Hour 3 - Ranking Our Presidents
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2:49and Buck are both working, as is our amazing team located in New York City.
2:55Some of you are on holiday.
2:57Some of you get to celebrate the President's.
3:02Kind of a weird holiday, isn't it?
3:03When you think about it.
3:04Well, what exactly is the holiday?
3:05Well, it's just Washington's birthday, and then they expanded it to Lincoln, and now it's
3:10just kind of a weird construct.
3:12It's like expanding to Lincoln, but it's like we're doing a dual birthday.
3:15So what kind of nonsense is this?
3:18This is a little bit of...
3:19It's a weird... Let's be honest.
3:21Let's be honest, everybody. What is President's Day really for?
3:24Getting a great deal on a mattress?
3:27Maybe a lawnmower? Perhaps some outdoor furniture?
3:31Like, that's really what President's Day is all about.
3:33It's a time for businesses to establish a post -Christmas sale when they can move
3:40inventory. Am I right or am I right?
3:42I mean, that certainly is the thing you would see back in the day.
3:45I don't know if they advertised that as much.
3:47Back in the day when newspapers existed, there were always mattress cells.
3:50That was the big President's Day.
3:52I don't know that they really pulled that anymore.
3:54But by the way, since it is President's Day, and I know we're going to
3:57get to Obama, but did you see...
3:59I was actually stunned by something that I saw come down, which I think is
4:05indicative of how successful they have been in defining modern -day ideas of the presidency?
4:14Did you see the rankings for people today of who the best presidents are?
4:18Oh, no, okay. I thought you were off -roading, as you tend to do, and
4:21all of a sudden we're going to be talking about some football thing.
4:23No, this is actually about presidents.
4:26Directly on President's Day. I mean, some of this is not going to surprise you.
4:29According to Americans, this is from YouGov, Abraham Lincoln is seen as the greatest president
4:35of all time. I think a lot of people would kind of nod along and
4:38say, you know, winning the Civil War, kind of a big deal, ending slavery.
4:42George Washington, you don't like...
4:44I think you've got to give G...
4:45I think G -dubs is...
4:46It's got to be G -dubs.
4:48I'm sorry. G -dubs. He's in third.
4:50This one really surprised me.
4:51John F. Kennedy is second.
4:53What? Get out of here.
4:55Trash. Listen to this. Trash.
4:57Listen to this. A la Pubelle in the trash.
5:00Abraham Lincoln, one. John F.
5:02Kennedy, two. George Washington, three.
5:05This one surprised me a little bit.
5:07I think it's actually just a sign that people don't know there's more than one
5:10Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt, fourth place.
5:15And then Franklin Roosevelt, sixth place.
5:18Thomas Jefferson in fifth place.
5:20This one also surprised me.
5:22John Adams? Who is... Like the big John Adams fans out there, like that he
5:27would be the seventh best president of all time?
5:30A little bit of a surprise.
5:32Look, I think the founders, you got to give the early guys a little bit
5:37of extra points for Washington.
5:42It's like if Kamala messes up, she goes on a book tour.
5:46Washington messed up, he was going to get hanged, right?
5:50It's a different deal. And the whole country was potentially going to cease to exist.
5:54Either way, yes. But I'm saying...
5:57Stakes were maybe a little bit more significant for Washington than others.
6:01Yeah, I think you got to give Washington a little bit more.
6:04I think it's interesting that Jefferson doesn't appear on these lists.
6:08Well, Jefferson is at five.
6:10FDR is at six. Yeah, John Adams, seven.
6:13Ronald Reagan, eight. Madison, nine.
6:17And then it starts to get wonky.
6:19Obama, nine. Get out of here.
6:22What list is this? Is this the communist .com?
6:25What is this last list?
6:26How Americans rate presidents. This one blew my mind.
6:31Jimmy Carter, plus six. The communists.
6:34This is all trash. The bots from India have made this thing up.
6:37There's no way. What jumped out to me is, okay, Richard Nixon, not very popular.
6:42Joe Biden, not very popular.
6:44George W. Bush. A lot of current presidents, by and large, not very popular.
6:48But this one, Andrew Jackson, minus three.
