Ever wondered how a trumpet works underwater or what a comedian might write on your Blu-ray? Prepare to tickle your curiosity and entertain your intellect as we dive into a treasure trove of history, humor, and the downright bizarre. From the dramatic duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr to the quirkiness of a live underwater concert for coral reef awareness, this episode takes you on an unforgettable journey into a world of random observations and historical events.
Imagine waking up with an octopus lodged in your throat or having to face embezzlement charges over a never-returned Blockbuster movie. Yes, you heard it right! We uncover some mind-bending stories of unusual returns and unexpected discoveries that will leave you scratching your head in disbelief. Laugh along as we share a hilarious account of a failed hunting trip turned viral moment, or feel the suspense as we unravel an embezzlement case all because of a forgotten movie rental.
But that's not all! We save the best for last. Brace yourself for the shocking revelation of an 81-year-old Russian grandmother with ties to the criminal underworld. Listen with bated breath as we recount how she plotted a murder, was caught red-handed, and how authorities had to fake a detective's death to build a case against her. This episode is a roller-coaster ride of laughter, learning, and the unexpected. So come aboard and let's take this wild ride together.
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Ever wondered how a trumpet works underwater or what a comedian might write on your Blu-ray? Prepare to tickle your curiosity and entertain your intellect as we dive into a treasure trove of history, humor, and the downright bizarre. From the dramatic duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr to the quirkiness of a live underwater concert for coral reef awareness, this episode takes you on an unforgettable journey into a world of random observations and historical events.
Imagine waking up with an octopus lodged in your throat or having to face embezzlement charges over a never-returned Blockbuster movie. Yes, you heard it right! We uncover some mind-bending stories of unusual returns and unexpected discoveries that will leave you scratching your head in disbelief. Laugh along as we share a hilarious account of a failed hunting trip turned viral moment, or feel the suspense as we unravel an embezzlement case all because of a forgotten movie rental.
But that's not all! We save the best for last. Brace yourself for the shocking revelation of an 81-year-old Russian grandmother with ties to the criminal underworld. Listen with bated breath as we recount how she plotted a murder, was caught red-handed, and how authorities had to fake a detective's death to build a case against her. This episode is a roller-coaster ride of laughter, learning, and the unexpected. So come aboard and let's take this wild ride together.
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One, two, three, four. Hey guys, this is your host, Drew, and welcome back to this episode of the Weekend Rundown.
Speaker 2:And this is your host, daniel. and today in history we're talking July 11th In 1656, the first Quakers arrived in the colonies. First women, ann Austin and Mary Fisher, became the first Quakers to arrive in the American colonies.
Speaker 1:Dang. They were there only two women.
Speaker 2:First Quakers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, first two Quakers, which is like a segregated group of religious people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I guess they were the first two. Yeah, they make some sick-ass oatmeal. They were coming from Barbados, where I hit it a little late. They were coming from Barbados where Quakers had an established missionary, austin and Fisher, landed in Boston. Local Puritans frowned on their teachings, however, and they were both jailed for five years before they were deported back to Barbados.
Speaker 1:Damn homie. We weren't always the land of the free, we did used to persecute people for religions, apparently.
Speaker 2:And then again, on July 11th in 1804, Alexander Hamilton was killed in a duel.
Speaker 1:Those were the days when you could just duel people.
Speaker 2:It was Duelan Aaron Burr, the former Secretary of Treasury. Hamilton had spoken out against Vice President Burr on multiple occasions. When a newspaper reported that Hamilton had uttered a despicable opinion about Burr, burr challenged Hamilton to a duel and killed him in Weehawken, new Jersey.
Speaker 1:First of all, time out, go back up. Weehawken is a fucking awesome place, just because of the name alone. Second of all, i'm pretty sure Alexander Hamilton had one, two or maybe like two instaillmated on one duel before this, so he thought he was like unkillable. I could be wrong, but I seem to remember, if my history is correct, i think he was like he was frivolous about dueling at this point.
Speaker 2:I looked into this a long time ago and, if I remember correctly, there was something shady about this where, like the Aaron Burr guy, like reloaded or something, when he wasn't allowed to. And like I don't know, it was like a sketchballs thing, but There was something shady about it And I'm pretty sure yeah, it was like his fourth duel.
Speaker 1:Yeah, up until this point, Alexander Hamilton was like a god duel Strike, kill, yeah, yeah duel mode, like I am, like like it's just insane. I didn't mean to stop it, sorry.
Speaker 2:You didn't care. Don't look at him wrong.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:Okay, and then, on July 11th in 1851, the conjoined McCoy twins were born.
Speaker 1:I don't know who they are, but they're conjoined, so that's crazy.
Speaker 2:There's a picture of them. They look Oh, they might be sitting down.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I believe they're sitting down. Okay, so they might just be regular size.
Speaker 2:Their names are Millie and Christine McCoy. A pair of conjoined twins are born in Welch's Creek, North Carolina. The daughters of an enslaved couple, they were taken from their parents and sold in order to be exhibited as the Carolina twins Fucked up. They later worked in circuses across the world on their own terms and wrote a book about their lives.
Speaker 1:Well, that's dope that they ended up getting to work on their own terms.
Speaker 2:That didn't work out bad for them.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:In 1960, on July 11th, tequila Mockingbird was published.
Speaker 1:And if you do not know.
Speaker 2:Tequila Mockingbird was published by Harper Lee, the iconic coming of age story about racial injustice.
Speaker 1:Harper.
Speaker 2:A small southern town, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961. Lee's story was also adapted into a film the next year, for which Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his portrayal of Atticus Finch.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so Harper Lee did not publish the book? No, yeah, she wrote it. I'm sorry Yeah.
Speaker 2:It doesn't say who published it.
Speaker 1:Is it a she or a he? I read it back It's a he, right. Or is it a she?
Speaker 2:Harper Lee.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I always thought it was a she.
Speaker 1:I mean it could be a she. I thought it was a he, Maybe I'm.
Speaker 2:We're going to find out. Yeah, we are. Oh, Harper Lee is definitely a she.
Speaker 1:At least that's how she identifies, I believe, Oh come on Just because the haircut. That's a pretty. She makes super suits on the side.
Speaker 2:If you guys are wondering No, yeah, she, okay, i agree.
Speaker 1:She makes super suits on the side.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's very old.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but she's also definitely a lady.
Speaker 2:So She's probably dead? Yeah, she is dead. She died in 2016. Oh, it's been a hot minute.
Speaker 1:Well, thanks for the book. Harper, That's definitely a pen name.
