Remember that time you almost called a creepy clown on a dare? Well, we sure do, because that's how this wild ride of an episode kicks off! From the algorithmic mazes of streaming services to the mysterious allure of Wrinkles the Clown, we take you through a funhouse of reflections, debates, and, yes, even the temptation to dial up the boogeyman himself. Our guest Nutley Nick Nick chimes in, bringing a fresh perspective and a killer idea that sets the tone for a new segment we can't wait to get rolling.
As kids, we all had those moments in Catholic school that felt larger than life, where sacred artifacts and solemn ceremonies seemed to hold the secrets of the universe. We're revisiting those memories, laughing at our naivety, and exploring how relics like the Vatican's Crown of Thorns mesh with our adult understanding of faith and skepticism. But it's not all solemnity and sacredness; we also dive into the weirder waters of karma, the Pope's 'secret room' (or lack thereof), and the addictive drama of 'Squid Game'—because who doesn't love a good game of "what if?"
Before we ring in the New Year with promises of true crime and cinema reviews, let's take a sentimental journey to the heart of Pennsylvania. We're spinning tales of Harrisburg's iconic eateries and the ghosts of crab cakes past, sprinkling in fun facts that'll have you seeing the Keystone State in a whole new light. And with Nutley Nick's genius suggestion, we're gearing up to revisit the vinyl classics that had our heads banging to the beat. So raise a glass to the old days, the fresh starts, and everything in-between, and let our theme tune by Tsunami Experiment carry you into the new year with style.
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Remember that time you almost called a creepy clown on a dare? Well, we sure do, because that's how this wild ride of an episode kicks off! From the algorithmic mazes of streaming services to the mysterious allure of Wrinkles the Clown, we take you through a funhouse of reflections, debates, and, yes, even the temptation to dial up the boogeyman himself. Our guest Nutley Nick Nick chimes in, bringing a fresh perspective and a killer idea that sets the tone for a new segment we can't wait to get rolling.
As kids, we all had those moments in Catholic school that felt larger than life, where sacred artifacts and solemn ceremonies seemed to hold the secrets of the universe. We're revisiting those memories, laughing at our naivety, and exploring how relics like the Vatican's Crown of Thorns mesh with our adult understanding of faith and skepticism. But it's not all solemnity and sacredness; we also dive into the weirder waters of karma, the Pope's 'secret room' (or lack thereof), and the addictive drama of 'Squid Game'—because who doesn't love a good game of "what if?"
Before we ring in the New Year with promises of true crime and cinema reviews, let's take a sentimental journey to the heart of Pennsylvania. We're spinning tales of Harrisburg's iconic eateries and the ghosts of crab cakes past, sprinkling in fun facts that'll have you seeing the Keystone State in a whole new light. And with Nutley Nick's genius suggestion, we're gearing up to revisit the vinyl classics that had our heads banging to the beat. So raise a glass to the old days, the fresh starts, and everything in-between, and let our theme tune by Tsunami Experiment carry you into the new year with style.
Sounds:https://freesound.org/people/frodeims/sounds/666222/ Door opening
https://freesound.org/people/Sami_Hiltunen/sounds/527187/ Eerie intro music
https://freesound.org/people/jack126guy/sounds/361346/ Slot machine
https://freesound.org/people/Zott820/sounds/209578/ Cash register
https://freesound.org/people/Exchanger/sounds/415504/ Fun Facts Jingle
Thanks to The Tsunami Experiment for the theme music!!
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Freestyle Friday Freestyle Friday. Freestyle Friday Freestyle Friday. I'm not a rat Contra with a fat, old, dead face with live in a cut. Freestyle Friday Hello, hello what's going on, ladies? Welcome to an exquisite episode of Old Dirty Basement.
Speaker 3:Yeah, trying something new. Yeah, friday Freestyle.
Speaker 1:That was freestyling with that. Yeah, see, in a regular episode you don't get none of that.
Speaker 2:Nope, that's freestyle. We're breaking it down, boogie down style.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is exciting, Dave. We've never freestyled like this.
Speaker 3:Well, I figured, with the holidays coming up you know, christmas, new Year, all that good stuff throwing episode together something fun People seem to like when we get off track sometime.
Speaker 2:Yeah they're always fun. They're always fun. Yeah, so this entire episode will be us completely off the tracks. There is nothing, there's no script, there's no nothing, it's just three dudes talking.
Speaker 1:Yeah, speaking of talking, how was your guys' day today? Anything good, anything good happen.
Speaker 3:Can't complain.
Speaker 1:No, I could complain, but what's the point?
Speaker 3:Yeah, typical Wednesday.
Speaker 1:Did we all work today? I went to work today.
Speaker 3:I did a full day. Yeah, I did.
Speaker 2:I never stopped working.
Speaker 3:Constantly working. Right now, there's that, the gift that keeps giving.
Speaker 1:You hear the money rolling in? Yeah, right, it's money rolling. Yeah, but yes.
Speaker 3:So what's?
Speaker 2:going on. What's striking your fancy these days?
Speaker 3:Yeah. So, Matt, why don't you start us off with With what? With your topic, my topic?
Speaker 1:My topic, so many topics, but one kind of jumped out at me like a shark Jawa's in particular. Not the actual movie, but just think of that like a shark jumping out at me.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 1:But it wasn't a shark, it was a clown.
Speaker 3:Yeah, wrinkles.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how'd you know?
Speaker 3:I watched it last night.
Speaker 1:The documentary is really cool. What's that Netflix right?
Speaker 3:It's on, you can catch it on Peacock.
Speaker 1:Okay, I always just say Netflix Prime as well.
Speaker 3:I checked on Netflix and because I thought you said Netflix initially.
Speaker 1:That's all I do say. You can find it eventually.
Speaker 3:It's funny, Netflix will. If you put that in, it's not there, It'll just send you other stuff you might like. You know what I mean, but I found it on Peacock and also Prime as well. I watched it on Peacock.
Speaker 1:Did you ever look at like your stuff you might like, like the algorithms? They catch on like, your, say, your Peacock or your 2B.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 1:Compared to stuff like your wife would watch. Yeah, oh it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2:It's absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 3:It's pretty different.
Speaker 2:You look at the step Well, so if you're using the same yeah, I understand what you're saying you put it all together. It's like what, the what? Do I give a shit about a British baking show?
Speaker 3:What do I give a shit?
Speaker 2:about exactly the real housewives of some big town, Hot Lana right.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 1:But yeah, it's just. Yeah, I know when my kids are on like like maybe my Netflix or something, that was this movie here about, like something killing people or I don't know these murders and like right. Like three gasey episodes and Ted Bundy.
Speaker 3:That's all. My stuff is basically.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it gets all the. They think we're like trying to be a serial killer or something from from you know just just what we do for a living.
Speaker 2:You can learn.
Speaker 3:So that did you know about wrinkles at all?
Speaker 2:I did not, so I overheard Matt I believe it was a week or two ago mentioning the topic of wrinkles. Like hey man, I came across this thing. It's the wildest thing. It's some creepy ass clown that rolls around town, you know, prompted by parents to do this to scare the shit out of their kids.
Speaker 1:I'm ruining the story, Matt no, no, no, no, no, dave, like you know, walk, walk us, walk all of us through.
Speaker 2:Who in the hell is wrinkles?
Speaker 1:The clown. It's not even like like a walkthrough, like this. This guy he started off he does this video with with his um I don't know if it's his daughter or somebody in the family, you can tell because they they have it scripted, but they just, these kids were seeing this guy wrinkles a clown. He would come out of this underneath this trundle bed.
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 1:And he kind of pushes away and it looks like this actual clown, like the way they had it.
Speaker 3:It's like grimy and oh yeah, like a closed circuit television camera, Exactly.
Speaker 1:Exactly and um, like he lays like a little sock puppet near this girl and like shuts the camera off. So these kids seen this wrinkles, the clown guy, and they start freaking out.
Speaker 3:Well, he had, like promotional stuff, made up stickers with his phone number and flyers and he'd put them up all over town down in Florida.
Speaker 1:See, that's funny. You say that because I actually have his number written down and I don't know if we could try to call it to see if we would get his voicemail, or if like that, um, I mean, I'm sure you could Do you want to actually like try it, I can try it.
Speaker 3:I mean, it's up to you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you have at it and you use your phone so he can call you back.
Speaker 3:Put it on speed. Yeah, cause. Yeah, I don't want my number.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're right, like it'll go in this database. Then I'll end up losing my like. I'll have no money in my account, yeah.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 1:And it'll be like I wrinkles gotcha baby.
Speaker 3:I mean you can say the number, maybe on, if anybody wants to yeah.
Speaker 1:The number is anywhere if you want to try it. But yeah, I kind of thought what you guys just said. It makes sense. Yeah, or else ever. Yeah, but the number is 407. What area code is that? Is that?
Speaker 3:Florida, florida, yeah, okay 407 734 0254.
Speaker 2:So this is a dude who is a dresses up as a creepy clown and he's engaged by whomever, he's hired by whomever to basically scare the shit out of kids.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So what he would do is you could have him A lot of times. It's just to call itself. So if the kids are acting up, the parents will put it on speakerphone and call wrinkles. And then all of a sudden the kids like, oh, I'm sorry, no cry.
Speaker 1:The kids starts going nuts.
Speaker 3:No, no, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, you know, and then the parents will be like, all right, well, he or she's acting better now. So hopefully we don't have to call you back and yeah, but it's going to the point where parents would give him a couple hundred dollars, correct?
Speaker 1:Yeah, he would. Well, the way they had this documentary done it was showing this guy that was like homeless he lived in, like well, it was like a, it was like a dodge conversion van type thing like not even a conversion van, but one of those big white vans with like a stove in the back.
Speaker 3:You know I'm talking about.
Speaker 1:Sure yeah.
Speaker 3:Like a camping van, I guess yeah.
Speaker 1:Camping van, but they try to make it like real creepy. There's this like old guy with white hair and he's like sweating all the time. He's in Florida in a conversion van, like eating eggs and drinking like a natty ice, and so they're. They're trying to make the documentary out to be this guy, but it's not. It's an actual, real guy that does this. But he didn't want his name or his face to be seen because of all the calls he gets and stuff anyway.
Speaker 3:He had a voice kind of like the clown from Simpsons.
Speaker 2:Krusty, krusty.
Speaker 3:Yeah, didn't you think he kind of sounded like?
Speaker 2:that yeah, herschel Khrustovsky.
Speaker 3:Is that his real name? That is his real name. We want crunchy.
Speaker 1:We want crunchy. Do you remember that episode? I do, that's a good one, but um, yeah, he kind of, or that, and Frank Rizzo, if anybody knows him Frank Rizzo Jerky boys, yeah, he'd be like. Yeah kids, uh, your parents, just call me, I'm going to come over here and eat you, okay, yeah. But when the kids would hear like the parents would call and the kids would hear this guy's voice and they just get freaked out and start going nuts.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was. Uh, they had like a lot of kids on there being interviewed. Did these kids would? Would, uh, try to call wrinkles themselves? One kid was you see that, like 11 year old, that was obsessed with clowns and, uh, he himself would dress up like a clown and and.
Speaker 1:He's going to be one of on one of our other shows.
