Two bizarre stories collide in this episode of At The Mic Friday Happy Hour.

Host Keith Malinak is joined by returning fan-favorite guest hosts Kelly Smith and Brad Staggs for a wide-ranging and unpredictable conversation that moves from strange internet headlines to serious discussions about technology, education, and modern culture.

The discussion begins with classroom experiences and the growing impact of smartphones and digital distractions on students. From there, the panel explores ideas around learned helplessness, parenting, and how modern technology may be reshaping attention spans and behavior.

Along the way, the conversation drifts through politics, propaganda, and public opinion before diving into some of the internet’s strangest headlines. That includes reports about dolphins allegedly designing an underwater city with detailed blueprints—and another cautionary tale involving a hot air balloon and a very windy day.

As always with Friday Happy Hour, the discussion moves between humor, curiosity, and cultural commentary, covering everything from bizarre real estate listings to optical illusions and UFO mysteries.

CHAPTERS

1. 00:00 Friday Happy Hour Begins
2. 08:30 Teaching Kids in the Smartphone Era
3. 21:00 Learned Helplessness and Modern Parenting
4. 38:00 Politics, Propaganda, and Public Opinion
5. 43:40 The Strangest Houses in America
6. 51:15 Luxury Experiences That Make No Sense
7. 01:04:00 Dolphin City Blueprints and Gerald
8. 01:10:00 Optical Illusions That Break Your Brain
9. 01:19:00 UFO Mysteries and the Vanishing General
10. 01:34:00 Final Thoughts and Wrap Up

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Hey, hey, hey, welcome to this edition of At the Mic, the Friday live stream, the Friday happy hour. I honestly, don't even know what it's called, but it's Friday. That's the important part. Thanks for hanging out with us as always. And please take the time wherever you're enjoying this program. You're probably not enjoying it yet, but trust me, you will, Wherever you're watching this or listening, please do like, subscribe.

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We hung out for a little bit and then we had Ward Clark telling us all about Alaska. That was the Wild Card Wednesday. So a lot of things for you to choose from when you're sharing this. No pressure though. Okay. It has been, and I'm going to go ahead and ruin it. It's been a while since we've had a full house here with all my friends hanging out with you and me. And today it doesn't appear that it's going to be that way. If that changes, I'll let you know. And now you're wondering.

Okay, so who's not going to be here? Who is it? Okay, well, let me get right to that. First up, I'm going to bring Kelly in here. Hi. Hi, hi. And that's awesome because it's been a while. I think it's been maybe a month. I think so. It's been too long. We've been cooking up some stuff over here. you have stayed busy. That's for sure.

you can update us on all of that. know what you were doing this time last week, and we're going to talk about that momentarily. So now if people wanted to donate to your cause, I don't have your profile on page up here. Like, do you have a Venmo or a Buy Me a Coffee? You should probably put something like that. Why can't you print mine out? Why does Brad's get a printout? Well, you never sent yours. What do you got, a Venmo code or something? That is true.

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Well, hold on a second. Let me get Brad in here. Because Brad, I've lost your code. What in the? What in the heck is this over here?

Brad Staggs (13:08.078)

I'm eating my honey.

I'd be honey. It's orange honey. This is a orange honey. It's orange blossom honey. And you're really good.

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This is from Lizzie.

I mean, raw dog in it just. I am.

because that's the way I roll. That is the way I roll. That's why you like me.

I mean, it's not going to spike your blood sugar, I know I said it's not. Where is Lizzy B honey available?

It's not.

Not cause it's honey.

Lizzy B sent it to me. Lizzy B and Sal, they are in California and they, cause I was having problem with my honey here. it was, like too thick. My honey thickened up.

You need to listen that honey.

And the honey needed so and I was just having trouble so they sent me more honey and now I can't read this because it's too damn small but it is fabulous honey. It really is. It's good honey.

So a week ago, you were setting your building on fire. Your studio was on fire. think it was like a four alarm fire.

It was three alarm. don't think it rose to the occasion of four, but it was a three. Nothing is at the moment on fire. I've contained all the fire just in one in one single box. So we only have the one box. fire. Yeah. So

Everything okay now or what happened there?

How would one go about having their own box-o-fire?

You just become one the top tier supporters of the daily mojo at the daily mojo.com and when you

hell was in that honey, bro? The Daily Mojo.

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So high right now is, it's, it's the best when I get high off honey. It's, always ends up, you know, something good happens when I get high from the honey. Yes, you may. You can, but Keith Keith is going to have to get back in my good graces before he gets to, lick any of the honey. I think you know what you did.

Can I get one honey?

Bye you bogos!

I don't know that I do. I'm trying to find, Ken, are you able to get the thumbnail for today's show here? Because I want to point out some things. Great job, as always, by Wes. That's hero Wes to you. You should follow him. Hero Wes. Let me get the cool graphic here, because I love this. I'm proud of myself for no longer doing the piece of paper. I can't get, Gabby.

I think you did.

you right out of that you rose out of the Tardom

to show up on the same line. have no, I have. her, Gabby deserves her own line. I've tried. I have tried this. It's, let me try something here. on.

Kelly looking down on us all, I think, which is kind of, it's an odd angle, you it's a good question. I think we all.

Everyone should be one down there

What to do?

That's best I could do. had to little dot ellipses in. So Gabby at Jeffy Apologist on X, she runs the Instagram page. And then of course Wes, there you go. Follow both of those fine people. okay, what I wanted to... What is? I'm just trying to find the thumbnail.

Keep still,

know what happens if you mix honey with sawdust?

You got a hell of a mess. got a... You just say an erection?

So here is an infection.

What?

I heard erection and Keith heard erection.

I didn't hear Jack shit. OK, I want to point this out here. This is the thumbnail that Wes put together. I guess Kelly is taking our order. Taking our order. don't know.

And I don't know when she's up on top of us.

We're watching something up here. But look at the big board there. I actually talked to Rebecca this morning at 4 AM Central. She was in Brussels stuck at the airport trying to get back to Norway. And she did make it back in time. OK. I can report that she safely made it after multiple delays. She just walked in. And she has to see her little Viking baby.

She just didn't want to talk to us.

She's got to spend time with the little girl that she left in Oslo.

How long is she gonna use that excuse?

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So anyway, so she might join us I just I don't want to make any promises but there you go So she's back safely in Norway and join us. Maybe she won't I have no idea honestly, hmm, every time huh You were sick on Wednesday. So we didn't do the Wednesday or the what? Yeah, okay, so you got pounded in the head

What was it like a sinus thing going on?

I think I just didn't have enough honey

Okay, see? Hey, before I forget, and I will wait patiently while you guys write yourselves notes, you need to email me your QR codes so that I can hold them up for people to donate. Or Kelly, just put it in your profile. Brad's got it in his profile. It's mine. We love the tips around here. That's what she said. So anybody wants to donate, we won't be upset by that.

It all comes back to honey in the end.

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started. That's all I'm going to say. did not start it. I didn't start the fire.

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Yeah, you did last week at this time.

that's good point. Actually, I didn't start it. Something started it, but it wasn't me.

So I want to show everyone what Kelly was doing a week ago. That's I was not here. This is a tweet of yours from last week. Hold on. Let's stop. Stop. Hang on. You're a teacher, right? I was stubbing. Yes, I was stubbing. First of all, can we put the apostrophe in Y, it should be Y apostrophe A-L-L. And you know this. You can't tell me what to do.

Why? Because it's two words, you all. It is two words. And there should be an apostrophe there. So that's the first problem. But what are these weird looking hieroglyphic thingies up here? What's happening? My kids, I've been studying at my kid's school, which is a little teeny tiny private Christian school, and they still teach cursive. And I posted that, and everybody clocked it. I didn't even think about it, because that's what they do. But everybody's like, oh my god, your school teaches cursive, and it's still there. That's good.

you left off the first part of that letter? L-M-N-O.

yeah, what happened to the-

You left off that part of the letter element

I think it's over there. yeah, if you want to be able to have your kids read the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, it might be important for them to learn how to read it. Yes.

Wow, are you still stuck on those relics?

So I want to show you this here, another tweet during the day. guess when you're substitute teaching, you get to what? You get to tweet too? have the whole class doing wall sits and hollow holds. did. They told me it's the best day ever. So I want you, can you demonstrate a wall sit and a hollow hold here on the show or what? I mean, I'd have to get on the ground, you know?

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So a wall sit is you. Yeah, I know what a wall sit is. Okay. then I think it's not like you're, it's like you're sitting. Yeah. You know what? Demonstrate. I think you're sitting in a chair, but there's not a chair, right? I'm sitting. Yes. You're sitting in a chair, get your back against the wall. Legs are 90 degrees and you just have to sit there. I made him do it for a minute. I mean, my trainer makes me do it for like five. Are they crying or anything? No, they loved it. This teacher like

She uses, she's my, one of my sons had her last year and she's wonderful. But she uses like the bead system, you know, like if you're good, you get a bead. If you're bad, like you take away a bead. You have two beads here. And it was a bunch of boys, you know, and I have boys and I'm like, boys just need to move. Like they need like exercise. And they were getting in trouble because they kept telling each other to shut up, which is a very bad word in Lutheran school. And so finally I was like, all right, next person that says shut up has got to give me 10 burpees. And they were like,

Shut up, shut up, shut up.

Shut up, up!

So here's a question and and I'm not asking you to throw anybody under the you know what I'm not ask. I'm not gonna ask. Okay. know what? Let me ask you this too soon. Ask me. Let me ask you. this this teacher you sub for. Yes. do you think she would ever have the kids doing exercises in her classroom? Probably not.

in front of the train.

Okay.

just wondered. So they're probably out of shape. Do they have gym class still? I don't know. They do have gym class. And we just got a new gym teacher. And he is retired from the army. Kids, but and they love it. I want to ask you about this here tweet. Right now you're teaching them, quote, am I being detained? Come back with a warrant. How'd that go? One of the kids, they were messing around with each other. And somebody said to somebody else, like, I'm calling the police.

I'm kicking those. Love it.

And so I said, are you, are my being detained? That's awesome. I'm glad somebody's teaching them the civil I haven't gotten any parent calls yet.

time.

Ha

Thank you.

You need to get him one of those Those things right there. No, it's the well that too, but one of those little

What?

That's kind of like a wall sit. Hang on a second. cheating. What was the other thing? It was the hold whatever? What was the Hollow hold. What is a hollow hold? demonstrates. Yeah, you sit on the ground and legs up and then arms up and you hold it like for minute. I'll need to do 30 seconds because those are really hard. I just didn't know it had a name. thought it was just... hold. Get on the floor and...

Get on the floor!

Arms and legs up, The girls did that one. They didn't like the burpees and the push-ups and the wall sits. The girls did the whole thing. Are kids like completely out of shape these days or is there there? Not in our school. There's only a handful of non-injured kids.

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At the school.

