Was January 6th an “insurrection” or just another media myth? And why are Americans still arguing over how much to tip while pets are (allegedly) doing cocaine?
In this episode, Ryan cuts through the noise with a breakdown of:
The January 6th narrative war, with Jon Stewart clips, FBI speculation, and Pelosi finger-pointing
The tipping debate: is it time for hourly wages to replace guilt-driven gratuity?
Outrageous real-life stories of server mistreatment
Plus: cuddling salons in Poland, high pets, and the very short life of a mayfly
Truth, respect, and a little bit of absurdity—this one’s got it all.
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction & Final Episode Hype
01:05 - Dumb Headlines & Brainless News
01:55 - January 6th: The Real Story?
09:06 - AOC, Elon & Parody Politics
13:56 - Cocaine Pets & Animal Mayhem
16:32 - Mayfly Lifespans & Bug Facts
23:00 - Poland’s Cuddle Salon Craze
28:25 - Tipping Culture: Time for Change?
39:22 - Final Thoughts & Upcoming Plans
42:01 - Shower Tips You Didn’t Expect
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It's not hard to go. There are plenty of places where
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you don't tip, where you don't have a way to order food, make
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your own lazy ass. So that begs the question, and
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that's the question for tonight and I'll give you my opinion and
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we'll go from there. Should we have tipping in the
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United States or in Western cultures that do a lot don't.
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Even the UK doesn't really. I lived in Scotland, as anybody
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that listens to the show knows for a while or a couple years
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and, and they, it was almost, it's very confusing.
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Some, some of them expected that, some of them didn't.
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It was very weird. I think some of them might,
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because I was American. They're like yes.
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And some included it. What do you think in the United
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States? Should it, should it be tipping?
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Because what happens is, and I did it, I, I only did it for
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about 3 months bartended and it was, you know, you get $2.46.
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Welcome to Stay in the Grade podcast.
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controversy. I'm Ryan.
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Hey everybody, how are you on this lovely evening or morning?
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I said a lot, but I don't know where the hell you are, so I
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hope everything's going well, whatever time of day that may
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be. Today is January the 6th, 2025.
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You know what we're going to talk about?
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I'll get there. Hope everybody's well tonight.
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I think this might be the last one of these that I'm going to
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do. I'm going to find something
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else. Basically, you know, these are
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the the headlines that made it through editing and it's simple.
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They just made it through editing.
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There's a typo that makes the sentence sound bad.
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So I had fun with it for a while, but it's getting a little
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old. But this one's a great one to to
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end in this series on it says lack of brains hinders research.
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I imagine what they meant was for brain research.
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Maybe the lack of actual brains hindered what they were trying
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to research, but a lack of brains in other ways might
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hinder it as well. So who knows what this guy was
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trying to say. Or girl, I'm gonna, I'm gonna
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switch it up instead of going to, but her comments to the
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show, cause tonight's are funny. This is, it's more of a funny
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thing tonight. I'm gonna, I'm gonna go ahead
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and play you this video in honor of January the 6th and, and just
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cut right to the chase. I have a lot of topics today,
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but they're, they're quick. Not one long one.
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We'll see. I'm not sure who knows what's
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gonna happen when I'm I'm behind the mic, but I'm gonna get right
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to this January 6th narrative that that a lot of people have
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about Donald Trump. Inciting is the word they use
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violence and trying to overthrow the government in a not
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cooperating in a transfer, peaceful transfer of power.
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And I have a huge problem with it.
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You know, there's no proof. There's nothing that that you
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know at all. They haven't got him on anything
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or else he would have been charged and likely convicted the
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way how ruthless they are going after this man for everything
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else but those that still believe he was behind it all.
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I just challenge you. You know what, let me play this
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clip. I've got a clip and it's going
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to it's going to actually play the point of view that's not
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mine. So I'm going to I'm going to do
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the opposite view tonight. I always do my own and laugh
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with whoever speaking that I am going to to play.
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This is Jon Stewart and most people know who he is and he
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kind of went off about it. And this was a little bit this
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was back I think in September, October.
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So what he's saying there, it's kind of interesting the things
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that have come to fruition since then.
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He was, of course, still plugging away at the election
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and trying to prevent Donald from getting elected.
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But I still this this video, just it irks me.
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It it's everything wrong with with this narrative.
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So let me let me play it for you so we can talk about it.
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Here we go. You spent two months riling up
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your base that our country had literally been stolen from them
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through fraudulent means that you could never even get a whiff
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of in a court of law and let and let yourself just abuse them.
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You. You pressed on.
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You abused their trust. You showed up for a speech.
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You fucking tweeted. Join me on January 6th.
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It will be wild. But suddenly now.
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I would use the hired magician to the bar mitzvah.
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I didn't do anything. I showed up with a hat and a
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rabbit and then the whole party went out of control.
