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Episode 75
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Spies, Sports, and iguanas.
Oh, we're starting.
SPEAKER_04Or we're starting? Why did you I don't even think Rick's ready.
SPEAKER_01He doesn't have to be ready. I'm it's the FYI, we started. Ooh. Hey everybody. Hi. We're back again. Hello. Why? Why? I don't know. We were just we were doing the best we could. And we just it's it. You know, I got nothing. I got no excuses. Amy, how's it going?
SPEAKER_03Good, good, good.
SPEAKER_01Good. Amy's a uh grandma, right?
SPEAKER_04I'm not a grandma.
unknownWhat are you?
SPEAKER_01What just happened? I thought you were a grandma. No, you're not. I'm not. Gene is. Your boyfriend.
SPEAKER_04Gene is.
SPEAKER_01I'm a grandpa. Oh, this right. So a few changes have occurred.
SPEAKER_04The wrong person. 50-50 chance and you failed.
SPEAKER_01I am not a uh I am not a grandfather yet. I don't think my kids are gonna have any kids. I don't think they're gonna I don't know. Well, who knows? Who knows? You never know. I'm a proud grandpa. I don't feel it yet. So uh my car, I go into uh Walmart was it Thursday? And uh I go in because it's a lemon cake, we got a pot like next. I go in and get a lemon cake next. I come out, the car won't start. Uh it clicks. It starts clicking. And then uh nothing. So I try to sit down. Freeze my I don't have my gloves on. I call it my buddy Rick. Rick comes over, he says uh he gets out his huge truck, gets out of the batteries, kidding in there, try to charge it, nothing. Nothing and then we waited for another 10 minutes, nothing. And twenty minutes, nothing. And so we go in, he goes, I think it's maybe you gotta clear off the cable, the little terminal thing. So I go inside, nothing, they don't have anything to brush it off with. They don't have a battery tester. They don't have nothing at Walmart, excuse me, right? So I go to get some of the uh what is that stuff? The little barb wire the metals, the metal curly stuff instead of uh a steel wool brush or anything like that.
SPEAKER_02He comes out with a steel wool. You come out with like some kind of a dishwashing steel wool. Thank you.
SPEAKER_01Which was perfect for car stuff, right? That would work. Is it? Yeah, it's not. So we go. We're not what are you gonna judge? I'm not even gonna it works. I know more than Dan. So we uh try scrubbing it off, nothing, right? So we go to pull it up. Rick, this is a part of the story you don't know.
SPEAKER_02Uh so they I wouldn't say nothing happened because it did turn over when that went.
SPEAKER_01But do you remember that click click click a little bit towards the end? So I thought, okay, well, this sounds bad. So they go to uh Kelly is in charge. She has Thursday off, bless her heart. She goes and she takes care of all the stuff and gets towed over to higher tier automotive, which I highly recommend. Those are the sweetest, nicest guys. If you need mechanic, for the love of God, try higher tier automotive and be right. Damn. So they go there, they fix everything, uh they were able to charge it, but the battery's dead. Just dead. Like Rick was correct, something was up with that. Swapped it out, starts upgrade, I go to pick it up. Uh Kelly pays for it. We go after work, we go to pick it up, I start the car, all of a sudden I hear this loud going and it's it's clicking, and but the car's running, right? Oh, and I thought, well, maybe it'll go away. So I drive it all the way home, and I I get uh I get to Kelly, I go, Kelly, the the thing is just a wet ramp. Uh Amy, I will tell you what happened in just a second. One moment, please. So as we So we get home, we get home, and I go, I think we gotta take this back because it's making that noise. So I shut off the car just to see, and the thing's still clicking. Like like some spooky ghost or animal or something is in there. So we bring it back, uh, drop it off, leave a note. It turns out there's a little like motor that's about the size of a little tiny music box, you know, that's filled with little plastic gears, and it's what changes the thing from hot to cold in the dash, and it had a tooth broke on it because it was so cold because we had the hood open because we were trying to do all this stuff and it just kind of cracked during everything. Yes, it was plastic. I replaced that another hundred bucks later, 115 bucks. Replace that now the car runs like the wind. So my hats off to uh higher-tier automotive. So I just wanna wanna explain that to you. I couldn't believe it. But yeah, it's like the little size of a little music box. Have you ever had that? Like go out on you or anything? No. He's got a cool jeep. Yeah, I do. Because it's Jeeves never die. Nope. Yeah, that's an awesome car. It's got a little is that a turtle in the back?
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01A little turtle.
SPEAKER_02That's a hot car.
SPEAKER_01Truck. Jeep. So when I'm watching TV now, Kelly and I, do you guys have to have the closed captionings on anymore when you're watching TV? I mean Well, it depends on what I'm saying. I do, but that's because of my boyfriend. Okay. Yeah, I always can't understand anything anybody's saying. That's all right. I'm finding you. I'm finding that we're not the only ones. It seems like everybody has closed captioning on. So I try really hard to shut it off, but sometimes it's not. And also I'm hearing that uh Netflix is kind of changing the way uh I was listening to an interview, they had Matt Damon on there. They were saying that Netflix was kind of changing the way people were watching movies because uh people are looking at their phones and watching movies at the same time. Oh yes, yeah.
SPEAKER_02She's uh guilty of that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. And too, uh me too. I mean when Kelly goes to the bathroom and we have to put the thing on pause, right on the phone. It's just it's terrible. It's terrible. So they have to set it up for uh for uh for like two uh two screens. You have to set it up all the time, so they have to restate the plot he said like three or four times in the dialogue because viewers are on their phones while they're watching movies now. So it's just it's unbelievable. I couldn't believe it. That's interesting. And then one other thing is weird. I had to call Amy, do you know uh what would you guess the Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene does?
SPEAKER_03I don't know.
SPEAKER_01Do you know would you if you had to guess though, what what would you what would you think it does? Wisconsin State. I mean, just based on the name.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. I don't know.
SPEAKER_01Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene.
SPEAKER_04Like go over statistics of washing hands and cleaning butts?