Speaker 4:Yeah, he was there, he was there.
Speaker 1:Here's my wrinkles mask and here's my knife that I got at the store. Look at this how I'm going to show my dad here. I'm going to kill my dad.
Speaker 3:He was like, well, if it was me, what I'd do is I'd hide under here and then I'd come up and climb up on the bunk and then I'd uh, you know, make some noise and and like the kid was kind of demented sounding, you know the stuff that he wanted. I mean it wasn't too crazy, but he was just way obsessed with these clowns.
Speaker 1:But then they had people that were against wrinkles because they were like which? I think these guys are weirder than than actual wrinkles character, like the ones that are real clowns or try to. Oh, those guys, yeah, I mean, look, I like to go to parties and make unicorns and balloon puppets.
Speaker 3:Those guys are like the weird ones, I think they were shown clown culture like from back in the day, like you know the different kinds of clowns, what was that? One where they was like a puppet show over in England and there was, that was one of the punch punch is one of the punch, and, judy, that's it yeah. They said I was one of the first like evil clowns that and the kids like ate it up and loved it.
Speaker 1:Which punch till today like that. That clown is like big with the punch cigars. They still like their, their symbol. But then there's like. But then they started making clowns like you like, killer clowns from outer space.
Speaker 3:Love that one yeah.
Speaker 1:And I still have yet to watch it.
Speaker 2:I'm going to get there. I promise I'll get there.
Speaker 3:I just got a killer clowns t-shirt actually, really yeah, when we were at the down at the mall, at the park city mall yes, Was that like a Spencer's gifts? Or Spencer's yeah.
Speaker 1:What's the other one, spencer's, and where do the other gothy kids go?
Speaker 3:Hot topics. Hot topics yeah.
Speaker 1:If you want to get any like chains on your jeans or anything On your Janko jeans.
Speaker 3:Janko, that's right.
Speaker 1:It's a good place to go.
Speaker 3:I was in there with my son. He was looking around at stuff and I saw they were like buy two t-shirts for $147. Yeah, get one free, dang.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll pass.
Speaker 3:But no, this documentary is like I thought it was pretty interesting. I mean it's like an hour and 20 minutes. I watched most of it. I think I missed like the last 10 minutes. My wife was like she was like who the hell would ever do that to their kids, and they even had a like a psychiatrist on there. I was saying, like if you were to do that to a kid, like how you would screw them up for life and all that like to use. I don't understand that, but I mean.
Speaker 2:I do. I can understand that to an extent. I mean, think about it Now when we were kids. Just a little side topic. You know what I'll get back to this. I'm sorry, dave, I cut you off.
Speaker 3:No, I was saying I think I know where you're going with this, but I know, like, like you think about things that, even like I'm just trying to think of an example, I mean that you terrorize kids with different things. I think of the Halloween time. I mean you know what I mean. Like I mean, I get it, it's a little different because this seems even more real.
Speaker 1:So so, but you walking around in a Mike Myers costume, standing there on a corner on Halloween. How's that any different? Or how is us being afraid of Jason or Mike Myers any different than these kids in Florida being?
Speaker 2:afraid of wrinkles or so. So that's a random act of one dude not being prompted by anyone else. This guy, this wrinkles, the the jerk off is being yeah, that's how he talks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like that he's getting these kids a jerk off.
Speaker 2:He's, he's being, you know, engaged or approached or whatever by these kids parents, with the intent of the parents to scare the shit out of their kids.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's like three o'clock high, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know, man, that's where I was going to go earlier. Is you know how there's the random traumatizations, right? So think about, when we were coming up, some of the shit that we came up with, one in particular, belts. No, oh look, I'm all for paddling. Don't get me. I love paddling. That's a paddling. I love the never ending story.
Speaker 3:No the movie.
Speaker 2:The movie, yeah. So what did we see in that we saw not just a whole planet die and everybody on it die and this is a kids movie but we saw specifically a Trae's horse just get drowned in this big in the tar pool of tar. Yeah, like this is a kid that just lost his best friend, his horse, his favorite thing in the whole world, like that's. That's messed up, man.
Speaker 3:It's traumatizing.
Speaker 2:Hell yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, I guess, with that.
Speaker 3:I guess with that you weren't.
Speaker 1:I was a kid, but it wasn't something like.
Speaker 2:but I don't know, I think the exorcist wasn't meant for kids to watch.
Speaker 1:No, I mean, like, like, growing up Catholic, he kind of had like wrinkles of clowns, kind of like the devil, right. You know what I mean? You go to confession because you don't want, like the devil to take you to hell, right. It's kind of like the same thing.
Speaker 4:Like Santa Claus, Santa Claus.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean. Like you're not being good. Hey Santa, santa knows what you guys are doing. They have a whole song about it, or over in Europe.
Speaker 3:Krampus.
Speaker 1:Yeah, krampus, you don't want Krampus taking your shoes.
Speaker 3:Yeah, krampus is a creepy dude, Krampus is but.
Speaker 1:Matt's what girls got. I agree with the periods.
Speaker 2:I agree with you to an extent, especially when you invoke the concept of the church. It's just simply if you're bad, you're going to go see the devil.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the devil's going to come and get you, and you got a nice warm place for you down there where it's burning and hot.
Speaker 3:Sometimes you need a little fear to keep everybody in line. You know, I guess.
Speaker 1:But but they have parents on there. The guy was saying you know, am I going to tell my kid if they're misbehaving or freaked out by this thing? So hey, I'm going to give wrinkles a call. You know he's going to come eat you, I'm fine with that you know what I'm.
Speaker 2:I'm, I'm converted. I'm fine with that.
Speaker 1:All right, I'm glad.
Speaker 2:No despite being a creepy dude. You know he is a jerk off, but what he's doing is, I'm guessing, effective keeps these kids in line. I say go for it.
Speaker 3:So spoiler alert If you haven't seen the documentary yet. We're going to talk about something here at the end, I guess, but Creepy got shot.
Speaker 2:No, no, sorry, wrinkles during this document.
Speaker 3:During the documentary they portray, you think you're seeing wrinkles and it's his older guy in the sixties and stuff. But you come to find out it was just an actor and the actual wrinkles the clown is actually much younger.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think he's in his forties. Well, they didn't really say it for sure, but he they still nobody has his identity or anything.
Speaker 3:But he was like blacked out. You know how they do that, like witness protection stuff.
Speaker 1:Sure, the voice has changed. Yeah, like the voice has been changed.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So maybe it's, maybe it's Banksy, it might be, could be Banksy.
Speaker 3:Is that that artist guy?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I thought that was.
Speaker 1:Michael Jackson's, his, his, monkey monkey Banksy.
Speaker 2:No, it was his monkey's name was bananas. No, it was not bananas, it was sweetness Coke bubbles.
Speaker 4:Bubbles, bubbles.
Speaker 1:No, but a Banksy right Like one of those, like a couple of mil for an original, I mean you're removing concrete to do it.
Speaker 3:That reminds me. You remember blowing bubbles when you were a kid. Remember that, remember that.
Speaker 2:I'm sure Michael Jackson.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's a joke. One guy at work loves that joke. Actually, it's shallow throat. He loves telling that joke. But yeah, wrinkles of clown.
Speaker 1:You want a joke? I heard one the other day. It's real quick. Why can't you hear a pterodactyl go to the bathroom? I don't know, because the pee is silent.
Speaker 3:Nice, I like that. Yeah, it's good for the kids you got young kids out there.
Speaker 1:That's a good one for them, but anyway, yeah. So wrinkles is what one of the topics I had discussed. I like it. Yeah, if you guys get a chance, watch the documentary. I just think it's pretty neat that somebody's out there making a living off of how Zapp is saying and being a jerk off.
Speaker 2:He's being a jerk off, but he's being a creepy dude with purpose.
Speaker 1:But parents pay the guy to stand in the yard and look over the shrubbery, these kids start yelling and screaming and he grabs the phone and he cuts it off at that. So every time the dad's like hey, you were bad. Remember this guy came to the house. He said the kids are like angels.
Speaker 3:We got to get a wrinkles one of the posters or whatever to put up. Be cool for the basement.
Speaker 1:Sure, the new setup, why not? Well, I'm going to try to borrow somebody's phone so I can actually call them.
Speaker 3:Maybe I'll tell them to listen Call from a pay phone. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Do we call from an office phone?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I think they have pay phones in, but you have to use your credit card like in a give airports or whatever you don't want to, you don't want to swipe your credit card in one of those things. But yeah, what else? What else do we got so?
Speaker 3:let's go to Zapp. What do you got Zapp.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 3:You got to have something.
Speaker 2:So I was just reading the news this morning and I saw that.
Speaker 3:That's good. That's good. Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 2:Recently, tesla recalled nearly all of their vehicles, almost all of them in the United States, to fix an autopilot monitoring system. So there's an autopilot thing, autopilot, autopilot, yeah, so there's some kind of autopilot monitoring system. So Tesla had to call them all back. Now, tesla is a thing, they are people. So I, for one, I'm going to tell you and I don't care, man, I love, love, love, what's his name Elon Musk.
Speaker 2:Elon Musk I love that guy man. I think he's cool as shit man. Yeah, good for him, good for Elon, everything he's doing good for him.
Speaker 1:He's making it, he's making it, the guy's owning it. I think he owns and makes everything pretty much, yeah.
Speaker 2:However, I could not care less about a particular product. He is behind the Tesla automobile automobile. At this point, this stage in the game, the concept of an electronic vehicle and the whatever zero carbon footprint and all of that whole shit is just laughable to me. It's absolutely laughable. Why, do you ask? Well, here is why why.
Speaker 3:Why you say Okay, why yes, why?
Speaker 2:Battery. So everything this obviously to completely electronic vehicle. It has to have a battery.
Speaker 1:Those are lead cell right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're D cells D cells.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you need a lot of Ds. Modern name boom box A lot of Ds.
Speaker 2:So the Tesla battery, the Model Y battery, as chance would have it. So to manufacture one of these things, you need 12 tons of rock. You end up going through 12 tons of rock to find enough lithium for it. Five tons of cobalt minerals, whereas cobalt itself is a byproduct of processing copper and nickel ores. You need three tons of nickel ore. So again refine that down to nickel. 12 tons of copper ore. 441 pounds of aluminum, steel and or plastic.
Speaker 3:For one battery you're talking.
Speaker 1:One battery. Wow, these numbers are coming right off the top of your head.
Speaker 2:Right off the top of my head, that's insane 112 pounds of graphite. So in order to obtain some of this stuff, you need to move 250 plus tons of dirt to get your resultant for your battery 26 and a half pounds of lithium, 30 pounds of nickel, 48 and a half pounds of manganese and 15 pounds of cobalt.
Speaker 3:Wow.
Speaker 2:So I can promise you, I can promise you, it's not manuel labor that's doing that. You're using huge, tremendous machines that are doing this thing. One machine in particular, the Caterpillar Series 994 Earth Mover or it's equivalent, consumes on average 22 gallons of diesel per hour.
Speaker 1:That's the one that has like six wheels that are like the size of the old dirty basement Dude.
