Patrick and the People - 1/17/2025 Patrick and the People - Live w/ Comedian Ambrose Jones

Episode Date: January 18, 2025

Guests: Ambrose Jones, Chad Sledge, and Amanda Parker

Wow, man, were they all ears or? There's some sun ones. I don't know. I'm sure that. You know, just different. Not not not the same. You know, dermal's coming in today. They do that. OK. All right. So that's where they like put a snap on their head and the horn on

and the diamond. OK, I never done no horns. No, no horns. OK, and to my left here, owner, operator of the break room, Amanda. How are you doing, Amanda? I'm fantastic. I got to play with the kitty all morning.

I know you did. We have a cat named Solo here that roams the the complex and he's a mouser. Yeah, well, they're supposed to be supposed to be. But he was too busy getting rubbed to chase the mouse that ran past him about two feet away. Well, I have a tendency to keep men from doing their jobs. I understand, man. I do, I do. So here in just a few minutes we'll have our Looney Bend comedian who's coming in to join us and

very excited about having them on board. It's been a really good week, got a good rant lined up for today. So very happy about that. Next week we're going to have Josh Stewart as our in-studio musical guest. If you don't know him, he is a great vocalist, guitarist, just amazing performer. And so we'll get back to those live performances. Also coming up, man, I mean, we are just around the corner now. January 25th, the free Arc and Brawl. Yeah, that is nine matches. The feature match, the big one, that would be me versus Jimmy Buffay.

Buffay. Yeah, that's right, Jimmy Buffay. And very, very excited to take part in it. Got my stuff ordered. It should be here any day. I'm ready to come out in full regalia and do this thing, baby. I've been working on it, getting my moves down. Yeah, I've been training.

Oh, yeah, man. It's a index. Yeah, learning how to work the tights, you know, so you can get good butt shots. You're better than me, man. You're better than me. Remember, you're always on camera. Yeah, right. Always gotta be a good shot.

Yeah, well, you know, I made sure to get some distracting enough pants that, you know what I mean? You can't really tell what's going on around me. That's how they do it. That's how they do it. Has Laura been, you know, practicing moves with you? No, no. She just tells me I'm an idiot. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

She said I'm just waiting to see what injury you're having home with. I'll be waiting with the Advil. You're right. Maybe. No, she's definitely not going to be waiting with any Advil. She'll be waiting with an I told you so. Advil. I told you so.

Who did you think you were getting in that ring yeah that eyebrow cocked up all like she does she's got a rock look yeah you talking about yeah no she'll pop the eyebrow on you for sure and you know as soon as it comes up you're like yeah I just need to move along you know all right let's get to a little bit of news here. Let's see what's going on. Apparently, Dave Chappelle is hosting Saturday Night Live for the fourth time this weekend. The show drops some promos for the episode that features him,

Glorilla and Marcella Hernandez. Yeah, that sounds pretty good. I like, I love Chappelle and actually Glorilla. Yeah, pretty great. Yeah, that sounds pretty good. I like that. I love Chappelle. And Gorilla. Gorilla. Yeah. Pretty great. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty good. She's solid as far as rap goes. I mean, I like her. She's hot right now. She has made it onto our playlist at the shop. You know, you think that folks would just want to hear, you know, rage or, you know, limp or something like that. But like Shaboosie and Boosie. Oh yeah, Boosie for sure.

Boosie badass. Oh my God, yep. Wipe me down, yep. Just wiping out. Yep, you know what I mean? I can see that. And I'm grateful for it. Yeah, it's a nice change up, right?

It was a nice change. Speaking of rappers, Busta Rhymes is being charged with assault. He's accused of punching a guy in the face in Brooklyn. He turned himself in Tuesday night, according to the police. He got into a fight with his assistant, Daniel Gables, about talking on the phone during work hours. He allegedly punched him in the face.

Busta took off before police arrived. He was taking the hospital, probably not because he needed to be, but because he needed to get paid. And so you got to take that ride in the ambulance hopefully not because he needed to be right, but because he needed to get paid. And so you got to, you got to take that ride in the ambulance and be going, Oh my God. Whatever. Yeah. I'm just a buster. Rhymes. Come on, man. He can't put too much of a beat down. I met the man got in trouble that day for beating somebody up. Oh, he did too.