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Yeah, not your best work, John. It was fucking stupid.
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It was ridiculous, the whole thing, everything.
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I'll point out specifically the highlighted part that you
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probably saw over here, maybe a fair, but it was a highlighted
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part and in it, in the, in the part where he said, you know,
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it's going to be wild. Since when he's saying, I mean,
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I, I texted that to my buddies the other day, but when we play
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golf, it's going to be wild. Or you know, this, this football
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game, man, it's wild. How does that?
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It's just that they go looking for it.
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It's just like John, John, you're better than that.
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I respect you for, for your, some of your comedy and some of
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your, your insight, but this is, you know, I hope someone's
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riding the shit for you because it's really bad.
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The idea that he used us and that he this and that and
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whatever else. Let me tell you something,
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people, if Donald Trump wanted to incite violence and some sort
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of insurrection on January 6th, 2024, it would have been a
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fucking hell of a lot more than what it was.
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It was nothing. One person died and they were
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shot by a Democrat in the back. It was a Republican.
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Since then, there have been leaks of FBI that have, I've got
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it right here, FBI letting people in to the premises, FBI
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operatives coordinating. Before it all happened right
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there, all of them were there, like 25 of them were there just
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before it all happened. There's the video, the famous
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video of Nancy Pelosi in the van claiming that she was the one
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that had to that was responsible.
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And of course, people have twisted that around and claimed
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this and that and whatever. And there's been a debate about
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it. And I won't I won't be what I
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hate, which is somebody that that makes a factual statement
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off of something that isn't been proven fact but was right there
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recorded. It was Nancy Pelosi.
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So my point is, is you cannot self let me try this again.
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You cannot self convict a man just because you want it to be
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true. And that's what's happened here.
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They've taken this January 6th thing and they've made it out.
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It was a it was a shitty day. You think I'm I'm defending the
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majority of the people. Now.
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If if they were let in and they're running around and they
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literally were having a good time, you know, whatever, should
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they have been there? No, what you know, but anybody
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that was violent or had violence on their mind need to be called
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out for that. I don't think that that was the
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case. I really don't.
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And you would have, again, you're talking about the side
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that has all the weapons, that has all the gun.
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There are no guns. You don't think of people were
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were going to go there to do something that they would have
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brought weapons. It's beyond me that you people
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still think this was planned that it was going to be this
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beautiful thing with 1000 people.
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Come on, you look stupid. Use use your head.
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It's ridiculous. So you know the the other thing
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you're talking about riling up his base.
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He's riling up his his support. What else is he going to do?
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What is Kamala? What is Biden and all these
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what's the left on? Except they've done it by saying
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fascist, which isn't true. They need to look in the mirror.
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Racist, sexist, the Trump cases, he's a felon, Hitler democracy,
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which they really need to look in the mirror about by
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appointing Kamala Harris without an election or without a
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primary. So they don't talk about riling
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up any Bass Joe because if anybody has that, well, it's the
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other side. So I will move on from that.
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But that's my that's it for January 6th.
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That's all I want to say. I just want you to realize that
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anytime you hear this bullshit, really think about it.
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If if Donald wanted this to happen, if his supporters wanted
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something grandiose to happen, it would have happened in a far
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bigger scale than this. I just anyway, let's move on.
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Let's go to but her comments. This is actually pretty funny.
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And, and I, I questioned the, the intellect of some people and
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then I stopped and realized that some people just might not have
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the ability to read written word on the, on the, on the computer,
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on the Internet and social media and to understand humor and to
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understand the sarcasm and, and I get that, but this one's
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pretty bad. And so I enjoyed it.
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And I hope any of you that saw that all these comments, it was
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one of one of my biggest posts. I mean, it came into like
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100 views and and lots of people liked it, but it was a
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parody of AOC, the lovely Alexander Casio Cortez, whatever
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her name is, who I think is probably shouldn't be in
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politics. She's not not the brightest bulb
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in the pack as I stumble on that.
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Maybe I'm not the brightest bulb, but I'm also not claiming
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to be a politician. But it's her and Elon together.
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And when I say together, I don't mean literally together.
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I mean they're sitting there and the camera goes back and forth,
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back and forth. It's been, they've been doing
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that stunt since easily the 90s in the background.
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It's like a totally different background.
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It's not meant to look 100% authentic and real and like
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they're sitting there together and they're talk.
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The way the caption works is they took pieces of each person,
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what each person said, and they pieced it together to make it
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seem like there was some romance there.
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AOC Elon Musk about she said, you know, that, that we're
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breaking all the rules. And he goes, you know, I won't
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tell if you don't, you know, things like that.
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And it was pretty funny. I thought.
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So if you don't find, go, go find another podcast.
