The TSA - Episode 378

[00:00:00] Hello everybody, welcome to Forgive and Forget. My name is Hal Sadi, aka Halu, and this is a show where you know me, man. I'm just talking shit and stuff, you know, bro. Hey, hey, hey, hey.

[00:00:11] So yeah, man, it's been since Thanksgiving. I was gonna post over the weekend and then I just kept pushing it and kept pushing it and kept pushing it and I didn't do it. So I'm here, man. I'm here on a Tuesday, baby. Let's go, man.

[00:00:26] So yeah, let me give you a brief update about what's going on. Had a fun Thanksgiving. Came back and you know what it is, man.

[00:00:37] So where my in-laws live, they live in way up north of Minnesota, so we gotta do a lot of driving to get to the closest airport.

[00:00:45] And after that, you know, fly to Minneapolis and then from Minneapolis, go to Austin, you know, bro? That's how we do it, man.

[00:00:56] That's how we do it over here. Life is amazing, you know? That's what's going on.

[00:01:02] So yeah, and then during the time in Minnesota, we began posting stuff for our other podcast, for my other podcast with Ernest. Ernest has been on this show.

[00:01:15] Ernest, I haven't seen you. And yeah, we've been posting clips for that one. And I've been wanting to post more for this one.

[00:01:25] But the other one just takes so much time. So I'm, for the time being, I'm just recording the episodes here.

[00:01:32] And I'll let these followers come on organically, you know? I'm just gonna have fun with you guys, you know?

[00:01:37] I'm just gonna have fun. And that's what we're gonna do.

[00:01:40] And then the other one, I'll actively be posting. But you'll see me posting on the Grams, guys.

[00:01:46] On the Grams, Instagrams, and the TikToks, and the YouTube. I try posting on Facebook and Twitter, bro.

[00:01:53] So, no views. It's like those reels don't, unless you build following. I don't know how that works, okay?

[00:02:00] The other places, you post something, and they send it to the ether. And if people like them, you get views.

[00:02:08] So, I don't know how you deal with the other two guys. So, this is what we're doing right now, you know?

[00:02:16] But, I will, I will, here's where you can come in and check in with me, guys.

[00:02:21] Come in and check in with me. Come in and check in with me.

[00:02:25] Yeah, I haven't sang a song to you guys in a while. Didn't you miss that? You guys.

[00:02:32] So, yeah. And then, been doing podcasts and all that stuff. Get back, getting back into stand-up.

[00:02:38] Had a, whew, last week was a rough one in comedy, baby.

[00:02:44] Getting back in the groove of things. It was just bombing quite a bit. Quite a bit, I would say, man.

[00:02:52] So, but I'm working on it. I'm getting better at writing stuff. I'm revisiting old premises and making them better and things like that.

[00:03:00] Because I'm building my act, baby. That's what I'm doing. Building the act, having some fun, bringing you the goods, baby.

[00:03:10] So, yeah. So, that's what we've been doing.

[00:03:13] Guys, I think the...

[00:03:17] Let's move on and let me talk about this.

[00:03:19] I think the TSA gets a lot of shit, guys.

[00:03:22] You know, because they literally send them poop.

[00:03:24] They send them the poop and I think that's a shame, you know?

[00:03:28] For them to work there.

[00:03:32] But honestly, like, seriously, like, it's quite possibly one of the worst jobs in the world.

[00:03:39] And I...

[00:03:40] Nobody cares about them, you know?

[00:03:42] Like, I think...

[00:03:43] Look, imagine if you gotta feel up...

[00:03:46] Imagine being a TSA agent and suddenly you have to feel somebody up.

[00:03:50] And they're not attractive.

[00:03:51] Which most of us aren't, you know?

[00:03:55] So, I guess that includes a lot of married couple in there.

[00:03:58] That makes the married couple feel comfortable.

[00:04:03] But look, man.

[00:04:04] I love them.

[00:04:05] Okay?

[00:04:05] You know why?

[00:04:06] Because a couple times I...

[00:04:09] They went through my luggage.

[00:04:12] A couple times I opened my luggage and I found there was a letter from them.

[00:04:20] And here's...

