Episode 382: Dan Brown International Airport (DBI)

0:00Welcome to election profit makers, your guide to winning and losing money on Oh, political outcomes and current events. Oh my gosh. I had vertigo there for a second. There was a moment there, friends, where I couldn't remember what the podcast was about. And then all of a sudden, every single pop possibility in the universe was open to us. And I wasn't sure we would have the expertise to discuss every matter under the sun. But then again, who am I kidding? Of course, we have, of course, we have that ability. We can talk about just about anything as we will prove over the next 50 to 55 minutes, much to your delight. My name is Kid Midas, the original wave rider. I'm joined on the line by a long john silver. Hey, David, how are you doing? How is everyone out there in podcasts? How is everyone? Labor day, though it's not Labor Day anymore. No, Labor Day is done. It's time to get back to work, everybody. But yesterday Monday was Labor Day, we're recording this on a Tuesday. It is the eighth of September, 2026. John has been complaining for some days now that, quote, nothing has happened in the political

1:04landscape of the United States. I'm here to prove them wrong over the course of this episode. You know, sometimes when nothing is happening, that's right. Before when something really big is going to happen. Whoa. Now that's very interesting. You know, you're just sitting around and you're like, it's a beautiful September. It's a blue sky. Nothing's happening just like a certain September morning, 25 years ago. Was that what you're getting at? That's sort of what I'm getting at. You're just like, oh, I'm so bored. And then you're pretty bored. This is this is John on 9 11, 2001. Yeah, board 9 10 John was how 19, yeah, how bored he was and how nothing was happening to feed his news fixation. And then I was locked in. How did you? Okay, let's talk about this really quickly. All right, I'll tell you how did you follow the news back then on CNN? Yeah, that would just really interesting. There probably were places online where you could get really cool inside

2:09analysis on particular message boards at that time. But I really wasn't doing that. There was no social media. You weren't rocking on the daily co's message boards back in 2001. I was, but it was mostly political stuff. I don't know if there was any. Oh, they didn't talk about the 9 11 attacks. Because no, but they were like, there was no, there's counts as under our terms of service. We really spoke focus on no, no, no, no, no. I don't feel like there were any experts on 9 11. Who were the experts on 9 11? And how did they come into view? How did they come into focus? I don't think he was born yet. Anybody, anybody at the corner? What was the corner? Was that the new republics? Oh, that sounds familiar. Rush Limbaugh was probably an expert. I don't know. I don't know who the experts, the experts I was listening to MSNBC. I was, you know, Chris Matthews was an expert as far as I was concerned. Wow.

3:10But I was awake when it happened. Normally I'm somebody who sleeps pretty late. Uh, so it was probably, I'd probably pulled an all-nighter. And I'd been awake all night is my guess. When's the last time you pulled a news related all-nighter? I feel like it happened once within the last year, but I can't remember what it was. You know what? I did it on January 5th before January, before January 6th. Because I remember. Yeah, we had John Ossoff. We had the, we had the election in Georgia. Right. And then I went to sleep sort of early in the morning and then woke up to all of these text messages. They were like, this is pretty scary. This is Donald Trump's coup attempt. The Jans sits right on the camel. I slept through most of that. Mm. But did not sleep through 9-11 was wide awake through 9-11. Notified most of them. Didn't do shit to stop it apparently.

4:12Did it? Or wide awake, but couldn't be bothered to prevent it. But I did call people. I called, you know, I used to work right downtown New York. And I called my friend Ari who worked there with me. And he was also no longer working there. I had left New York about a year before 9-11. And I called him and I said, turn on the TV, a plane just hit the world trade center. And of course, we didn't know anything was going on at that point. We just, I just thought it was interesting. And while I was talking to him on the phone, the second plane hit them. And I do not even remember saying goodbye. I just, it was like, you were like, I need to start gathering until and it was like we can get difference online. Yeah. Ari and I both knew obviously was. And then that was back in the day where he actually would get a cell phone bill in the mail. So I got a bill a month later from Verizon or all tell or whoever it was,

5:15you know, some long ago cell phone company. And there was a phone call to I think it was head and field or hadn't felt New Jersey where Ari lived. And it was 8.57 a.m. to 9.01 a.m. And I was when is when the second plane. Right. Yeah. Yeah. You can remember history through these particulars of your cell phone bill. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, why did we start talking about that? Oh, you were saying that it was a nice blue sky. It feels like nothing's happening and now you're bracing yourself for something big to happen. Yeah. I'm not really though. I'm not expecting anything big to happen. But that's kind of what happens. You get a little, little on edge when things are a little quiet, right? As they would say in the movie, things feel quiet to quiet. You know, that's always a good line when someone says it. It's always gives you a little bit of a little charge, a little goose bumps. Do you seem kind of quiet in podcast land? Maybe too quiet.

