Ochelli Effect 1-30-2026 Friday With B Pete and Callers

that one as a podcast. A couple of things have been added to the radio stream this week which are not podcasts, but maybe we'll stick them all all in the member section at ocelly dot com, even though nobody pays for the member section anymore. But maybe that'll inspire somebody who still accesses it, because there are a handful of you to do that. Perhaps you would like to make a contribution because you're no longer in case you haven't checked your debit cards lately, you're no longer paying

for that. I sent over b Pete's link fri Jitsu over on the stupid ass platform that we keep using to communicate. But here we go. You know what is it? Anyways, we are live, it is Friday, and we're going to continue to do this if you're hearing me live. By the way, it's seventeen minutes after eight pm Eastern here in what we used to call America. While people are you know, being dealt with in different ways. Don Lemon got arrested I think just after midnight or some craziness.

I don't know. Time zones are screwing me all up. But in the last twenty four hours, Don Lemon has been arrested and released. I find that interesting, especially the people that you know, claim to believe in freedom and think that he should have his mouth closed by the government, saying people who think that somebody who's carrying a gun to a protest is wrong if they're protesting on the

wrong side. But they were also the same people who said that jackass up in the Bird sanctuary years ago was still being a journalist when the Feds let him off because he's nothing but a fed himself. That's okay. That journalist was okay to cut loose, and those guys having guns while protesting was okay, which, by the way, I'm consistent about this. We have a right to carry these weapons. He didn't draw down on federal agents. They

murdered him. They didn't kill in self defense, and it's garbage plus six guys to you know, hold this guy down. So not good enough killing the lesbian lover's wifey over there that he got pissed at because you know, the federal agent got told, hey, big boy, why don't you go get some lunch? And then on the other side, I'm not even mad at you, honey, pop up, pop shoot her in the face three times. It's got nothing to do with the fact that his wife left him

for a woman or anything. Maybe that's the PTSD that he was still recovering from that he didn't tell his bosses about because allegedly he had had a problem where somebody tried to hit him with a car recently and he couldn't tell the difference when somebody was turning away from him and he shot that. You know, whatever name was good Renee good, I think it is anyway, it is what it is. It was what it was. I'm

so irritated. I don't want to cover the news. But maybe we'll find some better things to talk about him, hoping b Petele joined me shortly some reason or other. I'm not seeing him show up here on jitsy, so I don't know. I communicated it to him as best they could. Perhaps there's a problem with you know, and here I go. Now I got to open up teams again. Screw with my computer's computing power, which is getting weirder and weirder by the day, because I think they want

me to buy Windows eleven or some such nonsense. Who knows. Maybe I'm in the wrong Bpete chat because he turns around and he cancels his chats and yeah, and then I'm stuck with not knowing exactly how to send them a message anymore. I think we're going to resolve this issue in a couple of weeks because we're going to try and use Twitter spaces. Now, I just send them a double onto a different Bpete chat on teams, so

hopefully he'll be able to join me soon. Because you know, you guys don't want to call in except maybe three of you, and we need new callers. So I'm thinking we go on you know, X and ask people on X if they want to call in. They might be a little more hyper sensitive and wanting to use their phones. Be Pete, can you hear me? All right?

just make you a co host on there. People can join through their devices, just you know, by being on X if they want, and we'll retain the phone calls. We'll bring all that over there and broadcast it. Let's try that, because I'm getting sick and tired of this Jitsy being a little shaky. I'm getting sick and tired of every other thing being shaky. Really sucks. They got rid of Skype because as much as people bitched about it,

it worked. It was consistent, you know what I mean. Well, yeah, but they want money if you're going to record more than like a half hour. Wow, yeah, I mean, And sadly, Jitsy, we can record for free video. So you know, I'm just saying, look, I'm looking to keep the costs down, because I'll tell you contributions are down, so you know, I mean, if somebody wants to buy me a year's worth of riverside or or stream yard, you know, by

the way, I'll take that, no problem. You can pay for it and just give me the keys to the account. You know, if somebody wants to do that, or somehow they have a way of getting that cheaper, maybe they got a discount code or something, please by all means, or if somebody another broadcaster wants to share it, but I can't afford to pay like forty dollars a month, you know, to have that.

pay a couple hundred to keep the website up. And I'm gonna pay Spreaker because they at least still distribute the audio. But we're gonna have to step up to video somehow and try to you know, maybe maybe you could use your YouTube channel to broadcast us. Would you be willing to do that?

not with me, you know. But either way, at least we could get the Friday shows up on YouTube right away and streamed. What do you think?

you'd probably be interested in. And the algorithm's not bad because it does pick stuff that I would go listen to, although no matter what's happening, it wants to shove the two Alex Jones channels down in my throat. But other than that, they're pretty good at picking stuff for me because I don't listen to Alex Jones. But other than that,

pretty good. So they suggested some JFK thing and I recognize the host name, you know, some guy he's got, you know, a podcast with a few episodes under his belt. He's not you know, well well known or anything. But I was like, yeah, sure, stop in on there. And he had like nine people on or whatever, and once I popped up, he's like, oh, oh, I want to get you on the show. And he's like Chuck O Kelly's with us, and I was like, dude, don't be excited. Everybody hates me, but.

both your upload and your download speed. This is what I tried to to people when they said why were you paying three hundred and fifty dollars a month? Because I had smooth communication. That was the key. So I could broadcast video audio. I could literally plug myself into an FM station in Albuquerque right now, and.

with them because I can get the one gig. I'm paying eighty bucks a month for fifty bucks, right, and I'm gonna make the switch, but it'll probably be a month be for I do it.

have instead is my own satellite dish. And I had to go for that because, you know, the cable company, which was the best option and still is honestly, the cable company you know, turned around and said, well, not only do you owe us a bill because they did that whole thing where they kept sliding the bill over you know a couple of days, and a lot of companies do this now, where you got a monthly and you say, okay, so if I pay it on the first, I'm fine, or I paid on the second, I'm fine.

