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April 8, 2023 - Doug Collins Podcast
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Buc-ee’s, The Masters, Stick Shifts, Chicken Fighting, and Typing Class: All in Friday’s Finest
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You want to listen to a podcast?
By who?
Georgia GOP Congressman Doug Collins.
How is it?
The greatest thing I have ever heard in my whole life.
I could not believe my ears.
In this house, wherever the rules are disregarded, chaos and mob rule.
It has been said today, where is bravery?
I'll tell you where bravery is found and courage is found.
It's found in this minority who has lived through the last year of nothing but rules being broken, people being put down, questions not being answered, and this majority say, be damned with anything else.
We're going to impeach and do whatever we want to do.
Why?
Because we won an election.
I guarantee you, one day you'll be back in the minority and it ain't gonna be that fun.
Hey everybody, thank God it's Friday.
Yes, it's Friday here.
And today on the Doug Collins Show, it's Friday's Finest.
It is going to be, after all week, we have talked about it.
We've looked at the indictment.
We've looked at the arraignment.
We've talked about Trump in New York.
We've been all over the place.
Today on Friday's Finest, it is a Trump indictment-free zone.
We're not going to talk about it.
We've talked about it all week.
We may get back into it next week.
But today...
No!
It's Friday.
It's Masters Week.
As we speak, they're playing the lovely course in Augusta, the home of really, you know, in my mind, American golf.
I know there are going to be many out there who may disagree with that, but fine, you can have your opinion and be wrong.
I'm happy to let you be.
But the Masters is a special week, and the Masters Golf Tournament is off.
If you've not had a chance this week, the par 3 tournament yesterday, the day before yesterday at all, was just amazing with the families out there.
You see it.
It's just a different feel.
I was also happy to see that the live golfers and the PGA players seem to get along pretty well on the par 3 yesterday.
So it'll be interesting to see where that all goes for Masters weekend.
Can't wait to Sunday.
Also, it is Easter weekend.
And today being a Good Friday, last year, if you go back, I encourage you to go back to the DougCollinsPodcast.com.
You can go back to last year.
I did an episode of the podcast called The Day With No Name.
I'd encourage you to go back and listen to that episode.
It was last year right before Easter.
It's talking about Saturday.
We talk about Good Friday.
We talk about Easter.
But so often we live in the middle.
We live in the middle between the tragedies of Friday and the joys of Sunday.
We live in that middle zone where nothing is ever really too high or really too low.
It's in the middle, and I think that's where God speaks to us the most if we're willing to listen.
So a lot going on today.
And just a minute, James and I, though, we have got a Friday's finest that you will not believe.
You're not going to believe some of the stories today.
This is the kind of podcast that you need for a Friday going into an Easter weekend to just sit back and scratch your head and say, huh?
That's why it's called Friday's Finest.
We'll get to it here in just a minute.
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It's Friday's finest.
It's Masters week.
Can you just feel it in the air?
Can you wait for Jim?
I think it was Jim Nance on the CBS telecast.
Welcome to Augusta.
Hello, friends.
I'm Jim Nance.
Jim, hello everybody.
Welcome to Augusta.
A place like another.
I mean, oh my god.
I don't care where I'm at through the year, James.
Football, I love football, love the Super Bowl, love college football, love, you know, all that.
But there's something about the Masters.
Yeah, well now it just feels like I only hear Jim Nance's voice.
And I'm picturing the yellow words, the masters.
I'm slowly showing the grass and the big trees.
And really, the only thing about the masters that I really care about is one day I want to get there and try the pimento cheese.
Because that's all I hear about, and it just sounds so good.
Well, we've been talking about this for a while, James, about getting you to Georgia.
I promise you this.
We get you to Georgia, we will definitely have you some pimento cheese, okay?
Okay, wait.
Have you been there?
I've been to Augusta.
I've never been to the tournament.
I have never been to the tournament.
I guess it's probably one of those things in life that's on the bucket list.
I've got to get there.
I've been around it.
I know the folks over there.
Augusta is a town that really...
In many ways, it's a neat town.
Okay, it's got Fort Gordon over in that area.
I mean, you got the Cyber Center.
It's just a growing part of Georgia.
But yet, it is also like going back in time.
Good and bad in many ways.
And I'll say that honestly.
It's just, you know, you see a lot of things.
But around the Masters...
I mean, when Masters Weeks hit, Augusta shuts down.
A lot of Augusta folks leave.
They rent their houses out for thousands for the week.
Oh, yeah.
Those people hit the jackpot.
Oh, my goodness.
