Speaker 1 (00:00.088)
Hi. It's two o'clock, my gosh, it is two o'clock central time, which means it's three o'clock Eastern time. And I'm so grateful that you're here. Welcome to this edition of At the Mic. Uh-huh, yeah, found it, found it. It was hiding behind some junk over here.

Speaker 1 (00:22.698)
Okay. And I also found a baseball bat. Tim Young, 10 runs his mouth on Twitter. He and I went to the All-Star festivities at the Rangers Stadium when that happened last summer. And we got these little freebie bats. And I did not get to go to the home run derby, but they did give me a bat over at the T-Mobile tent just for stopping by and spinning the wheel.

So I found that too. This is gonna come in handy. If Brad and I were in the same studio, it would be even more useful. no, what's happening? You're being watched.

Yeah, we have people that do stop by the motel every now and then and they just they stand outside. It gets a little creepy.

I'm going to ask you for the next two hours to close the curtains. You think you will? see if you can put off, if you're OK with the... Well, let's see if you can stand the people staring at you for two hours, a monkey in a cage. Interesting. They won't shut up. All right. So first of all, thank you to Hero West for always...

Keep trying to grab the

Speaker 2 (01:36.238)
They just, and they won't shut up.

Speaker 1 (01:43.756)
providing the thumbnails and keeping all the links going there at the Mike show.com. He puts the stuff on YouTube and rumble. So grateful for his assistance. Not all here. He wears a cape though. Like it's part of his ensemble every day. We get it. Yes. It's like different under roo stuff. And I think he's worn, I hope he's worn all of the different kinds of under roos that he has cause it's getting obscure. We're,

Heroes wear capes

Speaker 2 (01:57.388)
underpants.

Speaker 1 (02:09.698)
We're back into the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Under Rude Days now with what he shows up to work in. And thank you so much for Gabby for keeping the At the Mic Show Instagram page. And look at that. Look, she's already look at that. Look at that. You can follow her on Twitter, at Jeffy Apologist there. I've lost. yeah. Hold on. Let me get my expensive graphics. There's Gabby's handle, at Jeffy Apologist. And then

Bye, bye.

Speaker 2 (02:32.43)
My

Speaker 2 (02:37.6)
just read it off the screen because it's right there.

because it's right there and then Wes is is at that guy at PGU. What is your yours is at real Brad stags as you see I didn't make one. it's also right there that's good that's right there now let's see if Steve Baker our other guests and you're at the the Daily Mojo.com for what I understand. Okay and you do a thing every weekday morning at 8 AM Eastern.

Mind's right.

Speaker 2 (03:00.044)
I am. I am.

Speaker 2 (03:06.22)
I do. I decided I'm gonna be the worst interview subject in the world and just two word answers. Yes.

Okay, Marshawn Lynch has joined us here today. There's Steve Baker at Steve Baker USA. He's a coworker of mine over at the Blaze where he writes awesome stuff. In fact, I think that's why he's in Florida right now is because he's working on some crazy stories for us. So looking forward to your work.

See if Steve will do it. Be the worst interview subject ever and just one or two word answers and that's it.

You know what the worst interview that, uh, what was the guy that ran the American bandstand? Um, I'll come on to the radio guys. know, the worst interview he ever did and his yearly special where he did, you know, the review of all of his years. Um, the worst interview he ever had was Prince. This was the first time Prince was on. Prince had his first hit. This was like 1979.

1980, somewhere in there. so Prince is a guitarist at the time and Prince and the Revolution, his name is Dez Dickerson. And Dez is a friend of mine. And Dez and I go back about 35 years or more. and and he was the original. He's the guy. He's the guy in the in the 1999 video that's where in the the kamikaze headband, you know, and seeing some of the lead vocals. That's Dez. So.

Speaker 3 (04:34.754)
So before, when they were in the green room, Prince told the whole band, he said, now, you know, Dick Clark comes out and he asked questions. And when we finished the song, he'll come down and everybody will say their name. He said, nobody say a word. And they're all like, look at that. know, this is, mean, Prince is not a, a star yet. I mean, he just barely got his first song on the radio and he goes out there and he's going to insult the hit maker, the Clark. he says,

He orders his entire band. Don't say a word. Don't answer a question. Nothing. And every, every single, it's all, it's all, you can go watch it. He goes and sticks his microphone in front of every person and they won't, they don't acknowledge Dick Clark at all. Nobody answers a single question. But, but, but here's the thing. Dick showed that every single year on his yearly annual special about the worst interview he ever had.

See this,

Speaker 1 (05:23.337)
Can I?

Speaker 3 (05:34.208)
And that's how smart Prince was.

my god.

Speaker 1 (05:41.43)
what you requested yeah and I yeah cuz see he wasn't being a jerk like some people were Brad

I'm not that big a dick. Most of the time.

Most of time, yeah. So how's the kidney situation there, Mr. Steve Baker? You went through it,

move beyond kidneys, man. I've actually had to go get a four-quarter zone shots in my back yesterday because I pulled a muscle while I'm down here in Florida. So I pulled a muscle. I don't know how I did it. I can't remember doing it. I woke up the other night with like the worst crick in my neck that I've ever had in my life. I can't move. then I had to fly to DC a couple days ago and I'm like, you know,

Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:33.536)
I'm this I'm this guy. no. And. Yeah.

Yeah

Cause that'll do it. Yeah. It's like the number one thing when, people come in, it's the number one thing that throws a disc out or something. It's, it's a sneeze.

My, my, my, had to go to the urgent care down here in Florida in the Indian doctor. He goes, I'm seeing this a lot now. He says, it's like the tax man. He's in the tax season every after he said, you spent too much time. You're a writer. You spent too much time on the keyboard. He said, you to get away from the keyboard. You have to stand up. You have to move around. You have to do the stretching. And I'm like, with friends like yours, who needs enemas? That's. Wow.

Did he offer you curry with that?

Speaker 1 (07:15.342)
I didn't have the room for none of it. Thank you, Brad.

Would you like to have some curry with your chiropractic adjustment? We have some.

Did you guys hear the sad news that the last living grandson of our 10th president, John Tyler, has passed away, Harrison Ruffin Tyler? He just did die at the age of 96.

His nickname was Ruff in Temple.

No, don't know that he had a nickname, but you've heard about the.

Speaker 3 (07:47.296)
And he was just a grandson, right?

a grandson. That's amazing. Yeah, cuz John Tyler was born in the 1700s and uh you know it just his son had um a kid. Let's see. Let's see. hold on. John Tyler had a kid when he was 63. Fathered a kid and then and then that kid fathered this guy at the age of

Speaker 3 (08:13.998)
75.

And so we've now dragged it out to 2025 all the way from somebody look up when John Tyler was born. don't think this story has it. know was 1790, 1790. Holy crap. That's You talk about dragging out three generations.

17. 1790. somebody. It's incredible. That's incredible.

Speaker 2 (08:36.398)
Wait a second, wait a second, because Michelle, did he have, did he have autism?

I see where you're going here.

Because Michelle Obama said that's the big cause of autism is old spur.

I didn't know that. I didn't hear that.

She just said it on her pod. You weren't one of the seven people listening to her on her pod.

Speaker 1 (08:55.334)
out time out if anybody like if anybody in the political realm had suggested that it doesn't have a D after their name that would be explosive news they would be dragged in the comments my gosh that's interesting though I've never even heard that that theory

As Michelle had her sperm analyzed lately, is that what's going on?

That is horrible that you would suggest that she has testicles. I just wonder how big they are.

I just said her sperm. didn't say where she.

Speaker 2 (09:34.478)
That's a good point. You're right. You're right. You didn't.

Hey Brad, did you see that I found my bell?

did see that you found your bell. I'm very, I'm happy that you found your bell. Yeah. Before I forget, can I give kudos to Grok? Because if you look at the image over there, it's, don't listen, I didn't listen to you. What am I looking for? The image that I have up over there I'm sharing on the other computer because I did ask Grok to give me an image of, because on the Daily Mojo we talk not only about Elon Musk leaving Dogi,

What?

Speaker 2 (10:09.026)
but also about Hooters failing and I asked Grok to give me an image of an owl with large breasts sitting on Elon Musk's shoulders and it did it. Have you ever seen have you ever seen Hooters like that?

Okay.

Speaker 1 (10:24.814)
You

Have you? I mean, that's a classic image right there.

That's a classic. mean, that should be on a shirt.

It really should actually. I don't know how they, they, he screwed up the, the, the, the owl is floating in the air, but still the fact that they did, it wasn't afraid to draw a picture of an owl with large boobs. Cause I don't know if you'd get Google to do that. Could you

Yeah, really.

Speaker 1 (10:38.446)
Exploding, yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:46.669)
Huh.

Speaker 1 (10:50.928)
I don't, I have never put in a request for a big breasted owl on top of Elon Musk's shoulder. Right, right. how about we do some not so rapid fire questions, gentlemen? now I hate, I should not have put this in here. I should not have put this in here. And I did. I should have just surprise ambushed interviewed you for this one. What did you have for breakfast today, Brad? I bet you don't remember.

What kind of a life do you live?

Speaker 2 (11:08.225)
And yet you did.

Speaker 2 (11:16.532)
I actually I do because I it was a McGriddle and I had to add cheese to it. So I mean usually well no, no, no, on hang on oatmeal.

Who brought you a McGriddle?

One of the maids here at the motel.

One of the maids, okay. Those people are freaking me out back there.

today. as a matter of you can see her right? That's the one that brought the

Speaker 1 (11:44.59)
that's the one. Raise your hand. He's acknowledging you. Raise your hand about the McGregor lady.

Y'all here?

Can they blink? That's the next question.

They don't like the bling.

I don't know if it's the muscle relaxers that I'm on right now because of my back, but to me they're moving. No, moving. No, they are moving.

Speaker 2 (12:05.187)
No.

Speaker 2 (12:09.39)
I just took about 20 Benadryl, so I'm ready to start trippin'.

like this. I like the trajectory that we're on. This is good.

yeah. We already got boobs and muscle relaxers and Benadryl.

And Michelle's sperm. Don't leave that out.

Thank you. point. Don't leave her sperm laying around anywhere.

Speaker 1 (12:30.222)
not even drinking today. You're right. Steve, what'd have for breakfast?

Thank you.

I had, we'll see again because of this thing and I have to, I'm on a medication schedule. got up at four o'clock and I have to eat with that. So four AM this morning, I had, I made four pieces of sourdough toast and then just slathered them in Irish butter. That's like.

Yum. But what's Irish butter?

That first of all, don't know what. Yeah, what is the distinguishing factor of Irish butter?

Speaker 3 (13:04.79)
It just, it's, it's just seems better than butter. It's better.

It's a better butter butthole.

You can't a bit of better, on it.

Yeah, I don't know that you guys would be employed on Mad Men. Okay.

I want some of your muscle relaxers. Send them over.

Speaker 1 (13:25.814)
no. That's a that's a good heads up. There's a train coming down the track. wait. yeah. analogy. Bad analogy for this setting. yeah. Yeah. alrighty. what is your best scar story? Baker. Tell me. Do you have a big scar that you want to tell us about?

Right away.

Speaker 3 (13:47.17)
best. really I really I really really only have one scar story. I was like 10 years old and I was carrying a box by my dad's car and this is back in back in the days when you're like the the wheel well was lined with chrome and there was a little little piece of chrome just sticking had separated and I'm walking by it and I sliced a muscle and

on the side of my knee. it just like a knife. It just sliced that muscle. just fell straight to the ground. I had to walk on crutches for several weeks while my while that muscle because they had to sew the muscle together. And so, you know, that was that was when I was 10. So all these many decades later, I still have that scar and the stitch marks were.