6:52And I don't think a lot of people think about this, but when they were
6:56trying to take Jackson off the $20 bill, which seems to basically have ended, they
7:01have basically created in the world the idea that all Andrew Jackson did in his
7:08eight years as president was the trail of tears.
7:11And I thought this was interesting because when you and I were in school, Andrew
7:17Jackson would have been considered one of the best presidents in the country.
7:20And they have been so successful at defining Jackson entirely based on the trail of
7:26tears that he now has collapsed in his overall popularity.
7:30Well, this is why this stuff matters is because these fights over history are actually
7:34fights over the narrative in the present, right?
7:36It all is meant to influence our thinking and our feelings about what is in
7:41the here and now. There is power at stake with the history that we believe
7:45or with the history that we accept.
7:47And so that's why the left is always rewriting history as fast as they can.
7:51You noted Nixon. I know we're all supposed to hate Nixon so much.
7:54The Democrat party in this country hated Nixon because he was a staunch anti -communist
7:58and he was right about the fact that they were a bunch of damn commies
8:01and sold out the country at the highest levels.
8:03So they were kind of ticked off about that.
8:04So they tried to get him back.
8:06There's a lot of stuff that people don't.
8:07And you look up the Venona Project, which was a top secret military program about
8:11the penetrations of the United States government.
8:13All Democrats, by the way, including at some of the very highest levels of our
8:17government. This was a real thing.
8:19It was declassified in the 80s, I think it was.
8:21And the communist menace was far more.
8:23Kids don't even learn about this in school.
8:25How many people even know about the Project Venona?
8:28There's very, very few. But, Clay, my point on all this is, yeah, of course,
8:32they want to find presidents of the past and elevate them that are meant to
8:38push certain ideas and policies today.
8:41I mean, the notion of Barack Obama as a great president, that's absurd.
8:45The notion of Jimmy Carter as a great president is absurd.
8:47Jimmy Carter is even crazier to me.
8:50Well, I mean, I actually think that Carter probably did less damage actively.
8:54Barack Obama's signature thing. Well, you know, should we get into the Obama interview now?
8:58Well, yeah, let's get into it.
8:59Let me hit you with one more thing, because I think you made a good
9:01point about the fact that the history is being used to dictate the way we
9:04talk today. They tried to replace Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman.
9:08I think that's been somewhat forestalled.
9:10But remember, they were going to replace Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill.
9:16But Hamilton, the musical, was so popular that they rescinded the idea of taking him
9:24off money. This is 200 years after he died in the duel with Aaron Burr.
9:30So if you're out there and you're thinking, oh, a lot of these guys have
9:34to have fixed historical records because it's been 200 years since they died.
9:39Jackson has been torn down really in the 21st century.
9:44Meanwhile, Alexander Hamilton, who was obviously never a president, has surged up entirely based on
9:50the way they're talked about today.
9:52It's not like they're continuing to alter the trajectory of their presidencies or we're still
9:57having fallout from it. That's because a lot of Americans, unfortunately, when they think of
10:02Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton, they think of a Puerto Rican guy rapping badly.
10:08That's true. That's why he gets to stay on the $10 bill.
10:12It is really crazy. Okay.
10:14On Obama, he did a sit -down interview.
10:16He said a lot of things.
10:17Let's start running through this.
10:18This is the most quintessential Obama thing in existence, which is to say something that
10:27he, in fact, is self -refuting in the statement itself.
10:32He was sitting down with some left -wing podcast guy.
10:36And here we go. Obama.
10:38This is cut nine. About how we, the right, are angry and mean and divisive.
10:44Unlike them, the left, they, them, who are warm, cuddly, fantastic, and inclusive.
10:51Play nine. The other side does the mean, angry, demagoguery, exclusive, us them, divisive politics.
11:05That's their home court. Our court is coming together.
11:14Our court is, look, a great example, wasn't political, bad bunnies halftime.
11:20I knew you were going to say that.
11:21Well, it was, it resonated, it was smart, because it wasn't preaching, it was showing,
11:32it was demonstrating and displaying, this is what a community is.
11:37Clay, he's wrong on all counts, but I also love the, unlike those other jerks,
11:42we're really nice and inclusive.
11:44We're the inclusive side while being exclusive of them.
11:48Barack Obama's tenure was, I think, more than anything else, characterized by bringing back race
11:57riots in the 21st century.
