St. Louis Curfews, Bail Bond Rabbit Holes & Taco Bell Prophecies

Bright: Welcome back to the notorious Friday Night Posse. This is season two, episode twenty-three. And yes, this is part two of last week's July Hangout episode with Bright and Duds. We couldn't record this week, so we split the conversation in half. And honestly, part two may have aged better than anything we've ever recorded. Because somehow, in the same episode, we predicted Jordan Walker winning the home run derby, and we also got ahead of the Taco Bell Explosive Diarrhea story before that. Fully hit the fan. That is not journalism. That is not analysis. That is NFNP prophecy. In this one, we get into St. Louis Sports, Jordan Walker, the Cardinals, CDSC frustration, the new downtown curfew laws, firework chaos, families not feeling safe downtown, a follow-up to our Ken W. Good Bailbond interview, listener comments from TikTok and X, Rizzuto. Maybe Stealing Our Homework, Taco Bell's Gastrointestinal Crisis, Housing Prices, Immigration, Birthright Citizenship, Netflix cancellations, Jason Bateman, Stranger Things, Conspiracies, and WoMore. Part one was Fireworks Soccer Pain and NATO's Bar Tab. Part two is St. Louis curcus, Bailbonds, and Taco Bell Prophecy. Top the top, kick back, join the posse. Finally, you know, I don't know. We you know, the Cardinals I feel like we are they playing now? What you let me know. I'm in my eye and I can't see it, but

Duds: They're playing right now too, aren't Let's see. Let's look that up here. Let's see how they're doing.

Bright: Yeah, you know, I think everybody felt like they were doing good. We were exceeding expectations, but now I think we're kind of right back to probably what the expectations were. You know, we're blowing leads. Yeah, and it doesn't sound good. Yeah. It's already over. Yeah. Yeah. yeah, that that is not great. You know, and we we were just short of sweeping the cubs.

Duds: Ooh. Eight to four loss. So we lost four out of five.

Bright: You know, and so you have a chance of a sweep and then you you lose the last game and then now you lose four to four four and five. So now you've lost five of your last six games. Like you're not you're not doing great there. So

Duds: Mm-hmm. No. I mean nobody I don't think expected him to do great this season, but they did start out a lot better, you know.

Bright: Well I think that was the thing. We started out really good. Jordan Walker was doing great. He made the All Star game. He's gonna he's gonna do the home run derby actually, next Monday. So yeah, at least that gives us something, you know. We got some players, you know, we have the MLS that's getting ready to start back up. City has their first game next week, and then we have the all-star game. There's not one City player in the All-Star Game, you know, which is disheartening. We're supposed to be expecting these big signings.

Duds: Yeah, that's next week. Yeah.

Bright: Nothing's happening. So it's kinda like boring. I mean we talked of some blue stuff and the last couple of weeks has been good, but we're still a couple of months away.

Duds: Yeah, St. Louis sports has been pretty disappointing last few years. Not much to be excited about.

Bright: Yeah, when you don't have the Cardinals playing in October, you don't have St. Louis City, like that first year was so good. You know, the Blues, I think anytime the Blues make the playoffs, you know, that's that's good. Of course, you know, you have to go all the way back to twenty nineteen, which seems like a lifetime ago now. You know, but it does, it does. But right, right, yeah, yeah. So

Duds: I know, doesn't it? Not riding that high winning the Stanley Cup anymore.

Bright: no, but I wanted to talk about have you have you heard about this curfew that they instituted downtown?

Duds: I think I did hear about that. They arrested a bunch of people, right? Yeah.

Bright: Yeah. They did. They are well, a bunch of kids. I I don't know, that you know, under arrest, you know, whatever, detained probably more

Duds: It took to like some what do they call Reuniting center or something. Yeah.

Bright: They hold them to a take them to a holding center. Yeah, reuniting center is what they call. But you know, like half the parents don't even come pick up their kids. So then the the cops had to take them to their parents' house anyway. Reunification center? Is that it? I don't know. Yeah. That that sounds like a Nazi camp too, actually. You know, but yeah, right. but yeah, but half the parents don't even come to pick up their kids, you know, and they all get citations, but you think they're gonna pay

Duds: Then they don't care. Reunification. That's what it is. Yeah. Re education center. No. I heard they took a couple of guns off some kids too.

Bright: No. So we were talk yeah, fireworks, guns, they stopped a street takeover. And I'm all for this. So I was gonna tell this story earlier, but when we were talking about Fourth of July and fireworks and all that, we know we took the kids downtown a couple of years ago. 2024, we went and saw the fireworks down at the arch and we went with my my mother and father-in-law and saw the urge. St. Louis band, shout out to Steve Ewing. And it was a great show. We had a great time downtown. Fireworks were great. But then it was time to leave. And it's just people. It's a sea of people all trying to find their way back to a car. We were parked in the parking garage. Of course, it took forever to get out of there. It's late. The kids are tired. You know, all that. But it was chaos in the sense that there were

Duds: yeah.

Bright: crazy fireworks going off like that everybody thought was gunshots. You know, they were people were kids were lighting up on the streets. They were, you know, whatever. Ever people were ducking and running for cover. They thought they thought it was a mass shooting. You know? So Caroline, but she doesn't feel safe going downtown when there's that many people because of the kids. Because of these 17, 18 year old kids that think they can do whatever they want. There's no repercussions.

Duds: yeah. Right. Mm-hmm.

Bright: There wasn't enough police, you know, all that stuff. She didn't feel safe for that's what that's what it was. It was because it was it was just us, you know. Yeah, she was like trying to cover our kids, you know. Cause it happened right next to us. And it it's of course it sounded like gunshots, you know. So, you know, and eventually I was able, you know, to look through beyond the chaos of everybody running and see the fireworks going off, you know, right next to me and be like, Okay, it's fireworks. We don't have to

Duds: Well and having your kids down there too. Like having your kids with you. Well that's you know, we talked about it talked about it last week. The they don't they don't police and they don't you know, they don't enforce the small crimes. And when people can start getting away with these cr the smaller crimes, they start doing bigger and bigger and bigger and they keep going and it starts to spiral out of control, then you just have chaos, you know. You have Dodge City, you need you need Wired Earp to come in and start cleaning this place up.

Bright: worry for our lives per se, but Yeah. Right. Sure. Absolutely. And And that is why I'm a fan of these curfews. And you know, they started this curfew on July third, which obviously that's on purpose. And they haven't they're having it run through Labor Day. So for the rest of the summer, anybody seventeen and under. Yep. Seventeen and under. Yep. Nine PM to seven or excuse me, six AM. Yes. So or you have to add like

Duds: So is that like under okay, yeah, I was gonna say under eighteen, you gotta have an adult with you or something? It's not a bad thing.

