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This is the Macho Man Randy Savage. And this is Hard Factor. And there is no one that does it better right now. Yeah, nobody does it better. I ain't repeating myself. Go ahead, tell me something right now. Yeah, and I'm living that nightmare. And I'm not a racist. And I'm always chilling. Oh, yeah. Yeah! Yeah!

Good morning and welcome to episode 1571 of Hard Factor. It is Monday, October 21st, 2024. Thank you for cheating on the news with us. 80-ish percent accuracy guaranteed on this podcast. Patreon.com slash Hard Factor for more. Today, we're talking about the Trump campaign going all out for the last few weeks of campaigning. I've got a little bit on that. Mark's got some more on that.

I do. I'm just retweeting the show tweet so people can watch it on Twitter and also putting a caption in which we're going to get to about how the Hard Factor Weekly Parlay was a Kirk Cousins game away from winning the boys $100,000. Yeah, Lumberg fucked us. Kirk Cousins. The one quarterback...

One quarterback, like if you asked anybody, hey, which quarterback is most likely in the NFL to completely fuck the last leg of your parlay? Kirk Cousins would have to win that. Let's take him off the board for the rest of the season. Yeah, I would say if you... Go ahead, man. Real quick, just Jags minus two and a half hit. Bills minus five and a half hit. Lions plus five and a half hit.

Bengals minus two and a half hit. Eagles plus two and a half hit. Colts minus three hit. Texans plus six and a half hit. Falcons plus two and a half. Rams minus three and a half hit. Commanders hit. Chiefs hit.

There was two or three. Literally, that one was like 23 grand, but there was a couple of those. That was like there was one 30 grand. That might have been 30 grand when he just read. But there was three parlays, well over five figures, starting with a two or three. And it was crazy. It was like everybody on the Falcons had a good game. But Kirk Cousins, you know, you bet on him. You bet him alone was the reason they got blown out. 34 is the comeback kid. Okay. You think he's going to be within three is what you think. I think.

I think that historically he's cost us more than anyone. It might be biased because we hate him because you guys are commanders. I hate that fucking weirdo. I think that every time we don't bet on him, he throws for 500 yards. And then when we do bet on him, he costs us 100 grand. I don't like that. He goes to his shrine room. He gets it all figured out. I will say this, though. If you...

We're dialing it in, and if you want to get in on the weekly parlay, look, for the last three weeks, we've been winning $1,000-ish. We've been playing with $1,000 a week. That's good. And next week, we're going to nail it because we figured this round robin situation out. So if you want to get in, it's patreon.com. That's right. We did hit like four smaller parlays, so we'll be over a grand rolling that into the round robins. It's bound to happen. We're a car cousins away from 100 grand people. Yeah.

It's going to Jesus Christ. Kirk Cousins. That's tough. OK, what do you guys have? Kirk Cousins. Yeah. So that so that that was an aside. But we're going to talk about the Trump campaign going nuts over the weekend. New Zealand is coming out with new anti hugging regulations. And Wes is going to fill us in on that. Yeah. This one particular guy. I don't know what his deal is, but he hates hugs and he doesn't want you to have too many of them.

at the airport specifically. So we'll talk about what he's doing to prevent you from saying goodbye to your loved one for too long. Not on his watch. So fucking annoying. All his family's feeling good. Yeah. Seeing each other again. They made that whole movie about love actually where it's like pretty much the main thing. Yeah. Oh yeah.

Fuck that shit. At least one Delta flight attendant is in the soft corner with Pat to close this one. Potentially the entirety of Delta. I mean, it's not a day goes by that I don't get a mean tweet from someone calling me a fucking idiot because my laptop got smashed on a Delta flight.

That's still going viral. Dude, still, I got an email like two weeks ago. Different country every couple of weeks. Yeah. Another like distractify type website wanting to do an email interview with me about my life. And I was like, my life? Who, me? Your life? About the laptop.

About the laptop that got smashed four years ago. It was like two laptops ago. Really want to hold it on this one flight, though. Just want to make money on you. I'm surprised Apple hasn't sent you a new laptop yet. That's fucked up on them. No, I know. I buy enough of them. Anyway, yes. Marine Corps veteran may or may not have gotten booted off Delta flight for wearing a shirt that was not offensive but misconstrued. Anyway, the details are muddy, but we're going to get into all of them.