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That's dull. But but what got me here, and I
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tried to just respond calmly, but I got some pretty good ones.
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The the making of Model 13, you know, a couple of liberals.
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She's so pretty. OK, well, that's what you look
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for in a congresswoman power couple.
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OK. I hope that's meant to be funny,
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but I don't know. People are serious here.
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She loves Elon's net worth. OK, God is cleaning up the
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swamp. Love and light, whatever that
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means. What is this a bartender that
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brings nothing to the table? So that's funny.
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You know, I sadly I agree. AOC swinging in a tree.
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She wants must, but it can't be people are rhyming.
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I love it. Thank you for that rhyme.
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I I will heart it for you. It's probably been a long time
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since she's seen and talked to honesty.
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OK, so you getting people that that are BS.
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Well, that's these are the ones that are funny.
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The BS. Where's the other one?
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There is a couple of them. Shouldn't have.
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This isn't true. Well no shit.
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I'm sorry I had it up. What the fuck is a response?
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Elon's real. She's all AI shit.
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Thank you for sharing that. We no one knew this was not
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real. This is all AI.
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This is bullshit, fake AI. This is lies.
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Fake. How dare you?
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She's a gold digger. No, she's totally fucking him.
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OK, you know what? She could be.
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But the point is that that I had so many people that were like,
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this is so stupid, this is bullshit, this isn't true.
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How dare you. It's AI.
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Yes it is. It's called a parody.
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It's called comedy. And yes, in fact, it is not
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real. I, I hope that I have not
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started or the other people on social media that have probably
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passed this around like I have, We're not starting some sort of
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rumor and that it's going to catch a lot of steam.
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I think most of the people can probably guess this is not true.
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So that was my butter comments. It's not really butter, but it's
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kind of like maybe you shouldn't, maybe you should get
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off of social media if like you, you're going to think this is
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true. But you know what, AOC looks
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good in this video. So I think Elon maybe have a
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little has a little sparkle in his eye for good old AOC.
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So we'll move on from that. Let's go ahead and do I've got
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some really good news. Let's do it.
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I say really good news. It's good enough and it was
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funny to me and interesting, interesting to me, so I'm going
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to share it with you. Veterinarians have now come
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together and they're concerned by the increasing number of pets
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that are on cocaine. Admittedly, that headline got my
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attention. Now, of course, what they mean
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is the pet poison hotline, PPH, as it's known, kind of did an
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experiment based on the call rates for these these types of
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incidents, these types of calls with the side effects and with
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side effects of drugs with their pets.
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And it's all pets, not just dogs.
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I keep thinking dogs, the dogs ain't cats.
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I'm not sure. I wish there was a list of all
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the different animals that were were on coke when these calls
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were made, but they just said it was a real heavy increase since
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2019. Cats are 52% rise in cocaine
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usage. Dogs are 39% rise in the white
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powder and reason is simple. 1.8% of the people in this
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country are on coke. I'll do the the quick math.
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That's about 6 million people. That's a lot of people.
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I know there's 330, almost 335 million people in this in this
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country, but that's a lot of people. 6 million people .9 are
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on meth and that's almost 3 million.
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That's just a little over 3 million people.
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Goodness gracious. It puts things in perspective.
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But what it also is doing is making our pets drugged out as
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well. So they think that it was during
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COVID that it spiked because you were home and, and people had
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more of the drugs there. It was more of an opportunity
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for the pet to get in, etcetera, etcetera.
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But people, if don't, don't let your pets get a hold of your
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drugs. They're not, it's not made for
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them. This is, this is not ending well
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for dogs and cats. Dogs that that go to a vet on
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coke don't do very well, especially cats.
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Can you imagine? But apparently coke is, is a
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drug of choice for these pets because that's the, the, the
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largest one. I think it's probably just the
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easiest one for them to kind of inhale and and that's what
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happens and they get all I'd love to see certain dogs on on
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coke. Maybe that's the problem with
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some of the stories that Trey and I used to do about dogs
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attacking their owners and little weenie dogs killing
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ladies. It's the coke, blame the coke.
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So I just thought that was funny.
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I'm going to give you a couple of, you know, got me thinking
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about animal animals and and how long they live because I'm
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sitting going well, dogs don't live very long.
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Can you know, cats a little longer maybe.
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So I came across this and this is this is interesting.
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There, there are a couple of animals that don't live very
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long at all. And it's interesting to me.
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So I'm, I'm going to see if it's interesting to you and maybe
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it's not. Who gives a shit?
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And you can hit on the timestamp to the next topic, which I
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guarantee you that you'll enjoy sparrows and other small birds,
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but mostly sparrows make it 3 years.
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OK, basic. It's not a long time, but for a
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fucking bird, it's, it's all right, good for you.
