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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, Missu.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Hey, good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
I say Missu because I don't know if you've been
to the World Wide Web Authority on pronunciations for a
word of the day for what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Julian, I don't think I have not gone and looked
it up yet. Okay, I'm going to take a shot
at it. All right, I'm going to say rodero, No roderl, roderol,
r U d o r a L roodee.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I thought it was r o. That's a concession worker
at a rodeo. A rodero. Oh, ask for the funnel cakes.
He makes a good one.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Oh, he's the best.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
We got a big rodeo coming up here in May.
Second wee get of May, I'm gonna be down for
the uh where the hell the outlaw Championship rodeo. This
is a high school championship rodeo. We're going to have
several South Carolinians go to represent our state in a
nationwide high school championship.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Well, this has nothing to do with the rodeo. The
riderol is a plant that grows on what's called waste
ground or among the refuse.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Oh I should have known that. Being a country boy.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So like if you see like the dandelion popping up
in the middle of a street, uh.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Huh, that's a gotcha or one that comes to mind.
Because we had a place back in a cleared area,
just behind the forest tree line where we would haul
unfortunate cattle that would die. It didn't happen very often.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Okay, but you get a drag them that's probably not easy.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
No, you got to chain them and drag them by hand.
Or did you have like a four tractor? Okay, the
track that's.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Like they're like two thousand pounds, right, Yeah, this is
like the World Strongman competition. Dead cow.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
It was incredible. I don't know how it got there,
but it was a rose bush being fed by the
slow decomposition of cattle.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I remember once I did have to and I put
it on Instagram at the time. I haven't lived in
Lake Carolina for about seven years now, so it was
at least seven years ago. But I remember filming myself
doing this and saying, does anybody else have to weed
their curb? I had, I had green I had weeds
growing out the side of the curb, and it was
just getting to the point where it was annoying and.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I'm gonna spray that.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I just I'm weeding the curb. For God's sakes, you.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Know, I hate to spray them with that. We'd all
kill all because they had defied all odds to grow.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
You've done a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I've been through a lot just to get through that
crack in the concrete. I feel sorry for him. You
went to all that effort. I even talked to him
while I do it. You went to all that effort.
Sh Well, now you know the word, we don't even
know how to pronounce it.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Well, look, we think it's roderol. And like we said,
we don't. We don't grade you on the pronunciation.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Actually written on the Morning Mush blog, and you can
reference it over the weekend and get ready for Monday
morning gets six thirty. The answer again is.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
A plant growing on waste ground or among refuse. Okay,
So there's that, and you're winning. By the way, I
don't think we talked about this. This is a family
four pack of tickets to the Colonial Life Arena Saturday,
April twenty six, one pm. You'll be what's the big
monster Jamson. Now that's going to be there all that weekend.
So you're gonna was that's next weekend, isn't it, Monster Jam? Yeah,
(03:40):
that's what I needed one up, because already I was
the grave digger. I'd already get the grave ready. Now
that was shallow, depending on what else I had to
get done that day. Well, they have several shows on Saturday.
They have several shows on Sunday, but ours is for Saturday,
April twenty six, one pm, And anybody who wins these
four packs will be included in a drawing. At the
end of the week about nine am, we'll do a
(04:02):
grand prize. That's a pre show pit party, I'm told
from Mallory. That'll start about ten thirty in the morning,
and you get to meet the drivers, you get your
pictures taken with the trucks and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Got it.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So that's huge. It's Monster Jam, Monster Jam. Yeah, it
doesn't get much bigger. We're also going to have ourselves,
as always, a moral dilemma, and this fella is about
to find out a little something or is he? Do
you even need to tell him this? I don't even
know that you need to bring this up. The girlfriend
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has been dating him for several months. Things are going
very well. What he doesn't know, is that she used
to look completely different several years ago. So if he
was to look her up in the high school yearbooks
and stuff her nose, her lips, her eyes, everything about
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her was completely different. She had her whole face redone
with plastic surgery.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Is that something you need to mention? Yeah, that's a
good question. Do I need to mention that?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I only say you mentioned it if you're a, if
you've reassigned your gender at that point, it's incumbent to
let him know that that's just being fair. But if
it's if it's like I used to.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
So I was on the girls basketball team and I
was on the guys.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
At that point, he would have been on the guys.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I was on the guys, and I'm ineligible.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I'm no longer eligible because I have none of that
available to me. And you wouldn't know that unless you
went into my high school yearbook.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
But if you're if you had, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I thought you said you played basketball. I'm looking at
your annual over here. I found it on the coffee table.
I don't see you in the picture here with the
JB girls.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I wasn't Darlene then I was David, Oh, I think
he needs to know that. But again, that's not the
moral dilemma. The moral dilemma is she looked completely different
until she spent thousands and thousands of dollars to look
like somebody that she wanted to look like, and apparently
he likes the way she looks. Do you even need
(06:15):
to bring that up? Is that? Is that one of
those you know, I'm almost I'm going back to. Was
it the Four Christmases movie?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
And that you love that movie, didn't you? When not?