Whatever you make it for around the beginning of a month. So you do, you know, say you're rent and everything else with it. Well, the problem is it starts to slide when you don't have thirty days in a month, right, or you don't have thirty one days in a month, and next thing you know is you lose a whole month to them, you'll pay a thirteenth bill on a

given year. Yeah, so they did that to me. They all do that, but they did that to me and said, you know, we're not going to make a payment arrangement with you or even change your service. Because I was like, listen, I could drop a couple of other features off of this, and I have the highest allowable thing before you declare me a business and give me a whole set of

other circumstances. And you know when when Kim signed up for it, there was a package you gave us HBO and stuff like this, Well they went to full price on it and they said, unless you give us a deposit, we're not going to allow you to make changes in your account. And I'm like, but you pushed me to a thirteenth bill. You're charging me three hundred and fifty

dollars plus tax. You know, can you not give me a little bit of slack here and let me cut it down to two hundred and fifty, which I think I can do according to your packages here that you show on your portal. No, and if you don't pay it, we're not going to restore you either. So they wanted essentially two bills paid, which is seven hundred dollars to restore it, okay. And then in addition, if I wanted to make changes after that, they wanted to deposit a

couple hundred dollars. So I'm like, a grand I got to hand you to get my service back that you really shouldn't have cut off anyway. I got them to admit they'd cut me off like three days early. That's what happened, by the way. Uh, you know, before I went to Dallas a couple a little bit before that, and then I got went signed with a different company, got a satellite dish and it costs me less, but it is not quite as smooth as the other.

you lose the signal. He said yeah. I said, well that's because they've got two satellites shooting at your disc, right, so you're going to pick up signal for me the one, I said, But on satellite internet they only got one, so if it cuts out, I could always tell when it was going to ring ten minutes before it got there. Yep, because the internet would cut out. It was the worst thing in the world.

I bought my own thing. And USSB is the other company, because DirecTV had like if you wanted to be able to access pay per view or HBO or you know, Playboy channel premium stuff, right, you had to contract with them, and otherwise you had USSB and USSB would give you like, you know, your junk cable channels, your local TV. They said, they give you a local TV. But it was funny what they did. They give you like ABC from California, they give you NBC from Ohio, they give you, you know,

CBS from Florida. You know, I'm like, I'm in New Jersey. Come on, guys, you know what I mean. And I got lucky at one point they gave us a New York channel for like a month. But they give you like two of each of the network channels, and then sometimes you'd get a Fox in that package, and that was extra. So I paid for carte blanche on this thing and wound up, you know, with a satellite dish I had to install. You should have seen that. That

was probably comedy. We could have made ald YouTube channel out of that. Me installing a satellite dish on an apartment building roof anyways, funny stuff, but the way the technology has changed. Anytime it started the rain or to win Blue too hard, you lost that satellite signal and there was no refunding you for what you lost either. You know, you couldn't watch it for three days because there was a blizzard. Guess what f you you know what I mean?

plug into a landline. Okay, And what it is your routers, most of your routers, excuse me, on the back of them have a you know something that does look like it would fit an old phone cord. Right, well, it does. And if you have an access point, you can get a satellite delivered landline, like a pseudo landline. Anyway, this is how we hold the conference call open for callers to call in, which I've done, you know, at the

cheapest possible way. Other people are paying forty fifty dollars to have their call systems, right I'm paying, you know. I told you guys like it's ten bucks, you know, to keep my phone lines up when I've desperately said I can't pay the bill and we won't have callers unless somebody sends me ten bucks. This is why, you know,

and literally that's happened to me. But I've had a phone for about I don't know, eight nine years because we tried, you know, doing some of that work from home stuff where you got to be like, you know, a telemarket operator kind of guy, and you answer calls. Well, you have to have like a phone with a headset and either a land line or a pseudo land line to do it, even though you're connected on the computer

for the rest of your job. But anyway, I've blended this all together and built my own analog access into the digital world, which is why I have a physical mixer in front of me still, and I have a regular, you know, microphone. This isn't you know, a digital nonsense piece that's out there that you only can plug in with USB. This is something I could put this, you know, I could. I could mic anything with this thing. There's a you know, like a and it was a gift

from somebody. It's like a five hundred dollars mic. But anyway, you know, I could take this to a concert hall and get all of the intonations I want out of the vocals. I could easily mic half a choir with this thing. It's a nice mic, but it's analog. Then it plugs in and we turn it into a digital signal, which is blended from three four sources. And I do that myself, whether I'm producing somebody else's show or mind now, that's not very impressive because nowadays most people just you know,

get an all in one digital package. They plug in if they have internet, they can do their podcast done.