Which is surprising. That's good. So you probably don't have to deal, being a substitute teacher, you probably don't have to deal with unruly parents or complaints too much, right? Because you're just in and out. You're everybody's best friend. That is above my pay grade. Yes. We small things. So this came up in my feed here. This is a teacher. And I think this must be her shtick, because look, it's part 24. The account is Board Teachers.

And she has a lot of videos over here. And so this is the one that popped up for me. And it's Teacher Response to Ridiculous Parent Requests, Part 24. I don't know if we want to do the whole 3 and 1.5 minutes, but I thought a couple of these were very funny. Is this ridiculous? First of all, there's Kelly. Hi, Brian. Hi, best friend. OK, hang on.

My best friend!

This is

That is me!

A MISFREE!

is ridiculous. Pan recor- I was given a 10 pound sack of unwashed raw potatoes and the parent said that was their child's lunch for the next month and I need to peel and cook them each day. Get out of my face. Right.

So she's reading stuff that other teachers have sent in. So some teacher is telling her that a parent dropped off her kid with a 10 pound bag of fit.

response other than to be rude. Because get out of my face. No. Motherfuck. You can't hand me anything. I'm not going to put my hands up to even receive it. So, you I'm just going to be standing there looking goofy holding a 10 pound sack of potatoes. And why did you just feed your child potatoes for lunch each day? You need to talk. Oh no. Oh no.

What? Read it, read it, us! no! Just say it!

I threw a retainer. By the time we noticed the frontier garbage had been taken out and the parent asked me to dumpster dive for it and threatened to sue me for the cost of a new retainer if I didn't find it.

Slow agar! Yeah!

Why you ask your child to dump so that we wouldn't have let her but why was I the go-to when your child threw her retainer?

Good question.

You know kids, we forget stuff. Jonathan stuck a paperclip up his nose and there wasn't time to get it out before the bus came. Can you please use the tweezers in his coat pocket to remove it before class? You'll find it in the nostril to your left, his right. Since you have given such great detailed instructions, let me give you some detailed instructions. Take him to the ER. I will be sending him back home. Prompt. You how many times my friends threw their retainers away?

Yeah,

It happens every day.

Yeah, and you know how many kids shove vitamins, namely Flintstones vitamins, namely Barney Rubble shaped Flintstones vitamins up their nose? I know it's a little specific, probably because that was me. What color was it? they did end up at the ER. I don't recall. Probably red. But I don't recall. So anyway, I did end up at the hospital. I got to ask my mom. I feel like the doctor said it'll dissolve or something. I don't know. my god.

How'd you do it?

dumb kid, kid. still there. It's probably still there. Hold on, that actually explains so much.

That's why I laugh like Bernie Rubble

I am!

dirty work.

Who you sent that baby to school? Paperclip? mean, no!

was that?

You saw the paper clip and was like, get out of my One of my students entered himself during recess. I sent him to the nurse and called mom. The mom asked that I softly blow on her kids' boo boo until she was able to get there. Nah, you're gonna have a cold boo boo until you get there. gonna blow on it. And y'all be giving some specific instructions.

Hi even Where the paperclip come from?

I should teach her a pulling out at school.

Woo!

You softly blow on my chest booboo and play some soft light classical music and massage that

No, no. Mother said her son was getting erections in church and asked me if he was getting them in class.

I don't know! I don't even want to ask about some of the awkward moments that you've had to deal with, I I'm on the PTA, so I do hear some stuff, but most part people leave me alone. Good, PTA? I'm the head of the social committee.

You're on the what? PTA.

Okay.

you

Wait, so hold on, hold on a second. Now I'm thinking of the office episode. Where they, it's the committee for somebody, somebody will remember it's the committee for. No, I.

The itty bitty committee.

I want to show you all this. If you ever wonder how our society gets to where it is, this video here shows how easy one can induce learned helplessness in people. This is fascinating right here.

anagrams. Just do the fir and solve in an anagram letters to

All right.

Okay. All right. We'll wait. up, You got him?

This isn't meant to be difficult. Put your hands down. Let's just go to two. Number two, solve that one again. When you're done, I'm

Number two.

to see your. Wow look at that they got it done. What's second one. What's going on over here. What happened over there.

Okay.

Go ahead and do number three. For number three, rearrange the letters and as soon as you do, go ahead and put your hand up.

Hand up, all right.

happening over there though.

Here's what you need to know. You're both getting two different lips. This side of the room was given these three words and left side of the room. Here you go. They were given that. What would the word be? The second one, they were given lemon. Brian, the word melon. Very easy. The trick here was both of you were given the third word, which was the same. The third word was Cinerama, which was American.

Yeah.

Melon.

American, your first two words on this side of my classroom were not solvable. They were impossible tasks. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I know. But here...

So she gave him crazy jargon for first and second words on that side.

I was able to induce something called learned helplessness in the left side of the room.

All right,

In about five minutes. I want you to think about what happened to you this left side of the room when you saw the right side of the room raising their hands because they already had the task done. What happened to you during that time? You felt stupid? Felt rushed? You're even more confused because they all got it and you were still struggling. Frustrated.

Jory!

what happened by the time you got to the third word because i'm here to tell you this side of the room is not significantly more intelligent than this side the room that was a random assignment so what happened to show the differences why did you have more of a difficult time with the third word which was the exact same word brian

Yeah, they are.

My confidence was shot.

What you experienced was a term called learned helplessness. How many have heard of the term before? missing your hands. Learned helplessness is often used in the academic literature to mean what? Jordan?

Basically, once or can't do something one time and then add up to everything in the future.

They are.

Thank

This is alright so their quitters after that they they they realize man I'm dumb I shouldn't I don't know man. It like when I was in high school.

you

Who was that?

It may-

That's abuse now.

I

There'd be lawsuits fly in and PTSD and yeah, support puppy.

You need a safe space. Emotional support penguin. I want a support puppy. You know, the support puppy that Zealy has is just a holy terror.

I wanna support Penguin.

Have you ever touched a penguin?

No. I've tried. Okay, hold on. I got questions now.

Well, wait a second. But a penguin is not when you touch it, it's surprisingly not what you thought it was going to be. Yes, but it's hairy because that's fur. They're not slippery like a seal.

You think it's rubbery and stuff?

Isn't it feathers? It's not feathers? How did we get to penguins though? How to penguins? Emotional support penguins.

was hair.

somebody said emotional support penguin that reminded me of touching a penguin.

It's a joke that we have in real estate, like especially the Austin market. When you start off, like you do a bunch of leases and stuff and everybody in Austin has an emotional support, fill in the blank. Peacock, like whatever, it's emotional animals. Austin is like.

Sorry, what?

What was the second? Did you hear that too?

I heard, here's what I heard. I heard an emotional support, then the audio dropped off and then cock came back up. Peacock! my god!

Yes it did.

What'd

It was easy. Something cock.

I didn't know my audio dropped, but that's really funny. Yeah, totally dropped. Yeah, so that was so anyway that that was an interesting social experiment right there and I think that can apply. Yes, that's how we got there. We got there because of years of being set up like that. I have this story here that talks about the last 20 years. Well, I think it's the state of Maine.

Take your books, all your books home.

Next thing you know, your zipper's breaking on your backpack and you're carrying a couple books in your hands and then you're hanging onto your bag. It's very traumatic and it's an experience that lasts a lifetime in your brain, So anyway, you're at home, you're like, where is that beak? So what they have discovered, there's some fascinating information in this story that I will lose Brad on if I try to read all of it.

emotional peacock when you get home?

I'm

I mean, let me know when we go when the show starts.

Dear God. So in 2024 alone, the US spent more than $30 billion putting laptops and tablets in schools. mean, books were pretty much obsolete in many places. And so what they have determined in this, in some places like Maine, 25 years of moving away from books almost entirely, they've discovered that Gen Z will now have to face the ramifications of eroding learning capabilities.

The generation has already been hit hard by transformations of the 21st century's other technological revolution, AI, COVID, thank you very much, as I was also factor in. they're the first dumber generation than the ones before, which I don't know how they're measuring that.

I just look at them. All their eyes are too close together. Yeah.

the two, wait, is that right? Like an evolution thing going on? mean, I could just from the days that I've subbed, like there are certain kids would like get sucked into it. Like I had a couple kids I had to like physically go take the iPad away from that. that's what this Yep, it's they were not present. Like I'm like, all right, guys, like time to put it up. Like we're moving on to x, y, z.

minute

So what they're saying is if you put a tablet or something in front of a kid for lessons, two thirds of the time that they're studying or doing an assignment, they get distracted by something else on this electronic. It could be anything. It could be solitaire. I don't know. It could be an email. Who knows? Whatever. But if they're using these electronics, then two thirds of the time, they're being completely distracted by something other than the

So.

What they're supposed to be doing and let me reach down there and grab grab his linky light

That wasn't my blank.

You like-

What is in that honey? Did you want us to tell you when the show starts?

Okay here we go here we go everybody ready here we go and three two one welcome to this edition of ask the mic I'm your host Keith Malinak look it's Kelly and Brad

Good to be here. I love this show. I don't miss an episode of this. I love.

running.

the You know what? Before we get the first thing I want to start with as we're just now starting. We're just now starting the show because that's what we do. We started it. Yeah. Twenty-six after. Twenty-six. Yeah. Not many shows do that. Not many. Do remember when Ted Turner and TBS used to start at 05 and 35? It's a good idea.

It's a time to start.

Yeah, it's a good idea because it's a good idea

No, no, actually a good idea would be to start at 55 or 25. Because then you hook the audience before they go to these other shows to start at zero and 30. Ted Turner should have started at 55 and 25. Not 05 and 30.

How's your network doing?

Wait, what?

Well, how much did Ted Turner sell his network for?

I mean, it was a lot of money, right? So his plan apparently worked.

Yeah, so I will say that the Braves would start at 740 when I was a kid. She got a five minute pregame show and I think the rest of league was starting at 35.

Right. And you remember it.

Just saying that we can poop on it all we want.

I'm pooping on nothing.

We can penguin poop on it, but it works.

Ted Turner, 0-1-1 as a Major League Baseball manager for the.

I need to keep swinging this way because I'm not centered in your little

Who tested for ADHD? Who are you talking to?

So high.

Who do you think?

Okay, so I stumbled upon this story. I think it's hilarious. It's dated 2022, but listen to the headline. Junior's Bluey causing children to develop Australian accents. That is hilarious. That is- Happened to one of my kids during COVID. They started talking in Australia? It wasn't Bluey, it was Peppa Pig. They went through a Peppa Pig thing.

A pig has an Australian accent?

British, British. And my two year old started having a British accent. He would ask me for water. my god, you were born in Georgetown, Texas. Like, we're not in water. no. Water. We'll get you a shiner. That is

Yeah, bear.

Okay, didn't realize this was a thing. I didn't see this till it was now. Listen to this, another beloved children's cartoon, Peppa Pig has caused many American children to pick up British accents. Did he grow out of that? He did grow. We turned it off for a little while. His accent went away. Funny. That's good.

