integrity these people are are horrible now um the worst morals you know buddy anybody body rogers became a wrestler a young young buddy rogers first became a wrestler after um after world war two in the late 1940s you know where he was you know where they found him he used a cop in camden new jersey where he's from oh wow i didn't know that i didn't know that's why he's as catch can wrestler right yeah but body body rogers that that was one of the people like that oh yeah they knew well even burn ghania was yeah bernie ghania was a real wrestler and um nick bachwinkel really a real wrestler right yeah those guys can put like submission holes on you like that's why um you never seen burn ghania didn't want to give the title to hogan because hogan wasn't a real wrestler right that's why he didn't give him the awa title did you know that well hogan he only gave it to um actual real wrestlers hogan wasn't a real wrestler lucez when he was alive said that hogan doesn't know a wrist block from a wrist watch but hogan actually was a good wrestler because when he went to japan he showed it well he he was he was doing all kinds of moves in japan became he became one but uh uh was i going to say well buddy rogers yeah copying that was when camden wasn't a ghetto it was in a high crime camden was was a nice suburb of philadelphia and that's why buddy rogers house that's why jimmy's in your jersey yeah jimmy snooker lived lived right night he bought a house right next door it's a buddy rod what what time period you go to all the years oh camden we're talking like 1940s 1950s oh oh oh yeah there was no there was no high crime ghetto camden's fucked up man yeah that's one that is that that's one of the worst cities in the country i think so far there's always cities replacing other cities with crime they go by crime rate right yeah baltimore's became a shithole baltimore's bad news to that mayor yeah you know the mayor that allowed the rioting where they turned over police cars and said at baltimore the park was no good but with camden new jersey i always remember just hearing bad stuff about that city yeah they allowed looting you know you see you see the pattern between the type of mayor the the city a city has and what they allow some we're getting out of here all right booker is from camden right Cory Booker yeah no Cory Booker's from Newark oh Newark i get camden and Newark confused listen i remember when senator Cory Booker was the mayor of Newark and he didn't do shit for Newark it was a shithole and and okay nwa northern california roy shear was the promoter i have to catch up with the commentary um uh mike western mike said chicago is also called chicago land especially because of all the factories california is too crowded and pricey well you're right about that in chicago you have the stock stockyards where they used to slaughter they slaughtered all the cattle from the beef industry and and the blood went into the rivers and and and the and the residents said it's stunk to high heavens uh western mike yeah it's stunk to high heavens because all the blood on the butchering went into the river i guess it's got to go somewhere right pat paterson rey stevens peter my the high chief he's in my area high chief peter my va s i remember all them all well so that's the rocks um grandfather the high chief yeah i remember when superstar billy graham bashed peter my v is ukulele over his head super star billy graham did it was shot yeah billy graham it was shot that was when billy graham had the belt the w w w f world title and seven years and he was he was the main event was billy graham was defending it against peter my via who i heard was real real in real life tough like uh like uh haku you know uh let's see we got yeah rey stevens yeah what's that san francisco rey stevens uh was there that's that's how he became famous before he went to the nwa pat paterson and rey stevens were tag team partners and pat paterson won he was the first intercontinental champion he won the title in a tournament in a fictitious tournament yeah in a real de janeiro brazil never happened and pat paterson um used to molest ring workers ring boys oh yeah in the 80s and then there was a trial in the in the early 90s right yeah the ring boys the ring gay yeah vincek man was involved in that too because we knew about it you know well yeah but his father was friend his father was his father friends with pat paterson you like pat paterson or yeah because vincek it was always a story that vincek man kept on all the the older guys that his dad was close with yeah which i always thought was a noble move yeah his father do that for your for your father's associates vince senior also liked johnny valentine great valentine's father he also liked johnny valentine they used to hang out so did um he had a chance to have to stick in the w w f with with vince in charge try now johnny valentine was in johnny valentine a serious accident where oh yeah he had a quit wrestling johnny valentine was in a very serious accident but he was a little on soon too was was good friends with vince senior and then vince jr because of that he always kept them on well he had a he had a high he had a high executive position in the company he's i think he sold shares he he used to own shares and then he sold them to vince jr right that's actually true he was a big but the father was alive the gorilla was a big part gorilla yeah held shares and a couple other guys did too um um yeah that you're right western mic that is that is a term of pollution is pouring guts and blood into the rivers yeah um now for those of you that are wondering how the show uh morphed into this sports and pro wrestling talk is during the uh the second half of the show it's open topic it's considered open topic this way i don't get people to comment say hey here you go from uh progressive politics to this uh wrestling to a river that's why nobody throws anything up to anybody ever say that people are always throwing shit up to my face really yeah yeah yeah not not lately because i i usually what kind of shit is that yeah talk about whatever you want to talk about it's your show listen the title the tittle the tittle of the show has the word yeah you have like bernie sanders yeah no i have open topic talk it also says that's true it says open i thought um they said hashtag bernie sanders i was reading through your whole thing it was like hashtag democrats of america oh yeah i i i started using hashtag there's a lot of hashtags yeah yeah because i see other people using a lot of hashtags hey man yeah whatever when they first started talking about hashtag this and hashtag yeah you know what i i thought it was i thought it was a tic-tac-toe symbol i i mean i didn't i didn't know what the hell hashtag meant and then i realized was key their keywords right their their keywords and i see the pound symbol right well tic-tac-toe pound symbol yeah then i realized hey people are using a lot of hashtags so i decided you know let me you're only like eight years too late right uh so a hashtag it only works yeah i mean this is literally it only works if it turns blue like right yeah it's like an email an email is the same thing it's gotta be a link right yeah it lights up right if the hashtag what do they call it a um a hyperlink hyperlink but the hashtag lights up like for instance on facebook it lights up no matter where but the hashtag lights up so if i put it that it fits hashtag politics or hashtag progressives it lights up it's an active hashtag now the only hashtag i really care about is corn beef hash and and hash brown potatoes like mic west or mic is saying beef hash west or mic how come we won't appear hash browns are pretty electric electric yeah you know who's got good hash browns if you got in all these and a trade no trader joes sells them too they're they're from canada and they're cheap if you you buy a big package of frozen corn beef hash patties frozen they're they're not observatives they're good and you you know you can you fry them with eggs and uh you can put the fried eggs right on top of them which i like i like i like them crispy you know i you know i'm gonna buy quits james i'm gonna buy a shitload of those hash browns next time i go to trader jose what was that james do you have any super bowl plans none i'm gonna i i do a show tomorrow and then um after the show maybe the super bowl starts in the early evening or the late afternoon or something like that when is it started super balls never start early you know what bothers me about super bowls not the game the fucking obnoxious stupid commercials they keep bombarding you during a super bowl they were the fans like stupid shit like let's say that they'll advertise some macro beer that i hate and they'll make a big deal out of it a