[00:00:00] Good evening everybody boy that was really bad. You could tell it's been a little while.
[00:00:21] Good evening and welcome to PTR Radio here on the fabulous Intar Web. We're back. We're
[00:00:29] back and it's been a minute since we've done a show. For those eagle-eyed amongst you, you
[00:00:40] might notice we're one short. We didn't kick anybody off the show. Work got in the way.
[00:00:51] So Colin will be back on the next show. But he's not here tonight. So it is what it is.
[00:01:01] But Mike and I are here and really, we could just play the Colin show in the background
[00:01:10] but we kind of decided that we wanted to go on.
[00:01:12] Wait, you're not?
[00:01:14] No, I'm not. Maybe I'll do a special presentation of the Colin show.
[00:01:21] No, not tonight. So yeah, we're back. There's been a lot of things that have happened. Both
[00:01:28] Mike and I are drinking tonight. I saw Mike's got a tall boy there. Very fitting. I am
[00:01:34] doing an Irish whiskey lemonade of my own evidently creation because I wasn't able
[00:01:43] to find the recipe so I just made it up.
[00:01:49] If you want to make this concoction, like Mike's own recipes that he's made up sometimes on
[00:01:54] the show. It is one part Irish whiskey. Take your pick. Traditionally I think this is made
[00:02:03] with Jamison but I don't care for Jamison. So anyway, this isn't a podcast for those
[00:02:08] that are interested. And then four parts. I went ahead and did four parts. Yeah, it's
[00:02:16] a really nice one. I fell in love with it when somebody brought it back from Ireland for me.
[00:02:23] It's spelled with a K. And then four parts lemonade and then a half a part lime juice. So pretty
[00:02:34] simple recipe. And honestly, I think I'd probably knock the lime juice down a little
[00:02:39] bit if I was to do it again.
[00:02:42] When you said with a K, I'm spelling Castle with a K. Thank God Google is smarter than I am.
[00:02:49] Yeah. Okay. Yep. No, it's Canogue. So that's Canogue.
[00:03:00] But it's been a minute since I actually had a drink so this'll be good. I just
[00:03:07] haven't been drinking lately. And I should. I have more reasons too. So I have a question.
[00:03:14] So that's how does that compare to Telemore do Irish whiskey?
[00:03:19] Good question because I have had them both. Actually, I've got a lot. My collection has
[00:03:25] grown since last we met. I'm I was at 23 now I'm at 26 different varieties of Irish whiskey
[00:03:31] on my bar. Okay. And interestingly enough, I have an American Irish whiskey. It was
[00:03:39] an Irish whiskey, which was distilled in America using the Irish methodology. Which is interesting.
[00:03:46] But so it's I would say, Nepogue is my like every day. If I'm gonna if I'm gonna drink
[00:03:53] like on a regular basis, I'll do Nepogue. Because while it's a little bit more expensive
[00:03:57] than Telemore do, I think it's got a little bit mellower of a flavor and it's a little
[00:04:02] bit more of a sipper. You can drink this straight no problem. You don't have to
[00:04:07] mix it with anything. In fact, most of the time when I drink whiskey, I don't mix it.
[00:04:11] I just felt like something a little bit more substantial of a drink today because well,
[00:04:16] we've all seen the problems that come up when I bring the bottle of whiskey in here and
[00:04:20] I'm just drinking it straight. So I thought I just I'll make a taller glass and that
[00:04:28] will work. But no, but I've drank plenty of Telemore do you know so yeah, it nothing
[00:04:35] wrong with Telemore do it. It's good. Like I said, I would I would have it over Jameson
[00:04:39] any day. Well, that's not saying much. No, but you know, I feel like Jameson is like
[00:04:48] Jameson is kind of like the Jose Cuervo of Irish rescue. It's like everybody thinks
[00:04:53] Cuervo is great until you have a good yeah. Well, you know, I used to think
[00:05:00] honestly that people in Ireland looked down upon things like Guinness and you know Jameson
[00:05:09] and that that was just like that was their you know, Budweiser or Bush, you know, that
[00:05:17] it was a peasant stuff. And that you know, if you go to a real Irish pub, they're
[00:05:22] not going to serve that stuff as I as has turned out that I've learned it's not
[00:05:28] actually the case. It is it is the Bush Bush or the Budweiser, but it is the
[00:05:33] every man's drink. It is you can get it anywhere. So it's still wildly popular,
[00:05:41] even if they do prefer something a little bit more robust and a little bit more,
[00:05:45] you know, refined if given the choice, but it's a default because you can get
[00:05:51] it everywhere. Now, I personally can't stand Guinness, but I'm not a beer
[00:05:57] drinker either. So, you know, my opinion of beer should not be used as a baseline.
[00:06:07] Yeah. I mean, I'll drink a Miller light or a Bud light or whatever if I got
[00:06:13] something in front of me and there's nothing else, but it is not my go to.
[00:06:20] Let's put it that way. Yeah, I'm I mean, I drink keystone light at home and
[00:06:27] that's not a beer you find. If you find that on tap anywhere, run because it's
[00:06:32] not supposed to be on tap. If it's on the menu, just possibly run. Don't don't.
[00:06:43] My advice is if if someplace has keystone light listed as one of the beers
[00:06:48] they are serving, do not drink, do not order anything in a glass because
[00:06:54] chances are you're going to get hepatitis. Get a can or a bottle because at least
[00:06:58] that, you know, has been hermetically sealed before it got to you and still
[00:07:02] wipe the top off before you drink it. Yes, because there's a guarantee a rat
[00:07:06] has peed on the top at some point because it's been sitting in a storage
[00:07:09] closet for a while. Probably. You know, but you know, before the show,
[00:07:16] we were talking about streaming services and it's a topic we talk about
[00:07:20] a lot, Mike. And you were saying that you've got a relative that has an issue
[00:07:27] with the Roku. So so yeah, so I got I got my father-in-law Roku and I don't
[00:07:33] mind talking about this on the air because it's nothing against him. Right?
[00:07:36] Right. First of all, the man is going to be 88 in in December. He just
[00:07:44] turned 87. So he's the fact that he's using a Roku is leaps and bounds ahead
[00:07:51] of most of the most of his generation. I got my in-laws, a DVD player, I
[00:07:57] think when they were in their mid sixties after they passed my father-in-law
[00:08:04] passed last and he was 92. I found DVDs that we bought them when we
[00:08:11] bought them the DVD player that were still shrink wrapped. They never used it
[00:08:17] because they didn't understand it. So a streaming service would have blown their
[00:08:22] mind. So what I did before I sent it to him, I had it sent here and I
[00:08:31] loaded some of the free services like to like to be free V. I think Pluto
[00:08:40] TV I put on there. The Roku channel has a lot of free stuff. So I put all of that
[00:08:44] on there for him. So all he'd have to do is just turn it on and go to the app
[00:08:50] and navigate. Well, the problem he was one he was trying to find a way he asked
[00:08:57] me if there was a way to do favorites. And I'm like, and he also said
[00:09:01] there's no guide that's no usable guide. And I'm like, well, so here's the
[00:09:10] thing. So was he looking for something like around here? It's channel 19 where
[00:09:16] you go to it and it tells you, okay, at this time we're playing these things.