I know some who've literally said they pay their house payment for the year on those two weeks around the Masters.
Now, do you know what it costs to get into the Masters?
No, I mean, because the tickets, I mean, again, this is another thing.
You know, tickets are passed down through actually wills.
You know, I will my Masters tickets to my whoever.
I haven't checked lately.
I mean, if you can find them out there, maybe somebody at thecollinspodcast.com, go and send us a note telling us how much it is.
Tickets are passed down through their wills?
Yes.
Look, what people don't understand about the Masters, and people get upset about this, it is a private club, period, end of statement, and they do not care.
A few years ago, the Masters...
You have to go back in time now.
The Masters went through all of the issues of no women, no person of color, those kind of things back in the 90s, especially the women issue.
And in the early 2000s, I believe it is, if you go back and check this, and I didn't check it because I didn't think about it.
They went through a time in which the...
Folks were gonna boycott the advertisers.
You know, in the Masters, there are only two or three advertisers, period.
And they only have like two or three times during the hour in which they will cut away for a short amount of time from the Masters.
That's in the Masters contract with CBS, okay?
And they were gonna boycott to change, to help pressure the Masters to change their makeup of their club.
The Masters simply said, we will change when we're in the process of looking at that.
We're evaluating it.
We'll make our change when we want to.
And this year, we will accept no sponsorship for the Masters tournament.
And CBS, of course, wasn't real sure about that.
And, you know, they didn't have a choice in it.
Masters said, we're not doing it.
You can show it.
You cannot show it.
We don't care.
Yeah, they're like, whatever.
What are you going to do?
It's not up to us.
It doesn't affect us.
Yeah, but I mean, think about that today.
How many organizations been to the whim of, you didn't include me kind of thing.
And they just said, fine.
Biggest golf tournament in one of the biggest golf tournaments in the world.
They said, fine.
Just don't show up.
They literally said, put your money where your mouth is.
And so they did.
And of course, later on, Condoleezza Rice is a member.
And they've changed over the years as it goes.
And I'm sure it's for the better.
I mean, it's not like you should just have clubs just for dudes.
But I'm not, you know, defending, you know, going back and forth how you want to.
Although I will say this, I mean, in a country in which freedom of assembly is part of our core values, racism and prejudice are not.
But James, if I wanted to have a meeting in which is just me, you, and my, you know, dog Cree, and that was the exclusive membership, nobody else can say anything about that.
Right.
And they just put it out there.
They just said, look, we're not going to take advice from anybody else who's not a member of our club.
It's the most golf thing possible.
It is.
It's just an amazing place, though.
I mean, like I said, it's just, you know, I've had friends who played the course.
It's very hilly.
This is one of the things that everybody talks about with Tiger Woods coming back last year and playing.
It is not an easy course to walk.
It is a Georgia, sort of a middle Georgia, North Georgia mountain course in which there is a lot of rise and fall in that course.
Well, that's why I was hearing yesterday, because, okay, obviously, which is still crazy, and it proves how golf may never move on from Tiger Woods.
Right.
But they were talking about it, and obviously the lead story is always Tiger Woods.
No matter what the conversation is, if Tiger Woods is near the tournament, if he can smell the tournament, look at the tournament, or he's in the tournament, he's going to be talked about.
Yep.
And someone said that the PGA is considering allowing golf carts for the big tournaments.
And Tiger Woods said something along the lines of like, I wouldn't want the rules changed for me specifically.
But if they were to change the rules, that'd be great, blah, blah, blah.
And someone was like, if golf is smart, they will change this rule by next year and give Tiger Woods another 10 years because golf is not going to survive without him.
Amazing.
I'm not saying it's not going to survive, but...
The amount of time that I've talked about golf in my lifetime without Tiger Woods is zero.
Maybe once when it was Brooks Koepka versus the French guy.
And that was fun and it was funny, but it always leads to Tiger Woods somehow.
Oh, yeah.
Well, here's your one.
Yesterday, the other day, I can't remember when it was.
Anyway, I put out a poll on Twitter.
If you don't follow me, folks, at RepDougCollins, you get all kinds of stuff.
I tweet about politics.
I tweet about life.
I tweet about sports.
I tweet about whatever I feel like.
Anyway, I put out a poll that says, talking about the Masters, and I put down who you thought would win.
And I put down Rom, John Rom, Scotty Sheffer, Tiger Woods, and others.
John Rahm, who is the number two or number one player in the world right now, 7%.
Scotty Scheffler, again, number one, number two, depending on how you do it, 28%.
Tiger Woods, 24%.
