 Welcome to Progressive Discussions. I'm your host James P. Madonna. As seen on the web since 2007, welcome, everyone. It is another unseasonably hot climate change day here in Northeastern New Jersey. But I can't complain too much because Southern Europe, Middle East, and America's South is having a much worse heatwave than we are. It happens to be the end of July 2023. Time goes by very fast. And before you know it, it will be the month of August. My birthday is August 1st. And I might as well sink my teeth right into the topics for this week's Progressive Discussions. I want to thank celebrity performing artist Paul Anthony Mantier, and clothing designer as well, Paul Anthony Mantier, for a great show. Northern Lights tie-dye TV last night, live stream show. Unfortunately, YouTube took it off. Now, I had it streaming to YouTube and Twitter. The first time I had it streaming on YouTube and Facebook. So it was YouTube and Twitter. YouTube put the word copyright on the first show. And evidently, they did not allow the second show, the recorded show, pre-recorded because it was live stream. They didn't allow it on YouTube because of copyright music. But here's the thing, Paul Anthony Mantier was playing singing and playing the famous songs that were copyrighted. It wasn't the original artist. It was not the original song. And he told me that there are many tribute musicians and tribute bands that have videos already on YouTube. So why take our show off? It might be another reason. They might be targeting certain people that reveal the real hard-hitting truth or progressives, but we go deep. So maybe they're targeting us, just like Facebook, like the scumbag of old scumbags, Mark Zuckerberg is targeting my right-hand man and co-host Mick Vaughan-Rabins over on Facebook, unjustly so, even when he does nothing. So the social media does not practice the First Amendment at all. They don't care about the First Amendment. They don't even respect your private information. Zuckerberg was selling your private information without your authorization, without you knowing it. And maybe that's the reason why telemarketers and scammers every day and night are bothering me. They're calling me using phone numbers and names of people I know personally. Talk about a sneaky way to get you to pick up the phone. People I know personally using their names and phone numbers to get me to pick up the phone so they can try to scam me. And I'm too street smart to be scammed. Believe me, I could pick up. I could see all red flags immediately. So why did they take it off? If Paul Anthony-Mantia was like a retro band singing in a different way, of course, singing popular copyright songs, let me get to the first subject here. Well, let me open this one up. I think it's funny. I think it's rather amusing. I always say that it's really frustrating because I had to take the show, I had to take the link from Twitter and put it on Facebook so Paul can see it. But Zuckerberg does not properly let people view links from other websites. It's like pretty lame. And it doesn't show an image of the video. It doesn't even show the title of the video. Yeah, yeah, get into the other thing. You know, there's tribute bands that already have videos on YouTube, better not take them, but they single us out. OK, I just want to bring up what's going on here. Who is this crap? Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Here we go. Hey, Gunner. Gunner Lin Boom is too alpha. What's up, bras? Well, it's only one bra. So, well, two bras, you and me, so far. Well, yeah, well, they hate men. That's why they don't have our best interests. That's why they want to sabotage and destroy the traditional family unit and dating and romance that has been going on for hundreds of thousands of years between a heterosexual male and a female. They want to destroy all that. Well, let me get to this. No, I did not. No, I haven't seen it yet. Is it real lame? Anti-male? Oh, so they're mocking real masculinity, right? Are they promoting blue pill, beta simp? What's the other word? They used to use gentlemen, cavalier, gentlemen? Or are they promoting men with no spine? No backbone? Anti-male, huh? So it's a feminist movie. That's what you're saying. They have a strong, politically correct message. All right, let me get to this one and see what you think. House Republicans propose planting a trillion trees as they move away from climate change denial. The tree planting push has drawn intense pushback from environmental scientists who call it a distraction from cutting emissions from fossil fuels. Well, planting a trillion trees is not going to cancel out pollution from the fossil fuel industry. I think it's just a big distraction. When you watch the mainstream media, I know that government or the oligarch that owns the media, I know they throw many ridiculous, frivolous distractions at the mainstream population to prevent us from seeing what's really going on. And if you're a truth-seeking, independent, critical, free thinker, you will spot the distractions, just like you will spot the red flags with a feminist modern female. OK, by Associated Press, as Speaker Kevin McCarthy visited a natural gas drilling site in Northeast Ohio to promote House Republicans' plan to sharply decrease domestic production of energy from fossil fuels last month. Signs of rising global temperatures could not be ignored. Smoke from Canadian wildfires hung in the air. Yeah, aside from California's, when the speaker was asked about climate change and forest fires, he was ready with a response. Plant the trillion trees. Well, he says trillion because it rhymes with trees. The idea, simply yet massively ambitious, revealed recent Republican thinking on how to address climate change. The party is no longer denying that global warming exists, yet is searching for a response to sweltering summers, weather disasters, and rising sea levels that doesn't involve abandoning their enthusiastic support for American produce energy from burning oil, coal, and gas. Yeah, because they're getting paid off by big oil. That's why the greedy, corrupt, lying pieces of shit, lowest of the low, the lowest common denominators. A corrupt, greedy, capitalist politician of the establishment. We need to manage our forests better, so our environment can be stronger. Yeah, right, stronger, my ass. Yeah, said McCarthy, Republican from California, adding, let's replace Russian natural gas with American natural gas. There you fly away. We're waving you off like. And let's not only have a cleaner world, let's have a safer world for the sky so full of shit. Easy push button answers coming from Republicans. The Biden administration also has also boosted exports of liquefied natural gas to Europe after Russia, one of the continent's largest suppliers of energy, invaded Ukraine, Democratic President Joe Biden has also said that coal, oil and gas will be part of America's energy supply for years to come. Well, President Joe Biden doesn't sound like he's optimistic and enthusiastic over the Green New Deal, over the Green Movement. That's probably because he's an establishment Democrat who is also on the take from the mega rich and corporations that have donated to his campaign. And he owes big favors in return. Scientists overwhelmingly agree that heat-trapping gases released from the combustion of fossil fuels are pushing up global temperatures, upending weather patterns around the globe and endangering animal species. But the solution long touted by Democrats and environmental advocates, government action to force emissions reductions remains a non-starter with most Republicans. Enter the idea of planting a trillion trees, a 2019 study suggested that planting trees to suck up heat-trapped carbon dioxide from the atmosphere could be one of the most effective ways to fight climate change. Well, that's true. Major conservation groups and former President Donald Trump, who downplayed humanity's role in climate change, embraced the idea because Donald Trump was buddy-buddy with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia and all the oil that were all interconnected. But the tree planting push has drawn intense pushback from environmental scientists who call it a distraction from cutting emissions from fossil fuels. The authors of the original study have also clarified that planting trees does not eliminate the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Planting one trillion trees would also require a massive amount of space, roughly the size of the continent, of the continental United States, and more trees could even increase the risk of wildfires by serving as fuel in a warming world. In other words, it is definitely not a quick fix. And I could have guessed that. And here's a photo. I'm not going to go on and on and on. Here's a photo of Douglas fir seedlings, a beautiful tree, very aromatic pine tree. Douglas firs, Frazier firs, among the best trees during the winter solstice yule season. Douglas fir seedlings at New Mexico State University's John T. Harrington Forestry Research Center in Amora. No, it's not a quick fix. NBC People, not by a long shot. No, this is from CNN. Now that stupid Barbie song is playing in my head. I don't know, the one from the 1990s? It's really ridiculous. The Barbie world, the Barbie world. So ridiculous. Guy who sings it sounds like a little fruit booty. Fruit booty. OK. What good, warm ocean temperatures could mean for a hurricane season, right? And there's a photo of what? People walk past destroyed houses and businesses in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian in Matlach, Florida on October 1, 2022. Well, they say it's going to get worse. The hurricane season of 2023 is going to be really bad because of the, I guess, the El Mino and the Pacific Ocean and the very unusual warm temperatures in the North Atlantic, which the sea temperatures in the Atlantic pretty much are what determines the strength of the hurricanes. Because the hurricanes take place when wind blows. The hot air over the Sahara Desert in North Africa blows it westward over the Atlantic Ocean, where the temperature of the Atlantic collides with the temperature coming from the Sahara. Bombarding me, we're all kinds of frigging. No, forget about the snow. The Atlantic hurricane season is headed into uncharted territory with water temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico warmer than they have ever been on record. Seasonal forecasters are warning. It means you need to prepare for a more uncertain forecast for the rest of the season with the potential for more storms and strong winds. OK, and there you see the Caribbean. Well, not the whole Caribbean, but you see the Caribbean. The Caribbean with Florida over here. The Gulf of Mexico, they call this the Straits of Florida or something, separating Florida and Cuba. Sea surface temperatures around parts of Florida and the Bahamas are warmer than 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Wow, that is extremely hot. That's like a bathtub shown here in shades of purple. OK, so the water around the Bahamas, I'm not sure if you can see my cursor. And the Florida Keys, which are tip of Florida and some parts of South Cuba. Well, actually, it goes down to Northern Cuba here. And a couple of tiny sections of the Gulf of Mexico, 90 degrees, incredible. Warm ocean water is one of the key ingredients for fueling hurricanes. And it's been in abundance so far this year. Scientists first sounded the alarm in April. And the ocean warmth has only escalated since. Water in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic has been record warm, especially for this early in the year. It includes off the coast of Florida where water temperatures in the Florida Keys were close to 97 degrees in some spots last week. I'm telling you, it's like entering the ocean and feeling like you're taking a bath. Or going into a hot jacuzzi. Almost 100 degrees is unheard of. This is very serious. You hear that, Republicans? Capitalists who is causing this destruction of our planet? It is important because warm ocean water breeds stronger, bigger, and wetter storms. Because hurricanes, the energy they need to grow, and sometimes rapidly intensify. Something hurricane forecasters told CNN we could see more of this season hasn't even started yet. Warm oceans can also lead to more evaporation and bring out more rainfall falling from any storms. Well, that means torrential floods, devastating floods. Not to mention the stronger winds. Minister Asshole personified Governor Ron DeSantis doesn't know what he's in for to come. When does hurricane season really start? Late August, right? And into the fall. But hurricane season predictions involve more than just warm water. It's just one factor in the birth and survival of tropical cyclones. And it is creating more uncertainty than usual in what could happen the rest of the hurricane season. Uncertainty, uncertainty, uncertainty. That's really the story going forward with this season. Dr. Phil Klotzbach, a research scientist in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University. Klotzbach and the team at CSU are some of the pioneers of long-term hurricane season outlooks and just increased the number of expected hurricanes and major hurricanes in their prediction for this season due to the warmer water in the Atlantic. That's what I was saying before I read the article. OK. Colorado State University Atlantic Hurricane Forecast 2023. Name storms. Issued date. OK. July 6th, 2018. The average going from 1981 to 2010 with 12, right? Hurricanes, actual bona fide hurricanes, which is starting, starts with category one. The date issued for this prediction is also July 6th, 9, the average from 1981 to 2010 is 6. OK. Major hurricanes. These are the big cojones. OK. It's predicted that we will have four major hurricanes. These are the super destructive ones. And the average between 1981 and 2010 are three. And then it mentions the effect of El Niño, which typically suppresses activity in the Atlantic with increased wind. Well, I know one thing's for sure. It affected the trade winds. We don't have the trade winds in the Atlantic, like we normally should. Yeah, bad situation, a very bad situation indeed. We catch up with Conner. What do you think about Richard Feynman and