SPEAKER_01 0:00

You can feel the tension in the stadium. Captain Verde is about to take a 35-yard shot. He could change history. Here he goes, ladies and gentlemen. Will he do it? Welcome to the AJ Buckley Unfiltered Friday Gum. We're back, we're back, we're back, we're back, we're back. What's up, shimmelman?

SPEAKER_03 0:50

How's it going, buddy?

SPEAKER_01 0:51

Um, it's going good, man. It's going good. That goal fired me up, and uh, I'm very happy for that guy. I just love the World Cup. It just is it makes everything so exciting. And uh yeah, it's just America's showing up. They're looking good. They brought it to the Aussies, they kicked that Kinggaro. And uh uh I'm very uh I'm very excited about uh about all that stuff. Um we are we don't know the outcome of the game because it's Thursday today, even though we're doing unfiltered Friday today, the game the Americans play tonight. So I can't have a crystal ball. Usually they play it on a Friday, and we'd be recording on a Friday, but uh today we're recording on a Thursday. So we don't know. So it's left in the limbs, but we will report back um on the next show. I know you hear me talking about the ghost bed. Well, let me tell you about the ghost bed pillows. The pillows, they're the icing on the cake. That's right, they're the D and the Daddy. Because when you put your face down onto this pillow, it is so cool and it molds perfectly to the back of your neck. So while the ghost bed, the zero gravity is helping out the lower lumbar, you got this pillow that's helping your C4 and C5, taking away any tension it has. That's why you can go off into Dreamland. Get eight hours, wake up looking like a champ. Go to ghostbed.com forward slash buckley and type in Buckley B-U-C-K-L-E-Y to get yourself ten percent off. That's what you get for watching the show. 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. What are you uh what are you doing this weekend, Sean?

SPEAKER_03 2:54

I will be working a reality TV show. I'll be filming a reality TV show here in Charleston.

SPEAKER_01 2:59

Really?

SPEAKER_03 3:00

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 3:01

What one?

SPEAKER_03 3:02

It is called the Closing Table Charleston.

SPEAKER_01 3:05

The Closing Table Charleston?

SPEAKER_03 3:07

Yeah, we've already shot a few days for it.

SPEAKER_01 3:09

When did it open?

SPEAKER_03 3:11

That's that's the question we gotta answer.

SPEAKER_01 3:13

Where was my but bam, Chappelle?

SPEAKER_03 3:17

A little slow, we gotta get it going.

SPEAKER_01 3:20

Let's let's not start with that, Sean. You know? I mean, I drive to the studio. You said you were gonna be here, and you weren't. Where were you?

SPEAKER_03 3:31

I was here.

SPEAKER_01 3:33

Where?

SPEAKER_03 3:34

In the studio. In my little corner over here.

SPEAKER_01 3:39

I just I didn't check the cave. Sorry, didn't check the cave. Um, but uh yeah, it's gonna be a good weekend. Charleston, um again, what I love about this city, there is it's summertime, and my wife's out of town this weekend. So I'm taking the kids. We're actually tonight, we're going to Dude Perfect. Uh well, so Thursday night, Thursday night, Friday morning for you guys while you're listening to this. But we're going to Dude Perfect tonight, which I'm so excited about. Because my my boys absolutely love Dude Perfect. And I I I'm quite impressed with uh what they're doing, man. Some of the shots that they make. I know some of it might be CG, but man, I saw they played the Savannah Bananas in like a game on one of the YouTube things, and they did pretty good. They've got some All-Star. So very excited. My boys are going to mentally like their brains are just gonna go.

SPEAKER_03 4:28

They're gonna melt.

SPEAKER_01 4:29

Yeah. My daughter, I think she's indifferent, but she's gonna have fun. Um, and uh it's gonna be fun though, but there's so much stuff going on in Charleston.

SPEAKER_03 4:37

Yeah, we have we got Party at the Point on the 26th.

SPEAKER_01 4:41

Yeah, I'm uh I'm super fired up about party. Party at the point is actually really fun. It's the live music, there's the food trucks, it's the waterfront views. It's one of my favorite things to do um uh during the summer. They've had just some bangers out there. So if you're coming into Charleston and you're wondering what to do and you're listening to the AJ Buckley show, go check out Party at the Point. And there's also the um was it Halsey After Hours? Yeah, it's tonight um on Friday at uh the Halsey Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, if you're into that. Um, but more so, this guy right here has made a lot of babies. A lot of babies been listened to Chris Stapleton and his All American Road Show. It's uh it's here in North Charleston, 20, June 26th and 27th. And that guy, man, if I if someone was like, hey, if you could sing, aj, who would you sound like? And I'd be like, I want to sound like Chris Stapleton just for one night. Really, Sean? I would love to be able to sing. I mean, just just to be able to get up on stage and strum a guitar and and do that, it would be it would be pretty insane. I mean, Chris Stableton and there was a video um I remember watching, it was like the CMAs or ACMs or whatever they're called. Um, and he played with Justin Timberlake. Did you see that one, Sean?

SPEAKER_03 6:00

I did not.

SPEAKER_01 6:01

Oh man, one of the best performances ever. Uh, it was he played um Tennessee whiskey, and then they played some other, but they man, it was just it was he plays that song Parachute, right?

SPEAKER_03 6:16

I don't know. It's one of my favorite songs, it's really good.

SPEAKER_01 6:19

I think that's New Kids on the Block, Sean. That's that's this is a totally different band. You like the boy bands. This is Chris Stapleton. Uh not plural.

SPEAKER_03 6:29

Weren't you in a boy band?

SPEAKER_01 6:30

Yeah. Now I was in a dance group called Chocolate and an Almond. I was the only white guy. Guess who was the almond? That's true. I I did a mean Roger Rabbit and I could thread the needle both ways. They're like, hey man, do you want to be in our dance team? I was like, yeah. And uh they used to like at school dances, they'd be like, go, white boy, go, white boy, go, go, white boy, go. I swear to God, it was whoa, did your finger get stuck on that?

SPEAKER_03 6:51

I got stuck on that one.

SPEAKER_01 6:52

Wow. All right, pal. Uh, but uh it was uh it was exciting. But yeah, there's a lot of great stuff going on in Charleston this weekend. And as like we always say, um, we love the city, we love that we do this podcast here in Charleston, and we want to celebrate everything that's going on. So if you got a charity, you got something going on, a company, and you want to talk about it here on the AJ Buckley show, especially anything to do with veterans, um, let us know. Um, we love to celebrate y'all um as much as we can. What's your favorite restaurant in Charleston, Sean?

SPEAKER_03 7:25

I like 82 Queen.

SPEAKER_01 7:27

82 Queen. They got the best shrimp and grits. Yes, Queen.

SPEAKER_03 7:30

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 7:32

Uh I haven't been to 80. I haven't been to 82 Queen.