Who will swaddle this child? But before that, I think
it was when they first went to her mother's house
and he finds out that she used to be fat
and he's got the yearbook photo of her or whatever,
and she's like three hundred pounds, yeah, I mean money,
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and like, like you know, she he hadn't told her
what his real name was because he doesn't like that name,
and she didn't tell him that she used to be
three hundred pounds.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Why would I?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
So I'm with her on that one. Why would I
tell you that I used to look a different way?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I don't know Kelly would know the answer this off
the top of his head. Head one of the members
of the rat Pack, the original rat Pack had an
accident I think in school, maybe middle school, and they
had to reconstruct his nose, and they say that was
one of the blessings of his entertainment career.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Well, I think we're talking about Joey, and I mean
he turned out to be Okay, he wasn't one of
the great singers, but I think that they said it
affected his singing voice and also made modified his facial
features in a way that made him more attractive.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
That is a great answer. That was almost one of
the answers I would have given you for what you're
talking about.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Okay, it was a great answer. But it's Dean Martin. Well,
Dean Martin. If you look at Dean Martin's nose is horrific.
I mean, it's one of the biggest schnauzes in the world.
Maybe I got it back Dean Martin's massive Dean Martin
had an accident.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
They didn't fix it.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
They fixed it wrong.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I don't know they made it Martin. I got my
rat Pack trivia screwed up here somehow.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Well see what Well either way, But but is that
something that you need to tell people. That's that's a
bigger question, do I Is it incumbent upon her to
let him.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Up in the documentary. I'm pretty sure it was Dean
Martin when up in the documentary. It was just like
a side note. It wasn't even a big deal.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, would you care? Would you care if Sally told
you that she used to or that she I don't
know what you know?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Was she she had?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
She had skin lightning to make her whiter, she had
the Michael Jackson treatment, the skin bleacher that.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Would bother me. I don't. I don't. I don't think
this is an issue.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I don't think so either.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I think so. This is how self consumed we've become.
Even years later, it still haunts her.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Well, it's just I guess you can.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Never go to a high school reunion because they're not even.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Going to recognize you. Who are you?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Wow? The girl who used to be the back row.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I never even knew your name because you were so ugly.
I never bothered. That's great, that's funny.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I don't know if it's important to you to tell
all that.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I'm going to give her a pass on that one,
And I think you ought.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
To go ahead and tell it. You've got a relationship.
Now here's something about my past. Pretty big deal. This
is a dramatic change, obviously, Yeah, I think you should.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
All right, well that how do you bring that up?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
It's not a big deal.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
But if he breaks up with you, Oh, I mean
you're not You're not presenting the real you. It's a
fake you, a reasonable fact simbily, you have fake breasts,
fake behind.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Factsy reasonable facsimilation.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Lost it all over that. By the way, I didn't
know that. Maybe I forgot. I probably have heard this
and I'd just forgotten it. Earth Day. Did you know
that Earth Day is coming up?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Twenty second? Of course?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Oh, Jonathan Rush celebrates.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I guess, well, apparently I only remember it because we
initiated the first Earth Day with the City of Columbia
with a goofy radio campaign. I say goofy because it
was it was a it was a lot of it
was contesting can bring about awareness. Anyway, we started the
earth Buddies. We had an earth Buddies Club. What in
(10:38):
the world was earth Buddies. It was just encouraging people
to recycle. Okay, so we did a lot of stupid
stuff with cans empty cans, soft drink cans.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And the like. Well, Earth Day has been around almost
my whole life. It launched April twenty second, nineteen seventy.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I'm from the country. Every day's Earth Day. You always
appreciate the Earth.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
And they had Wow. I didn't realize that. In nineteen
seventy they got twenty million Americans to participate in the
very first Earth Day demonstrating all across the country. That
is massive. Twenty million people poured out.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
The demigrating all the companies. Seems like it was a
company called Alcoa. I don't know exactly what. I don't
know if they still exist, but they spent a lot,
a lot, a lot of money doing Earth Day stuff.
You're right. I remember doing something for Alcoa when I
was in the Upstate because that was the first time
I met radio at Tilhana High School.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Well, this survey came out specifically just in time for
Earth Day, and it says that the average American feels
what's called or described here as quote unquote eco guilt
four times a month, so forty eight times a year,
the average American feels eco guilt. This would inclued wasting food,
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throwing away things that could have been recycled, or leaving
a television on when no one was watching. Research shows
that most people are trying, but fifty percent admit that
they're more likely to do something that's not environmentally friendly
when they're stressed. Specific habits that Americans feel out the
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hardest to maintain are recycling properly. By the way, if
you want to see I just feel like it's incumbent
upon me to tell you this. John Stossel just put
into YouTube John Stossel Stosse E L L. John Stossel
from ABC News. He's no longer with ABC News, but
John Stossel did a whole recycling feature. Yeah, it's like
(12:45):
this is like twenty minutes long on YouTube, and I
was flabbergasted at the religion that is recycling and how
if you're being being honest, ninety nine percent of the
things that your city or municipality is asking you to
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recycle is not recyclable.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
And it's not being recycled. No, that's how I don't
feel guilty about it. Anywhere we're goen, I throw a
recyclable container into the trash can because I know I'm
just gonna put it in a different container so they
can take it to the same place.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
And that's what and and that thing he's showing you
how much, how many billions of dollars are spent if
you add up all the communities taking stuff from the
recycling plant to the dump. Yes, just the gas that
it takes, the waste that it's created. The only way,
and I did this yesterday, The only way to actually
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know that you're recycling metal, sheet metal, aluminum, whatever aluminum
cans is to take it to a place that is
in the private sector. If you hand it to a
local municipality, county wide, whatever, all that is just wasted effort.