That's it through your back out

Yeah, and you know, 50 years later, had.

call that doctor up and tell me he doesn't know what he's talking about taxes whatever bro

Speaker 2 (14:45.902)
just knew him.

Why not?

Yeah, why not? It's worth a shot. Everybody else is doing it. Okay.

Every car I have was accumulated from about 7 to 12 years old. After that, I actually got smarter and stopped doing all the stupid stuff I was

That didn't work for me.

Speaker 2 (15:06.83)
was gonna say, I wish I thought of that.

Brad, I bet it involved a saw or some sort of wood shop tool. What do we got? Wait, hold on.

It's right there. I took a picture and tweeted it and said this is good. This may or may not make sense later today. That is guess what? That's on.

I don't want to.

Why? Part of my body frightens you.

Speaker 2 (15:39.074)
is just below. Let's see just. But it's upside down though. I'm looking at so it's just below my knee on my left leg, but my knees at the bottom of that picture because I took it when I was looking down. So that's actually upside down but because like Steve when you ran into the piece of chrome, I was it was night and I was walking by a cinder block wall that hadn't had the brick.

the facade put on it yet and so one of the brick ties which is just a a piece of metal zinc metal that is about I don't know. 680 inches long about an inch wide and it's serrated almost and I walked by and I was like I got too close to it and didn't even really feel it until I felt my foot like wet and because my shoe is was

from just slicing open right there and that was like 15 years ago and I may or may not have been drinking and and then so I was like people hey you should go to the hospital get it. I know I don't need and I use duct tape and just tape it closed so you can hardly tell the scars. Thank you. Thank you and and yeah it was nasty.

Nice job, my guy.

Speaker 1 (17:04.589)
So you know what? should probably just check my texts to see if I can come up with the next answer here. Let me see if I have any guesses. The question is for you, Brad, what is your most used emoji? Hang on. I'm going try to. You don't really use emojis, do you?

stupid and do stupid stuff.

Speaker 2 (17:17.39)
What's the question?

Speaker 2 (17:30.252)
Why wouldn't I?

I'm just, I'm looking, I'm scrolling through our.

Why are you accusing me of not using emojis?

Because I'm not seeing any in our text!

it's not the eggplant if that's what you're looking for.

Speaker 1 (17:44.206)
never look at your eggplant.

It's not a peach. That's because you sent me hugs because I didn't feel good. you said hugs and I said, and deep, long, slow, wet, tender kisses and then I never heard back from you.

you gave me a kissy face once. I do.

Speaker 1 (18:04.086)
Yeah, see you guys interpreted there were no signals.

I don't understand that. that?

you did a smiley face once, I see.

That's an easy one.

There's a couple of kissy faces here, bro. What's up? Freaking weird.

Speaker 2 (18:18.392)
Do I have to spell it out for you?

Wait a minute no guy no guy except for Brad stags post the hug emoji the little sunshine little smiley face with the little hands up. That's Isn't that a hug?

a hug?

I didn't know that was a hug, Steve, you know I was a-

I didn't know that. I just thought it was a good. As hands almost. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:40.536)
Again

Speaker 1 (18:46.829)
Yeah.

context clues here. Yeah, you were just saying that you were going to be available for one of these crazy live streams. So maybe you weren't saying hug. don't know. Jazz hands. Jazz hands. yeah.

What has two hands in it? Hey.

Hold on. Hold on. That's better than acting out. That's better than my balls acting out an emoji as you can see there. let's see.

Did you just say your ball is acting out an emoji?

Speaker 1 (19:15.33)
That's what this is! It's a ball and it's acting out an emoji! It's my ball and I have several of them arou-

One, two, three. Okay, we're good.

Hey there.

All right.

Anyway, Steve Baker, what emoji do you as a grown ass man use more often than others?

Speaker 3 (19:35.926)
Gosh, well, if we're talking about kidney stones, we'll have to go back to the eggplant and the champagne pork shooting out.

Damn!

No, actually, when they come out.

Can you see them?

Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah. It's beyond seeing them, you're feeling them and you're catching them and you know.

Speaker 1 (19:57.102)
You can't do it with a napkin.

Speaker 2 (20:04.332)
If you were like it when I like the aluminum, the metal trough, then they go ding.

Yeah, but I've never, I've always had in a plastic. Several, I've missed a Friday live stream about a year ago because of one.

Pete one too.

Speaker 2 (20:20.064)
I've never had them and I don't ever want them and I just.

Trust me, you don't.

It has to feel like a buick trying to come out.

on Steve can you attest to this it feels like and I don't have a master calendar but it feels like the the time between them is becoming more more frequent for me.

That I'm going to I hate to tell you that but yes, because I've been dealing with this for exactly 30 years and it went from like it went from once every 10 to eight to five to two. So it's like, what are you doing? If you're genetically predisposed, don't listen to anybody in the medical sciences tell you about diet or anything, because they they have no clue.

Speaker 1 (20:57.358)
causes them.

Speaker 1 (21:07.886)
Yeah, my first one was when I was 21. Because I remember I puked in a walk that happened to be sitting by the apartment door in Lincoln, Nebraska. It was January of 1998. So however old I was, 21, yeah. And I had it sitting by the door because it sucked and stuff stuck in it and stuff. I was just going to take it out of the dumpster the next day. And lo and behold, so Carrie had to run me to the emergency room. And so I vomited in this. Hope you're not eating lunch, kids.

in this walk. And so, so she took me inside, she said she came back out later to the car because remember it January Lincoln, Nebraska. sure was not my problem. was inside.

Is it frozen barf?

It's like a...

No.

Speaker 1 (21:53.784)
So was a barf walk. Yeah. Barf sickle in a walk. Yeah.

The content of this episode. Right.

right? That's what we do Like yesterday, see Thursday is the deep dive where we spent over two hours with former FBI agent Steve Friend and we combed through the cash Patel and the Dan Bongino interviews from yesterday and and he analyzed them and we that's the serious stuff. Okay. On Friday you get frozen vomit in a walk in Nebraska.

Julie wants to know, ask Steve if he's ever had a staghorn kidney stone.

Aw, now I'm crossing my legs. I don't know, it doesn't sound good. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (22:31.34)
What's a stag horn?

Speaker 3 (22:36.468)
Ask her, ask her what a staghorn kidney stone is.

Let's just know.

Let's see. Staghorn kidney stone.

Yeah

While you're looking it up, I mean, I-

Speaker 1 (22:50.422)
I told you. I told you it could be good. It didn't say marshmallow kidney stone. She didn't say fluffy cloud kidney stone. She said staghorn kidney stone. What did we expect to find? You and I both found it at the same time. Your reaction was exactly what I was feeling when I saw it.

There it is!

Speaker 2 (23:16.686)
It's good.

like prongs and all sorts of A regular stone coming out is bad enough.

Wait a second, doesn't that look like an emoji in there? That looks like yeah it does.

Okay.

That's the I'm going to hurt like a mother coming out emoji.

Speaker 1 (23:33.23)
Oh yeah. You're going to name me and keep me for the rest of your life in a jar. It's going to be awesome. You're going to have war stories about me.

There's another one. the hell is that emoji doing? That's like an upside down fish head emoji getting out.

yeah, look at that. Look at this. It's this guy right here. Is this one working its way through your urethra,

You actually have that emoji.

Yeah, see? Look at that. Now see, we come prepared. Only the best on this show. Visual aids. You gotta love it. And thank you so much, Lep. I thought that was a heck of a job by Steve Friend going through those two. And it's pinned to the top. All of the episodes are pinned to the top of this X feed if you want to check out yesterday's show. But don't you dare go check it out until this show's over because we got more kidney stone talk to get to. OK, are you a good dancer, Steve Baker?

Speaker 3 (24:21.772)
I never answered the last question.

yeah, what is your most used emoji, Steve Baker?

No, my, my, my, my kids are like constantly reaming on me for, because they say I overuse emojis. So I try not to, but the one that I use mostly is the smirk. The smirk emoji is easily 10 to one above all others combined.

You know what? I just thought of my own answer. I don't normally chime in on these, but I think mine is the shrugging shoulder thing, you know? I don't know.

That's probably my second most frequently.

Speaker 1 (25:01.078)
OK, but I use the black guy in honor of Doc Thompson because Doc Thompson got me starting to do that. God rest his soul. He would always do the black emoji with the thumbs up or the what have you. And so in honor of Doc, it shows up in my tweets too. I do the black shoulder shrug.

Just the black

finger or sometimes use the brown or yellow just to show that you're not racist.

I should mix in some of those colors too.

and just wait for somebody to go, why are you using that one?

Speaker 1 (25:31.022)
Oh, I get, I have a friend of mine who every time I shrug the shoulders like that, he jokingly sends back the kid with no, the black kid missing teeth. That's racist. And he's just getting around as well. Okay, so what do we got here? Oh yeah, so Steve Baker, are you a good dancer?

No, not at all. I'm horrible. No, I spent I spent my entire musical career on stage watching bad white men dancing or white men dancing badly. So you learned. No, no, I became repulsed by it.

Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:56.74)
yeah!

Speaker 1 (26:05.23)
Hang on.

Speaker 3 (26:12.27)
We're both by it and I was like, no, I'm not doing that.

I don't want to look like that. OK, so Bradley, I don't think I've ever seen you try to dance. What's up with that?

can dance if I have been imbibing.

Properly lubricated.

Yeah. Turn around for your audience that I swear they're creeping me out bro. Why don't you give a little dance for them? is he got a kidney stone? No, I

Speaker 2 (26:40.32)
Ouch.

Speaker 2 (26:44.3)
just my thingy got caught in the stuff. It was hanging up on the side of the chair.

It was.

Speaker 1 (26:51.778)
Are you are you dancing? Are you pulling up water hose cable? Okay, I got you. That's good. That's Tanner as you can hear is a big fan of your moves

Thank you. Thank you. I'm well lubed now. I feel lubed.

Okay, we're next question. Nope, we're good. Brad, you may not know this, but you're about to sail around the world. What's the name of your boat, sir?

Keep going if you want to, I'm good with it.

Speaker 2 (27:24.14)
black titty. What? Kat wants him

So, okay, so this is where this is where I expect the worst. And then he goes, what? It's the name of a bird that lives in the south of France.

Cat wants some black titty.

Oh, what? I don't know.

Cat wants some black titty.

Speaker 1 (27:48.32)
in the world. That's Doc Thompson chiming in here on the program. What was the? We hear it. Is the story on that? Is there one?

Cat wants some black I didn't say anything

Yeah, it's in that it's when they were in Detroit and I could find I'll screw it up if I but he's like he and I think skip was with him and they were looking for I don't think you want the Leleche league and and Steve make something up

I don't know what I want to know.

Speaker 1 (28:17.41)
Ken, what's the?

Speaker 1 (28:22.144)
Yeah, Steve, why don't you tell us your story? What's name of your boat?

MISPLAMMATOR TERRORIST. That's it.

you

That's awesome. You should put that on your business card, resume, LinkedIn page.

Well, you know, I've already I've already decided what my what my gravestone is going to say, because, yeah, Congressman Barry Loudermilk was on with Glenn Beck one morning. And and so they're talking about January six related issues. This was like, gosh, must have been about a year and a half ago now. And and and so Congressman Loudermilk tells Glenn, says, hey, your guy, Steve Baker.

Speaker 3 (29:08.77)
He's got more leads than the FBI. And right. As soon as he said that I went, that's what's going on. My tombstone, Steve Baker has more leads than Okay. Congressman louder milk.

And for those that aren't familiar, Steve Baker was reporting from the Capitol on January 6th and ended up having some fun with the FBI for the next five years.

He's.