SPEAKER_03 7:36

You haven't? No. Oh, it's top three restaurants in Charleston.

SPEAKER_01 7:40

What is it?

SPEAKER_03 7:40

It's like Southern food. Like they have uh I like their shrimp and grits, but they have all kind of I don't know how to explain it, like steak and gravy. Like they it's a really good southern food.

SPEAKER_01 7:51

Really? Actually, the first time I ever had grits is when I was filming The In Crowd, an amazing uh movie I did years ago here in Charleston. And uh I had grits and I was like, what is this? And they're like, you just try it, man. I'm like, try it.

SPEAKER_02 8:06

I'm like, whoa, this is I I grew up on grits, like as a kid, that's like all I ate as a little kid.

SPEAKER_01 8:11

Yeah, it was good. I I really I'm I'm a big fan. If you're coming into town, go check out Hall's um Hall's uh steakhouse. They actually just won um what'd they win, Sean?

SPEAKER_03 8:22

Like was it the best of Charleston?

SPEAKER_01 8:25

Yeah, they just won Best of Charleston and the Hall's Chop House. Uh one of the one of my if you want like a really good steak, just the vibe of Charleston, go to Hall's Chop House. It is awesome. One of the best restaurants. They have one in Nashville too, and uh, but uh the owners, they just do it right. You walk through the door, they remember your name. Um everybody calls you a name. Those cheers. You don't you don't remember that, do you, Sean?

SPEAKER_03 8:52

I I watched a lot of cheers. I just don't I don't remember it much. Ashley really loves cheers, so she likes the old the old stuff.

SPEAKER_01 9:00

Those were good. That was Woody Harrelson, you know, Ted Danson. Oh yeah, you know, and speaking of cheers, cheers, Sean. What are you uh what are you drinking?

SPEAKER_03 9:08

I have a high noon vodka iced tea right now.

SPEAKER_01 9:11

Yeah, I got a I I got a high noon here too. It's a little smaller than the uh the 10-gallon one I drank the other night, but it you know, it's uh it's unfiltered Friday.

SPEAKER_03 9:21

So I mean it's no white claw.

SPEAKER_01 9:23

No, that just sounds terrible. White claw. Um so cheers, everybody. Here we go. Well, what should we do, Sean? Should we get into the top ten most viral moments of the week?

SPEAKER_03 9:40

We can. We got a special, we got a new announcer.

SPEAKER_01 9:43

Yes, yes. After after we got a lot of great uh comments about my good buddy Rick Robles, who's uh who's uh one of the top voiceover guys in the world, and I'm not just saying that because I'm his friend, but um, you actually heard his voice driving over here and you were freaking out.

SPEAKER_03 9:58

Three times on Pandora. What no, I was it was freaking out because I was sitting in the room with him recording on my phone of him laying down this spot for the CMA awards.

SPEAKER_01 10:07

He was laying down on the floor. What?

SPEAKER_03 10:09

No, he was laying down the tracks. I'm sorry. He was sitting in your face.

SPEAKER_01 10:13

There was some there was something something went on with the microphone that you were in the room filming him laying down.

SPEAKER_03 10:17

Like, that's weird, bro. We did film some weird stuff.

SPEAKER_01 10:20

We did, we did, but we love Rick, and he's absolutely crushing it. And I hear him all the time. Like, he does the voice of uh at that TV show alone. Yeah, he does dancing with the stars, he does, I mean, literally anything that you hear, he's in your living room. And uh, we actually videoed him doing the top 10 uh voiceover for us, and it's pretty awesome. We'll post it. Um, Sean actually might post some of the video of him going number five, number 10. It's just to see him do it and like how his voice transforms is yeah, we'll put it up on Instagram. Yeah, it'd be pretty cool. So um what do we got, Rick?

SPEAKER_00 10:53

Welcome to Unfiltered Friday's top ten viral moments of the week on the AJ Buckley Show.

SPEAKER_01 10:59

All right, what do we got, buddy?

SPEAKER_00 11:00

Number 10.

SPEAKER_03 11:01

Tartan Army. The feel-good fan story of the week is not one guy, it is the Tartan Army, the Scottish fans who have basically turned parts of America into one giant away day.

SPEAKER_01 11:12

I mean, you cannot get better than the Scottish, other than the Irish, the Scots know how to tear it up. I mean, this I've I've been getting such like, look at this. People in America is like, where is William Wallace? You know, and there's a big, you know, Scottish community throughout the country, but um, they just they just come, they're so happy. Like they literally, look at this. There was there's literally like every pub in Boston. This is actually true. Um last game in Boston, they drank all of the Sam Adams in the entire freaking city. There was no Sam Adams left. Like the the owners of bars said they've never seen anything like this. They ran out of beer. Look at them. They're just the Tartan Army is like just this World Cup feels so much different.

SPEAKER_03 12:02

Uh being on American soil, it just feels so much like we're so more connected to it than ever.

SPEAKER_01 12:08

Yeah, it is. And it's uh it's great to see the world coming together and you know, celebrating sports, celebrating humanity and is doing the right thing. But it's it it is it is crazy. It's like the Scottish, if you think about it, they flew over here in kilts. They put traffic cones on on statues, drank Boston dry. They hit freaking Miami like it was spring break with bagpipes. I mean, it they Scotland literally does not travel. They they they arrive, they take over, right? I can just see like William Wallace on his horse running back and forth, you know, wherever, at whatever pub or outside the stadium, like they can take our lives, but they can't take our freedom. They're just it's just a laugh, man. And there's such they're just such happy people. And the Irish are the same. That's what the Irish and uh the Scots um they got along. They were they were battle buddies, they were our battle booze. But uh it's good. My buddy Toady Kern, um, he is a phenomenal actor. I've been following him. He's been at literally every single game. Uh, but it's great to see him uh having a laugh out there. So well played, Scotland. Well played. All right, where are we at? Number nine.

SPEAKER_03 13:21

Amazon lawn lady.

SPEAKER_01 13:22

Okay, let's play. I saw this and I was like, what in what is happening? And it looks like it's morning too. Like it's not like it's late at night because there's a bit of a dew on the on the lawn, but maybe it could have been nighttime. I don't know. Maybe they just watered their brand new lawn that they paid $10,000 in the lady, she uh she just decided, you know, there's the driveway. And uh uh nope, I'm not gonna, you know, I see that driveway, I'm not gonna do. But there is there is there is some rumors. There's some rumors that said that the lady's pregnant. So if she's she's pregnant, let her be. You know, you're carrying two important packages. You got your little baby and you got the package of Amazon, and you're just committing, and maybe you had to go pee or something if that happens. But if if you're not pregnant and you just uh the driveway and you're like, not today, Satan, I'm going over the grass. Uh that's uh, you know, there's some grass lovers out there. And when when your lawn is is looking good, and somebody just decides to dry over, drive over in their their Honda Civic and just wreck the place. I mean, at least commit to doing a donut.