Other was 41%.
I mean, okay, think for a second, James, and this is why I love Fridays.
Think for a second.
Think if you will.
What if Sunday afternoon, 5.30, Don't.
You're coming in to hole 14, 15, just out of Amen Corner, and Tiger Woods is holding a one-shot lead.
Stop it.
Don't give us hope.
One-shot lead.
Scotty Shepard is one behind.
Rob is two behind.
They're coming in.
They're all playing together.
Can you imagine the viewership of that event?
Oh, no, it'll be the only thing.
No, it'll be...
Listen, when he won in 2019, was that 2019 he won?
That is still among the most incredible comeback, I'm the greatest moments in the history of sports, anything.
Anything on the history of the planet.
That man was so out of everything.
Oh, yeah.
To pop up and win.
I'm sorry.
It's never going to happen again.
And if it does, that's incredible.
He's not even going to make the cut.
It is amazing.
Okay, you don't think he'll make the cut?
No.
I think he makes the cut.
I think he makes the cut.
All right, free pimento cheese sandwich for whoever has to buy it.
By the way, if you're buying a pimento cheese sandwich at the Masters, it is only $2.50.
I know.
How angry does that make you?
Did they get to make their own rules and get to make food at their own prices?
There should be one week in America where we have all the Masters prices.
I mean, it's amazing.
It is truly amazing.
There was a restaurant that used to be opened by me in New Jersey.
It was called The Firehouse.
Yeah, I think it was called The Firehouse.
And...
They used to do one day a week, I mean two days a week, two days a year, 1950s prices.
Oh wow.
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Doug, the highway that it was attached to had a line so long.
They had to have police escort around the entrance of this place because you can't beat a 25 cent hamburger that will change your life.
No, I... Yeah, you gotta have it.
By the way, have you ever watched the movie Croc?
The story of McDonald's?
Oh, no.
I thought that was the founder.
Are you talking about the one with Michael Keaton?
The founder.
No, I see it every day.
You need to watch it.
It looks like it's going to bore the hell out of me.
No, it won't.
It will not.
You watch it.
By the way, speaking of which, they do not sponsor me.
Of course, if they would like to, that would be nice.
But I will tell you, folks, I've used this Yeti cup right here, this coffee cup.
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Not even just that.
Think about it.
It also keeps your stuff super cold.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I mean, you make mixed...
It's crazy.
There's nothing...
I don't know what...
I'm not interested in their technology and how to use it, though I think it would save our planet.
That...
The Yeti...
Whatever Yeti is doing, I will...
They're the...
They're the...
Like...
I have like three cups in my house from them.
And I take them everywhere I go.
I know they're not a sponsor of us.
I would sacrifice them for more Yeti stuff.
Slide right into our email.
Slide into wherever you want to.
Yeti, we love to have you because I use your products all the time.
Anyway, enough said.
Uh-oh.
Wait, I hear it.
Wait, what is this I hear in the background?
We have breaking news.
We have breaking news from Dallas.
Dallas.
Walter Cronkite here.
Breaking news out of Dallas.
We're going to go to our reporter now, James in Dallas, for the word about something again with, again, the craziness of animals in Dallas.
James, what do you have?
Okay, this one is just outside the zoo.
Oh, no.
Well, that is important.
So, I'm flipping through the other day, our Dallas news, obviously.
Yeah.
And I see this headline, and again, I just can't wrap my head around this whole title, but cockfighting ring busted in Dallas after a shooting.
Someone purchased a chicken and then later returned it because it didn't fight very well and then shot the seller.
Okay, the only thing...
I gotta stop you right here.
The only thing I would have to say is, you see that as unusual for Dallas.
I mean, I grew up...
That's not unusual for North Georgia, okay?
It's probably not even unusual for Dallas.
But in the Northeast, we don't have cockfighting rings.
It's just not something we do.
That you know of.
That you know of.
That's fair.
That is fair.
That I know of.
I just...
I just...
The idea that he returned the chicken...
Like, this poor chicken has been through hell and now has to be returned because he's not a good enough fighter.
I mean, James, that's got to be one of the best baller moves I've seen in a while.
Yeah, just getting so...
I mean, the shooting part is unfortunate and I don't know how it ended.
Yeah, we don't want to go to jail.
You're an idiot.
Go to jail, rot the rest of your life.
I mean, for doing that stuff.
But take the chicken back?
Really?
Yeah, it's just...
Taking the chicken back is just...
I can't.
I sent it to my friends, this title, and they're like, you gotta come home.
You can't be living somewhere like that.
There was one in Texas.
