Live June 26

Whether we like it or not, he's the self-proclaimed governor of mid-Missouri, and he's the host of TTBS, the podcast. Since we can't shut him the hell up, here's Tom Bradley. Thank you, Nicky Mon, Nicky Gaman Mon. We are coming to you live from St. John, and as we were talking before we started the podcast this morning, if you have the chance to do a podcast on the beaches at a place in the Caribbean like St. John and here at Cruz Bay, you do it. That's just the way that it goes. You do that, and that's exactly what we're doing. Now, I've had a couple people ask this morning, what's the subject matter going to be? And I'm like, it's just going to be some kind of a mishmash. How's your camera angle doing there? It's not. Here. Okay. How's that? Are you looking on the … Facebook page, yeah. And are we live on Facebook right now? Yeah, we are. Okay. Go ahead and shut that thing off so you can get away from that. Dynamite Deb is with me, and to make sure that you're ready for the podcast today, you've got a drink on. What is your drink? It's a mango-strawberry-daiquiri frozen concoction. Was it Andy this time making the drink? No. It was not Andy today. I think he said he was off on Thursday. And so who was it? Did you get her name? I did not. Okay. But it was back at the same place we had been. Uh-huh. Can I have just a little tiny sip and see what the flavor … Oh God, that is really, really good. Is there alcohol in there? Yes. What is there? I don't know. It's rum. It's rum. All right. And you've had a couple different things. Mostly, I've had beer this week, and more than I've had in the last year and a half, especially last night. And I'm feeling it today. And I've got to take a day off of that stuff. Yeah. And I know we say that kind of thing, but we really … I need to do a few hours without that. And so we are up and moving this morning, and plenty to get to and talk about. Let me go back over to my notes over here so I can see what the hell we are doing, which is … Oh, I can't wait to get to Keep Your Eye on the Crap, because we have a new open for Keep Your Eye on the Crap, brought to you by Family Focus Eye Care. Keep Your Eye on the Crap. That's coming up at the end. But we do have a new open for it, so that's very, very exciting for me, because I'm an audio guy. And so that's going to be a lot of fun to get to. Oh, you know what we need to do right now is to get you in the mood for what's going on. We need to bring some tunage to the table that sets it a little bit differently for us. This is yesterday afternoon, late, late afternoon. And this is a steel drummer playing at the bar we were at, which is right over behind my back, over my shoulder. What's the name of it? Drink. What's the name of the bar? Drink. I think it's called Drink. Just Drink. And he's playing. And I've never been so close to a steel drummer doing their thing, and I was really, really enjoying the hell out of it. And this is a Bob Marley. He's playing over here. Oh, speaking of Bob Marley and Rastaman, there was a Rastaman over here earlier and firing up the doobie. Now, here's what I've decided. Here's what I've decided about marijuana. As you know, I don't like marijuana. I don't want it. I don't take it. I've stopped fighting it now. He's firing up. He had like a torch, and he was hitting his big J first, and then he sat there smoking the entire thing two tables away from us. We are at the Beach Bar at Cruise Bay in St. John, where Johnny Henry, our good friend, was playing last night. We'll be playing again tonight. And he's out right now in one of the dinghies getting ready to take off, and they're going to go not really island hopping, because he's not going to go to a different island, but he's going to go beach hopping. Right. And do you know which beach he's going to? They said they were going to try to do a lot of the North Shore beaches. All right. All right. What beach did we go to the other day? Maho. Maho. How do you- M-A-H-O, I think. Maho. Beach, and then- There's Trunk Bay. Trunk Bay. That's Trunk, not Trump Bay. People are like, oh, son of a- no, no, no, no. Trunk Bay. Cinnamon Bay. Cinnamon Bay. Honeymoon Bay. What's Cinnamon Bay? Honeymoon Bay. Honeymoon Bay. Honeymoon Bay. Honeymoon Bay. Honeymoon Bay. Honeymoon Bay. What's the one right around this corner over here that Mike, bless his bleeding heart, that he pointed out to us and said there's some really good snorkeling down there? And I've got my snorkel and my fins, and I need to go snorkeling today because I haven't yet. I can't remember what that one is. And so I want to go check that out because it's very small and there's not much going on there. Where we are right now is, you and I have been looking at pictures and videos of this for a long, long time. And this is our first time to be here. And how many years has Johnny been coming down here? 10? I think he said 12. 