SPEAKER_01That's what you would think, right? But I had to call them up. They're in charge of all the EPA stuff. Like they're the lab that goes in testing.
SPEAKER_04Isn't that by the wayside?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. Okay. It sure seems like because I wanted to get something to test the plastics in my and my new water cooler that I got for Christmas. Oh, the water cooler. Yeah, yeah. I wanted to see if they had a test. And they said if you know, it's there's because I just you know, it's my favorite gift I got for Christmas. Because it does hot and cold and I can make tea in it. But I they I I always thought that they would just like, hey, making sure kids are wearing deodorant and stuff like that, but they do not. Why would they test it? Because it's the hygiene. It's the state of hygiene. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Brushing teeth or something.
SPEAKER_02Armpit odor is the hygiene? Yeah. My kids stink for sure. I never do. I it's like these kids on as heavy as I can.
SPEAKER_01I keep on hearing that. Like the kids aren't wearing deodorant like they're like 13, 14 years old now, and they're still not. Come on, dudes. What's your problem?
SPEAKER_03So it's all fine.
SPEAKER_02Well, yeah, right. Yeah, but there are, you know, other people out there in the world just trying to breathe.
SPEAKER_00We're all trying to say something.
SPEAKER_01I should hope so. But uh a couple of new things, but yeah. I I but I had to call them because they're in charge of like the water and they make sure they have all these tests. But it's run by the state of like the education system at the university. Like it's not uh uh Oh, something that the it doesn't seem like it's something that worry that we pay for, but they do it. They do they like test all the water and what's that PFAS?
SPEAKER_04So you're testing your water in your water cooler? Is that the same thing?
SPEAKER_01I wanted to see what the flash I wanted to see, because you hear about microplastics all the time. Uh no, it did not. It has to be apparently it has to be heated. Like if it stays at room temperature, you're fine. That's all it is.
SPEAKER_04But you have hot water in your water cooler. So does that make a thing with much?
SPEAKER_01Is there plastic in there?
SPEAKER_04Just don't have the hot water?
SPEAKER_01No, no. No. I mean I'm talking about if the if the outside it seems to be in a separate compartment in the jug. You know what I mean? Jug. If the jug is heated. No, not the jug. Yeah, you have to make sure the jug is heat. I don't want warm jugs. Listen.
SPEAKER_03It can't get too hot.
SPEAKER_01I'm here to teach. I am not here to to criticize anybody. I'm just saying the jug has to be that's so that's that's where the So Dan likes his jugs.
SPEAKER_04Got it. Noted.
SPEAKER_01Nice, cool jugs.
SPEAKER_02All right.
SPEAKER_00I'm glad we're doing this. Welcome back.
SPEAKER_01He was a big name in silent films.
SPEAKER_00Charlie Chaplin.
SPEAKER_01He started in nearly 40 of them. Uh 40 of them, and he enjoyed more star treatment than the others in his studios, and you'll understand why. Only minor hardships accompanied this special celebrity, boring premieres, long promotional tours, hospital business openings. But everything else was pretty cool. I mean, he was uh while other cast members had to work in sometimes miserable weather, his studio contract provided him uh uh provided a stand-in for him. And while his co-stars were largely neglected and underpaid, he was given all consideration and was making a fortune, Rick. No way. In the in the like 20s. Silent film. In the 20s? Wow. Yeah, yeah. And as one might expect. A whole dollar? This goes a long way. Boy, did he pick up the nickels? I feel like I should be talking like that guy from uh League of Their Own. Oh what a hitter. Look at him go.
SPEAKER_03Who are these assholes?
SPEAKER_01Okay. All right, and as one might expect, this sense of preferential regard was measured in dollars and cents. And during that silent era, he was Warner Brothers' biggest star. And he was the mainstay of the studio's financial structure on several occasions when it seemed like Warner's might go under the box office gross of this one performer, brought in sufficient revenue to pay other losses. Losses on such films uh as those starring John Barrymore, who was the grandfather of Drew Barrymore, by the way. Uh, and in motion picture plots, this hero always saved the day, and it was a re- in real life as well. I mean, here's a basic storyline for you. Old-time mining town, lots of rough characters. Our hero, in order to pass through the town to go unnoticed, is wearing a false beard, predictably. The beard falls off, and our hero is recognized, and he's feeding, uh, he's fleeing an angry lynch mob. Basic, you know, basic old-time stories, right? Stale as it sounds. This was the sort of bread and butter silent movie plot that kept Warner Brothers' books in the black. Now, the star of that particular movie served as a cornerstone for more than three dozen others like it. He was Warner's Brothers' top star, and in 1926, he superseded Chaplin Valentino and Fairbanks in the polls. I was gonna guess Fairbanks. In that pre-Oskar era, he was voted most popular film performer of the year. Good God. Uh, did public relations people have private problems with this celebrity? Press releases made him out to be very uh to be everything nice and kind and considerate. He was good to his mother, fond of children, and all of that. And actually, Warner's See in the Epstein files.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_02All fond of children.
SPEAKER_01Oh, no, okay. So actually, Warner's number one was the most uh temporal star in uh Hollywood. He scraps with his upstagers, minor cast members as well as uh and well-meaning directors were legendary within the industry. Uh he never drank, but he seemed to achieve the same Rosh's result without drinking. And yet any indiscretion that he had was promptly forgiven. For this was the star who was more uh who more than once saved Warner Brothers, and the former whose personality uh in the box office bailed him out when others were losing money. And at the height of his popularity, he received 12,000 fan letters a week. Jeez. A week? A week. We don't get half one cent stamps. I'm lucky if I get a card for my kid for Christmas there. That's sad. He even had uh Daryl F. Zanick for script writing. Now, Daryl F. Zanek was the one who started uh 20th Century Fox. Oh, big name. Yeah. So Warner's number one, uh, the temperamental star who won the Hearts of a Nation, the most popular matinee idol of 1926. You can look it up. The performer who kept Warner Brothers in the black, carrying the studio uh safely into the age of talking movies, was himself unable to talk. He was a German shepherd named Rin Tin Tin. And the false beard, they were attempting to disguise him as a wolf. So what do you think of that?
