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It's 104-1 FMK-EMO. Wax happy Tuesday to everybody. Good to be back. Thanks to the guys for covering for me yesterday as I was out having major surgery. Major. They said to take two weeks off. I said, no, damn it. I'm going in the very next day. And here I am. I listened to the whole show yesterday. Oh, nice. It was really good. Thanks. I thought you were the best one, Rach. Thanks. That's just because I've been gone. Well, we also agree with you, so. Yeah, so should I tell the story of my ear? I think everyone's dying to hear it. Okay. So I've told the story to a few different people, and I get two basic reactions. From the freaks like Rage, who love this stuff, they're just like, I need more detail. I'm holding back. I feel like I'm being rude and intrusive. I know you are. What did you ask me yesterday? What was the? Well, I was like, well, did they get it open with a scalpel? Oh, that's right. And then he just texted back. Yes. And I'm like, okay, I'm going to stop pushing, but I have like 50 more questions. I think I was literally in the car like 10 minutes after having this procedure done. And Rach just keeps peppering me. And I knew that she was like Dr. Pimple Popper Jr. And then she's like, did they use a scalpel? I'm like, oh, I'm like, well, because I'm picturing exactly the type of procedure he'd be needed to have. And I was just trying to confirm. So, yeah, and then the other reaction are people just like, stop saying words. Just stop talking. I think I scared poor Sean Malone because I ran into him. And of course you see someone with a giant bandage on the side of their face. You're like, oh, what happened? I'm telling him, he just kept moving farther from me. He's like, oh, that's, yeah. He's like, I don't want to hear this. That's enough. That's enough. That's fantastic. Thank you, Dave. So I'll just tell the story, and then when you get grossed out, you can hit mute. Okay. So you guys will remember probably about a week ago I said on the air because people kept saying like, we need an ear update, we need an ear update. And that I had awakened one morning with like a little lump underneath my ear, kind of right behind the earlobe. In that place, it's always been a place for me because one time when I was a kid, a bully got me in a headlock and drove their finger there. And it's such a, it's like something that like Kung Fu would have done, you know? Is it like the spot grip? Yeah, it's exactly what it's like. And so that's always been sensitive to me, so it's where the thing was. And last Friday, I went to my primary doctor and he put me on a really strong antibiotic and said, give me a call on Monday, which would have been yesterday.

But it got worse and worse over the weekend. And I'm not exaggerating. If I were going to be hyperbolic, I would say it was the size of a tennis ball. But it was legit like a whole golf ball sticking out from underneath my earlobe. Dang. All red, very angry. And you know, you could just tell, hot to the touch. And so I thought, well, I mean, no one's supposed to call the doc, but I think I'm just going to drive there. So I just go walking in without an appointment. And the second he sees me, he's like, you need surgery today. And Dr. Matt Kenoyer, who is my ear, nose and throat guy and who I've represented here on the show and who's a good buddy of mine, has been a guest many times. And at this point, I'm like shaking. Yeah. Because I'm in a doctor's office. And they're trying to like take my blood pressure. I'm like, it's going to be a million. Just step back like. It's okay. Now, did you think like I'm going into, like I'm going to be put out? Or did you kind of know, like, okay, they're just going to give me like a local? It's funny to say that because then the ladies who work with Dr. Stein all came in the room. And they know what a wuss I am. They're like, it's going to be a whole bunch of nothing. It's just, it's, it's, it's, I'm like, okay, okay. And they light the other teeth. And so I, and, and, uh, Kenoyer answers the phone at nine of the morning on a Monday. He's like, what's up? And I go, I've got an angry shrimp in my face. And he's like, get in the car, head my way. I'll meet you with a scalpel. And so I go into his office. And he, you know, Matt, because we're boys, right? I mean, he's talking to me like, I'm a patient, but I'm his buddy. And he's like, dude, this is really bad. This is really bad. You need this immediately. And so, you know, he lays me down, gets me prepped and everything, and he is going to numb it up with a shot behind my ear. Yes. Right in that little spot spot. You couldn't have been more in that spot. And before he does, he looks at me and he goes, glove. This is going to hurt a lot. That's just what you want to hear from my doctor. Like, hey, buddy, this is really going to hurt. I was able to, like, gird my loins, and it hurt a lot. It really did. And it went on for, I don't know, three or four days. And then he, you know, drained some stuff. And then he got the scalpel out for rage. And took it all out. evidently you can't just sew it back up because it'll just happen again. Oh. So it's like packed with stuff. And the hardest thing had to do was I had to take all of my bandages off this morning and put them back on. Yeah. And that wasn't easy. I'm sure. And, but I think it went okay. Yeah, if you can, if you're watching the stream right now, it's just like a big giant bandage over my ear. And then I'm wearing a sock cap.

to lessen the blow of my padded headphones. And the best working theory will never know what really caused it, but the best working theory are wearing headphones every single day. That makes some sense. Yeah. And so, yeah. So something got blocked, poor, whatever. Yeah. So were they concerned that you were, like, going to start getting a fever or something? There was already fever in it. Okay. I think they're mostly concerned because I had been on four days of Augminton, which is a pretty, you know, stout antibiotic. And it was just getting worse the whole time. So they switched up my antibiotic. Now I'm on something else. Yeah, so I go back in tomorrow morning and they remove the packing. And after that, I think it's more like just taking care of it and putting on the ointment and you know, that kind of stuff. Man, I wish I could have seen it. I know you do. I'm so curious. You can meet me tomorrow morning at the doctor's office. You can be the one to pull out the packing. Oh, man. Don't tempt her with a good time. Seriously. What's the address? She's like, for real? He for real? I'm like, Dr. Knoir, can I use the scalpel? No. You cannot. You cannot. We leave in Knoirer's like, I'm missing a scalpel. So, yeah, it was a weird event in my life and a very weird day. Well, thank goodness you're able to, I mean, shout out to Dr. Kanoir for taking care of that so quickly. Oh. Like, can you imagine if you just had that on your face all day waiting around? Like, ooh, that would have been rough. Yeah. Yeah. When you woke up, were you like, uh-oh, I got to do something about this? Like, the whole weekend, I knew this is only going one direction. Yeah. But, you know, you know, a doctor had put me on antibiotics. And when you go in antibiotics, things get better. And this just didn't. So, yeah. So my advice to anyone is if I'm a real put my head in the sand about everything, but especially like medical stuff, like, oh, that'll get better. Like, just be really, really aggressive with stuff like that because I probably should have had the surgery Saturday. But it was the weekend. Yeah. I mean. You can do that, but I'm sure it's different because you wouldn't be able to see your own people that quickly. Yeah. On a Saturday. Yeah. So that's my story. Boom. That's how it went. Did you take a picture of it before you had it taken care of, like when it was angry? Yeah, I have a couple. I would like to see this, please. Okay. I don't have anything at its worst. Okay. I think I have Sundays photos. Let me see what I have for you, right? We will be putting them in the stream. No, we're not going to do that. So that was the second worst day it was, and it kind of doubled in size from that. Jeez. Yeah.

I tell you what you figure out when you are taking pictures of the side of your head with an iPhone is you're not attractive. There's no good information to be gained from that. I can make jokes about being unattractive and having a face like a fist until you take a photo and you're like, it really is like a fist. And then you're like, I probably shouldn't have taken that. Yeah, it is very unforgiving as far as like, oh, I didn't know. I didn't know you could have pores there, but I guess I do. Tell you what else is unforgiving is looking at yourself in a mirror very closely while wearing cheaters because it's just out there, Jerry. Like you're seeing everything. I got news for you, though. That's everybody. That's true. All of these things are everybody because everybody, when you see everybody out. They have prepared themselves to be seen by other humans. Yeah. When you're at home, you're not really prepared for that. And you're in everyone, I guarantee you everyone sees the same problems. Yeah. I mean, unless you're, you know, some of these people that are just like, okay, I'm Mr. Perfect. And no one really notices other people's problems. No, you notice your own. Not to that minutia anyway. Yep. Yeah, well, I forget that there's a line about it somewhere that something along the lines of. You think everyone's thinking about you, but they're all thinking about their own stuff just like you are. Oh, 100%. Oh, also I'm on opioids as we speak. So just should probably get that out there in case I do something crazy. My very first opioid. Yeah? Really? You never had it? Never had one. It sounds like a children's book. My first opioid. Yeah. And you know what? I don't know what I expected. I think I expected to be turning tricks on the corner by now. Well, the one you have is like the starter set. Okay. That's like the beginner's version. At least if that's one you, or I remember you saying it was. Hydrocodone. Yeah, that's the beginner. Okay. Oxycodone. That's the bad boy? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I just sat there all day waiting to get super crazy high and I never did. So. But there's a different standard for laying on your couch and moving among other humans and doing a radio show for four hours. Sure, sure. Don't screw it up, Dave. Yeah. Well, if I do, I won't remember it. Hey, at least it'll probably be fun. So that's okay. But yeah, thanks to Dr. Stein and Dr. Kanoir. Yeah. And Dr. Kanoir's lovely assistant, who I... don't think I wanted to be there completely. Really? Yeah, at somebody's like, you can step out if you want. She's like, I'll hang. Yeah. Like, can I step out? Dr. Kenoyer doesn't even have an assistant. And Dave's like, these pills don't do anything. Tell Sally, I said thank you. Dr. Knoir's assistant tomorrow is going to be me in like a fake mustache and glasses. Dr. Knoirer's assistant who happened to be a fairy writing. A unicorn. Hello, Dave. Come on in. So what I miss, like I said, I listened to most of the show. It's really good.

You just missed out on the fun yesterday. Yeah, we had fun. Lots of Cardinals talk, obviously. Yeah. And then we had some fun segments. You almost had your Red Bird Rush Hour debut. Yeah. It made me sad listening. I guess we're like, yeah, that would have been fun to have another guy. Yeah, I was listening and you're like, yeah, we're supposed to have glove with this. And I'm over here like Vincent Van Gogh, you know, just trying to hold my ear on. He's holding it and going, I could still come in for a while. He's got a big sigh. I could. The phone starts ringing and it's me. What could have been. Welcome back, guys, DGS on KMOX. We have attorney Brad Young, who we love having on, joins us at 1.30. Hopefully he can stay until 2. Add 2. Our buddy Mike Claiborne is going to join us filling in for Ricky and then we have Ian Mackie later on. Today's Election Day, of course. Sweet 16 at 4 p.m. I don't know that we've ever done this one before. The Sweet 16 of best sports nicknames of all time. Yeah. Boy, you almost could have done them by sport. Man goodness. I mean, there's just so many. If you just go back to like 100 years ago, you got 8 million of those names. No one had a regular name. Farts Magoo. Yep. Do you see the guy that jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge? He was naked. Yeah. And he lived. Mm-hmm. Was it a stunt? Like, was he intending to live? Great question. The only reason I would think possibly is that when he jumped off, he was holding some sort of like a bag that looked like one of those things that would open into a parachute. So I don't know whether it was a suicide attempt or if it was attention. I don't know. But they're charging him with a bunch of crimes, which I think is kind of stupid. It's like... I don't think you're going to deter the next person, right? Like, the whole reason this thing is the story is because the guy didn't die. Typically, you jump off the Brooklyn Bridge, 280 feet above the water, you die. And I don't think anyone's like, well, I didn't know you get charged to crimes if I survived. So, I mean, it won't stop anybody that. you know, has bad intentions, but it might stop the dumb stunt dudes from doing it. Maybe. I mean, how many resources did they have to spend to rescue his dumb ass from the water? Yeah. I feel like he's been through enough. Well, it depends on which scenario it is, right? Like, if he was having a mental episode, that's a different thing. If he did it on purpose as a dare, well, it's a different animal entirely. Yeah. We don't know, though, do we? I don't think we know anything yet. Do you guys see the Spider-Man toot? No. What? Do you see that? I read, I saw the headline. There is a whole theater.

there to see Tom Holland's big, giant Spider-Man debut, you know, opening night. And evidently, someone had been to Taco Bell or something, and they were tooting so bad did the place cleared out. And they said people kept trying to come back in, and they'd just be like, no. Oh, my gosh. Are you sure that's not one of those, like, fart spray pranks? I am not sure. Because that will clear room. I don't know if you've ever smelled those things. The, the, uh, Little sprays. Oh my God. I don't think that's a prank. I don't think like something that mean you can chalk up to being like, it's a prank. Gotcha. I don't mean it that way. I just mean like whether it's actual fart or it's somebody thinking it's a funny thing to do. It just bothers me that they sell it as like, it's a prank. It's like, no, it's a day ruiner. That's what it is. It's definitely something that makes you cry. Yes. I'm looking at all these people in the lobby of the theater. And one of them is a Spider-Man. He's in full Spider-Man garb, and he's just on his iPhone, like, man, I can't believe this. He's got to be the suspect, right? Because, you're like, oh, and then the cameras will see me in my suit. Yeah. He's a pretty jacked Spider-Man. Geez. Yeah, that's a... I almost hope it was the spray, because if your farts are that bad than an entire theater. that's pretty humiliating or you could be proud of that something tells me the person wasn't embarrassed because if you're the kind of human that would be embarrassed by that after the first one you're like I'm out you just drive home it can't be the spider man in the lobby because if it was so bad people kept trying to re-enter and couldn't that means the farter the tutor was staying in there he was tubing long Well, he could have been clever. Yeah. He could have been like, let's get the hell out of here. Yeah. Let's try it again, guys. Everyone's leaving. It won't be suspicious. One more time.