lot although they'll use a um a man who's like in a bathtub saying that he's a woman promoting like spotlight on on the super bowl really it's disgusting they're gonna start pushing lgbdq xyz a eieio whatever the fuck you call it yeah the super bowl gay shit on the super bowl so so they're trying to condition children that's it i'd say because they figure they lost us already they can't convince us but uh the younger they go they can they can get into their minds they can get into their minds and fuck them up when obese women used to go on like uh jerry springer show and and demand that people treat them as an alternative lifestyle you know it's not an alternative lifestyle you're in on a healthy fat fuck jerry springer it was it was a funny show for its time yeah if you think about it really they never should have allowed that show on tv because it influenced stupid americans to be even stupider all the white trash you notice all the white trash white trailer park trash is to go on jerry springer that's fucked up man because look what it did to the to to the white trash that we're already there it desensitized the right right and it made them think it was normal because before they used to try to they used to try to hide it and then it became like it's more acceptable and that's what we have now it was um they they desensitize it to the point where the the white people started acting uh ghetto five they were black the white people started acting like they were black they became ghetto four black people not gentrified but ghetto five yeah white right middle class or lower middle class white people started acting like they were black people who were in poverty and the and the lower that that's why all these why all these white girls started getting fat flabby and they started wearing their baseball caps backwards some of them look cute if you do it you know yeah but a baseball cap is meant to be worn proper with the bill in the front yeah and i think i think that's actually come back to be the style now if you see girls go to baseball games they wear the hat the right way now that's good i don't want to see no white kids go yo yo yo yo yo and have the underwear sticking out no no no seriously i think it has been a 360 back in the other way um if you pay if you really do pay attention that that bullshit alternative act like you're black stuff you don't see white kids doing that anymore you know what you know what rebellious white males used to do back in the day they used to wear leather jackets right they used to wear black leather jackets like like my west western michael he's got a nice very nice black leather jacket so james i'll be right back all right so give me a minute all right western mic will keep me company i think mikvon raven split i think he wants to sleep so western mic you look pretty good enough black leather jacket now could you imagine if you did a show with a black t-shirt and a black leather jacket or or if you wore a black t-shirt with your charcoal gray sports jacket your your charcoal gray blazer and you had with the black t-shirt now that that'll look really sharp you know what i mean jellybean presence presence well you you you heard what i just said right i don't have to repeat talking about fashion you know attire that looks good on a man or it looks good on i knew what you've worn you know what i mean jellybean all those combinations are good also a black button shirt where the leather jacket is the dope oh yeah yeah yeah now that that black leather jacket that's black that'll go with anything then they have oh you know what else is sharp then they have the soft light black leather sports jacket they sell like a black leather blazer you know that looks like a sport like a sports jacket except this black leather yeah now didn't uh didn't the uh zz top sing a song called sharp dressed man that's that's what that that song reminds me of you zz top singing sharp dressed man no you're sharp i'm you're sure i send you the link where i got these shirts from amazon good price so now hains has like very thin very breathable similar to a lycra spandex but much thinner hains sells uh black shirts in all colors actually made of this new material that's shiny it's shiny like spandex but it's it's thinner and it breathes hains sells them we're just talking about fashion to me and uh what is your western michael come on the show talk about that you're shy thanks for tonight i wear a blazer maybe he's just relaxing the sun i bought thanks but i wear a blazer on friday and let the jacket on saturday oh am i shackleton what's the shackleton on sunday with a shirt hains is money yeah you're right hains is not cheap you're right about now what is michael's wear to church on sundays now shackleton does that mean your your your your ankles and your hands are shackled all together what's the shackleton nutrition helps because i will wind going down small shirts won't even wear medium no i don't do that where where some that just fits don't i i knew a guy i did security with a guy that used to wear like little boys make them look big bigger and muscle bound they used to squeeze it into a small make them to make themselves look bigger shackle shack it oh it's called shack it okay what are you drinking ronnie s what are you drinking i'm not drinking what are you drinking that's what all the boost i'm not doing do i look like a boo sound that's what the boo sounds from all the liquor review shows you say hey what are you drinking what do you drink to church gray or navy soup i go to church on my phone say the navy i watch the the exorcist bishop uh brian oolett from the from the hit show the ghost adventures he knows me i talk to him sometimes i i watch his mass on my phone all right i prop up my phone and i i watch his mass later after i get up late because church actually i went to church today uh 5 30 p.m mass i'm not getting up early i get upset when i have an early 5 30 p.m mass yeah on saturday you know that's good i was that's the sunday mass just uh well that's my sunday mass well it's a saturday vigil they call it but it's a saturday vigil is that what they call this saturday after that is what they call it yeah but it counts it counts as a sunday mass though yeah well it's the same it's the same words are being recited it's the same um the same readings same exact yeah it's the same but they called yeah they called the saturday vigil and then when i when i if i watch the exorcist bishops mass from his church he does the same thing what's what's his name brian oolett i'll send him your his facebook he's the guy that when when the shit hits the fan he's the guy that the ghost adventures team call is the last resort and he comes on and he performs real exorcisms exorcisms on buildings and people yeah cast out demons that's right the the rites of exorcism he does it he does it he's gotta help her my western wife went to church today on saturday too no he says i went that's what he said right he's saying oh you went to church on would have still been cashed out oh you didn't tell you didn't go when you go to church do you have an edible to relax you me no him it's like what's i mean it's not a bad idea really oh well i i took the cookie the wafer the one you know when the priest said the cookie jane well it's a wafer he says the body of christ it's the body of christ yeah it's uh it's it's well it melts when you put it in your mouth it dissolves you don't chew it a little bit you know what i you know what i i'm on this i'm not saying it's the chocolate chip cook you know what it's like i i um i don't really like so so so you you receive the the community right and then now they brought back the wine as well so you walk in the in the line here they have it it's gonna happen brother i'm not putting my lips on a child i know i always did i always have i don't everybody else puts your saliva it's the blood of christ it's the blood christ i don't care so i'm i'm still chewing and then there's still more left in my mouth right and then i get up to and i have to like swallow quickly because i don't want to leave anything inside the wine obviously oh man i mean how many people do you think that happens i don't want anybody's covid uh uh uh um yeah people freak out about the covid stuff i don't want anybody i don't want anybody they took it away james for i think over um over two years i need armor crown on the on the church now what about before the covid that i got put my mouth on it how did you how did you feel back then i wouldn't do it because so yeah you never did well i'm a kind of a germaphobe i don't like you're a germaphobe i don't like joins all right yeah so i mean i used to i used to have a boss i was a germaphobe what's up kissing it like you know if you're with a hot girl you need edibles