6:15Then Trump sets off a nuclear war with North Korea and Russia and Ukraine, and Venezuela and New Mexico. Oh, no. Is he going to? Oh, yeah, that's right. He's thinking about a bunch of things that could happen. So it's not like anything spectacular happened at this week. It's more just the slow, continual rot of our country and the state of the world, I think. These malevolent forces keep chipping away at all that we love and hold dear. Either by design or accidentally. Shout out to measles for making a comeback. I want to give a big shot. It's always been my favorite disease. You know, there's so many diseases that are so much flashier than the measles. Really? The measles. Also, do you call it the measles, right? Or do you say measles? My kid has measles. No, you say my kid has the measles. That makes it sound so important century. You're right. Yeah, you put that.

7:15My boys come down with the case of the measles. No, wait a minute. You do that with a lot of stuff. You say the flu. Oh, that's true. Yeah, but the measles, the cons. It's a plural measles and the measles and the months. It's like the minions, like those little yellow guys who were overalls in Disney movies. The measles. What was the months? I don't know, man. Parents generation. Yeah, we're talking about some old timey diseases are about to come back. Well, they were. They're back now. In Pennsylvania, people have the measles. This is probably due to RFK junior. And his. I think it's safe to say that RFK junior, the secretary of health and human services is a, is a eugenicist, right? I don't know. He believes there is no reason to prevent the spread of diseases or explosive diarrhea because the strong will survive and the weak will be called. Yeah. I think a lot of people believe that. I don't think he came up with that.

8:16No, I don't think it's a new idea. Right. So we can't blame this. It's been around for a long time. Right. It's not his fault that the measles have happened because there've been lots of people that don't like vaccines and stuff like that since him. Oh, interesting. But I guess they haven't been in charge of things. So make it. I'll take that back. It's probably his fault. I respect your decision to take that back. I think you were out over your skis just a little bit there by saying RFK junior is blameless and one of the sexiest hunks in the administration. I think is what I heard you say. Rivaling only Eric Trump for pure masculine erotic power. As we all remember, John, when faced one, when asked who he would rather kiss and cuddle with Don Jr. or Eric Trump chose Eric Trump. Thereby proving he is in love with Eric Trump. Another investigative coup by Kid Midas, the original wavewriter. All right. We have a lot to talk about. Oh, no, but we have to start with your apology, John.

9:17Oh, I would like to apologize. I confidently was talking about Washington, Dulles airport, airport code IAD. I assume that stands for international airport, Dulles, that it was named after the former head of the Central Intelligence Agency. Um, Dulles and it was not. It was named after another Dulles, the secretary of state, Dulles. And that's what David said. And I assumed, oh, okay, yeah, Secretary of State had a CIA same guy. No, they were not the same guy. That's crazy to me. Yeah, his brother was the one who was head of the CIA. And it's not named after him. It's named after State Department of Dulles, not CIA, Dulles. Yeah. Is that correct? Yep. It's always sort of confusing as a kid. I never liked that it was named Dulles because it sounds like Dallas.

10:18Oh, yeah. It's just sort of, I don't like stuff like that. Damn. All right. You know what I mean? Like the airport therapy session right now, you don't like words that sound like other words? No, I just don't like. Okay. Here's an example. So for years, I used to live in Charlotte. And when you go to the airport, there's two main ways to get to the airport. One of them is Little Rock Road. And the main road that heads into the airport is called the Josh Birmingham Parkway. And I was like, I don't like that. Wait, what? Because this is a Charlotte airport. But you're, you got two city names that are taking you there. Oh, you wish it was called Charlotte Highway. No, it doesn't have to be called access road. It could just be, yeah, it could be called anything. But it's confusing. There's a moment when you're on the Birmingham road that you panic.

11:18There is. And you're, no, I just don't like it. Okay. You're talking about this is not a safety or this is just a total of the things that I don't like. It would be like when someone said, okay, well, we're going to name it after Josh Birmingham. And I'm like, no, we can't do that. See, this is what I hope Ross do that starts doing on 60 minutes. Ending the episode with these little personal essays about things that he doesn't like and things that's the same as Frog. This is a good candidate. We can cut all this. No, I'm not just a shit. All right. You don't like it when names cross contaminate other names or areas. Is that what I'm hearing? Sure. Okay. Sure. Other examples can't think of any. Okay. But Delis is one. It seems like what if the main road into Chapel Hill was called New York City Road? Would that drive you crazy? Yeah. It would be weird. That would drive you absolutely crazy. Even if even if Benjamin New York City was a local trapper back in the 18th century and they actually named it after him.

