Three Friends Untangle Global Politics While Eating Irish Candy

When global tensions erupt into military action, the calculus of international diplomacy fundamentally changes. Following America's precision bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities, we dive deep into what this means for regional stability, constitutional authority, and the fragile peace that has emerged in the aftermath.

The mission itself was a masterclass in military capability – bunker-busting bombs delivered by stealth bombers penetrating 300 feet underground to eliminate nuclear enrichment operations. Within 48 hours, a ceasefire between Iran and Israel was announced, effectively ending their 12-day conflict. But as we explore in our conversation, this represents less a permanent solution and more a momentary pause in generational tensions.

We examine how this operation fits into the constitutional framework of presidential war powers, with critics from both political extremes questioning the authority to conduct such missions without formal declarations of war. Yet as we discuss, this overlooks decades of precedent across administrations of both parties. The commander-in-chief has long exercised authority to conduct limited military operations to protect American interests – a reality that transcends partisan politics.

The conversation shifts to domestic sports developments including the NBA championship that none of us watched, college football coaching drama at the University of Kentucky, and our monthly tradition of sampling foreign candy bars. This time, we put Irish confections to the test, ranking everything from Maltesers to Lion Bars with our usual brutal honesty.

Join us for a wide-ranging discussion that moves from global geopolitics to sports rivalries to chocolate preferences. Subscribe now and share your thoughts on whether showing strength truly is the only language understood in certain parts of the world.

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Three Guys Around a Table

Speaker 2 0:03

three guys around a table and by three guys.

Speaker 3 0:06

We're talking about three friends a lawyer, an engineer and a school superintendent and just like our personalities, our opinions vary and we certainly don't always agree. Whether we're discussing the best of or giving our tips and tricks of things in everyday life, you're sure to learn something if you stick around.

Speaker 2 0:24

So normally we are a little light hearted in this show. I think uh, would would be a fair way to say it. I think we'll probably end up being light-hearted tonight. However, I think we got to talk some current events. I mean, the world is changing right in front of our eyes. Should I hit? Should crickets on that? No, I think that's fine.

Speaker 1 0:46

I'm good with world events.

Speaker 2 0:48

I think we've got to talk about some world events, since stuff's blowing up literally left and right.

Speaker 1 0:56

What do you think? I mean we're giving our board operator a little bit of a time to start it. We're about uh we're as of this recording, we're about two days since the united states bombed uh nuclear facilities in iran yes um, and if you just look at twitter, as we still call it twitter, it looks like it had a decent um result, because trump just announced a few minutes ago that there's a ceasefire between iran and israel is that right?

Speaker 3 1:31

the 12-day war is over. I didn't hear about yeah, I mean, I just saw it.

Speaker 1 1:36

Um says president trump, says israel and iran have agreed to a complete and total ceasefire in the coming hours. Now, upon the 24th hour, the official end of the 12-day war will be saluted by the world.

Speaker 2 1:49

So what brought an end to this quick conflict?

Speaker 3 1:54

I think the fact that we bombed them and they retaliated, and our base in Qatar, and I think it's kind of like you know what. I don't believe I'd do that again.

US Bombing Iran's Nuclear Facilities

Speaker 2 2:04

What was the? What was the um? What was the you remember on the old snls not old old, but the ones from the early 90s when they did them yeah, those are like 35 years old, late, late, late 80s, actually late 80s, 40 years ago. Yeah they're not old. When they did the mclaughlin report. You know where dana carvey would be like wrong. No, isn't that special? I think that's wrong. I've got the correct answer, but I want to hear it is all right.

Speaker 1 2:32

I think it's because wwe does not want to cancel saudi arabia show and the world knows that we have to have the night of champions.

Speaker 3 2:43

Boom. Do you know, did you see the interview they did with the Shah of Iran? They asked him why he wasn't in the explosion. Do you know what he?

Speaker 2 2:53

said the Shah from 1979 who's been dead for a long time.

Speaker 1 2:56

No, he's not a Shah, matter of detail.

Speaker 3 2:58

He's still a Shah. He's still a Shah. He's like the president. I thought you said he was the crown prince.

Speaker 2 3:01

I thought you said he was the crown prince. I thought that was who it was.

Speaker 3 3:03

You know what he said how he avoided getting blown up. Nope, he said Iran.

Speaker 2 3:09

Oh boy, there is no Shah of Iran. He has not been there.

Speaker 3 3:12

He's the.

Speaker 2 3:12

Ayatollah. That's Chris's attempt at world history knowledge. He's the.

Speaker 3 3:16

Ayatollah.

Speaker 1 3:17

So in world history knowledge, do you think Iran's a huge sponsor of state-sponsored terrorism?

Speaker 2 3:24

100% I agree. They are the largest state sponsor of terror in the world Going forever.