just to use the dang sidewall wait a minute that doesn't sound good oh i know i because people people aggravate him when he takes a walk unless your mic gets upset people i ball him when he goes out yeah i ball you what's going on in california where you are how come everybody's busting your balls michael what's going on here well he said it was because he's a straight white male they don't like that kind of bad if they don't like it you're supposed california supposed to be like uh full of surfers you know and people that anymore james right michael hang loose i don't know i'm not from california i've never been to california i've been to san diego that's it that's all at san diego in trula vista which is near um near the border of t by t warm west your michael actually lives there so you know well it's expensive number one uh the rents are you know i don't hear anything good except you know the the natural environment now that is beautiful more they're more health conscious they're more progressive there there's a lot of organic organic farms there there's also a lot of organic homeless people in los angeles that's a problem right there's a lot of a lot of homeless in the whole state over 50 000 uh you know uh they got tents everywhere tents people are getting tents because there's a lot of tents and they say the same thing's happening in new york city now in time oh you got those illegal immigrants that are throwing garbage in the streets i've seen i've seen videos they're throwing garbage you know they don't have that going on in new jersey right no because the jersey cops will fucking take that's good good good for good for jersey man you know the same thing so on long island i'm actually i'm from the york and i'm from long island i'm not from the city city is fucked city is fucked up city is full school man it's always been fucked up you know as far as i remember oh darryl messiah says that's why he moved away from this big city moved to the sticks what um what metro area were you close to darryl i think he's where is darryl from oh he's from california right he's from so northern california he's for he are you near i how far are you from the redwood trees darryl uh driving this a really thick ones the redwood thick they're they're humongous they're tall but they're thick too right oh there are hundreds of feet thick oh sacramento is the capital of california sacramento is the capital they grow a lot of tomatoes they you know sacramental uh tomato it's somewhat in the middle but but further north right sacramental it's like center it's like north center sort of that's why yeah that's what i'm but he's not in sacramental because i guess i hear they got kind of a bad area well he's fucked what's with these american cities they all have to have a damn ghetto in them christ six you can't live in a city anymore you can't live in a city anymore why why did it allow the cities every city that goes back to the the fifties why did the dodgers and and the giants leave new york because it was they were them in the ghetto in brooklyn and in harlem well that's where those stadiums were and they moved out so the polo the polo grounds was in harlem right was it yeah yeah so it wasn't far from really from the south brance no it was right over the river it was you could see them they were both on top of each other one was in the Bronx and one was in harlem so the new york giant when the right over the harlem river so when the new york yankees were in like a playoff game against the giants they they probably just took like a yeah a bus or and then the dodgers are right in brooklyn yeah those three teams for many many years 45 miles controlled um controlled baseball part part of like it's only a few hours from the redwood trees and uh uh yeah what if ebbett's field is ebbett's field so i was talking to a guy i know a guy james um you're there on it an older an older gentleman he lives in in florida but he's from brooklyn originally all cities suck daryl's right yeah so he told me he he grew up in brooklyn he's been to ebbett's field he's been to the polo grounds he's been to the old yankees stadium and he's been to um shay shay shay stadium you know shive park shive stadium is the is where the philadelphia athletics and the philadelphia phillies yeah but that's not that's not in new york though no it's philadelphia i don't know so i don't know about that one but he was just telling me that he's been to those three historic parks i mean four historic shive stadium was very was the historic landmark they tore it down they always tear them down why do they tear down historic landmarks right it's like it's fucked up it's fucked up like but fenway and wriggly um field we feel there's the only one reason those ones were able to be kept alive why not yankees stadium get rid of yankees stadium well they fenway park pack fenway pack like the people say up there yeah fenway pack was built in 1912 yeah and wriggly field is a little newer than i a couple of years later a couple maybe 1913 there might be field that's like the brick wall with the ivy they got the english ivy growing under the bleachers but darryl's right cities really do suck they they they well what were you gonna say about the park sorry or nothing um they're like why why couldn't they keep the old yankee stadium well you know what it's nostalgia they should accept it they should it was built in 1921 i think so it would have been the third oldest park it's it's it's the original house let's throw it away i mean like shea stadium they demolished it in 2008 good for the mets but that was not a historic stadium it was built in the 60s you know how annoying it was to watch a mets game to hear airlines flying over shea stadium like but they still have it it's the same area city field still has the airlines yeah yeah and it's cool if you actually go to a game in person it's it's it's awesome to watch the planes go over over the field and see them going back and forth it's actually really cool to see it so it breaks up the monotony of of a boring baseball game i mean if you want to if you want to describe it that way you think you take a home run can possibly hit a plane or that's just too high up i don't think so yeah yeah city field i hear uh front of never been to city field no no you gotta go james it's actually it's a great stadium a friend of mine went there and he was cursing when he came home he says you know what i had to spend on food there oh whatever i says that but they're all like that i well yeah because it was why are you gonna go if you're just going to play how much is a hot dog in the uh we're to raise this 10 the race plate 10 dollars it's the same you gotta be kidding me 10 dollars for a hot dog yeah now it's the same in city field now i'd rather go i'd rather go so don't don't buy a hot dog i'd rather go to a restaurant after the games yeah so then don't buy it there but you go there to watch baseball now if you want to fucking buy it the hot dog then you gotta pay whatever macro that's not the point that's not the point you're you're there to enjoy the game i can't enjoy it that when i think about the the prices hey the price of the tickets are not reasonable either and you know no no the raise are you can get 10 a $10 ticket so you pay $10 for a ticket $10 for a hot dog $10 for a beer but really you get to watch yeah you get $10 tickets it's not for the um oh bleach or not for the Mets or the Yankees but for the rays and i hit a red socks tickets are really high too yeah i'm sure they are so so yeah $10 tickets right here um in St. Pete no it's it's great they're cheap and then you know what you can do James you walk around the stadium and you can you can just you know as the game progresses through the evenings you just walk down into the lower levels and nobody says anything to you you can sit right right over there in the front you know Tropicana Field is awesome is Tropicana Field in a retractable dome it's not retractable it's just a dome oh good because it's always closed because the fans and the players they don't want to be playing in that yeah so there's no there's no problems with the rain no i mean i'm talking about the humidity it's got air conditioning inside beautiful beautiful and and and people when people go to see the Tampa Lightning play hockey i bet they feel refreshed the ice you know the coolness from the ice and everything and i don't know i'm not a hockey fan well neither am i but you know i mean i'm sure i'm sure people feel nice when they go into building with with ice but also the um yeah cheap beer too michael the hockey season is not in the summer like like baseball no yeah that's true that's true i think you know what i don't think that jacksonville the jaguars are doing well and jackson but i don't think there's