11:58BLM 1 .0. It brought people together while they were burning down neighborhoods out of
12:03anti -white rage. That's not good.
12:06I wonder how plugged in Obama actually is on very much that's going on.
12:13How much is him knowingly lying versus just not really paying that much attention to
12:19the day -to -day trajectories of politics?
12:21And the reason why I ask that is, remember Kamala tried to call him out,
12:27you know, go to the bullpen, so to speak, and Obama came and tried to
12:31campaign for Kamala, and I thought was really bad and seemed tone deaf.
12:36He lectured black guys that they needed to vote for her and that it was
12:41sexist of them not to be supporting Kamala in the same way that he was
12:46supported. And he never really got engaged with Biden at all, because I think Obama
12:52knew Biden was out to lunch and wasn't able to actually do the job.
12:58And so when I see and hear the sit downs, he sounds pretty out of
13:04touch with what's going on right now.
13:07And obviously, when you're the president of the United States, you have to be at
13:11least aware of what's going on.
13:12I think he's just a rich, out -of -touch leftist, like many of the people
13:18that are in Hollywood right now.
13:22And what cut exactly did you play?
13:24Because there's so many of these.
13:25I played nine, but there's so many others we can get into here.
13:29We could do the whole show just on Obama's nonsense.
13:32Here's cut 11. Obama says they have a much harder job than Republicans because they're
13:38not as mean, other than trying to kill Trump a couple of times.
13:42Cut 11. Yes, we have a harder job because sometimes I think we're tough on
13:46Democrats saying, why aren't you being as mean and tough and nasty as there?
13:51Well, you know, when I was president of the United States, I suppose I could
13:55have simply unilaterally ordered the military to go into some red state and harass and
14:04intimidate a governor there or cut off funding for states that didn't vote for me.
14:10I could have exercised that prerogative, but that is contrary to how I think our
14:15democracy is supposed to work.
14:16And I think we shouldn't get discouraged by the fact that we have a tougher
14:21job. What we should do is expect that our side is smart enough to figure
14:26it out. Clay, Obama explicitly threatened to cut off education funds to, I think it
14:32was, North Carolina over the bathroom gender policy bill.
14:38Essentially, you have to let trannies use whatever bathroom they want or else we're going
14:41to in school or else we're going to cut off funds.
14:44So he actually was thuggish in his use of government power.
14:50He sued nuns for heaven's sakes.
14:53And he's complaining about Trump enforcing immigration law.
14:56Really? He's a nice guy.
14:58I would like to hear someone interviewed who is on the left.
15:02And I would like the question to be, we hit a 125 year low in
15:08murders. Do you think Donald Trump deserves any credit for that at all?
15:13Because you're talking about him sending troops into red states and sorry, whether Obama could
15:18have done it, sending troops into blue states.
15:20The results of that have been that way more people who tended to vote Democrat
15:24are alive today than otherwise would.
15:27I would just like to hear somebody say, does Trump deserve any credit at all?
15:32Do you think the southern border being the most secure than it's ever been in
15:37our life? Do you think that is in any way connected to us setting 125
15:41year low for murders? What answer will they?
15:46I'd like to hear AOC really answer that because whatever you think about Obama, he's
15:50smart. AOC is a moron.
15:53We'll continue to talk about this.
15:54We'll take your calls. We got some interesting talkbacks.
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20:57A lot of people reacting to a wide variety of different topics that have been
21:03taking place throughout the course of the program.
21:07Let me just start to play some of these so we can catch up with
21:10many of the things that you guys have been reacting to.
21:12Cut A is Pete from Minnesota reacting to AOC saying, whiteness is imaginary.
21:21A fun take from Pete.
21:23If whiteness is imaginary, does that mean white privilege isn't a thing?
21:29It's a very legit question.
21:30White privilege could not exist if whiteness is imaginary.
21:33A good question that would have followed up for AOC to explain exactly what that
21:38would mean. Let's have some more fun.
21:40Sean in Pennsylvania, Newsradio 570 WKBN has this to say.
21:47I think you ought to do the Amish man beard, where you have the beard
21:51and you shave the mustache.
21:54The Amish beard, Buck. Remember, who's the most famous person you can think of with
22:00the Amish beard in recent history?