Speaker 3 (29:35.352)
I ended up becoming a misdemeanor terrorist.

Mr. Minterterris, all right, I like it.

just look at it. Look at the shifty eyes. hmm. Shifty eyes. Steve. You try to hide behind that innocent just average white guy persona. But we see what you are. We can see.

Yeah, we're on to you.

Speaker 1 (29:54.604)
What current fact about your life, Steve, would impress, would most impress your five-year-old self?

What current fact about my life? wow.

That you're a misdemeanor?

Fuck this up

Brad, play along, sir. Act like you've been here before.

Speaker 3 (30:15.596)
Well, mean, what would it be? Seriously? What would impress my five year old self is the fact that I've made it this far. I never, I, my gosh, I never, I never dreamed the world would still be here past 1978. thought, mean, seriously, you know, I, grew up in one of the, you know, I grew up in one of those, you know, Holy roller, you know, swinging from the chandelier, Pentecostal churches in Louisiana.

Yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:41.55)
I mean, we were we were one misinterpreted scripture away from being snake handlers. The church I grew up in. so so I have I you know, we had all the you know, the do the doomsday and, you know, revivalists coming through and, you know, blood, you know, you know, the brims, fire and brimstone guys coming through. And according to all those preachers, you know, we were never going to make it out of the 70s. You know, because Jesus was going to come back and the simulation was going to happen. And

All those kind of things. so, so what happened for me, and I was a, and I was a big, I mean, when I was a kid, I was a major Star Trek band. And so when the, when the series only lasted for three years, and then it went into reruns. So, you know, at least every day after school, I got to watch a, you know, Star Trek rerun. And then they started talking about a movie coming out, you know, possibly it was just rumors. This was back in the mid seventies, maybe bringing everybody together for a Star Trek movie.

And so I made a deal with God. And this was my deal. Now, I know I'm a little older than five, but this is shows you where my mindset was because I grew up in a church where, you know, Jesus was coming back and it was going to be firing brimstone and tribulation and all this other stuff. I said, said, Lord, there's only two things that have to happen before you sound the trumpet and, know, the rapture happens. And first thing is

The first start, has to be a Star Trek movie. Allow me to see a Star Trek movie before you come back. And the second thing is I want to have sex.

Bye.

Speaker 1 (32:23.619)
So.

And there's, and there's, well, and so we've had like nine Star Trek movies.

We don't need to know how many times you're at next though.

Yes,

You have kids, so we know that one came through. so, okay, hold on. So, comes back. If he comes back, then we can say, well, it's obviously the deal with Steve. It's time to pay up, We all... All right, cool.

Speaker 3 (32:51.95)
That's right.

Speaker 3 (32:55.726)
You think I'm kidding? That was my friend.

That's awesome. That's awesome. Okay, Brad, do you want to play this game or do you hate the question so much we should move on? Okay, good job. All right.

Cat wants some black titty. I mean, I can't compete with that, so I'm not gonna.

Yeah, so would you rather, Brad, would you rather travel back in time to meet your ancestors or to the future to meet your descendants?

Back in time.

Speaker 1 (33:29.752)
Yeah.

That's it.

Yeah, that's I mean, that's got. Yeah. All right. That's your answer to Steve. no, no, no.

That's it.

No, no, no, no. As I contemplated this, I was really torn because I'm I'm a big, big history buff, but I'm also, I want to go see Star Trek land. So I want to be, you know, I to see the future. I don't want to, I I'm, I'm actually one of those guys that if Elon Musk figures out how to upload our, you know, our, our brains into a, you know, a

Speaker 1 (33:43.982)
And

Okay.

Speaker 3 (34:10.654)
I don't know, I'm doing it. I'm totally doing it. Yeah, yeah. want to, I want to know what's going on. want see the future. Even if, even if my, you know, I can't interact with it. I want to know what's going on. That's why I despise, I despise sleeping. think, I think sleep is the biggest mistake God made in his design of the human body.

See ya.

Speaker 1 (34:25.931)
Okay.

Speaker 3 (34:39.595)
Because we have to give up a third of our life that we could be learning things, seeing things, doing things, experiencing things. We have to go to sleep.

What if sleep is actually what's real and when we perceive that we're awake, this is really the sleep state.

Well, I'll tell you about the, if I tell you about the dream I had last night, you, you're going to know, you're not going to agree with that,

No, we should move on. like some of us, we only sleep away a sixth of our life. And then we waste a third of our life trying to sleep. So we end up spending half our life in bed and not necessarily doing anything positive. Okay, so this is a baseball tournament game last weekend.

Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 (35:28.654)
and if you're following college baseball, this week's the regionals. Next weekend is the super regionals and then the next time after that, we go to Omaha for the College World Series. But this was a conference tournament, the SoCon conference. Anyway, you got Mercer and Samford. So Mercer is pitching, Samford is at the plate. And I want to ask you gentlemen, how are you handling the situation if you're on either of these two teams? If you're the manager, I guess, of either of these two teams.

Speaker 2 (35:59.938)
That one's ripped to straightaway center. Brown will watch it go.

Speaker 1 (36:11.702)
He's not just running around the bases.

Speaker 2 (36:20.366)
Are they dimming the lights?

baseball. they do. yeah. So this guy is obviously enjoying his trot around the bases he's talking smack to all the infielders he's yelling at the opposing team's dugout.

Okay, I'm like, having a stroke or they came in the light?

Speaker 1 (36:41.17)
down here at the bottom of the orange. That's the manager of the other team running out there. He ran and then the umpire stopped him because he took umbrage to that celebration.

Is this college or high school? What age? College.

College. College.

You can't celebrate?

Did I say this? Did I see him flip the ball?

Speaker 2 (37:05.838)
That is how upset the Mercer dugout is. God, they look so damn stiff. It's a game. What? You can't celebrate running around the bases?

Speaker 2 (37:22.062)
It took no time at all for Mercer's coaching staff and Craig Gibson to jump up and protest. Now the ball is absolutely ripped. But when you start skipping and going to the side right there, you're going to... It's a game. It's a game. You're playing a baseball Yes, right. When he starts, yeah, that's where he's skipping at him. What's wrong with that?

Speaker 2 (37:51.563)
yeah. Yeah. Okay.

No, he's taunting. He's taunting. Hey, he's taunting. The second thing I thought I thought I saw him flip the bird between first and second. did you? That's what I thought I saw.

Let's.

Speaker 1 (38:10.37)
No, he's saying, come on. He's saying, come on. Come on. You want me? Yeah.

Yeah. So he was taunting. If I was his coach, but, but then that's why I would never be a coach in modern day athletics at any level is because nobody would behave like that. If I was a coach on my team.

It's a, wait, am I, can you not do that?

That is not

It's the taunting, it's not the celebration, it's the taunting.

Speaker 1 (38:36.692)
It's yeah, that so. Right, this is.

He had been walking around going, know, did it. did it. But he's like, you know, brain guys.

Because Steve, you do watch sports and you follow it, right? I mean, you know that when you run around the bases after hitting a home run, by the way, Brad, hang on. I'm not just, hang on, Brad. You just don't do that. That's just baseball. You just get around the bases. It pisses me off. My own team, the Braves, I hate it when they get the third base and do a little stutter step, you know, just run around the bases, act like you've been there.

know, let's not, d I didn't even let my you played softball. I

Speaker 2 (39:22.04)
Well, the dead thing is stupid, so I wouldn't do that either.

because it's stupid, that's why we're not doing it? Okay. But now, so the other side of that, Brad, and you help me out here if this is where you're coming from. The other side of that would be, from my perspective, you can celebrate in, like if you danced around like that after scoring a touchdown in football, that would just be a normal day.

Speaker 1 (39:50.572)
more respect and baseball. And so therefore, when Steve and I watch this, we're both just appalled because you don't do that in baseball. wait, Brad's got a point. You know, right? mean,

It's baseball game for crying out loud.

And I thought I may be wrong in this. thought Sanford was a subdued Baptist Southern Baptist college. I'm so. Why are you reacting like, okay, why, why,

Never take one Baptist fishing.

Speaker 2 (40:22.232)
They'll drink all your beer. Yeah.

Yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay, so anyway, I'm just curious, you know, let's see if the comments say anything.

I, well, I'll, I'll just, I'll throw this out editorially is that in, modern athletics, especially, especially in football, I despise the excessive celebration over a guy making a tackle. They're all this stuff. It's like, no, you haven't even come close to winning the game yet. This, you just, all you did was your job right then, you know, this, excessive celebrate. It's like,

You're right.

Speaker 3 (41:00.768)
If I was the coach of the time, I'm, I'm, I'm from the old, you know, Vince Lombardi school. It's like, Nope. have a, we, we are in, in serious business until we win. When we win, we can celebrate.

Right, let's follow the Barry Sanders model. Hand the ball to the official and move on. I'm with you. But Brad, Brad. The stick's in the mud, man.

Doesn't it just seem it's a game? It is. It's you're supposed to be having fun. At least that's what you know, that's

No.

Speaker 3 (41:35.726)
According to Vince Lombardi, was the, I mean, that was a field of battle. That was a of battle.

Well then in that case, it all is fair in love and war.

Yeah.

by celebrating, even taunting, I would say. Isn't that a tactic in war?

taunting you know like like money like monty python at the french castle

Speaker 2 (41:56.238)
I'm not suggesting-

Speaker 2 (42:00.716)
Yes, exactly. And fart in your general direction.

I shall do it another time. We could do that. Okay, let's see here. Okay, I got a story out of.

you

Mother was a hamster. Smell of elbow elderberries.

I always want to say Czechoslovakia, but the Czech Republic, these hikers, they stumbled upon, in fact, I've got, guys, I have a visual aid for this.

Speaker 2 (42:35.318)
mushrooms.

Mushrooms what?

It's not. You said hikers and yeah.

We have a story about hikers and mushrooms? No, I don't.

Speaker 1 (42:50.19)
well, he thought he had a visual aid now he can't find it. hang on. anyway, no, I think it's haunting anyway.

not sure if they're taunting. I felt like you were taunting. I felt taunted.

Did you Steve?

Yeah, I'm very sensitive.

Good. OK. I see that. OK, so did you guys that that that entire collection is what these hikers stumbled upon?

Speaker 3 (43:16.514)
Are those condom packages? What are those?

Oh, those are, hold on, let me just read this to you. 10 gold bracelets, 17 cigar cases, a powder compact, a comb, 598 gold coins, and unused condoms. Yeah, okay, my stand corrected. Sorry, no. The items are all part of a valuable and somewhat mysterious stash found by two hikers in the Czech Republic.

So they dated the coins. They think that this stash dates around to probably, they're guessing World War II era based on the date of the coins and some of the chaos that was going on. And somebody probably buried that and never was able to return to the stash. Anyway, so here's my question to you. You stumbled upon something like that. Are you taking it to the authorities, a museum? Are you just keeping it?

house.

And keeping your mouth shut, what are you doing? Does the age of the coins affect what you will do with it? Any thoughts on this, gentlemen? Who wants to go first?

Speaker 3 (44:27.586)
The last thing you said. Keeping my mouth shut.

And taking it to the house.

very slowly, one at a time, selling the pieces off.

Okay, so Steve, you and I had the same thought. Because I wondered if maybe if the value of the treasure would change our morality as to what we did with it. Like they're saying that this is, let's see. $360,000, according to the museum's coin expert. That's not even the other stuff, that's just the coins.

360.

Speaker 1 (45:08.724)
Steve, you had the same thought as me. My new job would be to drive around the country and sell about two or three at a time to collect your

Yeah

I'd show up at Pawn Stars and yeah.

huh.

Yeah. You don't want to go. No, you don't want to. No, no, you don't want to make it public. You don't want to be like, look at me. I'm on TV talking about these hundred year old coins.