Speaker 2:These are the ones that are the size of like two houses put together. Okay, okay, when they're actually functioning like strong, strong functioning, they're burning 60 gallons an hour. That's at their peak. Again, this is all in the name of electric vehicles. So what's great about this? The bulk of the necessary materials necessary to manufacture these batteries come from give it a guess what Gas petroleum no the materials to create these batteries where they come from China.
Speaker 2:That's correct. They are manufactured either in China or the ore is gonna come from Africa. Now, after all of that, plus all of the manufacturing necessary to put all of that shit together, one gets a 1,000 pound battery and a zero emissions car.
Speaker 3:So, correct.
Speaker 2:So essentially, what Tesla has done is front loaded all of the carbon, completely negative. I mean burning that shit like it's going out of style just to make this thing to sell to people and say, oh no, no, you're doing the planet a favor. It takes now. This is the best part and this is why I got to hand it to Elon Musk. Man, he's got these people just suckered into buying this shit.
Speaker 1:But that's what I'm saying. Isn't that Elon Musk just showing the world how much of a dick he? Is no he's like look at this man. You guys are out here thinking I'm doing all this for the planet.
Speaker 2:No, not even that, and he's just sitting back laughing. No, not at all. He's not at all saying that I'm doing this, that and the other thing for the planet.
Speaker 1:He's convinced people to convince themselves that buying this car that's what I mean he gets off on, knowing that it's laughable to him that I think that this guy is just like look what these people are buying. Making me what is he like? The third, fourth, fifth, whatever? How?
Speaker 3:many were just made in the world. I'll make this a little clearer. Is the majority of his fortune off Tesla, or is it off of other things?
Speaker 2:He made his big nut off of PayPal.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:He came up with PayPal, sold that took that and then moved it into Tesla, moved into SpaceX.
Speaker 4:Did this happen? Yeah, spacex is a big one, but now Elon Musk aside.
Speaker 2:So I just use Tesla as an example, because the data is out there. There are any of the auto, automobile auto manufacturers. They make electric cars Like that's a thing. Everybody's making battery powered electric cars. I mean, you got the Toyos.
Speaker 1:Chevy does Toyos. Yes, everybody.
Speaker 2:So, to be clear, it is not just Elon Musk. I am just picking out Tesla, because they've got a big battery and the data is out there readily available. So, after all of that, after all the machines and all of the bullshit and everything you did, it takes seven years for that battery to be.
Speaker 3:Offset everything.
Speaker 2:To offset everything.
Speaker 3:Wow.
Speaker 2:That is to say it takes seven years for somebody to not have to buy gasoline. That's just to not buy gasoline. That has nothing to do with the electricity you needed to get it in there. And what makes electricity, I'm telling you, is more than water, I'm sorry. It's more than air power and it's more than whatever else. Solar Windmills I mean you're burning coal, You're burning stuff, something, You're making something hot to turn turbines to make electricity. So yeah, it's all. Just it's so laughable to me, Absolutely laughable. But go on, please enjoy your electronic vehicles, electric vehicles. You're surely doing the Earth a favor. Good for you, Whatever feels good.
Speaker 1:So what's your take on solar power? Then You're cool with solar.
Speaker 2:I mean, it works it certainly works. It's not strong enough or it does not generate nearly enough power necessary to do what it should be doing or what we would expect it to do.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because you go around like you take a train anywhere, whatever you see these fields just full of like solar panels Again, suckers, and that's the whole thing. It's like, well, what exactly is that running? And then you go through and you look up and you see like power plants. You're like ah.
Speaker 3:Well, they try to get on the internet. Really, they want you to put them on your house and do all that.
Speaker 1:Oh, you can do this.
Speaker 2:Suckers Get kickbacks, so there is a thing and that there I know a few people who have done it like you can coat your smart play. Do it if you're building. If you're not building, it might not be as smart Like you're not gonna get the cost benefit out of it, but what you do is you basically get these I don't wanna call them carbon credits, but they're credits you offset again, like you're generating power by virtue of solar.
Speaker 1:Yes, that is the thing. It sounds like some amount of Star Wars.
Speaker 2:Like you, have eight carbon credits.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 2:You can use that to offset your electricity, because you're either sending it or receiving it, or you're reducing the amount of drag on the grid, or whatever the hell. I'm no scientist, so that is the thing, for sure, it is absolutely a thing. But look man, sun goes down, sometimes it gets cold, whatever. And when AI takes over the world and we darken the sky so they can no longer run on solar power and they're starting to use people as batteries. That was a matrix reference. Yeah, forget your solar power.
Speaker 1:It's over. See, we don't really need to be concerned with any of this, actually, nope, it's like the the light, one won't be around.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we're a blip in the radar man.
Speaker 1:Think about this stuff, like what Zapp was saying, makes 100% sense. But it's just when you're living in a place like how crazy the world is today and people like, like you said, oh, I'm getting an electric car because I don't believe in the emissions and I don't believe in putting all that harmful stuff into the atmosphere, and, like Zapp's saying, people buy into that. They're like that sounds like the greatest thing in the world, yet all we're doing is just destroying our planet even more Agreed.
Speaker 2:Well said, matt, but I also agree with what you would say, that we are just a blip.
Speaker 1:We are. We're a blip. We don't even count, especially now, us and our close to 50.
Speaker 2:Compare it. No, let's think of what puts CO2, or whatever the scientists say is a bad thing to go into the air to hurt the ozone or whatever. Compare the bodies of people to I don't know a volcano, all sorts of natural disasters that put all of this shit into the air that we have zero and I mean zero control. We are ants, we are gnats, we are nothing, we are absolutely a drop in nothing bucket, a polar shift, yeah, on this little ball that's floating in a universe that's been around for billions.
Speaker 1:That's where the big car doors go like this. Billions of years we are. One day we're gonna be dinosaurs, people and who else. I don't know what's gonna take over at this time, but We'll get good miles per gallon. Yes, we'll have the cars will be insane.
Speaker 3:Yes, you gotta have faith, though sometimes that was informative.
Speaker 1:Zap, that was really good, that was good. I like that that was like in the head, that was on the head All of this crazy, all of the dome, all right all of this thanks to Tesla recalling nearly all of their vehicles in the US to fix an autopilot problem.
Speaker 2:Wow, thanks, tesla.
Speaker 1:Yeah, wait, did you have a computer?
Speaker 2:for those numbers. Did a computer calculate them for me?
Speaker 1:No, like I looked over there, I was like I thought all this shit was no, no no, he has.
Speaker 2:I was like hey, You're just now seeing my laptop over there.
Speaker 1:Yes, I was like how do you know it's like 140? I said there's no way, you know that.
Speaker 2:What the hell is that.
Speaker 3:That was a gigawatt.
Speaker 1:That's insane.
Speaker 3:That's fantastic. I dig that.
Speaker 1:I just thought those were like just and I was like, wow, like 89% of facts are made up on the spot.
Speaker 2:No, no, not yet, not yet. That's on there. That's great, though I did take the time to type this all out.
Speaker 1:I really don't like Elon Musk, though I love Elon.
Speaker 3:Musk, I love him Really. I mean Starlink and all that stuff. If I wasn't so heterosexual man.
Speaker 2:I'd be all over Elon.
Speaker 3:Musk, elon yeah, I like him. Starlink is cool as shit.
Speaker 2:by the way, it is absolutely cool as shit.
Speaker 3:To think that we'll be able to. You know internet everywhere. I mean, you think about. I think about that all the time. It's 2023, when we go up to her family's cabin, I don't have internet. Like how is that possible? How is there anywhere in the world where you don't have?
Speaker 1:data, a mega computer on your wrist. But no, you can get, you can bring it up there, you can do like wireless from somewhere or whatever.
Speaker 3:You can run it off here. What I'm saying is like cellular, which we rely on for most of the time.
Speaker 1:You know how they show those maps. You're saying there's actual places here in Pennsylvania that it's blacked out.
Speaker 3:I don't know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Yeah there are places where the signal does not reach.
Speaker 3:Absolutely, and that's forksville, that area. Now AT&T has towers there, but for instance, t-mobile doesn't. That's who I have.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:So T-Mobile is partnering with Starlink, supposedly, and they're going to have that you'll be able to use the Starlink satellites to get internet, yep, basically, when you're out in the middle of nowhere. Think about if you're out hiking and you have an emergency or something like that and you can't send you know for help. Or I know Apple came out with a satellite SOS or whatever, I guess on one of their updates. But I mean you could be out somewhere with no service and it's 2023. Like we should be all connected all the time.
Speaker 1:We are Through our.
Speaker 2:COVID shot. We're all connected. Yeah, we are. Fun fact, in a recent hike and or camping trip with buddies of mine, hockingdock, weekend, hockingdock weekend yeah, Hockingdock and this bow weekend While we were out it was your edit we were out in a place where there is zero.
Speaker 3:Nothing.
Speaker 2:Light pollution? No, nothing. So it was beautiful skies, everything just crystal clear, crisp and clean, with no caffeine, two nights in a row. You could just look up and you could see that Starlink floating by.
Speaker 3:Oh really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's. That's something to see, man, when you just see this row of 20 summer, what is it? 20 or 30? Just these little white dots, just in a row. It's. It's like Santa on his sleigh Shit.
Speaker 1:We saw that at a friend's house during the karaoke night. Remember.
Speaker 3:Starlink, you guys remember that that's where everybody was freaking out Like what the hell is that?
Speaker 1:And I was. If you were like, damn aliens, everybody, yeah, but that would have been a cool way to go. Yeah, they had to come. You know, come on down, I concur.
Speaker 3:Yep.
Speaker 2:Yep. So, dave, what's new with you?
Speaker 3:So I picked something, too, like Matt did, that I watched I thought this was interesting on Netflix. Now we have referenced in other shows that we went to Catholic school, we've all come up Catholic and all that. So to me this was interesting. I mean, I think it's worth a watch, whether you're an atheist, a Catholic, a Muslim, whatever you are. I think it's just interesting. Mysteries of the faith it's called.
Speaker 1:Let us receive yeah.
Speaker 3:It came out in November 1st on Netflix. They cover a couple of different relics from the Catholic church and the two that I want to focus on today. The first one was the Crown of Thorns, which I thought was interesting. Now, these are all. I mean, they can't be proven 100 percent. The Vatican likes to recognize these two in particular as being authentic, but there's still doubters, and I mean there's doubters on everything. So I'm sure you know there's going to be people that say, well, you can't prove that's real. But there's people that say these have healing powers and you know that when you're in the presence of them, there's a feeling that comes over you of like you're seeing something that's connected to God or was connected in some way, that you feel like there's like a power there.
Speaker 1:But isn't that like in the Catholic church? From growing up visiting different churches, I remember my mom liked to go visit different churches, but most of the churches you see out there usually have some sort of relics and they'll have like ankle bone fragment of, you know, st Elizabethan seat yeah, there's they have, you know, st Francis of Assisi's thigh bone, and then, on, like certain occasions or feast day, they'll like walk it around the church and throw some holy water at you.
Speaker 2:So, if I'm not mistaken, a location that has something like that is called a Basilica.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah. So the crown of thorns, for instance, formed by Roman soldiers and forced onto the head of Jesus over 2000 years ago and to mock him, they're basically, you know, when he was getting crucified, it was kept at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris up until 2019.
