Happy Friday America | 5.29.26

Ajouté : 2026-05-30

[00:00:02][music] [music] [music] [music] >> Welcome in to another Friday and another episode of Happy Friday America. Let's get into it, man. It's going to be a great episode. We got dumb asses. We got some good news that's coming across the interwebs and also Kev Bravado Bad Stone, how you feeling being back in here today, man?

[00:00:42]>> Well, happy Friday Art. Happy Friday America. It's good to be back. Kind of a somber week for our Master Guests folks on this YouTube channel. You know, we lost Kyle Busch in the NASCAR world. So, we're we're doing okay. You know, appreciating life every day. That's what That's what Kyle's I think take away from this was was to enjoy life to the fullest. Surround yourself with people you love and have a happy Friday, man.

[00:00:59]>> But definitely happy Friday. And my name is Arthur Rom. We're going to bring in today in propaganda what was written in history. And to start this off on May 29th, I'm going to go to 1453.

[00:01:13]So, we got the fall of Constantinople, which is capital of the Eastern Roman Empire at the time. It falls to the Ottoman Turks under Mehmed Mehmed Mehmed the Conqueror, >> [laughter] >> ending the Byzantine Empire after 1,100 years. So, like Constantinople, it was like extremely difficult to take this fortress city. And there's a bunch of cool stuff around that. But I'll I'll keep this moving. Uh 1765, Patrick Henry's historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of treason. He says, "With if this be treason, make the most of it." I had to do some quick research. It was uh the um plea opposing taxation without representation. Can we uh get on this trend in the present times, please?

[00:02:14]And this part is interesting about this.

[00:02:17]Taxation without representation famous for his nearly uh treacherous campaign of King George the III to Julius Caesar.

[00:02:26]So, like Julius Caesar was alive in the 1760s.

[00:02:29]>> Mhm.

[00:02:30]>> Which is kind of weird. Like, you think like Rome was way before then, but it wasn't. Um we're going to kind of keep up with uh some American history here. So, in 1970, Rhode Island becomes the last original 13 colony. It ratifies the US Constitution.

[00:02:48]And then this one >> Yes.

[00:02:50]That's where you're from. Live free or die.

[00:02:52]>> I'm from New Hampshire, which is north of Rhode Island, but yes, New England.

[00:02:55]>> But it's in New England.

[00:02:56]>> It's part of New England.

[00:02:56]>> Yes. Indeed. And then I don't remember all seven uh places off the top of my head right now. Thank you. But I will say this, and again, can we get this going in 2026?

[00:03:10]So, in 1849, Lincoln says, "You can fool I had a misspelling there. I don't want to hear it, Kev. You can fool some people all the time and all the people sometimes, but you can't fool all the people all the time." Bob Marley would later take these lyrics into some of his music, but just think about that and what they're trying to do to us today and the stuff they're trying to hide with all these distractions. But hey, that's more of a discussion combustion conversation. We got to keep it happy Friday. And so, we're going to jump in to dumbass of the week.

[00:03:48]>> Dumbass of the week contestant number one here is a California man, not Florida. We're going we're going to other coast. We're going west this week, Art, at least for this one. Uh Jerrel Augustine, okay. He was buying LEGO kits and then returning them with pasta inside of them instead of LEGOs. So, he would take the kit out, take everything with it, and then refill the box with pasta. So, it like >> Yeah. Uncooked pasta.

[00:04:13]>> Yeah.

[00:04:13]>> Right? Like penne or linguine, right?

[00:04:16]Uncooked.

[00:04:17]>> Tortellini?

[00:04:18]>> Tortellini. Yeah. Any any any of that type of stuff. He'd load it up in there and then go return the box.

[00:04:23]>> Yeah.

[00:04:23]>> And he did this a couple times. He ended up getting away with this a few times.

[00:04:26]But this is what's crazy. He did it so much that it was roughly a $34,000 in LEGOs.

[00:04:31]>> 34 grand?

[00:04:32]>> Yep. Specifically to Target. So, obviously they launched this investigation because these LEGO kits are going back like, "What is this?"

[00:04:38]So, they had to figure out, you know, receipts tied to who's buying it, who's returning it. Finally they tracked this guy down, old Jerrel Augustine over there, and now he's going to be dealing with some, you know, some theft, some felony theft.

