Why Service Animals, Entitled Customers, and Woke Corporations Drive Me Crazy

Ever wonder what happens when good manners collide with entitled pet owners? This raw, unfiltered morning chat dives straight into the shocking case of a brewery owner who fractured a steakhouse employee's skull with a plate—all because he was told not to feed his dog from the table. The incident opens a larger conversation about boundaries, entitlement, and the questionable effectiveness of emotional support animals.

The conversation shifts to the cultural battlefield of our everyday lives, examining how Anna Navarro publicly pressured Gloria Gaynor to decline her Kennedy Center honor simply because President Trump would be presenting it. This troubling example of partisan litmus tests for cultural achievements reveals how deeply political polarization has infected our appreciation of artistic excellence.

Perhaps most concerning is the marketing strategy shift among major cosmetic companies. Urban Decay's decision to hire a porn star to market makeup to teenage girls represents a dangerous normalization of adult content for young audiences. Similarly, ELF Cosmetics featuring both a controversial comedian and a drag queen in their advertisements suggests companies are deliberately courting controversy rather than focusing on product quality. These choices reflect an industry desperately trying to stand out by any means necessary, even at the cost of appropriate messaging.

The episode wraps with a personal triumph—quitting smoking after years of addiction. This story of breaking free from cigarettes through discovering a passion for CrossFit offers a refreshing moment of genuine achievement. What habit have you successfully broken? Share your story and join the conversation about setting better boundaries, both personally and culturally.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Morning Greeting and Exercise Update
• 1:34 Dog Drama at Steakhouse
• 5:21 Trump Derangement and Kennedy Center
• 7:31 Cosmetic Companies and Controversial Marketing
• 10:03 Quitting Smoking Success Story

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:15

Hey ho, good morning. It is Friday. Can you believe it? Can you believe a whole week has gone by so quickly? Alright, here we go. I have a couple of stories for you. Hopefully we can get through them quick enough so that I can maybe do a Dear Abby at the end. We'll see if I have enough time.

Speaker 1: 0:33

First of all, I'd like to thank Mr Shons for encouraging me to start running again. I don't know why I did it, but I did. Yesterday. I did pretty good, not bad. But look, I am not a runner. For somebody that's old, short and squatty, who hasn't run in years, I didn't do bad.

Speaker 1: 0:52

The workout was do four rounds. Okay, you run 600 meters four times, but in between those like you run 600 meters, come back, rest for three minutes and do that four times. And I did it, and I jogged the whole way. Now, did I jog fast? Hell, no, I was slow as crap, slower than snails. Let me tell you you could probably walk and keep up faster and probably outpace me.

Speaker 1: 1:19

All right, we need to move on to the stories. Nobody cares about that, carol. All right, here we go. Let's see to my X file. Let's start with wow. Okay, we're going to start with a former North Carolina brewery owner charged for throwing plate at steakhouse employees head after told not to feed his dog off the table.

Speaker 1: 1:43

Uh, now, I know a lot of you do not like Allie Beth Stuckey. I get it, I get it. I get why you don't like her, but she posted something on X the other day where she reposted a um story of a couple, an older couple that had I older, my age, uh, probably, but whatever, um, they, I guess, had their dog in the grocery and it somehow got in the produce section and climbed up in a shelf and they couldn't get him out, and she just simply said animals do not belong in public places, and I, you know, I have to tend to agree with her. I went to a town hall meeting the other day, and somebody brought their damn dog. Of course it had one of those vests on it, and let me tell you this couple they were older than me, they were so disruptive with all their crap, and I thought you know what, if I'm allergic to dogs? But no, I'm told that I have to be acceptance of their service animals. There's a difference, though, between somebody that's blind, somebody that really needs a dog to help them. That's different. I can handle that. Luckily I'm not allergic to dogs. But these other people with their emotional support things, you know what if? And tell me I have to be accepting of them, them, no, what if I'm allergic? Okay, I know I got way off topic here.

Speaker 1: 3:05

Let me get back to the main story, okay? So a former north carolina brew I already read all that david gary scholler, 49, the former proprietor of Edward Teach Brewing, was charged with assault inflicting serious injury on August 7th, two weeks after he allegedly attacked a Longhorn Steakhouse employee. The Wilmington Police Department wrote on Facebook. Police said that Scholler had his dog with him while dining at the steakhouse on July 23rd and began feeding him, began feeding the pup off the table. So instead of me reading all this, he was feeding the dog off the table, which means I guess he had him in the chair. Who knows where he had him, I don't know. Uh, not in the chair, but maybe in the booth seat next to him or whatever. He could have been on the floor, I don't know. But the waiter came over and said look, you can't feed your dog off the table. It's against health code, it's a health violation. And I guess the guy got so upset that he took a plate and slammed it up against his employee's head. I'll read a little bit of it to you. I'll read a little bit of it to you. Scholler then allegedly lost his cool after the waiter said he can't do that. The Scholler then allegedly lost his cool and began yelling obscenities and insults at the victim for an extended period of time. The victim eventually told Scholler he needed to leave the restaurant, further infuriating him. The employee then reached over to remove a porcelain plate from the suspect. When he grabbed the plate away and threw it forcefully against the employee's head, scholler allegedly hit the employee in the head so hard that it shattered on impact, leaving the victim with a fractured skull. Oh my goodness. So here's my thing. If this was an emotional support dog, he's not doing a good job. Obviously, if the guy got infuriated enough to be violent, okay, we're moving on to this next story. I'm going to write about this next story on anamericanistcom.