Speaker 2:That can't be her name 1979, 2000, or July 11th, Skylab crashes to Earth. Skylab was the United States first space station. It came crashing back to Earth. The first launch was 1973. The space station began to deteriorate quicker than NASA anticipated Without a set plan to bring the station down. NASA fired the station's booster rockets, which sent it on a collision course with the Indian Ocean as well as populated parts of Western Australia. That's messed up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, was.
Speaker 2:NASA run by. NASA was run by the US government.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, they're like it's nowhere near America.
Speaker 2:This is totally cool. They were like we don't?
Speaker 1:They're sorry? Sorry, it would have risked India or something if we did it later.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:India has a lot more people It does, but Australia is the only fucking country that's a continent. I mean, why not just leave?
Speaker 2:it out there. Wait 25 years and we would have been able to get it out, it deteriorated faster than they said so, that was why So yeah, is that all for this day in history?
Speaker 1:Yep, that's what we have today in history. Yeah, so that was a new way to start out the show.
Speaker 1:Let us know if you guys liked it, please. You guys never let me know if you like anything. I always ask, and I'm not trying to like badger you, but I'm trying to badger you a little bit because I want this to be an interactive show. It's a show for you guys Like. I want more of you guys, so just tell us what you like. Yeah, be open about it. Exactly, you see anything cool this weekend, man.
Speaker 2:I saw a pretty cool. It wasn't really an article, it was a picture of an article. I actually looked more into it, but it was just a Native American tribe that controls the land in Vermont where Ben and Jerry's HQ is. They're asking for Ben and Jerry's to return the land that was stolen from them, which is ironic because Ben and Jerry's put out a call what like a day earlier, or it was July 4th. On July 4th, they put out a call for people to return the stolen Indigenous. Wait, wait, time out, time out, time out.
Speaker 1:So Ben and Jerry's are the people who give all their money time out, time out. So Ben and Jerry's HQ is on a stolen Indigenous land And they said, hey, return the stolen Indigenous land. And now the people they stole it from is like hey, give it back. Yeah, oh man.
Speaker 2:Practice what you preach.
Speaker 1:I really, really, really, really hope they give it back.
Speaker 2:I hope they do.
Speaker 1:Just move your HQ at this point. You have so much money I bet you they'll just get quiet. Ben and Jerry's.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Like just crickets, yep. Speaking of getting quiet, that kind of reminds me of what I saw this weekend. It's not really a thing like that, but I was at Walgreens and I buy beer and I don't know. I'm American. I guess things make me mad, but not the same way that other people get mad because Bud Light was literally you could buy I think it was a 12 pack or something for $14.99, but it came with a mail-in rebate that gave you back $14.99. So it's essentially free Bud Light because everyone's so fucking pissed about the Oh man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, i don't know anyone. that's too good for free, though That's pretty good marketing technique.
Speaker 1:I am not too good for fucking free. I'll tell you that right now.
Speaker 2:Pretty good marketing technique And you know what? I don't think that we could keep it up as a country. There's nothing. We are the Americans who are just the most un-passionate people. I just don't think we can keep something up like that. If you see those riots in France, those were intense fucking riots.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they were, but we are a very high cancel culture kind of.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think we're just getting.
Speaker 1:That's just my opinion is that people see a thing and then they don't like the thing, and then someone wants it canceled, and then the Bud Light.
Speaker 2:But they can't cancel Bud Light.
Speaker 1:No, you can't. But they lost a lot of profit And also, to be completely honest, by backing the trans community and then not. And then when everyone hated on them, backtracking and saying no And then being like we weren't really about that, then they lost the people they were trying to bring in, But they thought that they were going to get the other people back. And now everyone just is mad at them Because that's so wishy-washy. Why couldn't you just be like hey, it was a marketing campaign and we're trying to get other people to like Bud Light.
Speaker 2:I don't know, i'm sure their numbers are already backed up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because the rebate's pretty dope.
Speaker 2:I'm sure before that they were trending back up, but it's such a staple within society.
Speaker 1:Well, Bud Light also owns so many other companies. So when people are like boycotting Bud Light and buying Shock Top instead, like they're so, or literally going to like isn't it like Bush Gardens?
Speaker 2:I know that's like Anheuser Bush, yeah, but Anheuser, but they sold it to somebody, yeah.
Speaker 1:I think Anheuser Bush is Bud Light, see the AB on the top. Okay, yeah, yeah Yeah. But they sold it to somebody, i think, um Yeah, you can't. I'm not too good for Free Beer America. That's all I'm fucking saying.
Speaker 2:I don't know anybody that's too good for Free Anything, if I'm being honest with you.
Speaker 1:Literally, i think the hardest part is the mail and rebate part Which like, okay, i'll send it in, fuck it. You gotta mail it in Yeah, that's mail and rebate whatever.
Speaker 2:Uh, I know You gotta stack them up. Then get like three or four, send them all in, get like 60 bucks back.
Speaker 1:But then I need the 60 up front too, and that's a lot of Bud Light to drink. I believe in you. I believe in me too.
Speaker 2:You could definitely drink all that Bud Light.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:So should we jump into one of the articles?
Speaker 1:Yeah, we can do that. I'll start first. What should I start with? I've got one about music, i've got one about the library And I've got one about New York. Can you tell me?
Speaker 2:All right, so I would classify that as two is art and one is geology.
Speaker 1:Okay, so you want to start with one of the arts Geography. I'm sorry. Let's start with this. Let's start with this really weird, fun. one Underwater music show spotlights coral reef protection. Hundreds of divers and snorkelers listen to an underwater concert that advocated coral reef protection in the Florida Keys. This happened recently here.
Speaker 2:It's like some little mermaid shit. Who was playing the concert?
Speaker 1:It's literally like diver people Like this guy has like an actual guitar. I don't know how they heard it But this person has like an actual trumpet underwater, it says. hundreds of divers and snorkelers listen to an underwater concert that advocated coral reef protection Saturday in the Florida Keys to lower Keys underwater music festival, which also spotlighted eco-conscious diving.
Speaker 2:They watched it.
Speaker 1:Maybe took place at Lou Key Reef at an area located about six miles south of Big Pine Key, so it's basically to protect the sanctuary. that's like 3,800 square miles.
Speaker 2:It just doesn't a trumpet work by manipulating air.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you literally see like bubbles coming out of it. I don't know. It says there's a playlist Like they tunes were interspersed with diver awareness messages about ways to minimize environmental impacts on the world's coral reefs, whose rich biodiversity has led them to be called I don't know how, like there's a video, but I don't want to watch it.
Speaker 2:I feel like if you tried to play the trumpet underwater, you would die.
