Monday Morning Podcast - Sugar, Playoffs, the Machine | Monday Morning Podcast 6-16-25

Episode Date: June 16, 2025

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Hey, what's going on? It's Bill Byrd. It's time for the Monday Morning Podcast for Monday, June 16th, 2025. What's going on? How are ya? How's it going, man? Coming up week 15 of 16 Can't believe it I can't believe it's coming down to the end here we got 16 More shows eight this week eight next week, and that's gonna be then there you have it and there you have it That's gonna be it that fuck did I do to my leg? You know being a fucking ginger. I swear to God, the bruises and stuff, I look like I got clawed by a goddamn bear. You might have time, there's bruises on me and I don't know what it is, you know what usually I'm doing? I just push down on it and then I, the pain of it reminds me of when it happened and I

got nothing for this one. Anyway, I got nothing dude how about the fucking Florida Panthers you know game what was it game for Edmonton goes up late they're up what was it four to three there's seconds left in the Panthers score to tie it up four four they go into overtime you know the Panthers are gonna win they're fucking relentless but Edmonton somehow pulls it out ties up the series two to two and then I'm just sitting there going like oh my god they're're going back to Edmonton. Holy shit Edmonton wins game one loses game two loses game three Florida's looking to go up three games to one

They dig deep win it in overtime tie it two to two now. They're going back to Edmonton They have the momentum and what is Florida do goes up there and they're building and fucking beats him Jesus Christ, I'm really happy for Brad Marshawn. He probably is gonna get the MVP of this series if the Panthers win it but You got to give it up to a man as much as I hate the fucking Panthers because they Bounced my Bruins out of the playoffs to get two years in a row. They are a fucking championship squad. So I'm assuming game six is tonight going back to Florida and now

Edmonton basically has to do what Florida did against Florida, which is a tall, tall order. What a fucking series. Like, I have no idea which way this is gonna go. Like, if Edmonton wins tonight and they go back to Edmonton, oh my God, game seven in Edmonton, Edmonton's gonna win. Like, you can't even say that. Like, it wouldn't surprise me at all if Edmonton went down, won in Florida, and then they went back to Edmonton,

and then Florida won it and then won the Cup. It's been an incredible series. I haven't been keeping up with the NBA. I want to say the Pacers won game one and then lost the next two, and I don't know where that is right now. I have no idea. My brain is all over the place.

And anyway, O'Freckles got back in the big gay gym. My lovely wife was out here. And you know, for my birthday weekend and all of that, we had such a fucking great time and everything. But you know, in that great time. You know, I wasn't going to the gym. I wanted to spend every second I could spend with her because I miss her so much.

And you know, kinda got back on the bread. It was my birthday, I had some desserts. You know, I had a piece of cake, I had a fucking cupcake. You know, there was a bunch of little mini celebrations, and oh, Fatso fucking part took. I didn't go crazy though, but what I was happy was I was able to get right back off of sugar. I think I finally have it under control,

unlike everything else in my life that I have to just quit cold turkey. But I am psyched though, I am completely off of sugar. Now I look at candy bars, all of that crap I used to eat late at night, like I was still in junior high. Which if I really go back, that was my fucking sugar addiction. It went way back to then. Like you know, like whenever you hear like alcoholics go like I had my first drink when I was 12.

You know? Didn't seem like a big deal. Within a week, I was down in a bottle and a half of vodka every day before fucking recess. You know? That was like sugar. It was like, I have a vodka every day before fucking recess. That was like sugar. It was like, I think somewhere, once I went into junior high,

and you started to buy your own lunch, and you had all those different options, like there was days I would go up, and for lunch I would just get junk food. I would get a three pack of chocolate chip cookies, potato chips, and then a couple other things and I would just fill my, if I didn't like the hot lunch that day, and I would just fill myself up with that shit. And it didn't seem like a big deal, you know? You were young, you're running around.

Your stomach was flat, you didn't have a dad bod, you were fucking junior high. And I had no idea that all those years later, like I would be struggling because of the choices that I made. In the early 80s, like 40 fucking years later, more than 40 years later I like I've been off it for like a couple of years now and You know I

I don't know. I have no fucking idea I don't even know what the fuck I'm doing or what my life is right now But I'm just trying to I'm trying to get off of that shit. I'm trying to get off of bread. I don't fuck with bread anymore because that's like poison and it makes you fucking fat. Like, it's so insane to me that the number one priority right now in this country is to get illegals out.