Speaker 1 3:30

I mean like back to your early SNL days, like in the early 80s. Let's go in the late 70s 1979.

Speaker 3 3:36

They took over. Yeah, I mean, look what they did with the TWA flight, look what they did with the Olympic athletes. I mean that's all with the Olympic athletes.

Speaker 2 3:43

I mean, that's all. How about the fact that they took over 50 American citizens as hostages in 1979 and held them Until Ronald Reagan got in, until the day that Ronald Reagan took office, because he had stated very clearly those hostages are coming home Right. And they did.

Speaker 1 4:04

Well, I mean, I think that one thing that— you tell them, gunther, I think that one thing that Trump did in this and I think something he is correct on there's things I think he's incorrect on, but something I think he's correct on here is in the Middle East, you've got to show strength, yep, and that's the only way you can deal with these people, and I think he showed it.

Speaker 3 4:23

I mean, nobody knew we were coming in the best part about that is I'm gonna wait two weeks before I make a decision. Yeah, and then he did the very next night, yeah that's fantastic did you see how they did it with the b2 bombers? They? Sent some out of sent them over the pacific ocean to guam and they sent them decoys that way, and the other ones flew the other way.

Speaker 1 4:41

Yeah, well and I watched a thing on the news on sunday morning about it and and they were talking about how great this is and all this stuff, and I do think it was a flawless mission. But it was a guy who was the joint chiefs 15 years ago and he said we've got these plans all drawn up. They always get tweaked a little bit, but we this is what the deal is, this is how we do it.

Speaker 2 5:04

Well, I, I, you know, I hope people aren't reading into it as like war hawks and and looking at it from a part, you know, one party is this and one party is that. Look back, uh, to the last few democratic presidents and presidential candidates. All of them stated the same thing Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Now did they go about deterring that no?

Speaker 1 5:32

They gave money to them.

Speaker 2 5:35

They helped their process. I think trying diplomacy with a country that doesn't play along by the same rules that the rest of the world does never going to work A bully you've got to punch them in the face, exactly.

Speaker 2 5:49

I mean, we don't condone that in the schools, but sometimes you've got to punch them in the face and thank God for Israel doing the job that they did in terms of taking out the Iranian air defenses. We were able to go in there with zero issues and do what needed to be done. They didn't target civilians. They didn't target any other military operations. They very simply looked at the uh very limited scope and capacity of the iranian nuclear program, which they continued to say we are going to build it look, look.

Speaker 1 6:23

Is it not unbelievable, though, that those bombs could go down the ventilation?

Speaker 2 6:28

shafts of these places Seriously Right.

Speaker 3 6:30

I mean it's unbelievable 300 feet under the ground, those bunker busters yeah, it's incredible.

Speaker 2 6:35

Well, we, you know the media which one. I kept saying all the media. Well, they'll probably use one of these stealth bombers to drop two, you know, because they can only carry two, drop 14, right seven b2 bombers drop 14 of those mops and uh, yeah, I mean.

Speaker 2 6:57

The one thing that this should tell the world is we have the most sophisticated military. They can do anything that they want to do at any point in time. They're not picking a fight, but they're trying to make sure that you know citizens around the world are safe but you know the thing that bothers me the most out of this?

Speaker 3 7:16

I was watching Chuck Schumer talking tonight and he is still the Democrats this, the Republicans this. You would think this would be a unifying cause. This would be a joint. It's not going to be with Trump being president, but still, you're taking out the terrorist nation, you're taking out the nuclear capabilities, or, as George Bush would say, the nuclear capabilities.

Speaker 2 7:39

But you're taking that out it is so fun to pronounce nuclear.

Speaker 1 7:41

He's so fun he's pronounced nuclear. He's so fun, he's so it's so fun.

Speaker 3 7:45

That is something that you would think we would be unified as a nation. We've got to do this for our own well-being and our allies. But instead it's Democrats this, republicans this. It's crazy to me to see that we can't get unified behind something as as awful as the capabilities that I ran here.

Speaker 2 8:05

Well, it just drives me crazy. Well, I, you know my, my kind of thought on it is this I, I think you all know I'm Democrat, I'm fairly centrist, I'm I'm pretty centered.

Speaker 1 8:18

Uh, I, I think that for the most part, you're not as aligned to one particular party as much as what Chris and I are.

Speaker 2 8:26

I agree with that and I'll call out Trump you mean President Trump? I'll call out Donald the Drumpf. Drumpf his real name Drumpf but in this action I think this was the warranted action and I kind of agree with the fact that we really should be united behind this action.

Speaker 1 8:53

And you've got Republicans here in this wonderful commonwealth that are saying, well, he didn't have the right to do that.

Speaker 2 8:58

Look, and there's Democrats who are saying well, they did he didn't have the right to do that.