Bright: No, it's not a bad thing. You have to have documentation that you're going to work or something like that. There are exceptions. You can't just Yeah, you can't just be out on the streets, you know, doing all this stuff from nine to six. You know and Yeah. Right.

Duds: Right. Yeah, there's exceptions, right. 'Cause what are seventeen year olds and sixteen year olds gonna be doing after nine o'clock, you know, like we were back in the day.

Bright: Well what did we do back in the NFMT days, right? Like what did we do? I'm not saying that, you know, we were dumb kids too, that you know, we were talking about it throwing fireworks out of cars. We you know, we did it. We the police called on us. We we did all that stupid stuff because we thought it was funny. And it's not until you grow up and you get a little bit more perspective that you realize it's not funny. So it's not that I a hundred percent blame these kids. I understand that they are just kids, but

Duds: Throwing fireworks out of cars and Yeah. Same stupid crap, yeah. You think you're funny, but you're not. You're ignorant.

Bright: You're ignorant. That's right. the problem is a lot of them probably don't have true parents, you know. I felt like we got in trouble, we got caught, and and there were repercussions, you know, absolutely. I don't know that there are repercussions for a lot of these kids, especially downtown. Yeah, well, you know.

Duds: Sure. There was repercussions for the things you did. And that's the biggest problem is that there is none.

Bright: And then the other thing is is like of these nine, I think there were like 90 kids or something like that on the fourth of July that they detained, like I think like sixty percent of them, seventy percent of them were not even from St. Louis. You know, so you know they were what that means, they could have been from Illinois or St. Charles or you know, but they're not they're not local downtown. They're people that are coming into the downtown to cause havoc.

Duds: I mean I would say if you're from Saint Charles, I'd consider you from Saint Louis, but

Bright: So yeah, that's still say I know I get that. I get that. But if you're but if you're causing problem, it's one thing to go downtown and watch like the fireworks, but if you're going downtown for a street takeover, or you're going downtown to shoot off fireworks to scare families, you know, that's a different story. Or you're going downtown because you know that the police won't mess with you because they're dealing with other things. You know, you can't shoot off fireworks in the streets of St. Charles. You'll get arrested. But downtown, St. Louis, nobody cares. You know, it's not worth the time. So then that's why they go to do it.

Duds: Yeah, I and I don't know what the what the you know, the police force is probably shorthanded too, you know.

Bright: Well, of course they are. We know they're shorthanded. We know that they're, you know, underfunded. There's all kinds of issues there. So defund the police. That's right. We talked a a little bit about it last week. And I've got two stories to wrap up that no, I do have another. I got a couple more, man. but the the the couple I got two that connect to our episode last week, which is a great episode. you know, we had a great guest on to talk about.

Duds: Defunded the police. What happens?

Bright: you know bail bondsmen and and you know skipping bail and the lee gilly case and all kinds fun things so one great great listenership you know our this this is tracking to be one of our highest viewed episodes ever along with our our other guest episodes so that that's good are also our America 250 so our last like three episodes are tracking to be our our highest highest watched ever, which is great. All the Patriots for sure. But I am starting to wonder, so the Rosuto show, which you know I'm a fan of and I've talked talked about the Rosudo show a couple of times. I was flying up to to good old Minot, North Dakota yesterday and I was listening to the Rosuto Show podcast. And what are they talking about? Talking about Vail and Bonds and bounty hunters and all that stuff. And Scott Rosudo

Duds: All the Patriots for watching that one. No. No kidding.

Bright: He he specifically comes out and says, like, hey, I I did a deep dive on this. I wanted to learn a little bit more about the subject. And I'm like, wait a minute, do I do we have a listener here? You know, is Scott Rizzuto listening to the NFMP pod, you know, did he see this? I d I don't know. But wouldn't that be something? so Riz, if you're listening, you know, give us a shout out on the

Duds: Yeah. Yeah. Boy, wouldn't that be something?

Bright: on the radio or something like that. But yeah, so he's he's talking about this and he has a case and I'm gonna I wanna recap the case that he was referencing because it is pretty funny and it's also local. But he he does a pretty good, not as good as we did, you know, he didn't have a special guest on or anything like that. But kind of recapping like kind of the you know some of the questions we were asking of like what's the difference between a bail and a bond and how does it work and you know how do you put up assets that you know, all of these things. So if you want to learn a little bit more about that, go listen to to last week's episode. We got some great

Duds: I'm still not entirely sure why these bounty hunters aren't, you know, being paid. You know, 'cause I was trying to get that from from our guests last week. It's like if they're if they're putting if they're putting assets or a or a bond company is like saying, Hey, you know, this guy's gonna show up to court or we're gonna pay his bond, you know, pay you if he doesn't show, well couldn't they just go hire the the bounty hunter? I mean, I think that's how it would work, right? It seems like that would be

Bright: Yeah. From CAD, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and you know, Rafe, Rafe on the show, he was Yeah, well, and of course they that's the only bounty hunter anybody knows, just dog the bounty hunter, you know. But Rafe on the show was talking about this, and he said that a lot of these bail bonds companies are also just bounty hunters. They they do it all themselves, you know. So they go get the license to be the bounty hunter, they're also the bail bondsmen.

Duds: It it seems like that would be a way to do it. Like, hey, get these get dog the bounty hunter out there and start arresting these guys. Ha ha ha. Right. Yeah.

Bright: And he was talking about a a racket that they had in Van Buren. It's it was pretty interesting. So go check out that episode. But he was talking about he was younger and on float trips and that he got arrested for drinking under the age and then also littering on the float. And as soon as they finished the float, they arrested him. Littering littering. Speaking of Super Troopers Three coming out in August, by the way. yeah.

Duds: Littering and littering and For that.

Bright: and he said it was a whole racket because you know it was a small town. They gave him this big fine, they arrested him, you had to pay the bail, the bail bondsman because they didn't have any money to get out of to get out of jail. And they he thought it was all one big, you know, cahooch, you know, big racket in Van Van Buren, Missouri. but Rosuto was talking about this this particular case.

Duds: Big racket. Probably. Who knows?

Bright: that was based out of Columbia, Missouri, so where Mizzou is. And it was a 22-year-old, his name was Ethan Adams. and he had already been arrested once, right? So for whatever it was. And he was bailed out by this company that was like Jesus or Jesus Bail Bonds, Bale Bonds? Jesus Bonds. So whether it's Jesus or Jesus, I don't know.

Duds: Ha ha.

Bright: Right. So they paid his three thousand dollar bond, right? Which we know from last week. You don't have to pay the three thousand. And actually they don't have to pay the three thousand dollars unless Ethan doesn't show up to his court date. They're basically just promising that they will pay it. So then Ethan would have to generally pay ten percent of that. So Ethan would have to put up three hundred dollars to pay the bond spend. And then as long as he shows up to court, all all good. Yeah, they keep that three hundred bucks that you know.

