The Bobby Bones Show - Weds Post Show (9-18-24)

Episode Date: September 18, 2024

Bobby starts asking exactly what a catalytic converter is and Eddie explains. Then we get into a story about ketamine that leads to something shocking revealed by the member of a show on a podcast. We talk about partying with your co-workers and if we should do something as a show like we used to when we were younger. We get into a history of how we got started as a radio show without most of us having a background in the industry. We also talk about the wild exploding pager story. We also talk about why they don’t make comedies anymore.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Help? Yeah, they're like, it's part of your exhaust system. So it's like converts whatever your fuel once it fuels the engine or whatever, then it converts it into exhaust, and then it spits it out the muffling. but it's made out of like some nickel or some kind of like metal that's really expensive. In current cars or all cars? All cars.

Still, so they still put them out. Oh, yeah. Oh, precious metals. Why do they put that in cars now? Can't they use like aluminum? Yeah, I don't know. Three California men have been busy allegedly stealing car parts and pipes, but now they have found over 700 catalytic converters. Wow.

During the searches. Platinum. Platium. Palladium and rhodium. Palladium and rhodium. Yeah. What did you say? Pladium. What? Palladium. I don't even know what it is. I just think that's how it said. Sounds good. I think rodeium is correct, though. Thank you. Police found over 700 of these valued it over $113,000. So there is some real money in it. When they stole my Jeep, they found it in a field and that was, I mean, they gutted it with, they took a bunch of parts and then the catalytic converter sawed off. Search warrants for the properties in San Pablo and Richmond revealed the men were involved in the purchase, sales, and possession of the stolen items. So when you buy these, do you, do you, melt them down or do you sell like what then is this palladium and rodium what how is that going to the market and what does it use for again i just know nothing about this yeah i don't know

i don't know i don't know what they do with it i mean they must melt it down right like thief can earn a couple hundred bucks from a typical catalytic converter i just wonder then what happens after you have it because i wouldn't know what to do with it yeah black market and then couple hundred bucks is it worth a couple hundred bucks yeah i mean people break into cars for 40 bucks, 60 bucks. You know what, though, I respect what kids are doing now. They're not busted, well, not all, but they're more just checking the door, see if it's unlocked. Okay.

And I respect that. Scrav yards pay $300 per converter, even at $100 when you turn $10 each when you turn $10 them in a week. Oh, that means they know they're stealing them then. And this is fascinating. They use the precious metals to help scrub deadly and harmful chemicals from combustion engine exhaust so they need the in that how someone figures that out

I mean I get it well I don't understand what you just said yeah I don't know they have because I'm like what like you said earlier why not make it out of something else but what these precious metals do is it helps filter it like to the the way the exhaust is these precious metals

okay stop saying precious metals so you're saying that's why they are in the car so that I didn't know they need they need whatever those elements are precious metals now my question then is once you steal it and you sell it to somebody. Like, wow, how do you reuse it? That's a great, maybe you put it on a car.

I don't know. But I Google, just to put it on another car? No, no, no, no, because they come with a car. Because I put, I googled, why are catalytic converters stolen? And then one of the researchers comes up. Researches? Yeah. One of the searches.

Or the research. Yeah, it says, why do Crackheads steal catalytic converters? Why do crackheads? That's what comes up. Go ahead. That's a great question. Go ahead. I don't know. I didn't click on it.

I just like, well, click on it. I would think the answer is for money to buy to buy crack. I mean, like, what do they do once the buyer buys it? It was so funny that that was what came up. I just laughed out loud at the headline. So I didn't really look at the other part. Can you find out what, how it's then taken? Dang, a Dodge Ram, 2,500 catalytic converter goes for $4,100.

It says, despite public attention on the thefts, this is according to the New York Times. Little is known about where the stolen metal goes. goes. They have no idea. Maybe somebody's building a time machine with it or something, because it sounds like something's up. With the precious metals? Yeah. They need enough precious metals, Gordon Hamer. Ford F250, 3,300.

Don't attempt to weld your converter back into place if you're not a competent welder. You could damage your vehicle. So do they have to get under the truck or car? It's underneath. Yeah. And then do they have to go deep into it or is it just there to rip off? No, it's exposed. It's right there.

But you're right, though. Like, whoever's collecting these, they know they're all stolen, right? Like, nobody... For sure. Nobody comes in. Nine of them? You think they were left in a will? Yeah, but nobody walks him at nine.

