Sunday Papers - Sunday Papers w/ Greg and Mike Ep 175 7/30/23

Episode Date: July 30, 2023

We start off funny, talking about syphilis, get funnier talking about Leprosy, bring it down to talk about the transcendent Sinead and then cheer you back up with some Sunday Funnies.  

You look like that. You look like that. Okay, you... You're pretty wide. Yeah, going a little tighter. And that's with this. Yeah. All right.

I keep wanting to move this to move where you are, but I think that's good. All right, let's clap it in. Three, two, one. There it is. Read all about it. Oh, my God, it starts that quickly. Read all about it in the same room. Jeepers. Okay. Extra, one. There it is. Read all about it. Oh my God, it starts that quickly. Read all about it in the same room. Jeepers.

Okay. Extra, extra. Sunday Papers. Coming here from the same office. It's been a long time. I'm used to looking at the screen and now I'm looking at you. It's weird. Yeah.

We were on the beach yesterday looking at each other. Yeah. And like a Dave and Steve's gay vacation. the beach yesterday looking at each other yeah and then like a dave and steve's gay vacation well what was funny is i we were meeting on the beach and i got there about 10 minutes before you and i just had there was two spots to sit one of them had seven 10th graders girls and i thought all right that's a bad optic and so instead I went to next to the lifeguard chair where there were three other men older than me who were all at the beach alone

and with varying degrees of the bald head with the man bun in the back. One guy like looked very, he had a Speedo maybe, a European, he looked dead asleep. Yeah, there was, that made me feel really old and kind of made me have a vision of what the future holds, where you just go to the beach alone. So I saw that vision for you because I came up and I was finishing a phone call and then I saw you. So I got to just watch you alone for a little while

before you saw me. And it was fascinating. Yeah but we went in the ocean we got very worried because there's been a lot of uh stingrays attacks yes because uh the warm water has arrived even though it said it was 69 but uh it felt much warmer and sophie my daughter was down at the beach and she said she saw like two feet in the hot water in front of the lifeguard stands, which is what the lifeguards do for people when they get stung. Yeah. You've been stung. I've never been stung. I was stung.

I mean, it can really hurt. I think I got lucky. But the guy goes, he goes, I can get you hot water. It's like, you know, they have to drive it down here. He goes, but do you live nearby? And I'm like, yeah. He's like, if you can hobble home, that would be better because our hot water is not hot enough. He goes, you have to put it in the hottest water you can stand.

And he goes, which means you're going to be constantly adding hot water to it. Owen got stung so bad that five days later he finally went to the doctor because it was like swollen. He couldn't walk on it. Yeah. And there was a little bit of the stinger was in his foot. So they had to remove that. Yeah. It was like glass. I remember that with him. Yeah. And and they say the way to not get stung is shuffle your feet instead of stepping down. So we were both shuffling around. So then the two of us on our gay vacation go into the water and then we're doing this. We're literally, for the listeners, shimmying.

Our shoulders are shaking because we're shuffling our feet along the sand. And you're floating on your back because you don't want your feet to touch the ground. You look like an old lady at Atlantic City. Okay, the only reason I did that is because I'm going backcountry camping tomorrow. And if I got stung, that's over.

That's it. Trip's over. Absolutely not going. And then you got worried that your shoulders were going to get sunburned and you'd have a hard time carrying your little pack.

We were in there forever. And I'm like, if I get... First of all, I can't wait till you come back. It's... Here, this is a selling point. You got to come with us. It's miserable.

Yeah, it sounds like it. No, I want to do it though. I know it's miserable, but I to come with us. It's miserable. Yeah. It sounds like it. No, I want to do it though. I know it's miserable, but I'd say at least 50 pounds on your back. And then, you know, the crate, the altitude is I'd say the second biggest factor. Well, no second biggest factor is the incline and then the altitude. Yeah. So it's three of them are just beaten down on you. Does it get cold at night? So me and this guy who has to remain anonymous for a few,

but anyway, are going. And a friend of ours... Wait, explain why he's anonymous. Well, I can't. Yes, you can. Because you're not saying his name. He doesn't want uh his uh friends to know uh because this was like a last minute thing

which it truly was and we were lucky to get a permit and permits for two people yeah so anyway we're deciding between the left side of the sierras and the right side of the series the left side is more has the more popular entrances to sequoia yellowstones over there for instance and all that stuff but whitney's on the right side on the east side but it's much higher it's a it's a holy like all the redwoods all that stuff are on the left side on the west side the right side it's more like you're going up rock and we're going we're parking the car 10 000 feet to avoid the heat. And then.

20 degrees cooler. Is there water to swim in when you get there? Yeah, I'm not exactly sure if we're allowed, but I think so. But I'm doing it anyway, no matter what. Yeah. And there's golden trout. In fact, it is the, it's the Cottonwood Lakes District, but it's, it's in, it's right on the border of what's called the Golden Trout area of the Sierras.

And is that just beyond the Brokeback Mountain camping site that you guys will be in? No, we're right in the middle of it. Oh, okay. Except this won't be Brokeback because we're looking to meet, you know, get some strange. So we're going to, so we're splitting up. Do you

share a tent? No. Why wouldn't you share a tent no why wouldn't you share a tent wouldn't that be less to carry no because one person would have to carry that bigger tent we each got a light tent right back how how heavy is the pack between 50 and 60 but i'm trying to get it i'm trying to get it lower damn and the technology is amazing yeah now like you used to have to boil water like none of that now you just literally scoop it up put the top on the top as a filter and it gets and it gets 99.9 of the bacteria wow so that's amazing and then this year there's going to be water running it will never stop running yeah it's still going to be a problem oh and olivia just went up to june lake and there's still snow everywhere.

Yeah, June Lake is nice. Yeah, but still like where we're going. So we read reports. Any last thing I will say about it? We read reports and a guy went to the hike we're doing the 12th of July, say, so two weeks ago. And he goes, two of the five lakes are still frozen. Wow. No shit shit can you imagine damn

yeah bear there are bear and we have to end by law you have to bring your uh bear canister a spray too big no no no no this is a container that holds all your food and your food wrappers like so it also holds your garbage as it's going on. Yeah. And then at night, you twist it tight. I can barely get into it. It's ridiculous how hard it is to get into it. And then you're supposed to put it like 30 feet away from your tent.

And hang it from a tree limb, right? No, you don't even have to hang it. You just leave it there. Wow. But a lot of campers talking about hearing the bear trying to break that fucking thing open oh shit yes wow yeah snakes rattlers but they're mostly lower they're so they're only going to be no in fact no snakes because we're parking at 10 000 feet and snakes don't go that high and we're going to like actually where we might do this

one summit which is what called one of the 14 it's in the 14 000 club it's 14 200 or 100 whitney which is the tallest man in the lower 48 is 14 550 i think this is a few hundred feet below that so we might go to that but we're probably going to sleep at around between 11 and a half and 12. So not that big of a hike up this time, which is great. Well, plus you're drinking your own urine, which gives you enzymes and electrolytes. You just have to forget that it's your urine and look at it as Gatorade. Now, what's going on with Kevin Brennan? I think we talked about him last week. You think? What's going on with Kevin Brennan? I think we talked about him last week. I honestly don't remember.

I know we talked about it. We don't remember what we said. It wasn't even bad. I told the Wawa story where he was going to apply. Oh, right, right, right. You know, where he's always quitting the business and everything. So, and I can guarantee you he doesn't listen to this podcast. But on Monday, I get this voicemail.

I don't even remember the last time we texted or talked and then this comes in keep my name out of your mother fucking mouth and that's all she wrote I wish his jokes were that petite I know it was perfect i wish his jokes were that petty i know it's perfect jokes were that tight fucking kevin so anyway so then i get something kevin's historical for the record

we love kevin but for the record the kevin army doesn't have to tell him and so i don't get another voicemail like that no kevin was with me the night i asked out my wife for the first time i met her and then she i knew that she was working downtown at like some film showing a screening of a film that she'd worked on because she used to work in production and she was like taking the ticket so he went from the upper east side all the way down to Soho with me to go and ask her out. And I'll always appreciate him for that. But then somebody wrote. No, he was so much fun.

We used to hang out all the time in New York. So he wrote, or somebody else wrote. Where is it? Oh, it's the Insufferableerable bastards podcast is that what it's called i mean i think that title works i i don't know though so somebody wrote mike buchetti coming out hot against greg fitzsimmons on mlc podcast is that is that brennan mlc i don't know and so i I wrote, I doubt that. I always liked Mike. Yeah.

