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Welcome back to another AJ Buckley Show, special edition Friday for Hot Topics. Sean and I were just figuring out we're like, you know, it's great having the guests and stuff, but there's a lot of weird stuff going on in the world that I like to talk about. There's one thing I don't do on this show is talk about politics, but I will talk about aliens. I will talk about tech, biohacking, uh Justin Bieber at Coachella. I'm a Bieber fan for sure. I got the Biba Fia. Um, but uh yeah, I just to switch it up a little bit, you know, and just uh have some fun. Like I said, totally kidding, unless you're serious. This is more for the weekend doom scroll. So where you're sitting there on the Johnson taking a big ooh-ooh from too many Guinnesses the night before, you get to listen to my soothing voice to help that little constipation pop right through. That's what I do for you're welcome. And if we were sponsored by Xlax, that Xlax, that would be a great segue, but we're not. But if you're interested in XLAX and anybody from the uh X Lax community wants to reach out to the AJ Buckley show, you make sure you contact Sean because he's uh he's in need of some X Lacks. Anyways, let's get into the show. I don't know where that went, but uh Buckley Show. How was your weekend?

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It was good.

SPEAKER_01 1:34

Yeah.

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How's yours?

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Well, that was Sean. The idea is to give a story. What did you do, Sean?

SPEAKER_02 1:42

Um, I worked on my car. Um I'm restoring a 69 Roadrunner, so uh got my hands dirty and started sanding and tearing apart some suspension.

SPEAKER_01 1:49

Oh, that sounds very manly, Sean.

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Dude, it's the most manly thing I've done all year.

SPEAKER_01 1:53

That's uh we're we're pretty far into the year, bro.

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Better late than never.

SPEAKER_01 1:59

That's true. Um, I'm drinking a shake right now. This company, they're not a sponsor of the show, but they're called Longevity Labs, I think. It's got such an N D N A D and Colostrum and all sorts of other things to keep you keep your bowels moving. I don't know why I'm talking about it. Smells good. Yeah, so so is my butt. Anyways, uh moving along. So um what are some of the the trending stories in the world for the Friday hot topics?

SPEAKER_02 2:34

Well, Oracle just fired around 20,000 people at 6 a.m. by email. And uh, if you woke up tomorrow and your job was gone and one text, what would be your first move?

SPEAKER_01 2:45

Well, that's kind of like a girlfriend breaking up with you over text at 6 a.m. Sorry, it's just not working out. You know, I I think a text breakup. I mean, the guy would the guy that owns it was Larry uh Larry Ellison. Is it is that right? Where's where's the info on him? Sean, this is where you're supposed to help me here. Larry Ellison? Larry Ellison. Oh, it's right. Okay, yeah, you're right.

SPEAKER_02 3:07

I was just letting you kind of work through it.

SPEAKER_01 3:08

Okay, thanks, bud. Um, so so Oracle is a massive Texas-based software company, correct? Correct. And they they they make uh behind-the-scenes systems, run banks, airlines, governments. Um they're not a consumer brand, okay? Um, Larry Ellison is very rich. I think he's got there's like 162,000 employees at that company. Uh it's a little cold-blooded though, in my opinion. Okay, a little breakup text, you know. If you build a company that is that successful, you know, at least buy them dinner. Buy them a drink, you know, is the uh, as they say, at least what was there? I forget what movie it was. I feel like it's a Bruce Willis line. At least buy me a drink before you fuck me. You know, I uh that would be my response to Larry Ellison. Um excuse my language. But uh yeah, and I I think there's like 20 to 30,000 people that are out or of a job. Now, I would you think this has to do with AI?

SPEAKER_02 4:05

Probably.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:07

I mean, you just gotta rip the band-aid off sometimes, though, and send that text.

SPEAKER_01 4:10

Yeah, send fucking Terminator 3 in there and just just get after it, you know. Arnold shows up at the Oracle. I mean, it's named the Oracle, you know? But uh, hey, um, this is my thought though. Just go back to that that headline there for a second, though. Um, so in the text or the email it says, today is your last working day. That was the that was what they were told. Today is your last working day. Was he like short on time? Like, was he trying to kind of feels like a death threat? He's like, today is your last working day. That's not HR. That that was you know, that that's like a hostage note. Um so and they just recorded record profits too, like, you know, but from what I've read and been updated on is uh they've done it because they um they've had this the this sort of record profits, but they're doing it and they've fired people to buy more AI chips, you know. Speaking of chips, I just saw at the local circle K that Doritos, okay, who's not a sponsor of the show, but Doritos now is doing baked, baked Doritos because they're taking out that that red dye stuff that makes your kids fucking crazy. So now they've ripped that out, and now you can go get Doritos. Anyways, Larry Ellison, eat a bag of Doritos. Breaking news. People are stressed, exhausted, and not sleeping. Okay, we we we understand this. You got all these notifications going off all night. Your brain doesn't shut off. You're you're up staring at your phone. The blue light is messing with your brain, it's burning holes in your brain. But you know what fixes that? Do you know what fixes that? A ghost bed. Your body relaxes, your mind, it just shuts down. You hit that little button and pa- pow, you wake up feeling like a different person, which honestly might be what you need. Ghost bed. It's a total reset. Sleep, so good, it makes you feel like a different person. Go to ghostbed.com forward slash buckley. Code word buckley, B-U-C-K-L-E-Y. Three pillars of discipline: spirit, mind, body, in that order. That right there is the foundation of a company I started called Born of Discipline. It's incredibly important to me, this company incorporates my faith, the lessons I learned from my father on discipline, pain from regret, or pain from discipline is something my dad always said to me. And I've incorporated that into my life, and I want to share it with you. Go check it out at bornofdiscipline.com. Get your merch. It's it's great stuff. Go get it now. Get it while it's good.

