It's St. Patrick's Day, and we're celebrating the day by celebrating the Irish. We celebrate the day with a St. Paddy's Day-themed episode featuring special guest Gerald "The Fighting Irish" Crawdaddy, and special guest Keegan "Keegan" Key.
00:05:09.000Nothing like waking up tomorrow with a headache from binge drinking and a sore throat from sitting at a bar and trying to yell a conversation over the Dropkick Murphys.
00:05:20.000Patrick's Day is when you're Irish for a day, but the day after when you're hungover, filled with regret, and not speaking to your friends and family, that's when you're truly Irish for a day.
00:17:22.000But this sort of thing brings us now to this week in Biden.
00:17:26.000If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black.
00:17:31.000So we established a new civil rights, a new civil rights cause of action for those whose intimate images were shared on the public screen.
00:17:41.000How many times have you heard, I'll bet everybody knows somebody somewhere along the line, that in an intimate relationship what happened was the guy takes a revealing picture of his naked friend or whatever in a compromising position.
00:17:56.000And then, literally in a sense, blackmails or mortifies that person.
00:19:35.000I got my life together at 53, whatever.
00:19:38.000All right, so anyway, let's talk about this woke culture.
00:19:41.000John Cleese, I don't know if you know John Cleese, he's from Monty Python, the original, some of you may not know him, and also the show Fawlty Towers, which I think is one of the most brilliant sitcoms ever.
00:19:53.000He was at the South by Southwest festival and said that he thinks that Brits should get reparations.
00:21:20.000In response to the Hollywood Reporter article, Cleese tweeted, Next time the editor of The Hollywood Reporter sends someone to review a comedy festival, he would do well to send a reporter with a sense of humor.
00:21:33.000Otherwise, it's like sending someone deaf to review a concert.
00:23:12.000It was mostly white people, and I thought, nah, not on my watch.
00:23:17.000This show should just be me coming out going, well done Netflix, you win, everything, goodnight, but no, no, we gotta drag it out for three hours.
00:23:25.000You could binge watch the entire first season of Afterlife instead of watching this show.
00:23:30.000That, that's a show about a man who wants to kill himself because his wife dies of cancer, and it's still more fun than this, okay?
00:24:50.000No, but it's very revealing, too, though, when you see a Tom Hanks kind of afraid to smile, and then Amy Poehler, who's just wedded to NBC, right?
00:25:53.000I think it's hilarious, though, that they think that they're just you see how when they get called out how true it is by their body language, like you said, when Tom and I like Tom Hanks.
00:26:02.000It's just like, yeah, Amy Poehler can be funny, but she's like, oh, NBC signs the check.
00:27:56.000Because there is a certain power given to people on the internet who believe that they can take away everything that you have.
00:28:02.000And the idea of wanting to destroy someone completely is disgusting.
00:28:06.000And the amount of people that want to do it is frightening.
00:28:09.000Well, and everybody starts acting out of fear, right?
00:28:11.000When he said it's like sending a deaf person to cover a concert, I remember when one of the Marvel movies came out and it had this great soundtrack to it, and I'm losing it, Guardians of the Galaxy.
00:28:21.000Oh yeah, that was a great soundtrack, for sure.
00:28:22.000Guardians of the Galaxy 2, I think, is the one that it was specifically referencing, and I can't remember the actor that did this.
00:28:27.000I think it was Chris Pine and he said, like, crank it up or something like that in a tweet and basically had to go out and issue an apology to the deaf community and ended up signing it.
00:28:36.000If you remember that, like, he actually ended up signing, like, just using sign language to apologize.
00:30:03.000You have Seth MacFarlane, who I know is a liberal, but the jokes that he gets away with on a cartoon series shows that he values comedy more than ideology.
00:30:13.000Which is, I think he's the guy who helped change Bill Maher a little bit.
00:30:51.000He talks about it through his experience.
00:30:52.000You can't come through what I've been through and not be more conservative.
00:30:55.000Seth MacFarlane's all about the funny, right?
00:30:58.000He's just all about comedy, and some people don't like him, but if you watch one episode of Family Guy, even now, it's offensive as hell, and that's what's funny about it.
00:31:08.000And Trey Parker and Matt Stone have never been anything but really counterculture, but extremely popular.
00:31:14.000Denzel Washington is another one, actually.
00:31:29.000You know, I was in Chicago a couple of three, four weeks ago, and we saw these little kids on bikes with masks on the side of their head, like five or six of them.
00:31:40.000And the driver said, yeah, they're Lil Yummys.
00:32:49.000I could see a stat sheet and just look at it and go, hey, anytime there's not a father in the home, it's a problem, so let's address that issue.
00:32:56.000Let's address that issue to the best of our ability, and if it affects one community more than another, so be it.
00:34:02.000Yeah, I think in any community that's part of it, and the problem is maybe there is a systemic problem because of what Democrats have put in place, especially in Detroit.
