The Intersection
The Intersection 10/4/2024
(upbeat music) - Welcome to the intersection on this Friday night. Well, we had quite the week. We had a vice presidential debate. We had a hurricane. We had a response to a hurricane and we learned a little bit about what the Republicans' plan is. Four things like FEMA and the national oceanic, an atmospheric agency, NOAA. NOAA is the organization that alerts you and lets you know what's going on when there is severe weather in your path and gives you warnings. I know it does it. It's paid for by the government. Whereas if you look at project 2025, they want to privatize both those things. They only want the people paying for it to get protected. And I think it's important to go back to the Trump administration and look who he put in charge of NOAA. The guy he put in charge of NOAA owns weather.com. The CEO, weather.com. And so NOAA is kind of a competitor for weather.com. And so the goal was to make it ineffective. It's the same with so many departments. The people that Trump put in charge had the goal and the financial interest in destroying the department, the departments, they were tasked with running. These agencies are important. They're important to people's lives. And you know, what these Republicans, what the Heritage Foundation wants, what Republicans want is to make it so that only those things that come up before it. Excuse me, here comes Alan. So the reason that in Project 2025, they want to get rid of NOAA and FEMA. Oh, here comes Brian. The reason they want to get rid of NOAA and FEMA is because they have a vested interest in it. And we know that by exactly who Trump put in charge of these agencies when he was president. So he put the guy from weather.com in charge of NOAA, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. He put somebody from I think FedEx in charge of post office. He put people in charge of each of these agencies who had a vested interest in those agencies failing so that they can make a profit off of what those agencies were doing for the American people. And when we see things like this hurricane that ripped through Hurricane Helene, apparently my mother was angry about something. For those of you who don't know, Helene was my mother's name. My mother died back in January of 2017 because, you know, as a lifelong yellow dog Democrat, she didn't want to see Trump become president. So she died rather than just through it. But that's a big part of it. So Brian, Alan, any thoughts on that? (indistinct) - Well, it's very troubling, you know, if a president would deliberately appoint people to make an organization fail so he could put his own organization up, I suppose, and make all the profits, you know. Is that what you're saying? - Yeah, well, there was a book that came out about it. There's an interesting process that takes place when you go from one administration to the next. And the standard way that it works is that the people in the current administration, they prepare all of these documents and summaries and reports and things. And they prepare for the new incoming administration to explain to them here is where we are on these various different projects and what we're working on and what's important and what's not as important. And the Obama administration had all that stuff ready and the Trump people didn't show up. And then they just ignored all of that. And then when it was time for Biden to come in, they did none of that prep work. They had nothing ready for the incoming. They did no transition. They didn't help at all. - So Charlie is now joined as what we're talking about as part of Project 2025. It talks about getting rid of Noah and FEMA. Two organizations that when you have something happen, like what happened with Hurricane Helene. And that's how to pronounce, by the way, it's Helene, not Helene, I know it was my mother's name. So when something like that happens, it is Noah that gives warning ahead of time and it is FEMA that comes in afterwards to help. But I think we could do without Noah, FEMA we can't do without. - Okay, so you don't want to know when there's a hurricane coming? - But Noah isn't the only one out there that has satellite imagery of hurricanes and stuff coming out. - But Noah is tasked with warning the population, all right? And they do it for free and weather.com does not. - Yeah, they do it for free? What a great job that would be. - They provide that information to the American people for free. - Yeah, you got it. - Okay, so weather.com's not making a profit off of it. And that's why weather.com wants to eliminate Noah. That's why the people, it's a matter of who's pocketbook. And so, when you take things and privatize them, what you're really doing is raising the cost to the public. You are raising the cost to the public. And basically what they're doing is they're stealing from the American people and from the American government. - Get away with Noah. You really know. - Why? - Because there's nobody to tell us when we're gonna have an earthquake, it's not fair. - That's not weather. Actually, they're working on predictive earthquake technology. - Not Noah though. - All right, let's do a quick search. - FEMA is a lot more important to me 'cause they come in after the storm and help. Bring communities and families and stuff back together. - Well, I don't know if you remember, but FEMA did not work very well under George W. Bush. Or under Trump. - Well, under Trump because-- - The training on 2006, that was under Bush. - But this is part of the Heritage Foundation. This is what's going