Speaker 1 9:02

There's Democrats who are saying that too. When was the last time we had a declaration of war?

Speaker 2 9:08

Exactly, it may have been Korea.

Speaker 1 9:12

It's something like that. It was either World.

Speaker 2 9:14

War II, or I think it may have even been World War II because Korea was a police action.

Speaker 1 9:19

When we went into Iraq, we didn't have a declaration of war. We've not had one of War II, because Korea was a police action. Well, and I mean when we went in, when Bush, when we went into Iraq, we didn't have a declaration of war I mean, we've not had one of those in decades. We've been bombing the crap out of people.

Speaker 2 9:30

Commander-in-chief of the military has constitutional authority to do whatever is necessary to protect American interests period.

Speaker 1 9:38

They don't have to have a declaration of war.

Debating Presidential War Powers

Speaker 2 9:39

For that it's folks like this, thomas Massey, who or an AOC?

Speaker 1 9:44

I mean, she put out a tweet instantly.

Speaker 2 9:46

Sure.

Speaker 1 9:47

This is unconstitutional and he didn't have the power to.

Speaker 2 9:49

Of course he did. I mean.

Speaker 3 9:50

Barack Obama bombed people left and right, he dropped 24,000 bombs or something.

Speaker 1 9:55

I mean he bombed people left and right Right. He bought people left and right Right.

Speaker 2 9:58

They've got the power to do that. It is absolutely the commander-in-chief's authority that they have granted by the Constitution. The Constitution only talks about Congress declaring war. This is not an act of war. This is not a declaration of war.

Speaker 1 10:14

And we've had this conversation before. The extremes on both sides drive me crazy.

Speaker 3 10:18

Yeah before the extremes on both sides drive me crazy. Yeah, I mean from from the, from elizabeth uh warren and aoc chief elizabeth warren, all the way over to.

Speaker 2 10:29

I mean, we're trying to keep this conversation up on the level.

Speaker 3 10:33

Yeah, I'm just helping to win some stuff out there to how representative taylor marjorie green tay, whatever her name is. They all kind of drive me crazy. What's that woman's name from California?

Speaker 1 10:47

The old lady that's been in there 108 years. Hold on here. I know who it is. She's from San Francisco, yeah.

Speaker 3 10:54

Waters, maxine Waters, she was out tweeting stuff too.

Speaker 1 11:00

Betty White, I know we still call it Twitter, but is now it X-ing stuff?

Speaker 2 11:06

I still call, it refuse to change from Twitter. It's Twitter, it's Twitter I don't care Is that.

Speaker 3 11:14

Bill Massey. Now Is Massey done. Was that part?

Speaker 1 11:17

of the election. Am I wrong that I was thinking he was retiring or something like?

Speaker 3 11:23

that? I don't think so. No, that's the other one, that's Uncle Turtle.

Speaker 1 11:27

I already knew that. I mean, I knew that.

Speaker 3 11:28

Yeah, I thought Massey was For some reason.

Speaker 2 11:30

I thought.

Speaker 1 11:30

For some reason I had it in my mind that Massey was retiring.

Speaker 2 11:34

I think him being on every yeah program on Sunday morning.

Speaker 1 11:38

Well, Trump's saying he's going to run against him and campaign against him now. Well, he should. I mean, that's his prerogative as being the commander-in-chief and the head of the party.

Speaker 2 11:48

Yeah, the perk, but yeah it's just one of those.

Speaker 1 11:53

But do you think it's over? The 12-day war may be over, but the unrest is never going to be over no.

Speaker 3 12:03

No, of course not. Um, my grandfather used to always say. He said you know, in the middle east, it's in the bible yeah they will fight until the end of time that's what they do there's, they will always. They have always fought in the past. They will always fight now.

Speaker 2 12:15

You know, my grandfather used to say something too that's true, it was similar.

Speaker 3 12:19

yeah, yeah, but he's gonna go upstairs and do it. Yeah, that's true too. That's true, it was similar.

Speaker 2 12:21

Yeah, but he's going to go upstairs and do it yeah that's true, that's right.

Speaker 1 12:22

That's true, but I mean what they did, what Iran supported, that they did in October was just unbelievable.

Speaker 2 12:30

Yeah.

Speaker 1 12:31

When they just go in killing all the 1,200 people in Israel and taking a bunch of hostages. Israel's response was exactly what it should have been.

Speaker 2 12:41

We were very limited in the scope of what we as a nation did in taking out these nuclear facilities there are an awful lot of people in this country that believe that we should push for a regime change Now. I don't think it's really America's place to go in and do those things Right. If the people of Iran will step up and get rid of these people that have been leading them for 40 years that literally have burned women for showing too much of their face Do they treat objects like women, exactly. Great reference.