SPEAKER_03 14:30

Some people park in their yard. Yeah, we were filming um that reality show right here by um in Sullivan's Island, and it's this multi-million dollar beachfront property, and they're like, Yep, just park in the grass. And I'm like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 14:44

I parked I parked on on the grass before when like the kids were playing basketball and stuff, but it's like you know, I think it's when you do it and it's your house that's one thing. Nobody completely just misses the driveway. But she could be in colorblind. She could have thought, God bless her. She could, she's uh listen, she's out there working, she's trying her best right now. So I don't want to I don't want to break it down too much, but it's like you know, you can clearly see there's a nice, beautiful driveway.

SPEAKER_03 15:08

Oh, you can clear the clip.

SPEAKER_01 15:09

You can I'm just given benefit of the doubt. You know, maybe she maybe she sneezed. You know how sometimes you sneeze and you miss you miss something, and you're like, oh, oh, where's it? You know?

SPEAKER_03 15:20

Most time I sneeze, I just shit my pants. What you don't do that?

SPEAKER_01 15:24

Hold on, anyways. Timeout, Sean. No, no, no. You sh you've every time you sneeze, you sh you go, you like shard?

SPEAKER_03 15:30

A little snort.

SPEAKER_01 15:31

Have you had that happen before?

SPEAKER_03 15:32

Yeah, you've never had that happen. Sean, I'm shit your pants every time we're out in public, AJ.

SPEAKER_01 15:39

I've never shit my pants. And I want to say this. So you if you you've I've if I sneeze around, or if you sneeze around me, is that mean like you accidentally AJ?

SPEAKER_03 15:48

We did like a seven-day cross-country road trip, and I think you shit your pants every single day.

SPEAKER_01 15:52

I never shit my pants. I had I had a bit of a bug.

SPEAKER_03 15:55

All right, let's move on. Number eight. Number eight. Shakira conspiracy.

SPEAKER_01 16:01

All right, what do we got here? Shakira Shakira. I I think Shakira is one of the most beautiful women entertainers out there. Like, she is just she doesn't have to. And she has because this is crazy. So we can't play it because of copyright reasons. That's why it's quiet. That's why we can never play it. Some people are like, hey, why can't we hear them? Like, YouTube has reasons for licensing you can't. So if you watch the show, you can see it, and it's like a silent movie, and I'm telling you what happened. So basically, they're saying Shakira is not, wasn't the actual Shakira because her butt looks different, that she had a butt double, which I just think is a lot of work because I mean, she's a beautiful woman, she's had some kids, and she just looks amazing.

SPEAKER_03 16:46

Um yeah, I don't think you can double that buttons.

SPEAKER_01 16:49

And she she has like a song that says my hips don't lie. So I don't know. But there's a full-blown meltdown right now with like the internet. Like they've gone, they really believe, and this is what blows me around. Like the internet, people will focus on the most crazy things. When it comes to like, you know, global warming or the environment, or just or whatever that's the things that are important. People are like, not gonna get into that. But let me tell this is what I want to debate right now. Pip get rewind the TV. There, that's not her butt. Nope. That is that is Shakira, Shakira.

SPEAKER_03 17:24

I need to take another look real quick. Hold on.

SPEAKER_01 17:26

Yeah, I'm telling you, I it there's because the camera lens went a little blurry. People are like, see, they changed it out, it's not her, you know. You give you give people literally one pair of sunglasses, one camera angle, but and four blurry close-ups. It's suddenly it's like we have like the Warren Commission for hips and butts. It's just I don't I don't understand it. But you know, that's the way it is. I love Shakira Shakira. I love her in Zootopia. She because she sings that song.

SPEAKER_03 17:54

I know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_01 17:55

Yeah, you know the song? Yeah, I don't know the song, but I know only know because my kids have watched it 10,000 times. Um, but I I like that I love the sloth in that movie.

SPEAKER_03 18:04

The DMV.

SPEAKER_01 18:05

Oh my god, that character's so good. Um, I saw the sequel too. It was actually really good too.

SPEAKER_03 18:11

Yeah, we just went to the movies and saw it two months ago, three months ago.

SPEAKER_01 18:14

Yeah. Um it's just a yeah, it's a great, it's a great franchise. It's one of those things. And uh Disrush Alba plays like the the main villain, I think. He's got a great voice. And then uh who's the who's the guy that plays the fox?

SPEAKER_03 18:29

I'll have to look at it. Bateman.

SPEAKER_01 18:31

Bateman.

SPEAKER_03 18:31

It is is it Jason Bateman?

SPEAKER_01 18:33

Jason Bateman, yeah. He's so funny, man. But they're a great, those two, those the the fox and the rabbit. It's just it's such a cute little thing. And the second the sequel holds up, man. Like it's got some turns in there. I'm not gonna tell you, I'm not gonna do it, but uh, it's got some turns in there that I was like, oh wow, I did not see that coming at all. But uh, it's worth it. And uh Shakira Shakira, she uh she crushes it on the uh thing. I think she plays like a some type of antelope or something. That's the singer. So and there is no question it's Shakira Shakira with the antelope. They did not hold back on the butoks of the antelope, if I'm correct. I might be wrong, but hey what? It's Unfiltered Friday. So let's go to the next one. Sean, what do we got? As we get older, it is so important to stay on top of our blood work. That's why I'm incredibly proud to have Pure RX, one of our sponsors of the show. Go to aj.purrx.co, type in time to shine in the notes, and you will get 50% off your blood work. It's summertime. You want to go camping, you want to go off-roading, get your truck, a lift kit. Go to total off-road. TJ and Dan are my guys here in Charleston. They're the best. Huge thank you to them for being sponsors of the show. You got a pavement princess, head to Total Off-Road, get your truck lifted like a real man.

SPEAKER_03 19:58

Number seven. Number seven, Gracie the Giraffe. Our one animal of the week, and she's still on the run. A giraffe named Gracie is loose in the Texas Hill Country.

SPEAKER_01 20:09

Now, this is what I'm blown away by. Um, it's not like a dog or like, you know, a bunny or a cat. It's a freaking giraffe, man. Okay. We have a giraffe that is missing. And even in the news, they're like show when you like the clip. I was searching, I saw, I saw the headline, I was searching for it. I was like, okay, so they have no images, they don't show like any type of image of the giraffe. Everyone knows what a uh what a giraffe looks like. I mean, it's not like there's they need a sketch artist, so it's not like you're you're in your backyard and you can't see like a giraffe head. 16 feet tall, people. What they're like, where is it?

