Exploring The Strangest Liquids, A Suspension Controversy, And A Backyard Bear Saga

A list of the world’s most expensive liquids isn’t just trivia—it’s a window into how markets, scarcity, and hype collide. We open with a fast, funny rundown of price tags that range from nail polish and penicillin to horseshoe crab blood and cobra venom, and we explore what those numbers actually say about extraction, demand, and whether some figures are more headline than reality.

Then we take on a charged report about a potential season-long suspension for a coach accused of using slurs toward officials. Where should the line fall between free speech and workplace consequences? We wrestle with proportionality, deterrence, and the example set for fans, without turning nuance into a cop-out. Accountability matters, but so does context—and punishment should fit both the words and the role.

We also unpack a viral claim about five “liar phrases,” from “as far as I can recall” to “to be honest.” Most of these look like normal speech habits under stress or uncertainty, not automatic deceit. The real tell? Evasive answers that dodge facts. Along the way we contrast pop-psych tips with what actually helps: aligning stories with evidence, spotting clusters of cues, and asking better, simpler questions.

And because reality outpaces headlines, we tell the story of a giant bear living under a house for 37 days. The eventual eviction used paintballs with vegetable oil—annoying, not lethal—and a patchwork fix that likely won’t hold. Urban wildlife problems need prevention, not plywood. Close crawl spaces properly, cut attractants, and stop moving the issue to someone else’s yard.

We close by asking why big-name hosts dominate “independent” media and what incentives shape their takes. If you care about real independence, demand transparency, consistency, and the courage to self-correct. If this conversation hit a nerve, follow the show, share it with a friend, and drop your take—what’s fair punishment, and which “liar tell” do you actually watch for?

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Chapters

• 0:00 Most Expensive Liquids List
• 2:44 Free Speech And Coaching Controversy
• 6:54 Do These Phrases Mean You’re Lying?
• 9:34 The 37-Day House Bear Eviction
• 11:49 Tucker, Megyn, And Media Motives
• 14:14 Closing Thoughts And Listener Question