They probably diversify where they... No, no chance. You don't think they can get strategic? I think crackheads don't, and then people that are running a shop for the most part, they don't care. They don't care. They just want the precious metals.

They run a background check. They just want the precious effing metals. That's what they want. Yes. How many times are you going to say that? Because that they got to be pretty funny to me. I don't know. Precious metals.

I liked it. They are. Cops are looking. segments here. Cops looking for owner of bag containing 34 pounds of ketamine. So I always think of kettlebells. I think of ketamine.

Not the same thing. Kedamines is a special K. It's a tranquilizer. Isn't that what? Like a horse tranquilizer. No, that's what Matthew Perry. Yes. Yeah, yeah, but humans use it. But that's all special K. What's a drug? Yeah. Well, it's also, it's they put it in anesthesia

stuff. So if you've ever had surgery, it's in there. Like anesthesiologists will use. it in a concoction, but then... I'm almost positive at Special K, the horse tranquilizers here. What are you talking about Special K? That's a cereal. K? No, Special K is ketamine. That's what she's down the street. But like, when it's can use... It's used in a controlled

like therapeutic way, like with doctors, it's safe, but then some people abuse it like a drug. Often called Special K, names like K, super acid, cat volume. Okay. I only know what it's Special K. Angel does. But is it, Mike, used on horses?

Like the original? Special K. Man, I would love to see Mike's search history. He has to search everything. I can't wait until Mike, because when we move in the studio, Mike will have a microphone and he'll be sitting,

he'll be by me. We're now have to go all the way across the room at him. It's a horse tranquilizer. Yeah, I thought so. Really? Yeah. I think my uncle Rick used to have some, like, because you've had horses.

Oh. That's how I know ketamine originally. But so if you're a traveler who was recently visiting Dulles Airport in Virginia with a suitcase letter with 34 pounds of ketamine, U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

We'd like to have a little chat with you. agents discovered the suitcase after arrived at the airport from Amsterdam and estimate street value of around $900,000. Oh my. He's in trouble. Whoever this is, he's in trouble for not having it. He's already dead. I don't know about that.

I mean, you think he just led to on the side of run and drove off? If he's been a good getter and seller, you let him slide a little bit. You do? Probably the first time. Whoever the suitcase belonged to, they didn't have the common courtesy to fill out a luggage tag to make it easier to be returned to them. WJLA. So this story came out.

A million bucks in ketamine. Special case we used to call on the street. Well, Ray Mundo brought up something to me the other day that I thought was interesting. Ray? Yeah, are you talking about a podcast? Uh-huh. Yeah, so I was listening to Amy's podcast with my wife and Amy was talking about her daughter's food order. But that wasn't the interesting thing.

What she kind of glossed. Wait, why bring it up? My daughter called in the middle of it. Go ahead, Ray. And then just nonchalantly, Amy said that she said that she, She's had a bowl of special K. I don't think she had a bowl of ketamine, but she's taking ketriole. That's not what it was.

It's not what it was. Did you eat cereal or take ketamine? No, ketamine. Right, that's what I thought. What? Yes. And this is the podcast that I... And she stole a catalytic converter voice.

That's how she got the special. That I co-hosts with a therapist, because I think that you have to talk about it responsibly. And that's why I didn't go into more detail is because even my therapist's friend, while she supported it, and it's my therapist that recommended it, and I'm doing it through, like, under the guidance of a therapist and a doctor, I, she didn't even feel equipped to really talk about it. So I just...

Well, let's give it a rip then. She called it a bowl, though? No, I didn't call it a bowl. No, no, no, no. Okay, I was going to say, like, no. Ray, no, Ray dicked us up because I said special K, so he said special K, which is also a cereal. So he said bowl of special K like a bowl of cereal,

which is not the case. Ray actually said to me, Hey Amy was talking about taking ketamine on our podcast. And I was like, oh, that's interesting. Because I know people who have also, for medical and mental health reasons that I've never taken ketamine. Special K, man. The same stuff that Maddie Perry got you guys are. But people overdose on lots of stuff that other people take.

But anyway, Amy, go ahead. We feel. Yeah, well, that's how. I mean, I think that Ray sort of said that I just kind of glossed over it. But it was more of a this is a current. process, like a journey I'm on at the moment, so I don't want to speak to it. And if I ever do on a deeper level, I would like to do it with an expert. I'm here. To speak about it responsibly because of the abuse. I know it was a kid. Special K. Horses. They could happen. Yeah. Do you shoot it?