SPEAKER_03 20:49

If I saw a giraffe in my backyard, I'd put the peyote down.

SPEAKER_01 20:52

Yeah, I mean, it's have you done peyote?

SPEAKER_03 20:55

No, but back to the giraffe.

SPEAKER_01 20:58

You just see ADD. You're like, I'm like, whoa, let's get it. Let's get into this story. You're very open today from sneezing, a snish it. We'll call it a sneeze it, a snish it. It's like schnitzel, but with poop. Um and uh, but yeah, so the giraffe though, that's what blows me away. Is like literally uh her name's Gracie, which is yeah, remember George Burns? Gracie, Gracie. Remember George Burns?

SPEAKER_03 21:21

I don't.

SPEAKER_01 21:22

He uh he smoked a cigar and he would always be like, Hey Gracie, Gracie. Um but you're too. I love George Burns. He was great. He also he just had the greatest voice. Uh it was my terrible impersonation of him. Um, but uh yeah, uh I mean this is pretty funny. And Texas is pretty flat, isn't it?

SPEAKER_03 21:40

No, there's hills.

SPEAKER_01 21:42

Yeah, but it's not like it's like wooded.

SPEAKER_03 21:44

It says hill country, Texas Hill Country.

SPEAKER_01 21:46

So would that be like San Antonio?

SPEAKER_03 21:48

Maybe.

SPEAKER_01 21:48

I mean, but then you'd still see a frickin' giraffe. Like people could scope and see like a moose deep in the woods up in Canada. Like you know, you c Hill Country. If somebody has a pet giraffe, I I I know. This is this is got a big question mark. She's 16 feet tall. Okay. All I gotta say to this, Gracie. Run free. Run free, Gracie. Maybe she's like gonna mate with like a Rottweiler or something like that, and there'll be some weird hybrid uh dog giraffe. I don't know. It'll be good. I'm uh I'm I'm interested to see where this story goes. Says nobody. Um let's move on. Number six. Number six.

SPEAKER_03 22:27

The alien files were one thing, but now the internet has moved on to the part it actually likes. The weird sky footage, glowing objects, and everybody becoming an expert within 15 seconds.

SPEAKER_01 22:38

Okay, so this here, because I love alien so much, um, and I'm just getting so sick and tired of that. They we've released the the documents uh up at the parlor movie, all these. There's always some sort of headline. We've released, and you you go and it's so excited, and it's just a constant letdown.

SPEAKER_02 22:54

Redacted.

SPEAKER_01 22:55

Redacted. So it's always right, it's always like they release it, but they still have blocked out everything. So then I came across this video on my feed. I was like, you know what? I'm gonna put this in.

SPEAKER_03 23:06

This is quality spank bank material.

SPEAKER_01 23:08

I you are just not holding back today. So you do you does this give you a little tingle when you watch little green men running around? Yeah. Okay. Well, let me tell you something. Sean is loose as a goose today. He he is ready to get weird. I mean, I'm into this. This is this, I'm excited to see where it goes. But this is what I love about this this video here.

SPEAKER_03 23:32

Look at that.

SPEAKER_01 23:33

Yeah, I mean, that's a very powerful flashlight.

SPEAKER_03 23:35

Or that's like a bad signal.

SPEAKER_01 23:37

It is. Look at that. I mean, that's yeah. I mean, look, there's they're out there. There's been some crazy videos I've seen online. I've talked to some people who've seen some stuff, some guys that um were deployed and they saw some stuff. Got, you know, like Area 51, that would be such a cool place to go to. You know, and I've talked about Bob Lazar's uh um documentary before. Again, I just it's such a letdown with all the you were releasing the files and it's nothing all the time. It's like, come on, guys, like you're you're admitting that it's there, so just show us something that we're like, this is fantastic. And then disclosure day was like all this build-up, and like maybe because I'm just I just want it to be real.

SPEAKER_03 24:24

I want to go watch it. I s literally, I heard it was the biggest letdown.

SPEAKER_01 24:29

Yeah, I've heard mixed reviews. I heard some people said it was like classic Spielberg, it was very action-y. Um, other people were like, but uh I don't know. I I haven't seen it yet. I just haven't had time to go. But if it was like crazy reviews, I would uh I probably would have gone out.

SPEAKER_03 24:46

Yeah, I was gonna go watch it day up. I just got I got booked on that show, and I was like, all right, I'll go see it this weekend. And then after I saw the reviews online, I was like, maybe I'll just TiVo it.

SPEAKER_01 24:55

Yeah. Yeah. It was uh it should be. I mean, it's it'll be out in like a week at home and stuff like that. So but uh yeah, it's just again, there's just so much hype around the alien stuff. You're like, come on, man, just give us something. And then when you're when you're wanting something to be real so badly, you're just you're holding on. Not that I don't think that it's real, I just think they're messing with us right now. They're messing with their heads, they're they're they're inside the heads and they get they got me hooked. So, but every night I'll walk outside and I'll hear something, I'll look up and be like, okay, all right. It's like you remember when you were a kid and you would turn around quickly to see if like your toys were real? Yeah, to catch them? Because you think every time did you ever do that? No. Oh, I did it. I was convinced my toys were a lot, like Toy Story. 100%. And then when I saw Toy Story, I was like, I that's what I did.

SPEAKER_03 25:42

That's what I'm hyped for.

SPEAKER_01 25:43

Yeah, what Toy Story?

SPEAKER_03 25:44

Toy Story 5.

SPEAKER_01 25:45

Because your favorite artist is singing it, Taylor Swift.

SPEAKER_03 25:48

That is my kid's favorite artist.

SPEAKER_01 25:50

Now that's your favorite artist.

SPEAKER_03 25:51

That is my kid's favorite artist.

SPEAKER_01 25:53

You're you're you are a Swifty dad.

SPEAKER_03 25:56

I am.

SPEAKER_01 25:57

I was a Swifty dad, I'm not gonna lie. I was a Swifty dad, and thank God my daughter grew out of it. Um, hey, did you know that um uh Travis Kelsey and uh Taylor Swift are are getting married this weekend? Who cares? No one cares. Let's move on. No, we need like good music. No, it's not putting the downers, it's up, it's good, it's part-time. That's it. No, wrong button. There we go. We gotta get something going. Yeah. But uh, I wonder, I do wonder what their wedding is gonna be like when you're a billionaire. Like, what do you like? It's just like I I I I did read some stat because that did come up with one of the headlines. Uh how much money she's made. And get, you know, Taylor Swift, God bless you. You've you've done it.

SPEAKER_03 26:40

But no, I'll never knock, I'll never knock her for business.

SPEAKER_01 26:44

No, you know, it's uh it's uh yeah, she does get a hard time, but I get it because the music after a while you're like, please. But it did they're catchy.