Yeah. He beat up his ex, his daughter's ex boyfriend, caught him at the gym and whooped his good You know these guys that you know, they got to keep going to and prove they're still relevant So they're gonna work the mass Buster has a record come out last night at 12 o'clock. So I'm kind of wondering Some of these people for this PR, I you know ever since the Jay-z Beyonce elevator thing know ever since the Jay Z Beyonce elevator thing I've thought that everything since then was staged every beef everything like that I'm like come on man you want me to believe that really okay sure I believe that yeah no I mean oh afterwards you're gonna have to get on that you're buried there you go okay hey check this out a burglary suspect went to extreme

Saraba weed store. Oh, he used the jaws of life to break into the store owned by Former NBA All-Star Sean Kemp a video from the store called Kemp's cannabis Showed a truck pull up the suspect using axe and then the jaws of life to pry the doors open using acts and then the jaws of life to pry the doors open. Uh, once inside he used the jaws of life to pry open the ATM and steal the money. Then he came back and took more merch. Uh, all of it happened in about seven minutes. He was gone before the cops got there.

Now Kemp's looking to beef up security a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. They didn't took all the money out of the ATM, took his merch, took his weed. He's like, damn, I wonder what the fee is on the ATM for taking. 350. Free. No, you're still gonna pay 350 for it.

Yeah. $4. Yeah. No, we're not giving you all the money. Let's pay your fee. Yeah. Uh, let's see, uh, general motors and OnStar are banned from selling customer geo location data and driving behavior data for the next five years.

The FTC announced the penalty after a New York Times investigation found that the automaker was collecting data and about your use and driving habits and then selling it to insurance companies so they could better charge you higher rates. So they could better charge you right higher rates Yes, you know because a lot of people are like no, I'm not I remember when I had my Corvette and the insurance company We had we all had to put in these little things I already want to do it. I did it for about a month and then I just said listen, I'm driving Corvette I can't live like this driving scared when you sail it's gonna say Wrap acceleration. I drove my car right? Yeah. Yeah. No. I'm not driving scared. When you sail, it's gonna say, wrap acceleration. I just drove my car. Right.

Yeah, yeah. No, I'm driving a Corvette. It's not a Subaru. No, no. It's not gonna move like your Corvanger. No, nor do I want it to. That's why I bought it, you know. And so, but I, so they said, well, since nobody wants to really use it,

we'll just get these guys to put it on their software and sell it to us. Then we don't have to ask permission. Yeah. Yeah. I don't like that. They got caught. So that's good. I'm glad they got caught.

Let's see. What else is going on here? Oh, an Illinois man accused of throwing bags of cat poop at home. So Donald Trump supporters, James Walker faces 13 counts of littering poop at homes of Donald Trump supporters. James Walker faces 13 counts of littering, 13 counts of disorderly conduct. The sheriff's office said he targeted five homes in three separate areas and started last March. Said people would walk down in front of a home displaying a flag, throw a bag of poop

in the yard and speed away. A witness finally got his license plate number. And that's how the serial poop thrower was nabbed. You know, you're probably didn't feel. Oh, my God. Many better ways to do the things you want to do and not get caught. Yeah, like everywhere. Man, exactly. That is so juvenile. Well, it's just like, man, I mean, weak sauce.

I mean, maybe like poop poop take a little risk put the bag up there and light it on fire exactly you can send bags of dicks to people you can send glitter bombs you can even sign them up to get to be visited by Jehovah's Witness you can do all kinds of great things creative people quit doing dumb crap like I'll tell you what people love here's what people love when you sign them up You can do all kinds of great things. Get creative people. Quit doing dumb crap like... I'll tell you what people love. Here's what people love when you sign them up for magazine subscriptions.

Oh yeah. Edie. Yeah. Especially, you know, it might be Playgirl. You know, for your buddy. I mean, I'm not saying that. Or Biggins or... Whatever it could be. Whatever's on the back. Rack thing, the one in the in the brown wrapper.