Speaker 3 (45:35.864)
Well, they do always go, where'd you get this?

That's what saying. You don't want to get in a conversation with someone.

I'd say I got it, I bought it at an estate sale.

you

Yep, there you go. What? OK.

Speaker 3 (45:45.678)
Then he goes, what did you pay for it? Ah, 25 cents.

I'll give you $2. I'm just kidding. I 10 grand. Yeah. And then maybe you keep a few just just to have and tell the story.

Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:00.296)
But wait, wait, wait, hold on, you just got done saying you never want to tell the story and then you want to say something.

You want your family to pass it

know your family are turning your ass in.

If I kept one coin for each of my three kids, they're gonna turn my ass in. I didn't raise them right.

You said that, not me.

Speaker 1 (46:20.706)
Okay, interesting. Yeah, okay, so they get to compete keep 10 % of the value. that's the Czech law. I remember all that's I write write you got to research this before you show up knocking on a museum station. No, well,

Whoa, whoa, whoa, that's all.

Speaker 2 (46:36.078)
That's right.

Here's the problem. Here's the problem. When you're talking about European law related to finders keepers, that sort of thing, there were so many items stolen during the war. they got the laws on the books that they have to, know, works of art, treasures, things of that nature that have to be returned to the original country of origin. And then basically you're getting a finder's fee is what it is. And that's really common there. And then then every country has

Yeah

Speaker 3 (47:06.702)
different laws about that. mean, even some of the deep sea wreckage, know, ships that went down in the 1500s, you better look that up before you come up with your treasure and tell people what you found.

And if the fine folks watching this take anything away from this story, let it be that. Look into the law before you decide how much morality or how ethical you want to be.

What Keith is saying is look into the law first before you decide.

Then, yeah, before you decide to break it, look into it first.

break and then if it's found treasure then break the hell out of it.

Speaker 1 (47:48.078)
Let the law be your conscience. That's what I'm trying to say. Let the law be your conscience. Because in New Mexico, and I've told this story before, I forget what we were talking about at the time, but there was a story, gosh, I was a radio producer in Atlanta. was over 25 years ago, And I was just shocked at this story. This maid lady, this cleaner lady at an office building somewhere in New Mexico. Cleaner lady.

Break it smartly.

Speaker 1 (48:17.582)
Let me finish the damn story. She's cleaning the offices and she finds this like, I don't know if it was a diamond or what, it was ridiculous. I mean, it was something that would definitely be like reported missing. Okay. So she goes to the police now so far, think, yeah. I mean, obviously, you know, yes, you should do that because obviously somebody lost this. anyway, she takes it to the police. Nobody claims it. So six months later, it's time to.

Give the value, sell it, and give the value to the community. She got nothing. She got nothing for doing the right thing. So I mean, these laws, they

It's very lonely.

It's very lonely when you do the right thing.

It is. No good deed goes unpunished.

Speaker 1 (49:05.464)
That's a fact, Okay, so...

By the way, Lynn had it right. Football, dance, baseball, spit, hockey, fight.

Basketball, pull up your pants.

They don't wear their pants low in basketball.

They don't. mean, they wear shorts, first of all. Yeah. They don't wear them down low. They trip. Right.

Speaker 1 (49:32.854)
Right. How's those meds working for you there, Steve? You doing okay? That's good. Okay. No, because last week.

I'm doing great,

Speaker 2 (49:43.33)
Put your hand on the desk and hit it really hard with something hard like a hammer and see if it hurts.

I'm just looking forward to the part where we get to the serious topics of this show.

no, there are no serious topics on this. well, then I'm good to go. This is as serious as we get. the last week, we talked about them eliminating the penny. And there's, of course, some people look at it as like demoting Pluto to a to a what is it now is a what did you just what did you just put in your mouth?

Dwarf is a midget.

Speaker 2 (50:17.646)
a shmint as Kerry says. It's a shmint. I'm high as all get out. That's That's good. this over here.

huh. You're getting high.

That's good.

I just did one of these.

So, Werther's Originals, are we that old now?

Speaker 2 (50:33.578)
Mm-hmm.

So we talked about the the treasury's plan to end the production of the penny. Well, someone on Twitter there that goes by the handle of mind your business sent me a note and it said, tell me, why is there no more outrage over the loss of the lowly penny? Now, let me just stop right there. I don't want us rounding. It's never going to be in our favor. I'm the old guy who's like, don't you take away the penny because you're going to end up stiffen me for four cents and I'm going to be pissed about it.

Okay, see Brad Brad is cool with it. He doesn't care but but now listen now This is an interesting point from mind your business Tell me why is there no more outrage over the loss of the lowly penny the cost isn't the problem It's one more step toward

Cashless society.

Speaker 2 (51:28.28)
But is it?

I don't

It's not. not. It's not. I mean, when you're when you're talking about the logic of the fact that it costs three and a half cents to make a one cent coin, then something has to change either either either. Let's let's go have a manufactured in China.

Right, right.

So...

Speaker 3 (51:55.502)
Or we'll have our currency manufactured in China. The world will compensate because they're eventually not going to continue to price everything at 78 cents or $3.79. It's going to be $3.75 or it's going be $4. The retailers are going to round to the nickel and everything will be fine. But pennies are going to remain in circulation for years.

They're not made illegal. It's still going to be, you know.

your pennies.

Hey, buddy. But people but people like me, I have I have pickle jars full of them. I all my change. And when I get home from my travels, all of my change just goes into pickle jars. I don't. And that's where they go. It's like, you know, it's my my retirement fund. I don't know. But it's like it's it's it's a.

You don't take him down the coin storm, pour him in every now and then?

Speaker 3 (53:00.704)
No, never. just, I year, have years and years and years of chain change. And a lot of people do that. And so, yeah.

I I do. Every Christmas, you know, at the end of the year, every year, I take this giant jar full of coinage down to my bank and I don't use them. If a bank tries to charge me for that, I'm getting a new bank. don't give into the change fee. Steve Baker. Don't give them extra money.

Remember the Bank of Change?

Thank you.

Saturday Night Live. That was actually one of the funny bits they did. The bank change. We'll make you come into us with a dollar. We'll give you four quarters or 20 nickels. It really, I mean, it's up to you. We let you decide.

Speaker 1 (53:38.572)
I don't.

Speaker 3 (53:52.397)
you

That's good stuff. Okay. So did I send you guys the article? I can't remember what I sent you. Did I send you the men are calling other men to say good night? Please tell me I sent that ahead of time. I send? sent check your email. It's too late now if I didn't. Men are calling other men to say good night and the results are amazing.

A social media trend has men surprising their friends with a call before bed. It has led to a lot of laughs, but also some deeper connections. So help me, if either of you gentlemen call me to say good night, I will block your number.

is not happening. This is the this is the men love to cuddle. This is that over all over again. This is men are not calling other men to say good night. It's a.

Okay

Speaker 1 (54:41.097)
store.

you

Speaker 1 (54:49.783)
Is that?

Is that the only reason for the call or you're already on the phone and it's late and you say good night?

Well, let's see. Wendy Andre Scarborough, this is New York Times article, a 24-year-old content creator and college research coordinator decided to call several of his male friends and his brother to wish them each a good night. He knew they'd be thrown for a loop. Lying in bed with his girlfriend. I love how they have to add that detail. Look, we want it clear that he's a completely heterosexual male. He's in bed with his girlfriend around 11 PM. Mr. Scarborough made a call.

Delivering the good night message to a friend who immediately responded with confusion and laughter asking You good? In between giggles another friend equally confused said man. You're calling the wrong number these freak hours

Speaker 1 (55:42.666)
Mr. Scarborough had seen the trend online and after some nudging by his girlfriend, decided to upload his own video. He said, what makes this trend twice as funny as others is that it's so uncommon for men to talk to each other vulnerably. And let me read this last quote from him. We're not really emotionally tapped in with each other. So for the most part, if you say something like that, people immediately think the worst.

So that's why the people that I called were like, you good? Because we don't really have those types of conversations saying good night. The most you'll get is a yo, what's up? Gentlemen.

This dude said, bro, if my friends are calling and not texting him, I was going to answer because for us, that means it's an emergency usually. Yeah.

It sounds like the same group of people that are trying to figure out how to get alpha males to start voting Democrat again. Yeah. Yeah. That's what this is.

they they like to cuddle with each other and it's it's totally normal it's like shut up hot lips died did loretta swick die hot lips hula hand no did she i

Speaker 3 (56:47.086)
Shut up.

Wait, who did?

Speaker 1 (56:56.572)
no! no. Nobody else from MASH just died recently, right? Really? Somebody.

know. Wait a minute. How how do we know that? I just got that text and yeah, 40 minutes ago, Loretta Sweat. 87, debtor than $900. Damn it. And Sally Kellerman's gone. The original Hot Lips.

Wow.

Speaker 3 (57:25.944)
Yeah. Yeah. You know, went, I went back just seriously while, while I was, going through my latest, you know, about with the kidney stone. I actually, I actually went back and watched the original match mash movie for the first time in about 30, maybe 40 years. And that, that sucker holds up. Well, that's a, that's that's a great movie. You can see why they had the idea to make a TV show out of that.

When did she die?

Speaker 1 (57:37.708)
Which one?

Speaker 3 (57:55.852)
It really holds up.

Sally Kellerman's been dead for three years. She died in 22.

Okay. You know, it's kind funny. Let's bring this home. When I had COVID, I watched the original Star Trek for the first time. I watched about eight episodes or so. Not bad.

You got through eight.

think it was about seven or eight, yeah.

Speaker 2 (58:16.578)
That's it. You've not seen all of them. What's wrong with you?

No!

Speaker 3 (58:23.278)
Did you at least consult the top 10 of what should be the top 10?

went chronological because I thought I would. I got the feeling better and I wasn't just laying around doing nothing. I got out of the habit. So sue me. Sorry. I like this. When we're talking about the Ben calling good night and wanting to cuddle and stuff, the Gare Bear did the perverted the pervy VP. Tim Walls.

sorry. When I saw the per VP, was thinking Joe Biden, which was going to allow us to play the thing that Brad sent me just before we went to air. Brad, are you able to get that Joe Biden audio up on your computer? Because this is something else, You know what I'm talking about? The threats that he, the audio that you just sent that broke today, Joe Biden asked about, yeah, and he had a little huggy emoji with it. And then you said,

When you start talking about Perv VP candidates, you really don't narrow it down very well in the Democratic Party side of things when you think about their background of Perv.

yeah. hang on look at this lose the penny the frustration around it will make argument for CBD yes central bank digital currency if the cost is a problem go back to steal pennies around the numbers and no sales tag no sales tax I like that okay so any luck with the- is it down here.

Speaker 2 (59:55.79)
What did I do? What did send you? I didn't send you anything with Biden.

Hang on. Let me see. I thought it was you. It was totally you. It was the Twitchy team.

You are high. You are high. It's those people staring a hole in the back of your head that are making you fuss.

Well, the one keeps whispering to me is weird.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21.422)
We haven't seen that. I don't I think it's in your head

I don't know about that. Yeah, hang on a second, because I sent that to you.

You texted it to me at 139.

That's so weird. That's

wait, hold on, no, I got it from somebody named Brad Staggs. My bad.

Speaker 2 (01:00:41.23)
Well see it wasn't me then. So shut up.

So, okay, if it's not at the ready, then just let it go. It was a tweet from Twitchy team.

No, it wasn't that they're ready.

Yes, I'm looking right now, but I can't.

I'm gonna look for it. At this point, I'm gonna look for it cuz-

Speaker 2 (01:00:59.054)
Well, if you've got it, why don't you play the damn thing?

