The Intersection
The Intersection 9/25/2024
[music] Welcome, welcome, welcome to the intersection. Well, it's been quite the week and weekend since we last spoke all sorts of things have happened. Did you, by any chance, watch the interview of Kamala Harris today with Stephanie Rool? That was pretty cool. How about the speech that she gave to an economic forum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania? A lot's going on, a lot's going on all over the world. We had an interesting thing happen. Here comes Scott. Scott, it's a good, long time no see. Hey, you're a worker, I can't believe I still can figure out how to get in the sky. Are you on your phone? Yes, I am. Oh, you want to do this way, okay, I can do that way. Are you back in Texas yet, or are you still in Iowa? No, I came up to Iowa about a week ago. So how long are you there for? Oh, about another week or so. How you been? I've been doing well, I'm excited. My son's getting married right after the election. Well, that's some good news, we hope. Well, we hope that that good news follows good news the Tuesday before. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, my wife right now is with her mother in Maryland, her mother's not 94, and she's hanging in there, but she's struggling, yeah, and hopefully by December, my wife and I were going to have our first grandchild, so we're very pumped up. Congratulations. Yeah, yeah, it's nice. Any ideas do you know yet whether it's going to be a boy or a girl? Well, well, the good news is that's my oldest daughter in December, but my next youngest daughter is going to have a baby in February. So two grandchilds, wow, and we do know what my younger daughter is going to have a son. So that's cool. So Alan just joined us, Alan scott's up in Iowa, but just said he is about to have not one, but two grandchildren from two different conversations. Congratulations. Yeah, we're very, very excited. Thank you, Alan. I have a fun birthday celebration today as it were because the oven that we bought for my birthday was delivered today. I mean, it's not the fanciest thing in the world, but there are two different ovens. So then we can cook two different things at different times. It does air frying, it does convection. So there's that, but the big thing for me is the top is glass and not just the open quails that always have stuff underneath them and always smooth top and the other thing is it's self cleaning, which has only been a thing for, oh, I don't know, 50, 60, 70 years, but I had like the most basic, I think they probably got it used because this house when we purchased it, well, actually my mother purchased it and then we moved in and took over, but her bought it from her after she had to move into assisted living and then, you know, eventually she passed away in 2017, but so your mother actually lived in Dayton? Yeah, for a little while, she moved up here, she was living north of Houston right on Lake Comra, on the north side of Lake Comra and she got to a point where she realized that she needed to not be by herself in hundreds of miles away from her nearest relatives. So she moved up here to Denton and when she first moved here, we had a two-story house with all the bedrooms upstairs and so that wasn't going to work for her and she got an apartment for about a year that was, you know, a first floor apartment and then she purchased this house and then she had a fall and I came and stayed with her and then we moved in with her and sold the other house, but we made a point when we were looking for a house for my mother that it would be one that we could eventually move in to because we needed, you know, she needed us there. I kind of wish my wife's mother would, well, she's been in East Coast for like, you know, I mean, 70 years, so she's not moving to Texas, but yeah, I mean, she's got a one-story with a basement and she's not allowed to go into the basement anymore. She's just not allowed to do steps and, you know, at 94, that's okay. Hi, my mom left a good deal younger than that, but she was in her late 70s when she moved up to Dittin' and then she was 86 when she died. Well, I guess she was in her 80s already when she moved to Dittin'. So if she was 86, she died in 2017, like, 11. No, no, no, she was in her late 70s. Math. I should be able to do math at this point. Brian has joined us now and so has Wayne. There's Wayne. So, um, anyhow, so you've got your, oh, here comes Charlie. Well, we got a big power sign. All right. Hey, guys. So, did anything exciting happen in sports because I pay no attention to that? Well, since Friday, like this weekend or Monday, any of the teams, any of y'all pay attention to. We lost. The Cowboys and the 49ers lost. Yeah. That's it. That's all. What about Cleveland? I wanted to say they won, but I, you see, yeah, I thought, I thought they won too. I'll tell you in a second. Somebody said that ever since Cleveland kicked the Cowboys rear, the Cowboys haven't been able to win a game. I said, it's been a long time for that. I think it's the other way, our