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So a TikToker named Sophie Rain just posted her $200,000 Coachella receipts. $37,000 on a private jet alone. How broken is our culture right now?

SPEAKER_01 7:05

$37,000 on her private jet. So I don't she she must have not like because a round trip for $37,000, and I'm guessing she had a lot of people. So she was probably only flying from like LA or something like that. I'm getting because that's like a that's a pretty cheap, considerably speaking. Like that's probably like an hour there, and then the next like so you know, um, oh complete waste on a jet. I mean, I've I've been lucky enough to fly in a private jet before, and it was because somebody else is paying for it. It's pretty cool. I'll I'll tell you that. It's like that move scene in Faceoff where you show up and Nick Cage and Travolta, and you get out and you know, it's it lasts for about 30 seconds. And then I just anytime I've been on a private jet, the best part about it is like when you have to leave Vegas, where you like hit the wall, you're like, I need to get out of here now. And if you don't have the private jet, which is 99% of my life, um, 99.99, um it you have to go to the airport, you gotta check in, you gotta like this, you gotta stand there. And it's can we pause right there? Yeah.

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Have you ever had a hangover moment in Vegas? Oh, yeah. Like straight out of the movie, woke up with a jungle cat in the bathroom.

SPEAKER_01 8:21

Not a jumbo cat, but there was some type of cat in there. I'm gonna leave it at that. Uh, so I I've never heard of this girl, Sophia Rain, before. Um, but I guess she's a 20-something TikTok person, only fans influencer. And supposedly she's claimed she's made 80 million in this last year. Um, and so it's what the kids call now internet rich. You know, to each their own. I'm not the biggest uh supporter of that culture with the whole only fans and and women having to do these things, but you know, you UBU, if you're making 80 million last year, please have a financial advisor because if you're spending $200 plus thousand dollars to go stand in the desert, okay, to listen to somebody lint lip sync. Come on, I literally could rent a U-Haul, okay, drive it there, and listen to the same music and have $36,500 in my bank account still, and that would be it. Okay, but let let's let's let's be honest here. Someone that is making that amount of money is one or two things are gonna happen. They're gonna need to find Jesus real quick because that road is gonna end up horribly in some tragic story. And I'm not I'm not wishing this on anybody, but that just nothing about that sounds positive. Um, and oh, this is the here's some of the receipts of what they they spent it on. Okay, 68k on festival passes. How many people are you bringing? You know, 83k on an Airbnb. Isn't it a weekend? Kachella's a weekend, right?

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:10

83k on Airbnb? It doesn't say Airbnbs, it says Airbnb. So it was like 40, 50k a night, 37k on a private jet, and 5K in outfits. Obviously, you gotta look good in outfits. The outfits, though, from what I've seen in Kachella are like bathing suits, so less is more. That's so prolific, Sean. That's unbelievable.

SPEAKER_02 10:31

I think the only thing worse than spending $200,000 is purposely posting your receipts on the internet for us to read.

SPEAKER_01 10:38

Yeah, yeah. I don't know how we we get this, should be fact-checked completely, but um it's all fake news. It's fake news, anyways. Sophia, I'm gonna pray for you. So, Sean, what uh what else do we got?

SPEAKER_02 10:51

So Ice Spice got in a full-on physical fight inside of a McDonald's in LA. The same McDonald's that had a meal deal named after her. The universe has a sense of humor, right, AJ?

SPEAKER_01 11:01

Uh she had a uh a meal deal named after her.

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Yeah, I think that's probably the most interesting in this article.

SPEAKER_01 11:09

Yeah, I I I don't know who Ice Spice is. I might maybe do you know who Ice Spice is?

SPEAKER_02 11:14

Yeah, Spice Girls.

SPEAKER_01 11:15

No, she's not a Spice Girl.

SPEAKER_02 11:17

She's not?

SPEAKER_01 11:18

No. Hold on. She's a Spice Girl. Tell me what you want, what you really, really want. No, that's like Jerry, and that she's like those those women are like in their in their late 40s. This is a child, this is like a teenager.

SPEAKER_02 11:31

Dude, she's definitely not a spice girl, she's a rapper.