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Mice only a year 12 months for mice and other mice like
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creatures. Again that changes if you're in
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the complete wild because a lot of mice the way nature has it
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has made you food for larger animals like birds of prey and
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other larger mammals in the woods.
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Here's where we get it gets fun LA birds or LA boards I'm not
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sure what that is chameleon. They only make it 3 months and
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they are in western Madagascar, so they're over there on the
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island, that island on the east side of Africa.
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And it's the shortest living of the reptiles.
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Apparently it's two months to grow to sexual maturity.
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A lot of people I know only take a couple months and then the
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final month is it's mating. That's all it is.
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So that's the Laborde chameleon. Here we go.
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Let's get fun. The seven figure pygmy Gabby.
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This is just a fish people. It's about yay big.
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It says it's one inch long. Too many jokes.
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They're about one inch. But it only lasts two months and
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it's on the reefs in the western Pacific.
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It's about 59 days average lifespan and three weeks in the
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larvae, 2 weeks. Finding a place to settle that
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seems like a waste of time if you only have 59 days.
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Fourteen of them, you're just trying to find a nice little
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place to to be settled in for the remaining 3 weeks where
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you're looking to mate and reproduce.
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Simple as that. The drone Ant.
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So this one's hilarious. All right, The drone Ant only
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lasts 2 weeks, 2 weeks, but the queen Ant lasts 15 years and the
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females seven years. So the drone ants, like the
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males, only lasted 2 weeks, literally.
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According to experts on ants and I'm sure entomologists abroad,
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the whole purpose of this Ant is to basically bang the queen over
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and over again and reproduce. And then once they're out of
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steam, I guess that's about two weeks, they die because they're
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no longer needed. Because the next set of males
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will come in, take care of the queen, and move on from there.
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The next is the Luna moth. Now I've seen these around and
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they're very pretty. Like they're, they're, they're
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kind of the green yellowish clear wings.
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And, and I'm not sure what this is, if anybody's not watching,
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I'm kind of slowly flapping my wings.
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But they're in North America. And so in the winter time,
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they're in their cocoon. After that, they usually come
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out in the spring and they have one week to live.
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And like most of these other ones, their whole purpose is to
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mate. Reproduce so that somebody else
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can come out and have a week to mate come out.
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And you know, I just feel like that's not a lot of time.
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It's, you know, it takes a lot of dudes a while to get laid
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sometimes unless you're, I was going to say unless you're
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married, but it's even longer. Sometimes it says the it's the
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adult moths don't even have mouths.
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They because they don't need to eat, because they will die
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before they need any food. They're literally out for
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fornication. That's it.
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Their whole life is just about banging and tapping that.
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So good for them. And every Luna moth I see I will
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encourage on its journey to mount or whatever they do.
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The second to last one is a gas gastro rich, which is like a
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microscopic cylindrical creature.
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See what I did there? It's like a little worm, I
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guess. And they're, they're, they're
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very, very tiny as, as the word microscopic insinuates, 10 days.
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They're also known as hairy bellies and they live in both
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fresh and salt water. But these guys are vital for
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healthy water, water ecosystem. So a lot of people are like,
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well, this is their purpose And they they're alive for 10 days.
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They eat bacterial algae and otherwise bacterial algae would
00:21:44
out of control. So good job for these guys, but
00:21:47
they only have 10 days to do that.
00:21:49
Lastly, this is sad. The adult may fly all right.
00:21:57
The adult female may fly only lasts 5 minutes people.
00:22:03
The male can last up to an hour. He has an hour of life.
00:22:08
Specifically, the American sand burrowing may fly males one hour
00:22:12
after emerging from their larva slash cocoon.
00:22:16
They're not a cocoon, they're not a butterfly.
00:22:18
So I'm going to go with larvae entomologist, correct me if I'm
00:22:23
wrong. Females 5 minutes after they get
00:22:25
out of their larvae. And the interesting part is that
00:22:29
they spend 2 years in the ground as nymphs before coming out only
00:22:34
to last five minutes if you're female.
00:22:37
So Can you imagine that? The whole purpose though is
00:22:40
you're supposed to like mate. So Can you imagine coming out
00:22:45
and it's just like, we got to go, we got to get rolling.
00:22:48
There's no time for foreplay, but no time to buy you a drink.
00:22:51
I got 5 minutes. I got 5 minutes.
00:22:54
Let's roll immediately. No condom.
00:22:57
Let's go. Some might think that's great,
00:23:01
but man, 5 minutes. That's it.
00:23:05
So when you see those lovely mayflies, just remember this
00:23:10
fact and talk about it at your next event.
00:23:14
All right, let's talk about an entrepreneur that, you know, I
00:23:19
don't know how she did this, thought of this, or more so how
00:23:26
she's doing as well as she's doing because I don't feel like
00:23:30
let's, let's see what you think. OK.