Speaker 1 13:25

Have to get a big Lebowski reference in whenever possible. So he treats objects like women man.

Speaker 3 13:33

I got to tell you this is off the subject but I have been in such a CCR, just consumed with CCR all weekend. That's all. I was listening to everything I was doing. I'm like got my credence taken well, I hate the eagles man.

Speaker 2 13:50

Well, it's going to be interesting to see what happens over the next, you know, coming days and weeks and months. Um, what do?

Speaker 1 13:57

you think about rubio as secretary of state and and this and the secretary of defense guy?

Speaker 2 14:03

um, I am hegseth pete hegs I think it's two very separate things, sure, and I can disagree with with some of them politically. I'll tell you right now hegseth's an an idiot. I'm sorry. I'm allowed to say that. It's my opinion that, uh, he is not qualified to be in the position that he is in period. End of discussion. Rubio, at least has experience as a United States Senator. I have. I have no issue with him being placed into that role and I think he can handle that role. Fine, hegseth, as soon as they with the signal gate and all that. I'm sorry, he's just not qualified for the role and I don't. I think it's a joke that he is the Secretary of Defense.

Speaker 3 14:47

What do you think about when somebody asked about was it Taylor Marjorie Green or what's her name?

Speaker 1 14:51

Marjorie Taylor Green. You were close, you had the right name.

Speaker 3 14:55

Green Mel and John Camp Cougar when they asked President Trump about when she said there was no nuclear sites there. He goes well she's wrong.

Speaker 2 15:07

Oh, that was not about green, it was the one that looks like the skunk. What's with the white in her hair? What's her name?

Speaker 1 15:20

I have no idea. Have you not seen her?

Speaker 2 15:23

Gosh, director of Intelligence. Oh yeah, the Intelligence Department. That's who it is. What's her name? Folks Look it up Google. Who is the Secretary or the National Intelligence Chief or Advisor? Tulsi Gabbard, that's who it was it was tulsi gabbard, she's wrong, she's wrong and she probably was right. Um, because I think that there was just some connotation problems there, sure, I think. Yeah, I don't know what gunther's issue is out there, but he hates everybody, he's not happy about something he's joining the podcast.

Speaker 2 16:01

But yeah, Tulsi Gabbard, I think when she stated back in March that they weren't, oh it's the big German shepherd walking down the road. That would do it. That would do it. No, when she stated that they weren't seeking a nuclear weapon. The fact that they were enriching uranium to 60 plus what's wrong with that?

Speaker 1 16:22

hey, what's wrong with that?

Speaker 3 16:23

energy. We're just doing energy, don't worry about it and it's, and it's.

Speaker 1 16:27

You know, 90 feet underground, whatever there's, there's only one use, or?

Speaker 2 16:32

enriched uranium, growing up as someone who grew up four miles from a uranium enrichment facility in piketon, ohio that's why it glows at night exactly uh there's only one reason that you enrich uranium to that percentage, and it's for weapons, not for power sources. So engineers should be able to tell us that.

Speaker 3 16:53

But have you ever seen how they enrich uranium? Yes, they just throw money, uh, and not make it rich, let's make it rain. Let's make it rain, uranium, all right. Oh, it's fantastic how they drop the rods and the whole deal.

Speaker 2 17:06

It's crazy, don't they reduce it from 238 to 235? Or something 234 correct what you're right, you know 220, 221, whatever it takes, right, mr mom reference so anyway, yeah, so that's, I mean, that's kind of that's the big current event. Yeah, yeah, yeah, mr Mom reference.

Speaker 3 17:20

So anyway. Yeah so that's kind of crazy. That's the big current event. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Listen guys.

Speaker 1 17:28

Has anybody heard whether Andy Beshear's made any kind of statement about it? Yet I haven't seen anything. I don't know.

Speaker 3 17:33

He has not blessed us with his response, yet I'm sure it's forthcoming and I guarantee you, whatever's, the most popular answer will be his opinion.

Speaker 2 17:44

Where's my? I got some crickets on that we could call him. I got my cell phone. I got him. I got his number right here.

Speaker 3 17:50

Let's call him, let's text him, let's all text him real quick I do as well. See if he wants to come on the show. We're not going to do that.

Speaker 1 17:59

I, I do night of champions yeah, no, it's not the question I have. Okay, what, uh, I know nothing about this, so let me. Let me just preface it by that. Yeah, but I saw it on hbo max when I was watching the bernie madoff thing, okay, uh. What's the documentary series about ohio state sports on hbo max?

Speaker 2 18:22

oh yeah, that's really interesting I have no idea what it's about. There was a it's it's not for, like, the major sports, it was for, like, wrestling and um, but there was a doctor who, um, has been accused of sexual assault of athletes that. I haven't watched it either. I just I just know from seeing some of the tweets about it guy's a scumbag.