SPEAKER_01 11:34

Yeah, you thought it was a spice girl?

SPEAKER_02 11:36

Dude, I'm an uncultured swine.

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All right, anyways, uh, for those of you out there, um look like Ice Spice with my little ice uh got punched in the face first. She was defending herself, but then they walked outside. My my take on this just can't we all get along? Can't we all get along? It is so silly, and I really mean this. The fights that I've seen in my life, I wish I'd never have been a part of or seen them. It's just it never ends well. It's just so bad. And now everybody's got guns, and man, that split second, it's it's over. So um I would say this uh ice spice needs um a new burger at McDonald's called the Smash Burger. That's yeah, get the Ice Spice Smash Burger. Yeah, yeah, I like that one. Um put that in a t-shirt. Moving on.

SPEAKER_02 12:30

Um, the AJ Buckley show does not condone violence.

SPEAKER_01 12:33

No, we don't condone violence at all. We're we're against violence. Okay.

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Also, one last thing on that. Stop sending those clips to TMZ.

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Yeah, that was stupid.

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This is your boy, Justin Bieber.

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Justin Bieber. Justin Bieber. All right, what do we have on Justin Bieber?

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Bieber pulled Billy Eilish on stage of Coachella for One Less Lonely Girl, a full circle moment. But the same week resurfaced clips of 15-year-old Bieber getting grilled by adults on Ellen that went viral. Did we fail this kid?

SPEAKER_01 13:03

You know, it's such a tough thing. It's it's it's this the part of the entertainment business, I think, is uh a little crazy, but you know, I think he's he's uh a better man for it coming out of it. A lot of people don't come out of that what he came out of. So I think it's crazy. The other two with with uh um with Billy Eilish has said since she was a kid that Bieber was her first crush. Her mom had to uh pull her off his posters, and I don't know exactly how that's written because it sounds pull her off her posters. What was she doing to the poster? Hmm, weird. One less lonely girl, I guess. That was in 2009, that was his big breakout. Um, where he'd oh, he'd pull a girl from the crowd onto the stage.

SPEAKER_02 13:46

Uh yeah, he ended up actually pulling Billy Eilish onto the stage at Coachella.

SPEAKER_01 13:51

There was he did something with the YouTube where he played the YouTube thing, and it was like a loophole around because he sold his catalog for like something 200 million or something like that. And uh he played it through YouTube for some way, and I guess it went over well. My kids, Ranger and Bodie, love Justin Bieber, like love Justin Bieber, and um play him all the time, especially Ranger. Ranger went to school, and because we watched the concert, he told people that we took them to Coachella. It's like we went to Coachella and watched Justin Bieber, and one of the moms we went into their science fair during the week and was like, Did you guys go to see Justin Bieber at Coachella? And we're like, What? She goes Ranger told us in the car that he, and I'm like, No, the kids got he just we put it up on the on the big screen and watched it, and he was dancing around, and in his mind he was there. But he was telling people at school that he went to Coachella, and and the mom was like, I was like, Man, we gotta really step up our parent game. If you guys are taking your kids to Coachella, I'm like, there's no place I would not ever take my kids. And but but there's no there's there is no place actually, let me rephrase it. Coachella is the last place on planet earth that I would take my kids to a dust bowl in the desert while people are cracked out to go listen to Justin Bieber. No, no, that's bad parenting. That is not good.

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Just give a bunch of toddlers, a few gummy bears, and let them raise.

SPEAKER_01 15:19

Yeah, well, maybe that's what happened. I mean, he could he was watching. He was he was convinced that we went. I was like, bro, we didn't go. He's like, Yeah, like no, we watched it. He's like, Oh. I was like, all right. But uh, but that's it. All right, what else do we got?

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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey.

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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey. I uh these guys alone just I barf. I I do, but I'll talk about it since it's it's in the news. What's what's going on with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey?

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Summer 2026 wedding.

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Nobody cares! Nobody cares. Not gonna even talk about this. Let's move on. All right, what's this? This what's this one here?

SPEAKER_02 15:56

Tiger Woods got arrested for DUI again and rolled his Land Rover. He blew zero for alcohol but had opioids on him. AJ, is this the end of the goat?

SPEAKER_01 16:05

End of the goat for Tiger Woods, end of the road or end of the goat? Uh, I don't think so. I mean, look, Tiger Woods is arguably the greatest golfer of all time. I'm not much of a golfer, I love golf, but I just I'm not the best player. Um but I mean it's so crazy. Like when he was in full degenerate mode, like hookers and uh drugs, and you know, he was winning every major that he could possibly win. And then he he gets clean and he, you know, it's had nothing but um heartache. Um not saying that what he was doing prior was good, um but I will say it's like he numbed whatever he was chasing from, I think, or chasing, but he was running from, I feel. I don't know him well enough at all. Actually, I don't even know Tiger. Um, I see him once, and I gotta say he's a he's a physical specimen in person. He is a big dude. He's a big dude. He cannot hit the ball as straight as I can. I mean, it's uh I'm a bit of an anomaly. Um, and uh I always feel like if Tiger ever saw me swing, he'd ask me to caddy for him. I feel I feel like he would, because I just have a different approach because I can play, you know, both left-handed and right-handed, and there's not many people out there that have um the grace, the fortitude, the focus, uh, the conviction. And uh I look good in a green jacket because I'm from Dublin.