on. The reason the reason government doesn't work well under Republicans is because they don't want it to work well. They break it and then they say, see, it doesn't work. Let's take the money away from this organization and put it in the private sector. - Cool. - So they purposely break it and it's just like here in Texas, we've had the governor tell me on the wanting to privatize our schools, wanting, they call it school choice. We call it vouchers, but what it really is is defunding our public schools. And so, and who that hurts the most is Republican voters that live in rural areas because of their schools, their hospitals, by not expanding Medicaid here in Texas. What they did was they ended up causing hospitals in these rural areas to close. So these, you may not know what all these organizations do, but they're, but it's better that they're there and doing that work just because no one's making a profit from it. Some things are better off not being made a profit from, not everything should be profit. - Yeah, okay, so let's take that back a little bit. Let's look at NASA and Elon Musk Company. Why is NASA not flying astronauts back and forth? Why are we hiring a private company to do it? - Because they refuse to fund NASA. - Okay. - And that they get privatized. - Oh, there's the answer. - Exactly, it's again that the Republicans break a government organization and then they go, see it doesn't work. - Okay. - And it's also they can make a profit off of it. That's really what it's all about. It's all, whenever somebody says, oh, we need to privatize this, what they're really saying is, we're not making enough money off of this. - Yep. - Well, what's his name? Dick Cheney, Dick Cheney was president of Halliburton before he became, you know, Vice President and Halliburton got a lot of contracts for no-bid contracts for the war. - Yep, yep. - What was going on? - Made billions, made billions in price. - Oh yeah, absolutely. He may not have been the president of the company anymore, you could bet he held a lot of stock in the company. - Yep. - Hlaing, drone flights, break, dude. I'm on the NOAA website just to see what all it is they do. But it's more than, than weather. It's a lot more than it. - It's a big organization and they really do a lot too. Charlie, can you talk a little bit about NOAA? - Um, no, I'm not an expert on weather. So that's the only thing I do that they did. National oceanography and something, I forget what even-- - Oh, ocean pornography, what'd you say? - Yeah. - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. - That's what it is. - That's it. - It's part of it. - I don't even know what the acronym was. - Yeah. - I like how they find the planes right into the hurricane and you know, they throw those into devices and measure all the-- - I guess that was the military that was doing that. - I don't know. - It's tied in with NOAA and all that. - Actually, NOAA is in the Department of Commerce. - Oh, really? Oh, okay. - Yeah, it's not in the military. - We have too many governmental agencies. Democrats are good about setting up governmental agencies and the Republicans are good about screwing us all. - Well, Alan, you mentioned earthquakes. At 701, I thought I felt a minor earthquake. It always takes a few minutes to show on my app. Sure enough, 701, Ken's in California, distance away, zero miles, 1.9. - Got it on, nice. - Yeah, yeah. - Nice. - You could feel that on 1.9. - Oh, just sitting here and just gently, is if someone slammed the front door really hard, kind of like where, you know, rocks the house. - 1.9, I didn't think you'd be able to fuel it. - Sure, it was an earthquake. I thought maybe, you know, some truck just shut their door really hard. You know, it's sort of like that where it's just, the shockwave-- - Or your sump pump came on or something like that, yeah, okay? - Yeah, hopefully not, yeah. - No, but yeah, sure enough. - All right. - Yeah, I was in a 5.2 earthquake in LA, back in 18-- - But that's a big one. - That's a big one. - Well, yeah, except I thought maybe a truck can run into the building, except they can't-- - Right, right. - Yeah, that's what it feels like. A truck hits your building. That's what it feels like, yeah. - Well, the biggest one I was in was in the Bay Area here in the 7.1 or whatever it was. - Oh, no, I'm glad I wasn't there. - It was 6.9 or 7.0, yeah. - We had a earthquake, so you have Denton, and I didn't even know who came here for. - Huh? - I don't know how. I've had other-- - Well, they're doing man-made ones in Texas. - Yeah. - And Texas are a man-made earthquake. - Fracking. - Yeah. - Like I said, you feel him? You feel him? - It's not actually the fracking of the well, as much as it is the injection wells, which take the produced water and pump it back down into the ground. - That's right. - After they've broken it down. - Dirty water and sand. - Yeah. - That's the bad part. - Yeah, that's what causes the earthquakes. - Well, thank God, it's only in Texas. - Well, it's all over the country. - All over the country, but especially anywhere where there's a lot of shale. - I was sad to hear Kamala, she's pro-fracking. She's missing a lot. - I know. - She's-- - I know. - She had that. - I know. You know what's funny? - She has a pro-fracking. - It's one of those, like they were attacking her for, 'cause she changed her position. Oh, now she's pro-fracking. Well, you know her supporters were happy with her being against fracking, which is just like, no, don't say that. - Yeah. - But a lot of people, and I think that they did that for Pennsylvania, but you know what? There's a lot of people in Pennsylvania that don't like fracking. - They don't like fracking. - Yeah. - Yeah, yeah. Right. Maybe she thought I gave her a little bit of an edge, though. Yeah, I don't know. - Yeah, well, Obama did the same thing. - Obama did the same thing. - Obama did the same thing. But it's just not the most important thing and so... - So, most people kind of don't even know what it is, really, you know? - Yeah. - Yeah, I mean, around here they do, but... - Yeah. - Oh, here we go. - This Texas really count, though. (laughing) - Arkansas, Oklahoma, Colorado. All of these-- - Marijuana is going for 'em. - That all these places have fracking. Pennsylvania, there's a lot of fracking there. - Basically, anywhere where you have a large shale deposit, that's where they're fracking. 