Duds: Doesn't show, right. They keep that. Yeah.

Bright: But if he doesn't show up to court, then he owe then they owe three thousand dollars, right? Well, yes.

Duds: They're out the three grand. So that's why they go that's why they go get

Bright: Yes, yeah. So okay, so I gotta go backtrack a little bit. So they they collect the three hundred bucks, they put up his bond, and thank you for doing business. They give him a t shirt, a Jesus Bail Bonds t shirt. And the t shirt says it says whenever we bond you, you get one free. That's what the t-shirt says. So I well, I don't like we get we're gonna give you a free t-shirt whenever we pay your bond. I don't know.

Duds: Thanks for doing business. What does that mean?

Bright: So so they're basically, you know, he's out so he he's out there wearing the shirt. Well he's it maybe a little bit. Yeah, here's your free t-shirt. so he s does not go to court. He skips out on his court date. he does eventually get picked up again on now July 2nd, gets picked up, and he will not get bonded out anymore by Jesus. They

Duds: That sounds even more like a racket.

Bright: They're not gonna they're not gonna bail him out anymore. And his bond went Yeah, I know. Well it went up, so they are. Well, this is a good question for Ken, but so now it went up from originally three thousand dollars to now six thousand dollars. And Jesus is not going to be paying it, and they're likely out the three thousand dollars that they put up for his original bonds.

Duds: I would think that you wouldn't even be able to get bonded, would you? Doesn't doesn't that seem silly to you? Like if a guy skips bail and then you catch him and bring him back, why are you gonna let him go again? I mean

Bright: It it's yeah. Yeah. I know. Well, okay, so that brings me back to the the last story that I wanted to connect to last week's episode. So if you haven't listened to last week's episode, highly recommend it. Go to nfnpepod.com or Spotify, Apple, YouTube, wherever you get your podcast, NFN Peapod. it was a great episode with a great guest. You know, keep as you gonna plug it as much as I can for sure. But you know, I posted a couple

Duds: It's the whole system's screwed up. Keep plugging it. Keep plugging it. You must be drunk.

Bright: Well, you know, it's almost bedtime. I have an early flight tomorrow, but you know, I'm up in like I said, North Dakota. It is fully sunny outside here. You know, 'cause we're almost up to Canada. yeah, yeah. I mean, w it's almost ten PM as I look outside. I mean, you would think it's like seven, eight o'clock. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So I'm assuming the sun's not gonna go down for at least another hour, hour and a half. So

Duds: really? Wow, that's weird. Might have to go outside and see if you see the northern lights.

Bright: Yeah, well I'm sure you can if it's when you're up this high if it's if it's not so light outside. But anyhow.

Duds: It's gonna get dark though. It's not gonna be light all night, I wouldn't imagine.

Bright: No, you're right. Eventually. Yeah, yeah. It will get dark. It will get dark. Yeah. but I'll be in bed because I got an early flight. But so where was I? connecting it to last week's episode. so I posted a couple of videos on X and TikTok of you know our conversation with Ken. And whew, some people have have some opinions, man. So, you know, I'll take

Duds: yeah?

Bright: I'll take any comments we get, the good, the bad, you know. I'm like, we're a very small, independent operation over here. so any exposure we get on X or or TikTok is great, but certainly on TikTok. X And should I should I pull some up here? I know the certainly the one the one that I remember is not everybody should have a podcast. I'm I'm like, well.

Duds: Well, don't leave me hanging. What do we got? What what are the opinions? Ha ha

Bright: That that is certainly true. but we're getting some good views. This is tracking to be one of our higher higher viewed videos on TikTok, that's for sure. you know, a lot of people talking about you know, that bail is is a racket against poor people and things like that. And and some people of course are aren't not fully updated on why there's bail. And they were like, well the rich people are just ba you know, they're bailed out and you know, then they're say I'm like, That's not how it works. They still have to go to courts. You know, you know.

Duds: But it's it scales. Yeah, yeah, and it scales depending on your income. They think, Okay, this person's pretty affluent. Well, we're gonna set his bail at ten million dollars, you know. That's gonna encourage him to come to court, you know.

Bright: So some people some people talked about that. Yeah. Some people talked about that and they said like there should be more uniformity and they talked about the differences between poverty levels or race and things like that, which I certainly understand that they're probably like it's not a perfect system. I'm sure there are some differences where some people are not being treated equally for maybe the same crime. You know.

Duds: And sure, people get arrested, that wrongfully arrested and wrongfully accused. You know, that happens.

Bright: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah, this person

Duds: But I do believe that if you if you go to court and you are acquitted, that you you don't have to pay anything. You don't lose your your bond your bail bond either.

Bright: Right. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think you get that back, right? Like as it should be.

Duds: Somehow. Yeah, I don't know how that works with the like a male bondsman, like if they 'cause they still I would think s need to get their ten percent, but maybe they have to forfeit that if you're acquitted. You know. They probably do. They probably don't get paid.

Bright: Yeah. Yep. I would think so. You know, here's somebody's talking about plea agreements of which I completely agree with that, you know, everybody just pleas out and it's a complete racket. And I'm like, you know what? I it's like I I actually agree with that take. I think most of the time, you have all these lawyers and judges and they just they don't want to go deeper into the system. So they just take plea deals and so The argument was that a lot of poor people just have to take a plea deal because they don't have the money to pay the the bail or to go to court. And, you know, I was like, all right, I like I could see. But there's also a big difference. A lot of people, you know, a big difference between violent crimes and misdemeanors. And also, are you a repeat offender? You know, even going back to this Columbia guy. He already skipped court once. You know, so why do you think that he's gonna show up the second time? You know? So

Duds: Sure. this does say I just I just AI grocked that that you you do have to forfeit your fee of ten percent. It's a non refundable premium. So

Bright: Well see, the thing about that though is that that's part of the private system. I mean, you can always post your own bond, I guess, right? Like you don't have to have a bail bondsman. I'm assuming you could post your own, but you have to have the

Duds: Right. Right. Well but you have to go a hundred percent of it at that point. You gotta post the entire thing.

Bright: Right, a hundred percent, exactly. Right, that's what I was thinking, yeah.

Duds: But Ken was saying that you don't actually have to pay it. You just have to, you know, put up assets or whatever. Prove that you have it.

Bright: You have to Yeah, right. You have to prove that you could pay it and then the county would come after you if if you don't appear in court.

Duds: Right. So if you n if you knew you weren't guilty and you could put up the bond, you could do or the the bail, you could do that and then get acquitted and you get it all back minus any little fees or whatever court costs. I would think if you're acquitted though, you shouldn't have to pay anything. Like if you're not guilty

Bright: Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah, I mean I agree. Right. Yeah. Then it's not your well and you do have the option to you could sue the county or, you know, sue the system. You know, certainly that's happened for people that have spent time in jail and then been proven innocent. Then they're like, Well, I just spent, you know, ten years in jail for a crime I didn't commit. Yeah. Yeah.