Do you needle it? No. I'm, I'm with, you dig a pill? Anil? No, I stick. Oh, God. No. You do that. We got problems. No, you put it under your tongue. Oh, sublingual. There you go. And then I'm, and then. You guys think I'm stupid. Dissol. I know. I know some of terminology. You do, man? Yeah. That's a terminology. Yeah. When you take it, do you call it parting? Not at all. Do you go to your doctor to that's party? In fact, they... Because that's, that would be a problem. They recommended, take... The doctor even said, hey, I can call you in a zofran before. For nausea. For nausea. And I said, oh, I'm pretty, I don't normally get nauseous. I think I'm good, although I'd never taken that. And the second time, I definitely took the zophrine. Because the first time when I got done, I came out of it and I just started vomiting.

I feel like if I took a drug like that I'd just start humping things No So like walls, chairs You're very I'm reading about it right now The amount that you take And again you have someone watching you

It's like you're aware It's there's this duality happening Like you're in this other Parts of your brain That are very wild and trippy But then you also had the awareness That you're actually like physically there And you can touch things

You're like okay I'm sitting here I think a microdosed LSD for crazy trauma. Terrible and they were like as a greatest thing that ever happened to them. Like micro micro. The founder of Whole Foods said that he would, I mean, I'm paraphrasing, but he came up with the, he took a different life path because of a, I think it was LSD situation and that's, there would be no Whole Foods without that.

I'm just telling you, if I, I would love to try stuff like this, but I had to get off sleeping pills because I felt like if I take any sort of like drug like this, I'd be humping everything or whacking off in public. No, no. I'm telling you, that's what I feel like I would be doing. Amy, it does say it's like LSD, PCP, and you're right, signs of ketamine use include nausea, vomiting, skin redness, or flushing, rapid eye movements, slurred speech. I need to be tight up if I take it.

My hands behind my back. Well, then that wouldn't be fine. Why do you think that's going to happen? Like, I don't. I don't know, but that's why I stopped taking sleeping pills because I figure I'd be, I wake up, taking a poop in the aisle or whacking off. And they'd be like, you're out of here and I'd be on the news. Yeah. Oh, no.

Because I just would lose who I was. I would, I don't even. remember that's the only thing at any time I've ever been like blackout but I was not blackout I wasn't like blacked out I just don't remember that's blackout but I was fully functioning yeah I came to work I would drive home put the thing in my thing to drive off with it that is ultimate blackout dude and that's why I don't even know if I pooped and not I whacked off somewhere and somebody just saved me yeah that's why that stuff scares me so I need to be be tied up right well I went through an extensive like interview process almost like with the therapist and the doctor like

They make sure to vet all kinds of things. And then this is something I thought about for a really long time. So do you sit in a padded room when you do this or what do you do? No, I'm in her office. Like, sit laying on a. And how long is it? Lay on mat. Well, she said my brain likes it.

So I stay in for a while. A couple hours? Yeah. So I'm. So you sit in that lady's office for hours? And you can't drive. Yeah, because you need somebody to watch you to make sure you don't, uh, poop in the alley off.

Like we said. So hold on. That's what I was. I got a question. I got a question. What have you doing in her office? So are you paying this lady? I'm doing both at the same time.

I mean, what a job. Look at me! No, lunchwalk, she's a therapist. She's not just some lady. I know, but I'm saying what you do is you put ketamine in someone and you sit there for two hours? No, she's music. There's music and she's evaluating and she writes down things because sometimes you may say something. It's also what they're trained to do in case something goes wrong.

It's not just them watching. They make their money based on the decisions they make pre and the decisions they make during if they need one and the decisions they make post. And then, yeah, after you talk through, like, what you saw, think, like, there's things I've gone back to in my childhood. Although some of my stuff is... He pooped and whacked off. What? Stop. But he doesn't know. Hey, will you ever let me know if you have a K-hole experience?

What? I don't know what that means. You have to stop. I don't know what that means. It goes bad and you are completely frozen or immobile and sometimes cause psychosis. I'm glad you're trying stuff. Like, I had to go to, I went to a compounding pharmacy. Like, it's all legit.

Like, mine's not, you know, back. galleys. You're not doing special K. Yeah. Yeah. Right. So we'll see. I think there's just parts of my story that don't, they're not just my story.

Okay. I'll put it this way. This is why she wanted to talk with anybody that weren't specialists. Yeah. It's difficult. That's the job I'm wanting. I'm like, I'm poop and whack off. Are you a K-hole?

