Monogamy Pledges & School Records

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SPEAKER_01 0:00

Welcome to the Andy Meadows Show. We've got a good round table coming up where we'll discuss all kinds of things with my brother Chris. But first, your headlines. More American troops are headed towards the Middle East as the War in Iran stretches into week five, just in case the president decides to send in ground troops via a 2 a.m. toilet tweet. Hi kid, we all know Netanyahu is the one making that call. Epstein files. Blackmail. CPAC 2026 returned to Texas with conservatives meeting just down the road from me in Grapevine, Texas, where I used to live. The uh typically pro-Trump conference was a little less pro-Trump this year, with some of the crowd even cheering the idea of impeachment hearings when CPAC chairman Matt Schlap mentioned it on the stage. Schlap was so offended he had to grab two men's asses later that night at a downtown bar. Joke, please don't sue me. Allegedly grabbed him. Tiger Woods rolled his car in his posh, Florida neighborhood and was charged with a DUI for pills. This marks the fourth major high-profile vehicle incident involving the golfing legend, and the first time Vanessa Trump has said, Did I really leave DJ TJ for another rich douchebag? Our airports are still a shit show as lawmakers refuse to work across the aisle to pay TSA workers to feel us all up and make sure we don't have bombs in our tidy whities. The No Kings protest, while mostly peaceful, did lead to clashes in both Portland and LA, and they led to Bruce Springsteen taking the stage in Minneapolis to sing a terrible song he scrolled in a napkin after we all watched a second American citizen get murdered on camera for the crime of annoying poorly trained federal officers. And now your redneck round table. Did I hit the right button? Come on, man. Riverside is running slow today.

SPEAKER_00 2:00

Dude, I'm telling you. Oh hey, there it is.

SPEAKER_01 2:11

Look at that. Ah, that's one of my blues songs.

SPEAKER_00 2:18

You want to load your own music into your thing when you press the button, too. Yeah, so I get an extra two cents.

SPEAKER_01 2:25

If you want to weigh on anything we talk about, comment on whichever platform you're watching this or head to AndyMeadowsShow.com to record your audio. Either way, we're likely to include your thoughts on an upcoming episode. Please welcome our mother's second favorite son, maybe third, Chris Meadows. Lies! You think you're number one?

SPEAKER_00 2:48

You think you're number one? Of course, I'm number one. You kidding me? The only thing I didn't do is provide them any more grandchildren, but they got enough now.

SPEAKER_01 2:57

I saw her and dad yesterday. I should have asked. And then I could have said, Well, really? Here's mom. Roll the tape. And it's mom going, Andy is my favorite son. Dude, we had a terrible freaking week, especially yesterday. Oh no. So Jack faceplanted several times because he's pulling the stand now. Oh. And boys apparently don't once they get hurt, they don't like not do it again. I I know this because our other two are girls. So he just keeps faceplanting, cries, then gets back up and does it again. And so Matt all on the same day that happened. Madeline burned her hand on the stove for the second time in her life. Um, scary. And then Jill had to rush Annie to urgent care for popping out her elbow. Oh, like dislocated? No, it's not as bad as dislocated. It's like uh it's called nursemaid elbow. You're not you know you're not supposed to pick up kids by their arms, right? Yeah, I didn't probably not. That sounds right. Yeah, because it can throw it.

SPEAKER_00 4:04

Only from the feet. Got it, okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:08

That would throw out other things, but no, picking them up by the arms can throw at their shoulders, can throw at their elbow. But um first time I was uh she likes to be flipped over. I was flipping her over the first time it happened. And so once it happens once, it happens again. So yesterday Jill picked her up just real quickly by her arms, and it the second time it pops out real easy. So now for the next year, we gotta be real careful, otherwise she'll do that every once in a while. Does it hurt? Like she starts screaming? No, I mean she probably got Jill's pain tolerance instead of mine because she just kind of goes, ow, my elbow. And then now she knows that means she gets to go to the doctor, which she loves. And while we're waiting to get everything situated so we can run it to the doctor, she gets to go into mommy daddy's room to watch whatever show she wants while she waits. So she kind of likes it.

SPEAKER_00 5:02

A little bit of a benefit.

SPEAKER_01 5:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:05

But y'all been up to physically abusing your children, is what you're telling me. No, uh it sounds like both of you now have physically harmed the child.

SPEAKER_01 5:14

No, the uh I guess technically the stove thing was mine because I had broiled some hamburger buns and I forgot to turn it off. You can't lock our stove without turning it off first, which is stupid.

SPEAKER_00 5:29

You can't lock the stove oh, like the the door?

SPEAKER_01 5:33

Yeah, so they have a lock on them, but that's mainly just for self-cleaning, I guess, stoves.

SPEAKER_00 5:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:38

But it helps great because the kids like to open the stove up. But if you're tr if you've got it, if you're actively preheating it or it's already hot and running, you can't lock it. Which that's the time you need to lock it. You know what I mean? Oh, maybe get some Velcro or something. Yeah, we're gonna put a lock on it. But we got it's that's uh the freaking kid proofing houses is so tough because you gotta think of every single thing they might get into and they get taller every day.

SPEAKER_00 6:06

Or you just like once one of them gets hurt, you're like, okay, well, we gotta fix that problem.

SPEAKER_01 6:11

Right, but now we got Jack who gets into things that the girls never get into because he's just like Mr. Explorer. You know? So it's it's a living nightmare, Chris.

SPEAKER_00 6:23

Jack will just continue to hurt himself over and over again trying to do something. Maddie burned her hand and said, Oh no, don't do that ever again. But then she forgot maybe and like, okay, I'm gonna burn my hand again.

SPEAKER_01 6:33

Right. So she's good about like Annie's also not as good as Madeline about Annie will get hurt multi multiple times. Usually once Madeline gets hurt on something, she knows not to do it, which is not how you want them to learn. Because you don't you don't want them like Well, what alternative is there? You just tell her and she's like, oh, okay. Right, but Annie, you can kind of tell. Madeline, it's hard to get that through to her, so it is helpful that when she does get hurt doing something, she doesn't do it like again. Uh but apparently she'd forgotten about the stove.

SPEAKER_00 7:03

But we're loving up there. Um, let's see. We would we did some dog race action last weekend up in Fairbanks. Who won the dog race? Open North American championships, the same guy that has won it 11 other times now.

SPEAKER_01 7:21

I always hate somebody like new winners.