SPEAKER_03 26:52

They're I feel like her music, like, because my my daughter is a huge Swifty right now. Like we have the posters, we have the guitars, we have the keyboard. Her music feels like nursery rhymes. Like if you really slowed it down and you put like Sesame Street behind it, you could go Sunday da. It really feels like that. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:14

No, I'm uh it's uh I mean, this is when my daughter was really into it, like my wife brought her to a movie theater to watch uh a live or like a concert. It wasn't a live concert, it was just a concert. And this is it, this is how crazy and powerful it is. So, one of my good buddies, Dave Robinson, he's a producer, produced a bunch of movies like Young Guns and True Romance, Ace Ventura, he's also a producer on The Exorcist, and they had the the remake of The Exorcist just coming out, and they'd announced their release date, and then Taylor Swift said, We're gonna be like two weeks later, said we're gonna come out in that that same weekend. Yeah, and literally they changed their release date because they didn't want to open up against Taylor Swift.

SPEAKER_03 27:56

When that came to Disney Plus, my kid watched it on repeat, and it was not kid friendly. I will say that too, because like we asked one of the teachers that's like at the karate place she goes to, and where I was like, Hey, you watched it, right? And she's like, Yeah, I was like, Is it kid friendly? She's like, Yeah, it's fine, dude. There's like 10 F words in that thing, and it's a Disney Plus. I was I was pretty upset about that.

SPEAKER_01 28:19

I I I I did a bad dad moment too. I was like, Ranger was like, Hey dad, can I watch Deadpool? And I was like, Oh god, and I can't, I didn't see all of Deadpool, I just saw parts of it, and I was like, sure, and I was kind of tired, and I fell asleep. And my wife walks in the room and there's like strippers on the TV, like naked, and Ranger's just like like his and my wife is like, babe, and I'm like, Oh, sure. I'm like, oh, what? And he and I'm like, Ranger, why are you watching? He's like, Dad, you told me I could watch it. I'm like, oh my god, yeah, but uh turn. And then he keeps going, Dad, when do I get to watch uh Deadpool 2? Because my wife said telling he was like, Do I get to watch Deadpool 2? And I'm like, no, dude, that was a mistake. That was not supposed to happen.

SPEAKER_03 29:00

I absolutely cannot stand Ryan Reynolds.

SPEAKER_01 29:03

I mean, it's just I'll hold my my opinion on that, but I will say this. There, there's he's done some he's done some interesting, like good stuff. There's some stuff that I I really like, and then there's some other stuff.

SPEAKER_03 29:15

We'll never forgive him for Green Lantern, ever.

SPEAKER_01 29:17

I didn't watch that. Don't yeah, but there's a new series coming out of Greenlander with Kyle Chandler, I think, is in it.

SPEAKER_03 29:25

I saw I saw an article where like the director reached out to him and asked him, and I guess his reply was like, Go F yourself.

SPEAKER_01 29:32

Who? Ryan Reynolds?

SPEAKER_03 29:34

Yeah, dude, it almost ruined his whole career. It was so bad.

SPEAKER_01 29:36

Yeah, I mean, I doubt it actually with the bigger. But he's a billion, he's a billionaire now, too. So hey, hats off to hats off to Ryan Reynolds.

SPEAKER_03 29:43

And the Pokemon movie's good. He did get on that.

SPEAKER_01 29:46

Yeah, I don't remember that, but uh anyways, moving on. Number five. Number five.

SPEAKER_03 29:52

Ronaldo at 41. Cristiano Ronaldo is still scoring at the World Cup and is still finding new ways to make history.

SPEAKER_01 29:59

So I went over to Madrid and I got to see him play. And let me tell you, it's like this is probably five or six years ago. I went with Judd, the guy plays Blackburn. We went over there, watched. It was unbelievable. This guy, there's just people that have like different orders about them, you know? And when you see them, you're like, oh, I like this, they just they move different, they have a different thing. It was the same thing when I like saw like Brad Pitt in real life. I was like, oh, dude, it's just you're just like, oh God loves you way more, you know. Like, okay, thanks, Jesus. Way to go. No, totally kidding. Very happy with how I look. Not, anyways, moving on. Um, I'm not bitter about it at all. Brad Pitt got all of the good look jeans for every man on on uh earth. Oh so Christian Ronaldo. Yeah, when I was over in um Real Madrid, I got to see this guy play, and it was unbelievable. There's something about this guy when he's touches the the field, like he's got everybody is they're just watching him, and he just runs at a different pace, and he's been doing it for so long. And you know, this might be the last time, you know, that we'll get to see a guy play like this. Messi and him in the World Cup again, and uh, I mean, Messi had an insane goal. Um, I think it was against uh who did they play against?

SPEAKER_03 31:21

Was it Turkey?

SPEAKER_01 31:22

No, it wasn't Turkey. We're America plays Turkey tonight. Um they were playing against somebody, but the coach, there was a video of the coach, um, and the video of the coach, you see Messi with the ball. He literally, the coach is like going, no, no, no, no, no. And Messi does what Messi does best and hammers it home. And just like with Ronaldo, he scored two goals. Two freaking goals. And he literally runs up to the to the camera. He's like, I am back. It's like, bro, where what are you talking about? You're back. You've been like, where did you go, bro? You're you're still here. Everybody still loves you. And I and it's a great moment. And why I love the the World Cup so much right now. It just, we're getting to see some of the greatest players for the last time ever play at this level. I think it's probably one of the greatest World Cups so far that we've got to see. The games have just been awesome. The stadium looks awesome. Well done to everybody that's been running it on our side and all the different networks. But there's just a there's just an energy, isn't there, Sean? You feel it everywhere?

SPEAKER_03 32:24

It's great. I have one complaint about the World Cup, and I think that's just the flopping. I didn't realize there was so much flopping in soccer. Yeah, I never knew. I this is the most soccer I've watched in the last few years.

SPEAKER_01 32:35

But didn't you watch it in when you were at that hedonism in Jamaica?

SPEAKER_03 32:37

Yeah, but that was like nine or ten years ago.

SPEAKER_01 32:40

Oh, yeah, there's a lot of flopping. There was flopping at the resort when you, you know, and then there was uh there was there's flopping on the screen. So maybe you're just watching other flopping, flipping and flopping, flapper jacks. Uh, but yes, so uh good on you, Ronaldo. You're still looking good, handsome as can be. His teeth, man, white, like just chiclets. Chiclets, unbelievable. Great dentist. Whoever the dentist is, if you're ever looking for a perfectly white smile that you can see in a stadium when you're way back up there, go to his. He's the guy. Let's go. What who do we got next?