enough people uh enough i don't think jacksonville warrants having a major a major team a major major team can't make can't turn a profit jacksonville is not um i'm a major metro no there's not enough people there's there are a lot of people but i don't think there's enough to call it a sports um you already have two two other teams in florida so there's nobody adding jacksonville in is just nobody nobody ever really talks about the jacksonville jaguars yeah it's a shame because um i think they've been getting better over the past couple of years yeah um um but anyway Tony con still owns them Tony did he sell it or did he sell it that's a good question his father owns it oh his father his father owns it yeah yeah we went to an AEW wrestling in sacramento and a corona was 15 dollars yeah but that's not um that fucking greedy Tony that's not like something that's unbelievable that's just a reality it's what it is yeah the reality of being a crook if you don't want to go i mean if you want to go there and not spend money on a beer then don't buy it drink the beer don't drink the beer don't drink the beer don't drink the beer just go to the wrestling show and you gotta be sober you can't have a corona go go to a wrestling show with a full belly yeah yeah and and and if you want to have beer have beers at home go to have some beers before the show or after the show or maybe and maybe both and then when the show well if it's a show that ends late so you go stop somewhere you know i don't know freaking diner or you go to a uh a white castle it's over denny's or denny's is 24 hours denny's in jersey right no they don't they have diners owned by greeks is that it it's made of 24 hour diners though yeah but their their prices are all high isn't they're always they're always owned by greeks but they're but they're they're rip-offs they didn't use to be that's only recently at the rip-off used to be a howard johnson's in the old days before they went belly up we used to go to 24 hour howard johnson's in the area where i grew up old old school howard johnson and we used to get blueberry i used to get blueberry pancakes with slab bacon it was a hotel right and coffee and and i used to get an ice cream something was it a hotel that you could rent by the hour yes it was right bring bring abroad there you can only for like two hours and then you can leave if you want you can you can either spend the night or you can two hours you know that's what i heard plus the nut and you know so what did they charge you for two hours fuck i don't remember all i remember was the ice cream and they had a they had a they had a bar there they had a happy hour buffet and i used to go there and nurse my drink so what did you usually spend the night when you went there you didn't do it by the hour no no no i didn't use howard johnson's as a i want some i want somewhere else but i i i get very disgusted and by by what i see in these hotel rooms like cd hotel rooms like in other words it's all motels they have these indians running it and they don't they they they just take they take the old news bedsheets and they shake them out and and then put them back on and then you see like freaking pubic hairs on the damn bed sheet that i says fuck this i went out i says give me my money back there's pubic hairs on the pillow there's pubic hairs on the damn bed you know what they're doing in there i saw they're selling it by the hour i saw them with my own eyes they had these old indian guys they've um they have to shake and go like this pubic hairs bother you you should get a better hotel damn right i should it's gross it's really it's disgusting you know you you yeah i spent a lot of money that night oh we me a e w spent a lot of money i drank like a fish at $15 i drink a lot all those $15 corona oh my god you spent a lot of money yeah uh you know what i like uh west of mike i like i used to get hot fudge sundae with vanilla ice cream and uh but i always tell them don't put the the toppings on top i did i i do a jerry sign for if i said put them on the bottom because this way when you go and scoop the ice cream you don't get the hot fudge dripping all over the outside of the glass and this way you get an even distribution every time you you grab some ice cream with the spoon you know what i mean jerry me and it all sets it gradually starts coming up are you talking about ice cream well mike says sundae is nice i like ice cream all right i like that do you want to start talking about beer or music i'm waiting wait do you want to talk about beer and music isn't for you isn't that the um no what about food you don't like food you don't eat what do you what do you have in your refrigerator nothing but nothing but beer you don't tell me about now there's how kogan owned a gymnasium tamper now he owns a restaurant restaurant and bar okay he doesn't know wonder what a gym mike has a question i wonder what an IPA would cost at a ballpark they cost a lot mike will you never go to the baseball games yeah what is uh did san francisco used to have a stadium called candlestick park and then they got it now they have a new one IPA i would say at a ball game it's pretty price like twenty dollars twenty fucking dollars yeah now california california is probably like fifty dollars speaking of craft beer california has a hell of a lot of micro breweries and craft beer oh no they're everywhere now it's in they're in every state and people are getting tired of it because it's expensive you know the the os the os what are you called the austere austere ous austerity no not austerity austere austere i think that's called has worn off because because the beer used to be a different thing you know because now it's over set right that's right in ron terrio has spoken about this listen i don't pay a lot for craft beer because i get brooklyn brewery products i get brooklyn brewery has a very nice quality lager and ipa and they're and they're very reasonably priced you know uh let's see darryl messiahs spent fifty bucks on coronas at the a that's not that's not too terrible or do you have like three years uh yeah a lot though yeah but did they would say he got drunk right yeah but was it just him fifty dollars or or him and his wife drinking corona i think it's just him but even even fifty dollars is if you're paying fifteen dollars for corona that's only that's only three coronas three and a half california is always inflation yeah inflation nation one hundred and fifty it says one hundred and fifty dollars to drink beer oh you mean total you could have bought yourself a nice outfit with that you know what you could have done uh uh darryl you could have given or listen what the event probably started in in the early evening right let's say let's say the event starts at seven p.m. it might have started eight i don't know i think i think they usually started eight you and you let's say you and your wife are going to the aew okay you go have a nice dinner maybe a buffet you stuff yourself you gorge yourself and and you have you drink craft beer at home you order a few pints at the restaurant then you go to the aew event and you go like this to them don't order nothing nothing just get the ticket and then when you're done you feel fine you feel fine you gotta there is there is a way to beat the system you can beat the system you gotta be really slick james i'm gonna send you something yeah send it to me on messenger so if i like it i could bring it up yeah bring it up here i think it'll be something bring it up for the uh interesting i'm gonna bring it up there from all it'll be interesting to check it out all right let me let me see what you're bringing we sent him all right there we go oh he looks he looked pretty big is this like uh is this really randy savage when he was like older well you gotta click on it let's see all right it's not it's not like you know porno hey it's not ai making him and make it in bigger than what he is no not that is that you got you got to put it on the show i don't want i don't want to promote it you don't want to promote it yeah miscellaneous is well let's let's um let's take a look see what they're doing over there they're booze hounds and the wacky the wacky world of booze hounds no no wonder why um chateau didn't come on my show when i sent him the link because he's already he's already on a booze hound show he's boozing it up you know where i haven't seen around uh eric foreignfelter i wonder if he's been busy with the with the with the band i don't know i wonder if they're getting they've been getting a lot of gigs lately because i haven't really seen him and all he was except he was getting heavily into the whiskey club right well i i he does wildcard wednesday um i put that on my group trader joe's only cost 56 thousand today you'll