SPEAKER_00 7:23

I know. He's he's definitely got the Max for Stappen effect now. Everybody's like, oh, really? Him again? He's winning again? Come on. But it's crazy because they do 70 miles over three days. It's fast, you know, they're going about 20 miles an hour on the dogs. And by the end of that time, they're still only seconds apart.

unknown 7:42

Good God.

SPEAKER_00 7:42

After all that time. Yeah. So that's somehow every single year he he got it exactly down to the science of I'm always eight seconds faster than everybody else, and that's all I need to be.

SPEAKER_01 7:53

You gotta interview him and find out what his trick is. Is it the kibble? What's he feeding these dogs?

SPEAKER_00 7:59

His trick is I think he's got 90 dogs and he picks the best ones.

SPEAKER_01 8:04

Process of elimination. Yeah. He spends the whole year.

SPEAKER_00 8:07

He h hunger games the dogs.

SPEAKER_01 8:10

He spends the whole year pitting those dogs against each other. So he can. But yeah, that's incredible, man, that they're that close at the frickin' end after that long. Because usually in the longer road races with cars, even with cars, there's a quite a separation.

SPEAKER_00 8:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:26

You know. Because like in the Daytona 500, they'll lap people multiple times. So who knows? And but that's yeah, I mean, it's crazy. Did he have to retire any dogs? Like you said, they retire some if they're not.

SPEAKER_00 8:43

Oh, yeah. Everybody I don't think anybody in the whole so there was like 18 people racing. I don't think anybody kept all the dogs for the entire weekend. Usually it's like they start with 18 dogs and then they'll go, okay, these two were not very good. So and then like the worst thing for them is that they have to pick up a dog while they're out racing. Because then they have to put it in the bag in the sled and then carry the dog back.

SPEAKER_01 9:09

So you're saying like in between days.

SPEAKER_00 9:13

So first day, first day they'll have 18 dogs, next day it'll be 14 dogs. Last day it'd maybe 12 dogs. I think somebody last day was running eight dogs.

SPEAKER_01 9:22

So oh wow. Hey, did you see that uh Lily Meadows, our niece, set a school record at Amherst?

SPEAKER_00 9:30

I did see that uh early morning family group texts. See, you guys are all in a different time zone. So when my phone starts binging off the hook at 6 a.m., I'm going, oh man, is that work? And I look at it, I go, no, it's family. I can't really go, don't you know.

SPEAKER_01 9:47

Don't text me at this time. Well, you're closer to their time zone than than uh you're you are to our time zone, right? Yeah, they're only an hour ahead of us, but still it's ahead. Yeah, that's true. I get see, I get it the other way because I'm in the latest time zone of our immediate family. So the texts come late at night. Yeah, I get by the time I'm in bed, I'll get a text at like 11 30 or midnight, and I'm like, they probably in their mind still think Andy Meadows hangs out that late, and it's like, no, he doesn't. Not in several years. Unless I'm maybe at a conven even when I go to conventions or go out of town by myself, I can't stay up that late anymore.

SPEAKER_00 10:26

Because I'm so used to Oh, yeah, I I'm an early I'm totally one of the ones that, you know, everybody's out bar hopping and I'll just walk away and go, okay, good night, see you later.

SPEAKER_01 10:35

I know, I've got I've seen you pull the Irish accent. But the uh uh but you sleep late. Yeah, I just love to sleep. Oh, dude, I wish I could I wish I got that gene. It's so nice. Yes, you'll have that. She I mean she doesn't sleep great, but she seems uh considerably better than neither of us sleep great right now because of kids, but she's uh is considerably better at it than I am. So is Lily, do you think she's the first Meadows to ever set a school record?

SPEAKER_00 11:07

Yeah, unless it was for something bad. Like, I mean, I think Rob got the most demerits ever at West Point, and he did it in one year before.

SPEAKER_01 11:19

I remember hearing about that. I mean, I did set a record at Tyvee High School for consecutive girlfriends in my man whore phase. And I said, concurrent?

SPEAKER_00 11:29

Or was it consecutive or concurrent?

SPEAKER_01 11:32

You're probably right, it was concurrent. And uh and the lowest note ever sung in the tech in the tech choir. But I don't think they give you plaques for either of those things or put your name on a plaque. Maybe in the restroom.

SPEAKER_00 11:45

Yeah, I definitely I mean you're you're you you become famous for that. Oh, our uh So she was she's flinging the hammer.

SPEAKER_01 11:55

So she has a school she has a school record now, and I can't think of the other thing that she throws that she has a record in.

SPEAKER_00 12:02

She's got shot put, she's got discus, she's got the hammer throw, right? Maybe it's discus.

SPEAKER_01 12:08

I thought the hammer throw is the is the weird one where you spin around and it's got leverage. Yeah. And they kind of look like they're gonna fall down every time.

SPEAKER_00 12:17

Every single time. It's like they're very precipice of right where you're gonna fall over. That's where you gotta do it.

SPEAKER_01 12:25

And they spin so freaking fast, man.

SPEAKER_00 12:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:28

It's I'm pretty sure I would pass out if I tried that. I told you, I may have told this story in the podcast before uh about me throwing shot put in high school. I don't think so. Because I can't imagine why you would throw shot put. Well, so a different time, just don't get offended by this. It's not my I didn't put this together, but they used to have a thing called the Fat Man Relay at one of the track meets that we go to every year. And and this is this is when I was in junction and we had Coach Ball. Do you remember Coach Ball? He was fast. He was fast for a fat dude, he was fast. Yeah. So apparently it was like his big thing that he wanted to win this, and so he goes, I got a secret plan this year, Meadows. You're gonna throw the shot put. And I'm like, everybody's gonna laugh. I keep in mind at this time I'm probably 6'5, 150, 160 tops. Yeah, I mean, I'm super beanpole skinny. I'm like, everybody's gonna laugh at me. He's like, Yeah, you only have to do one event to qualify to run in the Fat Man relay. So we're gonna put you in shot put as our third or second or third shot putter. So we know you're not gonna win shot put. That's not the point. Just make to get you onto the relay. And and he's like, you don't even have to try it. I'm like, yeah, but you know me. I'm gonna make a bit out of it. So I really went out there and sold it like I thought I was gonna be good at shot put and threw it like eek. And I was like, no. Like making a huge scene out of it. So that was fun. And then I got to run in the Fat Man relay, and I was the anchor, and all the other teams were pissed because they were immediately realized why he put this nerd in in shot put was but there was nothing in the rules saying you couldn't do it. So we won't.

SPEAKER_00 14:11

I mean, it's in the name, it's in the name, it's not in the rules because it's in the name.