So now there's people tweeting. They like me? I guess so. I guess it was me. I guess I'm the bad guy. I don't remember saying anything bad about Kevin. Well, that's it. I've got to go to Team Neil. Sorry, of course. Misery Loves Company.

I was trying to do it in my head. I couldn. Sorry. Of course. Misery Loves Company. I was trying to do it in my head. I couldn't remember it. Yes. Misery Loves Company. Yeah. Brennan Loves Misery. That should really be the title of the podcast. The auction item, as you guys know, Kit Boss, a great writer, set up.

He's doing an auction to raise money for below-the-line people. This isn't for writers. Writers make so much money. First of all, they don't. Second of all, this auction is set up for all the other ancillary jobs that are being lost by the strike. Camera guys, grips, gaffers. I don't know how low down it goes, but I don't know if PAs get money, but maybe. So anyway, if you want to bid on a foursome, it's going to be Fitzsimmons, Fitzgibbons, Gibbons & Gubbins, and you at the Penmar by the Sea for a round of golf on us, as well as lunch on us and some swag.

Didn't we say we're going to put together a whole bunch of swag? Wait, you said what it's up to? Yeah, it's up to $460 now. I can't believe. It started at $100. You know a fan of yours who is also bidding? There's a fan from Florida who I guess will fly in if he wins, which would be exciting.

It seems like, you know, I brought this up before. I hate, in many ways, I hate auctions to raise money because you leave so I brought this up before. I hate, uh, in many ways, I hate auctions to raise money because you leave so much money on the table. Yeah. It's not like a raffle where you keep all the money that everyone, and you can buy as many tickets as you want.

Um, so it's like, should we offer a second? I guess that would hurt the first place guy. Um, well maybe no, I think there's one winner. And then if we want to do another one, the strike's going to be going on until October.

So this will be the first foursome. And yeah, and the guy from Florida is a guy who actually took me golfing a couple times, maybe three times in Florida. Whenever I'm playing there, he'll travel like three hours and come see me and take me for a round of golf. Great dude. DeSantis. Strong. travel like three hours and come see me and take me for a round of golf great dude desantis strong um so uh if you want to go and bid go to fitzdog.com or gregfitzsimmons.com and you'll see a link on my home page and you can uh it's pretty easy to sign up and start bidding great cause get involved this week's logo outstanding robert leon did an oppenheimer are you a woman again or

are you uh what's that hat i believe we're both gentlemen i have a necktie you have a neck yeah we both have on neck so i haven't seen this poster okay unless it's like a page what's her name kind of thing uh no i see the woman behind him. All right, great. You haven't seen Oppenheimer yet. I have not seen Oppenheimer nor Barbie. I would like to see both. I want to see Barbie first, actually,

because the thing I heard about Oppenheimer is that it's hard to understand what they're saying because there's a lot of, I don't know, explosions and background noise, and I have shitty hearing. I need it to be clear. So I'm thinking of waiting until it's on TV so I can put on the chyrons. Is that really old man?

Of course it's old man. But more, oh my God, I got to read. But then people say you want to see it on the big screen. I've heard you try to get to the biggest screen you can. Yeah. So there's that. All right, wait, you just brought up old man. So we talked about our friend Dan Bricknerner last week and you went to go see dan and we talked

about him on the podcast dan and i were texting today so dan then goes um uh where fits does it just out of nowhere fits doesn't like to walk. Eats like a girl. Wears a hoodie in 95 degree heat. Doesn't like the rain. Goes public with my one cigarette on the golf course. And he noticed when we didn't

stand, he and his wife, in the banquet room of an old Holiday Inn. In the banquet room of an old holiday inn. Wow. Oh, hold on. I came back hard. Next test.

Next text. Immediately, immediately. And told my wife we spent three days snorting crank freshman year. That's perfect. Oh, Jesus. Why does anybody hang out with me? I just, even my own mother got mad at me recently for something I said. I got to, I got to not talk about anybody anymore.

Now Kevin Brennan is going to be, will be in his crosshairs. Oh, yeah. Kevin cheers a little. They're from the Philly region. Brickner, very quick to point out, not from Philly, from Jersey, but in a Philly suburb. And Brennan, the Brennans, famously from Philly. Oh, right. Yeah, so you got some Philly anger coming your way. Well, you hate Philly.

I'm the one that's always defending Philly. And why would you? Look at them. They hate. They hate. They're haters. They hate me. They hate me.

The song this week is from, I don't know how you pronounce this, but Flishtri, J-S, F-L-S-H-T-R-I-J-S. He did that song and there's a small chance he died while making it. That was passionate. He put everything into that. I liked it a lot. That was the Sinead O'Connor of theme songs. Do you happen to have air conditioning here? Are you hot? A little bit. No, this office is nice and cool until around 4 o'clock,

and then the afternoon sun beats on these windows. All right. I know. I'm going to be sweating my ass off tomorrow, so I figured maybe one less day of sweating. All right. We're going to do it. All right. Corrections this week.

A bunch of people wrote in with this one. When referring to Mel Brooks' greatest film ever, History of the World Part One. I don't know about that. How do you put that? It is up there. No way. It's not even top three or two, right? No, it's not top two you got young frankenstein

yeah you got high anxiety blazing saddles i'm in top four maybe the producers oh yeah yeah yeah but it's still a great hilarious joke filled movie anyway uh you botched the bia arthur b arthur line it is as follows she says next occupation he says stand up philosophy stand up philosopher what stand up philosopher i coalesce the vapor of human experience into a viable and logical comprehension oh a bullshit artist did you bullshit last week no did you try to bullshit last week yes that's good gabrielle genteel thank you for sending that in tiffany said uh i was listening to the pod and you mentioned there were no more crooners left paul anka should not be forgotten in this group point he is still performing he wrote my way for frank sinatra for god's sake also i am from ottawa canada and he is from here so he's

on my radar so uh my apologies to the great paul anka yeah no i think it's pretty great he wrote my put your head on my shoulder that was his song um i love you babe i love you baby puppy love was he the one one of the crooners like in the i hate to say it this way but like the the tear under sinatra for being real under that, it might have been Paul Anka. They wrote a book, and they were also on Stern and gave a great interview, and it was about, like, how Sinatra would shoot holes in the Hilton Wall. Uh-huh.

And, yeah, so I think it was, I want to check that. But apparently it was this real, very honest book and very cool. Also, Donovan S. says, I can agree with you guys in that Rocketman is definitely a copy of Space Oddity. Both songs are essentially analogies for drug addiction. Rocketman has also some gay overtones about drug addiction. David Bowie even states in another song, Ashes to Ashes, Funk to Funky,

we know Major Tom's a junkie. Rocketman draws analogies such as Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids, meaning that a gay lifestyle and drug addiction and partying are no place to raise a kid. I can agree Space Oddity is the better song for sure, but Mike's critique made it sound as if he did not understand that both songs are just analogies.

All right, two reactions. One, I don't think it is. Didn't you say it was based on the book and the whole point was the everydayness about space travel in the future? Yeah, somebody pointed out that it was based on the book and that in the future it'll just be like a day job to go to space and you'll be home that night. And secondly, oh, my God, if he also tried to lift the theme, you know, the sort of metaphor also. Right.

That's even worse. Right. Right now, it's better that he's just a creatively bankrupt writer who didn't who didn't even think to steal depth from the previous song. And I will. The last thing I'll say is the yes, David Bowie. There's three songs. They say there's a little bit of a trilogy about Major Tom. So the ashes to ashes, that one he pointed out. And then there's another one called Space Boy. And in Space Boy, it's like you're getting sleepy. Like that's the opening line.

In other words, it's when he's running out of oxygen. Yeah. And one of the lines is, do you like boys or girls? And that's one of the lines in there. Okay. Which is toying with, is that theme in there or not? Anyway, good letter though good letter donovan um yeah scary monsters was a great album that's what that was from uh and then we got tour dates

coming up very exciting i'm going to ireland next week august 6th august 6th i will be in galway wow performing at a club some comedy club you should see if Tom Kelly, our friend, is over there. Oh. I could look into that. Okay. Tom O'Neill's sister, I believe, I might be confused, is going to be over there. It might be Dimple's Liz's family is over there. Also, dates coming up.

I'm going to take the summer off, as I almost always do, and then I'll be back in the fall in New Hampshire. Oh, man. I wonder if they'll have a service for Sinead in Dublin. Right. Imagine if they had some public thing or just a concert. Well, Galway is actually the music. They've got a celebrator there. Yeah.