I think different types of therapy, what people choose to do, yeah, is personal to them. But I just think there's some people might be like, wait, why would you need to do that? And I think there's parts of my story that are other people's stories, too. So I don't talk about them. but they've deeply impacted me. So there's still stuff that I feel like I've worked through, but I need on a deeper level that I just, that would make sense if I could say it.

I have other friends that have done it and changed her life. Yeah. I haven't done it. You know why. Why, Bobby? She's worried. I'm worried. I'm worried.

You know why I'm worried. One of the two is going to happen for sure. And I'm going to up in the news. I'm going to have to ask her about that now. She probably won't tell you. Oh, yeah, she can't tell me about other people. but I guess I'll be like, did they train you for that? One other thing, we're not able to get Jeff.

We weren't able to get Jeff Probst for Lunchbox, the Survivor thing. Because he did not come to town. Oh, okay. Oh. Also, he would have, dude. He would have come. He did not come. Lunchbox said he was coming.

I thought he did a whole thing about it. I think the Survivor thing was coming, but he didn't come. Oh. Or he's not coming, whatever it is. Yeah, I was just, I've been telling people for a couple weeks that I was going to interview Jeff Probst. Who have you told? Everybody that watched Survivor. Why would you tell them that?

Because that was never what we said. Well, you said you were going to line it up. No, we never said that. We said we would reach out. And so... Is that already happened? Yeah, it already happened. Yeah, he didn't come.

So I never heard anything back. After that, it was just like dead. I was like, oh, so they just kind of act to like, oh, here, we'll figure your little feet, and then we won't even follow up on it. And then the Survivor thing came and went, and I never heard it. He didn't come with it. So he wasn't here. So now I look like a fool.

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of needed at some point whenever you do something so closely with each other if we this show got together now we all didn't we wouldn't be able to have done that nor would We have the bond that we all have now because we were able to do that younger. You know what I mean? Yeah. That was a lot of time invested. And you just can't do that if you have 17 other priorities. Yeah.

I think we could still figure out a way to hang out. But I try. There's no time. When would you like to do it? You can, you say all the time. It's not the same. It's not the same. Tell me when.

I don't want that. But Bones, if you said let's make a week to go party and I tell my wife that, we're in, man. I didn't think about that. Party, but we have a ball. We've evolved, so now we can take a week and go like... On a cruise. Or just something more relaxing.

If you told me I had to go on a cruise, I can figure it out. A hike. I might be completely... I've never been on a cruise. They could be awesome. I don't not like cruises. I do not like being seasick, motion sick. So anytime I'm like, oh, it is not about the cruise.

I have friends that have been on cruises, even on this show that love them. And I don't think we have any sort of cruise sponsorship, so I'm not even protecting that. I just get on that boat for breaking Bobby Bone. which you can watch on Amazon. It's on Amazon now. But that was a smaller boat. I hear you, but it's all, it's the only. But you were, what?

Yeah, it was more roughing it. It was a fishing boat. It was like you were working. That's like the biggest boat I've ever been on, on the water where it's in the ocean. Yeah, this one, you go to the buffet and the spa. Casino. Casino. It's very different. I hear you, I hear you.

The pool. It very much could be different. But when I hear it just go on the water, I don't even like going to the beach. Yeah, yeah. Like, the water is not my thing. Like, you're lucky I take a shower. Yeah, that's how much I. The thing about the boat is you want to get in the water.

I know. I know. My point is this whole story was about most people don't party or hang out with their coworkers. Now, survey discovered only one of the five people that worked with other people socialized outside of the office. I think our circumstance, so many things that I used to look at as being, we'll use the word unfair, although I don't really believe in fairness in life. As being unfair, I think actually we're extremely beneficial to us and even me. meaning when I started doing radio, and I could go back to the very basic, basic level of Hot Springs, Arkansas doing a station by myself in Hot Springs. Yeah, I did it by myself.

And then to Little Rock did it by myself. Austin did nights by myself. And I only went to mornings because they were going to flip the radio station. The ratings were so bad. And they were like, well, I got an offer to go somewhere else. So I'm going to go ahead and jump out. And they were like, well, what do you want? And I said, I want to do mornings.

That's 22. There's no way they should have given me that job unless they knew the station was going to tank. And they were like, okay, here you go. And they gave me a contract for $50,000. And I remember being like, I am rich. It is there. I'm rich. I think I felt more rich than any other time in my life because that was the biggest pressure coming off of me as a human being was you have a $50,000 of your contract.