But meanwhile, all the citizens can keep eating a food supply that has been turned into poison. Say what you want about these illegal immigrants. They didn't poison the food supply. You know, that was done by my people. Yeah, and all of these politicians that look the other way and let them do that. I would think that that was more of a priority than getting illegals out of there in a way that is not even legal.

No due process, no anything. It is such an ugly, ugly time and the misdirection of all of this and this whole idea that what they're selling, which is really my people, white people, what they're selling us, you know, that they're gonna do this and then somehow your life is going to improve. I don't understand I

Don't understand it that like the math just doesn't work out like how is that going to help inflation? How is it going to help the the common man? It isn't like it just isn't these billionaires have never wanted to pay you They don't want to fucking pay you and they're not gonna start now with this horrible stuff that they're doing. Basically, the standing president has declared war on a city and a state. Trying to defund California, it's like, buddy, this is your offensive line.

This is your buffer between here and China. You wanna fuckin' destroy it? I don't know, but I completely understand it because I grew up with narcissists, and this is what they do They have to destroy things And there's also that thing of like you are who you hang out with and This guy who's claiming to be a great American is how he likes to hang out with ruthless dictators He likes to hang out with ruthless dictators. North Korea and Russia. So, I mean, it really is fucking amazing to me

that he can be doing all of these things while simultaneously having a large group of my own people believing that he has a good heart. All I can say is I hope that they're right. I hope that they're right because this looks like pure evil to me Anywho and with that fucking happy shit I Did the Beacon Theatre last night I did stand up

Did an hour and 15 minutes man, and I didn't have any like you know I was definitely looking at the paper because I had it like sort of I didn't have it assembled in my head I had to like sort of, I didn't have it assembled in my head. I won 15, I had other jokes that I forgot to do or whatever and I want to thank everybody that came out. I had a number of people from Glenn Gary came out, cast and crew, which was great. And Michael Che opened up and oh my God, he fucking murdered.

He's been doing a bunch of stand up I'm assuming because I think SNL's on break right now. And so I guess he's been going around, he must be doing stand up because his act was super tight and as always that kid has always had just like top shelf A level material. So it was fun. I'd never done a gig with him, so that was a good time.

So anyway, yeah, I had to do that because I got to get ready for this international run that I'm doing right after. I don't know why the fuck I booked this right after this play. I'm such a fucking idiot. I just, I have to learn how to take a goddamn break. I literally, I don't know how to do it.

Well, I do know how to do it, but then I sit there alone with my own fucking thoughts and it, they drive me insane. So, just keep working just keep working that's uh that's our therapy that's what we do bill did i just say our therapy yeah me and the voices in my head there you go um but anyway i got uh i tried uh a bunch of new shit last night, and it was, um... It all went over really, really well,

and a few things that I did was just shit that I never got to work, and, uh... Last night, it finally killed, but of course I didn't tape it. I never tape myself because I'm not gonna listen to it. So it just becomes wasted space on me phone. Oh, I know what I wanted to talk about.

Shout out to Japan. I somehow came across, you know, death scrolling. I came across this band the fishman's From like the 1990s and they sort of combined all of these Different genres of music. I mean, I don't know what any of them are You know what I mean like house dub you know Acid jazz. I remember they were calling it that like once one whatever acid jazz came out like I

stopped knowing what music is and then I the genres of them or even being able to understand them and Like I was saying like a couple months ago You know that there's there's like Genres of music I've never even heard of, shoegaze. I've never even heard of that. And so I'm like woefully behind, but I downloaded this album long season because they said it had one song on it, 35 minutes long, and that it was a masterpiece of whatever brand of music that they were doing. And I put that song on and I was stretching in my apartment.

Put on my workout clothes, I stretched in my apartment. Song is still going. I walked to the gym, it was still going, and I got like, you know, 20, I don't know, 30% into my workout, and I listened to the whole thing. It was like, I was like determined. I'm like, I gotta listen,

I'm gonna listen to a 35-minute song. And it was a hell of a ride. There's so many goddamn talented people out there, but they have a bunch of other songs that aren't as long. I don't know, I'm gonna start listening to them. I think they're a really, I don't know, what do you, group, whatever the kids call them now. But also, I gotta tell you, like,

because nobody seems to wanna pay for music anymore, I miss downloading an album that is like 39, 40 minutes long. You know, they always have to add all these bonus tracks, and then all of a sudden you go to download it, and it's like an hour and 20 minutes. 39, 40 minutes long. You know, they always have to add all these bonus tracks and then all of a sudden you go to download it and it's like an hour and 20 minutes. It's like, I don't wanna listen to a fucking hour and 20 minutes to anybody.