I mean, Galway is the music capital of Ireland, even though she's from Dublin. Are you only going to be on the West Coast? Just going to be in Galway. Oh, okay. Yeah. Also, dates coming up. New Hampshire, Sacramento, D.C., Houston in the fall. Just actually adding a few more dates, we're confirming now.

And then we want to talk to you about our very good first. We're going to go and see live performances, Game Time. I mean, how great is Game Time? How much is Game Time going to love this? Gubbins reference. Right before I headed over here, I get a text. What is it? Where should I get the tickets?

I'm like, game time. He's like, right, of course. And then he wanted to know the discount code because he's looking it up right now. Everybody that knows we do this read has been texting me about what's the company. It's game time, game time. Don't forget it. You can go see sports. You can see theater.

You can see music. Like it's a game time decision. Yes. That's the point. You wait. You can wait. You don't have to stress out. Am I buying?

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Extra! Extra! Extra! We all have thought it! Extra! Front page. Syphilis emergency looms in the U.S. as drugs run low. A shortage of penicillin to treat a skyrocketing number of syphilis cases is so dire that U.S. health officials are debating the need to declare a public health emergency, according to people familiar with the matter. If they do, everyone's going to have to wear masks over their junk. Major U.S. medical centers are rationing the recommended treatment for the deadly sexually transmitted disease because of a supply

crunch. Some are prioritizing giving penicillin to pregnant patients and babies because the drug can pass through the placenta and also treat the fetus. Nobody knows where and how syphilis started. There are two major ideas about its origin back in the day. The first is called the Columbian hypothesis. It says that when Christopher Columbus crew, his crew came back from Europe, to Europe, after exploring the New World. They brought syphilis back and spread the disease all over Europe. So, of course, the Italians did it. Right.

And they're going to be the first ones to get it again back in this country. Full circle. Same syphilis that left here. Jersey Shore. Yeah, Jersey Shore. Jesus, I was just there, and I'm telling you, syphilis is the least of your problems if you try to get laid on that boardwalk. First of all, you'll get crushed. You'll be crushed to death having sex with somebody from the boardwalk.

Oh, no. And you're going to get cotton candy on your neck, and you're going to have fucking fried dough stains on your shirt. They're animals. They don't know how to walk on a boardwalk. They stop in a circle. A lot of Philadelphians go there. A lot of them.

Oh, my God. Now, these were the ones from Jersey. Many famous people in the history of Ed Syphilis. For example, Franz Schubert, Arthur Schopenhauer, Edward Manet, and Adolf Hitler had this disease. So it seems to attack artists. Oh, that's Hitler? That's how you think of Hitler? this disease. So it seems to attack artists. Oh, that's that's Hitler. That's how you think of Hitler. Thank you. Yeah. You know, he went to art school. That's hilarious. Yeah. Yeah. And definitely Hag of the Horrible.

There is a reason why Helga is always in a bad mood. She's she's got a fever. She's dripping pus. He's you know, He doesn't use protection when he rapes. Yeah. And he had, it should be the Hager, what is it? The Hager hypothesis. Not the Columbian. Right.

Hager was the Columbus before Columbus. Syphilis. Wasn't that, I remember. There's also. Was it Van Gogh that had syphilis wasn't that like i remember um there's also was it van gogh that had syphilis and went mad i don't know holy man this article had pictures of the different stages and the amount of lesions you can have all over your body really crazy imagine being born with it these women are pregnant and they give it to their kids. Oh, my God. I know. Jesus. But also, wasn't there, was it like Napoleon or... There was also a philosopher, I think, who went crazy with it.

But I don't know. All right, let's skip... I thought it would be in that list. Let's skip the paddle border and go down to Florida. You got it. This is called Florida Fish Boil. A sweltering summer that has shattered heat records worldwide and in Florida continued this week when a buoy station off the Florida Keys recorded a water temperature that if confirmed would set the record for the warmest seawater temperature ever recorded on the planet. Oh, my God. The buoy in Manatee Bay, largely enclosed, it's a largely enclosed body of water

north of Key Largo, captured a stunning 101.1 degree Fahrenheit reading at five feet deep Monday night. Okay. I've had hot tubs and I've been around hot tubs. Most people keep a hot tub, is for me i'm a bit

of a pussy getting in a little hard i just don't jump in it because it's hot especially when it gets up to like my midsection i ease in those are at 102 yeah yeah right this is not our hot just hot yeah seawater we keep our hot tub at 102. Right. The fish are biting hooks just to get the fuck out of the water. They're diving into nets. That steel looks cold also. That looks like a cold treat. Imagine how loose the old guy's balls are in that water down in Florida.

I told you the story when I went down once. I didn't have a bathing suit. So my dad lent me his and it was gigantic. So when I was in the hot tub, it looked like I had just been parasailing and the parachute or whatever. The parachute was around me and I was in the water with a parachute billowing all around me. That's awesome. Yeah. Everybody thinks you just farted.

Right. Entertainment. Entertainment. I mean, so this story just came in. I saw an email pop up that I think is confirming that California Governor Gavin Newsom may have jumped in to solve the agonizing labor problems, the writer's strike and actor's strike in Hollywood. So on Monday, he was supposed to appear to Democratic governors anyway. So he didn't appear. This is all theory at this point, but I didn't read the article that just got emailed to me. But Newsom already has

a strong constituency among Hollywood leaders when he was threatened in 2021 with a recall vote. Jeffrey Katzenberg donated $500,000 to his cause at a star-studded fundraiser that brought in over $1 million. Netflix's Reed Hastings separately tossed in $3 million. And it says Newsom has a lot of support from the top hollywood names on both sides of the current disagreements it sounds like he only has support from the producers yeah yeah like yeah maybe there's some actors who like him but this yeah those people want to crush the unions the ones that they just listed that being said nobody has made or nobody has performed and acted in a docuseries or written a docuseries about him fucking his best friend and campaign

manager's wife and that could happen so maybe he should tread lightly with that's a good point and also if he handles this the strikes like he did the pandemic, it's going to take three years and nobody will be allowed by law to leave the picket lines. You're going to be kept there. Do you remember when we weren't allowed to go to the fucking beach in the summer? Yeah, that was insane. They closed the bike path along the ocean. The one thing that was keeping me sane was taking a bike ride by the ocean. Well, they thought it could have been. I know, and I was out there every day, though. When you were out there alone, and I guess looking like an old guy like me,

the police just nodded. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, he needs his walk. Right, right. He's not going to have a party down here. We could see that from a mile away. He's white. Leave him alone.

Oh, that's exactly right. But I was thinking about, as far as California guys go, like Reagan was president of the Actors Union. Schwarzenegger, I don't know if he was president, but he was a voice of the actors for a while. Maybe. So maybe this is a well-tread path, trod path to support the actors.

As unlikable as he can be, did you see his interview on Fox News? Gavin Newsom? Yeah. He was amazing. He's just very, he's smart. You know what I mean? But God damn it, does he have blind spots. Like that being out without a mask where was he a french

laundry yeah it's just uh you know if you care about that it's a common sense thing where you go like it's not that big a deal but it is a big deal because it's like yeah how do you not know how that looks i mean jesus christ it's not like none of us cheated during the like you are you are a great looking rich dude and the hair gel's gotta stop i know it's not like none of us cheated during the... And you look like you're a great-looking rich dude. And the hair gel's got to stop. I know. It's better now than it used to be, but it's still bad. It's like Pat Riley, remember that?

Yes. It's exactly like Pat Riley. This is a story that I picked out for you because I know that you love this guy. I don't. Social media can be a truly fickle place, so it probably shouldn't be surprising to learn that some of the same folks who were swearing allegiance to Jason Aldean this time a week ago are now just swearing at him. Controversy has swirled around the country music star since the release of his, quote, try that in a small town video with some labeling it pro lynching and racist.

Pro lynching. Yeah, I'm sure that's what he had in mind. The Hollywood Reporter says that streams... Wait, try that in a small town. Is this a song or was this just a video where he was talking? So I went to look it up. So I put Aldine, small town, and I came upon Small Town Small,

song by Jason Aldine, which also, by the way, songwriters Michael Arthur Ray, Brantley Keith Gilbert, Brian Wayne Davis, Chase McGill, Brock Berryhill, Terry Delmar Phillips, Josh Michael Phillips, and Brandon J. Day. I think I just listed eight, but that's not even the song. So this multimillionaire really likes writing about small towns. Just by himself, kicking back on the front porch. Is one of those names Jason Aldean? You know, like his real name? Right.