12:19Yeah. But nobody's going to know that. Yeah. They'll all think it's a road to New York City. And then they'll want to go Chapel Hill and be like, well, where's the, where's the Empire State building? What would you say? What's Chapel Hill's equivalent of the Empire State building? God, there's a really good question. That is a good question. I guess I would say the old well. Well, I was thinking of something tall, like maybe the, the, the smoke stacks at the, yeah, at the, whatever. We know well, the most iconic structure, right? Sure. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. All right. Now moving on to other events of the week, I promise that I would start pivoting this podcast into being a cryptic crossword podcast. So what we're going to do every week, why are you making that face? Because I, I, I, I, this is going to be a lot of fun. This is going to be a lot of fun. Friends, cryptic crosswords or British style crosswords are the kind of crosswords that you see in the back of the Nation magazine, although I don't think they run them anymore or Harper's magazine or in newspapers in England that ones in England

13:22are so hard to do, I can't do them. But I have some success solving cryptic crosswords of the American variety. And I thought it would be fun to begin every episode with a cryptic crossword that remains unsolved until the following episode, just like how newspapers, they would run a crossword. And then the next day they would give you the answer or something like that. So I wanted to give you a couple examples of how these crosswords work, John, because these, these crosswords are new to you, right? You don't do these correct? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Explain to me. Explain. Yeah. Well, there's a lot of unlike traditional crosswords that you might be used to doing. No. Don't do those. Well, do you know how those work? I know how those work. Yeah. Okay. These crossword clues rarely refer to things outside of themselves. Each clue is its own little puzzle. And you usually find the answer within the text of that self-same clue. I'll give you an example. And there's a lot of punning. There's a lot of anagrams. There's a lot of hominemes.

14:24There's a lot of wordplay. And you really have to train your mind when reading the clue to not take it literally. That it is, that it is more than the sum of its parts and that it's like, I'll give you an example. Some of these I'm looking at now. This is, I'm looking at a puzzle that I have solved and I have no idea how I did this. Okay. Okay. Here we go. I criticize a terrible city in Asia. Okay. A terrible city in Asia could that. So I'm thinking like something maybe something that starts with bad, like, you know, Baghdad or Islamabad. You got it. It's Islamabad. I knew you could have this. You got it because let's work it through. Okay. I criticize. I slam a. And then it's just the letter A terrible bad. And you're left with city in Asia.

15:25Islamabad. That one was pretty easy. That one was great. You did great. I must, I'm just thanks. Okay. Now I'm going to give you one that and we'll reveal the answer next week. Okay. Spoken version of appropriate ceremony. That's your cryptic crossword clue of the week folks. Spoken version of appropriate ceremony for letters. And I'll reveal the answer next week when I present next week's clue. Okay. I would love to see Podsave America do that. Now let's get to the real episode. We're about, we're about 20 minutes in and we haven't even started talking about the events of the week. Now what do we have here in our outline? Trump did something to his hair. He showed off some new space force uniforms that look like Darth Vader uniforms. And the RNC is having a midterm super convention in Texas this week on Wednesday and Thursday. And I wonder something crazy will happen at that.

16:26We are coming up on the two most devastate, the anniversaries of the two most devastating attacks in American history, the 9-11 attack in the car, Charlie Kirk assassination. Both anniversaries happening this week. The RNC is taking a big swing by also having a convention in Dallas this week. And they're worried, I guess that Trump is going to make it all about himself. Whereas it looks like Trump and. Whereas it looks like Trump is not popular right now and some Republicans are worried he's going to drag down the convention. Apparently they're giving away tickets for free because no one wants to come. Yeah, it kind of makes you think. It does, guys. I was just thinking about Dallas and presidents and. Oh, there's that too. I didn't even think about that. Jay's, hey, blown away. What else do I have to say? Yeah, we just start the fire. I so that song is so defensive. It's like no one is saying he started the fire. That's true. Billy Joel is always so fucking angry and bitter about everything. That's a good point. He's angry about the entire American history.

17:30It's like, you know, all the songs seem to be about divorce and suburban unhappiness or whatever. But even in that song, it's like America called him up and wants to divorce him. He's like, I didn't start this shit. JFK blown away. That wasn't me. Yeah. Berlin Beijing, Beijing, Beijing, I'm nothing to do with that. It's like, you gotta be like, I did wash the dishes. What do you want? I did do the dishes. You asked me to wash the dishes. I want the dishes. Anyway, Dallas, Dallas, date line, Dallas. What will happen at this convention? Will Donald Trump give the longest speech of his life? Or will he decide at the last minute not to come? Or will Republicans, the GOP try to make a case for voting for them for the midterms that doesn't involve Donald Trump there by offending Donald Trump? Or maybe something even crazier will happen. Well, I think he'll probably give a really long speech. I think he will come. I think he will make it about himself. I think those are all pretty safe bets. Will it be effective in getting out the base?

18:33I kind of think it might be. Yeah. I think he's pretty good at that stuff. Okay. Getting because it's not really that hard to convince some of his base to do things. So yeah, I don't think it can make things worse. Okay. Let's really think about that for a second. I mean, unless it was, unless it was covered, you know, like a normal convention, you know, like CBS and ABC and all of them, like we're just covering it in prime time, which they're not going to do. I think in that case, it would hurt him because normal people would see it. And be reminded of what's happening. But yeah, I think if you Fox discovers it, yeah, I think it, I don't think anything bad could happen. You think this will help, this will help the GOP more than it will hurt the GOP in the midterms to have this convention? Sure.

