Speaker A:
Good morning.
Speaker A:
It's Haystack time for my favorite time of the week when we chat with my dear old friend Alabama Bama.
Speaker A:
She joins us on the phone now.
Speaker A:
And Bama, have you seen all the videos of these visitors from other countries here in America for the World Cup?
Speaker A:
And they're.
Speaker A:
They're showing off their experience of America for the first time.
Speaker B:
Oh, I've seen them, Haystack.
Speaker B:
And I told y' all this was a gonna happen.
Speaker B:
These Europeans are losing their minds over how great America is.
Speaker A:
Yeah, that's right, Bama.
Speaker A:
And what all is it that they're impressed by?
Speaker B:
Oh, everything, Haystack.
Speaker B:
I saw this one foreign feller in a Sam's Club on a TikTok staring at a giant package of meatballs and asking, who needs eight pounds of meatballs?
Speaker A:
Be fair.
Speaker A:
That's a fair question.
Speaker B:
And I said, well, nobody, but that's freedom.
Speaker A:
Yeah, yeah, of course you did.
Speaker B:
That's what they don't understand over there, Haystack.
Speaker B:
In America, we don't buy things because we need them.
Speaker B:
We buy things because we can.
Speaker A:
Well, yeah, I guess that's one interpretation of our consumer culture.
Speaker B:
I mean, who needs an Eiffel Tower when you can get tires, a birthday cake, and eye exam and rat poison all in the same building?
Speaker A:
Now, I don't think the French tourism board's gonna love that comparison.
Speaker B:
Oh, they'll get over it.
Speaker B:
Have you ever tried to buy a 55 gallon drum of mayonnaise in Paris?
Speaker B:
I rest my case.
Speaker A:
No, Bama, I've never tried that.
Speaker A:
No, I haven't.
Speaker B:
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker B:
America's full of beautiful sights.
Speaker B:
The Grand Canyon, Mount Rushmore, the seasonal aisle at Sam's Club.
Speaker A:
Well, one of those things is obviously not like the other.
Speaker B:
Well, that's what you say.
Speaker B:
I cried when I see them 12 foot skeleton decorations going up in July.
Speaker A:
Oh, really?
Speaker B:
Anyway, America's turning 250 years old and that is a big dad gum deal.
Speaker A:
Do you have any big plans for the celebration?
Speaker B:
Well, yeah, absolutely I do.
Speaker B:
In fact, I needs to go.
Speaker B:
It's time for my annual pre tattoo shave a thon.
Speaker A:
Wait, your what?
Speaker B:
Well, you can't properly celebrate freedom if the eagle's gonna look fuzzy, sugar.
Speaker A:
Oh, I don't even really know what that means, and I'm not sure I wanna know.
Speaker B:
Usa.
Speaker B:
Usa.
Speaker B:
Usa.
Speaker B:
I gotta get out here and come to tattoo shop.
Speaker B:
Y' all have a great day.
Speaker B:
Bye.
Speaker B:
Bye.