other old school physicists, our current scientists, morons compared to them? Well, the best scientists are the ones whose predictions become a reality and whose science fiction becomes science fact. Depends on their record. Depends on their records. Why is Notre Dame so damn famous? Because he hit the nail right on the head so many times. I don't know. I really don't know. But I know we need all of them. We need all scientists collaborating together as a team. That's how they dealt with any crisis. Who would win in a fight between Ron DeSantis and Governor Newsom from California? You mean in a physical fight, like MMA, or are you talking about an election? In an election, in a campaign, Governor Newsom. In a fight, Governor Newsom looks much more physically fit overall than Chubbzy, Ubsy, Ron DeSantis, even though DeSantis would be able to outshout him. What is it, big Foghorn, Lakehorn, Foghorn, Lakehorn? I'll say it here, son. I say, I'll say, I know chicken hawk. Oh, well, this is not good. You know, getting back to Florida, you know how so many brain cell deficient humanoids have let loose exotic creatures into the wild that become invasive species in Florida, causing severe harm to native flora and fauna? Well, here we go again. Excuse me if my throat sounds a little raspy. It could be dialogy. I think there's still more particulates in the atmosphere from the Canadian wildfires. That's what they're saying. And I think it's true between that and hay fever, allergic reactions. Invasive green anacondas post-nude threat to Everglades ecosystem. Oh, boy, the largest snake in the world, just edging out the reticulated python, the green anaconda. That's all they need. It's bad enough they have the Burmese pythons. Florida Everglades have been home to various invasive species over the years. But a new concern is rising with the increasing incitings of green anacondas in the region since the year 2000. Oh, that's enough time for them to bang out a lot of baby anacondas because their anacondas are live bearers. They don't lay eggs. Just bang out the babies. Give birth, right? Fresh from the mother's coochie. These enormous snakes, native to South America, have captured the attention of experts and sparking worries about their impact on the delicate ecosystem of Florida. Andrew Durso, a biology professor at FGCU, shed light on the green anacondas characteristic stating, it's the world's heaviest snake. They're native to South America. They're a giant constrictor. Yeah, were you seeing the movie? Of course, the horror movie with Jennifer Lopez. And I think her current husband was an aphelac, aphelac. I mean, aphelac, Ben aphelac. I'm thinking of the insurance commercial with the duck. The males can grow up to 15 feet and weigh over 100 pounds. That's not what I hear. I hear they can easily reach there. While females can reach staggering lengths of up to 26 feet with the maximum record of weight, being a jaw dropping 440 pounds. Oh, when that wraps around you, you're done. You're a goner. You're a goner. I don't think people have the strength to untwine the 4 to 140-pound snake from around you. Unravel, rather. What sets green anacondas apart from other invasive snakes like pythons? It's their build. Yeah, their world built. Pythons are long anacondas. Pythons are long anacondas are fat. The presence of smaller anacondas, even juveniles in the wild, suggests the possibility of reproduction, indicating a worrisome trend of the concerns surrounding the green anacondas centers and on their invasiveness and potential impact on the Everglades. Yeah, well, they love the water and they're excellent swimmers. With reports of these snakes found away from civilization, there is a growing fear that their population might be larger than expected. And they could disrupt the already fragile balance of the ecosystem. Well, without going on, you definitely have the gist. You definitely got the gist of this problem. That's for damn sure. You see, I think most problems in life as well as most problems on the planet Earth are caused by despicable humans, humanoids. They are avoidable problems. And they just continue. They continue without humans. Boy, OK, this is definitely a consumer-oriented article at Chisley's Hall of Shame inductee from the New York Post. Here we go. Las Vegas airplane passengers faint while waiting for a takeoff in scorching 111 degrees weather without air conditioning. And this is several people passed out Monday while waiting for their airplane, which had no air conditioning despite a sweltering 111 degree heatwave to take off from a Las Vegas airport. That also meant that the tires of the airliners sitting on even higher temperatures. Passengers aboard a Delta Airlines flight to Atlanta were taxing at Harry Reid International Airport behind over a dozen other planes. When the pilot announced, the plane had to turn around due to multiple emergencies. Fox News reported citing Foxfield producer Christa Garvin, who was on the flight. Shame on you, Delta Airlines. Several, what the hell is this shit? Several, you see what they're doing? They bombard me with advertisements. Several passengers had passed out and some had even soiled themselves, sending frenzied flight attendants running up and down aisles with oxygen tanks. At least five people were wheeled off the plane on stretchers. Hey, do I see lawsuits in the foreseeable very near future? And the pilot instructed passengers to hit your call button if you have a medical. A medical emergency. Flight attendants also felt ill during the four hours the group was held on the hot idling plane. Four hours? No wonder there were medical emergencies. Yeah, I definitely see lawsuits. At least one was wheeled off the plane on a stretcher while wearing an oxygen mask. Passengers were given the option to disembark the plane. But we're told if they left, it could take days for them to be booked on another flight to Atlanta. Well, Delta Airlines, you are definitely inductees. I'll leave you alone, TikTok. You are definitely inductees into the progressive discussions as well as shame. Four hours of 110, 111 degrees with no air conditioning. Several people passed out Monday while waiting for their Delta airplane. Thank God. Here's some photos. I don't understand why they would keep the passengers on a plane with that temperature with no air conditioning four hours. They're going to get hit so bad with lawsuits. No wonder these poor people couldn't breathe. At least five people were wheeled off the plane on stretchers and the pilot instructed passengers to hit your call button if you're having a medical emergency. Well, of course, four hours at 111 degrees. Look at this. While many chose to stay, temperatures remain high. That Monday, the temperatures were between 111 and 115 degrees. How could you sit in a hot aircraft that hot and be able to breathe for four hours without having a medical emergency? I don't understand it. I don't get it. I'm trying to see if. Well, this is an amusing article. But true, but it gives me a chance to say something, to joke around, and to bash the main topic based on the photograph. OK, here we go. The public pool in Astoria, Queens in 2021. The pool is closed this summer for renovations. Renovations. Can you imagine how much urination? Forget about renovation. Can you imagine how much urination takes place in a public pool, especially in New York City? All those kids peeing at the same time. Why America stopped building public pools? Do you have to be told why? Growing up in not me. I mean, Nathaniel Meyerson of CNN. Growing up in Louisville, Kentucky. Oh, well, not Nathaniel Meyerson. I'm sorry, Jerome Sutton. OK, growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, Jerome Sutton looked forward all week for his chance to swim at Algonquin Park Pool on the weekend. It was like Christmas in the summertime, said Sutton. Now 66 and a local minister. It was the best time of the week. Yeah, that's because people were not degenerate dysfunctional pigs and slobs back then. They had what was called manners and respect. Otherwise, they get the shit kicked out of them by their parents. OK, Louisville public parks were desegregated in 1955, a year before Sutton was born. This included the newly built Algonquin outdoor swimming pool on the west side of Louisville. It cost 35 cents to swim at Algonquin at the time. Gee, I swim every damn day when the weather's warm. For that price, Sutton said. And he and his seven siblings took turns going on alternating weekends because the family could not afford to send all eight children at the same time. Yeah, I guess the average wage back then was also very low. But it was the prosperity years of the 1950s, the Eisenhower years. So unless, well, first of all, if a man does not have a good paying job, what does he do in having seven children? It's very irresponsible, right? Eight children, I'm sorry, eight children. If you can't afford 35 cents times eight, he shouldn't be having eight children. It's totally insane. These people that take everything in the Bible especially the Old Testament, where the right wing evangelicals only pay attention to the Old Testament, they cherry pick what they like. I mean, be fruitful and multiply. They're taking that way too literally. I mean, if you don't have a pot to piss in, or if you don't have a pool to piss in, you don't have eight children. We would go swimming. That makes a big statement against segregation, he said. There was an organized effort on the part of government to keep children engaged with an activity. Public pools have played a critical role in American culture over the past century. But as climate change and extreme heat worsened, they are taking on an urgent public health role. Heat kills more Americans than any other weather related disaster according to data tracked by the National Weather Service. I think this article is going in a different direction. I don't think it's public urination. It says here, a drain swimming pool shows how racism harms white people too. Yet just as public pools become more important than ever, they're disappearing from sight. Pools have become harder to find for Americans who lack a pool in their backyard, can't afford a country club, or don't have a local YMCA, a legacy of segregation, the privatization of pools and starved public recreational budgets have led to the decline of public places to swim in many cities. If the public pool isn't available and open, you don't swim, so to say. You soak in the bathtub with cold water, and you play with your rubber ducky or your little plastic boat, says you're swimming as mental health. Well, I will, I will say this. In Cabo San Lucas, which is at the tip of Baja, Mexico, the hotel I stood in had a ground pool, and the desert heat was so strong. And this includes another hotel in Bahia de Los Angeles, in Honas, at right before the beginning of the Sea of Cortez, on the east side, east coast of Baja. Okay, again, the desert temperature was so intense that going into the pool was like taking a bath, not refreshing at all. You were better off just taking a shower, a cold shower, if you can get cold water out of the shower. And they're talking about kids missing out on learning how to swim, you know, having something meaningful to do during the summer vacation, fitness classes, blah, blah, blah, blah, swimming is mental health, it's therapy. Oh, it's fantastic. Exercise that is involved with swimming is A number one, especially like for the elderly, they have these classes where they do certain exercises with these, you know, foam, exercise tools in the pool with an instructor. I highly recommend it, but not in a public pool outside that feels like a bathtub that's crowded with kids that are constantly pissing in a damp pool. And then they show an area, let's just say how black beaches became white wealth in the coastal south. Yeah, in other words, the low income kids, African-American kids really don't have any place to go. That's what they're saying in the summer, where the white families that own homes have in-ground pools, because they have to, because they're living in the south. Okay, what are the, oh, this talks about extreme temperatures that's going on. The Middle East had the hottest recorded temperature on the planet Earth, it even blew away Death Valley, California blew away 130 degrees Fahrenheit. I think this was over 150 degrees. Yeah, it certainly was. Yeah, we're almost done with the topics. Won't be too long. Okay. The heat index reached 152 degrees in the Middle East, nearly at the limit for human survival. Okay, well, that little bottle of drinking water is better than nothing. But the man pours water on his head to cool off during a heat wave in Tehran, Iran, on July 11th. As the northern hemisphere approaches summer's peak. That's right, the dog days of summer are closing in. We're in it right now. That's when my birthday takes place during the dog days of summer. Summer's peak, he is testing the limits of human survival in Earth's hottest spots and demonstrating the extremes that are increasingly possible and probable against the backdrop of accelerating global warming. In recent days, China set an all-time high of nearly 126 degrees Fahrenheit while Death Valley hit 128 degrees Fahrenheit. Oh, so the news media rounded it off to 130. Yeah, typical carnival barkers of the American news media. Too shy of the highest reliably measured temperature on Earth, Phoenix experienced a record-breaking 19th consecutive day at or above 110 degrees. Tuesday, and in the Middle East, the heat index reached 152 degrees Fahrenheit, nearing or surpassing levels thought to be the most intense the human body can withstand. And here we go, it's a little map. Persian Gulf International Airport in Iran reported a heat index of 152 degrees Fahrenheit, which is equivalent to 66.7 degrees Celsius during this day at 12.30 p.m. in the afternoon. Those are intolerable conditions for human and animal life. There's Matt, says water temperatures were 90 degrees Fahrenheit, I guess this is the down here, it says here resist the United Arab Emirates. I'm not sure what we're looking at here. Well, if this is supposed to be like water, either the Persian Gulf or the Red Sea or the Indian Ocean, why couldn't it make it blue? Anyway, we're in trouble. We're