12 years? And he comes down with his mates and they play music every single night down here. And a lot of people come down every year to just tag along like groupies and watch them. It's been like a rock concert in here. People are screaming for more music each evening. This is not Johnny's music. This is our steel drummer. And it's just been, it's been wild. But you and I have watched all of our friends, both from high school and new made friends over the years, coming down here and we're like, man, we've got to go do this one of these. And we did it this year. And I don't know that I'll ever get a chance to do it again. So we're taking it all in. We are. We are taking it in. And enjoying it. It is amazing. It's more amazing than I ever thought it would be. You were in the sun yesterday quite a bit, like hanging by the pool. We did a pool day yesterday and you were hanging there by the pool quite a bit. And I was in shade almost the entire day because I just can't take the sun like you can. And it's not even just the skin burning, which is a major problem, but it's also just the heat. I can't get it. And you, you lay out there in the sun. You're like, I can't get enough of this. Yesterday, I was under the umbrella a lot because I could feel, I could still feel it surrounding me. And I'm like, it just felt more comfortable under the umbrella. So I hung out there and just had the breeze going. I will tell you, I don't travel much at all. I've talked about that before. I'm not into travel like a lot of people are. I don't find it to be exciting. I think planes are a pain in the ass. There's the, there's the crowd clapping there yesterday with a steel drum in mind. And the, the locals here, when I say locals, I mean the people that are from the Virgin Islands and the Caribbean, they speak, um, what are the, you asked somebody, they said they just refer to as Caribbean, Caribbean accent or Caribbean. And it's, uh, it's beautiful to listen to. It really is. And I did, I had some guys that were cleaning up here at the bar this morning when I first got down here and they were speaking Spanish, but otherwise, uh, mostly what you're going to hear is this Caribbean accent and a lot of it is English, but I think they might have some other words they throw in there. Probably when they're talking about us, the tourists that probably throw it is my guess. Judy, our bartender yesterday, two days ago, said that he was from New Jersey because when I asked him about the whole, the whole dialect, he said every Island has a little bit different in the Caribbean has a little bit different dialect. So I guess if you're here long enough, you can start picking it up and spotting it. It's like Mississippi is compared to Alabama. You can hear differences there. Um, like what language do they speak in Kansas? Because I've never understood anyone from Kansas. Jayhawk. That's Jayhawking right there. Squawking. Um, last week's show, I want to mention this about Tom Bowman and what he shared. And I had friends who have reached out to both of us, Tom Bowman and myself to make comments to us about it. It was very revealing. It was, I hope, therapeutic for Tom. I think it was for all of us who listened in. And I think when, when we hear about somebody's life, when you take the time to really listen to someone, that's where apathy moves away and empathy starts coming in. You actually begin to care. And without knowing anything about someone, you don't care. You consider, well, they're human. I care. Well, yeah, but it's different when you really know them. They lost their grandma yesterday or they haven't eaten in two days and you start listening to their story. And, and this is more of what my future holds for me and this podcast, which is listening a lot more, which is funny because I talk a lot now, but it is, it's, it's more about that. You know, Johnny Henry was playing last night. He's in a dinghy getting ready to take off here in the, uh, Cruz Bay. Yeah. I kind of wave, wave over there. There he is. They're getting some instruction on the dinghy on how to operate it and then they're going to take off. He is a person with a really big, deep heart. He's, he's a person, right? He's one of the nicest people I've known. That you will ever meet. And when you see him playing like last night, just jamming with his guys and everybody's screaming more music and it's like, yeah, you know what? That's what he does, but that's not who he is. Who he is is one of the kindest, caring people that you could possibly meet. And that's, I think a big part of what I want to become when I grow up is to care more. And last week's conversation with Tom Bowman is about that. And that's what this podcast, this is going to be a very quick podcast today. And that's what this is going to be moving toward. And like Tom Bowman's conversation last week, I asked someone to come on the show. And I think last week I mentioned her as Sarah, but I didn't tell you who, what Sarah. It's not the Sarah that I did a radio show with for almost 10 years. It's a different Sarah, but a Sarah that everyone in Columbia has known for years and years. Not from radio, but from television, Sarah Hill posted about a week or two ago about something that's happened to her a few months ago, that she had an incident. What was she in Vegas? Do you remember? I can't remember