Speaker 1 18:43

It's called uh surviving ohio state I I didn't know anything about it. Yeah, exploration of the ohio state university sex abuse scandal and the surviving ongoing fight to hold the school accountable yeah, that's uh.

Speaker 2 18:56

The guy's a scumbag yeah, it's not good, not not defensible

Speaker 1 19:00

yeah you know. So so is that an issue in the Big Ten, because Penn State I don't think that Ohio State's that level is so. Yeah.

Speaker 2 19:17

We didn't have an assistant football coach who was having sex with boys in the locker room.

Speaker 1 19:21

Unbelievable right. Whoa, unbelievable Really. Why didn't you just say inappropriate, jerry Sandusky?

Speaker 3 19:23

Unbelievable right, whoa. Unbelievable Really, yep. Why didn't you just say inappropriate, jerry Sandusky?

Speaker 2 19:30

I just saw it like it is they shouldn't have a program at Penn State.

Speaker 1 19:33

I've said it before, I'll say it again Do they really have one? Do I have to pull out Earl Pitts?

Speaker 2 19:39

You know what?

Speaker 3 19:40

makes me sick. I'm marking.

Speaker 2 19:41

You know what really makes me mad.

Speaker 3 19:43

Did they ever bend over and drop the door? Oh yeah.

The 12-Day War and Middle East

Speaker 1 19:45

They've still got James Franklin as their coach. They're not going to be anything at the end of the day. They ought to go up there and take that.

Speaker 3 19:50

Joe Paterno, papa Joe, crap, statue down all that. They ought to get rid of it. Penn State should not have a football team.

Speaker 1 19:56

Yeah, yeah, now there was.

Speaker 3 20:02

Oh yes there was Basketball, two of them Basketball.

Speaker 1 20:06

So we had the Oklahoma City Thunder won their first championship since being in Oklahoma City. Yep, beat the Pacers, beat the Pacers. Does anybody really care?

Speaker 2 20:16

I mean seriously.

Speaker 1 20:18

And there's two guys from Kentucky that play on Oklahoma City.

Speaker 3 20:21

Cason Wallace and Shea Gildas Alexander who. Shea Gildas Alexander just now became one of only four people in history to have the season MVP, the final MVP and the most points in the finals.

Speaker 1 20:39

Yeah, One of only four. But the question gets back to does anybody really care about the NBA championship?

Speaker 2 20:45

Seriously, I got silent.

Speaker 1 20:47

I didn't watch one second of it Me either. I mean literally not one second. I couldn't have been more.

Speaker 3 20:54

I'm like nothing else on.

Speaker 1 20:56

I did gamble on it, but I didn't watch one second of it.

Speaker 2 20:58

I guarantee that you all, being the UK basketball fans that you are, you could name more NBA players than I can.

Speaker 1 21:05

Yeah, we could just name the Kentucky players. There's like 40.

Speaker 2 21:09

I think that honestly, I don't think I can name 10 current NBA players there's two Kentucky players on the World Championship team. Conversely, if we want to talk hockey now, I can go ahead and name you every member of the Tampa Bay lightning.

Speaker 1 21:28

What about every member of?

Speaker 2 21:30

Florida, syracuse affiliate. Uh, not real happy, not real happy, but uh they went to last year too. Yes, yeah, so uh, a Florida team has won it. Five of the last wait, that's wrong. Four of the last wait, that's wrong. Four of the last six years tampa bay in 2020 and 2021, then vegas and colorado, colorado and vegas, in that order, and then florida, florida, so yeah no canadian teams won it in forever oh, no, no, it's like.

Speaker 3 22:02

It's like the 40s or something. Oh, it's not that long. The Canucks yeah.

Speaker 2 22:07

But it's been a minute, it's been a long time it's been a minute Anyway.

Speaker 3 22:13

Yeah, nba, not a fan, Nobody cares.

Speaker 2 22:15

Nobody cares, I hate it I don't care, loved it as a kid.

Speaker 3 22:18

Loved it. Never watched it more thing. That's local Kentucky football. Hang on. Did you see Kevin Durant got traded? He got traded to the Rockets.

Speaker 1 22:26

I have no idea, I just brought that up because I just heard it DK, who cares? Don't know what are your thoughts about Vince Merrow leaving the University of Kentucky to take a general manager position at the University of Louisville At the same money. Brilliant move on his part. Well, I don't think there's any General manager position at the.

Speaker 2 22:45

University of Louisville At the same money. Yeah.

Speaker 1 22:47

Brilliant move on his part. Well, I don't think there's any question. I don't think anybody can debate the fact that Louisville's program is better than where Kentucky is right now.

Speaker 2 22:58

It's on the incline. This should tell you something.