19:33My initial thought is, it's probably a wash. Like everything everyone knows who they're going to vote for. The die is cast. We have high gas prices. We have a war in Iran that's unpopular. We have a trade war with Canada that a lot of swingstapes up north don't like. But now I'm wondering, is it more likely that Trump does a good job and rallies the base or is it more likely that he does something so insane that he alienates voters who might otherwise vote for the GOP in the midterms? Usually I would say it's the former is more likely that he'll do a good enough job in rally the base. But I have to say that I really do think and I don't think this is liberal cobe. I really do think he's getting weirder and stranger and older and his brain is getting more fucked up and he's starting to look worse. There is a possibility that he could say something truly insane on the stage. Maybe not, maybe not. And I'm not saying, oh, Trump is finally going to say the one thing that makes everybody

20:35hate him. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that he could make things incrementally worse and maybe in this midterm, incrementally worse could be enough to really make a difference. The stuff about Lake Ontario and Lake America and New Mexico and wanting to change New Mexico to New America. And of course, he's trolling on some level. But also, I think these are deep on some like he is sincere about all this stuff, you know? There's something going on in his mind. And I think part of what's going on in his mind is that he knows on some level that he's unpopular. And also, I think he knows that death is getting closer and closer. And I think Trump is someone who is uniquely unqualified to deal with his own mortality and make peace with it. Do you know what I mean? I think I would imagine that Trump is scared shitless of dying and scared shitless of dying when he is not popular.

21:36Now, that's a good point. Because he needs to imagine that there's a big there's going to be a big hoopla at least when he dies. A positive hoopla. Or I mean, a mournful hoopla. Yeah. Like, right. And honoring and, you know, so he's already building his trample arch and all this stuff. Yeah. And he said I'm doing it because no one else will do it when I'm gone. That's so crazy to say that. And it's so crazy to think that. And that is just like so poignant. It, it, yeah, it's true. Who will build my triumphal arch in one, once I'm gone? My no good children won't. So I have to do it myself. Damn, imagine building your own arch, your own memorial arch, memorial arch to yourself. That's bleak. That's really bleak. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good point about him. So yeah, so he is thinking about his legacy. He's thinking it's going to be not good when he dies.

22:43All right, well, we can test this theory. We're not on predicted anymore betting on word markets or anything like that. But let's make a little side bet kind of like our Natalie Hart bet that I made that with you were right was stupid because I am going to owe you $20 because that woman's not going anywhere. Just like Pete Higgseth isn't going anywhere. But let's make a little quick side bet during this midterm RNC convention over the next couple days when Trump speaks, will he mention his own death in some way? Will he mention his own death? I mean, so does the word death have to come in? I think he'll allude to things like the afterlife. Per- Okay, that would count. That would count as a yes. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I'll put those alludes to death. And I think it's easy to I think that's an easy bet. Yeah, because I mean, he's going to talk for four hours. He's going to talk. He's going to talk about everything. Friends, there's one thing our president can be counted on. He will. He'll talk about just about anything, just like a good podcast or he can riff.

23:44He can riff and rant and rave and and okay, will he allude to doesn't have to mention it by name, but will he allude to British style cryptic crosswords? No. Wow. Can we talk about Trump being a brunette? Okay. I have a feeling you don't want to talk about this. I saw a photo of him with new hair and just assumed it was fake. Is it real? No, it's real. But what happened? He changed his hair color? How'd that happen? Yeah, his hair color is completely different now. He's now, he, I think when guys start to go gray, they instead of dyeing their hair a darker color, especially if they're sort of losing their hair as well, they kind of start to dye it more of a lighter color. So it's more the same color as the flesh, a flesh tone. Oh, flesh tone hair. So there's less contrast between the scalp and the color of the hair. So Trump's hair color, as we've known it for the last 15 years or so, is not, that's dyed?

24:44He's not. Yeah, it's dyed. Oh. I mean, he's not been, you know, particularly dark, but it's gotten lighter. But now he's gone dark in the last week or so for some reason. And my theory is it was an accident. And this is based on a TikTok, I saw on somebody who, who, do you pull an all-nighter on this? Is this your new nine-year-old? No, okay. No, who dies, who dies hair for a living? And she just said that it's such a poor job that she says that he must do it himself. And he has done it himself all these years, just using color number nine from like, just for men, and that he screwed up this time and used color number six. And that sounds crazy. That sounds like no way that happened. But then it kind of makes sense to me. And he's so vain that he might be too embarrassed to have like a professional color his hair.