SPEAKER_01 14:17

Yeah, and that's what everyone's saying. He's not a fat man. This is the fat man relay. And it's like, well, technically, you don't have to be fat to run throw the shot put. We could have a skinny shot putter. So anyway, the prize, guess what the prize was? You'll never guess.

SPEAKER_00 14:29

Hmm.

SPEAKER_01 14:30

A bucket of chicken. Oh, nice. So we all got to sit there and eat the the butter.

SPEAKER_00 14:37

Dude, you know nowadays. That's like a$75 prize.

SPEAKER_01 14:40

I know. Yeah. Crazy. I'm I would guarantee you they don't do that anymore. This was not a district meet or anything. It was just a one of the track meets you go through before district, but it was a coveted prize.

SPEAKER_00 14:54

Well, I mean, you know, it's that whole appropriation thing. You're like, oh, they can't make as a fat man myself. I don't care. I'm not offended that there's a fat man relay. Run run around. It's fine.

SPEAKER_01 15:07

Yeah, but I mean I think I made it worse by really making a big A, you know me, I'm not a good winner. When I win at things, I kind of have a tendency to let everybody know I won. You're not a good loser either. True.

SPEAKER_00 15:19

So you're basically terrible at that. Both aspects of that.

SPEAKER_01 15:25

I'm I'm crazy competitive, which we've talked about before. And uh so yeah, I I made a bit out of the shot put thing and and did all my throws and then kept acting like I thought the next one was gonna actually be good. And then uh once we won the Fat Man relay, I had to rub it in everybody's face. So I was lucky that I didn't get beat up by several very large men individuals.

SPEAKER_00 15:51

Yeah. But yeah, you every guy that throws the shot put is massive. I don't know why you would think that a skinny dude could actually do it good. Yeah. I think it's physics.

SPEAKER_01 16:03

There's the right button.

SPEAKER_00 16:04

Are you just randomly making noises on your thing?

SPEAKER_01 16:06

No, it's our top comment time. So I I forgot to say one of the 30 viewers has said something to Andy.

SPEAKER_00 16:15

Stop talking about how few people watch the show. So maybe it'll encourage people to tell their friends. Like it subscribe. You do you not do that? You don't do the call to action? Like it subscribe and follow the show.

SPEAKER_01 16:27

I think people get that at this point, right? But everybody's no, you have to say it.

SPEAKER_00 16:30

I think you have otherwise you'd like, oh no, and you're leaving. Smash this like button, guys.

SPEAKER_01 16:39

So so I didn't screenshot it, but it was you remember Rogelio Gutierrez? Mmm. Doesn't remember from Texas? No. His brother would have been in my grade. He was in a year younger than Rob. Uh, so I guess he saw one of our posts and he said, uh, when uh it's the one where we're talking about when the war will end, where I said uh when the unredacted Epstein files are released or gas hits five dollars per gallon. Yeah. So uh he said, is that a Texas price? I was in Cali last week and gas was over six bucks. I haven't seen it that high.

SPEAKER_00 17:15

I have seen pictures of eight dollars, but you know how California is, they've got those certain gas stations that are near like the rental car place or near like an Amazon fleet that comes out and doesn't care and they just fill up, or their prices are two dollars higher than anywhere else. I filled up one time there when average gas prices were three dollars and I paid seven something because I wasn't paying attention. And I was like, I'm returning a rental car, I just need to top it up. And I as I'm filling up, I'm like, holy crap, this is seven something a gallon.

SPEAKER_01 17:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:47

So that it it it feels like, I mean, I guess prices aren't regulated. I, you know, they can charge whatever they want, but it feels kind of scummy at the same time.

SPEAKER_01 17:56

Yeah, to do it that way. That's what they call price gouging, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 18:01

Well, no, I mean you advertise the price, the price is there. People are gonna pay it if they want to pay it. Yeah, and the thing is, is they there's always cars filling up there, so it's clearly doesn't make a difference.

SPEAKER_01 18:14

Well, I do think there are like um, I mean, I look every time now, but there have definitely been times in my life where I didn't even pay attention until after I'd filled up, and then you go, oh my gosh, why was it 90 bucks? Crap. Well, because here in Texas, it's like uh if you're along the interstate, you know if you go along the interstate, you're probably gonna pay a little more than somewhere like if you go further into town. So it's proximity, but it's also the further you are away from the Gulf, the prices are a little bit higher. So I don't know if that has anything to do with being closer to an oil refinery. Like in Alaska, are is it higher than it is here in the States? Usually it is higher, yes.

SPEAKER_00 18:54

There are refineries here, they pull it out of the ground here, but it is higher. But it's also all of it's ethanol-free, and ethanol-free gas is usually more expensive anyway. I think they probably have to do that here because I think they've if you've got ethanol in the gas, you can get water in it and can freeze.

SPEAKER_01 19:09

But Well, and the ethanol, so I when you're um I know when I had a boat, they always said don't put ethanol gas with ethanol in it in your boat because it eats the hoses, chews the hoses up. I think it also doesn't store well. Well, in a boat, that would matter. Yeah, too. Yeah, so I think that I don't know exactly why it would chew the hoses up, but I one year I didn't do that. Just like that's probably a myth. That's all old urban legend. And I put gas with ethanol in it, and I did have to replace every single frickin' hose. That it cost me like eight hundred bucks to do that, so that was legitimately true thing. Oh, we did get some feedback on the show from uh my wife. Oh, yeah. She said uh that Jill's so nervous when she gives me feedback because I don't always take constructive criticism well, which is weird because part of my job uh as a consultant is to give constructive right, but that's to other people who use it to feel superior too, because you're like, hello, I am so I don't I don't take feedback uh constructive criticism.

SPEAKER_00 20:20

I'm I'm getting much better at it. At least you know that about yourself, so that's good to you know acknowledge.

SPEAKER_01 20:27

So she always soft pedals it at first and she's like I don't I wasn't gonna say anything, but sometimes you get too far away from the mic, and I can or you no, she said sometimes you trail off at the end of phrases and it sound sounds like you're bored with what you're talking about. I'm like, Well, that's probably true. So I didn't get mad at that one because I was like, it's also I switched mics, and this you know this mic is much better when you're up on it. Yeah. It's made for being you we always tell people to eat. It's a close mic. It's a close mic. So when the other mic I had before was probably a little better when I I tend to move around when I talk, so that other mic's better for that.

SPEAKER_00 21:08

So back to this war thing. It's not a war anymore. I heard that. It's a special operation or something. He can't call it a war. He said, Oh man, I gotta stop calling this a war because I don't have these powers, so I'm gonna call it something different.