22:02I've got an answer. I'm curious if you come up with the same one.
22:05I got nothing, buddy. I have no idea.
22:08Moses Schrute on The Office.
22:12He has got the old school Amish beard, just the beard.
22:17No, Greg, producer Greg says C.
22:21Everett Coop. I haven't seen that name in a very long time.
22:24He had the Amish beard.
22:26Ed in Titusville, Florida, WFLA.
22:29If I had a mustache like Clay, I would be embarrassed to even call that
22:35a mustache. Mustache. Whoa, hey, hey.
22:39You know, mustache team, you need to encourage.
22:42You guys need more in your ranks.
22:43I'm just going to be honest with you right now.
22:45Right now, the mustache, unless you're a pilot, pilots, they get special mustache dispensation.
22:52But for the rest of you out there, the mustache is almost like a curiosity
22:55right now. It's like, whoa, you've got a mustache?
22:58Not a lot of mustachioed gentlemen walking around.
23:01This one stuns me, Buck.
23:02We can have some fun reacting to this.
23:04Richard in Pueblo, Colorado, I've got to be honest with you.
23:08I never expected this to set anyone off D.
23:13You two, if you didn't promote the disgusting and evil and violent movies like the
23:23Godfather series, these people were animals, man.
23:28And that you promote them pretty much disgusts me.
23:35Now, can I just say, we're talking about a movie that's like one of the
23:38most Oscar -winning movies of all time, so I don't know about us promoting them.
23:42I will say that I actually, there's a little, the gentleman needs to take a
23:46walk outside, touch grass, it's okay.
23:48But I will say one thing here, Clay.
23:51The depiction of the mafia, the American mob, the Cousinostra, as like honorable men who
23:59really, no, they actually like threaten small business owners and like hurt people that are
24:04defenseless and take their money.
24:06Like they are bad guys, actually.
24:08That's, that's... Movies can be about bad people and be really entertaining.
24:12I would just toss out there.
24:14Yeah, like Scarface is a good movie.
24:16I'm not saying anyone should be like Tony Montana.
24:18But anyway, okay, we'll come back here in a second.
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25:06Crash. DJ Crash. Crash, what is that intro we just heard?
25:11Because we all play, and I know we know that song, but I don't know
25:14the name of that song.
25:16What is that? Vehicle by the Ides of March.
25:20I know it from Shaft.
25:21That's the only place I ever remember hearing that intro.
25:25Is this Crash? Are you just running a playlist circa 1970 to 1975?
25:30Is that how you're rolling here for the show?
25:34Just so I know, so we're all clear on this one?
25:36Because this is up. Oh, okay.
25:41He's not even picking it all.
25:42I thought he was in charge of DJing this thing.
25:45Because I'm learning new songs here.
25:46I have no idea what some of this stuff is.
25:48So some of the funky tunes.
25:50Oh, Mike left. Producer Mike is out right now.
25:53And he left some tracks behind for us to groove out to.
25:57He's having surgery. We wish him well.
25:59I don't know if he'll be listening to the program as he's recuperating.
26:01But we hope he's getting back safe and sound.
26:06So we have a bunch of things to get to.
26:10We were just, though, talking about the mafia thing.
26:13I will say that was always the problem.
26:15We had a listener get very mad that we're promoting the mafia, which I don't
26:19think that's what we're doing.
26:19The Godfather is kind of a universally celebrated film.
26:22There are plenty of movies.
26:24You know, I could say The Exorcist is it.
26:26Of all the things that we could get.
26:27And by the way, the reason we were talking about The Godfather is this is
26:29a sad story. Robert Duvall died 95 years old.
26:34So we were talking about all the movies that he had been in that were
26:38iconic. And The Godfather is one of those roles.
26:42I said Lonesome Dove, which is one of the great Westerns of all time.
26:46I did not anticipate that we would be criticized for saying The Godfather 1 and
26:502 are good films. I didn't see that one coming.
26:54But I will say, I think in general that the Italian mafia in America has
27:00gotten far more generous pop culture treatment than it actually deserves.
27:07That's my – and I had an uncle in law enforcement who worked against the
27:11mob in New York for a while.
27:13And this was a thing.