That, by dialectal, that's, that's the word I was, cause when you said that, I was thinking it made me think of Jillian Anderson.

by dialectum.

And I didn't know there was a word for it, but. X-Files? From X-Files. She will, depending on where she's doing the interview, her accent comes and goes. Let's see if she's.

What does that mean?

I hate it when that

I it's all of it. mean, I wasn't really that interested in doing television at the time, but the script, the adaptation by Andrew Davies was so extraordinary that I kind of couldn't not.

I think it's horseshit, personally. I think she's making it up. Well, but because she

Hold on.

I think she was born. Was she born in England or was she born here?

This is like the Baldwin wife that got cooked about. Yeah.

Hilaria. Hilaria. She does that except she's absolutely full of shit. And because she was on the Today Show that one time going, how do you say it in English? Cucumber. Yeah, exactly.

She was born in Jersey or something. Julian Anderson was born in Chicago. He was in England when he was a kid, from two to 11. And then he lived in Puerto Rico, and then she grew up in Michigan.

Right. So yes, I heard when I first, cause the, the accent thing, then maybe she was one of the first to ever get, uh, what'd you call it? Keith? there a word for it when they get sucked into the different accents? No. Or maybe it was, I looked over here, maybe it's by, what did I say it was? Maybe I say it was something to buy by, by Dick tutorial.

Bye, dick.

I had no money and I was trying to audition as an actress and you know it's hard. think it's all of it. I wasn't really that interested in doing television at the time but the script, the adaptation by Andrew Davies was so extraordinary. Of sorts.

It's so extraordinary. And I thought I went back as a way. Yeah. Cause I looked at, was aware. She born. I think she's either absolutely full of shit or it's a thing that you do. Cause I'll get, if we go to Mexico, I get, I'll start talking Mexican. Don't you ever talk Mexican?

So my dad's from Wisconsin, but he's lived here for forever. When he goes up there and visits his brother and comes back, he talks like a Yankee. He's like, you went to Chicago, Wisconsin, and I'm like, I wanna hear Brad speak Mexican.

Hey, Vato, how you doing, man? How you doing, man? You gonna hang out down around the corner? Hey, you wanna buy some good weed?

I like I'm in a town now.

That's kind of weird.

that's the one one one one

Do-Jour.

Which one? Which one do you think I'm going to talk about? I'm going to ask you about Iran. I don't want to spend, like I said, the whole show here. But I put a poll up. And the question is,

Bum bum bum bummering

I was gonna do your backup, but you you decided to do both. You want to start it over?

You're not doing anything.

But you know, it's because you bailed too soon. No. No, it's bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, Moran. Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb.

You're a beat off though.

Bye.

I can't I've never been good at doing harmonies cuz I stop whatever whoever's singing next I end up singing with them as I lose my place

Gave up too early both times

It's the honey. What is in the freaking honey,

Bees-ness.

Hold on. there really anything to that when you say not Dutch Nays? No, no. The question is, the local honey better for you than if you get it from 10 states away or whatever?

Ew.

It's supposed to help you with your allergies and stuff,

that exposes you to the local allergens.

But I've heard that that's, that's kind of like Jillian's and Jillian Anderson's accent. I've heard, but I don't know. So, but I'm going with it.

Okay, thank you.

Stop watching Peppa Pig. OK. What is your timetable on US involvement in Iran? So oops, I should have zoomed this out a little bit. So here we go. Right now, stop. No more US and Iran. Just pull the plug right now. We're at 15%. I'm good with four or five weeks. That was the original timetable that the president gave. That's about 44%. OK. I'm good with 100 days. That seems to be the latest that they're floating out there for timelines.

18 % and then as long as it takes, which is now the most recent timeline. We've gone through all of these, by the way, just in the course of six days. We're now at 23%, say. So one in five Americans, maybe about one in four, or at least voters in this poll, as long as it takes. Do you want to tell me what your timetable is, anyone? I was about 15%. I'm in the out now. Get out now? Okay, very well, Brad.

Do the job, get the job, get her done. Do it right. Do it until the, well, the, the Iranian people need to step up as far as time. I don't know how you put a timetable on that, the, the rainy, the Iranian people who don't want the, the theological or the theologian government, the theocracy, they want, Western or at least the people I've talked to that have family in Iran.

So what is that?

I understand.

They don't want the wacky, religious zealots in there, but they need to step up.

Right, so here's the question. For 47 years, I think that they've been owed some return fire from the United States ever since the embassy was taken over. But here's my question then. Can you look this up, Brad? When, and I have no idea what the answer to this is. When was the Iranian population disarmed? Like I wonder if, like, I don't know, because I know that there's gun ownership.

is very, very rare there. You have to get a permit, and even then, it's rarely approved. I just wonder, how long has it been since individuals have?

information regarding strict outlining of civilian guns in Iran not tied to a single historical date rather to a tightening of policies following the 1979 Islamic revolution.

okay. Isn't that interesting how the tyrants come to power and then they make it even more difficult?

But remember we were involved in putting the Shaw in power. It goes so far back.

far back do want to go do you want 1978 leadership or 1952 leadership we've been

fucking around with other governments for so long we don't know how to not do it.

we are responsible in one way or another for so many of the ills that we, it's like, you know what it is? It's just like domestic policy. Government creates a problem and then they say, look, but we have the solution. It actually makes it worse. I just pray to God this time is differently, it goes differently. And I don't know. We were lied to so much to get into Iraq.

Will it?

And and the way that Rubio was kind of dancing earlier this week on imminent threat and stuff. It's just like they're God guys.

We cannot we cannot allow them to have a nuclear weapon

I agree, I agree, but but

And I don't want to be the world's police either.

I know that's tough, that's why I'm not president.

Somebody has to, to, I wish it wasn't us, but do you trust China or Russia to do it? Cause I don't.

Okay, well this lady here, yeah, I hear you. Absolutely. This lady right here needs to be given a job in government because she's a Vietnamese grandmother, okay? And I surmise that the guy recording is her grandson and left leaning. And then he asks her about this Iran thing and check out to how she responds.

really? Hawaii, what do you think about Donald Trump? I love Donald Trump. He's strong. He's strong. He said he do it, he do it. Yeah, you don't like him? No, I voted for Joe Biden. You're crazy! Never voted for And then I voted for Kamala. Never voted for Dan McPenney? No one. They assholes. You don't like Kamala?

Said he'd do it, he'll do it.

You

Ha

You

Okay, I love this. mean, this is this is great analysis because she says, no, never over Democrat, they asshole. And then she's. they asshole. Kamala cuckoo. But I want to point out something here. Watch how her demeanor changes when she finds out. I obviously he's goading her on here. But I love just watch. She's holding the chopsticks or something there. And then watch how.

asshole

when she gets angry at what he says, watch how her grip changes on these guys. Just watch her right hand.

Why what do you think about Donald? No, I voted for Joe Biden You don't like Kamala

I've done.

Yeah.

smarter than her. Oh my god. So my best friend is Vietnamese and her parents, they're the same. They were the biggest Trump supporters. They came over, they fled the war on a shrimp boat as teenagers. Yeah. They're just like, fuck the communists. She loves me lot. But they're the same way. Eastern Europeans, Vietnamese, those that have lived under oppression within the last couple of generations.

Does she love you long time? Long time.

We've got it's Iran as well that come out of this free and with a healthy respect for freedom much more, much more than the students that are going through our school system.

That's also why the the the propaganda because you mentioned here remember how he brought up the propaganda that we were that was being thrown around in the world and then was it 2012 that Obama got in there and dicked around with a Smith month act and then we all get lied to yeah and that's why those things are so important that's not sexy because it doesn't there's nothing

Right. It's not something you can explain in just a couple of sentences. think the best way to say is that government propaganda is totally acceptable now.

Yep.

You're going to pay for it. Did you see, I think it was yesterday, Fox was tweeting out, among MAGA supporters, Trump's approval rating is at 98%. It's 86 % of Republicans. And this is the historic high for your own party on the second year of your second term. Can you figure out that one? I don't know how long they've been doing polls of

second terms because i think the first polling went back to was it kennedy ish time so anyway he obviously didn't make it to a second term thank you

Remember what polls are for.

I don't know. Stripper.

to

Well, no, they're for two and four.

Did you all see the house that I tweeted out the other day with the strong wind?

You get the best houses. Did you ever sell the bed?

No, they took that off the markets. So if folks have missed this, and by the way, by the way, go to the, atmshow.com, go to the Thursday deep dive, the blue section, and find Operation Gladio and conversations that I've had with the. On that, and you'll see how America has messed around the world for centuries, quite frankly.

Curse action.

Myself another drink hang on. I'll be right back. You don't you don't up you keep it going. I'll myself another drink. I'll be right back

Stop.

Be back in 18 minutes. Drink a honey. Drink a honey. What are we doing? Wait, stop. What happened? What is happening back there? Am I pouring drinks on y'all? Why am I standing over you? OK. So he has obviously altered that. At least I'm not getting waterboarded this time. OK, now I see what he keeps alluding to. Let me OK, hang on.

You look good up there. Now I see it. He's sneaky. Now he's very sneaky. me let me work on zooming in on that here. Hang on. me one second here. Hang on. It's just gonna take me. No, no. Cause she's not here today. No, no. Hang on. Hang on. Oh gosh. He is impossible. He's a little bit smarter than we give him credit for. Look at this. Here we go. Here we go. Can you see that? I zoomed in as best I could.

Thank

Thank

Okay, so anyway, there you go. Yes, you're standing over and Brad's looking okay. That's good stuff. Alrighty. What was I saying there? I don't even know anymore. you're a real estate agent and people don't realize this. And there was a bed that we've talked about in the past in a house that you were trying to sell that was chained to the ceiling. It was kind of like rock a little bit. it was like a swinging bed and add a little stain on it. It was really gross, but it was so out of place.

Brown.

Yeah

Yeah, nothing.

Yeah, you did. I've seen some weird things in houses, man. I love it. Yesterday I tweeted out, I was looking for a client. Um, hold Let me find the picture. It was, it was a Jacuzzi bathtub in the floor surrounded by carpets, wall mirror, chairs looking at it. was amazing. Hang on.

with them.

I'm trying to find your... Why do we have to type out some handles like every letter? Like, why can't I just... Because if I go to your pages a lot, it should auto complete. I should have to type out real Brad Staggs to Here, I'm sending you the tweet right now. I'll text it to you. I should just type in real...

Be also in my town, which makes me like y'all would never guess like how freaky your neighbors live sometimes. Hold on. I feel like a bad neighbor. Actually, I gotta tell you something that happened.

State Farm is there.

this. Look at that. There's a house you're selling. It's an in-ground. Look that. Look at, just look at it. With the chairs. Why are, are, Is this carpet? That is carpet. Wait, into the bathtub? Into the Jacuzzi jetted bathtub. a, that's a mirrored wall right there. So the chairs are on the other side facing the bathtub.

direct from 1976.