SPEAKER_01 21:25

That's why it's so gotta be so hard to be in uh in the cabinet because you come out and say all the things you're legally supposed to say, and then he goes on TV and says this war. I mean, the thing I'm not supposed to call a war, but it's obviously a war. I mean, come on.

SPEAKER_00 21:40

Yeah, he always says the quiet part out loud. I know. Like every other politician in history has been like riding along, okay. And he's like, Yeah, whatever. I'm starting a war illegally. I'm committing war crimes, but don't call it a war.

SPEAKER_01 21:57

Well, I mean, he does like the So in the the cabinet meeting, the last couple cabinet meetings, because they all go around the table and they like uh praise him, which is very weird to uh us Americans because we've never seen that in a I don't think most people televised their cabinet meetings in the past, did they?

SPEAKER_00 22:18

I d I mean I don't think so. Or not watched them. Yeah, but they probably weren't interesting. They were probably just actual meetings.

SPEAKER_01 22:26

Well, and these and that's kind of what he said, he goes. He said, I got in trouble for they said I fell asleep in these, and that and uh the truth is these things are really boring, and I get sometimes I shut my eyes because I'm so bored and just sit there, but I'm not asleep, he said. All that so clearly he fell asleep.

SPEAKER_00 22:48

You can try to do that. I just I I we I feel like we don't need 80-year-old men in positions of power anymore. That's the problem. Let grandpa sleep. He needs a nap, he can't be on all day, you know?

SPEAKER_01 23:00

Well, that's what I felt I kind of felt bad for Biden towards the end, and especially after that debate where he was clearly seemed too old to do the job, where Trump really beat him in that debate. Everybody kind of agreed, even people that that hated uh Trump were like, yeah, he he probably won that because Biden seemed so out of it. I mean, they caught him at the wrong time. Somebody that age, there's times of the day where you're not gonna be as strong. And they were they were at they were obviously hiding how dgraded he were probably was a little more. I mean, that books have come out saying that, but the it was ironic because Trump is so much so close to his age. Yeah. So it's like we don't want the 81 year old, we want the 79 or 80, whatever. You know, they're real close. Uh and then he ends up they so they thought, you know, putting Kamala in there, who's so much younger, would yeah, give give him a shot. But then yeah. But I do think after this presidency, I that's the one big thing I think next time I think the person's I could I could see the next president being 37 years old. I mean, not even 40, but definitely not over 50 or 60. I mean 50 probably, but definitely not over 60. I think this is the last really old president we'll have for a while.

SPEAKER_00 24:22

Good, because I think that you should have to live with the consequences of your actions. Yeah, that's a good point because it is kind of like although he can do whatever he wants at this point, he's probably not good here for long.

SPEAKER_01 24:34

Well, that's like when everyone's like third term, third term, he's not gonna run for a third term, not just because of the law, because obviously he doesn't mind breaking the law.

SPEAKER_00 24:43

No, I want him to I want him to get it passed that you can run for a third term, and I want Obama to run against him.

SPEAKER_01 24:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:53

Because that would upset him so much.

SPEAKER_01 24:55

You laugh, but hey, it comes full circle. Obama is the reason he ran. You know that, right? Yeah, yeah. That one press dinner. If Obama hadn't delivered those jokes, or whoever wrote those jokes weren't so good. Because it was a pretty funny. I mean, he was making fun of him. He's he like showed a picture of what the White House would look like with Trump, and it was like gold, all gold, and everybody laughed, of course.

SPEAKER_00 25:21

Which is kind of how the Oval Office looks now.

SPEAKER_01 25:23

There's lots of gold in it. He he predicted the it was showing the outside, but if he'd shown the inside, that would have been well after the ballroom, maybe it will match a little bit better.

SPEAKER_00 25:36

Are they still doing that? I haven't heard of ballroom stuff in a while.

SPEAKER_01 25:40

Yeah, and I think it's probably I think I heard saw something about it running over budget of hair, but I could be misremembering. That to me, I think I was surprised that didn't get more attention because of the historic building and the fact that you know we're so big on traditions and stuff, and he's just knocking it down to make a ballroom that's larger than the rest of the White House altogether, right?

unknown 26:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:05

Am I right in that?

SPEAKER_00 26:06

You're you're correct in that. It's larger than the rest of the building combined. Um, and how many balls are you gonna have? That's what it feels like. Is it ball every night? You know, if you got that much space.

SPEAKER_01 26:19

Dude, when you're bringing in all that, when you're bringing in all that money from those oil rich countries, when you could throw some pretty pretty sweet ballrooms. Plus, it's all paid for. Sponsors, it's gonna be the uh But you said it's going over budget. Is that because of tariffs or oil prices going up? Who knows? I don't quote me on that. I'm I may be wrong about it going over budget, but uh I thought I saw a story about that. Oh, hey, I saw Karen in the wild this week at the DMV.

SPEAKER_00 26:48

Nice. Yeah. Well, I mean, DMV, generally speaking, is not brings it out. Yeah. Yeah. I think that the actual DMV employees play games about how many people I can upset today. Like they're keeping a tally back there.

SPEAKER_01 27:03

Well, dude, I was so I I did understand why she acted the way she did. So all she did was she was just all she did. She she was, you know, it's like the scene in Beetlejuice where they're all pulling a number, and the number you get is like out of thin air. It's like insanely high, and then it doesn't correlate with the numbers coming up that they're calling for. So this lady got mad and she was like, did the whole uh I s you're calling up people that have came in after me and I saw them come after me, and they were like, Yeah, because we also text people about their appointments, they make appointments earlier and blah blah blah, and she didn't buy it, and she then she started so that wasn't enough. So she started asking the people in line, when did you get here? And they were like, I don't know. And I was loving it. I almost pulled out my phone to to film it because it was pretty good. But then I I saw I was kind of making fun of her in my head, and then I had to wait so long that I kind of started to see her. You started to feel it. Like, there does it, you start you want to go, there's no rhyme or reason to this. Why are you like T15576 and then R75?

SPEAKER_00 28:14

You know, like so. Does it ask you when you show up for the appointment what you're there for? Like, is it like I'm renewing a license or I'm doing something with a car? That's what it was. So different people have different jobs, and if there's more people there for the license, so it looks way worse in that aspect.

SPEAKER_01 28:31

And there, and there was a uh lady in line to her credit that was get that guessed that explanation you just said. She was like, you hit the she's like explaining to her on the kiosk when you came in, you hit registration for vehicle registration. That's why your numbers are blah, blah, blah, blah. But anyway, they have have you seen any Karen's in the wild?