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:15

Well, hello and good morning, my little love bunnies. How are you today? Happy Friday. I have a couple of stories for you, but first I want to go over this list of um 16 most expensive liquids on earth. My husband sent this to me and he first he quizzed me on it. He said, Can you name them? And of course I could not. You're not going to be able to name them either. Number 11 is human blood. Of course, it's$17,000. No,$1,700 per gallon. Number 12 is Covergirl Nail Polish at$900 per gallon. Uh 7, of course, is insulin. Mercury is on there at number 8. Okay, number 5 is Horseshoe Crab Blood at$60,000 per gallon. Aren't you glad you know that now today? Let's see what else. Umber four, LSD,$123,000 per gallon. Number, that was number four. Number three is Thailand Cobra Venom at$153,000 per gallon. Number two is Scorpio Venom. At$39, no,$39 million a gallon? Whoa. And then number one, never heard of it. I don't know what it is. I'm gonna have to look it up later. Zol Gensma Z-O-L G-E-N-S-M-A at$2.1 million dollars. Okay, so number two was$39. Wasn't$39 million, it was$39. Okay, whatever. I don't know. Um, yeah, there you go. Liquid paper was at number 16 at$250 per gallon. Number 15 was skintillation cocktail. Don't know.$300 per gallon. Penicillin is$600 per gallon. Patchouli oil at$830,$830 a gallon. Aren't you glad? You know that now. You're smarter. You can bring that up in conversation at your next cocktail party. Okay, the next story. I am just ridiculous outraged about this. Um my husband again brought this to my attention. It's somebody from some account named Rob Reinhart, and it's at real Rob Reinhart on X, and he says, breaking UConn HC Dan Hurley. I don't know what HC stands for, head coach. Dan Hurley is facing a possible season-long suspension for abuse of officials per sources. I'm told that after he received a technical foul during last night's game against Providence, he called the officials retarded faggots. The NCAA has audio and video of the incident that they are currently reviewing. UConn intends to appeal the charges. Good. I hope they do appeal the charges because this is where we are, folks. First, the N-word, which I think is horrible and you should not use it at all. If somebody gets suspended for that, I don't think I have I don't know if I have a problem with it or not. But free speech and all. But there are consequences for your speech. So but I don't you I don't think that you should be suspended for the rest of the season for using words like that. Retarded faggots. I mean, yeah, it's pretty it's pretty bad, but come on. What's next? Calling them, you know, a silly name like Dork? Because they can't take it? Just golly, you can't take a little ribbing. You can't take I just can't believe where we are. Oh my gosh, he called me a name. He needs to be fired and suspended for the rest of the season. Get over yourselves. Alright. What do I have over here on the X file? This lawyer reveals five common phrases liars use. I've got some issues with this guy. Uh I I've got some issues with him. Let's see if I can go over here and find the damn thing. Alright, lawyer reveals five common phrases liars use, including a big tagline of BS. Leave it to a lawyer to know how to spot a good light. Look. Look. You don't have to have a lawyer tell you some of this stuff. Trial attorney Dan Codgdale of Houston-based Codgedale Law Firm has been a criminal defense lawyer for over four decades, so it's fair to say he knows a thing or two about liars. He revealed to the post that the average person lies at least two to three times a day, whether they admit it or not. Now, what he is what he is categorizing as a lie is that if somebody asks you, How are you doing today? And you're saying, I'm good, how are you? What are you gonna do? You're gonna stop and tell them about your your Aunt Betty's broken hip and she's having to stay at your house now. And what? You're gonna stop and tell somebody that? No, of course not. So but he considers that a lie. So it might be a white lie, it might be something that is told out of kindness and not deception. But we all lie every single day, he told the post. How are you? I'm fine. That's a effing lie, he emphasized. Bullshit. That's number one BS right there. Just stop with your stupid crap. To know who is a Pinocchio in a now viral TikTok video, Coshdale revealed a fistful of phrases to keep an ear out for. The first erroneous lead-in, as far as I can recall. Okay, whatever. He shared that if a person starts a sentence in with that phrase, there's a high likelihood that they are stalling for time. I don't believe this. I don't believe it. Maybe for some, maybe I'm gullible, maybe I'm naive. But if I'm using as far as I can raw recall, to me, I am saying I'm not sure. I think I remembered this way, but I could be wrong. Is that a lie? I don't know. Maybe it is. Okay, if you're saying so, what's the next one? The second red flag phrase, an irritating one for Cajdale, is to be honest. That's irritating to me too, but I don't think that means that person is lying. Again, I could be wrong, but you know why do you have to start anything to be honest? Well, what do you what do you want? What are you gonna is that saying you're gonna lie to me any other time? I don't like that phrase either. So what's the next one? According the according to Coddale, the third favored phrase of deceivers is the self-righteous declaration. I always have or I never have. I don't think that's a lie. I mean, obviously it's an exaggeration. I used to get called out on this a lot by someone I used to well, whatever. Uh, because I used to say that all the time. I always did this or I never did that. I mean, I'm not I'm not trying to be deceitful, but he says it's a lie. Obviously, I