[00:09:20] Because that's what I imagine. No, no, no, no. So what I'm imagining
[00:09:24] because all right, so he has direct TV. Okay. And he has a basic package.
[00:09:28] But if you scroll through any of his receivers looking at the guide, you're
[00:09:32] only going to see about 10 channels because he favorited only the channels
[00:09:39] he wants to watch. Okay. And that's all that shows up in the guy. Right?
[00:09:45] And that's what he was looking to do with Roku. Now, if I don't know if
[00:09:49] you've looked like I had to go on and look at like the Roku channel.
[00:09:53] And yet there is actually a guide for live TV on a Roku box. Yeah, like
[00:09:59] there's a whole bunch of free live stuff. And you can favorite those
[00:10:04] channels, which but you're not what he's asking me. But you're only
[00:10:10] favoriting them within that app. Not correct. That's the problem thing.
[00:10:16] Right. That's where the issue that's the crux of the problem here.
[00:10:21] Yeah. So it's like creating bookmarks within just one website. But then having a
[00:10:28] bookmarks drop down that has, you know, there's no bookmarks drop down that
[00:10:33] has every single website and every page that you want in Roku that doesn't exist.
[00:10:38] You have to go, okay, well that bookmark was in voodoo so I need to pop to that
[00:10:42] first and then I can go to my favorite there. Yeah. So I have to,
[00:10:47] we're going up there next month and I said put a pin in this until we get there
[00:10:52] because I got to show you it depends on the app and
[00:10:58] you know, it might be different for each one. Mm-hmm. And he understood.
[00:11:03] It's okay with that. See bonus there. Yeah. See I had to take, see because I had
[00:11:10] to reorganize all the icons on the Roku for my wife and put the ones that she uses first
[00:11:20] so that when the Roku TV comes on, she doesn't have to mouse all over the place.
[00:11:26] And then yeah, she's kind of the same way as that, you know, hey, I want to be able
[00:11:31] to go to these things but it gets worse almost. So like we're a big Plex household
[00:11:37] and for those that don't know Plex is like building your own Netflix, right? So you get,
[00:11:41] like you take your DVD collection that you lawfully purchased and then you back them up
[00:11:46] so that you can use them within your own house. And so, you know, I did that with all the tens of
[00:11:53] thousands of DVDs that I lawfully went to Walmart and bought, you know, and I have those,
[00:11:59] you know, fully legally available to just within my own house. And my wife goes,
[00:12:06] I just don't know what I want to watch. And I'm like, what do you mean you don't know what you
[00:12:10] want to watch? She goes, oh, I don't have anything to watch. You have 3000 Hallmark movies.
[00:12:18] Just pick one. But she still watches the same like 10 over and over and over again.
[00:12:26] You know? Yeah. And so, but I was, but I was also kind of looking for a solution on this.
[00:12:34] And I came across this one guy who actually said, listen, I run into a similar problem. He goes,
[00:12:40] you know, I've got this whole archive of all my Simpsons episodes and all my family guy episodes.
[00:12:46] He goes, and I get like choice, you know, anxiety by choice. Like I can't figure out what I want
[00:12:56] to watch if I actively have to choose it. You know, there's too many choices.
[00:13:03] He said, so what I did and this guy kind of a brilliant idea. And I'm not saying this is the
[00:13:10] answer for everybody, but this was the answer for him and I can see the logic in it.
[00:13:14] He actually set up a couple of small, I think it maybe they were even Raspberry Pi machines,
[00:13:18] but very low end machines, right? That all they did was they connected to Plex and they played the
[00:13:27] video through composite out. And he hooked those up to RF modulators. Now for those of you that
[00:13:34] don't know what that word means, all right, this is where we used to be able to hook our VCRs
[00:13:40] up to channel three of our television. All right, and tune, you know, things to a given cable
[00:13:46] channel to be able to tune in. Now he is doing this fairly old school. He's not doing HDTV modulation.
[00:13:54] He is going SD and he's feeding that signal into his house. So like he goes, I've just got him
[00:14:02] on a loop on a random setting. He goes, so I've got one channel that's Simpsons TV that just
[00:14:09] randomly picks a Simpsons episode and just plays them nonstop. It's just the Simpsons
[00:14:15] channel. He's essentially become his own, his own cable provider network. Yeah. Yeah. He's only
[00:14:24] got two channels, Simpsons and Family Guy right now. But you know what? That's all they do is they
[00:14:30] just play those those shows. And he goes, you know what? I watch more of them. He goes, because
[00:14:35] if I'm in the kitchen, I turn on the TV to channel three, boom, I'm watching the Simpsons,
[00:14:40] whatever one happens to be on and I'll sit there and I'll watch the whole episode or
[00:14:44] whatever is left of the episode that's on. The fact that he does it all random is a little odd,
[00:14:50] because the Simpsons you could run that on a loop consecutively and it would only repeat every week.
[00:14:59] But the thing is those were not episodic or they weren't serial. Oh, it's true. No,
[00:15:05] it's true. It doesn't matter. That's true. It doesn't matter. You know, there's certain
[00:15:09] things like, you know, back back in the day, you didn't have to watch the previous week to
[00:15:15] understand what this week's doing. You know, you didn't have to binge watch. True. So there's a
[00:15:22] lot of shows that are like that where you could just say, you know what? Random. And actually,
[00:15:26] I did that for my wife. I taught her because one of the things that she likes to do is watch
[00:15:30] Matlock. But so you know, there's 10 seasons of Matlock. But which one do you want to
[00:15:35] watch? And she did go through and she watched them all start to finish. She goes, but now what do I do?
[00:15:40] I said, well, hit shuffle and just hit a random one. I'm like, because who could you don't know
[00:15:46] which one you want to watch and it's going to take you 20 minutes to figure out which one
[00:15:50] you want to watch, just hit shuffle and put on whatever one you want. So I'm really thinking
[00:15:57] about getting myself a couple of modulators and just, you know, having a few channels just
[00:16:01] to make her happy. Kinda. Why not? So couldn't hurt. No, I mean, it's a trick now though is to
[00:16:15] make sure that your TVs actually have have a digital tuners and the input. Yeah. Yeah. Because
[00:16:21] a lot of the TVs now don't even have tuners. Yeah. Exactly.