Speaker 1 23:00

They've got an exciting coach, jeff Brom, I mean. He was at Purdue. Never could get Purdue over the hump. But was that offense? You're always in a game.

Speaker 2 23:10

Yeah.

Speaker 3 23:11

What conference is Purdue in the Big Ten?

Speaker 1 23:17

But I'm surprised. Hold on, I know Hold on so he's basically getting off the field, though I mean he'll be on the field, but he's not coaching.

Speaker 3 23:29

You know the conference that's produced the last two national champions. Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on. He went to the acc. Though. He can row, he can rule the acc, but because I don't know belichick, because the acc well, but but he's not.

Speaker 1 23:38

I mean he's. He's the general manager and in charge of recruiting. So he's not going to be coaching anymore. I don't guess, but he's going to be just handling all the recruiting.

Speaker 2 23:47

Look you guys, that's what he's good at. You guys are uk fanatics. You uh, you know you live and die with uk football, mostly as as no kidding, as the ohio state person in this conversation and as the external uk person. This, this should open Mitch Barnhart's eyes. It doesn't matter, and everyone else in that program. They all know it's $35 million they are, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 24:13

Find people to pay, here's the deal.

Speaker 2 24:16

Yeah.

Speaker 1 24:17

Here's my prediction before we get to college football yeah, this is Mark. Stoops last season.

Speaker 2 24:21

Yep.

Speaker 1 24:22

And John Summerall be the coach at UK by the end of December. Correct last season Yep and John Summerall will be the coach at UK by the end of December.

Speaker 2 24:25

Correct, and that would be the very best thing for him. Correct, and that'd get people excited about him being back. Yeah, they should fire him now. Oh, I agree, they should have fired him last year.

Speaker 1 24:33

Yes, Since he said that we had to pony up more money, they have done absolutely nothing.

Speaker 3 24:42

Yep, I agree. Listen, merrill, going down to UofL. As bad as I despise UofL, I probably hate UofL more than anybody in this room. Yeah, I think that's fair. I don't blame him. I mean, you're on a program on the rise, I just don't like that it went to Louisville.

Speaker 1 24:57

I didn't like Rick Pitino going to Louisville.

Speaker 3 24:58

I didn't either, but again with Vince. With Vince, you know, I heard.

Speaker 1 25:03

And was it to stick it in Stoops' face? Well, because Stoops said he can't recruit.

Speaker 3 25:08

Ohio anymore. But I go back to this. Like somebody said on the radio, a guy that we both listen to we really don't like, but we listen to. What you got to look at with Stoops is he got him a three-year guarantee. To him it's just a job. There's no loyalty to Kentucky, there's no loyalty to anybody.

Sports Talk: NBA and NHL

Speaker 2 25:25

It's just a job. He was ready to go to A&M when they are the ones that they pulled the plug on that he was on the plane.

Speaker 3 25:31

I'm talking about Merrow. Yeah, he's talking about Merrow.

Speaker 1 25:33

Merrow should have went to Michigan. When he had the job at Michigan, that's where he should have went. But nobody would have still went down as a legend at UK if he would have went to Michigan Right, nobody would have blamed him for that.

Speaker 3 25:47

Yeah, that's true, and the bad thing is the real fans that are. I've had season tickets since 97. I've been a fan my whole life and I'll tell you I don't blame him for going and I hate it, but I don't blame him. It's Marvin Stone to me, all over again. Marvin Stone didn't do worth a crap at Kentucky, but he went to UofL and after that you're dead to me.

Speaker 2 26:06

Yeah, if you're a staff member on a sinking ship.

Speaker 1 26:10

Well, imagine if Ohio State coach left and said you know what? I'm going to Michigan.

Speaker 2 26:17

Heartline goes to Michigan, of course. Well, our running backs coach went to that state up north.

Speaker 1 26:21

How'd that work out for him? Not great, right yeah. How did the ohio state fans think about that?

Speaker 2 26:27

not not real good, right, not real good, um, but yeah, that's uh. But you know it's sinking ship, right? No question, non-sink, oh no, I don't, I don't disagree with, I mean look, the only team.

Speaker 1 26:41

I mean I know nothing about acc football, but right now, off the cuff, there's only two teams I could think that can compete with Louisville, and that's Clemson and Miami. Maybe that's it, yeah. Clemson's going to be pretty good this year, notre Dame's kind of in the ACC, but they're kind of not Get in a program. They have a program.

Speaker 2 27:00

They don't need to get in a program that conference. Bill Belichick and his 24-year-old, you know.

Speaker 1 27:06

Who's no longer allowed to practice. Is he really going to coach or is he going to be gone before then? Seriously, I think he might be gone. I do too.

Speaker 2 27:13

I mean, you know what a nightmare, by the way, what a nightmare that whole thing has been.