be you said you forgot a lot of items then got woodlands hot bar for dinner what what's woodlands hot bar meatballs and a mac and cheese and glazed chicken and rice too damn good what is it glazed with the chicken it's glazed with like uh it's glazed with the um sweet sour sauce the scum the scum what'd you call it before scum guppies mick didn't want ron jeremy mick didn't like guppy anyone anyone boggling snack and lately yeah i'm going to mind boggling so now they got a beer man over there remember the beer man well nice what i said you're breaking up a little bit james you're breaking up james connection lost reconnect come on james why what did i say it was wrong i don't want to promote them michael says yes you don't want to promote the the drunk guys oh you mean like just for laughs yes let's see what the fuck you're saying hooked on a freak hooked on a feeling they'll play the song let's just see the bullshit that that they're talking about all right yeah i mean you don't have to leave it for too long let's check in no i can't they're playing copyright music see how come they can play music and you can't that's my fault no youtube book no they're playing copyright music but how come they can play it on their channel well let let them get warnings from youtube i i i already went through that when i played uh south park episode clips i got i got a bunch of real juicy email from youtube they're playing the Beatles Beatles songs you played the Beatles no they were playing these songs what did you play no i was just i was just playing i was playing south park uh clips from when they were mocking the jersey shore show uh people from the jersey so what's more important once once what's more important what's more important is me not getting censored or having my audio muted by the Beatles or south park what i think south park i think watching south park episodes is funnier is more entertaining than what's more important though south park more important than the Beatles because because of the the humor in in the south park clips it was so maybe that's why they flagged you and they didn't they don't flag the booze house it was pretty funny yeah it was when they were making fun of new jersey people it was really funny there was like a satire exaggeration of the jersey shore and you even though you're from new jersey you can take you can take that as a joke but i'm not i'm not like i'm not i don't fall into the stereotype that south park you you don't think you do but somebody else from a different part of the country will probably loop you in with that if they hear that you're from new jersey if they see my mannerism some mannerism my way to them to them you're the same as the jersey shore yeah you are come together right now you get that song to a plane because you are well there there is some there is some truth to every stereotype there really is but you're not really a stereotype no you yourself are not a stereotype no i mean the jersey shore stuff is first of all it's way um younger than your time i would say you know what the show and all that shit that was way you know you weren't yeah but when i was in your 20s at the time but when i was going to tell you when you were in your 20s when i was going to dance clubs the 70s right that's when you know the techno started and and there were burritos the original so you were part of the original jersey shore i was part of the original yeah yeah you're you're an original guy i still have in the next generation kind of they copied off of what their their dad was doing you know their dad had the um the the uh button down shirt with with the chest hair sticking out i still have i still have did you have that i still have my uh i still have a couple of my spandex shirts from back then the lycra the tight lycra spandex shirts and then did did you have chest hair because i was a style right no i i never did that i i i felt very uncomfortable doing something like that no i i didn't do my dad did that there's pictures of of him in those days well i wish i wish people don't have hairy chests some of them do some of them do that's a pretty generalization statement to me oh it's like it's like somebody's saying well you don't have red hair it's like you know becky lynch and and shameless the man vince always made them dye their hair like like uh vince's dad wanted to dye whole covid's hair um red and because hulk hogan was supposed to be irish that's why his name was hogan that's hogan so that's why that's why all the images of leprecha leprecha they wanted you know that story right they had red hair no that um vince's dad wanted hogan to have red hair because that's why he called him hulk hogan because hulk hogan was supposed to be the irish guy and you know san martino was supposed to be the italian guy and then there was pager moralis who was the porto rican guy they would make the new york territory was all about race yes that's very true because that's how the population was though the population of the area was also terry terry bolea's father was italian and his mother was panamanian but he was supposed to be irish and that's why his name was hogan because hogan is actually an irish name his gimmick yeah his gimmick but that's what it is so hogan doesn't really you don't think of that it's not like an old malli or you know oh something but hogan is actually an irish name and and vincekman senior knew that you remember hogan you remember hogan series tv series i've seen it i didn't i didn't watch it at the time but i've seen it yeah well yeah uh a kernel hogan was played by bob crane who was known to go to a lot of perverted hollywood parties it was one of those i think that they were all like that right they're all a lot of them and a lot of them were i think hulk hogan actually you know tell you the real truth from from what i see and i know people say there's bad stuff about hulk hogan that he's racist or that he was like a power sticker backstage but um all these years from you know the 70s to the 80s and all those people like he knew back then that that are now they're all dead right hulk hogan is he's still in pretty good shape yeah i know he's he's old at this point he can't wrestle anymore but he's he's in pretty good shape you know compared to other people his age who they've all died yeah he said that he says oh a lot of the guys i i i wrestled with and traveled with are dead the majority of them right hulk or mallie i think the majority of them have have all died have died what about hulk magilla cutting that's what do you what is it about hulk hogan james you know let's stay on this topic i don't let me ask you a question do you and your wife ever eat in his in his restaurant yeah we have yeah have you have you seen him or the food is not um impressive the menu is not impressive it's it's like your your usual beach front area you know bullshit uh beach eats kind of like do they like do they have like uh florida version of fish and chips no i don't have they don't have anything fried fish it's just whatever you know chain restaurant type shit that's bullshit that's what it the food is not is not anything to be desired but it is you know the atmosphere and then hulk hogan shows up there now and again he was there the other the other like a week ago with rick flair i know i saw this picture well when you were there did he come in no i never saw him no but i don't go there that i've been there maybe like three times i wonder why i wonder why he keeps the food uh so low end low quality food yeah it's not it's not good like like if somebody got a hamburger the looks you know you know what no you know what is this james because people go there they're not going there for the food they go in there because it's hulk hogan's restaurant so they have like a store that they sell hogan's stuff in merchandise and you know they got all the stuff on the walls and i think they do put raw on on monday nights they put it on the tv's but you know you don't go there for the food yeah what about paper views did they put them no i'm i'm not sure about the paper maybe they do maybe they do peacock peacock shows it right i don't know james um i'm not like i don't really go there that often so you can't take it from me you know he should do he should be he should put get a room a big room and have like a hulk hogan nostalgic museum of his career or something like now everybody in the local area here respects hulk hogan because he's like a local legend he's a local hero and he's not an asshole because he goes out in public and he's very nice to everybody he goes shopping himself he doesn't hire somebody to go food shopping for him so you go to you go to the local publics and clear water beach and hulk hogan is there once a week you can see him walking around doing his own shopping