[SPEAKER_01]: Michael Mera, Radio Entertainment.
[SPEAKER_06]: The higher you get the game, and then the analogy lobby is quite with us.
[SPEAKER_06]: We will start the show.
[SPEAKER_01]: T-M-O-S, classic.
[SPEAKER_07]: Friday, flashback.
[SPEAKER_07]: Our good friend, my classmate, my fellow American University alum, Tony Birkin from Tony.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_07]: They didn't get you.
[SPEAKER_07]: We get you today.
[SPEAKER_07]: I am so glad to have you here.
[SPEAKER_07]: I've I've I've guessed it with you more than you've guessed it with me.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, no, in the old radio days You used to pop in a lot because you love doing that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love doing this.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love hanging with you guys It is great fun.
[SPEAKER_07]: Is this your first time to the living room?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, it is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_03]: We haven't seen you in summer years Not not not been to the living room.
[SPEAKER_03]: Mike has never had me to his home
[SPEAKER_03]: There was a party once, and I worked it, so yeah, and good job, too, thank you.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I will say, Tony, the canna pay, they would deluscious.
[SPEAKER_07]: Everybody was satisfied anyway.
[SPEAKER_07]: Now let's do it because we have to do it on Thursday.
[SPEAKER_07]: So bear with us before we get to panel and we talk about everything that we have to do.
[SPEAKER_07]: We have to get to a Thursday.
[SPEAKER_07]: Thursday is birthday day.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's right, and let's get right to it last Friday.
[SPEAKER_07]: Listen for life Tommy Pico had a birthday, but his girlfriend sent a request late and left out all the particulars But happy birthday Tommy last year Mike met listeners Jason and April Hill known since as the swingers from Buffalo.
[SPEAKER_07]: Remember them.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, she was a hottie.
[SPEAKER_07]: How about him April's birthday.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't care
[SPEAKER_07]: April's birthday was Friday, and she'd like to hear Oscar thank her for keeping it tight.
[SPEAKER_07]: He can't.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's no longer among us.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, that's gone.
[SPEAKER_07]: Sunday, Darrell Taylor turned 40, which means he has now spent half his life listening to us.
[SPEAKER_07]: Wow, it makes me feel old.
[SPEAKER_07]: Zachary Ryan earned a nickname, Zach the Doosh on Tuesday.
[SPEAKER_07]: He turned 28, which means his doucheous days are still ahead of us.
[SPEAKER_07]: We met Dale West of Reno.
[SPEAKER_07]: He turned 55.
[SPEAKER_07]: Tuesday, Dale party late with Mike and Rob.
[SPEAKER_07]: His wife got a birthday song from Buzz and he's pretty sure Oscar made his girlfriends.
[SPEAKER_07]: Nipple's move.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oscar has this power.
[SPEAKER_07]: Also Tuesday, Stephanie 4 is out of birthday.
[SPEAKER_07]: Listener, long before the podcast she would love a greeting from Jesse Ventura.
[SPEAKER_07]: Stephanie, it's a conspiracy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you not really go?
[SPEAKER_07]: You don't think it's really your birthday?
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't think so.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a matter of fact, I don't think there's such a thing as a birthday.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's just sort of something like the establishment says it.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think we're all hatched.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yesterday Alex E. from turn 33 and he'd like Charlie to tell him the secret to living such a right to such a ripe old age I don't know Charlie old.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm very old.
[SPEAKER_07]: How old are you?
[SPEAKER_07]: 73.
[SPEAKER_07]: No not yet.
[SPEAKER_07]: 72.
[SPEAKER_07]: What am I going to be 73?
[SPEAKER_07]: December 13th of this year.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, Rob.
[SPEAKER_07]: Anyway, Twilight Rieger turned seven yesterday.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's seven.
[SPEAKER_07]: That greeting is important to your uncle long time.
[SPEAKER_07]: Listen, there's Spencer.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Have some of your own kids, Spencer.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, no.
[SPEAKER_07]: I've gotten male from Spencer.