Like how much cocaine was done in there? Yeah, right. Right. OK, so tell me if I'm a bad neighbor. You're a bad neighbor. That's fair. OK, so I hadn't prepped at all for today's until you got an email from me about five minutes before we went on. So I preface this to say that I was looking out for the greater good of the show, you see. But I was about, I had stopped somewhere 10 minutes out.

And on the neighborhood post whatever, it listed an address in the neighborhood. And it said, hey, two weeks ago, it's part of the neighborhood I'm never in. And so I hadn't seen this. But it said two weeks ago, roughly, a mailbox got knocked over. Like somebody must have hit it and knocked it over. This happens all the time, distracted drivers, probably in your neighborhood. don't know. But the person said, I haven't seen this neighbor in those two weeks. And nothing has been done. And the bricks are just laying there.

in their front yard. I wonder if we should go check on them. And I thought, you know what, I got a little time. no, I don't because I haven't done any show prep yet. somebody. Somebody will check on them. But I did like an a hole. did drive by the house. yeah. I'll be damn there's the there's some bricks anyway, and I just kept going. So

Probably old people that don't can't get out and don't have the strength to pick up the bricks and you're just laughing at them.

I'm not laughing at anyone. I'm just saying, should I have stopped and knocked on the door and been like, you guys like it? Got some bread? I didn't know what I was going to say. it, hey, is there mail still in the mailbox? We're just checking on you because you're either dead or a lazy SOB. I didn't know what to say.

like you like.

How about for 20 bucks, I'll pick them up.

That's not neighborly at all.

It is, usually you charge 40.

My kids would do it for Skittles. Now, I promise you all, if there's an update, whether good or bad, you know what? I'll check right now. I will share it with this door is the nosiest app ever. I love it. It's so nosy. Let me check here. Hang on. Let me just go to my neighborhood here. see. Let me just scroll on down here. See if there, gosh, I do not know how to operate this site at all. Hang on. Hang on.

Y'all bear with me because this is totally riveting. know. look at this. Four new posts here. Let's just see here. This man. Okay, so this has happened since this man just walked in our front door. Wait, what? I don't

What?

The empathy suite at the Palms is 150,000.

Okay, here we go. Let's see if the here we go. Listen to this. So somebody posted this five hours ago, and Nora, there's like a dozen comments underneath it. There's only two. And it's from the same lady and she says, you can call for a well check. Like we can't just knock on our says the guy who drove by on something and she goes, Has anyone knocked on their door? And somebody gave a thumbs up. But nobody ever said I will. You know what? I'll go over there after this.

So

to happen, but I don't want to be the one. Two weeks, it doesn't matter if I stopped over there at noon or four. So if something bad is happening in there, I'll check off my conscience. Now I put it out there. I'll them. Actually, there's what I'll do. I'll live stream it. Huh? Hey, neighbor. then my phone will be hanging around on like a like a come out like with a shotgun.

my gosh. I bet the inside of their house looks like that. What's wrong, Brad? What are we looking at?

they come out in the town.

Hahaha

Keith Malinak (01:00:26.19)

We have a

It would have been, it would have been nice. I mean, if they, if they look good in a towel.

I just said if she they look good in a towel and they're 90.

Mm.

Looking good is looking good. It doesn't matter if you're 90 or blue.

Looking good is looking good. can write that one. is true. Yeah, looking good. Write it down. Is looking good. That's what my tramp stamp says.

I'm trying that's good. I'm going to write that down.

Mine too that is so we got a man looking good is looking good You have to say it like that, I Did find the empathy sweet for you though?

It's a furniture and textiles that incorporate her signature spin designs, butterfly and pharmacy motifs to large scale works of art, including a large pill cabinet filled with diamonds. It is the this is the empathy suite at the Palms Hotel in Vegas and it's 100 grand a night.

Accommodations in this extraordinary suite also involved an exclusive guest experience while at the property including 24-hour butler service over-the-top welcome amenities a private behind-the-scenes art tour of the suite and a chauffeured car service throughout the state also better be a handjob in there some included I mean like on your car. Yeah

Yeah, of course.

washing the car. Palm's property such as the Chaos Day Club and Night Club, the Pearl Concert Theater, the Palm's world-class recording studio, and a $10,000 credit to utilize at the resort. Yep, it seems pretty great to us too. Huh? Whoa!

Check it out!

This was awesome!

Is that those drugs or soap?

It was a cat go back like two seconds. It was like a whole now. know why it's a hundred grand a night. We can save your life Keep going back because it was like I swear to god I saw a plan B on there There are there's some gaviscon, maybe I didn't see plan B

Holy crap. Holy no.

You did? Wait.

What's methamamic acid.

I don't know.

It's probably when you're hunting. Check it out. All those. What is that? That's a art. That's just art. However, somebody break somebody can break that glass and go to town. I'm paying $100,000, I'm breaking that glass. We're having some pills.

Look at him! No!

I'm nothing in it

No.

We are having some pills.

There we go a little pork asset, what does that say?

I don't know. says aspirin. There's there's a nephazole. What is that anti anxiety?

Where's the one with the dolphin on it that's blue? my gosh. have to, before you go, I have to read a story about dolphins. Because panic attack with a dolphin. First of all, dolphins, they're, they're the horniest animals there are, right? There are. Yeah. Okay. Well, thankfully, thankfully, that's not a part of this story. I probably wouldn't, wouldn't bring it to the show.

their whole.

But there's a guy, you're right. That's fair. Okay, so this guy, he's had a rough day. He's a Florida man. And you can see Florida man claims he was kidnapped by a dolphins and forced to build an underwater city. you know, in the year of our Lord 2026, I look at this might be possible. Right. So so so I looked this up. It's an actual news story. And let's just go through this Fort Myers, Florida, Florida, man.

You don't buy.

Found sunburned and disoriented on Santa Belle Causeway claiming he was kidnapped by dolphins and forced to build an underwater city Lee County Sheriff's deputies responded to the Santa Belle Causeway earlier Monday after a motor supported a man standing on the shoulder soaking wet and drawing blueprints in the sand According to the police report Rick Ricky James Hollowell 33 was found barefoot severely sunburned and wearing only swim trunks

He told deputies he had been taken against his will by a pod of dolphins three days ago and forced to work on what he called an underwater construction project. According to Hollowell and the police report, Hollowell claimed that the dolphins approached him while he was swimming off Fort Myers Beach and escorted him to a site approximately 40 feet below the surface where they needed help building structures. He told officers that the dolphins communicated through a series of clicks that he eventually learned to interpret and that the project foreman was a dolphin he referred to as Gerald. Gerald?

Thank

When asked how he breathed underwater for three days, he said, quote, Gerald handled that. I didn't ask questions. You don't question Gerald. Now that's a t-shirt right there. You don't question Gerald. He had drawn an elaborate blueprint in the sand that the deputies described as detailed enough to be concerning, including what appeared to be condos, a town square, and a recreation center. He told officers, I mean, the Dolphins, man, they got to have their rec center, am I right? He told officers.

No question, Jer.

He was released because, the Dolphins were satisfied with his work, end quote. But that Gerald said they'd be back for phase two. Responding deputy Sean Oakley told reporters, I've been with the Sheriff's Office 11 years. The blueprints were the part that got me. He had zoning. he had zoning. That's right. You'd think that dolphins would be more free of those kind of and regulations like Florida. anyway, Hollowell.

What do you want, chaos? They have to the rules too.

That's a libertarian utopia. Underwater. Yes. Hollowell was transported for medical evaluation. Gerald was unavailable for comment. Some men build cities on land. Ricky Hollowell claims he built one underwater for dolphins. honestly, the blueprints were hard to argue with. Did we ever go look for them? Did we ever look for this underground, underwater city? I mean, for me, we're in a space now where like all the things that QAnon said like are true. So there might be

Gerald dolphin cities. I'm not counting it out.

thing is, if you, if you Google, you don't question Gerald, you do get results.

Yeah, there's news stories. mean, this is an actual news story.

wait.

What are you saying? You don't question Gerald. It leads you to the story,

Yeah, if you just Google that phrase, you do get taken to these stories.

We need a you don't question Gerald shirt.

You've got to love modern day convenience. if you remember nothing about this program, when you get home tonight, if you just remember, you don't question Gerald.

There already is a shirt. What? was just making a shirt with the ATM logo that says you don't question. My God, hold on and see if we can see it. It's like an angry dolphin with blueprints and it says you don't. That just would have been created. This story was Dateline Monday.

N-

that is amazing

UGH, I need-

I love capitalism.

I was about to say I have!

I love America and I capitalism. Yeah, but is it good fabric? if it's if it's not

It's only $22.

Etsy is usually pretty solid. I just texted Wes. Soon to be available at ATM show dot com. Quote, you don't question Gerald. But then he needs to put us all as dolphins. Like, Norks dolphins, me dolphin. Oh, dolphin with Norks. I want a pet crow. They're just so damn smart.

No

Keith Malinak (01:08:19.992)

Wow.

He's got a travel. He's got a travel cookie. Come on, you're to get all of them.

better hurry up before Gerald catches wind of what you're doing.

Yeah.

didn't.

Look at this guy. Look at this guy. Let's go! Gerald would get him One more! One more! He is so selfish. Now get out of here. He probably crashed. deserves that. He's so heavy. After all of that.

On.

Wow.

That's good. That's a smart bird right there.

Smart as an eight-year-old

What's Bendroflumethaside?

Pardon me. You know what? This will be fun. I want Kelly to see this before she has to run. Look at this. These are optical illusions. Look how skinny that girl is, right? Look how skinny she is. That's not healthy. Her legs? Yeah, what is happening? What is that? my god, she's holding a bag of popcorn. a of popcorn. Yeah, is that something? And it matches the grass. Isn't that wild? That hurt my brain. You're right. I got more. Look, it's aligning perfectly with her shadow.

I don't either.

Yes, it is. It's perfect. Isn't that wild? OK, so that's one hidden picture. Here's another one. This guy right here. See, here he is taking a selfie with his buddy. And then they just have a, what is this, a cutout, a little friend. A thumbnail? No, he's way back in the back of the boat. And then the shadow from the phone he's holding up, I think, is cast on this guy's shoulder. so it looks like a continuation of his shirt. See that?

That's funny. All right, what do you see in this picture here? A dog. You see a dog? You don't see a guy running away from the camera? he's got just a really cool dog face on the back of his jacket. A dog face on the back of his jacket. That'd be cool. I want that jacket. No, but that is a

running

So again, is that real?

Yeah, these are real. No, can see the dog. You can you see the dog?

I know that I can see the dog, I'm just saying it That's such a perfect illusion that it makes you wonder. But is that, is that, what is it called? Paradoia?

It is perfect.

