Three Guys Around a Table and The Best Of…
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Three Guys Around a Table and The Best Of…
Conversations Around the Table: From Coldplay to Conspiracies
When three friends—a lawyer, an engineer, and a school superintendent—gather around a table, you're guaranteed an entertaining mix of personalities and perspectives that rarely align. In this episode, we dive into the viral Coldplay concert scandal where a CEO was caught in a compromising position with his HR director. The resulting memes have taken over social media, from Bill Cosby and Ronald McDonald to Trump and Epstein, showcasing how AI-generated content blurs the line between reality and fiction.
The conversation shifts to political integrity as we examine the controversy surrounding the Epstein files. We all agree on one fundamental principle: politicians should follow through on their promises. "Don't say it in the first place," becomes our rallying cry against empty political statements, whether about releasing documents or implementing policy changes. This rare moment of consensus highlights our shared frustration with leadership that fails to deliver on commitments.
Things take a supernatural turn when one of us shares a spine-tingling experience from The Foundry, a historic venue in Frankfurt. From mysteriously fallen letters to spontaneously changing colors and self-activating music, this firsthand ghost story sends chills down our spines. We wrap up with an international chocolate tasting session, ranking treats from Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, before dipping our toes into the contentious world of homeowners associations—a topic so rich with potential that we promise to revisit it soon.
Like the diverse chocolates we sample, our varying viewpoints offer a rich tapestry of thought. Whether you agree with the lawyer, the engineer, or the superintendent, you'll walk away with fresh perspectives on everything from current events to the paranormal. Subscribe now to join our table where disagreement is guaranteed, but learning something new is inevitable.
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Speaker 3: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. Have you guys seen the new cold play singles, cold play I think they should change the name.
Speaker 1:I'm only about the kiss cam when it goes you know what look, hot play.
Speaker 3:Here's the thing. He dodges the bottom, she turns around. They're all embarrassed. The girl over there's cackling next to them. What do they think? What do they think is going to happen? I mean, come on.
Speaker 1:It's going to cost him a lot of money.
Speaker 2:Just kiss. All they had to do was kiss and just act like it was normal and nothing would have ever been said Other than he had her hugged up.
Speaker 1:But you know the best thing is. I mean I'm assuming most people don't hug their HR people like that.
Speaker 3:You know what Most people.
Speaker 1:Why is it always an HR person? That's true, it's always an.
Speaker 3:HR person. No disrespect, but most people hate their HR people. I'm just throwing it out there. Not a fan, not a fan.
Speaker 1:I mean, why is it always the HR? Person and I got to say they're supposed to keep the rules, not bingo, as a CEO of an organization.
Speaker 2:Our HR person is a rock star, does a great job. It is a very difficult job having to deal with all the stuff that they have to do. Every time that there's a problem, it's HR that has to deal with it. That woman was just having some fun. She was just letting her hair down?
Speaker 3:Is that including back hugs from the CEO?
Speaker 2:Not in my organization, thankfully. The best thing to come out of this thing is Including back hugs from the CEO.
Speaker 3:Not in my organization, thankfully, oh yeah, the best thing to come out of this thing is the memes, though. Yeah, the best one I saw today I couldn't find to send to you guys was Bill Cosby holding a woman who was asleep.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, the best, the best. I saw that one I like the one of Hulk Hogan and Mr Liz.
Speaker 3:That was great have you seen the one with Ronald McDonald holding the.
Speaker 1:Wendy's. Yeah, I saw that one.
Speaker 3:Oh, there's one of Diddy holding a bottle of baby oil. That's great.
Speaker 2:I hadn't seen that one. The Philly Fanatic and the Mrs Philly. Fanatic. Yeah, that was pretty funny.
Speaker 1:I like the ones of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. Those are funny.
Speaker 3:I mean all of those are good, but you know what's scary is AI.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, it makes it look so realistic, oh the Trump and Epstein.
Speaker 2:One was killer.
Speaker 1:That was great. That was a good one.
Speaker 3:Man, they're looking so realistic you can't tell what's real and what's not. On that AI thing.
Speaker 2:Well, I think the Trump and Epstein one was probably real.
Speaker 1:I think so Just throwing that out there, so I mean. So what's your overall thoughts about?
Speaker 2:that About the Epstein stuff.
Speaker 3:No, no, no About this.
Speaker 1:Coldplay. Yeah, let's finish it up.
Speaker 2:Look, if you go to a public place, you are subject to whatever happens in terms of video Did you see the letter that come out.
Speaker 1:I don't know if the letter was true or not honestly, oh, his resignation letter. Well, the letter, basically at the end of it he's saying we were at. Basically he's blaming it on Cold play for of course, don't be cheating, dude.
Speaker 3:I saw that. I think that was fake. I think it was too.
Speaker 1:That's the reason why I asked because if it, if it wasn't fake, it was the most poorly written public release I've seen in a long time, right?
Speaker 2:uh, yeah, if you're, if a, if you're gonna cheat b, if you're gonna do it in a public place at where there's video going on and there's video everywhere. Sorry, that's on you.