Don't have it! I was... That's why I was making you do it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:09.422)
I think we should lean on Steve Baker. Why don't you help out a little bit here Steve Baker?

I found it.

I actually feel left out right now.

All right, you got it ready? No.

Here it is.

Speaker 1 (01:01:24.855)
There's some audio somewhere.

Where did it go? I don't know. Oh, there it is. This is not presidential whatsoever. This is disgusting. Oh, that's right. He was there. There's two of them. Yeah, there's

Is that today? Is that today?

That is today. and. Look at him. Why is he just all the

So I'm feeling everybody.

Speaker 3 (01:02:03.99)
You notice she closed her eyes. You couldn't look at that that close up.

Yeah.

So he was asked.

There's also been a lot of discussion recently about your mental and physical capabilities while you were in office. You can see that. I'm mentally incompetent and I can't walk and I could beat the hell out of both. Do you want to reply to any of those reports and also to the fact that there are some Democrats who are now questioning whether you should have run for reelection in the first place? Why did they run against me then?

Is

Speaker 2 (01:02:34.766)
Do you have any regrets?

What the?

Okay, first of all, he is still delusional. He still doesn't know how to close his damn mouth. there was no primary. People wanted to run against you in the Democrat Party and your party refused a primary and then they came to regret it when they saw you on stage, you dumb ass. This guy still sucks. Okay. That's just whatever.

because he's just so and it was some he was giving a speech somewhere. Was it yesterday the day before and he's he starts doing the yelling thing again. I missed that he starts yelling and where did I put that I've got that somewhere but yeah he started doing the yelling it's just so

I didn't

Speaker 1 (01:03:24.674)
He's so gross.

Well, and he's got he's got he's got what six if he's got prostate cancer, he's got six months and he's so what kind of drugs they have him on now that he's out there.

Well, he's got that contract with that PR. He's got to fulfill those. don't know how many commitments or if they if I don't know, I think they go and find him places to speak and then they get half the money or something. I don't know. But

he's just. by the way, who's going to get into Wikipedia first to change Loretta Switz things? because it's no, it it hasn't because that's the first place I went and it didn't

That's the

Speaker 1 (01:04:06.526)
I bet it's already been changed.

Speaker 3 (01:04:12.334)
They haven't changed it yet

I can't be the only person who does that. Do you do that where you go to Wicca, P.D. go, let me see. yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. It's changed now. It wasn't, whenever I first brought it up that she had died.

So if you're a celebrity, and you pass away, well, obviously you won't be able to verify this, but how depressing would it be like if you go and you check their Wikipedia page and nobody's updated in and a day passes two days, but you're like, my gosh.

and has been forgotten.

Speaker 2 (01:04:44.652)
Yep. But if you.

Okay.

The worst ones though, are when you're the celebrity and you go to your Wikipedia page, you're still alive and it shows that you've passed away. Because that happens too. Yeah. I've been dead for five years. Somebody ought to check Biden's page right now. See if he's still alive.

Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:05:06.681)
on the Loretta Switz page. It says she's known for mash and pyramid. Remember the $10,000? Oh yeah.

I loved that game when I was a kid, man!

But really, I mean, was that's what she was always she was on that show a lot. Huh. I didn't realize that that was one of things she was known for.

Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:05:27.726)
Yeah, I'm trying to think of the celebrities that were on there. I don't know that. I don't remember her that much, if at all. I'm just trying to think. So congratulations. You're best known for something that we don't remember.

huh.

alright, so let's see here. This is article here. I'm I'm just going to give you the the long and short of it here but my goodness this lady wrote this article about the or this guy actually wrote this article about now if you guys have a device in your home that listens to you, I'm going to we're going to replace the the name ALEXA to

I don't know, me different name. Steve. No, no, there is a Steve here. Joe. We'll call it Joe. How about, okay. So the device's name is now Joe. So he writes this article about looking up all the data, because the data apparently is out there. You have to really go hunting for it. But you can look at all of the information that the Joe device has recorded.

As it's been eavesdropping on you for as long as you had it. So you can still, you can access this stuff, which proves that they keep this stuff. So this guy has had a Joe device from Amazon in his house, in his kitchen, in his family's kitchen for, since, since 2016, since they first came out. They came, they came out, don't know, somewhere in September of 2016 and he got one.

Speaker 2 (01:06:45.582)
Mm.

Speaker 1 (01:07:10.804)
And so you can access, there's a link when you log in and stuff to your Amazon account where you can actually hear all of the stuff. And I read this article and I was thinking, my gosh. I mean, this is exactly what people like me have been paranoid about. You don't need to have all these recordings and stuff, but he found it like very nostalgic.

Review history of detected sounds.

Speaker 2 (01:07:40.046)
Yeah, I I asked Joe how you find it and Joe told me, which is kind of creepy. Review voice and text history. Review activity history.

Right!

Speaker 1 (01:07:53.88)
So now do you have a Joe device in your house? boy, maybe you should.

I'll have one. I know.

Yeah

I have the same thought, This guy right here is my roaming Joe device. It's not just in my kitchen. It's in my pocket. It's in my car. It's at work. It's by the bed. It's everywhere I go. Exactly.

Everywhere. Wait.

Speaker 2 (01:08:19.692)
Yeah, but mine is showing nothing. Mine's mine showing nothing. I don't believe that.

Did you think that when you set it up, is there a feature that says, don't keep my data or something or you find that? Yeah. What if he ever checks though on his account? Well, we just won't load them there and he'll think we don't have.

wink at

Yeah, of course we know.

Speaker 2 (01:08:41.71)
Wait, no, here it is. Yep Wow

you're concerned now, aren't you? What does it look like? Can I see what it looks like?

the rest

records.

Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:08:54.254)
I don't know if I can get it over there. I can't get it over there because I'm not signed in on that. It's a long list of lives.

That's fine. I just curious what...

The article says it just looks just like data.

That's it. It's just a long list of stuff. Yeah, but there's nothing I can click on it, but there's nothing to change. It just says like driveway cam mode changed.

You click on them, right?

Speaker 1 (01:09:23.022)
There's not any waveforms or something you can click on. I can hear you saying, size panties should I purchase for myself? You don't have any audio files like that?

No, it doesn't show.

Speaker 2 (01:09:33.198)
Except for Alexa order condoms. Yes

No, no. I was trying, see, I'm good cop. Brad's bad cop.

Somewhere, somebody just is gonna.

Okay, so a week from now when we gather for the Friday live stream, we're gonna have to see if there were

Who got their condoms? Who got their condoms?

Speaker 1 (01:10:00.302)
Holy

Who? Who? So listen to this stat, because this guy's in Britain. In 2023,

She's talking to me, by the way, in the other room. She's asking me something. No!

Oh, in 2023, 60 % of British households had a smart speaker up from 22 % before the pandemic. So I guess what? 2019, 22 % of households. 2023, 60%. 72 % of those are.

or from that Amazon company. What?

Speaker 2 (01:10:39.366)
Sorry, Julie said OMG, Alexa just told me she couldn't find anything for condemns. Thanks, Brad. I'm such a dick. Yeah, I know.

You are well at least that order.

I've had so many freaky things happen with my iPhone that I've given up. I've just come to the conclusion that they're collecting everything, they see everything, they know everything. if I'm willing to do it, if I'm willing to say it, if I'm willing to whatever my bad habit is, they know about it. It's going to be saying it. Because I've had too many weird

weird things happen with the iPhone. Yeah, I'll give you one for instance. So a really good friend of mine up in Tulsa, I was up visiting him during the winter with both cigar smokers. He has a really nice outside patio and he had bought a big space heater, but he had not put it together yet. It was brand new. And so it was cold outside. We wanted to go smoke cigar. So I helped him out in the back on his patio, put this

Would you?

Speaker 3 (01:11:48.182)
space heater together. And at one point, just at the very, as we got it all put together and he was trying to get it to ignite, I turned my flashlight on on my phone and I held it up there for him as he kind of made the final adjustments. And I'm just holding the flashlight for my phone on it. And then that turned it off. He lights it. We sit down, we have cigars, we go to bed. Next morning, I wake up, turn on my phone, on face, checking Facebook, every single ad I had.

was not about space eaters, it was that model of space eaters. Every ad I had was that model of space eaters.

Well, okay, hold on.

I'll use my flashlight. I'll use my flashlight.

It It knows. You used the flashlight, you held your, that means you're holding your camera there looking at

Speaker 3 (01:12:34.828)
course, but that's what saying.

Did you guys discuss the model that he bought or anything like that?

No, I never, I never went, this is the XLR, you know, three 75, you know, megawatt. Well, you know, I never said anything about it, but it was that model. And I just was like blown away. And then, you know, you know, this is the weird, this one may be more weird is so when my kid was, you know, playing travel ball, the baseball, and, so, you know, is, the routine either me or his mother, depending upon, you know, who was the least busy that weekend, would take.

Take them to the, you know, the games and some of the games, you know, we're a few hours away from, from Raleigh where we live. And so this one particular Saturday morning, his game was a two and a half hour drive from Raleigh. And before I picked him up. Google, because Google had already known that we were going to baseball tournaments regularly. Google sent me the map link to the ball field.

you

Speaker 3 (01:13:40.034)
before I even picked my son up that morning. It saw me driving to his mother's house. Whoa. And knew why we were going and knew where we were

That is unacceptable,

And that may, I mean, I just got, I got all creeped out when it did that.

So when you started to tell these stories, I thought you were going to say something that since you were involved with January 6th and since you were on the FBI's radar, right? Yeah, since you're a wanted criminal, I thought that you were going to say that the government, you're just saying that in general, the way that big tech operates through phones, you weren't

Most Wanted List.

Speaker 1 (01:14:23.03)
necessarily saying that James Comey was tapping in, were you?

there's, there's, have tons of those kinds of moments. just assume everybody that has been involved in the kind of stuff that I do, you know, gets those creepy moments. We talk about it. We talk about it all the time with, you know, me and other reporters, we talk about it all the time that we hear strange sounds. We hear clicks. hear, you know, phones that other people don't get on their phones and stuff like that all the time. And so, I mean, I used to, what every single time that we got after I was being investigated. So when the, when the FBI.

actually interviewed me and we were going through the process of the whole drawn out three years of developing a case against me. Every time I got on the phone with my attorney at that time, would actually go, he would speak to the FBI and he would say to the FBI Department of Justice and he had like a pat. said, is a private conversation between myself and my client. We were afforded attorney-client privilege.

And so anything that we say on this call right here, you will not use against us in any way, shape or form, blah, blah, blah. He had like a patch speech he would do, and then we would go on and have our conversation.

Yuck, man.

Speaker 3 (01:15:37.303)
Every time

Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:15:45.396)
I could use it to get ahead of it. Yeah.

Yeah, and that's the problem is that they they don't give a shit about the the law That's the worst part about it. It's like you we feel like we're protected, but we're not

What's that word you used? I'm not familiar with it.

Law? law, yeah. It's law.

Yeah. So why is it that what Steve just described with the grill, why does that freak me out more than than how another story that I've told before where, you know, we homeschooled our kids and I was doing a Lewis and Clark thing and I mentioned the Snake River and then it wasn't an hour or two after that for the next several weeks. I was getting ads on cruise the Snake River. I never Googled it. I never did anything.

Speaker 1 (01:16:34.991)
It was just a conversation with the kids and an old school map.

That happens all the time.

right right exactly all the time so that is like rudimentary cell phones spying on you why does why does what you just described bug me more than it picking than it listening in other words it's eavesdropping obviously giving me the tailored ads based on the conversations i'm having but it's obviously looking through your camera and going let me tell them about that girl or that smoker i swear these

Yeah, no, it's unbelievable. But yeah, the thing about hearing your speech and then instantly, I mean, the next time you sign on to something, you see it in the ads. He's like, you cannot believe that it's happening. Right. mean.