SPEAKER_02Rin Tintin out burned all those other actors?
SPEAKER_01Yes. Yep. People love a dog. I'm just saying. People kind of suck. It's the whole reason that John Wick exists.
SPEAKER_03Correct.
SPEAKER_02Oh, yeah. Don't mess with the dog. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Wow.
SPEAKER_02I never would have guessed that.
SPEAKER_01Oh, God. I know. I read this thing, I'm like, shut the hell up. And you know what Rick was gonna say when I said this? Shut the hell up. That's what he's gonna say. I was gonna say that. Not gonna say it now.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, because now it's not fun.
SPEAKER_01Oh my gosh. And our next person. In the July 19th, 1948 edition of Time magazine, under the heading of National Affairs, under the subheading of Heroes, was a heroine. A young lady named, uh newly awarded the Medal of Freedom, a lady they called Joey. Now, Joey was, in fact, Miss Josefina Guerrero from Manila, a society figure in her native country. Now, during World War II, Joey was a spy on our side, thank God. And she was the best for all the secret maps and messages she carried back and forth across enemy lines. She was never apprehended and never searched once. How do you do that? How Joey was How Joey was able to achieve her remarkable wartime record is the is is is is what do you think of that? Uh Josephina. She was able to wreck around her. I didn't know how to fill it in. I had it crossed out. I had it crossed out. You should have. Moving up. And I forgot to fill it in.
SPEAKER_04I'm like, are we supposed to answer it?
SPEAKER_01Listen, if we're gonna nitpicking, I'm leaving this bitch now, all right?
SPEAKER_03Noise.
SPEAKER_01Josephina. All right, let's get back to her here, and I don't want to do her any dismissal. So Josefina was the toast of Manila. She was a young, uh, pretty gal, and her husband was a wealthy media, uh, was a wealthy medical student in uh at San Antonio University. Everything seemed to be going her way, and that was before the war. After the Japanese invaded the Philippines, Josefina joined her friends and other young uh matrons of Manila, and together they worked to help the internees and the U.S. prisoners of war, bringing them food, clothing, medicine, and messages. And when the Americans landed, uh, Josefina offered to become a spy. She had already gained valuable experience in the Manilan uh underground, and she would be the best spy the Americans ever had. On her first mission, she mapped the waterfront uh fortifications of the Japanese and the locations of the enemy of the enemy anti-aircraft batteries, armed with nothing more than a sketchbook and a pencil. She prowled the restricted areas recording all that she saw. And from Josefina's drawings, American planes uh were able to pinpoint their targets. The success of this and the subsequent missions earned Josefina the respect of her allies, and it brought her uh uh uh oh, this moniker of endearment called Joey. And so Joey, it seemed, could do no wrong in the pursuit of espionage because of her conspicuous bravery bravery, blah blah blah. Many near impossible tasks were accomplished in the line of duty. One mission took her through 56 miles of Japanese encampments and checkpoints and freshly sown minefields. Jesus. Is this one too late? With a top secret map taped to her back, she trudged through those 56 miles on foot. And for three years, Joey continued her cloak and dagger career. Then one day the war was over, and it and with it ended Joey's job as a spy. Now, a grateful U.S. War Department awarded her, awarded her the Medal of Freedom with a silver palm for having saved the un the untold American lives. And visiting the United States, Joey was presented with the Catholic Medal by Francis Cardinal Spellman for her valorous and heroic actions. But if there was one testimony to her ultimate success in espionage, it was that she lived to tell about it. Josephina Guerrero was never caught, stopped many times by suspicious Japanese, she was never apprehended and never even searched. For Joey had a secret weapon, an unconditional insurance policy to which any other spy would be unlikely to subscribe. An impenetrable burial, if you will. Her unfailing deterrent to those who would detain her was an authentic disease called leprosy. Ooh.
SPEAKER_04No touchy.
SPEAKER_01Okay, what do you think of that? Ouch. My we were just talking about hygiene. Can't be fun. Oh my lord. Yeah, no touchy. Can you imagine going through all that and then having leprosy to top it off? She probably figures die from leprosy or just get blown up. Yeah, well. Back then it was like a superpower. Good for her. Oh my god. Leprosy is catchy through the air, right? You just have to cover up your face. I think it was one of those. But still. But still, that's that's pretty nasty. That's pretty nasty. Anyway, Amerson.
SPEAKER_04What? Are we doing sports?
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_04I got a lot of sports. Give me a couple seconds. Okay.
SPEAKER_02She's got notes all over the place.
SPEAKER_04All kinds of stuff. Okay. The big one right now. Super Bowl 60. Santa Clara, California, Seahawks versus Patriots. So it's going to be um Darnold versus what's his name? Ma Mayor?
SPEAKER_02Mayor.
SPEAKER_04May. Drake May. Drake May. Drake May. Um tickets, if you're interested.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. A mayor.
SPEAKER_04If you go to the secondary market because they're kind of sold out. Six to seven thousand dollars. And that's for upper level corner seats.
SPEAKER_02Six or seven thousand. And it's way up in the stadium corner.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Upper level corner seat. If you go to a premiere, premiere seats or club seats, those are 30 grand a ticket.
SPEAKER_01Just three zeros and then three more zeros. So uh a father can't take his kid to football. Some can apparently.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, right.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_04So uh yeah, it's in Santa Clara, California. They also hosted it's where the 49ers play. Yeah. And they hosted Super Bowl 50 back in 2016, and that was Broncos versus Panthers. It was Peyton Manning versus Cam Newton. And Peyton Manning won. Or Broncos won. Um Packers, big new. So I mean, obviously the floor is staying. They got uh Jim Hafley, the defensive coordinator, left. He went he's now the head coach of the Dolphins.