Duds: Like how come you'd have to pay anything? Sure. Yeah, how do you and they sue. They sue and usually get, you know, you know, some kind of payout for that. The thing that probably hurts the lower income the thing that probably hurts the lower income people is the fact that they can't afford a good attorney either. You know, they gotta have a court court appointed attorney that's probably, you know, not very good. So you're kind of screwed. They got thousands of cases that they're dealing with, so

Bright: Yeah. Now there there are ways around that too. Well, sure. Yeah. Too busy, too young. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. I know. Well

Duds: I can see how it's a little lopsided. If you don't have money, it's definitely gonna screw you.

Bright: Well, just like everything else in this world, right? Yep, yep. I I that no doubt about that. So

Duds: Yep. Got the card stacked against ya. Well, don't put yourself in a position where you could be accused of a crime, I guess. You know, it's doesn't seem like it's that difficult to me.

Bright: Well me. It doesn't, but that it's it's easy to say that until all of a sudden you're accused of a crime and you're like you're like, How the hell did this happen? You know, you're like, you know, you you could do that and wrong place, wrong time, or you know, I mean, somebody you know gets murdered and they look to you. Yeah, I don't like that's why they always say, like, it's always the husband. Well, what if it's not? You know, you're you just happen to be the husband of the wife that was murdered, you know, like it

Duds: Sure. Right. In the wrong place at the wrong time, yeah. Right. Sure. And there's also people that set other people up, you know, try to get thrown in jail for whatever reason. So

Bright: Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you never know. That's why you are we're big proponents of this. You're innocent until proven guilty. A hundred percent. all right. I got one more kind of funny story to to wrap it up, and then I don't know if you have anything.

Duds: Lighten mood up here a little bit.

Bright: lighten the mood up a little bit. I I did want to call back to last week because I thought that that was a pertinent topic and I did I did think it was funny that Rosudo all of a sudden wanted to do a deep dive on Bail and I was like, We just covered this. Coincidence? I don't know. but you mentioned the other day we don't have to go into it, but you had Taco Bell, I think you said the other day, right?

Duds: No man, I haven't had Taco Bell in years. It was No, it was a new new Mexican restaurant, Abelardo's.

Bright: you didn't? okay. Was it not Taco Bell? I thought you said you had a burrito or something. okay. Okay. Well, it's a good thing maybe that it wasn't Taco Bell. All right, perfect. Well, have you heard about this explosive diarrhea outbreak that is going around? This is a yeah, a silo. Yeah. No. And well, so this this is a real story. There's this unknown reason.

Duds: Highly recommend it. Shout out to him. I thought that was just every time you ate Taco Bell, you just had that. That was the side effect of eating a taco.

Bright: As to why people are having explosive diarrhea. And it is being, I guess, targeted back to a a parasite, but they don't know how or why or like whatever the case may be. And it hasn't hit St. Louis yet, to my knowledge, but it's it's big time in Detroit and New York and parts of Ohio and things like that. And Taco Bell just came out. And they said that they're pulling all of their basically fresh ingredients, their lettuce, their tomatoes, their onions, their pico de gallo, their guacamole. Like I'm like, what's left? You know, I guess if you want to get a fr a Frito burrito, you could do that. But and and I think it's this is not directly related to Taco Bell, right? So the explosive diarrhea that is breaking out across the country is not Taco Bell, but Taco Bell supposedly out of an abundance of caution.

Duds: My gosh. The meat? Process stuff.

Bright: so I you know, I don't know what's going on with this all these explosive diarrhea cases, but

Duds: I'm pretty sure that anybody who goes to Taco Bell is expecting the explosive diarrhea the next day. That's just an expectation that you're gonna live with. Like you know going into it that that's gonna happen. Especially if it's a late night, if it's a fourth meal, you know?

Bright: Yeah, and you're you're probably you're you're probably drunk and you don't care. It's tomorrow's problem, right? man. Well, okay, well stay clear. Yeah, back in the day, sure.

Duds: man. Had a lot of those late nights. That would tell you about the the Taco Bell experience we had. It was the the weekend of our wedding. We were up in Kansas City. We were picking up the best man and mate of matron of honor because they were they were married. They I happened to be married. And so we went up to Kansas City to pick them up. They flew in and then we went out that night, went out to a bar, partied all night. We drove through Taco Bell, and man, we must have ordered everything on the menu. We had a bag, it probably weighed twenty pounds.

Bright: Right.

Duds: Tacos, quesadillas, everything. I think we spent like eighty dollars or something at Taco Bell. We get home and not a single thing got eaten. The next day it's just sitting on the pool table, all wrapped up, like that was a waste of money. We even that we didn't even touch it. Everybody just passed out. Yep. So disappointing. So disappointing.

Bright: my god. Everybody everybody just passed out as soon as they got home? man, that's brutal. That's a lot of money. Especially when you're young, you know, like eighty bucks, that's that's a big deal. Probably.

Duds: It was probably for the best though, honestly. Explosive diarrhea on the wedding day. I mean it'd be a bad day.

Bright: Have we have we told the the Taco Bell story on this podcast yet? I don't remember. One of one of the early ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We might have to. Tammy? Tammy, I think it was Tammy, right? Yeah, yeah. Just I don't know. I don't know if I want to get into it, but we do we got a couple of fast food stories back in the day, right? Hardy's we got the great Hardy's story.

Duds: I think you did. Yeah, I think you did mention that. What was her name again? Tammy, that sounds right. Yeah, old Tammy. Well you know that so the jack in the box that's right by that Sam's. We used to go to that jack in the box all the time. When yeah, I remember the what was that the Brasilia apartments, right? You know the Brasilia. So there's the Sam's, and then they're right next to it was the Jack in the Box. Well that jack in the box closed yeah, closed years ago, and they've been converting it to this Mexican place probably for like the last two years. It's been a long time, and it finally opened it.

Bright: Right by the sands. right, right, right. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. Yep. Now it's a Mexican Mexican place. Right. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Duds: couple maybe a month ago, month and a half, and we we tried it out. They've got taco Tuesdays. It's five tacos for seven dollars. And these are like legit authentic tacos, like full size, like fresh ingredients, made to order, beef, chicken, you know, whatever, soft or hard shells. And they're delicious. And it's a great deal. And I highly recommend trying it out. Yeah.

Bright: Yeah, okay. Right, right. Yeah. Yeah. Alright. Alright. It's by my brother's place. I'll have to go check it out. There's also that new place on Lindbergh I'm trying to t

Duds: I don't think that place is opening up. I think they're closed. They never opened. The one that y was the Pisquetes. The old Pisquetes. Yeah.