That's totally a start to finish well. Like he was showing,
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like the person at the recycled plant was showing them.
Like the plastic milk jugs, yep, if you want to
recycle that, you have to spend like an hour cleaning
the side of it. You've got to get the label
off of it and all the glue that's off of it.
Otherwise they have to throw it away. Yes, so nobody's
doing that, like I had. I replaced the refrigerator. I
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replaced the refrigerator in the carpoard because every house now
has two refrigerators. So I replaced that one. But when
I ordered it in, it just came straight to the house.
So the old one I threw in the back of
the truck. Wow, throw it pretty heavy. And then I
took it to a commercial recycling place. And usually I
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just drop it off and tell the guys, you know,
because they want to give you the receipt, you go
in the office, you get the money for it.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
You know. I didn't even know how much money was.
I tell them, look y'all, just it in, that's your tip.
So yesterday the guy hands me the receipt and I go, Now,
I don't even know what to do with this. You say,
you just take it to the office up there and
they'll give you money. Your money. Oh okay. So I
took a standard size refrigerator, not a very big one.
It was just a regular white refrigerator. Was it stainless
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steel and all that stuff. So I got eleven dollars
in change for that refrigerator.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Beautiful.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
So I asked for two fives in the change, I think,
and I tipped the two guys that helped me five
bucks each, and I walked out with a buck seventy
five or something. Okay, but that way you know it's
actually going to be they're paying for it, they're going
to recycle it. Now, the rest of the stuff you
put into Herbie Kirby with the with the different little
top on of the however, it's marked for recycling only.
You might as well just throw that in the regular trash.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Well, I'm looking at the Stolesel video now. It was
posted in twenty twenty three. And then the name of
it is even Greenpeace says most plastic cannot be recycled.
And then they've got a thing from the Canadian broadcast
company that said the recycling of plastic was a lie
created by the plastic industry in order to sell more plastic.
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And so the guy they're interviewing, one of the guys
working here at one of these recycling it's a lady
at the recycling place and she's holding up something that
is got it's printed on it. Please recycle, Yes, please recycle.
She says. The fact that they've printed please recycle on
it makes it unrecyclable. We cannot recycle it. If it
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has any paint on it or any kind of ink,
it cannot be recycled. So the fact that you're saying,
please recycle, and these people go the extra mile to
bring it to us. They say, the worst thing that
they have are plastic bags. Plastic bags are not recyclable,
and so it's.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
More effort to recycle it than it does, a more
energy usage and more money. Well, they said to recycle
it that it does just to produce a new one.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
They break the machines. They're unrecyclable, and what they do
is they get clogged in the machines. And they say,
we spend literally millions of dollars of years every year
trying to fix these machines that are clogged with the
plastic bags that are unrecyclable.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
It really is sad. We have to recognize this as
a society. This is all the marketing ploy. I mean
even when you buy the bags and you take the
bags into the store, you have to use the bag
like six thousand times for it even break even with
the impact for green concerns.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Well, and then they're talking to I don't know who.
This guy is, some sort of expert on whatever waste
or whatever. He looks very dignified. I don't know what
he's talking about. And he was talking about this is
a sacramentcling. Recycling is the recyclement sacrament of the green
religion that we've launched. And he's showing that if the
earth was a football field, so that's the whole earth is.
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It's one hundred and twenty yards long, because that's the
length of a football field. You got one hundred yards,
and then you get ten yards in the end zone.
We have taken up less than as far as waste
on the earth, less than one foot in the corner
of one end zone. The rest of it is fine.
And then he's showing you landfills that were filled up
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and what they are now, like landfills of the nineteen twenties,
thirties and forties. Many of them are now golf courses
and they've got they got all kinds of things that
they've built on top of them. So you don't actually
lose it, it's just you build over it. And so
it's just so infuriating that this is like the thing,
and so the fact that how many Americans are now
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feeling eco guilt. This new survey Just in Time says
that the average American feels eco guilt forty eight times
a year. They feel bad that they threw away stuff
that could have been recycled twenty nine percent of the time.
Seventy three percent said that they wish they could be
more eco friendly. A third say that they are trying
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to find ways to ease eco gilt. This is just
something we put on ourselves for no reason.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yes, and it's the most confusing position ever to be
in in South Carolina is at a four, we stop,
nobody knows who's going next. Very confusing. The second most
confusing is when you stand at the recycling container right
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City Columbia, Norwichland County recycles glass. Don't put that in there.