00:23:32
This is a Polish woman named Alexandra Kasparik.
00:23:36
Kasparik sounds better. Kasparik.
00:23:40
And she opened a professional cuddling salon.
00:23:45
So literally, I'm using the word literally you come in and you
00:23:52
get to cuddle, canoodle, hug, whatever you want to call it.
00:23:59
And it's called professional, but it's so popular now that
00:24:03
it's wait listed. I mean, people can't even get
00:24:05
into this to the to see her. And I didn't see if if she had a
00:24:08
bunch of staff members that were were a part of this.
00:24:12
It was just her. The only pictures I saw with
00:24:13
her. And guess what?
00:24:14
She's she's a fairly attractive woman.
00:24:17
So I don't know what's happening.
00:24:18
It just so happens and I'm pretty sure This is why the
00:24:20
story was out today. It is National Cuddle Up Day,
00:24:24
everybody, January the 6th. And I think they interviewed
00:24:28
Alexandra Kasparik because she's the closest thing to a business
00:24:33
that has to do with cuddling. So it opened two years ago and
00:24:37
it's called Anya Odd Fritz Chilania.
00:24:41
Sure, that's perfect Polish. It's usually aged 40 to 60 and
00:24:45
they're mostly men shocked. And so the regulars come in once
00:24:51
a week for usually once a week for about for mostly hour long
00:24:56
sessions. I don't understand.
00:24:59
Do you lay there and just lay in her arms?
00:25:02
Do you hold hands and just like just lay on the bed and spoon?
00:25:09
But here we go. It's basically AG rated
00:25:12
bordello. OK, so snuggle instead of sex.
00:25:17
Think of it that way. This is the process you enter.
00:25:22
You handshake, then you introduce yourself with a flirty
00:25:26
hug in the teddy bear position. Now, I'm not going to lie to
00:25:30
you, I don't know what the fuck the teddy bear position is for
00:25:33
hugging. I'm assuming that what it sounds
00:25:36
like is that you sit down with each other like some sort of
00:25:40
yoga pose or some sort of tantric pose and, and, and give
00:25:45
each other a hug with legs wrapped around one another.
00:25:48
Tell me if I'm wrong, but that's kind of what a teddy bear.
00:25:50
That's what I thought of. These rules are tough.
00:25:53
In fact, the rules are then given.
00:25:56
She listens to what you have to say about yourself mentally,
00:26:01
what medications you're on, how you feel, whether you're I'll
00:26:07
all of these things, if you're depressed, if you've, if you're
00:26:09
stressed. And then she, she gives you a
00:26:12
certain rule book based on the those answers.
00:26:15
I, I don't know, I need to get my hands on one of these rule
00:26:17
books. But the biggest one is, of
00:26:19
course, you cannot cross sexual boundaries.
00:26:22
That is an absolute no, no, you, it will be immediately
00:26:24
terminated and you're out. She can just tease you, I guess
00:26:27
the entire time. And some of the pictures I saw,
00:26:32
it's like stroking arms and just like in this little lingerie.
00:26:36
And I'm just like, OK, so this is a hour tea session basically
00:26:41
for most men. It would be for me.
00:26:43
But then the client changes into a robe after he gets his rule
00:26:46
book. And I'm assuming that he might
00:26:47
have a second to read it. The average is about $37
00:26:52
translated to dollars per hour, $72 for two hours in her
00:26:57
establishment. So you you get $2 off if you get
00:27:01
$2 off, if you get that second hour, go for it.
00:27:04
And she says she acts that there we go as a psychologist also.
00:27:07
So she listens to everything. So part of the hour is, is a
00:27:11
cuddle and therapy. If you need to vent or you can
00:27:15
get to, she'll listen to you. How nice.
00:27:17
So listen to the description of these rooms and tell me, tell me
00:27:21
exactly what I'm thinking here. Picture this a royal type of
00:27:26
room, like royalty. It's dark, there's a lit
00:27:31
fireplace, a hydro massage shower, luxurious bathtub.
00:27:39
There is tea, coffee, hot chocolate, champagne,
00:27:42
strawberries. This sounds like a bang pad.
00:27:45
I mean, it really does. This does not sound like some
00:27:48
sort of cuddle station where you're not allowed to cross the
00:27:51
line. You're fucking out the door.
00:27:54
I don't. What's the line?
00:27:57
I'm telling you in these pictures, she's stroking guys.
00:27:59
I mean, it's, it's she's essentially just teasing.
00:28:03
I, I would just ask, tell me you need to be more specific.
00:28:06
Maybe it's in that rule book, but I just, I just visualize
00:28:10
this room and this hot woman and she sit there and, and whatever.
00:28:13
And you're supposed to just like lay there.
00:28:16
Why would I want to pay money to do that?
00:28:20
Well, I mean, why would I want to pay money for anything?