Bright: No, you're thinking of the other place. The old Pasquetties never opened up. That's Loco's Tacos, I think. They never opened up. There's another one that's down and it's the old I'm trying remember what was it I think it's the old steak and shake. Yeah. Yeah. Ever everybody raves about it. I talk about how good it is and like it feels kind of fast foodish because it's a steak and shake, but I think it's like sit down, they have margaritas and all that stuff, you know, so

Duds: yeah, it's the old stake and shake. That one is open and it was packed when we drove by it the other day. Mm-hmm. That's how this place is too. It's got some seats inside, but it's got a drive through and and it's it's but it's not fast food. I mean, it's quick, you know, quick to order, five n five minutes and they got everything made for you. But it's actually like legit. There's Mexicans working back there, so it's actually Mexican food. It's pretty good. I don't want a bunch of white guys making my Mexican food for me. That just not gonna work out.

Bright: Okay. I hasn't got to right. Yeah. Yeah, right. Right. Yeah. Right. It's good food, right? We know yeah, we know that. Yeah. Love myself some good Mexican food. No, yeah, yeah, right. Alright. What else do you got? You got anything else before we wrap it up? We were I an hour and a half. I mean I said this is gonna be a light episode. I said like one hour max. It's probably a good thing Nilla didn't get on. He'd be all pissed off that we that we went went long, but Yeah, yeah. No.

Duds: over time. No, not really. Went to saw the new new Toy Story Five movie last weekend with the kids.

Bright: Yeah, my wife saw it with the kids. I I didn't go. I think I had so they went on a weekday to work. we saw, we watched, I guess it was Sunday, because it was still fourth of July weekend, but they were calling for all this rain, you know, that never it didn't actually materialize on Sunday, which is a little disappointing. But I I created like a movie theater experience in the basement, right? And blackout curtains and got the we did popcorn and you know, and

Duds: It's pretty good. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Bright: We were debating on between either the new Mario Galaxy movie, which they had like kinda watched. I was like, You guys didn't really watch this. I could tell they were you know they weren't paying attention. But we ended up going with my pick, which was a little iffy for the two of them, which was Master the new Masters of the Universe movie. So yeah. yeah, you know, I actually enjoyed it. I was a big He Man fan when I was a kid. I don't actually remember being a He Man fan. I was like,

Duds: Mm-hmm. I haven't seen it. Pretty good.

Bright: Probably like when I was Frankie's age. Like I remember my parents telling me that I was a He Man fan, you know. so with Skeletor, you know, all of that. So it it was that's exact it and they do a lot of that, you know. They kind of poke fun of themselves a little bit. Dolph Lundrum, you know, the old He Man. Jared Leto, he plays Skeletor. you know, but no, it's not a c not a cartoon, and that's why I like, I don't know.

Duds: Old skeletor. I have the power. Hi, yeah. Okay, so it's not a cartoon, right? Okay.

Bright: But Frankie was like, I want I want He Man. The Catalina was worried that it was gonna be too scare too scary. And there's definitely some scary parts. There's some language. I mean, I mean, there's violence, but it it was kind of like comic booky, you know. So I actually the kids ended up both liking it. They both handled it very well. you know, there were some sexual innuendo jokes, but obviously that went over their head. But the yeah, yeah. But the guy that plays He Man, great job.

Duds: Well that

Bright: I think he's English or s actually. you wouldn't know it, but it was it was worth it. I had to torrent it. It's not out yet. I had to had to go back to go back to my old days. Torrent I do still do that. Yeah, I do. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Duds: yeah. You still do that, huh? I gave that up. I'm like, I'm not dealing with that anymore. It's too much of a pain.

Bright: Yeah, every now and then there's still stuff I wanna see that's not available to stream. So yeah. Every now and then. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The kids will they'll definitely go see that. My both my kids love Despicable Me and all the minions and all that stuff. So yeah, we'll probably go see them too. Yeah. Yep. All right. Yeah, yeah. No, we'll do some I got the kids.

Duds: They got another movie, The Minions coming out. Or it's out already, I guess. Might take to go see that. Mm-hmm. Ronnie says that really good deal, like on Tuesdays. I think it's like five dollar movies or something. And cheap, cheap cheap popcorn.

Bright: I got the kids pretty much all day Saturday. my wife's girls' night and doing all that and so I got I got the kiddo, so I gotta figure out something to do with them. So that might be that might be something. We'll see. We'll see. But and then I'm out next week. So I'm on the road for work and I'm swamped next week. So we're gonna have a week off, I think. No pod. It'll be the first first week in a while, I think. We've been on a pretty good

Duds: Little hiatus, yeah.

Bright: Pretty good stretch, but it's summertime. We I think we're allowed to take a week off and we'll come back and hopefully I can secure our next guest for maybe the week I come back or something like that. My work out. and we'll we'll go from there. Yeah, I think so. And one of these days we'll get Ella back on the pod.

Duds: That'd be nice. Hey you know the the house right behind me is up for sale, so if you want to buy it we can turn it into a studio. It's got a it's got a pool.

Bright: That would be fantastic, but we're locked in. We got the low interest rate. I can't give it up. I'm I'm locked in for life. You know. An investment okay. So it it could be a write off good. put it under the LLC, you know, right? Okay. Yeah, use it as a use it as a studio and okay. I see where your heads up.

Duds: Well you don't need to move. This is like a it's an investment. It's a write off. There you go. Can you form the L L C into like a non profit so you don't have to pay taxes?

Bright: I don't pay taxes right now. But if I bought a house not not not through and if I don't have any revenue. I can't pay taxes if I don't have revenue. That's the biggest thing. So yeah. One of these days. That's that's right. That's right. I was looking at something else. I forget what I was looking at.

Duds: Never? You don't pay any taxes? You might want keep that under your hat. That's true. When all you have is expenses, you don't have to pay taxes, I guess, huh?

Bright: Well we talked about we talked about some promo items. It was something else. I was like, this could be cool, but who's got the money? Who's got the money?

Duds: It's insane what they're trying to get for this house too. This so they the people that have it now, they bought it in 2018 for I think it was like two hundred and twenty-five thousand, something that. It is, it it is, which yeah, it's the same guy, which is even crazier that he got mad about me trimming the hedges and he's trying to sell the house now. It's like, well, why wouldn't you want trimmed hedges? You know, make it look at least presentable. But

Bright: Yeah. This isn't the this isn't the guy with the hedges, is it? It is that guy. Right. Right, right.

Duds: Anyway, they

Bright: Sure.

Duds: have it listed. What do you think they got it listed?

Bright: Well, you said it's a big plot of land, right?