in trouble. Thank you, capitalist right-wingers for thinking that you can live on money no matter what, well, guess what? When the planet Earth is dying, you will sadly learn that you cannot eat money. Your billionaires will be living on borrowed time. You may survive longer than the mainstream population. Well, I take that back, you will survive longer than the mainstream population, but your time will come. The sands of your hourglass will rapidly fall and time will tick away because when your shit hits the fan, you're not even gonna have shit to live on. Okay. Well, this article is based on a gradual event. Let me see if I can do this quickly. The modern sixth mass, the sixth mass extinction event will be worst and first predicted. The report argues that nearly half of the planet's animal species are now in decline, but unlike past mass extinctions, this one has been entirely caused by humans. See, see what I was talking about there? Entirely caused by humans. You got on the numbers on the left, percentage of the species increasing, stable, decreasing unknown. Insects, forget it, are plummeting fish, they're all plummeting. Amphibians, mammals, birds, reptiles, I mean reptiles. Tragically the global mass extinction event that we find ourselves in the midst of will be even worse than originally predicted according to a recent study. The international team of scientists came to their conclusion after analyzing population trends data for more than 71,000 animal species, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and insects from around the world to see how their numbers have changed since record keeping first began. Well, without getting too scientific being that, I'm running out of time for the serious topics. It is, they are declining. Animal extinctions and the declining of life on our planet including global deforestation and the planet's fresh water consumption and food production, everything is going down. Everything is diminishing and it's all caused by the evil, selfish, greedy, despicable mankind. We are warning that biodiversity is on the brink of an extinction crisis. I'm just reading different, there's some things. All right, currently 40% of all land on earth has been altered specifically for food production to support the growing human population. Okay, agricultural loan is responsible for 90% of global deforestation and that's why we have climate change. One of the reasons aside from pollution, from big oil, the other reason is deforestation which vegetation trees are the lungs of the planet earth. The rainforest are the lungs of the planet earth and this is 50% of the reason, maybe a little more or a little less for climate change and global warming is a bad situation, real bad situation. I don't mean to rush through it but I have to do things within the time period train, sometimes I have less articles to go over and sometimes I have more. Okay, air quality worsens again, what was I saying before? That the throat and the nose doesn't lie. Air quality worsens again as Canada wildfires smoke returns to the United States. Hmm, where are they giving me? They're throwing advertisements that I can't get rid of. Oh, this is not nice when they put advertisements in front of you that you can't close. Well, guess what? I can't read the article. Thanks to the greedy, pushy, overbearing sales tactics of the New York Times. Fuck you, New York Times. I'll throw you into the chiseless hall of shame. I couldn't read the article but you got the gist of it. You got the gist of it. The wildfires in Canada have not ended yet. There are still particulates in the atmosphere and that's why I'm rubbing my nose and sneezing occasionally more often than more often than other times. And why my throat is irritated. So the tea's not helping me. Maybe an ice cold craft beer from Germany, a good lager, an Octoberfest lager will help my throat. Good morning, my dear Masumi from Japan. Masumi, good morning and happy Monday to you. It is probably 507 a.m. Monday in the Tokyo region where you live and I hope you're feeling well today. And good morning to Masumi. Thank you for stopping by to say hello from Japan, right? Okay, bear with me because it is now time to bring on my panelists and starting with my right-hand man, the one and only, my co-administrator and co-host from Chicago, Illinois, Nick von Raven. So bear with me, bear with me. Nick von Raven, where is Nick von Raven? Nick von Raven, who's the name Nick von Raven? Nick von Raven, let me just throw out the link to some more people. That's enough, that's enough. Oh, you're very welcome, Masumi. You're very welcome, you are very welcome. Bear with me while I'm partaking in this little intermission, reaching out to my panelists, okay, okay. Now we sit tight and wait, thank you. I mean, you're very welcome, Masumi. Unless you would like to come on, you would like to come on and share some of the few things about what's going on in Japan, with the weather, climate change, you know. As I currently await my panelists. So everyone, the serious half of progressive discussions, the serious topics are over and done with. So what do you feel like talking about? This is an open topic segment of progressive discussions that I call Red Pill Man Cave. And you can discuss anything you want. Whoever happens to be out there, who wants to bring up the subject in the comments area can do so. And I will display your name and comment across the lower half of the video and address what you are saying. Taking from a couple of the articles, yes, we are going to have a very bad, severe hurricane season. We just don't know how bad. And that's the problem. But, you know, the evidence does not point in a positive direction. I mean, some parts of the South Florida waters and the Caribbean have a water temperature of 90 degrees. 90 degrees. That's like taking a bath in a wintertime almost. Those with in-ground pools, I know, have hot water that is not refreshing to get into, believe me. I have been in a very hot area and entered a swimming pool that felt like a bathtub and it is not refreshing. You will not cool off in a swimming pool with a very warm temperature. If it's 90 degrees outside, let's say you're having a heat wave and it's 90, 97, even 100 degrees, whether it be dry or whether it be with the heat index with the humidity. If the water temperature is 72, 73, 75, you will cool off. You will feel, ah, you will feel refreshed. But once that water temperature starts climbing close to 80 degrees, you know, I mean, it's not gonna feel that great. I mean, it's still gonna be better than sitting lying or standing out in the hot sun in the 97 degree temperature, especially with humidity, especially. It's still going to be better, but it's not gonna be the same. It's just not gonna be the same as a normal temperature. Well, hello. Good afternoon to you, Mr. Bart Robinson. I take it you are trying to survive the heat wave. Or are surviving the heat wave. I just simply go from one air conditioning building to another, to an air conditioned free shuttle bus, to an air conditioned car transportation, to an air conditioned super motor, so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on. Oh, oh, look who's here from all the way from, oh, what happened? Hello, is your, is your microphone muted? Is your, is your video muted? Okay. Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Yeah, he has, he has the misfortune of owning an iPhone and Apple prod dick, prod dick because you get picked around. Yeah, the cheap owner. Well, that means, I ain't gonna, where'd he go? The cheap, hello? I don't hear you. Check your microphone. Check your, oh, the earbuds again are doing this, huh? It's, I blame the service more than the product. Yeah, because, because Paul Mantia did a live stream on his iPad and he got new Verizon Fiber Optics BIOS 5, what happened? What's going on here, man? I'm here, I'm trying to check my earbuds. Apologies. Oh, hello? Hi, I'm here, hold on, let's see. Not you, Masumi's trying to come on, but she's, she has to, you gotta check your, your microphone and- I'm back. Not you, not you. Yes, sir. Gotcha. Oh, now you're crystal clear. Like, what I was saying is that it was perfect. He was coming on, he was coming on with his iPad and the high definition quality of the video and the audio was perfect. Nice. And, and, and so it's, it means that it might not be the Apple products, it might be the damn internet service. Yeah. Internet, inner Schmidt. Inner Schmidt, internet, inner Schmidt. Yes, internet, inner Schmidt. Anyway, I wonder why she's, what's going on? Yeah, she's having, well, she's coming, she obviously she's coming into the studio, but the audio and the video is not working anyway, what I was doing is, all right, Bart Robinson, I just left the gym, the cheap owner keeps it too hot in there. Tell him to go fuck himself. Nobody's gonna work out without, without the central air conditioning cranked up. You know, I mean, come on. You could have heat stroke in a gym, you don't want that. Hello, I assume you're there. You have to check your microphone and your video and make sure they're not, nothing is muted. Yes, exactly. And of course he's wealthy as hell. You know what? You tell him, you tell him that, you know, you're having, you're showing contempt for your, for your members of the gym. You know, your members are paying a fee. Exactly. And they should be comfortable. Nobody, nobody wants to work. Would he work out in a hot gym and pass out? No, no, thank you. I don't think he would if he's, if he's wealthy. Exactly, exactly. He's gone back. Do you see how the people in business are that have money pieces of shit? Yes. So I was telling you on the phone, James, Facebook did me a favor of suspending me just for the weekend. Cause I didn't, I didn't follow their, their guidelines. I don't even know what they're talking about. But you know, guidelines. Yeah, their guidelines are, we'll suspend you whenever we want and just blame our phony standards, our, all that bullshit, our community standards, which don't apply to us, but apply to you. Yeah, that's what they are. They're, they're, it's bullshit. Hypocritical fuck faces is what they are. I don't think they, Suckerfuckerberg. Cause you know, like YouTube took off the show. I did with Paul last night, but, but Twitter is there. Twitter is fine. So they took, YouTube removed the show? Yeah, because a copyright, but Paul's playing the music. Now Paul says they already had tribute bands with videos on YouTube. They already have like cover bands and tribute bands. Why are they picking on us? Paul is singing the songs. The songs are copyrighted, but Paul is singing and playing, you know? Like why, if there's tribute bands that are allowed to have their videos on YouTube, why are they taking hours off? Cause they, cause you didn't pay YouTube or some bullshit. Maybe it's a payola scam. I'm just gonna talk down these greedy capitalist scumbags. Exactly. The worst thing that, I'm sorry, go ahead. I'm just reading what Bart said. I'll be refreshing with some cheap beer though, and a steak dinner at my brother's brother, brother, brother, your brother, your brother from the same mutter. Brother from the same mutter. I'll be drinking some, I'll be drinking some founders, some ice cold founders, Kraft Lager beer, Marsden. Some Marsden. No dirty bastard for you by founders? No, I don't have any. Dirty bastard, it's like 8% beer. What about an IPA? I don't recall, but it was founders made and it was good. So yeah, YouTube was good until Google bottom. Instagram was good until Meta bottom. You know, it's always the same. They buy it when it's successful and then mismanage it. You're a bit of a blur right now. Oh, I'm being sabotaged by the pieces of shit. Why am I still a blur? Why is my blur not Erico's? You know what, Ronald Theriault's new high definition webcam does the same thing. Put you in a blur for a bit. It has this automatic focus that now, why can't, yeah, that just, I don't know. Yeah, I can't drink cheap beer because it gives me heartburn, which I have now, but I didn't drink any cheap beer. I don't know. Sorry, I don't understand how to do it, but I tried now. Well, what you do is you click on the link and I saw you, you came in and you just have to make sure that your microphone and audio is not turned off. Now you're delayed, your photo's delayed, but there you go, you had a little hiccup. Just an FYI, the old talking head. Oh, his name is Brent. Yeah, Brent, your piece of shit. Okay, yeah, what you got to do is, when, I'm assuming when you come on, there's a little, I don't know if she's gonna say, the asterisk, not asterisk, a rotary. Yeah, yeah, it looks like an asterisk almost. And there's a dropdown menu. And that's where you could check your camera. Five. I got heartburn. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. I got a, you know what, let me go get the beer and dump this chai tea with peppermint. Maybe that's what's giving me. Possibly, yeah. 40 ounce colt, 45. Oh, is that cheap beer? Yes, it's malt liquor. It works quicker. It's like a ghetto beer, right? Yeah, it's, you know, get your 40 ounce, sir. Old English 800 is another popular one. You take that. That's another cheap quick buzz. Yeah, colt 45, Old English. They're malt liquors. I know that in minority neighborhoods, they tend to put up billboards. Excuse me. Yes, they do. Yeah, like, like. So I successfully started my new job last week and it went well. So I've got one week under my belt and I'm glad to have moved on because the other place, they took a pay cut. So they did me a favor when they let me, it laid me off. So I'm happy. So how did you do your thing yet, James? The serious part of the show? No, get your beer and dump your tea. Oh, I gotta go. I gotta go. All right, I need a minute intermission. Okay. And I'll be back with the beer. I can chatterbox for a minute. Yeah. Oh, I was, some of the articles, I was talking about how the hottest, the highest temperature in recorded human history took place at the airport in Tehran, Iran, of 152 degrees Fahrenheit. Holy shit. That's deadly. That's a deadly temperature could kill people. But they were saying, and that beat out Death Valley, California, which was 128 degrees. God, that's so sad to hear. Brent is your brother. He doesn't own the gym. Okay, got you. Whoops. All right, bro. Do your thing. I'll chatterbox. Go help yourself out. Oh, you can chatterbox about, you know who was enrolled into the Chiseless Hall of Shame, Delta Airlines, five people passed out aboard the airline getting ready to fly to Atlanta, Georgia because it was 111 degrees in the cabin and they did not have the air conditioning on. Cheap, cheap. And five people were taken out with oxygen masks. Wow, how horrific. Yeah, that's corporate greed for you right there. I did want to mention I am reading Giza Butler's new autobiography, Into the Boyd. One of my neighbors was kind enough to loan it to me and it's just mesmerizing, listening to the story of his upbringing and his roots. He was the main lyricist and bass player for Black Sabbath for many, many years. And just reading some of it gave me goosebumps. It gave me chills. You know, that's a good book, great books, man, they really move you and make you think about things. But as far as corporate world, the corporate world cares about only one thing. Oh, it says my, we're having a problem connecting. I don't know what that means, maybe with YouTube or something, but so far so good on my end. Corporate greed doesn't mind if people die as long as there's a profit. That's been around that way since, you know, they started the free market. Anything to make a buck, whatever sacrifice, none too great for the cause of the mighty banks and the rich and the top 1%. I did hear something interesting from a Republican friend that he's afraid that there's gonna be an impeachment try against Biden and that some of the Democrats are gonna vote for it and then putting Kamala Harris in power. God help us. Yeah, it said we had some connection errors. I don't know what that was about. I don't know if it was connections to YouTube or wherever we're streaming this. Yeah, it came up during, when you were on your hiatus, I got a little bloop on the screen saying it was a connection problem. But malt liquor just means stronger beer. It's sometimes stronger, sometimes cheaper. You know what I have against it? I have against it that I don't drink. I despise macro corporate American beer. I just prize, I consider macro beer to be a preserve. The opposite of micro brew, right? Preservative and chemical laden garbage. Don't they make some beers with corn? Some of the cheaper beers? Oh, like high fructose corn syrup or just corn. Something corn, corn, yeah, like. Yeah, genetically modified corn, right, exactly. They use something like Miller Lite and Miller beer. I think I heard they use corn besides malt and barley. And cheap, big agro rice, like cheap rice that has arsenic on it and maybe. And rat feces? Rat feces, pesticides, maybe a little round up here in the air. Oh man, yeah. They use, yeah, corn, in other words, crap. They use cheap filler. Exactly, just like when you buy certain foods and it says in small print, pork, beef, and mechanically separated chicken. Yeah, you gotta avoid, that's garbage meat, you know. My products, yeah. Yeah, innards, hooves and snouts. Pigs and, yeah, hooves and snouts and cock. Ears, or a pickcock, or cock. Ears and brains and eyeballs. I don't know, the eyeballs have to be clear. They have to be clear before they can puree. Because once they, like, if you buy nationally advertised, roadkill hot dogs. Oh yeah, you're cut out for a minute, James. Well, if you buy, yeah, somebody's trying to sabotage me. When you buy nationally advertised roadkill hot dogs, once you pate, once you puree or pate, are you there? Yeah, I'm here. Once you click off on the screen, that's all. Once you pulverize any animal protein, not knowing what the hell it is. The only way you could tell what it is, is to bring it to a laboratory in, you know, most Americans. They call that, that's called mystery meat. Yeah, it could be anything. Mystery meat for sale, like love for sale. Mystery meat for sale. And they were saying that if, with byproducts, it could be, a pig could have like a cancerous tumor. I don't grind that up. Oh, delicious. It's always great to eat tumors. Yeah, they'll grind that up. And so it could be anything in this, in this nationally advertised hot dog or bologna. That's why you gotta buy Vienna and Chicago and then there's Nathan's and also, somebody else, National Sonini, isn't that there? Or something like that, the Israeli beer. We got a nice beer there, a lot of coba fest. Coba fest. A marz and lager. So it's a wheat, it's a wheat beer then. Do you have any lemon in it? No, no, no, no. I have lemon in it. So what does marz and remind me, please? Not a wheat beer. It's not a hepa-vison ridicule. Okay, okay. It's a standard bolly and hops. Okay, gotcha. Yeah, so yeah. Bolly, like they're saying in Boston, bolly, bolly. Yeah, a macro bolly. Now, who has the big hairy balls to, and Budweiser to call themselves the king of beer? Who would help the king of... You know, they make Budweiser in Germany differently. They have to file the German purity law. So if you'd have to drink Bud, make them give you one from Germany. Because Budweiser in America, they call them Budweifers for a reason because they make you sick. Budweifers. They always get harbored from American macro. German, whoa, this is founded as a... Independent micro brew. It's in Michigan, it's a craft beer in Michigan. Yes, exactly. And they're following the Oktoberfest Marsden recipe, how they make it. It's a logger, it is a traditional logger of Oktoberfest. And... Nice. And that's why it comes in a beautiful orange can with the picture of the German village in Munich. It's probably Munich. Nice. And it is very good, as opposed to an American macro garbage. That I refuse, I flat out refuse to drink. I think I may have showed this last stream. The anchor steam that's gone under because Sapporo bought them. Can you see that, James? Yeah, let me give you the solo. Anchor steam boiled by Sapporo. Oh, such a great IPA, a real smooth, just a great beer since 1896. And anchor steam is being put out of business by Sapporo. Then here's another Bell's Brewing in Michigan, Oprah is their American Wheedale. It's a good summary. And then I might have mentioned this one. I've got, gosh, if I can get, I think I showed these last week, I apologize, I'm just going over the same thing, but Unibrow Brewing, it's the 9% beer, 9%. Yeah, you drink a couple of 9% beers. You're done, you're well done. Just two of those. What is that called? Find-de-blanc? Yeah, that's the name of this beer. It's Canadian. You got to put it, face the, yeah. Oh, that's Canadian, de-blanc, de-blanc means world. You got to look at, this is the brewer, if you can see that, Unibrow. This beer is very strong. I think it's Univik, it's pronounced. It's very strong. It's, I like to drink like one or two of those and I'm set, it's really nice to get a nice buzz. You don't get schnockered, you don't fall down. It's just a good feeling. Ah, you don't get schnockered. Yeah, you can come back to me. You can take me off solo. I am working for a German company, by the way, speaking of German purity laws. My company, I was working for EGITLANDS, and a lot of the instructions in German, and I'm like, what? I don't speak back in German. I don't like that, I don't want to say it on the air, off the air we can talk, but anyway. Yeah, you probably, you were telling me to speak. About? Off the air. Yeah, I remember we were saying about over time. Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. We don't want to get into a conflict after the first week, we just want to rise, ride the wave into payday. Yeah, you're being sabotaged, your video is frozen, James. Well, I don't know if you can hear me, but. I'm sorry, I mean, you're pixely. Wow, we're getting screwed eight ways to Sunday. Ah, it's the fact that they're probably forcing Safari. They're forcing you to use Safari, maybe. Did Paul have to use Safari when streaming or no? No, he used Google Chrome. I don't know, I never heard Safari cause problems. I don't know, I think it's the streaming service. Safari's not, Safari's not compatible. I'm going upstairs to see if I get a better service because I'm in the basement, sometimes a service is not good. Everybody that comes on with an Android or a PC, there's no issue, it's just that. I used to have an iPhone and I used to curse at it every day. And when iPhones, for some people, Samsung's for other, I had Samsung's and I did not like it at all, so you know, teach his own. I have no issues with my Samsung, that's the thing. I hated my Samsung and I was so happy to get rid of it. It's just a personal preference, that's all. Maybe it was an older Samsung, I don't know. Yeah. You know, I just don't like being forced to use Apple software and Apple this and Apple that and they make you pay top dollar for everything, the accessories and my brother-in-law's got iPhone, iPad, but I just don't get it. Like, I don't get like somebody, like if a person like doesn't mind the restrictions of having an Apple product, I mean. So my stuff has been working out well for me, so I don't know what restrictions you're referring to as your brother-in-law, the problem is. In other words, you can surf the internet, you can watch videos, you can instant message people, and you can do basic things with no problem, but I'm talking about, I don't know about gaming, but I'm talking about like with live streaming, it's just, it's something that they, it's something about Safari that tries to override, it shouldn't override Google Chrome, why should it override it? I don't know. Well, you know what, I've done some Facebook live back in the day when I was in a concert and it screamed okay, so I'm not sure exactly, it's been doing me okay. Can you believe it's already close to August? I mean, time is flying. The summer has been just gone, it's gonna be gone before you know it and back on to winter. What the hell? They anticipate hurricane season is gonna be really bad. But there's no such thing as global warming. No, no, no, but it's a hoax, it's a hoax. How do you explain, how do you explain the beaches of South Florida being 90 degrees, the water, the ocean water being 90 degrees Fahrenheit? God, is that sad? So much fish and other sea, you know, sea dwelling animals are gonna be boiled alive. And the Bahamas too, 90 degrees, the water is 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Oh, that's horrible. How's your heartburn getting better? Yeah, actually it is. Good, good, good. I'm glad to hear it, heartburn is nothing but a pain in the ass. Yeah. I don't get it that much. Now they call it acid reflux. Yeah, I don't get it that much, but when I do it, I usually drink a lot of water and that helps me, you know, when I have a heartburn, I have some antacids, I don't take them that much. No, I don't take antacids anymore because I read the other ingredients in the antacid and you got like all these artificial, these FDA-approved artificial coloring and titanium vise and blah, blah, blah. And look, you got these miscellaneous chemicals in there. No, you're not being a chemist. You don't know what they are. You just don't know what they are. Well, the main ingredient, the main ingredient for being an antacid is calcium carbonate, which is the most basic form of calcium. Yes. That's not my problem. And the little tiny bit of artificial sweetener, well, sucralose is my problem, but I don't think they put really that much in there. And the fruit flavor is not my problem. My problem is all the other. Yeah, if there's aluminum in it, they have aluminum and a lot of shit. It's caused Alzheimer's. Sure. Okay, Bart, have a good one. Enjoy your Sunday by your brother's house and your steak dinner. Sounds delicious. Hopefully it's on the grill. Steak on the grill is just delicious. Yeah, well, hopefully you don't have to go, you don't have to go out in the sun to the grill. Yeah, I was fascinated to hear. I didn't know until I got older that Kingsford was Henry Ford, I don't know if it's his brother or cousin. And they, at the same time they came up with vehicles, they came up with charcoal. And the one took that business and the other one took up with cars. Yeah, well, I prefer the, I used to use the old fashioned wood charcoal. It's all like jagged pieces. Yes, yes. Yeah, it has more flavor in the smoke. I didn't know that charcoal was wood-based until later in life, you know, with the Google search. And you know how I found out? Kenny Rogers' Roasters, they used to say it's the wood that makes it good. Yeah. I went to a state park and I brought some charcoals but I noticed there was a lot of like dry branches all over the place, like dry wood all over the place. Yes. What I did was I took it and I put it in the, you know, the steel cylinder with the handle where you put the- Yes, those are the best, by the way. Those, I usually use an electric wand and with those and they work real well. You know, I just, I get the hard matches from the dollar store, the old fashioned matches and the wood matches. And you put some newspaper underneath it. It said, I used to use the one made by Weber and you light it, you light the newspaper and no matter what is in the top, it turns cherry red with no lighter fluid. No, you don't want any lighter fluid on anything you eat. You don't want that toxic gasoline smelling lighter fluid. And let me tell you, that invention turns the charcoal or the, or I use wood that I found on the ground dry, dry wood that, you know, I guess when trees get old, they get brittle. They go up real, real good. And let me tell you, it barbecued not only out of the, but I invited other people to come and use the barbecue that I had, it was, it was still cherry red. Wow, nice. This was the wood from the park. Nice. And, you know, it was as red as red can be and like my background and it was good enough to just grill everybody's food. And this really, I would say if you can get firewood and it's properly like kiln. It's dry. It's going to be, yeah. Yeah, kiln dried, it's properly dry and you got to keep it dry too. Exactly. You don't want termites coming or carpenter ants or, you know, you want to be able to use it. You don't want to get rotten. That is the best for smokers and for, for, for barbecue, the best. Yeah, when I go to Wisconsin, I have a chimney and I have this thing called