27:14He would kind of – Yeah.
27:15stand on this one he would he would say uh he would stand on this
27:19hill and he would say that the notion that these guys they're all just you
27:24know they're honorable family guys who got to do what they got to do i
27:28mean there may be a little bit of that but there was a lot of
27:30i'm sending two thugs to collect the gambling debt and i'm gonna break you know
27:34this uh single father's kneecaps unless they give me the money like that's actually what
27:38they were doing so is it fair to say i think this is probably accurate
27:42that whatever criminal element you were in it has been better received like there aren't
27:50that many in the last 20 years i would say good guy bad guy setups
27:56um it feels like the bad guys have become the anti -hero no matter whether
28:01it's the mob whether it's drug dealing whatever it is um they have flipped the
28:07script on good guys right like who is the last real good guy that was
28:13popular in popular culture and he didn't have a dark side i was why the
28:18reason i was actually thinking about this because laura last night as we got ready
28:21for bed was watching little house on the prairie whatever you think about little house
28:26on the prairie it was a top show for eight or nine years and all
28:32we talked about this before all of the father figures are just really good like
28:36michael landon is just a really pause a really good guy when's the last show
28:40that was popular where the good guys are just good well this is now you're
28:46getting into the broader broader theme of i think in general hollywood has and and
28:51the creative industries in this country in general have just have pushed a lot of
28:55degeneracy and a lot of um you know we grew up and there would be
29:00shows uh and now i'm giving up the the game here because clay and i
29:04actually watched the same so shows because he would have been in high school at
29:06the same time um but the there were shows like full house danny tanner which
29:13is funny because bob saget in rest in peace in real life was kind of
29:16a salty comedian but but danny tanner salty on on full house was like lovable
29:23reliable dad all about his kids you know wife had died i think of cancer
29:28or something on the show i forget what the backstory was um but uh same
29:31thing with um carl from full house i'm sorry not full house uh family matters
29:36lovable dad cop middle class black family you know everybody same thing with fresh prince
29:43uncle bill takes in the kid uh the i know what happened with bill cosby
29:47but no i know this is we always do the cosby thing you know there's
29:50cosby the character versus you got to be able to separate these things a little
29:53bit um so yeah fresh prince by the way you know that house is up
29:56for that house is like a 60 million dollar house now that they that they
29:59used as the base yeah no it's not like a nice house it's a crazy
30:03nice house uh is that that well that they the growing pains like you run
30:08through tony danza who's the boss every dad uh told tim allen home these these
30:14dads were dedicated competent masculine handsome or handsome enough and then we kind of got
30:21into the era of dads are all kind of schlubs or the only dads that
30:27can be competent are dads that are uh sort of non -traditional you know they
30:33have something about them that is you know maybe there's two dads then the dads
30:38can be good like you start to look at this and you go what what
30:41really is the messaging that is being sent um i think that this is i
30:44think it's very real i don't think this is something that we sound like church
30:48lady from snl over here like well isn't that special like i think that there's
30:51actually a real thing behind this and it's you know who i would say coach
30:55eric taylor friday night lights last great dad character on television he's a great i
31:01also i'm like a car uh kyle chandler super fan is like i like him
31:04and everything he's in i think and if you haven't seen friday night lights it's
31:08a little weird because they have like 30 year old abercrombie models playing like 16
31:13year old high school kids you got to get past that for a second uh
31:16which they don't really do you know they actually have people that play their age
31:19much more now it wasn't too long ago i even showed you clay when my
31:24mom played a high school student in summer of my german soldier she was in
31:28her 20s and had two kids she was playing a 16 year old yeah right
31:31it was very common i mean beverly hills now 210 is the most like uh
31:35back in the day i mean you had people who were in their 30s like
31:38andrea was in her 30s playing a high school kid was like 35 playing a
31:4216 i've never seen someone in their 30s and i'm like they look like they're
31:45in high school like that's not a thing so that was something that we all
31:49just accepted in television for a while was very weird friday night lights has a
31:53little bit of that like some of the characters are well cast but some of