you know so he acts like a regular guy and people probably say hi to him yeah and he's very nice to everybody he's very friendly and he doesn't give anybody an attitude you know so he loves clear water loves it yeah there's no um he's not pretentious or snobby nope nope he's not he's a very very nice guy nobody has a bad thing to say about him so you know he might have he might have been a politician during his wrestling career but who did he learn that from you know that's how it was when he was coming up yeah and and and he took he took it from who uh superfly not superfly but um billy graham billy graham billy graham super star billy graham billy graham and rick flair got it from rick flair it got it from buddy rogers a lot of from buddy rogers and buddy rogers got it from gorgeous george wagner was the first and uh yeah gorgeous george wagner and then freddy blasie was actually the second bleach blonde now do you know the story about the second gorgeous george no i don't even know gorgeous george waggers gorgeous george from the fifties yeah then there's gorgeous george from the nineties oh that's randy savages you know how she got her name legally because he always looked up to he was a big fan of gorgeous no it wasn't that it was that gorgeous george's grandson was a wrestler for wcw and his name was the the maestro really the maestro the maestro he was the grandson he was the grandson he was gorgeous gorgeous grandson and she was she wasn't originally she wasn't from the business she was like uh and uh the dancer she was from tampa she was a stripper from tampa yeah yeah that's what i was saying and that's that's where that's where randy savage matter very pretty girl i remember yeah no yeah yeah yeah very very very very hard i mean i remember i was only i was a young young kid and i remember watching back in in 1999 and i thought she was hotter hotter than even hotter than sable yes absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely and and and elizabeth was very plain next to gorgeous oh yeah very very very gorgeous george also now was very young compared to between gorgeous george's the grandson i don't remember so james um if you have a pen write it write it down because i don't remember off the top of my head the story but there is a story there and it's actually very interesting you could look it up now yeah i could look it up on the underwater between gorgeous gorgeous george's grandson and how he ended up giving the name to randy savage's girlfriend i don't exactly know how it happened no it wasn't even that it was about it was like a copyright thing about the name was what it was a legal thing okay it was copyright and then somehow was given to randy savage to where he can give it to somebody else and he gave it to her yeah well they um he was bill the randy savage and and his brother lanny was they were billed from sarasota they were in real life though right yeah sarasota sarasota sarasota is uh it's just south of me quite a way quite a way south no it's not that far it's an hour south no it's on it's on the gulf it's about an hour south of where i am well that's not bad an hour so no no it's not far at all sarasota is a town called punta gorda yeah punta gorda is a little bit further south yeah and then there's um my sister was saying uh anna maria island anna maria island yep that's actually further north closer to me oh yeah so anna maria island anna maria island comes before sarasota if you if you're going where is it sand is that near sannabelle no no just sannabelle is even further down south by fort miers that's where the hurricane hit oh yeah sannabelle island before it hit fort miers because it had to go through there first it's fort miers uh nape naples and marco marco island yep yeah but the um hurricane ean it was in 2022 it hit sannabelle island and then went from sannabelle island onto the mainland which is where that's where it hit fort miers and actually sannabelle island was uninhabitable for like six months yeah i know i know homestead which i've been homestead is actually by miami that's all the way on the other the other end i think i think it's part of date counting yeah it is part of date counting it's all the way by it's on the east coast by miami yeah but it's like the last town in florida before you hit kilargo and it's actually supposed to be a pretty bad area it's not it's not known as a good area but there is a race there's a racetrack there right they do what they do a race every year at homestead no and in homestead homestead they do a famous nascar race at least it's at least once a year it's a huge event and and uh i was thinking about the guy went to the grayhounds um i went to the grayhound track once but no homestead has a has a big event every year grayhounds chase the rabbit mechanical rabbit around but home the homestead is supposed to be a very very dangerous bad area yeah it was it wasn't so great when i was there and i guess it got worse yeah homestead yeah florida's got a lot of high crime florida has a lot of a lot of high crime yeah you gotta you gotta you gotta watch where you go sure i'm really surprised but it has a lot of very very beautiful nice areas that are crime-free so you just gotta you just gotta know where you're moving to you gotta know where you're where you are i'm surprised that a a politician that's supposed to be really tough on crime you know ron desantis republican doesn't crack down on these areas well he's he's only the governor he's not the mayor he he can't he's not there's not the mayor of the city see he can't send if you notice something james the mayors of all of these big cities in florida they're democrats or lando is the mayors of democrat tampa the mayors of democrat st petersburg the mayors of democrat and what do democrat mayors of now cities have in in there's so often it's not as bad as the other states because ron desantis won't allow that he's not gonna let it's not gonna let it go crazy like new york or chicago but he still lets the cities miami's a shithole it's not really a shithole right it's not or lando i don't want to say it's a shithole yeah internet severe internet problems um i never had this before on my um on my desktop um yeah i see in other words like like for instance like you know the wrestler oska she she lives she lives in a really nice looking or lando really pretty yeah quiet because but then again or lando it was a ghetto but it had it has a ghetto but the whole it's not the whole like the whole city's not ghetto it's a huge city right so there's bad parts of it and there's and there's good parts of it tampa has the same thing st petersburg has the same thing clear water has the same thing for water deal has the same thing yes sir i mean i think this is not this is this is not a um a florida thing this is an american thing even west palm beach i was in palm beach and and and it's all like it's all man there's all mansions there and and you drive you go over to canal into riviera beach florida and it's all like drug dealers and i'm used to this i'm not it's not like i'm not used to this i'm from new york so no you know one neighborhood that up here you up here where you have a really bad area is brooklyn is like that up here brooklyn's pretty brooklyn you can have the wrong have an area you can have an area where all like you know yuppies and gentrified and you know people with money and then all of a sudden you're driving you know maybe five minutes and you're in a bad area you're in like so james that's exactly how tampa is that's exactly how that's exactly how st pete is crown heights uh flat bush shitty shitty areas uh i don't know bed for cybersons i hear that's not good i hear they gentrified it maybe i don't know they gentrify everything but well gentrified it's good for the city i think it's good for the city it is it's good nobody get get get the get the scum out get the scum that's what julie annie did with that's what julie annie did right police commissioner bratton from boston massachusetts one of the good old days you can't you can't do that anymore i'm talking about a young a young julie annie we're all his faculty yeah they cleaned up new york he cleaned him um bill bratton faking heads i don't know why but but bratton was you got to have a tough police commissioner in a big city well he he also had a tough manager in the yankees right wait a minute in the 90s in the 90s uh all right it was the same time as julie annie and say it goes together you're talking about george george steinbrenner senior i think george yeah steinbrenner george steinbrenner would not tolerate bullshit this shit that they've been tolerating yeah several years no you couldn't throw the bat when you hit a home run right they weren't allowed to flip the bat there's no not that and