SPEAKER_03 33:11

Number four. America vibe check. Oh, a British couple has gone viral for saying the World Cup is changing how foreigners see America after traveling nearly 20 states in an RV. And and with this video as well, it's pretty long. So I'll go ahead and attach this in the comments for everybody listening.

SPEAKER_01 33:27

And you guys got to follow these guys. So I just came across this video, not this one in particular that we're gonna show, but they were, I guess they were in Charleston, and they were just talking about how beautiful it is, but it was just watching these two husband and wife that have rented this motorhome and are just traveling across the country, and they cannot say enough good things about America. And they're really shocked in the sense of like, because America gets shit on so much around the world, and there's so much divisiveness with the media and stuff. And like I said, I'm an immigrant here, and I cannot like take politics out of all of this, it has nothing to do with anything. Like, I love this country, it is so awesome, it has its flaws, blabbity blabbity. Who cares? It is the greatest country in the world, and I think one of the best things about this World Cup is seeing these tourists come over here and be like, wow, I did not think this is what America was gonna be. It's way better. Like, people are freaking out when they're going to Walmart. Like, that's when what this this couple, like, they literally like, you know, they head into like these Walmarts. Did you see some of the stuff?

SPEAKER_03 34:36

Yeah. Yeah, they were like there was some at the Waffle House, and yeah. I feel like anybody who just travels a little bit and gets educated with a world outside of their norm, you'll start to like realize how beautiful this world is, and this country is.

SPEAKER_01 34:51

You know, the fried pickles and all that stuff. Yeah, it's not like the greatest for everybody, but it's it's America. So this couple, James and Sienna, they're traveling across the country, checking out America, and their YouTube channel is actually really fascinating. And it just came up on my feed, they were in Charleston, and uh they're saying how beautiful Charleston was, which it is, it's one of the beautiful, most beautiful cities I've ever lived in. I'm so grateful that we live here. We always brag about it as we do on the show, as we should. But to see them like talk about going into Walmart or Waffle House or what were the other some of the other places they went to, Sean? Like big they're like talking about like people always break Americans' balls about like the big giant grocery stores and stuff, and then they've gone into them and just be like, This is insane, this is awesome. You know, it's just one of those places where you know tourists are seeing how massive this place is and how different every state feels and how insane, how insane a spectacle it can be. But it's also you know, nice to see people talking about how nice uh Americans are, you know, and how you can have these random heart-to-heart conversations with these other Americans. And it's it's it's good to see. I mean, it really is though. I mean, like you people we were at the American game at our local pub here called Woodward, and there were some people coming through, and man, we're just getting to to chat with them, and you know, they'd come up and and chat or whatever ask for a picture, and I would just sit there and chat, and they were like everyone would say this is such a like what a beautiful country this is. What an amazing thing. So I again I cannot rave about it enough. And as divided as the world is, and I know you can agree with me on this, Sean, it's just so nice to hear people saying such positive things about humanity. Yeah, that like it doesn't matter who you are, where you're from, you're coming here to watch some soccer, drink Boston dry, have a laugh, high five your the the your adversary, you know, and then get on your plane and go home and just tell other people what a great time that guess what? Other people in other countries, they're really nice too.

SPEAKER_03 37:03

Did you see the one with the guy from and his wife from England where they like are in Louisiana and they want to go see an alligator?

SPEAKER_01 37:09

Oh, yeah, that was awesome.

SPEAKER_03 37:10

I love seeing all these clips because it I mean it's such you take these things for granted because we were talking about this with Rick when he was on the show. He Rick said he's never seen an alligator. And over here, we're like going my backyard. Yeah, we have so many.

SPEAKER_01 37:26

Yeah, that that gator that was in our backyard, uh in the in the in the um in the water, we have brackish water. Um, it was just some one of the neighbors put it on the chat. It's like this four and a half foot gator, and it's like cruising across the street. It's so bizarre. He I haven't been here for five, six years, and that's still, I'm just like, that's is a dinosaur.

SPEAKER_03 37:48

Whenever one of my first jobs out when I was in high school was working at a golf course, and every day on hole five, I'd have to go move this four-foot gator. He'd be like laying on the greens, and my boy.

SPEAKER_01 37:59

You'd have to pick him up.

SPEAKER_03 38:00

I'd just walk over and slap him on the tail or try to like my best friend worked with me at the golf course at the same time, so yeah, we would kind of just get ineberated, drink a little bit. We were 17, and then we'd dare each other who would grab the alligator that day or try to grab it. And it was just a fun experience.

SPEAKER_01 38:16

And that right there is why women live longer than men.

SPEAKER_03 38:20

I mean, it was only five years.

SPEAKER_01 38:22

Let's do a fireball shot. We going down, you you would slap his tail, and then you slap his tail, and someone's like, Oh, you want to slap you slap his face? And then someone's like, hey, he just ate your dick off.

SPEAKER_03 38:32

Let it bite your nipple.

SPEAKER_01 38:33

Yeah. I will buy you a Jaegerbaum if you let him lick your nipple. Then you realize alligators have very small tongues. Yeah. So, and they have, as we talked about, I found out the other day, they have a hook dick that comes out of their leg.

SPEAKER_03 38:45

It's not the size of the tongue, it's the shape of the jaw.

SPEAKER_01 38:48

But oh my god, this is um. You should put that on a t-shirt. Sean is coming out with his own t-shirt line of all the things he said today. Just about alligators, just about gator, the hook dick. Um, all right, let's move on. What do we got?

SPEAKER_03 39:03

Number three. A Japanese fan tries Texas barbecue. A Japanese fan trying Texas barbecue for the first time gave the internet exactly the reaction it wanted.

SPEAKER_01 39:12

This is, you have to again. I wish we could play volume on this, but we can't because of licensing. This is like, I want to hang out with this guy. It's pure joy. Yeah, he basically he like goes, he's amazing. It is look at him. Like, and this this is it like a dinosaur rib. So this guy just looks like the happiest little Japanese guy, and it's it is it just warms your heart. You're like, man, and and every time we've watched it, Sean's like, I'm craving barbecue. That looks like the greatest rib of all time.

SPEAKER_03 39:43

It does. I mean, and we got good barbecue in the South.

SPEAKER_01 39:46

That that looked pretty good, you know, and that that reaction right there is why this country works, okay? You you hand somebody a tray the size of a coffee table with brisket, sausage, smoke, and just complete chaos, and joy all over their face, you know, and the world view of America changes right there. You know, barbecue and beef and brisket. And I I love brisket. I learned how to do brisket uh during COVID, and I love doing brisket. Every Christmas now we do uh uh brisket, and it's like a 16-hour smoke. Um, I got this process from my buddy Chad Mendez. He sends it to me, and I use it every year. And when people are coming over for dinner, um, they're used to it now, but so and I at first I was like, really? You have to get the meat and you have to let it sweat. So you have to like in the tray, wrap it up in a bunch of towels, then you put it inside like a cooler with no ice and you shut it and you let it rest. And I never, I was like, I was like, are you serious? He's like, Yeah, you gotta let it and just like sweat. So it just gets all moist and juicy. It is unbelievable, but it's the best. Like I go down, we have this uh butcher um that we go to here, and every Christmas he gets to be this really nice piece, and it is one of my favorite things to do. It's the tradition that we love to keep on doing, but it it with brisket too. That's why the people that can bang it out every single night. Actually, one of my neighbors um he owns this company, uh this restaurant called Home Team.