25:48And a professional wouldn't have made this mistake. Well, does he do all his self-beautification stuff? Does he spray himself with the tan gun himself? That's a little bit different. Okay. I feel like he might do that. You think that guy gets down in the tub or bends over the sink and puts a bunch of dynas hair and does it himself? How hard is that? How hard is that? I have no idea. I assume it's so fucking complicated. It's not like, I don't think you just shampoo your hair and then it gets a different color, right? Well, this woman on TikTok said that it's a really bad job and that a professional wouldn't have done it. That you could still see like his roots and everything. Okay. If that's true. And a professional wouldn't have made the mistake. It just, this is a guy who was sight unseen for like a week after a mysterious hospital visit last year. Remember, every all thought he was going to die? He was just chilling out somewhere and not taking calls, not going on the radio because

26:49he probably had some medical event and he was at Walter Reed for a week or something. Right. If he made a mistake, this guy is so vain. I think he would have said, cancel all my meetings until we get a real hairstylist to come in here and fix this shit because I fucked up my hair and I can't be seen like this. Because he didn't do that and he went out with his new hair, that makes me think that this new hair is deliberate and this is his new hair going forward. But I tell you what, the R&C midterm convention will let us know. No, because when you make a mistake like this, you can't fix it. What do you mean? He can just, can he just dye his hair back to the blonde color? No. No. I don't think, I think because once it's dark, it's dark. Oh, don't tell me that. You can't, I don't know. I don't know. My hair has been getting much more gray in the last year or so. I think you went gray a little bit earlier than me and I think that we're both going to be the same grayness very soon. I think it will take you at least five years to be as gray as me.

27:52You have a lot more brown here than I do it. We'll see. So when I go get my hair cut, she's always like, well, you could, she was like, don't ever die. She was like, that'll look bad and you'll look, it'll look obvious. You're dying it. And I was like, well, I don't, I don't judge anybody for dying their hair. She said, but you can put some stuff in it that will oxidize it and just make it a little bit darker. So I guess it's a darker gray. But then I saw this Donald Trump thing and I'm like, it doesn't look good. I don't want to risk doing that. So does it not look good? I only saw his new hair for one second and I immediately closed the tab because I thought it was fake. It just like with everything, it just looks different than what he's used to, which is why I think it's hard going gray in general is not that I have a problem with being gray. It's just that's not what I've been my whole life. So so he's been blonde for so long and now he's not. Yeah, it does look a little different.

28:52So it just it's it's it's jarring. It's just jarring when people, you know, overnight suddenly you have different colored eyes or overnight you have a different hair color. So you think this is the hair that he's going to take to Dallas? This is going to be his Dallas hair. I think yeah, yeah, because I don't think there's anything you could do. And also let's remember he'll probably just wear one of his huge baseball caps when he's on stage anyway. So his hair will probably not be super visible. Oh yeah, that's right. I mean, this is the nice thing about those hats. Who knows how many dye jobs have gone bad and we just haven't known because he was because he was covering it with his huge hats. That's a good point because yeah, he can just wear a hat. He could just wear a hat. Isn't that interesting? Most people couldn't do that. Most presidents can't get away, can't get away with wearing a baseball cap. Most people just can't get away with that in a professional setting, wearing a baseball cap. They just look ridiculous, but he he makes his own rules.

29:57He owns his ridiculousness. In a way we have to say he's an icon and we have to say slay queen, right? I mean, we really do. He made his own fashion rules. Slay queen, right? Are you sad about the Charlie Kirk thing? Are you I hadn't really thought about it. I can't believe it's been a year. I was surprised it's been a year since Charlie Kirk was assassinated. I do remember and I want to I remember after he was shot, everyone was like, we're going to rename everything after Charlie Kirk. This is such a huge pivotal moment. This is like the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination. And I really don't I have to say I really don't think it's that big of a deal. And I really do think a lot of people don't really care about Charlie Kirk. And I don't think every street in America is going to be named after Charlie Kirk. And also his widow, Erica Kirk, who is so normal and makes me feel so comfortable when I watch her. Also apparently is kind of fumbling as the head of Turning Point USA,

30:57which is his organization he started. And I think the Charlie Kirk stuff, the less we had seen of Erica Kirk, the more fondly we would remember Charlie Kirk in his after his death. And the more likely it would be that he could be made a martyr of conservatism. But she kind of fucked that game plan up because she acts so unusual and I found her behavior very unsettling in terms of walking on stage to fireworks and tears and all that. But everyone greaves in their own way. I have to remember that everyone greaves in their own way. Yeah, that's just what I was about to say. Yeah. Yeah. John, I want to share an incredible coincidence that I have this weekend. Listeners will remember that last week for the first time, but not the last time we got briefly onto the discussion of famous choreographers and choreographer itself. Coreographer. Coreographer. And choreography itself. And we listed five choreographers. And then we challenged a son Piker to do the same and we have not heard from him.