where she was. And she had an incident involving her heart. Yeah, I think it was Vegas. And she is such a good person. And I didn't know. I don't see Sarah very often. What a professional, what an incredible human being all the way through. And she posted and she shared it for the first time, what she's gone through, involving a scare with her heart. And I think about you, Deb, and we've talked about things like women are so focused on their husbands going to have a heart attack and die, when the reality is women have heart issues also. And I think because women are so caring and giving and taking care of everybody else, they forget to take care of themselves. And I'm worried about you with stuff like that. And so I shared the post from Sarah with you. So I wanted you to read about it and talk about it. But I thought, what about other people? What about other people and a chance to hear this, whether you're a woman or a man or whatever, no matter what your age is, for us to be aware? And I asked Sarah if she would share the story and join us on the podcast. And she has said yes. So we're working up a date. It's probably going to be late July or early August, something like that. But we're looking forward to it. So thank you, Sarah, for agreeing to come on. And I think that's one of those steps that we want to take with this podcast, which is sometimes we get into stuff that's pissing us off and we want to talk about it. And other stuff, it's a very quieter, calming, human side. And we'll see. By the way, there's a dude fishing over there. I haven't seen him. I was watching him earlier. I haven't seen anybody just walking out into the water and fishing. It's going to be the catch of the day for the restaurant there. Oh, yeah. OK, yeah. I hope he gets a big one because I'm hungry. And you need some real food also because I know you had a little bit back at the condo. Our condo is beautiful and it's right above the beach. It's so stupid. I don't know how you found such a great place for us. Now, I want to mention Mike and what and what happened. Good morning. I want to mention what happened to Mike the other night. This is one of the craziest things and I'll get into that in a moment. In the meantime, I want to make sure I've got the right stuff going on. Oh, an announcement. Yeah, yeah. I have an announcement and it's kind of a piece of an announcement, so I don't want to make it. I have to give a little bit of a tease on this thing, but I do have an announcement this morning and that means we're going to have to release the house. Release the house! I played this open for this special segment brought to you by Creekside Pet Center and their sister locations, which is Creekside's Bed and Biscuit in Columbia off I-70 and Dirty Harry's in Boonville. Dirty Harry's, by the way, they had an official ribbon cutting with the Boonville Chamber of Commerce earlier this week, so guys, congratulations on that. It's a ribbon cutting because of the new ownership. They've moved in. Dirty Harry's has been there in Boonville, what is it, 25, 30 years, something like that? I can't remember. Do you remember? No. And now Creekside and the Brummett family are doing such a great job and Boonville has been so welcoming to them coming in and now that they have their Facebook page back for all their locations, you can follow them there, but congratulations to Creekside Pet Center. You guys do a great job. There were two dogs walking on the beach this morning and I saw the woman walking them yesterday, so today I had to ask her about the dogs because I'm looking and I'm going, you don't bring two dogs with you when you come to St. John, do you? And I'm like, I don't, right? I guess you could. I don't know. So I asked her and they're kind of like the same size and about the same level of fur as a golden retriever, but they're pure black, so I don't know what the hell they are. They're not like a Newfoundland or something like that. They're more like the size, you know, of a golden retriever, but they're pure black and she's walking on the beach, so I said, can I ask you a question? Do you live here or are you visiting and brought the dogs with you? She said no and she, I couldn't even tell what her accent was, a little bit broken English and she said, no, no, no, I live here. You can't take dogs on a plane like this. Okay. I don't know what the hell it is. So anyway, service dogs, I think you can. I think so. They're beautiful dogs and she's out there walking them each morning, so it was cool to see her. So the announcement I want to make is a piece of an announcement and I hope that in two weeks there will not be a podcast next week. I'm hoping that in two weeks, well a lot sooner than that, I'm hoping by tomorrow we'll be able to post something out there on Facebook or what have you. I came up with an idea and I believe it needs to be done. I cannot be the one to do it. There's a time and a place to do something and there's a time and a place to talk about other people doing it. Mostly in my life, I talk about other people doing it. This great idea that I have is to help the mayor of