Duds: It's like a one and a half acres. Yeah, it's got a pool. But it's a small house. It's like twelve hundred square feet. So it's not a very big house.

Bright: Yeah, kind of pull. twelve hundred square feet with a house, three hundred and thirty thousand.

Duds: It's not like you could develop it because it's kind of a long, narrow lot. Four four twenty five.

Bright: Right. Yeah. I say three thirty. I'm sure they want more, but that's yeah, that's that's too much. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Duds: Four hundred and twenty five thousand. So two hundred thousand appreciation in eight years. I don't see that. I mean, come on.

Bright: Yeah. No no no. Like my old house was eleven hundred square feet. You know, no pool, but I that does not include the deck. I also had a deck and then I had like the basement. It didn't never count it, but I you know, I turned it into a nice basement. It was unfinished. But eleven hundred square feet and I I forget how much I sold it for, but then it it didn't even appraise for what I sold it for, which I was pissed, you know. So then I I ended up having to

Duds: can't imagine this place will appraise for that. I just I cannot see that happening.

Bright: Yeah. Right. Right. Yeah. Twelve hundred square feet, that's a by today's standards, you know, that's that's a starter home. So to

Duds: But when Nilla was talking about his parents selling their house, what did he say? Like three hundred and twenty five, three thirty? I mean, for that, they had a little house too. I mean, that's my neighbor's a a mortgage banker and he says that I mean the housing market is out of control. Like people are priced out. Like nobody can get a house, people have to rent and then rents are all going up too. So

Bright: I know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's Yeah, yeah. That's why we need to have our next guest on. I think we need to do a deep dive. And I think we talked about it last week. you know, that he's he's an expert in his field, owns his own mortgage company, has been doing it for a long time. I I I'm certainly interested in his take. He's the one that helped me finance both of them both of my houses, I think, and refinance, you know, yeah, for sure. You know, I've always used used him. Well

Duds: really? I would imagine it's a nation nationwide issue, you know, it's not just any particular

Bright: For sure.

Duds: spots.

Bright: And and I'm sure some markets are obviously worth St. Louis has some of the most affordable housing in the country, I think. You know, but yeah, yeah. Well the other thing is in St. Louis, you know, we might have affordable housing, but probably by comparison, our salaries are less than other markets, right? Like you make more in Chicago, but you the cost of living is more. But if

Duds: Right. And it's getting to the point where it's unaffordable.

Bright: You know, if our housing is outpacing our salaries, which I'm sure it is, you know, that doesn't work out. Yeah, for sure.

Duds: Doesn't work out. Course, you know, if they could get rid of the whatever, forty or fifty million illegals that are living here, I mean that might help out. Could try that. No, I just meant in the country in in in general. Yep.

Bright: You think in St. Louis? You think they're forty? in the country. I'm like I'm like, what are you talking about? I was like, the Saint Louis I don't know that we have a big big problem per se, you know. Wouldn't surprise me. Wouldn't surprise me. Yeah.

Duds: Yeah. Ten times more illegals than there are just population. No, I just nationwide. I mean, if you got rid of that imagine if you took forty million people out of the country, you know, that's a ton of houses and rents, you know, I mean, that that would crash the market probably. That would bring everything down tremendously. I mean, all across the board. Groceries, no.

Bright: Opens up a lot of housing. Yeah. Right. Well you're never you you're not getting rid of everybody all at once, you know. Yeah. Yeah. But there's there's so you know, and that's a whole nother topic, a whole nother podcast, but you're talking about the economy. You're talking about the workforce, you're talking about housing, you're ta yeah, the you know, the consumer goods, all kinds of things. It affect everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So

Duds: We could try though. Sure, it would affect everything. Yeah, everything. That's not that's not a little amount of people. Yeah, that's a lot of people.

Bright: Maybe for another day. No, you're right. Yep, that's a whole nother podcast. We could do we could do a hypothetical, you know, like I'm sure you could build that out with Chat GPT, like what would happen and just turn it into a story of like this is what would happen. I'm I might do it. I'm now I'm I'm curious now. And like like, hey, let's just do a breakdown. If we got rid of everybody that was actually here illegally, this and I I'm sure it would not be good. You know, yeah, yeah.

Duds: Might have to do that for the next one. Yeah. What are all the effects? Yeah. Well, in the long term it might be good, but it would definitely have some drastic impacts immediately, you know. But but like you said, it's not gonna happen overnight. So it might be a more gradual gradual effects, but it would definitely everything would have to get cheaper. It's a supply and demand. I mean

Bright: Yeah, what what would yeah. Yeah, yeah, for sure. No. Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Did you hear that Trump is supposedly repetitioning the Supreme Court to look at birthright citizenship? Yeah. I don't know about this is a hundred percent true either, but I heard that he found evidence of a of a hospital that i is like promoting birthright citizenship and that they're in Mexico they're saying like pay us four thousand dollars, we'll get you across the border, you'll have your baby. And I don't again

Duds: yeah. I did see that.

Bright: I this is I'm not acting like I know this is fact or true, but yeah, supposedly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which is illegal. You are not allowed to do that. I understand and I I understand the argument for birthright citizenship, and I understand the argument that the Supreme Court made, but I also understand the the counter arguments that we can't just be letting people come and do this on purpose. Like they know what they're doing. It's

Duds: They had like billboards down in Texas or something like that, about coming across the border, spending five grand to have a baby in in the US.

Bright: It's not like you happen to be over here and have a baby. You're you're coming here on purpose and then overstaying your visa or you're here illegally in the first place or whatever it may be, and you're doing that on purpose to have a US citizen so you can milk the system. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So they can take over our country.

Duds: Well, have you heard about the the Chinese? The Chinese are doing that too. They have like apparently there's like almost a million, almost a million people in China that have US citizenship. 'Cause they've they've somehow worked this out to where they'll come over here when they're pregnant. I don't know how. Like they fly over here, have their baby, and then go back, raise them in China, and they are raising American citizens to eventually bring the whole family over. I don't know what the

Bright: Right, right. Yeah, right. Yeah.

Duds: What the deal is.

Bright: And can they all can they all vote? I don't know. Like can you do I guess you'd have to have a primary residence over here of some sort. but right, once you once they get to eighteen, certainly. But you have enough people you could start influencing elections, you know. So I don't know.

Duds: Mm. Well, once I get to eighteen, you know. But imagine like if you got a million Chinese children that are American citizens now, and then when they get to eighteen and they start, you know, influxing it over into the US and then they can bring their whole families over and get them all American citizens, you know, China's gonna take over America.

Bright: Yeah. That's a whole nother topic too.

Duds: It's sad state of affairs. Gotta do something. It's crazy. They're playing the long game.

Bright: All right. That's state of affairs. Yep. All right. Let's let's call it quits for tonight. I do have a I wanna talk to you about a couple of books. Dark Matter season two is getting ready to start back up. we need to get another access.