Welcome back, DGS on KMOX. Attorney Brad Young joins us, oh, Brad. Hey, Dave. Tons of stuff to talk about today. Hopefully you can stay with this for two segments. Yeah, I can. Good. Let's start with this is like my pet issue. I take a bunch of crap from listeners because I hear too much about it, but I think it's such an interesting character study. And now it's a study in the law, and that's this stupid-ass reflecting pool. And I've come to some conclusions because you know I'm fascinated by Trump. And I don't think he knows that we all know that he's lying in the most first grade way ever. Otherwise he wouldn't do it because he looks so stupid. And, you know, the whole like... I mean, there's sound of all this. I always vandals and they this and they that and a 300 yards slit and blah, blah, blah, blah. And we're indicting American citizens for something that no one believes they did. And then the Department of Interior comes out and says, Not vandals. It was shoddy workmanship. And Janine Piro, who's the prosecuting the AG in D.C. dismisses the case. And then Trump is going off on her and she folded like an umbrella. And he even says he's like, well, you know, it could have been some shoddy work. But it's mostly vandals. And had they only had the cameras up, we would have had caught him red-handed. Like, it's so embarrassing. You know what I mean? It is. And from a policy perspective, there are a lot of issues, Dave, that are grenades. They blow up on you with no notice and there's nothing you can do about it. This is one of those PR issues that should never even exist. You know, it shouldn't be a problem. He shouldn't have made an issue out of it. By making an issue out of it, then he has to come out with outlandish statements. And Janine Piro did the right thing. I mean, we talked about this at the time that most likely that those flaps of the bottom of the reflecting pool. were just garbage and they were floating up and a guy touches it. But that doesn't mean that he caused it to rip from the bottom of the reflecting pool. Janine Piro made the right call, dismissed the charges. But it just highlights that while in some areas Trump is so good at...

marshalling public opinion in a certain way or at least getting his base to feel a certain way. But that's a two-edged sword. And this shows the weakness of some of his instincts. Yeah. Like, okay, two things. First. There are some things about Trump and policies and opinions and such that I think are really ridiculous. But if you believe them, okay, we can shake hands and agree to disagree. But if you still think vandals did this, you're stupid. You are organically unintelligent. Just go outside and practice falling down. Here's the second thing I need to tell you. And it's pretty terrible. And it's about Janine Piro. Rage, brace yourself. Okay. I can't stand her. But I think she's kind of hot. I knew you're going to say that. She's my new Nancy Pelosi. There's something about her. Maybe it's because she's so friggin mean. But I'm like, God, can't stand you. I bet you look good in lingerie. So anyway, there are those two things. I'm on opioids right now, Brad, so I may need you to represent me later on. Wow, let's see. That's called a BUI, isn't it? Broadcasting under the influence. I think you're right. Okay, the next one, unless Rachel, want to talk more about Janine. Well, I was just going to say I saw that she and the president had like a private meeting at the White House after she... you know, dropped these... Holded like an umbrella. Yeah. Yeah, well, he said in a presser yesterday that she choked. Yep. Yeah, I hope the meeting went okay. No, she just knows there's no evidence. She just did the right thing. It's so rare that someone does the right thing around him that to him, it just looks crazy. Well, I mean, I don't know if she did the right thing as much as she did something so that she wouldn't lose her license. Right? Because if you're so much you can do, you know. Well, I would disagree with you there because there was actually an indictment, at least on the guy who was the former Olympian. And prosecuting based upon a federal indictment, you're not going to ever get crossways with the bar association for malicious prosecution if you're doing it based on an indictment. However, I think she. Is that true if the new evidence is coming from like the Department of Interior saying there was no vandalism? Doesn't that kind of? Make it clear that you're not prosecuting based on evidence. It's political. Well, it's what would be from a bar association complaint or a problem with your bar license perspective. As long as you're going from an indictment, I don't see how you can get it in trouble in any way because the only question is going to be, did you have a legal basis? Not that it would be successful, but did you have a legal basis to prosecute this individual? And if the indictment's there, the answer is always going to be yes. Even if the evidence changes?

Yeah, sure. Okay. Because because that evidence wasn't given to the grand jury to get the indictment, nor is it required. I mean, that's the reason why everyone always says that trite saying you can indict a ham sandwich because the prosecutors get to cherry pick what information is given to a grand jury, and they're not required by law to give all of the information to a grand jury. So I don't see that that's a problem, but I agree with Dave that it's so. rare to see someone actually do the right thing in Washington, even if they're going to face consequences for it. So that's fascinating to me that that you can gain an indictment. find out in a factual way from your own, you know, from a government agency that the same government you work in, that that allegation is false, but you could continue to prosecute? That seems very odd. Sure, because here's how, no, no, no. Here's how that would happen. Brad, you want me to handle this one. Yeah, you take it, Dave. You're the expert here, buddy. Okay, here's how it goes wheels. So if, if I'm a lawyer, a prosecutor, and I get an indictment on Rachel, and then I get exculpatory evidence. It's my duty to share that I can't hide the donut. Right. And I can't allow one of my witnesses to say something that I know is a lie. Take it from there, Brad. Yeah, but, well, I don't know, you're doing a good job. How often you get to use exculpatory evidence? You know, that's party talk right there. I heard that on Law & Order once. But no, then what would happen is you'd go on a motion to dismiss in front of a judge, and then the judge could dismiss the charges, which is exactly what would happen if it goes forward. But under no circumstances would the prosecutor get in trouble for doing that. That's fascinating that you could prosecute someone you know didn't do it. And there's no. penalty to you. That's crazy. No, I get it. But I mean, like, you should at least believe that they did it based on the evidence that you have. If you have evidence that says this person didn't do it and you push forward, I would think there should be consequences for that. No, because what is belief? I mean, in all honesty. Well, it's not belief. It's actual testimony from a person who was, you know, from a government agency that said, nope, it wasn't vandalism. Yeah, and they could probably find five other people who would testify that, yes, it was vandalism if you pushed them on it. And that's what we call the Battle of the Experts. Listen, I deal with this every single day. It doesn't get you the attorney crossways, but that's why we have a judge to say, this is crap. This is true. Here's how I'm going to rule. That's the judge's job. So, Brad, the pool and the indictment is a real thing. I mean, it's a real thing to the people who've been indicted. But this Todd Blanche situation affects even more people. As I understand it, months ago, they came out this anti-weaponization fund, $1.8 billion, basically for J-Sixers.

You know, Trump people who've been mistreated by Biden or Obama. Plus the Trumps get some sort of a get out of jail free for some past tax stuff. And everyone, including Republicans, blew up and said, this is insanity. You can't do this. And they very quickly said, okay, it's dead. And then a couple of the, I love this one, John Cornyn and Thom Tillis, I guess it was, were holding out. And Trump, in another babyish fit of anger, said they didn't have a problem with this before I primaried them. And now I'm like, yeah, you idiot, of course. That's the way this works. When you take away someone's job in the Senate, they're not going to be your best friend. So anyway, now they wanted him to put it in writing. I guess he has. But a lot of the pundits I've been hearing on television are saying, like, it's not worth the paper it's printed on. Well, there's some truth to that. I did a deep dive into this last night and looking at could, even if they put this in writing, Could they still do an end around and try to come up with this fund again? And the answer is yes, but it would be difficult. It would be difficult to pull off for a number of reasons, not the least of which I think that any kind of anti-weaponization fund would be deemed unconstitutional. It would because it would be a funding mechanism not approved by Congress. It would be outside the boundaries of the DOJ's ability to settle litigation. So even if it was technically resurrected at a later date, I really don't see this ever happening. Let's take a quick break here. And when we come back, we'll talk about the current status of the Warren around and a couple of other interesting stories that Attorney Brad Young had.

Welcome back, guys, D&S on camera. Wax Attorney Brad Young is with us. Brad, let's talk about the current status of the war in Iran. I am getting really concerned because I've just like I've never really considered what if America ran out of weapons. That just didn't seem like something possible. And now I've seen the numbers. We've gone from like 2,300 of these down to 750 of these and wheels on your show sheet. You're saying that our long-range effective missiles are kind of gone. And that was a Reuters story, too, by the way. So it's not some rando just making things up. Yeah, it's just not going well. And I think the president is actually. Absolutely befuddled. And he just keeps like, last chance. This is last chance. One more. Okay, this is it. I'm going to bomb the hell out of you. Like, it's not working, dude. I think Iran, as evil as they are, have played this perfectly. Let me break down a couple of things. First of all, you know, I follow military tech very, very closely. And I saw that Reuters piece this morning. I question that. That's based upon the statement of one person from within the Pentagon. But I also know that as before the Iran war started, that we had an excess of 2,500 Tomahawk. That's our best long-range land attack missiles. We had about 2,500 of them. And I've also seen multiple stories that says we fired about thousand during the Iran war. So we've just got about 1,500 left. That's a lot of firepower. Secondly, the Trump administration has signed deals with Northrop, with, with a couple of different defensive contractors, including Raytheon, to quadruple. the production of all of our long-range attack missiles. So I don't see that that's a real issue. Plus, now we're not using tomahawks. We're using airdropped munitions because there's no air defense over Iran right now. We have total air superiority and dominance. So that's not really a big issue. Secondly, though, here's what I think is fascinating about the negotiations. Trump says we're close to a deal. Scott Bessent says we're close to a deal. Iran says we're not even talking. So how do you reconcile those? Well, Iran is lying and being, I won't say lying. They're being deceptive, just like a lot of times American presidents can be deceptive. Right now, Iran is negotiating, but they're doing it with Qatar, they're doing it with Oman, and they're doing it with Pakistan, and reports from Al Jazeera this morning indicate that they are close to a deal, but Iran is not talking directly to the United States. So as we talked about last week, and I hate to say I told you so, but last week I said, we're not going to get any deal done here unless we get the Arab countries in the area to join in, participate, and spearhead negotiations. That happened over the weekend, and now I do think we're probably close to a deal.