Well you might as well, because it's going to go
to the same place anyway. But there is no glass recycling.
Cardboard now, I don't haven't seen a study on cardboard recycling.
That seems to be just from the outside of looking in.
The only odds on favorite that I would bet on
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that's actually being utilized is cardboard. I could be wrong
on that.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I'll try to scroll through this video and see if
I see anything about it.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
But the plastic thing, you're right because of the different
restraint and the logistics of it. The machinery used, the
bags gum up the machines, the rest of it's got
pain on it. If you've got milk inside your container,
I mean like a teaspoon of milk, it kicks it out.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
They're talking about how much more eco friendly a paper
bag is over a plastic bag. Let's see the atmosphere
carbon dioxide. I'm trying to see if they got anything specifically,
But like anything that has a label on it can't
be recycled. So if you've got a beer bottle, it's
a glass beer bottle unless you're willing to take all
that stuff off the side of it.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
As soon as they see that, they just throw it
in the trash.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
The only benefit of use in the plastic bag. And
this is why I'm glad I don't use paper bags.
Rarely will I use paper bags because wherever they store
those paper bags and the warehouses does nothing but collect
roach eggs. So with your paper bags coming into your house,
guaranteed you're planning roach eggs in your house. So you're
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gonna have an infestation. You got to have the extominator
to come out. And what does he spray? Is that
eco friendly the stuff he sprays in your house?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
No, it's not. The City of New York estimates it
would save roughly three hundred and forty million dollars a
year if they stop recycling recycling. Ninety eight percent of
the recyclables in New York end up in a dump. Yes,
so all these people have got all their different little things.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
And there's just costing yourself stuff, don't you It's unbelievable,
So good about yourself. Janey openly mocks Sally for recycling.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Tell Sally to watch this. John Style doesn't do it anymore.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
She does. She didn't put anything in a recycling we
put You know, I do put things in the recycling
container because I can't fit it all in the trash can. Oh,
so I throw the cardboard and that kind of stuff
in the recycling container, and a lot of the big
jugs because they take it like a milk jug.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Takes up a lot of space. So I just throw
it in there, and like, can they show here? The
city of Los Angeles has four hundred extra garbage trucks
that they have to use to just transport the recyclables
from the recyclable plant to the ground. So what kind
of emissions is that putting out? We have four hundred
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diesel garbage trucks extra.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Because you feel so good about ourselves, because.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
You want to feel better about yourselves that you're helping
the environment.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I'm so doing nothing for the environment.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
You're making it worse. You're making it worse, and then
you feel guilty on top of it, which is to me,
that's the crazy part, is that the average American feels
eco guilt. Stop feeling guilty about living. So Happy Earthday
in advance, Happy Easter. Maybe we'll find out who had
the best Easter treats on Sunday, who had the best
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dinner spread.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I'm a little disappointed. I'm not going to voice esscos
on it to cook it all. I'm a little damn disappointed. Okay,
we're not having him all right with our Tata salad
and cast roles.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
This is the traditional.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Yes, we're not having any of that.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
What are we having?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
We're having barbecue. Doesn't sound like something you'd complain about normally,
I know, but it's Easter. I'm a traditionalist now. I'm
sure Sally will make some deviled eggs. Why we're having barbecue?
My deviled eggs go where everything that's.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
An appetizer that you have before you sit down while
you're snacking with friends.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
That is true. So I am glad, and I hope
and she will make I think that container holds thirty
six devil days haves. Yes, so we'll have plenty of
deviled eggs.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Load up, my man.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
But we do have youngsters to hide eggs for this year,
so that'd be good.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Oh yeah, how old are they?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Uh? Sarah's two and a half. This she she's going
to have a big Easter Sunday.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Does Thomas understand any of this? No, it's too young.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Oh yes, no, understand he's six months old. So all right,
but he'll be probably dressed as an Easter EGT.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
He'll be dressed up like a pink nightmare and like it.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
All right. So we got Monday, Monday, Monday Munster gym,
four tickets for the family for the Colonial Life Arena.
We're gonna do that at six thirty. We also have
more cash coming down beginning at nine o'clock. And we
got the Monday morning moral dilemma. And I guess then
we're officially working towards tax Day in South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
May First, Okay, I will accept that I've already paid
my tax.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
My taxes already filed. I sent and sent the check.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Oh lucky you.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I'm gonna wait till May first, mister Bragg. And no,
five minutes. Still five Actually, I gotta make sure I
got that right. Is it the last day of April
or is it May?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I think the filing deadline is May first, So that
means you have to first at mid May or direct
deposited before midnight. Yes, I direct deposited that way. I
saved the money on the stamp. Well, I save the
money on the stamp and all that. And then also
if they do that, if there's always there, there's always
that what if they didn't stamp it, thing like, oh,
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somebody lost it in the thing, and then they didn't
do it till the second. Now I'm screwed calling in
the postal office.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Oh yes, next thing you're gonna tell me is recycling
is not Monday of the morning.