32:01I went to an event this weekend, John and I fell into conversation with the man and it turned out this man was a choreographer. What are the odds? This is the first time in my life I've spoken to a choreographer. I said, you're not going to, but we had this long discussion about choreography and how it works and what it is and the distinction between what he calls commercial dance and concert dance, which is interesting. He said, those are the two types of choreography there is. There's choreography for commercial dance, which is like when you see a bunch of people dancing in a TV commercial or when you see Beyonce's backup dancers, stuff like that. And then there's concert dance, which is where that's like art choreography, where you go to a dance recital and just watch people dance. Right. A performance. Yeah. I thought that was interesting. Commercial dance versus concert dance. What would Paul Abdoules choreography be? Commercial dance. Commercial dance. The choreographers who we listed last week, the fancy people, Alvin Ailey, Martha Graham, that's concert dance. Right. What was his specialty?

33:04His specialty is concert dance. He's a fancy choreographer. choreographers are really hard word to say. choreographer. I said I was just talking to my podcast, I didn't say that, I was tomborrows to say that. I said I was just talking to my friend about choreography last week. And my friend said in order to be a choreographer, you have to be a good dancer. Something you said, it is something I said, it is something I said, but it's not something that I feel like across the board. I don't feel like, oh, in order to be a good coach or in order to be a good sports analyst, you have to have played this sport. I don't feel that. Okay. I don't feel that in most cases, but for choreography, you were feeling it. I was still feeling it. Well, the choreographer I was speaking to said that's actually not true. You don't have to be a good dancer to be a choreographer. In fact, this is very interesting. He said all of modern dance is basically started because Martha Graham was not a good ballet dancer. Martha Graham couldn't do all the ballet

34:07stuff that you're supposed to do. So she started a form of dance that's very like, I can't remember the term he used, but when he said it, I knew exactly what he was talking about. This parody of people kind of bent over and bowbacked and kind of drawing into themselves. Instead of being open and superposter like ballet, he was like, Martha Graham came up with his new vocabulary of dance because she was not a good, quote unquote, dancer. And that's kind of where modern dance all comes from. That's why it looks so crazy and funky and anybody can do it. That's my conclusion. That's no. That's anyway. I just wanted to share the fact that I kind of manifested meeting a choreographer because we talked about choreography in last weeks, in last weeks episode, you're kind of a big shot that you go to places where you would meet a choreographer. That wasn't it like some sports bar. I was not at a sports bar. You were like with the elites. I was with the elites. I was with. I was actually on someone's private island that I'm not at liberty to discuss. But it was a very elite

35:11meeting with many really a private island. No, it was not a private island. Where's a private island? It was a huge warehouse in the garment district of LA and it was hottest balls. John in the outline, it says for the Hollywood update that you want to watch the Alan Aldermovie from 1986 called sweet liberty. Now what is going on with that? I want to watch that movie. I don't know. I don't know why I want to watch that. Do you remember that movie? No, I know. It's about the revolutionary war. Interesting. Is it a comedy? Yeah, it's a comedy. I think Michelle Fyper's in it. I think it was filmed in North Carolina or at least it takes place in North Carolina in a little town called Liberty, which is in Randolph County. Right. Ashbro and I remember the premise of the movie is it's a professor who writes a screenplay or writes a movie and then Hollywood does it and they sort of make a mockery of it and he doesn't really like what they're doing. That's how I remember it.

36:15But the thing is Alan Alderm came and visited our neighbor. Really? Back in 1986 or whenever the movie was this? Yes. Our neighbor was a pretty famous revolutionary war. General. Oh, General. No. No. Don Higman-Buffam was his name and in Alan Aldermovie came to visit him. Did you meet Alan Alderm when you were in? I didn't meet Alan Aldermovie, but you knew he was in the neighborhood. Not at the moment that it happened, but I found out later. So and Don was credited in the credits. Wait, have you watched Sweet Liberty? I watched it in like 1988. So you want to revisit it and watch it again. I want to revisit it. Got it. Okay. Well, you'll keep us posted on that. Was that a guy? Are you happy that that was in the outline? I love that. I think us discussing movies that we want to watch is box office gold.

37:16Movie podcasts are so popular and it's just a bunch of slops sitting around being like, oh man, remember in the Hulk when when he punches that tank? Oh, I would love to see Michael Mann direct a Hulk movie. Can you imagine be like, be like heat, but the Hulk. We called hot hot Hulk. Yeah, it's fine. Hot Hulk. Folks, there's a hot new bitly link in town. Bit.com slash get your war on 25. All lower case. Bit.com slash get your war on 25. Where will this link take you? This link will take you to the opportunity of a lifetime. One night only Friday, October 9th here in Los Angeles at the Elysian Theater. I'm going to be revisiting some cartoons that I made 25 years ago in October of 2001, some anti-war cartoons that I made. I have not looked at these cartoons for many, many years. I have not performed these cartoons in front of an audience for many, many years,

38:17but on Friday, October 9th, I'm going to fire up the old overhead transparency projector and read through some of these cartoons and see how well they have aged or how not well they have aged. This is at the Elysian Theater on October 9th. It's a Friday night. It is 25 years to the night after I've made those cartoons. Oh, wow. The first the first batch of those cartoons. And that bitly link, which is bit.ly slash get your war on 25. You can buy a ticket to the live show, which I hope you will come to if it's convenient, but you can also buy a ticket to the live stream. You'll be able to watch it on your computer or your phone if you're not able to attend in person. So please tell your friends because I got to sell these tickets, man. I haven't done a live event in so long. I'm really worried that only four people will come. That is really exciting. Yeah, I'm very intrigued to see what it will feel like and be like to look at those cartoons again after all this time. Hopefully you really have fun. They all stay all they completely hold up.