And that is going to be in your check. I was like, oh, my God. I don't have to worry every week about just maintaining to the next week. and so that's when I stopped living paycheck to paycheck. Dude, that was so much money to me. Dang, yeah. I was 22, 23 and never really made over like $28,000 a year, and they gave me 50?

Consistency. 50? Yeah. Plus I would do like remotes. Oh my God, I was rich. I was living it up. Except not really, but I started the show, but they gave me no money to hire anybody to be a co-host or anything.

They gave me no money. They were just like, all right, go. And if you can make the show, have decent ratings. then you can stay on. It was a one-year contract. And so I stayed on, but I brought in, like, interns because I couldn't pay anybody. Like Jill, the first ever person to be on the show with me,

she made no money. When Lunchbox came on, for the while, he made no money. Didn't even have a microphone. They wouldn't even pay for an extra microphone in the studio. I had to work at Costco. He worked at Costco secondarily. Man, you know how embarrassing that was?

So there are all these things that I used to look at as, well, that's unfair. all these other people had got to hire real radio people, had actual equipment that worked. But what happened was in that process, I was able not only to learn how to do things differently, I had to do things differently to survive. And no one was teaching me how to do it. So anything that I learned was something like a system I had to create myself. There was never like consultants. There was never anything. I remember hearing like other radio friends, be like, yeah, these consultants came in and listen to our show and told us this and this.

And like a tenth of me was jealous. Nine-tenths of me was like, that sucks. I think it's old ones are worthless. If you don't kind of have it instinctually, you're never going to have it. But again, I was like, oh, they're paying somebody to come and help work on your show. Damn, I'm kind of jealous.

So then we all start to be like this rag-tag group of people that they were paying very little. Amy comes on, takes way less money to be part of the show. She had an actual good job, selling granite, like as a real-life salesperson. I was just going to come on and do it for a couple years for fun. So I didn't mind the pay cut because it didn't seem like a long-term job. I mean, I took a pay cut from Jason's deli.

I don't even know that you're lying about that. I'm not. Yeah. So what used to be unfair, we were forced to spend a lot of time together. We had no families because we were 23, 24, 25. And because of all of those circumstances being like they were, quote, unquote, unfair, it actually made us a lot stronger because of what we had to endure, which means once things got a little easier, we were that much better.

So it's the whole mindset of, you ever read the obstacles, the way. Like that is really what, and I used to be like, this sucks. They don't give us anything, but it's really what made the show. Is nobody giving us anything. And me not having to adhere to any radio rules because nobody wanted to spend any time teaching me how to do real radio. It was just like, get on and do your thing. and if you swim you live and if you drown you die

and so I swim used to be crazy because people would listen to the show and be like you guys sound you're unlike any other show you're so unprofessional sounding we like it and what I try to convince our bosses

sometimes now they'll be like you need to do like I won't mention any specific bits oh no well because they're just horny and fake they're fake the bits are fake

and I'm like don't you think listeners because podcasts are such they're so prevalent and podcasters just talk like we do normal humans, no good radio voices, they just get on a talk. Where we used to go, it used to be like, you're the most authentic sounding, but also semi-unprofessional sounding show where it works for you.

Now it's like if we do anything cheeseball at all, it sounds so fake. And you have all these shows doing all these fake bits that just sounds like that. And so it's anti what people are trying to do. But anyway, we don't party together anymore, but we used to. If we were, if we were number one for a whole year, I would take the whole show on vacation. Yeah, I missed those time. You never went. That's what I'm saying I missed those times.

Oh, you missed them. Yeah, I don't miss them. I don't miss them. I never had them. I missed them. But we didn't have kids. There was no family thing. Dang.

But we went to Vegas on Chicago. Went to Vegas again. Vegas again. Yeah, mostly in lunchbox. I had to want to gamble. So we'd find a reason to go to Vegas. Poor Amy. Listening bars are growing in popularity.

There's something in Japan called a listening bar. You sit at the bar and you listen to music with headphones. You nod to the bartender when you're ready for another drink. But you may not chat or pull out your phone. God dang, dang, that sounds terrible. I feel like you would like that No, you listen to what? They want you to listen to it

Oh no, and I don't drink. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can do all this at home But be on my phone. And the most dangerous things to eat and drink while driving Hot coffee and a beer doesn't count I'll call to the count. I was gonna say, like that's before you drive.