But still, there's eight there, and I think four guys. Oh, let me see if any of the names match. Okay, and then... It's a small town just to create a song for him it's that's good i haven't heard that one that's a good one so apparently the streams have tried that in a small town rose a whopping 909 oh yeah it's a song rose a whopping 999 i know everything about it's a song he shot it and you know in front of the courthouse where there was a very famous heinous lynching oh no worse than regular lynchings yeah damn it debuted at number two on

the billboard hot 100 but now the people who jumped in line to help push aldine to that big weeks are saying that they are done supporting him as his transgression well after insisting that his video wasn't racist aldine or his people went and cut several clips of black lives matter protests out of the video so the right is saying you know they didn't have rights to it oh really they didn't check that before it was put in a heavy rotation and released you when you are like in tv same with in publicity and advertising everything every piece of footage is checked nothing gets released without that so that line is bullshit they also said hey the left is all like screaming on that he shot you know miley cyrus shot a video in front of the, uh, yeah, but it was, I bet it. So what? So I bet a lot of dads and moms work in that building.

Wait, what did she shoot in front of? She shot a music video, but I bet it wasn't about stay the fuck out of our small town. We like our guns, which is what his song says. Right. And we take care of our own and you won't last long here. If you, if you pull that shit, like you're robbing convenience stores, screaming at cops, you know, whatever, all the lyrics here. It's crazy. If you pull a gun on an owner at a liquor store, you carjack an old lady at a red light,

you cuss out a cop and spit in his face, stomp on a flag and light it up, you think you're tough? Well, try that in a small town. See how far you make it down the road. Oof. Yeah, no, no, no. Oh, no, no, down the road. Oof. Yeah, no, no, no. Oh, no, no.

It's fighting words for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Small towns scare me more than big cities. I mean, maybe. Of course. You know, maybe it's having lived in big cities most of my life. I really feel like when I do a gig and I'm in like, it doesn't matter what part of the country. Small towns scare the fuck out of me. Yeah.

You know, cause it's just, there's less people to see what's going on. It's not only that, but I mean, sometimes they're the best things, you know? Oh,

of course. No, we go up to Hamilton, New York where our friend Matt Malloy lives and it is fucking paradise. The people are so nice. And like we go, and by the way, every lawn has,

by the way, a Trump sign on it as you drive there so we're not even talking about politics right right yeah and they are nice yep and it's it's a real small town feel and it's great up there it's amazing yeah i don't think people in well i don't know i can't speak for politics in small towns i like the song because uh i hope all his fans stay in a small town we already have a deal everybody knows the deal um i believe a lot of the cities and states that he's talking about and that he's showing video of and he's referring to we send these small towns checks like all the time and

their handouts they're basically welfare because you can't take care of your own i mean that's what's really going on you're going hard and the fact that big towns take care of your own. I mean, that's what's really going on. You're going hard. And the fact that big towns take care of your own. But I'd actually like what I'd like to see is a small town actually take care of its own. So this song is hopeful for me. I'm hoping. But back to the deal. We give them handouts. And for that, they agree to stay there with their guns and take care of their own.

And I think by take care of their own, it means they shoot their own. Because the violence, and I'm just going to stop here, but if you think that NRA talking point of that there's more gun violence and more murders and homicides in blue states or in the big cities than there are in these red states, please just educate yourself. It's a lie. You can Google it any different ways you want. Go to whatever news sources you want. Make sure per capita is probably in there. And even if you remove, you could say, oh my God, it's the blue cities like Nashville in our red states. Even when you remove the blue cities, when you remove them 12 more murders in the red state well texas has the highest

per capita rate of uh gun deaths in the country and what gets me is like it's separate than you liking your guns and all that stuff but you can't then just like when abbott after the school shooting instead of taking ownership of it or doing fucking anything abbott said um everyone is saying texas needs stronger gun laws well california illinois new york have proven that gun control like doesn't work and that was just a flat out lie and he said there was more murders in those places than in texas and it's just not true right there's a great statistician and he gets angry, not because he's left or right. He's on like Instagram or TikTok. He gets so angry because people are in such violation of statistics. Right. And he goes, they're ignoring this whole thing.

Look at these charts and on. And he's this kid and he's really impassioned. kid and he's really impassioned he's well here's the other thing that cracked me up is that it said that um sales of his uh sales of his album have gone through the roof which really shows you what his listeners are like sales when's the last time you bought a fucking song no they're including i think online no they're saying sales they they literally said, wait, let me find it. They said, per the report, sales of the song went from 1,000 in the week prior to 228,000 across. Those are sales. Like, did they get it on a 45 RPM or on an 8-track? They also could buy it electronically instead of just stream it, like, you know, to show support. Right, okay.

Which they definitely did for sure. All right. Speaking of shitting on the South, let's go to Florida. I did not know this story. This is you. Leprosy, the infectious disease. We got helicopters flying overhead. The infectious disease most commonly known. Don small town yeah as we're defending where we live this

fucking helicopter uh sirens uh the infectious disease most commonly known for its biblical associations has become more common in florida researchers warn. In 2020, the Sunshine State was among the states with the highest number of leprosy cases, contributing to evidence that the infection is becoming endemic in the southeastern region of the country. Leprosy damages the skin and peripheral nervous system. Although leprosy has been historically uncommon since the early 80s, the report states the cases have more than doubled

what in the past decade no thank you i'll take syphilis if we're talking about comeback diseases what's going on is this because people just are not getting any vaccinations anymore i don't think the 101 degrees seawater is going to help this leprosy situation. Yeah. And what is happening? Leprosy. And by the way, that's also in a small town. Leprosy. Take care of it. Take care of your own lepers. Can you imagine the cost of the drugs for leprosy? It would literally cost you an arm and a leg. I am so sorry. There's one. Why did I need to do that joke? I totally stepped on it. I didn't know what you were talking about.

Yes, I was taking it literally. Wow. Well, it's Florida. And, you know, in the old days, lepers, they used to make colonies, which were islands. They would put them all on an island. Yeah. Maybe a key. Isn't a key an island?

A key is certainly an island. There you go. It's a string of islands yep um technically keys i guess uh also what was it uh i remember when clarice uh gave the first deal because hannibal wanted a window or a view where he wanted to be somewhere silence of the lambs what did i say you didn't you never said silence of the Lambs oh yeah of course Silence of the Lambs and and his first words when she came back he's like

well he goes what was it Anthrax Island isn't that charming it was and it was off of like Long Island

it was this and it was a colony yeah and it was a colony where they they put people with anthrax I guess

Jesus or with anthrax, I guess. Jesus. Or with anthrax poisoning. I don't even know what it was. Well, in Miami, do you think that the fake tits and lips are going to fall off? Those might survive, actually. Yeah, that'll be the only thing left, just the spine with tits and lips on it. I think check Craigslist for used tits.

I mean, you get them cheap. People are going to be needing to pay their doctor's bills. They're going to sell them and they don't need them anymore. And everything has fallen apart around it. All right. A Florida man was arrested for dunking a woman's head into a vat of tar during an argument. A woman suffered chemical burns after a Florida man dunked her head in a vat of tar like substance and choked her at gunpoint.

This is not funny. We're not meaning this to be funny, but there's murders everywhere. And this has a Florida flavor to it, I got to say. So this guy was arrested this week after an unidentified woman told police. Of course she was unidentified. She has tar all over her face. Told police she was tortured after she had an argument with the felon on Thursday. He claimed the man dunked her.

She claimed the man dunked her head in a vat of tar like substance that is used to treat clam and oyster bags. He also just he also pointed a shotgun at her and choked her to near unconsciousness. And adding insult to injury, the woman was immediately cancelled for wearing blackface. You laugh, but that's very serious, Greg. You can't do that. Oh, what's worse? And then

what even got worse than that is she went to bed that night, her pillow leaked, and she got feathers all over her head. Yep. You can't have one without the other you can't have one without the other not in the south nope uh let's make uh australia florida okay i just found this thank god we waited so we should tell people today's thursday yes we're taping early because mike's going camping and I'm going to Malibu. How about that?

But it's like, also, do you want to talk about the occasions and stuff this weekend? What, my anniversary? I guess you're talking about it. It's my 24th anniversary this weekend. Yeah. This office feels like your wedding. Do you remember how hot it was in that church? Oh, my God.

My wedding, it was 101 degrees. And the church, it had been 100. Florida water. It had been 100 for three days. And it was one of those, the church was built in like 1780. And it was about four feet thick stone church, which basically became like a brick oven pizza. It was holding the heat from the day before.

Then it went up to 100. And I just remember being on the altar, as you do, because you were my best man. And it was so hot that we were dripping in sweat. And then they started playing Here Comes the Bride. And we're standing there waiting. And no errand. And the organist goes through the whole first verse and looks around, starts the second verse. It's like a rom-com.

