Hey, what's going on? It's Bill Byrne. It's time for the Thursday afternoon just before Friday Monday morning podcast and I'm just checking it on you today.

Hey, what's going on? How are you? It's really Thursday afternoon.

I forgot it was Thursday. I've been so fucking busy doing something that I'm not allowed to announce yet.

Wink, wink, wink, wink, wink, wink, wink, wink, wink, wink, wink, wink, um, for whatever fucking reason and my phone shit the bed, my phone shit the bed, my fucking red, um, my phone shit the bed and, uh, so I had to go over to Verizon.

And, uh, see what the fuck was wrong with it turns out when I went to all Canada, none of our teams are in the playoffs, but we still have syrup.

Let's all start a fucking riot when I went up there. I didn't have a cell phone plan. So Verizon just decided out of the fucking blue to, um, I don't know, just put some sort of block on the thing so I wouldn't get some sort of extra charges, which I had already resigned myself to getting.

I'm just like, fuck it. I'm not getting the plan. I'm up here for three, four days. I'll have a big cell phone bill. What do I give a fuck? I don't give a shit. You want me to write some numbers on a piece of paper and then you stick it in the thing and then the numbers show up on the screen.

I mean, that's how much what money means to me at this fucking point. It's just like, well, what do you want me to write on the little piece of paper?

Who gives a fuck? When we put a smiley face in the zeros, that's all we're doing. None of us has anything of value. We just got a bunch of stuff in a fucking hell of Jesus bill. You going down this? I am. I am going down this road.

How many people do you know have anything? A fucking piece of silver. Some gold. Whatever happened to us. We used to be gentlemen.

Right. I went to a state home. We rode around on a donkey with our curly-cued moustaches. We had a little satchel of fucking gold or some shit. Right?

And some bandits would come along and they take it from you. Right? All dressed in green with their fucking, you know, leotards on all that Robin Hood shit. Right?

And there was some brought up in the tower. All of that is gone. It's all gone now. Now you work all week. They give you a little piece of paper. It's got some numbers on it. You stick it into the ATM and then the numbers show up. Right?

Somebody goes, hey, you owe me some money. All right. I'll write some numbers on the fucking piece of paper. You go, all right. Thank you.

You know, it all works until it doesn't. And then what are you just going to have a, you're not going to have anything. So anyways, yeah, so I don't give a fuck. I'm what do you, I have any big cell phone bill.

What do I give a shit if it's more numbers on a piece of paper? It's not. I don't know. I guess at the end of the day it is worth something. But I just, I don't give a shit about a high cell phone bill.

And I don't give a shit about sky miles. I just don't give a fuck. You know what I mean? You know like when you have some miles with somebody and they go, oh, you better use these.

You better use, they're going to expire. I always call them up. Yeah. Yeah, I want you know, you can keep them. I don't need your fucking miles. All right. Take them now. I don't give a shit. Stop threatening me with your stupid fucking miles.

Buy now. If I need a plane ticket, I'll buy one. Anything to not have to go into your fucking website and figure out where I can fly with my so called free miles. I already paid for them. Not free. You can't.

Oh, God, I'm in a mood. So anyway, so my phone didn't fucking work. So whatever. So I went up there and they put a block on it. So I wouldn't have to write a bigger number on a piece of paper and send it to them so they can stick it in their ATM machine.

And when I came back, it was still blocked. So I went over to the Verizon place, turned out the person to help me out was a fucking listener. Right. And he's trying to help me fix the phone and what's killing me is his company did the thing to my phone that's now made my phone fucked up and they can't figure out how to undo it.

And, you know, I tried as long as I could to keep my cool. I didn't flip out that, but I dropped a couple of f bombs. I'm glad he told me that, you know, he was a listener of the podcast because, you know, if he didn't say that, then I just would have been, you know, I wouldn't have been on my best behavior.

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