Hello, Missu.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Hey, good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
I say Missu because I don't know if you've been
to the World Wide Web Authority on pronunciations for a
word of the day for what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Julian, I don't think I have not gone and looked
it up yet. Okay, I'm going to take a shot
at it. All right, I'm going to say rodero, No roderl, roderol,
r U d o r a L roodee.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I thought it was r o. That's a concession worker
at a rodeo. A rodero. Oh, ask for the funnel cakes.
He makes a good one.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Oh, he's the best.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
We got a big rodeo coming up here in May.
Second wee get of May, I'm gonna be down for
the uh where the hell the outlaw Championship rodeo. This
is a high school championship rodeo. We're going to have
several South Carolinians go to represent our state in a
nationwide high school championship.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Well, this has nothing to do with the rodeo. The
riderol is a plant that grows on what's called waste
ground or among the refuse.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Oh I should have known that. Being a country boy.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So like if you see like the dandelion popping up
in the middle of a street, uh.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Huh, that's a gotcha or one that comes to mind.
Because we had a place back in a cleared area,
just behind the forest tree line where we would haul
unfortunate cattle that would die. It didn't happen very often.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Okay, but you get a drag them that's probably not easy.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
No, you got to chain them and drag them by hand.
Or did you have like a four tractor? Okay, the
track that's.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Like they're like two thousand pounds, right, Yeah, this is
like the World Strongman competition. Dead cow.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
It was incredible. I don't know how it got there,
but it was a rose bush being fed by the
slow decomposition of cattle.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I remember once I did have to and I put
it on Instagram at the time. I haven't lived in
Lake Carolina for about seven years now, so it was
at least seven years ago. But I remember filming myself
doing this and saying, does anybody else have to weed
their curb? I had, I had green I had weeds
growing out the side of the curb, and it was
just getting to the point where it was annoying and.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I'm gonna spray that.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I just I'm weeding the curb. For God's sakes, you.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Know, I hate to spray them with that. We'd all
kill all because they had defied all odds to grow.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
You've done a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I've been through a lot just to get through that
crack in the concrete. I feel sorry for him. You
went to all that effort. I even talked to him
while I do it. You went to all that effort.
Sh Well, now you know the word, we don't even
know how to pronounce it.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Well, look, we think it's roderol. And like we said,
we don't. We don't grade you on the pronunciation.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Actually written on the Morning Mush blog, and you can
reference it over the weekend and get ready for Monday
morning gets six thirty. The answer again is.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
A plant growing on waste ground or among refuse. Okay,
So there's that, and you're winning. By the way, I
don't think we talked about this. This is a family
four pack of tickets to the Colonial Life Arena Saturday,
April twenty six, one pm. You'll be what's the big
monster Jamson. Now that's going to be there all that weekend.
So you're gonna was that's next weekend, isn't it, Monster Jam? Yeah,
(03:40):
that's what I needed one up, because already I was
the grave digger. I'd already get the grave ready. Now
that was shallow, depending on what else I had to
get done that day. Well, they have several shows on Saturday.
They have several shows on Sunday, but ours is for Saturday,
April twenty six, one pm, And anybody who wins these
four packs will be included in a drawing. At the
end of the week about nine am, we'll do a
(04:02):
grand prize. That's a pre show pit party, I'm told
from Mallory. That'll start about ten thirty in the morning,
and you get to meet the drivers, you get your
pictures taken with the trucks and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Got it.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So that's huge. It's Monster Jam, Monster Jam. Yeah, it
doesn't get much bigger. We're also going to have ourselves,
as always, a moral dilemma, and this fella is about
to find out a little something or is he? Do
you even need to tell him this? I don't even
know that you need to bring this up. The girlfriend
(04:35):
has been dating him for several months. Things are going
very well. What he doesn't know, is that she used
to look completely different several years ago. So if he
was to look her up in the high school yearbooks
and stuff her nose, her lips, her eyes, everything about
(04:56):
her was completely different. She had her whole face redone
with plastic surgery.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Is that something you need to mention? Yeah, that's a
good question. Do I need to mention that?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I only say you mentioned it if you're a, if
you've reassigned your gender at that point, it's incumbent to
let him know that that's just being fair. But if
it's if it's like I used to.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
So I was on the girls basketball team and I
was on the guys.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
At that point, he would have been on the guys.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I was on the guys, and I'm ineligible.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I'm no longer eligible because I have none of that
available to me. And you wouldn't know that unless you
went into my high school yearbook.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
But if you're if you had, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I thought you said you played basketball. I'm looking at
your annual over here. I found it on the coffee table.
I don't see you in the picture here with the
JB girls.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I wasn't Darlene then I was David, Oh, I think
he needs to know that. But again, that's not the
moral dilemma. The moral dilemma is she looked completely different
until she spent thousands and thousands of dollars to look
like somebody that she wanted to look like, and apparently
he likes the way she looks. Do you even need
(06:15):
to bring that up? Is that? Is that one of
those you know, I'm almost I'm going back to. Was
it the Four Christmases movie?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
And that you love that movie, didn't you? When not?