no facial hair there's no he believes that if you wear the pinstripes you have to uphold the reputation you know the historic reputation and he uh he just didn't tolerate people that are well paid players that just uh got lazy and there was no there was no hustle you know like billy like a robinson cano there was a there's a lot of them like like billy martin can you imagine billy martin having a guy an expensive guy like uh john carlo stan is always getting hurt every year and he he only plays a part of the year and billy martin will be screaming bloody murder all right james i gotta get going man yeah me too um hold on let me just put up what cultural was right wanting to kick out the assault the assault migrants oh really how come they're still there though yeah democrats need to stop coddling you're right they well they pander they're pandering to the left george santos oh that guy is that the guy who said he was jewish what he wasn't he lied about everything george santos you remember when he wore his purple jacket look you look like a joker from batman i don't know i i just heard that he lies about like every aspect of his life he did so like who is he nobody you know what he knows who he is right because he just lies he's just some what the fuck is he what is he is he said he was like a Puerto rican jew or something right because he wanted to get like all the votes because because because he wanted to get all the new york votes on his side thank you darrow messias uh i guess uh i'll talk to um i'll talk to mcfundon raven tomorrow i won't bother him now because i think i think he was right tonight yeah because you know he really got aggravated you know the girl made plans to meet him at 6 p.m and and then the girls like uh then the girl says we have to meet for a short period of time because a friend of mine from out of town wants to meet me tonight after you and that didn't set right where then he then she changed it i think the 2 p.m and then she she canceled him out like no she she's stiffed him so he drove he drove all the way to the restaurant or yeah to the restaurant and and and she says oh i'm not come i'm not on the road you know he texted her and says where are you she says i'm not coming uh uh uh uh after after he drove there and uh that's pretty shitty that's pretty shitty anyway poor guy you know and these these girls are they stay they they stink on ice like old man louisie told me years ago yeah in a 19 what can you do james what can you do but it's a human race the human race is is a vile species it really is it's like it's simple it's sinful as all hell it's not just the women it's the men too scuma like grandfather used to say scuma it means scum scuma anyway thank you for um the um now i'm i'm interested in watching the rest of that dutch mantel dutch mantel and that kid they i think they got they have chemistry they got the best great wrestling talk i think you know yeah they do pretty good together all right james i'll talk to you uh i guess tomorrow yeah i'll talk to you tomorrow i'll be i'll be live with the uh the sunday fun day sunday sunday you're really on pre superbowl man yeah pre pre pre yeah pre superbowl all right cool and i'll talk to you tonight mr mike says listen and boycotting dating this entire situation is deteriorating every every everyone is a shit shit a kaka you're absolutely right glad for friends and good food food and grog i like that word i wonder what the the history of the word grog it means it means booze right or just drink good food and grog bread and circus no that's something else right bread and circus bread and circus yeah let me play a little circus movement music feel all right on that note i'm getting a tad bit hungry i think i'm going to partake in a nice big mackerel salad sandwich with dave's killer bread that's right dave's killer 21 grain bread the best quality bread on the market today and i also have dave's killer bagels cinnamon raisin but i like the uh the mixberry but the damn stinking supermarket vendor doesn't only got them in one time i don't know why they're retarded because the dave's killer mixberry that the berry bagels are absolute bomb they're absolutely delicious and i believe the dave's killer bread is made in it's either in california or oregon it's on the west coast definitely what the fuck what did you say night y'all's us good night my friend so i'll see you tomorrow


Russia supplies oil directly to North Korea in exchange for weapons. Russia began providing direct oil supplies to North Korea defying UN sanctions. In exchange for oil, Russia receives weapons according to the Financial Times. According to satellite images provided by the Royal United Services Institute, a UK think tank, at least five North Korean tankers visited the Vostochny Port in Russia's Far East this month to obtain petroleum products. The shipments, which began on 7 March, are the first documented direct maritime shipments from Russia since the United Nations Security Council with Moscow's approval imposed strict limits on oil shipments in response to Pyongyang's nuclear tests in 2017. These oil deliveries constitute a full frontal assault against the sanctions regime, which is now on the brink of collapse, said Hugh Griffiths, former co-chair of the UN sanctions monitoring group on North Korea. Ships flying the North Korean flag and classified as petroleum product, tankers visited the same berth owned by a Russian oil company in the Vostochny Port, where they appeared to be loading. Satellite images confirmed that two of these vessels departed from the Vostochny Port for the North Korean port of Chongjin, where they most likely unloaded. The vessels we've seen at Russian terminals are some of the largest capacity vessels in North Korea's fleet, and the vessels are continually sailing in and out of the port, said Royal United Services Institute researcher Joseph Byrne. The shipments follow North Korea's shipment of thousands of ammunition containers to Russia since last August, which military experts say has had a significant impact on the course of Moscow's war in Ukraine. According to RUSI, the Vostochny Port also served as a hub for Russian ships allegedly involved in cross-border arms trade. What we can see now is a clear arms for oil bartering arrangement in open contravention of sanctions that Russian President Vladimir Putin signed off on personally, Griffiths said. The apparent oil for arms trade comes at a time when Western diplomats are rushing to keep a UN panel that monitors North Korean sanctions in place, fearing that Russia will veto the body's mandate extension. Russian missile passed over Poland. Poles refused to shoot it down so as not to endanger people. Lieutenant General Jacek Gorizowski, spokesperson for the operational command of the Armed Forces of Poland, has explained that a Russian missile that entered Polish airspace on the night of the 23rd to the 24th of March was not downed because the Polish military realized that it would leave Poland's airspace and an attempt to down it would have put civilians at risk. Gorizowski explained that the decision not to shoot down the missile was taken by the commander of the Armed Forces operational command. The decision was based on the information from our radar systems. The assessment of the missile's trajectory, speed and altitude showed that it would leave our airspace, he added. He added that an attempt to down the missile would have posed a greater risk for locals. A missile weighs over two tons, 400 kilograms of which is the payload. After the missile had been downed, missile debris would have fallen on our territory. The remains of the effector used to down it would also have landed there, he explained. Gorizowski noted that if the missile had flown deeper into Poland, a decision to down it using pairs of F-16 fighter jets may have been taken. It is the operational commander who assesses the situation and is authorized to make that decision. On the other hand, even after receiving permission to down a missile, a fighter jet pilot may decide not to do it if there is a risk that debris could fall on a hospital or a school. The location of the missile's landing site is also important in making the decision, he explained. Gorizowski added that Russia deliberately maneuvers its missiles in such a way that they circle round and strike targets in Ukraine from the west. The Ukrainian air defense has realized that most Russian missiles come from the east or north. The defenders are less likely to expect an attack from the west, he said. On the 24th of March, Polish airspace was violated by a maneuvering missile launched from a long-range Russian warplane. The missile entered Polish airspace near the village of Osado in the Lublin Voivodeship and remained there for 39 seconds.