[00:04:48]>> It's just over over LEGOs.

[00:04:51]>> Over LEGOs. And that's a lot of LEGOs. I mean, yeah, they're expensive.

[00:04:54]>> 35 grand?

[00:04:55]>> You say about an average LEGO kit, let's just say is 100 bucks.

[00:04:58]>> Yeah, and that's that's amping that price up.

[00:05:00]>> Yeah. I mean, now now you're talking like 30 What would that be?

[00:05:05]>> You're talking like at least 10 years of stealing sets.

[00:05:09]>> It's a lot.

[00:05:10]>> Something crazy like that.

[00:05:11]>> Yeah. I mean, and to could do that consistently with all this pasta and [ __ ] it's wild.

[00:05:14]>> Yeah. And like, you know, he could have been feeding the poor with this pasta.

[00:05:17]>> It could have been.

[00:05:19]>> But, you know, LEGOs are not worth that.

[00:05:21]And look, if you want to steal, do it before you turn 18, keep it under $800, and never do it again. And we do not promote any illegal activities here unless um Wait, no. Yeah, we don't promote any illegal activities. So, who's going to jail first on that list in America?

[00:05:44]It's what I want to know.

[00:05:45]>> Uh so, well, I wouldn't bet on it. Let's put it that way.

[00:05:48]>> You know, I don't think anything's going to happen and I I I know it's happy Friday, but I just got to keep talking about this. I can't help myself. And just like that, I got dumbass number two coming right up next and this time it's a Wisconsin man.

[00:06:03]>> Okay, so we're jumping out of Florida this week.

[00:06:04]>> Yeah, so not Florida, it's a Wisconsin man and this guy could have been dumber, but I'll settle for his level of um you know, being ignorant, whatever you want to call it. So, you know, there's construction happening.

[00:06:19]It happens in every town, every city in the United States. We've all seen road construction at some point in our lives, even if you don't drive, you've seen it.

[00:06:27]But this guy, he thought it would be a smart idea to move the construction cones out of his way so he could continue driving to his destination cuz this stuff's obviously in the way.

[00:06:41]So, this is not just a fresh concrete pour.

[00:06:45]This is a fresh deep concrete pour.

[00:06:48]Like, this thing was deep. And so this guy goes driving into this fresh concrete. It's still wet and like almost half submerges his truck.

[00:06:57]>> What an idiot.

[00:06:58]>> They have to, you know, they take pictures, they have to like take all that old cement out cuz it's not going to cure the same way now, you know, all these extra expenses.

[00:07:07]>> crews were not thrilled. I bet.

[00:07:09]>> No, they were not. They were not thrilled at all and so it's just like, you know, if there's construction like caution lines or cones and it's directing you on the other side, then maybe you should just do that or else you're going to walk in a wet concrete.

[00:07:26]>> Right.

[00:07:26]>> The amount of people I've seen this happen to, let alone get out of your car and then move it and then drive into it.

[00:07:34]Definite dumbass.

[00:07:34]>> Yeah, this this one is going to be tough to see who's the bigger dumbass this week out of these two.

[00:07:38]>> The only thing that would have made this guy a bigger dumbass is if he like turned around and tried to sue them.

[00:07:42]>> That's fair.

[00:07:43]>> I don't believe that happened.

[00:07:44]>> Okay.

[00:07:44]>> So, at least they like took some accountability and didn't try to like blame blame the construction crews.

[00:07:51]>> Yeah. Yeah, they're they're equally as dumb, just very different in different ways. One thought he was being clever and getting away with theft, and the other was just an idiot. Just just a straight-up dumbass. So, I I think the Wisconsin man might be a bigger dumbass.

[00:08:03]>> I did Maybe. Because the other guy was like being calculated and like weighing out He probably had a a scale for the pasta.

[00:08:09]>> He thought he had it figured out so much.

[00:08:11]>> same. Yeah.

[00:08:12]>> I I'll give it to the Wisconsin over that head-to-head there.

[00:08:14]>> And next, we're jumping into one of our other favorite segments here on Happy Friday America, and that is Kevin's Random Records.