Man, I hope you're right. But we had a deal a while ago, right? We've had a deal. We've had a lot, right? So wheels. Here, let me clarify this, okay? We can have a deal tomorrow and then we can have no deal three days later. I know. It's frustrating. Yeah, we could. And that's clearly, that's clearly possible. Brad, what's your favorite story that you sent over to Andrew? We'll do whichever one you want to do. Well, the one I think is the most interesting is dealing with the judge in New York that's banning face coverings for ice because New York and a lot of blue states have filed these laws that say, if you're an ice agent, you can't wear a mask. If you're an ice agent, you can't do this or that. And I've always said those are unconstitutional. And a New York judge came out today and said that very thing. You can't, states can't dictate what federal authorities do because of the supremacy clause of the Constitution. But they also, the judge also held that states can tell their own law enforcement officials not to cooperate with the feds because that's also legal. A state can say, feds, you do whatever you want under federal law, but we're not required to help you. And that's also legal. So as we move forward with all of this ICE, it's in Illinois, New York. Connecticut, a lot of these states are doing this. There are boundaries on what states can and cannot do. Wheels? I don't know. I, again, there's another issue that confuses me because no other law enforcement has to cover themselves, cover their faces, hide their identities. In fact, every other law enforcement group has to wear a badge with their name and number on it. And I don't think we would be cool if the St. Louis Police Department all of a sudden was just masked up everywhere they went. And I think it's interesting that we also have this same time. Like we've got a political group, a political party that wants to leave some things to the state, but then not other things to the states. Like, do we want states rights or do we not? Because to me, it should be consistent. Brad, what can you tell us about this supremacy flaws that they cited as a reason to allow ICE to keep covering their face? Well, the supremacy clause under the Constitution. And Dave, you know, if you want to tag team in here, go right ahead, buddy. I was just going to handle it. You take a shot. You take a shot. The supremacy clause in the Constitution states that in any area that's covered by federal jurisdiction, the federal government shall prevail over the state government. That's why states can't create their own money, okay? Because that's covered by the feds. And in this instance, immigration is covered by the feds. So you can't have a state. dictating what the federal authorities are doing when it comes to immigration because that's an exclusively federal issue. So if the American people wanted to change this, would we have to amend the Constitution somehow? Yes, which is effectively never going to happen.

You know, Brad, I don't know if you feel this way. I was lamenting last week on the show that the older I get, the less math I can do and the worst my spelling is. And it's not like I think I could just go back to being a lawyer tomorrow and be effective. But it's surprising to me how much I remember about promissory estoppel and adverse possession. Like, law school does a real number on you. Yeah, it does, but don't ask me what a covenant that runs with the land. Don't ask me anything about that. I got no clue. I'll save that one for you guys for later. How was your first year of law school? Interesting. My first semester, I got all Ds in every class. And the second semester, I got straight A's. And the difference, how do I go from straight D's to straight A's is because I had that epiphany of law school isn't looking for the right answer. There never is a right answer. The only question is how well can you argue whichever issue you want to take or answer you want to take? I didn't understand that the first semester, all D's. I got it during the second semester, all A's. And that made all the difference in the world. Wow, that's interesting. Yeah. All right, buddy. Thank you. Oh, my pleasure. Welcome back, guys, DGS on K-M-O-X. What a treat. We can talk to the legend himself, my good pal, Mike Claiborne's up, Klaibs. It's all good, man. How are you guys doing today? Doing okay, brother. I'd have emergency surgery yesterday on a skin infection. That's the way I roll. Uh-oh. Yeah. I just, look, I just keep getting sexier. I don't know. I don't know how to stop it. But yeah, I had like a golf ball removed from behind my ear yesterday. Well, but you know what? Women like those scars of battle. Oh, I'm set. So I think it's going to certainly help you with your pursuit of happiness. You know, chicks dig scars, man. So Big Day in Cardinals Nation, we're going to talk about that. But first, I would be remiss if I didn't start with the sports story of the day. It turns out an 80-year-old golfer. has won his 43rd club championship by shooting a 70. The president of the United States has done something that Arnold Palmer never did. I think we should take a moment and celebrate that. Well, you know what? For pup-put courses all over the country, I'm sure that it is something that they are certainly beaming about. You know, when I read that story, I was like, okay. Let's pump the brakes here. Okay, I mean, we know this particular president likes to play golf, and that's great. You know, we all have to have some sort of recreational activity, but let's not get carried away here. I mean, we all know golfers who are far better than him that don't have this sort of record. And I don't care if you own the course or not. You know, that doesn't mean anything. But it's...

It was probably one of those things where when you need a morning laugh, that was it for me. Yeah. I think Arnold Palmer shot is 71 at 71, and people said that was one of the greatest athletic feats of all time. So just ridiculous. Well, maybe he was playing for the women's teams. You never know. Yeah, could be. Even that, I say no chance. Even you cut that distance. There's no way. Yeah. I've seen his swing. It's not that good. Wheels, I'm going to turn this over. He and Charles Barkley have one thing in common. Swings you don't want to use. You don't want to look at. I don't know. Charles might be uglier. His is pretty bad. You know, Vic has a good idea. Although, you know what? I'll tell you something. It's gotten better. His swing is a little better than what he used to be. Oh, good. Good. Yeah, that doesn't mean he can shoot 70 nor the other guy, but, you know, that's another source of another day. Claves, before we get into the Cardinals and the trade deadline, we're doing the Sweet 16 later, and the Sweet 16 is the best sports nicknames of all time. What's yours? Ooh, man, that is a great call. Jeez.

Man, I got to think about that one. Babe? Mm-hmm. Babe Ruth would be one. Gosh. I'd have to think through Dr. Jay. Yeah. I mean, that's said it all for me. Because he was my one of my idols, so I would go with him. He was an era. Yes. I wanted to be like him. I remember when he was playing, he wore knee braces. When I was in high school, I wore knee braces. There was nothing wrong with my knees. I just want to look like him. That red, white, and blue ball. That would be one. Gosh, it's, ooh. You know, there's got to be a football one we're not thinking of here. Sweetness isn't bad. Sweetness. Sweetness. Just trying to think of anything baseball-wise where you knew him by that name other than his name was on his driver's license. Yeah, yeah. Well, you got the man. Buster Posey, Buster. Buster. Buster. He would be one. I mean, everybody knew him as Buster. You have the Big Hurd? Big Hurd would be one. Or, you know, when you're really good, when you're used, they only use one name to describe you. You know, that, you know, or junior, you know, everybody knows who Ken Griffey Jr. is or Michael, you know, those are the ones that stand out. Like Magic Johnson, you know, that would be one. Magic would be one. And the people who really, Pat Riley only called him Buck or Irvin, never called him Magic. I didn't know that. Didn't know that. Yeah. I mean, so. You know what I did today? What's that? I went to the MLB offices today and sat in the replay center. And watch how they break down replays during games. And the balls and strike, the ABS. It is fascinating. The information and the views and the angles that they have. And Mason Wynn and I went, Craig Nelson, Craig Wilson from the Cardinals, we all went over. And it was just a really impressive. setup that they have over there. And if you ever come to New York, you got to go into the MLB building. They have so much interesting stuff going on there. Does it make you more confident in the calls, Clebs? Yes, it really did. It really did. And it was interesting. There was a play we had last night at second base. Runner was trying to steal the bag. And he slid in the second base head first. And he came off the bag by just a hair, and Mason held the glove on him. And his glove brushed his knee, and that's all they needed to call the runner out. I mean, and Mason was like, I wasn't sure if I got him or not last night. And so he said, I have to look at that. I'm still not sure if I got him, but they said I did. I mean, it was fascinating. That's cool. So I did that today. And then I went out, and it's right in the heart of the shopping district in Manhattan.

So I'm down large after this trip, man. I may have to go find something else to do. But the weather is spectacular here. Everybody's moving around. I think we're going to have a good crowd tonight at Yankee Stadium. Saw John Hamm last night, talk to him for a little bit. You know, people show up for the Cardinals when they come to New York. You know what? This is why we love sports. I went through every emotion during the game last night. You. All I'm going to say is, I know one person in uniform that said, I know there was a record for most home run hit. by two teams in Yankee Stadium. He said there should be another record for the one word I kept saying all night long. It should be a record for that word too. And I'm sure you guys can come up with what that word was. But it was that sort of game, man. I mean, as John Rooney said it best, he said, we won the first half and they almost won the second half. But I've never seen home runs hit like that. And the way the Cardinals came back after being down in the eighth inning. It was one of the most memorable games I've been part of. That was so many things, like so many lives lived in the middle of that, Claibs, where, you know, you're facing a guy that very likely will win the American League Cy Young Award in Camp Schlittler, and you beat him up, which is... Just jumped all over him. I mean, like, for eight weeks, this team hasn't hit. And all of a sudden you're facing this guy, and you're just like eating him alive, get him out of the game. And then they have their big inning because, you know, your starter, Michael McGreevy came out with 91 pitches. before he finished even the fifth inning. And your bullpen gave it up in a big way. And then all of a sudden, the explosion. That was one of the most fun innings of offense. I think we've seen from this team in a long time. I couldn't agree with you more. And, you know, talking to Alec Burroughsson after the game and started, I said, have you ever hit three home runs anywhere? Little league, you know, high school. It's super rare, man. He said, I don't think so. He said, I don't think so. I said, well, you would have known had you done it, so you probably haven't. Yeah. But, you know, and you throw in the whole trade deadline and everything that was going on with that and the emotions that were riding on that. It was, circle that day on the calendar, man. I don't know where we're going to go from here, but this is one that brings everyone together.

Claibs, it's going to be really fascinating. I mean, the way that the team is building forward, you know, clearly, you know, Lars Neubar subtracted from the roster and Caesar Prieto is getting called up today. And I'm sure you could speak to this and you guys will on the broadcast, at least to some degree, because we're getting a lot of buzz. I'm getting a lot of reaction on Twitter, things like that, where people are wondering, where's Joshua Baez. Well, I can't imagine there's a scenario where we're going to see Baez before we get past mid-August, because at the very least, Not only do you want to make sure he's ready and playing well and all that, but you don't want to waste the rookie of the year eligibility for next year because if you bring him up now, there's a good chance that goes away. If you wait 10 days, then that's not even a concern for the rest of the year. Exactly. You hit it spot on. That's why JJ Weatherholt didn't play last year. Right, right. And there's a plus to that and throw in the fact that if there's a lockout and he's on the, and you play him, you know, then he can't play in the minors next year if the minor league schedule goes on. So there are a lot of things that go into roster structure. And we're going to have Hyne Bloom on, I think, in the fourth inning tonight. So for everybody to tune in, he may be able to shed even more light on the direction than why they're doing what they're doing. Yeah, I mean, what they're doing makes complete sense. Yeah, I agree. You didn't play well enough in the six weeks leading up to this point to justify adding. You can still finish well and compete and do all of those things because some of the guys you moved. You didn't, I mean, like, for example, you didn't have Newt the first two months, and you were competitive those first couple of months. You can live without that. It's going to be tough to replace May, but you also have Dobbins, who's now up and starting today. And Quinn Matthews, who got sent down today, but can come back, you know, in what, eight, nine, ten days to be back if you need another guy in the rotation. Yeah. I mean, I'll see him again. Yeah. I mean, I think. Yeah, it's just a, it's a fascinating thing that, you know, the problem, you know, is going to be, to me anyway, the problem is going to be, are you going to get enough offense? from the second half of the lineup. You know, the top four have been pretty good all year. After that, it's been pretty thin. And then can the bullpen hold up? Because, you know, if the starters aren't going to go deeper, and I get why they don't, 91 pitches a lot before the fifth inning, it's going to be tough to maintain this pen, although you are adding at least one major league piece in Caleb Ferguson. Yeah, and I think he's going to be a good plus because we have another left-handed option. And that's something we didn't have for a while. So I agree with you on that front. So I like our direction. I like what they're doing. You know, this is a year of evaluation. of assets and what you need, and I think we kind of have come to the conclusion on what is needed. But I think the spirit and the culture of this team and the players that are on it, they want to be part of the growth. You don't have guys saying, get me out of here. I want to go somewhere else. They want to be part of this because they've all come up together. They're all coached and managed by the same people, and I think they feel like they owe it to each other to give the effort that they're going to need in order to be successful.