00:28:22
Because I'm happily married, man, but you know what I'm
00:28:25
saying? I thought that was a good a good
00:28:27
story. What's not a good story is for
00:28:32
whatever reason, I came across and I I jumped real fast from
00:28:37
1:00 to the other trying to do quick show.
00:28:39
There was an article about tipping, an article about
00:28:42
waitress, the food industry and the bartending in in that type
00:28:46
of industry and how it's difficult to make good money
00:28:52
doing that some in some cases. And you know, you go home every
00:28:56
day not know what you're going to have financially.
00:28:58
And it's difficult to, you know, pay your bills and your rent and
00:29:03
to live not knowing what you're going to have each given day,
00:29:06
much less week or month. And then I came across articles,
00:29:11
you know, after Donald Trump said, you know, no tax on tips
00:29:14
and, and I which I believe he'll probably try and do.
00:29:17
It makes sense. I went and I read this article
00:29:20
and a bunch of examples of just absolute assholes.
00:29:25
And it really, really pisses me off to read the treatment that
00:29:29
these waiters and waitresses and bartenders get in this industry.
00:29:33
And sure, I'm sure there's some jackasses and I'm sure there's
00:29:36
some in everything there is, but it's, it's usually these poor,
00:29:42
not poor literally, but like these poor waitresses that have
00:29:45
had a long shift and they're just trying to make 6 bucks off
00:29:47
your damn meal that you have that you can barely afford.
00:29:52
And, and they're just trying to live.
00:29:54
And then you're going to, you're going to be be a piece of shit.
00:29:56
Let me give you some examples and see if you guys agree that
00:30:00
this is just a scum of the earth.
00:30:02
First off, some people put like a tip in in the water glass at
00:30:05
the bottom under the remaining lemon and ice.
00:30:09
That was one. A lot of these are what they
00:30:12
think are clever phrases in the tip section of a receipt.
00:30:16
And this one said please get faster cooks and they left two
00:30:19
cents. The cooks have nothing to do
00:30:22
with your waitress. The restaurant policy has
00:30:28
nothing to do with your waitress.
00:30:29
She deserves a tip regardless of how fast you got your food.
00:30:34
If she forgot to put it in then possibly there's something.
00:30:37
You know some argument you have. But why are you going to be an
00:30:40
asshole? It gets me already.
00:30:42
How about this one Somebody just wrote in careerbuilder.com and 0
00:30:46
tip. That's a career.
00:30:48
Many people do this as their livelihood you prick.
00:30:52
I guarantee you the person that wrote that in there is probably
00:30:56
not making that much more needed to feel needed to feel good
00:30:58
about themselves. So they wrote in
00:31:00
careerbuilder.com on a waitress tip line.
00:31:04
The next one I, I, I would the tip, but I'm on a budget for a
00:31:08
$5 check. OK, fair enough, $5 check.
00:31:12
That's not a lot. But guess what?
00:31:13
If she served you as a waitress for an hour estimate again, if
00:31:19
if you walked in and out, that's not what this is.
00:31:21
This is sit down restaurants I specified because if you walk in
00:31:25
and out and you have $5, I mean that's different people.
00:31:27
There's an argument to be had and we can have that that talk.
00:31:30
But I'm talking about restaurants where you go in and
00:31:32
you sit down and you are served by waiter or waitress.
00:31:36
Let me read this one to you and this is an absolute prick.
00:31:39
So I took the wife out to dinner last night and we have always
00:31:42
talked about doing this. You put 5 singles on the table
00:31:45
and at the beginning of dinner for the waiter or waitress to
00:31:48
see, don't say anything to them. If they mess up, you take a
00:31:52
dollar away and so on. At the end of dinner, however
00:31:56
much is left is their tip. I shit you not, you'll receive
00:31:59
the best service of your life. The waitress kept looking at it
00:32:02
as if she was confused, but she played her cards right and did a
00:32:05
great job and received the whole 5 bucks.
00:32:08
I did take away a dollar at one point though because she forgot
00:32:10
the bread, but she bounced back and gave us extra ha ha.
00:32:16
All in all, a great evening with my love and a good dinner
00:32:18
experiment we both wanted to see play out.
00:32:21
Try it, you'd be surprised. Well, you fucking prick.
00:32:25
My visual review is that you're about £350 and you went to
00:32:29
somewhere where this poor waitress is probably serving you
00:32:31
Applebee's or some shit and you thought this was funny, $5 First
00:32:35
off you cheap ass, $5 second off, this poor waitress is going
00:32:41
to run around serving you and if she takes a wrong step, you're
00:32:44
going to pull a dollar away. What a prick.
00:32:48
That's karma. Karma will come and hit this
00:32:49
guy. And if, if it hasn't already,
00:32:51
and I hope it does, but these examples just pissed me off and
00:32:56
I don't know why I chose to talk about it tonight.
