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Memorable Saturdays: Football Rivalries, Movie Debates, and Media Influence
What makes a Saturday morning truly special? Perhaps it's celebrating a 16th anniversary with a mix of family time and football excitement! Join us as we recount a day filled with cherished moments with our grandchild and anticipation for the legendary Georgia vs. Florida game—a rivalry that's as heated as any in college football. We'll share personal anecdotes about the evolving atmosphere of this Jacksonville event, from festive gatherings to the boisterous spectacle it is today. Plus, listen in on our amusing debate about the 1974 classic film "The Conversation," where one of us may have drifted off during Gene Hackman's performance, sparking a playful post-movie discussion.
Switching topics, we're diving into the intricate world of media, politics, and celebrity influence. Can personalities like Cardi B shape political discourse, or are they just media distractions? We'll tackle how the media often distorts political narratives, particularly around Trump, and why some stories refuse to die despite being debunked. What does the future hold for political media coverage if Trump returns to power or if Kamala Harris takes the helm? We ponder these possibilities, considering how media ratings are driven by the political landscape and how public perception is swayed by headlines rather than facts. This episode promises a lively blend of personal stories, cultural observations, and political insights.
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Hello, good morning. Welcome to Saturday November 2nd.
Speaker 2:Good morning one and all. Glorious Saturday. How are you today?
Speaker 1:I say November 2nd because we were talking about it earlier. When we first woke up and it was like happy anniversary, happy second day of our 16 years together.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think I said morning happy anniversary again.
Speaker 1:Again, it's our second day of 16 years awesome yes, so what do we have on the agenda today? What would you like to talk about?
Speaker 2:I know we have a couple of things we're getting the grand cam today, which is always a pleasure and joy, and we've got, uh, georgia playing flor, which is a huge game. You know, it's one of those ones that, depending on the schedule for the year, most Georgia fans would like. If we could only win one game a year, it'd be the Georgia game. I mean the Florida game, because there's lots of we don't like Florida football.
Speaker 1:Yeah, your rival is like what Alabama-Auburn, ohio-michigan, it's a pretty big big rival.
Speaker 2:It's big, it's huge.
Speaker 1:Do you know why it became that way? Because, you don't know the history of it.
Speaker 2:It's just it's always been that way. You know, it's always a special weekend. You know, for those who don't know, the game's held in Jacksonville every year and it's kind of like a vacation. Where I grew up, everybody used to. All the Georgia fans would flock to the area where I grew up and they would flock there a week before the game and the parties started, you know, on Monday, and ran all the way through the weekend.
Speaker 1:From what you tell me, the people who live there would leave and rent out their houses.
Speaker 2:They do now and there were a lot of people that did that, but it was. It wasn't as rowdy, and you know.
Speaker 1:Of course, yeah.
Speaker 2:You know it was more of a big party. Now it's more of a. You know I call it a rave. People come in, and you know I call it a rave. People come in and you know it's time to just inundate and tear up things and leave. You know it's gotten out of hand, basically Like with everything else in our society.
Speaker 1:as we've gotten older not us, but as our society has fallen away from all kinds of good, good things, now we've just fallen into chaos.
Speaker 2:Well, we take it too far and you go to the point where you don't respect anything of anybody else's, and I think that's what that really amounts to is let's go tear things up, because that's what we do.
Speaker 1:There's not any respect for anything, no even when you win, like the Dodgers in California the other day. They burned down the city because they won. What the hell?
Speaker 2:Exactly right. I don't know why that is, but anyway that's a big thing for us, the Georgia Florida. That will be on at what time 2.30 today, eastern, or 2.30 Central, 3.30 Eastern.
Speaker 1:All right, You're not going to yell and scream with the grand cam here are you Absolutely. You're going to scare him half to death.
Speaker 2:He'll be sitting there yelling and screaming with me.
Speaker 1:Not like you did last week, when I was back here and you were watching football. That really scared me.
Speaker 2:That was two weeks ago. Yeah, that was the Texas game.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, it wasn't the fact that it was loud, it was. It sounded very angry.