It was in San Antonio, but some guy had a car that was a giant shopping cart, and he was taking it down the highway.
And by giant shopping cart, I mean it was like the size of a tank.
And I'm just like, you know what?
This is the state.
No!
No, no, it was just a random guy.
It had a, what do you call it, like a pontoon propeller, and it was flying down the highway.
Oh, wow.
I will send it to you.
It is so ridiculous.
That is pretty bad.
But you have to tell me, though.
I mean, you're only about 20 minutes from a Buc-ee's.
Please tell me you're from a Buc-ee's.
Oh, I love, listen.
Listen.
When I first moved to Texas, that's what everyone said you gotta go do, blah, blah, blah.
Okay, whatever.
I'm sure it'll be fine.
Yes, the answer is yes, they do have the cleanest bathrooms on the planet.
But the real thing is just go get the brisket sandwich.
It doesn't matter what's going on in your life.
You could be up, you could be down.
It is...
You think to yourself like, alright, if I'm getting real barbecue, I'm gonna go to the real place.
No, no, no.
Go to the gas station.
It's called Bucky's with a giant gopher on it.
Beaver!
Beaver!
And go get yourself a breadstick sandwich.
It changes your life.
It's a beaver!
It's a gopher.
I don't know.
That's no beaver.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
Well, we've got two now in Georgia.
We're supposed to be getting a third one.
And they're on our path where we go to Florida.
And we, I mean, we literally, and folks, this is no joke.
We time our trips to Bucky stops.
I mean, I just have my friends here.
And we had a great time.
They're like, I loved everything.
They're like, if we come back here, we're going to Bucky's first, because that's what we want to do.
Oh, it's amazing.
And by the way, you can go, there's a YouTube, you can go to one of the, you know, like YouTube or other places, and there's documentaries on Bucky's.
It's fascinating.
And by the way, folks, if you're laughing at us about food, you just never have been.
That's all I'll tell you.
I mean, is it...
The best barbecue I've ever put in my mouth?
No.
Of course not.
But is it top 10, top 5?
Yes.
It is really good.
It's weird.
It's not like they don't have everything.
They have a bunch of random stuff.
You'd never go into a place and go, hmm, I'd really like that really expensive box of fudge in that brisket sandwich.
But you can do that at Bucky's.
Yes.
We have falashis and everything you need.
But it's just this one...
You know what it is?
When you get one of those sandwiches, they're dried out, they're crappy, there's always something wrong with it.
You can count on this every time that it's going to be good.
Oh yeah.
They do not...
Bucky's doesn't make mistakes.
No.
The brisket, egg, burrito in the morning...
Outstanding.
It's life-altering.
It's amazing.
Hey, by the way, also, if you go to Bucky's, and again, Bucky's not a sponsor, but happy to have you if you'd like to be.
Bucky's, you know, is, they do cookies.
And I don't know, the little lemon cookies and the chocolate chip cookies.
You know, they're about this size, and they come in a little plastic tin.
I mean, the lemon ones should come with a warning label.
Yeah, like, you'll eat all these and come back and probably try to rob the store when you're out of money.
Oh my god.
I mean, I can't, I mean, you can't, I mean.
I'm with you.
What was the old Lay's potato chips you can't eat just one?
Yeah.
There's no way you can eat just one of those cookies.
I'm serious.
There's not.
I'm with you.
Listen, if I ran out of money, I would rob a Buc-ee's.
Yeah, just for the food.
Yeah, just like if I'm going to go out, I'm going out in style.
Oh yeah, and they have a turkey melt or a ham melt one.
Again, spicy.
Oh!
I haven't even tried it, but I'm sure I'll go get it in the next month or so.
I make that trip once a month.
Oh, it is just simply...
I literally go with friends.
It's like an event.
It is pretty amazing.
He wants to make a Buc-ee's run.
My hope and my fear at the same time is they're going to put a Buc-ee's on 85, which is about 30 minutes from my house, and I'd be devastated.
Because I'm from the Northeast, we don't have a ton of Chick-fil-A's.
Chick-fil-A was a South thing first.
At least I believe it was.
Oh yeah, it was right in Atlanta.
It was formed with the Dwarf House.
Okay.
So we didn't get one.
We hadn't had one at all.
Like nowhere near us.
Yep.
They put one on the highway, Route 17, which is New Jersey's hell.
And 15 minutes from my house.
Now I'm not going to say that I was there every day.
But in all seriousness, I was telling you about the police escort.
They had two police officers guarding the gate because there were so many accidents.
For the first, not one, two, three years, they had to have police out front of that place.