[00:16:27] They realized it was cheaper to put all of these inner workings of a smart TV than it is to put
[00:16:36] a coax port. Now, evidently, there is a way that you can create your own streaming channel
[00:16:45] and it can be like password protected and it can be just yours and it could just stream
[00:16:49] whatever you want. I haven't looked into that yet. But like evidently, you could create
[00:16:54] your own that just streams your content and it's just like a live channel that just plays.
[00:17:01] Yeah, I don't think I want to do that. I don't want to go that far. No, but I did think I'm
[00:17:06] like what if we created PTR radio TV where we just play all of our videos? You know,
[00:17:16] we could do them sequentially. We could do them randomly. It doesn't matter and we'd
[00:17:20] make it available for everybody. That is essentially a video version of automation.
[00:17:27] Yeah, it is. Yeah. And for those who don't know what I'm talking about,
[00:17:33] oh well actually, I can't even say back in the day because I happen to go to our former
[00:17:41] networks website. Yeah. And they still play automation. I'm sure. And they still have
[00:17:48] our clips in automation. Oh, should we send them a cease and desist?
[00:17:54] How funny would that be? I'm very close to like seriously. Yeah. It's been how long?
[00:18:07] I mean, we didn't sign anything giving them the rights to the show.
[00:18:13] So technically they don't have the rights to it.
[00:18:19] You know? So yeah, I was absolutely shocked when... Well considering they have, okay,
[00:18:30] maybe one, two, three, four shows on that network. They... Oh no, I'm sorry. Most of their
[00:18:37] shows are all on Sunday? What station has Sunday as its busiest day?
[00:18:47] When I did tune in, it happened to be a show that we questioned whether or not they should
[00:18:54] actually be on a comedy network and one of the hosts is deceased. Ah, okay. All right. So it said,
[00:19:04] the hell's going on here? Makes me wonder just how far back they're going and whose idea
[00:19:10] was it to keep that going? Yeah. I mean, oh yeah, that begs the question of sanity really.
[00:19:30] And they're still advertising people to tune in with Winamp and real audio.
[00:19:35] That shows you how far behind they are. So on another note... Yeah.
[00:19:47] And I just posted this one up now and just about an hour ago. And dammit, we're going to talk about
[00:19:55] this because the one person who had argued with me that that's not the case is not here.
[00:19:59] I'm going to talk about it. Last... Was it July? Prime Day? Yeah. Okay. And during Prime Day,
[00:20:12] I went in the week, in the show leading up to it, I made the comment that Prime Day was
[00:20:17] starting to feel like Earth Day that they're having more than one a year. And I was told,
[00:20:23] no, that's not the case. They're doing... No. Amazon has announced that they are doing Prime
[00:20:30] Big Deal Days event in October. Yes. Prime Day is part of the damn name of this event.
[00:20:41] They are doing multiple Prime Days. I'm not imagining things. Or they're listening to
[00:20:46] PTR radio and realizing we're brilliant. Yeah, we know what we're talking about.
[00:20:51] So will we have... All right. Well, I mean, we don't already have a Prime Day in November, do we?
[00:21:01] Because we have Cyber Monday already in November. No, but they just lump into Black Friday and
[00:21:09] Cyber Monday. Right. So will they call it like Prime Monday? They don't... Well, no, they don't
[00:21:16] call it Prime Day because that's just a giant retail event. Okay. So... Nothing that this October
[00:21:24] one does not line up with anything unless they're giving you like free candy. What is it? October
[00:21:29] 10th and 11th. That lines up with nothing. Well, isn't that Indigenous Peoples' Day?
[00:21:39] I think I'm going to look on the calendar. I think so. I think it might be Indigenous
[00:21:45] Peoples' Day. I think one of those days is... And what better way to celebrate than...
[00:21:52] Blatant commercialism. The 9th. That's over the 9th. Yeah. So how better to get over your post
[00:22:04] Columbus Day slash Indigenous Peoples' Day hangover than with blatant commercialism?
[00:22:10] Oh, September 10th is Grand Par... Not September. Get me where I need to be for the holidays.
[00:22:17] I'm going to say the holidays are... Okay. October 9th. Yep. Columbus Day. October 16th
[00:22:25] Boss' Day, 21st Sweetest Day and then Halloween. That's all you got in October.
[00:22:31] So maybe... You also have October 4th. October 5th. Which is...
[00:22:39] I don't remember what caused me to put this in there but I have a note on my calendar at
[00:22:44] 2.20 p.m. that it's Massive Emergency Network Test on October 4th. And I believe this is one of those
[00:22:57] everybody's cell phone in all of creation is going to go off with an alert.
[00:23:03] Oh, yep. FEMA and FCC plan nationwide emergency alert test for October 4th.
[00:23:10] Oh, hold on. It's been postponed. Has it? Because of severe weather.
[00:23:17] The national test will consist of 2... I think there was an update.
[00:23:24] This released August 3rd. Back up to... Okay. It was... Test is postponed.
[00:23:34] The purpose of October 4th test is to ensure that the system's continuing to be effective
[00:23:38] means of warning the public about emergencies, particularly those on the national level.
[00:23:42] Oh, in case October 4th is postponed due to widespread severe weather or other significant
[00:23:47] events the backup testing date is October 11th. So... Okay. Fantastic. So it's not postponed yet.
[00:23:56] But it could be. Okay. Now, the whole reason I put this in my calendar is, well, the company I
[00:24:03] work for like many companies has implemented a return to office mandate also known as
[00:24:10] Eat a Bag of Dicks nationally. So I put this on my calendar to make note, do not schedule or
[00:24:21] schedule an important meeting depending on how I feel during that time. Oh my God. That is a
[00:24:26] win time. To see if everybody's phone goes off. That's a Wednesday. So everybody in my office
[00:24:31] is in the office on Wednesdays. Have they assigned days for your people to be in the office?
[00:24:41] Yes. So we have a hybrid schedule. So you can do up to three days remote. You can pick
[00:24:49] any three days between Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday,
[00:24:53] but everyone is to be in the office on Wednesdays. Really? Okay. Yeah. See, they have
[00:25:02] they just told us we have to be in the office three days a week. Now, they want to
[00:25:07] be able to have one day where they could schedule a meeting no matter what
[00:25:12] and people would be in office. Okay. That's fair. That makes sense. I guess if you have
[00:25:20] the space for it. Yeah. What they have done with us is we are being called back to the office,
[00:25:32] but we're not being assigned space. So it's show up and find a workstation to work at.