SPEAKER_00 28:53

Um, not this week, but that reminds like when you're talking about the worst, I get that way at a restaurant. You know, either when you're waiting for the table and people come in after you, and then they sit down and you're like, wait a minute, they didn't have a reservation. Why are they sitting and I'm not? But more so when you've ordered food and you're at the table, you ordered your food, somebody comes and sits at the table next to you, they order their food, and then they get their food, and you're like, I've been here 15 minutes, I haven't gotten the food. They sat down, they got the food.

SPEAKER_01 29:29

See, that doesn't the second part doesn't bother me nearly as much because that that's all dependent on what you ordered. Uh no, I that upsets me. Yeah, but if you order something that takes longer to cook, it's not going to get there as quick. If they order something that's, you know, they order a chicken salad that takes no time already put together, they throw the chicken on it and you ordered fajitas or whatever. I don't know. It definitely depends on what you order. But the first thing you said, that makes me mad. When I make a reserve, when I go through the trouble to make a reservation, especially for a special event, like Valentine's Day or something, and I make a reservation and we get there ahead of time, we're ready, boom, seven o'clock rolls around. Where's our table? Oh, sorry, you we can't we're what? I had a reservation. You know, it's not ready. And then when you sit down, somebody else that didn't have a reservation just walks in and gets a table and it's like, was that a celebrity? I don't know that person. Why are they what's this? What's this about? Oh, it's a YouTuber or an influencer. Who knows? But yeah, that's it. Or it's just, hey, we had an extra table. We want people to be sitting down and eating. Right. Or it's a friend of the Maitre D or the or the hostess or whoever. Who freaking knows?

SPEAKER_00 30:42

Or, oh, he's here all the time. I love that one. He's here all the time. Well, I'm here right now too, maybe.

SPEAKER_01 30:50

That's uh I've never been a regular at a restaurant. I've I'm sure I've been a regular at a restaurant, but I never uh other than the places in Kerrville where we'd all go because it's a smaller town, but here in the big city, I've never been a regular at a restaurant enough where they like no on my order, but I've definitely been the regular at a bar. And that's kind of a weird feeling because you walk in when you walk into a bar and they just slide a drink down the bar with your the thing that you always get, it is a little depressing. It's like I because I like to think I don't have a problem.

SPEAKER_00 31:22

But then when you're like But they recognize you, they know what you're drinking, and it's their way to do it.

SPEAKER_01 31:27

Slide in old fashioned that's perfectly made the way you like it, and the glass you like, and you're like, uh then you start telling a story and everyone's like, we've heard it before. I'm like, oh crap. Gotta find a new bar. Hey, so you were an economics major or are we on the verge of a you were an economics minor, right?

SPEAKER_00 31:46

Uh no, I'm an economics major. I have two degrees. I guess two degrees, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:52

Are we on the verge of an economic crash like 2008?

SPEAKER_00 31:56

It feels like it, doesn't it?

unknown 31:57

I know.

SPEAKER_00 31:58

Um it's hard to say, man. I think it's whether or not this AI bubble pops. It'll be, I don't think it'll be a 2008-2009. It'll probably be more like a tech 2000, 2001 bubble burst. The tech bubble bursting. Yeah. Where, but I mean, how many sectors is it gonna, in fact, who knows? I mean the whole the whole prediction forever was as soon as the federal deficit goes past the annual GDP, we're all screwed. And that happened a few years back, and it nothing didn't matter. So we're just like, oh, just truck along like normal. Well, that's so hard. Yeah, the is well, that's the thing, is that it's all this speculation around it, and Trump can move the markets with a tweet, and he's been doing that all week back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. So, you know, who knows? Who who knows what's real and what's not?

SPEAKER_01 32:59

But it feels like, yeah, feels like it's it's not a great time to be uh the two things that scare me is one that you said of um AI uh bubble, because I know there's a handful of AI companies kind of propping up the whole economy right now, especially here in the States.

SPEAKER_00 33:19

Yeah, and OpenAI has said they're gonna put like a hundred billion dollars a year into or something. It's some crazy amount of money they're planning on burning over the next 10 years. It's like how are you ever gonna get that back? You have to charge your customers a crap ton of money, and are people gonna pay it?

SPEAKER_01 33:38

Right. So is that gonna burst? And AI's now got its fingers in almost every part of the business sector, so could that cause a broader crash? And then the second part is the gas prices, the fuel, the energy costs going up because the Strait of Hormuz being closed, which it's at least gonna be closed for another 10 days, probably, because he extended the deadline. We don't know exactly how we're gonna get it reopened, so that's probably gonna last for a while. And the annoying thing about the hot energy price spiking, because yes, the price at the pump goes up pretty quickly. Like you see that at the gas station the literally the next day. The next day, yeah. Yeah. Uh because that's they're basing their current price on what the next fill-up of their tanks at the gas station is g is going to cost. But the broader prices of fuel that affect like fertilizer and our food and plastics and all those other kinds of things that that are in everything, that takes a a while to impact. So the that's why when everyone's like rushes out to the grocery store to buy stuff when oil spikes, you don't have to do that the day oil spikes, but you will will have to do that pretty soon because in a couple months you're gonna start seeing massively. That's why they're so nervous about this, because the prices are really gonna hit closer to the midterms.

SPEAKER_00 35:00

And they've already been high. Yeah. So it's like, yeah, how how much more can you push before it's like, okay, that's just not uh option anymore to buy these things. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:15

Yeah. Yeah, scary stuff, man. The uh it's now come out that the reason Dak Prescott and his fiancee split up is because she gave him a monogamy pledge. Did you see that? No. So she gave him a monogamy pledge? Well, they have uh don't quote me, two I think they have two kids together, and they've been engaged for a while, and apparently she gave him an uh I guess he fooled around or done stuff in the past and she knew about it, and so she said, you know, you're gonna have to be monogamous if we're gonna get married, and he's like, eh. That's the reporting. I it's not like I know.

SPEAKER_00 35:55

I mean, I'm I'm trying to understand how this is different than any other marriage. Like if you're engaged to be married, generally that's an agreement to not cheat on the other person. I mean, what did he think? He was like, oh my goodness, wait, what?

SPEAKER_01 36:10

Yeah, it doesn't seem like a big ask. Now that we're married, I mean, uh what you did before, but now that we're married, can you just not sleep with a bunch of other women? But I mean, what but it does speak to like the broader thing with pro pro athletes. What percentage of pro athletes do you think are faithful?

SPEAKER_00 36:28

Not many.

SPEAKER_01 36:29

Yeah, it's gotta be low, right?