[SPEAKER_07]: You don't reproduce.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: Today, Keenan McCree and Pittsburgh, California, turned 38.
[SPEAKER_07]: Loves the birthday segment.
[SPEAKER_07]: I would like to hear from the fully-tergent Jim Nance from the Masters.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, my God.
[SPEAKER_07]: A delightful day at Augusta.
[SPEAKER_07]: The azalealine fairways give way to the blue skies of Augusta Georgia as the players remove their pants and frolic naked.
[SPEAKER_07]: Give me what's the what's the other cabin in Butler cabin and then the skinny-diving continues well into the evening as they dip into raised Creek Ignoring the leaches and enjoying a beautiful afternoon that is the the majesty of a ghost and any point Mr. Nads yes, Rob Hi Jim will you be receiving a branch anywhere from the Eisenhower pine the Eisenhower pine will be Slowly and carefully insert it in all the right places
[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you very well, I have to do more than I forgot.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_07]: I thought you would do it for the It's manic.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, oh that means there'll be some writing tonight.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_07]: There'll be some drunk in writing tonight Let's see.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, we've got Michael White turned 39.
[SPEAKER_07]: He'd love a greeting from DC's mayor for life.
[SPEAKER_05]: Marion Barry As well as say my beatings is under control.
[SPEAKER_05]: I got the sugars and I'm doing my very best.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thank very much Michael White
[SPEAKER_07]: So Maro Scotty, Hulick turns 30 and would be mightily amused to hear anything from Keras and Keeler.
[SPEAKER_07]: Very well.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is a popular one, Mike.
[SPEAKER_04]: He turns 30, girls from Cameraman, over and out.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Jake Campbell of Madison was constant turns 39 tomorrow, and he'd like some wisdom from Smart Charlie.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, Daniel T.T.
[SPEAKER_07]: turns 40 Saturday.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's his, where the only show that cares about yogurt makers.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is true.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's a dirty little thing we did early in the week.
[SPEAKER_07]: We'll explain it later, Tony.
[SPEAKER_07]: He'd be much obliged if Mike would talk up a record any record for Daniel T.T.
[SPEAKER_07]: turning 40.
[SPEAKER_07]: You feel up to it?
[SPEAKER_07]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, chose your favorite.
[SPEAKER_07]: I do believe Mike.
[SPEAKER_02]: 15 minutes after the hour of 11 o'clock.
[SPEAKER_07]: We want to say hi to the annual teaching who turned 40 on Saturdays and last Saturday Or is it this Saturday?
[SPEAKER_07]: We're really not sure, but it doesn't matter smoking joint do a line of code have a beer and have a great birthday party
[SPEAKER_07]: Hi, baby.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's still got it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I could maybe.
[SPEAKER_07]: Sunday April, Hicks turns 30 and she just isn't excited.
[SPEAKER_07]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_07]: Her husband wonders if a sexy greeting from Buzz would help April.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, sure.
[SPEAKER_06]: April, I just want you to know.
[SPEAKER_06]: My prostate is ready to serve.
[SPEAKER_06]: What was that?
[SPEAKER_07]: I was just a woman spreading the sir is ready to serve ready is ready to serve and how are you preparing this prostate like in a slow cooker Last two on Monday Michael Connor Connor turns 31 he's been listening since WAVA today He's a programmer at Facebook and also expecting a baby.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I can relate to that
[SPEAKER_07]: Michael Butler's been listening since before he was born 21 years ago He'd like a greeting from an old favorite Ben the W J of K engineer Sure, yeah, Ben the W J of K janitor.
[SPEAKER_06]: Hi, Michael
[SPEAKER_06]: This is great.
[SPEAKER_06]: Happy birthday, everybody.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's the amount of effort that Ben used to do in keeping the building, but I love having guests in the studio.
[SPEAKER_07]: I love Oscar from China.
[SPEAKER_07]: I like doing the birthdays when we're not supposed to do them, but I'm ready for normalcy.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, okay, let's relax.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it is, so it, we welcome you, and now we finally can just talk about you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, that's all, because you are an old pal of mine, and you have been in every quadrant of television broadcasting.