Kentucky Football Coaching Drama

Speaker 1 27:19

Well, are we going to eat some candy? All right, here we go. Well, here we go. Well, while you're getting the candy out, let's not forget that Raw comes on at 8.

Speaker 3 27:27

And.

Speaker 2 27:27

Night of Champions is next Saturday.

Speaker 1 27:30

And, let's not forget, we got to do our. A fan got on to me because I did not check in with the National League Central standings. Since the last time I did the National League Central standings, your Reds have made a little bit of a comeback. Okay, there are only six and a half games back, but we, since the last time I did the National League Central Standings, your Reds have made a little bit of a comeback. They're only six and a half games back, but we're only a half game out of the wild card. Yeah, that's not what our bet is. I don't care about the wild card. Look, when your team's winning, you don't have to worry about the wild card, true, so we're eating Whoppers basically.

Speaker 3 28:02

What is this? All right, so we're back on my four candy bars from Ireland. Tastes like a Whopper.

Speaker 1 28:07

That's a Whopper. I don't like this.

Speaker 3 28:09

These are called Maltesers.

Speaker 1 28:10

It's a Whopper.

Speaker 3 28:11

It's a Whopper, but they're chewier and they have more chocolate on them.

Speaker 2 28:14

I think they're not as crunchy as a Whopper and not as big I like Whoppers than any of the other ones.

Speaker 3 28:21

you had last time. That's true, but it's called a Malteser. I'm going to say it one more time Malteser, they're pretty good.

Speaker 2 28:26

Maltese Falcon, one of my favorite movies. Pick a number between one and three Humphrey Bogart, sydney Green Street. Two, two Peter Lorre.

Speaker 3 28:34

We're going with the Star Bar.

Speaker 1 28:38

That's good names.

Speaker 3 28:46

Cadbury's Star Bar. Those of you on the podcast couldn't see my eye roll. Yeah, we all felt it, though, so let's see what the star bar is about.

Speaker 2 28:51

Oh, uh-oh, it's going to be caramelly, great Caramelly Stick to the teeth for the next 12 hours. Is it going to be a hundred grand bar in a different Miles will eat a marathon bar.

Speaker 3 29:01

Is it a?

Speaker 1 29:01

hundred grand bar in a different wrapper is the question.

Speaker 3 29:05

Which one's? No, this one's definitely different. First of all, it's got caramel, chocolate and something, and peanut butter. Is that what that is? Yep, very different.

Speaker 2 29:20

I can hardly even pull off.

Speaker 3 29:21

Eat the rest of it. It's real simple. Nope, very different. It sticks to your teeth, star bar.

Speaker 2 29:29

Star bar.

Speaker 3 29:31

I'm going to say peanut butter, caramel, chocolate and some nougat.

Speaker 2 29:36

I'm going to give that a six out of ten.

Speaker 1 29:38

What did you give the Whopper or the Maltese or whatever it's?

Speaker 2 29:41

called. I'm going to give that a five.

Speaker 1 29:43

So you like this one better.

Speaker 3 29:44

I do too. This one's pretty good. The peanut butter's different right, it kind of tastes like a payday mixed with a Snickers to me.

Speaker 2 29:50

Okay, you love Snickers, so I will tell you.

Speaker 1 29:53

Snickers is my wife's favorite candy bar, but I like the other one better because I can't taste anything.

Speaker 3 30:01

It's a texture thing, so the texture was better on the Whopper. All right Between one and two. Pick a number, one or two.

Speaker 1 30:07

I just picked two, so Mark picked one.

Speaker 3 30:09

All right, you're getting a Fry's chocolate cream bar.

Speaker 1 30:14

I can already tell you, I'll hate this.

Speaker 3 30:16

Well, it's in a cool blue wrapper.

Speaker 1 30:17

Because, even when I could taste, I didn't like cream bars.

Speaker 3 30:21

I don't know what a cream bar is.

Speaker 1 30:22

It's going to have something soft and gooey on the inside of it.

Speaker 3 30:26

I'm pretty excited boys. Oh it broke right open. It did. Oh my you. Oh it broke right open. It did. Oh my You'll like this. I don't think so Dark chocolate?

Speaker 1 30:36

Oh, there's no chance.

Speaker 3 30:38

I would like it. I love dark chocolate. I hate dark chocolate. If you can tell me what's in the middle. No, I don't know what it is. Nougat, I know right, something weird going on here. I don't know what it is.

Speaker 2 30:53

Almost like orange.

Speaker 1 30:55

But not. Is it sea breeze? Is it like a peppermint patty a little bit, but not minty, but not minty.

Speaker 3 31:02

It's like a peppermint patty, but not minty. What's? That called we got to Google it Fries chocolate cream. How do you spell it? F-r-y, apostrophe S.