Yeah, yeah. Hot coffee because if you spill it, you react You can like spin your steering wheel. Breakfast tacos, barbecue food and cream filled donuts. Oh, where's fried chicken? Well, cream filled donuts probably because if you get it on your shirt then you're just shrugged, you're like what's it? And you're trying to get it off

And then all of a sudden, that makes sense. You crash there. Did you guys read the exploding pager story? Yeah. Oh my God. That's crazy. Wild.

How they orchestrated this whole thing. So basically they were able to kill a bunch of Hesbola members with exploding pagers. And I read like the three. I read like that you click to read more at the bottom and it opens it up again. Yeah. I did that with that and ditty. I don't do all the read mores, but I did that with that the story and ditty. I give you this one.

11 people were killed and around 4,000 were injured yesterday when pagers used for communication by the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah exploded in Lebanon. The group claimed shortly thereafter that the explosions were part of an attack by Israel, and the New York Times reported yesterday that Israel hit explosives inside a batch of 5,000 pagers ordered from the Taiwanese manufacturer Gold Apollo. CNN also reported late yesterday that it had learned the operation was a joint effort by the Israeli military and the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service. The switch was triggered by a message sent to the pagers, which made them explode simultaneously. That is crazy. So they knew where they were buying their pagers for communication.

And pagers don't have the same ping that cell phones do. And they could communicate two people. And they went pre-buy, put the explosives in them, sold them to them. And then all at once when they had them on, flipped the switch. Boom! Blew everybody up. That is next level warfare.

Next level. And if you don't think they could do that to us, they wanted to. I was just thinking. Well, they could do whatever they wanted to. Oh, great. I'm not buying a pager. But don't. No, you're not.

But they can do it to phone. They could do it to anything they wanted to if they really wanted to. But isn't this a wild story? Like they knew what pagers they were using. And again, they used pages for the same reason that people use burner phones in movies to not be tracked, caught, known. Right. Because they were using cell phones. But then they're like, you know what?

Let's change everything. Let's go to pagers. And then I guess somebody found out and said, we're going to do this. So did they go to Taiwan or they intercept the packages and then remand it? So they won't tell, they won't say exactly how they did it. They don't do step by step. They don't. They won't line it up.

They don't extrapolate little. That is wild. I would assume that you just pay somebody off. Have to be. And the manufacturing. You just pay somebody off and then you make sure they go where they go. But there was an insider. Like they had to know when they were buying it, who they were buying it from.

Absolutely. Oh, yeah. And then you pay the right person off. Yeah, someone flip. or someone infiltrated and was just a spy. We started watching a show called Slow Horses last night. Anybody? Never heard of it.

Morgan, did you nod? I started it, but I couldn't get into it. Is it true? It's slow. It's a... It's about horses? It's about knowing that. It's about like MI5,

which is... The British Special Ops? CIA. Those. Everybody has their own version. It's about that. And it's about one group of MI5 that they're kind of all, they kind of got a strike or two against them. So they're not kicked out, but they're like put at a lower level.

And so we only watched one episode. But you're following them. It looks to us to be really good. In British? It's English language. Whatever that is. It's a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes. in British.

And 8.2 on IMDB. A dysfunctional team of MI5 agents and their obnoxious boss navigate the espionage to defend from sinister forces. I don't know. It looks pretty good. We're into it. And we're season three of The Killing, which we did Tuesday,

reviews days yesterday. Season 3, The Killing is dark. It's better. It feels more realistic because it's just going a year later. And TV changed a lot in the past 10 years. Like a lot of cheese stuff is gone now in these shows.

shows that are kind of the drama. A lot of the cheap. And it's getting less cheesy, but the killing. Season one was pretty good. It was just a little cheesy at times because it was made like 2010. 2011 was a little better, but season three, Caitlin was like, I need to break because it was getting pretty dark because they're trying to solve

murders. And I think season three so far is the best. But it's also that, I don't know if we can take two episodes of this. Man, I'm having a hard time finding the light stuff. You know, like I search and search like give me something I can just laugh at. Or it's like the Ted Lassow. Yeah, something. Because I mean, we finished Ted Lassow. That's done. They don't make a lot of comedies.

They really don't. Have you watched shrinking? No. I like shrinking. You need to watch that. That's light. It's funny. Is that a therapist? Yeah. Yeah. And it's the guy from How I Met Your Mother? Yeah. This is Jason. Jason Segal. And he's in that one movie. Sarah Marriss. Yeah. Yeah, it's good. Okay. It's light. To get on TikTok then. I started watching. They don't make They don't make as much comedies. They don't make as much comedies anymore. Yeah, that's okay.