[SPEAKER_07]: You have been to the top of the mountain.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: On ABC's Good Morning America.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm at Channel Faw.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I'm in my living room and it only gets worse that Hey, you're in a television station.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm doing.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm sitting there where, you know, old people fart.
[SPEAKER_07]: But Mike, you know, to make you feel better.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm not even in my own living room.
[SPEAKER_07]: I have to come to yours.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's even worse.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you, uh, I think that you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you know, you were the weather guy.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, you were at Channel 5.
[SPEAKER_07]: You were a field reporter.
[SPEAKER_07]: You kind of the human interest reporter.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then you moved to the, the weather desk.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was actually I did weather and a feature reporting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was, uh, remember back in the day there was Tom Sater.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, the weather guy and Holly Morris.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[SPEAKER_03]: The feature reporter.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was,
[SPEAKER_07]: I was both of them when they're in features like Lowell Meltzer that this is yeah, but Tony's but Tony's success right that's the difference and now you are a officially an anchor.
[SPEAKER_03]: I moved out of the world of weather to the anchor desk and great and you're enjoying your your life over channel.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's that's that's a good thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well I mean because I like you guys I love the people I work with and I'm very honest.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a great crew there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well it's a fun medium.
[SPEAKER_07]: How long have you been a channel five?
[SPEAKER_03]: Complicated question.
[SPEAKER_07]: I've been there eight years now, but I was there for about eight years before good morning America So total 16 years and Tony is a graduate of American University back in the day when we used to play air guitars to the Rolling Stones Or did outside a little RV that we had set up because we we did a muscular dystrophy radio thought
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what?
[SPEAKER_03]: I remember most about that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I would be, uh, I would be Mick Jagger.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you loved Mick Jagger.
[SPEAKER_07]: You loved doing your Mick Jagger impression.
[SPEAKER_03]: But we would have this little trailer set up.
[SPEAKER_03]: And early in the day, we would set up like, uh, milk crates to look like a drum set.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[SPEAKER_03]: And cover them with a blanket.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now people could see us doing this.
[SPEAKER_03]: We would set it up.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it looked like drums that were really under this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[SPEAKER_03]: And wait a couple of hours.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then we would people, we would start to get this room going that the Rolling Stones are going to be out here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not great.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's under a blanket.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like the rolling so it's going to perform on the quad and I do.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I remember that I was not in the band.
[SPEAKER_07]: I was kind of on the periphery of that.
[SPEAKER_07]: I would I.
[SPEAKER_07]: There were pictures of me that somebody took where I was interviewing kids watching the Rolling Stones.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, is that where the
[SPEAKER_07]: That picture is from.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's a little picture with a two horrified children.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, and you with all that hair Why there were small children on a college campus?
[SPEAKER_07]: I do not know.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't think it was any of the co-eds kids No, I don't think so far as I knew and I was sitting there and then it was like Ron Kirsch and Jeff Goldie Jeff Gold and
[SPEAKER_07]: Shalom, Rabbi, Shmoley, I mean it was like everybody else that was there, and Tony and I were the only goys in the whole group Yeah, they could call the band the Rolling Stones.
[SPEAKER_07]: The Rolling Stones, but it was the, and we all worked at the radio station on campus there at At American University
[SPEAKER_07]: good times good times you spun records and you had your your beer party didn't you do it like something that where you would drink and else that Tony will remember that because Tony probably didn't hang out Tony didn't you know you you didn't roar as much as I did because I nobody did it's the reason why you're more successful than I'm because I you I punched into alcoholism at a very
[SPEAKER_07]: And so I was the club DJ at 61 WAM Unite at the tavern, which was on Tuesday nights.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I don't think I've ever said this in front of you when I went through, I can still remember how I laid out my schedule.
[SPEAKER_07]: I wouldn't have a class until probably six o'clock on 630 classes on Monday nights.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I didn't have my first class of the week until 630 on Monday night.