'Cause they're breaking up the shale. - Yeah. - To get-- - That's horrible. You should be there collecting it and turning it into beautiful things. (laughing) - Well, shale is not very good for making jewelry. - It's being cracked real. It's very brittle, isn't it? - It's brittle and it's not very hard. So it's hard to polish and shade. - I don't know. My dentist had no problem grinding my new gold crown in my mouth today, and that's hard. - Yeah, no, no. The shale is not hard enough. - I understand. - Yeah. (laughing) It's neither soft enough to be malleable nor hard enough. It's too brittle, so you can make-- - It's not brittle to build anything with it or anything like that. - Right. - You couldn't cover a road bed and then pave over it and depend on the road bed to be stable with shale. - Right. Yeah. - Anybody, a viewer of Battlestar Galactica, the second one, you know, the newer one. - Oh, yeah. - Okay. Well, Frank was how they got away with saying the F-bomb. - Yeah. (laughing) - No frackin' way. - Yeah, yeah. - No frackin' way. - Yeah. - Oh. That was-- - That was a frackin' snake on his mother frackin' plane. (laughing) - Frackin' good Romulan ale. (laughing) - Yeah, you know, it's like I was in church with a friend of mine and somebody said something and I said, "Son of a baby." No, no, no, you can't say that here. I said, "What, I was gonna say son of a biscuit eater." (laughing) And everybody might laugh at her around me. (laughing) - You know, what I forgot to do on Wednesday or Thursday was Alan wish you a "Leshonato Vautica Tevis." - Absolutely, it should not turn on to you too. It's a Hebrew for a happy new year. Yeah, basically. - Rocha Shanna and leading up to Yum Kapoor the most holy of the days of all, right? - Yeah, that's true. - Maybe we'll get lucky and we'll get bombed. - No. - I was surprised to see you on Wednesday night because of, I thought you would be at the synagogue. - No, we were out there. We have a large community of people that we didn't have six or seven years ago, and so we get to rotate now. I'm taking this year off for the high holidays. There's other things going on where I'll be there, but no. - You know, we're gonna have holidays. - Nope, not this year. - That's usually the only time, it's not gone to such small semagogues, the only time we ever had anybody was... - Yeah, we're living in a different time and I don't have to tell you that it could happen anytime at a synagogue or a church that somebody, an active shooter can come in. And if they're around us, they're going to be surprised. We dress in plain clothes and just hang out in front of the synagogue or in front of the church, but our cars are parked right there. And so if somebody walks by, they're not gonna see anything other than you know, the back of a sheet or something, but whether there may be a couple guitar cases, nobody's gonna think anything of it, you know, but quick access to weaponry. So fortunately, we've never had to use it. - Oh, that's good, yeah. - We've only got, we don't get threatened once. There's somebody, some skinhead, Trump loving whatever he was, came up and had a bottle that was filled, a Coca-Cola bottle filled with water. We didn't know it at the time. It had a rag sticking out of it and he was going to throw it, you know, light it supposedly and throw it in the park, got out of his car and I was in the back, but a couple of the guys drew down on him and we called the police and the police came and took him, you know, and it's like selling fake drugs in California. If it's back, it's like a drug, you get charged as it's a drug. So he got charges, you know, he almost got killed over a bottle of water. What an idiot. - Well, had he thrown that, had he thrown that, you know, it would have justified, you could have used deadly force in California. And Texas, all somebody's got to do is walk out of a 7-Eleven with a slurping and get shot. - Yeah. Well, and then the synagogue here is in just a house in a neighborhood and there's no markings on the outside that give any indication. - Lucky you. - So, it's also owned by the Mayor Pro Tem, so him getting dead in police to be there for high holidays is not a big deal. - Yeah, we usually get a local law enforcement police car to park in front of the synagogue during high holidays and stuff. Like they'll be you're lucky because a lot of the, the protection stuff we do is for Khabad, which is Orthodox and they're in your face, you know. And so, and they start out a lot of times in homes and build up to the point where they get a physical building. And, but they're in your face. There's a big menorah in the front, you know, there's, you know, Jewish this, Jewish that, all over the building. So there's no, you