Dave and Molly Sept 4 Hot Topics

0:00Hot topics brought to you by Clark's tire and automotive center. Thank you Clark. Let's jump into our hot topics birthdays today. She just was referenced earlier in the show. Who's that Whitney Cummings? Oh, yeah. Yeah, she's 44 today. Two broke girls creator. Oh, my God. I forgot that. And she used to host the a lot of the the roasts on Comedy Central. Yes. Yes. 44. It's got a pretty good thing going. Now you would think, oh, Whitney Cummings, good. You're probably the most famous person, you know, in the world of entertainment. Having a birthday today. No, Beyonce had to have a birthday today too. The queen. She's worth about a billion dollars. She's 45. And most people say she is beautiful. Yeah, beautiful. Get her job. Here's your here's your question for one dollar.

1:00Celebrating his 58th birthday today from the world of sports. And you must have it all right to get the dollar. Who is Mike Piazza? Mike Piazza is a catcher for the Dodgers. Oh, yeah, do you play for the Dodgers? Well, you played for the Mariners, didn't you? I think you played for, I thought he played for the Metz. He might have played for the Dodgers as well. No, you played for the Dodgers, too. Okay. All right, I got a dollar. You can collect on next fight. Oh, okay. Good. Just that you have to remember. I think I owed you a dollar anyway. So we're not even. Oh, good to worry about. This one I know you know. Yeah. Lawrence Hilton Jacobs. He is boom boom Washington from Welcome Back Cater. Very good. It's a catcher. 73 years old today. Yeah. And still with us? Yes. Okay. He's the only other Swadhog. He directs a lot of shows that you wouldn't. You're just watching an episodic, you know, TV drama, the rookie, something like that

2:02in all of a sudden, it'll say directed by Lawrence Hilton Jacobson. That's good. He still works. And Horsak is gone. And Epstein is gone. Mr. Woodman is gone. And Mrs. Cater is gone. Oh, that's right. He have Barbarino, boom boom. And Mr. Cater is still alive. Yeah. Cape Kaplan. Yeah. Oh, those are shows, shows very important to my youth. Tom Watson, 77. He's a drummer for, he's a drummer. Tom Watson is a drummer for the Rolling Stones. You're thinking of Charlie Watts. Tom Watson is a legendary golfer. All right. I would say you were close, but, but no, but that would be wrong. Um, Meryl Night. Meryl Night, also known as Baba.

3:03That was one of Gladys Night's Pips. Oh. He was her brother. And so, you know, he got to be one of the Pips, Gladys Night and the Pips. Yeah. So he did okay with that deal. He's 84. Okay. And no longer with us, but man, I was glad that he was a part of our life. Legendary, radio superstar Paul Harvey would have had a birthday today. Oh, he would have. He made it to, let's see, he was 91 when he died. Mm-hmm. But. And what did you do to him? We called him on his birthday one time. Yes. And I said I was Tom Broca. And. And he believed it the whole time. That you brought out. You brought out the sunshine on a very gray Chicago day. And then at the very end, he said, thank you for this call. Oh, my God. It was, it was terrible. And Ken, that's when Ken said to me in the studio, he pointed at me and he said, you're

4:09a bad man. I said, but I didn't have the heart to tell him because he got so excited so quickly that it was like, if I tell him that this is a joke, it's going to. And he might not have understood it either, but of a confusing and very upsetting to his soul. Yeah. How old was he then? Oh, boy. He was, I think he was probably at least in his 80s. Well, how long ago he, he died when he was nine. He died when he was 91 in 2009. Oh. So I don't know, it's probably. Were you in the studio then? Maybe you were, you were not in there. So it must have been the time when, like in the star time when, no, it was, no, by the time I came along, you were telling, you were not telling people that you were broke on. By the time I came along, I believe that had already happened and that you were on the thing where you didn't tell. And that, you, and that's where that started.

5:09Well, I, I usually would tell the only reason I didn't tell him is because he was so happy and he was so touched that Tom Broca would call him on his birthday. So he was just right off the bat and it's like, I can't tell this guy that I'm a fake of phony. Did you tell Oprah? I told Oprah. Didn't know? No. Oh, I didn't know. No. Did you tell, um, who else do we talk to? Hey, I got a second wait for it. Larry Hagman. Larry Hagman never knew. No. There were a lot that never knew. And you would do the thing where you call people and thank them for the gift basket that they sent and you never told them. Yes. That while you couldn't tell them that. No. Paul Harvey, I would have told, but I just, it couldn't tell him because he was so honored and so touched. Oh, you brought out the sun. And I remember when he finally did die in 2009. Yeah. I said, well, today's the day he finds out that Tom Broca never called.