[SPEAKER_07]: Now, did you say during the fall, it would be, uh, like, I would always start the party because it really was just not my son Friday.
[SPEAKER_07]: It would, we would start, I'll take you through Monday, okay, Monday was recovery day.
[SPEAKER_07]: Of course.
[SPEAKER_07]: And we would, because we would be watching the football games on Sunday and that would party, you know, we party all in the evening on that way.
[SPEAKER_07]: Then we'd have recovery day on Monday.
[SPEAKER_07]: Then I would have a class in 630.
[SPEAKER_07]: I would have maybe one class on Tuesday.
[SPEAKER_07]: Tuesday night was 61 wam united the tavern which went very very last convenience and then I'd have a couple of classes on Wednesday It's terrible that Wednesday was like lab day Very very it's just everybody's studying everybody's working on one.
[SPEAKER_07]: Did very dull day on a college campus Thursday's the beginning of the weekend
[SPEAKER_07]: So maybe an early morning class on Thursday but doubtful because I'd be ramping up and then we would have the pregame for just going out on the town and Thursday night we would go out like we'd go to Armons, Chicago style pizza rhea and drink beers we go down to Alexandria and go to the fish market and drink their scooters of beer there and that was Thursday night going out because Friday you would normally have a toga party on on Friday night
[SPEAKER_07]: That would be down in the in the regular community hall where we would all put Togas on and then Friday and Saturday nights would be in house part.
[SPEAKER_06]: So every week you would squeeze in one serious day of going to college.
[SPEAKER_06]: It was more of a day of recovery than it was.
[SPEAKER_07]: When you talked about laying out your seriously, it's what my junior and senior year, that's kind of my schedule.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's what I was doing.
[SPEAKER_07]: When you talked about laying out your schedule, you were very precise about times of classes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Did the classes themselves matter?
[SPEAKER_07]: Did you know what classes they were?
[SPEAKER_07]: It was just you needed something that was started at six o'clock on a Monday.
[SPEAKER_07]: I you know you couldn't you couldn't be you couldn't narrow casted that well you could you could do your schedule, but you couldn't do what classes you were going to take Okay, they followed a certain time sure.
[SPEAKER_07]: I know I had a I think the United States history course on Monday nights and it would just be I'd be sitting there You know on this thing like eight throw just going
[SPEAKER_03]: I never parted.
[SPEAKER_03]: Was it fun?
[SPEAKER_03]: I know, that's what the part of you.
[SPEAKER_07]: You were preparing for your future.
[SPEAKER_07]: Look what happened with you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Meanwhile, you know, beautiful education, you know?
[SPEAKER_07]: Bachelor of Arts degrees in broadcast journalism for both of us, you know, you used yours.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, me, I was, you know, I was basically going out to, you know, to spin records at, you know, at WOH and in herndon.
[SPEAKER_07]: When you had that Monday night class, was it a once a week class, it was a lengthy class, was there a break in the middle?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_07]: You ever drink during the break?
[SPEAKER_07]: Left during the break.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, a lot of times more awful than that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I did a graduate.
[SPEAKER_07]: Listen, I, well, I barely did.
[SPEAKER_07]: Skinnavis, do you remember the algebra competency requirement that we had at American University?
[SPEAKER_07]: Do you remember that?
[SPEAKER_07]: You probably didn't require it because you got great grades in elementary.
[SPEAKER_07]: Because I don't remember doing that.
[SPEAKER_07]: I, I, I transferred it.
[SPEAKER_07]: So there, you went to all four years, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, I did.
[SPEAKER_07]: Four.
[SPEAKER_07]: I, I, I, I transferred it really four and a half.
[SPEAKER_07]: So shall we call you Dr. Perkins?
[SPEAKER_03]: No, no, no, I just, like, it became, I don't know what happened.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
[SPEAKER_07]: And so I went to American University and they had an algebra competency requirement and I am so mathematically challenged as you guys know from all these years of working True, and we had to take an algebra competency test if you hadn't achieved I think it had to be a seat plus or better in an algebra course.
