEAKER_07]: Would that be Condusive?

[SPEAKER_06]: It would be perfect because it's got a lot of really good room in the back and it's got a huge trunk Okay Don't think I'm not thinking about this already.

[SPEAKER_06]: No, Josh, we need When you do that when you get paid, do you get to keep 100% of your tips?

[SPEAKER_04]: Now that's what surprised me.

[SPEAKER_04]: I haven't gotten any tips

[SPEAKER_04]: When when I googled it, it says most people on Uber don't tip.

[SPEAKER_07]: I don't tip.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's around 10 to 20% on Uber that don't tip.

[SPEAKER_04]: I hit every time.

[SPEAKER_04]: I hit every time too.

[SPEAKER_04]: Those people don't apparently.

[SPEAKER_06]: So what percentage of the fair do you get to keep them?

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, the money I talked about about making $25 an hour.

[SPEAKER_04]: I got all that.

[SPEAKER_04]: And they pay me instantly.

[SPEAKER_04]: As soon as I drop the, they give you like an Uber debit card.

[SPEAKER_04]: and the instinct you drop the person off the money is on your debit card.

[SPEAKER_07]: Hey, Rob, you know what you could do?

[SPEAKER_07]: What's that show where the guy that we didn't have them on the show?

[SPEAKER_07]: Cash cap.

[SPEAKER_06]: Cash cap.

[SPEAKER_06]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_06]: Right?

[SPEAKER_07]: And you do like a little game show, you know?

[SPEAKER_07]: That it's set up the cash.

[SPEAKER_07]: Well, Josh could do that with the cameras, set up the cameras and come on.

[SPEAKER_06]: I'm more intrigued than you guys think.

[SPEAKER_06]: I believe because also my proximity to dollar's airport.

[SPEAKER_06]: That's Douglas.

[SPEAKER_06]: Douglas.

[SPEAKER_07]: Douglas.

[SPEAKER_07]: That's shocks me.

[SPEAKER_06]: If they were to tip though, do you get 100% of it?

[SPEAKER_06]: Do you know?

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I think so.

[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_07]: I'll tell you when I get it.

[SPEAKER_07]: I would be, I would be inclined to get the people in the back of my car and then say, are you guys in the mood for a little Frank Sinatra?

[SPEAKER_07]: And then they'd say, yes.

[SPEAKER_07]: And I'd be like, fly me to the moon.

[SPEAKER_07]: I appreciate your tips.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I am intrigued.

[SPEAKER_04]: There's a guy on TikTok.

[SPEAKER_04]: that I follow because what he does is he's an Uber driver and before he pulls up to the person's house, he goes to Suno and makes a custom song about them with their name and just starts playing it in the car.

[SPEAKER_06]: I would get out of that car so fast.

[SPEAKER_07]: Would you really?

[SPEAKER_06]: That would be a I think that would be weird.

[SPEAKER_06]: I think that would be weird.

[SPEAKER_06]: Some might have a laugh.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, well, look, I think, you know, Rob, you might want what I would do, Rob, if you start doing it, I would go to underserved areas of the DC era.

[SPEAKER_06]: Like, like, which ones might I?

[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know, you know, you know, just to start on the Prince George's County line and then figure out where you went.

[SPEAKER_06]: I was thinking, perhaps the other side of Union Station.

[SPEAKER_06]: That's where the district of Columbia really gives people.

[SPEAKER_07]: We have to take a break.

[SPEAKER_07]: We will count.

[SPEAKER_07]: Do you have some beautiful video?

[SPEAKER_06]: I do it for all kinds of it, Mike.

[SPEAKER_07]: That's exciting.

[SPEAKER_07]: We will do that in just a second here.

[SPEAKER_07]: But first, ladies and gentlemen, let me see if I can get my screen to work.

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[SPEAKER_06]: My zip ties, everyone uses them, everyone loves them.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's not a hard thing to say, is it?

[SPEAKER_06]: Let's say, zip ties, zip ties.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, nothing to it.

[SPEAKER_06]: Maybe if you're not expecting it, though, and you're on the news.

[SPEAKER_02]: This is when a tiny kitten with mobility issues gets a DIY wheelchair made from rulers, zippities, and you'll see.

[SPEAKER_02]: But literally with the script says, you're gonna feel safe.

[SPEAKER_07]: Zip ties.

[SPEAKER_06]: You'll see, that's what you will see, Jeremy Roth is going to shine the way that guy is going to take a look at this.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's a bit of a stupidity.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I like it.