And we're waiting. And meanwhile, she was Julia Roberts' assistant at the time, and they had just finished shooting Runaway Bride. So that was the running joke, was that she was going to be the Runaway Bride. So now she's not coming in. And it turns out she was sitting in a limo with the air conditioning cranked and her father was supposed to go get her. And he was spacey old guy who just kind of stood there. And so finally she came down the aisle and I started crying. I was already crying when I, as soon as I heard the first.

Couldn't help with all the sweat. Yeah, that's right. That's when you cry, guys. And then we go to the reception and it was under a tent. So there was no air conditioning and it was so hot out that the circuit broke and we had a funk band and they were in the middle of a song and all of a sudden all the lights and all the music went out and this was 12 minutes she's all bread out yeah so i don't know somehow they jerry-rigged it and they got the electricity back on and it was uh

it was a great it was a great reception it was a great fucking reception it was an amazing wedding and uh i remember joking because you made us all get these sharkskin suits which are very retro uh those do not breathe no that's what we. Yeah. And then your joke was, you know, usually it's the bridesmaids that are complaining that they'll never wear this outfit again. That's exactly right. So anyway, it's Thursday and this story just came in. I'm glad we waited till today. A 44-year-old Greek-Australian man, sorry about my voice today, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison

for his involvement in a series of bestiality and break-in offenses at St. Mary's School in Sydney's West. Well, I was on board until I found out it was at a Catholic school. Teaching staff at the school had become suspicious of someone breaking into their milking shed after hours, which led them to review security camera footage. The footage captured the man herding two goats into a gated area on May 6th. And a week later, he was recorded walking around the same shed naked from the waist down. The authorities eventually caught him engaging in sexual activity with,

this is my favorite line, authorities eventually caught him engaging in sexual activity with a male sheep while a female goat was found in a state of shock nearby. Now, do you think he had her away with her already? Or she's just watching and in a state of shock? I'd much rather go first and just get it over with.

I don't want to sit in the pen next to you wondering when my turn is. Right. I guess there's that. The court heard that the man was under the influence of meth and had been awake for five days when he engaged in sexual activities with a male sheep. So he's gay. This guy also, his defense lawyer argued that his clients, Matthews combined with his sexual deviance and paraphilic disorder of attraction towards animals influenced his actions. I think at that

point he's like, Hey, you know what? I got this. I get, yeah yeah that's my lawyer just stated all that how about just plead insanity just say i'm an animal lover do you have to say it that way good lord i'm three deep on crazy accusations the detail of it being a male is so much for like you think of like the ron desantis like so much worse to him that we didn't care about it being a sheep, but that it was a male. Maybe that's what the female sheep was shocked about. Yeah. What? I'm right here with this wet pussy.

Right. Meanwhile, you're doing. No, it was. It was a lamb. I mean, look, we could I think we can all relate to these desires. I mean, we've all been on a farm, and there's smells, and there's sights, and you've got to just do what I do, which is you just jerk off on your wife's Ugg. And you save one for later. You've got a second Ugg for later.

And at least they're female Uggs. Yes. Yes. And they're shaped perfectly for your hand. You can hold the outside, and you can really get six or seven in there before it starts to lose its softness. Before she takes her foot out? Oh, my God. Wait a minute.

Happy anniversary, honey. Happy anniversary. Have fun in Malibu. What was I thinking? Oh, that. No, I lost my train. You ever do that where you think you're going to get it so you're like, oh yeah, and you try to prompt

yourself back into it, but I'm going to remember this. Do you ever sneeze when you try to look at the light? I never heard about looking at the light. Are you kidding me? No. You ever get a sneeze, then you lose the sneeze? Yeah, but sometimes I grab my nose and stop breathing through it. Look at the light.

Swear to God, look at the light look at the light swear to god look at the light you'll get your sneeze back don't do that if you're thinking you're dying it's almost like an orgasm sometimes when you're about to have an orgasm and then it's like riding a wave and then the wave goes under you and you missed it and you got to wait for the next wave and ride that one totally yeah that's what losing a sneeze feels like to me when we were younger that didn't happen the first wave washed first wave that was it and you were wave and ride that one in. Oh, no, totally. Yeah. That's what losing a sneeze feels like to me. When we were younger, that didn't happen. The first wave washed you on shore. First wave, that was it.

And you were fighting it, too. Like, please, not this wave. I want another one. Well, but also, then you knew that you were going to ride a few waves that day. Right. Now there's one wave. They didn't even sentence him to that long because the judge took everything in, and they also didn't have much precedent. I didn't put that in, but that was in the article.

What was I going to say about this sex with a sheep? All right, we're moving on. Yeah. What's precedent? Referring back to the 1958 case of Old MacDonald. Well, how about that? Maybe he got a little credit because so a completely deranged man went to a school and didn't shoot kids. That's true. Let's give him some credit. Yeah. I wonder if old McDonald was one of these perverts because his animals were making a lot of noise.

I know what I was going to say now because it's so unrelated. That's why I forgot it. I cannot get enough of these tick tock, which I see on Instagram videos of when goats freeze, when they get startled, they freeze and fall over. We talked about it before. There's one where the UPS truck is arriving on a farm and it bangs into a hole and six goats lock up and tip over. That's what this must have done. That's how he got him. Maybe the female was like in that state. Maybe the female was in that state.

You know, if more people watched the podcast, I would be inclined to add a section on our show about good viral videos from that week. But you can't, what are we going to describe them? Most, 95% of our listeners just listen and they don't watch. Nobody watches. Why would you? Look at us. That's true.

And I'm probably getting progressively redder as the temperature goes up to... No, you're not red. International. Here you go. This story scares me. Residents of China are reportedly using face masks that are also known as face

kinis to protect themselves against the sun amid an intense heat wave. Face kinis, which are masks that cover the entire face with holes for the eyes and mouth have been selling out in China. It's like those intense ski masks. You pull it over your head and there's three holes in it.

Yeah, so I guess they've been having sweltering heat. selling out in china you pull it over your head and there's three holes in it yeah so uh i guess they've been having sweltering heat uh the product sells well because it covers the canthus or the corner of the eye where freckles may grow easily the uh uwu international trade market merchant dong we told the outlet uh it does it It looks like a Mexican wrestling match. I just read that line in there. That's exactly it. What is it? Is it a luchador?

Lucha Vavum. Oh, all right. Yeah, but we're going to put it in. If you're watching the show, you're going to be able to see the picture. The irony is I checked my Coppertone sunblock SPF 25 made in China. How about that?

How about don't put a fucking rubber suit on your body and a condom on your head on a hot day? This is why I'm scared of this story. Because Asians were wearing face masks way before the pandemic. Turns out they were right. Yep. I think this is where we're all heading. Wow. I mean, it looks like they took,

the one on the right were really the left. It looks like they took a dishwashing glove and somehow got their head in it, then they cut holes. Although it'd be much funnier with the, like, you know, mohawk of fingers on top of the head if it were that. That would be great.

Can I say also, it's kind of funny that their eyes are very narrow on the and the mass i'm glad you asked no it's okay to say that no it's not okay yeah hey just one glove that image uh reminded me i remember telling you this story i recklessly drove this small motorboat from West Hampton, Long Island. And I was going and I'm like, this will be easy. I'll just go along the beach, refuel and Montauk. And I was getting to Jack's house on Martha's Vineyard. It turns out I got so lucky I did make it. But anyway, in addition, almost hitting surfers on Block Island when I was in such thick fog, I almost drove up on the beach, like at less than one mile an hour while I was going along like South Hampton or whatever. I noticed this debris and like some seaweed floating and a hand sticking up and I freaked

out and I was like, Holy, do I just keep going? I'm like, I can't. I can't keep going. I got to report this body. And I pulled up to it. And it was a dish, a yellow dishwashing. No shit. Glove like from a boat.

And it was full of air sticking straight up. Dude, that's like the cold open to a horror movie. Yeah. The false like spotting a body. Or you think it's false and you pull it and then you then see the body come up all right oh my god and then you see the dirty dishes and you're like oh that's where she should have been oh it was just the help i don't have to report this body uh all right let's skip this one and go to science and technology and health. Important that this is also health. Mitch McConnell, probably people heard it.

It was the lead story the last two days. Mitch McConnell was escorted away from cameras after freezing during a news conference. And I just think it's bad news. It seems he might have caught stiff person's disease or syndrome from Celine Dion. It's spreading. Yes, it is. If you haven't seen it, I guess everybody's by.