It's a little cheesy. Okay, we started it. Like everybody talks about it wins all this awards. I'm like, I'm waiting for it to be hilarious. I think just because it's like good on network TV. It wins awards. I think if it were just a digital streaming show only, it would be considered a bit cheesy. But I think because it has success on network television.

That's why. I think. Because again, I watch it and I'm like, okay, this is kind of funny. A bit irreverent, but still not. Yeah, same. I don't love it. And I never give up on it because I'm like, it's going to get hilarious. Keep watching it.

Yeah, shrinking gets 91% on Rotten Tomatoes. Did you say get on TikTok? Yeah, get on TikTok. But my wife and I can't watch TikTok together. Okay, but if you're just looking for something fun. You can actually put TikTok on your TV. Oh, and we just swipe? Yeah, if you...

That's not a bad idea. But I think that's why they don't make so many comedy movies, because we get so much comedy in 15, 30, 45 seconds all the time on our phone. I don't know I mean that's my theory yeah what other comedies are out there has to be some good comedy Whenever they make like a new comedy movie

Mike you'll go and be like It's so refreshing to see like a good comedy Because Mike they're hardly any right It is They don't make any money off of it They should put it on TikTok Oh have you watched Colin from accounts

It's the best No Oh my gosh Is that the rea Where do you watch that You can only watch season one right now But season two is out I think it's on Paramount

Have you all never reviewed this before We've talked about it. We've talked about it. Both of us have. Well, I forgot Colin from accounts. It's about a guy who's, why Caitlin likes it. He's like, it's like the same age gap that Caitlin and I have. And so there's a little bit of that there, which is like 12 years, but also there's a dog. And they have to take, it's just, you should watch it.

It's Australian though. Okay. So they kind of have that accent. No, not kind. They have the accent. There's no kind of. But anything with the British, the, the, Australian accent, we turn

subtitles on. Yeah. Because when they say taking the piss, which just means, and I've now the parallel is busting my balls. I've had to find a parallel for it. Oh, that's not go to the bathroom? No, it's not taking up his. Like if you take the piss out of me, that's like

you're busting my balls. Got it. But I had to find that parallel because it's like making fun of, it's something. So anytime they say, ah, you're taking the piss, I go busting my balls. That's tricky. Okay. But they have terms like that, but even the old office did that. But a new season of Only murdering the building's out.

Okay, see, that's cool. That's light. I like that one. Yeah, the fourth season just came out. I think they're going to do that fifth and they call it. Have you heard that, Mike? I don't know who they're calling it. Really?

I don't even know what season four is about. I mean, didn't you think season three was a little hokey? I mean, it was a little... Yeah, I think it gets more hokey as it. Oh, you're watching it? Good. I think it's hard to keep a show that's... just amazing season one and really so yeah i did think season three was a little goofier i still thought

it was good but it's hard to keep going that's why british shows why they are rated so high and they stay like renown for so long because they do two seasons and they're out the british office did two seasons they were done they did an occasional like reunion episode or a christmas episode but two seasons done extras two seasons done any other big shows are for the most part two seasons and out They're not so much worried about keeping it on for as long as possible. Preservatives, they're not worried about TV preservatives. Just keeping it up, keeping it existing so they can make money. They create it.

It's amazing. Two seasons, done. That person who created then gets the opportunity to go to another show for two seasons. But yeah, there you go. Two in five Americans at peak stress levels so far. Peak right now. The average American feels like their head is spending 156 times a year from stress. A survey of 2,000 adults found that the stress, first of all, the headaches, and they talk about how if you get a certain level of stress, you start to have stress headaches.

I don't think I get stress headaches. I think I get dehydration headaches. When I put my hair in a ponytail, I get those headaches. I think I get no sleep headaches sometimes. I think I get one. I don't eat. It's kind of stress on your body. Yeah, that's fair.

I guess I just consider stress as like emotional or stressors that are happening around you. like bad things, sad things. Life. Yes. But stress is all things that could happen, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not happening. Stress can be things that are happening.

But you're stressing about what could further happen with what's happening. Like stress in general, we're talking about mental stress. Anxiety stress. Yeah, you stress about what could happen based on the factors that are available and are happening now. Yeah, because when you're in the middle of it, you're not really stressing. You're just kind of doing it. You could have stressed about it leading up to it. You can be stressing about, but stress itself is about what's happening in the future.