[00:04:21] So, they love me.

[00:04:22] Guys, it's reciprocal.

[00:04:25] Look, I've got...

[00:04:26] I've had loved ones go through my shit.

[00:04:28] And then I didn't hear a peep out of them.

[00:04:30] So, that just tells me...

[00:04:32] Look, they're violating my privacy.

[00:04:35] Sure.

[00:04:36] But to me, that's more love.

[00:04:38] Because at least they're telling me that they did it.

[00:04:40] You know?

[00:04:41] Almost bit my tongue there.

[00:04:42] So, I don't know, guys.

[00:04:44] Yeah.

[00:04:45] I find...

[00:04:46] I find it interesting that sometimes the TSA does huddles in the mornings.

[00:04:50] And what are those huddles about?

[00:04:53] Like, are they just telling everybody, hey, don't let Nancy get in the luggage scanner again?

[00:04:59] Okay, guys?

[00:05:00] Because she's a tricky lady.

[00:05:03] She tries to get in those little...

[00:05:05] And those little roller bags.

[00:05:07] The little ones.

[00:05:08] Oh.

[00:05:10] But they do have a sense of humor, too.

[00:05:11] Like, one time, I was wearing a Game Boy shirt.

[00:05:14] I don't know if I still had this when I was doing...

[00:05:17] When I started doing the podcast and video.

[00:05:19] But it may be.

[00:05:20] Maybe.

[00:05:20] Maybe it's still there.

[00:05:21] I had a game...

[00:05:22] Yeah, maybe.

[00:05:23] I think I do.

[00:05:23] You might see me wearing a Game Boy shirt.

[00:05:26] It's a Game Boy shirt.

[00:05:28] And...

[00:05:29] I was gonna go through the X-ray scanner thing.

[00:05:32] And the guy is like,

[00:05:33] Hey, excuse me, sir.

[00:05:36] The electronics go into separate bins.

[00:05:38] I'm like...

[00:05:40] Huh?

[00:05:41] And he kept saying...

[00:05:42] And he repeated it.

[00:05:43] And then it hit me.

[00:05:44] Oh, I'm wearing a Game Boy shirt.

[00:05:45] And then I'm like...

[00:05:47] Huh?

[00:05:48] And then I went and cleaned my slacks.

[00:05:50] Because I shat myself, guys.

[00:05:52] Because you didn't get my drift.

[00:05:54] So...

[00:05:56] So...

[00:05:57] Um...

[00:05:58] Alrighty.

[00:05:59] But, uh...

[00:06:00] What I think...

[00:06:01] What I think, though,

[00:06:03] is that whenever something goes wrong,

[00:06:04] it gets blown out of proportion.

[00:06:06] And I think that sucks.

[00:06:07] Because, you know, like back in the day

[00:06:09] when they first introduced those X-ray scanners,

[00:06:11] people went ballistic.

[00:06:12] They're like,

[00:06:12] I don't want them looking at my genitalia.

[00:06:14] This is a violation of my property.

[00:06:17] My privacy.

[00:06:18] I don't want them looking at my genitalia.

[00:06:21] Why not?

[00:06:22] You know?

[00:06:23] Let someone enjoy it.

[00:06:25] Let some...

[00:06:26] You're not using it.

[00:06:28] Let them rub one out, guys.

[00:06:31] That's what I'm saying.

[00:06:33] Um...

[00:06:34] I'm sure those scanners cause cancer.

[00:06:36] But at least someone's got to enjoy the experience.

[00:06:39] You know?

[00:06:40] Hmm.

[00:06:43] Sometimes you just gotta break a few eggs

[00:06:44] to make an omelet.

[00:06:45] That's what they say.

[00:06:47] Guys.

[00:06:48] Alright.

[00:06:48] Alright, that was a written portion

[00:06:50] of something.

[00:06:51] I don't know if it's any good.

[00:06:52] I'm gonna test it out tonight.

[00:06:54] I've been revisiting this.

[00:06:55] I had this joke back in the day.

[00:06:57] And I've been revisiting it.

[00:06:59] And we'll see.

[00:07:01] That's kind of my rehearsal, guys.