Speaker 3:Obviously he wasn't in the cheap seats with a thousand other people Did you notice that Obviously he's not a gopher. He was in the high rent district.
Speaker 2:How high rent could it have been? Though it's a Coldplay concert, they probably gave those away for free as well.
Speaker 1:I used to rule the world.
Speaker 3:I can't tell you one song Coldplay sings that's the only one I know. That's the best song they have right there and I didn't recognize it. So I can't tell you that that's the only one I know.
Speaker 2:I have no idea. They're a U2 knockoff is what they are, and they stink.
Speaker 1:Worst group ever. I mean that's a huge company. That's a huge company, that he runs.
Speaker 3:I've never heard of them. Astronomer Never heard of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's.
Speaker 2:Buku's Adoption. What do they do? By the way, I honestly don't know Something with space.
Speaker 3:Really Lucky guess.
Speaker 2:I feel like that's right. Yeah, I just saw his net worth and who knows if it's true, it's half of that, it's going to be half of that soon.
Speaker 1:So, whatever it is, slice it in half. Guy once told me divorce is for really really, really, really rich people or really really really poor people and anybody in between. It's not for, Because if you've got $100 and you lose half of it, you've got $50, you still ain't got nothing right. And if you've got a billion dollars and you lose half of it, you still got 500 million. But if you've got five million dollars and you lose half of it, you got two and a half. That's a big difference that's, yeah, yeah, that's.
Speaker 3:That's a change in lifestyle for sure yeah, hey, when did you move across from the mgGM Grand? I'm just curious.
Speaker 2:Are you talking about the fountains or the giant lake, the giant?
Speaker 3:gold lion in the front. All that too.
Speaker 1:I have a couple questions about that One you've got lions, but secondly, are we going to be like what's the fountains in Las Vegas?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, the Bellagio.
Speaker 1:Is that what's getting ready to happen across the?
Speaker 2:street, Apparently the water's just stagnant right now, but I'm sure we're getting there. I wonder if the owner of that home is unhappy with the Life I wonder if there's any skeeters going to be there.
Speaker 3:Listen, I was over there the other day as the owner of that home was showing me and I made a reference to a cement pond and he didn't catch the reference. But number two I asked him about the, what the neighbors thought of the cesspool, and uh, he wasn't too keen about that idea either. Well, you know.
Speaker 1:But the gold lion just makes the whole, makes the landscape pop and it goes with the black ones, yeah so that one was black to start I know, but I mean, he's still got it gold.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, two cans is he gonna paint the rest of them gold, no only one gold line allowed by the mgm studios I'm confused so we're, we're just jump around a little bit today gonna talk a little confused, we're gonna yeah, makes two of us.
Speaker 2:We're gonna talk a little current events a little uh little across the street neighbor and all that let's Epstein, let's go to Epstein.
Speaker 3:Epstein, he hung himself.
Speaker 1:That's not current. All right, Excuse me.
Speaker 3:Jeffrey, you have a visitor.
Speaker 2:Oh, Hillary Clinton. All right, Epstein. So here this is a question that I have. It's a statement followed by a question, or maybe it's just a question Did this, this Epstein thing? Did it do what 34 felony convictions and you know all, uh, twice trying to be, you know, impeached, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah? Did it do what everything else couldn't do, and that is drive a wedge between MAGA and their false idol.
Speaker 3:Let me clarify what you're saying first, because obviously he's a slant that'll look the other way.
Speaker 2:I'm just posing a question. I think what you're trying to say? Obviously, you're not a golfer.
Speaker 3:I think what you're trying to say is is the Epstein issue and the non-releasing of the documents. Is that doing what the Democratic Party wanted to do is drive doubt into the minds of the President Trump supporters?
Speaker 2:Actually not what I'm asking. What I'm asking is this Let me be more clear. It's not the releasing of the epstein files. It's the blatant lying that there are no epstein client lists, that the president is now getting out there, that even his faithful, even the marjorie taylor greens of the world, are saying, hey, these are out there, they need to be released. Is that why MAGA is now rebelling?
Speaker 3:against the president. I don't talk about MAGA and rebelling. I think we're looking here between division between his supporters and himself. But he did ask Pam Bondi to pull up the court findings to be released.
Speaker 2:Which will do nothing. That's not what everyone is wanting open.
Speaker 1:I mean, look, go ahead, which will do nothing. That's not what everyone is wanting. Open, and I mean look, go ahead. I am for any politician to keep the statements that they say they're going to do. Agreed, thank you, that's my point. Don't care if they're democrat, republican independent.
Speaker 3:Do what you said, exactly you.
Speaker 1:What you said you said it was going to be released.
Speaker 2:It should be released, that's my, that's what I'm trying to say he said the john f kennedy file should be released.
Speaker 1:It should be released. That's my, that's what I'm trying to say. He said the john f kennedy file should be released. They should be released. Yep, look, don't say it. Yep, look, he said no tax on overtime. That was in. I mean, people are not happy about the big, beautiful bill he did it but but limited, but correct there is.