SPEAKER_00 36:31

I think it probably is fairly low. Like there's some where you feel like he's probably like David Cousinson. David Robinson probably never cheated on his wife.

SPEAKER_01 36:41

Yeah, for sure. Tim Biden, but that's because we're Spurs fans. Maybe we would just say that. Like Novinsky, of course he did. Because we just threw out two uh two Spurs. But like Kirk Cousins in the NFL, he probably doesn't. But uh thinking of that because I saw a documentary and it's like didn't seem like uh But you know a lot of them, a lot of them do, yes.

SPEAKER_00 37:05

Famously. I and I feel like maybe the bigger the star, the more likely. Because you just can't help it. Yeah, it is tough.

SPEAKER_01 37:13

Like all of us, all of us normal folks like to judge celebrities who cheat a lot, but it's like when everybody's treating you like essentially a a god walking into the room, it's like yeah, because us normal folks, like I've turned down women before, but I haven't turned down women like the women that approached Prescott, probably on a daily basis. You know what I mean? Like uh if you if you did a side by side of the women I could turn down versus the women. You're saying the options were different, is what's the options were different. I mean, I'm a tall fella, I'm I'm doing all right, but I mean he's the quarterback of the Cowboys, and he's a good looking man, you know. So it's gotta be uh I I don't think we should do this.

SPEAKER_00 37:57

The the whole thing of all right, we're gonna get married and you can't cheat on me. Well, never mind, we're not getting married. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:06

What is the what do the vows look like if you don't have a monogamy pledge? It's gotta make for interesting vows.

SPEAKER_00 38:12

I mean, there are open relationships out there, that's a thing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:17

Yeah, and I'm sure like on the pro athletes, I'm sure there are some spouses, and this goes for the women, I'm sure there are female pro athletes that that aren't faithful either. But uh I'm sure there are some pro athletes that are in open marriages and the other person just knows, hey, this is this is what it is, use protection, be careful, and and uh, you know, whatever.

SPEAKER_00 38:45

Uh so do you think it's because they're on the road so much for the games away, or do you think it's just because they can?

SPEAKER_01 38:54

Yeah, I think it's just super hard to because baseball players are on the road 160 well, they 80 of those games, half of those games.

SPEAKER_00 39:01

Yeah, but it's still half half the year essentially or something.

SPEAKER_01 39:05

Yeah, so you're on the road a lot, and it's high that's about as I know we haven't won a Super Bowl in a long time as everybody likes to bring up, but the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys is one of the marquee sports positions. It's one of the most high profile things in in the world. It's that maybe soccer star on on one of the big Premier League teams, F1 driver. I mean, those are like the the big you know pitcher for the Yankees, um, starting pitcher, whatever. There's there's a handful of jobs that it's like you're you're even if the team's not good, you're that year, you're still one of the most famous people in the world. And that's one of them. So yeah, he's gotta be. And he's a good looking dude. I mean he's better looking than Romo, and I'm sure Romo had plenty of coming his way. And Romo's a nice guy, so uh but uh so do you hear colleges are fighting AI with oral exams? Insert your obvious joke here, Chris. Um with I lost it.

SPEAKER_00 40:07

I lost the joke.

SPEAKER_01 40:08

Oh. With professors claiming students are turning in perfect homework, but can't explain that work when they ask them to. So educators are worrying that students see the hard work of thinking as optional. You think AI is already making a stumber?

SPEAKER_00 40:25

I mean Probably. But isn't that like, okay, but if it's there, it's the whole, well, you're not gonna be carrying around a calculator in your pocket. When of course we all do now. It's like, well, you have this tool. Can you not use the tool? You have the tool, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:40

Well, that's why when I was talking to Jill about this, she was like, Well, then just take up their phones and then they can't use AI. And I'm like, their watch, their glasses. They now have smart glasses that look just like these glasses. If I was wearing smart glasses right now, you would not know. You know what I mean? I mean, they're a little darkier than that. No, they're not, dude. They're better now? They're better now. The latest version, they make Ray-Ban makes a version that looks these are Ray-Ban glasses. Ray-Ban makes a version of smart glasses that look almost identical to this. I could wear those and record everything I see everywhere I go all day. You know what I mean? And no one would know. Yeah, but it'd be pretty boring video. He just hangs out with his kids. One did touch the stove. That was exciting. Don't get me wrong.

SPEAKER_00 41:31

You gotta edit a whole week down into 12 minutes for me to hear the good parts.

SPEAKER_01 41:37

Talk about B-roll. Jeez. This whole guy's life is boring. Yeah, but what I'm saying is like you could be wearing smart glasses in class, which is I'm sure what they're doing.

SPEAKER_00 41:47

It's the smart glasses, the phone, the the But how are you interacting with the glasses to get the information? Are you you can't be talking out loud to them. Oh yeah, I'm gonna be whispering into my glasses in the middle of class.

SPEAKER_01 42:00

Remember college how far the professor was away from you? I mean, people even when you were there, people were probably s sneaking laptops in, right?

SPEAKER_00 42:10

I don't think so. Okay. I though, dude, we the thing is you're paying for college. If you if you're not trying, then why are you paying for college? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 42:24

Yeah. No, I get you. I'm I'm I'm just thinking, I'm just arguing that it's probably not it's probably much easier to cheat now than it was when we were in school. And my point is, is it cheating? If you're just using a tool. Right. Which is probably what the kids are saying. They're like, what's wrong with you know, you don't think people Googled when you gave them homework before? You don't think they went home and Googled it? How's this any different? Well, because you're doing it in real time. They could Google homework, but the test so they probably just waited the test more when we all started being able to Google homework. They probably waited the test more. And so if you Googled all your if you didn't really learn anything in your homework, then you failed the test and they knew you were you had cheated on your homework. But uh so that's why they're going to oral exams and some of these, and but you know, pretty soon they'll probably figure out what to do that too.

SPEAKER_00 43:21

Well, and that's like the that's a put somebody on the spot thing that you can't, you know. Sometimes you know it, but you can't articulate because you're nervous because somebody's talking to you about this. So it's I could see how that could also be a problem.