Speaker 1:This says that it's staged by a local radio station. I don't know, because whenever you play trumpet like you're supposed to make a perfect seal to blow the air out, so they could be like inhaling with a thing taking it off and then like No, these would be the most impressive trumpet players in the world. Is it What it? I don't know. There's a video. There's a person playing harp.
Speaker 2:I don't know, i just think about it Like look look at this, come here, come here, and those are like that, i know you can't see, just. And then there's underwater welders.
Speaker 1:Turn out, turn out, turn out. Just look at this thing. Look right here. Do you see this thing right here, on this lady's harp? It's like some sort of thing to pick up the reverberate, whatever, so like somehow it's music. It might not sound, exactly the same, no.
Speaker 2:I just, how do you play the trumpet under?
Speaker 1:I don't. It's also wearing a mask. I don't fucking know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that lady was the The fuck, you're going to play a trumpet with a mask.
Speaker 1:This lady is not wearing a mask. Look, look at this lady, look at this lady. This is the lady. See, i don't know, man, i don't know. We could watch the video, but I don't really want to watch it.
Speaker 2:She looks like an avatar too.
Speaker 1:She does kind of look like an avatar. My point is it's just kind of cool that they're playing underwater music to raise awareness for chorus.
Speaker 2:No, it's cool. I agree It's cool. I'm just saying, i just don't know.
Speaker 1:A lot of people don't protect the ocean, bro, and it's like. It's not like a oh, go out and do floppity, flopp. Like you don't have to actually go out and like do stuff, just like. Stop throwing your plastic away, like it's just that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, it doesn't take much.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like just be proactive so that you don't have to be reactive, and then it's fine. But people always want to be reactive to stuff instead of like actually My kids love. Earth Day because they want to go out and pick up trash. That is awesome and strange.
Speaker 2:And I have to stop them and be like hold on, dude, We got to get the love Zeus Right Like we got to put clothes on first.
Speaker 1:We can't just go out there in our sandals and pick up random trash Yeah like barehanded, you know, I don't know what the fuck.
Speaker 2:And I got to be there because who knows what people throw on the ground in Bradenton.
Speaker 1:Or honestly anywhere. By the way, guys, I don't live in Bradenton, I live in Sarasota. Danielas and Bradenton know me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I mean I mean there's nice places in Bradenton I'm just saying the place that I live at There's.
Speaker 1:There's nice and there's nice and not nice places everywhere, and usually the places where you want to pick up trash isn't in the nice places.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So that is true, and my kids every, every Earth Day, they're like that it's Earth Day, we're going to go out and pick up trash. Absolutely Put on these bio hazmat suits And it's just such a good feeling knowing, like I, picked up trash from somebody else. So I mean if, if half of the world picked up their selves and one other person's trash?
Speaker 1:then it all began. Yeah, well, yeah, if maybe like 70 percent.
Speaker 2:Oh, 50. It would just have to be 50. Yeah, that's it, that's half of the people in the world picked up after themselves and one after other person.
Speaker 1:Oh, you meant like actually didn't, didn't say, they did it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I actually did it.
Speaker 1:OK, yeah, ok.
Speaker 2:Yeah, i mean, if we're talking fake statistics.
Speaker 1:Well, people probably like say they do stuff all the time, just to say it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, i mean, you don't even have to say it.
Speaker 1:You just got to do it, just do it, don't be, don't fucking talk about it. Be about it, but we're talking about it because we have podcasts. It's a different thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I'm not even talking about like that. I've done it recently. I like, on Earth Day I don't want to go pick up trash.
Speaker 1:But you know, i think for your kids. I think it's a great idea And I mean I always, because when you, when you work, when you work two jobs like you, and every day is the same day, when it's Earth Day, you're like dude yeah it's just a Tuesday.
Speaker 2:I make sure I recycle. They fucking took recycling away in the city, so I have to drive it down to the recycling center every day.
Speaker 1:That's so silly. taking away from the city, I drive it down. It's like every other day. I produce a lot of fucking trash in this house. Well, you guys do by like individual packaging things.
Speaker 2:And you know what else I don't get. I'm the only mom's probably going to hear this, but it's a fact. I'm the only person that takes the trash out, and do you know why? I'm the only person that takes it.
Speaker 1:I like how that you pause, because you're like shoot.
Speaker 2:I know she's going to hear this, but it's a fact.
Speaker 1:if this is a fact, We love you, though so much Well yeah, i really do love you, but this, this is a fact.
Speaker 2:And do you know why? I'm the only person that takes the trash out.
Speaker 1:Because your kids aren't old enough to be able to take the trash to the corner, or because you have to drive all the way to the place, and I'm not knocking anybody.
Speaker 2:Everybody in this house does a lot, and probably more than me, but as far as trash is concerned, I don't know why you're the trash designated trash man. I'm assuming it's because it's gross. But I'm told that it's because the trash is too heavy. Oh it's too heavy, the bag is going to rip.
Speaker 1:Well, did they always say that?
Speaker 2:They always say, they always say every single time, every I hear every other day.
Speaker 1:And I swear to God, my trash can is too heavy. My point is is that, like when you start working out, people will use like this is too heavy for me.
Speaker 2:Oh no, this has been my, this has been a reoccurring thing, and so my, my point is there is a point when it's not too heavy.
Speaker 2:When our trick could take it out you know, yeah, it's not like we bought it and this fucking trash bag was fucking 40 pounds. No, when we bought it, it weighed next to nothing And we started putting shit in it, and putting shit in it, and putting shit in it until it weighed 20 pounds, 25 pounds, 30 pounds. And then we were like, fuck, daniel's going to get this 35 pounds, 40 pounds, like it's just. I don't, i don't agree with it. You know, i don't want to do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, i mean, i get it. I'm the trash man at my house too.
Speaker 2:You're the only person at your house. Yeah, I do everything. This blaze is going to take some trash out.
Speaker 1:No, but sometimes when I come home and I'm like a little baked or buzzed, I'm like, listen, you need to get like a job.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you probably should. You need to pull your weight around here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like can you at least can you at least bring like can you don't care if it's like a lizard, can you at least attempt to make some sort of food? for this house, like do something besides be cute. Like the cute thing is cool, but do more than the cuteness, but you know how to bargain for a weird right.
Speaker 1:Like, could I just like I'll put a little. I'll put, i'll give you a wallet, i'll put my card in there, a little bit cash, and then you walk on down to the dispensary. I'll cute, i'll put you as my, my provider, my caretaker, because we're family. And yeah, she could just she could just get it for me as you can.
Speaker 2:If you can't figure this out, you're going to be replaced with another pet called Purple Sticky Punch.
Speaker 1:Not Purple Sticky Punch. I was thinking like an AI robot dog, but Purple Sticky Punch reminds me of Polly Shoah, who I'm going to see in two weeks.