Because people were getting in accidents trying to get into Chick-fil-A. Oh, yeah.
Because the lines were so long and the highway had the actual line on it.
If there was a Buc-ee's in New Jersey or anywhere, I'm telling you right now, the same thing.
It's like we're getting a Wawa, which is New Jersey's, it's not New Jersey's Buc-ee's because nothing is Buc-ee's, nothing is that big.
Right.
But it's just like, you know, we're getting the Mawa Wawa, which is a ridiculous thing to say out loud, but that is happening.
It is just truly amazing, you know, the things we get into.
But, you know, coming out of Texas, you know, now we've covered the Masters, we've covered buckets, we've covered cockfighting and a shooting in Texas.
Let's take to more.
We may end up having to do a lot maybe once every six weeks, so we just do a stupid criminal story.
Stupid criminal hour on Fridays.
But I found this the other day.
It was a headline, and I actually took a picture of it, and I sent it to you.
And the headline says it all.
I mean, it's just, you really can't make this stuff up.
Two teens attempted carjacking thwarted by a stick shift.
A stick shift, folks.
Of course, for some of you, maybe younger generation, you have no idea what that is.
Well, let me explain to you.
There are automatic cars, which is what 99% of the cars are nowadays.
In fact, when I bought my truck a couple of years ago, I wanted a stick shift and could not get it in an F-250.
Couldn't get it.
You're like my dad.
He would murder for a stick.
He has one now.
I could get a brand new F-250, which I had saved up for years.
That's my 30-year truck.
Could not get a stick.
I got an automatic.
But I used to have a Ford Ranger stick.
I had a lot of sticks.
Four on the floor for the Ford Ranger?
Or was it on the floor?
On the floor.
It was the floor.
Yeah.
But you played it.
That's how you learned to drive.
Yeah.
These two wonderfully stupid criminals, which, by the way, is caught on video.
And it was the, they come, they throw the guy out of the car.
To his goodness, he didn't fight him.
He just let him get in the car and not worry about getting shot or anything.
Yeah.
The two idiots get in the car, one on one side, one on the other.
And the camera, the security camera from the, I think it's the gas station, is sitting there filming this whole thing.
And you're sitting there waiting for them to go off.
And they wait, and they wait, 30 seconds, 45 seconds pass by, and all of a sudden they get out and run away from the car.
They couldn't start it down the road.
I'm crying.
I mean, are you kidding me?
Listen.
Listen.
It's weird because my generation knows how to drive stick shift still.
Because all our dads drove stick shift.
So you don't have a choice.
You're learning one way or another.
Damn it.
But yeah, being stupid enough to think you could do...
All right, first of all, being dumb enough to try to commit a carjack without even thinking that's a possibility.
Obviously, it's beyond millennials.
It's Gen Z plus.
But can I tell a quick stick shift story?
All right.
So I'm nine years old, maybe eight, I guess.
And we're dropping my brother off at school.
And it's this huge line when you're dropping your kids off at school in the morning.
My brother was first, and then I was the next person we dropped off at the school next to us.
For some reason, our town decided to put all five schools on one road.
Don't ask.
It's the most insane thing that's ever happened.
So my dad thought this would be a good time to teach his eight-year-old son how to drive stick.
Now, I'm in the passenger seat, and my dad is driving.
And he goes, alright, I'm gonna hit the clutch.
All you gotta do is move him into gear.
Doug, when I tell you I had a panic attack for four whole minutes while I'm trying to put it in gear and it's not working, cars are beeping at us behind us.
We can't move.
My dad is yelling at me.
He's like, why can't you do this?
It was out of a movie.
I was like half crying.
I'm like, I swear I can do this.
He goes, you're an idiot.
Let go.
I'm like, I can do it.
And he's like fighting me for the stick shift.
This isn't like an old little Saturn that my dad had.
Doug, I'm telling you, it felt like it was nine hours, but it was like four minutes of hell for me.
And my dad is like, you are going to learn in a couple years, my God, please don't ever touch this car.
Oh my God, I love it.
He's like, I could be a congender dad, I know I could.
Yeah, I can do it.
He's literally, we're wrestling for the stick, and I'm like, I can put it in fourth.
He's like, you can't even put it in first.
Get out of here.
Yeah, it is wild.
It's split in my house.
I think both of my boys can drive sticks, but not very well.
No, I'm terrible at it.
I'm not going to pretend.
I still have nightmares about it.
I miss it.
My chief of staff, Brendan Beller, he had this...
Was it an Audi Moss?
I can't remember.