Speaker 1:That's when the burning burn and the first burn down Fire happened. Yeah.
Speaker 3:They kept it in a secret vault and it was encased in glass and gold. When it's in public, so they would put it out in public, so people would come from all over to see this thing. You know what I mean. It's guarded by 12 Knights and a security team. So there's these two armor and stuff?
Speaker 4:No, not this kind of shields they have jousting tournaments there's a lot of security around it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they've since up the ante on the armor. Ok, yeah, it's Kevlar now Nice.
Speaker 3:So they had some history with this actual piece. So when you see this crown of thorns it's encased in glass and covered like in gold, but you can see the actual crown like inside the glass. They have records on this thing all the way back to 870 AD that are like kind of actual record records where they're able to trace it from there. There was a reference of it in Jerusalem in 870 AD and then the next time it was referenced was until the 10th century in Constantinople which is modern day, it's Istanbul.
Speaker 3:Yeah, istanbul, yep, and from there, you know they traced it. It moved around from person to person but they had a At one time in Constantinople. I guess they weren't doing too well, they were selling off everything, trying to like just their, you know, money was.
Speaker 2:Fire sale, man Fire sale. Basically, We've got to pay to rent.
Speaker 3:So they had sold this crown of thorns. Somebody like kind of behind the scenes sold it and they found out about it. They were like you know, you can't sell that. What are you doing?
Speaker 1:basically, you can sell anything.
Speaker 3:Right, so they got a hold of.
Speaker 1:Elon Musk. Elon Musk, he would buy it, I'm sure.
Speaker 3:They got a hold of the king of France at the time and we're like, hey, can you buy this thing back? Basically, it's a very important religious relic. You can't have it just like Disappear Some guy owning it, you know what I mean Sure, elon Musk owning it. So they actually bought it back. The king of France was able to track it down. He sent people out to track it down. They tracked it down, bought it back for like the number was insane they said it almost broke the country of France, basically Okay.
Speaker 1:How much?
Speaker 3:money they had to pay to buy this thing back. But then it, you know they had control of it then and have been keeping it there in France ever since. It was like in another church there for a while, until Notre Dame was. That was 100 years, they said, to build Notre Dame Cathedral. It took 100 years to build that thing and it's been there. You know, in modern history that's where it's been kept under locking key. They had that fire. So on this documentary they kind of focused on the firefighters going in there to find this thing. But the location of it in Notre Dame Cathedral was real secret. It was only like a few people knew would actually kept it Sure. So these firefighters were went in and they were like, look of anything you need to save here, it's the crown of thorns, it's the most important relic.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the expensive one.
Speaker 3:That's the one we need to find.
Speaker 2:That's the one that could bankrupt the country.
Speaker 1:But I'm pretty sure though, if you went running through the cathedral you can just grab. You know, there's a lot of stuff in there there is. You could be like grabbing some different things on your way to trying to find the thorns, you know.
Speaker 3:So they sent these firefighters in and they were looking around and they found it. I'm like, oh, here it is, we got it. You know what I mean? They found like a safe. They're like, no, that's the fake one. So they have one that's kind of like a decoy. So they finally got a hold of the guy that was like, had the map and was like this is where it's at, and they were able to obviously go in and get the original one, the OG one, and save it. But that cathedral was I mean you. I mean I'm sure you saw the footage of the fire and the damage.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was one of like people just standing there watching it crying. It was an old roof.
Speaker 2:It was dry. Yeah, it was for sure dry.
Speaker 3:So I mean, I thought that was real interesting. The other thing that covered is the Holy Grail, which a lot of you know from Indiana Jones. It was the cup that Jesus drank from at the last supper. There was actually a lot of interesting stuff on which they didn't cover in this, but the Nazis that was for real during World War II.
Speaker 1:Yes, they wanted everything. The Nazis took everything of any kind of money.
Speaker 3:Well that, but they, they were more interested in the powers of it. Yeah, like the supernatural kind of powers that this thing possessed, like if you, if you have this, you can eternal life and this and that. So you know Hitler had sent these guys, hey, go get all these artifacts. And that was all legit.
Speaker 1:I know, if you look at the 10 commandments, you'll melt yeah.
Speaker 2:That's true, that is factual, that is factual.
Speaker 3:So the the Holy Grail, the one that the Vatican recognizes as the actual Holy Grail, is in the Cathedral of Valencia. It's in Spain and there was a scientist there that actually, I guess, did a test on what materials were used, and there's one of the materials that's in the the Grail that's there that dates back to that time and is of a material that would have been from Jerusalem. So there's those type things that they try to use as like oh, this is legit, this could actually be the thing, but there's other ones that go no, the actual, real Holy Grail is in another part of Spain. So there was actually two or three Holy Grails that they say are possibilities, but don't. This is the only one that the Vatican recognizes as the actual.
Speaker 2:Well, look, if there were 13 people at the last supper, maybe they all had solo cups, so there might have been like 13 cups passed around.
Speaker 3:Maybe they passed them right? Yeah, maybe.
Speaker 1:Did you ever find the Holy Keg Right? Precisely.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but I just thought that was interesting. Now there's there's other ones on the, the shroud of Turin, and which I didn't get to that one yet, jesus face.
Speaker 1:I mean, I've heard that story.
Speaker 3:I've heard that the image got like burn in In the face.
Speaker 2:Yeah, pond to the face, pile dry to the face.
Speaker 3:Have either of you ever had a you know, being in Catholic school, going to church and stuff like that? Has there ever been anything that, a feeling or anything that came over you like when you were in the presence of something or everything that made you like and I'm assuming you guys believe in one?
Speaker 1:way or another. Of course yes.
Speaker 3:That made you feel like, oh, I feel something here Like this seems real to me. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:And so I I believe that that has more to do with the more you believe in something, the more you'll make it happen.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:If you are so devout and so I mean just so into something you will, will it to happen Like you could. You can worry yourself into having cancer.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:So the brain is a really weird thing, man.
Speaker 3:It's powerful like that yeah.
Speaker 1:I remember I don't know who, it was a killer I was doing a, doing a mass, and the Bishop was in the mass because there was only, like I don't know, 10 kids in my class going up through, through my grade school Catholic grade school and I remember, like the staff and what else was there? His hat, yes, the hat. But I remember I was the staff kid so you had to wear these white garments in order to hold the staff or the Bishop. But I remember, like you know, just like moving my, moving my hand a little bit, so I like had my thumb on it. I was like, ah, like trying to like touch something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, just to see if I'm touching the gold. Man, I'm touching the gold.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like to see if it was like something more powerful or something. But I think when you're younger, like it's a wizard stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I thought I was going to start doing some magic or something man.
Speaker 3:You're going to feel electricity off.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like I don't know. But when you're younger and I think you both can relate is it is something that like talking about wrinkles, like the whole God thing, like I want to be like close, you just feel like the guy controls everything for sure, for sure.
Speaker 3:And.
Speaker 1:I mean, as you get older, you, you, I think you develop your own forms of faith, even though, like, you're strong within what you grew up with. But, yeah, that was something to me that I think like, and the relics too, because just the basilicas correct that yeah. Yeah, when you go to see these relics, I think it's like something, something. Yeah, it's something, it's something big.
Speaker 2:And so for me I can't say that it's anything specific to an item, but I can say that I would go on weekend camping trips just as much as I would go on random weekend. I don't want to say encounters. I think they called it wasn't search, it was, it was. It was something where it was almost like peer counseling, but for the church.
Speaker 3:Right, so if you were like a, retreat yeah that, thank you, matt.
Speaker 2:That's, that's the word. Okay, I don't like a retreat, but it wasn't necessarily because I've been on retreats too. This is something where you go to.
Speaker 1:You go to like like a KFC type thing or not? Kfc, yes, the.
Speaker 2:KFC, not the KFC, yes, the.
Speaker 1:KFC. Okay, the KFC Knights of Columbus Kind of like that.
Speaker 2:So if you're a kid, you're going to this thing and there are older kids, like whatever, and they're telling you like experiences they've had and some there's some adults there too that are telling you about experiences they had and it's all with the whole idea of you know, getting you stronger and closer to the church and shit like that and you will walk out of there. You absolutely will walk out of there Like so believing, like you're ready to be like a priest or a nun like that or just like heal people yeah.
Speaker 2:Like you are just so full of the Holy Spirit that you are just ready to hit the ground and run. Like you love the faith, you love everything. It's it is like some might call it brainwashing. It's. It's I think of it as more of an invigoration to again remind you of the faith and to get you truly, truly, you know, grounded in it. So, yeah, I'm. That is a feeling or a sensation that I think would be akin to someone getting so close to a relic and someone, someone believing like, oh my God, I'm so close to the Holy Grail, when reality on that Holy Grail, by the way, it's actually at the bottom of Oak Island, it's in the. Are you familiar with Oak Island?
Speaker 4:No.
Speaker 1:So, there's a show in Jersey.
Speaker 2:the curse of Oak Island it's on the history channel.
Speaker 3:Okay, okay, remember you talking about that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, dude, they've been digging on this island for like 10 years looking for whatever the hell's down there. I bet the Holy Grail is down there.
Speaker 3:That's where it's at.
Speaker 1:I swear to God I know it's not made of gold, no, it's factual.
Speaker 3:But I just thought that was an interesting um documentary and and, and you didn't like the documentary.
Speaker 1:No we chose it from, From the image I got you, Cause you're married like yeah and it's, and he's like he was a carpenter. That is not a carpenter's cup.
Speaker 3:And it's, and it's something that came along. There's some stuff I went through this week or the past couple of weeks. I mean, there's stuff that the past few months that I've gone through in my personal life and like, sometimes you think things like this pop up in your just to, like you know, remind you like don't forget, don't forget, you have your faith, you have. You know what I mean. It's like it was just kind of like one of these things where it kind of reminded me, like watching that. Oh, this popped up. Oh yeah, that's right. Like you know, like sometimes you, as you get older, you forget.
Speaker 1:But, um, it was kind of cool. Uh, it was just in New York a while back and I took my kids to St Patrick's Cathedral and it's like one of those things. But they walked in there and they thought you know them being Catholic school kids and looking around and seeing like this huge church. It is tremendously huge, yes, but just like the architecture on the outside, the architecture inside they really and to, like you know, give a couple of dollars to see them light a candle was something that was spiritual Right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it was, it was cool.
Speaker 3:And I think you talk it up to you believe you don't believe, I think, anybody. You've all had experiences and what do you want to? What you want to tie it to or say this is because if it's karma, just you know just the way the world works. Or if it's like a higher power of religion, I mean I think we can all kind of relate, no matter what you believe in. Sure, you know everybody. But yeah, I just thought that was interesting.
Speaker 1:I like that Um real quick, though do you think it's like never really quit?
Speaker 3:Yeah, you're right. It doesn't have to be on this one, though. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1:Cause we're free. It's freestyle, it's freestyle.
Speaker 4:Friday.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's so cool. But um, on a side note to the mystery, to faith thing, like you don't think the Pope has like his own little room where he like keeps like the real shit. Maybe he's like he's like sister Jardine, bring me the crown and they like you know what I mean. Or like he got a whole room.