haven't always done something. It's just a tick that some people use. It doesn't mean they're lying on purpose. The fourth strategy often employed by deceivers is to repeat any question they've asked. Cogdell gives the example of an all untrustworthy spouse being questioned about their whereabouts, responding to honey, where'd you go last night? With the mirrored question, um, where did I go last night? Maybe, maybe, maybe in that situation, I'm not sure. But also, haven't we been we've been told in relationship situations that you are to repeat the other person's statement or question to make sure that we are understanding what they are saying? I mean, I've seen this all over therapy sessions online and stuff and on the news. You've heard it too. You've heard it too. I gotta turn on the air conditioning. It is way too hot up in this car. I'm getting hot and bothered by this. Not that kind of hot and bothered. Menopause bothered. Okay. They let's see what is this. What's the next one? Is what's the last one? The fifth and final fib strategy is the deflect and evade technique. I don't know what this is. Connell said responding to a question like, Did you go to a strip club last night? Not with an answer, but with a defensive, evasive, or deflective language, like, you don't have anything better to do than wonder if I went to a strip joint is a telltale sign of a tell tall tale. Alright, I might give him that one. Alright, we need to move on to the next one. Oh my god, I'm at nine minutes. I gotta hurry because there's so much I wanted to talk about today, believe it or not. This giant bear living under the LA man's house finally leaves after 37 days. You've heard this story. I'll try to recap it real quick without having to go over there and read every single word. You've heard this story, this bear's been living under this man's house. He can't get it out. It's a ginormous bear. I don't know how the bear gets underneath his house. This is because they showed video of this little tiny teeny tiny crawl space. Whatever. Uh, so the these men that get bears out of people's houses. I do have to read this one part. Let me see. Because they said they go on calls like seven, eight times a day. Where are you living? That you you have to get this, you have to do this. Um I'm trying to find it. Sorry, bear with me. The bear eviction finally happened Tuesday after Johnson contacted the Bear League, a group from Lake Tahoe. Okay, that probably is why, that specializes in bear removal emergencies. We heard about Ken, we felt bad for him, and flew down and got the bear out. And they did it by shooting paintballs at the bear and if the for like 20 minutes and the and the paintballs are filled with vegetable oil before anybody gets all upset. Um, I think I would have used a different tactic. Why not just shoot the damn bear? But anyway, um, I guess you know maybe that was mighty might be uncool. Um so the bear he the bear takes us for about 20 minutes and finally he's had enough and he leaves. And what do they do? They they they close up the hole with two layers of plywood and sandbags. Now let me tell you something. That bear is gonna come back and look at that and laugh. He's gonna peel that away like a frickin' bandaid. That is not gonna keep him out. But what I also found interesting is that they said they go on calls all the time, like seven or eight times a day. That's crazy. Okay, moving on, moving on. What do I have next? What do I have next? Maybe that was it. Oh, maybe that was it. I guess that was it. Good. That was it. Sorry, I know I'm rambling. Okay, question of the day. Alright, this is kind of a question of the day. I don't know if it really is or I just want your feedback on something. What do if you're even if you are even following any of this stuff, which I understand if you don't, if you're not, I get it. What do you think is happening with Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly? I mean, Megan Kelly has gone off the rails. I used to listen to her a lot. I used to, I used to like her. But I don't know what happened. It's like all of a sudden she took a hard turn to the crazy land. What in the world do you think happened? Do you think she's getting paid money from somebody like George Soros? Do you think they're getting money from people like that? Now, didn't George Soros buy up a bunch of stations? Now, obviously they're independent, Tucker and Megan. They have their own. Megan Kelly has her own media group, whatever, um, trying to be all haughty-tawdy. Um, but uh I don't know. What do you think what do you think is driving that? Do you think that they are trying to uh disintegrate the MAGA people? Are they trying to disrupt the conservatives, the GOP, the grand old party, Republicans? Do you think what? But why? Why would they want to do that? First of all, I think we all give them too much credit. They come in there with their podcasts, they're because that they're ex-Fox News anchors, you know, they come from a regular big huge media corporation to go striking out on their own, you know. Disrupt disrupting the media, calling it the new media. Well, they're just as bad. They're just as bad. They don't they don't deal with the real people. Anyway, I'm getting off on a rant. Uh I've gone on too long. It just makes me mad with these famous people when they start podcasts, and then it doesn't leave really any room for people, regular ordinary people who who do podcasts. Podcasting has been around for a long time. Long time. Well before Megan even made it big at Fox News. But and then she wants to come into the podcasting world and take over. Okay, but she's just gone absolutely ape shit crazy. I don't understand. I don't understand what happened. Alright, I gotta go. Maybe you can clue me in. Alright, thanks for listening. Bye.