[00:25:42] You can't reserve them. First come, first serve. It's the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my entire
[00:25:48] life. It's absolutely stupid because the workstations are just offices that were unassigned
[00:25:53] and they've unlocked them. See, we just got moved. My division just got moved into another
[00:26:01] office, into another building. And the people that were there that are there already before we
[00:26:08] moved in act like they own the whole damn building. And so they have even though every
[00:26:16] one of them and their contractors, every one of them has an office and or a cubicle assigned
[00:26:22] to them, they have reserved every single conference room throughout I think the end of next year
[00:26:31] so that they can collaboratively work together. But yet when we asked for more offices and desks,
[00:26:39] we were told no, they're assigned to the contractors. So we're like either they need
[00:26:44] the collaborative space or they need a desk to themselves. They should not be allowed to
[00:26:49] have both. So here's the thing. If I knew somebody who was in the IT department at that point,
[00:27:00] I would be throttling specific network ports that are assigned to said desks or
[00:27:09] certain MAC IDs if they're on the Wi-Fi. I'd be throttling them back to,
[00:27:16] I don't know, DSL speed. Yeah. Why? Because I'm evil like that.
[00:27:23] Yeah, I just this is why I can't be in charge of things. Yeah, it's it's it's
[00:27:31] fairly ridiculous. This building and so yeah, I'm just waiting for other people to file
[00:27:39] grievances and all kinds of other things to hit the fan. So you know, and of course when we
[00:27:45] managers complain about it, we get blown off. So you know, we're going to let the underlings do
[00:27:50] what they do, which is complain to the union and then things will actually get changed.
[00:27:55] And then my neighborhood because they do neighborhoods by division kind of thing,
[00:28:01] right? So so you should try and get a workstation in this section so that you're in your
[00:28:07] right neighborhood. Okay. They started doing complimentary coffee and tea on the floor
[00:28:14] above my neighborhood and the floor below not on my floor.
[00:28:21] To me, this is a calculated decision. To me, it's a personal attack. Can't you just go to
[00:28:29] the floor above or below to get coffee? Of course I can. However, the one bank of elevators,
[00:28:39] first of all, I don't know where the stairs are. I have not gotten an updated fire plan
[00:28:46] for my floor. So I don't know where the damn stairs are. There's the only reason I know that
[00:28:54] the offices that I've kind of been sitting in with my coworkers, you know, the guys I actually
[00:29:00] work with is because the I go down, I get off the elevator, I go down the hall. And when I see
[00:29:07] the automatic electronic defibrillator on the wall, hang a left. Don't you love those things?
[00:29:15] I love that all those are just hanging out. So I want to be near that for safety.
[00:29:23] Okay. All right. But I also feel like when I get off the elevator, there's a spot for a coffee
[00:29:33] machine. And it's not even like a coffee machine, okay? It's not a curie. It's one of these things
[00:29:40] where you put the kid's gogurt looking thing in and close it and it makes the coffee out of that.
[00:29:47] You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. It's like a pouch thing that you got to slide in
[00:29:52] and he closed it and it brews the coffee. Yeah. And then the thing just disappears. And
[00:29:57] of course, the new equivalent to drinking the last cup of coffee without making another pot
[00:30:04] is you brew this thing and get the message when it's done that the pouch trash bin is full,
[00:30:14] please empty it to continue and you don't do it. So there's going to be fights. I know this.
[00:30:22] Yeah. I'm not going to be the one to fight. However, I will make it known that it wasn't you.
[00:30:36] Mr. Chathade might have to show up at the office one day. Congress doesn't have a dress code anymore.
[00:30:46] So I don't think anybody in corporate America should have a dress code.
[00:30:50] Oh, God. So this dress codes came up at work because we do not have a dress code according to our
[00:30:59] policies. But yet one of our executives came through and she was not happy with what she was
[00:31:06] seeing. She said people are dressing like slobs. We have to do something. And so we said,
[00:31:11] what do you want us to do? We don't have a dress code. And so she said, well, it's up to managers
[00:31:19] to decide what is work appropriate and what isn't. So you should send something out. So my bosses,
[00:31:25] bosses, bosses did send something out. Except the problem is the people that they said that
[00:31:32] dress like slobs, not our division. They work for another division. Most likely they were contractors.
[00:31:44] They weren't have their own rules. Yes.
[00:31:48] Yeah. So it had nothing to do with us because we've already shamed the people that dressed
[00:31:56] like slobs in our place. I had a guy who worked for me who wore sweatpants to work one day.
[00:32:03] And I said, hey, Captain Sweatpants. We don't do that here. So wear jeans like the rest of us or slacks.
[00:32:14] So yeah, I wear jeans. So okay, for some reason it's not popping up. But
[00:32:24] Gimp Master Flex writes in glad I work from home advocating for clean energy and consult on
[00:32:31] clean energy projects. And I grind my own coffee at home much more caffeine and tasty.
[00:32:44] Let me tell you something. Yeah, I grind coffee for my wife too every day. That's no big deal.
[00:32:52] Let's be clear about something. Pow. Buddy. I worked at home for 17 years.
[00:33:02] And somebody got to stick up their ass and decided, yeah, no, come back to the office now.
[00:33:08] Somebody decided they need to be like Google and all that and zoom, zoom, zoom, coming back to the
[00:33:16] off, zoom, the teleconferencing company canceled work from home.
[00:33:27] What's wrong with this picture, people? What is wrong with this picture and screw clean energy
[00:33:37] and the windmills. I said it. Yeah, nuclear. The nuclear option must be utilized.
[00:33:48] Ah, there we go. Okay. Now we got it. I think you don't need that covering you every
[00:33:54] time we pop something up. But okay, we'll see what that's fine. That's fine. All right. I'm not
[00:34:01] overly concerned about it. I'll read them out old school. Okay. So yeah, no.
[00:34:08] Our our way also thing has been ice. We want an ice machine. Oh, well, we have an entire floor
[00:34:15] of interns above us. And I see them walking around with their backpacks, both straps, of
[00:34:20] course, because you know, good posture and their vans and their t shirts. I said, well, wait a second
[00:34:28] now. I may not look like an intern, but damn it. Well, wait, I think I can. I think I can wear
[00:34:40] t shirts on now. I'm not going to go wearing the Dickens. You could be Robert. You could be
[00:34:45] Robert De Niro in the intern. He was an intern. How dare you, sir? What? You don't want
[00:34:51] to be Robert De Niro? I'd rather be Mike the A-man still getting my damn paycheck instead of being
[00:34:58] an intern. I'm just saying, oh, you don't have paid interns. We have paid interns. Well, yeah,
[00:35:04] we have paid interns too, but I know it's not great. They don't have pensions. Yeah, true.
[00:35:10] No, I I'm not saying, you know, I'm not going to wear a hole. So here's the other thing.
[00:35:19] Yeah. So I so I make the kind of rule. I'm like, okay, listen, I'm going to wear jeans and I'm going
[00:35:26] to wear what I call a button up collared shirt, which is what this qualifies as. Yes, this is kind
[00:35:31] of a bowling shirt, but it or a tiki shirt, whatever you want to call it. But it has a collar.
[00:35:38] And it is button up. So when somebody says, Hey, you're not dressed working for me,
[00:35:43] this is a button up collared shirt, my friend. What do you want to call it?