SPEAKER_01He did punch a coach fire.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Yeah. Every year. Yeah. Oh, there's a lot too with Harbaugh and everybody leaving, and then um Tomlin left Pittsburgh, and that's a whole mess. So apparently Aaron Rodgers is staying as long as Mike McCarthy got to be head coach, and now he's the head coach, which I don't I'm assuming. So Mike McCarthy won't really do much. Aaron McGregor.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, he's not gonna go they're not gonna go anywhere. That's yeah, McCarthy sucks.
SPEAKER_04Anyway, have you been?
SPEAKER_02Well, I just cellar dwellers. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04He'll just be running everything, and Mike just will stand there.
SPEAKER_02Uh look constipated.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, so our new defensive coordinator is Jonathan Gannon from Arizona Cardinals.
SPEAKER_02Rich Gannon's brother?
SPEAKER_04I don't know. Maybe most likely. But apparently he was fined last October. Uh $100,000 by the team for slapping and hitting Amari Demacardo. Dem Demarcardo? Demacardo because he fumbled a potential touchdown.
SPEAKER_02I mean, that can piss you off.
SPEAKER_04However, but yeah, so now he's on our he's our defensive coach. So that's gonna be we'll see. Hopefully he can rein that in. Um Bucks. Giannis again, may or may not be traded. I don't know. He always says he will never wear another shirt besides the Bucks, but now we're back talking about Giannis going to different teams again.
SPEAKER_02So it does come down to money, even with Yeah, it does. Everything else. But am I going for more money for something?
SPEAKER_01Hell yeah. Yeah. Well, thank yous. Thank yous are usually in the thank you dollars. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04But it just Yeah. So now everyone's like, yeah. And now He says he is there's an injury, so he's not really playing, and then the whole nine yards.
SPEAKER_01How long has he been with us now? Has it been like five years or something? Oh, yeah. When was the last time we won the championship? Was it four years ago? Was it four years ago?
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Yeah. At least three. Yeah, probably four this year.
SPEAKER_02So he's getting older and more injured, and he's gonna look for more money. Good idea. I hope somebody pays him then.
SPEAKER_04I think I don't know. The Bucks are I don't know. I don't know if we need a new head coach.
SPEAKER_02We got lucky.
SPEAKER_04I don't know. Anyway, Canucks, my beloved Canucks, they're on the struggle bus.
SPEAKER_02Oh no.
SPEAKER_04They're kind of in last position right now. But there's lots of time left.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, what is it? Like half, not even halfway of the season? Did you start?
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Not just started. They're probably like half-ish, almost half.
SPEAKER_02Oh, so they can they can turn it on anytime.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Make it exciting.
SPEAKER_04But to quote Shoresy and Litter Kenny, let's pitter patty, let's get at her. Pitter Patty. Peter Patty, let's put it at it. All right. Um, the Minnesota Wild, they're in second place.
SPEAKER_01Hey. In their division. Are Canucks hockey?
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Okay, good. Canucks are hockey. Dude. Sorry. Some of them watch.
SPEAKER_01Badminton.
SPEAKER_04I'm just kind of moving on because they have a lot of winter Olympic stuff. Okay, Iowa Girls Hawkeye. Basketball.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Girls are rocking it.
SPEAKER_02Ranked?
SPEAKER_04Number one? They have only lost to USC in divisional play. They are ranked 11th in the nation, second place in the Big Ten. Wait, they've only lost once? In in Big Ten division. Big Ten division? Why? They only lost to USC, and that was just like a week or two ago. Oh, that's huge. So Sunday, the only they're in second place in our division. First place is UCLA, and we play UCLA on Sunday. So that's a big game tomorrow at three o'clock. Um what else was I gonna say? Okay, Winter Olympics moving on. Yes. February 6th through February 22nd in Milano and Cortina, Italy. Um so it's two towns that are co-hosting, which is new. Not new. Well, I guess it is new. That's kind of cool. So yeah, first time Winter Olympics hosted by two cities. The previous Winter Olympics in Italy was in Cortina 1956, and then Turin in 2006. Um, tickets for the Winter Olympics right now, US dollars can range from $370 to $2,390. That's for the opening ceremony.
SPEAKER_02I'd prefer to see the Winter Olympics than go to the Super Bowl. I I think I might too, Rick. I might be with you. Anybody in? I mean, let's do it.
SPEAKER_04I mean, I go, but I I love football.
SPEAKER_02Well, yeah, I mean I I watch it on TV. You're asking if you had a real choice.
SPEAKER_03Right. Well, yeah. I see.
SPEAKER_01This is a reality. You have to understand. Nobody listens to our opinion at all. So we're just no we're just gonna voice what would be nice to have. Yeah. I would take it. Okay. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Well, if okay. So if you're gonna go to the open ceremony, that's actually cheaper than the closing ceremony. The closing ceremony is $1,121 to $3,422. Still a better ticket. That's just the ticket to get to the ceremony. That doesn't include your airfare or anything else.
SPEAKER_01Oh, you're gonna have a place to stay and everything. Trevor Burrus, Jr. That's just walking around.
SPEAKER_04Yes. And so I just kind of looked. Yeah, go ahead. Still worth it.
SPEAKER_01Trevor Burrus, Jr. Don't they have that uh place that only the uh the athletes can go to? Trevor Burrus, Jr. The village. The village where they're having well it's just like a big old that costs a little more to get into. Yeah, I would imagine that uh bring your own condoms. They pass out the condoms as well. Yeah, because uh everybody wants to get to the gymnasts. No Olympic babies being born. Come on. Yeah. Also, uh hey, did you find out the most popular? Gymnasts. Winter Olympic sport?
unknownNo.
SPEAKER_04I didn't no.
SPEAKER_01They have all these other things to not that's mine is the most popular? Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Well, I figured you did.
SPEAKER_01It's uh figure skating.
SPEAKER_04I'm not really sure.
SPEAKER_01I mean they guys yeah. Uh it's figure skating. Yeah. I was surprised to see that. I guess if you like to watch, I thought it would be like hockey or something. Yeah. It's not. It's not. It's the figure skating. Mine is I watch hockey. Yeah, I love hockey. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Which reminds me, we have to try to get on this.