We got to assume by Sunday, everybody's seen it. It's pretty disturbing. It's very worrisome. And it's suddenly it makes Biden look like Richard Simmons. He's agile. Yeah, he's animated. He's agile. Yeah. He's animated. He's full of life and zest.

Did you see when they so Biden called McConnell check in on him? Oh, he did. Oh, yeah. I'd like to hear that conversation. No, they did. And McConnell came back at him. He's like, I had my what did Biden trip over last week? Sandbag.

I had my I got sandbagged. He goes, I had my sandbag moment like all he kept doing was pointing to that biden fell no shit it was all good natured but yeah yeah boy how do these guys keep going oh it's just crazy why keep going you're so old and you're so rich and you're so tired and despite how much i hate him and how much you know it's easy to it's easy to say like oh my god they take so much time off and holy shit they have so much help and all that but i think they especially at that age they are working a lot yeah i mean biden of course any president even trump who took the most time off and played the most all that they work so it's fucking

non-stop yeah yeah that's why i'm going to ireland for a couple weeks and fucking gubbins gonna step in that's it uh okay business nice and huser bush the parent company of bud light announced it would be laying off some 350 employees many of them corporate positions as it seeks to recover from the fallout over a campaign involving a trans influencer the company said the layoffs would affect less than two percent of its 18 000 employees today we took the very difficult but necessary decision to eliminate a number of positions across our corporate organization uh while we take these we don't take these decisions lightly yes you do you're bud light we want to ensure that our organization continues to be set for long-term success so uh

yeah it doesn't sound like they're laying off any trans people i just want to add that no yeah no they they need them they need them at this point i mean look it you've heard so much spin on this story and so many people have said like this is really it's crushing budweiser and other people like you know it really their stock price hasn't really gone i don't think the stock price has gone down has it immediately following it it was going up i mean not because anyone thought it was good news. It was just it had dipped before that, and I didn't think this was big enough. I mean, it's such a bigger company. We should get a trans person to do a plug for our show and just put it on social media.

Do you think it would hurt us? Kevin Brennan might be trans. I don't know. Do you want me to? Of course, now we're going to get a million calls um uh he'll try anything to work more maybe i should just get maybe we should go and drag both of us dress up as women and promote our show and see how people react to it maroon a maroon dress is that what you're pitching yes this day in history. Here it goes. OK, on July 30th, 1956, two years, two years after pushing to have the phrase under God inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance,

President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a law officially declaring, in God we trust, to be the nation's official motto. It mandated that the phrase be printed on all paper currency. I didn't know it was that late. Wow. It had been placed on U.S. coins since the Civil War when, according to the Historical Association of the United States States religious sentiment reached a peak. So they added it to the paper money as well. So although some historical accounts claim Eisenhower was raised a Jehovah's Witness, most presidential scholars now believe his family was Mennonite. That's why he was knocking on Europe's door on D-Day.

Hey now. Hey now. Either way, Eisenhower abandoned his family's religion before entering the army and took the unusual step of being baptized relatively late in life as a Presbyterian. Wow. So who knows? I mean, it's pretty crazy that a country that in the tenets of it tells you, in the Constitution, separation between church and state would allow in god we trust to go on to the currency and into the pledge of allegiance or i don't know about the pledge but to be the motto of the country if you step pretty far back uh not

even that far actually it's weird yeah it's very it's like is there a good explanation of it i mean you can say that god is uh you know a concept that a lot of religions subscribe to and that it's a higher power but we know which god they're talking i know but why does why does the government concern themselves yeah right literally that's a it's a check written to you from the treasury yeah and there's gold originally backing it right like it's it's and it's it's the opposite of religion it's absolute fact it's grounded in reality well not only that religion has a lot of terrible things to say about money that's right good point there's also that right um it's also weird that you know sports has done it it did sports religion had nothing to do with sports and uh patriotism had nothing to do with sports. And then starting in, I think it was,

I can't remember the time. Somebody can write in and tell me this, but there was a certain point where the government decided they needed new recruits for the military. And so they started paying sports teams and they still do. Every time you see, you know, Lieutenant so-and-so now throwing out the first pitch or, you know, they point out military people in the crowd or the planes fly over. All that shit is paid for by the U.S. military and it goes into the coffers of Major League Baseball or the NFL or wherever they're showing it. Wow. It's a fucking recruitment technique.

I know. Meanwhile, I think, and maybe I'm wrong, did Tillman get enough ink spilled and attention or maybe not because it's so self-incriminating to the country? Wait, who's Tillman again? Tillman was in the NFL. I think he played at Arizona State or University of Arizona. I think it was a Sun Devil. State or University of Arizona.

I think it was a Sun Devil. And he, after 9-11, left the NFL to go fight and was killed by friendly fire. Yeah, yeah. Right. And I mean, I know there was a documentary, but like, is that like a Joe Rogan? That seems like a big Joe Rogan deep dive. Right. Well, I'll bring it up next time I'm on the show. He probably had the equivalent of Tom O'Neill, a guy who spent years on the Tillman thing.

You know what I mean? And probably, you know, he's written a good book on it that I'm unaware of. Right. But that is so goddamn tragic. And also, what the fuck were we? Well, it was Saudiia and we're in these other goddamn countries anyway whatever all right listen and that's all folks this is a heavy one and uh we haven't talked about it yet but it's something that you and

i have spent a lot of time in the last 24 hours talking about and listening to her music. But this is the obituary. It's a sad crinkle. Sad crinkle. But, you know, I don't know. I'm like, oddly, like, you know what? It wasn't that surprising that Sinead O'Connor died is, I guess, a big part of it. Do they know? They have not yet declared what it is i don't know by by sunday maybe they will come out and say how she died i mean there is obviously a lot of assumption based on the fact that a year ago she was hospitalized after she had kind of writing a suicide note on twitter no wait someone sent me did you see the tiktok that she it said people hold on well let me start the here it is uh oh fuck this oh fucking whatever i hate how tiktok goes to other videos when i press anyway there's

apparently her talking to camera and they said that might have been hours or the day of her death or something. I don't know. But, you know, I talked a lot about her. All right, let's find it. Well, I mean, can you paraphrase? I didn't watch it, to tell you the truth. Oh.

Here we go. Oh, I can paraphrase. I saw it. Yeah, she basically was talking about how the last two years of her life she's been completely mentally ill and that family has not been there to support her and that mentally ill people need love and they need support. And she's hysterically crying that she needed it and did not get it. it and did not get it well you put something so i talked a lot about her and you know the thing the very the highlights for me about her that i i really didn't know in the 90s and and some until recently you know she does that first album and then she's at her first grammys the lion and the cobra was it yeah and she's she's she had only been on letterman she had never been on primetime

nor any other show she's going on the grammys she sees how marginalized uh they what the grammys how badly they've marginalized hip-hop and rap so rap is angry and including public enemy tribe called a bunch a bunch of a bunch of uh groups so she puts on her head the the public enemy logo. Oh, by the way, the reason her head shaved is she hears there's many different stories, but one of the stories she then landed on was that they wanted her to be

prettier. The record label. Yeah. They wanted her to be prettier. And so they wanted her to wear makeup and address. And she's like, got it. And she had her head immediately shaved.

Yeah. So that's one. Then she goes to the Grammys. Here's what those artists are doing there. Puts the Public Enemy, which is a violent logo. It's a crosshairs and puts the Public Enemy logo on her head. Also, the label said motherhood and your career are not compatible. Her son who died was a baby at that point.

So she tucked his onesie into her outfit, into her into her pants. So she went out and performed her first time that Americans are basically seeing her unless you were up for some weird reason at 120 a.m. watching a Letterman show. and she did those two moves and that was four years before tearing up the pope wow that's amazing well she's dead at 56 she broke out with a single nothing compares to you then caused an uproar by ripping up a photo of the pope on snl uh i hate that that's overshadowed her image so much because it's like if this country has a way of taking your most scandalous moment and overshadowed her image so much because it's like if this country has a way of taking your most scandalous moment and overshadowing fucking artistic genius and you know i'm so sick of hearing about an actor who put on 15 pounds to play a role and they call that heroic or some actress didn't wear makeup while she shot an episode of a TV show. And it's heroic. No, heroic is taking on when you're from a country that is completely Catholic, where you were sexually abused and

where you were outraged by the fact that the Pope is overseeing them moving priests from parish to parish who have been pedophiles. And so she has the audacity to rip up a picture of that guy. And that overshadows the fact that she has created some of the, I mean, I really think for your money in our generation, there's not a better voice than Sinead O'Connor. Not a pure voice.

No matter what, no matter what you think, it's up there. Yeah. It just is. Right. And her songwriting is fucking brilliant. Her ability to take on different genres.