Speaker 1:There is an amount that's I mean do what you say you're going to do, right, I don't care if I agree with you or not. Stand for something, say you're going to do it and if you win, do it.
Speaker 2:That's the reason why people voted for you mike johnson, the speaker of the house, said release it, right? Uh, you know there's some of the most powerful republicans have said. I've said since this happened because I think I think what the issue is is their. You know his whole thing was. Are we still talking about that guy?
Speaker 3:Yeah, which is the wrong?
Speaker 1:answer. Look, he's made some dumb mistakes in this deal. I mean, look, Pam Bondi said I've got the files on my desk, and now she's saying there are no files Right, one of those statements is complete BS, right. And now she's saying there are no files, right, one of those statements is complete BS, right. And so look, if there is a list I assume there is. Yep, If there is a list, release it, right. If there's not a list, you shouldn't have lied and said you had it.
Speaker 2:If and for me.
Speaker 1:I'm fine with it being a fireable offense. Yep.
Speaker 3:I agree, and I want to go on record with that. I agree with you as well. I do have to wonder, though. Um, let me back up before I get attacked by him.
Speaker 2:Robert.
Speaker 3:Producer Mellon. I want to say this real quick. I agree 100%. If you said you're going to do it, do it. You know the false promises and statements that politicians make when they're running for office is sickening and it's getting old. But if he said he's going to do it, then do it. So I go back to yes, release these, get all the information out there, because if not we're not going away. This problem is not going away, but like the Kennedy thing. So I'm going to kind of make you think a little bit here. Do you think the reason that they're stalling, blocking, diverting whatever you want, is because there are other issues with releasing information, like the Kennedy thing? How would the US react if, yes, the CIA killed John F Kennedy?
Speaker 1:Who cares? I mean to me, don't say it, Because I'm assuming he knew what was in the files before he said it no, no, no, I see, I see, because he was president before he was president before, so I'm assuming he knows what was in it. So I mean, if you say I'm going to release it and then you're like, oh crap, I better not release it now because somebody might think that Don't say it in the first place.
Speaker 2:This is the guy who openly stated that he could stand on fifth avenue and shoot someone, and his followers would still follow him if his name is in the. Let me finish if his if his name is in the files, his followers would forgive him. Let's just be honest here 100 they, especially if you're up front. And hey, it was a different time, I'm not, by the way, I'm not I'm not condoning this at all.
Speaker 2:I think it, you know I I think it's unforgivable, but I'm just saying that's the mentality of the people that blindly follow him. Uh, the fact that they're rebelling against him because of what you said hey, you said this and now you're not doing it. That's really the first time that this has ever happened in his presence. Definitely a chink in the armor I agree with that well, look, I, I'm.
Speaker 2:I'm fairly confident there's going to be names in there from both sides 100 but I mean, don't say, it right, right, yep, um, and just be open and honest and transparent and get it out there and then then address it goes back to my favorite quote of a politician that when they said it they knew it was wrong, but they said it to just get elected.
Speaker 1:And it's read my lips no new taxes, right? Yeah, everybody knew he had to raise taxes then and everybody knew it was a lying dog and he got beat. He should have got beat. Yep, I didn't like that. He got beat, but he got beat and he should have got beat.
Speaker 2:Don't lie about stuff like that. That's reasonable. Now all of the conspiracy theorists are coming out. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Which drives me crazy, by the way. What are they saying? So the big one today that I'll show you guys off air on a video that I saw was that JD Vance has just spent a lot of time. He went out topert murdoch's ranch in montana and spent some time with him, and now the big rumor is the reason he spent time with him was to because something big is going down and jd vance is preparing for the presidency.
Speaker 1:I heard that I I'd seen a couple things like on facebook reels or something, and I just skip over it that says like trump's not going to be president. One of them said like after august and one of them said by the end of the year. So some of it's might be healthcare or health related. He's got big veins.
Speaker 3:He's got some cankles.
Speaker 1:And do you know?
Speaker 3:what's interesting, you see the makeup on his hands.
Speaker 1:And what's interesting is do you ever notice that he stands tilted? Yeah, I mean hands. And what's interesting is do you ever notice? That he stands tilted. Yeah, I mean he's, he's leaning forward significantly, yeah, yeah, and why and I also think it's funny he doesn't release his height and weight?
Speaker 3:look, he's 220, he's 6'4 220.
Speaker 2:He's thick, let's be 220 of him is just quarter pound. I ain't hating on him, but I mean he's thick dude Supposedly he and I are the same height and weight, Just for the record.
Speaker 3:I wear a 44 long in a sport coat. I think he wears about a 52.
Speaker 1:He's not small and the one thing he does that drives me crazy. Yeah, okay, drives me crazy. His ties are like four inches too long, yeah.
Speaker 3:Always, always. I don't get it.
Speaker 1:Look, somebody's got to teach him how to tie a tie.
Speaker 3:They're his brand of ties. I understand they're wrong. Tie on the right length.