Cowboys beat Cleveland week one. And I think Cleveland won the next two Cowboys lost the next two Cowboys. Right. That was my point. The Cowboys have been losing ever since Cleveland. Yeah. Well, apparently my mother is going to visit my sister Rachel in Florida category. There's a hurricane going through it. You send your mother passed away in 2017. The hurricane heading to Florida is named Helene, which was my mother's name. My sister Rachel lives in Sarasota, so right in the path of Hurricane Helene. Wonderful. Oh, I got it. I think it goes right up to Atlanta too, those folks that we know in Atlanta. They're going to get at least a big storm. Yeah. This is about her mother, not about the storm, Brian. Yes, it's about the storm. I'm just joking because the storm's name, the hurricane is called Helene and my mother's name is Helene. It's filled. Oh, I don't know that. Okay. Yeah. H.G.L.E. and he is how my mother's filled her name too, although people called her Helen all the time. Oh, she got she kind of got used to it, but it was sort of annoying. Now, the last name, she just went ahead and changed it because her married name, Tumilm, but everybody misspelled it too many. Yeah. So she just went ahead and made it an end and just quit fighting. I mean, it happened in Chicago too. The Chicago Bridge of the family changed it to Tumilm, because it's just what's it worth fighting with people. Well, the mob couldn't keep up with the Jewish names. I mean, what's up with that, you know? But anyway, all kinds of exciting anything you all want to talk about, didn't anybody watch the Harris interview Stephanie Rule tonight? Oh, no, didn't even know about it. Well, what happened on the view today? What's your call it? Joe Biden was out. Yeah, so any interesting news from that? He's not running anymore. Yeah, he's not running. Looks like he had a good time there. He was she was not. Did you get to see it or you get to tape it or anything like that? I'll watch it on hilly tomorrow. Okay, he was he brought him on I think at 14 after and he stayed until about 46 or 48 after the hour. So he was there quite a bit of time. Was there no Biden was on on the view? Yeah, apparently. I came out of here today. Yeah, Wayne keeps me up to date. He watches the view when it airs live in the morning and then he lets me know if there's something I need to watch any political or you know, yeah, and good guests. Yeah. I think I heard I think I heard earlier on another show that Wayne was a big fan of the of the fever. Yeah, they lost tonight. So they're out of the, you know, they they lost two games to Connecticut in Connecticut. So they're out and I kind of expect the viewership to go down now. I think a lot of people are going to cancel their WNBA pass, you know, if they have a I think that's going to happen, so she obviously Caitlyn was the big star from Iowa. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What? So there it is. There it is. A Caitlyn Clark app. Yeah. She's from Iowa. Yeah. Yes. Oh, yeah. I see he went to school in Iowa, but the plays in Indiana now. Yeah. I'm hoping Iowa gets a WNBA so she can come home. They are the women's W and the basket women's basketball is starting a team at the Oakland Coliseum because the Warriors left a couple of years ago and got went to a new stadium in San Francisco. And so they have a women's basketball league that's starting up there. Oh, okay. They got a new franchise out there. You think? I don't follow it to tell you the truth, Scott, but my mother was talking about it at dinner. We had a family dinner tonight and she was talking about it. My mother follows it a little bit. I guess I could call her and ask her. Yeah. Well, it's getting popular. It's good. It is. Alan pays as much attention, says for it as I do. Right. Right. Brian just found that out. Yeah. So does Texas have any WNBA teams? Yes, there's one in Dallas, which in Ireland, but yeah, Dallas wings. I think it is. Yes. The wings. Yeah. Is that is there women like San Antonio or Houston? I don't think so. I'll tell you. Just Dallas or Arlington. All the Dallas teams are actually in Arlington. Yes. Yeah. That is good. Because Arlington is willing to charge all their residents to build stadium. Times for millionaires. I'm not quite sure. But I think the wings play at the University of Texas at Arlington's arena. Well, that would be UT UT Arlington. Yes. UT Arlington. Yeah. Well, that I could be wrong, but I think that's what it is. Yeah. And, you know, they built the, what did, what did Jack and Rich call it, the, the, um, Death Star in Arlington. Oh, is that what it looks like? Yeah. That's where, that's the, that's the, that's the Cowboys play stadium, right? And then there's the, the, um, the Ranger Stadium. Are those two different ones? Yeah. Yeah. The Rangers have their own stadium. Right. Because it, it just amazes me that Arlington is willing to put up with that over and over and over again. Because it costs them, they're not getting money that's costing the taxpayers to build those. I think they spent