Columbia, Barbara Buffalo. And I hope Barbara, I hope Buff, Buff, who's been on the podcast, I hope she appreciates my coming up with this idea. I think these guys are getting on board boats. They've got a bunch of beer with them, by the way. And so… God, it's so awesome watching everyone just doing their thing. She looks overdressed. Is that just a cover up for like a swimsuit? Looks like she's wearing an evening gown beginning in the boat on this thing. Cover ups are awesome. And so I came up with this idea and Mayor Barbara Buffalo needs to thank me next time I see her. Right? Yes, she does. Well, I asked her when she was on the podcast. I said, you post things on an official page, a Facebook page, as the mayor of Columbia. She said, yes. You don't let anyone comment on that page. She turned those off a year and a half ago. No, it was for her mental health, she said. Is that what it was? Yeah. Because she didn't like what she was reading. Well, imagine then how uplifting for her mental health this is going to be with my great idea. You cannot comment when she posts on there. And she posts at least once a week, but maybe probably more often than that. And a lot of people have given up following her because they don't feel that it's an open line of communication. It's just someone talking at you and you can't communicate back. You can post any time you want to on our podcast or the Tom Bradley Show Facebook page. Any time you want. You want to say something? You want to tell me to F off? Go ahead. I don't care. You know. You mean me personally? Well, you've got a direct line and you've kind of said that a few times in your life anyway. But you can. She will not let you. I said, well, what if we had a mirror page for Mayor Buffalo's page? And so in other words, if she posts something, we post it and share it immediately to this mirrored page in which you can comment like, hey, Mayor Buffalo, we love you. Thank you for sharing that with us. And maybe that's what you'd like to post. And you can't post that on her Facebook page. So I'm the mayor's mirror, if you will, mirroring the mayor's own Facebook page. I've told her information, everything she's posting is exactly that we can't say anything about it. So this way you'll put it on there. I have started the ball rolling on this. I don't believe that it's up and running yet, but I hope that it will be very, very maybe later today, maybe while we're talking right now, it'll happen. And as soon as I get a chance to, I'll be sharing it and talking it up. So hopefully a big conversation about that page existing two weeks from today, there'll be no show next week, it'll be the July 3rd, heading into 4th of July. Also want to put out a real quick hello to my really good friends, Jim and Carrie, Matt and everybody else at Precision Construction, where they're going to be having their massive annual America's birthday celebration this Saturday. You and I are going to miss their party for the first time in like a decade. Yeah, it's so sad. They just moved it a little too up for us. We didn't know. We thought we'd be back by the 4th. It is so much fun. And thank you, Como Smoke and Fire, they're doing the catering on it this year. Oh, good. Yeah, good, but we're not going to be there. I know. But good for everybody who is going to be there. It's very seldom that you go on vacation and you're like, oh man, I'm going to miss out on something. But we're going to miss out on that and it's really bumming us out. So if I had known, I would have talked Johnny Henry into scheduling it a different week down here in St. John. We would have moved that thing around. So that's all going on. The Mirror page for the mayor will be coming very soon. So we'll try to take care of that. What are the other notes that I have this morning that I needed to talk about? The big announcement, we got that. Took care of that. The Facebook page, Mirror's Mayor, got that. Oh, I did want to mention, for instance, on things that the mayor has posted that we can't comment on, she shared that she was out, I think it was yesterday, at Daniel Boone Regional Library from 530 till 7, discover how the arts shape our community's future. I didn't know, and you know I love art. I'm a big believer in the arts. It doesn't matter what it is. I'm just not very good at most of it. But I appreciate the arts. I didn't know the arts shape our community's future. Join me tonight for an engaging conversation about their economic and social impacts, our economic and social impacts of the arts. Now, what I'd like to see is someone paint a picture of some new roads for Columbia. That's what I need, because I need holes fixed. I need someone to paint a picture of the water tower we were supposed to have eight years ago. I need someone to write a song, because it's art, you know. Write a song about the transmission line that's not being taken care of, because we never got that new station in at all for our electric concerns here. I wouldn't mind someone to do an artistic dance, all right, some kind of visual performing arts concerning our trash situation and recycling in Columbia. That's