And you can either get really mad or confused. Or get even. Or get even. Delta's the airline that has the TVs and all the seats. It's the best airline, frankly. Outside of this, in my opinion. Outside of their horrible, horrible customer service. Yes. I enjoy the TVs, yeah. Yeah, sometimes I don't want to get off the plane because I'm watching a movie I otherwise wouldn't be able to watch. Dude, also the Delta Lounge is $400 a year, which sounds like a lot. But if you fly...

four times a year and you drink at an airport it's paid for itself because it's free booze and free food yeah that's about eight drinks at an airport yeah that lounge voucher when you're all right you guys want to go uh go to the campaign rally yes please yes all right first segment is about trump talking about dicks and fries in pennsylvania and uh

Relatable. That's what he did over the weekend. Two of Mark's favorite things. Yeah. Sounds like my conversation. It's right up our alley. I don't know if he programmed his Pennsylvania campaigning so that we would definitely cover it. But yeah, he...

He hit all the marks for us. It's genitals and fast food were his two ploys. As we come down to the final two weeks of the election, the swing states. Of course, I'm talking Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Georgia.

Those are in full focus for both candidates right now. And the one with the most electoral college votes, I think that's Pennsylvania, is the main battleground. Trump has already been shot there once this election cycle in the year, if you recall. That's a battleground. Great stat. But he...

Big battleground state. I love you, Pennsylvania. But he went back to Latrobe, Pennsylvania this past weekend, undeterred, to take a different slant on the campaign this time and take a listen to his opening remarks at Saturday's rally. Apparently, this was just right off the bat, right? He gets in, does the intro to the big music and pyrotechnics, and this is the first topic du jour here.

But Arnold Palmer was all man. And I say that in all due respect to women, and I love women. But this guy, this guy. Yeah, he does. This is a guy that was all man. This man was strong and tough. And I refuse to say it, but when he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there, they said, oh, my God.

That's unbelievable. That's unbelievable. I had to say it. I had to say it. We have women that are highly sophisticated here. What the fuck, dude? He was carrying an extra club the whole time. He was. He was. Arnold Palmer was an area man with a penchant for golf, as everybody knows. And now, thanks to...

ex-president campaigner Trump, also a massive hog. And that's how Trump chose to relate to the folks of Latrobe because Arnold Palmer, an area, I don't know, he's the Latrobe area, allegedly. I have no idea. I mean, I'm not from Latrobe, but it's just a great icebreaker. Half lemonade, half tea, all man. This is like how you don't have the Rolling Stones. That's Arnold Palmer.

The Rolling Stones famously do like I think they do two shows a week now Max on their tour So they get time to spend time in a city And whoever their guy is Is really good Because like if you're playing your city He'll come to you and be like This is the barbecue place This is the restaurant This is what people say And then Mick Jagger will say that on the stage But it would be like Alright okay Mick here's the deal The local hero is this guy And um

You might want to talk about what a big dick he has. People love that. People love that. And that's what Trump went with. He's rumored to have a huge hog. You know why they only serve the drink in a tall glass, right? Pride of Latrobe. Yeah, he was born there. If they could serve it in both a tall and thick glass, they would. Yeah.

There's not a glass big enough. No one has a glass that big. Yeah. So that was his opener for Pennsylvania over the weekend. And many folks saying crass, many folks saying, all right, let's talk about dicks. Yeah.

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So that's how he kicked it off. And then on Sunday, he went to a Philly area McDonald's to serve fries to a bunch of extremely handpicked rally goers. Basically, there's a rally around a closed down McDonald's and the manager of this McDonald's is like a big Trumper. So he's having like a rally at his McDonald's. And so they had all the handpicked rally goers coming through the drive-thru and Trump is serving them

their meals. And you have to listen to some of these drive-through window interactions. Okay, so I'm going to play you two. I mean, Donald Trump, if he doesn't win, he should just go run a McDonald's because it would be the funniest fucking McDonald's of all time. Here he is. He's serving up a family. Look at this guy. He's a MAGA guy all the way. Okay, so for his first order, yep. Well, that's our good-looking group. Hello, everybody.