[SPEAKER_07]: I got to see in my one like remedial algebra course that I took at American University
[SPEAKER_07]: So I had to take right up to 1981 to the spring semester of 81.
[SPEAKER_07]: I was still toiling every week and we went in the last time I was going to take it before I'd have to go back and go to the next semester and they made an announcement that if you had achieved a sea minus or better that they would wave the algebra competency requirement.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I took the test anyway and I passed it and so the long and short of it was I graduated from
[SPEAKER_03]: You're still using it.
[SPEAKER_03]: You said the long and short of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's a milder return.
[SPEAKER_07]: X equals Y Z.
[SPEAKER_07]: Never got it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Perfect.
[SPEAKER_07]: The good thing about it is after you pass the test, what a reason to celebrate.
[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe you could have a drink.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, there's a picture of me standing next to my father at graduation, and I was not well.
[SPEAKER_07]: We will take a break and come back with what we with Tony Perkins from Fox 5.
[SPEAKER_07]: We'll be right back on the Michael Maris.
[SPEAKER_01]: T.M.O.S.
[SPEAKER_07]: Classic.
[SPEAKER_07]: there are a few things I would like to discuss uh i'd like to talk about social networking and civility that's in the news is it turns out because there is a survey out today and we'll cover that one but there is a huge viral video that's making its way around uh the internet and also mainstream media right now it's a video of a guy in a kayak
[SPEAKER_07]: who is fishing out of his kayak, which I've seen a lot of people do that, and there's a shark that apparently goes after a tuna that he's got on the line.
[SPEAKER_07]: He hooks a bluefin I think.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it breaches in back of him and I think it's complete crap.
[SPEAKER_07]: And nobody has said it yet, but it seems to me it's just like when the baby was picked up by the hawk, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: I think it's exactly the same thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: And these things get to mainstream media without being properly vetted
[SPEAKER_06]: And I still think it's a thing, but how do you get a shark to come out at a certain time unless it's one of the Spielberg's mechanical sharks?
[SPEAKER_07]: This is all done by computers.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is what I think.
[SPEAKER_07]: The guy is sitting in a, well, you know about TV, Tony.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's sitting, he's sitting in my eyes and he's got some of these.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's got his little fishing line and then you look in perfectly frame over his right shoulder is the shark face and all coming out of the water.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I think it's crap.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's funny with you.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think they're matching up maybe two different videos.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you can, I mean, people can do this in their home.
[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_03]: Very clean, very professional.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's a fake too.
[SPEAKER_07]: And there is, isn't there a school in Canada specifically?
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, the, the baby in the Hawke video was actually a homework assignment.
[SPEAKER_07]: for a Canadian school for a Canadian school.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I get you hear that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, we're that they say we want you to see if you can generate a video that we go viral, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: So this seems to be what people do now.
[SPEAKER_07]: And when it's a perfect video, now it's quick.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see the shark come out of the water.
[SPEAKER_07]: And the only way you see the full face of the shark is when it's freeze-framed, but it seems to me like it might be.
[SPEAKER_07]: It would have to require an amazing amount of luck from every angle to make it be captured just that.
[SPEAKER_07]: And was it shot?
[SPEAKER_07]: with the camera like this with the phone up and down or lengthwise because it looks like one of those what are those cameras we had when we went to go pro.
[SPEAKER_07]: It looks like it's a GoPro where he's got it you know.
[SPEAKER_07]: The resolution is just grainy enough where maybe they could alter it around a little bit.
[SPEAKER_06]: I hadn't thought about that but now that you presented what are we supposed to believe anymore.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean you can't believe anything your eyes you can't believe what you see next you're going to say reality shows aren't real.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_03]: I like that buzz is so old school that his original question about this was how do you get the shark to come up at that angle?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, not that it was tripped off of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, you were going back to Spielberg like they're gonna have some plastic shark This is done with the day Mike right when you do your fake videos that he would sneak in the universal studio
[SPEAKER_07]: So let's talk about the the whole deal.