00:34:14.000I totally understand there's a systemic thing to blame, but you have to fight the right system.
00:34:20.000You can't just fight this whole narrative that CNN and all these other shows are telling
00:34:24.000you that that's what you should believe, is it's this entire group of people that hate
00:34:30.000No, and I think something that I was talking to a friend yesterday at lunch, I said, some
00:34:34.000people don't know where we come from when we go after a Tess Holliday or when we go
00:34:39.000after somebody on the left for doing something that we vehemently disagree with.
00:34:43.000We're not going after somebody who's overweight, right?
00:34:45.000We're not going after somebody who's having a problem with gender identity or something like that.
00:34:49.000We're going after people who say that those things are healthy and good and that kids underage should be given things that will alter their life forever.
00:35:45.000And I mean, you look at somebody like Denzel, who excelled in his field, worked very hard, and is arguably the best living actor, I'd probably say, you know, at least in the top five.
00:36:50.000I'll say though, as somebody who, like, I didn't lose my dad until I was 18, but he was out of the house a lot for surgeries and stuff starting at 14.
00:37:02.000Yeah, I turned to the streets and I became a drug addict and I was in a lot of violent situations.
00:37:08.000And it was it's dangerous to be in that and it's like I had a very good upbringing and a very loving home and sometimes there's just stuff that you can't help and it's like I I have sympathy for a lot of people but it's like you have to you have to fight it you have to keep pushing yeah absolutely so um but more on that later so if a bad seed like you yeah make it then Look, if a scumbag like me can pull himself up by the bootstraps, I've done stuff that ain't right.
00:37:45.000And I have made amends with a lot of people, although I did see one girl, I didn't like, it wasn't like, I was drinking and driving and I hit her car and drove away.
00:37:56.000Anyway, so I saw her years... speaking of drunk driving...
00:39:49.000I was hiding in a closet underneath a pile of clothes at my brother's girlfriend's house.
00:39:53.000And the police came in the room, but there was another girl hiding, it was like this nerdy hot girl, and she's like, and all I hear is like, she's like, is anybody here?
00:41:13.000So I pulled that out and she was cuffed in the front I was cuffed in the back and she wrote her number on the back of my hand so then when I explained what happened to my my mom she's like well we'll just call everybody and turns out nobody was at the party it was just me I was just you yeah just me and she did get off actually because she's rich and I was charged with minor in possession and attending an underage drinking party Huh?
00:42:21.000Patrick's Day news, this comes from Angela, breaking news from the Eta Bay, so that leprechaun that we talked about earlier in the show, we actually found in Chicago.
00:45:54.000You wish happy birthday, Merry Christmas, happy divorce, sorry about Joe Biden smelling your kid, whatever you want to put on there, there's lots of fun people on there including myself and I just thought I'd mention that, it's a fun platform.
00:46:16.000There's still a handful of tickets left for that, and then we added that second show in Colorado Springs because you guys, the Pikes Peak Theatre.
00:46:22.000Yeah, we actually were able to add a second show.
00:46:25.000That is the popularity of Stephen C. Get it done.
00:46:48.000Well, that's just because you walked outside and took a deep breath.
00:46:51.000I may have started the fires in, uh, 2002.
00:46:55.000Rocky Mountain High means something a little different now.
00:46:57.000I guess it was very dry there, and you shouldn't flick cigarettes on the drive.
00:47:01.000Well, especially not repeatedly, Dave.
00:47:02.000Like, why were you lighting them and flicking them?
00:47:04.000A lady stopped my car, and my friend was driving, and just reamed me, and I was like, I'm sorry, I didn't know the whole thing was kindling.
00:47:10.000Well... And then later it was burning, but I'm like, that couldn't have been me.
00:50:46.000Yeah, it was still like the biggest watch won.
00:50:48.000And then, yeah, Andre the Giant would drink like two-fifths.
00:50:52.000And Jake the Snake talked about how he had three-fifths one day and he fell backwards.
00:50:57.000And he was supposed to just kind of not land on Jake the Snake's chest, but instead he landed directly on Jake the Snake's chest, which destroyed every bone in his body.
00:51:31.000So like every three weeks he's got to rip out his walls to find a boa constrictor because the crackhead in one of the rooms can't keep a snake in a bag.
00:53:36.000According to Hernando County Sheriff's Office, Thomas Eugene Colucci made an emergency call last Thursday to have his meth tested for authenticity.
00:53:46.000The man called 911 to make sure his crank was real.
00:53:51.000Apparently this good Samaritan told deputies he wanted it tested because he did not want other people to purchase the fake meth.
00:54:04.000The Sheriff's Department said if a person has any doubts about the authenticity of any illegal narcotics, you have on- And, or have obtained from another person, the Hernando County Sheriff's Office is pleased to provide this service free of charge.
00:54:25.000But he was Irish, and so it's totally fine.