[SPEAKER_06]: Mike, do you ever get annoyed, especially on cooking shows when people, let's say they're of Italian lineage and they're in New Jersey and they over-pronounce words, like Muzarel for mozzarella.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I do.

[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, so what if a guy from New Jersey was talking about normal foods, but talking like he's a New Jersey Italian like perhaps Guacamola is you got to get the best of a guts you get the freshest of a guts I get Florida.

[SPEAKER_01]: I have a guy's they're a little bigger greener and then you put this lunch and Then you just mash you just mash it up just like mashed potato just like that, you know I do it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I get my greens that way.

[SPEAKER_01]: I do a broccoli.

[SPEAKER_01]: I do a not spot a goose

[SPEAKER_07]: That's a good take.

[SPEAKER_07]: There's so much talent out there like you see a guy in a tank top that just whips that out.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah The last second guacamole guacamole was the effect of a car.

[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yeah, there we go But not everyone likes guacamole.

[SPEAKER_06]: Some people like Josh and I love hot dogs and for those people I bring you this

[SPEAKER_03]: When you're on a picnic, hot dogs are mighty good this way.

[SPEAKER_03]: But when you're here at the theater, hot dogs are at their best.

[SPEAKER_03]: We start with the choices, Franks, cook them until they're just right.

[SPEAKER_03]: Make available your favorite seasonings and leave the rest to you.

[SPEAKER_06]: I'm not sure they should be called seasonings.

[SPEAKER_07]: Your favorite condiments is what the word should have been, but that's an an answer.

[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_04]: Tell me like that.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_04]: Every time you do that though, I want to go get a hotdog after the show.

[SPEAKER_06]: Me too.

[SPEAKER_06]: Even though those look like they were... Those men are... Those were old 40 years ago.

[SPEAKER_03]: Even emotional.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's Rob's hotdog of a choice.

[SPEAKER_06]: Let's look at it again.

[SPEAKER_03]: Here is.

[SPEAKER_03]: When you're on a picnic, hot dogs are mighty good this way.

[SPEAKER_03]: But when you're here at the theater, hot dogs are at their best.

[SPEAKER_03]: We start with the choices, Franks.

[SPEAKER_03]: Cook them until they're just right.

[SPEAKER_03]: Make available your favorite seasonings and leave the rest to you.

[SPEAKER_06]: I like when you see the hot dog on that carousel spinning thing.

[SPEAKER_06]: When you think of how not only how often they were touched, but how hard they had to be done.

[SPEAKER_06]: put them through that on YouTube.

[SPEAKER_07]: I have a question hot dog boys.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_07]: Which is worse?

[SPEAKER_07]: That carousel or that that roller.

[SPEAKER_07]: The roller thing of the 711.

[SPEAKER_06]: I don't like the rollers very much because they seem like they are really exposed.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I want to count well the roller cooks the hot dog.

[SPEAKER_06]: It does, it does, but it's not appealing to look at.

[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, let's see.

[SPEAKER_06]: Glad we waited a private roller.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, exactly.

[SPEAKER_06]: And Mike, let us close with this.

[SPEAKER_06]: Sometimes a simple fast joke is the best.

[SPEAKER_06]: And this actually involves a, you know, Roman history, which I guess is sort of a tangential to the Odyssey.

[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_06]: So let's close with.

[SPEAKER_07]: That's not funny.

[SPEAKER_07]: That's not funny, but this is not funny at all.

[SPEAKER_07]: This is good I can laugh at a spit take even if there's not a joke involved in it at all.

[SPEAKER_07]: It doesn't matter We will retry about our hot dog

[SPEAKER_07]: Sometimes you go on a picnic, but I like my favorite part of that commercial.

[SPEAKER_07]: The rest is up to you.

[SPEAKER_07]: Anyway, we're reconvened tomorrow.

[SPEAKER_07]: Are you driving tonight?

[SPEAKER_07]: Josh in the St. Augustine area.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's the sighted yet.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, let's go on with the family.

[SPEAKER_07]: very cool.

[SPEAKER_07]: We will return tomorrow with a brand new episode.

[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you all.

[SPEAKER_07]: And once again, a little thank you to everybody that participated in our very first TMOS auction in cocktail party Saturday night.

[SPEAKER_07]: It was an overwhelming success.

[SPEAKER_07]: And we are eternally grateful.

[SPEAKER_07]: We'll see tomorrow for Joshua Rook and Rob Spuack.

[SPEAKER_07]: Michael Maris saying so long every border.

[SPEAKER_07]: Thanks for listening to another episode of a Michael Mery Show.

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