[00:35:49] I'm like that this is what I wear. I don't have to wear a tie. So this is a button up collared shirt.
[00:35:58] And if they can wear jeans to the Grammys, then I can wear jeans to work.
[00:36:06] So the fact that I have to carry in what I need to exist every day is makes this
[00:36:11] not as feasible, but the batteries are dead. So I got a desktop. Oh, wacky inflatable arm guy.
[00:36:23] Wacky man. Right? That works. That was fun for about a minute. And then this is why
[00:36:30] Tmoo was a problem. Okay, so I got all my motivational pens. This one says, leave me alone.
[00:36:35] Mm hmm. Stop talking for the aggressive ones. Your face is weird.
[00:36:49] This one's not even out of the wrapper yet. How about no. Okay.
[00:36:54] I'm gonna give this to an intern dream crusher. Okay. Perfect for my job. That idea is garbage.
[00:37:07] I don't care.
[00:37:13] Oh, you can't say not my problem. That's a good one for work. Good. And then my two favorites that
[00:37:19] I actually did I did I show you stop talking? Yes. Okay, I showed you stop talking. I showed
[00:37:26] you leave me alone. Faces weird. Okay. Blah, blah, blah. And finally, unfortunately, this is on
[00:37:35] like lavender. So it's gonna be hard to read, but that's not my job. All right. Those are all
[00:37:40] right. So valid. So I have made it a point that I'm going to get a bunch of just single color
[00:37:48] pocket t shirts that I can wear to work like not like cotton but like sort of dressy or side
[00:37:57] and just keep the pens right there. And then so I could just easily pull it out and just
[00:38:01] relax to be alone. Yeah, stop talking. I have to train myself which one is
[00:38:09] which color means which. Yeah, I get you. So I have so I just did my first order with Timu.
[00:38:19] I'm trying to remember what the hell I used as my login because I have
[00:38:25] switch accounts. Did I use that one? Maybe? I don't know. I'm trying to remember what
[00:38:32] yeah. This is the problem with too many accounts. Well, listen, Timu is one of those accounts that
[00:38:40] you've got to just have a like one that's not common with anything else. Yeah. Well, and boy,
[00:38:48] have they been bombing my text messages that I finally had to mute them because I was getting
[00:38:56] the text I got rid of real quick. So I ordered some metal tip darts, some dice,
[00:39:04] just regular dice because I realized I wanted to play Yatzee at the house and I have no dice.
[00:39:10] I don't have enough dice to play Yatzee because well you can print out Yatzee come with dice?
[00:39:16] Well yes but I don't have Yatzee. Oh, but you can print out the Yatzee score sheets.
[00:39:22] Those are available online and buying a dice is a lot cheaper than buying a Yatzee game.
[00:39:29] Accurate. So you know, I bought a bunch of dice and then I bought a game called Unstable Unicorns.
[00:39:39] I bought a game called Dirty Minds. One called, oh I bought Date Night Ideas
[00:39:48] and I bought one called Drawing Without Dignity. So it's basically- I have drawing without dignity.
[00:39:57] Is it good? Yes. Okay, that was kind of my hope because I'm always trying to come up with other
[00:40:05] games for when the kids come over so they're not children. They're my adult children.
[00:40:17] Okay, okay. Just making sure. Not grandkids, just kid kids. You know late, you know, 20s and 30s kids.
[00:40:27] So yeah, so I'm just waiting on that to arrive. So but we uh yeah but that'll be my first order
[00:40:42] with Team Moo and that was you know probably more than what I really needed to be completely-
[00:40:49] I finally broke down and I ordered- I installed the app and I'm gonna be completely honest. The app
[00:40:54] sucks. Yeah. I like- I'm browsing through it and I'm like I hate this app almost as much as I hate
[00:41:04] the freaking McDonald's app keep changing my location. Is it as bad as Wish's app?
[00:41:10] Because Wish.com has a terrible app too. Oh that's a bad app as well.
[00:41:15] Wish.com? No, listen, Wish. Wish who? Well, Team Moo is the new hotness man. I know but I still had
[00:41:28] I still had Wish from before Team Moo was a thing. Well, I'm still waiting on an order from Wish,
[00:41:34] I'm pretty sure. Well did you place it last year because if not you're still going to be
[00:41:38] waiting. I mean you know it takes a while. I mean they basically put it in a row boat
[00:41:44] to send it over here. I mean they send it over with some like refugees hoping it gets to the
[00:41:49] right spot. It might not even wind up on the right coast but somehow it'll get here. DHL doesn't
[00:41:54] even use a van to deliver it. They put somebody on a bicycle. Let me tell you. Kim- Drag it with
[00:41:59] Roe. Ooh, new stuff. She got stuff delivered today and she was even like I don't even- I don't
[00:42:05] even remember what I ordered. I don't remember what any of this stuff was. A damn scratching
[00:42:09] post for the cats. I'm like what? Said that was my free gift. It was only two dollars.
[00:42:15] What? Then it wasn't free. It was two dollars. Oh, you know Mike since we've been on a lot of
[00:42:25] things have happened in the world. Yeah, I was just looking at this. I went through and I hit
[00:42:31] some of the highlights and you'll be happy to know I didn't pick any of the political
[00:42:36] highlights. I don't care. At this point I really don't give a damn, you know? But here's one that
[00:42:45] you probably do- well you probably don't because you've already got the mortgage and you're probably
[00:42:48] not going to do it again but mortgage rates rise above 7% for the first time in the last 21 years.
[00:42:56] So I do actually care about this one because it makes it that much harder financially for you
[00:43:04] to decide to sell in order to move. Yeah, I mean yes you're going to get a lot of it. Yes, you're
[00:43:10] going to get a lot from your house because it's still a seller's market but to then buy
[00:43:18] you're going to be paying a lot and oh god forbid if you have to rent, good lord. If you have to
[00:43:25] rent you might as well sell a kidney. I mean because that's what it's going to take.
[00:43:29] Like look, the property values they may if the mortgage rates come back down
[00:43:40] property values could potentially go up because people will be able to afford
[00:43:48] more house because their mortgage payment won't be as high. Yeah. So I'm hoping for a little bit
[00:43:54] of a balance like a compromise here because right now I'd be doubling my mortgage interest rate.