a wand. It's, you put the wand in, you put all the charcoal and the chimney and then you plug the wand in and it heats up and starts the charcoal without the lighter fluid. It's awesome. Oh, so you have, you have the steel chimney. Yes. And I have the electric wand that gets plugged in and gets it going. So that starts a nice barbecue. Well, I'm getting hungry talking about barbecue. So I have this little gadget. I saw an advertiser on Instagram that has like a piece of flint, flint, flint rock. Okay. You know, you're just one shot. Bing! You know, it just, the flame comes right out. So you've seen advertising on Instagram? I haven't seen it yet. Just like Facebook, that kind of advertising. Infomercials. Oh wow. They pay the Zuck, they pay the Zuck and they give a fuck. They, he is making money and overfits from a bombardment of advertisement that we have to endure. Well, like I said, he was letting people advertise on Facebook that led to indentured servant jobs. These people were tortured and made to get involved in scams and they were all advertising Facebook. Facebook doesn't care what they do. In human trafficking. Yes. And he let it ride. He let it ride. He's a piece of shit. He's a motherfucker. They should shut Facebook down. They should force him to sell. He's got all his money. He should get out of it. Cause he's not any good at it. If you ever notice Facebook and all his interns they're going down Facebook. I keep getting someone trying to get a new passcode to reset my password. When I asked for one, I never get it. But someone six to eight times requested a new password and it wasn't me. And then they put me in this two day timeout. Whatever, daddy-o. You know, good luck in your island occupation taking over the world. Sometimes muscle memory has me clicking on Facebook and I'm not even meaning to go there. That's bad. Real fucking bad. Cause Facebook doesn't give a shit about me. Yeah. For anybody. Today I was clicking on links and it was sending me, it was sending me to Facebook. What the fuck is this? Fuck that bullshit. What the fuck is this piece of shit? You know, when I first saw his face and the way he walked- He looks like he's an android from fucking Star Trek, next generation. Like he has no expression in his mouth. No. In his booster seat. Yeah, he's a mother fucker. He's a godless piece of shit that- Cash only for him. Now I know why. He had an army of bodyguards with him when he went to Washington. Cause probably people do want to kill him. He is really despised. I mean, you don't have to, you don't have to like get to know him. To hate him. To hate his guts. He is very, very unlikable. He's very much into authoritarianism and he's like got the Napoleon complex. So he wants to come down on you and it's just punishment without explanation is how you get blind, blind leading. And I heard he stole many ideas from people that he knew in college. Oh yeah, he's not an originator. He's an original scammer. Yeah. He is. I hate him. Like he's no better or worse, in my opinion, than Bernard Madoff. Ponzi Schemer guy? Yeah. Isn't he deceased, hopefully? I don't know, but he was in prison for the longest time. He might've died, but. Yeah, I believe he did. Thank goodness. He was a real piece of human garbage. He cleaned out people's life savings, left and right. Ruin their lives left and right with pretending to be a confidence man, giving him information that led to their demise and his gain. What a piece of shit. Hey, just like Zuckerberg. And that other punk that had a sarcastic smile on his face, smiling to the judge that went off on him, the one that was selling HIV drugs at insane astronomical prices. Is that the guy that he bought a drug company and then raised the price like 400%? Yeah, he did go to jail, didn't he, for fixing prices? Yeah, he thought he was above the law. So many of these white collar criminals think they're above the law, like Donald Trump and Jared Kushner and Don Jr. And they're all white collar criminals that think their crimes are victimless. You know? Yeah. That's not the case. And I know you saw that post that Republicans are so desperate to get something on Hunter Biden. Marjorie Taylor Green was showing pictures of him nude flashing around. That's pretty fucking desperate. She's a mental patient in need of a doctor. You know where Hunter Biden is? Hunter Biden is the great distraction of the Republican Party. Yeah, they get all caught up in shit that don't matter. They've done it time and time again. Hillary Clinton's emails. Let's talk about that for a hundred days straight. Yeah, leading to nothing. All roads lead to nothing. And I see the war in Ukraine is just as barbaric as ever. He bombed a church or something or, you know, that's a desperate old poody is that he bombed a church. He bombed a church? Yeah, well, people were in it. Churches, hospitals, that kind of shit. He's into. And that repurposing and, you know, it's a form of genocide in a way when you change someone. Yeah, change someone's nationality and that he's doing something like that like Hitler would have done. I don't know how, I just, I hope those kids survive this. It's some of the worst things I've ever heard of. Talk about child abuse, taking someone from their home, from their family and telling them, no, you're Russian now, speak Russian. It's just, it's horrific, horrific war crime. I didn't even know, that's how weak he is that he's going after children, you know? Even Hitler didn't fucking go after children. So, you know, when Hitler's got one up on you, you gotta ask yourself, are you a piece of human garbage? Yes, yes you are. And I don't know, I'm just, I'm angry about hearing stuff like that, very angry. You know what, these people are sociopaths, they feel no remorse. And what they do is reprehensible and they can't, it just, these kids have to be saved. I don't know why the UN is getting a delegation over there to get these kids back. He's doing it by the hundreds. He's grabbing tons and tons of these school kids and taking them from their homes and taking them to Russia. Probably because he's running out of people to be in his army. His army hates him, you know? The Russian people didn't want this war. He's the only one that's for it. Most of them are against it, you know? So anyway, it's just unbelievable. Yeah, and they've been advertising a lot about the Wagner mercenaries and... Yeah, that whole thing mystifies me. I don't really know what happened. One minute. Supposedly Putin's moving a lot of nukes to Belarus. Oh, God, what a motherfucker. Yeah, those Wagner mercenaries were gonna kill him. He sent a bunch of them to die and then discarded them and didn't act like they helped win anything. He disrespected them. He thought just because he was paying them, you know, that main guy, I don't know, he's still alive. I forget what his name is, the one they kept showing the bald guy. And I can't believe Putin hasn't had him executed for revolting. I'm surprised that the Russian oligarch didn't like totally go ballistic on Putin for being responsible for getting their assets confiscated by the United States. And entering a war that appears that they cannot win? No, because statistically, no organized military has been able to win in a guerrilla warfare. Look what happened in Vietnam. The United States, England, France, and the United States, all three got their asses kicked. Yeah, you go against guerrilla warfare and they know the land and you don't, you're in real fucking trouble. Yeah, guerrilla warfare, they know how to get around the urban area. They tunnel, they tunneled like in Vietnam in the jungle. There were tunnels everywhere. They used to pop out out of foxholes from the tunnels, you know, and they know the terrain, they know the jungle, the same thing in Columbia, you know, the civil war that goes on there. Those people know the jungle. Yeah, they do, definitely. Here's the one and only, Ronald J. Terrio from southeastern Louisiana. Greetings. Hello folks. I guarantee. No, that's Justin Wielke. Yes. You know, I used to have a pair of red suspenders. I got rid of them. I should have kept them. I should have kept them, but how are you doing there? How are you feeling, Ron? I feel fine. I was in Birmingham, Alabama yesterday. Bama? You was in Bama? No, he was in Alabama. That's what Al Joseph found. What is that song? Slamma Bama? I think it's a soul tune from Stacks. Is that by Otis Redding? It's a great song. I don't know. You were visiting your daughter. She lives there, right? Yeah, it's a six hour trip. Wear me out, you know, but. Six hours, both ways, right? Yeah. Wow. Well, did you at least sleep overnight to get some rest? Slept overnight on Friday night, drove to Meridian, Mississippi and stayed over and then went to Birmingham and we spent the afternoon and then drove back all the way after half in the evening. I was tired when I got back. Y'all doing all right, huh? Yeah, we started off talking about the highest temperature ever recorded. You were at 152 degrees, 152 Fahrenheit. You could seriously fry an egg on a car and cook some bacon on a car, top of a hood of a car, I bet with that kind of temperature. Yeah, and I thought, and then Delta Airlines had passengers wait for four hours in 111 degrees. They're crazy. That's insanity, you know? They're gonna be sued and they're gonna lose. Five people are gonna get carried out with oxygen masks in Las Vegas airport. I mean, yeah, the first word out of my mouth was lawsuits. I think that kind of process would have worked well and Cambodia during the days of the Khmer Rouge or Soviet Union or... Well, they're doing the same thing in Myanmar that they were doing in Cambodia. Oh, that bad, huh? They have human trafficking where they'll advertise for like a promising like career or something and Southeast Asians would like get suckered in there and they would kidnap them and they would force them to be internet scammers or something. Yes, that was... If they didn't do a good job, they would harvest their organs and kill them and sell their organs on the black markets. It's pretty bad right now in Myanmar. Good old Myanmar. Good old Burma. No more Burma, yeah. And China says, well, we can't get involved because it's Myanmar. Now, Taiwan's another story, but we can't get involved in that, you know? Well, you know, China claims a lot of the land in Myanmar or Burma. It's both ways. You could say Burma or Myanmar because the reason they had that problem is because when the British went there and took over, they asked the people that lived there because there's different tribes. It's not all the same people. They said, well, oh, what is the name of your country? And you know, one group would say, Myanmar, Myanmar, and what's the name of your country? Burma. And they said, oh, Burma, odd little name. But, well, then they said, Myanmar, that's too difficult. Well, we'll just say Burma, you know? And so then they, of course, the British left 76 years ago, 76 years ago. What do they call the penal colony known as Australia? They call it the Botany Bay. Well, that was the first settlement in Australia. Botany Bay, yeah. Well, Australia is a lot like America except Australia was founded by criminals. America was founded by religious refugees, similar but different, displacing locals. Well, that depends on the colony, of course, you see, because Virginia was founded by entrepreneurs. They had nothing, you know, and they weren't involved in a religious dispute at all. They just wanted to set up a plan. I'm talking about the original Americans on the Mayflower and then also the original Australians that were. Jamestown was the first colony in 2003, yeah. Jamestown, Virginia is a very, very first colony. Yeah, and Virginia Dare, Virginia Dare was the first English child born in the New World. But that's true, what you're saying is true. Then later on, the religious refugees went to Plymouth Bay colony and a Boston colony, Massachusetts colony. Yeah, Milestone. The point I'm making is that Americans and Australians both displaced indigenous people by going to those countries. Oh, right, well, they had a weak immigration policy. You see, the Indians weren't careful about immigration. They didn't care and they paid dearly for it. And the Aborigines also had a lot of their land taken from them, the Aborigines in Australia. Oh, they were enslaved to the Aborigines. Anyway, the Native Americans didn't say, there is your paper. Well, you see, that's the whole thing. Oh, Octoberfest, yeah, that's a good one. That should be coming out around here pretty soon. Yeah, that is your papers. And that image I used to see as a kid in school of Native Americans sitting at a table with pilgrims with the turkey and the sweet potatoes that was a bunch of hogwash. Yeah, and they gave us tobacco, we gave them liquor and smallpox, quite a nice exchange. Yeah, well, that's what the, I don't say we, I had nothing to do with it. I was, Louisiana was French. I meant humankind. When I say we, I say humankind. I don't mean anything but that. I meant Anglos. Yeah, my family came over in the very early, 20th century and we had nothing to do with it. Mine came later. Yeah, mine came later. We never had slaves or anything in my family. So no reparations from me. Yeah, I think we weren't involved in a slave trade. Yeah, I'll pass on that one. Hey, Ronald, are all those beers empty behind you on the wall there? Yeah. Those are all empty, right? Most of the beer is on the wall. Okay, gotcha. But some of them are full of beer because I couldn't take the beer out of some of those bottles because well, I'll show you why I can't take the beer out. Yeah, well, what's his name, what's his name? Mick von Raven just got a case of anchor, anchor steam. Anchor steam, RIP anchor steam because a fucking Sapporo bought them and put them under. Well, I think they were going down. I think Sapporo bought them. Financially, yeah, financially they were struggling but still certain beers should not be stopped because of financial reasons and that's one of them. I think what happened was the guy, Mr. Maytag. Yeah, that's right. And the name is correct. He was a lonely repairman. The Maytag guy owned anchor. Yeah. He was getting old and I think he could see the writing on the wall, which was, you know how in the Bible they had the story in Babylon where they had the writing on the wall? Well, I think he saw writing on a wall and it said, you're going to go out of business soon if trends, yeah, they were struggling. If trends continue. And so, you know, Sapporo comes along. Oh, very interested in beer company. And he says, oh yeah, this is a fabulous beer company. Oh, I would never sell it. No way, boy. And they said, oh, we'll give you a much money if you sell. He says, well, okay, you twisted my arm. Here you go. And then he took off and then they probably took over and looked at the financials. Books, yeah, of course. And that Sapporo was like, you know, oh. They bought a sinking product, although Anchor Steam is a wonderful beer. I've been drinking it for years and I'm sad to see it go. They probably were like, we put money on bad horse, you know? Yeah. But, you know, but I don't get any pleasure out of them going out of business, of course, because I love, I saw Anchor Porter yesterday. Six packs of Anchor Porter. I said, I'll buy it for one last go-around, but it was too expensive, so I passed. All right, but here's the reason I can't open and pour the beer out because of the shroud. Now is that tin foil and you're trying to save it? Well, it's like, I see. Yeah, fall and cover paper. So if you twist the cap- You're preserving it, yeah. And then it ruins the collectable appearance of it. You know, I saved the bottle because it was unique. I don't want to ruin it. So it's still got beer. Okay. But I wouldn't drink beer for money. I'm sure, yeah, it's probably something you could put in your gas tank at this point, right? 