You can tell it's not a normal situation. What a good looking family. How did you produce those good looking kids? Oh, they look like the wife. They look like the wife. How are you? Nice to see you. Thank you.

Thank you. And there'll be no charge. Trump is paying for it. Is that okay? Oh, you're doing some extra stuff. This is all on Trump. I'm allowed to do that, right? I could buy people McDonald's. Can I do this? Okay, McDonald's. That's a net 120. Thank you, man. Thank you. Have a good time. Have a good time. That's great. How cute is it?

Okay, next car. Okay, another driver's coming up. Hello, how are you? You're a good looking guy. Ah, shit! Dude, what conversation was had with him to get him to do that? No, no, you know what it is? It's a troll, yeah. He's a troll. So, let me see here. Uh,

Right. He did it, Pat, because he claims that Kamala never worked at McDonald's for a summer job in college, which she claims she did. It's a very stupid argument, but I'm just glad it got us these incredible videos of Trump serving people at McDonald's because, um,

That's a little flavor. I don't know if you guys noticed. There was a really in-shape dad with his family, and Trump insults his looks. And then there's a really shy guy that rolls up to the next car, and Trump immediately just tells him he's the best-looking guy in the world. It's classic Trump. Why does that face hit him?

I don't think he was insulting the guy's looks. I think he was the guy was like, they're not my kids. They're her kids. And he was like, oh, yeah, no, of course. They look like the mom. Not you. I thought he was going to his children. I thought he was going for like the I think it was awkward that he was the passive aggressive. I'm the alpha here. He chose like his big shoulders that day was you're all great looking like just a matter who. Well, it's one of it's one nice thing to hear when you're getting a bag full of shit.

Yeah. Right. This food's going to make you feel like shit, but you look great. You don't feel your best at that drive-thru. Yeah, exactly. I've seen that happen before when it wasn't staged, like a promo shoot for a brand where someone's working. It was PFT working the drive-thru. And when someone doesn't know who the person is working the drive-thru and there's a camera in their face, it can get very funny. But that was equally funny.

Oh, he's good. You guys got to listen to this one more family that was extremely handpicked. You'll see why I say that. I wouldn't mind this job. I like this job. I think I might come back and do it again. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Thank you very much. Thank you for taking the bullet for us. When you think about it, I guess that's right. When you think about it, I guess that's right. That Indian mom said thank you for taking a bullet for us. And he immediately goes, if you think about it, yeah, you're exactly right. I like them. Extra, extra free food. Thank you for taking the bullet for us. Trump is most attractive. It's the type of person that he is. That's.

That was the most incredible staging. That was awesome. You got to say hats off to the person who did the rally. The person who screened the folks who were going to go through the drive-thru, I mean, that person deserves a promotion because that was the people that they had him served up with to go through. Yeah, other than like a truck full of Mexicans, that was pretty amazing.

Yeah, like a landscaping crew. Yeah, a landscaping crew would have been great. Like a crew that just got back from Home Depot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It wasn't awesome last week when he said that January 6th was a day of love. But this is pretty good. This is pretty good.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. And like I said, this was good days and bad days. It was born of stupidity. Right. Of like this whole beef of whether Kamala ever did work at McDonald's or not. But it gave us these amazing pictures of Donald Trump working in him. I mean, just he looks hilarious, like with his orange, you know, makeup just popping out of the drive through window. It's just he's. How long did he do it for? Do we know? Was he like.

He said 15 minutes. He was doing an interview through the thing, and he's like, I've worked at McDonald's for 15 minutes more than Kabbalah now. 15 minutes. He handed those six bags back. Yeah.

The latest polls show Kamala up by 1% nationally, but Trump tied or slightly ahead in the swing states. All the swing states are within 2%. The rest of the country is 5 plus percent decided. Are we going to do a 20-hour live stream again? Because it's going to go all night. It's not going to get decided yet.

People are doing mail-in votes still. Oh, yeah. At least the next day. As we talked about last week, like pretty much every place, every new location that opens their early voting is hitting record numbers across the country. A lot of votes to count in a pretty tight race. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, if Trump loses, then it'll be corrupt. If Kamala wins, then it'll be corrupt. If Trump loses, it's stolen. If Trump wins, it was... They fixed the voting thing. Oh, Trump wins? No. If Trump wins, they fixed it. I'm saying they fixed the issues. Oh, they fixed the voting issues. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not the election. No. They fixed it if he loses. Tricky. Careful. Yeah. Yeah. It's hard. Yeah.