Yeah, sure. Yeah, exactly. The Supreme Court yesterday said it may announce opinions this morning, but didn't say what the cases would be decided last day. They could weigh in on the tick tock ban law that said to go in effect Sunday, which would penalize us app stores and services if they don't cut it off on Sunday. Now, Joe Biden says they're not going to enforce the ban and would leave it to Trump. They're trying to save tick tock all of a sudden. You know,

I'm not sure what happened all of a sudden. I'm guessing somebody somewhere and some money. I don't know what's going on, but everybody's trying to buy it. Now all of a sudden, tick tock looks like it might skate away. I don't know yet. Oh man, it probably will. What what are you? Are you going to lament it? Oh, no, I can't watch 22nd clips of idiots anymore.

Yes. No, there's 38 places to do that. Yeah, longer clips. Oh, yeah. You need even longer clips if you want. That's right. Let's see what else is going on here. The death toll in LA fires is now up to 27, which is sad and crazy. Let's see the 17 from the Easton fire, 10 from the Palisades fire. You probably heard they caught a lady day before lighting a new fire.

This is the second person they've got. And when they asked her why she said because she liked chaos and destruction. She needs to be beaten every day. Well, I don't believe a single one of these fires started because of a wildfire. So to speak. I think it's arson. Yeah. Now why? I don't know. I'm not, you're on that same stuff I'm on. I think it's arson. Yeah.

Now, why? I don't know. I'm not saying they're trying to burn the ditty evidence. I'm just saying that people just want to light things on fire right now. Is that what it is? Remember we talked about this Wednesday? Yeah, it's a total conspiracy. Sure, no.

It's a total conspiracy for the Olympics and to turn it into a smart city. So SpaceX conducted the Flight of its Starship space vehicle yesterday the upper stage disintegrated over the Gulf of America I mean Mexico and Caribbean Sea later. Elon said preliminary indication. We had an oxygen leak So they're still working on it. You know on these booster rockets because I think he's going to send an unmanned that's a ship to the moon. Yeah, but then in practice a little bit more looks like you're going to have to do that, you know, and meanwhile Bezos is Blue Origin is trying

to be a competitor. Let's see. Georgia State Senator Colton Moore was banned from the state House Chamber last year when he denounced late Speaker David Ralston on a day meant to honor him. Apparently he tried to go into the House Chamber yesterday and got arrested. He was booked on misdemeanor charges of willful obstruction. I'm not sure what he's fighting about or what he's doing, but hey, you know, it's in Georgia, have fun. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani will get to keep his apartments in his World Series rings

in exchange for compensation to two election workers in Georgia who won a settlement against him for defamation. Boy, Georgia is just all the flowers there. You know, why aren't we there? Let's see. Oh, yeah, this is great. Did you see United Health Group held its first earnings call yesterday? But unfortunately, there was also a big news story that dropped saying they were jumping up cancer medications 5000 percent.

Come on, man. That's all. Fantastic, y'all didn't learn, did you? Just 5,000%, that's it. That's all you wanna mark it at? Wait till you see what I'm wearing next week. No. Yeah, I got you, bro.

I got you, bro. A pizza delivery driver in Brownsburg, Indiana recently went viral after he trekked through a snowstorm to deliver a pizza. No. Rockstar pizza delivery driver, Connor Steffanoff walked nearly half a mile through the snow and sweatpants and tennis shoes because the roads were blocked. I guess so. He's broke.

He walked through hell and high water to deliver the pizza. He got a $2 tip. Officer Craig shared the story on social media where his followers rallied. Uh, they created a crowd fund campaign campaign which blew past 500 bucks then raised almost $10,000. Stefanov, who helped support his grandmother, was shocked and expressed kindness. The owner of Rockstar Pizza commended him for his hard work saying he went above and beyond without recognition. Hey, why didn't you offer him? Yeah. All right.

Why did you recognize him? Yeah. I mean, why, why does it take a crowdfunding for your employee to do something that big? And you have to come out after the fact, after they raised 10 grand for him. Come on, man. It's cause you want some of that money. Look him up. Uh, check this out.