Speaker 2:He's like rolling around having fun, like Scrooge McDuck drinking, drinking malt liquor out of the Holy Grail.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like just partying, you know what I mean Like putting on the crown like what about horses?
Speaker 2:Crying over you. Is that goodbye horses, goodbye horses, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like I could see, like I don't know, the Pope would be kind of like how the president of the United States they get to find out all this. Oh, wow, check out the alien that's right Hanging out at Camp David. Yeah, so I think the Pope has like a secret room where he has all the cool shit over fun fact.
Speaker 2:Speaking of Camp David, if you ever drive down 15 from here to DC, you will pass Camp David.
Speaker 3:What do you mean? You know where it's at.
Speaker 2:Everybody knows where everybody. To be clear, everyone can find out where Camp David is, so from here.
Speaker 3:I thought it was like top secret.
Speaker 2:No man, not with satellites.
Speaker 1:Yeah, look on the internet.
Speaker 2:Nothing's a secret anymore. Yeah, so if you go to Washington DC from Harrisburg, just take 15 South Before you get to 270, which will then join to 70 and take you to 495, or whatever take you to the city. As you're on 15, you have certainly crossed into Maryland. It's not far past the. What is it? There's a zoo-ish place down there. There's also a Roy Rogers exit. I forget which one that is. I can't remember.
Speaker 3:See, that's crazy. I always thought that was like super top secret. No, dude, it's cool.
Speaker 2:I swear to God and son of Jesus, it's right down 15.
Speaker 1:I mean you're not pulling up to where?
Speaker 2:the president's retreat is.
Speaker 3:You're not rolling in there. They're doing billboards and stuff, bringing a picnic basket and shit. You're five miles from Camp David, yeah, no.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but seriously, just go down 15 and if you were, essentially, as you're traveling, if you were to turn right and drive in X number of miles, you'll be at Camp David.
Speaker 1:There's probably dudes there, probably. Yeah, I would imagine. Yeah, there's a lot of guns and yeah, lawyers, guns and Mike.
Speaker 2:That's it, send them.
Speaker 3:Well, I guess we maybe move on to the next thing. You got anything else, man?
Speaker 1:No, just something. I was going to talk about the Squid games. I don't know if anybody it used to be a big thing.
Speaker 3:I watched this series, but that's not what you're talking about, right?
Speaker 1:I watched the actual series where the people were really dying, like the show.
Speaker 3:No, I watched the show on Netflix that was like subtitled that it was the one where that's not real.
Speaker 1:Yes, that is not real. This was. They actually played off of this and made a real series.
Speaker 3:There's a real series.
Speaker 1:Yes, it has like the exact same games, but real people, real people, and they would do the same thing as in the movie or the show. So these people, like in the beginning with that dog, they're like let's sing or whatever, and they'd stop. And if the people would move they have these caps that would blow them.
Speaker 3:But not real bullets, not real bullets.
Speaker 1:But it was actually the all these people were, you know, trying to win this, uh, this prize. So the prize ended up ended up being $4.56 million and they were done filming this like 10 months ago. So this lady that won, mia Wellman or whatever name is Wellhem, she, she's still yet to receive any of this money for, like, surviving all these things, and I think there was like 300, some people.
Speaker 2:Damn. So wait a second, wait a second. So I am only familiar with the name squid game. I haven't seen an episode, not one. I don't know what it's about at all. What the hell is squid game about?
Speaker 3:It was like a on Netflix. It was a show that it was like over in Korea, right, or?
Speaker 1:Korea or Japan, and it was Asian.
Speaker 3:Asian and they go on this game show where, um, you think you're on a game show to win this money that you know. Basically, if you lose, like you're just out, but actually when you lose you're dead.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the idea was going around. They left these cards and these people had an opportunity to call this number, because they were usually poor people, people that didn't have much.
Speaker 3:Oh, like bum fights kind of yeah, they'd have games like red light, green light, so the thing would go red light and then green light made run, and when they'd say red light, if he kept moving this thing would shoot you. But it was like really shooting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, these people would. Yeah, they would kill you, so you would be eliminated from this game by death by death. So they thought it'd be a good idea to try it With the regular people trying to win this money, as how it would be the real squid game. You're just not really dying, but people would be eliminated.
Speaker 2:So which came first people really dying or people fake dying?
Speaker 3:People fake dying.
Speaker 2:Oh fake dying.
Speaker 3:They based it on that fake show? I guess yes.
Speaker 1:But they tried to turn into a game show like the one that with Arnold Schwarzenegger total recall.
Speaker 3:Yes, like a total recall. Running man, a running man. Yes, running man that was with Richard Dawson was correct.
Speaker 1:God rest his soul which, if anybody wants to look back at any real episodes of family feud, check out Richard Dawson. But they can out making out with 17 year old. He was so pervy with that long.
Speaker 2:Mike Like, bob Barker like all.
Speaker 3:Richard Dawson, your Mike is so long he would. He would really get it on with him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he'd be like name me one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he was. Yeah, how do we call it inappropriate?
Speaker 1:Yes, a little bit. What is your favorite? Some dudes looking at like those. Come on, it's my wife I know, that's my daughter, yeah like pig in the poke from a Chevy Chase.
Speaker 3:Those guys had all the power back in the day. Game shows in America.
Speaker 2:First you get the game show, then you get the power.
Speaker 1:Then you get the women and I have all three, but anyway, no it.
Speaker 1:Yes, quit game. It was based off of this show that was not a real show. They turned it into a real show but these people were like really trying to it. The pot came up to 4.56 million, but I think they're saying that they didn't have enough. There's no money generated. So this whole thing they went through this whole Like ten months of whatever, of filming, or eight, eight months of filming and living off of like they gave people rations. It was exactly the way they're living on. These bunks are like Five, five, ten, twenty feet up in the air, these bunks that they had to live in doing this whole show, like it was the real Show and and they got nothing for money out of it.
Speaker 2:Man suckers.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I just thought that was like a fun thing and that's another thing to check out too. I mean, we keep talking about stuff you can watch.
Speaker 3:Yes, we'd game. I got a squid game squiggy.
Speaker 1:It's really cool. It actually is really good.
Speaker 2:I'm so, but there is so much content out there to watch.
Speaker 1:There is so much like over with what we do.
Speaker 2:I mean, we're always trying to watch dude, how do these people have time to watch all this? Like I was talking about money, money the other day, he's like I need something to watch me. We and he will rattle off all the stuff that he and or he and his wife have watched over the course of like a week or a Couple of weeks. Mm-hmm, just think. Goddamn, how do you have that much time?
Speaker 1:unemployment, disability there's a lot of that out there.
Speaker 2:Oh, we were talking about the homeless earlier. Yeah, that, is it just me, or is that a relatively recent term, like almost a PC term? And I say that because when I was a kid we just used to call them bums.
Speaker 3:Oh, you tell my homeless.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the homeless people who are homeless like I guess it's a PC or a Kinder gentler way of saying bomb, of saying bum.
Speaker 3:I guess I didn't know bum Was that yeah.
Speaker 1:Does a bum necessarily mean you're homeless?
Speaker 2:Right. Well, I don't know. I just know as a kid I never use the term homeless like I remember. I remember when the term homeless became and Vogue if that's the the appropriate thing like it was our teenage years or our early 20s. Like the term homeless, at least it's common usage. I don't think has been around that long. Maybe I'm fucked.
Speaker 3:I don't know. Yeah, I'm not sure. I don't really think of any of them as it would also like a bum.
Speaker 1:What was the? A secluse or recluse?
Speaker 2:Confused with the brown recluse. Yes, they're. They're bad, they're dangerous, okay what else?
Speaker 1:what else do they call bums Our homeless people hobos?
Speaker 4:hobos, that was good.
Speaker 1:But you always picture them. They have like a big clown foot with like their big clown bag, you with like their feet hanging out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I think.
Speaker 1:with the shoes she was talking to you and they got around to see cool places on a train and that's how. That's how I think of like a really cool hobo back in the day back in a day, look back in a day.
Speaker 2:I'm telling you they didn't call them the homeless or that guy is homeless. They would that guy's a bum or that guy's a hobo. Yeah, whatever, yeah, maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 3:I think you're right. I know you're saying that. I can't, I don't really hear that too much. I mean I have been hearing that I don't really hear bum as much they don't like on the news, like there's bums in Harrisburg.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 3:I mean like the homeless problem in Harrisburg.
Speaker 1:That would be cool. I think that's on Fox News.
Speaker 3:Would they say bombs like the bums you gotta get rid of these bums in Harrisburg.
Speaker 2:Maybe Rocky also calls them bums. Oh, speaking of Rocky Rocky, who Rocky Balboa?
Speaker 3:Rocky Balboa oh yeah, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2:So now in Philly there's a Something with the statue on top of the the the library. They move that they moved it someplace. Now you get your picture taken or you do something somewhere, you can do something with it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I have my picture taken with the family. It's down on the corner of the museum, it's not up on top, all right, all right, but it's been there for a while. They moved it for a while. He also has one in his house.
Speaker 3:You see that little kid go up, hey Rocky, and he's like reciting that the whole speech.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that's pretty cool, I'm still upset that Philly got rid of the Frank Rizzo statue. That's a damn shame. That's easy, oh all right, frank Rizzo, best mayor Philadelphia's ever seen.
Speaker 1:This is Frank Rizzo.
Speaker 2:That city could use a mayor like Frank Rizzo again. His statue out was outside of City Hall. Forever like forever. They took it down I guess a few years ago, oh shit.
Speaker 1:Is that when you know, when you made it?
Speaker 2:When you get your own statue, it's when you statue somewhere.
Speaker 1:Yeah okay.
Speaker 3:You've made it.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:So is that what you got? I got nothing. I got some fun facts on the day like this day in history.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's yeah. I heard that today. I actually thought that would. That would be cool.
Speaker 2:So today now, fun fact, today is December 13th 2003 by the time 2003 by, I'm sorry 2023.
Speaker 3:Sorry, my DeLorean was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's okay so today his 12, 13, 23, so by the time you hear this, I'm sure it's we're long after that. However, on this day in 1577, sir Francis Drake set sail for what would become a three-year journey, resulting in him becoming the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe. That's right surely, surely, you both remember the term or the name, sir Francis Drake, when we were coming to grade school somewhere?
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's from Canada I think close England. Oh okay.
Speaker 2:In 1636, the National Guard was founded. How is that possible? Well, it came as a result of the Massachusetts Bay Colony Organizing three militias to defend against the Pequot Indians.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I think that's why they had the Army Navy game in Massachusetts. That makes sense.
Speaker 2:Yes it was on this day in 1989, a driving Miss Daisy was released.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I Don't any time I think of driving Miss Daisy.
Speaker 2:I think of that one skit that was on in living color, where the, the guy who's playing Poe the driver, the Morgan Freeman part, morgan Freeman, he, he ends up climbing into the back with Miss Daisy and they start getting it on and the skit ends with Poe, you're my best friend after he's, you know Well, thank you, miss Daisy washing his winky and Miss Daisy's sinky, oh, kitchen sinky, yeah, all right, pg, pg in oh was on this day, december 13th, year 2000, where of our Lord Al Gore conceded the presidential election to George W Bush.