Speaker 2:Tie should hit the belt. That's it. Bottom of the belt, no.
Speaker 1:His bit hits three inches below the zipper you know what really drives me nuts?
Speaker 3:worse than that, in the last three presidents have done it Actually four, because you throw Obama in there. Obama, biden and Trump have all done it.
Speaker 1:He was the president, obama was the president.
Speaker 3:No, no, they've all done it, though. He is Blue suits, yeah, black shoes.
Speaker 1:Wrong, look Wrong. I told you this. I don't disagree with you at all on this, and this is me getting older. But when I went to a suit, a well known suit place, they said black shoes with navy Is no problem and brown shoes With a gray or charcoal suit Is also no problem. I'm totally against both of those things. But they said it's not an issue Times change.
Speaker 3:Get off my lawn you know what paint, my paint, my lion gold but leave the rest of them black.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's what I don't get there's so much I don't get anyhow.
Speaker 3:The other thing that drives me crazy about this whole nice shrubbery yes or lack thereof details the whole epstein thing.
Speaker 3:Now what you're seeing is look over here, look over here, obama. Obama did this and obama did that. And look over here, obama is going to be charged for treason. And look over here, biden had a stroke. Look over here and all this other crap comes out. Just stick to the facts. But I also agree that we don't need to know everything, but this is something that was told and promised to. Don't need to know everything, but this is something that was told and promised to us. We need to know this. I agree with that. But here's the other thing Biden had a stroke. What does that have to do with the price of milk in China? Right now? Nothing, who cares? It's old news. Who cares? Why are we bringing this crap up?
Speaker 3:Oh we're trying to divert attention somewhere else.
Speaker 2:That's it. Reagan was senile for the last, at least, full year of his presidency.
Speaker 1:He struggled at the end.
Speaker 3:Nancy had an astrologist. Exactly who cares? Kennedy?
Speaker 2:did what Kennedy did, you know, with the ladies.
Speaker 3:He had some special lady friends.
Speaker 2:But having said all that, uh, I think greg's point is really valid, that uh campaign promises and it's not just a campaign regardless of what party you're on, though yeah, if you're saying do it man, that's well it's not like I'm going to balance the budget.
Speaker 2:There are a lot of things that go into balancing the budget. Right, I'm going to release the epstein files, pretty freaking simple. Look, it's a signature. Yeah, exactly, signed release there, it is right. Um, and so is his pam bondy or whatever. Is she going to pay the price for this mistake?
Speaker 1:Somebody's got to go, that's the way it's going to be. At some point somebody's got to go Sacrificial lamb right there, and she's the one.
Speaker 3:I think as soon as he said I reached out to Pam Bondi. I think she's been told you're out. If it's going to happen, you're going down.
Speaker 2:Well, it's going to happen pretty soon. I have.
Speaker 3:It has to because it's the grumblings and it's getting so loud out there. Yeah, did anyone?
Speaker 2:watch like face the press or any of those shows this morning. No, oh it was. It was pretty entertaining, let's just say um. So what else is in the news?
Speaker 1:that's our governor went to south carolina I don't know anything about it, but he went.
Speaker 3:I know nothing about it. I know what he I mean, I know he was campaigning. He spoke before the South Carolina Democratic Party Convention. How'd it go? What did he say?
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know what he said. I don't know what he said. I just think it's ridiculous if you're our governor and we're paying you.
Speaker 2:You said it in the last podcast. Vote for me. I'm so sorry I did say it, I put it up there on a team.
Speaker 3:He said if you want a leader who won't back down, who's over here and here and here and here, he said, vote for me.
Speaker 2:There you go.
Speaker 3:Wow, I knew nothing about how it went. Hold on, let me say it even better.
Speaker 2:He said vote for me. Well, there you are. I had a sophomore English teacher that used to say Well, there you are.
Speaker 1:When was that? In the 18th he was a tail gunner in World War II.
Speaker 2:Believe it or not, he was.
Speaker 3:What did your grandfather used to say?
Speaker 2:I can't really remember at this moment. Whatever it was, it was upstairs, yeah, something like that was what your grandfather used to say. Uh, I can't really remember at this, just curious. Yeah, whatever it was, it was upstairs, yeah, something like that.
Speaker 3:So um, but yeah, okay. But again I go back to this. You're our governor, you're in our state. We've had torrential rains. Blah, blah, blah. Why are you out campaigning? You gotta get a jump on 2028 presidential election that's gonna occur in three years, 2028 gotta get out in the front all right, he's trying to occur in three years, 2028.
Speaker 1:Got to get out in the front, all right, he's trying to get that democrat cheddar.
Speaker 3:We've all said it before does he have a chance?
Speaker 2:no, none I don't know.
Speaker 1:Here's the thing um the big perk he's got going for him is he's a. He's a democratic governor in a republican state.
Speaker 2:That's really popular and he's. He's beaten a trump candidate twice and okay, so that's, that's that that's what he's got going for him.