SPEAKER_04That giant slope, the giant like jump. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_02What do they call that? It's called the long jumps?
SPEAKER_04No, no, no, no. When you're at the top of the thing, it's the big long ramp.
SPEAKER_01And you just like it's called something though.
SPEAKER_04Anyway.
SPEAKER_01Um I'll find out. I'll find out. Okay.
SPEAKER_04Okay, you Google it.
SPEAKER_01All right.
SPEAKER_04I'll go on with these other things. The highest recorded Winter Olympics, money-wise.
SPEAKER_02Wow. Oh.
SPEAKER_04To run a Winter Olympic. So that was the highest $55 billion-billion dollars to build the cities, have the food, all the things.
SPEAKER_01Oh, was that in uh and then uh they leave them. There's a big article about that where and then they don't know what to do with it.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and then you have all these buildings and then they deteriorate. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Didn't some country like push out homeless small villages, build a bunch of stuff, and then something are up there. Yeah. Wasn't it Russia?
SPEAKER_04Or was it Calgary? Or I don't know.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Where they just shoved them aside. Yeah. And then now these big stadiums are sitting there and they won't even let them use them.
SPEAKER_01Amy, it's it's the luge.
SPEAKER_04Oh, okay. The luge.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, the luge. I love that thing.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_04The luge is on the sled. You're just and that's all based on how long and far you go.
SPEAKER_02That's not the luge.
SPEAKER_01Oh no?
SPEAKER_04No, not the luge.
SPEAKER_01That's a bobsled thing.
SPEAKER_04Not the bobsled thing.
SPEAKER_01I'm looking at the ski jumper thing. It says it right here. Keep going, keep going. Okay, keep going. All right.
SPEAKER_04Um the most decorated athlete in Winter Olympics was uh cross-country skiing, Norwegian guy Merritt Bjorn. Ah, Norwegian. He's got like 15 medals as well. Yep. Oh, that's hard league. Nobody knows. Um back in 1976, Colorado was one, won the Olympics like to host it, and then the voters turned it down. And it so it got moved to Austria.
SPEAKER_02Oh, Austria over Colorado.
SPEAKER_01Come on.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_01It's just ski jumping.
SPEAKER_04The voters of Colorado, they didn't want it in Denver. They didn't want it in Denver.
SPEAKER_02No. Big mistake.
SPEAKER_04Turned down the money and they moved so it moved to Austria. Billion $45 billion.
SPEAKER_01I wonder if it would have changed like their lives for like that.
SPEAKER_04Well, and then you just have all people wrecking stuff.
SPEAKER_01Like Well, I suppose. It used to be quiet. Denver used to be a quiet place in the 70s. I would have made my own thing and just sold it. There you go.
SPEAKER_04First winter Olympics were 1924 in Chamonix France. Norway holds the most gold golden medals in winter Olympics, total. Figure skating and ice hockey first appeared in the summer Olympics before the Winter Olympics were established.
SPEAKER_02Good idea. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04I'm telling you.
SPEAKER_02Not outside.
SPEAKER_04I'm telling you. And Beijing in 2022 almost entirely had artificial snow. Was the first like country that had to use all the artificial snow.
SPEAKER_01I remember that. Remember that, yeah.
SPEAKER_04And then what else do I got?
SPEAKER_01Rick, if we can remember it, it wasn't that long ago. No, no, no. I remember him.
SPEAKER_04Metal milestone, Eddie. Oh crap. Eegin, only athlete to win gold in the Winter Olympics and the Summer Olympic Games. 1920 boxing and 1932 bobsled. Boxing and bobsled. So he's the only one that has won in winter and gold. Yep. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_02I mean, they all dedicate themselves to one sport. I mean, that's pretty unique.
SPEAKER_04It's kind of unique. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01He must have been a badass, especially now they got him training since they were six. Right, right.
SPEAKER_04That's true too.
SPEAKER_01That's what they want. Figure skills. Brian and Sarah did that. Man, it takes up the whole year. You're going as less than a lot of things. Constant training all the time. For sure.
SPEAKER_04And then this year in 2026, they're because it's in two, hosted by two cities, they're going to have a two interlocking halves for their medals to represent both cities. That's cool. So it's a two-part medal design.
SPEAKER_02That's creative.
SPEAKER_04And then there's going to be mascots. The first one is Tina for the Cortina.
SPEAKER_01This I didn't know.
SPEAKER_04They're having mascots. And then my Milo is the one for the other town for Milano. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_02That's cute. Are they theirs or something?
SPEAKER_04I don't I don't know. Oh they said white and brown stoat, whatever a stoat is. And then they're also in 2026, they're having a mixed skeleton event. So I looked it up.
SPEAKER_02Oh, that's a sledding.
SPEAKER_04The skeleton event is a winter sport featured where the winter the competitor rides head first and prone, lying face down on a flat sled. Run on an ice track allows the sled to gain speed. But you're going head first. It was first contested at 1928 Olympics.
SPEAKER_02That's insane stuff.
SPEAKER_04So I'm just like, mmm. They're saying the luge is actually faster when you lay the other way. But I'm like, you're gonna go head first into a curve.
SPEAKER_02That's insane. I love watching Bobsleddis.
SPEAKER_04But yeah, so they're bringing the skeleton event back this year. So that might be interesting.
SPEAKER_01They're like little furry ferrets.
SPEAKER_04Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Sound like it's it's uh what is it called?
SPEAKER_03A skank?
SPEAKER_02Sorry. Well, I don't know. Where is this being held? I don't think we can accept anymore. Trevor Burrus, Jr.
SPEAKER_04In Milano and Cortina, Italy.
SPEAKER_02What was it called? A tin?
SPEAKER_04A skank. A stout. It's a Dodge County skank.
SPEAKER_01Like a beer. Stout. So that'd be great if it was Germany. It could be a stout. That's what you're doing.