00:32:58
Maybe it was a no, no tax on tips thing.
00:33:00
And I, and I think we need to do that because they need help.
00:33:03
I lived in a town that, that's a big foodie town that was, that's
00:33:06
pretty much how people, most of them were, I mean, bartenders
00:33:11
and, and, and waiters and waitresses and, and fortunately
00:33:14
there was a town that understood that and, and appreciated and
00:33:17
respected it. If you don't have money to tip
00:33:21
or you don't want to tip, don't go somewhere where it's expected
00:33:24
to tip. I'm telling that to you, it's
00:33:28
not hard to go. There are plenty of places where
00:33:30
you don't tip, where you don't have a waiter order food, make
00:33:34
your own lazy ass. So that begs the question, and
00:33:39
that's the question for tonight, and I'll give you my opinion and
00:33:44
we'll go from there. Should we have tipping in the
00:33:46
United States or in Western cultures that do a lot don't
00:33:51
even the UK doesn't really. I lived in Scotland, as anybody
00:33:55
that listens to the show knows for a while or a couple years
00:33:58
and and they, it was almost, it was very confusing.
00:34:01
Some, some of them expected it, some of them didn't.
00:34:03
It was very weird. I think some of them might
00:34:05
because I was American. They're like yes, and some
00:34:07
included it. A lot of restaurants had it as,
00:34:10
as a, as a percentage charge and a lot of them were priced a
00:34:15
different way because they, they weren't expecting tips.
00:34:19
So what do you think in the United States?
00:34:23
Should there, should it be tipping?
00:34:24
Because what happens is, and, and I did it, I, I only did it
00:34:28
for about 3 months bartended and it was, you know, you get $2.46
00:34:34
an hour and that basically covers your taxes and that's how
00:34:38
much they pay you. And then it's all about tips.
00:34:42
If you make nothing, you, you make nothing.
00:34:45
And if you make $37 in a night and then you tip out the the bar
00:34:51
in the in the kitchen and then you get yourself some dinner,
00:34:54
you may easily leave with 15 bucks for an entire shift.
00:35:00
Now, granted, that's, you know, maybe a mid scale, lower scale
00:35:03
restaurant. I know there are plenty of
00:35:04
restaurants where these guys bank.
00:35:06
I get it. But it should there be tips.
00:35:10
So that's my point is I think there should be because I think
00:35:13
it's an industry that needs to be driven by incentive.
00:35:17
If you are a great waitress and you handle things well, then I
00:35:21
think people should want to tip you higher.
00:35:23
Plus your work won't, your work won't unintentionally suffer
00:35:27
your, your work ethic. You're not going to all of a
00:35:30
sudden kind of get lazy because you know exactly what your
00:35:33
paycheck's going to have. If you have a day where you're
00:35:35
just, I don't feel like dealing with these people,
00:35:38
Unfortunately, you're in an industry where you can't really
00:35:40
do that. Should you be able to should
00:35:43
waiters and waitresses be making a salary so that they don't have
00:35:46
that everyday? Oh shit, I've got to do this
00:35:48
perfectly mindset. I think that restaurants hire a
00:35:52
ton of people to put on their staff.
00:35:55
Hell, I may still be on that from 25 years ago.
00:35:58
They just don't delete them in case you want to pick up a
00:36:01
shift. You're, you're part of the
00:36:02
system and you go in there and they just don't put people on
00:36:05
the schedule. I mean, I know that for a fact
00:36:08
the, the place could have 50 waiters on the, on the, on their
00:36:12
not payroll because they're not going to pay you if you're not
00:36:14
working. But on their, on their lift on
00:36:16
their staff. And only 8 to 12 of them may be
00:36:20
very regulars, but that's what they do because they're able to
00:36:23
do that because they're not paying you anything.
00:36:27
If you work, you're making tips. And if they, if you do work,
00:36:29
they're paying you $2 and something an hour.
00:36:31
So would people lose jobs if all of a sudden restaurants were
00:36:35
required to pay everybody on their payroll minimum wage,
00:36:39
especially if minimum wage became 15 something an hour all
00:36:42
of a sudden restaurants aren't aren't going to staff this many
00:36:45
people. People won't be able to use it
00:36:48
as part time work. People won't be able to use it
00:36:49
here. People won't use it here.
00:36:51
And then does quality of service, you know, go down?
00:36:54
I'm not going to lie, if I go to dinner, I'd like to have good
00:36:57
quality of service and, and not have it too slow.
00:37:00
And I mean, anybody would does it does all of a sudden all
00:37:04
those things do all those things go down now because it's just a
00:37:08
given and there's no incentive to be great.
00:37:12
It's similar to the talk about education and, and, and, and
00:37:16
prosperity in this country. We need it.