Speaker 2:That would be awesome.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I told you I ordered.
Speaker 2:Who else? is is it's more than just one right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there'll be a, there'll be the host and then there'll be the opener who will get like 10 or 15 minutes Did you show? No, because I'm going to side splitters, but the host that did my show will host McCurdy's. I could just couldn't get tickets. Brother Sold out too quick down there, so I have to go to Tampa by myself and I tried to not going to see him on the stage that you performed on. No, but he will be performing on that same stage.
Speaker 2:You're not going to see it. I know We probably have it on their YouTube, though If they posted you on their YouTube, they'll post them.
Speaker 1:They don't post him on there Cause they don't post artists if they don't want them to be posted. If the artist requests not to be posted, Why would he request?
Speaker 2:not, he's got nothing going on.
Speaker 1:No, he does a lot of touring though, but anyways, my point was that I got Viodome on Blu-ray That's going to be delivered tomorrow, that I'm going to get him to sign after the show, because lots of times these comedians take pictures.
Speaker 2:You said I also got in the army now and had weird crazy boys.
Speaker 1:I don't want to have him. I don't want him to sign everything Just can you write him where I come?
Speaker 2:You don't even have to sign this one, Just where I come. Where is it boys?
Speaker 1:No, you can't write it like that. And if I get him to write that, there's no proof he wrote it. Also, I've noticed a lot of things. He really just signs his name. I don't think he likes to like sign crazy long things.
Speaker 2:It's like, not like cursive or anything.
Speaker 1:No, he writes like his signature, looks like dad's signature, but we're gonna pee. But he doesn't sign like my regards, Or so my plan is to try to talk.
Speaker 2:I just want you to give me a quote, quote that you didn't even come up with. A writer gave to you.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna ask him you literally hit the nail on the head. I'm gonna ask him can you write something on here along with your signature that helped you in comedy, like a quote that helped you Because his mom owned the comedy store and he grew up in comedy. So I know he's got like something that like is in his head that like he thought of his whole life for comedy and no one's probably ever asked him that question before and maybe they did. But I don't care, i'm still gonna try, you know.
Speaker 2:Actually, you know what the best thing.
Speaker 1:Is that a weird?
Speaker 2:question If you get him right, wax him I would.
Speaker 1:I know, but like that has nothing new with bio dome And like no, it doesn't but wax him I would.
Speaker 1:Wouldn't it be so awesome to have be like. I have a poly short like sign thing and it says like I don't know, it could be a quote from George Carlin, and who knows what his favorite quote is. It could be a quote from like a Buddhist monk, like I don't know. It could be a quote he made up, i don't care, you know, but whatever quote helped him the most in comedy because, like he was one of the first like three people that I probably like What if it's just something to make you laugh Like it's not like real, like he's like nothing really helped me in comedy, like he writes like poop dick is real, then I will laugh even harder, that'd be sick.
Speaker 2:You're like oh, that is my life call If he writes poop dick is real.
Speaker 1:Can you like sign to Daniel instead of to Drew? And then like oh man, I don't know bro, I'm just really excited to go to that And like that was like a big movie for both of us when we were younger, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there was a lot of poly short movies I was into.
Speaker 1:Well, I guess not a lot but But all of them And Sino man.
Speaker 2:And Sino man bio dome in the army now.
Speaker 1:Son in law.
Speaker 2:Son in law was good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, bro, he's got some good movies. He just had one that came out on Netflix recently.
Speaker 2:We need to watch it. I feel like we're forgetting one or two.
Speaker 1:Probably like five or six.
Speaker 2:I think you might be giving him a little too much credit. I'm saying he was good. I don't know why he disappeared, but he disappeared for some reason.
Speaker 1:It was cause. The mid nineties just wasn't the same kind of humor as like the early nineties, like 94 and like 95. Halfway through 95 is what I consider the mid nineties, and then like anything 95, 96, 97 is just like not It was like, so like.
Speaker 2:I feel like Chris Rock made it through all those stages.
Speaker 1:Yeah, chris Rock rock got booed at the Apollo or whatever right. When recently, no, when he started.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't doubt it. There's a lot of stories about like.
Speaker 1:Dude. I was watching this. I know we're talking about we're going off on tangent. We're talking about this comedian And his name was I can't fucking remember his name. He was this Asian dude and he was so funny. He came out and he got an applause in like a minute and a half. It was like oh, this guy's not that funny, you know, cause he wasn't saying anything funny. And then he got an applause and then everything after that was like a joke, joke, joke, joke.
Speaker 2:It's fucking hilarious dude.
Speaker 1:Yeah, bro, and he's on Netflix and he's this Asian dude with long hair And there's nothing wrong with doing ethnic jokes if you're an ethnic comedian. But I think to be an ethnic comedian and then just like not tell jokes about your culture because you don't need to cause, you're just funny, naturally, is a different thing. You know, right, almost cause, like, if I go to like an Asian comedians like thing and all he does is tell Asian jokes, like I can't relate to that And I can kind of laugh, cause maybe I've seen something like that, but I'm not Asian. You know, that's like the same thing with, like, when I went to see Dave Chappelle and there was a lot of like openers that were like I don't know man, like I felt like I couldn't even laugh at the jokes. You know what I'm saying. When you went to see him in person, we saw Dave Chappelle for Scottonburg's like birthday in 2009 or something.
Speaker 2:I wonder if that tour was like before or after you like went to Africa, who's after?
Speaker 1:Yeah, It was when Kevin Hart yeah, he was jacked and Kevin Hart was huge And he had a joke about how his kid loved Kevin Hart And it was like a soccer, like he like gave him some soccer jerseys or something. It was some stupid shit where, like, basically like Kevin Hart was like telling this kid to rub it in like Dave Chappelle's face.
Speaker 2:That was the main joke that he had I've heard a couple of Dave Chappelle jokes about Kevin Hart. I've heard some Chris Rock one. I feel like they all kind of used Kevin Hart is.
Speaker 1:Because he, kind of like white people's, a little too hard right.
Speaker 2:No, like one comedian was talking about how Kevin Hart's the only one comedian that makes enough money that he can sing a Drake song to his wife.
Speaker 1:Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, and it's all true. He makes a lot of money.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like the I Got So Much Money song. Yeah, yeah yeah, i can't remember what comedian. I think it was Chris Rock.