Speaker 1:The nose plays um, but I don't know that he's got the name recognition that's going to be needed. I mean, I I think it's probably gavin newsom still lose.
Speaker 2:I think I was gonna say what I think. If he is in a team, whether he's the VP candidate. Yeah, now I can totally see that If he's in a team with the right other person, then yes, I think that he could.
Speaker 1:He could be the howdy doody puppet, he could be the attorney general.
Speaker 2:Look, I know you guys like JD Vance. Jd Vance was out of left field in terms of four years ago which you have said Nobody knew who he was Exactly.
Speaker 1:I agree. Actually I knew who he was.
Speaker 2:I liked him Well, that's because you are a hillbilly-ologist.
Speaker 3:That's the best thing I've been called today. I've been called something great today, but you know.
Speaker 1:I could totally see him being on a ticket. I mean, he's got some appeal. I could totally see him being on a ticket.
Speaker 3:I mean, he's got some appeal yeah yeah, he's not a headliner, he's not a headliner.
Speaker 1:He's a little too folksy for me. Hey, folks, come on, but there's people who like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, vote for me, you cannot deny beating in a.
Speaker 3:look, we live in a very, very red state Yep With a super majority of republicans in our state legislation just our necks, or the rest of us as well? Uh, all of us all of us.
Speaker 2:We all read and, uh, he, he beat daniel cameron pretty significantly.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was an easy win, yeah so yeah, it was that was so mishandled, though the whole deal was mishandled uh, yeah.
Speaker 2:So now, on the lighter side of the news, I want to throw one out there for you boys. All right, so there's this traveling thing going around. Uh, the nation right now it's not measles, uh, rfk. Thanks so much for your advice on vaccines. Um, what's he talking about? Wait, do I need to hit?
Speaker 1:credits on that.
Speaker 3:I think you do I don't know yet, measles baby they're making a comeback, thanks to rfk anywho uh such I've had that vaccine, I have two and I still have the measles.
Speaker 2:So what's the, the doll that is being, oh, annabelle, annabelle, the annabelle doll that's being Traveled around Exactly and they're coming To rub with her Exactly.
Speaker 3:I have no idea what you're talking about. The Conjuring, the movie the Conjuring yeah, I know that.
Speaker 1:It's a Raggedy Ann doll. Yeah, I know the doll. I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3:Right, I didn't know it was Traveling around.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and the dude family, werner Warner, whatever their name is Warren thank you, warren. I always screw that up, mr and Mrs Warren. Mr Warren said don't ever move the doll, don't ever take the doll out of its box, out of its. You know they had in a case like a curio cabinet don't, don't go near the doll. The doll is evil. So what do they do?
Speaker 3:they're they die uh, elaine and Warren Lane and something.
Speaker 2:Warren. But yeah, yeah, and so they're parading the doll around the country and now one of the people who's already gone boom, this thing is evil. Would you go and see? It is my question. So I thought about that.
Speaker 3:I'm like, oh my God, I'd like to see that. Then I'm like, absolutely not, I would not go see it, zero chance for me.
Speaker 1:Nope, I have no appeal to it now. That's something my wife would be interested in. I don't know that she would go, but she, it's something she would be interested in so she and I she loves it we have very think, very many things in common like that I can tell you that, from a spiritual standpoint, I believe she'd be like me on this one and say absolutely not.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't stun me, I would be be like nope.
Speaker 1:Zero percent chance.
Speaker 2:Yeah, follow this guy who's an exorcist. He's a Catholic priest and he basically has said yeah, um, maybe something else too. Uh, yeah, he's like you, do not uh don't, don't tempt the fates, don't play, don't don't play with the ouija board correct, uh, he also said, uh, that you know salem, massachusetts, is, um, you know, home of witchcraft and all that. And he said that the ouija board, the manufacturer, their headquarters is in Salem Massachusetts. So I've been to Salem.
Speaker 3:I don't know about the Ouija board thing, yeah.
Speaker 2:Long story short. He's like you are tempting the fates because and don't go to a psychic, because you know the things that they talk to you are not your dead relatives, you know. So I'm just, I'm just kind of curious.
Speaker 1:I don't know anything about it. I'm gonna ask janie if she's interested.
Speaker 3:What's your opinion on this stuff?
Speaker 1:we just kind of told you I don't, I mean I don't believe in any of that crap I mean, I do, I, I have some belief, uh, just from some personal experiences yeah why I should.
Speaker 2:I should, I should be able to. Let's see yes.
Speaker 3:I have personal experience with this stuff. There you go. So I go so far as to say and you guys know me well enough to know this, I made the comment earlier today I go to pay for parking. It was $10. And I get $10. And the woman she goes oh no, no, we don't take cash. This I made the comment earlier today. I go to pay for parking. It was ten dollars, and I get ten dollars and the woman she goes. Oh no no, we don't.
Speaker 3:We don't take cash that offended you, didn't it, and I'm like you know what, in revelation, one of the signs of the coming rapture is a cashless society. And I'm like holy god, the mark of the beast, but I'm like holy holy cow, the mark of the beast, but I'm like holy cow. Here we go, Because nobody takes cash anymore.