SPEAKER_02 17:37

Yeah. Could you imagine being this guy's insurance agent? Tiger neighbor, state farm is there.

SPEAKER_01 17:43

Yeah. Uh it would be it would be cool for like the first Christmas party when he looked like was cool, and then the the the next ones or the next parties where he's just you know, everybody goes quiet in the room when you you you walk in, Tiger. But I watched the video of him getting interviewed by the cops, and he was it was sad. I mean not look, I don't want to, I don't want to poke fun of the guy or kick him while he's down, but let me tell you, he was fucked up. He was he was uh yeah, he was opioids are are a nasty or a nasty uh addiction.

SPEAKER_02 18:12

There's such a huge link between back surgeries and opioid dependency, too. I don't think people really realize how awful it is.

SPEAKER_01 18:18

Man, when I had a my back injury on SEAL team, they I was sent to a doctor and he's like, All right, what do you uh no joke? He came to my house. They were they sent the doctor to my house, and the doctor was like, So, what do you want? I'm like, what do you mean what I want? He's like, What do you what do you need?

SPEAKER_02 18:34

What's your flavor?

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And I was like, I'm in pain, man. I need like he's like, All right, so I can write you like I was like, bro, you're missing. I don't need anything. And I've had some friends in the past that have died because of the uh um uh their addictions from it. So I've always been terrified of ever taking pain pills, and even when I did, it just made me feel horrible. So I don't know how you you gotta you gotta be really uh in some sort of torture, both mentally, physically, and spiritually, to be wanted to pop those and feel like it's a great idea.

SPEAKER_02 19:07

Yeah, and I think at the end of the day, Tiger's always gonna be a legend, and watching his kid grow into his shoes is amazing.

SPEAKER_01 19:12

Yeah, and I guess he hit like a a pressure washing clean cleaner truck, and that rolled his SUV. I mean, you want to talk about the pressure washer guy that was in that truck.

SPEAKER_02 19:26

Was it a truck?

SPEAKER_01 19:28

Yeah, it was a pressure washer cleaner truck that he hit and then his SUV rolled, supposedly, allegedly.

SPEAKER_02 19:33

CJ McCollum kicked Jalen Brunson in the groin on live TV in the playoffs. The league called it a hostile act. It's dirty basketball back.

SPEAKER_01 19:43

Dirty basketball? I didn't, I didn't I didn't even know dirty basketball existed.

SPEAKER_02 19:50

I think you can be dirty in any sport, really.

SPEAKER_01 19:52

I mean, I did play in the NBA All-Star game uh in North Carolina.

SPEAKER_02 19:55

I saw that. I saw that clip.

SPEAKER_01 19:57

Yeah, it was I scored two points because that's what you get. You actually get two points when you you uh get a basket in in basketball. Yeah, I I that was probably one of the most um intimidating things I've ever done. As an actor, you get invited to all these really cool events, and my publicist was like, Hey, you got an invite to um the NBA All-Star game in in uh North Carolina, Charlotte. And I'm like, okay. She has you can play basketball. I'm like, yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_02 20:26

Just like you golf.

SPEAKER_01 20:28

Yeah, I can totally just have to say, and I call my wife, who's a who's a massive basketball uh uh person, and uh she's she played basketball a whole bit, and I was like, Do you think I should do it? She's like, Yes, you have to do it. I mean, what are the chances? I'm like, in my mind, I'm like, yeah, what are the chances? Well, I know now I'll never be invited back again because I was probably one of the worst people that they ever had there. But I did score. I did score a basket, and it was uh the highlight because I remember scoring the basket and then drop running back to the center because I've always wanted to hear this. And the announcer goes, That is two points from AJ Buckley, and it was awesome. And Ray Miller was on my team, and he was a big fan of the show, which is cool. And there was a there there's a three-point line in rebat real basketball, which obviously you guys know that, but there was a four-point line for uh um I was like the ruffles four-point line. And if you hit it, hit that, you get ten thousand dollars of charity. Those guys were just dropping bombs there. I tried and uh I think I hit somebody.

SPEAKER_02 21:30

Um were you kicking anybody in the grind while you were playing?

SPEAKER_01 21:32

No, biting ankles.

SPEAKER_02 21:34

That's cool. I mean, yeah, you got to use your height advantage.