[00:44:00] Yeah, me too. I would almost be tripling it. So we are planning on moving out of New Jersey
[00:44:11] but I can't like right now I like look we're listen we're the way well with the job situation
[00:44:22] that's a whole other that's the whole thing right now but right the way I'm looking at it is
[00:44:28] we are just I'm just paying I'm building up the down payment on the new house at a lower interest
[00:44:33] rate because whatever equity we have when we sell whatever gains we make that's going right to the
[00:44:40] new house so yeah. Oh yeah. But yeah, that one that one out of all of these that's probably
[00:44:47] well maybe not. Let's go on. The next one. The voice of Mario in the Nintendo video games
[00:44:57] is retiring after 27 years. This is where I'm confused because this shows you how much I play
[00:45:05] Mario. I didn't know that he actually spoke in the video games. Yeah, he goes let's go. You know
[00:45:14] and things like that in Mario's heart. He's retiring so they have him record new stuff
[00:45:21] every time and things like you know things like that. So that's doesn't people trying to tell me
[00:45:28] that oh yeah Vin Diesel came back and recorded his lines for everyone in the Guardians of Galaxy
[00:45:33] sequels. I don't know. He did like I am a group. You throw that through whatever modulator you want
[00:45:39] this last one he came back. He said we are a group. Okay. Given three million dollars to
[00:45:47] say two lines given AI and deep fakes right now. Do you need either one of those people?
[00:45:54] I mean you should have enough samples. We'll circle back to that one. Yep. New computer model
[00:46:01] studies suggests humanity was almost wiped out 900,000 years ago with just 1280 reproducing
[00:46:12] individuals left. So that means and this is not confirmed or anything like that. There wasn't any
[00:46:18] history of it but it says that it looks like almost a million years ago there were only
[00:46:25] some cataclysmic event happened and there were only 1280 people left that could reproduce
[00:46:34] and they rebuilt the society. It's kind of interesting. A million years ago. Yeah. Kind of
[00:46:50] insights into what would it take to create a society somewhere else
[00:46:56] from a genetic diversity perspective. You know because we're talking about sending people to
[00:47:02] Mars and all these other things you know so the question comes in all right how many people do
[00:47:06] we have to send to create a world right? Because you watch all this science fiction and everything
[00:47:16] else and you see all these gigantic worlds that are populated and according to them humanity
[00:47:21] is spread throughout. What does that really take? It has always been a question that I struggled with
[00:47:30] so evidently it takes 1280. Well now we know how many people they have to send to Mars.
[00:47:39] Yeah we just have to build an arc and well but you do have to account for like the mortality rate
[00:47:51] because we know that not everybody that goes to Mars is going to make it there. So give them 20%.
[00:47:58] Oh yeah but they'll be reproducing those space nookie as a thing so space nookie.
[00:48:06] Have we had that yet? Have we actually had outer space intercourse?
[00:48:14] If it's not there ain't no damn reason to go. Every sci-fi show
[00:48:22] even some of the bad movies we've watched have depicted space nookie.
[00:48:28] Well I remember Barbarella has but according to NASA as of 2017 at least
[00:48:37] no humans have had sex in space. I think we know what the next experiment on the
[00:48:48] International Space Station needs to be. The question is how big is the bathroom
[00:48:53] to join the Million Mile High Club? Does it have to be in a bathroom though?
[00:49:01] Well I don't know. I know what it is for an airline. So I don't know if that counts.
[00:49:08] But if you do it on a private jet and you're not in the bathroom you're still technically a
[00:49:12] member of the Mile High Club. Well remember they have that charter jet that you can have
[00:49:19] now. Of course in a French author, of course he had to be French, Pierre Coller
[00:49:35] put in his book called The Last Mission that NASA had commissioned a study on the
[00:49:42] various sexual positions in outer space. NASA commissioned a study on space nookie.
[00:49:51] It would be interesting to see which they couldn't have tested all of them.
[00:49:57] The code name Snooki. No not code name Snooki.
[00:50:07] All right next up this is on the bad side of the house. American That 70s show actor Danny
[00:50:18] Masterson sentenced to 30 years to life in prison after a jury convicted him in May of two rapes
[00:50:25] which occurred in 2003. Now yeah so we talked about that when he was accused because he was removed
[00:50:32] from the show on Netflix The Ranch. Yeah and the question then was
[00:50:41] it brings up the whole debate about statute of limitations and I'm not I don't want to get
[00:50:46] into the debate about you know rape and victims and no because we are what's right what's wrong
[00:50:53] and all but no I don't want to I don't want to make the mistake of Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher by
[00:51:02] appearing to provide support. Well and that's the thing that's the only thing that I would
[00:51:06] talk about on this matter is the appearing to provide support because in watching their apology
[00:51:15] video because what they did was they wrote to the judge at the behest of the family evidently
[00:51:22] according to them for leniency and sentencing that's that was their was their plea. Now
[00:51:32] and they talked about the guy's relationship with his wife and their kids and that kind of
[00:51:37] stuff was the was the my understanding is the contents of the letter. Now you know
[00:51:44] I don't know that they argued and said this didn't happen or anything like that as far as I know
[00:51:50] and again I didn't read didn't go into depth about this but they just asked for leniency and sentencing
[00:51:55] and somehow people construed that as they were going against the victim. Now I my wife had a
[00:52:07] little bit of a not a relationship but a knowledge of some people who are going through similar
[00:52:13] where their son had been convicted and they were asking people not my wife but other people
[00:52:19] that that knew him to write such letters. All right I can't imagine the pressure that would be on you
[00:52:25] if you were asked to write such a letter by a family one okay I can't imagine what that pressure
[00:52:32] would feel like especially if you did know that person fairly well because they worked together for
[00:52:37] years all right and you know you I can see where they thought that there was going to be
[00:52:45] some level of confidentiality in that letter knowing that it was going to a judge you know
[00:52:55] you know I'm not excusing you know what appears on the surface at all but I'm just saying that
[00:53:01] you know I don't think that their letter asking for leniency was in my mind diminishing the
[00:53:08] victims harm you know. So I had I thought about it after and I watched their apology video too and
[00:53:18] if I was in that situation this is kind of where I where I started
[00:53:25] I guess getting into my feelings about it. If I was in their shoes and a family came and asked
[00:53:31] me to write a letter asking for leniency the first thought that crosses my mind is
[00:53:39] if he didn't do it why does he need leniency if you want me to write a letter talking about
[00:53:47] our dealings together just as like how I've interacted with you as a person and what my
[00:53:55] thoughts about you as a person are I would do that but it's not up to me to decide if you're
[00:54:05] guilty or not if you're asking me I guess that's the that's the whole thing like leniency implies
[00:54:12] that you know he did it. Well and the question is who's the leniency for because I guess when
[00:54:20] you're talking about the relationship between him and his family and everything else I I
[00:54:25] guess the way I interpret it is not the leniency for him it's for them it's for like his kid because
[00:54:34] his kids now got to grow up without a dad in the picture right fair you know so why because no matter
[00:54:45] what that's you know that still happens. Again I'm not taking away from the victims experience
[00:54:53] or anything like that there's damage there that needs to be atoned for and I think that's where
[00:55:00] it becomes fuzzy because if you're asking for leniency you're almost saying that well what he
[00:55:06] did really what the victims say he did really wasn't that bad so that's the interpretation
[00:55:12] that's being made. Well see and I or could be made yeah it could be made see I guess I
[00:55:19] I interpreted it a little bit different I interpreted of yes he needs to pay
[00:55:24] however please balance it against the damage that it's doing to these other unrelated parties.