[00:07:06] So, yeah.

[00:07:08] Alright.

[00:07:09] I'm gonna go through the...

[00:07:10] Whatever's trending now.

[00:07:12] Cause I'm a man of the people, guys.

[00:07:14] I'm looking at the trends.

[00:07:16] And I don't...

[00:07:17] I'll be honest.

[00:07:18] I don't know any of them.

[00:07:19] I don't know what's going on.

[00:07:21] So, I guess the Bengals...

[00:07:23] The Cowboys versus the Bengals.

[00:07:25] That was...

[00:07:25] That was last night.

[00:07:26] Monday night football.

[00:07:28] Every...

[00:07:28] I wonder if...

[00:07:29] I think the Bengals won.

[00:07:31] Right?

[00:07:33] Let's see.

[00:07:36] Explore.

[00:07:36] Search it.

[00:07:37] What happened with the Bengals?

[00:07:38] Yeah, they beat the...

[00:07:39] Dude, the Cowboys are in the shitter.

[00:07:42] Like, this year has been extremely bad.

[00:07:44] I guess they got a lot of injuries and stuff.

[00:07:47] Anyway.

[00:07:48] Second one is the Malibu Fire.

[00:07:49] I guess there was a fire in Malibu.

[00:07:52] And I guess that happens in California.

[00:07:54] I used to live there, guys.

[00:07:56] It happens.

[00:07:57] I was never in the line of fire.

[00:07:59] There was one time where...

[00:08:01] I used to live in a place called Glendale, California.

[00:08:04] And where we lived...

[00:08:06] When you get on the freeway...

[00:08:08] There was a mountain.

[00:08:09] So, there was a mountain area.

[00:08:12] And in that mountain area, that got a lot of fires.

[00:08:16] But...

[00:08:16] I'm trying to like...

[00:08:19] I'll do this separately.

[00:08:20] It's not for the podcast.

[00:08:21] I was just trying to remember exactly how I got on the freeway.

[00:08:24] Because it's been a little bit since I did that.

[00:08:27] But...

[00:08:28] That was close.

[00:08:29] But it was still like a couple miles away from me or something like that.

[00:08:32] I don't remember.

[00:08:33] But anyway.

[00:08:34] Yeah.

[00:08:34] That's what happens in California.

[00:08:36] You get forest fires.

[00:08:38] I guess they don't trim the stuff.

[00:08:40] I don't know if it's good that they don't...

[00:08:41] Well, nature does that automatically.

[00:08:43] But it still sucks for the animals, you know?

[00:08:46] But nature knows best.

[00:08:48] I don't know, guys.

[00:08:48] I don't know how things work.

[00:08:50] If you didn't know this by now.

[00:08:53] Alright.

[00:08:53] Nikki Giovanni.

[00:08:54] Who the hell is Nikki Giovanni?

[00:08:58] Nikki Giovanni, poet who wrote of Black Joy.

[00:09:00] Oh, she passed away.

[00:09:01] God rest your soul, madam.

[00:09:03] She was a poet.

[00:09:07] 28 years later...

[00:09:09] Oh, I guess it's the sequel to 28 weeks later.

[00:09:14] Yeah?

[00:09:15] Right?

[00:09:15] Is that that the movie?

[00:09:17] 28 years later is an upcoming post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Danny Boyle who co-wrote

[00:09:23] the screenplay with Alex Garland.

[00:09:24] It's the third installment in the 28 days later.

[00:09:27] Oh, 28...

[00:09:27] Okay.

[00:09:27] So, it was 28 days later, 28 weeks later.

[00:09:30] Now, it's 28 years later.

[00:09:31] Oh, my goodness.

[00:09:32] They're just...

[00:09:33] How about 28 months later, guys?

[00:09:35] And then go from 28 years.

[00:09:38] I mean, you skipped a sequel.

[00:09:40] I guess you'll come back to it later.

[00:09:42] I guess you'll come back to it later, guys.

[00:09:45] And...

[00:09:46] Champs, here's...

[00:09:47] So, these are like the Google Trends by volume, right?

[00:09:51] I was...