Duds: I've I've not even finished the first season yet.

Bright: you haven't finished the first season yet? man.

Duds: No, I've been pretty I've been pretty lazy. I've been trying to watch Silo and that and I've just not been getting back to it. 'Cause we have Apple T V. We got it to watch those shows and some other shows, but

Bright: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well Dark Matter is pretty you know, Silo's like three seasons long as Dark Matter is only like eight or ten episodes or whatever. But I'm reading I'm reading the Gone World right now, which I'm actually really liking. It's like a time travel time travel one, so yeah, yeah yeah. So the Gone World, yeah, yeah. So that's what I might I might be able to finish it tomorrow on the plane.

Duds: Right. yeah. The gone world, huh?

Bright: I got I think I got like I don't know a third of the book left, so we'll see. But yep, reading that and then Caroline we just started not we just started watching the leftovers on HBO and like it kinda kinda goes back to what

Duds: Yeah, let me know how it is. I think I've seen that. That's the one where like a bunch of people got taken or whatever and

Bright: Two percent of the population just disappears. Did you watch those? Yeah.

Duds: Right. Yeah. I think I saw like I don't know, I don't know if I watched the whole first season of it or

Bright: There's three seasons and we're almost done with season one.

Duds: Yeah, I can't remember. I might have finished the first season. I kinda lost interest in it after a little while, but

Bright: supposedly season two is like the best epis the best season of television ever made. So that's that's what I'm hearing. So I don't know. I'm gonna let you that's on HBO. Yeah. So we just are so we'll probably we'll probably watch

Duds: Really? That's on HBO, you said? Might have to look back into it. I do remember when that first came out, I was watching it.

Bright: I I've never heard of it before. You know, and so I was at I was using Chat GPT to source a new show for us to watch. And we it was between that or from, but I don't have from is on like MGM plus or something like that. So I was like, Well, I have HBO, let's let's I know. So I was like, let's start the leftovers. And I was telling my brother about it, and he was like, I've seen it, it's great, and you know, and then he he's the one that told me he was like season two.

Duds: yeah. It was like yeah, a while ago. Another streaming platform.

Bright: I was like, that's what Chat GPT said, you know. So yeah. So I don't worry tomorrow night. Yeah. Yeah. Well the nice thing is that's it's it's gonna complete a story. It's three seasons and it's done. You know, so it's not one of these things where you're waiting for the next season or you it's not it got canceled, you know, because that's I was like, I don't wanna start a show that I already know is gonna get canceled, you know, it has an ending, yeah, from

Duds: Okay. So I might not ever gotten to the really good good parts of it. Okay. Got an ending. Yeah.

Bright: It doesn't have an ending yet, but I think next season will be the last season or you know. So I was like, All right, that might be on my next on my list too, 'cause I've heard good things about that.

Duds: Did you ever watch the Santa Clarita diet or whatever that was? I think Drew Barrymore was in it.

Bright: No, Bob Bobcat Man did. Yeah.

Duds: It was really good, but it got canceled. Yeah. It was so funny. It was really good, but they cancelled it. I was like, damn it. So it kinda just it ended without any anything being wrapped up, you know.

Bright: Right. Right. Yeah. Any anytime they one of one of my favorites that that kills me that they canceled it was the OA. Did you ever watch the OA on Netflix? my god. All right. Highly recommend this show. If you just go watch the first episode, the first episode's like ninety minutes long. And I remember watching it and just being completely engulfed in the story.

Duds: Mm mm.

Bright: And it it takes some oddball twists, like it's an out there show, right? Which is part of the reason I love it. I don't like you know NCIS, right? Which is odd because the gone world is about NCIS. But but you know, I I don't I don't like these shows, you know, that are just r repetition. Like I want it to yeah, I don't want that, you know. So the OA is not that, and it is such a good show, and it ended on this.

Duds: Kind of cookie cutter, yeah.

Bright: crazy cliffhanger of season two and Netflix canceled it. And there's but it's it's still so good. And there's these big campaigns to bring it back. you know, the the actors still want to bring it back somehow. And then supposedly Netflix offered them a movie deal like, we'll let you wrap it up with one movie. And they turned it down and they said no, like one movie is not enough to tell the story we want to tell.

Duds: yeah. Let me go hop right on that.

Bright: And so at the moment it's just

Duds: That's so crazy because Netflix like has so many shows. Yeah, why why not? If it's a good show, why not keep that? I don't understand it. Especially if the actors all want to do it.

Bright: Right. They just do everything, right? Yeah. I well and I guess I guess it was a that's the thing. It was a little expensive, supposedly. You know, the show's several years old at this point, so maybe Netflix wasn't at their heyday. but it it has it has good, well known actors in it, Britt Marling and I'm trying to remember the guy's name. He w he was just in the most recent ep season of The White Lotus. he's in a couple that you would definitely know him. so they're the two main actors. And then the guy that plays Dexter and the new Dexter, he's in it. it has the Saint Lewis from The Office. She's in it. the I didn't watch The Office. I've never seen an episode. The Older Lady. The old no Phyllis. It has Phyllis. Phyllis is in it.

Duds: Mm-hmm. And Is that Is it like the redhead? Phyllis? Okay.

Bright: Yeah, yeah, for say I actually ran into Phyllis at Kenrick's meat market. Yeah. I'll say this and this is not me to call her out. She was at Kenrick's. This is after the office, and she was driving like a nineteen ninety nine Saturn.

Duds: I think he saw I think he told me that once. Just

Bright: I'm like, surely you can afford a nicer car.

Duds: Yeah, but she's, you know, down to Earth. Like s some people Saturn's were great cars, man.

Bright: Yeah, right, she's a St. Limit then. She doesn't need she doesn't need a Yeah, I know. I know. But I I I thought that was odd. I was like Phyllis Levin Kenricks getting into her ninety nine Saturn.

Duds: We bought a Saturn. We had a Saturn Ara, it was like an O an O eight. It was a really nice car. It was like right before they obsoleted the whole brand. Yeah. You don't see anymore hardly.

Bright: Yeah. Stop and make yeah, yeah, yeah. No, uh-uh, nope, no. so going back to Netflix, they canceled the Burroughs, right? So that was the one, yeah. I was like, I'll maybe I'll watch that. But you know, that's the Duffer brothers, yeah. Now I I wonder if it was really because the Duffer brothers signed a deal with Paramount. So their Netflix deal ended, and then they signed this deal with Paramount. So I wonder if it was really more about that.

Duds: really? That's the the stranger things, Yeah.