what I'd like the arts to focus on and take care of. Now, I know it sounds like I got a lousy attitude toward it, I'm just saying. But that's something that she posted and I was not able to see. Furthermore, I saw this being posted, I think she shared it, Thursday, June 26th, am I right or wrong? Is that today? That's today. We don't know times here. Yeah, we don't. It's Thursday, June 26th, 530 till 7 tonight at Fairview Community of Christ Church on Fairview Road. Ward 4 Councilmember Nick Foster is going to be there. And he's going to be talking, here's the subject matter, the topic, housing and homelessness. Now what's funny about saying housing and homelessness is, if you're homeless, what do you give a damn about housing? That's the last thing you care about, am I right? I would assume so, yes. Thank you very much. You're just trying to placate me now, you're just trying to humor me. I'm doing the best I can here. What do you think about homeless individuals in Columbia? I think there's a lot of good help for the people that need it and want it. Columbia's great for that, but very many of them do not want the help. You're choosing your words carefully. Yes, I'm trying to be very careful. We've had conversations about that. And as a matter of fact, if you go back a couple of weeks, we had a, what did I call her? We had to give her a fictitious name. Did I call her Melissa? What did I call her? No, I can't remember. Melinda? We had a wonderful lady on, and I cannot share her name, who has had homeless people that have trashed up her property. Go back and look at it. You can find it. And by the way, all of our videos are available, archived on YouTube. And we are live on Facebook and live on YouTube right now. Facebook will kill the videos after 30 days. By the way, Facebook sent out a message to me last week that there's another deadline coming and that I can go in and I can retrieve videos. And I clicked on the link, and I actually was able to see many, many, many videos. I can't remember why our final show on February 28th was not on there. I think I killed it that day on accident or something. But all the rest of them are there. And yet I looked at it, and I'm like, these are all two and three hour videos. I think those days are gone. I'm not going to save them. There's no reason for me to do that. All right, so be that as it may, wherever the hell I was. Nick Foster, Housing and Homelessness, if you want to be a part of that. That's this evening on Fairview Road at the church over there that I mentioned earlier. While we're talking about Columbia, the city of, did you see the new logo that The Real Columbia, Missouri put out involving the city of Columbia and, you know, the four men in a hot tub? Yes. Our logo? Yes. And if you've seen the logo, and once you see four men in a hot tub in there, you'll never unsee it. You can't do it. Have you seen the one they put out here that involves men in a circle? Yes. Their hands? Yes. You saw what their hands were doing? Yes. That is one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen in my life. By the way, these guys still have not taken off. Can you put the camera back over there again? There's still, Johnny Henry is smiling. Hi. Why aren't you gone? Why aren't you gone? What's wrong? They want to listen to the podcast. Oh, they didn't want to be on the podcast. Are you having engine trouble? Not yet. They're not having engine trouble. But they will. They will. I think you better get a different boat. You're going to need a different boat, is what they're going to need. So thank you, The Real Columbia, wherever that logo came from. And it talked about media, and it shows each one of the people around this, it's a circle jerk for what it's worth. And it shows each person representing a different media. Channel 8, Channel 13, Columbia, Missouri, and ABC 17, and the Columbia Daily Tribune. Which is funny that they have the word Columbia in that title. They're not local at all anymore. They ought to just call themselves the Damned Tribune, and that would be fine. But we have a major problem with the media outlets there. And someone chimed in, and they said, it's not just that, it's also the networks. And I'm like, you're right. They've all become the same thing. If you watch what used to be the three major networks, it's just like the same thing each evening. And it's not real. They can't even look through the camera lens at you watching, and just honestly open up and talk to you about what's going on. I'm going to get into something about Iran. That's actually when we finish up, but keep your eye on the crap at the end of this. So anyway, The Real Columbia, thank you for putting that logo out there. If you don't follow them on Facebook, I understand, it's your choice, whatever. But it is a disgusting logo that's been created. But I want to, now, speaking of the homeless and city. We are going to have a follow-up to, I think I called her Melinda. Hell, I cannot remember what the hell I called her. It's escaping me right now, too. We're going to have a follow-up to that, because I have reached out to the