It ain't got no gas in it.

Hey, we're recording the podcast.

Shut up.

Good morning to you, wherever you are, because it is morning somewhere.

For December 3rd, 2025, so early.

My name is Bernie Burns.

Sitting right over there. No, she won't do the voice anymore.

It's Ashley Burns. I was giving that, that's a clip from Slingblade. Some people call it a Kaiser

Blade. That's Billy Bob Thornton. Self-directed. Do you know that he directed that movie?

Did he? Yeah, yeah. He launched his own career. And it was 1996 that movie came out. And he does not play, I haven't seen him play anything like, is it Carl, the name of the character from Slingblade? But I got to thinking, the kind of guy Billy Bob Thornton is now, like the, he's very much a persona, right? Right. Yeah, you see me, see clips. He's like, he's like a living character. Yeah, and I wonder if it's like, if anyone asked him to do the voice from Slingblade and like an interview now, I bet it would be a big deal. I'm not doing the voice too. Not doing it. But it's cool. It's cool to see somebody who, you know, just kind of kickstarts their own career like that. And we'll tell. We have a story today about Francis Ford Coppola that kind of plays into that. But I want to talk to really quickly follow up on yesterday. We got a lot of voicemails. A lot of voicemails. We got a lot of voicemails yesterday about the talk about Black Friday sales and the K-shaped economy and everything else.

I will say this.

There were a lot of people who left voicemails who gave a lot of personally identifying information.

So we're not going to share that.

There was one guy I really wanted to talk about.

He was, he mentioned that he was a, he had a CDL. I found out too, actually, the people who

love voicemails really very different than what I've experienced from people who leave

internet comments. Is that fair to say? Possibly. Yeah, a lot of, like, we know a lot of

commuters listen to the show, but there's a lot of like what I consider like blue collar,

like people that prop up the entire economy with the work, keep everything running. And there was a guy

who called in, got a commercial truck driver driving license. He works for a very well-known

American softering company. And I won't say what, even though he said, because I don't want

anybody get in trouble. But it was really cool because he gave very specific information about the money that he used to make.

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