Speaker 1:Well, to be fair, like what I'm learning about, comedy is like standup comedy. Like when they say you don't make money off standup comedy like you can. That's not where comedians get rich. They get rich from like you can make a. You can make if you write for, like, some sort of network television show or something like that, or one of those shows where you write jokes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I mean there are. I mean I don't imagine Chris Rock's done a lot of writing for a show like that No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1:He's like, you know how many comedians there are. He's like the 1%. You know what I'm saying. Like, like.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, I would say even, I mean, I guess Donald Glover would be one that does, but he does a lot of writing too.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm saying. And when you write for like so, just say it was the tonight show you were writing for, right.
Speaker 2:But I'm saying like that Matt Reif guy, yeah, like he's, i would say he's popular to the point where he's not doing it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but he's like he got. He got popular in a different way, like a TikTok way. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Even Bobby Lee.
Speaker 1:Bobby Lee is.
Speaker 2:He has definitely has written some things for some, some some stuff for sure Like early in his career, cause I've seen him in like movies as like a.
Speaker 1:Extra. Yeah, but the thing is that's how you get started as like a really popular comedian, because, like those people, when you write for those things, they pay you like four grand, you know what I'm saying. Like just a week, like to give them like X amount of jokes, like 80 jokes, 100 jokes, whatever And then if you use, if you write a two minute skit that they use, they pay you an extra $6,000 in that week. So if you write a two minute skit that they can use and you give them your hundred jokes or whatever, you make 10 grand in a fucking week.
Speaker 2:What were you writing them for?
Speaker 1:Like this is from the tonight show in like 2010. You know what I'm saying. So, like, if you can like write for those types of shows, then you can like hit those huge numbers and like, sure, you can just be an average person who writes 30 minutes a day and gets enough jokes to turn in that are mediocre, or you can be the guy that, like, gives them top tier jokes and like, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Two minute things.
Speaker 2:So And then become.
Speaker 1:Yeah, do you have an article, though We kind of tangent?
Speaker 2:about, like comedy writing A nice long tangent there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Sometimes that's what the people want. You know we got to give the people what they want And then want to hear you cough after hitting that B-O-N-G. Spell it out for all the kids out there that listen to explicit content. Cause like if you let your kid listen to this year.
Speaker 2:All right. Well, since I'm coughing, this one should be suitable. This headline says doctors flabbergasted which is a fun word, Love flabbergasted After finding octopus in patients throat. Say what? Say huh, What's worse than a frog in your throat? How about a whole octopus?
Speaker 1:Like eight fucking tentacles and all.
Speaker 2:Doctors were flabbergasted. There it is again, after discovering that a Singapore man's throat discomfort was caused by an eight legged mollusk.
Speaker 1:Singapore. he probably ate it raw dude. Yeah Gosh, what's a gullet? What is your gullet? I'm gonna look that up real quick.
Speaker 2:Well, the other thing said esophagus.
Speaker 1:Esophagus. Yeah, I'm assuming The passage by which food passes from your mouth through your stomach, the esophagus, you are correct, the unnamed patient had reportedly first realized something was awry after he started vomiting following a meal that included the cephalopod Cephalopod.
Speaker 2:The diner also had trouble swallowing, prompting him to pay a visit to the Tan Toxang Hospital That's a fun hospital name. Doctors conducted a CT scan which revealed a super dense mass in the man's esophagus.
Speaker 1:Super, super dense.
Speaker 2:A subsequent esophagus gastroduodenoscopy.
Speaker 1:Holy shit, bro. I can't believe you did that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I started a little bit.
Speaker 1:How many letters long is that? Can I just ask, before you continue?
Speaker 2:We got three, six, nine, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 26. Can you?
Speaker 1:try it again. Can you say it again?
Speaker 2:Esophaga esophago gastroduodenoscopy.
Speaker 1:That is so much better than I would ever do, and I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 2:A gastrointestinal examination involving a small flexible tube showed a tentacle octopus lodged two inches from the esophagus stomach border like something out of Ridley Scott's alien.
Speaker 1:This fucking octopus is like There's a picture of like Yeah, dude. That they took inside?
Speaker 2:Yeah, they didn't even pull it out and take a picture. They took a picture of it inside the dudes.
Speaker 1:They were like. they were like bruh dude, this thing's alive in here, dude.
Speaker 2:And like when it's when it's alive. Yeah, bro.
Speaker 1:No, they didn't say it was alive.
Speaker 2:It hasn't, says, alive yet. After initial attempts to push or extract the inner loper were unsuccessful, medics navigated the endoscope past the octopus into the stomach and retro flexed it. They then used forceps to grasp the critters head and remove it from the patient. Thankfully, the patient recovered well following surgery and was discharged after two days. Apparently, food obstructions are among the most common problems encountered at the hospital, per the facility's physicians, who say items will pass spontaneously in 80% to 90% of cases.
Speaker 1:That's not going to pass.
Speaker 2:Meanwhile, endoscopic intervention is necessary in 10% to 20% of cases, while 1% of them require surgery. The push technique is the primary method recommended with high success rates. However, applying excessive force can cause esophageal perforation, said the medical team. Unfortunately, this is far from the first time a cephalopod has gone down the wrong pipe. Oh, in 2016, a two year old boy in Wichita, kansas, had to be hospitalized after getting an octopus lodged in his throat, deering. I don't know why it opened Deering and apparent sushi session gone awry. Meanwhile, approximately six people die a year from eating Senaki, the live octopus push dish. See.
Speaker 1:I don't think he had a one, but people do that I like to see because it's alive.
Speaker 2:It's fucking nuts. Why do?
Speaker 1:they do that. People die from it, oh well how many people die from puffer fish a year?
Speaker 2:Fatalities are generally caused when the suckers adhere to the sides of the diner's throat, causing the victim to asphyxiate.
Speaker 1:More than 100 people die annually from puffer fish poisoning. by the way, Almost all a result from consuming the world's most deadly delicacy which is not to us. No, the puffer fish Really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, who fucking eats a puffer fish? A lot of people.
Speaker 1:It's a Japanese delicacy, because there's only certain parts you can eat And if you hit the sack it ruins the meat. Bro, It's fucked. That.
Speaker 2:That's super silly, I'm not eating no puffer fish? I'm not.
Speaker 1:I guess I do eat calamari and I almost choked on calamari one time, so I don't know if calamari is the same level of intelligence They're still a cephalopod but like octopus or octopi, i guess, is the plural term Are like. Literally, their intelligence is comparable to cats and they have puzzle.
Speaker 2:Like I think we're talking more texture here.
Speaker 1:Are you talking about the way they eat?
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're talking about eating these things. I mean, i know, an octopus is better than a fucking squid.
Speaker 1:I've ate, i've ate octopus before and I always feel bad about it. I feel like I'm eating cat. Actually it reminds me of you know. You know? yeah, yeah, because they're smartest cats. You know that podcast. You said Bobby Lee before. What's Bobby Lee's podcast with that Andrew guy? I don't know the name of it. I know it's fucking funny.