a billion dollars for the Cowboys stadium. Yeah. I mean, and the same goes with the stadium before that, you know, so it's just cost in Arlington. I don't know why they're, why their citizens don't object more. Is it, is it a sales tax? It could be a sales tax, it could be, it could be a sales tax, it could be a property tax. All I know is it's, it's costing big dollars to, and, and they're, they want to have that business. I guess they figure so many, you got a hundred thousand people come every Sunday though, or every other Sunday to watch the Cowboys and so hotel taxes and stuff, I think. Yeah. Well, I think they, I, it's been a while since I looked at it. I think Bush was governor the last time I looked at it might have been president, but that, but, yeah, but I just remember, you know, the math done on it as a, it just, it just costs and costs and costs, and it never makes the money that it's supposed to. Yeah. Plus, the people that lived in those neighborhoods, now they've, a lot of them lost their homes because they had to move to make room. Right. Yes. The ones that are still in that neighborhood, now they got, you know, these big huge stadiums in their neighborhood, and I'm sure that doesn't help the neighborhood much. Well, they could make money parking cars in the yard, I guess. Oh, you know, there's all kinds of jobs. I mean, how many vendors do they have at the game walking around selling beer and chips and hot dogs and so, I mean, yeah. I guess it does come with Peter, you know, and then there's also all the amusement parks are in Arlington as well. Yeah. You got six flags and hurricane, harbor and all that. Arlington is between Dallas and Fort Worth. Yeah. And there is an ongoing right, which is, it's right near where the airport is too. Yeah, it's that there's south of the airport, yes. So there's always been this huge rivalry between Dallas and Fort Worth, and they have such completely different characters as cities. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Could either of y'all explain kind of the difference between Dallas and Fort Worth's personality wise? Well, you get the red niche and the white collars, I guess. Yeah, Dallas is more white collars, you know, lawyers and big business kind of stuff. Bikers, lawyers and bikers and stuff. Dallas has always been kind of new vorish, and really into new fashion, you know, everything about it always looks new, if not, you know, it wants to be chic, but it's not. Yeah. It's sort of a fake new money look, I don't know, where as Fort Worth calls itself, "Cowtown." Yes. And they still do the cowl drive through. Yeah. Every day, don't you think? Yeah. It is actually a little bit more classy in a lot of ways. Um, it's certainly prettier and they have a lot more museums and, you know, I would say the... Don't explain about Dallas, all had no cattle, right? Yeah. Except that really if Dallas, they don't wear hats. Yeah, right. They actually have the hats and the cattle in Fort Worth. Yeah. Dallas, um, is embarrassed by the whole cowboy image, but they shouldn't be. That's one of the biggest myths of America. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's called the Dallas Cowboys first. Texas Cowboys. Yeah. Dallas Cowboys. You know, I was kidding. I lived in South America when I was a kid and the kids would say, "Are there really cowboys in America?" And I went, "Yeah, there really aren't cowboys in America." They went, "Wow." It was really a big thing, you know. Yeah. The Fort Worth, Stockyard and Rodeo, the big radio in Fort Worth is a pretty big deal, just like the women Houston. Dallas doesn't really have a Rodeo, they're above that. That whole personality complex between the two cities. Well, there is a Rodeo in Mesquite, which is east of Dallas a little bit, stubborn. The Mesquite Rodeo is quite, quite nice. I've been there a couple of times. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, when you get out of the major cities, then there's a lot of smaller radios. And there really are cowboys once you get out of suburbia. Yep. There, I mean, we have a Rodeo here in Denton, but there are actual, once you get out of the city limits, there are actually ranches and, you know, with horses and cattle and all that kind of stuff. There are farms. So I love Texas Paul, I was watching him today, but got distracted with two things. My son calling about planning his wedding and then the oven arrived. That's cool. I'm so, it's self-cleaning. It's amazing. This is your first self-cleaning oven. Well, now in this house, every oven I've ever had in my life before this has just felt cleaning. That's why it's just like, I can't believe that this oven isn't self-cleaning. It's like, it's not like, it's new technology, it's been around for 50 years or more. Yeah. At least. So the one thing that my roommate knew that we had a self-cleaning oven, and he didn't want to run it through a teat cycle, so he sprayed easy off all over the inside, cleaned it up. And so we now have technically a self-cleaning oven that doesn't clean