SPEAKER_04No, not stout. Yeah, but it's this is like a like Minx or like a little ferret or like a lot of things.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Um and then the final well, two things you have for Olympics. Um in the beginning, 1924, there were 16 countries in the Winter Olympics, and now there's 90 countries in the Olympics. And then after this year, the next Winter Olympics in 2030 will be in the French Alps.
SPEAKER_02But they'll have plenty of snow there, maybe in Rhine.
SPEAKER_04Oh, yeah, for French Alps.
SPEAKER_01And they're probably smoking.
SPEAKER_04So maybe.
SPEAKER_01Hey, let's get all the stereotypes in. Make sure you know everybody listens.
SPEAKER_04It's French River Europe. And then the other thing I wanted, um, WWE has a Royal Rumble today. It's probably happening right now. Oh but then, so the Royal Rumble, whoever wins that can go um opportunity to challenge for the World Championship at WrestleMania 42 in April.
SPEAKER_02You watch that?
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Oh, you watched it. Sorry.
SPEAKER_04They're super fun. The first Royal Rumble was in 1988, and the winner was Hacksaw Jim Duggan.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Characters. Very hard. Super fun. It's very hard. You do have to be athletic to do it. However, the outcome, you have to admit, probably planned. Well, most likely.
SPEAKER_03Most still fun.
SPEAKER_01But athletic and function. It's like watching Cirque du Soleil. You know, which is they're very good.
SPEAKER_03Wow.
SPEAKER_01Right?
SPEAKER_02No. Is it the same? I don't think. I've not seen that.
SPEAKER_04And the only other crap thing about sports is the Brewers just lost Freddie Peralta in a trade to the Mets, which sucks. That's our ace pitcher. But what do we need him for?
SPEAKER_02Okay, moving out. That's ending on a bad note.
SPEAKER_04I know, right?
SPEAKER_02When did they lose?
SPEAKER_04I mean, who needs pitching in the major leagues?
SPEAKER_02We're competitive. Well, let's trade somebody some more.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_04We'll just have a really good infield. That's fine. That's all you need.
SPEAKER_01I'm exhausted. You had a lot of stuff.
SPEAKER_04And then I had to do it kind of fast because otherwise Dan would cut me off.
SPEAKER_03No, I don't.
SPEAKER_01We're going to talk about this off-air. This is bullshit. You could talk about it. We can take that to HR. I'm hungry. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04By the way, uh we don't get snacks. We don't get breaks. No.
SPEAKER_01You got water.
SPEAKER_04I did get water from one of Dan's jugs. That's true.
SPEAKER_01For those of you who don't know, I got a new uh water cooler for Christmas. It has hot air.
SPEAKER_04I think they all know.
SPEAKER_01And so do they? Are you sure?
SPEAKER_04Pretty sure.
SPEAKER_01Shut up, Amy.
SPEAKER_02Talking to you.
SPEAKER_04But don't use the hot because no one likes microplastics.
SPEAKER_02Microplastics, and you're done. You need warm jugs.
SPEAKER_01So you had two more things?
SPEAKER_04No, I'm good. That's it. That's it. Banded it on a bad note.
SPEAKER_01Just to shake it up. Very positive of you. Rick. Yeah.
unknownAmy totally rocks.
SPEAKER_01Oh no, that's not true. I'll take that again. You still rock. We don't know what he'll do. You don't have a song yet. Sorry, Rick.
SPEAKER_04Ooh, no song for Rick.
SPEAKER_01I had one, but then I didn't have time.
SPEAKER_02It's pretty cold outside, isn't it? It is. It's been cold, hasn't it?
SPEAKER_04It's not that bad.
SPEAKER_02It's pretty sucks. Rick, my brother. You don't work outside, do you? You heard my story.
SPEAKER_04I have to walk from my all the way to the thing to do.
SPEAKER_02Okay, that sucks enough. That does suck. Yeah, Dan's story being stuck out, you know, in the cold the other night. That was that was cold. It was three. Yep. I kept looking at my temperature gauge. I'm like, mm-hmm. This is fun suffering. I work outside sometimes. You do. I had to fix the garage door.
SPEAKER_01Rick is a handyman. I'm a handyman. He's very good.
SPEAKER_02Now, Wisconsin is not the only place that has issues with winter. You'd think uh Florida, perfect paradise, right? That's that's where we're going uh in two weeks. Well, look out, it's gonna be great. Look out, Dan. Watch from above. Why? Because uh you know about the uh iguanas that are falling from trees. Yes, I heard about this. Okay. Bring them back. It's real. My niece lives in uh South Florida, so she doesn't get this a lot, but she has nearly been struck by falling iguana. And they struck? They are and it makes a plop, apparently. They hit with the floor.
SPEAKER_04Aren't they for like frozen?
SPEAKER_02Or they're like they're gonna be able to do that. They literally get so okay. In Florida, cold-blooded iguanas struggle to maintain their core body temperature in the winter months when temperatures drop and sustain to near freezing or below, non-native green iguanas can temporarily go into a state of they call torpor, where they temporarily lose all muscle control. Um essentially the iguanas are experiencing paralysis. They wake up, now I I don't know about you, but I you know, when I when I got a call the call the other night to come help Dan, I mean, I ran out the door, and when I open that door and I hit that cold air, I go into a little bit of paralysis. Hard to get to the truck.
SPEAKER_01I get that way when I want to have sex. It just can't.
SPEAKER_03Whoa, that took a turn. So we're talking about something else now.
SPEAKER_01What I get paralyzed. You get paralyzed when you're not sure. I think we need to talk about this. That's fine. That's what I heard. I'm too old. Sorry. So in in Florida. In Florida, they are an invasive species. They are not. They are invasive. No. They and they they dig up your dry their your lawn and shit. It's a they're a menace down there. And they're exploding.
SPEAKER_02Now you know that they exploded. Oh, like the exploding trees. They're the population is exploding. The population is easy. Yeah. Yeah. Um population along the.
SPEAKER_04They don't paralyze when they want sex, then.