All right. Last thing I got, Claibs, because, I mean, you've got more years than me covering this team and being around it, and I've got 20, so you know this stuff better than I do. Can you remember a time where the Cardinals farm system was this deep? with power bats, power arms. The guys they added yesterday from Milwaukee, Ragsdale and Frius are both really high-end young outfielders. Frius is already like their number four prospect, and he's only 18 and a guy that they think's going to grow into a lot of real power. I can't in 20 years remember the Cardinal system being this deep with guys that possess the power on both sides of it, the offensive power and the pitching side power. Yeah, you know what, Kevin, that's a good point. I think that, yeah, this might be, and I think it's only going to get deeper, to be honest with you, because there's some kids that they have that have really made some real impact. And, you know, I don't know if there's a guy that throws 105 miles an hour other than Clark. But I think, you know, we've gotten away from pitch to contact. We're swinging and missing now. And I think that that's something that plays well at the big league level. And I like the fact that we've invested in coaches and development of people in the minor leagues. They're teaching the game the way it should be taught. We have more boots on the ground for that. And I know people say, well, you know, they didn't spend any money on players. No, they spend money on developing players. And once you have that system role, then you can be the Dodgers and make those multiplayer deals because you have so much talent in your farm system. and you're making trades to get other talent to use in order to make other trades if you need to. So I'm liking the direction. You know, it's going to take a little time, but I think we're closer than I think we thought we would be. Claibbs, our buddy Ed Curtis, is on the stream watching. He says, hello. Have a great time in the Big Apple. We'll talk to you soon, my pal. Well, mission accomplished on a great time in the Big Apple. I've already got that taken care of. I'm looking forward to seeing you guys. We got to, hey, we got to figure out who our fourth is for dinner day. Let's do it. None of these fools in the room with me. See you guys later. All right, I'll see you, clips. Move back just a little. Let me watch your hips sway.

I can almost guarantee you that Camelwax is the only radio station in the country playing Huffam Moose today. Oudawatta? Huffa Moose. What's that? It's a great band from the 90s. Very sexy song. One that makes me think of you. Oh, well. Hey. Now you know what fucking Huffa Moose is. Don't you? Like, every song makes you think of me, though. Not all in good light, though. That's true. That's true. That's a good point. Some of them get me angry. Some of them are like, that's a really funny concept. Like, you have the songs that make you think of people. It's a funny, it's a funny concept to have a song that makes you think of someone, but, like, think of how much you hate them. Right. This song always reminds me of Kevin. What a jerk. What a jerk. Rachel, Andrew, do you know who Charlie Hull, the golf player is? No. I know he's a golf player. I just found that out. It's a she. Oh, I know she's a golf. She's very attractive and became a sensation because she smokes on the curse. Oh, this is her. Okay. Yeah. I kind of love her. I don't know anything about her other than the fact that she smokes. Same with me. I like that. She is under fire because she played a prank on her caddy. And she went out and had a fake. lottery ticket made that showed that he won $100,000. That's horrible. That's not good. Well, there we go. That's not funny. I love pranks. I don't think that's a funny prank to do to people. Especially like any people. But she smokes, Kevin. Well, it's especially not funny when she probably has millions of dollars. I'm assuming her caddy does not. Right. So to be like, guess what? You're going to be rich like me. Just kidding. Yeah, like that's really mean. That's what makes it like. Like it would be mean enough if like I did it to someone on like an equal. economic level but if somebody like much richer than me did that prank to me that's wrong that does add a level of jerk to it doesn't it Charlie I don't care how cool you look when you're smoking on the golf course I'm done with you yeah you can be hot and a jerk at the same time I care I've seen those though those are the ones that are like people do it to their family members I've seen people do it to like their dads and like That's not funny. It's not. I mean, I like pranks. That one's not funny because that person literally is going, I just won all this money. What am I going to spend it on? And then you're like, ha ha, you're an idiot. That would be terrible. Yeah. You know what? Better take up your stresses again. I know they all just melted away because you're financially free, but no. Did she do it to see how the catty would react like towards her? See if the catty would be like, I'm out of here. Was it a loyalty test? It's a loyalty test. It's like you. I hated you all along. I've been waiting for this moment. I don't like loyalty tests, period. Do you guys ever see on social media where it's like, hey, they'll go to like a hot girl on social media and be like, I want you to test my boyfriend, like send him a DM and see how he reacts. Like, well, now you're asking for.

Yeah. That things to happen. Like I do not approve of that type of thing. Yeah. If you like, DM my boyfriend and see if he responds and that'll prove he's loyal. He's like, well, it sounds like, I don't know. It sounds like you hate him already. Yes. It sounds like you're just looking for a reason to not be with him and you're like causing problems. We found a prank that Wheeler doesn't like. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's not cool. And it's never happened to me. So it's not because somebody did it and I got mad. I. First of all, I would not believe it. We didn't think that until you brought it up. No, we're all kind of wondering. It's not about a personal bias. It's just a really jerky thing to do. No, it would have been amazing if you said, you know what, this happened to me? Yeah. But now we all think it did happen to you because you were like, and don't even clear. This never even happened to me before. Be clear, Ben Boy didn't do it. No. Well, first of all, if he did, yeah, he would have paid for it. Ooh. There would have been some bad payback for that. Did he kiss him real hard? Oh, no. I'd have given him a lottery ticket for $200,000 now. I should take opiates every show. I'm enjoying the thought of, like, maybe Dave didn't have a problem with this, and now he's, like, putting aside his fake lottery tickets for us right now. Like, oh, they don't like it. So they don't think it's money. Not funny. Don't open that letter.

ass on KMOX. It's Election Day. We have Ian Mackie coming in later on the show. We'll talk all about that. Hey, no more political ads after this. Well, I mean, we'll still have them, but... Maybe not as heavy. Maybe not as heavy. I voted today. November's still coming. Yeah. November seems less important. In a lot of these things, it is. Yeah. Yeah. The primaries are what it's all about within each party. Yeah. I voted across the street, Central Library. There you go. The city has all these like... universal polling locations like you can just look river and I said that is quite convenient people have been going out of their way to vote of the library today as I understand it because they have extra cute stickers they do I actually posted one to my Instagram story very nice it says I think it says can't shush this Can't shush? Can't shush this. I voted at St. Louis Public Library. Like a library, you know? I can't touch this, but can't shush this. I got you. Can't silence this voice. It's not too bad. It's pretty good. It's cute. Not too bad. Um. A little bit existential here. I saw a TikTok from a doctor. It doesn't matter. But he was making the point. He's like every movie you've ever seen, every great book you've ever read, every interesting story you've ever heard involves a human going through something incredibly hard. So if you're going through something incredibly hard, just know. This is the hero's journey. This is the arc of humanity. You cannot have a truly fulfilling life unless you go through really difficult things. And it made me think, I'm sure if you took all the human lives that have ever been lived and just take the ones in the last hundred years and you spread them out across a spreadsheet, you would have just like, how the hell did this guy? fall in so many holes. And how this person seems to have had like a really pretty easy time of it. What do you guys make of that theory, though, that you really do need real tough times to feel like your life has been complete and fulfilling? I don't know if I necessarily agree that that's how, like, you must go through trials in order to feel fulfilled. But. trials are a part of life and the idea that like we deserve happiness and life is fair and life should be easy like that is something that I've had to kind of get over as an adult and come to terms with the fact that no like sometimes things are not fair life is not fair things are tough and as tough as you feel like you may have it you have it way better than millions of other people so you have to keep that in mind and changes everything changes everything is temporary

things are going to move look at the seasons like we have in st louis we have four seasons a year and we know that they're going to change and we know they're going to be back again next year yeah it's just it's a cycle that that you go through so is there anyone that doesn't have difficulties ever in their lives. I mean, like, I can see how, like, some are more fortunate than others. That's a truth. That's, that's a fact. But sometimes your most difficult things may not come until you're 70 or until you're 90. I mean, like, you just don't know. Like, so yeah, you might get through a lot of, but everybody has things. It just, they're all different levels. And there's, you know, the frequency varies. But nobody ever just like, do they just skate through and everything's perfectly smooth? It might seem like it from the outside, but that doesn't mean that's how that person perceives it. Which I think is unfortunate because probably most of life, but certainly in the last 25 years of social media, we have been showing everyone. our highlight reel while they are watching their own personal blooper reel, right? Right. You know, I'm watching you on a private jet and I'm trying to pay the light bill. Yeah. And even if it's a fake private jet. Or if they're going through a divorce or whatever it is, you still tend to, at least I do, look at other people and go, oh, then I saw something interesting and it's just such a cliche kind of thing. But it was if you took all the people in the world's problems and wrote them on a piece of paper and put them in a big basket, would you be willing to reach in and pick one out and trade? Yeah. I wouldn't trade. Well, no, because then I wouldn't have any of the friends or family members and things that I currently have. And, yeah, and it's like you would have to be in a pretty dire place to actually reach in and make that trade, right? And I don't think any of us are in that place. That's exactly what I was going to say. There probably are some people out there who do not have anything good in their life. And it's just, it looks, it's just darkness. from here on but none of us are in that position you know what i mean yeah and i would venture to say most of the people listening too you know although mine looked pretty dark yesterday morning it was it was it was it was touch and go there for a while so um I had a weird thing happened last night with DoorDash. So weird that I reached out to my friend Andrew, who is a former DoorDasher. And I ordered something from like five miles away, which is pretty far for DoorDash. And it was just taken forever. And so I look and I noticed like the little red guy, you know, here he comes, is on a bike.

And I texted Andrew, I'm like, is this a thing? Like, did DoorDash people ride bikes sometimes? Like, I get it if you're going a mile. But it took the guy like... as long as it would take to ride a bike. And then I missed him when he came to my door. I wanted to run up there and see his bike. It's so I don't really know, you know, how many people. I know that it's more common in like, you know, like New York City. Right. I've had plenty of people deliver to me on a bike. Real? In the city, yeah. Sometimes though it'll be. registered as a bike and then they do pull up in a car but i have seen them on the bike and like dave said it it took bicycle time so it's interesting to me because i know that there are people in like you know like you said like new york city you know like downtown you know boston l a or whatever big giant cities that do like bicycle uh uh delivery for food and stuff but A lot of times when you're in one of those cities, you're kind of, if you're door dashing, you're kind of only handling like a several block traces. Right, right, right. You're going, you know, half a mile away to get somebody's pizza and then biking that half a mile back to give it to them. I always felt like St. Louis had a bit too much of a sprawl to do that, like, you know. Yeah, we're spread out. I saw something yesterday that... It kind of made me a giggle. Maybe I shouldn't have. But the story was about how professors are losing their jobs because the federal government has taken away so much funding and so many grants. Okay. Comma. And I can't remember if they said most or many, but it was one of those two words are going straight to only fans. What? Yeah. And I'm like, did we like, did Dairy Queen and Coles just clothes and no one can go work? Like, it's like if you lose your career, you just go only fans? Yeah, that seems like a, like not a real thing. Yeah. And that seems like. You want to do only fans. Like, I don't know how many people are out there. Like, I have no other choice. I must sell photos of myself online. Like, there are a couple steps you could take before that, I think. But that's, I mean, part of that is. Whoever does PR for only fans, oh my gosh, you know, I hope you made a lot of money because you did a great job. You're selling particularly young women the idea that like this is not only a good choice but like one of the best choices you could ever make is you could, you're going to take control of your body and your sexuality. You're stupid if you don't. Exactly. And it's like for some people that is true. And for some people they are able to make a living.