Speaker 1:That was a close. That was a close election. It's a close one. That was a close one.
Speaker 2:Interestingly enough, it was exactly three years later, in 2003, that, as a result of operation red dawn, saddam Hussein was captured by American forces after being found hiding in a hole in the ground near a farmhouse outside of Tikrit. Patrick Swayze do that? No, but it was in fact named after the movie. Is that what it's called?
Speaker 1:red dawn, red dawn. You remember those pictures when they came out, oh my god had said not like he was everywhere.
Speaker 2:He's like yeah, beard was mm-hmm awful. Like he just was ravaged by, I broke assness and oh, homelessness, homelessness, yes.
Speaker 1:I think, I think they whooped his ass a little bit too yeah that was an on camera. They took the pictures after they whooped his. Yeah, that was an ass whooping.
Speaker 2:We got a. We got a church. This up here, man, you look a little too clean. Gotta get some blood on you. That's it so, oh, maybe a couple handful of famous birthdays.
Speaker 3:December 13.
Speaker 2:December 13th 1925, 25 Dick Van Dyke. Oh wow, he's still living right, still alive, 98 years old, still alive and kicking, and I mean kicking it hard like this dude. There's videos that come out, whatever the YouTube you name it extra. He goes to the gym every day, he runs, he exercises, he walks around, hands out money, gives money away to people, just like hey, man, I see you, you know your bum here's, you know, here's a couple of bucks, good luck.
Speaker 1:He's a chimney sweep.
Speaker 2:He needs to be in shape, dude. That guy is still in tip-top shape, however, alas. Who is no longer with us? Born on 19 this day, on 1929, the great Christopher plumber, as made famous by the sound of music. Yeah captain von trap also featured in 12 monkeys.
Speaker 3:With Brad Pitt Yep.
Speaker 2:He was he played Brad Pitt's father.
Speaker 1:Okay, I just remember him from sound amusing sound music.
Speaker 2:Still alive and with us. Born in 1948 Ted Nugent.
Speaker 3:Oh, I catch scratch fever, he's got some kind of fever.
Speaker 1:He's he's been doing. He makes, like those hunting shows and stuff. He hangs out with his wife and shoots things that man loves America.
Speaker 2:He does that. Man loves freedom. Yeah he loves freedom and God bless him. I agree with him on many things. In 1957, born this day, steve Buscemi.
Speaker 4:He's a good guy yeah fantastic.
Speaker 2:Or walk empire or walk empire was, I mean, a masterpiece series, absolutely a masterpiece series, although I thought he did a great job as crazy eyes in Mr Deeds.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he was good I like them in Fargo reservoir dogs.
Speaker 2:Reservoir dogs BAM.
Speaker 3:Good yeah.
Speaker 2:Why do I got to be mr Pink?
Speaker 3:Yeah cuz. Everybody wants to be mr Black or mr White.
Speaker 1:So y'all who I?
Speaker 2:tell you if you're mr Pink, you're mr Pink. Yeah he kept going, though why do I got to be mr Pink? Why, mr? Why am I got out of you, mr Pink?
Speaker 1:So how so? Which I mean is how old then?
Speaker 2:well, if he was born in 57 and we're now in 2023, quick man 66, so he would be 43 plus 23 at 66.
Speaker 1:Oh, I thought he'd be younger than that. I guess not. They're all. Everybody's getting old.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he would, I would, I would have guessed in his 50s.
Speaker 1:But yeah, that's what.
Speaker 2:I thought 50, some ages and stuff, mm-hmm fun fact to pink mr Pink.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's how the singer got her name, pink.
Speaker 2:Is that?
Speaker 3:right, yeah, cuz she. I remember her saying like her and her friends will watch that movie all the time and her friends would call her mr Pink she's a, she just shortened it to pink or whatever for that.
Speaker 1:She went to the same high school that my wife went to.
Speaker 3:Oh wow.
Speaker 2:Yeah that's out in buckscoe, isn't it? Mm-hmm or Monco? Either buckscoe or Moncoe. Yeah, buckscoe.
Speaker 3:She's older though, right, yeah, just close to there, yeah.
Speaker 2:Hmm, oh wait, I got one more. Oh, now to just to age. All of us Born on this day in 1989.
Speaker 3:Taylor Swift correct.
Speaker 2:Is the answer she is far more successful than all three of us probably more successful listening to this podcast. I'm sorry to inform you. She has more money than all of us combined.
Speaker 1:She has reached the billions. She's in the billions.
Speaker 3:When you said 1989, I figured my daughter.
Speaker 1:all these teens, they're all obsessed with her and she's not even teenagers, young kids now Everybody's like seven, eight, nine years old and my wife.
Speaker 3:So when you said 1989, she has an album called it, called 1989.
Speaker 2:So I figured I'm not familiar with her body of work. I'm sure I've heard a song or two.
Speaker 3:I know like a Song just because my daughter playing them. But you know I don't really listen.
Speaker 1:She has that karma one out now. It's like huge.
Speaker 2:Is she the one that came up with that? Call me, maybe no that's, that's not her.
Speaker 1:That's Kamiya Cabello.
Speaker 3:She has like karma chameleon yes, Look what, look what you made me do and what was like her big hit though, taylor Swift um Wildest dreams, that wildest dreams. That's Belinda Carlisle. I thought of no, I don't know, but anyways.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Taylor Swift is pretty much. She's on everything now.
Speaker 3:No, no, who's wild?
Speaker 2:What's the name of that old band? Yeah, once upon a time in my oh, it is that one.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm thinking. Yeah, no, that's not building the car.
Speaker 2:I know the name of that band. Like I should be kicking.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh. Yes, and speaking of that, the moody blues.
Speaker 3:Thank you. Moody blues, when you sent the Tesla Tesla thing got me thinking about the band Tesla. Yeah we're gonna cover that yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Then I said yes and I sent you the band.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 1:Yes, but I was recently in Boston, oh. Oh from Boston but then I don't take a trip around the world a little bit. But no one through the US went through Kansas.
Speaker 3:Nice, and then you had a Genesis.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I had a Genesis about different things, mm-hmm.
Speaker 3:So I got some PA fun facts. Oh, this is from a web website uncovering PA, sorry, uncovering PAcom. So these are. The name of the article was 53 PA fun facts you probably didn't know and we have all 53. I don't have 53, but I picked out. Thank you, I picked out like bless you Maybe 10 here, that I thought that's fun.
Speaker 1:Though that's fun, I like that.
Speaker 3:So the smiley face emoticon was invented by Scott Falman September 19th 1982 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, pa.
Speaker 1:Hmm, smart kids, smart, smart kids are good at school now I'm just thinking the emoticon like 82, like what, I'm thinking what we now know is the emoji or emoticon back then.
Speaker 2:Is that the smiley?
Speaker 1:face? I think that would be the two. What the semi-colon with the? Maybe that's what that's what it was.
Speaker 2:Oh, I was thinking just a smiley face that goes on like a shit happens t-shirt or something like that.
Speaker 3:Maybe that's it yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, you mean the one from a forest gum.
Speaker 2:Yeah, unless it truly is the one, unless I don't know what the hell on a motor cut in, maybe an emoticon is. In fact, that's Matt had mentioned like in Tex using characters on a keyboard to make that. That's how.
Speaker 1:I perceive it. I don't know if I'm correct or not.
Speaker 2:I know I would believe you, matt. Thank you.
Speaker 3:I don't believe. So that's in Pittsburgh right, yeah there's a lot of Pittsburgh ones in here, a lot of cool shit going on in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1:Good job Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3:The polio vaccine, also created in Pittsburgh in 1955, originally called Beano Bingo, was invented in the early 1920s by Hugh J Ward.
Speaker 1:I think be know now is for like gas paint.
Speaker 3:It is, that is correct.
Speaker 1:That is. That wasn't created in Pittsburgh, though and where else, Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3:You know what I call it Beano.
Speaker 2:Because it'll be its gas paint that that could be because there was no.
Speaker 1:It was be a no because they use beans as the placeholder as markers.
Speaker 3:Correct no very good, very good. I Did know this one, but I still think it's interesting. And maybe people didn't know this, but during World War two the Eagles and Steelers combined to form the stiegels.
Speaker 1:I knew that. I did not saw that on a ESPN special.
Speaker 3:And I was in 1943. They actually had a winning record, hmm, so they were.
Speaker 1:That was you know cuz they didn't have anybody to play. Is there all the war?
Speaker 3:Yeah, we could have probably played NFL back then.
Speaker 2:Yeah, during World War two. Yeah, I bet you I can throw that ball over that mountain.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's right, uncle Rico.
Speaker 1:So if it wasn't the guys that were drafted or in war. So apparently these guys were like either injured, or yeah, flat footed Vietnam war.
Speaker 2:They call them conscientious objectors.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Religion, also back in the so in the 40s, they called them draft Dodgers draft Dodgers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, not the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Speaker 2:No, or the LA Dodgers.
Speaker 3:Yes, that, none of those teams the big Mac Invented by Jim Delegati. He owned McDonald's franchises near Pittsburgh Yep, it was first served up in 1967 in Union Town, which is south of Pittsburgh and near Ohio Pile State Park, which I heard is like a really cool state park with white water rafting.
Speaker 1:Do you guys remember you got the McDonald record in the mail that gave you the McDonald's menu?
Speaker 3:a record.
Speaker 1:It was a record. You played it. It was, it was the actual. It was a flimsy. Yeah, it was a square, square, exactly, it was a square.
Speaker 2:It was transparent, it was to take translucent translucent.
Speaker 3:You play on a record.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it had, it went big Mac Mcdl t a quarter-pounder with some cheesefully. I fish a hamburger, cheese, burger Happy meal like nuggets, tasty, golden, pressurize, regular or larger size of salad, chef or Gordon or chicken salad, oriental, big, we work for signal fun hot cakes sauce and maybe bits and forties or varieties of hot apple pie, chocolate chip cookie Whatever bullshit.
Speaker 3:Wow but this whole thing you never had that I kind of vaguely remember when you're saying that was it kind of like Like everybody got one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they got it in the mail.
Speaker 2:It was in the mail. Everybody in the known universe received one PS. I miss desperately the chicken salad oriental that's Bang.
Speaker 1:You remember that had those little the crispy?
Speaker 2:yep, yeah, the wantons the weird, like the weird little Chinese crunchy noodle like fried noodles.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, god damn that Sal was so good, but that's had some cool stuff that would come in the mail. But yeah, was it an actual like that? It was a square record.
Speaker 3:I don't remember I put the needle record look on eBay, saving a fine one. That probably be millions of dollars. So check this out, matt. Matt you, yeah, it might be millions of dollars, maybe not. Maybe not, matt, you'll like this one. Okay this is up your alley because you have a. You have a personal connection to this.
Speaker 1:I thought you're gonna say I had a bowling alley in my house. No, okay.
Speaker 3:Now, zab, I don't know if your fans of these or not, but the band-aum car company whose headquarters were in Butler, pa, and vented the Jeep, oh, the US military gave the plans to Ford and Willie's overland, believing they could produce the amount of vehicles they needed. So it was for, you know, world War two. I guess they were ramping up. They wanted this, you know, utility vehicle to basically use.
Speaker 2:Do you know why it's called Jeep?