anymore, because the porcelain in a self-cleaning oven is porous, sort of. And when it gets real hot about 1,200 degrees in there, the food that spilled comes off of the porcelain and turns into ashes or whatever. But once you plug up the holes with easy off, that porcelain's over with. So better living with smart people, and he's not even from Texas. Well, there's a, you know, a lot of people don't know that, that you can't spray. Yeah, well, we've found that out the hard way. I think I did that when I was much, much younger. I think I, I think I did that myself. I just want your parents to buy a new oven every year. Oh, I wish I had the oven we had when I was a kid. That thing was huge. It was gas. It had at least six burners. It had two ovens full size and two roilers. So yeah, I would love that. I would love to just have the stuff that my parents had in their kitchen. We had a huge full size stand up freezer next to our refrigerator, both sides refrigerator that was all refrigerator and not half freezer or a third freezer. We had a, we had a blender built into the counter. So you just put the, the mug thing on top and to hit a switch. That's crazy. Look at that. A built in butcher block cutting board that was mounted over two warming drawers. I, I would love, I mean, it was a galley kitchen to really wasn't much bigger than the one that I have now, but oh my goodness, I would love to have, you know, I would love to have that freezer and a, you know, that huge freezer and that huge double oven when it comes to the holidays to have all that ability to have things in two different ovens and seven of the broilers. And I was doing like a steak frozen from the freezer and put it in a, in a gas broiler. You just can't beat that electric oven does not make it the same. It is just not as good. I mean, when, you know, when Burger King talks about flame broiled, frame broiled does make a difference. It does taste better. Well, we don't have gas to this house. So it had, it had to be all electric. Well, you could have got a George Foreman grill, they're all electric. Actually, we do have a little kind of like a George Foreman grill kind of sandwich maker. That we use for time to time, but that's not, that's not to say, I would love to have that oven my parents had. I don't think that probably was itself clean. It was, it was a gas range. It was a gas range from the 1960s. Well, yeah, we had that with that filler. We had that with the broiler in the bottom, you pull it out. My mom would put these kippered fish in there and they'd come out broiled. Oh, they tasted so good that way, you know. Yeah. I can remember just, you know, taking, like I said, you know, take a steak out of the, out of the freezer and stick it in the broiler, turn it on for like, you know, 10 minutes, turn it over, do another five and it came out perfect every time and delicious. Try another frozen, huh? So yeah, I do miss that, but oh well, it was my house built that I grew up in. I thought I could look it up in the sky. We haven't seen you in a while. What's going on? Other than your about ready to be a grandfather again, this is your first to, isn't it? Your first to first to, yeah, oh, not much. Yes, live in large, yeah, where, where you at? You have Wi-Fi. You must be in front of the bar or something. No, no, I'm off, I'm off the cell tower. It's over there somewhere. Oh, okay. Okay. The one cell tower in Iowa is what, you know, I will and it's right over yonder. Oh, I love you. I shouldn't have flipped it around. Oh, there you are. Well, I'm actually awake now, one time, I took a nap before I called in, so I'm good. I just can't, I don't know how you guys do it. I can't step this late. I'm younger than Wayne, Wayne is even another hour to the east and I don't know how you guys go to sleep at 10 o'clock. They got to get up early to 10 to the corn. You make sure they have the corn there. And the corn's looking, they're out picking the corn, you know, and it's going to be the harvest is on. So yeah, it's cute. It's nice. But yeah, it's going to be cold here pretty soon, but I won't be around long here in Iowa. Are you coming? You coming back to Texas soon? Oh, yeah, probably, probably next Wednesday or Thursday. Yeah, I don't know. It'll be nice to have Wi-Fi in your house again, huh? Well, yeah, but still, well, my wife, okay, I'm, I'm sorry, guys, but she says, I can't go to sleep without you in the bed and she goes up 10 o'clock. I was like, well, I think, I think she says that. So I'm not out in the next room yelling at Allen or something. So I don't know. I kind of miss that, Scott, you know, I bet you do. I bet you like a, like a, like a Bunyan, yeah, especially when you've had a few drinks. It reminds me of work again, my old job, you know, some guys wandering all over the road, you pull them over and, you know, boy, that guy can have a big mouth on him, you know. Well, that's what alcohol will do to you. Yeah, absolutely. It's, you know, I have three drinks, instant asshole, so, but, you know, I got used to it after many years and