And for some people, it's genuinely what they want to be doing. But the vast majority of people who start doing that make no money. and open themselves up to all sorts of judgment and criticism from the people in their lives, future employers, whoever. For the vast majority of people, it is a terrible investment. It's difficult on someone like me knowing I'm leaving millions of dollars on the table on a daily basis, especially now after the ear thing. Yeah. You're like, why don't I? Why don't I do it? Why don't I do it? Yeah. It's because for the vast majority of people, it doesn't work. What was that story? Wasn't there a story? We covered it maybe a year ago where it was like the average person who has and only fans makes like $1,000 a year. And then there's like there's the very small number that make millions and that's what everybody sees, but you don't see all the ones that just do it. And they're like, well, that's not going to work. Right. And they've already put it out there. Well, that's a good point. Like the proverbial cats out of the bag, so to speak. Yeah. And, you know, for some people, that's okay for them. But I just fear that too many people go into it thinking that it's going to be something that it's never actually going to be. And then they do walk away with many, many regrets. Yeah. So the average only fans account is between $130 and $180 a month. that's the average so obviously you've got a very small percentage that are going to make a lot of money and basically everybody else is making nothing a lot like professional sports yeah yeah it's not too far off of this yeah

on KMOX. Ian Mack is going to join us at the top of the hour. It's Election Day. We'll talk about some of the major races that people are interested in. Talk about Amendment 4 and 5. Rach, tell me about this grading scale. Okay. I saw this story yesterday while I was doing my show prep, and I thought this was absolutely crazy. So there was a Florida teacher who was fired, and she was fired because she gave zeros to her students. And she gave those students zeros because they didn't turn in their assignments. Huh. Crazy. Which was pretty much par for the course when I was in school. If you didn't do the assignment, you got a zero. That was the grade that you earned. But this was an eighth grade history teacher. in Port St. Lucie, and she gave her students two weeks to complete a notebook project, but some of those students just didn't hand it in. And since they had done zero work, she gave them zeros, and she got fired from it because the K through 12 school that she worked for had a rule called the no zero policy. And I'd be interested to hear from people on the stream or wherever. Is there a no zero policy at your children's school? Because apparently this is kind of a common thing. Apparently the lowest possible grade that the teachers can give students is a 50% that's even if they don't turn anything in. What? Who thinks that's a good idea? A bunch of stinking horse crap. What kind of jackass school officials, school board, whatever, whether it's state, local? Because that's how life works. You think that's a good idea to show a kid that if you don't do the work, you still get half credit? It's insane. The reasoning behind giving 50% for nothing is that it could be difficult for a student to ever recover their grade in that class, meaning it's too harsh of a punishment. Well, that's why you do the work. You don't have to do it well. Just do it. There's an answer for this. You just do the work. I mean, it's, that's insane. Here's the part that I think is really crazy. Andrew's pretty quiet on this one. We'll see how I'm out. So the scale is as follows. 90 to 100 is an A. A B is 80 to 89. C is 70 to 79. D 60 to 69. And then an F is your baseline 50% to 59. The part that I think really bothers me. is that in order to get that A, you still have to score 90%. It's not like you get that 50% and then you only have to get a 40 on top of that. It just feels very, very, very unfair to the kids who are trying hard and trying to get that A, that you could also just not turn in your stuff and, well, you're going to end up with half the grade kind of no matter what. Yeah, I'm fine if you have, I still think it's stupid. Like if you take a test and you only get 30% of the questions right,

You should get a 30% because that's what you got. But if you want to say the bottom level for doing the work is 50%, it's still stupid, but okay, it's less stupid. For people who just didn't turn it in, that should be a zero. There is no excuse. None zero zilch. No excuse. Joel's bringing up the fact that he's seen that it's explained that, you know, the averages disproportionately affect you compared to other grades, meaning 10 points between each grade level, except there's a 60 point F range. Well, the thing is you have to achieve a certain grade to not fail. Right. Like passing a class means that you understand at least, at least a minimal, 60% of the material. And that's not ideal. Ideally you wouldn't understand 100%. Maybe I'm missing something. To me, it's so much simpler than that. I understand the math. I understand why it disproportionately affects you. Yeah. But it disproportionately affects you because you did zero. If you don't do the work, that's, if I'm playing on a sports team. and I don't suit up and I don't take an at bat, but I still want to be in the statistics. Give me a 200 batting average. Right. No, you literally didn't play. And then we sit around and we go like, why can't these kids read? Well, that's exactly. Why are they graduating high school and they can't read? That's exactly it. Well, if their teacher tries to fail them, the teacher gets fired. Yeah. So it's just very, very troubling. I don't understand. If a kid has a learning disability, if there is something going on at home where they need extra or maybe some extra grace in a period of time, those are different things. Have that conversation with the teacher. And I'm talking about the adults. Have that conversation with the administrator. But you cannot reward doing nothing. Could any of us go to work and say, well, I didn't show up, so I still want 50% of my pay. Good luck. Now hold on a second. You're not preparing those kids. I'm telling you, we gotta hear him out. You know, now that he's putting it that way, I'm starting to see. Oh, man. I mean, why train kids to live in a world that will not exist when they're done with school? You nailed it, wheels, because it's like, we want to clear the path and be like, everything's easy, everything's great. You don't ever have, there is no adversity, right? Adversity is bad. I'm going to remove any sort of obstacles for you so you can sail on by. But then once you leave school, once you leave high school, once you leave college and you enter real life, no one's going to be making those kind of adjustments for you anymore. Yeah, I get like, but there's such a difference between the zero. Yeah, because there's such a difference between not showing up. Not doing it. And there's such a difference between succeeding in the class and failing. Yes. You have to achieve a certain amount in order to not fail. Yeah. Yeah.

picture your name did lots above it. Welcome back DGS on KMOX So weird to have a whole group of people on the stream just talking about you. Yeah, isn't it? In the time that I just went to the bathroom, I came back and Joel Bradley already has my only fans page named Beanie's and Weenies. Well, that's not bad. It's not bad. It's actually not bad. It's a charge him a fee or give him a fee for that. Charge him a fee. Yeah, don't charge him. You have to give him a fee. I'll give him a free show. Something special for J.B. Free subscription. One month at level one tier. What if it was just Dave to be? It's that, but it's just you wearing a knit hat like that and just eating a bowl of beans. Hey. To each their own. That's when I don't mind them talking about us. But when like, you know, like one of us gets up to go to the bathroom or whatever and people are, where'd they go? None of your business. Jeez. Andrew has such a love, hate. I can't help it. When they go like, when they go like, anyone know where Andrew was today? None of your business. Speaking of, you got stiffed at a restaurant? I get stiffed at a restaurant. And I don't know quite how to feel about it. So I went to a restaurant. I guess I won't say which restaurant was. I'm so excited. Come on, come on. I'm so excited. What could have happened? It involves, here's what I'll say. It involves things that fly. So I went to the flying restaurant, and I got the two couple meal with the old wife. And it was like, the total was 2213. I remember that because it was 80s. The stiffing in question was 87 cents. So time comes. My wife pays with 220s. She has, you know, she's the moneymaker in the house. Sure. So she pays with 220s. The waitress picks up the 220s and something's up. she goes and she's like counting and counting and counting over at the over at the uh you know kind of host station and then she moves back to the kitchen and i i see her consulting with another waitress and they keep like looking over at us and i was like was there was there real money that she paid with that she pay with like monopoly money and so we just we're just sitting there for a long time

I don't know what's happening. And then, um, first of all, like I said, the meal was 2217. And when she picked up the, or 2213, and when she picked up the 220, she said, do you want change back? And it's like, okay. Oh, yeah, a little bit. Yeah. Just a tad. Yeah. Yeah. We, we, typically, yeah. Normally we tip 90%, but we just weren't sure if the meal was that good. Yeah, we normally double up our bill by tipping. And so, so she brings back and she brings back, uh, 23. I'm sorry, she brings back. I'm like, he did not get stiffed. Yeah, you just got stiff. You got paid. You got paid. She brings back like seven. This is not the opiates, right? No, I'm as confused as you game. It's me being stupid with numbers. Okay. She brings back 17. like a like a solid number so basically there was there is 87 cents yeah yeah unaccounted for not in our favor yeah right and there was no mention of it she just like dropped it off and said okay here you go have a great day and then you know scampered off to go do waitress things and so uh we're just kind of like staring at it like shouldn't is there supposed to be they're supposed to be a little more So we just left a slightly smaller tip than we normally would. Yeah, but 87 cents less of a tip than we normally would. Well, that's where that money's going to go. And walked out the door, but I just, I didn't know what you guys, we kind of went back and forth about like, do we make this a thing? Do we tell somebody? Do we alert? Is she doing some sort of, you know? Is this waitress running some sort of like rounding tip scam to put money in her own pocket? Yeah, making it 80. She's going to make a whole extra $3 this week. Yeah. Like we didn't know what to do. One more month she can eat at her own restaurant. And we were in a little bit of a of a hurry to leave. So we, we are you guys eating both of you for 22 bucks. He doesn't want to say. I don't want to say. I think I know. Off the air, he can tell us. If you guess, I won't say if you get a right. I don't want to guess. Okay. Because I don't want to be smirching people. I honestly don't think this is a very big deal. It sounds like maybe. Oh, I know where you were. I think maybe their computer was like not doing the math for them. And sometimes people struggle with like knowing the change to give back. Yeah. So she might have thought she was rounding. down or something she might have thought she was like rounding up to the next dollar and actually giving you a little more helping us out rather than maybe yeah i don't think she was like knowingly stealing 87 cents specifically i also insane to me it seemed weird if there was like number problems involved or computer problems or whatever or you couldn't make change Like, maybe say something. Like, oh, I know you're missing 87 cents. I'm sorry. We don't actually don't have any coins right now. That was a possibility, too, as a former waiter. That's what needs me to believe that she did the math wrong in her head. And maybe she meant to give you 18. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I know. I get it. I see what you're saying. Because it's just, like, the fact that she was going back and forth to the kitchen is maybe she was like, wait, so how much is it? How do we know? Which, I mean.

I'm not innocent. I mean, in telling the story, I got the number wrong like four times. And she only gave me back more money than I was owed. I gave her 220s. I gave her 220s. She gave me back 420s and I'm like, what the hell is this? I got stiffed. I'm paying double. I think it's way more likely just an honest mistake. Yeah. But a dumb one. Well, we chose not to do a big thing. I mean, I chose to talk about it on the radio to thousands of people, but we chose not to tell the one person. It's an easy solve, though, because if you leave that out, that extra money will go to the person. Anything that they turn in that's above and beyond what the bill is is counted as a tip. So she's not missing that tip. You're giving up less of it, but that 87 stents is still part of her tip. Or, I mean, wouldn't it just go in the drawer? Yeah, I mean, the rest of the ones I worked at, they're all a little different. Like, if you just get to keep your tips versus having to, like, share your tips with other people. Yeah, tip out from like whatever. So is that how that's done? It's like whatever's extra in the till gets divvied up amongst the people who need tips. But in this case, for example, like most, most, at least when I was waiting tables, you have cash and you have to bring cash so you can make change. And back then people used cash more in, you know, in the 1990s, the olden times. You would have to have cash singles change so you could make change. And you would keep all of it until the end of the day. And all you were responsible for was turning in the amount of cash that is on your checks for the cash payment checks that weren't the credit cards. So that extra, anything left over is yours. So in this case, that 87 cents would be left over. It would still be hers. So if you just deducted from the tip, you're still tipping her those 87 cents. Man, what do you guys think she's going to buy with that 87 cents? Sky's limit. A gumball. So tell me about the nude steakhouse. Oh, yeah. It's not the same night, right? It was the same night. It was the same night. That's why we were in a hurry. You know what? Budget is a little shot at this point, but we're still going to go. Brad actually sent this story, and he was like, I don't want to talk about this, but maybe you guys can talk about it. It is a South Florida Steakhouse, and they have launched nude dining. A new dining experience, they're calling it. It's at the, on the first Monday of every month, the Class Suarez Steakhouse, which you know a place is classy when it's called, what it's called the classy steakhouse. It should just be called the ass steakhouse. The two, the C and the L neon letters are burnt out. They hold an evening where diners are allowed to partake in. quote a yummy meal without wearing any clothes. They came up with the concept as a way to attract new businesses. They said, yes, this is legal. Because I think that's the first question that everybody gets. It would be the first question. I'm sorry. Can we pause for a second? Wheels, whatever you're looking at on your laptop is playing out of the speaker. No, it's not on. Is it? Something was playing over there. All right.