know, it's like, it's like a lot of churches. - This is the time that I grew up. - Yeah, and it's gorgeous historical building built in 19, 19. - You saw it as 15, 19, 19. - Yeah, it was built in 19, 19, 19. - Big glass windows. - Yep, 16 foot high, stained glass building, stained glass windows, six of them that were designed in Israel by Robon, which are famous Jewish, stained glass artists. And there is a replica or a photo of that in the museum in Jerusalem, but it's, it's really pretty. They have had problems with vandalism before. But they had to put protective glass on the outside of the windows to protect them. - Yeah, we have protective glass in front of the synagogues where there's just glass windows. We, you know, if they're asking us what to do, we're telling them to put a certain grade of glass there and if somebody throws a bottle or something, it's probably not gonna stop a gunshot, but it'll stop a lot of rocks and stuff like that. So, so sad that, you know, that goes on. - That's the same. - And we're all in, and Alan Trump and his folks keep promoting it. - Yeah. - Yeah. - You know. - Well, so I was looking at some of these different projects from NOAA. There's something called Argo. Argo Program is an array of profiling floats, observing the ocean in real time. Well, that's kind of cool. - But before tsunamis, I'm assuming. - I'm assuming. - We've got the extra tropical transition forecasting impacts of mid-altitudes. - Okay. - What does that mean, Charlie? Okay. Good thing we got a scientist. - Oh, we've got the Global Drifter Program, cornerstone of the global ocean observing system. You know, are we? The Global Drifter Program is a branch of NOAA's global ocean observing system and a scientific project of the data buoy cooperation panel that has two components. - Okay, you can have NOAA. (laughing) You know, I was actually really just being sarcastic and joking around earlier. I mean, I understand what NOAA does for us. So you don't need to go on and on. Unless you want to. No, I was just, you know, I have no problem with NOAA. - Yeah, no, it-- - And actually for people that are in the path of storms, a warning is a good thing. And maybe one of these days, probably not in my lifetime, they'll be able to give a decent amount of warning that there's an earthquake coming. - Yeah. - You know? - Well, they can do it about, give you about five seconds. - Not enough to do anything. - No, it's not enough, but that's where they're at now. It's about five seconds. - Yeah, basically seconds. - Yeah, well, yeah, you need, you need a lot more time. If you're on the freeway driving in your rush hour traffic on the Bay Bridge, and they say there's gonna be an 8.0 earthquake in about five seconds, then what do you do? Nothing. I'm afraid that the bridge understands it. - You could slow down, you know? Maybe. - Pull off the road. - If bumper traffic on the Bay Bridge, you're not moving very fast. - That's true. - You know, you can't really go anywhere. So it's, you know, if they can predict it in an hour in advance, they can keep people, they close the bridges and keep people off of them. - Yeah. - Yeah. - But we haven't got there that, that to that point. - Or even just 15 minutes, yeah. - Absolutely. You can shut the bridge down and clear the bridge and you can get a lot of people off and not let any more people on in either direction and it would save a lot of lives. - Oh, and also tell people don't go in elevators for 15 minutes. You might get stuck. - Elevators are pretty safe. Although I'm paranoid of them, but never said this before, but they're pretty safe. You know, the hydraulic isn't going to fail, the electric isn't, you mean, you might get stuck in it. - That's what's true. - People get stuck. - Yeah. - Yeah, it's still good. - Although if you're in a building that's collapsing and I guess if you're in an elevator, you know, that probably wouldn't be good either. - Yeah, an elevator didn't help anybody in the world trade center. - I was just thinking of that, that's for sure. - Well, I think people evacuated that way to start with. But when the building collapsed, it took the center area out where the elevators were at too, so. - Well, you know, when there's a fire or an emergency like that, the elevators go down to the bottom floor. - Yeah. - You know, it takes the elevators. - Yeah, you can't take the, you can't. - Yeah. - Well, you know, I'll tell you, the thing I remember most is not the plane fit in the building, but watching the people jumping out above the fire. - Yeah. - At their death. I mean, it's a call that you gotta make on your own and we wanna burn the death. They didn't know the builders were gonna collapse when they were jumping. You wanna burn the death, you know, 'cause it doesn't look like the fire department's gonna get it under control or do you want, would you rather just take your life? And I just have a vivid thing in my mind. I couldn't imagine being there and being Joe civilian or watching somebody jump out of a window, 80 stories up or something like that, to avoid being burned to death. - Yeah, well, I'm afraid of heights. I'd never get near the window. - Yeah, well, one of the things that I thought would be a good idea, the stairwells, if they had, like, half of the stair be smooth so that you could just sort of slide down or if you're in a wheelchair, you could take a wheelchair down it. - Amy, annuals, new tall building stairs. You could walk the stairs or you could slide the stairs. - Yeah, and you could just make it, like, a poor screw slide going all the way