Anyway, a stick that he bought.
And sometimes when I was up in D.C. or I'd have to go somewhere, he let me borrow it.
And we drove it out one day to...
Elise and I had to go to a meeting out in...
out way almost at the West Virginia border at, what was that?
You know, they had the Homestead and, yes, Homestead Resort out there.
It was a meeting we had to go speak at.
And so I got to drive for like three or four hours straight.
Oh, my.
James, it was back.
I mean, it was phenomenal.
I loved driving a stick.
Oh, like you were 18 again?
Oh, I did.
I loved driving a stick.
I did.
And I didn't really necessarily grow up driving a stick.
You know, I learned.
But I had, back in the day, I had a Volkswagen Beetle.
I had a Ford Ranger.
You know, cars that I just loved.
I just loved the stick.
And they went away from it.
And I think it's a tragedy.
But it also keeps idiot carjackers.
Yes.
Yes.
It kept one vehicle safe.
The best alarm you could have.
Just put a stick in there.
That is...
And also, I just want to shout out the photo you took.
It's from the show Marty and McGee, which might be one of the best shows on TV. Anyway, go ahead.
Marty and McGee is amazing.
Thank you for pointing that out because we did take it from Marty and McGee.
Hat tip to Marty and McGee.
But it's like, are you kidding me?
If you see the video of this, You see them getting out and running, you know, like, you know, somebody's right behind them.
You know, this is like, I don't know if they're just complete stupid embarrassment or, you know, just, you know, thinking somebody, you know, the problem is they probably got out and thought it was a trick.
They probably got out and thought, okay, somebody's pranking us here.
Yes, this isn't real.
Yeah, we're being pumped right now.
Yeah, we're being pumped.
All right, but it brought up a question, as we can sit around here and think about.
What are things that really have, that were, and we really have sort of two generations here.
I get mine and your generation a little bit, because I live through both.
But for mine and yours, and other things that were, Everybody used them and are known about them in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, that we don't do anymore.
And one of the things that is interesting to me, and I thought about this after you and I had talked offline about it, in my...
Junior year in high school or sophomore year in high school, one of my electives was typing.
We had the old IBM Selectrics.
We had to type.
By the way, for those of us who actually had to do term papers and research papers and everything on an actual typewriter putting footnotes in, you do not understand life.
I now know why my generation took us to the moon and this generation can't figure out a stick ship.
Okay?
I get it.
But we had to take typing.
And now it's my understanding they're doing keyboarding in like preschool.
Oh yeah.
They put the cover over the keyboard and you have to learn how to type.
Yeah, it's pretty amazing.
But there's one for me.
Typing is no longer, you know, something that's actually offered in school.
Yeah, that's...
Yeah, well, it's unnecessary now, obviously.
Well, everybody knows.
One that we probably share.
Yeah.
In the early 2000s, maybe late 90s, everybody in my generation, if you're a millennial and older, every family had a single computer in the house that everyone used.
And it was in the computer room, which sounds insane when you say it out loud right now, right?
Like, alright mom, I'm going to go use the computer, and then you'd only get like an hour, because if you were using it, there's a good chance you couldn't use the phone.
Because you had dial-up or something.
This will be a great opportunity, and we're going to input it here.
You've got to put the AOL dial-up tone here.
Oh, Doug, please don't give me those.
I'm going to have PTSD from that.
I can hear it right now, and I can hear my grandmother going, get off the computer.
I've got to call your mother to pick you up.
But also, remember, with the computer room and the computer like that, also, we had no idea what Wi-Fi was.
No, no, no, no.
That changed our lives forever.
Let's see, what else?
Okay, this is a pet peeve of mine.
It's a Friday's finest pet peeve.
Why is it?
And again, generations, whatever.
We were watching the other night several movies, but it came up again.
We watched Apollo 13. And they put a warning label on the movie as it started, and one of the warnings was smoking.
What the crap?
Listen, that's been 10 years.
I mean, I've watched it, but I've seen it all the time.
While we're thinking of things that are stupid and out of date...
It is weird, because at one point in history, doctors used to recommend certain packs of cigarettes.
Which, to this day, when I found that out, blew my mind.
Oh, yeah.
There was also a time where you, personally, Doug, maybe I'm wrong, because I don't want to guess your age here, but my mother, when she lived in the Bronx, was allowed to go run down to the street, run down the street with my grandmother watching, go to the corner store, and buy cigarettes for her parents.
Oh, yeah.
You want to talk about something we're not allowed to do anymore.
We're not allowed to talk about it.
No, no, you're not even allowed to look.