A Meridian, Idaho family. The experience devastating loss when their home caught fire and burned down this month. Thankfully, the Harborough family and their pets escaped safely, but the fire destroyed everything, including four cars, one of which was Joe's work vehicle. The family describes the experience as tragic, but said it has brought him closer together. But anyway, community members quickly rallied to support him. Another crowdfunding campaign, they raised $22,000 to help the family with medical expenses, temporary housing and other needs. Then additionally, Caldwell Team Mazda, which is a local dealership, donated a car. They said when they heard his story, they felt compelled to help.

So the family's staying in temporary housing and trying to get their life together and move forward. So that's great to hear. That's the kind of good stuff that you do want to hear. Absolutely. The lineup for the Fire Aid benefit concert supporting LA has been revealed. It's packed with power, they say. It includes heavy hitters like Billie Eilish Lady Gagah the Chili Peppers Jelly Roll a lot more it'll take place January 30th at two Englewood venues the Kia Forum and the Intuit Dome with more artists and guests to be

announced when you're not gonna do it in the middle of the burnt downtown somewhere that's where you ought to do it yeah Yeah. Do it right there. Who else is going to be there? That's fundraising 101. Dave Matthews, John Mayer, Katy Perry. It's you know it's a who's who. You know if you love pop they'll be there raising money. You might be interested in this though. Mumford and Sons for the first time in seven years they have a new album on the way. I'm not. No not a fan. I mean I don care. I mean, it's not of any interest to me, but yeah, let's continue. A lot of people do like him.

Rushmere will be the band's fifth full-length album. It's gonna release March 28th. It's the first album from the band as a trio. After Banjoist, Winston Marshall left the group in 2021. He was the best though. I loved watching him because he would he would roll his hips. He would like roll his hips while he was up there with the banjo. I swear y'all. Google the video. Just take the banjo guy. He was getting it. Okay.

That's funny. Sony Pictures has unveiled the first trailer for Until Dawn. Their live action adaptation of the 2015 PlayStation or game. The video game featured a high stakes butterfly effect mechanic where players decisions shaped a narrative of killers and cannibals and all kinds of stuff. The film introduces Clover who will be portrayed by Ella Rubin who visits a remote cabin with friends following her sister's

disappearance. Also, Peter Stormar will reprise his role from the game as Dr. Allen or Allen Hill. Director David Sandberg described it as an R rated love letter to the horror genre. What? I don't know. That's awful.

Why does everybody have to go to a remote cabin after there's like a death or somebody goes missing? You gotta go to a cabin. We've gotta go to a remote cabin. Where else can I be isolated from everyone and murdered? Oh my God. I've gotta go to a remote cabin. Did they call it tweeter? Researchers from Northeastern University,

the University of Glasgow and MIT reported that domesticated parrots who are taught to launch video chats with other parrots had a variety of positive experiences. Yeah they've taught these parrots to video chat. How to log on to something and chat with each other. Now they're calling. And we're worried about the computers. The calls last five minutes on average and some of the birds were actually picking up language from the other birds they talked to. Yeah they got parrots on video chat. And some of the birds were actually picking up language from the other birds they talked to.

No. What? Yeah, they got parrots on video chat. And y'all are worried about robots and computers? How 2025 is that? And that's gonna say, are you a bird? Y'all need to be worried about them birds because they take your eyeballs out.

Kaka, bitch. Kaka, bitch. Kaka. Oh, you don't want to give me, you don't want to give me some bird seed? You don't want to give me some fruit? I'm telling you what they're gonna do. They're gonna communicate with each other and kill us all.

Bro. I remember the movie, the birds back in the day with the birds. Yeah, right? That'm telling you what they're going to do. They're going to communicate with each other and kill us all. Bro. I remember the movie The Birds back in the day with it. Yeah, right. That's what I think about. Let's see. Ryan, let's see a little sports here. Ryan Caldwell, Die Hard Eagles fan who verbally abused a female Packers fan last weekend on video, has finally broken his silence after he lost everything, I think.

He lost his job. He got a hell of a lost his job he put out a statement saying the incident is something he deeply regret what started his banter escalated to something more serious he admits to saying things unacceptable he put out an apology to the woman he accosted his wife his family his friends etc etc but he does say there are two sides to every story. What do you say? I think he called her a bunt, among other things.