You're a pareidolia.

You owe me 20 bucks for that.

Well, I gotta go friends. Now we're pissed at you. Hopefully Brad shows up.

Okay.

got a squeaky chair. Does he know he's on?

Hey Brad, we're about to go live. Here we go. It's next week's spring break because I can come full time spring break.

is the show starting?

Hola amigos y amigas.

Bye! Bye Kelly, thanks for

Understood what she just said. That was a horrible. A brain is a horrible thing.

you've you've you've torched your brain with that lsd honey hi and so now you're missing some of the the the funds and what

Hi, welcome to the program. Longtime listener, first time caller.

So what you even up to today?

We should call the Mojave Phone booth.

Definitely need to, definitely need to do that.

That would be fun.

Why don't you do that for us? I mean, I got more cool stuff here if you want.

But I mean, we've got to find out who is.

I misplaced the phone number. I'm the most disorganized... Ward, that's loud,

Sorry, the number you have dialed has been changed to A. Conference.

Press zero for the board. Press one through.

9,665 messages.

If anyone is bored and they can't find anybody, come on to option two. I don't know that I want to do. don't know. All right. If anyone is bored and they can't find anybody, on.

Come on to my house.

Bye.

Hi.

Hello?

Hello, are there?

He wanted you to be a woman,

No, I just want to be I just buy hi

feel like he's not listening to me.

I feel like what's happening is he's when he realized it's a dude, he starts acting like it's a recording. See?

He's like.

don't wanna record my own. I just want to talk to the fun people. What would you think?

Okay, I can't take any more of Mr. High.

What he's so high. What was dude's name? last time it was it. It wasn't Gerald, was it? What was his name?

don't know.

You pissed somebody off last week.

No, you did. Georgia. Georgia Buck or Georgia Rick or Georgia Joe.

I did

He was like, I've been here a long time. I've been doing these since the 80s.

Then he said, then he said, said podcast gave out the now my own little fantasy land with two of my closest friends has become the most popular joint on the blog.

a certain number.

Yeah, and and now my hunting ground for all of my victims that I You know, there's somebody doing that somebody gets on

Die who you just were leaving a message for! If you had said- Try it again. Call it again. Hang on.

Be doopy doop atop atop.

We're sorry, the number you have dialed has been changed to conference.

Don't I just hit it?

Yeah, I think I just did two.

Press 0 for the board. Press 1 through 9 for

No, no, want

Come on.

I want the two done because of what I've always pressed is to You ready? All right. Here we go. Hello

I got this.

Hello?

Hey everybody.

How you doing? Hello? Keith, I need to add you to this so that.

He recognizes your number now. because we're not hearing anything. Are we supposed to hear something? So what happened to Mr. Number two?

Well, I don't think my number shows up.

No, I don't hear anything either, which is.

Mr. Number two. There's you. That's you.

I have to answer this now and hold up the microphone.

Okay.

Yeah. Hello. That's an echo. I'll mute that. So can I mute the phone? All right.

Yeah. But if you want to talk, you'll have to.

Talk where? Into the microphone or my phone?

talking to them.

Do I sit on this? Because for some reason, my phone will not turn you down all the way.

I think you just, yeah, you sit on it. Why is it not, it's not letting you send to the, the.

My phone down underneath the cushion here. Hello? that's not comfortable. The boys did not like that.

And it's hot and it's irradiating.

yeah, well at least I'm done having kids so that's

I'm going to tell you I'm pregnant.

wow, that's it was worth it.

Hmm?

I don't guess there's anybody in there because last time it was so easy to get into their into the little chat

because he recognizes you now.

You think he's blocked me because I ruined, I ruined his hunting ground.

So now I have to call, but I'm too retarded to be able to pull that off. Anyway, that was fun. I'm still sitting on you by the way.

Damn it.

feel it.

Whoa, easy there. I'm not into that.

suffocated and I don't I it's it's very sad that that didn't I mean that didn't pan out the way I'd hoped it right it's gonna pan out did I I want no I wanted to show you because I thought of you when

Right,

Did you hang up?

when you were laying in bed. know, I don't want to talk about that.

Actually in the shower and this was This is all right, this is That'd a good thing if you did that because

I'm good with it.

Did I put this on the screen here or something?

Alright, tell me what's wrong with it.

It's slow motion. It's 1983.

Yeah, it's slow motion. Why is it slow motion?

on a meat.

You

You

Is that the crack? You know how old she is there?

22.

the title of the video.

I didn't see the, oh Diane Lane talks about her 18, oh, oh no. Oh no.

So, but this was not, that was not unusual for, but you see what I'm saying is in 1983 in the eight, that would not have been, and it wasn't considered weird, even though, uh, how was Johnny there in 1983 probably what is 50s.

How are we doing this?

Sure.

Yeah. And, and she's, know, she kisses Ed McMahon and he's like, hell, didn't kiss me because sexual tension and she's a, and she is legal. I mean, she's she's 18 because the way that times have changed, if that, see it's uncomfortable now because he's older than she is, but 40 years.

Why are we even doing this?

comfortable back then you don't think there was a story or.

No, absolutely not. was not it was very and she didn't she wasn't freaked out about it. She's like, he's just a very attractive man talking about Ed McMahon.

which clearly she's blind. never realized Diane Lane was blind.

I know. Right. Uh, but if you really want to feel old, number one, the, fact that she's 18 there, her daughter, Diane lane's daughter today is 32 years old.

Diane Lane is sick, let's see, 43 years, she's 61.

I don't like time, I'm not a fan of time.

leave it in the way marriage

because you had to repopulate. mean, you needed a lot of you needed a lot of farm hands, right?

Hey, you know what? You're handy around the house and building things, right? This guy, I don't understand this. Am I supposed to be impressed by this?

Yes, he does has a weird house he's got

So he's famous for doing stuff like this? Watch this. I want you to explain to me how he got the pictures to line up with his frames.

Everyone is asking how I made my Harry Potter living photo wall.

All right, now I see, I understand this. OK, you just put them up there.

I started with picture frames on my TV, and then I added wallpaper.

Hey.

I started cutting holes in the wallpaper that would perfectly match the shape of all of my picture frames. We are done. Those are hooks so that this can go on the back of the TV with this. There. Doesn't look like much yet.

So how is he getting?

But watch this. Is that like a, okay, hold on, it must just be an app or something that puts them in these shapes. And then he conformed to that. If he had started with that, it would have made more sense to me. You know what mean?

That seems to me like a lot of work

He skipped a step. He didn't want to give away the ending. it's, I got it.

This will actually hook onto the TV. Wouldn't it be simpler to have a bunch of small monitors? Perfect. Whoa! This is way better than I could have hoped. Here, I want you to come around and see.

we now have a living photo wall made of family movies perfectly lined up behind the frames I'll answer all of your questions in the comments and share this with that crap well the question in the comment is probably what app did you use to spread all of the... so that you'd get interaction with your video

Here, let me ask some questions.

I want my click back. That's what you say. Okay. Well, I'm happy.

It's the perfect memory keeper.

Yeah, you're okay. I guess it depends on what the wall looks like behind it, right? And plus, I'm not used to having anything in picture frames in my house.

Yeah.

That's true. You do you have an unusual display of frameage. How long has that been up there now?

Since 2012.

You know, on occasion, I mean, I...

Don't you dare buy anymore. You and Jeffy, swear Jeffy has already bought. No, don't.

I was just going to say on occasion I get bored with what's on the walls at the motel and so I will I will go around and just move stuff just so I don't go blind to what's on the walls you know how you can go nose blind to certain sense and

Would you believe that Karen didn't even see this idea on Pinterest? She just came up with it her twisted self.

Well, yeah, I can believe that. mean, it should.

That's what it looks like at my house. I mean this guy down here, he's like, I don't like the empty frames either, What game was that? Who's playing? Nah, it's blurry.

What hump?

Is that Evander Holyfield?

No, that's the coach of. no, he used to be the head coach of. No, it's to be the head coach of some.

Is that Michael Spinks?

Dion Sanders.

Bobby Jarvis? that? That's Bobby Jarvis.

No, but look at look at what's happening.

Love the no the the the the kid that's in the third one there from the right. I think he was I mean, that's the perfect age I hear it's perfect age when they're that age I mean they just they're out there like trouble, but they're fun and they get they give you the best It's just it's really fun that way and I mean you don't want to let those memories go Which is why you put them up on the wall?

Third from the right.

It's really driving me nuts. Which coach is that?

you sure that's not Lenny Bruce? I think it is Lenny Bruce, Bruce Howard.

It's not Lenny Bruce.

Used to be the coach of my. There it is. No, it's not.

Tomlinson

Tony Dungy.

No. Google. you Googling black head coaches? Do that. Do that.

Googling black dude.

Yes, the frame is crooked, Tyler. You don't think I'm sitting here freaking out, even though this picture was taken fricking how many years ago? And it's been fixed.

There's no hump on Tanner's back. That's how long ago the picture was taken.

my gosh

Hold on a second, I'm gonna find you his name, Black Dude.

wait, hold. You're going to love this. Yeah. Cause I'm going to show you.

There's coach it was a yes it was a lovey smith that was a nebraska illinois game

gonna show

This is what you get when you Google black dude.

I don't know what I wanted. Okay, Google lovey Smith, L O V I E.

First you need to appreciate when you just Google black dude what you get.

creative ways to use that nickname?

just said, I love you too. I'm here whenever you need a hand.

Dude, it's okay. know what? There's nothing wrong with that.

creative ways to use that nickname? What are you talking about? What was that? I'm just, on. That was Lovey Smith, Illinois, I think, at the time.

Check out this dude.

Yeah, but look at the weird looking black guy stock photo. right here. Hold on. What is this about? What is this picture right here?

Wait, no, it's not.

What is happening?

Did I get it? Was I right? You think it was? Love you, Smith, before he grew that beard.

Weird looking black guy stopped.

Can't have anymore shirtless black dudes.

What I did not put a shirtless, but I just put black dude and this came up and we have chubby black man. We have weird looking black guy stock photo. Even the dude in the picture over here next to him is like, did you see the picture too over from me? Look, I didn't just like, Whoa, what is going on here?

And then there's an interview with a beaten black dude.

Just saying.

I'm looking at comments. I don't know what you're doing.

I'm looking at all the pictures of black dudes. That's what I spend most of my spare time doing.

Let me just scroll down here and just see if Rebecca might've.

Whoa, black. Here's hold on. Look at this one. Black dude and a goo.

Whoa, don't point that at me. What is a goo?

Black dude in a goo.

What is a black dude in a goo? What could a goo be?

I don't know but he's pointing that goo at us.

boy stop- boy stop pulling your goo at me

my gosh, hold on. me, you know, I meant to, I wish the girls were here. You know, I'm going to save this.

Really is he handsome? Because it says handsome black men.

Okay, you're really hung up on pictures of black dudes, and I don't understand. Not that there's any. And you're not homophobic either, apparently.