00:37:18
People need incentive. I mean, there's nothing wrong
00:37:20
with that. You need rewarded for good work.
00:37:23
And how are you rewarded for good work in this food industry,
00:37:27
bar industry, if everybody makes exactly the same, regardless of
00:37:31
how good you do, how good a job you do?
00:37:34
So that's my thought on it. And I just, I just want, I want
00:37:37
these people treated better. And I, I'm a overtip.
00:37:41
Maybe I make up for, for these people, but don't be an asshole.
00:37:45
I mean, if you, if you can't leave a lot, leave the best you
00:37:48
can and you know, move on and that's fine.
00:37:50
But if you're going to be an asshole about it, then then, you
00:37:53
know, come on. Like I said, you'll get yours.
00:37:56
And if I ever see it, I, I'll, I probably would, I'll probably
00:37:58
say something and, and maybe it's not worth it, but there's
00:38:02
just an interesting topic. So let me know your thoughts on
00:38:05
in the comments section or wherever if you think tipping
00:38:08
should be a thing in the United States beyond waiting, waiting
00:38:12
tables and bartending. And what about other industries
00:38:15
where tips are involved? And a lot of people are getting
00:38:18
frustrated because every time they flip that little credit
00:38:21
card thing around, it's saying how much do you want to tip when
00:38:24
all they did is basically ring up your bottled water.
00:38:27
So, you know, maybe we're going too far with that.
00:38:30
But people that are making tips for their livelihood at a
00:38:32
restaurant and working their ass off and they do deserve your
00:38:37
respect. So maybe stay home next time if
00:38:40
you don't plan on tipping. All right, let's move on.
00:38:45
That's pretty much it for tonight, honestly.
00:38:47
And a little of everything. I I think the January 6th thing,
00:38:50
it was the big one. And then of course, this issue
00:38:53
about tipping. I like, you know, a couple of
00:38:55
those stories and the the animal I, I was most fascinated by the
00:39:00
longevity of life of some of these animals.
00:39:03
And if 5 minutes, this chick has 5 minutes to get laid, goodness,
00:39:08
hopefully she's hot. But again, no foreplay.
00:39:11
So got to get right to it. I, I just feel like I hit a
00:39:17
couple of topics recently pretty heavy and religion and, and all
00:39:21
of these Twitter and Elon and Trump and this.
00:39:24
And I know that this was about January 6th, but it it needed to
00:39:28
be said. Today is January 6th.
00:39:29
This is releasing tomorrow on January the 7th.
00:39:33
So, you know, if you're thinking about January 6th, really think
00:39:36
about what I said. It would be a lot grander of an
00:39:40
event if if people are behind it, specifically Donald Trump,
00:39:45
you think that man's going to go in there and just not have guns
00:39:48
a blazing. If that's what he really wanted
00:39:50
to do. He doesn't want to do that.
00:39:52
He's not the guy you're making him out to be.
00:39:55
He's not infallible. We know that he says and does
00:39:58
some stuff, but how perfect are you?
00:40:01
You know, nobody is. So get over it.
00:40:03
You're you're not under the microscope.
00:40:05
He is. I get that.
00:40:07
But move on from the January 6th thing and let's have a good
00:40:10
transfer of power here on the 20th and look forward to see
00:40:14
what he's doing. And I'm watching him.
00:40:16
I'll call him out. I'll I'll watch and make sure
00:40:19
and don't think he's getting a free pass.
00:40:22
And that's what a lot of lefties think is that you get a free
00:40:24
pass when you're a Trump voter. And that's not true.
00:40:27
So as usual, like and subscribe. I think the next show I'm going
00:40:31
to have some guests, maybe not the next show, but the show
00:40:34
after that I'll have some guests and we're going to have some
00:40:36
really good debate and some really good conversation.
00:40:38
My goal is to bring somebody in that's not completely like
00:40:41
minded to me and show you guys how to have a conversation like
00:40:45
an adult. And that's my goal.
00:40:47
So I look forward to doing that. Then look forward to the new
00:40:50
format of the show coming up and things we're going to be doing
00:40:53
to make it better and getting rid of the the headlines that
00:40:59
made it through editing is one of those things.
00:41:01
So I'm, I'm listening, I'm listening to the feedback.
00:41:05
Keep it coming. I do this for you.
00:41:08
See you next time. Love you guys.
00:41:11
You know what, don't stop it there.
00:41:12
I forgot my quote and and this is a funny 1.
00:41:15
So let's let's end it on a good note.
00:41:18
You know, especially for the mayfly that lasts 5 minutes.
00:41:21
This one just simple save water, shower with your girlfriend,
00:41:27
which leads to another good poll question.
00:41:28
Do you like to shower with your spouse?
00:41:30
Think about that.