00:54:29.000This isn't the first time, there was actually another guy, it was a cop who took weed brownies from an evidence locker, and then he's on the phone like, I'm so hot, I think I'm gonna die, like he called the cops on himself.
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00:59:26.000No, it's that the speculation was just a little more interesting, the conversation that it brought up.
00:59:31.000Not necessarily that we're saying this is absolutely true.
00:59:34.000Well, yeah, the document is said to be written by an anonymous analyst with Russia's Federal Security Service, calling himself Wind of Change.
01:02:11.000So talk to me a little bit more about this story.
01:02:14.000People are saying that China had a plan to invade Taiwan this fall, but that plan kind of got derailed by Russia invading Ukraine.
01:02:22.000Why would that derail the plan if China really wanted to go at Taiwan in the fall?
01:02:27.000I don't think it's necessarily saying it derailed it, other than it... From what I'm gathering from the document and from how the Chinese responded to the invasion, is what they've been seeing so far has made them reconsider any plans that they might have had.
01:02:42.000What, like, by Ukrainians holding their ground against Russia?
01:02:45.000Yes, because... Are they that worried that their military can't...
01:02:50.000So I think what has probably, and what has probably, I guess, unnerved the Chinese the most is seeing kind of the Western unified response to the Ukraine situation.
01:03:04.000And that's not a military intervention, but it's every single country in Europe, North America, well, Canada, the United States, and then the Eastern European or Eastern Asian countries like Japan, South Korea, Taiwan.
01:03:41.000And, again, I think this is kind of a counterintuitive point, that you would think, okay, the United States, the West isn't doing anything, that makes China realize, oh, well, we can get away with doing what we want now.
01:03:50.000I would actually argue the opposite and say that this is actually showing a lot of restraint on the US's part because I think they understand that we have to allocate resources and those need to be allocated towards Asia because it's just much more important to us.
01:04:35.000I understand where you're coming from but I don't know that China is making any changes based on the global response to Ukraine because I get that financially it can hurt people.
01:05:19.000That's what the Communist Party would say happened.
01:05:20.000That's what they're saying happened, right?
01:05:22.000So that would be the story that they would put to the rest of the world, and all we're doing is taking back what is ours.
01:05:27.000That's not what's going on, really, as much in Russia-Ukraine.
01:05:31.000There's obviously the former Soviet Union, and I understand that, and there's Russian-speaking people in kind of the eastern part, or people that maybe identify more with Russia and Ukraine, But he's not going back over there just to say Ukraine needs to be reunited, he's going back over there because he thinks he needs a buffer between them and NATO.
01:05:47.000So that's a little different story, right?
01:05:48.000So, I don't know that China looks at this and goes, ah, we were gonna do this, because economically, China can put the screws to the world, Russia cannot.
01:05:57.000True, but I think there was an interesting tweet that came out yesterday and I actually sent this to Gibbon that really goes to my point.
01:06:05.000I think what China would have liked to see happen more than anything is the United States to get involved militarily in this conflict.
01:06:11.000I think that would have been their idea.
01:06:56.000I agree they're going to go anyway, but I think they're going to have to delay whatever that timetable was and figure out a few more things.
01:07:03.000They're going to do it sometime in the next 20 years.
01:07:05.000years. Well and this is actually interesting because Ukrainian
01:07:09.000people a lot of times were standing and fighting but a lot of people had to be
01:07:12.000ordered to stay the men but according to new polling 70% of Taiwanese are now
01:07:16.000willing to stay and fight for their country and that's pretty good right up
01:07:19.000from 30% compared to a poll administer before Russia's invasion of Ukraine so
01:07:24.000maybe that made it a little harder where they're like yeah we're
01:07:28.000And so maybe now China's like, well, if 70% are going to stay and fight, I mean, we'll just keep stealing technology and be fine over here.
01:07:34.000I was just guessing, Darren, but it turns out I was right.
01:07:38.000I think we get the Chinese psyche from this tweet.
01:07:40.000I want to read it real quick, if you could pull that back up, because it's really interesting.
01:07:44.000This is from the Global Times, a journalist at the Global Times.
01:08:07.000really wants to show justice, it should send troops to Ukraine, or at least set up a no-fly zone, and fight Putin's troops directly, even if that means the sacrifice of U.S.
01:09:42.000Well I hope it doesn't happen because I do think that, and you've said this too, if China does go into Taiwan, you've even felt that they've been emboldened by this previously, that they would be more apt to go into Taiwan after seeing the response to Russia going into Ukraine without sending troops, right?
01:09:57.000If that happens, everybody says World War III is potentially now, I think that's definitely much more of a catalyst for World War III than this situation.
01:10:06.000We mentioned it in this last thing I'll point out, just about how much more important it is.
01:10:10.000Like, everything in here, there's a semiconductor in it, right?
01:10:22.000Taiwan controls 63% of the semiconductor market in the world, and TSMC, one company, controls over half of all semiconductor production in the world.
01:10:31.000And that's probably, outside of food, the most important resource that exists.