down on support and et cetera, et cetera. But also, you know, missus always had to stay home mostly to help take care of me. You know, I feel like a freakin' invalid trying to get in and out of the stupid machine today. You know, so they could finally get an MRI with me, you know, and in case, I'm not going to go into all the details, but I got I got two fractures in my back making it making the lab, you know, making the the uh you know, MRI tech like shake their head, like, how

is it You're still walking around? You know? Uh, and it's uh, what do you call it?

but you know that's happening. Plus, I don't understand things they're said on the left side of me anymore, and that doesn't help me with quite frankly, one of my adaptations visually, I don't know how far away things are, but I have echo location skills and a lot of people don't understand that, or they mistake it as oh, well, when you're blind you can hear better. No, you adapt. So I'm using my ears to do something that you don't use your ears for normally if you're fully cited,

but you can do the same thing. It's just you're not paying attention to it. Where if you listen to the way sound bounces off of things when you speak, or you know the precise measurement away from where one sound is made, and you can calculate in your mind exactly how far away something else is by the way the sound bounces off of it. If you pay that kind of attention, it will help you to not walk in the walls when you've got less than ten percent vision.

Just say it. So that is now half gone, something that I did have my whole life, and now I don't have because of this constant fricking ringing in my ear, which has put me in a very bad and strange mood. Anyway, before we got started tonight, I also did the Michael Parenti thing. We do have phone line stabilized and you can call in, so if you want to join in, change the conversation, reset it, give us something else to talk about. I don't want to talk about Vanilla isis

out there? I really don't, because you know, I'm angry beyond belief. And it's not because I'm a liberal. You know, I was just as angry when they shot other people too. But people that were reaching for guns got shot, and certain people who are now in certain movements in our country were screaming up and down that they were murdered by the FBI. But when ice agents kill somebody, no question, the cops are in the right. It's amazing how people's

sides change based on their yeah, truly, their prejudice. I'm not somebody who's friendly to the cops point of view. I've never been. And you know, what, can I say? I do have a bit of a slant on that. Maybe it's because of the way I was treated by police, and I've seen other people treated by and I recognize certain policing patterns. But these fuckers aren't even police, excuse my language. They're poorly trained. And anybody who can look at you with a straight face and tell you I'm

wrong about that is delusional. Six guys to take down the guy who's got a gun in his back, That's not necessary. I've worked with bouncers who were drug addicts, who were illiterate, who just happened to be big enough guys to get the job done, who knew how to take down a guy with less than six friggin' helpers. You mean to tell me this is good training? Nope? But anyway, I don't want to do that. I want

to talk about anything else. In fact, tell me how bad Starfleet Academy was, you know, for the past four episodes, and it is terrible. And you know why it's terrible because it's woke and retarded. It's really just beyond stupid. You guys thought that Star Trek was woke and silly before. Nope, these guys said, hold my beer, we got completely stupid

for you in a sci fi show. I used to think smart people watch sci fi shows, but apparently somebody decided to make sci fi shows for stupid people that are also in the liberal delusion. So you know, what can I say? But everybody is having their own individual delusions, and I see Jimmy James on the line. But I do want to give Bpe a chance to change the tone because my tone will go the wrong way today. I want somebody else to lead and guide this because I'm not in the mood to be nice to anybody.

I don't care who they are anymore if they're gonna say stupid things to me. And b Pete at the very least is sensible. Even when he does take a stupid point of view, he makes sense of it, which is funny to me, and is confrontational and gives us a bit of a and he thinks I'm a frickin nut sometimes because I'm off in some place that does not fit with the reality he perceives. But we can

do that and not wind up with hateful stupidity. So that's why he's here, and that's why he continues to be here, and I'm happy he is, and I think

we need to step it up. Yeah, And I do want to use x spaces very soon, and I am looking for a way to integrate video into this somehow, because apparently that's part of the reason why my podcast is dying as well, because now a podcast which used to be audio based and still does have you know, plenty of audio feeds out there, now none of them are surviving unless you give them something to look at.

And they even have specialized filters now, which I'm really pissed off about because this was my idea years ago, is that we should figure out a way to get a real time cartoon to be able to be the face of our voices because I know nobody. You know, I'm not pretty. Some people are, but I'm not, so I would rather be able to mold and shape a wacky cartoon, even if it's an exaggerated goofy version of me, or if it were like, you know, something that changes

up weird. I even had an idea that we could all be fish and we'd be in a fish tank, except my you know, my fish tank. You know, Avatar has a microphone, right, and then we get Bepete to have a fish tank microphone, you know, with a microphone, and his fish guy would be consistently. We'd probably always put a hat on him, because I don't think I've ever seen be Pete without a hat for more than five seconds, So we'd probably put a baseball hat on him.