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A little bit more about the election because, you know, it's election season. Do you guys hear about Elon Musk? He has like a super PAC. You've heard of this. The America PAC. Yeah, I I'm considering. I mean, like, I guess I would have to sign it, but I mean, you're not eligible. Well, you might be eligible for a little bit, but not what we're about to talk about. It's once again in that battleground state of P.A.

that we're going to be focusing on. All swing states are eligible. So I could sign up. No, just PA for this big one. You're eligible for smaller things. But the million dollars, which we're talking about, it's only Pennsylvania. So he's got this thing called the America Pack, which the front page founded by Elon Musk front pages about illegal immigrants and

Elon Musk was born in South Africa and immigrated to Canada in his teens and then didn't move to the U.S. till his 20s. So not all immigrants are bad. Well, he also admitted on stage with his brother that he immigrated here illegally. Yeah, exactly. But not all illegal immigrants are bad. Some of them turn out to be the richest people in the U.S. than the world. But he founded this America PAC, the South African did, and he's offering a million dollars to...

every one person per day until the election in the state of Pennsylvania to sign a petition for the America PAC. And I'll tell you what, I would vote for whoever the fuck you want to be to for a million dollars.

And that's why this has to be illegal, right? Yes, Pat. A lot of people are saying, wow, sounds like he's buying votes in Pennsylvania and it has to be illegal. And there is a law, there's a federal law for a good reason that states anyone who pays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for registering to vote or asking people to vote or convincing people who to vote for has to pay a fine of $10,000 and face up to five years in prison. But technically...

the america pack isn't telling you to vote you already have to be a registered voter to sign up for this all you have to do is sign a thing that says uh i insert your name we'll vote for donald trump but it's just a piece of paper okay so like it's not he's not he's not actually asking you to it says you'll support the concept i think i might be able to sign up for this you can sign up for will but you can't get the million dollars it's pennsylvania

Not pretty sure it's anybody in a swing state. So what he's doing, I think, in other states is giving people $59 or $49. Yes, he's giving everyone. He started with $47 for everyone, including in all swing states. But I believe the million dollars is only for Pennsylvania. Maybe I'm wrong. We can fact check it. He's doing a million a day until the election. So I believe he might open it up to other swing states for you. Hope that will obviously.

Yeah. I want you to get that million to look into it. Oh, wait. I need to look into it. Hang on. Hang on. If I could win the lottery here. Will's right. Will's right. Hang on. I got a new I got new information here. Will's right. To be eligible for the one million dollar petition, signers must be registered voter and live in one of the seven swing states. Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada. Yep. North Carolina, Pennsylvania or Wisconsin. So, Will, you could win a million dollars.

Yeah, in fact, I knew about this a couple weeks ago because they texted me because I get a 5,000 political texts a day because I'm on both parties' text threads. That's fun. Number lists. That's super fun. Especially living in Nevada because I've donated to both in the past, which means your number never leaves their lists. So...

uh because of that i don't tell you that when you donate it's like no good deed i got a text from him saying well i've donated to like specific candidates on each side which means they get your number and it never leaves their text list so um

And so because of that, I got a text from him like a couple weeks ago saying that I could be eligible for the million. There you go. I haven't signed up yet. So you guys are telling me I should have. I should have done it. You can still do it, I think. But you also have to vote for Trump, it says in the fine print. Or they'll kill you. Why do you have to? Or they'll kill you. Because they'll kill you. No, it's just I think it's just a peer pressure thing. Like if we off if you if you're in the running, you know, it's like, you know, you're going to you're going to vote for our guy. Right.

Because the front page of the PAC says Americans for Trump. It doesn't say Americans vote for whoever. Right. Gotcha. It was $47. If you get one registered swing state or voter to sign a petition supporting the first and second amendments to the Constitution. So, yeah, you guys could refer me and get the $47, and then I could be eligible for the million.