Speaker 1: 5:11

The View co-host, anna Navarro, urges Gloria Gaynor to turn down Kennedy Center honor because of Trump. This bitch has the gall and nerve to tell a legend. I call her a legend. The only song I know, I think, is I Will Survive. Is that the one she sings? I'm not sure, but she's a little bit before my time. She has the nerve to tell somebody to don't go to this. Deny your honor because of Trump. What in the world this hoe needs to shut her trap and keep mind her own business? I don't care, you know it's so funny. This story is brought out because I knew something like this would happen. As soon as Trump mentioned the nominees or the honorees or whatever, I knew somebody would either reject it or somebody would tell them to reject it because Trump derangement syndrome. Arrangement Syndrome.

Speaker 1: 6:15

The View co-host, anna Navarro, pleaded with musical icon Gloria Gaynor Thursday to reject her upcoming Kennedy Center Award because it will be bestowed by President Donald Trump. Why is she pointing out Gloria Gaynor? Why not the other ones? Why is she picking on Gloria Gaynor? Somebody tell me so. In the post on Instagram, the political commentator shared how she once met the I Will Survive singer at a concert and Gaynor gifted Navarro a keychain that belted out her famous song. Gave her a keychain. Okay, cheap ass, let's say. During first Trump term I passed it till it ran out of batteries. Oh gosh, oh. I pressed it until it ran out of batteries. Yeah, I bet you did Ran out of batteries. She then expressed her displeasure that Gaynor would be honored at an event hosted by the president. Well F you I don't care about what you think, navarro this is something special for Gloria. You need to celebrate that if you really liked her Dumbass.

Speaker 1: 7:17

Okay, I am not going to move on any further with that story. I'm sure there's more to it. We need to get to this next one. What is it with these cosmetic companies? I wrote on an Americanist yesterday thanks to Sarah, the band who brought this story to my attention that Urban Decay, who was owned by L'Oreal, hired a porn star to market their Urban Decay line to teenage girls. I am not joking. I hope you go read it. It's kind of a long read but I couldn't help it. I had a a long way down a deranged road with this. Now we celebrate porn stars and we pay them money to market stuff to teenage girls. No, no, no, no. And now elf cosmetics. Here's the thing. They get mad at the wrong place. They get mad at the wrong people. Elf cosmetics which I do like Elf it's eyelids and eyes, lips and face is what that means.

Speaker 1: 8:15

Cosmetics slammed for hiring controversial comedian Matt Rife in new ad. Now, I don't know who Matt Rife is, never heard of him, but apparently he made a joke where he said he was in a restaurant and the server, who was a woman, had a black eye and he made mention that damn, I'd move. I feel sorry for her man, I'd move her back in the back of the kitchen. So no one has to see that face. And I guess he got into a little trouble about that. And now people are upset that they've hired him to be in this ad commercial for their product. But he's also in the ad with guess what a drag queen. No, thank you. Now I know drag queens wear makeup, trust me. But no, no, no, no, no. And I like elf because it's actually good makeup for a very affordable price. I guess I can't buy any more elf because it not because of Matt Rife, but because of the damn drag queen. I don't know what it is with the. I think what it is with these major. I call elf a major brand because it has become a major brand even though it's very affordable. Uh, these major brands are desperate to, I guess, get more customers because of all the different independent. There's so much to choose from out there now that they have to elbow and punch their way in with controversy and people will buy it.

Speaker 1: 9:40

All right, I got to go. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Let me see how much time I have left. Nope, I got to do the question of the day. No, dear Abby today, sorry, all right, question of the day.

Speaker 1: 9:49

Okay, tell me about a habit you are proud that you broke. What habit have you broken that you are proud of? Mine is smoking. Let me tell you, I smoked for a long, long, long time and the reason I quit is because I started CrossFit. My boss paid for it at the time because he kept trying to get me to go and go at the time, because he kept trying to get me to go and go, because he went and he tried to get me to go and I was like, no, I can't do that. Blah, blah, blah, it looks too hard. He would always show me these videos of these professional athletes doing CrossFit, like there is no way I can do any of that, not thinking that I could scale it. And they have things for beginners, and blah, blah, blah, blah and finally he said okay for beginners. And blah, blah, blah, blah and finally he said, okay, I will pay for it through, you know, we'll make it a company thing. And I'm like, okay, sign me up, I'm there. So I went and I fell in love with CrossFit and I believe it saved my life At the time. I'll have to put out a before and after picture again.

Speaker 1: 10:45

At the time I was really overweight. Well, I say overweight, yeah, I was, and I was on. I started getting on medications again pre-diabetic, all this stuff and started going to CrossFit and I still smoked, mind you. And I smoked for like probably the first three months of CrossFit Maybe, maybe not quite that long, maybe not quite that long because, man, I would leave CrossFit and I could barely breathe. And finally I was, I guess, outside out on the back patio, when I was smoking a cigarette and I thought this is disgusting, I like breathing. So I just I never bought another pack of cigarettes, never got on the patch, never did nicotine or you know, the whatever, you call it, the gum or whatever. I just put it down and never looked back and it never had really any kind of withdrawals because I was enjoying breathing and I guess it was just the right time. I was done with it and uh. So yeah, that's my story and I know I went over my time.

Speaker 1: 11:42

Okay, I gotta go. Thanks for listening. Have a great weekend. Hopefully the gent and I will be back on Sunday. I know we skipped a late. We skipped last week because we were driving back from Tunica, but we'll see no-transcript.