39:17Well, there were I wish there's a lot of them over the that I made over those seven years. And I'm sure some of them are not very good. But I was thinking about the I mean, I used to remember the Terry Shiveau case with the feeding tube. Oh boy. I remember I made some where the feeding tube was talking. And I remember I got to find those cartoons because I think I drew a good feeding tube. I think I remember the feeding tube was like kind of intense looking. Anyway, you don't think that one holds up. I don't know. I was thinking about it. I was like, well, what was Terry Shiveau? I can't even I mean, Terry, I don't remember. Culture of life. That's where that phrase came from. Remember, they didn't want to pull it. Yeah, it was like you pulled a plug on her. She's down in Florida. Yeah, it was actually a big moment in that sort of culture war, control women's bodies, culture, you know, it was it was a it was a big one. There's a reason I think I still remember it. You know, like Sarah Palin, I think we talked about Sarah Palin last week as a sort of four taste of what was going to overwhelm our culture. I think Terry Shiveau has a lot of the same haunted energy. All right, let's do some listener questions. All right.

40:21Start with Nick. All right. Nick writes in. He said, I really enjoyed the Patreon tree canopy episode. You touched on income and canopy inequality. This is an is an issue in Fresno, California. Fresno has a 14.6% canopy coverage overall, but poorer areas in west and south Fresno have a canopy coverage of 6% or less. Other older, more suburban neighborhoods sit at 30 to 40%. Canopy coverage is a major factor in the urban heat island effect. So those poorer neighborhoods feel nine degrees hotter and leafier rural and suburban areas, leading to real adverse health impacts. Yeah, that's really interesting how it how it I was looking at data on not not temperature air temperature, but like surface temperature in certain census tracts. And you can see huge difference in how hot a city will get.

41:22He links to a cool tool that measures tree equity scores. It's at treeequityscored.org. He continues talking about famous trees. The mountains east of Fresno are home to the gen is home to the general Sherman tree, the world's biggest known tree by volume, and the general grant tree, which is both the nation's Christmas tree as declared by President Coolidge in 1926 and a national shrine to the country's war dead as declared by president Eisenhower in 1956, which he says strikes him as pretty weird, pretty weird combination of vibes. I have never heard of the general grant tree. No, the nation's Christmas tree. The nation's Christmas tree and a national shrine to the country's war dead. All I have to say is we need to protect that tree because if I was running al Qaeda, that tree would be in my sights. Well, a lot of these famous trees like the Muthuzla tree, which is one of the world's oldest,

42:22which is also in California, they keep the actual location hidden. I like that. That feels good and something from the Middle Ages. I think more locations should be hidden. Yeah, especially with all these floc cameras. Have you heard about these flock cameras and everything going on with all that stuff? I have not heard anything about that. Well, people are trying to actually have everybody is freaking out about those floc cameras and AI data centers. Maybe they will heal the world and bring us all back together. Yeah, nobody likes them. Nobody likes them. And our president said something amazing last week, where he's like, well, if you want to stay backwards and poor, then you shouldn't have data centers like god damn wow. All right, that's pretty funny. That's right. Andrew writes in and says, this is back to our discussion of airports and American airports named after writers. Right. Andrew says, Portland, Maine, their airport will someday be called the Stephen King Airport. That's his prediction. I can believe that, but I want to get to a different issue about writers and airports.

43:26A lot of listeners wrote in to talk about the greater Rochester airport, which is known as the Frederick Douglass airport, right? Right. Because Frederick Douglass and IDB Wells, I guess, both lived in Rochester, New York for years and years. And this I'm reading Hans's email here. He says, Rochester was arguably the most important city in the abolitionist movement. It was the end point of Harriet Tubman's underground railroad. So Frederick Douglass airport. The thing is that wasn't his main job. He wasn't famous because he was a writer or the but he was a writer and he was a writer and I guess we have to give it to him because his writing was extremely important and influential. Right. Yeah. And then there's also a Charles Schultz airport and then there's as Donna says, a Mark Twain airfield. That's pretty cool. Now Mark Twain is a ton of people wrote in about Rochester. Right. Nobody wrote in about the Mark Twain airfield.