down. - Absolutely, absolutely. - That's why firemen's call. - Well, yeah, but people in a wheelchair doesn't work. - Does that then work for somebody in a wheelchair? But somebody-- - They have a, you know, a little strap-on parachute like a backpack and you can jump out and you got a little parachute. They have those. - Yeah, I don't know, 80 stories up and there's a fire burning right below you. I'm not so sure a parachute, which is probably nylon. - A few people could have used it, but not many. - Yeah, well, there weren't that many people that actually jumped, but they, the ones that did jump got caught on camera, some of them, and that sticks in my mind. You know, I mean, I could not imagine. You know, I don't know what I would do. I mean, I just don't know what I would do. Fire's coming up, it's getting hot. You have no way to escape. Does not look like the fire department's gonna save you. I certainly wouldn't wanna burn to death. Although most people in a fire like that don't burn to death, the smoke inhalation kills them first. But I'm too scared of heights. I couldn't get near the window to jump if that was what my colleagues were doing. I would just wait. - Yeah, I don't think I can, I definitely could. - I would just pray that I get incapacitated from the smoke and move on that way. - Yeah, hi. Yeah, I'm not sure what I would do. - It's a real scary thought, no matter what it is, you know? - Don't take a job in a big tower, or don't live in a big tower, isn't it? - Yeah, you got that right. I've been in, in 1999, when I was in New York, I was in the World Trade Center and a friend of mine worked in the building and took me to the observation deck. And we got off the elevator. I mean, these are smooth electric elevators. You get in and you're a hundred floors up without even noticing that you're moving, you know, within a minute or something. We get out of the elevator and he says, "Oh, the best view in New York. Here come to the window." I'm like, "I'll stand 10." - No, thank you. - I know the window. - He said, "How do you relax?" "Class is too interesting. You're not going to go anywhere. You're not going to fall out of it or anything like that." And I'm like, I went on the, in the Chicago Sears building, cousin lives in Chicago. We went up in there until the observation deck. In the observation deck, you could walk out and like five feet or six feet of the, as goes through the glass, is glass and you can look straight down. And that was enough for me. - Yep, yep. - You're looking up at these buildings and now you're looking down at them. And he said, "Yeah, there's that building down there that we were looking up to look like a skyscraper." And I'm like, "Because this is scaring the shit out of you. I'm going back over by the elevator." - I think it's a new idea. - Yeah, yeah. - Last block ways. You can walk 20 feet out, like 100 stories up. And very few people do it. It's really creepy, you know? - So well, we got up, a friend of mine worked in the Hancock building in Chicago. And he was a radio television engineer and they had equipment up on the top and they had radio antennas and stuff. And he had a key to the roof and about six of us went on the roof. I stood by the door. He's, he is laying on his stomach, leaning over the edge of the building with this little camera taking pictures of the ground, like 86 stories high. I'm like, not me baby. I can, I can, I can go into a firefight with guns, ablaze, and then shit. But I do not like heights. I don't even get on my own roof and I have a one-story house. I know somebody else on this show that doesn't like heights. I won't mention names. - Yeah, I don't like heights either. - That wasn't you. - Worked on the 11th. - And it isn't way 'cause he climbs the damn tower to blow his gutters out all the time. - You know, it's funny when I was a kid, when I was little, it didn't bother me. And I was like, we've, I had a little playhouse in the backyard. It was, it was a storage shed that had been kind of converted into a playhouse. And we spent more time on the roof jumping off than we did actually inside of it. - Well, your brain had not connected, you know, when you're a kid, your brain doesn't connect height with injury or death. - Yeah. - You know, it's like, it's like a lot of 16 year olds get a license, get a souped up car, and they're doing 110 miles an hour. They lose control of the car. Car crashes, they die. And they're like, oh, these kids are so stupid. Well, as their brain hasn't developed enough to know that that's dangerous. - Yeah. - That's what it is, yeah, you know, so. - The part of the brain where you're impulsive is not developed yet. That's a big part of it. - Or we, yeah, there's some part. I don't know what part of it is. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah. - And when we were Charlene, so I thought she was going to join us tonight. She sent me a message earlier today. - You could have been also speaking of impulsive brain. - I sent her that picture. And on the iPhone, it says it was delivered. And at like four in the morning, my time, she says, that's a neat picture. My husband likes it too. Wow, it's a scaddly dress, you know, grew in a bathing suit and stuff. - That's a bodybuilder, I think, right? - Yeah, yeah. It's a picture that I have that's signed and framed from Robert Maple Thorpe. I thought that's what I thought she had said. And I got it in an art auction. I went there with a friend with no intention to buy anything, but I bought this, everybody says they've got a real good deal on it. So it's an eight by 10 picture. But it's got enough, a letter of authenticity and everything that's said, it's really maple thorps. I don't know, I like the picture. So that's not really a thin zone if my heirs can do whatever they want with it. So they could have some value though. You know, that's a bad problem. - It probably does, it probably does. It was priced, it was in an auction, but it was valued at $5,000. But I didn't pay, I didn't even pay anywhere near $1,000. - Right, yeah, you got a good deal. - Because it's just a picture, you know, I mean, you know, and yeah, it's famous and if you collect pictures or pictures of Robert maple thorps or somebody famous like that, then it might be worth more to you. I would rather have, what's the guy to build these buildings, this architect, falling water is a lot of, I can't think of the architect. - Frank Lloyd Wright? - Frank Lloyd Wright, I'd spend a million bucks to live and own one of his houses, that's neat, you know. - Well, my son and city-to-be-daughter-in-law are getting married in the Toledo Humphrey Theater, which was designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright. - Yeah, I've heard of it. I read a book, I think I still had a book around somewhere, it's like this thick and it's big, it's a big like coffee table book on Frank Lloyd Wright and his buildings and stuff. There's several of them here in the Bay Area. - Yep, well, that's where my son is getting married and I've been, every time we talk about it, I start having the Paul Simon song. ♪ So long Frank Lloyd Wright ♪ ♪ All of those nights we harm and then still don't ♪ I think that's actually from bookends, I think it's when they were still together. - Yep. - Y'all not know that song? - Uh-uh, yeah, yeah, no, no, no. - Simon Garfunkel, yeah. - Okay. - Speaking of that, Alfie, artwork, did you see in the news, some guy at a Picasso in his attic, I think it was? And he took it out and it's a genuine Picasso. So that does happen, you know? Check your attic now and again, if you haven't checked it. Never know. - Yep, well, I mean, some of us have seen our attics. - I don't believe in my attic other than hot air and fiberglass insulation, so. - Yeah, I know, yeah. - Well, we've got some stuff up there, but mostly it's in, well, a lot of the stuff that should be in the attic is in the living room because David decided to clean and organize the garage. And somehow that meant just bringing a lot of shit and putting it in the living room. - Oh, no. - Instead of cluttering up the garage, now it's cluttering up the living room. - I used to love going up to the attic and there'd be these old magazines and photographs and you know, wow, it was like the treasure trove of the past, you know? - Of all your father's playboy and hustler magazines. I know you, Brian. - I wasn't getting to mention that, thanks Alan. - Sorry. - You know. - A lot of fathers do keep that up, you know, in attics, people that have built attics to avoid their kids from seeing it. Like, you know, I don't understand. I mean, they teach sex education. They didn't, when I went to school, but they're teaching it now to, you know, third graders and stuff that instead of so. - Wow, they taught sex education. - I was in school. - Yeah. - I was, like, in the 50s and 60s. - Yeah, yeah. - Well, not that I remember. - You didn't teach sex education. - Yeah, I mean, it was great. - You wanted to make sure it gave you a great, - Well. - Yeah, sixth grade, eighth grade, and tenth grade. - Yeah. - Family living, you know, sex ed, you know. - Yeah, but that's not what I said. I said, like, third and fourth grade. - Well, so understand, girls need it then. - Oh, I have no problem. I'm saying for me, I didn't get it. - You didn't get it, but-- - You know, probably Wayne probably went to Playboy International School when he was a kid. - Well, some girls, I remember they were talking about it at school, the girls in gym class were talking about getting your period. Because that can happen around, you know, fourth grade, fifth grade. - Fourth and fifth grade, yeah. - Yeah, wow. - As young as nine years old nowadays, well. - Yeah. - Yeah, well, I guess they better teach Brian's daughter how to behave. She's, whatever he brings her on now, it's a show, Brian Niri. - Yeah. - She's getting to be a really good-looking young woman, and, you know, I hope that she-- - He's gonna have his hands full. - His hands are gonna be full as well. - He's already talked to Phil and me and wants to learn how to shoot. (laughing) So we're gonna supposedly into some of them when things calm down a little bit. You know, we're supposed to teach 'em, take 'em to the range and teach 'em. So, I don't think, she shouldn't be able to date until she's older, she can go out with friends and groups. That's the safer way, you know. - The trouble is, is that friends and groups, if you don't know those friends and groups, as a parent, you don't know what's happening. - Oh, you should. - And also, I agree with you, it should be maybe 14 or 15 before she can have a boyfriend and go out with them on his own. You know, she's developing quickly, we're watching her grow up. And I went last the day after Christmas, Brian and Phil and I and Steve Fox, we were all met in Danville, and had an after Christmas dinner together, and she was there, sitting there, and I'm like, wow, she's gonna be one pretty girl. - Yep. - She gets older. Well, we're about to develop as he brings her on the show, and she's pretty smart. She could read the menu on her own, all she wanted was a pizza. You