An hour and 20 fucking minutes. I swear to God, they, I think they're doing it so maybe you're more apt to buy it because you feel like you're getting more. But I also feel it's like Apple filling up their own phones so you have to go buy a new one. You know what I mean? Like I don't need an hour and 20 minutes of Adam Ant.

You know, I just need goody two shoes and a couple of fucking deep cuts and I'm good. You know what I mean? I don't need, you know, you know, two hours and 40 minutes of Taylor Dane, the extended greatest hits fucking version. I mean, I love ACDC, but I don't want an hour and 20 minute version of outtakes of back in black

It's like why do I need the out? Do you mean the shit that they thought wasn't good enough for the album? Why would I do that like I never understood that like? Like when an artist dies like Jimi Hendrix or Miles Davis They're probably two of the people that have had that had the most god-darn Tupac the most fucking out They have like more albums come out after they die than when they were alive. And it's like, when they were alive, they made a decision to not put this shit out because they didn't want people to hear it, because they didn't think it was good enough. Like, so what the f... what am I listening to?

That should be the album. Miles Davis, shit I didn't like. But I gather on the other side that he's now gone, you're never going to hear him play the trumpet again, so you want to like listen to, I don't know, what were some of the things that he didn't like? It gives you a more rounded 360 degree version of him man. Yes, I was yawning during that and I just chose to fucking plow through it So anyway For some reason I cannot get to sleep until fucking three in the morning. I just cannot do it I don't I'm just like fucking wide awake and then I wake up five hours later. I had one cup of coffee yesterday.

Like that should not, it's never affected me like that. I think it's starting to. So, oh boy, is this gonna be another thing that I get to quit? Is this the next thing? Next thing, next thing to quit. Next thing, next thing, next thing to quit. Anyway, so today at the Big Gay Gym,

we're halfway through Pride, fellas. I gotta tell you, it's been like really fucking, it's been kinda chill. Like I thought it was like, oh my God, this neighborhood's gonna be going fucking crazy. It's been very, like, you know, subdued. I don't know, maybe gay people do, is something coming that we don't know, you know? Something on the horizon? I'm looking at gay people like how you look at a dog.

Like when a dog gets a little weird because it can sense a tornado is coming or an earthquakes coming before you can like It's been a very subdued pride month do they know something that straight people don't like what is what is happening right now Anyway So I'm starting to pack up stuff in my corporate apartment and shipping it back west, which has been really exciting. That this is going to come to an end. As much as I have enjoyed it, it's time to me to go back and be a husband and a father full-time again. It's been a hell of an experience. I don't know, I don't know how I would ever try and do this again. It was awesome and it was also too long to be away and I am ready to go back and I'm ready to do a few international dates and then not do shit for the rest of the year.

I just want to be with my wife, my best friend, and my kiddos for the rest of the year. And like I said, all I got, I have one acting gig, it's like a 30-day commitment or whatever, and I have nothing for the rest of the year. And I think for the first time, I might put my freckled feet up and see what that's like and sit in my demons and try to keep mid-bam. I go back to therapy and then all I wanna do is just hang out with my lovely wife, have fun with her, and go swimming with the kids and all of that.

That is it. That is it, but I will never forget this experience. And I'll tell you, I haven't done The Beacon in forever. In for fucking ever, and it took me back. Like one of the last times I did The Beacon, took me back, like one of the last times I did The Beacon, I did this benefit, and I swear to God, this was the lineup. Max Weinberg and his band were live on stage.

John Stewart hosted. The first person he brought up, I don't even remember what it was a benefit for. The first person he brought up was Tony Bennett. Rest his soul. And Tony goes out there, absolutely murders, and his voice sounded like the early 1960s. It's one of the greatest... First of all, one of the great voices of all time absolutely murders and his voice sounded like the early 1960s. It's one of the greatest, first of all,

one of the great voices of all time, but also like how long it was great, was incredible. And while he was singing, I'm standing side at the side of the stage watching him sing. And standing within earshot of me is Bruce Springsteen, and Bruce is saying, how the hell am I gonna follow this? Okay, so Tony ends his thing.