SPEAKER_03 41:15

Two of those influencers we were just talking about were at Home Team on Sullivan's Island. I watched the video.

SPEAKER_01 41:20

Really?

SPEAKER_03 41:21

Yeah, they went to Home Team and ordered the briskets and the greens and which one? Right here, Sullivan's Island.

SPEAKER_01 41:26

Are you serious? Yeah, the the two the English people?

SPEAKER_03 41:30

Two of the two of the um, I'll send you the video. I'm not sure if it's the same two we just discussed, but I saw I came across it on TikTok.

SPEAKER_01 41:36

Well, my neighbors, they they own uh home team, and home team is if again, if you're visiting Charleston and you want barbecue, um go to go to Home Team. Um, my kids, when we we pick them up from school, we'll uh we'll usually stop in there. They want to go to the park and we'll go in, they'll get their little sliders, their brisket sliders with the pickle on it, the coleslaw. It is just it's heaven. So I'm getting hungry thinking about this. But uh I love it. So yeah, it's it's great to see, man. It's great to see uh people enjoying the barbecue. Um and it is an art form because it is so easy to mess up. You can be 12 hours in and be a minute off, and it's all gone. So it's you have to be on top of it.

SPEAKER_03 42:16

I like to do a poor man's brisket where you buy a chuck roast and it usually takes about three to four hours. It's um yeah, it's pretty good. You should look into that too.

SPEAKER_01 42:23

Yeah, but if you're under time constraint for sure. Um, all right, where are we at? Number two.

SPEAKER_03 42:29

Connor McGregor. Yes. Connor and Max first fought on August 17th, 2013 at featherweight on the prelims, and Connor won by unanimous decision. Now they run it back 13 years later on July 11th at 170 pounds.

SPEAKER_01 42:45

So the the interview here that you can click and watch is the interview between Joe Rogan, Max Holloway, and Connor McGregor. Connor McGregor is a once-in-a-lifetime fighter. Uh, what he was able to do and come from Ireland and create the what he did, and the every I mean he still holds every single record record, like by a long shot. Biggest gate, biggest pay-per-view, and he's just you know, the first real injury he got was with Max Holloway on his on his uh um his fight. I think he was in Boston um uh what he fought. I remember watching that, and he won the fight, but Max Holloway has become an absolute savage. Like he won the the um uh uh what is it the B BMF title? Bad motherfucker. Yeah. So he won the he won the BMF title. He had that classic. Uh Max Holloway had that class thing where he pointed to the center of the ring and Justin Gacy and him square off and just go pound for bound for like the last or shot for shot for the last 15 seconds, and Holloway hits him with like a left hook and just drops Gagey, which is insane because Gacy just won the championship and is an absolute savage. So this fight's gonna be absolutely insane. Um and it's good to see Connor healthy and focused. And when he's healthy and focused and in the right mind frame, he's a dangerous man. There's still, you know, four weeks to go prior to him getting there. Um Max Holloway is is just a guy that I feel is no never scared. He always shows up. If you need him, he's there. Um and uh it's gonna be a fight. And it just, you know, it July 11th, uh, it will be it's do or die for Connor too, because he hasn't won a fight in a long time. The last time he got injured with Dustin Poirier, and as you get later in the years, once you get those sort of injuries, it's not good. But this this uh this comeback is big.

SPEAKER_03 44:45

Yeah, and the comeback angle matters too. This is his first fight since he broke his leg against Dustin Poirier at UFC 264 in 2021.

SPEAKER_01 44:55

And they had he had like stress fractures or something before that.

SPEAKER_03 44:57

Yeah, yeah, he wouldn't have tried to fight with the stress fractures.

SPEAKER_01 45:00

Yeah, I mean they none of these guys go to through training camp and come out, you know, 100%. You know, I I think it might have been his coach, Kavanaugh, that was like took out the hard sparring leading up to it because these guys would just kick the shit out of each other. Like they'd be fighting every single day to get ready for the war, but they would so I think Kavanaugh, if I'm right, he would he implemented lighter sparring as you were so you didn't get injured. So which is smart. I mean, a fighter's shelf life is is very limited. So I mean Dustin Poirier is is retired now and Connor's still in the game, but he's been you know off for the last couple years. So at any rate, let's uh let's dude, we're we're at number one already.

SPEAKER_03 45:42

And the number one viral moment of the week on the AJ Buckley show is Number one, the Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer 2 has dropped and the internet is losing its mind all over again.

SPEAKER_01 45:54

Let's watch it. The graphics are insane. This is okay, this is is this it? No, that's an ad. I could not be more excited about this because I I wasn't really into video games ever. Um, a little bit here and there, but it just I just wasn't my thing. But when I lived in Los Angeles, is right um when I first moved out, and uh I was actually Rick was my roommate and Skip was my roommate. And dude, it we we lost days. Like we would people would fall asleep, we were like, and it wasn't like there was like the internet wasn't where it was where you could get cheat codes and stuff. It was all like you'd go out and it was everyone was talking about you know cheat code to get like the plane, and you can like you know, it like people were it was very much like grassroots. The iPhone hadn't even come out yet, right? So, like this is insane when you think about like look at these graphics. This looks like oh my gosh, we've got to get somebody who did voiceover on this on the podcast. I want to hear about this. Like, this is just I mean, it's it is insane. I remember when I would close my eyes and you you literally close your eyes and you'd see like it would stay imprint. What were you that story you were telling me about? Like you got in trouble from your mom for what?

SPEAKER_03 47:11

I used to get in trouble for my mom just going out and looking at playing with the hookers on the game.

SPEAKER_01 47:16

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. This is a kid's show, Sean. That's right. I do remember there was like this that's why this I know for a fact this GTA is going to be insane because the graphics here are insane, but like, yeah, you like you could just I didn't even know what carjacking was until I watched this game. Like you would just rip somebody out, like, and it just the music would change when you go into different neighborhoods, and like it's this is gonna be awesome.

SPEAKER_03 47:42

I love the role-playing servers on TikTok as well, like where you see the people where they actually are they have to play as cops and run the codes, and they're on the online servers for GTA 5.

SPEAKER_01 47:51

What is that? I've never heard of that.