[00:55:32] So say okay you're you're sentencing him 30 years to life right if that's what you're being
[00:55:37] saddled with okay maybe just sir maybe just tell him it's the 30 years part because when he gets
[00:55:44] out he's still going to be a crippled old man but at least his daughter knows there's a chance that
[00:55:50] he might get out at some point in her in you know while he's still alive rather than dying in prison.
[00:56:02] Again I it's a very touchy subject and I don't want to take anything away from the victims
[00:56:07] because that that is entirely wrong and that's not what I intend to do here I'm just trying
[00:56:11] to advocate for the for the collateral damage that's happening you know.
[00:56:19] So the other thing to think about here and now just completely like the victims
[00:56:36] look at Cosby. And that's and what happened there is probably wrong here 100 so here's the thing
[00:56:44] because there I didn't see collateral damage there. So because of this is this was actually where I was
[00:56:51] going so because of his stature or status at the time he had a hit show on Netflix his career
[00:57:00] was starting to see a resurgence and a lot of people felt that was why people why these victims came
[00:57:06] forward at that time. Are they is that introducing bias into the way his case is being handled?
[00:57:19] You know it was right around right on the heels of the Me Too movement
[00:57:24] right on the heels of what's her name from King of Queens.
[00:57:31] Leah Remi.
[00:57:32] Leah Remini with with the whole Scientology thing because Danny Masterson was in Scientology
[00:57:39] the Church of Scientology when he was. So and that's evidently what happened with this too so yeah.
[00:57:47] So how much of that is influencing his sentencing I think that is an area where a letter
[00:57:56] if if found guilty what he did to these victims. Yes he should be punished however don't let all of
[00:58:04] this other noise influence your decision on the punishment that would be my.
[00:58:13] No that's right and that's interpretation and and don't interpret anything that I said
[00:58:18] to mean that he isn't guilty or he doesn't deserve punishment or anything like that because that
[00:58:23] is not what we I think I think you know that it would be in a complete misinterpretation of
[00:58:31] what I was talking about. All right. You know so but so that happened September 11th US sets
[00:58:41] a record for the number of 23 weather disasters in one year costing more than one billion
[00:58:47] in less than nine months. So already this year we've exceeded a record in damages due to weather
[00:58:55] related events. Okay what I would be curious about and this is where our our third party
[00:59:04] our third quadrant would probably be able to clarify for me of that how many of those are
[00:59:12] they counting the wildfires as weather disasters. Oh that's a well those happen in Canada though not
[00:59:18] in the US. No there were fires in the US. Good question how many forest fires I wouldn't say
[00:59:30] that those would be considered weather related events though. Okay and that's what I might have been.
[00:59:36] They might have been. Because I mean according to the nut jobs that are trying to say that oh
[00:59:43] well you know global warming influenced wildfires and that's what according to according to Google
[00:59:51] there have been 42,689 wildfires in 2023 alone that have consumed 2.1 million acres. Compare that to 2020
[01:00:04] where they were roughly the same amount of fires but they consumed 7.2 million acres
[01:00:10] and 2019 where there were 37,715 where they consumed 4.3 million acres
[01:00:24] which was a down year. Actually we're looking on track to be another down year this year as far as
[01:00:32] acreage not on amount of fires though but on acreage. So like Hollywood I thought there was one
[01:00:43] like in like Beverly Hills or in California I thought there were wildfires this year that
[01:00:48] like some of the stars homes were in jeopardy unless I'm getting my ears confused which has
[01:00:54] happened a lot lately I'm sad to say. Let's see here they have California had 5,474 wildfires
[01:01:04] they burned 257,000 acres they had four fatalities and 42 structures were damaged.
[01:01:13] So I don't think I mean if they if they were damaged they were I don't know that they were
[01:01:20] you know massive that might have been 2022 though because I think that was a bigger fire year for
[01:01:29] that. Perhaps. I mean but I think we'll all remember the days this year where the sky especially
[01:01:38] in your area was orange you know during the day and I mean we even got you know the
[01:01:47] smoke and the pollution down here from the Canadian wildfires which I believe are still going on
[01:01:55] yeah that's not to the same degree so but I will say that you know we're just starting
[01:02:04] hurricane season now it's pretty bad when I have a now in my YouTube algorithm I have a
[01:02:12] amateur meteorologist that I'm tracking
[01:02:18] but I'll tell you what he gives some great advice he he he tracks storms really well
[01:02:24] better than a lot of the channels do so. There's a guy on Facebook I follow that uh
[01:02:31] he was the only one and he really clearly predicted the uh the path of Hurricane Sandy
[01:02:38] back you know years ago he was the only one that was telling New Jersey guys get ready this
[01:02:45] shit's coming yeah everybody else is like oh it's gonna be off there it's gonna do this that
[01:02:49] nope he was he was spot on. This guy is like the hey y'alls report or something
[01:02:58] uh let's see here I have to find it but yeah it's uh it was he was he's really good
[01:03:05] actually like watching his weather reports I I've learned a lot um next up September
[01:03:11] moving into yeah so we're into this month so September 14th NASA probe into UFO sightings
[01:03:19] prove inconclusive largely due to lack of good data found no evidence of aliens but doesn't
[01:03:26] rule out the possibility in other words same old same old one didn't they just
[01:03:34] declassify a whole bunch of files about UFOs or whatever they're calling them now yes yes okay
[01:03:43] number two which by the way just find like how crazy is that back in the 60s and 70s if you
[01:03:51] would have told somebody hey someday the government's gonna declassify and publicize a bunch of
[01:03:57] pictures that show strange objects in the sky and they're going to come out and say publicly
[01:04:02] hey there's a lot of stuff going on in the atmosphere that we don't know what it is
[01:04:06] here's the information that we've recorded and kept secret you'd have been locked up in the
[01:04:11] loony bin or told to go open up a store in area 51 yeah that never would have come out before
[01:04:20] and didn't they just say that they found like uh uh an alien sarcophagus in Mexico
[01:04:29] that literally looks like the little dude from inside the suit in men in black
[01:04:34] I was gonna say do you think it's part of the stargate I mean wouldn't you say sarcophagus I think
[01:04:38] it was stargate uh I don't I don't think anybody found little green men did we declassify little
[01:04:48] green men a little gray men here I'm gonna send it to you okay I let's see here mummies from outer space
[01:05:06] Mexico congress gets a firsthand boy that god pay wall oh all right let me find one that's not a pay wall
[01:05:18] news should be free new york times
[01:05:22] space.com is this I got it I got it I witness news all right uh let's switch back here here we go
[01:05:39] tell me it don't look like the body of the little dude that was inside the bigger dude in men in black
[01:05:45] it does look like it I won't lie it does look like it but you know it it also looks like