Bright: Like I guess the show was developed under Netflix, they would yeah, right. Like like they're traders now or something. But the viewership numbers were good, but apparently not good enough for how much the show costs. And they were looking basically for the next Stranger Things and it wasn't gonna be that big. So they were like F it or cancel it. Well I was like, I'm not gonna watch it now. Like maybe I would have, but yeah, right. But now that I know a hundred percent that it's not coming back, I I'm not gonna

Duds: Switching, switching platforms. Right. I s saw a bunch of advertisements for it or

Bright: Give my time to it. Even if it is good.

Duds: No. I don't even know why I don't even know why you keep on there at that point.

Bright: Right, right. huh. That's the that's the thing about Netflix, is they can I mean they own all they can have as much as they want on there, right? It's not like the old days with syndication where you had to like play it. I mean it's just there. You know, so that's the thing, like the OA it's been canceled after two seasons, but you can still go watch it. she did this really good show with Clive Owen on FX and I can't remember what the name of it is off the top of my head.

Duds: Who wants to watch a season? Mm-hmm.

Bright: And it was a one like a one and done, right? So you knew it was good. It was a good like murder mystery kind of a show. And a lot of people thought that it was gonna be a secret continuation of the OA. you know, like this meta which fits into the show and I don't wanna give too much away because I I think anybody should go check out the show, but

Duds: So many conspiracy theories about these shows.

Bright: I know. Well like Conformity Gate with Stranger Things. I don't know if you've I don't know do we talk about this on the pod when that came out? But it's coming back around. Yeah, it's cut it's coming back around. And there are some weird things like like the Duffer brothers were at this graduation and they started talking about some things and people are like, That's the Stranger Things stuff. And then Billy Bobby Brown and the guy that plays her dad.

Duds: I think my son was telling me about that. Yeah. I think my son was telling me about that.

Bright: hopper they're now doing a movie with Netflix where they play father-daughter. I'm like, what? And supposedly like and then she got on him for like harassment. Like she filed a suit against him or something for harassment on the last season of Stranger Things. And I'm like, now you're just gonna go work with them again? And then supposedly Stranger Things is like Well, not like in court, but yeah, like she, I don't know, wrote to HR at Netflix or something saying that

Duds: Yeah, it's a little weird, huh? She filed against Hopper? A bit against that guy? okay.

Bright: This guy would yeah. So so but but even still, I'm like, now you're just gonna go work with them like that again. And then what else? There are a couple of other things. the graduate the some supposedly Stranger Things is kinda like up for an Emmy, which you know, they have to have a movie, so that like there's that. And then then you go watch all the actual original Conformity Gate stuff, you can go down a rabbit hole where all the people at the graduation were wearing the wrong colors and standing like Vecna. And there were only eleven people wearing the Vecna glasses, which symbolizes the eleven kids that had to, you know, be in the upside down. And the people with the blank signs, the the radio station is like a real radio station that's posting all this stuff. Steve at the end of it was a baseball coach But he he never played baseball. But the reason that he's a baseball coach is because Vecna always saw him with a baseball bat. I'm like, it makes a lot go go research it and you're like, shit, this is this makes sense. So conform like I'm I'm a hundred percent behind it. Now I don't know that they're making another episode. You finished the season, right? The series. I know you're rewatching it with your son, but you see the end? Yeah.

Duds: Right. That's weird. Huh. Okay. Stranger Things. So I I never watched the final season. I haven't watched I haven't watched season five yet.

Bright: my god. Okay. Well then I I'm all right, well then I'm already giving too much away. but

Duds: We're almost I think we're halfway or more with season three. So we'll get we'll get there eventually.

Bright: Okay. All right. Well when you get when you get to the end, you'll figure it out. Some people are just treating it like the end and other people are saying like, no, like there's something else going on. Yeah, yeah. So you can't actually go look into conformity gate until you finish it. But it is it is interesting. So finish it and then go check out Conformity Gate. Yeah, David Harper.

Duds: There's more to it. Okay. So that's David David Harbour. So did you you watched the DTF Saint Louis, right? Yeah. Yeah, super weird, super weird show.

Bright: Yeah, and he's in that and he's super fat in that, you know. I'm like yeah. I was like, Did he gain a bunch of weight for that? You know, I don't know. He does not look good. for sure. Yeah. But I think I remember reading about how he got into shit. I actually I liked it. I mean it's it was weird and uncomfortable in a lot of respects. But that's that's also what made it good, you know, seeing them be so uncomfortable.

Duds: Yeah, he's definitely bigger in that than he was in Stranger Things. What did you think of that show? Yeah.

Bright: And even like the the sexual situations between Jason Bateman and and the the girl, you know, were uncomfortable. It's unconventional sex. So like that alone, and then you find out that like David Harper's in the closet watching them and you're like, my God. And then at first you think you think like, okay, they don't know that he's in there, but then you realize like, they know that he's in there, and I'm just like, my God. Yeah.

Duds: Uh-huh. Right. Right. Now he wanted to be he wanted to be in there.

Bright: So just gets stranger and stranger as the series goes on. But I I liked it. I think Milla said he wasn't a a big fan, but yeah. It was but also a a one and done, you know, like you know, so it's worth a watch 'cause you're yeah, yeah, eight episodes and you can move on. If you don't like it, you move on. But yeah, yeah. All right.

Duds: It was odd. It was definitely an odd odd show. I mean Right. I don't mind that. Yeah. The other one, Jason Bateman I never finished was the the Black Rabbit or whatever. Did you watch that one?

Bright: I never watched it. That was Nila. He recommended that one. So it's still on my list. But yeah.

Duds: Yeah. I think I started it like got maybe five minutes into it and and never continued on but

Bright: Yeah. I mean, anything that Jason Bateman is in is good. We d I mean he it's just jazz Jason Bateman. He's good, but he always plays the same character, you know. Yeah. He he always he plays himself, this neurotic kind of yeah, you know, obsessive compulsive kind of a dude, you know, that's awkward. Yeah, but smart. He's awkward but smart, you know, doesn't like to be in social situations.

Duds: It's Jason Baton. He's Batman. I know. He plays himself. Every time. I still think his his best show so far was the the Ozarks. Yeah.

Bright: Ozark, yeah, for sure. I I would agree. Yeah, yeah, definitely. But again, still he's playing the same character. So yeah, that's it. All right. Well let's end with Jason Bateman. We're already I mean, this is supposed to be a light episode and we almost went two hours long, so it's probably a good thing Nila didn't didn't join. but hey, I think we covered some good stuff and we don't have an episode next week, so if you need to split this one into two, you can do that.

Duds: Find himself. you can do a part one, part two, there you go.

Bright: maybe that's what I should do. That's actually not a bad idea. Maybe I'll do a part one and part two and just split it up into two episodes. Yeah. I I think I think I will do that actually. We'll try something new. We'll try something new. Two episodes it is. All right. Absolutely. Talk to you later. Peace.

Duds: All right, we'll have a safe trip back.