I mean, in every album she... I mean, what about the title track from I Do Not Want What I Don't Have? No. I always get it wrong. It's acapella. There's no music. And it's haunting.

I listen to it a lot. I got into bed last night and I'd already listened to the album twice that day. And I'm laying in bed and I put on my headphones and that song comes on and it speaks to you. It makes you wonder what the fuck is this telling me something? Is she telling me something in this song? When you have black boys on mopeds. Yeah.

Three babies and like. Emperor's new clothes. Emperor's new clothes. Someone pointed out. I never really, you know, it's a it's a it's a upbeat. It's not upbeat. Literally, like it's new clothes emperor's new clothes someone pointed out i never really you know it's a it's it's a it's a upbeat it's not upbeat literally like it's like a lot it's an energetic song but those lyrics are fucking amazing yeah yeah and it's so much the theme of her life like it was about this breakup but it was about someone not standing and yes i'm sorry i went crazy i did i'm sorry but I went crazy. I did. I'm

sorry. But like, and being abandoned when she couldn't handle it, she couldn't handle her emotions, which she owned later in life. She would talk about what happens when you have sexual abuse as a kid is you are arrested and you're a child. You're a child walking around an adult body. She's like, I would throw these tantrums at 22, 23 years old, literally like like a child. And I didn't know why. Right. Right. And, you know, she she got married. She's it's so fucking tragic when you look at the clear mental instability, married four times. None of them lasted more than two years. Oh, wow. You know, had her child. I think she had one of her children taken away

by the father when she was young. You know, obviously the different breakdowns. Well, you know what? You know, she dated Peter Gabriel for a little while. Yeah. Peter Gabriel's on tour, which I fucking love that guy. I wonder, who knows,

but I wonder if he did like, it's very interesting to see people do covers now. So a good, a fun, and I know I've said this before, but I wonder if he did like, it's very interesting to see people do covers now. So a good, a fun, and I know I've said this before, but a fun thing to do when a big musical person dies is wait a few days, you go on YouTube, put their name, the person that died, and cover, and then limit your search for just that week. And you'll see everyone filming like,

oh my God, Radiohead, you know, whatever it is. Yeah. Well, there was a tribute. It was Pink and what's her name? Brandi Carlile did a show last night and they sang Nothing Compares to You. Oh, yeah. Brandi Carlile talked a lot about it. And I just thought about, but I just want to say, like, talk about two artists that deserve to sing that song you know that are that have lived in that spirit yeah um one thing about her tearing up the pope

so this was a she was being in her she this is an article and she was interviewed she's probably still most famous for ripping up the picture of john paul ii has that defined her career this is shanae's answer yes in a beautiful way. There was no doubt about who this bitch is. There was no more mistaking this woman for a pop star, but it was not derailing. People say, oh, you fucked up your career. But they're talking about the career they had in mind for me. I fucked up the house in Antigua that the record company dudes wanted to buy. I fucked up their career, not mine. And meant I had to make my living playing live, and I am born for live performance. Wow, that's amazing. Yeah, she didn't give a shit about fame or money or anything. No, she really didn't. And she, you know, at a certain point did a reggae album,

and then she did, you know, a traditional Irish album. She did covers of American Standards. Yep. Which got panned, by the way. That was the one album that really got panned. I don't know, though. People have revisited. She did some Cole Porter songs that are pretty unbelievable.

What was the one? I'll get in a minute. She covers a Cole Porter song that's incredible. This is what I will say. There is an album with, I think there's five songs on it. If you maybe aren't, although, you know, the, the acoustic songs we mentioned are great, but a real gentle apolitical album after she had one of her kids is called gospel Oak.

And that's the neighborhood she was living in when she recorded it. It has to mother you, which is unbelievable. Um, go listen to that song. And it's so beautiful. It really is. But, but what you're saying is right. Like what we're mourning here, it could be someone else. If they were this big, an artist with like, it's so rare that you have such a true artist who got this big a platform yeah right and she didn't let it change her right most artists you never hear about them like there's a ton of true artists out there but they won't sell out and stuff and by the way the first noise she made even before that first Grammys was this place goes,

Oh yeah. Where was like in New Jersey or something? She's like, Oh yeah, we play the national anthem before you take the stage. She's like, no, you don't not a chance.

You are not playing the national anthem. And you want to know what she said? Because you are silencing two live crew. Oh, can you fucking imagine that? Wow. You're silencing censorship is one of the biggest things in America. And you are not going to play that national anthem before an artist goes on stage.

Right. Wow. And that's when Sinatra went after her. He said he would smack her or something like that. No, Joe Pesci. Listen, even I was annoyed by her. I'm not taking the high road here. I did not understand.

And when she ripped up the Pope, I remember thinking like, I don't know, is that the platform for it? And I was totally wrong. Yeah. Something that egregious. Right. Worldwide pedophilia, systematic global system. Right. Dickey talked about Fall River. The worst one in the Boston diocese was moved there. Yeah. And fucking raped kids there. Right, right, right. Yeah, no, I mean, it's, here's a line from- And it went to the top. Here's a little stanza from Emperor's New Clothes.

I will live by my own policies. I will sleep with a clear conscience. I will sleep in peace. Yeah. That's how the New York Times ended their article about her. The other thing is, like, when you think about, like, I was so, so depressed yesterday. It hit me so hard because I feel like— When you were on the beach sitting alone?

Yeah. You're kidding. Looking out at the abyss? I went out last night, and I was, like, really having one of those nights where I was like, God, I don't feel like performing at all. I don't know how I'm going to do this. And I was thinking about that love that you can have for an artist that's so one way that she doesn't know me.

And so it feels false. Like, oh, what, you know, who the fuck am I to say I love? But isn't it in our capacity to have a one way love for an artist that speaks to you that deeply? Like when I was in college and I first got that album, I listened to it nonstop and it was like, I felt the same way about Bruce Springsteen when I was in high school. It just spoke to me. It moved me in a way that is love. I mean, what is love? It's feeling aspirational and

it's feeling connected and emotional. So when somebody like that dies, it really is on a minor level like losing a loved one. And you're losing, you're also mourning so many versions of yourself and how you've grown. There's that great saying that when you reread a classic novel, you don't learn more about the novel. You learn more about yourself. And I think that's what we were talking about. Like, when are these artists?

It's like, sure, Springsteen, it could be, you could just be a fanboy for Springsteen on that level. But if it's a real artist, that guy's getting you to think about yourself and the world and your family and your loved ones and your hated ones and ways to be better or what you think is better. Yeah. I remember Pete Holmes, I heard him on a podcast one time and he said, I love Pete. And he's actually a very, he's a very wise spiritual person. And he uh that we as artists uh feel are i want to say it right feel our emotions at a deep level and then we come back and report it

to the normal people and that they may not fully understand it but we it awakens some small part in them that they can recognize marshall mccluhan said the only people you can trust are artists not only because their eyes are open and they're more present if they're true artists but uh but they're on the they're on the front line like exactly what pete's saying like they're they you know even like we were talking about sarah silverman earlier when sarah silverman talks about her troubles or when she makes light and really good jokes about stuff she's gone through and all that. And like, she's talking about menopause now. I mean,

who the fuck talks about menopause? She, she, as we know her personally, but also you can tell if you don't, she feels one would say one could say too much. You know what I mean? She's talked about her medication. Like we interviewed her for the Brody thing and Brody was another one, you know. And so I think that's great that Pete said that. And it also, you know, saying what you're feeling and passionate about. You have to leave open the possibility that you can walk that back later. But why? But are you going to not say it? Because someday you may have to say, you know what? Maybe I was overcome by emotion. No,

an artist says it. They feel it. They state it. Yeah. And she felt, you know, I texted you guys the other day when she died, I guess yesterday. And I was like, because I thought about when I would read about the, so for the Grammys, that first Grammys, she did that stuff. Then the year she won the Grammy, she didn't go because she was boycotting because of the commercialism and the gender and racial bias of the Grammys. Keep in mind, it was so much later that they finally started. Like 20 years later, they started to address the racial issue in the Grammys. Yeah. And anyway, she won the Grammy.

She is the only artist, as we're still talking about it now, to reject her Grammy. Oh, no, it was a Grammy nomination. No, no. Her Grammy, she rejected. She won that year. as we're still talking about it now to reject her grammy many of those a grammy nomination no no her grammy she rejected she won that year oh really she won in 1991 i think and vernon reed was at it and he won for best rock performance he was in living color the band and vernon reed wore here's a black man on stage and he he has a, wearing a t-shirt, a picture of Sinead O'Connor. Wow.