Speaker 2:Terry was not here, carrie's not here. I was just watching the Shining. What does the kid say, oh yeah, baby's not here. So anyway, going on from that, I'm looking forward to it. Hopefully it'll be a good game.
Speaker 1:Georgia will kick their ass. I hope it's a blowout by Georgia so I don't have to hear your yelling and screaming.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, Absolutely. Well, you know it'll be what it is.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:What about you? What you got going on today?
Speaker 1:Nothing today Going to go get the grand cam and hang out with him.
Speaker 2:I got you. Well, we're winding down the race for the presidency of the United States.
Speaker 1:But first let's talk about the movie we saw last night. How about we talk about the movie I saw last night while you fell asleep?
Speaker 2:I was going to mention that you have to jump right in there, but I was going to mention that.
Speaker 1:So we picked this movie.
Speaker 2:We, I picked the movie.
Speaker 1:Well, I agreed to it because I thought it sounded good too. After you hyped it up and I watched the previews and I thought, all right. You know, because when Terry Garr passed away I said let's watch a Terry Garr movie. I picked out Tootsie and you talked about this movie called the Conversation. You said it got awards and all this stuff. I'm thinking America Awards.
Speaker 2:It was nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture. It had nominations in three different categories.
Speaker 1:And it had big stars.
Speaker 2:And it won an Academy Award in one of it. That's what I'm saying. And it had big stars and it won an academy award and one of the one of it. That's what I'm saying and it had big stars in it too but the big clue was I went and I looked and I noticed that it won best picture at the european you didn't tell me that and it won awards in the european ones.
Speaker 2:so I didn't know. It just kind of blew over my head. I didn't even think about it winning those awards. I thought you know the Academy Awards great, it's got to be a good movie. But I wonder I'm sure it's a good movie.
Speaker 1:Anyway, going on, yeah, so it's called the Conversation. It stars Gene Hackman, it has Terry Garr in it. She's not a star in it, but she's in it. It has Cindy Williams, it has Harrison Ford.
Speaker 2:I think those are the big players that we knew, yeah and the only conversation is what goes on in his mind, isn't it?
Speaker 1:No, there was a conversation that actually happened. It was about he's some kind of private surveillance guy hired by, I guess, this rich guy in wherever their big city they're in. So he's recording this wife of the rich man with this other man walking around at lunchtime because they think the rich man thinks that his wife is having an affair, and it does seem to be that way, because the rich man thinks that his wife is having an affair and it does seem to be that way. But the whole conversation that he's recording he gets obsessed with it. He's a little weird. Anyway, I don't know the music in it. It's a bad movie. Don't watch it.
Speaker 2:I don't recommend it. It is a perfect, perfect cure for insomnia. I mean, I did my best, I drank my coffee, I tried so hard, but, man, it'll put you to sleep. The music, just the music. Was terrible At first. I liked the way the music was playing, I thought it was cool, the piano, and I even said that.
Speaker 1:It had long drawn-out scenes where nobody talked at all. It was just music and watching people ride a bus or back and forth and walking or whatever. It's really stupid.
Speaker 2:Which is why the Europeans love it, because it was almost artsy. Yeah, it was like oh, it's so art, it was almost artsy yeah, yeah. Two hours of artsy piano playing watching a guy's. Well, that's one of the reasons directed by francis ford coppola hello yeah. So anyway, I I was fooled into believing it was going to be a good movie, but uh, I would rotten tomatoes. I would give it like six. It was not good.
Speaker 1:I stayed awake and watched the whole damn thing.
Speaker 2:I don't think you even really knew what happened.
Speaker 1:Oh, I knew what happened.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Want me to tell you.