It's the nude stuff. I'm watching nude steakhouse videos. It's actually Fox News story about this nude steakhouse. And so it's, well, here's something else that's interesting. It's tickets to, if you want to do this, if you want to dine in the nude in this restaurant and eat steak. It's 250 for men, 150 for women. What? Now, this is not that uncommon in these kind of like... Oh, it's ladies' night. Yeah, exactly. You want to get more women in there. You want to get more women in there. They call that the meat tax. I just thought that was interesting because, like, yeah, you want to get more women in there, but, like, it's still $150? Does that include the dinner? It includes the dinner. Oh, okay, okay. Maybe they think that guys eat more? Maybe the worst part is that they say that they are expecting around 20 people. That's a problem to me. If you go as a couple, the man and the woman they're equal, because the couple is $300. So I guess what they don't want is a bunch of looky-lose. Yeah, they don't want a bunch of dudes. I'm so on Andrew's side here. Okay, if somehow you could convince me to consider doing this, it's like, okay, 100 people at the restaurant. All right, maybe. Yeah. Just 18 other, if you go as a couple and there's only 18 other people, that's like you're getting to know each other. Yeah. A hundred people. A hundred people is a party. 20 people is an intimate gathering amongst friends. That's 20 people. That could turn into something else real quick. Yeah. 20 people is like, 20 people is a subway car. That's not a, that's not like a giant dining experience. Well, what's, what's the draw to eat and nick it? Oops. Well, I mean, I get being, but not, why with food? It's like.

Andrew gets there and he's like, before I dine, if I gave you $40, how are you doing the math? Do you guys have coins? Can we need change? Here's 270 and I do want change back. Thank you. I will not be stiffed tonight. That's where they got the idea. They heard me say I got stiffed at a restaurant. And I'm the one on opiates, and he's the way now. It gives me an idea. That's such a bizarre story. It's got to be a publicity thing, right? They're going to do this like one. Yes. I don't think they're passionate about having nude butts on their chairs. They're going to do it one time. Well, that's it. That's another thing. Yeah. Are they going to put like napkins down? Yeah. You're going to get just special chairs for Nike night? Yeah, if they have Monday naked dining night, I don't know if I want to go Tuesday morning. I don't want to sit in that chair on Tuesday. Yeah, exactly. What's the, where am I sitting for the lunch special on Tuesday? Like, I would, I would be down to do most stuff naked. Eating is at the very bottom of this. Right. Yeah. Eating in a restaurant with strangers. And also, so they point out that it's legal because the entire staff is clothed. And I actually don't like that much either because that makes me feel isolated. You want them isolated too? Yeah. Well, I feel isolated. It's like a power imbalance. There's a power. Thank you. It's a power imbalance. I want the chef nude cooking. That can't be legal. If I'm going to be nude dining. You don't want that. No, it's not. That's why. That's why they say this is legal to do. Is he not one? You don't want a naked chef. dressed well the staff is all wearing clothes they're all like fully dressed and that creates a power if i'm sitting here naked in the chair and they're coming up fully thank you that's how i feel okay i'm sorry i know we're going late but one more question do you arrive and then you take your clothes off sounds like it so in the fox news story that was playing over my computer um the one of the the hostess is also apparently naked And greet you at the door so you'll feel more comfortable getting naked right there, I guess. Sweet. Oh, you just have to strip like in the foyer? Well, if you're going to be out, who cares? You know what? That's a fair point. If you're all going to be out there while you're eating steak and detainers, what's the difference? Just getting into the Uber naked? Yeah. Yeah. I think you know where I'm going. We just had the world naked bike ride like two weekends ago here in St. Louis. And it's like you show up to that naked. Or, you know, wearing whatever clothes. Humans ate naked for 100,000 years. Yeah. Even they put something on. sat on. And how mad were you at that guy? That first guy. You're like, seriously, Ned, you're going to cover it up? I think it would sound, I think that it... You're making me feel like there's a power balance here. I don't like any of this. I don't know, what if you spill? Nude dining could be fun, but I think the moment you, like, drop a piece of steak and it leaves the, like, in a Worcestershire trail down your nude chest, you're like, okay. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of turn on. This is a dark moment in my life. Perhaps darker than I expected. Yeah. I mean, like...

Don't even do that at home. Let's not try it at home. No. You're home. Okay. All right. 20 people only. 20 people, but I'm going to be the chef, so I'm going to be clothed. 20 person new dining at Kevin's house. Do I know 20 people? Yeah. Do you know 20 people you'd get naked? No. They'll work on it. All right. Interesting. Very quick little segment here. Dave Murray joins us on the other side of the bottom of the hour break. I used to think that Donald Trump or a 13-year-old boy was running the simulation. I'm now convinced it's Tom Holland. Based on Spider-Man and Endgame, he holds the record for the person involved with the two biggest Hollywood openings of all time. He's married to Zendaya. He's a fine-looking, cute little boy, but for love of God. I was kind of saying that yesterday. Like, must be nice to be Tom. Yeah. Yeah. He's 30. He looks like he's 12. Mm-hmm. People must love it. I mean, he's, I don't know about other stuff because I haven't seen, I mean, he was in the Odyssey, but he's not really like the main dude. He's a pretty perfect Spider-Man, though. Yeah. I mean, Spider-Man starts off as a teenage kid. He is maybe my favorite Spider-Man thus far that we've seen. Welcome back, DGS, I'm KMO. Next 334, Dave Murray time, brought you by this Allegheny Heating and Cooling Weather Center. Also sponsored by Hoff Heating and Air Conditioning. I don't think that works. It does. Competing AC companies. Hey, look, I didn't do it. I'm just reading what they tell me to read. I think that's breaking one of the cardinal rules of radio if I'm not. I think it is, too. Yeah. I didn't do it. Look at you in the purple. Well, it's kind of blue. We kind of match. Yeah, we kind of match. Easy, peasy. I like it. How are things? All is good. There's a large group of folks from St. Louis in Newport Beach. They've been here for the last couple of days. They do a lot of good things in St. Louis, and we're hosting them for dinner. Very nice. Very nice. About 20, 22 people, I think of this. You're taking them to the nude steakhouse? I was going to say you guys are staying clothed, right? That's the plan anyway. With the Murrays, you never know. You got a party bus waiting outside. Yeah. Take you straight to the naked steakhouse. You can start with all the clothes you want, but never know. It's part of dinner. You know, do you want a salad? Okay, something's got to come off. Stripped dinner. Never thought of that. So, man, gorgeous weather. It's fantastic again today. We're a little bit warmer than yesterday, but the humidity levels are still nice. It's a quiet day tomorrow, a little warmer. I think we get to about 91, and during the afternoon, we'll start to feel the humidity make a comeback. Kind of a slow process. Then we go into the unsettled weather we've been talking about Wednesday night, Thursday, Thursday night, early Friday morning. Scattered showers and thunderstorms. Nothing widespread as far as severe weather. And though it comes...

could start at any time Wednesday night. I think probably most of it is late Wednesday night. I think we can squeeze in part. And Thursday, no all day rain by any means. Just scattered showers and thunderstorms, otherwise partly sunny. Friday, nothing more than a spot thunderstorm. Pretty good day. Partly sunny at about 88. The weekend looks dry. Sunshine, Saturday, 89, and Sunday, sunny and up to 93. And it looks like... or at least early next week hanging in the low 90s for the most part. Which is kind of where we're supposed to be, right? Yeah, yeah. You know, that's above average. But that's when you think about August and St. Louis, you know, you say 91, 92, 93. Yeah, that sounds about right. So, Dave, I'm seeing on the national news and TikTok and such this last week, maybe this week two. Just setting heat records all over the place and around where you are and Death Valley, you know, is this nothing to see here? It's August and it's hot in Death Valley. Who would have thought? It's the end of the world. I would have thought it would have thought it'd be super nice. That's when you plan to go. That's what I learned in my weather. Walk across Death Valley in August. It's the perfect time. One 25 feels like. It's a dry heat. So it feels like 120. So it feels like 120. I never do country music news, but there's good and bad news in the world of country music. You want to hear it? Yeah. The good news is that jelly roll is taking a two-year break from performing. Hmm. Take all the time you need, brother. I guess I didn't realize that he was country. That's what he says. I don't know one of his songs. Yeah. I think he's considered country. But he's being replaced by a new country artist. Anyone want to take a wild stab? Jelly donut. No. Adam Wainwright. Is it like a former politician? You're not far off. Oh. Travis Kelsey. Oh. We need more Travis Kelsey. He's making this. Not enough. is making his first country album. All right. An insider says Taylor Swift's friends in the industry think he's underestimating how difficult it will be. I bet he is. I bet he is. And just like every other doofus out there thinks it's easier to play sports than it is. Yeah. I'm sure he's doing that. But he also like, is she going to produce it for him or what? Wow, you just said that. I don't know. Not like you. What? You just sound like a different human. Oh, I had to change the subject. I had to change the tone. But why is jelly roll taken two years off? I don't know.

That's a good question. Dave is the number one jelly roll correspondent. I want to you buy a mile. We talk about jelly roll every day, but we never have the information. I don't look at, I never look at details. But when it comes to jelly roll, taking time off. He's leaving good enough. I'm good enough. I don't need an explanation. That's the only detail I care about. According to Google AI, he's taking the hiatus to focus on his mental health. personal healing after his divorce. I was going to say, I know that he and his wife got divorced and I thought that might have something to do with it. Perfect. Dave's jelly roll, Google alert went off. Did they have kids? Do we know if they have kids? I don't think so. And would they be little donut holes? Little munchkins. Yeah. What is a jelly roll, by the way? That's a good question. I always thought it was like a jelly donut. Yeah, it's kind of that, yeah. It's either that or one of those. I thought it was just referring to he was a big fat guy. Jeez. Jelly roll. He was a big fat guy. I don't know. Not anymore. He's lost a lot of weight. Yeah, that's why he's taking a hiatus. He's got to gain it all back. It's a rolled sponge cake filled with jam. There we go. Dave was closest. You win.