Place goes crazy. John goes back out, kills, and then brings out Bruce Springsteen. Place goes nuts, and then Bruce is like Springsteen. Place goes nuts and then Bruce is like sliding around on his knees jumping up on the piano going nuts like he's playing Giant Stadium in fucking at the beacon. So just to recap, Max Weinberg band kills it, John Stewart kills, the band starts playing music, Tony Bennett comes out kills, and then Bruce Springsteen goes out and kills. And then they brought out Joe McHale, who was new to stand up, and he had to go on. Oh, I forgot they auctioned off Bruce Springsteen's

guitar And somebody in the crowd paid like a hundred grand for to whatever and then they brought Joe McHale out who I think I mean with that I mean that might be one of the greatest who did you have to go on after It was so funny that I don't know why It was so funny that I don't know why they didn't have me go on first or Joe go on first and then do Tony then do Bruce and but they didn't for whatever reason. They put Tony on first then they put Bruce then they put Joe and then they put me it didn't even make any sense. And me and Joe were just laughing.

Why would they do this? I don't understand. Like, don't they understand like how you do a show? You don't have Metallica go on first and then have the local band try to mop up after. That's what me and Joe were that night. And it's kind of funny is I run into him every once in a while and that night still comes up.

We're sort of forever bonded by the fact that both of us got to go on that night and we weren't Joe and we weren't Bill. We were just not Tony and not Bruce. So we went on in the middle. Oh, you know what was a great two of that night? Is I got to hear Tony Bennett ask Joe McHale if he could get a copy of the second season of Community because he was a fan of the show, which I thought was so, like, so do like grounded him and normalized him or whatever like well He really he's just a when he's not Tony Bennett. He's binge watching shows just like everybody else

so anyway After Joe Went out in the toughest fucking one of the toughest nights Ever went out did his thing Then they brought me out. I go out, I'm doing my thing. And as I'm doing it, I look to the right. And this is the first time I ever worked with Jerry Seinfeld. He was closing.

So maybe that's what they were doing. They were like, we have all these legends. Let's sandwich these two other guys in the middle. And I remember being on stage and looking, and they had like this light on the side of the stage. And like Jerry was like backlit. And it was like this iconic silhouette. Like it was just, I mean, obviously I knew that he was there,

but he was also, you know, it was and is Jerry Seinfeld. So even his silhouette, like I knew it was him. I'm sitting there going, that's fucking Jerry Seinfeld, so even his silhouette, like I knew it was him, I'm sitting there going, that's fucking Jerry Seinfeld, and I'm out here dropping these F-bombs, he must hate me right now. He must hate me, beyond the fact that I'm not Tony Bennett or Bruce Springsteen. So I finished my thing, and I got off stage,

and I walked by Jerry, and didn't even want to say anything. I was like, I just thought he thought I would stink and I remember he just went very funny, very funny. And I said, oh yeah, yeah, I go, sorry about those F bombs. And he just goes, oh, I don't care. And I remember it made me respect him so much as a comedian because I was just like, yeah, of course he doesn't care because he's always worked clean.

He's had to go on after guys way dirtier than I am. Back when no one knew who he was and he was performing and closing out a show in a bar in New Jersey, having to go on after some local hack, did all the local references. And probably ended with his, I went to the proctologist bit, you know? He had to follow all of that. Of course, it wouldn't bother him.

But, um, anyway, that's what I was thinking about last night when I was, um, at that theater. And then backstage is they have all of these incredible photos of all of the people that have played there. Of course, the Allman brothers and all of their shows. Speaking of Jerry, Jerry did a whole run there. All these SNL alumni that have done like shows there. I also want to say that's the place where Steve Martin,

unretired from doing standup, I think that that's what it was. It was just a really legendary venue to do. And I just wanna thank everybody that came out last night. And I'm so fucking psyched that it went as well as it did. And that I can, I've been doing standup long enough and I respect standup enough that I keep, I don't take long breaks from it.