Speaker 3:yeah, because of the. The. The Model number or model that they used was the Ford GPW and the GP they say was shortened, like shortened, but they just it was either general purpose, it was a vehicle.
Speaker 2:So it wasn't it wasn't armored and it wasn't for anything specific, it was just general purpose. Point a to point B. So general purpose. I need a GP, I need a Jeep.
Speaker 3:Jeep there it is yeah that's the.
Speaker 1:The willies are Willis, depending on who you talk to, what you talking about Willis. The will is the willies overland.
Speaker 3:So you have a Jeep that's got willies on the yes, yes and this overland.
Speaker 1:I've seen that and, like the, fan overland or like one of the higher ends now, but when they have, when they have them in.
Speaker 2:Matt, when you drive by another Jeep, driver to you wave.
Speaker 1:Yes, you do the two the two fingers. My poor Jeep still getting worked on, aren't?
Speaker 3:you in three months. So the cost of a war, sorry, the cost of a World War two Jeep at the time, I'll take a guess.
Speaker 1:This is what the military oh, three, three hundred and sixty four dollars that I will say so. You got to remember. It came in a box together.
Speaker 2:This is World War something?
Speaker 1:World War two.
Speaker 3:World War two.
Speaker 2:I will say 1499 dollars.
Speaker 3:Well, if we're doing like prices right without going over, matt would be closer, but it's 738, 74.
Speaker 2:God damn, I doubled that shit, yeah, I would win per unit Jeep Matt, you always win.
Speaker 3:That was the cost per unit. That's why you get the two fingers so at that time Ford was making them that was the GPW, like, like that was referencing, and then the willies. Mb was the, the other Manufacturer that was making it, so that Ford basically took the plans and everything and basically slapped their Engine in there or whatever else.
Speaker 1:So Ford always stealing shit.
Speaker 3:So here's a fun fact PA fun fact on fact. Pa produced over 75% of the world's oil in 1881.
Speaker 2:That makes sense tight as Phil is that okay? Yep.
Speaker 3:All right, I thought that was pretty interesting. Did you know there's only one town in PA?
Speaker 2:Bloomsburg.
Speaker 3:Interesting.
Speaker 2:Everything else is a everything else is a burrow or a township or a city correct Inter something.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but that was interesting.
Speaker 2:Bloomsburg, bloomsburg yeah, college there if you were from for Spain, it's Bloomsburg oh, Bloomsburg ago yeah look, harrisburg, oh, that's right. Harrisburg oh it's bear ago winter wonderland.
Speaker 3:The song mm-hmm is about Central Park in Honesdale, pa. Is that he said at Honesdale?
Speaker 2:I think so.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was written by Dick Smith and he was a Honesdale native. Hmm, that song is about a park up there. I don't know where Honesdale is. I didn't look at up on the map to check out.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna look for winter wonderland in Honesdale. I'll take, take the fam.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the winter wonderland original, their central park, the nearly three belt, the nearly three billion crayons produced by Corriola every year are all made in PA.
Speaker 2:All the Manufacturing happens in this can tour that facility that's, that's near Philadelphia, isn't it? Yeah, it's like.
Speaker 3:I was at Easton, pa yeah, so it's like north of Philly actually took the family there. We went on a like a little mini vacation there, sesame, when they were a little they make baseball bats up there too. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Easton. Easton, I think that is in Northampton. County I think okay, not to be confused with.
Speaker 3:Northampton. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2:Northampton.
Speaker 3:Zap, you might be familiar with this because you live there the Harry Packham mansion in Jim Thorpe.
Speaker 2:That's in, jim Thorpe. Yes, that's absolutely correct. It's on the hill right above the what is now that well, the courthouse. But yeah, it's right up the hill.
Speaker 3:So that was used as inspiration for the honan mansion at Disney World.
Speaker 2:Hmm, yeah cash me outside. How about that?
Speaker 3:So two more here. Beaver Stadium is the third largest stadium in the world. That's where Penn State plays.
Speaker 2:The world hundred and what thousand in the world. So after what Wembley and what?
Speaker 3:Michigan's up, probably Michigan, I don't know. I don't know what the second one would be, but Wembley is pretty fucking big. Wembley is yeah, I don't know how many it seats or what that. This is all according to uncovering PA.
Speaker 2:I could be way the hell off on Wembley Stadium.
Speaker 1:No because I know Michigan has the largest in in the US and they're like 130 126.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and beaver like 116 and I remember one of the WrestleMania's when it was at the Pontiac.
Speaker 4:Silver.
Speaker 3:The Pontiac Silver Dove that was a cool you should see. There's a video on YouTube of the Pontiac Silver Doom. This guy goes into like places that are, you know, falling apart, run down, and that place is it's still there.
Speaker 2:Is it really? I thought they tore it down half demolished.
Speaker 3:I mean at this time, it was maybe since then. But this guy went in and was like, walking around, it's like a ghost town obviously in there.
Speaker 1:Where's that? Is that in Detroit?
Speaker 3:Yeah, Pontiac.
Speaker 1:Pontiac. Yeah, they're saying like some of the worst places are the most crime play. There's like five or six of them in Michigan. I believe, like Detroit, pontiac Lansing, like these places.
Speaker 3:So back to beaver Stadium went at capacity. It holds more people than all but three PA cities, and we know that's Philly, pittsburgh. I don't know what the third one would be. Maybe, Allen Town? I don't know. I'm up there, I don't know with no with pop pop, you're a.
Speaker 2:Allen Town is bigger than Erie, okay.
Speaker 1:It might be Allen Town then.
Speaker 3:Last but not least, the world's first commercial radio station began broadcasting in Pittsburgh again on November 2nd 1920, and the name of the station was KDKA.
Speaker 4:Katie.
Speaker 3:First in the world. I thought that was wild.
Speaker 1:That's wild. And Pittsburgh a lot of stuff going on in Pittsburgh. Maybe they're like aliens landed in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3:Now I don't know if this is gonna air before or after, but we did the movie juice and zap had a fun fact. No, about 40s, cold 45. Yeah, we could add that one in there. What was that one? Just in case that they didn't catch it or it didn't come out yet.
Speaker 2:So there's a bar in Harrisburg called Piccolo's.
Speaker 4:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:They were at one time the number one retail sales establishment of cult. 45 be 45 Across the whole damn United States.
Speaker 3:That's crazy. The piccolo's is on what Cameron?
Speaker 1:No, that's 17, 17th.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they're also known for the crab cakes. Nope, they really good crab cakes.
Speaker 1:Now you know who had the best crab cakes in Harrisburg.
Speaker 3:Uh no it was.
Speaker 1:It's closed now. It was called the divot.
Speaker 3:It was right by your house. Yeah, the divot, if you haven't been to the divot, I know sleeping on that.
Speaker 2:I know a woman who used to cook at the divot.
Speaker 3:Yeah well, joe Beth, that's right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know her biggie ups to Joe Beth.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, she was. She was great. I used to go in there all the time, my dad, we'd go in there after a McDuffer football games on Saturday. They had a great deal. Now this is back in like 88 89, two steak dinners 1495, dang, new York strip steak, baked potato salad, you know whatever side. I'll never forget they had the sign up 1495, so easy to get that. Now I love their crab cakes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if it had some great crab peaks.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so that was the other thing that I had some fun facts on.
Speaker 1:Double D's what was that used to be called?
Speaker 3:Double D's tavern wasn't that Frank's? Frank's Tavern. Yeah, that was down on 17, that was Frank's or 19th Street, 19th and Brookwood, 19th and Brookwood and then what another place that I think that we went to try to get beer or 40s at the time.
Speaker 1:Rusty nail, yep.
Speaker 3:You know that got me thinking. I went by a local establishment. Here is it's a rug is now used to be what Kokomo's. Yeah, to sign out on Wednesdays 69 cent wings all day. Oh, that's expensive think about back in the day we had 10 cent wings. That was like yep, you know, it's just amazing the price of wings.
Speaker 2:Now I'll take that a step further. I can't remember being a kid and my mom going to the local store and I'm saying, like the corner store just down the street, chubs market, right, so they would. This was a. They had a little butcher thing and they would chop up the chickens. You could buy the wings and, I'm sorry, you could buy the breasts and the thighs and legs, whatever the wings. They were throwing that shit away.
Speaker 2:That's why they were absolutely throwing it away. So my mom would say, hey look, if you're throwing out away, I'll take those wings. She would bake them off and I would just watch her just Strip the meat off of these bones and turn it into like a chicken salad or turn it into some kind of high or something, some casserole, yeah, some pot by some shit. But it was free chicken, it was Garbage, it was stuff. They were just thrown away.
Speaker 1:Take this chicken and eat it. We don't need. You don't need this chicken.
Speaker 3:I just think about all those. I mean chickens are making free because wings are. I mean, think about how many wings they set. Like wings are huge now, like I mean, and they have been for the past. What they're saying?
Speaker 1:They're saying that they're like 20 plus years some sort of sludge like how the McDonald's burger was. They're saying like the wings that you're eating now aren't real.
Speaker 3:I don't know if I'll fuck out of here.
Speaker 1:They're saying where are they producing these chickens?
Speaker 3:Where's these chickens coming from? China, all the breast and the other parts like that, like are they selling?
Speaker 1:You know that many chicken breasts and why do you think there's so many diseases and weirdness and weird stuff in America? So there's shit, doesn't?
Speaker 2:exist. Look, as we can start in a bunch of different places, but so we're going backwards just quickly. Look at the size of a chicken when you go to a Costco or a Sam's Club. They're rotisseries that they're selling to a real chicken, correct, it looks like those chickens. Those chickens are the size of a turkey.
Speaker 3:It's like the rock yeah chicken version, you know correct.
Speaker 1:Honestly, yeah, chicken, a chicken, real chicken size. If you see those little ones that like peck at the ground on like a real farm, that's a real chicken. That's a real chicken. But if you it would look more like a pheasant a real chicken, yep, and the ones like you said, you get a Costco.
Speaker 2:You could feed like 20 people on the size of turkeys to follow up on the, the prices, or are when you, when you say, think about all the wings or whatever that takes. So people are, at least for a while, were into I want boneless, skinless chicken breasts. And now there's bonus, goodness, chicken thighs. And then there's obviously, for every chicken You're only getting two wings, unless you're getting some kind of mutant chicken.
Speaker 4:That's not growing like six wings.
Speaker 2:But that not withstanding, you could go to around here a local grocer, carnes, and you get the pieces that people don't necessarily want to buy, but they're willing to spend at least something on it again. So you'll get chicken quarters. You'll get legs with the skin connected to the thigh, still with the skin, but it's dirt. It's 59 cents a pound.
Speaker 2:Yeah 49 cents a pound for a Good amount of meat with all the bone and stuff. But dude, that's again, that's, compared to wings, what they're going for per pound versus, you know, breast and stuff like that which used to be dirt. Correct today. Yeah, it's just this flip flop and eventually, I don't know, maybe it's like you know, loose-fitting jeans, Maybe they'll come back skinny jeans around?
Speaker 1:No, but it's weird that at Carnes when do you think they get their chicken from local farms?
Speaker 3:No, no, no no.