We should be referring everyone and all the hard factor listeners, you know, vote for who you want to, but get that million, get that million. It sounds very illegal, but I. Well, super PACs, super PACs in general, they are like legal money laundering. Basically, it's the craziest thing in the world that they are completely legal that way, but.

No, this is probably going within the laws. You know, this is just the most public and outrageous a super PACs ever been. Usually they're like behind the scenes. And this is right. He's not. He's doing it right out in the open. Yeah. He's like, no, I'm just giving away this million. Right. It would be different if it was like you get forty seven dollars to refer someone to sign a petition supporting the first and 13th Amendment. Right.

The abolition of slavery. Right. I knew that. I think you're supposed to agree with the whole Constitution is according to the West. Well, then why wouldn't it be the whole Constitution? It's the first and second amendment. They're focusing on the first and second. Speaking of the first amendment, Elon Musk's ex has blocked us twice in the past month for violating the first amendment and they've suspended our account twice. Damn it, crimes. Yeah. So I don't know how...

It seems like we get suspended more now that he's in charge of X with his free speech for everyone. But he's for free speech, guys. I don't know what's up with that. It's all been copyright shit. Yeah. Yeah. They haven't really told us exactly what it's for. Just that we're being suspended and could be permanently suspended. Probably because we talk shit about Elon Musk is my guess. I think these ones say copyright on the thing.

But they don't say what you copyrighted. They just give you a generic, you know, a couple more warnings like TikTok did and you're going to be gone for life. So we're about to be banned from X for whatever reason. Very free speechy. And just talk shit about Elon Musk. Like tweeted, Elon sucks every day. Do you think he'd get kicked off? Yes, 100%. He's already done it to some people, I think. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. He's a lot like Trump in that thing where like if you come at him, he gets upset and acts like a five-year-old. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, he could have made him get on his knees and beg for for subsidies. Didn't Trump say that? He did. Yeah. Yeah. But they're buddies. They're buddies. Pat, I think you need to turn your volume up. Oh, yeah. OK. Quiet like a mouse. But anyways, people are one in a million, which is pretty incredible.

Does he give them a big check? He gives them a novelty-sized check. Of course. That's awesome. What about now? There you go. Yeah, that's better. Sounds awesome. Okay. That's better. Sign up, Will. Yeah, sign up. Tonight. Yeah. I should have. What the fuck are you waiting for?

I don't think it's. No, I know. I mean, I should have struck while the iron was hot. Yeah, not too many people know. I'm limiting my days now. Yeah. I would love a documentary crew to follow those people's lives that you signed. Get that million. The 22 people or whatever. Yeah, that would be awesome. For us to watch. Yeah. A million dollars richer has got to be pretty sweet. Wes knows what I'm talking about. They're going to end up dead. Yeah.

Lieutenant Dan style. He couldn't handle it. Lottery winner style. He got arrested this weekend. Lieutenant Dan did. But I think it was for boat violations. I don't think he was trying to set people on fire, but I don't know. But he got arrested again this weekend. That guy's a piece of shit. He can't get out of his own way. Yeah, I mean, he can't.

His daughter called it. His daughter was like, all this money and fame is going to ruin him. You're going to kill him. Oh, it's the money and fame that's going to ruin him? Yeah. Well, I mean, she knows how he is, and then you add the money and fame, and then she knows how that'll end. Yeah. He's already getting arrested. He was fine.

Until all this started. No, she said that you guys don't know him and you're going to kill him. No, it was, yeah, it was Pat. She had all the same points. She basically said you just bought him, you know, infinite booze. He might do something crazy like live on a boat in a hurricane or something. Yeah. Or lose his leg to a lawnmower or something. Yeah. Probably. I think it was a car accident. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Didn't he hit a woman or something or beat the shit out of a woman? He's done a lot of things. Try to set her on fire.

Yeah, yeah. He's stolen a lot. He's stolen our hearts, you know? Exactly. All right. Let's move on. Guys, this is the CEO of Dunedin Airport in New Zealand. That's Daniel De Bono. And he does not like too much emotion and long hugs. In fact, he hates it.

which is why Daniel and the people at Dunedin Airport have recently installed this sign at the drop-off area at the airport, which reads, Max hug time three minutes. For fonder farewells, please use the car park. Okay? Three minutes is plenty of time. Yeah, that's a long-ass fucking hug, dude. What is going on in the Dunedin Airport that they need to put this sign up?