44:30And Mark Twain I think is what I was thinking of when I thought of a writer who has an airport named after him. Right. Well, there's one right there. Well, and except it's an airfield. It's not an airport. And so we are so close, right? We are so close. What's the difference? Well, I don't think it has it's just a big field that people land their airplane. I don't think it has like a I don't think it has a cafe or a baggage baggage carousel. Okay. All right. We'll tell you what we're taking off. I mean, you know, semantics, but it's not you're right. It doesn't have an airport code. You need an airport code. That's what I'm talking about. Yes. Yes. Dan Brown International Airport. When will we have that DBI? Right. Where's he from? Where is he from? I mean, I want to say Italy because all his novels like the DaVinci code that take place in Italy as such a deep love and fascination with Italy, I assumed I always assumed he was Italian.

45:31Why does I feel like he's from like Missouri or Tennessee? Yeah. He kind of feels yeah, that's a good guess. Missouri or Tennessee. Dan Brown, author of the DaVinci code and the secret he had one called like the secret clock or something like that or um yeah. He's deaf. He's he he went to Amherst. He was born in New Hampshire. So so close to Memphis. Okay. He's a new England guy. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah. Maybe they'll name the conquered airport after. The Dan Brown Airport. That would be nice. If you could have any airport named after you, which one would you want it to be? Can't be and it can't be in North Carolina Airport. Ooh. Ooh. Just the biggest. So Atlanta? Yeah. If they renamed the Atlanta Airport, the John Kimble Airport, you would be loving that. Yeah. I kind of like that. Would you live in the airport in a special like sky box apartment unit? I yeah. Maybe in the airport tower. Oh, imagine you had a little

46:39cot set up in the in the control tower and then every morning when they turned on the lights to start bringing the planes in, you had to like make your bed and then get out of the way for the afternoon. And then you would like wander around the airport all day and then at night when the last plane had landed and they shut down the tower, then you could set up your cot and then you could sleep and look out over the air. I would love that. I love airport towers. You know, the one in Atlanta is, you know, one of the tallest in the world. The one in Charlotte is also one of the tallest in the world. But I think the one in Atlanta might be slightly taller, but there's like a there's a it isn't like you would just say, oh, the taller is better. There's like some sort of formula that they use based on the size of the airfield, based on the weather. So if you go too high, then you can't see as well because fog may be in it. Oh, you might be at a disadvantage. That's right. So they use some sort of formula. We have to capture that formula. We have to get that formula. It's probably held in a briefcase by a low level

47:42on the at the airport as we and we have to knock them over the head with a pipe and grab that formula so we can start building our towers. Yeah. We got some audio from a listener and Florida about the tree canopy episode. Let's listen to that. I'm in Gainesville, Florida. It's often been called Tree City, USA because we have so many trees. Very leafy, very shady, very leafy. We love that about Gainesville. It's one of the best things. We also have a prairie, a very large prairie, which probably I wonder how that like what what happens with the prairie is that that's obviously not counted as as as as foliage as as canopy, right? But it's definitely nature. So I'm kind of interested in in John's opinion on the on the prairie in Gainesville and how that's going to affect our canopy, our numbers. But I do I do want to point out that we're we're we're we've known it as

48:49tree city, USA lately the city has been cutting down trees like it's the Potomac River. They're just cutting down old oak trees that are really really old to make room for bike lanes. They're cutting down oak trees to make all kind of trees to make room for new fire stations. They're cutting down huge forests to make room for high rise apartments. So it's very sad a lot of the citizens are up in arms about the oak trees getting cut down and it's been a big stink on social media lately. But anyway none of that yeah tree city USA I noticed that we are behind Carborough on the official list but not far behind I haven't heard the whole episode yet. I hope John mentions Gainesville and the Gators.

49:51All right y'all go Gators hope hope we win tonight. And we're back John. Do you have anything to say about prairies in Gainesville, Florida? Well yeah the prairie would hurt you. I mean it's nice thing to have but it's certainly going to be an area of your city that is not going to have any trees on it. So that would hurt you. Yeah Gainesville is a pretty impressive tree canopy. Pretty impressive tree canopy. Good for them. That's no chapel hill, it's no Carborough. We got a recording from another listener in Florida. This is from Austin in Orlando. Austin says I don't know if this is happening anywhere else in the country but the cicadas are really cicadian down here in Florida over the past couple of weeks. Friends is a quick recording it's less than 10 seconds but let's get back into field recording fever and celebrate these Orlando cicadas. And we're back. Feels good to hear cicadas again. Yeah. My brother also sent me a recording of cicadas

50:55but I didn't want to play it because I didn't want to be accused of favoring blood connections you know like a nepo. Well not a baby. You could have done that. Maybe I will. Where is your brother in No, where is he? He is an oh they have a very good tree canopy. They do. John we had a we had a we had a bit of a scattered episode this week but I hope that in the end it added up to be a fine meal for our listeners ears and I'm very excited about introducing cryptic crosswords to the mix. Remember folks this week's clue is four letters spoken version of appropriate ceremony. You'll get the answer next week. I know you can't wait. Well never figure that out. Yeah you will. It's just do what you did. You're already you're like you're doing so good at this. You're going to do great. Yeah. I think I'm either going to get it or I'm not. Damn. That's true of so many things. You're either going to get it or you're not.

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