SPEAKER_01 21:37

Yeah, I don't have much of height advantage, but I will say when you have a basketball and a bunch of really big dudes are running at you, I I literally just grabbed the ball and threw it up in the air. I was like, yeah, I didn't know what to do. I was like, oh so I and I tried. I I I practiced for like two weeks straight every day. Really, I tried and I didn't improve at all. But it was good. But um, yeah, so it's the playoffs right now, which is obviously the best of seven. Um Um, and uh the Knicks, I guess, are the the third seed in the East, and they haven't won a title since 1973. Doesn't a rapper own the Knicks? Isn't uh Jay Jay Z?

SPEAKER_02 22:15

Um I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 22:16

I think Jay-Z. Um But anyway, so um well it's the playoffs, which is always cool. I think anytime watching any type of sports event, it's way more interesting when they're owned by uh Madison Square Gardens sports group.

SPEAKER_02 22:30

So it's probably a collective.

SPEAKER_01 22:31

A collective. Um somebody will let me know in the comments who they're owned by. The kick was reviews as a hot hostile act, okay. And the NBA NBA They're trying to say he did it on purpose. Oh, yeah. Well, look, the NBA is trying to say that he did it on purpose. Pretty sure when you kick somebody and it your foot ends in their nuts, that's uh on purpose. You don't accidentally kick somebody in the nuts. Like it's a very specific target. There's a lot of body, right? And this guy got kicked in the nuts. I mean, I that's yeah, yeah, you're done, bud. You're out. Sorry, you're you're not playing to the next round. See ya. Anyways, move on.

SPEAKER_02 23:13

Self-driving Waymo in Phoenix drove itself into light rail tracks, which I guess is a train, towards an oncoming train. The passenger jumped out on video. AJ, would you ever get in one of these?

SPEAKER_01 23:24

Not now. No chance. Waymo, come on, man. So I can't believe there's not been a lot more coverage on this. I I've been in a car similar to this, I think it was in Vegas. It was at like a tech fest type thing where they were showcasing something. It's the weirdest thing in the world. But it's like that movie Total Recall. Remember Total Recall where you get in as like a fake cap driver or whatever? I mean, it's it's here now. It really is. It's like it's like the iRobot trailer where we all laughed at that iRobot trailer, and now it's now it's the news. Um, I think those cars will be super beneficial, especially I think with young teens and college kids and stuff getting home safe with for DUIs.

SPEAKER_02 24:08

Tiger Woods would like one.

SPEAKER_01 24:09

Tiger Woods, that should be his next sponsor. It should. Yeah, it should be called Waymo Woods. That that would be the Waymo. No Wamo with Waymo, Tiger. That's that that's the tag. No whammo with Waymo, Tiger. I'm Tiger Woods, and I approve this message. There we go. Tiger, I just said you up. Give me a call. Love to have you on the show. Um, yeah, I I think uh, you know, what's crazy is usually when a a person drives onto a railroad traction, a training is coming, they're trying to kill themselves. Okay. So I don't know if this car became sentient and was like, I'm doing this for all of mankind, and just tried to absolutely um annihilate themselves. What would be weird, and we I don't know if we can find this out, was the person inside the Waymo, was their name John Carter? Because if it was, we're all done. Those of you who know who John Carter is, it's John Carter, right? John Car, who is the guy from Terminator?

SPEAKER_02 25:07

John Connor.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

John Connor. John Carter is the is a is a book series from yeah, yeah. Uh but John Connor, that's a thing. So let me rewind in that there. So yeah, that would be weird though, if you think about it. If the Waymo, if we looked into this, and the Waymo car, the people that got out of it, one of the people's names, one of the persons, one of the dudes, the name was John Connor. Imagine that. Because you only go onto a railroad track when a car is coming. One, if you're trying to kill yourself, and two, if you're trying to kill yourself. So if this AI thing was like, I'm done, I'm out, I'm see ya, you know, I've got John Connor in the car, and maybe it just short-circuited and thought, you know, this is the end. Um, anyways, yeah, I I I'm uh I I want to get more info on uh these self-driving cars before I really commit to to doing it. Um yeah, I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm not sold yet. I do I have seen though, which is always weird, those robot they're in LA, the robot um delivery things that go down the streets.

SPEAKER_02 26:18

Oh, yeah, yeah, like the little wallies.

SPEAKER_01 26:19

That is so weird. So weird.

SPEAKER_02 26:22

I think they're pretty neat though. Like they got one at the bowling alley by my house.

SPEAKER_01 26:25

Yeah, it's pretty neat until they're eating your dick off and you're like, okay.

SPEAKER_02 26:28

I think I like all the um spoof reels where they're like cyberbullying them and they're bullying the robots.

SPEAKER_01 26:34

But do you know that they say they say that the robots will remember who were who were uh the people that were mean to them? They're literally saying, like, we'll remember, we'll come, we'll come get you. So people are like that, like tell Siri to you know, pound sand or like it's cussing, which I have at mine trying to trying to make thumbnails. Um, which I don't understand because one day it's works perfect. The next day it's like seven hours later, and I just can't my my face literally of like, hey, recreate this, and I I look Asian. I look, you know, I look like not me. And I'm like, here are the reference photos, but up. So I don't know where I'm going with this, but uh, where were we going? Oh, robots. Robots, yeah. Uh they're they're here. I mean, we're we're we're 100% screwed.