Who will swaddle this child? But before that, I think
it was when they first went to her mother's house
and he finds out that she used to be fat
and he's got the yearbook photo of her or whatever,
and she's like three hundred pounds, yeah, I mean money,
(06:45):
and like, like you know, she he hadn't told her
what his real name was because he doesn't like that name,
and she didn't tell him that she used to be
three hundred pounds.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Why would I?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
So I'm with her on that one. Why would I
tell you that I used to look a different way?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I don't know Kelly would know the answer this off
the top of his head. Head one of the members
of the rat Pack, the original rat Pack had an
accident I think in school, maybe middle school, and they
had to reconstruct his nose, and they say that was
one of the blessings of his entertainment career.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Well, I think we're talking about Joey, and I mean
he turned out to be Okay, he wasn't one of
the great singers, but I think that they said it
affected his singing voice and also made modified his facial
features in a way that made him more attractive.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
That is a great answer. That was almost one of
the answers I would have given you for what you're
talking about.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Okay, it was a great answer. But it's Dean Martin. Well,
Dean Martin. If you look at Dean Martin's nose is horrific.
I mean, it's one of the biggest schnauzes in the world.
Maybe I got it back Dean Martin's massive Dean Martin
had an accident.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
They didn't fix it.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
They fixed it wrong.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I don't know they made it Martin. I got my
rat Pack trivia screwed up here somehow.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Well see what Well either way, But but is that
something that you need to tell people. That's that's a
bigger question, do I Is it incumbent upon her to
let him.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Up in the documentary. I'm pretty sure it was Dean
Martin when up in the documentary. It was just like
a side note. It wasn't even a big deal.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, would you care? Would you care if Sally told
you that she used to or that she I don't
know what you know?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Was she she had?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
She had skin lightning to make her whiter, she had
the Michael Jackson treatment, the skin bleacher that.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Would bother me. I don't. I don't. I don't think
this is an issue.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I don't think so either.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I think so. This is how self consumed we've become.
Even years later, it still haunts her.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Well, it's just I guess you can.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Never go to a high school reunion because they're not even.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Going to recognize you. Who are you?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Wow? The girl who used to be the back row.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I never even knew your name because you were so ugly.
I never bothered. That's great, that's funny.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I don't know if it's important to you to tell
all that.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I'm going to give her a pass on that one,
And I think you ought.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
To go ahead and tell it. You've got a relationship.
Now here's something about my past. Pretty big deal. This
is a dramatic change, obviously, Yeah, I think you should.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
All right, well that how do you bring that up?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
It's not a big deal.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
But if he breaks up with you, Oh, I mean
you're not You're not presenting the real you. It's a
fake you, a reasonable fact simbily, you have fake breasts,
fake behind.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Factsy reasonable facsimilation.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Lost it all over that. By the way, I didn't
know that. Maybe I forgot. I probably have heard this
and I'd just forgotten it. Earth Day. Did you know
that Earth Day is coming up?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Twenty second? Of course?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Oh, Jonathan Rush celebrates.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I guess, well, apparently I only remember it because we
initiated the first Earth Day with the City of Columbia
with a goofy radio campaign. I say goofy because it
was it was a it was a lot of it
was contesting can bring about awareness. Anyway, we started the
earth Buddies. We had an earth Buddies Club. What in
(10:38):
the world was earth Buddies. It was just encouraging people
to recycle. Okay, so we did a lot of stupid
stuff with cans empty cans, soft drink cans.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And the like. Well, Earth Day has been around almost
my whole life. It launched April twenty second, nineteen seventy.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I'm from the country. Every day's Earth Day. You always
appreciate the Earth.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
And they had Wow. I didn't realize that. In nineteen
seventy they got twenty million Americans to participate in the
very first Earth Day demonstrating all across the country. That
is massive. Twenty million people poured out.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
The demigrating all the companies. Seems like it was a
company called Alcoa. I don't know exactly what. I don't
know if they still exist, but they spent a lot,
a lot, a lot of money doing Earth Day stuff.
You're right. I remember doing something for Alcoa when I
was in the Upstate because that was the first time
I met radio at Tilhana High School.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Well, this survey came out specifically just in time for
Earth Day, and it says that the average American feels
what's called or described here as quote unquote eco guilt
four times a month, so forty eight times a year,
the average American feels eco guilt. This would inclued wasting food,
(12:02):
throwing away things that could have been recycled, or leaving
a television on when no one was watching. Research shows
that most people are trying, but fifty percent admit that
they're more likely to do something that's not environmentally friendly
when they're stressed. Specific habits that Americans feel out the
(12:22):
hardest to maintain are recycling properly. By the way, if
you want to see I just feel like it's incumbent
upon me to tell you this. John Stossel just put
into YouTube John Stossel Stosse E L L. John Stossel
from ABC News. He's no longer with ABC News, but
John Stossel did a whole recycling feature. Yeah, it's like
(12:45):
this is like twenty minutes long on YouTube, and I
was flabbergasted at the religion that is recycling and how
if you're being being honest, ninety nine percent of the
things that your city or municipality is asking you to
(13:07):
recycle is not recyclable.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
And it's not being recycled. No, that's how I don't
feel guilty about it. Anywhere we're goen, I throw a
recyclable container into the trash can because I know I'm
just gonna put it in a different container so they
can take it to the same place.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
And that's what and and that thing he's showing you
how much, how many billions of dollars are spent if
you add up all the communities taking stuff from the
recycling plant to the dump. Yes, just the gas that
it takes, the waste that it's created. The only way,
and I did this yesterday, The only way to actually
(13:44):
know that you're recycling metal, sheet metal, aluminum, whatever aluminum
cans is to take it to a place that is
in the private sector. If you hand it to a
local municipality, county wide, whatever, all that is just wasted effort.