Other than the pandemic, that was the only time I did because for the first three months there was nothing. But I wanna thank PJ Landers and everybody down at the Comedy Village for, that's been my go-to club, you know, because I get off stage, you know, and the club's on like 44th between eighth and ninth, and we're on 49th and seventh. So the amount of nights that I've gone over there, and it's really also helped my mental state

where, like, I realized pretty quickly that, you know, doing the Broadway play and the high of that and coming out for the curtain call and the standing ovation and all of that to just sort of come directly home to this apartment is like, you know, pulling the emergency brake emotionally, that going down to his club, hanging out with him,

I know him since back the Boston Comedy Club days, like, you know, reminiscing with him, you know, talking about the old days, or just shooting the shit about... um, whatever happened that day and then meeting newer, younger comics and stuff and, uh... you know, um... and then going on stage

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Predictive text I can't even shut the function off on one of my programs. Oh, I know yeah, especially if you write a lot of crazy shit and you're trying to write a word in a funny way like an accent or something and then it just becomes something completely different. For me that for me it's really frustrating because I'm usually trying to make a joke and every word is critical and they just they're sort of the comedy cock block, the predictive text. Anyways, the person says, if you don't know what it is, it's the feature that fills in

the word that it thinks you're going to type. It's a really simple way for them to dumb us down. I know it's like being in a relationship with someone that thinks they know what you're going to say so they start interrupting you. I knew somebody like that. They used to always interrupt. I go, you don't want me to let you finish? She goes, well, it's because I feel like I already know what you're gonna say. Narcissist, another one.

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it's really insane all right new phones Billy nitwit hey man not that dumb. Have you seen these new phones that have simple screens and less features? No, but that's really amazing to me. I've been advertised them a lot recently, and I'm very close to making the Switch. You can do email and listen to music. It's just not built to stare at all day. What would stop you from making the switch? If you ever need video or conference call, you can just keep your old phone and use it on WiFi.

Well, that's like, you could just have heroin on the side. What's stopping me from making the switch? This sounds like an advertisement. Um...the fact that I'm in this business and I don't watch TV, I don't watch the news, I don't really interact with my fellow man other than when I'm on, like, social media seeing what people are posting.

Um... The only news I read is Le Parisien, huh? on social media seeing what people are posting. The only news I read is, the Parisian. I mean, that's how I learned that there was this horrible stuff going on between Israel and Iran. I mean, Jesus, did you see the video footage of just all of those missiles they were shooting at each other? Jesus, did you see the video footage of just all of those missiles they were shooting at each other?

It's it's just it's just fucking insane It's fucking insane You know, it's one of the great things about travel, you know, I went to Tel Aviv one time I stayed in Jaffa and when I was there, this is something as an American. I didn't know I thought the Palestinians on one side and I was there, this is something as an American I didn't know. I thought the Palestinians on one side and I thought the Israelis were on another. And in Jaffa and all that, they were mixed. There was Palestinian people, there was Israeli people, and everybody was cool. And they were all just walking around and everything was fine and the food was amazing.

The cigars were incredible. It was great and it was fine and the food was amazing. The cigars were incredible. It was great and it was beautiful and everybody was beautiful over there. And like, I don't know, to just see like all of those, I always think about all of those people that I saw and just thinking that they're just caught in the middle of these fucking sociopaths at the top. These psychos who all they do is just like stir shit up like look what that's like

Like our standing president like what is he doing? He just wants unrest And he had a big birthday party for himself a big military parade I don't understand like He's a billionaire, I don't understand why these billionaires are so goddamn it. What are they so upset about? It's because they got a billion of dollars and they realize what we all realize is that money doesn't buy can't buy happiness and They just kept getting more and more of it and like nobody knows that more than a billionaire Um, I

Can tell you the secret to happiness is helping out other people being empathetic forgiving people and and taking responsibility for things that you've done that have hurt other people and taking responsibility for things that you've done that have hurt other people. And as an older person, if you're an empty nester and you just feel like I don't have any purpose anymore, you can help out younger people. And that can be your purpose for the rest of your life. That you know, you were a young person, then you got married, then you had kids, you raised these kids, you made all the sacrifice to these great productive people in society and

then your final act is that you can do everything you can to help out other people so that their lives were easier than yours and If you're doing that like what you get out of that Like I don't know like why aren't we going more towards that? Why are we just letting our school systems go to shit why are we letting our food supply go to shit? Why are we doing this to each other? It just doesn't, none of this makes any sense. And the more you travel and the more you meet people, the more insane this handful of people

that run every country seem to you. I mean, that's just my opinion. What the fuck do I know? But anyway, that's why I'm not gonna make the switch to the other phone, I don't even know how I got to that. If I wasn't in this fucking business, I would love to do that. You know what, I would maybe do that

and then maybe it would cause me to be more active on social media and I would just make videos every once in a while. So I would stay relevant, I guess. I don't fucking know. That's a great question. Have you been seeing these new phones? Simple screens. Now are they called like, you know, this is called a smartphone?