And and he would obviously be a little older than me, and you know, we try to make the facial expressions match and wackiness, and obviously you got to stick you know, glasses on mine, stuff like that. And then even the callers, what we would do is have a fish go up to a payphone. I know, what's a payphone, old man, but still you have a fish go up to a payphone, and then we could give them any characterization we want in real time, and then as they talk, they would

be fish. And everybody thought I was stupid and I said, I'm telling you people are going to do this. And now I see there's a whole bunch of podcasts out there that are either using you know, real looking faces but AI voices in real time, where you know clearly the AI is reading it and doesn't understand what it's reading or there, or it's the other way around, where it's a guy and he's talking and it's his voice and it's all cool. But like, there's this one guy

out there who is a floating potato. That's what he is. You're floating potato with headphones on and like a mic that comes across to you know, look like he's got a headset on and as he talks, he's a floating potato. I know that sounds stupid, but I've also seen cartoons of guys that don't even you know, ROMM look like the guy. It's an exaggerated crazy thing like you know, Schwarzenegger build, and kind of like, you know, obviously he's supposed to be a cartoonish image of a good looking guy,

and meanwhile, you know he's a nerdy goofball. You know, God, I don't even know what the proper insults are anymore. For like a nerd. But anyway, the guy's a real nerd. But he's got like, you know, a movie star looking cartoon image of himself up on the screen, and that's what passes some of these videos. Some people just show slides.

Some people. I mean, I thought it was funny when I put the puppies on a couple of my interviews where my camera was just on the puppies while I'm on the microphone, and you know, the mama dog is sitting there just letting them breastfeeding stuff, and I just thought it was funny. Just yeah, every time I talk, that's what you're looking at, my puppies. Screw it. You know, you gotta give him visual. You got to give him something shiny to look at. Otherwise you're not a podcast anymore.

So now I finally have to go to video. So the blind Guy's got to make video. And I don't want to pay a fortune for it. So anybody who's got ideas, and don't tell me zoom, because zoom by the time you pay for it. So we can do this for more than thirty minutes on any given moment will not work. So unless somebody wants to give me a free pass to a Zoom account that happens to have the extended video time, or somebody wants to share one of these other accounts with me. You know, we're

obviously we'll pay our way somehow. Like I'm sure that if I had to give somebody, say twenty dollars a month, I could handle twenty dollars a month, just barely to have access to say Riverside or stream Yard, or there's

another new one out there that looks really good. Actually that's you know, trying to bait and switch, and they tell you can buy different options, but in order to do everything, you're gonna you know, we could split this bill and it could be fifteen or twenty dollars a month, and I'll pay you monthly, regardless of whether you bought it for three years and got a discount or whatever. I'll pay you monthly for my knowing that I have

a clear password and use of it. And in fact, I'll change the time of day I broadcast if that'll help. If you broadcast in the night slots and you don't want to overrun with me, you know what, I'll start doing the afternoon or the morning. I don't know if Ppeter'll go along with the morning, but I will and I could probably get Larry Hancock to join us. Morning is well, there you go, right, But if it was,

say ten am, would you go for that? I could do tennish, tennish, okay tennis or later yeah, yeah, okay. Well let's just say this guy wants all of my times, which usually I start at seven pm and around midnight I'm about done. So the thing is this, if I say, okay, fine, I'll tell you what. I'll take twelve pm to six pm, and you never try to use it during that time without making special arrangements with me, and you can make it, you know, from six pm to midnight, no problem, no

need for special arrangements. That's the time you own. And in fact, we could probably get a third person in if everybody's reasonable, behaves themselves, and they could have midnight to six am. Now I know not everybody would want that slot, but if you were in Australia or if you were in the UK, you know what, they will take euros and turn it into dollars. We could split the damn thing three ways and pay no more than fifteen dollars a month to have top tier service on

a shared account. I have no problem with that if people want to be reasonable, you know, and some other people have done this and they're doing just fine with it. I don't want to name names. I'm a little pissed off they didn't invite me to participate, and I asked for a slot if it ever opens up. But apparently some people, even though they only do one show a week, really really need their spot with this little group. But anyhow, it is what it is. It was what it was anyway.

Now that I've run in my mouth about all this for way too damn long, what time is it already? We've already been a half hour deep into the show. So I want to give BPTE a chance to say something, and then I want to give all of you who are listening for some strange, crazy reason at forty eight minutes after eight pm Eastern Okay, on the thirtieth day of January twenty twenty six. Why do I say it? Because this will be replayed. I did some short attention

span DJ theaters this week. I did another rant which only took me about fifteen minutes to complete, So I undershot a show. I might take that and stick it in the members section, or put it out in conjunction with another show. I don't know yet. I'm gonna do something with it. Maybe I'll add it to the Michael

Parenti tribute that I did earlier. But either way, I'm still producing, no matter how bad I'm injured, and no matter how badly, I'm just trying to keep you know, three people from freezing to that here in Georgia, cause that's been a tough fight this week. You know, again, I get it. I used to laugh at people that complained about, oh my god, it snowed for the first time in three years. Yeah, I get it, and that

is funny. But you know, when it's been consistently cold for almost a month now and you got twenty degree temperatures in a subtropical region of the country that's not supposed to ever get this cold and usually only has about two weeks of cold weather a year, your blood's a little thin, your house aint built right, and your heating solutions are wrapped up in guess what a gigantic

electric bill? You know, I don't want to pay twenty two dollars a day to keep more, but I have to, and I've had to ask friends, listen, I don't know how manny keep the lights on next couple of days, because I'm paying for it by the day, by the way, because i lost my ability to have a regular bill, so now I'm on I pay as you go, and yeah, when that gets down to zero and I've got two dollars left, yeah, I'm going to some of my friends saying, listen,

I need a couple bucks keep the lights on. And sometimes they got it, and sometimes they don't, you know. So I'm just saying, just saying, but I don't want to make this into a megathon or anything else. I want to make this into something interesting in theater of the mind should play a role in this at all times.