Speaker 1:South Carolina, china. Yeah, the chickens from South Carolina, because the one I was like man, this chicken is great, is this local? The guys like nah, and he looked at the box, he had the body know where they go in and grab it with their big glove. Yeah, he goes to the box, he pulls up the thing. He's like nah, south Carolina.
Speaker 2:South Kaka.
Speaker 1:Laki, I was like you, didn't even. They don't even know where it's from.
Speaker 2:You don't even know comes in on buses and trains, and planes and automobiles.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Keep talking. Yeah, I got nothing, man.
Speaker 1:I got nothing either. Spent well, this was fun, this was this was different.
Speaker 2:We should do this again sometime.
Speaker 3:I got one more thing before we get off air, so just keep talking.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm gonna have a special special somebody calling in? This whole episode is special, today's special yeah, it's about to appear today special I.
Speaker 3:Have somebody wants to pitch something on here?
Speaker 2:Do I know this somebody? Yeah, you know baseball.
Speaker 3:Not the Nick.
Speaker 2:Let's do it. The answer is yes, cuz I know what he's gonna ask. I'm all for it.
Speaker 1:I've been for it yeah nothing, Nick yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, all right.
Speaker 3:So anyway, let's just get back to talking. When he calls, I'll put it on, so you could we yeah, that way it's like, you know, we can natural it can be cut off. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Who would be calling us at a time like this?
Speaker 3:Yeah, who could it be? Hmm anyone, anyone yeah voodoo economics so the the Army Navy game. So you were there and you saw some of the guys from the 80 Olympic team.
Speaker 1:Oh, actually, yeah, did you get the picture? I think two of them were from the actual team. It's the guy, the guys on the but anyway, I showed him some of the episode that we had, or when we went they filmed some of the stuff they filmed guys like, oh man, that's awesome. That's awesome. He was like was a you rookie there? And all these other things like, nah, no, I'm, guys weren't there.
Speaker 3:That's pretty wild. Yeah, hey, it looks like we got a caller here.
Speaker 1:What course we do? How dare they?
Speaker 3:Yeah, not Lee, nick, you there.
Speaker 1:Wait, is that? Who's this? Not Lee Nick?
Speaker 3:Yeah, hold on, let me, let me tap him in here, not leave you there. There he is.
Speaker 2:Hey Dr Nick. What's going on Is this not Lee.
Speaker 4:How you doing.
Speaker 1:All right, you're kind of hard to understand like you have, like some sort of West Virginia accent.
Speaker 3:Yeah, right. So I heard you got something you wanted to pitch the zap.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I mean, I have this idea about a vintage album review, maybe once a month on the podcast.
Speaker 2:I'm all in. I'm all in. Let's make this happen. And you heard it, here I am. Let's do this, let's make this happen. Let's make this dream a reality.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I had some. I had some ideas about it. You know, like the slippery one wet, it launched Bon Jovi into the stratosphere. Ac DC's back in black. The first one was Brian Johnson. That might be a good one. Huh, the guns, guns and roses. Appetite for destruction there. That blew them up.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, and you're talking about so and I like where your heads at you're using the the albums that really, of the three bands you just mentioned, those were the albums that made them absolutely. Made them not necessarily their first albums, but those were the albums that really launched them. Yeah, I'm all for that.
Speaker 1:So that's the whole thing on VH one.
Speaker 3:So you guys think I'd be good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's cool. I dig that. Let's do it, man. Let's make it happen. How about the Alan Parsons project?
Speaker 2:We just had three great suggestions from nutley Nick. Let's, let's start there and we'll uh well, we'll go from there.
Speaker 4:How about?
Speaker 3:I got a how about.
Speaker 4:I got another suggestion depth, leopards, hysteria.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I'll be on that.
Speaker 2:Oh, hysteria, not pyromania. What was first pyro?
Speaker 4:Pyromania was first.
Speaker 1:Yeah three.
Speaker 4:You know the song with photograph and everything. I don't want your hysteria launched them into another, another tax bracket when I get that feeling, of course nutley pinfield From MTV yeah, that pinfield. Yeah yeah, Ricky rackman all day.
Speaker 3:Headbangers ball. Yeah, that's a great idea. Yeah, I enjoy that.
Speaker 1:So what you will discuss like, uh, like where they started or where they were at at this album or what the career was like, just different things. Talk about the songs.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I mean, what I had in my head was I say alright on Jobe, slippery one way, um that. That really broke them. You know you give love a bad name was their first single. But then, you know, when live it on on a prayer came out that just Album sales went through the roof. Maybe. I know, zap, you're a big bond joey fan, as am I and I both. We both feel that, like New Jersey is a better album 100%. But you know, this is the one we could do. New Jersey at another time.
Speaker 2:No, I'm with you. No, I like your, your your stream of thought. Again, look, while they might have had later, or, in this case, later, albums that were, you know, phenomenal, it's the same thing with what I had mentioned. You know, hysteria versus pyromania they were. We're looking at the album that took them from X To Y and, yeah, that makes sense. I mean, these guys bond, joey, as we're using that.
Speaker 2:I mean these guys were. They had, of course, their, their initial, they had 7800 degrees Fahrenheit. It truly truly was Slippery when wet. That just launched them, absolutely launched them. Dude, I like where your head's at, I like your style, I like your moves. Let's make this happen, dude, come on in.
Speaker 3:All right, Nully sounds like it's gonna be a go.
Speaker 4:I don't know. Maybe we can go down track by track what's your favorite one with your least favorite? You know something like that the whole album.
Speaker 2:Dude, look at, we will get down and dirty on this album. Absolutely.
Speaker 3:So a vintage album review? Look for that here in.
Speaker 1:So the first one will be slippery when wet is. That is that what we're calling it Maybe that's, that's absolutely correct.
Speaker 2:First one Okay.
Speaker 4:I.
Speaker 3:I'll sit in for that. There you go. Yeah, I'd be anxious to hear your your two expertise on that.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm cuz.
Speaker 3:I mean, I know a little bit about it, but what's?
Speaker 1:the spring scene from Jersey.
Speaker 4:Oh, flip out, there I'm landed. Spring scène tenatra yeah, and they got some good ones there, not Lee Nutley, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:New Jersey, not Lee.
Speaker 4:Jersey no you put my guitar up.
Speaker 3:I will. I got to edit this.
Speaker 1:We'll get it in there on the phone knuckley neck, actually the next time we do this with the, with the camera's, I'll just get a Nutley Nick mask.
Speaker 3:Just wear, just wear the whole thing. Yeah, alright, now we got to wrap this up, I'll talk to you.
Speaker 4:It's been real. Have a great night you too.
Speaker 1:Thanks, thanks, brother, later man Later.
Speaker 4:One last thing.
Speaker 2:Go mountaineering.
Speaker 3:Alright, nolly Alright, see you later. Alright, fellas. Well, that was a fun episode.
Speaker 1:I thought it was like your dad should have done. He should have wrapped it up. Yeah right, seriously.
Speaker 3:Too soon, right? But yeah, that was fun, guys. I enjoyed all the stuff you covered.
Speaker 1:Yeah, freestyle Friday is a thing I think. I like it. So we're gonna have super happy album Thursdays.
Speaker 3:Vintage album review. We'll just put that out like this Kind of like a fun thing to do every now and then.
Speaker 2:Sure.
Speaker 3:I'd like to hear these guys talk albums and stuff.
Speaker 1:Featuring featuring not me.
Speaker 3:Too bad we couldn't play the actual music and then comment on it.
Speaker 1:See, that would be fun. Like, how do we do that? How?
Speaker 3:do we get around that thing? You gotta get rights. Well, we do have JW.
Speaker 2:I love that you start with you gotta get a lawyer.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you gotta lawyer up, but you have to get those rights.
Speaker 1:You need, I'm sure, elon Musk.
Speaker 3:We can reach out to Bon Jovi and say how can we use?
Speaker 2:Yes, Elon Musk, if you're listening, I love you in a non-sexual, non-gay way. I think you are an incredible, incredible human being. Please consider sponsoring this podcast. We would love it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1:I don't think we'd have to work then, elon's like you know what you guys?
Speaker 3:I love what you're doing.
Speaker 1:Here's, here's, 3 mil. Let's see what you can do with that.
Speaker 3:We could afford to take the fines if we use music, in other words, if Elon was.
Speaker 1:We could do this. We could do this part of the basement exactly how you would like it. It would be fantastic.
Speaker 3:I like it, Like we're working on it. Zapp's got some carpenter skills.
Speaker 2:And I will be applying those carpenter skills very soon. You can hit the laughter. Today's not the day.
Speaker 3:Yeah, shut up, but it's on the other page, it's way out here the gunshot.
Speaker 1:Oh, yes, one of them.
Speaker 3:So what were you saying? Zapp, you got some carpenter skills. Look, go fuck yourself. That was good.
Speaker 2:That was good.
Speaker 1:That was fun it was in my head for a second. So I'm thinking of the stable that we're thinking of Right, but once you get a cover on it, it's anything.
Speaker 2:You know fun fact I gutted my entire house down to stud bitches.
Speaker 1:Is it still on stud, like, is it still stud-ly? No, it's now manly. Zapp Vima, that's awesome, well, stud-ly and manly.
Speaker 2:I took that whole house down to stud. I did all the electrics, all the drywall, all the plumbing, all the everything, everything Did the floors, everything.
Speaker 3:Did you wear that belt, the tool belt now?
Speaker 2:Instead, I just left my tools laying all over the place and I would lose them. Now I have like triplicates of tools because I couldn't find them.
Speaker 3:Shit, I need a tape measure. He's buying. I know I do the same shit. Yeah, you got like four tape.
Speaker 1:Yeah, then you're buying something new and then you find it some odd place where you were working on something and you put it down.
Speaker 3:Always.
Speaker 1:Or someplace where you think like would make sense to put something, and then yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:I'll put shit up on a shelf and forget, and I'll find it later. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Elf on a shelf. Yeah, that's all yeah. Or for our friends celebrating Hanukkah, Mench on a Bench.
Speaker 3:That's right, mench on a. That was on a shark tank, was it? Yeah, mench on a bench.
Speaker 2:One chick I know. She, her and her husband are Jewish. They do Mench on a Bench, so she does. She takes the pictures and does all that shit.
Speaker 3:No way, but yeah, hilarious. Yeah, it was a shark tank thing and they sponsor, or whatever. It's huge now, obviously, and people are using it, so In Los Angeles.
Speaker 1:It's a snoop on a stoop.
Speaker 3:Snoop on a stoop, there you go. Yeah Right, they call it. So I guess that's it, guys. You got anything else?
Speaker 1:Nope, no, all right, thank you. Thank you for your style Friday.
Speaker 3:Welcome to 2024. It should be the new year. This is coming out and we'll definitely be back with some cool true crimes, compelling stories. Got some fun stuff coming up for sure. Don't forget to check out our vintage cinema review that comes out every other Monday, and I guess that's it for now, so we'll catch you where.
Speaker 1:On the flip side, if we don't see you sooner, we'll see you later. Peace, happy New Year. Thanks for hanging out in the old, dirty basement. If you dig our theme music, like we do, check out the tsunami experiment, find them on Facebook. Their music is available streaming on Spotify and Apple and where great music is available.
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