Is that called a smarter phone or is it called a dumber phone? I guess it all depends on who does the marketing on it. That's very interesting. Thank you for the heads up on that. All right. Market Basket. Oh, this is nice. Hey there, Crimson Yeller.

Crimson Yeller, that's like a fucking name in a script. I'll tell you right now, there was been a lot of bad mo' foes in this town, but I'll tell you right now, ain't none of them gonna help canola candle to old Crimson Yeller. You'd hear hear before you saw Love the podcast been a listener for years

Have you heard anything from the family back east about the board of the grocery store chain? market basket Trying to oust CEO Arthur T the Moulis again No, but I love stories like this trying to oust CEO Arthur T. DeMoules again. No, but I love stories like this. I love watching those corporate guys when they turn their evil on each other. This guy's a rare breed.

He actually treats his employees well. Oh no, I'm on the wrong side of this. Well, of course he is. He's a Greek guy, you know, this guy's know about family that they know how to live Paul Verzi Paul Verzi is Greek. What are my great friends in this business? One of my great friends growing up was Greek Nikki the Greek This guy's a rare breed. He actually treats his employees well, keeps prices affordable and runs the supermarket like he gives a damn about middle class families.

Man, can we use a lot more of that? This guy's a saint. Back in 2014 when the board tried to push him out the first time the employees walked out not just the execs but the cashiers stock clerks warehouse guys the whole crew See there you go See all this love and adoration that this guy run in the country wants if he just treated people well you'd get it You don't have to fucking rub people's faces and shit you'd get it. You don't have to fucking rub people's faces in shit.

Um, anyway, they stood in a in parking lots holding signs and refused to work until he was brought back and it worked. They chose their CEO over the board because the guy had always had their backs. Now it seemed like the board's back at it, trying to push them out to chase higher profits or whatever the hell they think is more important than loyalty and people being able to afford groceries. Will this shit ever end? Yes, it will. Yes, it will.

Decency will win. You have to think that way. And you know, it starts with you and how you treat other people and just because the leaders of the world right now are being so heartless to one another to Regular people walking down the goddamn street Doesn't mean you have to be And I just feel like that's the balance of the universe that that the more evil they go, the nicer we should be to one another. And it's just like, you're not gonna get me to hate undocumented immigrants.

You're not gonna get me to hate Mexicans. You're not gonna get me to hate Chinese people. It's like, I know what the problem is. It's not them. Okay? It's not any race know what the problem is. It's not them. Okay? It's not any race or anything like that. It's a small group of people, the people that run shit in every fucking country. Everybody runs, leads by division and fear and all of that.

I just, I don't understand it. Never will. All right. He says, will this shit ever end? Yes, I feel it will. I guess the board needs a bigger yacht and the only way to get this is fucking over the common man. All the best to you and the family. Wish I was able to get down to see Glengarry before it ends. Congratulations on all that. Well, thank you. Um, well maybe you guys can go outside and protest

and, you know, shame those people for doing what they're doing to this guy. Arthur T. Demolis, I hope I said his name right, no disrespect intended, doing human beings and the Greeks proud. Um, I will tell you, that's why when I have the option of going to a mom-and-pop place or a bigger place, I go to the mom-and-pop place because you just get better service, because you mean something to them.

And, you know, fuck the convenience of a box store. You know, out in LA, when I snuck back for my lovely wife's birthday, I've never missed it. I never will. I flew back out there for a birthday and came back and I took my daughter to a Target. And their new thing is they, you don't get a ticket, they are something like that to go into the parking.

They're like photographing like your license plate and stuff like that. And I don't know, just this constant surveillance and face recognition and all of this police state stuff that they're moving towards. And you watch, you know, Democrats and Republicans just keeping their mouths shut about this is insane. And the danger of all of this is it's going to...

I think the reason for it is to stop any sort of rebellion against their out-of-control greed before it even starts. Because in order to have some sort of effective rebellion, they can't know where you are and know what you're doing and knowing what you're planning. But your phone's listening to you, your TV's taking pictures of you, they got face recognition, they track you, they can find you all, that's why they eventually want to microchip you, because the second you become a problem, they just go, well, where is he?