That's totally a start to finish well. Like he was showing,
(14:05):
like the person at the recycled plant was showing them.
Like the plastic milk jugs, yep, if you want to
recycle that, you have to spend like an hour cleaning
the side of it. You've got to get the label
off of it and all the glue that's off of it.
Otherwise they have to throw it away. Yes, so nobody's
doing that, like I had. I replaced the refrigerator. I
(14:30):
replaced the refrigerator in the carpoard because every house now
has two refrigerators. So I replaced that one. But when
I ordered it in, it just came straight to the house.
So the old one I threw in the back of
the truck. Wow, throw it pretty heavy. And then I
took it to a commercial recycling place. And usually I
(14:50):
just drop it off and tell the guys, you know,
because they want to give you the receipt, you go
in the office, you get the money for it.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
You know. I didn't even know how much money was.
I tell them, look y'all, just it in, that's your tip.
So yesterday the guy hands me the receipt and I go, Now,
I don't even know what to do with this. You say,
you just take it to the office up there and
they'll give you money. Your money. Oh okay. So I
took a standard size refrigerator, not a very big one.
It was just a regular white refrigerator. Was it stainless
(15:19):
steel and all that stuff. So I got eleven dollars
in change for that refrigerator.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Beautiful.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
So I asked for two fives in the change, I think,
and I tipped the two guys that helped me five
bucks each, and I walked out with a buck seventy
five or something. Okay, but that way you know it's
actually going to be they're paying for it, they're going
to recycle it. Now, the rest of the stuff you
put into Herbie Kirby with the with the different little
top on of the however, it's marked for recycling only.
You might as well just throw that in the regular trash.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Well, I'm looking at the Stolesel video now. It was
posted in twenty twenty three. And then the name of
it is even Greenpeace says most plastic cannot be recycled.
And then they've got a thing from the Canadian broadcast
company that said the recycling of plastic was a lie
created by the plastic industry in order to sell more plastic.
(16:09):
And so the guy they're interviewing, one of the guys
working here at one of these recycling it's a lady
at the recycling place and she's holding up something that
is got it's printed on it. Please recycle, Yes, please recycle.
She says. The fact that they've printed please recycle on
it makes it unrecyclable. We cannot recycle it. If it
(16:30):
has any paint on it or any kind of ink,
it cannot be recycled. So the fact that you're saying,
please recycle, and these people go the extra mile to
bring it to us. They say, the worst thing that
they have are plastic bags. Plastic bags are not recyclable,
and so it's.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
More effort to recycle it than it does, a more
energy usage and more money. Well, they said to recycle
it that it does just to produce a new one.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
They break the machines. They're unrecyclable, and what they do
is they get clogged in the machines. And they say,
we spend literally millions of dollars of years every year
trying to fix these machines that are clogged with the
plastic bags that are unrecyclable.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
It really is sad. We have to recognize this as
a society. This is all the marketing ploy. I mean
even when you buy the bags and you take the
bags into the store, you have to use the bag
like six thousand times for it even break even with
the impact for green concerns.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Well, and then they're talking to I don't know who.
This guy is, some sort of expert on whatever waste
or whatever. He looks very dignified. I don't know what
he's talking about. And he was talking about this is
a sacramentcling. Recycling is the recyclement sacrament of the green
religion that we've launched. And he's showing that if the
earth was a football field, so that's the whole earth is.
(17:54):
It's one hundred and twenty yards long, because that's the
length of a football field. You got one hundred yards,
and then you get ten yards in the end zone.
We have taken up less than as far as waste
on the earth, less than one foot in the corner
of one end zone. The rest of it is fine.
And then he's showing you landfills that were filled up
(18:16):
and what they are now, like landfills of the nineteen twenties,
thirties and forties. Many of them are now golf courses
and they've got they got all kinds of things that
they've built on top of them. So you don't actually
lose it, it's just you build over it. And so
it's just so infuriating that this is like the thing,
and so the fact that how many Americans are now
(18:38):
feeling eco guilt. This new survey Just in Time says
that the average American feels eco guilt forty eight times
a year. They feel bad that they threw away stuff
that could have been recycled twenty nine percent of the time.
Seventy three percent said that they wish they could be
more eco friendly. A third say that they are trying
(18:58):
to find ways to ease eco gilt. This is just
something we put on ourselves for no reason.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yes, and it's the most confusing position ever to be
in in South Carolina is at a four, we stop,
nobody knows who's going next. Very confusing. The second most
confusing is when you stand at the recycling container right
(19:25):
City Columbia, Norwichland County recycles glass. Don't put that in there.