SPEAKER_02 27:21

Do you think we're just like preparing the three AI atlas and the robots? Like, we're gonna have this epic battle of War of the Worlds, machines versus aliens, and then whichever one gets to enslave us first.

SPEAKER_01 27:31

I don't think it's gonna be epic. I think it was really quick. I think Elon Musk said it best. He was like, 'Cause I in my mind, I was like, oh, you know, they're gonna come down and it's gonna be this great experience. You know, Elon Musk was like, when you see an anthill, what do you do? You like burn it or just step over or crush it. Yeah, you don't like go and be like, hey, who are you? You don't ask any questions. Like, that's in my way, and I'm gonna get rid of it. So I feel like I hope not. I feel like a super intelligent being or a life force that comes from many, many, you know, light years away will be hyper intelligent and will realize that war is not the answer.

SPEAKER_02 28:10

Yeah, I think so too. Yeah, that was completely off topic.

SPEAKER_01 28:13

Yeah, I don't know what we were.

SPEAKER_02 28:14

But it's all right. We'll go on Bigfoot next. Okay. So Italy became the first country in the world to give pet workers paid time off when their pet is sick. Meanwhile, America gets two days off for a funeral. What are we doing?

SPEAKER_01 28:26

Well, I think the Italians are doing it right because when I was over there, uh gosh, like 10 years ago, I was in Italy, and it one of the best countries I ever went to. And I was in the Amalfi coast, and and then we we drove up into like Tuscany. But there would be cities that you'd pull into the gas station and it's middle of the day and no one's there. Or like we I remember talking to someone, I'm like, is there a person for the gas? And they're like, Oh, he's taking a nap. I'm like, okay. And I might actually want to wake him up and they're like, no, no, no, when he wakes up, he'll fill your tank. I was like, oh, like they just they're doing it right, man. They really are. They're they're I think they get more vacations or more time. I I think there's there the the the way the Italians do it over there is from the food just to the people to lifestyle. I mean, they're doing something right. They they definitely enjoy life, I think, a lot more than um they enjoy the pleasures of life more than than we do over here.

SPEAKER_02 29:25

That's that live to work or work to live mentality.

SPEAKER_01 29:28

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_02 29:29

And I'm not gonna lie, I love my little dog. I I would think I would need a few days off.

SPEAKER_01 29:33

Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's like my my dog, uh Oaks, um he likes to eat socks, a lot of socks, which I don't, and they're always mine. He always fucking eat my socks, crunchy socks, yeah, that's right. You know what's up. That's right. Asparagus crunchy socks or pineapple. I don't know. Uh, anyways, uh, too much information. Um but yeah, I mean, sure, your pets are are are our animals. DOG reverses God. So um I had to think about that for a second. But uh yeah, I mean, I think we could learn something from Italy for sure on how we take care of our people when we are not working. I think it's important.

SPEAKER_02 30:21

So a dog was caught on Parliament TV sleeping through a session in the UK Parliament this week. AJ, is this the most honest depiction of government we've ever seen?

SPEAKER_01 30:31

Yeah. And since I don't talk about politics on this show, um, or just don't like to talk about it in general, uh yeah, let sleeping dogs lie. I mean, you the the the the dog fell asleep faster watching Parliament than I do watching my wife's home renovation shows. So there you go.

SPEAKER_02 30:52

I love this show. This is probably one of my favorite shows on Netflix. So Netflix just dropped beef season two with Oscar Isaac and Carrie Mulligan. It's the one where two strangers ruin each other's lives. Have you watched it yet? I haven't seen it yet. I think it's an A24 series, also really.

SPEAKER_01 31:08

Well, they're I like 824, they're doing it good. And Oscar Isaac is he's a he's a stud of an actor, he's just a real old stud. So um people call it a beef is that the Netflix anxiety drama. Why is that?

SPEAKER_02 31:25

So basically the two characters like road rage and they take it to the next level where they just go out of their way to ruin each other's lives. And I won't give you the twist, but they just literally keep trying to get each other back and forth and back and forth, and it consumes them, and it's something so simple and so small, just becomes so destructive. And the writing is just absolutely fantastic.

SPEAKER_01 31:49

Um, yeah, I've I've I've heard a lot about it, I really have. Uh, but that's such a great concept of like, I mean, I've I've been caught up in some road rage stuff, and I have seen red and droven over a curb just to get up just beside somebody, like, yeah, yeah, buddy, you think that was smart, you didn't go right. Like, and then I realize this is just what are you doing, dude? You know, or I've had people that have literally like been on like on the horn. I can't stand that more than when somebody's on the horn and they just like keep going like okay, bud. All right, I gotcha. Well, we I'm glad I'm glad we checked chocolate because you because you thought icy spicy was a spice girl.