Well, I have a theory about that. I think it's because the fat New Zealanders are finishing their food in the car in the drop off and they're just taking up too much time. You know, they got to finish their food before they get out of the car.

Well, that's it's like before they part ways, they have to share a meal. Yeah, they they they they're finishing their McDonald's. They got on the way to the airport and then they so they have to sit there and finish it. She can't take it in, I guess. Oh, OK. Maybe, maybe, maybe that's it. Anyway, max time, three minutes for Fonda farewells. Please use the car park, noting that if you need more time, it's 15 minutes of free time to do anything with your loved one that you want before they leave on their business trip to

and cheat on you with their coworker. Mr. Debono acknowledged that the car park has witnessed some, quote, interesting things over the years, hinting at a variety of emotional goodbyes that occur there. And by emotional, I think he means guys emotionally pleading for one last blowjob before their partner leaves. We've all been there, right? Please. Please. Yeah. I saw that porn too, huh? Please. Yeah.

I don't want to have to cheat on you while you're gone, please. There's no signs here saying we can't. Yeah. It was in my feed too recently. So he's had people...

standing around for three minutes. I'll send it to you. Yeah. What's going on with this at the airport for real? They had to have asked him, asked him why he put the signs up. Yes. Well, I don't know. I don't know if he was hugged too much by the wrong people when he was little hug too little by his dad or just got divorced, but he is in no mood for all this hugging, uh, that goes on during the drop offs, which other than funerals and foyers, um,

might be the location where the most hugs take place. I made a little list. I got some places maybe where more hugs take place. Foyers, restaurants, bars, therapist's office, funerals, hospitals, lottery claims offices, because I know I'd hug everyone in sight if I was cashing in a lottery ticket. But the problem is you'd be erect. Crying. Sir, I understand the erection might not be related to me, but I don't know.

I don't know where more hugs take place, but at the airport drop-off is a lot of them.

And it's... Yeah. I don't get out of the car for pickups, though. Do you guys do the pickup hug? No, I get what he's doing. He wants to move traffic along. Yeah, of course. That's what he... Yes, that's why. He wants to move traffic along. Yeah, but how big of a fucking... This is at the car park. How much is people getting gummed up here at this drop-off spot? I mean, it can't be like... I mean, Dunedin, New Zealand is not like the... It's not a huge place. So how...

What are you talking, like five people at a time are congregating around an area he doesn't want them to congregate around? Real quick, guys. Sorry, sorry. That's three minutes since Wes started talking about that. That's a long, long time. That's a long fucking time. Too much. Too many hugs. So I guess he's a he tried to to hide behind science and his reasoning for his hatred of long hugs, describing airports as hotbeds of emotion. And he cited a study that

suggesting that a 20 second hug is enough to release the love hormone oxytocin. He argued that by moving people along quickly, more individuals can experience those brief but meaningful embraces, according to a straight times article by Vihania Rashika, which is weird because the straight times I subscribe to didn't have that article. This guy needs therapy, dude. Yeah.

Wes, you don't get out of the car for pickup? It depends on how long you've been dating the person or in a relationship. Yes. First year, sure. Seven years. Guy's preference is never. Get in.

But the expectation on the other side, different story. Yeah. I've never hugged anyone for more than three minutes of my life. Have you ever got out of the car to pick up, like when you were dating your wife long distance, did you get out of the car to pick her up in the airport? Yeah, a few times. Every boyfriend's done that. But there was never a three-minute embrace in either direction. Like you want to send her back to her parents that wasn't hugging her for three minutes, you know? Yeah. This is crazy, though. Because this guy...

Yeah, true in that case. But this guy, there's no way people are hugging for three minutes. There's no way people are hugging for three minutes. This guy...

What's his last name? Speaking of bones. Debono. Debono. See, I think he got picked on a lot for that last name for sexual stuff and hugging. He's handsome as hell, too. Debono. Something's going on with this guy because nobody's hugging for three minutes. That just doesn't happen. He's certainly not autistic. People don't embrace for three minutes. It's not a thing that happens at an airport or anywhere.