In 91, because she was walking the walk. Damn. And she still has never accepted that Grammy. She's the only artist ever. Some, like, don't go. They refuse to go to it. But it gets sent to them, and they keep it. She refused it.

And then, wait, I want to read one thing. After she tore up the picture of the Pope, to read one thing after she tore up the picture of the pope fucking madonna you know tore up a picture of joey but if you go the next week yeah but this is interesting there's a spin magazine article i think from uh i don't know 1995 or something anyway so basically you should also say that madonna said that shanae looked like her hair had been run over by a lawnmower so she addressedinead, they brought up Madonna and that controversy. And she goes, Madonna is probably the hugest model for women in America. There's a woman who people look up to as being a woman who campaigns for women's rights.

A woman who, in an abusive way toward me, said I looked like I had run, had a run in with a lawnmower and that I was about as sexy as a Venetian blind. Now there's a woman that America looks up to as being a campaigner for women, slagging off another woman

for not being sexy. Yeah. Fuck Madonna. She's a piece of shit. And she had gone too far. And meanwhile, the like a virgin shit and all the commercial whoring. Yeah, she's dressed up in bondage wear.

And yeah, she stands for nothing. Like a prayer. She's fashion. Madonna is fashion. She's not a great singer. She's not a great songwriter. She's not even a great dancer. She's just a package and a brand

yeah uh this is something that so anyway also see the documentary i would say that to everybody i haven't seen that yet go i forget where it is but you can find it there's a documentary now the documentary i felt is not that great of a documentary but the subject matter is just too good for it not to be a very good documentary you know what i mean yeah it's like if you just told the story in the most unartful way it would still be great right right well and just speaking of cynic cynical takes on this i don't know if you call this cynical or just honest but uh morrissey our friend morrissey came out and he said uh this was perfect, here's the article.

In light of Sinead's tragic passing, countless musicians and public figures have shared their tributes. Morrissey, though, is calling bullshit. And a new statement made to his post on his website, he criticized certain members of the music industry and media who praised O'Connor, quote, now only because it's too late. You hadn't the guts to support her when she was alive

and she was looking for you. She had only so much self to give, Morrissey said. She was dropped by her label after selling 7 million albums for them. She became crazed, yes, but uninteresting, never. She had done nothing wrong. She had proud vulnerability and there is a certain music industry hatred for singers who won't fit in.

This this I know only too well. And they are never praised until death when finally they can't answer. The press will label artists as pests because of what they withhold. And they would caution aid, sad, fat, shocking, insane. And they would call Sinead sad, fat, shocking, insane. Oh, but not today. Music CEOs who had put her on their most charming smile as they refused her for their roster are que onto Twitter to Twitter their jibber jabber when it was you who talked Sinead into giving up because she refused to be labeled and she was degraded as those few who move the world are always degraded.

You think people will talk about our podcast this way after we die? I think so. We refuse to be degraded. Oh, I thought we were the degraders. Oh, shit. I think they will talk about us like he's talking about the CEOs. We are the man.

We have talked about going to Malibu and Martha's Vineyard in the last 20 minutes. And then do the, he concludes. Oh, he concludes with, she was a challenge and she couldn't be boxed up and she had the courage to speak when everyone else stayed safely silent. She was harassed simply for being herself. Her eyes finally closed in search of a soul she could call her own. As always, the lame streamers missed the ringing point and with locked jaws,

they returned to the insultingly stupid icon and legend when last week, words far more cruel and dismissive would have done tomorrow the fawning fop flip the fops flip back to their online shit posts and their cozy cancer culture and their moral superiority and their obituaries of parroted vomit all of which will catch you lying on days like today when shinead doesn't need your sterile slop. Damn. And someone, did he, I thought it was him when he,

yeah, that was amazing. But someone pointed out like, and what did she, and what was the horrific thing she did? She tore up a photo. Yeah. That was her crime. Right. Oh my God.

On a show. Do you know that was her mom's photo? Oh no shit. Wow. When was her crime. Right. Oh, my God. On a show. Do you know that was her mom's photo? Oh, no shit. Wow. When her mom died, she took it from the bedroom. Yeah, she had a pretty mixed relationship with her mom because some of her lyrics are very loving. No, no, no. It's really, really bad.

But she was a horrible mother. No, but there's a great interview where, and she says all abuse from adults is unintentional because they're the child in an adult's body. Yeah. They've been abused. Right. Kind of like the goat fucker. All right, listen, let's cheer up, Mike. Let's do some Sunday funnies.

God, we're still doing that? Oh, my God. Hager the Horrible, who's walking down a country road with syphilis dripping out of his toga and lucky is sitting on a bench with a young woman who's still upright so i guess they've just sat down uh he says would you go out with me and she says i guess so which you gotta you gotta read the subtext of what's really happening here and then goes, but if people ask me what I see in you, what shall I tell them? In other words, it's not really a choice. Yeah, non-consensual.

You're a, yeah, this guy doesn't need consent? Yeah. Maybe that's what you see in him? And you're terrified? You know she doesn't like you, but you're asking her out anyway as if she has to? Here's a better- how about he's just lucky he's lucky here's the lockhorns who are seemingly unlucky in this marriage i don't think either one

of them oh it's religious great we're going to continue this so leroy's walking into a confessional and loretta is online and she says to the woman behind her, this may take a while. Leroy didn't come home until four in the morning. Lovely. There's a family circus in here. Yeah, I wanted to throw a little curve at you. I read it, though. I wish I hadn't read it because I would guess what they're saying. But Jesus, it's so depressing.

This is more depressing than Shane O'Connor dying. The mom is holding a baby on her shoulder. She has another one in her lap. She has the little shitty yellow haired kid. Billy. Climbing on the arm of the chair. And then the fucking daughter is coming up to her and pointing right at her face and her pie holes open so i think the daughter's talking and she goes mommy when you get old how

many grandchildren would you like to have i mean by the way i set that up better because I had already read it. The mom looks very calm and in control. Well, because she's dead inside. She's on Vicodin. And she's been through this now for how old is the little girl? The oldest? She's six. She gave up years ago. Meanwhile, the mom's like, what are you saying?

All right, if you need my morning after pill, it's in the top drawer of the bureau. Is this because your uncle slept over last night? Okay, far side. I don't know if I've done this one. It seems familiar, but it's one of my favorites. It's a saloon, old-timey saloon. You see one, two, three, four, five, six or seven or eight cowboys sitting around. It's a corner. And there are these giant fucking guys with their vests on and their hats

and they're all drinking whiskey. And there's a little guy and the little guy is pointing and he looks ornery and he goes, Hey you. Yeah, that's right. I'm talking to you. And you see, it's the only other little guy sitting with a white hat, just minding his own business at the bar. They're surrounded by these monsters. That sums up humanity right there. Yeah, exactly. And then I was going to put a Blondie in this week. But once again, Blondie was all about Dagwood this week. Does anyone give a flying fuck about Dagwood or his shitty boss or the short order cook that has a toothpick in his mouth?

No, that's not why we're reading the comic. We're reading it so we can mask. I'm sorry. So we can enjoy looking at Blondie. Exactly. All right. Listen, we got through it. It was a little heavy at the end but i feel like

you know you know what it's all about uh if you it's easy not to like shanae that's just a fact yeah but if you can just hear what we're saying and appreciate this artist and who could be intense at times but go listen to gospel oak zero intensity in. And so many of her songs are just pure beauty. And I think she gets, if you don't know a lot of her songs and, and see the documentary and you'll just, I think you'll even if, even if she's not your cup of tea,

you it's hard not to respect her. Yeah. All right. You also have to respect mid coast media. Who produces this podcast every week. Not easy to hate. Chris Denman, who is not on this week,

he was at a rally against Sinead O'Connor. It's weird. And I think he's touring with Aldean, Jason Aldean now. Oh, that's right. I forgot about that. Yeah. But we want to thank everybody over there. We want to also remind you guys to support our sponsors.

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time on the beach yesterday what a way to end it and the tan we both got out of that you can see it on camera look at us and uh you know the funny thing is about this camera trip i'll keep it short is the guy i'm going with i almost said his name is about is younger than i am and it's like i'm being realistic i probably have i don't know 15 more of these i mean 15 10 if you're lucky no the assumption is i'm incredibly lucky and i take care of myself even then you can't do this much in your 60s i don't think no no you don't have 10 years left enjoy this one okay thanks into the wild mike gibbons oh jesus good all right good reference i think everybody should take it each time. Take it each! Take it each time. Sunday paper Sunday paper

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