SPEAKER_01 43:37

Yeah, that's what um I knew a girl that went on Wheel of Fortune and she was super smart and she looked super dumb on Wheel of Fortune. And Wheel of Fortune is famous for like they try to get people that are uh the I the ideal person for Wheel of Fortune is a little less intelligent than the average American. Because they want everybody. At home to get the puzzle before the guy does. Correct. Exactly. Because that's much more fun to watch than just watching something they get. Like mom, when she watches Wheel of Fortune, she gets it in like two letters or up. And she guess it she'll walk to the room and be like, and you're like, good God. But she knows so many. She was an English teacher. She knows a lot of uh the phrases. But um, yeah, so that's what they want. So this was a really smart girl. So I was like, she probably cleaned up on Wheel of Fortune. So I watched the episode, did terribly, and I was like, what happened? She's like, There's so many things you gotta remember, you gotta spin the wheel the right way, and you gotta like pay attention to what letters have been guessed and what haven't. You're live, they're asking you questions, and it's just stress, so yeah, there's probably some kids that are like, I didn't do good on my oral exam because I'm not good in front of people or whatever. Yeah. So I don't know, man. I don't know what the right answer is. We do have an anonymous question. Where is the open?

SPEAKER_00 44:56

You have anonymous questions. I do not like that.

SPEAKER_01 45:01

That is that's a horror movie. That's creepy. Miguel in Florida asks, I was a bit of an incel in high school, so I don't have a ton of experience with women, and now I'm a freshman in college, and things aren't much better. I'm not a fan of dating apps, so any advice on approaching women in real life from two old married guys. Not crazy about the fact that he called us two old married guys, but I guess that could be a good thing.

SPEAKER_00 45:28

It sounds like we're married to each other when he said it like that. To be clear, I would be the different people.

SPEAKER_01 45:37

We're married to different people and they're women. Uh, but yes, from two old married guys. You got any uh advice on approaching women in real life? That's the other thing for young folks, is it's it's uh this IRL to send real life stuff kind of stresses them out a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 45:54

Um my advice would be just treat them like a person. That's yeah. Just talk to them. It doesn't matter that they're you're like, oh my gosh, I'm talking to a girl. You're talking to a person. Yeah. Talk to a buddy, talk to a girl the same way you talk to a friend.

SPEAKER_01 46:13

Yeah, that which is uh dead on. How long did it take you to learn that when you were younger?

SPEAKER_00 46:20

Um man, I don't know. I I still don't know that, actually. I just give the advice, but I still get all nervous. Oh, I just don't talk to you. I think I think I learned that. I think I learned that early on.

SPEAKER_01 46:33

You probably learned that from uh this guy, older brother that taught you all the bad lessons.

SPEAKER_00 46:38

I learned not to have concurrent girlfriends.

SPEAKER_01 46:44

Uh which so my advice is similar to yours, but a little skezier, as you would imagine. Um I would say, like, so I always think of it in the mind of like meeting a girl at a bar, because that was my world. Uh bar. I don't think the kids do that anymore, though. I know, but there's still bars, they're still college bars, dude. They just don't go to like nightclubs. They don't go to that, but they go to like the neighborhood bars. Uh go to a college town and go to a bar, they're still college kidjack. But anyway, so let's say you're in a bar, Miguel, and you see a woman that you're interested in, you look for a sign they want you to come over, is my advice. Because it's still true that that men do most of the approaching with instead of women the other way around. I know things have tricky. So you're saying longer eye contact, a smile your way, someone that's the the only one I ever I could never get the smile, tell the smile one, because women just they could be smiling at something the bartender said or something their friend said. So I would always look for the eye contact. Like, and and you gotta be tricky because I'm tall and kind of weird, so the eye contact could be them going, what's that weirdo doing over there? So you don't it's not just eye contact, it's literally them locking eyes with you for a little longer than normal. Like, especially if you're walking across the room, like, hey, I went to the bathroom earlier, and this girl, like, her eyes followed my eyes, and we met eyes, and the whole way I was walking to the bathroom, or something like that, where you know, okay, and the drunker you get, the harder it is to tell that whether this is happening. So also don't get super hammered. And once you notice, this is the mistake a lot of my friends would make. They would notice, or I would notice, a girl watching them, and I'd say, Hey, that girl over there is interested in you. And they'd go, Yeah, I know, I think she's cute, but they'd be nervous, so they'd pound drinks and then go over like 30 minutes later after they're super hammered, dumb. Never do that. Like once you're saying once you notice, just go. Once you notice, go pretty soon. Like if you're walking to the bathroom, go to the bathroom, come back out.

SPEAKER_00 48:56

Believe yourself.

SPEAKER_01 48:57

Don't yeah, don't go pee all over. But if if you have a drink and you want to if you want to finish a drink or take a shot to get some liquid courage, then go for that. But just don't get shit-canned and then go up there and be a drunken idiot trying to hit on this girl because you'll you'll screw it up. So take take a shot, finish your drink, go over within a couple minutes at the very longest. Like one of my buddies from high school that was always struggling, we had the same interest in girls. Not gonna say who it is, because he listens to the show. But uh, we had the same interest in the same taste in girls, and so I would have a better success rate because when I noticed a girl being interested in me, I would go over right away. He would wait 30, 45 minutes, get up to liquid courage, and then be drunk by the time he went to talk to him. And yeah, it never goes well. But but I do think you're a you're dead on, like, once you start talking to him, don't come in with a line. Like that doesn't work. Unless you're like one of those like pimps like from the shows in the 90s, like how to unless you like are professional at this, the lines don't freaking work. So especially if you never talk to girls, you're not gonna go get them with a line. So just be just talk to her like you talk to a friend, like you said, like a normal person, like anybody else. Don't talk to them like they're a beautiful woman that is out of your league or intimidating like that.

SPEAKER_00 50:22

And don't play the games of like, oh, you're gonna neg them or you're gonna do this or that. That's those are stupid.

SPEAKER_01 50:29

Those are stupid, although, again, being a little skeezy. The one trick I would do that works, and it works for a couple reasons, is if you're buying her a drink, which you should buy her a drink, when you approach a woman, you should offer to buy her a drink, right? If it's at a bar, I mean. Um don't just Yeah, or jerk. You want some of this blood of Christ? I got some extra. Oh, right. Maybe a little Jiz It Jeez it wafer? Jesus. That's what I always call them the little body of Christ. But if you're buying so buy her a drink, but don't just if she's with female friends, not male friends, but if she's with female friends, buy all of them a drink. I know that gets expensive, so maybe do it during a happy hour or something. But if she's there with two or three friends, just bite the bullet and buy three or four drinks. A couple reasons. It gets their friends to like not hate you, and that's the big barrier keeping you from uh from getting anywhere with them, because they're gonna be like, Who's this tall creep that just came over? Well, I was looking at him across the well, you don't know anything about him, whatever. So it puts them at ease, plus it adds a little mystery because they're like, is he interested in me or one of the friends? Works every time. Once you only if you've had the signal. It absolutely doesn't work if you didn't get the signal and you just go up and buy the whole bar of freaking.