SPEAKER_02Oh no. No, they're unlike Dan. They're uh they're ready with the call, apparently.
SPEAKER_03Noise. Noise.
SPEAKER_01Dan, it's a blue pill. I'm just saying a guy when we went down there, uh, he gave me his card because they they collect, they capture the iguanas and they kill them and they make stuff out of them.
SPEAKER_04Oh, that's mean.
SPEAKER_01Like meats. You can get meat. And also they capture like they're the same people that like capture crocodiles and like anacondas and stuff. Yes. And they are not paid for by the state because they won't insure them. So they're on their own when they do this.
SPEAKER_04They shouldn't hope they get eaten.
SPEAKER_02Iguanas can can grow up to like ten feet from tip to nose. Till you're not.
SPEAKER_04That's what they deserve.
SPEAKER_02So that they also those aren't the only poor creatures down there that get affected by that. Um sea turtles.
SPEAKER_00No, also get affected.
SPEAKER_02They go into paralysis, but you don't see them because they stay in the bottom of water usually. But they'll because they won't they don't need to breathe like I guess iguanas do. Um the other problem uh animals that you don't feel sorry for at all are the Burmese python. Um they see. Nobody cares about them. I mean, those that that's another thing. The Burmese python are exploding in population. Are they uh are they invasive? I can't I can't remember. No. They they were brought in, yeah. Because somebody let them go in their backyard when they got sick of them and then they flushed them. Well they got too big, probably. Do you ever see that stuff?
SPEAKER_04Once they can capture up bigger than you, you've probably got to get rid of them.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Yeah. But not in the backyard. In the sewer? It's better in New York, yes. In New York. Now, apparently local authorities also in if you go to Florida, Dan, if you see a half-frozen alligator. Right. Don't approach it and try to pet it. So what if I need some new boots? That spoils the vacation. You can do that poker in the eye.
SPEAKER_04Now my God.
SPEAKER_02Authorities are warning people, please do not approach frozen, half-frozen alligators that look fake, but just snouts are sticking out of the ice because apparently people are doing that. Now that's what happens in Florida. People are dumb.
SPEAKER_03They're just dumb.
SPEAKER_02Alligators survive freezing temperatures by entering a state of brumation, a form of cold-induced dormancy, where they often freeze their snouts in the ice to keep their nostrils above the water for freezing, for breathing. So just their noses sticking out and maybe their eyeballs. But just so they can breathe. They'll just sit there frozen. All you'll see is the little the mouth, kind of. People are apparently walking up and petting them and slapping them.
SPEAKER_04Mean.
SPEAKER_02To see if they can wake them up.
SPEAKER_01We send all these reports of people getting. We should send all our influencers there to see if they can do that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. I would love to get rid of that. You think Tide Pods are cool. Try slapping this alligator mouth. No, stupid. Dumb. So don't don't pet uh don't pet the crocodiles. I won't.
SPEAKER_04You all deserve to lose limbs.
SPEAKER_02There's just they're just cold. They're just that just cold. That's just cold. Um the other thing. No, not that one. Not that one. Oh, oh wait. Go ahead. I don't know. Did you send me this about shoes? Did you tell me to look this up? Yeah. Dan wanted me to look up.
SPEAKER_04Isn't that a sad story though?
SPEAKER_02What happened to the 200 Victorian shoes that washed up on a beach? Did you hear about that?
SPEAKER_04Victorian shoes. Like from Titanic or what?
SPEAKER_02Hundreds of century-old shoes, centuries old shoes that washed up on the beach last month are having to be kept in a bin filled with water in a woman's home while their origins are verified.
SPEAKER_01On Welsh. On a Welsh beach, I think it was. Welsh Beach. You know, uh you know who is Welsh? Uh Rachel Weiss, the gal from uh from uh the uh mommy movies you know am I but the black hair yeah you're Welsh?
SPEAKER_02I'm Welsh. My dad's Welsh, my mom is Welsh. Oh she was Welsh.
SPEAKER_01I thought you were Greek, Rick.
SPEAKER_02No. Actually, I have no Greek in me at all.
SPEAKER_01I'm not I don't know. For those of you who don't know, Rick is a very attractive man with uh semi-tan skin and we do this, so he's fine with it. They were calling him Welsh. Oh, yeah, I love it. And and Greek. And it's it's it's bad. I'm I'm a mess. Yeah. I love it. Yeah, but yeah, Rachel Weiss is Welsh. Does she have old shoes? Uh no, but she's pretty much.
SPEAKER_04Did they wash up on the beach?
SPEAKER_01Uh like leather boots and stuff. They have all these.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_01So I don't know. The black leather boots are a lot. All they have is origin, but I mean why they washed up on this thing now is right.
SPEAKER_02Where'd they all come from? They thought to date back to the early 1900s. Like were discovered by volunteers cleaning up rock pools.
SPEAKER_01All they have is like theories on this rick. Yeah, they have no idea where these original killing of something? They think it was an Italian cargo vessel that sank near Tusker Rock about 150 years ago. They got some kind of thing on that.
SPEAKER_04Were they hauling shoes?
SPEAKER_01Uh cowling leather goods, and it was called Leather Goods. The the the ship was called the Habadashery. And so it sank. Was it? No, it's not good. I was gonna say that's not what I have. It's a pretty good one, though.
SPEAKER_04You can't tell if it's gonna be like lessening the integrity of the show.
SPEAKER_01I think the shoes came uh embedded in the sediment and helped preserve them. So and prevent decay, because they're in good condition. You could sell them for some theater's gonna snatch those up.
SPEAKER_02You just made people looking to say, well, we really want to use and reuse these shoes. I'm like, they've been sitting in water for how how long? Uh this picture doesn't show one shoe that I would try to wear. I don't think so. And you know what at all? You know what? No laces. All the laces are gone. Yeah, they're no laces, they're like leather bottoms to the colour.
SPEAKER_04Well, the Victorian ones are probably super old moccasins.
SPEAKER_02Exactly. They look they lose.