[SPEAKER_07]: I am I'm making no secret about the fact and I know you have to be neutral in your roles in Anchor Man So you don't have to comment on this, but the NRA is now informed Congress.
[SPEAKER_07]: They will be evaluating and scoring the legislators based on this This upcoming legislation that may not even get up to the field.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, and I just wanted to say f off All of them.
[SPEAKER_07]: What jerk store.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's exactly what it is.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I'm not quitting
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm not quitting.
[SPEAKER_07]: I was on Facebook this morning, and I knew what I was going to get, and it spilled over when it spills over into the social networking.
[SPEAKER_07]: I know exactly what's going to happen to me, and I know that there's going to be an immediate response because people are so passionate.
[SPEAKER_07]: The length that I shared today, which was from a guy named Bob Miles, and he wrote, if your first reaction to shootings is to think
[SPEAKER_07]: OS Obama slash liberals are going to try to take our guns your priorities as a human being suck.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, and all I did was just post that on my page.
[SPEAKER_00]: He just shared it.
[SPEAKER_07]: I just shared it with it.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's exactly what the dude's faggle terminology is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, shared it on your page.
[SPEAKER_07]: I shared it and immediately without any hesitation.
[SPEAKER_07]: People went badass.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you know, Mike, if you really knew what was going on, why is it that people?
[SPEAKER_07]: And I just, look,
[SPEAKER_07]: I understand it's going to provoke debate and people are going to talk about this type of thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: But, you know, there was a survey that we have become less civil.
[SPEAKER_07]: Is that what is?
[SPEAKER_07]: Do you have that story?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_06]: A new survey shows that 78% of us, nearly four out of five of us have noticed that our friends are getting rudder in their posts and responses on Facebook eight out of 10 of them.
[SPEAKER_06]: Martin, you're pointing at
[SPEAKER_06]: Mark.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, he's a more rude.
[SPEAKER_06]: I sure.
[SPEAKER_06]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_06]: Can you post and responses on on and Facebook, and in fact one in five of us have actually defended somebody in real life dropped a real life friend because of something we saw online.
[SPEAKER_07]: I've done it to family.
[SPEAKER_07]: I've done it to family based on political rants that I mean, I'm all four people having their opinion, but when you come,
[SPEAKER_03]: outwardly accusing other people of being stupid for disagreeing with you, and I'm talking about blood relatives I just I don't want to read it on my page the problem with social media is it people when you look at it It devolves the level of discourse devolves very quickly immediately very quickly There may be two lines of reasoned argument and then it's the name calling and Yes, how have you how have you managed to stay off Facebook?
[SPEAKER_03]: uh... it this has been a battle because we recently uh... at my job the mandate was everybody get on facebook we need you out there right you got to be every media out of wants to do that actually i went to the boss and said i'm not on facebook as a choice i'm not on it personally i don't want to be on it professionally i don't want to have that
[SPEAKER_03]: kind of discourse going on because it happens very quickly.
[SPEAKER_06]: Sure, you have an engine, my friend request.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I just, you know, yesterday, Allison, lovely Allison, my co-anchor.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: She came to my desk.
[SPEAKER_03]: She said, look, it was just posted on well, I was like, my hand was like, so sloppy.
[SPEAKER_03]: What was that?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's my favorite.
[SPEAKER_03]: On her Facebook, someone posted two pornographic photos.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, is there a general talker?
[SPEAKER_03]: Talker, talker, it's not me doing this.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is what I'd like to do to you.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, yeah, it was crazy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, scary, really.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't want.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: I had a moment today though that this is I will call this my social networking happy ending.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, and I'm not the happy end of the Oscars talking.
[SPEAKER_07]: He really loves Facebook.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is, uh, I'm trying to find the guy.
[SPEAKER_07]: His name is Kevin.
[SPEAKER_07]: I won't give you his name, but uh, he was talking.
[SPEAKER_07]: He was one of these guys.