Well you might as well, because it's going to go
to the same place anyway. But there is no glass recycling.
Cardboard now, I don't haven't seen a study on cardboard recycling.
That seems to be just from the outside of looking in.
The only odds on favorite that I would bet on
(19:46):
that's actually being utilized is cardboard. I could be wrong
on that.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I'll try to scroll through this video and see if
I see anything about it.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
But the plastic thing, you're right because of the different
restraint and the logistics of it. The machinery used, the
bags gum up the machines, the rest of it's got
pain on it. If you've got milk inside your container,
I mean like a teaspoon of milk, it kicks it out.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
They're talking about how much more eco friendly a paper
bag is over a plastic bag. Let's see the atmosphere
carbon dioxide. I'm trying to see if they got anything specifically,
But like anything that has a label on it can't
be recycled. So if you've got a beer bottle, it's
a glass beer bottle unless you're willing to take all
that stuff off the side of it.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
As soon as they see that, they just throw it
in the trash.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
The only benefit of use in the plastic bag. And
this is why I'm glad I don't use paper bags.
Rarely will I use paper bags because wherever they store
those paper bags and the warehouses does nothing but collect
roach eggs. So with your paper bags coming into your house,
guaranteed you're planning roach eggs in your house. So you're
(21:00):
gonna have an infestation. You got to have the extominator
to come out. And what does he spray? Is that
eco friendly the stuff he sprays in your house?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
No, it's not. The City of New York estimates it
would save roughly three hundred and forty million dollars a
year if they stop recycling recycling. Ninety eight percent of
the recyclables in New York end up in a dump. Yes,
so all these people have got all their different little things.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
And there's just costing yourself stuff, don't you It's unbelievable,
So good about yourself. Janey openly mocks Sally for recycling.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Tell Sally to watch this. John Style doesn't do it anymore.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
She does. She didn't put anything in a recycling we
put You know, I do put things in the recycling
container because I can't fit it all in the trash can. Oh,
so I throw the cardboard and that kind of stuff
in the recycling container, and a lot of the big
jugs because they take it like a milk jug.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Takes up a lot of space. So I just throw
it in there, and like, can they show here? The
city of Los Angeles has four hundred extra garbage trucks
that they have to use to just transport the recyclables
from the recyclable plant to the ground. So what kind
of emissions is that putting out? We have four hundred
(22:14):
diesel garbage trucks extra.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Because you feel so good about ourselves, because.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
You want to feel better about yourselves that you're helping
the environment.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I'm so doing nothing for the environment.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
You're making it worse. You're making it worse, and then
you feel guilty on top of it, which is to me,
that's the crazy part, is that the average American feels
eco guilt. Stop feeling guilty about living. So Happy Earthday
in advance, Happy Easter. Maybe we'll find out who had
the best Easter treats on Sunday, who had the best
(22:49):
dinner spread.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I'm a little disappointed. I'm not going to voice esscos
on it to cook it all. I'm a little damn disappointed. Okay,
we're not having him all right with our Tata salad
and cast roles.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
This is the traditional.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Yes, we're not having any of that.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
What are we having?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
We're having barbecue. Doesn't sound like something you'd complain about normally,
I know, but it's Easter. I'm a traditionalist now. I'm
sure Sally will make some deviled eggs. Why we're having barbecue?
My deviled eggs go where everything that's.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
An appetizer that you have before you sit down while
you're snacking with friends.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
That is true. So I am glad, and I hope
and she will make I think that container holds thirty
six devil days haves. Yes, so we'll have plenty of
deviled eggs.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Load up, my man.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
But we do have youngsters to hide eggs for this year,
so that'd be good.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Oh yeah, how old are they?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Uh? Sarah's two and a half. This she she's going
to have a big Easter Sunday.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Does Thomas understand any of this? No, it's too young.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Oh yes, no, understand he's six months old. So all right,
but he'll be probably dressed as an Easter EGT.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
He'll be dressed up like a pink nightmare and like it.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
All right. So we got Monday, Monday, Monday Munster gym,
four tickets for the family for the Colonial Life Arena.
We're gonna do that at six thirty. We also have
more cash coming down beginning at nine o'clock. And we
got the Monday morning moral dilemma. And I guess then
we're officially working towards tax Day in South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
May First, Okay, I will accept that I've already paid
my tax.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
My taxes already filed. I sent and sent the check.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Oh lucky you.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I'm gonna wait till May first, mister Bragg. And no,
five minutes. Still five Actually, I gotta make sure I
got that right. Is it the last day of April
or is it May?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I think the filing deadline is May first, So that
means you have to first at mid May or direct
deposited before midnight. Yes, I direct deposited that way. I
saved the money on the stamp. Well, I save the
money on the stamp and all that. And then also
if they do that, if there's always there, there's always
that what if they didn't stamp it, thing like, oh,
(25:15):
somebody lost it in the thing, and then they didn't
do it till the second. Now I'm screwed calling in
the postal office.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Oh yes, next thing you're gonna tell me is recycling
is not Monday of the morning.
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