Unless you have 10,000 pounds on you and it's stress in your body, then that's a physical stress. Oh, so you don't think you can be stressed in a moment about something that's actually happening at that moment? I think if you're active in it, you don't have, I don't think that's a, I think that is a. Sort of like if you're actively practicing gratitude, you like they say you can't have anxiety at the same time. Like it's impossible for your brain. I think if you're active in it, you're not. stressing out about it. You're trying to do it. I think you can be active in it, but still stressing out about what the outcome could be of what you're doing. Okay.

You ever read? No, never mind. Whatever it is, probably not. You ever read meditations? No. Definitely not. I would guess not. I pull back. I don't even want to. Hey, Eddie, that was back quite. Yeah, man. Is it an autobiography of a rock star? I do like the way he just, he goes, no. No, it wasn't that. It wasn't that. I just, he looks at us like, Who am I asking this question to? I know the answer. I just didn't want to hear you guys making fun of me.

No, no, no, we're not going to make fun of you. We're not going to make fun of me. What's it about? Hold on. I definitely wouldn't. It's Marcus Aurelius. It was written hundreds of years ago, and they have since done so many versions of it that's even easier to read now.

It'd be like how the Bible was originally written in Hebrew, and they've Englished it up and even made it child friendly. But meditation, it's mostly stoicism. But I shouldn't, but that's what I shouldn't. I shouldn't even ask a question. Sto-a-what? Stoicism. It doesn't matter.

You know what stoicism is? No, is that like meso-stoic? I've heard of that. I've heard of being stoic. A bit different. But I don't know what being stoic means. I don't either. Like standing up straight.

Yeah. Let me read you the actual definition of... No, it's a different kind of stoic. Because I don't want to mess this up. But even like the obstacle is the way is written from a stoic perspective. That's based off Marcus Aurelius. Like a philosophy? And meditation.

Stoicism is a philosophy of the florist in ancient Greece and ancient Rome. They believe that the practice of virtue is enough to achieve a well-lived life. Okay. It doesn't matter. By meditating? No, there's really almost no meditation. There's no meditation at all. It's not even about meditation.

Because I suck at that. I tried that. Anyway. Okay. Okay. I think we're done here. Ray, you good? I think we're done here.

You guys have a great day. We'll see you tomorrow. we have Keith Irman coming up on Friday, which will be fun. Anything tomorrow that's any good or no? Probably just a dirtbag show tomorrow? Yeah, dirtbag. A bunch of crowd tomorrow. Check out.

There's a new episode. Amy, what's your four things tomorrow? See, that'll be something to look forward to. Do you know the four days? Oh, well, speaking of, well, it's going to be an OG episode, so a lot of different things. But some things on how- What's an OG episode?

OG is like when I first started out, I had four totally different things all the time. to be like, Walker Hayes sings this little jingle that goes first thing and then be that second thing. And sometimes I do interviews and I'll incorporate, you know, what four things you're grateful for and that's how I tie in four things. But this is, oh, gee. And so actually there's some things that will help with stress and overall happiness mixed in and even a meditation. Huh. So the fourth thing is a meditation. But that's not about, the book I was talking about is not actually about meditation. But it's called. Right, but it's called that. And I've sent my, My cousin leads the meditation.

It's only like five minutes. So if you're new to it and you want to try it, it'll just be the fourth thing. So at the end, you could close your eyes and try to do it. Did she, does she whisper? No, she just talks. That's called, uh, there's like music in the background. EM, SM.

ASMR. ASMR. ASMR. What? It's like, you're slicing a tomato. Something sexual to. Yeah, but when you meditate, though, aren't you like, so now you?

you close your eyes. Meditation is, in my opinion, I have the ability to focus on one single thing so everything else isn't clouding your mind. That's exactly what it is. And when other thoughts come in, you release them, but you can meditate on scripture, you can meditate on

mantra. One thought is impossible because the one thought I'm thinking is don't fall asleep, don't fall asleep. It's not impossible. I think it's something you get better at. I've been better at it. I have kind of a phrase I say over and over again in my head. I don't say it out loud that I just try to focus on.

The only reason I think about it over and over again is so I can try not to think about everything else. But then all of a sudden it's like, I take it right jab from work and a left driver. But you got to acknowledge those and release them. And luncheunks, if you're scared about falling asleep, you should try a walking meditation. Or you should try a nap and then do it.

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