And then they want you to believe that no, it's just what? coincidence.

Speaker 3 (01:17:24.142)
You know, for, for, every time I talk about pasty white, you 21 year old Asian girls, I just get tons of them on my phone. It's horrible.

So, you know, I wonder at what point do the targeted ads give up? Like in other words, I was looking for a truck and I was getting all these ads, know, these placement ads, based on my Google history, obviously. And I'm just like, at what point do they say, all right, he's probably purchased something we didn't pick up on that.

Would you move when your interest moves on to something else? The algorithms.

But then, but it's not really people listening to you. It's the, it's some computer, some AI listening, and waiting for keywords and phrases. So it never gets tired.

Right, but I'm saying like at what time at what point does it kind of time out and it's mine like, all right

Speaker 2 (01:18:16.94)
doesn't have to. It just always listens. It's like on the counter always listening.

Then I'm not. I got it, but what I'm saying is if I'm an advertiser paying for that kind of intrusive placement, at what point do they stop charging Ford and Honda for these targeted ads? You know, is that part of the contract that Ford and Honda or whatever sign that look if he hasn't said if he hasn't searched for a truck in three weeks, we want you to stop placing our ads there.

I say my phone has never, ever moved beyond showing me pasty white 21 year old Asian girls. So I don't know if it'll ever give that up.

Have you seen the impossible challenges thing yet? Because this will freak, this will freak both you out.

Mm-mm.

Speaker 1 (01:19:08.878)
Okay, hang on, I always forget about the duck duck go. Yeah.

That duck was just as nasty as the rest of them. It's an illusion that they're any better.

Yeah, okay, that's true.

But how is, I have Brave on my phone. just, I wasn't happy with it for some, forgot something. Is Brave a good browser? Anybody want to attest to that in the comments? Anyway, go ahead, go ahead. What were you about to say, Brian?

Yeah, no, just the the the the stuff that we're about to deal with even freakier stuff. Yeah, and just have you not seen this? All right, give it give it 30 seconds here and go into a zoo to prove one man is enough to fight a gorilla. Welcome to the Chernobyl challenge. I'm going to lick this glowing pole. Let's see how many views this gets.

Speaker 1 (01:19:39.863)
You may put it on the screen.

Speaker 1 (01:19:44.128)
I have not.

Speaker 2 (01:20:04.322)
plan. No shoot. Just content. Bathing in liquid cement until it hardens. Solid. No energy drinks. Just gasoline.

Get

Speaker 2 (01:20:22.03)
Everything you've seen is all AI and it's all just prompted.

AI.

Speaker 1 (01:20:31.598)
I've seen a lot of videos like this. haven't seen this specific one, but yeah. It's more more real.

Everything I mean between the they're going to start listening to what you're saying and then you'll get like a customized video or something like that from YouTube saying, hey Steve, I know you were probably thinking about buying one of those space heaters and you were looking at the grill master VE.

And by the way, can I add a tasty 21-year-old Asian girl?

Just do it.

And yeah, well, no, it'll be a pasty 21 year old. Giving you the message. Right, right, right. And what was it? Brandon Morse, the because you mentioned 21 year old pasty girls.

Speaker 1 (01:21:23.8)
Wait, where are we going with this analogy? man, Brandon Morris, a former guest here on the Friday live stream. What's the tie in here?

He sent me a he tweeted at me whatever the hell you call what are the kids calling it these days? He added me and it was an AI. see if I can shoot. Where is this? And it was just that it was the the pasty 21 year old Asian chick on the couch talking.

And it was AI and I mean it was freaky how absolutely perfect it was. I mean right down to the the she's moving on the couch and you hear the the couch fabric go. It's really getting crazy.

And you realize, Brad, that because we've been talking about this for the last 10 minutes, that all of our devices are going to be flooded tonight with pasty white 21-year-old Asian chicks.

Now, technically is she white if she's Asian?

Speaker 3 (01:22:32.654)
They are in these things. They're pasty as they can be.

Here you go. This is what he sent me right here. Hi. Got a moment to talk to me?

Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:22:50.958)
we done here? Pause it. Pause it. Pause it. Pause it. Pause it. Okay, that's fine. just want to point out to our friend here, you don't have a moment to talk to us. You've got laundry to fold. Get back there.

We can't get the words right though.

Speaker 1 (01:23:12.706)
That's the other thing! a sloppy sh- Go ahead, what?

That's the other thing is looking at the backgrounds on these things. I mean, I get all of this. She's not real. There's no doesn't exist. The chair back there with the shit all over it doesn't exist. The book, the file. Why does she have a vertical filing cabinet in their living room?

Yeah.

She's nothing to you.

Speaker 1 (01:23:38.705)
I don't know that, I don't know.

Did you see this? Oh, that's a great point by the Garabare. What no one is saying 2024 was the last election where you could see a video on TV and believe that it happened. Even the midterms will be AI deep fake. Absolutely. A year from now we aren't going to know this. This stuff that is so great right now is going to look tame compared to what we're going to have in front of us in a year.

Right and how do you but the thing is How do you know that the stuff that we saw last year was real? if we're now seeing this if via or they or whatever the hell they're calling it is What they're showing us now. It means this has been around behind the scenes

Right?

Speaker 3 (01:24:21.486)
for a while.

And.

As soon as they got the number of fingers right on AI-generated hands, I went, it's over.

Well, and one of those one of those videos that that Brad was playing there, the one one of the ones that I'm referring to, it's like a stand up comedian. Yes. Who says, you know, man, I miss the old days when we had seven fingers. You know, now. It's incredible. So did you guys hear about this this newly launched AI called Claude Opus four? No. OK, so this is.

Right.

Speaker 1 (01:25:02.156)
This is concerning and this this story could apply to any number of AI models. Not not like our couch friend, but like never mind. So what you have here is they fed a whole bunch of fake emails into the system. And just a whole bunch of stuff as they were trying to teach the AI model. And they also put in their fake email exchanges.

between the engineer and a woman he was supposedly having an affair with. And so what they did is they eventually got to the point where they told this Claude Opus Four that we're going to take you offline now.

That way. That's his name or you just he was dense.

I'm sorry. that's his name and so they were like, we're about to take you offline and that's when the AI. yes. Don't get hung up on the name Claude. that that's where he threatened to he was blackmailing the engineer say you better not take me online because I'll make sure your wife sees these emails.

Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:26:10.552)
I didn't know.

was all this manufactured information fed into the system. And they say that 84 % of the time, whenever they try to take AI

3.7

Thank you. 84 % of the time, they try to blackmail the engineers with something when they get threatened to be taken offline. mean, Skynet, I mean, it is around.

Hold on, where'd you find that one? That story.

Speaker 1 (01:26:43.982)
Where'd I find what?

It is at techcrunch.com.

Because there have been a couple of those. I've seen stories about the AI refusing to shut itself down, but I've not seen it threatening to or blackmailing the engineers. Are you sure that's real? Because that sounds awful.

Are you questioning my integrity when it comes to-

to yours. Right? To yours is yeah, I yeah, sure. Sure. don't you work for that? You know, for that Pat Gray character, right? Yeah. Yeah. Well, need I say more?

Speaker 1 (01:27:24.91)
So it's incumbent upon you to find this story, even though I am desperately trying to find it here for you. I just have a print up. I want you to see it for your damn self. Go for it.

No, I believe it's there. just, question.

question the I mean.

Here it is. here's a New York Post version of it as well. gee. So are we believing it or?

That sounds...

Speaker 2 (01:27:46.368)
one in Fortune magazine.

Speaker 2 (01:27:50.882)
Well, that's just the problem is even though it doesn't matter where it is, that doesn't mean it's true.

Now, I bring up this story after the first one with dude that had the Joe device eavesdropping in his kitchen for the last nine years. You don't think that AI has some information on him or our phones, as Steve, you know, accurately pointed out, you don't think they have information on us?

she offered to call 911 once when I was kidding around and I said so like Beth don't make me don't make me hurt you again. Something like that. What? And yeah and and Beth is like hey I need help and then on the counter pipes up.

That's what we're gonna okay, that's how we have to do this now forget bitch on the couch up and says

Thanks for joining me.

Speaker 2 (01:28:45.751)
Bitch on the camera

Do I need to call 911?

the side of the coin. Let's look at the bitch on the counters defenders and say well hey look if you fell right.

I know.

Speaker 2 (01:29:04.846)
Mm hmm. And you got you're like, hey, bitch on the counter, I need help. And she's like, you call me bitch on the counter one more time. I'm going to make sure this house falls in your head.

And then I'm going to make sure that everybody you know knows what size cotton you're

Okay.

And you do realize the government does not like that word.

Bitch, on the-

Speaker 2 (01:29:31.841)
on the counter.

Oh, the word bitch because because I called Nancy Pelosi a bitch in my Virginia hotel room at nine o'clock that night on January six. And that's what they used to say that I had the mindset of the mob. So it wasn't what I did on the campus of the Capitol. It's what I said after I left.

that said that that put me in the mindset of the mob and that's what they use to justify their prosecution.

But Nancy Pelosi is a bitch.

She is a bitch.

Speaker 3 (01:30:08.47)
So here's what I told the FBI. So I'm doing my initial FBI voluntary interview. so they've got stacks of, I mean, they've it out. They've gone into my blogs and my history online and everything and printed off stacks of crap. And so the agent reads what I said because we were live streaming this. we've got me and my best friend, we got adult beverages in our hands. We're joking.

On the television, on the television, they're talking about Nancy Pelosi's laptop allegedly being stolen. watching, I'm back, we're back in the hotel room in Virginia, across the river from DC, and we're watching this on television. So we're two best friends. We're both journalists. He's a writer. He used to be Rush Limbaugh's ghostwriter and, you know, written a bunch of other stuff. And, and so I go.

Yeah

I said, you know, my biggest regret of the day is he goes, what's that? I said, I wish I had stolen Nancy Pelosi's laptop. Can you imagine what I would learn about the government from that? Ends up in my charging documents because I'm joking about that. So the, so the FBI agent reads that off to me. And then he says, and I said, yeah, I said, you know, I'm an investigative journalist. We were joking about what was on the television. He said, okay, well, you also said.

So

Speaker 2 (01:31:26.357)
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:31:35.066)
he's telling me, he said, tell me if this is correct. And he reads off what I said to this line also on the same thing. When you were leaving Nancy Pelosi's office area, you said, that you left when you saw that the, office had been, you know, ransacked. And then you said, it couldn't have happened to a nicer bitch. And he said, and he goes, the, and the FBI guy goes, why did you say that?

Yeah

Speaker 3 (01:32:05.046)
And I said, because I wasn't in McConnell's office. And he goes, what does that mean? I said, because if I was in McConnell's office, I would have said it couldn't have happened to a nicer bastard. said, what part of me being a libertarian and hating both parties do you not understand?

That's good stuff.

Night.

They never rel, they never released my interview and my discovery. I still want to get my hands on that someday.

yeah, the frame that stuff. That'd be good stuff. So I see up here on the comments, but I can't find it because it doesn't do it in order on the admin side. I don't understand it, but can you see that?

Speaker 2 (01:32:44.014)
Are you blaming the technology for you?

I found it. Nope, I found it. There we go. Cara 3022. Great point. According to Steve Friend's analysis yesterday here on At the Mic, that's protected free speech. It is.

it is.

they were just trying to frame you in a negative light, which I don't anybody in their right mind would realize that that's about the nicest thing you could say about that.

Right.