[00:09:51] One of the other times I did this, and it was going...

[00:09:56] Talking about the Champions League.

[00:09:59] And a buddy of mine said, hey, man, none of those...

[00:10:01] They weren't talking...

[00:10:02] People aren't following soccer here.

[00:10:05] Football.

[00:10:05] Football.

[00:10:06] It was something to do with some sort of bombing or something that happened at a Champions League game.

[00:10:14] And I'm like, bro, I keep seeing this every single week.

[00:10:17] Like, Champions League is number five on the list.

[00:10:22] One, two, three, four...

[00:10:23] Yeah, number five.

[00:10:24] I guess the way they made the league...

[00:10:26] They changed the league, apparently.

[00:10:28] I haven't...

[00:10:28] Honestly, I haven't watched a football game.

[00:10:31] Football.

[00:10:32] A soccer game in a while.

[00:10:33] I mean, I watched a few.

[00:10:35] I watched the Champions League final.

[00:10:37] Real Madrid beat Borussia Dortmund.

[00:10:40] But I just haven't had the time, guys.

[00:10:44] Haven't had the time for this.

[00:10:45] I want to get back into it.

[00:10:46] I love sports.

[00:10:48] I love sports.

[00:10:49] I have been watching more football here and there.

[00:10:53] Not much either.

[00:10:55] I watched the Lions beat the Packers last week.

[00:10:59] That was great.

[00:11:00] That was great.

[00:11:01] Go Lions, baby.

[00:11:02] You know, I'm a Patriots fan, but the Lions is where my family's at.

[00:11:06] So I always root for the Lions.

[00:11:08] I always did.

[00:11:09] But, you know, they were always shit.

[00:11:11] So now I can root for them.

[00:11:13] I can root for them.

[00:11:16] They're winning.

[00:11:17] I'm a bandwagon fan, guys.

[00:11:19] What do you expect from me?

[00:11:21] And then there's one about an earthquake near me.

[00:11:24] Okay.

[00:11:24] There was a...

[00:11:25] I guess...

[00:11:26] Shit.

[00:11:28] I guess there was a...

[00:11:30] Jesus Christ, man.

[00:11:31] There was an earthquake in Nevada and California.

[00:11:35] Northern California is taking a beating, man.

[00:11:37] And California is taking a beating right now.

[00:11:39] Like the fires of Malibu, earthquake.

[00:11:41] And apparently the...

[00:11:45] Whatchamacallit?

[00:11:45] San Francisco just froze over, kind of.

[00:11:48] I mean, it's...

[00:11:50] People...

[00:11:50] It's starting to get cold, guys.

[00:11:52] Starting to get cold.

[00:11:53] Oh, yeah.

[00:11:54] By the way, I don't know if I mentioned this before, but we were doing cold plunges in

[00:11:58] the morning.

[00:11:59] And when I went to Minnesota, we didn't have the cold plunge.

[00:12:01] But it was...

[00:12:02] You know, I took cold showers and that water got pretty cold.

[00:12:07] Pretty chilly, man.

[00:12:10] So...

[00:12:12] But, you know, a shower is not the same as like diving into a pool full of water.

[00:12:17] Full of water.

[00:12:18] Yeah, I think I mentioned this.

[00:12:19] But anyway, when I got back, like I couldn't even last a minute.

[00:12:21] I stayed there a minute and I'm like, I gotta get out.

[00:12:24] And then I had to build it back up, guys.

[00:12:27] Because it just couldn't be done at the time, you know?

[00:12:30] I was just gonna freeze my ass off.

[00:12:33] So these last few days have been warming up a little bit, but I think it's gonna get

[00:12:37] cooler again.

[00:12:38] Because the high today, let's talk about the weather, guys.

[00:12:40] This is how interesting it's been.

[00:12:43] Anyway, that's...

[00:12:44] I'm gonna end it there, guys.

[00:12:47] I'll record sometime earlier next week.

[00:12:50] That way I can keep this consistent again, guys.

[00:12:52] And then I'll tell you more about what's going on, man.

[00:12:55] More what's going on.

[00:12:57] What's going on.

[00:12:58] All right, people.

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