[SPEAKER_07]: What you get when you have the gun people that are making their arguments, they give you a lot of statistics about other things that can kill kids.
[SPEAKER_07]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, and this guy was doing swimming pools.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: So it got me a little a little little pee because I was getting so many of these from everybody where I just thought it was kind of nice to when something like this happens, I, I'm a believer that you should reflect on the tragedy and show compassion for the people that have gone through the tragedy.
[SPEAKER_07]: That was really the reason I posted this.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, there was an Obama there.
[SPEAKER_07]: There was a liberal there.
[SPEAKER_07]: And maybe and that gets people all up and on to push buttons.
[SPEAKER_07]: but the gun people also get kind of out of their minds about it and so they will throw this statistics and I was getting dozens I got about 70 messages today and about half of them of course is usually is the case are from the people that are saying don't take our guns don't reach into our houses and do we have to break?
[SPEAKER_07]: We do, we got 20 seconds.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, when I come back, I'm gonna share with you the social networking happy ending that really was a good story.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think it'll touch your heart, everybody.
[SPEAKER_07]: We'll take a break, go back out of the bike over here, she'll thank you for your thought, sugar party.
[SPEAKER_01]: T.M.O.S.
[SPEAKER_01]: Classic.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is said that time waits for no man.
[SPEAKER_07]: And when that man realizes that his time has come, he will check his watch to make sure that he is in the correct time zone.
[SPEAKER_07]: Forward the passing of each season, summer to fall, winter to spring.
[SPEAKER_07]: A man can only wait for his time to come, because as the sands funnel through the hourglass of history,
[SPEAKER_07]: a man can hope in some small way to make his mark on the passage of time and in doing so cement his place on the wall of timeliness that marks the ticking of each individual timepiece.
[SPEAKER_07]: Because as we all know, time takes time and time pieces take on many forms.
[SPEAKER_07]: The gold watch of the plantation owner.
[SPEAKER_07]: The hourglass of the ancient Polymorphians.
[SPEAKER_07]: The battered wristwatch of the Grizzled World War II dogface.
[SPEAKER_07]: The oversized wrist ornament of a sweating Kardashian.
[SPEAKER_07]: All mark time in their own special way.
[SPEAKER_07]: And be it time exorollek, psycho or fossil, boulevard, orzebollios.
[SPEAKER_07]: With each stroke of the second hand, the universal march of time weaves its way through the fabric and seasons of a man's life.
[SPEAKER_07]: And when that bell of April tolls, when the little and big hands land in their pre-determined locations to summon the Great White Horde, sprinkled with the select chosen few minorities and four.
[SPEAKER_07]: All with timepieces synchronized, all waiting to see if their muscular frames will fit into the magic jacket of green.
[SPEAKER_07]: all hoping against hope that on Sunday their glands will produce the sweat that seeps into the tailors' green jacket.
[SPEAKER_07]: For it is the perspiration that signifies the time itself, the moisture of the ages, oozing and dripping that is absorbed into the waiting clean towel of competition.
[SPEAKER_07]: On the Azalea-Scented Contest, the body odor of the fairway gladiators will take charge.
[SPEAKER_07]: With a whafting scent that will waft over the waiting patrons, from Butler cabin to the Eisenhower Pine.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh my God, wait.
[SPEAKER_07]: The Eisenhower pine is no longer.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yes, the Eisenhower pine has gone.
[SPEAKER_07]: Dead, deceased, no longer, worm food, mulch, so long, fair friend, into that big forest in the sky.
[SPEAKER_07]: From Amen, corner to the servants entrance of the back of the grill.
[SPEAKER_07]: That whafting scent will mean only one thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: That the time has come for hooty and Bubba and Billy and the boys to head on down to the jacket closet and find just the right garment for just the right champion.
[SPEAKER_07]: Then, we will all know that it is time to wind our watches once again.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, and we wait another year to skip down Magnolia Lane, Tongues a wagon, and ready to enjoy that thing that's the master's job.
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