[00:08:22]>> All right, David Rush. He's been on fire these past few weeks, Art. I mean, he's just lighting it up. So, we saw him do a marathon. He ran a half marathon with like 97 t-shirts on. And that was a pretty cool record. So, this time he decided to go with how many t-shirts can you put on in 30 seconds. So, the previous time to beat was 10.

[00:08:40]>> Isn't it 1 minute?

[00:08:41]>> Or So, the previous record that he held was in 30 seconds. Fastest time in 30.

[00:08:45]Now, he's doing the fastest time in 1 minute, and he did 32 shirts in 1 minute.

[00:08:49]>> So, that's like basically a shirt every 2 seconds.

[00:08:52]>> Give or Yeah, just under.

[00:08:54]>> Yeah, just under.

[00:08:55]>> And you know, you get to that you know, 20 25 shirts in, like you're you're having to rip this thing on there pretty quick.

[00:09:02]Yeah, it's it's not easy.

[00:09:05]How many you think you could do in a minute?

[00:09:06]>> 10?

[00:09:07]>> I probably could probably do 10.

[00:09:08]>> I could probably get 10. I I'll I'll probably hit I I could probably do 20, now that I know that the benchmark is 32. I could probably get in that 20 range.

[00:09:16]>> Yeah, and it basically Rush said on this one, he goes, "Once you get past that 10th shirt," he says, "you're not you doesn't feel like you're fighting the clock anymore. You're fighting the fabric."

[00:09:24]Because yeah, it starts getting tough to like, you know, move your arms the same way, and you're yanking these things on.

[00:09:28]It's just amazing what David Rush is able to do. Like, he's got such a wide portfolio of records. From drinking lemon juice to snapping toothpicks to putting on t-shirts and running.

[00:09:37]>> Now, were these like polyester shirts >> the shirt you're wear- you're wearing now.

[00:09:41]>> So, they're cotton.

[00:09:41]>> Yeah.

[00:09:42]>> Okay.

[00:09:42]>> Yeah, you I think if you hover over the link, you can kind of see.

[00:09:45]>> I I wonder if um if the material of the shirt would matter.

[00:09:49]>> I think it would.

[00:09:50]>> was cotton shirts because it it's at a higher frequency then uh you would be performing better opposed to um doing these plastic shirts.

[00:10:00]Um what is it? Poly something?

[00:10:02]Polyester.

[00:10:04]And then cuz if he was doing a polyester shirts, I wonder if he would get less >> Yeah.

[00:10:08]>> than more.

[00:10:10]>> I don't know, but I think if it was a smooth shirt, you're probably going to be able to pick up some more speed.

[00:10:14]>> I feel like polyester is smoother than cotton, but cotton has a higher frequency than polyester.

[00:10:21]>> So they say.

[00:10:22]>> I I mean, dude, you don't believe the frequencies?

[00:10:24]>> Of a fabric?

[00:10:25]>> Yeah.

[00:10:26]>> Yeah, I mean, like if you're talking about hemp.

[00:10:27]>> Yeah, or like linen.

[00:10:29]>> Yeah, I mean, I I think I think it depends.

[00:10:32]>> Don't they make polyester like out of like crude oil waste?

[00:10:36]>> I'm not sure how polyester's made. I've I've heard I've heard some stories or theories about how it's made, and people say it's not good.

[00:10:42]>> Yeah.

[00:10:43]>> Compared to something like hemp, which is obviously going to be natural.

[00:10:45]>> Yeah.

[00:10:46]>> Not going to have as much uh you know, bad juju tied to it, if you will.

[00:10:50]>> Yeah, like this fakeness, like the high fructose corn syrup.

[00:10:55]>> Right.

[00:10:55]>> Garbage.

[00:10:56]>> Garbage.

[00:10:57]>> Well, Mr. Rush, you did it again. 32 shirts in 1 minute. What do you think, America? Could you beat that record? If you can, you better get Guinness World Records at your door to record that.

[00:11:09]And they do have quite the process.

[00:11:10]We're going to jump into the Would You Rather next.

[00:11:12]>> pull up last week's results. All right, you remember last week's Would You Rather?

[00:11:16]>> I should really do some pre-studying. It was food-related.

[00:11:18]>> candy-related.

[00:11:19]>> Okay.

[00:11:20]>> I should be able to eat it now.

[00:11:21]>> versus like fruity treats.