1996, I don't think I'll drink it. Oh, but anyway. No. That's the reason- How much were these six packs of Anchor Steam port? Oh, that's cool, very cool, the tin. You know, who had something similar was Micolob. What is this, Micolob? I couldn't tell. Because of the brightness. Yeah, yeah. I got the lamps on. This is the Micolob 100th anniversary edition, yeah. Do you remember a Lowenbrow? Sure. That was a competitor of Micolob, it was Lowenbrow. Yeah, I used to have some bottles, but they got kind of deteriorated, so I threw them out. Yeah, the Anchor Porter was like $12.99 for a six pack, and I was like, nah. I was- Yeah, I mistakenly bought a 12 pack in Michigan for $21.99. I know they have a fee for the bottles in Michigan, but still it was kind of a rip off. I bought a Bell's beer, and it was Albron Ale, the summer ale they make, which is delicious. Oh yeah, I've had that one, yeah. So, yeah, it's a shame about- Yeah, I like Bell's. Yeah, Bell's, yeah, they sold out- Anchor Steam, it sucks. Bell's sold out- Who did? Bell's, they sold out to a Japanese company also, because here's the problem- Shit! Here's the problem, because James and I have talked about this. It's like Chinese restaurants. You got the people that own it. They're getting old, it's hard work. They tell the children, look, I'm getting old, I did this for 40 years, you can take over, and what did the children say? Oh no! And I'm not gonna put it in your- We don't wanna work. I'm not putting in 80 hours a week. Right, so Larry Bell, Larry Bell said, look, I tried to get my family to take it over, I told them for years. Oh no, they didn't wanna do it. So he said, fine. The Japanese company came along, and they said, we'll buy it. He sold it, and it was- Was it Zaporo's also? No, it was actually Mitsubishi that bought it. Oh, wow. You know- That sucks. And you know what sucks is that so many of these American craft breweries have a great product line. Like if you go to their websites and you just see the variety and the ingredients, the quality of the ingredients, and the beautiful artwork on their cans and bottles. It's like- They're unique recipes. Yeah, they're different brew masters. It totally sucks. But the bottom line is that the beer is not gonna produce itself. And secondly, if it's a family business, you've got to have the family willing to run it. Now, the E and J Gallo wine company, I think they're headed for trouble coming up because it started 90 years ago with two brothers. And now- Yeah, and now if you look at their website, they've got like 25 grandkids in the photo. We're the owners. Now, do you think those 25 people are gonna be able to get along? Well, they want the money. The kids usually want the money, not the work. Just like Portillo's in Chicago was sold. Famous Chicago style food, fast food was sold to some investment company in Boston because Dick Portillo's, none of his kids were gonna take over. Yeah. And it's a shame. You wonder what's gonna happen with the Gallo family because y'all know that too many chefs pour all the pot, right? So- Well, does anybody remember when it was in the 90s when all the beers, the microboos exploded? Remember Red Hook? I think it didn't Budweiser buy them and help pull them under or something? Well, yeah, what happened with Red Hook was they got into this collaboration with Anheuser-Busch where they were gonna help them out. It's kind of like the British Empire, they would tell, the British would tell different countries, we'll help you out. And become your leaders, yes. Well, that meant that they were gonna like, we'll send you troops and help you. Well, the troops, once they come in, they're not leaving. So- Exactly. It's like when you pay for protection. Right, so Anheuser-Busch was like, hey, little buddy, we'll help you out. We're so interested in craft beer because you know us with Budweiser and everything. So Red Hook was like, well, I guess that would work out. And then Anheuser-Busch was like, we have this idea that maybe we could have a 33% state in the company. And they were like, well, okay. And then you know what led, you know what happened. Then they got a hundred percent control and now nobody can find Red Hook anywhere. There was a good one out of Texas. I don't know if it was Austin or what, I can't remember the name of it. And that one came and went, so many of them came and went way too quick. Well, talking about Texas, if you wanna see a Texas craft beer that's still family-owned, of course I could change tomorrow morning. It's been around since 1909. I'll go get a can and show it to you all if you wanna see it. Okay. Oh. You did a Texas beer theme. Yeah. You know what, it's a great craft brew that I hope never goes away, Sierra Nevada. That's a great one. Still probably owned. Thank God, thank God for that. I think Yenling is still family-owned. You know, a lot of the Siders now, everyone's coming up with a Sider, not all of them are making them good. But I know that Woodchuck's Sider used to be the number one, but they're too expensive. Okay, let me cut the lamps off so that it doesn't glare. This company's been around since 1909. They were founded by German immigrants to Texas. Oh. Cosmos Spetzel, Cosmos Spetzel founded this company. That's nice. Like the dumplings, them. Yeah, and Spetzel is located, their brewery is located in Shiner, Texas. Nice. And we went out to that brewery and it is so remote. I'm gonna tell you, that is a long trip. Cosmos Spetzel, I've had Spetzel many times, very tasty. Yeah, this is Shiner beer. But Shiner, Texas is the town and Spetzel is the brewery, but their beer is called Shiner. Nice. Yeah, that was his theme Wednesday. Wednesday, right? Texas beers, yeah. Texas beers, yeah. And then the first Wednesday of the month is Joker's Wild Wednesday, people can bring with any product. And then this Wednesday coming up is any beer from Abita Brewing Company, Abita. I don't know if New Jersey gets Abita beers, guests maybe, but that's what's coming up Wednesday. Any Abita beer doesn't matter. I never heard of Abita. What kind of beers do they have? For your B or a Vita, like a Vita Perone of Argentina? Letter A, B as in water, AB, I, T, A, Abita. Abita, okay. It's located in Abita Springs, Louisiana, where they got spring water coming out the ground, you know, spring water, Abita Springs, and it's Louisiana's oldest craft brewery. It's been open since 1986. Oh, wow. 1986, yep. That means a lot, high quality water means a lot to any beverage. Yeah, they got spring water there. The original owners don't have it. They sold out to another Louisiana outfit called Blossoment. Well, I think the Blossoments own a law firm, but I won't say. But anyway, yeah, it's still good beer. Excellent. The, one of the articles I read described the new invasive species in Florida, in South Florida, and I'm just gonna surprise you because you would think that the Burmese python was bad enough. Now they have green anacondas, the largest, the heaviest snakes in the world. Where are they coming from, South America? Yeah, from the year 2000, they were first spotted and they don't lay eggs, they bear a live young. Wow. I think these snakes crawl onto the ships and then they go to Miami and drop off products and then this snake goes into the land off the ship overnight by people. Yeah, they shouldn't allow that. They should search the ships. Anacondas are really good swimmers, they like the water. Yeah, they're big mothers, aren't they like 20 foot long and five foot in diameter, three foot in diameter? This lady I go out with sometimes, back in the 90s she showed me a photo, she worked for a company called Monsanto, I know that's James' favorite company. But she was working for them. They had a refinery in Angola, in Africa. Oh geez, in Cabinda. And they took a photo of one of these, one of their African employees was taking a nap next to a tree and an anaconda slithered up and bit him on the head and then they cut the snake open and the man was inside the snake. Alive? And she showed the photo, oh no, not a lot. She showed me the photo of the man just like, he was taking a nap, he was taking the great dirt sleep. He was like the snake. Sounds really nasty. It's like when they open up. Once they grab you on your head, that's it. You're not getting them. Yeah, it's like people, bears getting cut open and they find body parts or alligators or crocodiles. That's nasty stuff, man. There's no anacondas in Africa, but there is a rock python that gets really big. Well, whatever the snake was in Africa, it might have been a rock python. It was a big snake and the man was inside the snake. Now, what are the three types? They have boa constrictors, they have... No, not boas, they have python. Africa just has pythons. Yeah, so you got boa constrictors, pythons and anacondas. So it had to be a python, yeah, a python. Yeah, pythons, all these constrictor snakes have teeth that go backwards. So when they fight, the teeth hook, hook. You can't get out, you can't get away, no. Yeah. Oh, guess what they found in Louisiana last week? I saw it on television. It was in the water next to Lake Charles, Louisiana swimming. Wow, pink dolphins. Remember I told you about the pink dolphins? Oh, wow. Wow. Pink dolphins. Sounds incredible. I didn't think, I know South, I know the Amazon had them and they're very in danger, but I didn't know. Oh, I'm sure they are. Anything beautiful is endangered. They found them and they're real pretty. They're, they're... Look, you were throwing a photo, it was just swimming there right next to the boat and the guy took the video, pink dolphin, right there in Louisiana. And remember I told you they saw them going up to Mississippi River. They've had dolphins go up to Mississippi River all the way up to Illinois. So dolphins are freshwater fish or they can... Yeah. No, I guess they can live in both. I guess they can adjust, I don't know. No, these are freshwater dolphins, but there's a possibility they can live in brackish because when you get to the end of the Mississippi River by the, what is it, the Delta? The mouth? Yeah, the mouth. The water probably becomes brackish and then salty. And what is brackish, James? I don't know what that means. A mixture. Oh, of salt and fresh, gotcha. Half salt, half fresh. Yeah. Gotcha. And the crabs, the crabs like the brackish water. So a lot of people in Louisiana go when they open the Mississippi River spillway and it dumps into the lake where the water's flowing. A lot of people go and set these nets out. And when they go back in the evening, it's full of crabs is so heavy with blue crab, they can't hardly lift up the net. The blue crab, which is the famous crab in the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, and up here in New Jersey, they're all over the damn place. So even in Florida, the whole East coast and Gulf coast, so they like brackish water. And unfortunately they also grow faster in like dirty mucky water, like high bacteria. Ooh. Same thing with clams and everything. They're scavengers? Well, yeah, they're opportunistic scavengers. I'm sure if a fish is injured and kind of on the bottom, that they're not gonna wait. That's good eating for them. They're not gonna wait for the fish to die. Yeah, it's like crawfish. My friend put a little baby crawfish in the fish tank that was tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny. And then in about two years, the crawfish got this big, what I'm showing you here. Ate all the fish? And it was no fish left in the tank. Oh yeah, it's gotta eat. Well, they'll grab live fish. Yeah, yeah. The crawfish are ruthless. This little baby crawfish, they're ruthless. It killed every fish in the tank. I don't care how big or small the fish is. When I used to work in the fish market, we used to get the crawfish from farms in Louisiana and they were red. Yeah, they're red. Yeah, they're red. They're red. And the males had the big claws and they had a skinnier tail and big claws and the females had the broad tail and the little pinch of claws. But the females were much more aggressive. The females were faster and more aggressive. Sort of like human, you know. Yeah. And they had the big ass. I mean, they had the wide tail. I guess to accommodate the wavles. So were they very aggressive? Did you have trouble with any of these crabs biting you or? No, the crawfish, nah, you little pinch, get a pinch. Yeah, and these crawfish in Louisiana, some of them with the big tails, it's really fresh water lobsters. Really identical to a lobster, really. You look at it. Look at the fresh water lobsters. Their tails would be big and you get them boiled and they're just full of meat. Just full of that white meat. See, I don't understand