I'm proving that I'm not racist.

I'm not homophobic. I love black.

Matter of fact, someone's knocking at the door right now.

Someone or- okay no don't finish that thought.

I'm an order of black.

Where am I going? I can't even find, hold on.

What if what if one shows up at your door and you're like, didn't order a black dude. And he's like, want somebody already paid. You're like, no, waste it? No, Brad, let him What if he's got a massage table with. Hello. What if he has really strong hands and you're like, let me see your hands, dude.

We fought a war for that and it's.

I wish I could find what the hell

There it is. it is. Whoa, look at this. This is the greatest hockey goal and I've seen many, but this is the greatest one ever because the same guy that shoots the puck the first time, he's the guy who ends up shooting the second time. Watch this.

the shock.

Here we go. Zoom out, man. Zoom out. All right, here we go. Watch this. He just clears his zone. There we go. Watch this. Uh-uh. Uh-uh.

He put it that shot.

That is awesome! Watch this. It just banks off the back. Hit- Ruh! Who's your daddy?

Here's the thing about scoring in hockey. doesn't happen often, but when it does, it's magical. It is truly magical. I, should show you some of the images that I created with AI. They're pretty amazing.

Bye, kids!

I don't even want to what instructions you give your AI bro. Can you make them like a code?

I could share them with you.

Well, what I generally do is I have Grok come up with the prompt.

And when he does that.

You make me nervous. The girls aren't even here and you're making me nervous.

see, the real me comes out when they're not here. What in the hell is that?

Can you start searching for anything else in the world?

Top 5 big black man YouTube. All I search for was black tube. Anything. I wonder what happens when you do google anything. Anything.

anything like

You let me know if I can.

I Kid you know, it's not him. Never mind. I thought it was a different dude, but it's anything goes

Look at that. That's an eagle's talon, size of a fist. That's why they can pick up like deer and stuff,

I don't want to disappoint you, but I don't think that's real.

What do mean?

I don't, just, I...

Google Eagles foot size.

Let me know what you find out.

eagle eagles foot size holy schnikey do you know what okay this is really weird hang on a minute because when i show you the very first image this is the very first image that came up when i googled eagles foot size

Okay, so here's what I'm gonna do kids. I'm gonna stop sharing my picture and then I'm gonna start sharing Brad's picture. Wait a minute.

I just Googled Eagles foot size. That is the picture that came up.

That looks familiar.

That's weird is what that is. Why did that do that?

That cannot be real.

How is it not real?

just can't be, can it? Holy crap!

no, I'm glad I closed that.

Wait until you see this one.

That's what she said. Golden Eagle. I believe it's a Golden Eagle according to Ron DMC 29.

This, what'd you say?

This is a Host Eagle Fossil Raptor reproduction, foot, tongue, and claws life-size painted.

I mean, it really puts into perspective the size of these birds, I think.

That cannot. I'm sure that is

What is your hangup on the size of these bird clothes? Why don't you belittle them?

That just doesn't look real. I mean, here's another one that is, this is insanely big. This is ironically the picture itself is not big, but look at the size of that thing.

That's what she's saying.

and

That is insane!

and we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna a clip your nails today so i hear some

I had no idea they were that big.

Here's some knockout juice. Look at that. Look at this right here. See this.

Did you just say some knockout juice?

Yeah, 7.25 inches.

7.25 front to back

I'm sorry, should have, I can't just, okay. 7.25 inches front to back claw.

Yeah, you should be a little more as speak with more specificity. Yeah.

Yeah, and that's gonna be my bad on the language faux pas. Okay, I want to show you I've never seen you this fascinated over

is crazy!

Well, I just... Do you think that they were that big?

I didn't ever think about it and when I saw it, was shocking, which is why it's on the program. But I will say that it's not shocking to the point where I keep repeating the same thing over and over again.

I'm almost as amazed as I am with Black Dude.

I mean, who knew what that's what you came up with when you Googled black dude.

I think it depends on the search.

Hold on, I want to show you this. want to show you. Let me back up. Let me start here. This is actually a new train station there in Rome. And you can see the Colosseum there. And they found so much stuff underground that they were like, we're not building this train station here. We're going to build a train station and we're going to have a museum surround it. Look at this. So you go down in here and they basically left these artifacts. It's incredible.

where they found them and they just built the train station around it and turned it into a museum.

Whoa!

This is fascinating stuff. This is at a train station in Rome, underneath the Colosseum.

Is that an eagle's claw?

It's not, no, it's like under the, I just told you what it is. I didn't say anything about an eagle's.

But it's so big. Look at those. is that's.

What is happening? Are we watching?

Hold on a second. What? No, no, no. Go back. Were those things just like suspend? What were they suspended in the air? That right there, what is that?

You're just really well done. I think they're held together. Remember Kelly earlier was telling us about a bed that was held to the ceiling with chains. I think that's what's happening here. See that? See how it's kind of gladiator uniform like armor.

It looks like they're in the.

Looks like they're getting beamed up to the Starship Enterprise. is that? That's thank you. That's what I was asking. You're whisking us through this museum at light speed. wanted to stop.

It looks like a...

We were gonna stop like are you the guy at the museum who stops and reads every damn placard?

When I want to know what something is, that's generally the easiest way to find out about what it is. And maybe the background of what that piece is. It's like, I wish someone would write down what this stuff is. I didn't just look at it and think.

No, I've done that at a couple of museums. I tell you, I have spent so much time. I just love Colorado, man. And the mining museum there is cool. And the Olympic museum there is cool. And I will say that I read pretty much everything in those museums. Now, granted, I was traveling alone and had time to kill, but that's beside the point. Next.

Okay.

See, that's thing. I got kids, know, parents can't spend time learning at a museum with kids, Little kids? You can't do it. Why? Because they're running around. They had no attention span. It's like...

Which is why you bring a taser with you. And when you bring a taser with you and when the kid starts acting up.

See, I should have done

What is that? What is that? A bath house? What are we doing here? Okay, look, I mean, this is even too fast to a museum for me. I spent a little bit of time in the museum, even with the kids with me. But I mean, it's at some point you got to stop and read something in here, right? Okay, what is it? And then you want to go back now? I'm pissed like you, Brad. Okay, let me get to my train now. I guess that's more important than, you know, history and whatnot.

How does he do that?

Thank you.

Did this not have a pause button on it anywhere and you could pause and stop and see what they were trying to show you?

Can I just say, in New York City, this stuff would be spray painted. People would be urinating in the corners, defecating on that Roman bathhouse carve out and stuff. They'd use it as a toilet.

You don't think they're doing that in over there in Italy too? Cause I think they are.

Think so? Yeah. I don't think their prime minister lady would tolerate that too much.

Oh, I think they do all kinds of crazy things. I found the, uh, I found the, the, uh, the corner of the interweb, uh, here with, um, like the 19, 19 white dudes with Afros.

Just the 19.

I, that's what it said for some reason I, I Googled, I Googled white dudes and this is what came up.

Okay, do me favor and let's just everyone relax here for just a second when I say this. I don't want to trigger anyone. But I want you to just to Google for me, you to the band, okay? And just do an image search, something that looks pretty recent. Just something that looks pretty recent, okay? You to the band. And then when you get more of the guys up there, let's just do this little extra. You to the band. Yeah, just something that looks like a modern picture here.

YouTube.

Like this one right here for giggles.

Yeah, that's good. OK, so there you see Adam Clayton right there. He's the second one from the left. You got Larry Adam Bono Edge. OK, so there's Adam. And you might want to think, can you make it bigger? That's what she said. There you go. There's Adam. There's Adam. He's a dapper dude. He's got a nice modern haircut. Now I'm going to pull this down. I want you to type in U2 October album cover. U2 October album cover.

to October album.

So Adam's hair is very close cropped. Let's take a look at the old album cover, shall we? Let's click on that. Bottom left corner, you'll see Adam Clayton, if you want to make that bigger. His hair has definitely changed over the years. White dude with an afro.

I

Yeah, he's Afro. Yeah, he's is that Bono?

Second one from the left is Bono. That's Edge. He used to have hair, as we all did.

Who's this?

Did, but wait a second, did Edge and Bono, do they not look like the same dude just like-

They don't not to me, but I am a YouTube geek again

Look at that. Does that not look like they just superimposed one face onto another there? Cause look at the noses.

Edge got his nickname because his face according to Bono drops off like an edge. See, you can see Edge isn't looking, if he was looking from side to side, would probably just be this little flat nothing, I don't know.

Okay. Is that where I, is a slash in all of this? We see edge where slash.

Well, he's probably a little kid at this point. Guns N' Roses hasn't quite formed. This is 1982, 81.

Slash was alive.

That's why I said he was a kid. Guns N' Roses didn't come around till like 87, 86, somewhere in there is when.

How old is Edge? How old is...

Don't tell me. Don't tell me, and I'll answer your question because I'm this terrible at life. He's either 65 or probably 66 in April.

Wrong wrong dude hang on a second hold up no no no hang on how they gave me the wrong edge how old is edge from you How old do you think he was?

He'll be 66 coming up here in April.

He will be in August 64. How old is slash slash.

All right, cool. I'm actually glad I got that wrong.

How old is Slash? How old is Slash? I'm gonna get, me guess on Slash. Hang on, let me just guess. Let me just do some quick math. This is Keith Math. gosh. He'll probably be same.

age maybe in July. How old will slash be 60. So he's a four years difference. So they're not that much different in age.

61. Okay.

I mean, these guys were in that picture, 18, no, 17, 16. So slash was probably about 13, I ain't had this.

you two's first hit.

1980. I will.

September See the first commercial success was the EP three really history in Ireland

Yeah, there's very few of those. I've looked for them everywhere.

I have one right here. You want

Remember when we used to these things called record stores? I've been to many.

I do. Uh 1979. Oh. Was that I was released of three?

yeah, that, that's, that's the, okay, but Boy came out in 1980 and I will follow, I believe was the first single, if I'm not mistaken.

When was their first? When was Guns N' Roses first?

Hit.

88 sweet child of mine. So really only 10 years difference. And yet, I to get four years difference in the ages, which which makes one of them a phenom at a young age and the other one kind of a slacker, which one

So just tell me this, tell me this. I just wanna know, first single, you two, is it I Will Follow and is it 1980? That's all I wanna know and then we'll move on, I promise.

follow.

That is not. 1980, will follow and then we'll move on. And it's I will follow. What do I win? OK, I want to go back to this Rome with that. is why that Roman stuff is still around under the ground there that they dug up is because of how they made the concrete. Now, I just I want to preface this by saying.

What year did you say it was?

I will follow.

Here's why the- You win the bill.

Romans made concrete.

The city of Fort Worth Public Works, the Rhodes people. I'm begging, I'm honestly, I'm being completely sincere. Please watch this video. If you work for the city of Fort Worth, send this to your Rhodes crew. Holy crap. Have you ever driven over? Have you driven to Jeffy's house? Between the interstate and Jeffy's house on that main road? Have you driven their Bradstags?