city and said, you guys got to explain to me how homeless people are trashing up somebody's property. And the only thing I can gather is that you guys threatened them with fines so that they would clean it up for what has happened on their property. But you didn't take care of the homeless people, including them reaching out, the property owners, and calling the police and saying, come here and take care of this thing. Now I reached out to the city manager, the mayor of Columbia, the police chief, Joe Schlute, and I also reached out to the person who oversees the department that sent that letter and information. And I've got at least one scheduled up for July 10th, two weeks from today, and she'll be joining us on the show. I can't tell you whether Mayor Buffalo's going to be there or the chief or the city manager. They might, but it is my belief that they won't. Now if they're listening right now or watching this podcast or catching it at a later time, that's my belief, is that I don't even know that they'll come back to me to even decline. They don't want to deal with it. Because I believe behind the scenes, I haven't shared this yet, I believe behind the scenes they all chatted about this and they made a decision. And I believe if you were to build it as a pyramid, it's not the person at the top of the pyramid coming on the show, which is either the chief of police or the city manager. That's really at the top. You can go to the mayor, but it's not the same thing. I need somebody to say what they're doing and why, what they're not doing and why. And I don't believe the person coming on the show is going to be able to address it. Definitely not as the chief of police, because that's not what she is. So I'm a little pissy about it. They're all being protected. I see. You guys, it's simple. Come on the show. You've got the job. You're doing this every single day. So just come on the show and just go here, here. And I'm wanting to ask the questions that back to the media, none of them are asking. I don't know why Channel 8's not talking about this. You guys, you've got to do some actual reporting, man, investigate, put the camera on the city manager and say, what exactly is your proposal to take care of this? What did you guys do yesterday to work on this? What are you doing tomorrow? And no one's doing it. Well, Channel 13 did come out with the homeless. But you're right. And they came out and they actually had the reporter at our show that morning. Right. I'm sorry. You're right about that. Yeah. So they did. But the Real Columbia really helped them get around, showed them where to go and what to do and so got a lot of information from the Real Columbia. I don't know that they would have been able to do it on their own. Right. Right. And we've got to thank the Real Columbia page for that and the people who run it. I don't want to just sit here and get pissy and I'm in St. John. I'm in St. John. By the way, we've got a little cloud cover and I was getting everything set up very, very early this morning. And you came down and I was getting ready to go back up and get a refill on the coffee and I looked up and I'm like, there's a couple of clouds up there. It might rain. We started moving everything just under the little umbrella here at our table. And there's a light mist rain today. Just a little, little mist. There may be some more coming on. And we've had something else to deal with down here. There was a lot of haze. It looks like a lot of that haze is gone. But that haze that was out here, I'm like, what the hell is that all about? And Johnny Henry goes, it's the Sahara effect. And I go, whoa, whoa, whoa, what? And he said, the Sahara effect. I have seen a documentary on that stuff before. It's dust out of Africa that gets caught up in the clouds and it drifts across the Atlantic Ocean. And typically, at least once a year, it'll come in across the Atlantic and into the Caribbean. And that's where all the haze was we were seeing. And it looks like a lot of that has cleared up now. There's sun hitting that island over there and I can see it beautifully. So and that's the other thing about the Virgin Islands is I never, I never knew that while we were here in Cruz Bay, we'd be out looking out at many islands out in front of us. It's beautiful. It's amazing. But unlike a lot of other places that you've been to, you go to Florida, you go down to Cancun, Riviera Maya, those areas, or Punta Cana, we've been in the Dominican Republic. Those are very, very flat, these areas. This, it's all hills. And you've got to be a goat or a donkey or stupid to come down here. And that's what we are. Because it's a lot of hills. This beach is the only flat area in all of Saigon. I didn't feel like I needed to do any treadmill this week. No, no, no. I know we've got to move on and I promised that we weren't going to be real late here today. So let me see if we can move toward keeping your eye on the crap and how important is that. Are you ready? You got to keep your eyes on the crap. You can't handle the crap. Looky here. There's a big difference between shit and Shinola. As my