But in the next couple of weeks, if I continue to be able to broadcast, I want to switch us over try out that the X spaces thing with Bpete, and if that works, I think I'm going to start encouraging other guests and everybody else to use that as our point of communication and a simulcast. So I think we'll just start broadcasting on X and you know, God

help us. The algorithms will probably never find me unless you're somebody who knows how to write good keywords on X you know that happen to get weird attention outside of the five people that you know. If you know how to do that, please contact me via X I'm at Shelly Effect and tell me that you want to write the crib notes for me here. You want to write the triggered praises because I'd love to pop up

on people's top five or top ten. Hey, go listen to a Twitter or excuse me, an X space broadcast. I'm trying to adjust my headphone off of my left ear so that it doesn't blend with that high pitch squeal, which is why I'm having a prolonged monologue here, and I'm testing a few things. But I think I'm done. And my apologies to Jimmy James, who was still on the phone, but also to Bepte because I wanted to let him cut loose a lot sooner. In the meantime,

I want to let you guys cut loose. I don't want to keep talking tonight, so please shut me up by calling in and talking about anything else in the world. Engage with bepete, engage with each other, talk to the wall, make it entertaining say something new please three one nine five two seven five zero one six. I think I paid this bill this month, but they'll send me a notice soon if I didn't. It's the cheapest way I can maintain the phone bank. Three one nine five two

seven five zero one six. That's three one nine, five two seven five zero one six. That is the number to call. We are still live here on a Friday night at fifty two minutes past eight pm Eastern on o'chelly dot com radio and the twenty four to seven radio station runs at the cheapest possible cost. And you know what, suggestions for things that I could grab up that you know might be out there and I can't put into a podcast because of copyright issues, I can

run on there. Somebody mentioned uncle Floyd in the chat room, and oh my goodness, so you're gonna do a tribute to uncle Floyd. Now that's a tri state area thing. You might have heard about him across the country. Uh, they mentioned him in a few movies, et cetera. And he's that goofy guy who looks like he's wearing what do you call those hats that have like a square top on them and they're sort of bent up. It's like a bowler, but it's got a square top at the top. Beatp, what's that at called.

of Polish descent. Who I am making no illusions against freaking YouTube anyways, Noah, but I used to see literally, I used to see these on pollox all the time, and they used to have loud, clashing colors, and it was like you took a bowler hat right, and you put the flat part of a fedora on top of that, and so the bowler brim going all the way around and a flat top and then ridiculous patterns and a around it. Do you ever see that hat?

get through life in the nineteen seventies. But they would show up like that, and they would a lot of them would have these hats on them describing Uncle Floyd wore one of those, and then he would wear like a plaid suit jacket and like a Hawaiian shirt okay, and big loud striped pants, you know. And then on

a good day when he's trying to dress up. You ever see the movie Easy Money with Rodney Dangerfield, Yeah, so you remember when Rodney's like wearing the common man look, and it's all his like funky old man stuff, you know, like he's not even that old of a guy, but he's wearing like stuff that. You know, people on a golf course wouldn't get caught dead wearing the bowling shirts, the weird clashing patterns, like might be stripes and polka dots on next piece of clothing, that kind of stuff.

Remember when they did that. So guys who dressed like that, you don't see those anymore, but that was a thing in the seventies, remember the seventies eighties. You'd see guy like that. You're like, yeah, that's probably a Polish guy, a German guy, right, something like that, or maybe a Russian guy who got out of the Soviet Union would be dressed like that, like I love America, this is great. And always they were drunk, you know, and they could

hold their liquor. But if they stood at that bar for like three four hours, that's when I would challenge him to a game of pool when I was six years old, because I could beat him for a dollar and it was fun. You know. These were the guys who figured out how to cut off two fingers making a sub sandwich at the local shop, you know that kind of guy.

seconds of fame. And he was another Tri State area guy. They called him doctor Dirty. And he's the guy who used to have those the songs, like song parodies, but nothing you know developed. It was like the the sawdust barroom version of weird Al Yankovic. And he was most famous for being in a couple of movies Going and I took her to that gang bang where she was

banging a like vaudeville sounded dude on a piano. He was another guy who was famous for being horrible and yet memorable in New Jersey and New York in seventies eighties. You know what I mean?

hanging out of it. Well, you know the guys that had like loud, crazy stuff on those, you know, like eyeballs with feet for no reason, you know, stuff like that, but printed in all different directions on that. Well, Uncle Floyd, if you look at his hat, I'm telling you he's one of these guys. One of the youngest people ever saw wearing one of those hats, because you don't wear these things, you know, being under the age of thirty five.