Maybe the New Zealanders are scared that they won't fit in the seat and they need the extra hugs, the long hugs, like reassurance. Like reassurance, like, it'll be okay. You'll get in there. You'll fit. Oh, they're going to get hugs the second they sit in the plane with the seat rails. Is it because... Did this start as soon as they started weighing people at the gate in New Zealand? Because that's the same place where they weigh you at the gate. Yeah, maybe. Maybe they're scared. They need extra reassurance and comfort because they're about to get weighed on the... Yeah, so this is actually...

Their own policy is fucking them up on this one because now they've got all the anxious, fat New Zealanders. They're worried about going to the fucking gate. I love you no matter what. I love you no matter what. This airport better be running fucking smooth as shit if this guy's picking this as an initiative. It's got 4.3 stars and 800 reviews on Google. Mostly pleasant, but some people are saying things like,

bad customer service and stuff like that. Yeah, I got some comments from, and apparently this is happening at other airports. This is one from Denmark. Kiss and goodbye. No kisses above three minutes. What the fuck? Dude, come on. Yeah.

People hate it, man. People are offended. Maybe it started, I don't know, COVID, who knows? And then this person says, that's generous. A hug only takes 10 seconds and a quickie in the car park can be done in under three minutes. And then in response to that, this person says, three minutes? Speak for yourself. Some of us will pop at exactly one minute and five seconds. Yeah.

And this person says, three minutes, this is an airport or a brothel. Yeah. Michael agrees with us. Three minutes is a long-ass time to be hugging. And then Lori says, imagine our family goodbyes in the car park, which is disgusting. What is this, Italy? Yeah. Anyway. This is New Zealand. Mixed emotions. Some people agree that three minutes is way too long. Some people hate that they are being limited. Dude, if you...

Everybody agrees three minutes is too long to hug. Nobody's hugging for three minutes. That's the whole thing that people are missing. Like, why? It's an unnecessary policy because nobody hugs for three minutes. Well, this is upsetting the one family in New Zealand that does this. And they put up a sign specifically for the one family out of everyone that's ever been to the airport that's ever done it. They should put a sign that says, eat your food in the car park. Guys.

Guys, it's because three minutes is how long it takes Amari's heart to pump blood to its genitals. That's true. Yeah. It's true. Yeah. Anyway. Big people. Guys, on October 16th, Catherine Banks, who's a Marine Corps veteran, was asked to get off her flight, which was departing SFO, San Francisco International Airport. And once she exited the plane, the flight attendant explained that

that she was asked to get off the plane because her shirt was, quote, threatening. This is according to Catherine Banks. What do you guys think the shirt said? I thought when I read this article, I thought it was like, like I've seen a lot of like, fuck Joe Biden shirts. Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of offensive things about it. January 6th was the best. Yeah. Yeah. Just a middle finger.

The shirt reads, and it's just plain text, do not give in to the war within, and then in smaller text, end veteran suicide. That's what it says. Wow, that's a pretty great shirt. Yeah, that's not offensive whatsoever. Right. In fact, if you're offended by that, you're probably a piece of shit. You could be. I guess the...

Banks was... She didn't have a shirt underneath, so she had to take her shirt off and was in her bra for a second. They made her get into her underwear? She wasn't wearing a bra, so they made her turn back. And...

It was awkward as shit. There was a war going on underneath the shirt. They made her get nude. Delta forced this woman to strip nude. According to this woman, a male flight attendant on Delta did this to her. And he said, the only way you're getting back on the plane is if you take that off right now. She says that she told the flight attendant, you know, I was in the Marine Corps for 22 years, worked for the Air Force for 15 years.

Or, I'm sorry, she was a Marine Corps vet and she was going to visit her sister who was a hardcore vet. And she said, the flight attendant said, I don't care about your service. Take it off. That's according to Banks. Now, when Banks got back on the plane, she said she was...

forced to sit in the back instead of the seat she paid for, which had extra leg room. And that made her think about killing herself. So that, you know, full circle. Yeah. So Delta almost proved the point of this charity. What did he misread? I don't. Because it looks like a Trump shirt.