Speaker 1:It is funny, it's, i think it's like two odd friends or some shit like that, or two something friends. But they, like he literally asks him on the podcast. The white dude goes what's dog tastes like? Tell me what dog tastes like. And Bobby Lee goes apparently it tastes really. And he goes don't. He literally rolls his eyes in his back to the side. He goes don't give me this. Apparently shit. Like as he's saying.
Speaker 1:Like he goes he says he's like it's really, it's really good. And he goes no, don't stop giving me that. He's just like don't give me the apparently shit. And he goes, i mean, and then Bobby Lee literally says it's really good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, i mean. I'm just saying like there's places where they don't eat, Like what is it? cows or pigs?
Speaker 1:Yeah, they don't eat cows in India because they're like. They believe that like when you're reborn and your last stage of life, you become a cow, because cow is like.
Speaker 2:So our slaughterhouses here would discuss them.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, that's why they don't eat beef.
Speaker 2:Probably actually worse than us seeing dog actually. So when we see dogs like you see those pictures of dogs being slaughtered or whatever on the internet whenever you see those pictures, we associate it as like a dog's, like a companion. They associate a cow as like something holy. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 2:So it's just. I mean it's all in the preference. I mean who's to say, who's fucking wrong? I'm not saying I'm going to eat a dog and I'm not saying I like seeing those pictures or anything, but at the same time it's their culture.
Speaker 1:Like don't tell them what to do.
Speaker 2:If that's what they do, we're not going to fucking, just be like oh we're not going to eat cows anymore because we want to respect you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we shouldn't expect them to do the fucking right, and I don't expect them to eat like dogs here, but that's fine. And just because you get emotional, because our dogs, my dogs are my kids, you know speaking of emotional, i just saw a video where this hunter was hunting deer and this deer ran straight the fuck up to him And like he start petting the deer and the deer ran away, they smoke it.
Speaker 1:No he let it go because it like made friends with him right away. And the funny thing was was I saw a quote underneath it Logan will come and said keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
Speaker 2:So in the video, let me ask you he had a shotgun.
Speaker 1:Which is how many antlers? how many antlers? it was a doe, no antlers.
Speaker 2:Oh man, it might not just been season, he might not have just been able to kill it.
Speaker 1:But yeah, shotgun. Maybe he pet it, though maybe.
Speaker 2:Maybe he wasn't being nice after all. Maybe it was just not allowed being legal, smart man, you know like, oh shit, i'm recording this, Right. Let me turn it into a moment.
Speaker 1:Make my fucking viral, make myself cool.
Speaker 2:I'll go home and slap shit on my wife a little bit.
Speaker 1:I don't know, i'm making this shit up. I mean I appreciate the effort but, like you took to a real dark place, They broke out dark.
Speaker 2:I mean he's fucking. He had his a hunter, that's been out all day and didn't get a freaking kill anything. The one chance he had he turned his phone on. He was on a live stream. Everyone was fucking watching. He had that fucking play pool Right. And now he's going home and his wife's like so what's for dinner? And he's like what the fuck did you just say to me Yeah, wow, he's so mad.
Speaker 1:That's a good one. I like that.
Speaker 2:Thank you.
Speaker 1:I'm going to go to my next article, if that's cool with you.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Um, should I go doom and gloom or should I go like quirky and weird?
Speaker 2:I found the same genre. Weren't they like nope these are different. Oh shit, I have the New York one and I have the library one. Let's do some weird, bro, i like getting weird, weird and not doom and gloom.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's, it's started with the weird.
Speaker 2:I feel like the doom and gloom is coming.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, that's right. Um, an extremely overdue book has been returned to a Massachusetts library. Do you want to know how many years late?
Speaker 2:How many years late? 119.
Speaker 1:119.
Speaker 2:It's an old ass library.
Speaker 1:Yeah, apparently, on 1904, someone curious about the emerging possibilities of a key force of nature, checked out James clerk Maxwell's and elementary treat see on electricity, uh, from the new Bedford free public library. They just returned it, um, and the sharp eyes of the little bear librarian in West Virginia, um, identified the text and sent it back to Massachusetts. So they didn't even return it to a Massachusetts library, they returned it to a.
Speaker 2:West Virginia library. It's probably not around anymore, so it's probably owned by, like the same company, or the companies probably bought or sold rights through time to those people.
Speaker 1:So I guess this guy was a curator of rare books in West Virginia. He was sorting through books and he found that book. He was like Holy shit.
Speaker 2:I mean, i feel like you shouldn't even have to return it, like you should be charged for it. Isn't that what happens most times? Somebody gets charged like double the price of whatever the fee is, and then boom.
Speaker 1:It says that the book never got got placed as with as discarded, though, even though it was extremely overdue. That's so funny.
Speaker 2:That reminds me actually of this thing. I heard this some lady in Texas She was, uh, she was trying to get married and she had to change her name and she before she was from Oklahoma and uh, okay.
Speaker 2:So she tried to change her name. Well, they said that there was a problem with the some sort of social security office in Oklahoma. So she called them up because she hasn't lived there in a very long time and she was like, Hey, what's going on? And they're like, um, yeah, you're this person. You're actually wanted for embezzlement. You've been wanted for 20 years.
Speaker 1:Whoa So she was like a fake person the whole time.
Speaker 2:Well, she was like, what are you talking about? And they dug deeper into it and they found out that her roommate had rented a movie from Blockbuster under her name. He never returned it. Um, the blockbuster ended up closing or something and her thing got reported and somehow it got sent as embezzlement. So she made the link and she realized that she's like well, for the past 20 years I keep getting turned down from jobs that I know I'm overqualified for.
Speaker 2:Right, She goes. But they'd say Hey, yeah, you're shooing. And then they'd do all their background checks and everything they call me up and they'd never give me a reason. They just be like Hey, you know what, We can't hire you. And now I realize it's because I was a wanted felon for embezzlement, Right, And I was like that is crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and they never reported her to get arrested, huh.
Speaker 2:No, and so she ended up. They ended up somehow working it out, so it just went away.
Speaker 1:That's insane dude. I don't know how like this book reminds you of that, but that's crazy Yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't, it was just whatever we were talking about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, we were literally. we were literally talking about like how long it's been since the book was like returned, but that's just a crazy thing. Oh yeah, i think it was just the return time, yeah, like it said that this, this library says that like sometimes it receives books 10 or 15 years overdue, but not like a fucking century. This book was published in 1880.