Speaker 1 31:14

Can I pick number one this time?

Speaker 3 31:16

This is the one I've been holding out for you guys. One of one Pretty excited about this one. What's it called Lion?

Speaker 1 31:22

Lion L-I-O-N.

Speaker 3 31:23

I thought it was Tiger Bar. It's Lion Just called Lion by Nestle. Nestle Lion, nestle Lion.

Speaker 1 31:28

So that would almost be like the dude from OVW. What was his name? The wrestler who was the lion or the tiger?

Speaker 2 31:37

Oh, by my right. Okay, can I read this about the prize?

Speaker 1 31:42

Yeah.

Speaker 2 31:43

Technically considered a combination bar because it combines chocolate with other ingredients. The original Fry's Chocolate Cream Chocolate Bar consisted of a plain fondant center enrobed in plain chocolate. Variants include peppermint cream, orange cream, raspberry cream and strawberry cream.

Speaker 1 31:59

So was that one orange. It has to be orange cream.

Speaker 2 32:02

It tasted orangey to me of all those.

Speaker 3 32:08

Next one coming boys.

Speaker 2 32:09

George Lazenby used to advertise fried chocolate bars. Do you all know who George Lazenby is? No, no, george Lazenby was the James Bond after Sean Connery, before Roger Moore.

Speaker 3 32:29

Wow.

Speaker 2 32:30

On Her Majesty's Secret Service. He did one Bond film, then he went bye-bye. Okay.

Speaker 3 32:37

Well, this one's called the Lion Bar.

Speaker 1 32:40

Is it dark chocolate or milk chocolate? Milk chocolate.

Speaker 2 32:43

Didn't we have a lion bar last week?

Speaker 1 32:45

All right. So what's your thoughts on white chocolate?

Speaker 3 32:50

It's not chocolate.

Speaker 1 32:51

I understand.

Speaker 2 32:53

It depends, I understand.

Speaker 3 32:54

It depends. I'm a big fan. I can tell you the answer real quick. I'm a big fan. I despise it. The reason I despise it when I was a kid and we would go to like St Louis and go to the amusement park and go to the arch.

Speaker 1 33:05

We would go up in the arch with Mommy. Mommy and Daddy would drop us off in the limo.

Speaker 3 33:10

Mommy and Daddy would drop us off in the limo. We would always go get candy on the way out Of course you did. It was never kids. What do you want? Mom and Dad would get a pound of white chocolate and I despise it to this day because it's no flavor or anything. That Lion Bar what do you think about that one? It's got a cookie wafer with some caramel, and chocolate is what I picked up. I like the texture of it, I'd say a seven.

Speaker 2 33:34

Yeah, it's my favorite, one of the four today. I tell you what. I'm going to. Go back to the fries chocolate cream bar.

Speaker 3 33:39

I am too, that's pretty good.

Speaker 2 33:40

I kind of liked it. I'm going to give it my highest.

Speaker 3 33:43

The rest is yours. No, no, I'll just get one more.

Speaker 1 33:53

No, you can have the One bite. Everybody knows the rules. What about the rules?

Speaker 2 33:55

What are the rules? That's your boy when he judges pizza.

Speaker 1 33:56

Oh yeah, One bite. Everybody knows the rules and take seven bites. Are you talking about Portnoy?

Speaker 3 34:02

Portnoy yeah, putts, not a fan.

Speaker 1 34:05

I love his pizza reviews. They're funny.

Speaker 3 34:06

Did you see when he got tossed out of?

Speaker 1 34:08

Yeah, goodfellas, goodfellas.

Speaker 3 34:10

Really.

Speaker 1 34:10

Yeah.

Speaker 3 34:11

Big mistake. Big mistake, yeah, because they said you have permission to film here and he was out there filming in front of it.

Speaker 1 34:15

Yeah, and I like his pizza reviews.

Speaker 2 34:18

Not a fan.

Speaker 1 34:19

He lost all of his bits last night. He's a big Indiana Pacers fan.

Speaker 2 34:24

Well, glad that he lost Not a bad thing, Because we know what other kind of a fan he is and it ain't great.

Speaker 1 34:32

But having said that, we know, now do you know if he's done any pizza reviews in Lima, Because I'm trying to get our trip scheduled when we can go in December.

Trying Irish Candy Bars

Speaker 2 34:41

We know that the very best pizza in the world is a Columbus, ohio-style pizza. Cardo's in Waverly.

Speaker 3 34:50

Yes, I'm confused. Where are we going? Are we going to Waverly? Yes, I'm confused. Where are we going? Are we going to Waverly?

Speaker 2 34:55

or are we going to Lima? Well, Waverly's south of Lima.

Speaker 3 34:56

Everything is around Lima. True.