Speaker 2:It's weird. Did you say revelation or revelations? Revelations, it's revelation. No, I'm having revelations.
Speaker 1:So let me ask you this I'm going to get in a little bit of a controversial topic, but I think the three of us will agree on it. Are we done with that one? Oh no, I still like talking about it more.
Speaker 3:I believe not.
Speaker 2:I've got a ghost story to tell in a minute, but, yes, go ahead.
Speaker 1:Did you see the shirt that the WNBA players? Oh good grief, Pay us what we owe.
Speaker 3:It says pay us what we're owed or pay us what we're due.
Speaker 1:So they're threatening to basically not play. I don't know what they played. Threatening to basically not play.
Speaker 2:I don't know what they played.
Speaker 1:Go to the other league, Wait, wait wait and they said they deserve what the NBA players are making. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3:But yet the WNBA lost what?
Speaker 1:$50 million.
Speaker 2:So what are your thoughts on that? I think the NBA supplements subsidizes the WNBA 1,000%.
Speaker 1:they do.
Speaker 2:If there were the tv contracts and the arenas were filled to the brim with similar ticket prices and they were making the same amount of money, then 100 they do.
Speaker 1:But I'm sorry, it's just, it's caitlin clark's world angel reese doesn't like that. Can I just go and?
Speaker 2:she's, she's All right. Let's, let's say, in our jobs, yeah, okay, when, what we do, I'll use me as a superintendent. Yeah, if I was a superintendent of the Dallas Texas independent school district or whatever, right, right Versus the superintendent of the Danville independent School District in Kentucky, right, okay, yeah, which one would I make more money in Dallas? 100%, why? Because?
Speaker 3:everything there is. You're more students. You got more students.
Speaker 2:It's much larger. You got a higher cost of living, you've got. It's the same kind of a deal. Yep, no, I mean, I don't disagree with you at all If you're a lawyer practicing in New York versus you know, I mean you're going, you're you're, and so if you're a WNBA player that plays in a league that has no competition, yeah.
Speaker 1:Their shirts that they wore said pay us what you owe us. Yeah, what I owe. So I hate to be this way. So here's the thing.
Speaker 3:I don't look. This is not sexist by any means. They play a sport. It doesn't have the draw, it doesn't have the commercials, it doesn't have any of that stuff. And I have to revert back to Shane Gillis, who hosted the ESPYs last Sunday. Did you guys see what he did?
Speaker 2:I did Okay.
Speaker 3:I did not. So he stands up, he's the host and he's a very funny guy. He stands up and he says tonight, four-time WNBA all-star Brittany Hicks is here. Give it up for Brittany. And they panned to her.
Speaker 3:And her to her and her husband's sitting there cracking up and he said everybody, I'm just joking, that's actually my friend's wife. I knew none of you knew who the wnba players were and everybody was clapping and cheering and britney hicks like she could have been the nba player. Wnba player, you know? I'm sorry it doesn't have the draw, it's like yeah it's not. That's not, I agree, that's not sexist, it's just it doesn't have it the, the wnbaBA League.
Speaker 1:it was at the All-Star Game. That's what the shirts they wore, and the WNBA League operates at a loss and is subsidized by the NBA.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so we need to pay them more money. For what? Because nobody still watches them. I don't know.
Speaker 1:All right, I just thought it was interesting.
Speaker 2:We're getting closer and closer to Halloween. Before we do the chocolate, I got a real quick ghost story. Got to share it. We're close to Halloween. As soon as you get past July 4th.
Speaker 3:You got Veterans Day Labor Day.
Speaker 1:My birthday. What are you talking about? Two weeks from?
Speaker 2:today.
Speaker 3:It's a big one this year, let's just be honest 63.
Speaker 2:We are 158 days from Christmas. Let's just be honest, it's a big one 63. We are 158 days from Christmas. Let's just make sure that we're aware of that here's what we'll do. I'll save my ghost story.
Speaker 1:No, I want to hear it. I want to hear it. Yeah, let's hear it. We roll this thing.
Speaker 2:The Foundry. Yeah, I've been there plenty of times. Really great venue. It's here in Frankfurt. It's an event venue. It's usually called Gershman's and way back in the day it was a, if I'm not mistaken, either Edsel or Packard I think Packard it was a Packard dealership and the office for the guy who managed it was above the door. There used to be steps that go up and above the front entrance. That's where his office was.
Speaker 2:When I first, you know, went there, the, the guy that owned it told me some ghost stories and he's like this place is haunted. I tell everyone about it, just so you know. And it's not bs, it's, this is real and sometimes you'll see the ghost of that guy going up to his office. He told a story about he was in there cleaning when he first got it and he heard something. He goes over to this door that leads down to the basement. He opens the door and he felt cold and he was like something. This is kind of weird Shuts the door, walks away, here's blood curdling, screams coming from the basement, goes and opens the door and just a whoosh of nothing, right? So he's freaked out, all right.