Speaker 1:You told me last night that all the time you were saying it, you said think and I think what I gathered was, again, this rich man played by robert duvall hired gene hackman, the surveillance guy, to record a conversation between cindy williams and this other dude who cindy williams was married to robert duvall, the rich guy, and cindy williams was having an affair with this younger guy, and so they were walking around at lunchtime talking and gene hackman was recording the conversation. Gene Hackman got a little obsessed with it, thought he heard, you know, a murder was going to happen and he thought that the rich guy, robert Duvall, was going to kill his wife and her lover. Well, it turned out it was the opposite the lover, the Cindy Williams, and the lover killed Robert Duvall. So that's. And then Harrison Ford, who worked for Robert Duvall, called Gene Hackman and he said I know, you know what we did and you're not going to say anything because we're going to be watching and listening to you. And then he plays a recording of Gene Hackman playing the saxophone in his apartment just minutes before.
Speaker 1:So then Gene Hackman loses his mind and he tears up his whole apartment. I mean, like it got obsessive toward panels off the floor, wallpaper off the walls he got, and then it just ended with him playing his saxophone there with his apartment all torn up. It was weird boy.
Speaker 2:That was a good, some good sleep. Apparently I didn't miss a whole lot.
Speaker 1:You did not.
Speaker 2:See, I'm a wise person.
Speaker 1:So I am in charge of picking out all future movies for us.
Speaker 2:I have been demoted, thankfully, because I did pick a couple of decent ones.
Speaker 1:You know I don't take charge of a lot of things in our marriage, but this is what I'm taking charge of.
Speaker 2:What is it? What was it on Seinfeld, when the guy said I'm taking charge of all this stuff and the guy sitting it was in a board meeting. He said I'm taking charge of something and the other guy sitting down smugly put a cigar up to his mouth and said if you say so, so you have at it. Babies, enjoy, I will. That's one thing I'm relieved of doing.
Speaker 1:All right, all right, let's get on to the political atmosphere that's happening. We have what? Three, four more days before we vote here in Alabama. I know the early voting is going on elsewhere. We don't have early voting here in Alabama, so we will be waiting in lines, I'm sure.
Speaker 2:No, they won't be there. Well, there may be lines in some places, but ours is like I said, all the times I've voted, I think I've had to stand outside the door, the line being about five deep before I actually went in. So that's not a big deal for us. We get through pretty quickly. Yeah, the things that I've you know, not so much the candidates and what they're doing, but the way the media and the celebrities and all are being foolish and acting like fools. Two examples, was you know? Number one, would you take political advice from Cardi B? Number two when was the last time? If you did take it, when was the last time she was giving it? And number three did you see her on stage when her teleprompter went out and they had to come give her a phone so she could read what she was being told to read?
Speaker 1:It's pitiful.
Speaker 2:Come on man.
Speaker 1:It's so sad and pitiful.
Speaker 2:And just to say oh well, cardi B supports Kalama, kamala. So therefore I'm going to or Jennifer Lopez, or Jennifer.
Speaker 2:Lopez or any of these celebrities, who gives a flying rat's butt? Yeah. And then, of course, I heard Trump make the comment know, would Liz Cheney make the decision she was making if she had a gun and she was facing you know rifle shooting at her? Would she make the same decision about war? And then, of course, you know it's whipped up to say you know Trump's going to put Liz Cheney in front of a firing squad if he gets elected. You know.
Speaker 1:Just absolute asnine it is. It's so dumb, it's almost comical. It's like cartoonish. Yeah, it's like, are we living in Gotham City?
Speaker 2:And the thing about you know. And to continue on one thing I was going to say, and then we'll continue with what you said. And to continue on one thing I was going to say, and then we'll continue with what you said. You know, these things that they continue on with the lies about what he said about you know. Just, you know they changed around something he said from four years ago and they're still using it.
Speaker 1:Well, they're still using stuff that has been factually debunked, like the losers and suckers of the veterans Right. That has been.
Speaker 2:And fine people on both sides.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:You know all that's not. You know. I mean, I remember listening to it when he did the fine people on both sides speeches and I was like, yeah, you know? I mean, that's all I've always said. They're good people on both sides, liberals, and but they're fanatics who change. You know this stuff? And then, of course, you know, it came out that they said I was like. That's not what he said, so you know it wasn't even having to be debunked in my mind, because it was already there.