Speaker 2:Whenever Thomas Edison received a historic patent on it which is like, probably like, written in like old English.
Speaker 1:Probably yeah, that's why it says the the. I can't read the the tristy, It's true. Tr E a t. I s e t r e a t i s e. Yeah, tris treat treatist, i don't know. The book was last in new bedford. The nation was preparing for its second modern world series. Incumbent republican president Theodore Roosevelt was on track to win another term. Holy shit, this is the longest time we go. Willebert and Orville Wright had conducted their first airplane flight just a year before this book was rented cheese.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that and this book was in good shape, so it's like playing.
Speaker 1:I mean whenever they sent it back. The discovery and return of this book is a testament to the durability of the printed word it says.
Speaker 2:That is crazy. Yeah, man, that's an old fucking book 120 years ago I wonder what shape it's in.
Speaker 1:Is there a picture? Uh, there is not. Uh, there's a picture? Yeah, but I don't believe it's the picture of it And like you can look real quick.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it looks good for a book that's 119 years old.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dude, it's definitely looks good for a super old book, um, but yeah, that's. my point is that it's like, it's like in great shape for that, and you know what I think, though.
Speaker 2:What I think it was in a home without children.
Speaker 1:Definitely in a home without children. It says the has a five cent, the. The library has a five cent per day late fee And at the rate someone returning the book overdue Uh, would face a hefty fee of more than $2,100. Oh no, the good news is the library's late fee limit maxes out at two bucks.
Speaker 2:Even $2,000 for that much time. Are you kidding me? Imagine if you paid your rent 119 years. Oh hey, this is from my fucking dead grandfather.
Speaker 1:And then, like you, owe us two grand.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they'd be like, oh no interest on that shit.
Speaker 1:What do you mean? I owe you two grand.
Speaker 2:You owe me fucking 350,000. You have to pay for the house.
Speaker 1:Give me the book back At that point do you have another? article.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I got one last one. I got one last one.
Speaker 1:Um, don't tell us yet because, uh, yours is similar to what mine was actually. No, no, oh, not at all, i was confused.
Speaker 2:You were confused. I was very confused.
Speaker 1:Yours is kind of similar to mine.
Speaker 2:Kind of I don't know what yours is, i just know that you were looking at the wrong thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, i meant for the last one, not for the next one. All right, yours is a little doom and gloom.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and your last one was doom and gloom. Right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, doom and gloom. Let's, let's finish off on doom and gloom.
Speaker 2:Actually, actually, you could look at it as doom and gloom, or you could look at it as heroic and Um, i don't know.
Speaker 1:I hope doom and gloom catches on, and we can. We can make shirts that say that we can run down and say doom and gloom.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, let's see An 81 year old granny was arrested for ordering the killing of a police officer. Uh, yeah, that's pretty doom and gloom, yeah, but if you look at it as she was arrested, the police officer wasn't killed, she was thwarted. She didn't even get charged with murders, it was just some sort of you're just doing this to not sell doom and gloom Shirts.
Speaker 1:You just don't want to sell doom and gloom shirts. Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 2:You can sell attempted doom and gloom. Attempted doom and gloom an 81 year old russian woman with ties to the criminal underworld. That sounds so fucking dope.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for sure Crass.
Speaker 2:Nadar, crass Nadar sounds so dope.
Speaker 1:This lady's already way harder than what.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's 81, with ties to the criminal underworld.
Speaker 1:In Crass.
Speaker 2:Nadar, um, and she's probably somebody's grandmother.
Speaker 1:We're probably gonna get killed for talking about this.
Speaker 2:She was recently arrested for ordering the killing of a criminal investigations detective smart lady I guess. Uh, i'm not gonna say this, right, i think the L is silent, so I would say you'd mela Reba. Yeah, they did is not your average grandmother.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm glad you get the hard ones. Bro, I'm glad you get the hard ones. I don't understand.
Speaker 2:Not only does the 81 year old have a strong connection to members of crass nadar's organized crime, but she once threatened to kill a paramedic with a sawed-off shotgun And she recently placed a hit on a local detective that apparently rubbed her the wrong way So she's insane. Yeah, the pensioner Was caught red handed after ordering the killing of an officer from the crass nadar police department And paying part of the reward for proof of his death, unfortunately for her. Why do I get this one again? It's? it's gonna say her last name.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna say our mela Just say, mela.
Speaker 2:I didn't know that her criminal associates Had revealed her plan to the authorities, and she now risks spending the rest of her days behind bars.
Speaker 1:Well, that's the risk of fucking this lady sounds like she's from a movie.
Speaker 2:Oh, look at her face.
Speaker 1:She's hard core. There's not a whole two years, which is only two left as a gold tooth.
Speaker 2:According to the russian newspaper.
Speaker 1:I want to go to the summer sky up pravda You'd mela.
Speaker 2:So many hard words for a circle of former prison inmates, offering them one million russian roubles are 11 000 dollars for the killing of a crass nadar criminal investigation.
Speaker 1:That's all it's worth. Over there is 11 000.
Speaker 2:The reason for wanting the man dead. That's why why they turned around. The reason for wanting the man dead remains a mystery, but authorities suspect that the officer's investigative work threatened the 81 year old woman in some way. The ruthless grandmother told her killer buddies where the police detective lived and even drew up a map of directions to his house, advising them that this was the best place to ambush and kill him. She never expected her contacts to rat her out to the police, but that was exactly what happened. As soon as they learned about yud mela's intentions, police officers decided to let her think that everything was going according to plan.
Speaker 2:Of course they did in order to build a stronger case against it. It's usually what they do. The targeted detective agreed to play dead with blood makeup around his neck to make it look like someone Had slid his throat. That's so smart. Photos of dead police officers were then provided to the Contract killers is proof of their employer. Only yud mela required more convincing. After seeing the photos, she went to the police station where the detective had worked to ask about them. Only authorities had expected her to snoop around and she was told that the police officer had been murdered. The day after confirming the death of the snooping detective, yud mela paid 25 000 rubles to the contract killers and was arrested shortly after.
Speaker 1:So a lot less than she said.
Speaker 2:Yeah, upon searching her home police That's why they fucking turn it upon searching her home police, officers found an impressive arsenal of firearms, ammunition, hatchets and knives.
Speaker 1:So she's just crazy bitch with fucking guns that like knows people in the fucking mob and thought she could get away with it.
Speaker 2:No, she's currently being held in a pre detention center until being formally charged For her crimes.
Speaker 1:She's gonna get bones, or bro, She's from russia right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like a lot of shit going on there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, russia's fucked, man, i mean america's fucked, the world's kind of fucked.
Speaker 2:I don't feel like she has a chance.