I know I was on opiates yesterday, but I saw. And today. And tomorrow, who knows? Maybe. I saw several ads on my TikTok for dog wigs. What? Am I the only one getting these? Like gags, like jokes, like funny ones, or like serious? Like, here's a wig to make your dog look like they did 10 years ago. I don't know how to answer that question, wheels. Oh, like people put costumes on their dogs, you know? Is it a wig for you to make you look like a dog? Oh. No, they were putting the wigs on the dogs. Okay. Okay. And as I've always said, the dogs don't like wigs. No, they don't like anything being put on them. No, they don't like costumes. They don't like little shirts. They don't like that. I appreciate Wheels' question. Is it like a fetching blonde bob or is it like, oh, we're going to make your dog's fur look fuller? No, it's like a bob. Okay. So it's like to put a human wig on them for funny. Long time ago. Did you ever want your dog to be a brunette? I think I snapped a photo of it. Hold on nudie, nudie. Janice got raincoats for our dogs a long time ago. And she said, you know, they get so wet. And then you spend a half hour drying them off. I said, they're labs. They're supposed to get wet. Yeah. So she puts these things on them and they take one step. And they look at her like, that's as far as we're going. Yeah. We are not going out. We're not going to be seen in these things. We look stupid. Yeah, our guys are really, really little. So we, yeah, they have winter coats for when it's super cold. They hate it, but if it's super cold, they'll deal with it. You got the picture yet, Dan? No, I don't. I just looked up pictures of wigs for dogs. It's, it's just like putting costumes. It's a gag for, like, funnies. I don't think there's any, like. purpose for the dogs benefit. It's not for the dogs benefit. Let's put it that way. It's for the people to be like, ha ha ha, look. Yeah, they don't like that. They also don't like little booties or shoes on their feet. They might like it. They can't talk. They don't know. Actually, they can. They can't talk. Yeah. Gen Z has a new name for something. What's that? Infilitating. It is a mix of inflation and dating because now they have to date on a budget. Do they really say that? Yeah. No one says inflatating. Inflatating. Sounds something much worse. You're on opiates. That thing you're holding isn't even, there's no words on that paper. You got that. You're right. It's completely blank. That's a blank piece of paper. It's like inflating. They're putting the wigs on the dogs. The dogs can no longer afford dates.

They have spent their money on wigs. Gen Z is calling it dog hair plugs. Jellyroll, he got on a space as rocket. He's not coming back. He's just gone. Why is jelly roll taking time off? He appears to have morphed into some sort of ooze. What are we doing? You're not helping me. I have lost the thread. I have no idea. We need to go back to headlines. Yeah, I don't even know we're talking about this point. Gilly Roll's taking time off for his dog hair plug business. I'm still thinking about inflating and why you just say you're just going on a cheap date. Where's jelly roll going on an inflate? I don't know. He's going away from us. He's shrink-sizing us. Where did you go? Nobody knows he's missing. We're inflow rolling, okay? Yeah. Come home, jelly roll. We miss you. You're doing like a comeback shame thing for jelly roll. Come back, jelly roll. Come back, jelly roll. Come back. Dave Murray does not think this is funny. No, no. Neither is weiler. Well, he also doesn't think of shirt's purple. I don't even know if I follow where it went. I'm confused less than... It's a callback. I came to the fork in the road and I went that way. I'm still at the fork. I don't know which way we went. I'm like, which way did they go? George, which way did they go? Jelly roll has left to make dog wigs for inflidates. Dog wigs have become far too expensive.

That's why you can't go on a nice date anymore. I'm still at the fork in the room. The only one who can fix it is jelly roll, but we don't know where he is! This is what we call jelly rolling. Yeah. Dave's been jelly rolling this whole show. I don't know, but we all want what you're on there. Oh, boy. I know that Dave is actually on Strong Painfields because he looks a little scared right now. Like, this has kind of gotten away from him and he's like, okay, okay. There was a moment where I was like, I figured it out. Oh, no, yeah. Right now, I'm what they call riding the wave. You're jelly rolling. And it's all going to be. It's jelly rolling. It's all going to be fine. Thank you, Dave. All right. My pleasure. Let me off this thing, Dave. Take me with you wherever you go when you disappear from this. I want to go with jelly rolling. Take me with you, jelly roll. Where's that wig? I got no wig from my dog.

I'm not even sure you people are real I'm not even sure you people are real I'm not even sure that I'm going to go off at any minute and then it'll be time for a Tuesday show and I'm hoping The S on KMOX. Skip's going to be here at the top of the hour to do the sweet 16 of best all-time sports nicknames. It's so funny. I love Clabes. And I knew this would happen when he was on a couple hours ago. I'm like, hey, Claibs, give me your number one. And he gave like 50. So he pretty much said all of them that we're going to say. No, there's like 9,000 of these. So it'll be easy. Is it okay that I don't have very many? Sure. I figure. You guys will have a ton. You're going to get a zero in the class. No, I hit 50%. No zeros. Anyone know where the phrase cut to the chase comes from? Nope. Yes. Tell me. I'd rather hear if you know it first. It comes from the silent film era when movies usually had long love stories that ended with a thrilling chase scene. So when people would be tired of the love story, they'd say, just cut to the chase. Just cut to the chase. Interesting. Yeah. All right. You know what else is interesting? I hate card chases. Me too. I hate a few days. What? What? I find them the most boring thing in cinema. Wild. It almost ruined one battle after another for me because I actually really loved that movie, but there's a long car chase at the end, and it's so long that the first time I watched the movie, I was like, I don't know if I'm ever going to watch this movie again. Yeah. It's so long. And like, it just doesn't hold that much tension for me because I'm like, well, if the car crashes, the scene's over. Yeah, I know you're going to make it. Yeah, I have a hunch that we're going to keep going here. Yeah. Agreed. Florida, the Sunshine State, has more indoor tanning salons than McDonald's locations. That's crazy. Yeah, tanning is coming back with a force. Big time. It's Florida. Tanning and smoking. Go sit in your backyard for 10 minutes. Nude steakhouses. Florida's just wildening. That's just it. Go get this. A man put a spike strip in his lawn because kids were riding their bikes across his lawn and running across his lawn playing like Ghost in the Graveyard at night. So he made his own spike strip with plastic and 43 inch screws sticking up out of it. That's jail time. Right? He's charged with a misdemeanor. He could be looking at 180 days in jail or a $100,000 fine. That's not enough. No, give him the $180 for sure, though. Yeah. You need to spend time in jail, jail. Why are you when I hurt kids, dude? I mean, like, that's not just like, oh, he fell and got a bruise. Like, that's like, you could kill a kid that way. Yeah. Yeah, that feels incredibly malicious.

You know how easy would be to kill an overweight country star with a... With a spike strip in your yard? I'm just saying. He was riding his bike? Something to think about. Real fast. That's how he lost all the weight. He was riding his bike away because he is, he's going. Yeah, he's going away. So he's going the other way. Get the strip out. But the strip kind of popped him like a balloon and that's how he lost all the weight. Here's the weirdest story of the day. Mario Lopez posted an AI-generated video of his niece at a Dodgers game, eating two hot dogs at once, then suggestively rubbing mustard on her face. When there was huge backlash, he took it down, but it's still out there. Did you see it? Yeah, it was crazy. Dude, you want to talk about 180 days of jail time? That is really messed up. That's sick. I'll take a beer. On KMOX, few minutes past 4 p.m. Good to be back. Had to take a day off yesterday for some minor emergency surgery and doing well. Good to see you. Minor emergency? Yes. It wasn't, it wasn't dangerous. But it had to happen right then. Okay. Yeah. So it's minor surgery on an emergency basis. That's exactly it. Not a minor emergency. That's right. Okay. I'm just trying to figure it out. I see the Band-Aids there. I'm going, what the heck happens? Yeah, skin infection turned into an abscess over the weekend. Our buddy Matt Kanoir took care of me. Very cool. It's all good. Very cool. Glad that you're still here. And as I've said 38 times with the show today, I'm currently on opiates. So we have that going for us, which is nice. Which is nice. Could be a whole new thing. Might be a little bit sane or show than normal. It could be. It's making me hold back a little bit. Making me question things. Did you like this one? I love it. Good. Good, good. I love it. Yeah. I don't think we've, I don't remember doing it. No, we've never done this before. Okay. We've never done this. But I at least would, I mean. First couple of years you did this way back when half the people in the studio weren't born yet. I wasn't part of it. Yeah. But I still listened as much as I could, but I don't remember it then. But definitely since 2012, we haven't done it. So sweet 16 of best all-time sports nicknames. Man. Pretty great. Where do you start? Where you start? We start right to your right. Sweetness. Sweetness. Oh, that one was brought up on the stream right away. I knew that would be... That's a high-end one. Yeah, that's a high-end one. I mean, I usually like to try to do a little bit more obscure, but... I mean, there was not a better guy and a badder ass than Walter Payton. Man, we, I hate to do this every show, but we grew up in the best generation. Being a kid watching Walter Payton, high stepping into the, oh. And the way he carried the football and everybody thought they could have made him fumble and no, nah, nope. We used to live like two blocks from Peyton's Hill.

There was this hill that was in suburban Chicago, which is where we lived at the time, where he would train in the offseason because he would just run up this hill up and down, up and down this hill. And it's huge. It's this massive thing. And his son, Jarrett, went to Miami, played there at football, but also went to my wife's high school in Chicago. He's a good dude. He's basically best friends. I know. We are the Patens, man. You're like Sweetness Jr. Yeah, I know. That's what they said. Sweet Jay-R. I'm just glad that that you said, I mean. I knew that you would know it. Yeah. But the fact that, I mean, you know, that's a long time ago. Yeah. And there's a lot of sports people since then. Yeah. So I know it's a retro, but I'm just glad to hear that it's so well received. Yeah. Andrew. Um, I'm going to go a Sweetness Jr. for Kevin. All right. That's Kevin's famous nickname. No, I'm going to say so ubiquitous that I actually did not know this was his actual name until like, you know, maybe 10 or 15 years ago. Magic Johnson. Yeah. You thought his name was magic. I thought his first name was just magic. No. Because I never heard anyone call him anything but Magic. Yeah. I almost lit off with that one because I, I mean. Those are probably my two favorite sports people of all time. Walter Payton and Magic Johnson. When I was in junior high playing PE basketball, me and this other kid, Chris Wall, were really good playing together. And we used to call ourselves Johnson and Kelso, Kelsey, Kelsey. Remember him? Greg Kelcer, yeah. Greg Kelcer. So that goes all the way back to college when he was. 1979, baby. Magic Johnson against Larry Bird in the finals. Yep. I tell, oh, go ahead, yeah. No, no, go ahead. Wait a time. I was going to say, for the legend of Magic Johnson, I have people ask me all the time, who do you think is better, LeBron or Michael Jim Jordan? And I said, well, I look at this. The way I, the way I graded is, would five LeBron's beat five Michael Jordans, which was better? And I think, I think very easily five Michael Jordans beat five Lebrons. Now, that's a good debate we could have. And then I always say, I think five Magic Johnson's beat either of them. I've never thought of that way. The guy was one of the best ball handlers. He was 6'9, and he played center against Caldwell Jay Jones and Moses Malone in the finals as a rookie and scored 41 points when Kareem was injured. I mean, he could do everything. Couldn't shoot. What's that? Couldn't shoot. He could shoot. He could shoot. He could not guard Michael Jim Jordan. I can tell you that. No chance. I think I got a poster of him doing just that. Oh, one time is not doing it on a one-on-one. I think five of them, though, one-on-one is different. Five of them would be, and I definitely know he can shoot as well as LeBron. Period. It's pretty close in that regard, because LeBron's not a great shooter. Sweetness, JR's getting a little over his skis over there. That's my man. I love Magic Johnson. I'll take five Jordans over five anybody's. Well, and that's legit. But I still think Magic would hold his own. Nobody ever talks about him is my point now. Nobody ever brings him up, but he's there. Five Larry Birds would hold his own against those guys, too. They don't remember that 80s thing when the game was so different. Yeah. How can the baseball guy not go with the man? Yeah.