Speaker 2:But again, they still use that and it's you know. Are people that ignorant? Are they that stupid? Apparently so, apparently so.
Speaker 1:Apparently so. Well, there's people out there, there's a whole group of people out there, that don't watch like we watch. We don't, they don't get into it like we do, absolutely, and so they just see what's on CBS, nbc, headlines, whatever, then they go on about their day and that's what they you know, yeah, that's quite true, quite true, that's sad, but you know, here we are, here we are my question for the media, or for anybody, or for you, whatever is if trump gets elected and then he doesn't do any of the things the democrats claim he's going to do, what are they going to report on?
Speaker 2:Well, I think that the narrative will change and they'll go after. They'll start, you know, bringing up impeachment stuff, saying he did things, and start manufacturing, manufacturing new stuff. And especially if you know the Democrats get Congress, that's the first thing they're going to do is they'll start impeachment of him for something. You know he's a convicted felon, so we're going to you know we're going to impeach him. We're going to impeach him on something. Don't sit here and think that if he gets elected, that that shit's not going to start because they're going to do everything in their power to thwart anything he does. You know, like the first four years, you know his first term, they did everything in their power to make sure that anything he did or to try to stop anything he did. Yeah, and of course you know he was impeached twice. You know how much time and effort did that take Congress.
Speaker 2:Think about that how much time and effort did that take? Congress? I know, you know, and especially with Elon Musk coming in as a, you know we're going to start cutting government. All these liberals that have been appointed to all these positions are going to stonewall and stop and try to do everything because they're going to lose their jobs and it's going to take them out of power, their absolute power that they've got.
Speaker 1:It will become the media's job to discredit anything he does or anything With stupid silly stories too, they'll try to blow up silly stories too, they'll try to blow up.
Speaker 2:Well, one of the things that they were, you know was talked about was you look at rachel maddow and the late night shows and all that stuff, and when it was before trump, their ratings were just going into the tank. They were terrible. And then all of a sudden trump gets and they got something to back, and four years they went and they bashed the hell out of Trump, bashed the hell out of Trump. Trump no longer elected and their ratings start to just go away. So you know, they're kind of sitting on a double-edged sword. Do we bash him and not get him elected and our ratings fall and we lose our jobs, or do we keep him in office and, uh, you know, that way we can bash him for four more years and have our ratings go well, that brings up my next question what if kamala wins?
Speaker 1:what is the media gonna report on?
Speaker 2:the liberal media gonna what are they gonna report on how wonderful it is? What you know. But look look at hope. And Now, hope and change was under Obama, wasn't it?
Speaker 1:Yeah. Somebody, anyway, I don't know what Joy it'll be joy. It'll be joyful, Joyful, yeah.
Speaker 2:Anyway, Georgia played Florida today. Yes, yes.
Speaker 1:Trump has to win. He just has to win. Three more days and it has to win. He just has to win Three more days. And it has to be a blowout.
Speaker 2:If you haven't voted, go vote. If you're not going to vote until the day of the vote, go take somebody to vote with you, right? Yes, absolutely, go take somebody to vote with you, or take two people to go vote with you.
Speaker 1:All right, it's been 17 minutes. Do you want to do a question of the day? All right, I'm going to let the gent ask this one. He actually asked this early this morning when we were watching the news, before we even started the podcast, and it cracked me up because I didn't have an answer for him. All right, here we go.
Speaker 2:All right Now. Here's the thing. All right Now. Here's the thing On the screen. They were talking about percentage of voters and it had 44% of registered voters are men and 54% of registered voters are women. My question is what are the other 2%? Think about that. What are the other 2%? Think about that Is something out there. Science says they're men and they're women, but now they're reporting that 2% aren't. Hmm, what the hell? So what are the other 2%?
Speaker 1:I don't know. That's the question of the day.
Speaker 2:That's the question of the day.
Speaker 1:All right. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 2:Go Dawgs.