You've forgotten how to make roads.

It is. Yes. It's a bit, it's rough. Can we say rough? It's rough.

It is rough for trains, bro. It's like you're on a train.

Yes, is. It is rough for trains. Matter of fact, I have that on a t-shirt. Rough for trains. By combining aggregates, quicklime, pozzolana, and water in precise proportions. Too little water produced a poorly bound mixture full of voids, difficult to work with, and fragile once hardened. Fragile. Once hardened. Too much water, on the other hand, slowed the setting process and weakened its

All right, I got to say, we got to bring process into our vocab. Everyone in this, OK, so if you ever are commenting here, somehow you need to capitalize the O in process. On this show, we now pronounce process as process. That's how we're doing it.

No

to be processed. Too much water on the other hand slowed the setting process and weakened its strength. This mixture was fluid and easy to handle allowing builders to pour it into wooden molds of almost any shape.

It hardened, it formed a material of remarkable strength and durability. Thanks to the chemical reaction from this process, Roman concrete could even harden under water. And later, when water entered small cracks, it triggered a self-healing reaction that repaired the damage over time. Even today, many structures still bear the imprint of the wooden planks that once shaped them. It was this invention

which the Romans called Opus Caimentitium that gave their architecture its strength and scale any str- Time up! Sir, Roman Proletitium? ...structures still bear the imprint of the wooden planks that once shaped it. It was this invention which the Romans called Opus Caimentitium

Family shows.

That's what he said.

Hey, he's punking us, man.

the screen. says it says Opus common. Where's the T? He's throwing that in there to be titular. I don't care for

Titium.

Romans called Opus Chymentizium that gave their architecture its strength, its scale, and its immortality. A mixture that changed architecture forever. Romentizium. I learned that he used romentizium in the concrete. That's what I learned.

Did learn all the- Did you learn anything from that?

Right? Hey, where's this Air Force general that vanished in New Mexico that knew all the alien stuff? This is why I was sad that you weren't here on Wednesday, because I wanted to talk to you. He's been missing since Friday morning, I believe. And he left his cell phone and I think his keys. He just went for a walk and never came back. But they're thinking that he disappeared on purpose or something. I

Yeah, and so he had he used to be at Wright Patterson, which we've talked about with the Roswell theme shows and the UFO stuff. This guy dealt with the UFO information that we had at Wright Patterson and something weird is going on. And he's vanished. He's just gone.

He worked with Tom DeLong of, three doors down.

that I couldn't pronounce right. Yeah, that's the guy. Yep, yep, yep.

He is one of the original advisors to Tom DeLong. Okay. Where is he? They don't know. I suppose if we could have been happening, wait a second. Somebody in Goose Milky said, I didn't even, first of all, did you know Goose's had milk? Because I did not. I didn't know they had teeth.

I gotta be honest with you. I've not ever thought about it. So let me think about it for just give me one second and then we'll pick up the story. Hang on a second. Wait, hold on a second now.

I've got nipples. Can you move?

a hold on a second. How does this work? Because a chicken breast, Duck breast, but they don't have milk, but they have the breast. How does that work?

I've never seen a chicken nipple.

How does that work? They got breast, but no milkage.

but no nipples.

I'm

Not even drinking, and I'm...

I don't. What? Where did all the chicken nipples go? Right?

Bring back- free the nipple.

Do chickens, not just do chickens have lips.

Here's a fun sound. Let me if I can do this right. We go wait for it.

But do chickens have nipples?

You like that? Was that loud enough? I can't do it. You can't do it. Yeah, rock on. my gosh, y'all. Listen up. Listen, I'm being completely serious. Y'all, Fireplace Elden is due at this house in 23 minutes. It's not over. The saga of Fireplace Elden has... It doesn't matter.

degrees. Why do

That's how long it's taken to get this right! my gosh, I'm

That's the sound when he pulls out the plug of what's clogging your fireplace.

getting angry just even when it's done, I will, I will, I will spill it all.

know what it's gonna happen is it's gonna turn out you had a chicken nipple stuck in your in your

No, no, the thing that's left to be done and I mean there's a point zero zero zero one percent chance that he's listening as he's driving this way, but it's like I'm telling you

So you're saying there's a shot.

I'm just no no wait I'm I'm I'm almost at the finish line Keith just hold it in until Wednesday

But here's the thing. This is why chickens don't have lips.

because they don't have nipples. If they had nipples, they'd have lips because you don't want something with a beak suckling you.

I can we all agree on that? I think we can.

this is your first time joining the program, I want to welcome you to the Friday live stream where we.

Tell me that's not a deep ponderance. How could you, if you don't have lips, suckle anything?

Brad Staggs (01:50:15.146)

And would you want a chicken suckling anything with a beak?

Can you think of your most embarrassing moment in public and tell me it doesn't involve a chicken?

3.39 on March the 6th, 2026.

of which

Weird how that happened. Why don't

I love that our atomic clocks are synced up. So hold on, hold on, look at your clock and let's let's say them together. Let's see how synced up we are and three thirty nine and forty eight.

49,

3, 4, 5,

always blown my mind. Okay, we're done bro. How do atomic clocks work? How does that work?

not

Why don't chickens have...

nipples. Chickens have large breast muscles for flight, not milk production, which is why they lack nipples.

So if you, okay, so here's a question for you. If you could have...

Yes, I'm waiting.

If you pick flight over milk, right on your breasts, you choose. it's not it's not. Now you would never look if the off chance you ever had got stranded in the desert, right, or in the wilderness, you would always hear me out. You'd always have that you'd have that fail safe. So so you would always you would never starve to death. But but you wouldn't be able to fly out of there either.

but that's a toughie.

But if you didn't have that, you'd have, so you don't need the milk. I go flight. You get to get more. That's more practical, being able to fly the milk.

Hold on a second. I'm just going to see if if croc

Don't turn Groc loose on this. no, you gotta see this. Nothing good ever comes after Brad says, you gotta see this.

What the fuck?

Yes, it's chicken

I see you too on the bottom of the

Hold on. It's not over there yet. It's I just asked the the prompt was a chicken with large breasts and nipples and it gave me let's see if I can I think I could just use this URL. I think this is this is what Grock came up with hide your children.

you just reminded me something. Hold on, hold on, hold on. I assure you, will show it on the screen. Give me one second here because I want to find something first.

Hide your children. There you go.

I did not know that Grok would do that because. no.

God.

That is so disturbing.

Okay, hold on. Hold on. I had hoped you just reminded me there's all this chicken and stuff talk. It made me think of something here. I had, I wanted to and shame on, you know what? Shame on this. I love this audience, but you did fail me at one point when I asked you, I wanted this to become my, my, my most popular tweet ever. And it didn't become that unfortunately. And so I just retweeted it. If you guys want to go in there.

And then, course.

same on you, period.

because it only got the 356 likes. Come on, we can do better than this. it's, don't know, I don't know. Guess what?

I started drinking. Don't you wow me, Mr. Grock put boobies on a chicken.

Bye!

I did. I also, because the option was there, it did say make movie. So I did say, okay, make the movie.

Can you think of your most embarrassing? I'm gonna bring it back to... Oh no, hang on. Okay, we gotta stop. What is...

So that chicken chose not to fly apparently.

you

I just, I'm, how, how is this, of all of the things in all of the universe to make a movie from, this is what we chose.

Okay.

I don't know that we have to worry about AI taking over the world just yet.

Wait a minute, hold on a second. Isn't that a rooster?

Yes it is. Can you find anything else to do right now?

What?

But look at the tiny little wings.

Did you see this? Did you see this hot air balloon? Like this is something I would have done.

That does not look like it's going to end well. cause it doesn't look like it's going to.

it turned out okay.

No, it happened in East Texas on Monday morning. weak. Yeah. Look at that. yeah. Just trust me, bro. come out on this little thing here. You're good. Holy crap. What a nightmare. I would have totally done that. I would have been the Urkel. Like, did I do that?

Did.

I don't know, how do they get the basket? Is it just hanging up there right now? Look at this.

Dude wearing a hard hat?

And how did he get a hard hat into the, into the hot air balloon basket? Probably one of the rescuers that went over to the.

Yeah, I don't know what you just toss it over there and hope it doesn't land on a car down below Holy crap. How this is Longview, Texas Google Longview, Texas hunter balloon and tell me how high they were I 650 feet

Where is that?

would be Longview, Texas.

So how long does it take them to climb down? Because you have to, you know, hook your, your what you call it thing.

You're saying 900 feet in the air

Holy crap.

That is a cell tower. Yeah. Wow.

And so you have to keep doing your little connection thing. What is it called? Somebody knows. The L or G or C. The chandelier, chandelier, what is it called? So what's the most embarrassing thing you've done? Okay, I'll get there.

you

to the Longview Fire Department. Holy Longview Firefighter Cliff Patrick joins us now to walk us through this extraordinary operation. Cliff, for being here. not even. Crazy scene. Right.

I'll pause it. know what you're going to say. We're not afraid of heights, I would be afraid of those.

I would yes. I yeah, that's making my hands sweat and why is this on the Fox Weather Channel?

they were tested.

in. Windy. is that overall scene like? What's the reaction? This had to have been a little unusual. Whoa, it's the smell of shit in pants up there a lot, The wind was.

Boy, did they stink. I mean, it smelled like human feces up there.

I it was bad on the tower when I got into the basket. said, holy crap, man, I got to get back to that tower now.

There was feces, there was urine, there was vomit in there. It was like a Saturday night at the house. It was a strangest damn thing.

What do you got? It was definitely unusual for our department. Definitely unusual. We've never faced anything quite of this magnitude before. So for multiple guys, were getting it all off duty. Pause it. Pause it. There's a point where you're in the basket and you're like, you know what? I'm just going to stay in this basket and just take my chances. I am not climbing out on that shit. No. No. I'll just be here until it's my time.

I mean look at how far away from the tower they are. are why are they hanging way out there?

Because the thing, the balloon is stuck over here and it's hanging.

that but why isn't it hanging straight down like that?

Can't they just pull it over here? Right!

Hey, what's keeping the balloon away?

I don't want to tell you how to do your job, especially when you're 900 feet in the air, Sergeant, but why don't you pull the basket closer? Anyway, let's see what he has to say on this. Actually, from our technical rescue team, and so several of us responded from our homes. The interesting thing was that as you're approaching, this is such a high vantage point event that you could see it from three to five miles out. So everybody got to get a view as they approached and understand that attitude.

Is the town coroner standing at the bottom of this tower?

I gotcha. I gotcha. Just come on down.

and

Yeah, I mean you you respond to so many different calls you wear a lot of hats and service to the community but what a different scene most times look at cocky grin on the dude's face to. Yes, that's right we read. Was him a nut sack.

Yeah,

Ha ha!