know, Brian says, what do you want on it? And she mentioned three or four things, and you know, Brian says, those aren't on the menu, and so she waited until the waiter came by, and she said, I want a pizza, it was a little personal pan pizza, but I want a pizza, it was an Italian restaurant, and I want this, this, this, and this on it. And the waiter wrote it down and got it for her. - Right. - That's good. - Yeah, she's a smart young girl, but you know, some boy is gonna, I hope not. You know what I mean, I really, I've seen this happen, you know, in law enforcement, but daddy maybe does need a gun, I don't know, you know. It's California, you gotta be real careful with, when you use them for, so. You can only do your best as a parent to try and keep her away from things that are dangerous that kids don't perceive as danger at that age, so. I'm sure she's nine, I think, or 10. I think she's not thinking of boys right yet, but. - Not right now, no. - I got news for you, Alan, there is no age at which girls don't think about boys unless they're lesbians. - That's true with guys too. (laughing) - That's true with guys too. - That's true with guys too, like. - From the, I can, I still am friends with the boys I had. - I still am friends with the boys I had crushes on when I was in preschool. - Yeah, I was in shock. The first time I went to a child juvenile that had been raped by a 16-year-old boy, she was nine or 10, and I'm like, I'm like, oh, this couldn't have happened. She's making this up, and I was doing the officer, I think, in the original statement called for a detective, and I showed up there, and I'm like, oh, please tell me that this didn't happen. He says, I think it did happen, and she can explain in great detail what happened. And, you know, mama's crying, and dad's upset, and I just had her re-explain it, and I was like, holy shit, where is this kid? I want to go beat him within an inch of his life, I mean, I couldn't believe some 16. Unfortunately, she knew where he lived and everything, and he didn't rape her, per se. You know, he talked her into it, it wasn't, I guess it wasn't forced, but it was certainly, you know, child molestation. And he was 16, but he was more mature, and we went and arrested him, and the judge tried him as an adult. He ended up going to the state prison for 10 years or something. - Wow. - Yeah, well, it wasn't a pretty thing. And I just kept thinking about her ruining her life over this. And then, that's kind of what I realized that she did not perceive him as a threat, you know? And I'm like, nine, really? The nine-year-old girls are looking at guys already, and, you know, and I'm like, wow. That was, it wasn't an eye opener, so. But when I was nine years old, I was looking at girls, so there we go, I guess it's, you know it? You know, I don't know what I was thinking of doing with them. Kissing would be probably the biggest thing I would do with a girl at nine years old, or. - Right. - Holy hands. - I can remember. - I can remember going to pick Jim up at preschool, at daycare, not even really preschool, daycare. And the mother's would say, that's Jim long. My little girl says she's gonna marry him. Like all of the mothers of all the little girls, they were all going to marry Jim. He was a little charmer. - Yeah. - That's good. I have a funny joke that's a picture, but maybe I shouldn't, I sent it out, I'm sure, but I'll send it to him. Amy's got a good sense of humor. It's funny. It's funny, but go ahead, keep talking at your show. I'll just put it on the thing. - We got two minutes left, and it's Friday night. Why don't we do some trivia? - Okay. - Take it all. - All right. Let's see, I'm gonna start with Brian and work my way around. - Brian, what is the last name of Sylvester Stallone's character in Rocky? - Balboa. - Yeah. - That is correct. Wayne, what city is the historic center of the U.S. auto industry and home of the headquarters of General Motors and Ford? - Detroit. - Correct. - Charlie, what is the capital of Portugal? - Lisbon. - Correct. Alan, who directed the 1994 film "Cope Fiction"? - Francis Ford Coppola, fuck, I don't know. You know, I think I've seen the movie, I might even have the DVD, it's been a long time. So I don't know who the director is. - You asked all these guys easy questions. - And it's something about movies or music, which I know very little about it, figures. - Anybody? - Quentin Tarantino. - Correct. - All right. Brian, how do you say Japan and Japanese? - Nepal. - Correct. Wayne, how many Disney resorts are there in Europe? (laughing) - One. - Correct. Where's it at? - I think it's in France. - It is, it's in Paris. - Well, I thought that'd be a snomper. - Charlie, you painted the painting "The Scream". - I'm gonna say Vincent Van Gogh. - Nope. - Nope. - Anybody? - John Wayne Gacy. - Edward Munch. - Edward Munch. - Oh, Munch, that's right, I'm sorry. - Ooh. - Edward Munch. - I was just reading the book. - Edward Munch, oh, okay. I went against that. - All right, Ellen, how long does it take the earth to rotate half a turn around its axis? - 12 hours. - Correct. - All right. - Thank you, Trump. (laughing) He didn't even say anything, but I couldn't let him answer that. - Brian, what is the chemical symbol for carbon dioxide? - CO2. - Correct. Wayne, what profession does the cartoon character tint and have? - I don't know. - Tint, Tint and what's the word, porter? - Well, I was gonna say an oil can, oh well. (laughing) - That's not a profession. - Yeah, it could be. Let me oil you, let me grease you, no, ain't no. (laughing) - Charlie, in what year did the blend wall fall? (laughing) In what year did the blend wall fall? - 1991. - No. - Oh, close. - Reagan was in office. - Nope. - Oh, that's right. - Nope. - Wasn't it '89? - It was '89. - '89. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - So Reagan wasn't in office? - No, George-- - I thought Reagan took credit for it. - Well, Reagan was the one that gave the speech tear down this wall. - Tear down that wall. - It actually came down while George H.W. Bush was in office. - Oh, okay. That's what I was thinking it was '90, why? I knew H.W. Bush was in office. - Yeah, the first year he was in office. - Yeah, he was only in office, never mind. - Four years, yeah, four years is gonna sing. - A couple things came tumbling down while Bush's were in office. - Yeah. - We were talking about World Trade Center. That was Debbie. - Yeah. - I like the pictures, the cartoon pictures of him. He was reading to the classroom, but the book was upside down in his hands. - Yep. - Was it really? - Yeah. - No, it was something. - Yeah, it was. - Somebody slipped it over. - No, it was. - Oh. - Oh, it was? - Yeah, it was. (laughing) - I think it was rather famously-- - I know what it was tapping out. - It was holding the book upside down. - I got it, Minnie, it was pretty cool. He didn't cost panic in the classroom. - Yep. - Because it took him a half hour for the Secret Service outside to explain to him what happened. - All right, Alan, who is the cat and who is the mouse in Tom and Jerry cartoons? - Oh, that's an easy one. I've never seen one of them. So I wouldn't know. Tom. - Go ahead. - Go ahead. - Tom is the cat. - Correct. - And Jerry is the mouse. - Correct. - Wow. - I mean, it's pretty obvious 'cause the name Tom. - Well, yeah, Tom and Pat. - That's the big clue, yeah, yeah. You don't even have to have seen it once. Yeah, there's ways to-- - Yeah, knowing that. - Yeah. - Tom and Pat. All right, Brian, what is the name? - The name of the little mermaid in the Disney movie of the same name. - Oh, man, I don't think I know that. The name of the little mermaid. - No. - Works you. - I bet Charlie knows. - Yep, I know. - I really, I couldn't. I'll just say Sylvia. - Charlie? - No. - Ariel. - Oh, yeah, Ariel. Very good familiar now, yeah. - I only watched that movie about 400 times. - That's right, you have some kids. You have your kids, yeah. - Yeah, particularly the little girl. Well, and I went to, you know, that story is by Hans Christian Anderson. And when I was seven years old, my sister, Kim, was dancing in the Danish ballet theater. So we spent a summer in Europe. And we went to Hans Christian Anderson's house. And we stayed in this little inn that had apple trees with apples growing on 'em in the courtyard. It was really, the whole town looked like it came out of a Hans Christian Anderson book. - Wow. - It was the neatest thing. - I think my worst birthday party was my mother and one of the other kids, mother, chaperone, drove us down to San Jose. And we watched the movie that had just come out called The Sound of Music. Now I like the movie because now I understand it. But then I think I was like, I don't know, 10 years old. And I'm like, why are we here instead of, you know, somewhere exciting, but, you know, whatever. - Well, I mean, - Barry Poppins would have been better. - Musicals were kind of an event in my family. You know, if one came on TV, we'd all go watch in my parents' room. And the first movie I saw in the theater more than once was a musical and it was Thoroughly Modern Millie. - Oh, yeah. - Which has kind of a dark undertone story for a five year old. - Yeah. - It's about the girls in this boarding house are being kidnapped and taken to opium, den, slave, sex slave to bees. - I didn't know that's what the movie was about. - Yeah, I didn't know that either. I like the sex slave part, but, you know, the opium, I don't know, I'm not into drugs, so. (laughs) - Well. - You gotta admit it, you gotta admit it. - I know, I know, I know. - Okay, well, I'm supposed to be the official watchkeeper here. (laughs) - I love musicals now. You know, they're just stopping to dialogue and all of a sudden they break down into silence. (laughs) - Yeah. - You know what I'm like. - Very poppins are fizzing on the room. - When I loved about the movie, Despicable Me, what the little girl does, what little girls do, which is break into song about anything and everything at the drop of a hat. - And then you'll have the ice cream and the ice cream, good, and dancing with my ice cream cone. (laughs) Little girl do that, I did that. - I never remember that. I always remember girls dancing and then pissing on the floor. - I've been never, I've never saw that. - Oh, well, come to California. - And, what? Stop, don't, don't, don't. - You dance all the time. - I don't remember any girls fizzing on the floor. - Yeah, yeah, don't clarify. - They got excited and had an accident. - Oh, we'll just leave it at that. I guess that was too boring. - Yeah, that was uncalled for. All right, Wayne, what was Bobby Fisher exceptionally good at? - Just. - Oh, that is correct. Well, that's all we have time for today. As I remind you, every week, get registered, get informed, get politically active and go vote. And by the way, if you aren't registered yet in the state of Texas or the state of Ohio, make sure you check it and find a deputy registrar on Monday, or Sunday night, Sunday. You only got a couple of days, get it done. All right, that's it for today. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music)