6:11Well, let's do the math then. How, how, how many years before that did you call him? I don't, I've got the, I've got the tape of it somewhere. Yes, in 2000, 2001. No, it was after that. Oh, maybe it was started. Yeah. Hmm. I'm going to say it was probably 2004, 2005. Oh, okay. That's my guess. All right. I'm glad I wasn't there to witness. Yeah. Oh, and Ken, he called me out. Boy, he was, he was, he didn't like how I treated Paul Harvey. I was a, I love Paul. I was a huge Paul Harvey fan. Loved him. And, but I just thought it was that. That how you treat people. You love, I hate to see how you treat your enemies, Dave. That's terrible. When Ken Hopkins says you're a bad man, you're a bad man. Oh, yeah. Very upset with you. It's a, well, how do I, it would have been worse to tell him. I think it was, I think he enjoyed that whole day, that whole week. He probably told all of his friends. He told his wife, Andrew. Yeah. Angel, you'll never believe the call that I got today.

7:12Tom Rook, I'll call me to wish me happy birthday. He brought out the sunshine. I'm very gray Chicago day. I thanked him for the call. Oh, Paul, that's so great. I'm just going to call, I was going to call my friend Shelley and tell her all about it. Shelley, you wouldn't believe who cut what? What do you mean, right? Spoke it. What? I think it was a fraud. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Hmm. Hmm. Let's take you back to 1972 at the Munich Olympics. Mark Spitz becomes the first Olympian to ever win seven gold medals. Wow. This is 1972, very different time. His seventh was a, was in the 400 meter medley swimming relay. Yes. He set records in all seven of his gold medals.

8:13That's amazing. Pretty impressive. And then Michael Phelps comes along in 2008 and he wins eight gold medals. He does this to Mark Spitz. That's so cute. I'm going to have to go ahead and break all your records. Yeah. Oh, in the history of Mark Spitz swimming, nine golds, one silver, one bronze. Okay. Okay. Michael Phelps, 23 gold, three silver, two bronze. And if you're the second best swimmer in the whole world in the last decade and a half, and you have to go up against him, yet you are in your own right. You are fast and furious and you're the best and you are working. And then you see that he's coming back for another Olympic. And you think, well, there's no way I can do that. Yeah. Why does he keep? There's probably some, someone in China or I don't know where all the, Lithuania, Germany

9:16or whatever that has one gold, 16 silver, 12 bronze, something like that. Michael Phelps took all the good ones. And if you are Michael Phelps, do you ever like obviously you got your 23 golds? Yeah. But like do you even, do you even bring out the silver or the bronze? You just like those just get tucked in a, you know, those are the throw away medals. I think you just display them all light up a bowl. Do it yourself. No, he liked to do that too. Yes, he did. Uh, we'll take you back to 33 years ago today. 1993 is the year, you know, getting the, in the home stretch of baseball season. Yes. New York Yankees pitcher Jim Abbott throws a no hitter against the Cleveland Indians. What was significant about Jim Abbott, no hitter against the Cleveland Indians? He pitched with both hands. He pitched lefty then righty.

10:16He, they still lost. It was a no hitter, but they still lost. Jim Abbott only had one hand. Oh, sorry, I guess he couldn't throw it though. Yeah, he was born without a right hand. He did the thing where he'd, he'd pitch and then he throws glove on. Yes. Yeah. I remember seeing it. It's crazy. Yeah. But he was legit and he threw a no hitter. He's in the history books. Yeah. Oh, Jen knew it. She said Abbott only had one hand. It's pretty quick. Yeah. Thanks, Jen from CDA. That Jen. Uh, 1998. Google was incorporated by Larry Page and Sergey Bren. They were PhD students at Stanford. That's when they decided to put Google together. Together, they own 14% of its shares and control 56% of the stockholder voting power

11:17through a super voting stock. Man. The original name of Google? Back rub. Gross. I heard a whole report yesterday they were talking about a well person is written a book and it's, it talks about the school districts and tech and how the school districts weren't moving fast enough with computer science. So Microsoft came along and said, well, we're going to give you computers because we want you to learn that they gave you a bunch of computers and they said, start learning, computer stuff, start learning, all this stuff. And then Google said, hi, we're going to give every single school district in the United States. These Google book things, these, you know, remember they came along with the book things. And they started basically indoctrinating so that every school district had Google and they all switched to Google and they were saying what happens with that is that Google is then linked to Apple and then you start this thing where you have your first email

12:20is a Google email. And then your product is probably going to be an Apple phone and then it's all compatible. So you're probably going to get an iPad and you're going to get it this and that and that's how they kind of built this whole juggernaut of it was by planting and giving them free stuff. That's a good story. The Apple, because maybe Apple learned something because in the early days when Microsoft was starting their software, they were, they wanted, they were giving it to computer companies. And the whole battle in Apple was, those guys are idiots. Yeah. The phrase was they're cannibalizing themselves. That was the phrase. And it was, you know, no, the Microsoft guy. Oh, was the app? No, no, he's Apple. Not Paul Allen, but Bill Gates, Jesus. Oh, God.