it didn't bother me. Oh, I'm glad I'm just going everywhere. It's always fun to watch a drunk, it's always fun to watch the drunk trip down the stairs or grab on to the wrong banister or, I don't know what they do, all kinds of things. So, you know, pushing the back a little bit to maybe? Yes, yes. Well, I've never done what you did, Allen, but I had to deal with a lot of drunks as a cocktail waitress and a bar back and a bartender. I'm sure you did. And the bartender too. Yeah. That was the bartender. Oh, you were the bar. Oh, I thought you had to deal with the bartender. Well, yes, and also I was the bartender. Okay. And the worst place was a country in a western bar on the outskirts of Beaumont and there is nothing worse than drunk shit kickers, middle-aged drunk shit kickers. Middle-aged anything, yeah, but particularly drunk shit kickers, because... Well, they tip well, don't they? It's not worth it. I mean, I worked there for a couple of weeks and was sexually assaulted every night. Wow. Wow. Really? At one point, there was some drunk shit middle-aged shit kicker, and at the time, I was in my twenties, you understand. I was young, I was in shape, I was majoring in dance at Lamar and teaching dance, so it's like dancing four hours a day and not just like serious college level ballet, modern jazz, all that, plus teaching for several hours a day. And so I was in good shape, and our uniforms were, we had to wear a blue jean mini skirt, and I can't remember what else, but I was like, but guys, we just, you know, what Trump bragged about on that bus. That happened from the front and the back, and I was backed up against the wall, and some shit kicker had his arms on either side of me, and he said, "Will you leave with me tonight?" And I'm like, "No, I'm married," and I pointed to my ring, and he said, "Where's your husband? I don't see him." So I pointed to the bouncer who happened to teach Toronto at the school where I taught dancing, and I said, "That's him over there." And then the bouncer saw me and came over and escorted the guy out, but yeah, they would just walk up to you and grab you, but you know, it's interesting, like, on Friday nights when they played rock and roll, and it was more like the young college guys. Perfect gentlemen, it was just the middle-aged shit-kickers. Well, they didn't have anything else to do, they were standing in Calmen who were all day long, and, you know, they wanted to come someplace and relax, have a few beers and get laid or whatever, and not with, you know, Martha Day Cal or something, you know, I don't know. I don't know much about cows. What was your best cocktail that you made, that you enjoyed making or, you know? Well, I was, you know, in the 80s, and I was really into, and so was everybody else, just drinks that called for amorado, and so all kinds of things, like a wind jammer is amorado pineapple and orange juice. It's really quite yummy, and there was the Toasted Almond, which is amorado, kalua, milk, and a splash of coke, also kind of tastes like a coke float, it's really delicious. What else? Well, I guess in California I missed all those beverages. Well, talk about turn your stomach, uh-huh, the wonder they were chasing after you were feeding them in the grapes, you know? I mean, because the shakers mostly drank beer and whiskey. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, I mean, nothing wrong with that. The other day, Amy, we were at up six miles north of here at my brother-in-law's town, and we were out just having a good time, and we went into this little local bar, and we were teasing the 32-year-old bartender and her 17-year-old server that was helping her and whatnot, and we were asking them what they can make, what they can do there, and I asked her just out of the curiosity, I said, "Do you have any slow gin at this barn?" And she goes like, "I think we might have some slow gin here." And she says, "I've never touched that bottle before." She's just probably been there 40 years or something. So she's never made a blow-comfortable screw-up against the wall? I don't think so, but the only thing I knew with a slow gin was I said, "Can you make me a slow gin fizz?" and she did it, and it was delicious. Okay, so a slow, comfortable screw-up against the wall, and slow gin, that's your slow, comfortable southern comfort, screw, orange juice, up against the wall, galiano. I used to like drinking galiano and orange juice with the orange licorice flavor. Yeah, so galiano and orange juice, plus southern comfort and slow gin. And for those who don't know, slow gin is red and kind of syrupy and very sweet. Why don't you just save the licor and have the grenadine instead? Isn't that kind of sweet and red? It's not quite the same as slow gin, but there are very few, there are very few drinks. So did you have your slow gin cocktail, Scott? Excuse me, what's the question? Did you get your slow gin cocktail, Scott? Yes, yes, she made it, because originally we asked for an old fashioned, an old fashioned in Iowa, and it's really, really cheap. I