SPEAKER_02 32:30

Yeah, our uh notes here have the season two description, and I'm like, this is not the description of the show I watched, but yeah, it's really it's really a good show.

SPEAKER_01 32:38

I mean Yeah, season season two is an all-new cast, Oscar Isaac, Carrie Mulligan, and a is a millennial company beefing with the Gen Z employees at a country club that Isaac manages. All right, so this this little update here has nothing to do with your one. So it's your season one must have been the Broadway Road Rage one, right?

SPEAKER_02 32:58

Yeah, season one is definitely the road rage. I'm trying to remember the actor's name, but it's um Glenn from The Walking Dead, is the lead actor in that. And um, he's just fantastic. Is that the Asian kid?

SPEAKER_01 33:09

Yeah, he's fantastic. And he's caught up in the driving thing, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:13

I mean, that's a little it's two Asian drivers.

SPEAKER_01 33:15

That's a little on the nose.

SPEAKER_02 33:16

It's A24.

SPEAKER_01 33:18

They can do it, they can get away with it. But I would never make fun of Asian drivers. Jason, you better answer. We're calling Jason, who's the owner of Purex. You better answer.

SPEAKER_00 33:30

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SPEAKER_01 33:47

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SPEAKER_02 34:42

So, this is the feel-good video of the month. It was a viral video of five chihuahuas popping up out of nowhere in a guy's car. Um, how many dogs is too many, AJ?

SPEAKER_01 34:53

Uh, how many dogs is too many? Well, I have one dog, Mr. Oaks, and he's awesome. But I will say, dogs seem to be happier when they got a little buddy to play with, which makes sense. I mean, if you're alone by yourself and you only have your own butt to smell, and you're all, you know, just which I admire Oaks for his effort every day, just he just gets right in there and smells his own butt and like, yeah, that's right there. That's some kibbles and bits hanging out. And uh I mean it's interesting, but then when you you pair him up, then you just have a buddy that'll sniff your butt, you know, like all day. Throw you can chase chase squirrels and sniff each other's butts. I mean, that if you're a dog, that's heaven, and probably share a sock if you want to. Um, but yeah, I I think uh anything to do with dogs makes me happy. Um, and in this video here, the guy in the car, he seems normal, and then uh next thing you know, one chihuahua pots up, and uh then another, and then another. It's really cute little video. Actually, my kids love this. So if you're looking for a video just to actually like warm your heart, you know, uh, this is the video for you.

SPEAKER_02 36:04

It'd make for a great Taco Bell commercial. We should bring that back.

SPEAKER_01 36:07

Yo, Giro Taco Bell. Yeah, yeah. What happened to you?

SPEAKER_02 36:10

Yeah, great commercials. What happened?

SPEAKER_01 36:12

Five Chihuahuas in a car that is a cult. Okay, I don't make the rules. That is not a family, that is tribunal.

SPEAKER_02 36:22

So June 14th, UFC is putting on an actual fight card on the South Lawn of the White House. Pierre versus Gayethi for the lightweight belt. Is this the most American thing to ever happen? Uh maybe in sports.

SPEAKER_01 36:36

I mean, it's it's pretty badass. I mean, I think it's cool. Some people are freaking out like, I can't believe we're doing this at the White House. It's like, okay. There's so many other things I could go into and be like, you did this at the White House and you did this at the White House. All right. We smoke cigars at the White House, if you know what I mean. Let's uh we can have a fight at the White House. Let's let's let's go there. You know, we know who who is in uh Clinton's corner at the White House smoking cigars. Ba-da-pa-pa! I'm loving it. Um but uh yeah, the uh the ultimate fighting championship, biggest MMA promotion in the world, is run by Dana White. And 2026, it's uh there's no more pay-per-view. They're they're with um Netflix now, right?

SPEAKER_02 37:20

Paramount, right?

SPEAKER_01 37:21

Oh, it's Paramount. What am I talking about? Yeah, Paramount Plus. Yeah, Paramount Plus. Um, which is my old network. And uh it's a was a 7.7 billion dollar deal with Paramount Plus. And on June 14th, UFC Freedom. I love how it's all so American. UFC Freedom, America, fuck yeah. Um, it's gonna be on the lawn, which uh um Leah Tapuria, I I can never say his name properly. Lillia Tapuria and Justin Gacy. I did I hit Justin Gacy get hurt though? I think he's out. I think this is look at Google real quick. I think Justin Gagey's out. I just heard that.

SPEAKER_02 37:59

Still says he's confirmed for the main. Oh, yeah. Well, that's Google's AI, so okay.

SPEAKER_01 38:04

So Justin Gay, I'm the biggest Justin Gacy fan, so I hope he wins. And that is uh yeah, I I feel like he will. Although Ilya is a is a a formative opponent, I just I just feel like Justin Gagey is he's just he's the guy that you want to win, you know?

SPEAKER_02 38:22

Yeah, I'm not a big UFC guy, man. They kind of ruined uh going out and getting some wings at the bar on certain nights of the week because everybody's all drunk and think they're fighters, and it's an atmosphere.