31:56them look way to my the guy who gets paralyzed in the show to me
32:00he looks like he's you know in his late 20s uh and also tyra there
32:05are no high school girls that look like tyra uh she went on to play
32:09like a marvel superheroine or whatever right after this like that's he's not in high
32:13school i got to meet her once i i was such a fan of friday
32:16night lights she was in uh at the hotel bar uh by the fox lot
32:20and uh and i went over and said i'm a huge fan but i mean
32:22to your point we basically have eliminated dads from pop culture and there are no
32:29positive dad pop culture characters and i think there is a huge opportunity to push
32:36back against the counter culture and solve this issue i think there's a demand for
32:41it have you is the tim man Allen show is that one that I didn't
32:45forget what people I always get lit up for not having watch I really have
32:48not seen Tim Allen stuff and I know everyone says he's great and is he
32:53a dad the last man standing is good he's great in the Santa Claus which
32:57a lot of people will see every Christmas season as a you know failed or
33:02struggling dad but I think there just became this idea we're talking about the mob
33:07Tony Soprano to me became the ideal father figure and it just descent meaning in
33:16terms of what they wanted to create in uh in in art in in shows
33:20and then it descended from Soprano and just got worse and worse I mean I
33:25guess they they have to because they can't have you hate the guy but the
33:29truth is they're always like he's not really a mobster because he always will kind
33:35of draw this line of not doing the thing that's like really goes too far
33:39and the truth is that's not the way that these guys operate and well and
33:43then they did they hurt a lot of they hurt and threaten a lot of
33:46innocent defenseless people that's actually what organized crime does like no one makes these excuses
33:52for the Russian mob like the Russian mob is particularly ruthless with what they do
33:57back home in Russia it's one of the ways they enforce I worked with an
34:00NYPD guy who spent his whole career in the Russian mob used to ask him
34:03questions about this all the time and he says that they they hear they just
34:06want to rip people off and run scams but if you're part of the Russian
34:09community and you rat or you do it they'll they'll get your family back in
34:13Russia that's actually how they go after people a lot of the time and they're
34:16absolutely ruthless no one's like yeah but they're family guys you know what I mean
34:20you know who never has a positive portrayal probably deservedly so cartels there's no like
34:26oh the cartels are actually pretty good guys and I mean Sosa and Scarface is
34:30pretty slick but I hear you Sosa you're like if I have to hang out
34:34with a cartel guy this guy I bet he throws great dinner parties most of
34:38the Mexican cartel stories uh or the Latin American stories the bad guys are pretty
34:44bad um but anyway I I do think it's emblematic that this conversation came out
34:50of the guy being upset the movie is fantastic it is an aspirational and it
34:54reminds me of do you remember when uh uh I thought Julia Roberts actually had
35:00a great response on this but when pretty woman came out uh so the Julia
35:05Roberts started getting criticized and they said uh you know my daughter now wants to
35:09grow up and be a hooker oh I agree with the pretty woman criticism I
35:13think pretty woman is a trash movie it's bizarre the whole thing makes no sense
35:16but her argument was well it's you shouldn't be showing pretty woman to like a
35:2110 year old well that's like that's a that's also true but but I think
35:26that's a little bit of a cop -out because the whole if you think about
35:29pretty woman it's a horrible movie like I'm not saying it's not entertaining I'm not
35:33saying it's not entertaining but if you look at what this is about first of
35:37I mean I don't know you know are you suggesting that super rich guys who
35:41are good looking like Richard Gere don't and fundamentally kind and decent aren't picking up
35:46hookers on Rodeo or not a Rodeo drive on Hollywood Boulevard and then having them
35:50live with each other yeah not so much it is an absurd and and honestly
35:55grotesque movie but it's got a good soundtrack and uh you know everyone's supposed I'm
36:00also by the way Julia Roberts overrated oh maybe maybe even I mean not quite
36:06as overrated as uh Natalie Portman but still overrated I don't care what anyone says
36:12I think Julia Roberts back in the day I was going to say you know
36:14what movie really doesn't stand up big oh yeah weird weird big which made like
36:24500 million dollars back in the day and starred Tom Hanks is if you watch
36:30big today you're like this is a super super weird movie like on so many
36:37different levels uh go back I thought the I thought the recent movie with the
36:43uh I said it's a woman who falls in love with her aquarium pet the
36:46shape of water this woman falls in it won the best picture clay like five