Speaker 3 (01:33:11.086)
Thank you, Kurt. Yeah, but that's what that whole thing was about for everybody. know, even, even the guys that did bad things that day, all of their sentencing, all of their enhancements, everything was worse because of the words they said than the behavior that they had that they, you know, exercise that day.

That's what-

Speaker 2 (01:33:29.23)
What is like guys, what's his name?

Thank

And a leckon leader.

Adam Johnson.

That's freaky that y'all know who I'm talking about just by saying lectern guy. Cause he's the one that held up the lectern, right?

Speaker 1 (01:33:44.62)
He's alive.

He's with the electric. Yep. And waving. And just so if if lectern leader is out there listening or somebody knows him, I mean, I can reach out to him. But just a reminder, there's a gift that you that you brought to Dallas for somebody that is still in my office. It hasn't been touched. It's sitting in the corner. What is it? It's he made something for for a Blaze host. I don't want to ruin the surprise.

Okay, alright.

You know, but no, mean, Adam, Adam, Adam was, you know, obviously he's, he's very comedic and he was having fun and he gets charged with theft of government property. And all he did was move it 15 feet. Right. I just took a picture with him waving, the lector.

They lie in the charging documents.

Speaker 2 (01:34:41.358)
Do I think that... let's just... Shut up, because now I'm pissed.

Hold on, is it? What is it that Jeremiah? Now Jeremiah, right? He said it. Governments lie. That's a fact. I that is a fact about everything. They can't just be honest about what just the simple shit, man.

We do.

Speaker 3 (01:34:55.358)
every day.

Speaker 2 (01:35:01.294)
No.

Yeah

Okay, hold on a second. I'm gonna throw a curveball at your gentleman. now let's say you go to a doctor's office, okay? And he says, you're both, they're yellow and they have crazy faces painted on them. What's going on?

What?

Speaker 2 (01:35:11.342)
you have curved balls.

Speaker 2 (01:35:19.618)
ball had a tongue on it.

You'd never leave your house. Okay, so anyway, help me. What was I talking about? No. Okay. So, okay. So doctor's office, right? Okay. So how much have you noticed now? And I'm sure it's just because it's let me back up. Maybe I'm the only one who's every doctor constantly.

I

constantly typing in their computer while they're talking to you. Am I the only one who's every doctor does that? No, I'm not.

Anyway, they all do it. The nurse, the nurses, the anesthesiologist, everybody's done.

Speaker 1 (01:36:02.058)
So what are they doing? Are they taking notes? Are they Googling because they didn't learn this in med school? What's happening over there? I gotta start asking these questions. Like, what are you typing in? I'm not saying that much, bro.

Okay, here's the thing, because I've had to go through some procedures recently and it pisses me off. The one thing, you know, it really pisses me off is, you know, they identify you now 100 % by your birthday, right? So every time you change rooms, every time you change rooms, it doesn't matter if you're having your eyes, you know, examined or if you're having, you know, they're

they not protecting themselves to make sure they're not going to be sued later for operating on the wrong person, right?

Right there.

Speaker 3 (01:36:50.062)
So I've started lying to them about it just to see how they react to it. I said, it's the last time I was, so tell me your birthday. said, Jovember 32nd.

They're like, they stop in the middle of the hall and go.

But remember, doesn't have 30 second days.

But the thing that pisses me off more than anything is the question about tobacco use. I want to lecture every one of them on the science of that because I'm not a cigarette smoker. I am a recreational cigar smoker. I'm open about it. the science on it is that you can smoke

two to four cigars a day and there is zero lessening of your life expectancy by the science. That's the science. Two to four a day and you have no expectation whatsoever of a shorter life expectancy. But the insurance companies penalize you for something that their own science tells them is negligible.

Speaker 1 (01:38:06.562)
what would happen in the data chain. You admit that to a doctor. The doctor puts it in a report. Somehow it gets back to the insurance company. Does it not? next thing you know, your rates go up and you have to call in and go like, hey, why did my rates go up? it says right here, you're a cigar user, but I never told you that.

And because I order my cigars from the warehouse on the phone and I pay for them with my credit card and blah, blah, blah, blah. They know. They know. Yeah.

Just like your Kroger card. They know how much red meat you're eating.

So here's the thing.

Yeah. Why AI may be listening in your next doctor's appointment. No systems for documenting outpatient visits are adding features and moving into hospitals. We're just scratching the surface. Even the hospital walls may soon have ears. A mass growing technology known as ambient listening is taking over an onerous but necessary task in health care. This stuff isn't like it's just in there. It's just a part of the decor now.

Speaker 2 (01:39:12.462)
What is?

This ambient listening, this at hospitals, it's gathering information and helping doctors make decisions. And before you know it, that kind of stuff's gonna be on walls everywhere. We are gonna be living in that dystopian world that we fear the most.

Yeah, but you're sitting in a room with 18 microphones.

I it, I got it, I got it. Don't point out the hypocrisy. My point is, I'm going to literally have to whisper into Brad's ear and he's going to love it, of course. If I want to say something about the government or whatever, you know, it's like, what are we doing?

But to say never, never, never, never ever in history, it's all coming to, you know, the singularity now is that that idea that show me the man, I'll show you the crime. no, no way are you going to be able to hide anything anymore. It's and.

Speaker 1 (01:40:02.03)
Yeah

Speaker 1 (01:40:10.158)
And if the government doesn't do it to you, it's going to be that Claude Opus cat threatening you with something. Right? It's going to be the Claude Opus cat working for the government and passing the information on to an agent.

Right. Ryan Riley of NBC News on the day that I was rested, he tweeted out and he actually said, if I had not said what I said in my hotel room that night, he said these charges was most surely not have been brought against Baker. So he literally admitted that the government charged me with humorous speech in my hotel room in another state.

Speak.

Speaker 3 (01:40:55.936)
and put me through that hell for words. And this is this, this is a guy who covered all the trials. He's the court, he's the legal affairs reporter for NBC News and he's in the courthouse every day during those days.

How did they know that you said that?

Because I was was live streaming that. yeah. Yeah. And it was on YouTube, you know.

I just had a black

Doug Mackey, the meme guy.

Speaker 2 (01:41:25.166)
Yeah, text whatever to whatever and you can actually vote for it.

I cannot, this is not America. Can we just.

No, it is not. You're absolutely right.

But what did it die on a specific day? Like Ron Paul says, November 22nd, 1963, or has it just been kind of a frog boiling in the water type death for us? Cat wants some black tea.

That day?

Speaker 3 (01:41:52.252)
Yeah

Did you ever watch that show, 11-22-63? Did you? Yeah. Yeah. Steve, you ever see that show on Hulu? It's only like eight episodes.

James Franco.

I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (01:42:09.228)
and our buddy Nick Cersei's in it too. It's the room in the back of the diner that sends you back in time. But it's weird because it's

where are you?

Speaker 1 (01:42:20.748)
Yeah.

Basically quantum leap on steroids.

It's a morality play and it's really good. It's very good. And would you kill Hitler as a baby?

I'll have to check that.

Speaker 2 (01:42:38.67)
Mm.

Would you?

I would like to see, I'm very curious how the world would look today without a hit.

Don't. And don't say anything else about 112263 either.

If you have the spoiler alert, hell, how could you spoil that?

Speaker 3 (01:42:57.614)
I you didn't without without a without a Hitler Stalin rolls on Europe. It's not it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. There's going to be evil is going to fill the vacuum. So doesn't

See? What if you unleash by killing baby Hitler an even worse monster? Because I mean, Stalin killed more people than Hitler, so.

box.

Speaker 3 (01:43:22.078)
Mao did.

mean, we could do this, let's see.

Hitler is not the worst ever. just, you know.

Oh, well, hold a second. I see the headlines right now. Jay Sixer praises Hitler in live stream.

Well, that's what they'll say.

Speaker 3 (01:43:38.58)
He's not he's not the worst mass murderer of all time. It's just that by by European definitions of left and right. They were the right wing of communism. They were the right wing of socialism, not the right wing. They were just barely right of Stalin. And so they by the old European definitions of left and right. That's and so as a result of that and

because the socialists of today want to conflate America's right to Hitler. That's why Hitler is now the worst character of all time.

There you go, J6er defends Adolf Hitler.

Yeah, I know. They'll twist it. They'll edit it. Cut it.

Can I say that there's something here at the bottom of my screen that can you can you change that picture, Brad? Because I'm having to see this this chick is on my screen here and I would like you to put anything else up. What is that? Oh no, I should probably move that too. I don't know what that was. No, we're good. Let me let me let me ask you guys this question here. There was a there was a I can't stand you, It's all right.

Speaker 2 (01:44:40.942)
don't know what

Speaker 2 (01:44:50.733)
love you.

Uh, all right. So there was a, uh, um, uh, plantation, uh, I'm trying to think of the house down in, uh, let's see, Louisiana. There it is. I was trying to find that picture. All right. So down in Louisiana, there's a place called a not away plantation and burned to the ground. And so, so it was one of the oldest, uh, one of the largest, uh, and it's still around and it's a resort.

way is done away.

Speaker 1 (01:45:21.868)
you know, so people make money off of it, right? Well, they're going to rebuild it. they're going to rebuild it.

Are they going to round up slaves to do it to keep it authentic?

There we go. There it is. There it is. I. Here we go. Hang on. There's the.

They rebuilt Notre Dame.

Speaker 1 (01:45:44.032)
here. By the way, in the 80s, 90s, if you had told me that one day Morrissey will be the biggest advocate against what Islam has done to places like Notre Dame and Europe, I would be like, wow, I didn't see that coming. Anyway, that's the plantation today. As you can see, there's just a few columns left. There's not much left there. Anyway, so I'm reading this article. I think it was NBC News, something like that.

And it just interviews people that are just hurt by the very existence of this plantation. And how dare you make money?

Say the word plantation without bringing to my thoughts of slavery to mind. So you're really not stop triggering me. Loser.

So what's the... But wait, I'm not, excuse me.

That's a trigger word. It up news.

Speaker 1 (01:46:30.902)
Gentlemen, you're talking to the white guy who uses black dude emojis shrugs, you

Remember lady anabellum had to change their name to lady a cuz can't say anabellum

The Dixie Chicks had to become the chicks.

Dixie State University is now Utah State, Southern Utah, whatever the hell.

And he's so retarded.

Speaker 1 (01:46:59.416)
Which that's a fun fact though. And I hate it that Utah lost this because my mom used to live in St. George, Utah where Dixie State University was. And I have a hat. I don't know where it is. I think I've lost it or maybe some lefty stole it from me, but it says Dixie State University. Probably that bitch on the counter somewhere. so, and so it says Dixie State University and they changed their name when all, you know, five, six years ago.

that bitch Pelosi.

Speaker 1 (01:47:28.278)
one of the victims of George Floyd, RIP. But, I just said, I thought I praised him. Did I not adequately do that? So, but the cool story is, what's that guy named? Brigham Young.

You're a you bastard!

Speaker 2 (01:47:48.834)
Bring on Myeong University. What?

So Brigham Young, he lived down there in Southern Utah for a while and he tried to grow cotton. he tried to cotton because the Civil War was going on. And he's like, hey, look, the cotton market is being disrupted. And so let me grow cotton. it failed, but he tried to, he named that area is now called Dixie in Southern Utah, all because Brigham Young.

Is that his name, Brigham Young?

Speaker 2 (01:48:02.893)
and

Speaker 3 (01:48:21.514)
pride to grow.

Isn't that cool? And so now that history through Dixie State University is gone.

Did they actually successfully grow cotton? So you know what the most famous, the documentary of the most famous Louisiana plantation that everybody should watch about is the movie Fletch Lives. You ever seen that one? So yes. So in Fletch Lives, know, he's a reporter for, know, the LA Times or whatever out in California.