[00:11:23]>> Yep.

[00:11:24]>> I chose chocolate, you were fruity.

[00:11:26]>> [laughter] >> Yeah, I was fruity last week.

[00:11:28]I love my fruity candy. You know the Mike and Ikes. love >> That's [laughter] nice. That's very nice.

[00:11:34]Well, we have the final results accumulated from our YouTube polls that we put up now. The little quiz, the Twitter X, you know, the comments, all that kind of stuff. Chocolate wins.

[00:11:42]>> I I [ __ ] knew it. You should have bought me lunch this week.

[00:11:45]>> Well, I guess I got that I'll have to next week.

[00:11:47]>> Yeah. I got you next week.

[00:11:49]>> Okay.

[00:11:49]>> 80/20.

[00:11:50]>> 80/20. Yeah, that's that's pretty big swing.

[00:11:52]>> It's a pretty big swing. People are liking their their Twix, their Reese's, their Snickers, >> Yeah.

[00:11:57]>> their Hershey bars.

[00:11:59]What am I missing?

[00:12:00]>> I mean, there's like hundreds.

[00:12:01]>> I'm I'm like the main chocolate ones.

[00:12:03]>> The whatchamacallit?

[00:12:04]>> The whatchamacallit?

[00:12:05]>> The 100 Grand?

[00:12:06]>> Let's not get bogged down with all of that.

[00:12:08]>> Milky Way?

[00:12:08]>> Cuz now we have another food related Would You Rather. It's barbecue season.

[00:12:11]We just had Memorial Day. The grills are hot, baby. Food's going on from now until Labor Day and beyond.

[00:12:17]>> Hit us with it, Kev.

[00:12:18]>> All right, America.

[00:12:20]Would you rather beef ribs or pork ribs?

[00:12:25]>> Okay.

[00:12:25]>> And I just ate beef ribs about an hour before we jumped on the air.

[00:12:29]>> You did.

[00:12:29]>> Which helped inspire this Would You Rather.

[00:12:31]>> It did.

[00:12:32]>> And I'm going to give you my answer. I'm not really a rib guy, right? I mean >> Not really a rib guy?

[00:12:35]>> When it comes to barbecue, I'm going to get brisket and other things. But, in this head-to-head, I'm going beef ribs, baby.

[00:12:41]>> Going beef ribs?

[00:12:43]>> Uh-huh.

[00:12:44]>> I am going to agree with you. I'm going to I'm going to agree with you because if you're making your own, there's less risk with beef ribs than opposed to pork.

[00:12:56]>> Mhm.

[00:12:57]>> Um and there's something about that beef, baby. Like I I I think I like beef more than pork.

[00:13:02]>> And just in general.

[00:13:03]>> Oh, yeah. On that as a head-to-head, for sure. I'm taking I'm taking cow over pig.

[00:13:06]>> Yeah. For sure. Like no bacon, no ham.

[00:13:11]You know, can I even get non like um pre-cured What is that?

[00:13:18]Process pre-cured pork? Does it even exist?

[00:13:22]>> Prosciutto?

[00:13:24]>> Prosciutto?

[00:13:24]>> Yeah, there's >> Is Is pork?

[00:13:25]>> It's pork, but there's like a long process to it.

[00:13:28]>> Yeah, so that's extra pre- pre-cured.

[00:13:29]>> Yeah, but it's it's not like you know, preserved and nitrate and all that [ __ ] Like I watched like this old >> Preserved, I think that's what I was looking for.

[00:13:37]>> Yeah, I watched this old Italian guy do it and it was very very interesting to watch, but in any case, beef ribs, pork ribs, which way you going America?

[00:13:45]>> Yeah, which way you going? Kevin and I Kevin and I are both going beef, baby.

[00:13:51]And next segment that we're jumping into here is a new fan favorite.

[00:13:55]>> Yes, we have drugs or mental illness.

[00:13:58]You the viewers at home get to guess. I do have the answer to this one this time, but I left it out. So Ari doesn't have any clues here. All right, where are we going this week? We've got a man who's arrested. Very very bizarre incident in Palm Beach. 45-year-old James Gustavino was naked and basically went to the community swimming pool. So picture like your old place 1111 and this dude's just down there dicks hanging and people started reporting it. They're like, this guy can't be you know, we're trying to bring our kids down there and stuff.