Go pick him up. And I have to be honest with you, what you see ICE doing right now, as a white person, when you watch that, you have to take yourself out of the fact that, you know, you're a citizen and that you're white, you have to take yourself out of the fact that you're a citizen and that you're white and you have to see yourself in what's happening to those people watching their families being ripped apart. Because this is how these psychos do this.

They start with an impoverished group of people with no power that doesn't look like the masses. So you don't see yourself. And what by allowing them to do what they're doing and throwing all the rights into the ocean of those people, we are inadvertently co-signing eventually to normalize that. And I mean, literally to have our own troops going into our own city not to defend it But to go in and get people and remove them and do all of that. I mean, it's just like like the Pandora's box that you're opening and

How easily they will just then they'll'll, you know, when eventually they get to my people, white people, they will divide us and subset us and you'll just keep sitting there as the water is rising going, well, that won't affect me, that won't affect me, that won't affect me. And then that's game set match. All right, that's my dark thought for a Monday. All right, existential question about serious topic.

All right. Hey, Bill, just as sickening as you, seeing people ripped from their families, I hate the government. If the federal government didn't have all that power, we'd be in a better spot. Well, I would say if the federal government hadn't been destroyed by the deregulation

of corporations, you know, we all believe that lie in the 80s. They were going like, you know, if you deregulate us and you just let us go full on business, we'll be able to make money and this economy is going to boom like you've never seen, seen, seen. And they were able to make crazy profits. They just never passed it down to the rest of us. They kept it all for themselves. And they use that money to pay off Supreme Court judges and politicians on both sides, give them insider trading tips.

And that's why, you know, all of them are making a couple hundred grand a year and their portfolios are worth 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 million, 100 million dollars. So I'm an old guy here, 57 years old. I remember when corporations had to answer to the government. Now they don't. Um, so I don't know. I think the federal government, if they use their power correctly,

if the banks had to answer to them, if corporations had to answer to them, as opposed to the government working for those evil entities. Um, honest question, because I'm looking for clarity, this person says. I don't pay attention to politics as much because I think everything that's going to happen is going to happen regardless of who we vote for. Yeah, I agree with that.

All you get to do is choose who's going to go in there and then after that you don't get to vote on anything. Like this real ID that's come out. Did we get to vote on that? Like this real ID that's come out. Did we get to vote on that? They don't. You don't. The politicians vote on it, but they don't. They're doing what the people that put them in office tell them to do. This person says, I voted for Obama because he promised to shut down Guantanamo and end the wars in the Middle East. He didn't shut it down and instead advanced us into more countries and more debt. 100 percent. 100 percent. Yep, that's when I lost face

than politicians. When a liberal black politician was elected and he was, you know, just doing what a white guy would have done. I'm not saying he didn't, him being in there, he didn't look at things that a white president wouldn't have, but the general war machine thing, he kept on track, war for profit. He definitely did that. I don't know.

I'm trying to find a silver lining in all of this. The machine moves in the direction it wants to, no matter who is president. Yes. Yeah. It might move a little to the left. It might move a little to the right, but it's going the same heading, essentially. I agree. This person says, so when I start looking at what's going on, I feel a little gross being on the same side as the performative politicians who voted to increase ICE's budget

during Biden's presidency, overwhelmingly by both parties. Why would they do that? Great question. I just feel like even if I'm adhering to my own principles, I'm forced to be on the same side as people who helped create the problem. I think it's part of the way we're controlled. 100%, listen to this guy, look at this guy with the third eye fucking squeegeed.

They don't care what you're fighting for. Either way, they'll make it work for themselves and the people who control them. The old money that we never heard about that owns half the world. Yes. Here's where I get frustrated and feel like a fraud as I get my blood boiling. If our current president is deporting people at a lower rate than Biden and significantly lower than all the presidents before them.