why they don't do soft shell crawfish because... Oh, I've gotten some, yeah. Considering how big they do get, if they molt, well, they do, they do molt. They're in crustaceans. When they, like invertebrates, when they grow, they molt because they have an exoskeleton. Invertebrate, no vertebrate. So when they molt, they're soft and they go hide somewhere where it's safe and they get hard again. But if you get them and put them on ice and kill them on the ice, now you can do the batter or the egg and the seasoned flour or whatever your heart desires and you can... For the soft shell crab. And you can eat those shells, right? Yeah, no, it's very soft. You can eat it, you can eat the whole thing. Get some fiber. It's like a little soft leather. Well, you gotta get them in time. You can't get them when they're starting to get hard again. You gotta, when they're pure, when they're totally soft, they're very edible. I mean... So is there any danger of crab to crawfish being overfished? Nah, because they multiply so quickly? Not crawfish, nah. They multiply very quickly? Well, as a courtesy, if you're a commercial crabber, you should be throwing back the females with the eggs. If you see eggs under the female and around the belly area, you should throw it back. Well, Louisiana, you can be fine. If they catch you with a female... Female with eggs? Oh yeah, get ready to pay. You're gonna pay about three or four hundred dollars. They should do that in New Jersey because over here, it's kind of stupid for a commercial crabber to shoot himself in the foot and take the females with eggs. I mean... If you're in Louisiana and you've got your crab nets and you've got your bucket and all full of crabs and that wildlife and fisheries walks up, the guy says, hey, how's it going? Let me see the bucket. Oh, look, a female full of eggs. He's just gonna pull out his little ticket book. Wow. Say, let me see your ID and your license. Gonna pay a big fine. They remember, I think last show, James, we were talking about the king crab in Alaska, how they had to call off the season. It might have been snow. Well, it might have been both. Yeah, they had a big problem in Alaska. The volume plummeted, the volume of crab. They overfished them and now they're all dying. Yes. Yes. You know, there's so many of these creatures. Going back to the, yeah, we're talking about slavery. I said another topic. Going back to Louisiana, but actually I was reading about my family and they did have some servants as they called them. Ah, reparations are, you gotta get those ready. You know, I don't believe so, but... Tommy Carroll says LBR is the China Brewery owned by a fellow named Alvarez who works for Modelo and helped the Corona... Tommy, all I know is the website says his family owned and it's the company called Gambrinus company. Gambrinus is the Prince of Beer, the German deity of beer, the Prince King Gambrinus, you know, those German Norse deities, those demigods, you know. Zedemigod in Valhalla. Yeah, Gambrinus, a guy with a beer, a beer belly that sticks out this much and he's got a crown, he's holding a mug, a stein, a beer. I... No, didn't Modelo buy or was, is it Modelo Budweiser? And what's the one in Belgium? They're all together, it's the same company now, Corona. Yeah, Inbev, yeah, Inbev, yeah, Inbev, international beverages, yeah. Yeah, they own, oh, what's the one, the famous beer out of Belgium that everyone likes? Stella, Stella, yeah, that's all one company now, isn't it, Budweifers, Stella, Modelo, and also Corona, all under one. Yeah, that's the problem now, everyone's buying everyone. Corona, Modelo, Budweiser, Stella, Arsola, Lion Brewery, who bought Bells, Fosters, they're all under the control of Anasabush, Inbev, but... I heard Fosters was like old style, well, I don't know if you guys know old style here, it's like a cheap beer. I heard in Australia, Fosters is like old style. I heard that Corona was not thought of as a great beer in Mexico, it's funny how you can just take it and bring it to America and make it some big deal. That's kind of a myth about Mexico because I know I've been to Mexico, I live 10 hours from Mexico, I can drive to Mexico pretty fast and I mean, if you consider 10 hours fast, not really, but I do live, I can leave at five in the morning, be at Mexico at three in the afternoon and you know, that's not that much. Brownsville, by Brownsville, by Brownsville, Texas. Like Nuevo, Laredo, Laredo or Matamoros, all of those. So you're saying that Corona's well thought of in Mexico? Well, I mean, I see a lot of people buying it, I don't think they're buying it because yeah, so I think it's kind of a myth, like if you go to Mexico, you're gonna see a lot of people buying Bud Light, well, Lisa used to, Bud Light, Modelo, Corona Extra, they buy Tecate, they buy Pacifico. Yeah, all the same beers that they buy over here, Victoria, the Vienna Lager, which I love the dark beer, the Vienna Lager, Victoria. But yeah, it's not true. Mexicans do like to drink Corona. Did you know Americans make up these myths? Yeah, that family I was talking about had the slaves, I mean, I'm sorry, I meant to say the servants. You get a slavery, getting back to the slavery, you got it. Yeah, they didn't like to say slaves. In Louisiana, they wouldn't say that, they would say. And also Dosekis, I'm sorry to interrupt you, Dosekis. Oh yeah, Dosekis, yeah, very popular. Well, now Modelo has Oro, means meaning gold. They're light, I guess they're a light beer. It's trash, I tried it, it's trash, I'm sorry. I know Oro. I hated it, I hated it. Alvarez, I think bought the brewery in 1989, LDR, he also owns a company that you mentioned. Well, I believe that, I mean, I wouldn't shock me, you know. Yeah, but we had a family, our family tree goes back and go to the local library here, they have all the records of all the purchases, like anybody that purchased anything. So it's very interesting if somebody is looking to do a family tree, because it'll say, like my ancestor, quimel, quimel, which is not a French word, quimel. Oh yeah, quimel is, I'm sorry, I'm saying the wrong word, I'll, Franken's beer. The heidle, heidel, heidel. Heidel, heidel, yeah, heidel, H-E-I-D-E-L, you know that's not from France, heidel. Where does that sound like it's from, heidel? Sounds like Germanic. Yeah, heidelberg, yeah, you got it. Excuse me. So they moved over here, they moved over here, and they did buy, they did buy servants, they used to say servants, you know, try to be sound, they could sound nice. Fancy or worth for slavery, gotcha. Yeah, well in Louisiana they would say servants, but they say, our family has many servants. Yeah. But the record book, the thing about the record book, it has a list of each person who they purchased and what country they came from. So it's great, somebody's trying to do a family. Family tree? Yeah, we bought this guy named Emile, Emile, not his real name, Emile from the Angola Nation or Pierre from, Guinea, Guinea, Guinea Coast. So people could trace their family tree back to what part of Africa they came from, you know. Wow. Yeah, well I'm sure West Indies, I'm sure the British colonies of the West Indies, you know, their African culture was retained and practiced still. That's where their, I think that's where their accent originally came from and a lot of their culture. Just like Jamaica. And in those records even shows how much they paid for each slave, it's very interesting how much they paid, you know. Wow. Yeah, if you go to Jamaica, I'm sorry to interrupt. No, no, no, go ahead. If you go to Jamaica or Nigeria or Ghana or Gambia, they all have that British accent, you know. Or we're about Cameroon, that's over there too by Ghana. Well, now that's a little bit different, James. Cameroon. Because Cameroon was a German colony. Really? Germany used to own a bunch of countries in Africa until World War I, and when the First World War broke out the British and the French attacked the German colonies and seized all of them. So Cameroon was a German colony, Southwest Africa, Tanganica, Rwanda, you've heard of Rwanda. Of course. Burundi and Togo, Togoland, those six places were German colonies, six places, yeah. Yeah, these, the equatorial parts of Africa, the tropical areas near the Republic of Congo. Togo, Togoland and Cameroon is near the equator. The equator, they're on the coast, the Atlantic coast. Atlantic coast, yeah. Rwanda and Burundi are in the central part of Africa, inland, they're not close to any water, except for lakes. Tanganica's on the Indian Ocean coast. It's part of Tanzania today. Yeah. The big lakes there, Lake Malawi, Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganica. Right, that's exactly right. You're right, you would make a good grade in geography. Most Americans are ignorant of geography. Southwest Africa. In certain parts of history. In Southwest Africa, it's called Namibia today, Namibia, but it was called Southwest Africa until 1990, but the Germans own that, that's down at the bottom. Down at the very bottom, that's the South Africa. Now Mozambique, Mozambique is dry, right? They're close to two. No, Mozambique is tropical rainforest. It's tropical rainforest, yeah. And it was called Portuguese East Africa until 1975, Portuguese East Africa. They have chimpanzees in a remote area, in the jungle somewhere, it's like it's a really remote area. And these chimpanzees are like six feet tall over 200 pounds. Holy shit. Wow. And chimpanzees are very aggressive creatures in... They're extremely violent, very vicious. They're very violent. They wage war against other colonies of chimpanzees. Yes. They're so bad. Well, their DNA is so close to human. That's probably why they're, I mean, they're so bad. They'll still take a newborn chimp. If the female gives birth, she has to leave the area of the colony. To give birth? And go somewhere because they'll, if she had, she gave birth near the colony. They'll eat it? The female would eat it. Would take... Oh, my cannibal. They'd take her baby away and eat it because they eat, they hunt monkey chimps. Oh, God. Yeah, they're not like Cornelius on Planet of the Apes. No, they're not vegans. They're not vegans. They're very... Meat-oriented. Yeah. They're very, you know, I mean, they have those... So they eat small monkeys? Yeah, they'll chase them up trees and rip them apart. They'll eat them alive. That's what they call the law of the jungle. Yeah. Eat or be eaten. And the chimpanzees are intelligent in a sense. In a sense. Because what they'll do is they'll, they're vicious and they're killers, but they'll use tools like they'll find a termite mound and they'll take a stick and they'll lick it and they'll stick it in the termite mound and they'll let it sit in there and get covered with termites. And then eat them. And they'll termite all of it. Yeah, like a little... Yeah, a little protein snack. They do the same thing. Loop up protein snack for them. They use tools. They're the only animal that people know about that, use tools. You know, they kind of use tools. Yeah. Then they show a documentary about the silverback gorilla, which is the alpha male of the group. And the silverback sleeps on the ground where all the females and young gorillas are up in the trees. And that's pretty much how they do their thing, you know? But just poachers is... It's horrible. Poachers are the worst when they kill the animals, take what they need and leave the carcass. It's just such a waste. Our chimps are smart enough to think. You know what they did? Because a certain tribe in Africa was hunting chimpanzee. They, in the middle of the night, they went into the village and they kidnapped the babies. The chimps did? Humans? The humans and they killed them and ate them. Holy shit. Yeah, to get revenge from the tribe hunting them. But you know what fascinates me? Like the Samburu and the Maasai, when they go hunting, they'll go after lions or something and they have their spears, which are like zulu spears. They're long, but they don't necessarily go to hunt lion. They go to steal the carcass that the female lions in the pride hunted down. So they... Oh, wow. So a whole big group of men would march towards where the lion pride is and they'll be loud, talking loud and then the lions would get spooked and back off and they would literally steal like a wildebeest or... Wow, that's crazy. What the hell, a zebra, whatever. Or an oxen of some kind, maybe? Yeah, yeah. So all the work that the females did, because the females do everything, the males just sleep and have sex. They don't do anything, but they have to eat first. Otherwise they'll kill whatever lion, even the cubs, like a male lion won't let the cubs eat first. Like the male has to get full and then he allows the females and the cubs to eat second. But anyway, the tribe members would take the carcass, would steal the carcass from the lions and have easy bush meat, they call it bush meat. What would the lions do to retaliate, anything? Nothing, like a half a dozen dudes with the spears and screaming and yelling and ready to use their spear. Now, you see how all those beer bottles have yellow in the back of them? Yes. Those were National Geographic magazines going back to 1918. Wow, incredible. 