There's no there's no way because somebody will beat your ass.

it did in the nineties. I go there and I see behind the Video Spotlight guy that there's parts of Uncle Floyd's like you know set or just like lining up against the wall and I'm like, wait a minute, Uncle Floyd films here. Yeah, I wound up hanging out there for a little bit and grabbed a bass and wound up playing bass for like five seconds on the Uncle Floyd Show. But I can't find that Video Spotlight episode. It was one of the longest times I ever got

on a TV show when I was a musician. You know, like I've been on very few shows as a JFK Assassination researcher, but that's because I'm always behind the scenes on things. But when I was in front of the scenes, it was hard for me to get on TV, you know, as a local performer. You know, only performances on TV I can or the only times I popped up on TV is on Live Aid on the original broadcast. There is apparently a picture of me. Somebody sent me like

a screenshot, and now I can't find it. But apparently you can find a picture of me wearing one of those Painters caps. On that day at Live Aid, I did Video Spotlight, which I was on for like forty five minutes out of an hour long TV show on New Jersey the Network. And other than that, you know, my my attempts to get into movies. I was edited out or I was waiting in the background, you know what I mean. I TV was not something I easily got to. Are the dogs barking real loud? VP?

your mind? Forget about all the crap I just spewed. What's on your.

somebody tell me what that means? How can you know if you're violating a curfew if you don't know what it entails. And I haven't checked the answers yet, but you know me, I go for a walk every day if I can. If I'm out there walking in the snow, am I subject to arrest.

stuff falls. So just stay off the roads, how about it. No, we are under and a first an official declared emergency curfew starting tomorrow, but they won't say what the curfew entails, what you can and can't do.

had to stay in your house. You want to go outside and play in the snow, knock yourself out, but you ain't going far. And I mean I walked through some of those state of emergencies and people thought I was insane. Cops would stop and be like, like almost, They're trying to check me mentally to make sure I'm not, you know, crazy and gonna freeze myself to death. But you know, I'd be like, Noah, look, I can't drive and the roads are empty. I got to get somewhere. Yeah, it's only five minutes away.

and we would take sleds inter teer to everything else. Hell, we would walk halfway across town in the snow foot and half deep, just to go sledding. It was nothing to be out, you know, on the roads and if you could get the hood off an old Volkswagen. And a friend of yours had a tractor. We used to go to this huge k or Wolco Kmar parking lot and hooked that thing up to a rope. And you've not lived until you've been dragged at thirty miles an hour behind a tracker on the hood of a Volkswagon.

It's fun.

Wait a minute, you know, you go outside to pee and ice cubes land on the ground before you know, before like ice cubes land instead of being.

the girl seemed like a regular girl. But the guy says to me, is I'm trying to you know, I'm sticking in earplugs because I'm going into a machine.

don't worry about it. Anyways, I go in there, but on my way in the guy goes, are you from New York? And I said, why would you ask me that?

And he says, well, look your accent, you know. I said, okay, okay, I said, now, what you're hearing is a Jersey accent where we do go into New York, but the real root of it is most of the people there for a couple of generations, like the majority of the population was Italian and Irish and kind of living in an area where we developed our version of the New York sound, which you guys heard on the Jersey Shore but still call it New York. But anyway, he was like, oh, okay,

and I was thinking about making a joke to the guy. Listen, it's real easy. I can give you the whole you know, Jersey to English or Jersey to Redneck, you know translation key, if you want, I'll give you, you know, the Great Stone if you'd like, right, the Rosetta Stone, if you will, to translate New York, New Jersey to Redneck and back and forth. And it's real simple. That old phrase blessed

their heart, right, Okay. What they're telling you in plain English is that they're dealing with somebody stupid, and that's all there is to it. They're clearly stupid, but there's another level to it that maybe I don't necessarily understand. But BPTE, am I right or wrong?

And I don't mean ignorant redneck. I mean just common Jersey the way we actually talk to each other, and common you know, Southerner the way they talk to each other. Really okay, but notice Johnson is saying this because the other guy say, listen, he gave you a donation. Yeah, okay, so he was a useful idiot. Bless his heart is really what you should be hearing there. But the way

the comments are loaded, it works both ways. See with a guy from Jersey especially, but a guy from Jersey New York, you know, the tri state area, let's call it. Instead of saying bless their heart, you look at somebody who says and clearly has now you know, qualified themselves as a retard. And you look at somebody else who happens to be there, and you're hoping that they're witnessing this. So you add it. You add it, and you hyperboleze

the insult and you make it even bigger. This way it can be laughed off or fluffed off as something where it's like, oh, that's just a joke. The other thing sounds polite and nice. But really, what you just got called was an idiot. And I do mean an idiot as in village idiot, or as in you know, the town slow minded guy whatever apparently you are, because

bless your heart. But see in Jersey, it would be like, you know, let's just say it's a girl who just said or did something stupid, and I'm looking at a guy. So now I'm going to make a hyperbole here and confuse the issue and make it sound like a joke. So you see this, I mean, are you actually seeing this stupid who over here? She retired or what? Now I've loaded three things into there, but all it really

means is I'm not. And by the way, if I said who, it's different than the whore, See a whore gets paid to who were is just somebody who's you know, easy, and so on and so forth. So you got the double entendre with a single word. But the complexity there is that I'm asking this guy a question. I didn't even insult her directly. See what I mean? Now, if I switch it over and it's I'm talking to a girl and there's a guy there. And this is not always gender specific, but this is a good way to