No,

Speaker 2 (01:48:47.33)
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:48:59.406)
and he finds out that he has inherited a plantation down in southern Louisiana. And so he quits his job and goes down there. Well, when he arrives, the whole plantation is just dilapidated and falling apart and all that kind of stuff. But there's a there's a black guy still on staff because it's from his grandmothers or his great aunt or whoever he inherited from had him still on staff. And so he meets the he meets the the black guy that's taking care of the.

the property and he says, what's your name? And the black guy goes, calculus entropy. And, so Fletch introduced, goes, I'm trigger trigonometry Jones. And so then he steps on the porch and he fought and Fletch fall, know, Chevy chase, he falls through the porch and he says, goes, well, I'm about to go to town. He said, when I go to town, can you, can you fix this porch? And then when you're done with that, you can jump down, turn around, pick a bale of cotton. And, and so that's what.

And I think that you think about that, they'd never be able to make that movie today.

it.

Speaker 1 (01:50:02.828)
And as you're telling this story, sounds humorous. But there was like an independent channel in Atlanta. swear they had the rights to air maybe four or five movies. And Fletch Lives was one of them. And so I saw the previews for that thing probably 100 times in my childhood. And I never watched it. it could have come in handy today. I am so pissed that I didn't take two hours to watch this.

It's hilarious.

Speaker 3 (01:50:33.75)
I know everybody has their opinions about Chevy chase and Chevy chase movies, but Fletch lives is the greatest Chevy chase movie of all time.

Is it better than Funny Farm? heck yeah. If I love Funny Farm, are you telling me, well, I love the entire Fletch series? How many movies are there in the Fletch series? think there's two. just one. OK, so you think it's worth my time, huh?

Fletch Lives is brilliant. It's a masterpiece.

But what do you think about stripes? I love stripes. Yeah, it's great. Yeah. have to watch it again because the last time I watched it, was like, why did I think this was funny?

Yeah, I think I had the You didn't think it was? But it was a long time.

Speaker 2 (01:51:14.766)
First time, yes, but the second like 10 years ago, I watched it and I was like, why?

think I watched it because...

There are, are movies that don't hold up, especially in their comedic movies, but Fletch Lives is one of my must go to.

I felt like with Stripes it was like peer pressure. Like I feel like I watched it in college or something. I don't know.

Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:51:40.121)
I but other than that, I was like, why didn't I think this was funny? I don't

You were high when you watched it.

You know, strength is not what I go back to. I go back to Flesh Lives. I always go back to Napoleon Dynamite. I always go back to Dumb and Dumber. Yeah, Blazing Saddles is in that elite group of return to comedy films.

Yep.

Young Frankenstein, all of that.

Speaker 1 (01:52:10.35)
Let's I probably haven't seen half of those.

Lorenzi Hay.

It's Eiger. It's Frankenstein.

Let's see here. Gentlemen, I'm looking at the clock here. I don't want to get into something deep. Where's the bell? you know what I could do here? Hang on. Let's do this. We haven't done it.

This should be entertaining just to mix it up a little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:52:35.926)
I hate you so much bro. Don't laugh at him. You're only encouraging him. I don't appreciate that. I'm trying to find, yeah. Okay. We got to do this animal video. I'm sorry, but first of all, this dog is got a glove on and some, some, but it's not just the glove. Sometimes he doesn't need the glove. These dogs, man, it's a rubber. It's a, it's a, it's a slingshot. So in a slingshot is attached to the little glove and his paw.

and he pulls it back with his mouth, you gotta see. Wait, I don't want the music, gee.

So.

This isn't real.

Speaker 1 (01:53:13.888)
dog's no it's not watch this he puts it see that yeah it is because we've played a video before of a little dog doing this with balloons look at that he didn't even need look watch this

It's gonna do it.

Speaker 2 (01:53:20.206)
Not really.

Speaker 2 (01:53:26.926)
Ha

Speaker 3 (01:53:31.566)
This is not a high, right?

That is not real.

AI. No, it's totally real. The problem is the dog's name is Monkey. That's ruining it, honestly. Look at that, huh?

That is not real.

Speaker 2 (01:53:45.198)
shoots no. See, no, I just don't believe anything. I'll use it. Shoot, sling. Uh uh.

And you don't believe it.

I don't anymore. No, you're right. I don't

But see, he's got a thing on his glove. Like it's like a glove. Sometimes he uses that with his mouth, right? And sometimes like right here, he just shoots the thing. He doesn't have his glove with him. And I think the owner just leaves the camera rolling all day.

Good grief!

Speaker 2 (01:54:12.718)
The dog is doing this just sitting there by himself. Don't have anything else to guess. I'll get out the old slingshot and start shooting stuff.

I think he's just bored out of it.

Speaker 1 (01:54:21.346)
Yep, that's right.

Have you guys checked your phones yet?

Oh no, on. don't have to. Hold on, I want to play this. Hang on, I will in a second. Hang on, I want to play this. This guy, this bird, this big bird, not the big bird kids, it's okay. Big Bird's home didn't burn down, but a big bird's home burned down. He built this nest too close to the electrical lines. It caught fire, massive fire. The firefighters come out, they put out the fire. Meanwhile, the bird shows back up to his nest. He's got sticks in hand and he realizes life's work.

Go to Facebook.

Facebook and see what's on your phone.

Speaker 1 (01:54:56.33)
is a music. his life's work is is gone. Watch this. Okay, we gotta get your nest out of there. I'm sorry. And it falls down. Now there's nothing up there at all. Okay, we saved the day. No more fire up there. No more nest either bird shows back up with sticks in mouth and he goes, dear God, what what happened? Now this. Watch this.

Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:55:20.174)
I mean...

Speaker 1 (01:55:25.374)
Sorry, He didn't get a permit. See? That's what'll happen.

Bring mine up if you would, please.

Yeah, yeah, we've played this before. I don't think you were here, Brad, but yeah, little action.

How the hell? I just refuse to believe these dogs are that damn snob.

That's Matilda. no, I'm sorry. You said that damn smart. No, that's not Matilda. Look at it. He loves this stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:55:47.565)
Speaker 3 (01:55:51.532)
Wow.

No, that is not real. look at look no no no look it's got like chinese lettering over here

It's totally real, man.

Speaker 1 (01:56:00.538)
so it's not real. It's fake. so you're saying you can't trust the Chinese. Duh. All right. Hang on a second.

What am I looking at on Facebook?

he wants to see if your ads changed or anything.

Yeah, see if you're at some change on our based on our discussions today.

I don't have any, I don't think I have any ads.

Speaker 3 (01:56:23.352)
You do, do you do, I mean, if you've got Facebook, it's loaded with ads. Do you, you pay for some premium from Facebook.

On the app, don't show any.

You don't get ads on your personal face.

No, no, no, no, on. Here's one for Coast Flashlight.

I don't want the audio. I just want to watch Thirsty Cat. Look at the Crazy Ways Cat String, gentlemen.

Speaker 1 (01:56:53.262)
Okay, this guy look at that's a dumb cat right there. He's got water coming off of ears. This guy thinks no one can see him. This one's holding his head down. No, no, you drink. You drink. You drink. This guy just likes to drink like this. Okay, I don't know if he's on a treadmill. What are we doing here? This one doesn't realize where the water is. He's just dumb. That's a genius cat right there. There we go. Yeah. Okay, I don't know what's happening here. This guy's drinking out of a cup.

sure about the

I got AT &T Performing Arts Center on as an ad.

So yeah, it hasn't changed a pasty white chick yet. mean, I'm Asian chicks.

Not yet.

Speaker 1 (01:57:36.258)
What are your ads, Joe and Steve?

no, no, don't answer the question. What are your ads showing, Steve?

Speaker 3 (01:57:47.32)
Pasty white Asian chick.

see. Wait. Okay. There's a there's a space shuttle. No, I got pace setter homes DFW. Yeah, mine haven't changed. I I so rarely go to Facebook though.

Yep. I've only started trying. I've been actually I was recommended by our social media people at Blaze to start reengaging with Facebook again that the algorithms are being they're loosening them again from their reach restrictions, you know, back in the COVID days. Because they had destroyed me. mean, Facebook literally just I might as well have not even existed there with the number of followers I had versus

I just.

Speaker 3 (01:58:35.01)
my reach, was non-existent.

I want to show you. Sorry.

Well, it's a bunch of tards, too, though, is a problem over there on Facebook.

want to show y'all the ad that I got here. So I don't really use Facebook. have it because Pat's thing is on there. I don't even know why I have it because I don't do anything with Pat's Facebook. That's other people's. But the point is I do have it. Let me see if, what did we, let's just see if you guys are entertained by which ad popped up here. It's an Arby's ad, but pay attention. Hang on. Hang on. It's an Arby's ad.

Speaker 2 (01:59:16.855)
risk it.

Poor Harvey's head! What were we talking about earlier?

pulling our pork? What?

Barbecue

Speaker 1 (01:59:28.654)
Not quite. All right, before we go, let's see if you can answer this question from the, what is it, the Bullitt County, Kentucky, eighth grade test. Was it a final exam or something? Hell, I don't remember what it is anymore. All right. Can either of you guys define and tell me the difference between a copyright and a patent right?

Hmm words versus objects

Yeah. Inventions or patents.

Let's just read the answer here and let's see if you guys. Copyright is a legal concept enacted by most governments, giving the creator an original of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time. A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of the invention.

They're both intellectual property rights. Yeah. And they're protected. They're both constitutionally mandated to protect them. So one of them.

Speaker 2 (02:00:39.138)
I'm out of time.

So when did we start putting fluoride in the water? crap, we're at the two hour mark. I probably shouldn't go down this road. So be thinking about that for next time, I guess. I don't know. Because I feel like we could have answered these questions before fluoride.

Okay, Steve Baker available at theblaze.com where he is a writing machine. He's traveling in Florida right now on some major stories he's working on. can follow.

sometimes house calls if you want him to come over.

Is that right?

Speaker 3 (02:01:13.134)
Yeah, you're a pasty white Asian 21 year old.

at Steve Baker USA on X. There's at real Brad stags on X. He's also at the daily. I think we just interchange X and Twitter now. think that's where I am at.

There's

Speaker 2 (02:01:34.328)
So do you tweet or do you post?

tweet.

I'm with you.

They're twe-

still confused. I'm still confused. I still do but I do both.

Speaker 1 (02:01:44.172)
Yeah, it's just it's kind like caramel or. Caramel, it's just interchangeable. It's like whatever whatever mood I'm in. OK, so. There it is, yes, OK. Don't forget the FBI discussion we did yesterday. It's pinned to the top here. It's at the Mike show.com with Steve friend where we went to the Patel and Bongino interviews. Great stuff there. Next Thursday's deep dive 3 PM Eastern here on X. We're to have Ashton Forbes.

tomato and tomato.

Speaker 1 (02:02:11.65)
talking about technologies gatekeepers. is keeping all of that technology from us that he's been stumbled on for the last two or three years? Alien. I don't think it's aliens. I think it's closer to home. maybe the aliens are closer to home. my goodness. All right. And Five Times August will be here on Friday with us as well, hanging out with Brad and myself. Wow. So have a great weekend. Steve, get to Texas when you can, man.

You don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:02:39.724)
I'm going to try and get back as soon as I can. need to. miss it. I miss you guys. need to talk.

Aww, listen to that.

Yep, yep, we do.

Absolutely. are y'all gonna call and say good night tonight or is that not in the cards?

I'm just gonna sell.

Speaker 3 (02:02:53.262)
What time is it? Right. see it's five three here in the East Coast. So good night, guys.

Good night, good night Keith, good night Steve.

Bye, good night.

Thanks

Creep.