Cigarettes, and look, it's for the better that people are not smoking cigarettes.
Let's not pretend that is not the best thing we've decided to do as a nation.
A thing that harms no one except for big tobacco.
But warning people that someone's about to smoke...
It's not in the propaganda era.
I don't see a kid seeing someone like Clint Eastwood smoking and going, you know what, I gotta go get a pack of cigarettes.
You can't!
But to that point, they'll point, and I've had this happen when I was in Congress, because they talk about vaping and stuff like that, they'll point through statistics and This show, watching this on movies and stuff, you know, there for a while.
In the 90s, I believe it was.
It was sometime in there.
Smoking was so rare in a film.
That it almost wasn't there.
And then all of a sudden, when it started coming back in the late 2010, 8, you know, 5 era, now it's back prolific in a lot of movies again.
Yeah, because you just can't rule.
Like, if you're making movies about certain eras, you just can't rule it out.
Well, you can't.
And even today, I mean, what, is it 25, 30% of people still smoke?
I mean, and that may be wrong.
Is that true?
Yeah, I mean, I don't know how many it is.
You know what, though?
That number was like 90%.
Oh, it was a lot.
Well, even last night, even watching that movie the other night on the Apollo 13, the flight surgeon was smoking, okay?
You know who I always think of when I think of smoking, which is weird?
I think of Samuel L. Jackson in Jurassic Park.
I just have that image of him smoking a cigarette, yelling at the computer.
Like, I just...
It's dark and everything.
It's great.
I don't know why, but, like, that's the image I have when I think of smoking.
Also, if you smoked, and whatever, whether you did or didn't, I was...
I smoked when I was 16 years old.
I was...
I got hit early.
So, and that stunk.
And I've quit since.
Yeah.
But...
When you have smoked and you do see someone smoking on television, if you've already smoked, boy, do you wish you could run to the store and get a pack.
That I do understand.
But prior, like when you're watching like Goodfellas or something, you're like, man, I would kick a door in for a cigarette.
But, if you haven't smoked, and please God don't, maybe the warning is helpful.
Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about.
For me, you talked about the...
Again, we've just, I think, proved their point.
I'm sure I got folks on the left and others, the nanny state folks actually out there saying, you just proved our point.
Well, But it's like getting a hot warning label on a cup of coffee.
Yeah, it's like, yeah, don't spill it, stupid.
But for you mentioned a movie, Samuel L. Jackson, I think it was.
You know what?
When I think of smoking, I mean, of course, you've got the gangster movies and everything, but the one smoking one for me that sticks out, and again, I guess it defines more maybe my generation, is Risky Business and Tom Cruise.
Oh, my God.
That's a great movie for smoking.
Yeah, great movie.
You know, and he's out there raking the leaves, and he's got the Wayfair Ray-Ban, clicks that cigarette.
That's the classic image for me.
He was the coolest man for five seconds right there.
Oh, yeah.
It was amazing.
Listen, we can talk about it all we want.
I've heard this is a joke that I've heard all the time, but, like, unfortunately, smoking a cigarette looked cool.
Yeah.
That was the way it was.
It was just cool.
You were cool.
And that's how it is.
Like, you saw Paul Newman smoking a cigarette, you'd be like, you know what?
That is pretty awesome.
And I'm going to turn the attention here.
It's Friday's finest, but I'm also going to say this.
For all the times when we do our shows and we talk the real issues as far as politics and cultural and change, what we've just talked about here for the last few minutes, though, shows you why I and so many others talk about the attacks on education and the dumbing down of education and the moving around of education.
Because think about this.
My kids, I saw this.
In our generation, we were just hearing about recycling.
In our generation, we were just starting to hear, don't smoke, don't dip.
Hey, look, my high school, I'm saying right here, my high school had a smoking area.
Yeah?
Yeah.
And all the rest of us who went through that hallway had to walk past the smoking area.
Okay, if you were going to lunch.
Anyway, but it began that process, you know, recycling, the climate, whatever.
It began to be put into the curriculums of elementary schools, high school, and what began to happen?
You know, recycling became a thing.
Mom, Dad, you got to recycle.
Mom, Dad, quit smoking.
Mom, Dad.
And so, I mean, to think that media and education doesn't matter, Is foolish.
I mean, it's just completely foolish.
Because there's people today, I mean, you know, and some of it's good.
And especially when you have people understanding tolerance and different races and different, you know, beliefs and religions and choices.
You know, tolerance is something that is, you know, you tolerate others.
You may not agree with them and you don't have to change what you believe.