divide it. I might look at this guy and say, oh, sweetie. First of all, I just demean her with that a little bit, which is something else Southerners doing. I don't know how that works exactly, but this whole like you know, where they're starting to calling you sweet nice names. They don't mean that, they don't mean it at all, they mean something else. But anyway, this is the deflection. I'm

calling her sweet. He sounds like I'm being nice, but really I'm just undercutting her because she's not much more but a witness here. You see this, You know, in the old days, we would just say, you know, fag or fig or something like that, to undermine his masculinity first, and say undermine, not underline, undermine his masculinity first, but then ask her, do you see how this fag is also a retard? Now? Still, I didn't address the guy because he's not worth talking to. I talk to her,

demean her, flipped it back to her. Turned into a joke because the guy doesn't even have to have a limp wrist. I could just throw it in there to undercut his masculinity and his mental abilities all in one shot. Plus he's not worth talking to. It's the same sentiment. Okay, So he's saying.

good deal. But that's about it. So but either way, these things are loaded, and there's a bunch of sentimentality that is actually unspoken regardless, and it's still and it's about the same thing, it really is. And the fun part is that Southerners when they hear this, they think it's hilarious. They're like, oh my god, I can't believe how rude that person. And they're laughing. And guess what, you do that same thing with like people up north,

they will take it the same way. They'll be laughing their asses off.

and he also had the TV show. You ought to listen to those because those are funny because Tracy Morgan's a fan of his and actually pays attention to him and doesn't do the diversionary crap, so it's actually kind of fun to hear Howard Stern go, okay, so tell me about all the women you banged while you were on Saturday Night Live. And Tracy Morgan starts to tell

the story. But you know what it sounds like when Tracy tells the story, so it's all this crazy crap, and he goes off in all these different directions, talking about basically, you know, I don't care who I knock up, if it's a stewardess or whoever. So what more babies in the world, things like this. He goes through this whole thing, Howard's riding along with it, and then he goes and says, well, how often do you cheat on your wife? And he goes, I've never cheated on my wife.

I can take a lot of textra test to that. What's wrong with you? And just watch how he controls the whole rooms like, you know, because Howard had like extra writers back then, he had like six people in that studio, plus Robin Off in her own little booth, and Robin couldn't even handle it. She wouldn't even talk during it until Trey she would turn over there and they'd be like, oh, we thought you only liked white women, and he'd go, oh, no, I do every color. What's

wrong with you? All I know about his women and what they got and where they're gonna let me put it. I'm telling you, it was amazing to listen to. Yeah.

And usually back then when Howard Stern still had interview skills right, and he wasn't looking to just kiss the ass of Hollywood A listeners and you know, and scream at people about how dare you not get a vaccine?

You know? And when he was before that, you know, he had some skills as an interviewer that would knock people off, that would get them admitting things on his show they wouldn't admit anywhere else everything, And he would cause discomfort with these people, these stars, and he didn't care, and it was brilliant to watch. But watch what Tracy

Morgan does with him over and over again. I listened to like six seven appearances of Tracy Morgan on Howard Sterns show because that's what the algorithm fed me after I found it, and it was like just amazing the twists and turns he went through and all the shit he was talking on that show. It was insane. Seriously, it's almost as crazy as I don't know. Did you guys have Crazy Eddy around the country? Did you ever see Crazy Eddy or hear Crazy Eddy? I'll start with you,

Jimmy James. Did you ever see Crazy Eddy?

And but he was the original. You see him in movies sometimes where you see stuff happening in New York like in the seventies or eighties, like his commercials will be on the TV.

come to our five locations. We've got everything, We've got all this stuff. And he'd throw the freaking videotapes around and he toss you know, back then, he'd throw remote controls around and he knock over TVs and the whole thing would always end up with Crazy Eddy, Our prices are insane. That was his big thing. Anyway, it was a whole scam. And the guy turned around and like ordered stuff and sold it for super dirt cheap, kept the cash and didn't pay the people that he was

buying the products from, is what he did. And eventually he takes the public. Really, he takes the company public rips off Wall Street. It's no joke. If you go dig into the story of Crazy Eddi, it's hilarious. Him and his family started with like one store and ended up with like thirty, and all of them were part of this massive pyramid scheme where they were basically taking in stuff and selling it at a discount, like kind of like what the mob does, except without hijacking the trucks,

you know. And he was famous for these commercials. It got so big so fast that he couldn't keep the pyramid scheme going. So he's got thirty locations and he's literally trucking all of the Like they tried to do an audit of his, you know, his inventory and all that.

He turns around and takes the audit inventory, loads it onto one truck, and then he's got a guy on the inside, he's bribing with the federal agency that's trying to check up on him, and he's literally shipping the boxes of TVs or whatever to each store at a time to get hold of them doing an audit on them. So they show up and go, well, it says here he got five hundred TVs. Looks like he got five hundred TVs. And it's the same five hundred TVs they

looked at yesterday in a different store. So he was doing that to account for the fact that he didn't take in enough money. Like in other words, he's got a set of books showing you he took in a million dollars. He really took in half a million dollars and never paid for any of the merchandise and split it up amongst his family and just kept it rolling. And who didn't want to do business with crazy Etti.