[00:14:23]Like we got to get this guy out of >> Is it daytime?

[00:14:25]>> Daytime.

[00:14:25]>> Oh, okay.

[00:14:26]>> He's just he's just sitting there. He's you know, he's going through something.

[00:14:29]So police show up. They're like, all right sir, we need you to get out of the pool and he started losing it. Just started hooting and hollering, you know, kind of like the guy last week with the with the apple, you know, that guy lost his [ __ ] And so they had to police officer had to physically walk into the pool and remove this man, this 45-year-old man by the name of What did I say his name was? James Gustavino.

[00:14:51]Okay, so then he was booked into Palm Palm Beach County Jail. Several charges, trespassing, resisting arrest, obviously indecent exposure and a few others. So what do you think on this one, Ari? We going drugs or mental illness?

[00:15:03]>> And we count alcohol as a drug, right?

[00:15:07]>> We can, yeah.

[00:15:07]>> Okay.

[00:15:09]I totally think this dude was drunk and on on drugs.

[00:15:14]>> So we can confirm that he was smoking crack cocaine.

[00:15:18]Cuz they they found the pipe in the pool with him and a a bag with the rock on him. So, he was on crack >> Oh.

[00:15:24]>> naked in the pool. Uh so, this one goes to drugs on the head-to-head.

[00:15:28]>> Okay. So, I was right, but wrong at the same time.

[00:15:31]>> Yeah, you were right cuz you guessed drugs.

[00:15:33]>> Yeah.

[00:15:34]I was seeing that being But, I could see crack also doing that.

[00:15:37]>> Yeah.

[00:15:38]>> That's too bad. That's too bad. Smoking crack, showing your crack, got his head cracked. And that's That's just whack.

[00:15:45]>> whack.

[00:15:45]>> [laughter] >> All right. All right. Let's switch the tune here. I know I'm talking about how people need to go to jail in America, but I am going to switch the mood to good news that's happening in the world.

[00:16:00]So, this one's pretty cool. Um scientists test sea-going birds. They test their eggs. And they've been doing this for decades. And seabirds are actually a great benchmark to see ocean and biological health environments because they are like an apex predator.

[00:16:22]They're they're one of the top predators in their environment. So, they eat almost everything, and that in turn then makes up their eggs. So, if you don't know what a PFAS is, it's basically a forever chemical or chemical that could take, you know, hundreds of years to dissolve or go back into nature. And so, these chemicals don't just disappear overnight. They're unhealthy. They can cause cancer and a bunch of other sort of stuff. And the good news that we have here is it looks that based on conservational efforts and manufacturing things in a cleaner way, the PFAS, the forever chemicals that were in these seabird eggs, has decreased 70%.

[00:17:14]So, that's a huge decrease in these chemicals that they were finding in these seabird eggs. A 70% decrease. So, with all the doom and gloom out there and all this stuff that, you know, they want us to get scared of and this and that, nature can rebound, bounce back. We, as humans, can actually make a positive impact on the physical world that we live in and also the mental health in the collective world that we're all a part of as well. And so, I just wanted to bring some good news into this episode. The world is healing and we can all heal, too. And all we have to do is identify the issue, acknowledge it, and take action. So, I wanted to throw some good news on this one.

[00:18:00]>> I like that, Art. You know, we focus on a lot of dumbasses and idiots and silly [ __ ] It's nice to bring some good news to the happy Friday. After all, it is a happy Friday.

[00:18:07]>> It is a happy Friday.

[00:18:08]Feeling blessed today.

[00:18:10]>> We're going to have some happy travelers here at Denver International Airport in just a few short years. For anyone that's flown through DIA in the last year, I think my girlfriend Crystal has probably flown through that airport more than anybody in the goddamn country at this point. Um concourse A, B, and C, there's a train, you got to get on it. They've been having a lot of breakdowns with it. It's turned into a mess.

[00:18:27]>> Oh, really?

[00:18:28]>> Well, yeah, it's it's just hasn't been good. It hasn't been consistent. So, DIA is deciding to do some underground walkways so you can walk to your from A to B to C instead of just having to take the train. I always thought that was a good idea cuz they used to have the bridge walk over to concourse A.