SPEAKER_01They don't have a Nike swoosh, they don't have a hook on the back.
SPEAKER_02You can't pump up the ankles. There's no soles. That would be fun. This is a crap.
SPEAKER_03Pump up on the ankle.
SPEAKER_02A bunch of crap shoes, man. Made of leather.
SPEAKER_04There's no roller skates on the bottom. Right.
SPEAKER_02Little lights that go flicker, flicker. No.
SPEAKER_04Flicker, flicker.
SPEAKER_01Have we crossed crap? I think I think our generation definitely needs to be entertained all the time. There's just no getting out of it.
SPEAKER_02Well, talking about condoms in the Olympics.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yes, we were. I'm trying to segue to this one. So that's smooth.
SPEAKER_01Segway.
SPEAKER_02Segway. Segway is another. Dan asked a question, and I like the question, man. Yes. What country in the world is the considered the most promiscuous country in the world? Anybody? Because they're harny. And if you don't know what promiscuous means, that means Oh yes, tell us. It means they're hardy. Getting dirty. They're hardy. They made their harny. Making love. So is it though?
SPEAKER_01I'll tell you what my guess is. Not only that. So my guess was it was going to be France or Prague, you know, the Czech Republic. Something like that where they can get where they sell it, like in the red light district, you know? Yes. So I thought that that would be it. It was not. No. No, Rick.
SPEAKER_02You have any guesses, Annie? Based on studies regarding the average number of sexual partners and cultural attributes towards sex. Australia is frequently cited as one of the most sexually active or promiscuous countries. It was all these citizens. Everyone's just telling their story of it. Reporting an average of 13.3 partners. Other high-ranking countries include Brazil, does not surprise me.
SPEAKER_04Not surprising.
SPEAKER_02The Brazilian, yeah. Greece, which uh Turkey. Well, you called me Greek. He called you lots of stuff. Greece, Turkey, which reported the highest average number of partners at 14 and a half in some analysis. This is Wow. I don't know. Turkey, but they don't talk about that many partners. I think I had three. Are these agreeable partners? Yeah. Well being Turkey and Brazil, who knows? That's not that that wasn't reported.
SPEAKER_04I mean, Brazil has lots of kidnapping.
SPEAKER_01But Australia, that's the one that surprised me was Australia. I would have never guessed.
SPEAKER_04They get hot with the fever.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. I mean, it started out as a penal colony, right? Australia. So a lot of prisoners. What else are they going to do? Yeah, that's true. Yeah, you guys have their way out.
SPEAKER_01I'm going to look up the countries who have the least amount of sex too.
SPEAKER_02Let's see, key details of recent analysis of global sexual behaviors. Austral Australia, yeah, was often ranked near the top for the highest sexual partner counts and liberal attitudes toward premarital sex. Turkey frequently reports the highest lifetime average number of partners, followed closely by Australia, New Zealand, and Iceland. There you go. Cold weather, right?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Did you just go over them? 14, 13, and 10. Yeah, New Zealand was pretty high too. They had 13 partners per like a lifetime? Yeah.
SPEAKER_04So if you have 13 or more that considers you promiscuous, according to that.
SPEAKER_01That's what they're saying. Yeah, a week.
SPEAKER_04In a week. That's why I said is this lifetime or is this lifetime?
SPEAKER_01You don't achieve slam hound.
SPEAKER_02I guess average followers. Yeah. Lifetime, average number of sexual partners.
SPEAKER_01So look at this. So people in China. China is has in the least China, Taiwan, and Vietnam all have the least amount of sex. People in China are reported an average of 96 intercourses per year. So it deserves to be on the least sexually active countries in the world.
SPEAKER_04But who's reporting this? Like how many people are going, I'm having sex 50 times a week like ball saying that.
SPEAKER_01We are here to teach. We are not here to deceive.
SPEAKER_02Influencing factors, data such as the such as analyzed by the Knap Lab. So the Knap Lab apparently is a big place to work. Place to uh you know get information of things like this. Often consider factors like legality of prostitution.
SPEAKER_04Okay, that's is that I guess it's a sexual partner.
SPEAKER_02Average age of losing virginity and social acceptance of casual sex.
SPEAKER_04We're going down some dirt paths.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's not reported, apparently, uh Darren, the dirt path. Throw down Vulgar Road, Aaron. What are you talking about? Oh my God. Um Let's see. Countries with higher cultural restrictions, such as India and China, huh? Tend to rank much lower on these, often with significantly fewer reported sexual partners. Boy, but China has a lot of people, don't they?
SPEAKER_04They're pretty smart, though.
SPEAKER_02But they do it smartly though. Okay. Well, that makes sense.
SPEAKER_01And then she said you brought them. For those of you who don't know, we just uh stopped recording about a second. Not we. So now we're back. Not we.
SPEAKER_04You know what? We don't get to touch the buttons. I've just Dan. All right.
SPEAKER_01It's fine. It's all fine. So we tried to pretend that it didn't happen, but we just couldn't do it because we're not mature enough now, are we? No. No. No, not by a long shot. Oh my God. But yeah. So China and Vietnam, I would have never thought Vietnam. They probably would just. Anyway.
SPEAKER_04I don't know. But if you're in jungle, ugh.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah. It's the last place you want to. Well, one of the last places. Yeah. But imagine there's like new diseases there as well that we don't even know about. Right.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you don't want to open yourself that up. In the jungle, I mean.
SPEAKER_04Things curl up your things when you get in the water and things.
unknownOh.
SPEAKER_01Jeez. All right. I think.
SPEAKER_04You started it, man.
SPEAKER_01I got nothing else. We'll call it there. We'll be back again. This is the Dan Beaver Podcast. I'm Dan. I'm Rick. I'm Amy. Thank you. We're gonna have to talk about that. No. We're gonna have brand new four. I wanted to improv.
SPEAKER_04Oh, there it was. Dead silence.
SPEAKER_01Thank you.
SPEAKER_02Again, everybody.
SPEAKER_01Bye. Have a good one.
SPEAKER_02See you later.