So every new electronics company, whether it was a computer place, a TV place, and if you remember in the eighties, there were many foreign companies that were trying to get their products into the US because we were the best consumers. This guy was selling, you know, TVs that you'd have to pay five hundred dollars for for two hundred bucks and they couldn't figure out how the hell he was

doing it. And it was real simple because he just stiffed all the vendors, you know, systematically, not you know, not everyone every time, but he came up with a system to basically stiff the vendors, keep the cash, say

screw it, and keep opening locations. And I wasn't sure how big it got because it started in one New York store and the next thing I know is he's got him in Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, He's got him all across New York and all sorts of places except upstate New York because I think somebody would have shot him with a moose gun if they pulled that crap on

him in upstate New York. But outside of that, this guy had a whole scam and it was like a decade long thing where it was this huge deal and then they tried to put him in prison. I don't even remember how the story ended, but check it out. It's it's really really funny. And you know, there's one of those links that nobody wants to look at, connected to Donald Trump on Crazy Eddy by the way, But anyway, you know, pay no attention to that. I could tell him on a lot of slazy guys he worked with.

have mattered. This story is insane, it's really and I think it would be make a great comedy and about how they you know, you want to see capitalism on crack here you go. That's what it's like. It's like crackhead capitalism. Seriously. Uh but but he made it work a little while what what celebrity would you say?

So I didn't have you know, world class stereo, but I had a pretty damn good stereo set, right, and h I go there to buy my double tape deck. Now I walked in there with three four hundred dollars. I'm waiting to spend, you know, buy something top of the line, and they had nothing that I wanted in stock everything. You know. Well, you know, we got floor models and that's it. We can order you one, this and that. Now I come in to buy something, I want to buy it. I want to go home. You know,

I'm a teenager, so I got to get rides. Okay, it was my excuse. I mean, I'm a grown man. Now I still need to get rides. But the point is that I go in there to buy a double tape deck. They sold me on two double tape decks, and I paid the four hundred dollars for two of them. But it was a nightmare and a half. I go back to the store trying to return one because it

doesn't work right. And like I said, when I discovered later that they were taking refurbished and even flea market stuff and cleaning it up and putting it in boxes, it was nuts because they had already undercut and sold the you know, the thing out of the box for cheap earlier, and then they would get something from the flea market and throw it in the brand new box

and packing and sell it to you that way. And I wound up getting two double tape decks, and the one I didn't really like was the one that actually worked, and I wound up giving up on trying to return or exchange the other one. I just let it sit on my shelf and do nothing because only the player side worked. The record side didn't work. The record deck so it was a waste in my frigging oh man, Yeah, that sucked.

of those guys. But then when I finally broke down and said CDs, I got you know, a good uh Phillip CD player. For a little bit was all right, And then you know, I wore the freaking thing out or you know, laser became missile lined or some nonsense. So I sticked that thing aside. You know what I ended up with, which was meant to be a replacement. And also I had one of the Sony discmands that weighed like five pounds. There was a Sony discman at one point that had a metal casing and it was heavy.

I had one of those plugged into my stereo for a little bit, but then I got something else and plugged it in as my CD component. And I was never happier in my life with any any component in that stereo system than this one CD player. And I guarantee you you'd never guess what it is.

And I was like, well, this will temporarily work until I buy a new CD player, right. And it was the best friggin thing. It weighed like nothing, it was made of plastic and I don't even remember who made it, but it was my Marlborough Miles acquired freaking CD player that got me the best sound on my stereo ever out of my CDs. And I have no idea why. I think it might have been made by Phillips too eventually or something like that, but it was because it

was not. I think it was the Adventure Team. If anybody wants to look up you know Marlborough Miles prizes they used to give out, you know, people would smoking up to get a canoe. I don't know if you remember that stuff.

I had friends that were collecting them together. I had a band that was collecting all our Marlborough was together at one point. But I got my CD player on my own, dammit. Well that and whatever packs I found on the ground, I would pull the miles off. You know.

to and purchase them. It's just it's become a pain in the putt.

sack reel to reel. Well, so I couldn't integrate it into the component system. But I mean I even had an eight track on that thing. And then those things are not coming back.

Well it did, but it didn't. And the only thing that replaced it was digital.

every two days. We guarantee god bodies dropping. They just busted a serious drug ring allegedly, and we also have ice around. But I got to tell you, in my particular neighborhood on the south side of making the cops don't even come here.

down telling them to give him the money. They give him the money, and then he stands there for a while looking around the store, and then he ran away.

money and left. At the same time, like a coordinated thing happened, three hookers in the hotel across the street all got held a gunpoint and got their money took. So the cops are over there trying to sort out the hooker's money.

whatever it is they like, whether it's meth or whatever. Hey, you know, and I know they took the drugs, but you can't tell the cops. Look, they also stole my meth and my crack and you know, and the heroin I got for my girlfriend over here. They they can't report that because I did the math on that. If you've got three hookers that only got five hundred dollars at the end of the day, they spent some of their money, you know, maybe it's just me. Well, anyway,

you could ask these questions Aaron Franz. You could ask these questions of Aaron Franz if you like, in the next hour, because the Age of Transitions is gonna be live here on o'chelly dot com cause we're all done with the Friday night call in show. B Pete. You think it was a good one at least?

My co host was Bpete. Thanks to Jimmy James for calling in and like I said, the Age of Transitions with Aaron Franz, Begin.