Speaker 2:So last week we had our retreat at the foundry. Yeah, wednesday night we set up, we put up these letters. You know what the word is courage, courage. We put that's our word in blue. Uh, and yes, they were lit up in blue, all right. So we turned off all the lights in the place. I come in first the next morning. I get there a few minutes before seven. It's just me, everything's quiet. I go in. The lights above the stage are on, so I'm thinking maybe they could be on a timer or something right. And I look in the. The g in the courage is down. It is knocked over. Only the G, right. Yeah, ah, that's interesting. G for ghost, I don't know G for you know, rose.
Speaker 2:Courage, Right, Courage. So I of course go and put it up, and at this point I'm freaking out. And I had been listening to Black Sabbath that morning, oh yeah on the way down.
Speaker 1:Okay, at six in the morning, yes, yeah, yeah, what?
Speaker 2:you gonna do, yeah, specifically the song black sabbath by black sabbath, right, and it's a spooky song. So I'm, I go over and I plug in my phone to turn on the music because I'm, I'm like, okay, I'm gonna play some black sabbath, it'll scare the ghosts, right, I'm, I'm reverse psychology, yeah, absolutely to the, the paranormal. So I turn on, you know, and, uh, I get a little freaked out. I walk outside, I'm just waiting outside finally somebody has to come.
Speaker 2:Finally, some people come and we come inside and I'm telling them the story, right, and so we start putting things away and it's, uh, so, one of the people I won't say who it is uh, she comes over and I'm standing at the bar, uh, because my assistant had come in and she was like it's really loud. I was like, okay, I'll turn the music off. So I turned the music off on my phone. It's way about 15 feet away, my phone is right and it's been off for a good five minutes. So this other person comes over, we're having a discussion at the bar and I'm telling her about this morning and the g being knocked over. At that time the a was lit up blue. It changed and became yellow and almost immediately right after the music started on its own.
Speaker 2:That's interesting man, and she's looking at me and I'm like you said I didn't touch it. She's like, no, you didn't, I'm witness. I don't like that. So anyway, that's my ghost story from the other, the other morning I like that.
Speaker 1:What do you think? That's pretty good, right, that's pretty good, I what was it? No, I thought it was good. No, that's good man. It happened all right, chocolate time.
Speaker 3:All right, here we go.
Speaker 2:This chocolate is from that's river sport from germany and it is river sport from germany. This was is liquid rizia I can tell by the package I know all, all about Ritter Sport.
Speaker 1:Is it dark?
Speaker 3:No, it's milk chocolate, it's Liquorizia. I don't know what it is. It is from Germany.
Speaker 1:Have you had it before, Mark?
Speaker 2:I have had all kinds of Ritter Sport.
Speaker 1:Is it?
Speaker 2:dark. Looks like milk. It's milk chocolate. Ritter Sport is good. My favorite Ritter Sport is the dark chocolate with hazelnuts. All right, let's see here Pretty good, this is from Alcindol. Oh, I know exactly what this is. This is licorice.
Speaker 3:Licorice chocolate. This is licorice. I don't get much licorice though.
Speaker 2:I get nothing. Licorice as an much licorice, though I get nothing. Liquorizia is anise licorice flavor.
Speaker 3:Not bad, though I don't get much anise out of it.
Speaker 2:That's the first thing I got you do, did you?
Speaker 3:get my or did you get your anise? It's all about the anise, all right, what do you think? Scale of one to ten.
Speaker 2:I'm going to give that a three. I just don't care for licorice, but the chocolate is excellent.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:The texture was okay. It had a little something crunchy in it. It did have crunchy, it was pretty good. What do you give it? I didn't think it was great, but I mean the texture was not good. I would not buy that again, I agree Do you like licorice?
Speaker 3:No, but I like. It's weird I don't like licorice, but I love absinthe. Which absinthe is full of anise and wormwood. But do you know why I like?
Speaker 2:absinthe, Because you have to light it on fire and be all cool.
Speaker 3:No, no no, After half a glass you don't really care. All right, this one is from Switzerland and it's called Ovo Maltine.
Speaker 2:Oh, I know what this is going to be Ovo Maltine.
Speaker 3:This is again from Switzerland. I don't know what it is, I'm excited about it.
Speaker 2:I'm going to make a prediction.
Speaker 3:You're not going to like it.
Speaker 2:No, I think I will. I think it's going to be malted. You like malted?
Speaker 1:Like Whompers, I think it's going to be milk chocolate with a malted flavor. At least you all are not getting dark chocolate because dark chocolate is terrible. It's really good. It looks like it's got some crunchy stuff in.
Speaker 3:it Reminds me of a crackle. I like those. That one's pretty tasty. I like the puffed rice in it.
Speaker 1:Great texture, texture's good.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I like that one. I give that one about a seven, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:That's good. I give seven and a half on that. Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like the rice in it. It reminds me of like a.