I think we would be run out of St. Louis if Stan was not on this list. The bad thing is, the bad thing is will we be run out if he doesn't win? Yeah, we have to be brave. Well, we have to be brave. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to go with the great one. Yeah. I had that one too. Yeah, that's awesome. This one is not my submission, but it's my heart pick as a kid, Bake McBride. Oh. It just floated up. I had his jersey, man. He was my favorite player. When they traded him, it broke me. I was at baseball camp and everything. It broke me in half when they traded a Big Macbred. I went to a mall, probably Alton Square, but maybe James Town. Was it really his name? I think so. I think it was Baker, yeah. No, I think it's just bake. And I got his autograph. Just one of those, you walk up to the game. Oh, no, I'm wrong. I'm wrong. It's Arnold Ray McBride. So, Bakes in a nickname. And you're wrong about the damn five on five, too. No, I'll fall would die on that hill. It's Peyton's Hill, too. I'm going to go Dr. Jay. Man, I didn't know that anybody would think of that one. Good. Yeah. That's a great one. Yeah. It wasn't a real doctor? Like I told, here's a gynecologist. Like I told Claibs earlier in the show, he was an era. Yeah. Is Dr. Jay era? Yes. I remember. Everybody talked about bird versus magic. Yeah. Brought the NBA. Yeah. Well. They came in at the same year, but nevertheless, I still have the electronic, well, I don't have it anymore, but I remember the electronics arts game that I got in like 1983. Dr. Jay versus Larry Bird. It was not Bird versus Magic Get, it was Dr. Jay. And it was awesome. And the other thing about Dr. Jay is I remember. many times watching him play live against our St. Louis spirits. My dad and I would go to those games. It was so poorly attended. We'd go in and we watched, we went all the time we could. Was that the red, white, and blue ball? Yes. And that's when he had the giant fro. Oh, my gosh. He was the Babe Ruth of the dunk. Yeah. He was the guy. I mean, other guys in his time were good dunkers. He's the guy that made dunking the coolest thing in basketball. He won like the first three slam dunk contests. And some of them were just insane. I'm sure I'm not a numbers guy. I'm sure there's statistical reasons and not put him in that previous conversation. But as far as just iconic, to me he's just right up there. Well, I think part of it is his first few years were in another league. Yeah. I mean, he came in. And his very, very best years were behind him. Yeah. Okay. Back to you. All right. Staying in the same sport. I think that has the best nicknames for one reason or another. They're not all, not a monopoly on it, but.

The round mound of rebound. Another icon. I love it. I love it. And he lost the weight and kind of dropped it. But when he was in college, certainly stuck with him. Yeah. He likes the training table in college. Yeah. Well, Moses Malone. Moses Malone worked his butt off. And it's a great, you ever want to hear a great motivation? Listen to Barclay talk about Malone. I love Barclay. Yeah, me too. He's great. Andrew. How about Beast Mode? I don't even think about him. Yeah. Yeah. He's also very funny and cool. He's the best. I'm a huge fan of March on Lynch. I bet I think about that stupid Super Bowl call once a week. Yeah. Really? How do you not give him the ball? Yeah. What are you doing? It's first down. Just give it to him. Crazy. Rach. Andrew. We skipped wheels. Wheels. Wait. Andrew did that one, right? Yeah. Yeah. The wizard. Yep. There you go. What if the wizard and the man meet? They could. Tough call. It's the wizard man. It's the wizard man. You never know. Big poppy. That's good. I like that one. I love David Ortiz. Yeah. He just seems like a nice man. He might have one of the most iconic on-field speeches of all time, like maybe next to Lou Gehrig. He said, I'm big poppy. No, after the Boston bombing, he was. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, he did a speech and he was like talking to the crowd. He's like, this is our blanking city. We're not, you know, like whatever. And they were like going nuts. It was pretty awesome. Nice. I'm going to go with the fridge. Oh, yeah. What's so amazing about it is at that time, the fact that he was almost 300 pounds was a novelty. Right. And now every guy that plays that position plays 340. Yes. When they would give him the ball. It was so great. We are flying. On that Monday Night Football, the first time he carried the ball, that's like one of the greatest moments of Monday Night Football. I don't remember the linebacker for Green Bay that tried to tackle him, but he obliterated. Yeah. Absolutely obliterated. How many we need, Reg? We need five, so one more round. Okay. All right. Here's an obscure one. I think you may, Dave, you may know as wheels, you probably do, but it's a little bit before, I mean, you're not quite old enough, but how about? The human rain delay. Yes. My cargrove. Mike Hargrove. Oh, dude. He took so much time dicking around between every pitch. Every pitch. He'd unzip his gloves and redo it. Yeah. CD kind of thing. Yes. It was every pitch. It was like hitch the pants. Undo the batting gloves. Undo the batting gloves. And it was every pitch. And also a little ritual thing. Yeah. That wasn't the human rain delay. Every pitch. What a great thing to call. Yeah. Nice. That's a great one.

Andrew. I'm going to say some real wasted potential here. Megatron. Yeah. Wasted potential. He's a Hall of Famer. Yeah, but the team always sucked and he never. I was going to say, he did get poorly drafted. Yeah. I'd like no offense to your boys, but the team was awful around him being incredible. Yep. Well, that's the entire history of the Lions. Barry Bernie Sanders was the same thing. Wheels. This is a tough one. I'm trying to decide to go outside of baseball. I'm just going to stay with baseball. The big unit. Yep. There you go. Another great guy and unbelievable talent. Man, great photographer, too. Yeah. Remember when he hit the Seagull? Oh, God. Oh, yeah. The wildest thing I've ever seen. Yeah. I'm going to skip. I'm going to skip and give my pick to skip. Okay. So you go, Dave, and then skip gets the last one. Proud to call him, my friend, the Mad Hungarian. Yes. Another great Nick game. How did that? I didn't think of that one. That's going to be my vote every time. I know who it's matched up against. Yeah. I think it's such a vibe. We need two more, right? We need one more. I don't know if I mess something up or. Wrote something down twice. I don't think I did. Maybe Dave, she threw in the one bake McBride. I did. Okay, that's in. Yeah. Then we just need one more. Okay. Skip. How about the steel curtain? Hmm. Why does the nickname have to be one person? Oh, it doesn't have to be. I didn't have to be. I didn't specify that it had to be an individual person. And that started the tradition of calling people the doomsay defense and the purple people leaders and all that. Monsters and fearsome, but the steel curtain was just a cool way to describe them. Rachel, want to do a couple? Let's try to do one round. Let's just get out by 19. Okay. Here we go. Sweet 16 of Best Sports Nicknames Sweetness versus the wizard. All of these are going to be painful. The wizard. I got to go to sweetness, man. I love my Walter. Wizard. Wizard. That could have been the final. Sorry. No, no, it's okay. You know what? It's a good matchup. It's a thankless job, isn't it? Yeah. Actually, it could have been anything but the first round is what it could be. There's like 12 of these that could be in the finals. I've been playing this with her for 10 years. I don't remember anyone ever going like, that's a great matchup. I know. She's always like, oh, you made. Magic Johnson versus Big Poppy. Magic. Magic. Magic. Magic. Magic. Magic.

It's the man. The man. I think that, I mean, the man is definitely a better player, even with sports. But the fridge is a better nickname. William, the refrigerator, Perry, is a better nickname. Yeah, but he only got it because he's big. That's okay. The man had to earn it. I'm going to go with the man because I don't want to hear Kevin. That's not me. I'm the refrigerator. You had to worry about the listeners on that one. The great one versus the human rain delay. Oh, that's my two favorite ones left. The great one. The great one. Yeah, great one. Bake McBride versus Megatron. I like Megatron. Megatron. Got to do bake. Bake. Oh, no. Megatron. He's one of my favorites of all time. Sorry, Bake. Not. Best player, best nickname. Megatron's a better nickname than bake. Let's go ahead. Come on. What's bake even for? Shicken bake. Shicken bake. Megatron's stupid. Transformers versus shaking bake. Right. Welcome back, guys. DGS. Good Sweet 16. Brunch you by Weber's Chevrolet. Sweet 16 of the best sports nicknames of all time, rounding out our first round here. Dr. Jay versus the big unit. I got to go with the doctor, even though the unit was mine. Dr. Jay. Big unit. Dr. Jay. Dr. Jay. Andrew's all by himself. How's that island, buddy? The, tell me again, Charles Barkley. The round mound of rebound. Yeah, maybe. Versus the mad Hungarian. Round mound of rebound. Ow. Ow. Oh, I cannot believe. It's a whole vibe. Round mound of rebound. He went tarps off, Skip. He went tarps off. He looked damn good, too. He threw a bunch of baseballs back of the umpire back in the day. I love Al. Al's my friend. I just wanted a apartment with him. Round mound of rebound rhymes. Parkley never won anything. Al, come home from a game and be like, is it tarps off tonight, honey? Hey, they got that steakhouse. Beast mode versus the steel curtain. That was a good one. Oh, yeah. I'm going curtain. I'm going to see a curtain. Yeah, I'm going to go too. Yeah. All right. A round of eight. The Wizard of Oz versus Magic Johnson. Oh, my Lord. I know. Wizard. Magic. I'm going whiz legit. Wizard. Yeah. They're both magical. Stan the man versus the great one. Oh, my God. The man, but holy crap. I got a little go stand.

Because we are on KMOX right now. I'm going the great one, yeah. Oh, you got some balls on you. That's look. He's still got the St. Louis connection. Ovechkin passed him up with goals. Yeah. If you took, got rid of all of Gretzky's goals. He still has the most points ever scored by anyone. Great one. Amazing. Is absolutely fitting for him. Yep. I'm giving man the finals, but then all bets are off. So I may vote against him in the finals. Boop-B-Doo-Doo-B-Dub-Du-Megat-Du-Megat-Tron versus Dr. J. Oh, it's Doc. Megatron. Dr. J. The Mad-Hungarian versus the Steel Curtain. Steel, steel. Hungarian. All right. Welcome back DGS. Quick segment here. Got a lot of business to do. Skip, tell us about things of Weber. Hey, new month with August. We got some great pricing on it. Look, we are doing a Labor Day price run. I know Labor Day is a month from now, but that's the deal. We're going to have Labor Day from now till then. Okay? And because of that, we are running extra discounts on everything. Extra discounts on Silverado, discounts on Equinox and Traverses, and Traxes, pretty much everything. And what this is, I mean, you're going to get good discounts on the new 27s, but this is additional... push for clearing out to 26es. So basically, like our equinoxes, they're all 27s. But everything else, we still have kind of both. We don't have 27s of everything, but we have 26s list of everything. Big, big deal. Just check it out. Go to our website and you will see what I mean at WeberShevela.com or go to any individual store websites or Weber4.com. Big, big deal. concerted effort. We're not just throwing stuff out this time. It's a big deal for the whole month for all stores. Okay. Final four of best sports nicknames. This could be as painful as my face surgery yesterday. Here we go. The Wizard of Oz versus Stan the Man. Wizard. You know what? I'm going to go with the wizard. I'm going to the wizard. Because I know him better. Yeah. Well, Oz is his name. So Wizard of Oz. Come on. It's a better nickname. Yeah. Yeah. Dr. J versus the Mad Hungarian. Oh. Dr. J. Dr. J. Dr. J. I would have gone with Al. Me too. I was team Hungo until he went up against Dr. J. Okay. The Wizard versus Dr. J. Best nickname. Not the best guy. Wizard. Not the best player. It's clearly the wizard. I mean. Do you remember when the University of, was it Connecticut or Rhode Island gave?

gave Julius Irving an honorary doctorate and made him a real doctor, Jay. I'm going with Dr. Jay. The doctor's in session. Yeah, but then there were all those medical malpractice lawsuits. I got to go with the wizard. All right, there you go. The wizard wins. Best sports nickname of all time. So our super champion right now is Cup. I do not remember what that was. This is what? Cup. World Cup. Best utensil. You guys did that when I wouldn't hear. This is Monday, July 13th. I texted the group. Cup. Maybe we should make it the wizard? What the hell is Cup? I almost want to keep Cup going. We don't even know what it is.