And you may try to convince that person that their belief is wrong.
That's all part of who we are.
But it is amazing, you know, that seatbelts.
I remember my kids have never known a time in which a seatbelt was not used.
Never.
I mean, my oldest is 31. My youngest is 24, 25. I mean, they've never known this time.
And I remember when they were little, we'd get in the car, and if we didn't put a seatbelt on, they would say, put your seatbelt on.
Put your seatbelt on.
Yes.
I mean, they didn't learn it from me.
I grew up in a car that didn't have seatbelts.
Yeah, they would just put babies in the front seat, no problem.
Listen, I've seen the photos of my grandmother's car.
It's horrifying.
God bless my mom and dad and my sweet mom who's not here, my daddy who still is.
And we'd go to Florida in the old Ford, and they would put a board in the back seat of the car, make a pallet out of it, and that's where I would lay and sleep as a baby going to Florida.
Listen, you don't know what you don't know.
Exactly.
It is.
Pretty wild.
And I was not smoking.
My grandfather smoked his entire life.
Half my family smoked their entire life.
My parents didn't, but a lot of people in my family did.
He quit and probably put an extra 15 years on his life because of it.
Yeah.
Like, that's just the way, like, look, some things are for the better, and also, when you do see photos of babies in cars from any time before the 1990s, your head just explodes.
Yeah, but, you know, look, I'm also from the generation, it's probably the best place, and we gotta pick this back up, James, because, I mean, things we don't do anymore is a pretty good topic, but also, you know, this idea, and here's my, and we're gonna sort of end on this one today.
My last pet peeve, and I get it, it's not a pet peeve for all of you out there, but it's about like, you know, I almost equivocate this to the folks who, if you're riding in your car with a mask on, You got a problem, okay?
And I don't have to worry about who you voted for.
That's obvious, okay?
Number two, though, is I grew up on a bicycle everywhere.
We went everywhere on a bicycle.
That was the biggest Christmas gift you could get was a bicycle, and especially if it looked like a motorbike in some ways.
We went everywhere.
We jumped everything we made.
I mean, we did it.
And a helmet was only an old football helmet if you had one with probably cheap plastic, and that was if you were trying to be Evel Knievel, okay?
I mean, you were jumping and you were making just a spectacle.
This idea, when my kids were younger and we started buying, you know, I got them their bicycles and everybody, and all my aunts and everybody said, well, you got to buy our helmets.
You got to buy a helmet.
I said, why?
Why?
I mean, I get it.
I get it.
Don't send hate mail unless you just feel like it to the Doug Collins podcast.com.
You can do that.
But, I mean, like I said, that's amazing.
I mean, I drank out of a water.
I drank out of a hose.
I didn't have a helmet.
You know, I mean, we put dirt on cuts.
That's right.
You know, I mean, when you had a bee sting, you took tobacco, moistened it, and put it on the bee sting.
We didn't do the bee sting.
My parents didn't do that.
It worked, though, folks.
It worked.
Let me just tell you.
I actually believe that.
I believe most remedies that aren't from your doctor work.
But I'm with you.
So my generation, I argue, had the best of both worlds.
We had the best video games, but we also were outside most of the time.
Exactly.
So, we've got our bikes everywhere.
Okay, my dad used to buy lottery tickets for us when we were little kids.
And I may have brought this up before in here, but I got a lottery ticket and I won $500.
My mom goes, are you going to save that money?
And I said, what are you, dumb?
I'm going to get a bike right now.
And I went and got a Haro BMX bike because it was the only thing that made you cool.
And I rode that thing.
We rode our bikes.
Honestly, if I rode my bike the amount of time I rode it as a child, I would be an Olympian.
Oh yeah, me too.
And it didn't matter.
Storming, whatever.
You were going uphill, downhill, backwards.
And we lived by a river.
And behind the river were woods.
And we built ramps like you did.
All the stupid things you could do.
But here's the kicker about the helmet real quick.
So my mom was a big stickler for the helmet.
And I just recently like broke the glass in her mind.
She would see me put the helmet on as I left the house.
But there's no way I'm going to see my friends with a helmet on.
Right.
So as soon as I passed the corner, I took it off and ditched it in the woods.
And then I went and I went on my way and I came and I would come back and I just told her this like three years ago and she goes, do you just lie to me about everything?
And I was like, probably.
When I was a kid, I probably, there was no way I was going to show up and get bullied by my friends over wearing a helmet.
There was no world that was happening.
It wasn't happening, baby.
It wasn't happening.
All right, folks.
That's why we have Friday's Finest.
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