SPEAKER_03 47:52

So there's like there's like full-on like 100 player servers on um GTA 5, and they role play. So you have like people who really play as cops and they have to stay in oh, so they're on you. They're on the game, yeah. So it's a hundred people playing, but you actually have cops in precincts and they have to run real radio codes and pull people over in the game, and it's yeah, and they stream it on Twitch. What? And TikTok, and it's actually really funny just because people take it extremely serious.

SPEAKER_01 48:23

And this has been like 20 years since they've released this, right?

SPEAKER_03 48:26

Yeah, I mean the the the the the well they've had the the the they've had updates, so they had like GTA the five where it became a MMO, like a live version. There's been different updates, but the actual sequel to the game I think has been close to 20 years.

SPEAKER_01 48:41

Wow. So this is gonna be and like there's all sorts of talk too that you can you can make all sorts of money, like you can buy real estate in this virtual world, and you know it'd be like it's it it the the depth that this goes into is is something that I've never like this is gonna change gaming forever. Yeah, and I think is there a virtual aspect like you can wear VR goggles and stuff?

SPEAKER_03 49:07

I'm not sure. I'm sure they might do like a um. How crazy would that be? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 49:13

That would that would just I mean VR goggles, some of my favorite videos I've ever watched is at Christmas time when you give grandpa the VR goggles and they literally like run into the wall. My son, we were over at my my my my neighbor's house, Marcus, and we we we put uh this uh like Batman boxing thing on Ranger, and we gave like we gave him the perimeter perimeter. Know how you do the perimeter so they can't leave the perimeter?

SPEAKER_04 49:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:41

Ranger just completely goes outside of the perimeters, throws a left hook, and literally left hooks this insanely expensive lamp off of the shelf, smashes, and he freezes without taking the goggles off. And he's just like, he knows it's like he's done something bad. He's just like, Oh, I didn't mean to go to the perimeter. I didn't mean to go like it's all right. And Marcus is very uh very gracious. But he just before it happened, Marcus was like, Oh, well, I think he's gonna he's like, it's a beautiful left hook, I gotta tell you. I was very proud of him.

SPEAKER_03 50:10

But uh have you ever used one like the Oculus Riffs where it's like the VR goggles and the walking platform?

SPEAKER_01 50:16

Yeah, yeah. I can I'm good for a couple minutes and then I feel sick.

SPEAKER_03 50:20

Yeah, like about 45 minutes in, you're like, oh 45 minutes?

SPEAKER_01 50:24

Oh yeah, dude. I'm like five minutes and I'm good. Again, video games and all that stuff, other than the GTA when when uh we were living together with all the guys, we would just it we we take shifts and we were taking notes of like if somebody took over the shifts, it was like we were like on like some detail, and we're like, all right, so what happened here is down the corner to this guy here, but it was like super detailed notes. Or if you got past something, you'd yell and everybody would wake up and like run into the room.

SPEAKER_03 50:51

This was when video games like the internet was there, but it was like there was no Twitch or anything. The game wasn't on the internet, there was no way to you could just find something new in that game like every day. You're like, oh my god, you could play it for the club.

SPEAKER_01 51:05

No, that's what I'm saying. Like, we could we would go out to like barbecues or whatever, we'd be out somewhere and someone's like they'd all have that like lost look in their eyes for playing GTA for so long and be like, hey, they're like, how do you get by these things? You'd be in the club, like, hey man, how do you get by? And you're writing it down in the napkin, you're like, thanks, buddy. You don't they he was a tourist, he was driving by and you're like, oh, thanks. It was just it really, it was for a good solid month, and then we're like, okay, we need to we need to walk away from this, we need to get rid of this machine because we are we haven't been outside. Um, but it's it's uh it's and the stock too. The stock because pre-orders start today um on the game, and then it comes out like November 25th. Like, that's how much hype and and runway they have for this game right now.

SPEAKER_03 51:53

Yeah, this trailer hit like 475 million views in the first day.

SPEAKER_01 51:57

That is insane. I mean, GTA is bigger than most movies. It it behaves like a Super Bowl, like a like a Marvel premiere, you know, and and it's like it's it's actually like a a Super Bowl, a Marvel premiere that's all basically launched at once when you think about it.

SPEAKER_03 52:15

Yeah, it's gonna print money like the clippers, the streamers, the memes, yeah, the YouTube channels, the Twitch.

SPEAKER_01 52:22

Those faceless YouTube channels.

SPEAKER_03 52:23

People are gonna make full careers out of this game.

SPEAKER_01 52:25

Yeah, multi-millionaires will be made off the ancill ancillary market. No, this the the the real business story is not just you know the copy sold. It's GTA they move consoles, ad dollars, YouTube traffic, you know, the the twitching, like you said, the streams, all that sort of stuff. It's like it's it's a such a different level that we've never seen before. And this is the only game. It's like it's like the return of like if Muhammad Ali, you know, back in the day was coming back for the fight, and you're like, man, here we go. Everybody would tune in, except Muhammad Ali was a little older than Father Time, but this has the technology. And right now, just seeing that trailer and the graphics and the storytelling is it's where it's at. So, enough about GTA. That right there, Sean, that was Unfiltered Friday.

SPEAKER_03 53:18

That was it. That was our number one.

SPEAKER_01 53:20

That was our number one. So thanks everybody for tuning in to Unfiltered Friday. I hope wherever you are this weekend, you have a wonderful, wonderful weekend. If you're in Charleston, go check out those places. Uh, the uh Hall's Shop House, it is the best steak in Charleston. Um, the the little party on the point is next level. Um, just wander around town. What was your restaurant you said? 82 Queen. 82 Queen. Get some grits and shrimp and grits. But uh man, I will see you on Tuesday. It's the show before 4th of July.

SPEAKER_03 53:55

We have a special edition unfiltered Fridays for 4th of July.

SPEAKER_01 53:58

Yes, we do. We're gonna go through the top 10 most American moments in the last 250 years. I don't know what's gonna happen. I don't know what I'm gonna be dressed in, but it's gonna be something good. Um, that being said, have a wonderful weekend. Be safe out there, let the spirit lead you, and uh, we'll see you on Tuesday with our guest. Who's our guest for Tuesday, Sean?

SPEAKER_03 54:20

Chris Stroop from Stroop Knives.

SPEAKER_01 54:22

From Stroop Knives, former special operation, absolute stud. This guy has started one of the greatest knife companies ever to exist. He gave me a gift, and I don't want to ruin it, but it it almost made me cry during the show. So tune in to next Tuesday. We'll see you there. Have a wonderful weekend. God bless. Have a wonderful weekend.

SPEAKER_00 54:38

And this concludes Unfiltered Fridays on the AJ Buckley Show. He's totally kidding. Unless you're serious.