It's the Valhalla Foundation. It's like a hard-o. The black flag thing is kind of... It's got an American flag on the sleeve, and it's a black shirt. It's hard-o vet merch. Well, sure, but it says clearly this is an anti-suicide shirt. So why don't you just relax, Delta? What does it say on the back? Like, leave your drag out of my kids? Something like that? No, nothing like that. It says that in its style...

But the text doesn't say that at all. I don't get it. I think this could be a plant story because Delta has apparently reached out to the woman to try to figure out what's going on. Right. I couldn't find any other verification other than her as a source. And I went to the website and these comments are exactly what you think they would be. They all came from like yesterday. Emily, we'll purchase. We will support. Screw you, Delta. Yeah.

just purchased this shirt. I've seen the darkness of the void within. I came to help on the other side. Delta should be ashamed of themselves. I wear my shirt proudly. Lisa says, it's simple. If you don't support our troops, first responders or the flag, get out. That simply can't be said enough. Kill yourself. Amen. Kill yourself. Get out.

Yeah, a lot of people are, I guess, thinking that a lot of right. They're right. Delta's a lot of veterans were riled up by this. Yeah, this is the stupidest thing. If Delta, obviously, it's not Delta's policy. It would have been one idiot flight attendant if it's true, but right. Still looks bad for Delta.

Yeah, I mean, look, this is you know which side of the aisle this is going to rile up, right? You should rile everyone up. But all the comments are from a specific side of the aisle. And what they don't know is that Delta discriminates completely evenly, guys, because the last person to get kicked off the Delta flight was this woman. I'm talking about Lisa Archibald, who's a DJ and was going from SFO, same airport to Salt Lake City,

to go to Sundance and she was wearing a loose t-shirt without a bra as well. And the gate agent said, you need to cover up because your breasts are visible. So two women without bras. They have a sexist person working on the SFO crew for Delta. Yeah, but her shirt was

white and seemingly see-through a little bit. Maybe you could see it. It seems like whoever this flight attendant is at San Francisco for Delta can't handle a woman without an undergarment. He wants them strapped in. He gets very angry when he sees it, no matter what the situation is, and just goes all out.

Put some seatbelts on those tits. Sounds like Delta's got a situation on their hands. They've got to get a handle on this dude. Sounds like Delta has a flight attendant that, I don't know, is a male that hates women. He hates nipples, yeah. He's putting extra slips in the sides of the seats next to the safety things that says wear a bra.

You know what I mean? Like, both are fucked up. You know, as Wes was saying, I'm more kind of, I don't get either. I more get the DJ because she was wearing like, you know, a sheer, it was a sheer shirt. Yeah. But I think probably what happened with this idiot is they saw the shirt. It looked like some sort of like right wing political shirt reacted. And then after reading it, didn't admit their mistake. Maybe her unkempt breast.

made the letters, certain letters expand. Can we see a picture of this woman in the shirt, Pat? Is there a picture of this woman in the shirt? I'll see if I can find it. The woman is, she's probably in her 50s. She didn't interview. She's a little frazzled from the inside. Yeah, she sounds a little hammered. Can we get a look at this lady's breasts? Yeah, I want to see what she's working with.

Okay. I mean, no, she's thin. It's not like a situation where she... It's the same as the DJ, which makes me think that this particular flight attendant has a type he gets mad at. It's these women who have smaller breasts who don't feel like they need to wear a bra. The audacity to not wear a bra with small breasts. And then this dude gets so fucking enraged when he sees him without the fucking bra on and he kicks him off the flight. If what she's saying is true, which is the flight attendant says, I don't care about your service...

I mean, I don't know why you triple down. You know what I mean? I don't know why you triple down when she was like a Marine Corps veteran.

I'm a Marine Corps veteran. It's going to be interesting to see what Delta has to say about this. They're probably, I mean, they might call you once. And then when you call them back, not pick up the phone. Yeah. They're probably just going to remind you that they're probably going to remind you that each seat has a TV with movies that haven't been released to streaming yet. Yeah. I just hope that she doesn't get now going on four and a half years of people calling her a fucking idiot and explaining that that's a tray table for food and not a laptop. And it's on you. I hope that,

Doesn't happen. Anyway, that's the show. Delta. I'm still a loyalist and have a great fucking day. See you later. Yeah.

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