SPEAKER_00 51:54

It gets expensive fast, yeah. Gets expensive fast, but it's a trip. I will lay that as another one is just talk to as many girls as you can. It doesn't matter. It's a numbers game. It's a numbers game.

SPEAKER_01 52:06

And it's reps, dude. Just like the 10,000 hours thing they always say, like you don't it takes talking to women, like the reason I got better at it than my buddies wasn't my that I'm brilliant or charming or any of that kind of crap. Clearly. It's that I was willing to do it. And so, like a once you've done it a thousand times, it's like this is not nerve-wracking. I've done it a thousand times. Now, if it if you've done it a thousand times and it works, then you have another problem. If you've done it a thousand times and it's never worked, you also have another problem.

SPEAKER_02 52:41

Ah, wrecks and rants.

SPEAKER_01 52:43

Do you have any wrecks and rants?

SPEAKER_00 52:47

What am I watching right now? Oh. I've I forget that you've got the little thing there. Sorry. I was talking over years. That's that's my song. Uh what's that song?

SPEAKER_01 53:01

I think that's this one. You're getting old if you can't remember the song that you wrote. I didn't hear any of the lyrics. That's uh This girl I love, I think, that I wrote about Jill. But anyway, Rex, Rance.

SPEAKER_00 53:13

Um I'm watching billions on Showtime right now. Going back, eh? Well, I was there a new season. I feel like there's new seasons because we watched it up to a point and then I canceled the service. And Stacy was like, I'm not gonna watch it because we had to start all over again because I forgot everything. And I was like, I'll just pick it up where I left off because she's gone this weekend. She's off in Louisiana again, so I'm matching it up. And yeah, so I started that last yesterday and I'm I'm digging it. I like it. Paul Giamatti is amazing in anything. I've never seen him put in a bad performance. Is Dan Soder still in it?

SPEAKER_01 53:52

Which one's Dan Soder? He's a comic, he's real funny. Um he plays the he was one of the traders in the first season that he ends up he ended up liking the the shrink for a while. Paul Giamatti's wife. Tall guy, deep voice.

SPEAKER_00 54:12

No, I now I gotta look it up.

SPEAKER_01 54:14

I'm I'm he used to be in radio.

SPEAKER_00 54:17

Yes, Dan Soder is still in it.

SPEAKER_01 54:18

Yeah, used to be in radio, by the way. Got a start in radio.

SPEAKER_00 54:22

And Barbiglia is in it occasionally.

SPEAKER_01 54:24

Yeah, Barbiglia plays one of the other uh rich guy uh traders, right?

SPEAKER_00 54:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 54:30

That owns a different company.

SPEAKER_00 54:32

They're both pretty good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 54:37

And uh spoiler alert for people that aren't caught up, but did uh because we stopped watching after a while, but did Paul Giamatti's character and his wife get back together, the psychiatrist, or did they?

SPEAKER_00 54:49

Um they're divorcing. I'm on season five right now, and there's seven seasons. So right now they're divorcing. Okay. I don't know. Maybe maybe it has been out for a long time. You know, just like but it's because that's why I play those games where I'm like, all right, I haven't had this service in a while. I'll sign up for it for the month, and then I'll watch whatever I missed from the last two years, and then I'll cancel it. Yeah, I'm not for like another week.

SPEAKER_01 55:14

I did like that show because the uh the other guy, the main guy's real good too. Uh, what's his name? That was Damien Lewis. Yeah. Damian Lewis is phenomenal too. Uh, we're watching the Murdoch Dynasty documentary on Netflix that inspired Secession. Have you seen that? No, I have not. Yeah, it's it's pretty good, dude. Truth is always stranger than fiction. It's got some really juicy tidbits.

SPEAKER_00 55:41

Where did you watch? Did I watch Succession?

SPEAKER_01 55:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 55:46

Yeah. Yeah.

unknown 55:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 55:49

So if you watch Succession, you would like it. Um but yeah, the uh the Murdochs that that's Rupert Murdoch, the guy that owns Fox News and the Fox Channel.

SPEAKER_00 56:00

And he's he's one of the and a bunch of uh he he owns a bunch of different media outlets, I think newspapers and stuff in Britain. Right, right.

SPEAKER_01 56:09

And and kind of like yeah, he started out in Australia and then moved to England and bought a bunch of newspapers there, and then later TV. And and it's kind of like in the show Sucession, they he's nine he's in his nineties now and still still going at it. And they uh the fam so imagine being they've got four kids, three of which kind of try want to run the company, right? Uh two two brothers and a girl. So what says real life succession then? It's it's real life, yeah. And they the the fourth uh one of the sisters didn't seem to really be interested in it, but the two brothers are definitely want to be the one, and then the sister, one of the sisters wants to be the one, and they're all kind of going at it. And then uh two of the brothers, I mean the the two sisters and one of the brothers team up to try to cut out the other brother, and uh so he goes to the dad and they form a plan to change it all up. I mean, it's it's like almost more interesting than the real plot of secession. So I mean it's it's we hadn't watched the whole thing yet, but we're a couple into it, and it's definitely good. We'll we'll finish it.

SPEAKER_00 57:24

I feel like you know, I'd be happy with the money. I don't have to run a company.

SPEAKER_01 57:28

I know. Like it they're all you're all super, you're all billionaires no matter how you slice it. Right. Like, why would you want the extra work? Just take the money. Well, because they grew up in it. I know, and they, you know, when you've been around power because it's power, you're a power that's a powerful family. It's one of the most powerful families in media history, probably.

SPEAKER_00 57:50

Yeah, they can they can set a narrative and follow it through on all the different platforms, and that's the that's then the truth.

SPEAKER_01 57:58

It's gonna be kind of addictive to uh have that kind of power. You know what I mean? So I can see why why someone would want it. If we were uh in that which one of the brothers would would take over. Me, you or Rob.

SPEAKER_00 58:16

Maybe it's not Rob for sure.

SPEAKER_01 58:19

Cause one of us would cut his throat. Is that what you're saying?

SPEAKER_00 58:24

I I feel like you would want it more, but I'd be better at it, so uh yeah, you'd be the dark horse.

SPEAKER_01 58:31

Everyone would be like, Andy. Yeah, because he's wrote us, he'll do it. And then you'd come in at the last second and you shall what happened in secession.

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Yeah.

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But anyhow, that's it for today's show. We'll be back next week with a new episode of the Andy Meadows show, now available on your favorite podcast platforms as well.