great-grandfather always said, Matumba, keep your eye on the crap. That's great. Where'd you get that from? I got to tell you, man, I don't know much about AI. I really don't. And if you're going to put a podcast out here, unlike radio, because radio, we're a bunch of whores. We steal everything we possibly can, right? And because we didn't have to worry about copyright issues because we pay for ASCAP and BMI, we just steal stuff all the time. This podcast will not exist, will get booted off of Facebook and YouTube and everything else if we do anything that's copyrighted that we don't have a license for. I have to do everything I have to pay for or come up with on my own. So that's why the guest music that we have, in fact, let me see if I can, where's the guest bed? Here it is. Right here. Okay, so this is originally from Tom's World Beer Tour, but I'm happy to share with you guys. The reason I get to play that is because that's me. That's me. And the only reason I get to do that. So when I needed somebody to talk about keeping your eye on the crap, I went to AI. Those are all generated voices. I told them what to say. And the guy who says Matumba, it's so funny because I had to make up a name for him and his name was actually Okoye. And now I don't know that the guy actually exists, but that's what it is online. And I fed it in and they gave it back to me like that. So the shit and shine. I know, right? It's just so stupid. It's just these little things that I enjoy like a child. And if it involves noise, audio, music, words, I love it. I love it. So that's it. And keeping your eye on the crap brought to you by Family Focus Eye Care. You can't see the crap if your eyes ain't working. I told them that should be their slogan line. I told Dr. Rich, you can't see the crap if your eyes ain't working. I said, it'd be a great slogan line. He said, I don't think so, Tom. You are not always right. No, I'm not. Well, I'm a marketeer. I come up with this. I can't. I can't help myself. They take care of my eyes. And thank you. Thank you. Thank you to Family Focus Eye Care. And Rituva. And if I get any more sun damage while I'm down here this week, I'm going to be going back to Rituva. They're going to hit me with that laser and take care of that. And it'll be fun to go through that. Here is this week's Keeping Your Eye on the Crap. I picked up a Wall Street Journal when I was at Lambert. And I picked it up for one reason. I love the Wall Street Journal. As you know, I used to get this delivered. What for like five years, six, seven years, I got the Wall Street Journal delivered. Five days a week. They actually put it out six days a week now. So this is the weekend edition. I picked it up because I wanted the crossword. I'll tell you how much I hate the crossword. I love, it's a love and hate thing with the crosswords of Wall Street Journal. I hate the son of a bitch who edits it so much so that I can tell you his name. I don't have to go look it up. The editor of the crosswords of Wall Street Journal is Mike Schenck, and he is a son of a bitch. That's what I think about him. He is a son of a bitch, Antman. And so that's why I picked it up. But here, what's really cool about it is that it was early, early Monday morning. I got up at 12.45 a.m. You got up 15 minutes later. And this is what? When did you get on the plane? 5.30 in St. Louis? Yeah. Well, yeah, a little before. But yes. And so I grabbed this up. So it's Monday morning. When did the strike from the United States happen on Iran? Our time. Saturday? Saturday afternoon? Evening? Yes. OK. Because we had a pool. The news started coming around around 5 o'clock. We had a pool day. Or 7 o'clock. And the family was just leaving the pool. Is that right? Yeah. On Saturday? Yeah. On Saturday. They were just leaving. And you said, oh, check this out. OK. We made the strike on Iran. Strikes. Plural. Many strikes. What's interesting, then, is that this is the Saturday-Sunday edition of the Wall Street Journal, which means it was written on Friday. There had not been a strike yet on Iran. I was like, well, how interesting, because this is a snapshot of a moment in time right before we struck. And it says, Iran remains defiant as Israel fights on. Now, this is cool to look back and read this on Monday morning, a strike that happened in the Middle East on Saturday. This was written on Friday. And this is a news story. Plus, inside, there's an opinion piece on this as well. Now, the reason I'm bringing this whole thing up is because when you strike Iran, when you're in the United States and you strike Iran, everybody suddenly has an opinion about it. People that have paid no damned attention their entire life. What's the difference? What is it? Who's the artist that sang, Alan Jackson, and he's like, I'm just a simple man singing country songs. I don't know the difference between Iraq and Iran, something like that? Most people in the United States don't know the difference between Iraq and Iran. I understand that. Before I got into radio, when I was schooling in St. Louis at the Broadcast Center, one of our instructors said, you're