Speaker 1:No, she's 81 re here. You could be 81 and have a chance if she really knows people in the mob, though, or whatever, she might have a chance not if the people that she knows turned her in All right, that's fair. I guess she's fucked. Yeah, she's not looking too good.
Speaker 2:I don't know who's gonna like be like yo. Let's kill this fucking grandmother. Yeah, I don't know about the rest of her days like just chillin in jail.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, i don't know, she's already 81. She's lived a life. Yeah, she doesn't have a whole lot of days left fry. Do you want me to do? you want me to read this article, my articles like it's a little bit older, but it's fine.
Speaker 2:Let's hear it.
Speaker 1:So apparently, first in new york there was smoky air And now there's clouds of bugs, like this happened last week, but it's winged aphids in big new york city.
Speaker 2:air was from What? the fires in canada?
Speaker 1:Yeah, Yeah it was just the air was just gross there, and now there's just like clouds of bugs in new york.
Speaker 2:That sounds awful. Is it like those ohio bugs? Uh, kind of can't think of the names of them sequoias.
Speaker 1:Uh, this is as if this smoke and hay sweeping in from the wildfires in canada, like you said, burn enough. New york city has been invaded in recent days with plumes of flying insects that have become both a nuisance In a source of fascination. What were they? where'd they come from? Will they ever go away? another unwanted canadian export? At first, the person who wrote this, who lives in queens, thought it might have been A wind driven ash, but he soon found out otherwise, somewhere alive and flying. He quickly jumped into the shower because they were like all the fuck over him, i guess.
Speaker 2:Does it have a? it doesn't say what they are uh.
Speaker 1:So supposedly this dude talked to some dude who is a professor and entomologist at the city university of new york. He hadn't seen these insects himself, but he can. He concluded from photos and videos, um, that they were winged aphids, not gnats, as amateur Bugologists assumed. Aphids are common all over the united states, even in new york city. They're small, pearl shaped insects that comp that come in a variety of colors, from green, red, yellow to black, brown and gray.
Speaker 2:Does anyone love buggies?
Speaker 1:No, they're not an aphid. Well, maybe they're a species of aphid, but they're not like the aphid. This also a bug guy said he's not an aphid expert so he doesn't know which specific species it is, but there are a few of them So he knows that like this is a swarm of aphids. You know.
Speaker 2:It sounds like it sucks, but at the very least it's not sequoias. Those things are like fucking six inches and like sound like an army.
Speaker 1:This guy says that aphids fly the entire time. When they're growing They don't stop flying, they just fly the whole time. It's like a colony. It's large and dense and just flies.
Speaker 2:We heard it here if you're visiting New York, bring your raid.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Don't even worry about bugs.
Speaker 1:The wildfires in Canada are probably pushing them in the wrong spot. What You know what's crazy is these kind of bugs and stuff. They have like migratory patterns. You know what.
Speaker 2:I'm saying Yeah.
Speaker 1:So what if, like these wildfires, like change their migrating patterns and, like now, they start to go to New York every seven years?
Speaker 2:I mean, honestly, that's probably what was supposed to happen. Anyway, i mean, think about if we didn't develop land, how many more fucking wildfires there would be. I feel like that's one of the only things I mean. I don't even think that us affecting anything was a good thing, but just think about if New York City was an actual jungle, with heat just bearing down on it Right?
Speaker 1:Well, it would just be an island, not a jungle.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, i mean, are you sure it's not really an island in New York?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's an island like New York. Oh, you mean the entire city? Okay, i got you.
Speaker 2:There was no people and no roads or anything. It would just lead into a jungle in the middle of fucking the northeast, or maybe woods. I don't know what the difference in the two is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this just reminded me of, like the guy that wrote this said, if he said New York's all organic, now if pesticide use was widespread, there would be no more of these. I mean exactly what you said. It's kind of douchey, but because New York's pretty hardcore on that. But this just reminds me of the whole fucking Moses fucking thing. Didn't Moses like part? of city, yeah, but like well, it wasn't exactly.
Speaker 2:Moses.
Speaker 1:Before the Passover thing. You know the Passover it was like if you don't let my people go, bad things will happen to you. And then they put whatever all the Jewish people put like pigs blood or some shit, or like sheep's blood over the doors.
Speaker 2:And then everyone else.
Speaker 1:Like God came and like did terrible things to, and like there was like the seven plagues. I could be like mixing my like fucking things from like because I don't remember Don't get mad at me, people that listen to us, that might be Christian, because I'm not the perfect person when it comes to religions, yeah, i don't know, but there was like seven deadly or there was like seven plagues, and one of the plagues was like the aphids, like the swarm you know what I'm saying That came and ate everything, like all the fruit and shit.
Speaker 1:And like it was like terrible because like all their crop was gone, you know. So that's what it reminds me of, so that's kind of why I like brought it up, like I don't really know a whole lot about that.
Speaker 2:But yeah, hopefully they go away pretty soon, but I think the smoke has to go away first.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's that's what this article kind of says is they're thinking that the smoke is like keeping it cooler longer for them to grow larger and migrate more.
Speaker 2:You know it's no good because it's smoking, because it's blocking the sun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Exactamundo bro.
Speaker 2:That is brutal. We need a big like fire blower thing. Yeah, for sure, blow that smoke right away from the sun.
Speaker 1:So I don't mean to like go off topic here about, like not an article, but I feel like we're getting close to the end And I just want to say, guys, if you would please reach out to us, even if it's in person, because we probably know most the most, you guys that listen.
Speaker 2:Probably.
Speaker 1:Or, if not, if you're someone we don't know and you just stumble across this podcast, please email us and tell us, like, what you want to hear or what you don't want to hear, what you liked or what you didn't like, or I don't care if benefits are like I like M&M's. If you want to fucking send me an email about I like M&M's, that's totally fine. I don't care, i want to hear it from you guys.
Speaker 2:I could make M&M's interesting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we can, we make it. We'll talk about whatever you want.
Speaker 2:We don't make it happen.
Speaker 1:We'll do it for you. We just want to make this for you guys. And speaking of that, I think this is pretty much the end of the episode. Daniel, You got anything else to say?
Speaker 2:I don't think I really have anything else to add. It is pretty late.
Speaker 1:It is pretty late for us, but, but we are trying really hard, you know, to keep pumping the content out for you guys. So thanks for tuning in, and even my computer and my phone thinks I'm asleep right now. So I've been your host, drew, and I'm your host.
Speaker 2:Daniel, and we appreciate you coming for yet another episode of the Week in.
Speaker 1:Rundown And listen back, same time, same place, whatever you like to listen to podcast. Thanks, guys, we'll see you back next week.