mean, inexpensive, you know, and she says, "Oh, we don't do those here because we don't have the bitters for it." and I said, she said, "They get maybe an order of an old fashioned maybe once a year, and so they just don't bother." In place of it, she gave you a peanut colada with an umbrella in it, right? No, that's when I asked for the slow gin fizz, and actually they had everything to make that. Oh, that's good. I don't know if it actually goes in it, but she feels good. They're buying to be in my youth. Wow. I remember there was a tequila sunrise, they'd make it, and you could watch the sunrise as well. There's 70s, that was the bigger thing. Oh, yeah. And, well, 77, obviously, in the 70s was a big drink. Now you guys are going way back before me, I couldn't get into the bars in the 70s. Oh, yes, you could. Oh, yes, I could. Yeah. Well, Ellen, I think your favorite was Boone's farm, Apple Wine, wasn't that interesting? Oh, man, don't remember Boone's farm? Well, when I was at high school, we used to drink that. I preferred MD-2020, it was you. That was the drunks, you'd find out in front of the 7-11 or something, they went in there and they'd get a pint of MD-2020 for two bucks, and boy, they were happy as a clam. It kind of reminded me, I tasted it one time, not from a bum, but it kind of reminded me of Moghain David Wine during Passover. What do you think the MD stands for? Yeah, that's Moghain David. Yeah. A friend of mine. I wouldn't doubt it. It's probably Moghain David's second line. You guys will change the name and sell to the Gentiles. It's just Moghain David with the higher alcohol content. Is that real? A friend of mine saw that. The MD literally stands for Moghain David. I never thought of Moghain David. Do y'all remember baby bulls? No. Slitsmunk liquor, little bottles of Slitsmunk liquor. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And Mickey's big mouth. One of my times, too. Mickey's big mouth? Yeah, they came a little bit bigger. I remember Mickey's big mouth, yeah. Little barrel shaped bottles. They still have it, they still have it. They still have that. Do they still have baby bulls? Oh, they still have. Well, you're around bulls a lot, don't you know if they have baby balls or not? Should've said baby bull balls, sorry, that didn't clam. Come out right. I don't know if you have another cocktail, another juggle water. Tongues in the way today. Thanks. So anyway. Yes, Scott, when you went off on me that one time a year ago, I thought, oh, man, this reminds me of what I used to do. He's now on Skype or Zoom, and I didn't have to worry about doing anything like a reston or anything like that. I'd just let you run your mouth and you were nervous that I'd be upset at you, and I wasn't upset. I've seen a lot of drunks in my time, even in my own family, and there were a few times that I even could have looked in the mirror. Oh. It's been a long time since I've been drunk. Hey, it's not that I don't drink at all, I just don't drink. Oh, your friends invite you over to finish off all the Moog and David. You said she leans against the bar in their house, thinks she's a cowgirl and slams down all the extra Moog and David, right? You know, if you go to services, they serve it in like almost a thimble size cup now. Right. A little little little cup throwaway cup. Yeah. A little teeny. They're like the size of what they put on the cough drop bottle. That's how big the cup is. My mother caught me in the back room one time and she said, what are you doing? I said, finishing off all the grape juice, you know, because they give the kids the grape juice. It looks the same. And she says, well, you know, let me taste that. And she says, you know, I think you've had enough grape juice. Time to go home. I'm like, no, no, no, no. You know, I like grape juice. This is a little different, you know, and I was like six or seven. What did I know? I can remember being a little kid at a bar mitzvah in Houston and drinking champagne or weddings and bar mitzvahs drinking, drinking the wine and champagne that they had. Well, it was nasty. When we were, I don't know, it was like this when you were a kid, but it used to be that the only one that drank from the kiddish cup was the rabbi. Right, right. And the rabbi did it on the bema. We didn't then go into, you know, the reception hall and everybody have a little glass, a little symbol of wine and seeing the kiddish. The kiddish was done during the service and it was the rabbi drinking it and the choir singing. Well, about half the time the rabbi got through the service, he was drunk, so that was always cute. Watching, you know, this way, the synagogue that we were at, it was a one step up to the, you know, they're in the rabbi to be sucking down the wine and that one step came up, you can get up a lot of speed going down that one step real quick. So you end up on your ass and everybody runs up to, okay, Rabbi, okay, yeah, yeah, just didn't see the step. You know, well, you know, see, the synagogue was built in your specifications and okay. What was the purpose of the wine and the service of, of, of, at your, your rabbi was drinking? Well, it's just every Friday night service, you say a blessing over the wine. We didn't claim drinking wine in all of our holidays. Absolutely. Why? It was not a wine breaker. It was a service. By the time you are, you know, a wee little child, you learn the blessing over the wine. Right. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. My father hated wine like that, although they drank some really raw gut, like, you know, matos and stuff like that, but, but my mother and him, my mother, like Boone's farm too. But anyhow, so, but it at my, at my bar mitzvah, instead of wine, you'll get people that'll drink whiskey. They call it schnapps and it's not schnapps, like the sweet schnapps. It's like just plain whiskey and I remember my grandfather boy there to take him outside. So he can throw up a little bit of his liquor. So he can come back in and have a few more shots, you know. This is definitely fine. We have the reception for my bar mitzvah at a country club and my grandmother had one two main schnapps. We found her out on the fourth hole in the middle of the night, you know, just out there all alone. Nobody's playing golf. It's nine or ten o'clock at night, but everybody's looking for grandma and she's out there, you know, just wander around, happen to be the fourth hole and it just sounds like my kind of gal. Yeah, I was just going to say, you know, I have looked at, I looked at my house on the Jefferson County cat, the house I grew up in and then it was built in 1978. Well, I was born in '64 and that house was already built when I was born. But that is your parents' lie, do you? No, I mean, I lived there. I got it. 1978 was the year that we sold it, actually. My parents didn't go back that far. Yeah, so yeah, my parents built it before I was born. I'm not sure if it was this early '60s or the late '50s, but yeah, probably the, the late '50s, even. But we sold that house because it got to be just Mother and I in a house built for seven people. Yeah, there were three bedrooms downstairs, two bedrooms upstairs, upstairs also had a living room and a bathroom. There were two addicts, there was a patio on the roof, a big, like a sun porch, or a mirror. Yes, a deck? Like a sun deck. Had a big sun deck. I knew. It was on an acre and a half of land. Did you have an oil pump on there, Tim? No. Well, well, well. We had a big pond in the back with, well, we had thrown some goldfish in there, so the goldfish got really big, but there were also catfish in there and I think some bass. Occasionally, we had eels in the back, in the back pond. No alligators coming for a free meal? Never saw an alligator, but did see water rockets in, we had frogs that moved. They were the sides of a basketball and they were just, wow, it was the craziest thing. And the only place I ever seen a frog that size was in Austin. I have not seen one in Austin, well, hey, I never got out of the D.M. Austin Airport. So what do I know? My direct flight to Dallas Fort Worth was diverted to Austin for some reason. And we sat there on the tarmac for 45 minutes and then took off in New York in the air, but about four seconds before we landed, you know, something like that. I got that. A friend I went to school with had an alligator ranch. Really? Mm-hmm. That must have been fun. Did you go out and pet the alligators? No. No. I actually never went there. It happened after I had moved away and after we had graduated. Was you raising them to use them for food or to use them for boots and belts or just for pets? I think boots and belts. I'm not sure. Yeah. I don't know. I honestly. I hear they make horrible pets. They can take an arm at a time or a leg or something, though. Yeah. I don't know much about it. Although I do think that might have been the one that had the problem when one of the hurricanes went through, Hurricane Rita, I think, that was all over the news. But we have just less than ten minutes left. So Scott, since it's your first time back in a while, you get to make the color. Blue, green, pink, or purple? Green. Green. Green. Alrighty. Green it is. Celebrity vegetarians is the topic. I'll start with you and I'll go around the panel. What 42 year old Dallas Buyers Club actor credited 20 solid years of eating vegetarian vegan for his youthful good looks in 2014. I'm going to go with the Jared, the guy who played J.R. Jared, let him. Yeah. What? It's Jared. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You got it. Even though you didn't get it. Yeah. Jared. Let him. Uh, I still can't hear the name you said that I said, you said I said, Jared, let him. Okay. I did not get it. That's not me. That's why you said. Oh, no. J.R. J.R. Ewing. You were Larry Larry. No. Larry Hagman. Yeah. It was Larry. That's who I was thinking it was. But no. No. No. Larry Hagman wouldn't end Dallas fires club. I have no idea. I thought you were going to guess Matthew McConaughey, but the answer was- Yeah. That's what I was going to say. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But no, it was Jared Leto. I didn't realize. Okay. He was from Texas. All right. Uh, Ryan. Hello. Which actor who plays Ty Rion Lannister in Game of Thrones, I'm sure I pronounced that wrong, has been a vegetarian since he was a child out of respect for animals. Oh, gosh. Even I've heard a Game of Thrones- Oh, I've watched every episode, but I don't- That's right, I can't think of the most famous actor from Game of Thrones. Oh. Um. Little guy. Little guy? You don't need to- Oh, the- Oh, it doesn't look like that. Oh, yeah. That guy. Oh, yeah. Oh. It's on the tip of my tongue. Yeah. Don't anybody tell him. Oh, man. It's going nuts in a minute. Yeah. I mean, I know who it is. I just don't know. Charlie? Peter Dinklage. That's a Dinklage. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Are you good? All right. Uh, speaking of Charlie, what actress from Mars, who went off meat as a teenager partly because she didn't enjoy it, was named Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrity in 2013 by PETA. Peter. Actors from Mars? Mars. The planet. Oh, oh, oh, I know. Of the show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a Veronica Mars. Okay, so he's on my favorite actresses. Ah! A good place. Yeah, it's been a lot of great shows. Come on. Raise that bill. You could ring my bell. Kristen Bell? There you go. Yeah. That better. Yeah. All right. Wayne, which one? I'm drawing a blank on that guy. I love her. Peter, isn't that people leaving tasty animals? All right. Wayne, what actress who didn't exactly look her best in 2015's The Lazarus Effect, includes an all veggie diet in her healthy lifestyle? No idea. Olivia Wilde. Oh. I didn't even know who that was. I can't imagine her not looking her best. She looks great. Apparently she didn't in The Lazarus Effect. Anybody under 80 looks great to you. Any woman took my throw. All right. Alan, which actor who gained 70 pounds in 2006 for his Oscar-winning role as the last king of Scotland dissed feet in 2007. So who played the idea mean and the last king of Scotland? Oh, you know, it's on the tip of my time. I'm going to go. I can see him clear as a milk. I know. Orson Wells. No. Oh, give me a hand. It's a black guy. Yeah. Tyron Wells. You played Charlie Boyd. Oh, God. He's one of my favorite actors. Y'all can't make a mistake. Anybody got it? Forest Whitaker. Forest Whitaker. Oh, yeah. Forest Whitaker. Why didn't you just tell us? All right. Scott, which former U.S. president who enjoyed chowing down on fast food burgers in the 90s went vegan in 2010. Wait, wait. That's right. Okay. Good thing it was first name, but it was. I didn't know he went vegan. Yeah. He had hurt issues or high blood pressure or something. So he went full. He lost all that weight. He was fat. He was a fat boy. Yeah. I love this joke about Kamala, that she probably spent more time in McDonald's than he did. Can you believe there were people challenging whether or not she actually worked? Well, she didn't put it on a resume. Yeah. Who in this panel, besides me, worked at a fast food restaurant when they were kids? Oh, I never did. I don't think I worked at my, one of my first jobs was as a Sonic car hop. Well, one of my first jobs was shining shoes. I never put that on my resume. Yeah. She's an attorney. I don't think you put McDonald's on your resume when you're out a turny. Yeah. I've got to take a call. I'll be back in a couple of minutes. Well, we'll be back. We'll be gone. Well, I'll be gone in a minute. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Wow. Stick around for another minute. And then come right back. All right. Well, no, it's time's up. So I want to say to Alan and Wayne and Brian and Charlie and especially Scott. Good to see you after so long. Thank you for joining me this evening. This was a fun look. We didn't talk very much about politics, but you know, we had fun. Let's get discussion tonight. Well, as I remind you every week, remember check your voter registration. Especially check your version. At Scott, I would be very careful to check your voter registration. Yeah. I want to know if I can vote in Iowa and in Texas. I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't try. I would be worried about, you know, wherever you plan to vote, wherever you plan to be. Once early voting starts. Make sure you're registered to vote there. And if it's Texas, you know, make sure that they haven't put you in suspense. I vote. I vote in every election. If they don't take my vote, there's, but I'm going to tear that place up. Challenging voter registration by the thousands in North Texas. Yes, I've heard that. Yeah, especially in your county and mine. So I would just go up. You can do it online. Just go on, look yourself up and make sure that you are still current and not in suspense. Well, I was still ready to go Monday. Yeah. But as I remind you every week, get registered, get informed, get politically active and go vote. And if you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me. [MUSIC] (upbeat music) (chiming)