13:20But Bill Gates said, no, it's this, this is the point and just kind of like what you said, they by using their system and all these computers, that was became the dominant system. And there was a time it was like 90, 10 at one time or Microsoft over Apple. Now with Apple, all the other stuff that Apple does, that, you know, with the phones and all that kind of stuff, they've definitely changed the game when they brought out the Macbooks, you know, those little, the sturdy books that all the kids could have at their desk. That was game changer because they are giving millions of those, you know, to the school districts and stuff, but the school districts, they're playing the long game. Yes, they are playing the long game. And, but, but the guy, because she talked to this Microsoft guy over 10 years and he said, look, they, with the private sector had, we had to step in because where would we be? The school districts were not doing this. They were not teaching the kids what they were going to need. Other countries are way ahead of us. So we stepped in and said, we're just going to go ahead and, and take this up on our own.

14:26And then the whole Google machine stepped in. I know you know the rest of the story. All of the little knowledge. Thank you for that story. You brought out the sound on a grommieshow. What can they? 24 years ago today, this is the 24th anniversary of Kelly Clarkson becoming your first American idol. Now for $5, where were Dave and Ken the night Kelly Clarkson became the American idol? Were you having a party for it? What was the year? 2002. Were you walking to quarterly? Nope. You were on a cruise. This is the most bizarre deal ever. We were, we were doing something at Silverwood the next day. And we stayed in a tiny little hotel like in, I don't know where it was, like, Apple or

15:28somewhere way out. Yeah. I know where. And, and the final episode of American Idol was on the next morning we were, we were at Silverwood. Our friend Tasha, who used to work with us. She was all over this. Yeah. She was like in the early days of American Idol when it's just this brand and so she was like, oh, this thing's going to be huge and we were like, oh, you know, we don't know. And then it just got huge. Not survivor big, but the first American Idol title championship when she won the thing was huge deal. 20, 20, it was 2002. September of 2002. Wow. Okay. Maybe it was the Silverwood wedding situation, but that was earlier. That was like in 2000. That might have even been in the 90s. Yeah. Might have been that first summer that I worked with you guys. And I believe the statute of limitations has run out on this. So we will expose, well, it's not us. We didn't do anything wrong. But Paul Horton, Paul Horton was a weather guy here in town and he worked at a couple

16:33different stations. He was there with us in the hotel at the place and he plugged up toilet. And we have, we still have, this is before like phone photos, but there is a photo of the plunger right outside of his room because he had to use the plunger. And I think Paul, he went to, he was here for a while. Then he went to Arizona. Yeah. I think it was since somewhere else first then Arizona. I think he's in Arizona now. I remember him. He used to come up and be on this show. Yep. He was great. He was a lot of fun. Very much fun. Mm-hmm. Live day, very fun life. We should play the weather game with him. That was the original thing. And that was, we would get the USA today and we try to guess the weather temperature in like Hawaii and my not North Dakota. He used to tease me about my not. Yeah. Oh. That was a long time ago.

17:36That was a long time ago. All hoarder. Paul Hortir is near. So he used to say, well, he used to come up. There was another, there was a, a female, I mean, I know he used to have Robin and Melissa but before that, way before that, when, when Tosh and I did our cheer, it's good. Good. Good. Oh, that was Nicole McGregor. Yes. That's right. And those were good days. All time. Those were good days. As you pointed out earlier, our television notes, the series that you're, the show that you were thinking of, Mayday. Yeah. This is an action comedy starring Ryan Reynolds as a fighter pilot, shot down during the Cold War in the 80s. Yes. It's on Apple starting tonight. He's behind enemy lines. It looks funny. It looks very, very much like his type of humor and Deadpool type of action and yeah,

18:40it looks good. Kenneth Brana. I haven't seen him in anything in a while. Yeah. He's using it too. And then Sunday, Sunday afternoon, one o'clock, K HQ television, Apple Cup. That's big. Apple Cup. It's a little lopsided. I don't remember. Well, there's a couple of firsts. First of all, Apple Cup's never been played on a Sunday. I don't think it's ever been played in September. That's another thing. But it's the point spread. The last I saw, it was 24 points. Cougars are 24 point underdogs. They've been underdogs more than they've been favorites. Yeah. By a long ways. I don't know. I don't remember points spread being that. That seems a little lopsided. It seems a little high for a rival game. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not saying take the cougars and the points. I'm just saying take the cougars and the points, but I'm not saying that.

19:40You're very clear. You can take the cougars and the points with our friends out at Northern question. Yes, you can. Yeah, there's some some Yehu doing a commercial for it and saying that you can, you can bet you can bet Cougar football, Husky football all season long. You can even bet Gunsake a basketball when the season starts, but you can bet the futures. I think they're plus 4,000 to win the national championship and you can bet that at Northern Quest. Wow. Look at all these things we can do now. It used to be allowed to do any of that stuff. Right? And you can walk right into that casino and fire up a cigarette. Yes, you can. You can have a drink in one hand. You're cigarette in the other. Park your park yourself right in front of a slot machine and just play all day if you want. That's right. You can do that now. Yes, you can. Heck, yes, you can.