You can't vote your way out of a mess you never voted yourself into. Well, it's that time again. Time for everyone to spend a year and a half pouring mountains of mental energy into arguing about who should be the next president of the United States of America. Friendships will be shattered. Family dinners will be ruined. Social media activists will lose themselves in weeks-long flame wars. And, when all is said and done, the person sworn into office on January 2024 will oversee an administration which governs more or less the same as their predecessors. As Tom Woods put it, no matter who you vote for, you get John McCain. I'm writing this article now because I'm already getting a bunch of questions about this election and who I think is best and worst and why. And I know I'm going to get a whole lot more. Many Americans get so swept up in this thing it often looks odd to them to see someone talking about their government without talking about the presidential race when it's in season. So, to be perfectly clear, I will not be supporting or cheerleading any candidate in this election. Not because I don't think Australians have a right to involve themselves in US politics. We absolutely do. But because US presidential elections are a performance designed to trick Americans into thinking they have any meaningful control over the major decisions that will be made by their government. They're the unplugged video game controller you give your baby brother so you can stop him from whining to play without actually letting him play. I am not saying not to vote. By all means vote if you want to.  I'm assuming Americans also get sausages at their voting sites. And vote for whomever you please. Vote for Biden. Vote for Ronald DeSantrump. Write in Warwick Davis, star of the 1988 cult classic fantasy film Willow. Write in a pot of laundry detergent. It will make the exact same amount of difference to the large scale operations of the US government. So on election day, please do as you wish. How often do you get to make a decision that's completely free of any consequences of any kind? Whoever you vote for or don't vote for, you can sleep free and easy knowing that it made no difference to anything at all. Like eating a single cucumber slice with no dressing. This is because the US presidency is too important to be left in the hands of the electorate. If you live in a western democracy and you want a road fixed or a school bus route changed, then you might find some recourse in electoral politics if you are lucky. But the position that is officially responsible for overseeing the operation of a globe-spanning empire is not something that you will ever be permitted to vote on. There's just too much power riding on it. That's why any third party or primary candidates who might pose a challenge to the machine will never be permitted to get to the general election. If they look like they might put a wobble on things, they'll be demonized, marginalized, and otherwise pushed off course. Only those trusted by the empire will be allowed to cross the velvet rope by the imperial bouncers. And yes, I'm sorry, Trumpers, but this includes your guy. He'd never have made it through if he wasn't trusted, and indeed he spent his entire term advancing long-standing empire agendas. Only those willing to sign off on all the murderous, tyrannical things that need to be done to keep a globe-spanning empire on the top of the world order will get to be president. They don't really need to have any other qualities than that, a willingness to either actively facilitate the empire's interests or passively allow the empire managers to do what they need to do. The fact that a literal dementia patient sits in the White House currently is all the proof of this you could possibly need that this is the case. All that's required of a U.S. president is to not get in the way while the empire managers do their thing. A bottle of kombucha could do Biden's job and do it just as well. The truth of the matter is that you can't vote your way out of a mess you never voted your way into in the first place. You never voted for any of this. You never voted for your government to circle the planet with hundreds of military bases and continuously work to destroy any government which disobeys it. You never voted for your government to imperil the world with rapidly escalating brinkmanship against nuclear-armed nations. You never voted to base your entire civilization on the pursuit of profit while shoving your biosphere into the capitalist machine like a tree branch into a wood chipper. You never voted to let pollutocrats or war profiteers make decisions for your government while normal people suffer in toil to scrape by. You never voted to let billionaires live as kings while homeless people shiver in tents. You never voted for surging authoritarianism with more and more police militarization, surveillance, censorship, propaganda, and control. You never voted to create this freakish dystopia while all political oxygen gets funneled toward vapid culture war debates which threaten the powerful in no way while any effort to effect meaningful change is ground into the dust. None of those things were ever on the ballot and they won't be in November of next year either. What will be on the ballot is whether you want all of those things to continue under the office of someone with a D or an R next to their name. This doesn't mean there's nothing anyone can do to make things better. It just means nothing will be made meaningfully better by the results of the US presidential election. If a building is on fire and everyone's pushing on a fake door that's painted on the wall, that doesn't mean it's impossible to escape the building. But it does mean they need to stop pushing on the fake door and start looking for real exits if they're going to get out.


GitLab 15.8 introduced a new feature called Value Stream Dashboard. It is a dashboard with executive level summary of scheme metrics related to the flow of value across the organization. The dashboard helps executives and software leaders to identify bottlenecks in their software delivery workflow and optimize it. My name is Itzigan Baruch. I'm a Senior Technical Marketing Manager here at GitLab, and I'm excited to show you demo of this new feature. I have here a GitLab group and I opened the Value Stream Dashboard. As you notice, this is a beta and actually it is a closed beta. It is not available currently for production use. If you want, you can use this feedback issue to provide any feedback to the product team. What we see here in this dashboard? On the left column, we can see the list of key flow metrics. The third four are the famous Dora 4 metrics, deployment frequency, lead time for changes, time to restore service, and change failure rate. We have also another performance metrics like lead time, cycle time, new issues, and deploys. In the right columns, you can see the values of each metric. Now you can compare between the different metrics, but also between the performance between months. We have three columns, month to date, the previous month, and the month before. On the right column, you can see a sparkline of the past six months that helps to detect seasonalities. For example, here we can see the deployment frequency, where we decrease of 15%, but if we go to the sparkline, we will be able to see if it's something that happens only in one month or it's a trend. In this case, we see it's December, we know everyone went to a break due to the holidays, and we see that in January there is an improvement. In this case, as a leader, I would not take an action at this stage, at least not, I would continue to follow on this metric. Now let's see another example. Here for the lead time, I can see that in December there was a decrease in the lead time, and this decrease continues in January. So in this case, what I can do is do a further investigation to go to the underlying data, and I will drill down. This opens for me the value stream analytics, where I can see how the time was spent for the lead time, so I can see that the overview took two weeks, and I can do another drill down, what are the stages that contributed to these two weeks? For example, the planning stage, the coding stage, the testing, reviewing and staging, and from here I can do a further drill down, and click on one of each of those stages, and see the actual work, the issues or merit requests of that, and I can filter that by duration, and now I can see all of the relevant issues that contributed to these two weeks of planning, and I can do a further drill down and open some of those issues, like this one, I can get to the description of the issue, see all of the events that happened in the issue, someone added labels, removed label, all of the discussions and the events that happened, which helps me to try to analyze if there is anything that I am as a leader can help and improve, and by the way all of these stages are customizable, so we know that every team or a company or a project has different stages in their development workflow, so easily you can add your customizable workflow in your value stream. By the way, each of those metrics you can go and drill down, so I will not show you all of those, but I want to show you a couple more, so I will open the deployment frequency, and in the deployment frequency, you can see all of the deployments for different period of times from last week to past six months, and the last drill down that I will want to show you in this demo is the new issues, and I added a filter label equal type features, so in this graph I can see how many new issues awaited for new features for each month. So you also can compare between different groups and subgroups or projects, so I will show you a customizable view of a dashboard, so in this case I added to the GitLab way, or I added also other projects to the view, GitLab project, GitLab design project, GitLab docs project, and GitLab fast project, so now I have a group and few projects that they can compare the performance and see what are the areas for improvements between different teams and projects. If you want to learn more about the future and the roadmap of the value stream dashboard, you can go to this epic, and here you can see examples of new customizable widgets that the product team will add in the upcoming milestones, and those metrics will not only be for performance but also for vulnerabilities, for security and compliance. Another interesting data that will be left to the dashboard is the correlation between business value metrics like revenue and cost to the technical value metrics. So with that I would like to conclude this demo. Hope you find the new dashboard useful for you, and thank you for watching.