36:52years ago or something it's a woman who basically like a weird amphibious thing amphibious
36:59well she's saying producer Allie's saying splash splash is like mermaids mermaids are you don't
37:06need a mermaid you got the top half as human also the mermaid is clearly
37:10not real right like right just FYI I don't want to kill any of the
37:14big mermaid truthers out there but but the uh the shape of water this is
37:19a full -on like amphibious monster and she's like let's let's let's get down with
37:24some some naughty time why did you watch this were you on a date how
37:28did this end up on your repertoire of watching films uh it was years ago
37:32I probably was on a date everything that's really bad that I get back to
37:36this doesn't sound like what hey you know what I want to do in my
37:39free time I want to watch the shape of water this sounds like something you
37:42got directed picture Oscar not like it was nominated clay it won best picture it's
37:48not even a good movie and and it has this woman was falling in love
37:51with a month the whole thing is bizarre degeneracy pure and people get mad at
37:55me because they say I don't like everything that's not true because like on Netflix
37:58I said the rip which you liked by the way which is a totally clay
38:01clay I rip is trash my standard for movies is do I sit and watch
38:07it for two hours and not look at my watch to know how I couldn't
38:10through it i couldn't even fit i bailed last like half hour i'm like this
38:13movie is so so dumb makes no sense at all um but people ask the
38:17netflix netflix has got great movies did the recent frankenstein movie on netflix if those
38:22of you who actually read the original uh i heard that it's pretty good i've
38:25seen it advertised it's really good it's a beautiful rendition of the true frankenstein tale
38:31and it's done by a benicio del toro uh the other del toro um whatever
38:36his name is you know the not the actor but the directors guillermo guillermo del
38:40toro and and also the um the all quiet on the western front netflix movie
38:46is one of the best one of the best war movies i've ever seen maybe
38:48even a top 10 war movie definitely top 20 so they do do some good
38:53stuff i'm not just here to trash things but man the shape of water was
38:57like brain damage i think there's a lot of again i i just go back
39:03and i was thinking about it even more as i watched little house i think
39:06i'm just telling you if you're out there full house fresh prints family matters growing
39:10pains cosby show who's the boss if you grew up in the 80s or the
39:1390s you have a very positive association with that there is a huge demand i
39:18think for dads and moms who live in a house and like each other sometimes
39:23argue uh and boy the family ties like all of these shows back in the
39:29day they were so good and so popular i don't believe that that demand has
39:34vanished i really don't i think that there is an ample opportunity to satisfy a
39:39market that has not been served in a long time with good uh options there
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41:06find it on the iheart radio app or wherever you get your podcasts welcome back
41:11in buck's book is out tomorrow go buy it manufacturing delusion uh he will be
41:17uh excited to have you be able to read it we've been talking about it
41:20a while let me give you a couple of history uh recommendations i've been down
41:24this weekend reading rick atkinson he's got a world war ii trilogy the one that
41:30i'm reading right now is about the war in north africa which i knew very
41:33little about during world war ii but given that it is uh washington's birthday rick
41:40atkinson's revolutionary war trilogy he's got two of the three done if you are looking
41:46for a deep engrossing incredibly well done not political uh just write up of the
41:52revolutionary war it is so well done uh i give it my highest uh recommendation
41:58um and again you can just get totally lost in it i'm almost done with
42:02your killer angels by the way it's one of i read a few books at
42:05a time on kindle i'm almost finished with it's fantastic that's a very solid right
42:08i think 1976 won the pulitzer prize uh it's great um uh let's see uh
42:15ray in new orleans let's celebrate tomorrow is mardi gras f we'll close him out
42:20let him uh sing the praises of fat tuesday hey guys y 'all talk about
42:24president's day and how it's a goofy holiday and stuff it's also down here it's
42:28uh in new orleans it's mardi gras so right now it's monday it's actually a
42:32loony gras uh for for fat monday but we're having a great old time down
42:37here so uh we've got a lot of people at work and a lot of
42:40people not at work because we're celebrating mardi gras so happy mardi gras and um
42:45y 'all have a great president's day we will have a good mardi gras tomorrow
42:49with the baby in the uh cake you know the baby in the cake story
42:53buck it's fun um yes the king king cake whatever that's right yeah yeah thanks
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