Speaker 3:Yeah, crackle's the right thing. Yeah, it's like a crackle. It's like that puffed rice, even better. All right, you ready. It's like a crackle but it's got like chocolate puffs in it instead of anything else.
Speaker 1:Instead of like the other crackle.
Speaker 3:All right, this one is called Fondantinero Novi. This is from Italy, novi.
Speaker 1:Fondant Tenero, are these recently acquired?
Speaker 3:Yeah, fonda Tenero, april and two weeks ago. Right, fonda Tenero, I have to put in my order to bring us some crisp. Hear the crispness I hear something.
Speaker 1:Fonda Tenero. So on our weekly update on our bet while Chris is opening this up there's no change since the last time. When the Cubs win, the Reds win. When the Cubs lose, the Reds lose.
Speaker 2:That's encouraging for the Reds that they're actually holding their own.
Speaker 1:The bad thing is Milwaukee's won 10 in a row. They're tied for the best record in a row, oh my gosh, they're tied for the best record in baseball with the Cubs right now. This looks like dark chocolate. There's no comment on this looks like dark chocolate.
Speaker 3:That's because it's 72% cocoa. That's good. That's where it's at. I can't taste it anyway.
Speaker 1:What's it matter? Is that the creamy dark chocolate?
Speaker 3:I just know I don't like it, I'm going to give this a nine. That is a creamy dark chocolate. That is good. It's 72%.
Speaker 1:I know I don't like. It is the problem. Halfway healthy? Yeah, go for your heart.
Speaker 3:All the antioxidants.
Speaker 1:All the antioxidants, exactly. It's weird, janey, and I get into this a lot because she's like you can't taste it now anyway, so just eat it. Shut up right, but I know I don't like it. There's nothing about it, no, like dark chocolate. I know I don't like it. That would be a terrible to have beef tongue. I can't taste this at all, really At all. Wow, it's good.
Speaker 3:But I know I don't like it. You know I can't see it, but I don't think I like the looks of it.
Speaker 2:No, I know I don't like it. George Carlin used to say his mom would try to give him food that he didn't like. And she's like why don't you like it? He's like I don't know. I know I don't like it and I know that if I ate it I would like it even less.
Speaker 3:I mean, it's like coffee you guys are big coffee drinkers. Oh, I had one tonight thanks to the wonderful new ninja machine janey's like.
Speaker 1:Well, why don't you drink coffee now?
Speaker 2:you can't taste it because I know I don't like it george carlin also said I don't eat anything with a Y and a G in it.
Speaker 1:Wagyu Yogurt oh, I don't eat that, I hate yogurt.
Speaker 3:Yogurt. I don't eat that either. This sounds like it's coming up again I don't eat yogurt, yogurt. I don't eat yogurt either. I agree with you Yogurt's nasty.
Speaker 1:So I have one other topic for us real quick. Great Homeowners associations. Oh boy, we could do 20 minutes on this. Or should we save it for another one?
Speaker 2:I think we can just start another one right now. Let's give a little taste.
Speaker 1:A little taste, just a little taste.
Speaker 2:Knowing that we're going to come back to this because homeowners associations yeah, I got a lot to say the devil.
Speaker 1:The devil uh, yeah, I, I got a lot to say the devil, the devil, uh you know I think I think home, or here's my, here's my thought.
Speaker 1:I mean just yeah, I think at this outset, homeowners associations had a good I mean it's almost like it's like a union, it's almost like the unions, yep, unions had a purpose, yep, yep. And we've went past that Yep, yep. And homeowners associations. You know they wanted to make restrictions on what size a house somebody built so you didn't have a mobile home beside a big house or something like that. Right, but they've got out of control, yep.
Speaker 2:Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Speaker 3:I agree with that, but I also think it takes away neighbors being neighbors. You know, when I was the head of a neighborhood association I had a neighbor come up to me Back in the day in Bel Air, At which residence I had a neighbor come up to me and say oh, no comment on that.
Speaker 2:Was it Johnny Carson? Was he the neighbor?
Speaker 1:Aaron.
Speaker 3:Spelling came up and said Mommy Neighbor comes up to me and says Can you go talk to my next door neighbor and tell them to put their trash can up? I'm like why don't you go put it up for them? Or say Hello, my name is so-and-so, can you put your can up? I'm not doing it for you. Hey, get off my lawn, I'll put my trash can up when I want to put my trash. If you don't like it, yeah, you get over it. But can we? Can we report the golden lion to the neighborhood association if?
Speaker 2:we can report an rv being parked in the driveway, then we should be able to report a golden lion and a mosquito filled pond.
Speaker 1:That right, there is called an rv, you know, where there's not homeowners associations, there's not as many where, where lima, ohio, that's right, there is called an RV.
Speaker 2:You know, where there's not homeowners associations, I do, there's not as many when when Lima, ohio, that's right, there's definitely not as many there, we found that out firsthand.
Speaker 3:Absolutely Almost Well, first of December, I'm just telling you.
Speaker 1:Well, mark and I are making a trip pre-year, first of December, to make sure we're clear.
Speaker 3:Well, let me know.