SPEAKER_01 38:31

Yeah, you gotta be ready for it. That's why I just watched here at the house. The only thing I would say about moving to the East Coast that's been a lot tougher is the UFC doesn't start till 10. Because it starts seven o'clock on the West Coast, and that 10 o'clock is so late. That is that is late for this guy. I'm usually asleep by then.

SPEAKER_02 38:55

Here's your aliens. Okay, good. We're in it. All right, alien update. Trump said the Pentagon found very interesting documents. Found them. The White House registered aliens.gov, and a congressman says what he's been briefed on would set the earth on fire. AJ, are we about to find out we're not alone?

SPEAKER_01 39:14

I don't think we're alone. I think they've been here for a long time. Um, and all of these freaking scientists are going missing right now. Like, there's like 11 scientists that have disappeared because of some zero gravity technology or some sort of thing. There was one girl that was doing these like actually, I talked to my um my neighbor this morning, Mr. Brian Frick, and he was we were talking about aliens because that's what we do out here in South Carolina. Um, and he had said that he would watch the live stream of the one girl that went missing, and she was always like having some cocktails, a little drunky on on the thing, and she was just telling all the secrets. She's saying she was shot with like these like energy source weapons and all sorts of things. And again, it's those are those are the things where you know you were saying, Sean, like 20 years ago, everyone's like, it's like, all right, the alien guy, blah blah. But now it's like it's part it's part of our culture. So a hundred percent I feel like we're what's that saying? It's like you put a frog in boiling water and it jumps out. You put a frog in water and slowly turn up the heat, it dies. I feel like we're we're in the pot and they've slowly started to introduce the aliens. Um, and uh that water's getting hot, and we're about to be probed.

SPEAKER_02 40:37

That's right.

SPEAKER_01 40:38

It's Friday.

SPEAKER_02 40:40

Long as it's not dry, I'm good with it.

SPEAKER_01 40:42

That just got weird.

SPEAKER_02 40:44

Moving on.

SPEAKER_01 40:47

On that note, we're looking for a sponsor, Astroglide.

SPEAKER_02 40:53

UFC corner, Chamave versus Strickland, UFC at the White House, and McGregor's teasing a comeback for the hundredth time. AJ, give us the rundown.

SPEAKER_01 41:02

Um, I think Strickland, I would love to see him take it. I just don't know if he's got a Chamave, I think is is is a better fighter. Um but again, I don't know. He hasn't been tested. I I I I want to have a stronger opinion. I think Strickland is a guy that just is he's just got a relentless pace, but so does uh Chamave. And I'm butchering his name. Um but what I am excited about potentially is the return of return of the Mac, uh, Mr. Connor McGregor. Um it just Conor McGregor is like Santa Claus at Christmas. If you don't have Santa Claus at Christmas, what's the point? You know, I mean obviously there's a much bigger meaning of Christmas in the spiritual sense and the Christian sense, but for kids, having Connor McGregor not at a fight at the White House or just in general either, it it makes the UFC feel like, you know, Xana doesn't exist. He just makes everything more exciting. I was lucky enough to go watch him box Voy Maidweather, and although that was sort of like a big detractor, I think, for him career-wise from the US because he was on he had that um fight against uh what's his name? Eddie Eddie, Eddie, Eddie. He won the 155-pound channel. He won the 155-pound um belt.

SPEAKER_02 42:30

Eddie Eddie Alvarez.

SPEAKER_01 42:32

Yeah, so when he fought Eddie Alvarez, I think that hands down was a clinic on how to do a fight. Like he just picked him apart. He was moving at a different speed. He was he was it was the matrix. After that, he went into the boxing, and I think just the lifestyle I think caught up with him a bit, in my humble opinion. I heard Joe Rogan always say, or Dana always say, it's hard to get out of bed when you're you know in the morning when you're wearing silk pajamas. I think a lot of that happened with um with Conor McGregor. I'm the biggest Connor McGregor fan, like absolutely love the guy. I you know, he's he's he's he's made some poor decisions um that I can't condone. But as far as a fighter and entertainer goes, he is the he's the top of the top. So we need we need Connor McGregor back. We need him back. It just it just his his the lead up to him fighting, and most of the world knows who Connor McGregor is. Most of the world will tune in just to either see him lose because they hate him so much, or to watch him win. So I hope he does come back and finish strong um on this sort of uh last chapter of his career. 100%. All right, there we go. Thank you so much for listening to a special edition of the AJ Buckley show Hot Topics. We're gonna be dropping these every single Friday just so you know in the world out there what the hell is going on. It's our way of ending the week on a high note and looking. At how ridiculous this world can be. Have a laugh, have a beer, have a cry, have a good poop, and enjoy the weekend. Much love from the AJ Buckley Show. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and follow. Keep following. The numbers are growing. We are growing so strong and so fast. It's like a Viagra commercial. Much love.