Here it is. It's bigger than those boys.

How long is this? I see. Okay. gotcha. I gotcha. see it. No more. We got it. No, keep playing. mean...

that. arrive on scene, that you see what's going on. This, I'm sure it was a decent chunk of the ride there. And I know because of how- What's this guy? Is he from New York or something? I know it's a decent chunk of the ride there.

I almost said something so I'm glad you did. I don't know what questions you ask. Is that why they put it on foxweatherchannel.com org slash edu hyphenated?

What are you going to say something about?

I don't know what you're trying to say here.

So you're up there and like did you shit your pants or did just the people in the basket? Who was it?

Who shit more? Was it the one dude or the number two dude? Because he looks kind of like a pussy to me. I mean, it looks like he would have filled his pants up with all kinds of shit.

Got up there, what's the first thing you said to him? Did you say, the fuck?

Look, the first thing you said when you climbed up there, first of all, how long is he climb up there? When you got up there, did you say, son of a bitch, it's my day off, I came from my house, and your dumbasses are up here? Is that what the first thing you said? Because the first thing I said, I said forget about it. I'll see you tomorrow when I'm on the clock, you know what I mean?

And you guys smell like shit. Can I just tell you, both of you smell like shit. You both shit your pants. That was so scared. One dude shit the other dude's pants.

That's how you do. Who goes for a balloon ride on a windy day, dumbass? You know what, tell you what, I'm climbing down. I'll come back tomorrow's when I'm on the

Good luck. Good luck with your shitty pants. The mission is you guys train for everything. How do you train for a rescue at the top of a cell tower? That's almost a thousand.

Do you climb up 900 feet during training exercises? Tell us more. Go ahead. Yeah, that's a great question. You can't train. In our rope classes we teach every year. We do a day of tower rescue and we do similar. high is a tower? That's personal question. Continue. What we did but only at about 200 feet.

That's why I asked it.

Holy crap, that's still way up there.

That's still a lot of training. Yeah, go ahead. ahead. Wow. I like that. Times five for this tower. I was really proud as an instructor who's taught part of our department's classes for the last 10 years for everybody to show up and everybody to execute at a high level. And let me tell you. Let me tell you.

That's why okay, that's why the balloon the basket was so far because it got stuck on the guy wire there

yeah. So here's what happened with the rest of the story is the phone company, the cell phone company was like, Hey, why you're up there? Can you, can you, attach this little doohickey and some of this copper wire? Cause we've been meaning to get up there.

Hey, you got a bull bell.

Plus some of the paints, some of the paints. If I give you a paintbrush, could you just touch that up up there? I mean, you're gonna already be up there. You don't want to check because it's going to be like, you know, $5,000 for we're gonna can you just do it for free? Because you're already going to be up there.

You're a public servant! You're either a public servant or you're no-

for this, but to a much smaller degree. So it was great to see it all come together.

Yeah, you absolutely should be proud. This was an absolutely incredible thing. 200 feet you train at, which, so wouldn't that be something though? The balloons, things go horribly wrong. The balloon swings out, swings back and you get impaled on the little thingy, the spiky thing coming out of the satellite dish. So you don't die from the fall. You get, you die from being impaled on the sword is coming out of the satellite dish on the tower. That would suck. But it'd be a hell of a story for your funeral.

Wouldn't it?

So then like as you're decomposing, like the vultures would be, they'd like, normally we have to land. This is like a buffet in the sky.

And then it would kind of be art because then you'd have a skeleton there. Remember the dude in, what's it Louis? New Orleans. Remember the hotel or the building that was, remember him and he, one of the construction workers, died in the, and they could not get to his body. I mean, talk about morbid, but it was there. They, they like had the

Well, you've got to.

Somehow get out there and cover it with it. He was up there for wasn't it months Yeah, he his body was out there like in front of every for months because they couldn't get to it Because the building was theoretically unsafe you would have thought that there somehow somebody with a rope and you know a harness is kind of like repelled off the side of the building and Got into his body, but now they left it up there. Yeah, I just leave it

that I didn't know.

Yeah, we're going to leave him as an example for all the young construction workers that don't know any better.

Throw

Yeah, that was I think that's the end of the is at the end of the story there is that we beaten that I imagine for all intents and purposes who buys up

I wanted to know out there who's getting the balloon unstuck because they didn't just like cut it loose and be like hey look down

Good luck down there. buys pink tarps? What kind of a sissy buys a, what kind of a self respecting buys a pink tarpaulin?

Can you Google?

Is that the full word there? A tarpaulin?

I believe it is. Well, some people say to pollen, but it's I believe I prefer the word tarpaulin not tarpaulin, but that's just me.

You don't.

I'm asking Grok right now, is the Longview hot air balloon? gosh, Malinak, I misspelled the

What's an easy one? Because it's a two-hour job.

No, the hot air balloon is not on the tower. Greg County, Texas. This refers to a recent. Yeah, I know what it refers to, Beavis. this was Saturday morning. I'm sorry. I didn't hear about it till Monday. So let's see. the recent news. no indication anything remains on the tower. OK, well, OK. So it doesn't know. It doesn't even know.

How long was the body of the construction worker? The bodies of construction workers, Jose Ponce Arreola and Kinyon Wimberley were left in the rubble of the collapsed Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans for 10 months.

Again, I have to say this is my scientific analysis. What?

What ten months

That's in New Orleans?

That was the one. Yeah, that was in New Orleans. Excuse me. Nollins. And you, I mean, you remember cause you couldn't and naturally I, me, I wanted to see, but you couldn't, there was nothing you could see. I mean, that was the, that was the hard rock. that was what it looked like. And then somewhere in there, there was the, like the body of the screen. Yeah, there's nothing you can't see anything, but, you would have thought that

you want me to put it on the screen?

Sorry, I'm Googling right now for you. the good of the show. You know what saying? Look, here's the thing. The thing is, okay, hang on a second.

Googling are you googling the thing you googled and think? What's the thing tell me the thing I want to the thing

Give me the thing. Just give it to me. Give me the thing. Just give it to me. What are you waiting for?

for it.

Give it to me, baby. Hang on. I'm gonna put this, the rest of this in my mouth here.

Wait, what happened? What? I'm doing on the fly. How silly of me. OK. I hate myself so much, Yeah, I know. But you know what? This is how my brain operates, OK? Wait, what is happening? I can't see you right now. OK, so let me tell you how my brain works. can't. You know, I get hung up on something, and then I

That was as as I hate you.

can't

Like a dog with a bone.

I can't move on and it's been bugging me for over an hour. And what I'm referring to is I'm referring to the picture frame picture here and that coach. finally I had to just look at the date of the tweet and it's January 11th, 2025. So then I typed in NFL game, January 11th, 2025. That ladies and gentlemen, D'Amico Ryan's head coach of the Houston.

I told you who that was. You didn't believe me.

I didn't hear you. don't listen to anything you say on this. No, D'Amico Ryan's. He bugging me for the last hour plus, so there we go. In fact, looks like Tanner's judging me going, bro, that's D'Amico Ryan's. You know this,

Deon Sanders.

said.

course it is.

Okay, so you probably don't want to be here for the rest of the show, do you?

I just, there's the, actually you can kind of see it. There's the one thing that's the, this is the, but you can't see anything. That's the, that is, the foot, leg and face of one of three workers.

Fine.

Okay, just terrible.

It was, I mean, it sucked, but there's nothing you can see there anyway. But, and we did say it, earlier today. Cause, right there. I'm just, I'll leave you with this. Right there. That's, sorry. Hang on home. There we go. There we go. Cause we did, we did dedicate, today's daily mojo freedom Friday to the big cock there in the back of the image.

big, ironically that particular chicken had nipples.

No, didn't. Okay. How we damn good. yeah, much love to Ben Steiner, and his family. I love you. Bye.

Bye bye see you tomorrow morning

Yeah, oh yeah tomorrow, sorry morning live Go to at real Brad stags and you'll be able to to see Brad hanging out with Jeffy Yeah, I hate to report this it's something I've talked about that I've done in the past and It's led to depressing results when you Google someone you haven't heard from in a while Especially when you know, they're not doing well and look to see if there's an obituary and unfortunately last night I did that search for Ben Steiner who you know has been struggling with his health

And I did find his obituary. He was a huge fan of this show, a big part of this community, a pat head with the Pat Gray and Lee Show. It's my day job over at the Blaze and then, of course, here on At the Mic. He was so encouraging to me and such a wonderful person. And I did find his obituary. He was 49 years old, Ashland, Ohio. He passed away surrounded by his family.

And yeah, this was late. Let's see. I'm trying to find out the exact date of this. I believe it was Sunday. I'm pretty sure it was Sunday. The funeral is happening this coming Sunday, if you're anywhere up in that area and would like to pay your respects. But.

He put the church on the YouTube. He did all of the audio visual stuff. And it just goes on to talk about how much he loved laughing and smiling and riding his motorcycle, which I don't know why there's a picture of me up here. It should be a picture of Ben because I think the picture on his profile page was him.

in front of Mount Rushmore if I'm not mistaken and Let me see if I can find this sorry, but you want to talk about somebody who just Just just quite the encourager let's put it that way But yeah, he he passed away he did tell us he warned us that he was going into

this a couple of weeks back. So please do keep Ben Steiner and his family in your prayers. There we go. He passed away on March 1st. That would have been Sunday, age 49. Gone too soon, man. So if you want to offer your condolences or if you're close enough, if you're able to attend the funeral, like I said, I'll retweet that out here momentarily, the link to this so that you can.

Be a part if you want to or if you want to express your sympathies That's gonna do it for me I'm so grateful for y'all. Thank you for hanging out as you as you do on Wednesdays Thursdays and Fridays And and I gotta be honest with you. There's literally nothing planned yet for Wednesday Thursday or Friday of next week So you'll just have to tune in and find out. I I have no guests and no plan for Wednesday You can see Brad and I Mess around with the technical aspects again

I think Ron Phillips, I telling you on Wednesday, I think he got me set up with something that'll take care of that delay and the issues. So we'll find out Wednesday at 3 p.m. when we do the WTF Wednesday with Brad along with the Wednesday wild card with me. And then, like I said, I have no idea what the deep dive is going to be yet. I don't know who's going to be here on Friday. So you'll just have to tune in and find out, won't you? Thank you for all of your participation in the chat and for all your kind.

ratings and your reviews and sharing this show with everyone. I'm very grateful for every single one of you and I truly mean that. Thank you for being out there and thank you for participating and we'll see you Monday morning on Pack Grey Unleashed at 7 a.m. Eastern over at the Blaze and then back here Wednesday at 3 p.m. Eastern live on X. Until then, please have a safe weekend. Don't forget we're losing an hour of sleep Saturday night. Make it stop. Why does this continue?

Why? Okay. Anyway, so one less hour this weekend. So Monday we'll be here faster than usual. We'll see you later. Thanks.