Don't you think it's a little suspect that we're now, now we're seeing the videos of it? Yeah, because of the liberal slants in the media. Yeah. And I also think it has to do with what media you're consuming. Like I think people who watch Fox News have a completely different view of our current president than somebody does if they watch CNN and vice versa

when Sleepy Joe was president. It's, you know, forget about AI. It's the, you know, media ownership is in such a small amount of people's hands that, I mean, what do you, what the fuck do you believe? What is the, I have no idea what anything is anymore. I mean, I think maybe that's another reason why I just sort of pulled away. It's just like, I don't know how to make sense of any of this. I don't know. I will say like one of the last things for me was when that woman cried when Hillary lost the election. And that's when I really was just like, well,

at this point, with her crying, you're really showing me that this is not journalism. This is like, is it partisan politics journalism? Is that the right word? Like, like, I don't know, when I was growing up, the guy or the woman reading the news, you didn't know who they voted for. I mean, a president had to get assassinated before a journalist got choked up. Not a fucking election. Results. Anyway, where were the news outlets who should have been examining these things regularly

for years? Maybe I'm an idiot, but there's no way Clinton deported 12 million people without separating families and of course there was point zero zero zero zero zero one percent of The amount of cameras back then but that's still a lot He deported 12 million people He deported 12 million people? Yeah, how do you deport 12 million people and there's no footage of that? I mean, that's a significant percentage.

Well, I mean, I guess it's still less than 1% of our population. That's still, like, 12 million anything, you would think that you would see it. Anyway, I looked up the rate in which every president has deported people and Trump's deported less than every president since Clinton. Even H.W. Bush deported half of what Biden and Trump did. Well let me ask you this, how did they go about deporting them? How did they deport people without having Marines coming into the city and pointing their guns at people?

Why is this such a, if you could deport 12 million people without anybody noticing, why do we then have to spend all of this fucking money rounding up all of these people and doing all of this stuff? What is this whole thing that's going on, this whole show of this? This person says, and I'm sure you've seen all the videos going around of Democrats talking about drawing a hard line on immigration and running on policies of deporting people. And listen, that's not a reason to excuse the methods being used, but also, who's the fool if we didn't give a shit back then?

Do we all care about actual numbers of people being deported and ripped from their families? Or who's doing it? I mean, that's a fair question. Yeah, I don't know. But I can tell you that what scares me about the current administration is fanning the flames of overt racists and anti-Semites and psycho-nationalists, giving those people a voice. And then also having somebody who, like, I don't even know mentally where this guy is and how, once again, the same, like, we're in the same situation, Joe Biden, like for some reason people on the right,

it was so clear to them that this guy did not have the mental capacity to be holding the office. And there's no way that liberals didn't see that, but they saw it, but they couldn't admit to it. They just kept saying, well, anything's better than this other guy. So now, like, this guy we have now,

people on the right won't say anything. I mean, the babbling rambling of the guy's speeches, I mean, that rambling he did about Arnold Palmer, which I don't even know what the purpose of the guy's speeches. I mean that rambling he did about Arnold Palmer, which I don't even know what the purpose of the speech was, but for whatever reason, he started talking about the impressive size of Arnold Palmer's dick. Like, he's just sitting there going like, he's talking about this guy's dick.

This is the President of the United States. And let me tell you, when they came out, oh, they were impressed He was all man, but I love women. I'm like what in the fuck is this guy talking about? I Don't know I will be honest with you I think a bunch of great stuff was written in here this week a bunch of great questions were raised and I'll be honest with you guys. I am more confused now

then Than I have ever been like But the one thing that I loved was That this person understands that it doesn't make a difference blue tie or red tie The machine is going in the direction that it is going in so once again how I combat all of that stuff is I'm just trying you know to be and I don't know this is so weak compared to what's going. I'm just trying to be a nice person. I'm trying to help out younger people,

younger comics or whatever, just whatever. People in need doing benefits. Like, I can't just sit here and just watch all of this shit going on and not try to do something positive. And I feel like me walking away from the news and not watching it anymore, I'm running into more and more people Who have are doing it for their own fucking sanity?

But then what is that now you're not even now no one's even paying attention I guess me by me not watching the news whatever the fuck that means I Mean news whatever news is now is A cop-out is me as a citizen, so maybe I should pay attention more. I don't fucking know. All I know is my job is just to make you guys laugh and make your day a little easier.

I do know that, and I know my job as an older person is to help out younger people. Encourage them or whatever, give them some advice, you know, and then also know that I can learn something from them and know that however I view the world is not the be-all fucking end-all. All right. Well, this is a heavier one than usual, but these are heavier times. Um, that's the podcast.

Um, and I'm not going to say go F yourselves because that feels weird after all of that. I hope you guys have a great week and I will check in on you on Thursday.