Yeah, the C word. I love that word. It's so common in the UK. It sounds cheesy in the UK, but here it's not, it's a different connotation. You know, they don't like it as much here. It's taboo. Wussies. See you taboo. What's these?

Yes, see you next Tuesday. The season this season marks the fifth year the NFL's had a 14 team playoff format. During that time, the seventh seed is one and nine when facing a sixth seed, our second seed, the 2023 Packers who beat the Cowboys 4832. In addition, 50% of the number one seeds end up making it to the Super Bowl and there's less value now to being the number two seed than there was before the change. So here's what they're doing. They're talking about what options might exist to revamp the NFL playoff format. Maybe go back to a 12-team format.

I think they need to leave it alone. You think they should just leave it alone? Leave it alone. They could move to a 16 team format. They could just put it on record regardless of your division. Leave it alone. They could walk it off. You say just leave it alone.

Yeah. Leave it alone. Yeah. Do wild cards, how often do wild cards make it into the- They get in there once in a while and that's why I don't like it makes me mad because you're like they don't need to be there. Well, right there a meddling team, right? They're just there spoilers right right right? Yeah, I tell you what. I do like the college playoff right now Yeah, the way that's working is really good. I really like that Do what?

Hell yeah, I'm going for Ohio. Yeah, man. I I mean that's a, if they can run that gauntlet. No yeah. If they beat Notre Dame, I mean think about it, Tennessee, undefeated, number one Oregon, then Texas, and then Notre Dame, that'd be a hell of a gauntlet. They need it yeah. I mean look if you beat those four teams in a row you deserve a championship. For sure, for sure. I mean right now, if you beat those four teams in a row, you deserve a championship. For sure. I mean, right now anyways, yeah. Yeah, I was trying to find an answer to that question.

Oh, okay. Earlier this week, Commissioner Adam Silver of the NBA appeared with Callen Coward to address concerns about offensive unbalance between teams and the overabundance of the three-point shot this season. He said the league's competition committee is working on ways to correct unbalanced between teams and the overabundance of the three-point shot this season. He said the league's competition committee is working on ways to correct it. However, he said that while the issue is fixable, it's not just as simple as moving back the three-point line. He said as he sees it, you'll just end up clogging up that area under the basket. Not such attractive basketball either. So they did that to get scores up because scores were down, right?

You know, now they've got it too high, right? But the real problem, I don't think is the three point shot. No. Uh, I think the real problem is that well, defense, but you also have, you have like a quarter of the teams are super teams, right? Right. The rest of them are kind of scrubs. Big fives and stuff.

And it went from big twos to big threes. Yeah. And so, I mean, how do you beat some of these super teams out there? Like some of them are pretty, there's some pretty good ones out there right now. Yeah. Yeah. And so it's very lopsided right now. And I think until you solve that, that's the real problem is the lopsided team.

You know, that's always going to be the case. Do you want the answer to what was question about the wild card system yes so since the wild card system began in 1970 only ten wild card teams have advanced all the way to the Super Bowl of those six won the Super Bowl only four of those wild card teams Patriots Steelers Giants and Packers won three games on the road to make it to the Super Bowl. That's interesting only ten and all that time but six did win it. Right. I don't know man that's a hard argument to make. A lot of people like the wild card. I don't know you think

they're you think. I like watching the wild card weekend but some of the outcomes kind of make me mad sometimes Sometimes I do like watching them. No. Yeah, I feel you. All right with all the noise in the NFL head coaching circle one detail seemed to have gotten lost in the mix. Bill Belichick still hadn't signed with UNC on December 11th. He signed a proposal of contract terms and conditions. That's the first step, but that does not constitute an agreement

that's binding. So it's an interesting side story that the Dallas Cowboys job is still out there and that might be an attraction to Belichick. You may be talking about hilarious. Yeah, that would be hilarious to me. It's between him and Dion bro Dion man., I'm sorry but Dion did that just... I don't think he's not I don't think he's gonna do that man. I don't know. I think that's all a bunch of talk I think.

Well, yeah. I do because him and Jerry didn't go off on the...