1980, you're a bigger collector than my grandfather was. So I was reading articles in the 1920s, it was all usually British or American writers. They went to India and they were doing these tiger hunts. It was very cruel, they would hunt these tigers and tigers don't bother. Tigers are not bothered in anybody, all right? So they would have like 40 guys and they would line up in a big line, spread out and they would just march forward through the jungle and going after the tiger and they're gonna kill the tiger. Yeah, these tigers were dangerous. Yeah, but I would read about this. These Bengal tigers in Bengal, India, they were smart. So they knew that humans were chasing them, right? So they said, what the tigers would do is they would go and run forward to get away and then they would make a U turn to the right. And they would let the people go forward and it would go behind them and then they would jump on a human and a couple of people and they would, yeah. So the tiger would figure like, okay, you got me, I'm gonna get killed, but I'm taking a few people down with me. So the tigers would do it, they would always do it. They would go forward, then they would make a U turn and go back behind them. And if the tiger came up behind you, you would just hope you got killed because if you survived, you didn't wanna be in that condition. Yeah. When they started attacking you like a cat, like scratching you and biting you. That's some real bad damage. Yeah. That's smart, man. You notice tigers in Thailand, Vietnam, Southeast Asia has tigers. They hunt them too, unfortunately. Yeah, did you know they had tigers in Siberia? Yeah, Siberian tiger, the largest tiger. Largest tiger in the world and it's full of fur. It can be 50 below zero and they just walking around uneven cold. And even in Indonesia, in the like Borneo, Sumatra. Oh, yeah, Sumatra tigers. They're not as big as the Bengal, but they're smaller. You know, James, I may have mentioned this on the show before about the problem of smart animals in Canada, the super boars that some fucking farmer made it a pig and a wild boar and they made these super boars. Like a genetically modified. Yes, and they're in the zero below degrees. These things are so smart. They burrow like five feet into the ground and they can't find them. And they're a totally invasive species and they're trying to figure out how to wipe them out. They're trying to get a collar on one of them. They're so smart, they can't catch them. They have a collar on one to take them to a group of them so they can get them. But I thought they look for binoculars and look for steam coming out of the snow. No, they go down so far, they can't find it. I mean, they burrow down, they're so smart. It's bad news, really bad. Some of them have come to North America from Canada, these super boars and they ruin an area, they're so aggressive and invasive. I would love to have wild boar head cheese and smoked sausage. Oh yeah, Louisiana has plagued by wild boars. In fact, you can hunt wild boars in Louisiana and kill as many as you want without a license. For 24 seven? Yeah, there's no limit. You can just shoot them all. Is there any season for them? Probably not. Every day of the year. Wow, that's bad. Well, they're invasive. Yeah. Well, these super boars are even worse than that. Yeah, these wild boars in Louisiana, they go into the fields, they tear up everybody's crops. They attack people, they got horns on their face. Yeah, they could kill a man. If you're not careful, they could kill a man. Well, they got the tusks, the razor sharp tusks. Well, the woman's, I know the story, it was in Connecticut, Tommy, the woman had a full grown male chimpanzee as a pet or maybe. That's a bad move there. Maybe he was something else. Oh boy. And he, she invited her lady friend over to house and for some reason and all of a sudden this male chimp attacked her and tore her, bit her fingers off, tore her face off. Oh my God. Or her nose off and she had to undergo, she survived but she had to undergo plastic reconstructive surgery. Constructive surgery, but what happened was when the cop showed up, the chimp was dashing towards the police to attack them, to open the police car door and attack them and they just riddled the chimp full of bullets and it took, it took more than one bullet, that's for sure to bring that chimp down. Sort of like King Kong on the Empire State going. Yeah, with the plane's dive bomb and it, yeah. They had to shoot King Kong, yeah. They had to shoot King Kong, what, 40 times? Yeah, well of course they shoot Godzilla a million times but nothing happens to him. But he's radioactive. He's radioactive, he's like, you know. And they all have like laser beams. So even Martha now has laser beams. But you gotta think about King Kong in that movie, King Kong, that movie was sort of like about animal exploitation, huh? Yeah, yeah, they captured him on Skull Island, the mythical Skull Island which they, which sunk and but there are British explorer documentation that existed and they said there were prehistoric creatures there but anyway, they captured, they knocked them out with some whatever chemical gas and they bought them for like a carnival side show. Brought them to the United States like a carnival, like a circus side show. Yeah, and to put him in an exhibition on Broadway. Yeah, I like the song that the natives used to dance and sing to summon him. They had the big wall, which looked like a flimsy wall anyway, it didn't look like it were Kong. They were, Oonga, oonga, oonga, oonga, oonga, oonga, oonga, oonga. So they would summon him and he had no special powers. He just had strength and you know, the Japanese King Kong was hilarious. Was I gonna say, you know, these, now Tommy Carroll mentioned a honey badger. Honey badgers, badgers in general are tough anyway but honey badgers have very elastic skin. So if a predator or say a lion bites them, it stretches. But you know what's a real tough member to Weasel family because that's what they are. A Wolverine has got to be the toughest. Oh yeah. Wolverine has got to be absolutely. But you know what's funny? I saw a YouTube video, Russian guy who had a tamed, he was not domesticated and he didn't live in a house. He had a tamed Wolverine that used to like, you know, cuddle with him and he would feed it by hand and it was like very, very calm and a short affection but it's a wild animal. Yeah, you can't trust it, you can't trust it. How could you trust, you know, a wild animal? It's like even a feral cat, even a stray cat can't really. Oh, like Orangy? Like Orangy, I mean, I'm sure Orangy had bad moods every now and then. Oh, like slicing my leg open? Yeah, or ransacking your place and knocking things over. Chopping up in the kitchen cabinet and going behind all the glasses. I thought she was going to break all the glass. I said she's going to break every glass in the cabinet but I couldn't believe it. She was behind all the glasses and all she had to do is push them all out the cabinet. They would all broke, but she just, Orangy. I said, get out that cabinet. So she turned around and it was amazing. She turned around like this behind the glasses. I couldn't believe it. She just went like, and really, and she came out the cabinet. I said, good. That's because she read your tone of voice and she respected your, whatever you want to call it, friendship, companionship. You know what I mean? Like if she didn't like it, she would have just knocked all your good whiskey glasses right off. Oh yeah, she would listen to me. She would listen, but she was vicious. Well, she liked to play. She didn't understand playing. She thought playing was the same as killing. So if I was walking through the house, she would come up behind me and go like. Yeah. Well, they're good at hunting birds for feral cats. They're really experts at hunting birds. I saw her walking through the, I saw her trotting through the yard when they kill something. They trot. They trot. I saw her trotting through the yard one day like this. Yeah, that means they're happy that they got something. Yeah. She was trotting through the yard with a squirrel hanging out her mouth. Bouncing the squirrels. Bouncing the squirrels. She ran underneath the house. I said, well, there's no way I could help that squirrel. Too late. She ran underneath. Thank you, Tommy Carroll. Thank you for stopping by as always. Yeah, it's getting to that. It's getting close to the dinner hour. I'm probably gonna order some Chinese food or pizza or something. The third participant quit. Oh, he gets real hungry at this time, Nick. Nick, yeah. He's all right. He does a little bit like Eric. You know, he's like gone one and then he's gone. Well, he gets hungry, you know, Nick. Yeah. Well, it was good talking to you. Thanks for the invitation. Yeah, it was a good show. It was a good show. How was it? Almost three hours already. I felt like I just started at 3 p.m. It's hard to believe, huh? Yeah. The heaviest green anaconda on record ever found was a female, 440 pounds. So you know how hard that it would be to unravel or for somebody like- Oh, and the second biggest was found at Walmart. Second biggest female was found at Walmart. Second biggest female shopper or anaconda? Shopper, I'm sorry to say. What's found at Walmart? Oh, I don't know if I sent it to you. My friend Paul, he lives in his building at Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, near the ocean. And he's near Coney Island too anyway. He showed me a short video of his superintendent that is so good for nothing and lazy. He fixes nothing. And all he does is he's in cahoots with all the other crooks around age. He used to break into mailboxes, but his ass was like a billboard. It was humongous. In other words, he's no bookman. No, no, he's not. And he looked bigger than BC, to be honest with me. You remember Bookman on- On Seinfeld? No, Bookman on Goodtons. Bookman was the superintendent. Oh yeah, Bookman didn't really fix anything. They called him Buffalo Butt. Yeah, he didn't really fix anything. What was the neighbor, Waloma? Walona, Walona. Walona, and that's where she took care of baby Janet Jackson. Right. I mean, young Janet Jackson. The guy that played Bookman, the guy that played Bookman, he was really a great singer in real life. He was a great singer. He had been on Laugh-In and other comedies. You know, he reminded me of rerun on what's happening. Oh, right. Didn't he? He had the mushroom hat. He had the same build. Well, but the difference is that Bookman was not effeminate like rerun. I got you. Yeah, well, what happened is the reason why you saw Bookman and Walona and Janet Jackson is because they decided to get rid of John Amos because John Amos kept on complaining to Norman Lear and everybody that he wanted much greater speaking role. And he says that Jimmy Walker was getting all the attention on the show and he kept on being a pest. Right. About it. So they solved that problem by having to get killed in a car wreck. Yeah. Oh, that's how they bumped them off, right? Yeah, they got killed in a car wreck. And, oh, that's how they did it. Just like when Heidi Sweeberg, anyway, when Susan, the fiance, the redheaded fiance of George Costanza, they killed her off because nobody got along with her. On the set, the cast members, they couldn't stand her. So Larry David thought of a way to get rid of her. So they bumped her off by licking the toxic envelopes because George wanted the cheapest envelopes. Right. Those aren't the only two actors killed off a series by being a difficult, there's been many. Suzanne Summers started making all kinds of demands on a three's company. They said, ABC said, bye, take a hike. Yeah. So you're a star on a successful long running sitcom and you're making money. You got a steady job and you're making a lot of money. Every episode, you're pulling in a nice chunk. Big ratings. And the publicity and blah, blah, and you started getting too big for your britches. Like the late Farrah Fawcett wanted to do big movies. All of a sudden she's on Charlie's Angels. And I think her movies didn't do so well. But like Farrah Fawcett said, and one of the other girls said, she said, you ever notice every episode of Charlie's Angels, we were running. Every episode they had them running. They had them running, yeah. Jacqueline Smith. Yeah, Cheryl Teague. My mother met her in a big shopping mall in Paramish. Got her autographed. Jacqueline Smith, she's from Texas originally. But yeah, Cheryl Teague's, yeah. The, Suzanne Summers told ABC, this is the way it's gonna be. She told them that 1979, I think. I'm getting $500,000 per episode. I'm getting $500,000 per episode or I'm not coming on anymore. And ABC said, looks like you're not coming on anymore. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Isn't that when she came out with that piece of crap, the thymaster? I'm right. The thymaster, yeah, towards the end. And I think that was Don Knott's last part. They bounced, yeah, he was great on that show, but they bounced Suzanne Summers like a beach ball when she made that demand. She's out. Yeah, she's out. And then it was a problem on BeWitched with the original Darren. Yeah. It was Dick York and Dick Sargent. Dick York. Dick York was the guy with the dark hair. The first one, yeah. And they got rid of him and brought in Dick Sargent, yeah. Dick Sargent was boring. Yeah, Dick York had the facial expressions. Yeah. All right, well, I gotta go. All right, let's see. All right, I'm gonna go order food. Thank you, as always, for coming. You're welcome. All right, bye-bye. Bye-bye. Okay, folks, that was a good progressive discussion, isn't it? It always ends up being a good progressive discussion. And you have a very nice and pleasant remainder of this Sunday. And you have also equally pleasant last week of July, right, 2023. And the next holiday will be Labor Day weekend at the beginning of September. See you in September, Labor Day weekend. That's when the weather starts to cool down. I hope, knock on wood. Unfortunately, we're supposed to have a very bad hurricane season, but that's when the weather starts to feel the tad bit autumn-y, you know? Autumn is slightly in the air. And I love autumn, it's my favorite time of year. The holidays are fun, the weather's nice. I love the foliage-turning colors. And Labor Day weekend, we have a lot of festivals here in Northeastern and the New Jersey, New York area. So anyway, try to survive the heat wave. Make sure your home has room darkened occurrence. Make sure you have a more powerful energy-efficient air conditioner. The new ones are great. And like I said, just keep your windows dark for those with cars. Try to get like 50%, the top 50% of your front windshield darkened, tinted. And dress appropriately, wear a hat. If you must go out, lie out in the sun, you're taking a big risk nowadays because the sun is really strong. So make sure you use the recommended SPF sunscreen that recommended by dermatologists. You know, be safe, be safe, right? We'll see you next time. Have a good week. We'll see you next time for not only progressive discussions, unless I'm away. If I'm around, I'll be on. Not only progressive discussions, but the new show I do called Northern Lights Tidei TV with Paul Anthony Mantia, Celebrity Performing Artist and Clothing Designer. That's Saturday night. So we'll see you then, all right? Take care, bye-bye.