not going to read that story and call it Iraq, are you? And I go, why? He goes, that's not how it's pronounced. He was a foreign correspondent for years and years. Wonderful guy. He goes, it's Iraq and Iran. That's how you pronounce the name of those countries. I was like, OK. I don't know much more about it. But I do know this. For anybody to know damn well that we should have or should not have sent those missiles into Iran, you're full of shit. Because you don't know. You don't have any damned idea. People that hate Trump immediately came out and said, it's the worst thing that we could possibly do. I read somebody's post the other day that said, you know what they're going to do now? These terrorists are going to be doing this. Dude, you can't negotiate with a terrorist. It's not like if you treat them nicely, they're going to be nice to us for the next 10 years. You don't know what they're going to do and why. Nothing that happens in the Middle East makes sense to people in the United States. We don't understand it. They've been fighting for thousands of years. Our country's been around about 250 years. We don't know the first thing that's going on with them. We do not understand it. I'm not telling you that United States intelligence knows it perfectly either. What I'm saying is, you need to keep your eye on the crap. Part of what I did going through this in reading the opinion piece and reading the other stories in the Wall Street Journal was understanding what brought us to the point that we were at on Saturday. But all this was written on Friday. Nobody at the WSJ had any idea that strike was going to be happening. They didn't know. Not right then. So it's cool to look back on that and see what they were talking about because Iran has been threatening and pushing and going further. Like do you have any idea what we're talking about when we say enriching plutonium and uranium? Do you have any idea what we're talking about in that? Because I don't. I'm not a scientist. But I'm reading up on this. Do you know that if it's 60 percent, if it's 60 percent, it's nowhere near what you think because when you're talking nuclear warhead terms, 60 percent doesn't mean 60 percent. You are 99 percent of the way to having it ready to use as a nuclear warhead. At 60 percent, you're already 99 percent. That doesn't make any sense to me at all. But it's the truth. And nobody's reading up on it. I don't know any more about Iran and Iraq and Israel and the Gaza Strip and anything else than anybody else. I'm telling you, you don't know. I don't know. You don't know. Keep your eye on the crap. If you want to make an educated, formulated opinion, start reading and start paying attention. Keep your eye on the crap because most of us just don't know. That's what I believe. And I knew I was going to get into this this morning and chat about it. I didn't know how heated I was going to be in talking about it. It's really upsetting to have people, armchair quarterback this crap, that don't know the first thing about national security, about the Middle East. And they immediately come out and they say this, this, this. You know, when we watched the United States pulling out of Afghanistan, I was like, what the hell are we doing? I didn't say we were wrong. I said, what the hell are we doing? It's the same thing I said when we struck Iran on Saturday, when you told me what had just happened. I was like, what the hell are we doing? You can't immediately come up and go, yeah, you're damn right, US. Or screw the president. He doesn't know what he's … Guys, step back. Step back from the ledge. Take your fingers off the nuclear warhead button, the launch button, and start paying more attention. It's really, really hard to do. There are people that spend their lives learning and understanding things like Mideast peace. I love when people say, well, what's going on with the peace situation in the Middle East? I'm like, there's no such thing. Unless you're talking about getting a piece of ass over there, because I don't know, because otherwise, you hear what I'm saying. And you don't want to comment on that? We are to the point, though, we've got to sign off on this. And I believe, if I have my pieces correct, that I'm going to hit this and be able to do this. You were checking, though, and we've been up and on this whole time, right? I think so. Good, good, good, good, good. We have things to do, including you want another drink. Absolutely. Especially now. Especially after that last conversation. And I've got to get some food in me, because I didn't eat that pizza last night like I promised myself I was going to do. And me. Oh, and by the way, Chris Settlemeyer, can you get a shot of her over here? She is with us. Just wave. Just wave. And so she is up. And she's going to be, is she going to be piloting the dinghy? Nobody trusts me to pilot a dinghy. Nobody trusts you to pilot a dinghy. No one at all. We're going to hit the close again, because we've got to get out of here. My friends, live from St. John, I'm going to tell you, live this day as if it were your last. I say to you, okay. Bye.