[00:18:42]>> They still do.

[00:18:43]>> They shut that down.

[00:18:44]>> No way.

[00:18:45]>> Yeah, that got shut down cuz I wanted to take it last time I flew and they're like, "Oh, no, we don't have that anymore."

[00:18:49]>> That's crazy. I don't understand why they would shut that down.

[00:18:51]>> It's unfortunate. Um so, but now they're they're going to have it underground.

[00:18:55]>> Okay.

[00:18:55]>> you know, DIA's always had conspiracies about underground tunnels and whatnot and now we're about to walk through them.

[00:18:59]>> Yeah.

[00:19:00]>> So, I like it cuz you're still going to have people that take the train, right?

[00:19:03]People don't want to walk their asses all the way out to concourse C. I will.

[00:19:06]I love getting my steps in an airport.

[00:19:08]>> Yeah, me, too.

[00:19:08]>> You know, you get to see some things along the way. Underground, you might make Hopefully, they do it where you can like see the baggage moving through, too. Like you kind of get a glimpse into what goes on. I'm hoping that's what it's going to be like. Uh there's no time frame on when this is going to be completed, but [clears throat] DIA's been under construction for like 2 years. This is going to >> under construction since it was under construction.

[00:19:26]>> [laughter] >> Yeah. But, it's been like part and our dust type construction going on up there for for a couple years now, and it looks like that's going to continue on, but it will definitely be worth it at the end cuz DIA is just a banger of an airport.

[00:19:37]>> It's It's huge in the in the terminals.

[00:19:39]Look, I'm one of those guys I like to get there early, and I I like to go walk around and waste some time.

[00:19:45]>> Well, now you're really going to get your steps in.

[00:19:46]>> Yeah, so >> If you're going out to Concourse C.

[00:19:48]>> Yeah, if you're going to C. I think that's cool. I think that's fun.

[00:19:51]>> I like it. I thought it should make the show, you know, and that news just broke this week, so >> I like it. I I do like it, and I also like the thing that you brought up the other week about decriminalizing or being able to bring >> Mari- medical marijuana, yeah.

[00:20:03]>> Yeah.

[00:20:04]>> Yep.

[00:20:04]>> So, things to do this weekend, well, hot darn, I think I'm going to have me some hummus, Kev.

[00:20:10]>> Well, you already know I'm going to be eating me some pickles.

[00:20:12]>> Some pickles?

[00:20:13]>> And we got NASCAR in Nashville, so Nashville hot chicken. You know, maybe a little bit of a theme there.

[00:20:18]>> Maybe you start drooling it's so hot.

[00:20:20]>> I did that this week. I won't do that again.

[00:20:22]>> Where did you get that hot chicken?

[00:20:24]>> Dave's hot chicken. Don't get the Reaper.

[00:20:26]Like get Dave's hot chicken's delicious.

[00:20:27]I'm not saying it don't get eat their food, but I decided to get the hottest one that they offered cuz I'm like, I can handle it, which I could, but then my mouth couldn't.

[00:20:35]>> Oh.

[00:20:35]>> I couldn't get the spice out.

[00:20:37]>> And And on the other side?

[00:20:39]>> Uh not bad, actually.

[00:20:41]>> Really?

[00:20:41]>> Yeah, not bad cuz they were little chicken sliders, like the only about that much meat.

[00:20:45]>> Okay.

[00:20:46]>> So, it wasn't really a gut wrecker of of heat, but it was a mouth wrecker, for sure.

[00:20:49]>> Uh I love me some chicken. I don't know, if I put chicken up against uh beef, I think we've done that one.

[00:20:55]>> We've done that one.

[00:20:56]>> We've done that one. Hey, and we did this episode, and you did your week great. So, Kev, why don't you go ahead and wrap up this fantastic episode?

[00:21:05]>> You're right, we're wrapping up May.

[00:21:06]We'll see you in June on the other side into the Gemini. Uh my birthday's coming up here in June. It's hard to believe this year is nearly half over. So, we're out of here. Enjoy your weekend, America. You know where to find us.

[00:21:15]We'll see you soon.

[00:21:17]>> It's Friday.

[00:21:19]Happy Friday. [music] >> Friday.

[00:21:22]>> It's Friday.