[01:05:52] an alien made out of paper mache yes it does so you know I I and he boy he's really tiny
[01:06:04] also looks like maybe a very poorly done doll that got hit when Mount Vesuvius went up
[01:06:12] uh you know I don't know but that is a bit weird but you know they did all kinds of weird
[01:06:22] stuff happened to mummies back then maybe it was it maybe it was a baby with birth defects
[01:06:31] oh so you're what you're saying is we don't be in Ripley's believe it or not museum yeah
[01:06:36] that's where it blogs okay and so to close out your list uh huh
[01:06:45] huh this one I had I saw his name pop up on twitter didn't know why British comedian Russell
[01:06:55] brand accused of rape sexual assaults and emotional abuse by four women in investigation by the
[01:07:01] Sunday Times and Channel 4 wow I I just rewatched a bake-off episode with him in it so
[01:07:14] so you know now let's be completely honest brand 48 denies allegations of sexual assault made by four
[01:07:22] women in a Channel 4 television documentary and the Times and Sunday Times newspapers so this is
[01:07:29] you know he says it didn't happen we're not saying we know either way none of us were there
[01:07:37] or can comment um but these allegations are being taken seriously but they were alleged to have taken
[01:07:47] place in Soho in central London in 2003 so 20 years ago um you know so I mean he would have been
[01:08:05] 28 at the time I I don't know I mean it it kind of goes back to the Danny Masterson thing where
[01:08:17] it it's a long time since these are coming to light and you know understanding that not all
[01:08:24] things get reported right away it is a seems to be a while so
[01:08:31] you know so uh yeah they're checking it so I mean that long ago a lot of things change so
[01:08:47] and this is just the non-political stuff yeah we didn't even get into in in you know indictments
[01:08:55] failed plea bargains you know political races lawsuits you know attempts to to uh you know uh
[01:09:07] get people off of benches before they've even heard a trial um you know anything like that we
[01:09:15] yeah we didn't do nothing about those so next time when Collins on we'll talk about all that together
[01:09:24] no we won't yeah okay no we won't know it at all absolutely will not um no but so
[01:09:36] we obviously can't do world's worst we can't do that game with just the two of us no
[01:09:45] but uh but we can talk about something okay so you and I both experienced
[01:09:51] for the most part the one chip challenge yeah earlier this year in fact that was our first show
[01:10:00] of 2023 yep well pocky what we used was the 2022 version pocky has pulled the 2023 version
[01:10:16] from the shelves after a teenager died allegedly from consuming the 2023 one chip challenge chip
[01:10:29] yeah now it was bad don't get me wrong but it also had a ton of disclaimers on it about pre-existing
[01:10:38] conditions and what you should should and should not do it also said for adults only yes
[01:10:47] not to be consumed by minors um in fact I do recall there being one youtube video where a corner
[01:10:56] broke off of one of the chips so the guy let his like eight-year-old son have just a just the
[01:11:01] smallest piece and he got blasted in the comment section on youtube as a result now you had a much
[01:11:12] worse reaction than I do not fare spicy very well yeah fair okay did you ever being serious and I'm not
[01:11:25] gonna I'm not asking this to pick on you about it but did you ever feel like you were gonna die
[01:11:30] no no I felt like I was going to feel terrible uh but you know I did I did not feel like I was
[01:11:37] going to die uh you know that my my and and my antics may have been played up slightly for the camera
[01:11:49] but you know it was not you could see by the red in my face and the sweat coming off of
[01:11:54] you know my my forehead and the hiccups and the hiccups that I was not enjoying myself
[01:11:59] but you know no I did not think that I was going to uh was was going to expire due to chips
[01:12:09] so let us be clear that the child that died was 14 years old
[01:12:17] who's in massachusetts he did this at school he consumed the chip at school when the
[01:12:26] the school contacted his mom on friday about a stomach ache he said he was having
[01:12:33] having but allegedly he felt better when he got home later he collapsed was rushed to the hospital
[01:12:40] where he's pronounced dead so his mom now I similar to the whole conversation we just had
[01:12:53] I'm not trying to make light of the incident that he died no it's very sad I do not believe
[01:13:00] he should have had access you know this is this is like a typical case of this is why we can't
[01:13:05] have nice things where you know it's not supposed to be for kids not intend it's attended for adult
[01:13:12] consumption a 14 year old should not have been able to get their hands on this yep now the
[01:13:18] mom is blaming the school saying they should have taken him straight to the hospital when his stomach
[01:13:23] started hurting what what I am going to say is I'm pretty sure that this kid didn't go and say
[01:13:30] I ate the one chip challenge chip that's why my stomach is hurting yeah no and if he did
[01:13:38] they may have treated it different without knowing both sides of this this is very similar to
[01:13:47] the whole high school kids going to the hospital with weird lung issues after vaping only to find
[01:13:57] out that 100 of the samples from of the biopsy samples from these kids show that they all
[01:14:03] vaped illegal THC cartridges with vitamin E acetate which by the way is a poison when you
[01:14:11] vape it so shaggy is glad that the chips got pulled because that means there's no chance of us repeating
[01:14:22] this the challenge to me this is another case of society where you know parents need to step up
[01:14:32] and take more responsibility for their children yeah and in this case yeah the school should
[01:14:38] have done something handled something different but ask the question how did this kid get this
[01:14:43] chip well and how many kids at that age just have a random stomach ache I mean it happens all the time
[01:14:52] nerves do the tests you know girl problems you know whatever I mean stress is a huge factor in
[01:14:58] upset stomach it still is to this day for a lot of people and you know it just happened so you
[01:15:04] know and schools can't prescribe anything anymore you know and so you know they which I'm they would
[01:15:15] have called the mother I would have thought it would have precipitated a call to them they wouldn't
[01:15:19] have just said okay go back to class sorry about your luck so you know it I mean if it was really
[01:15:28] worried about it then you know I don't know I just you know and for me I didn't I didn't have any
[01:15:37] stomach related issues after the fact I everything was on my mouth was on fire I didn't have any
[01:15:44] issues on the exit of the chip but you know no neither did I actually but again I'm very
[01:15:52] slight we're also 30 years older than that kid so you know could have something to do with it
[01:16:00] you know so and the other thing here um it's cause of death is yet to be determined now if he had
[01:16:15] a pre-existing condition that he wasn't aware of
[01:16:18] mm-hmm it's the problem here is we're never gonna know no in a situation like this
[01:16:25] if it unless it turns out that the chip caused his death we're never gonna hear about this autopsy
[01:16:32] report they're never gonna admit that it was pulled by you know as an overabundance of caution
[01:16:41] why not just lock it lock them away you have to show ID to buy it yeah why not do that treat it like any
[01:16:48] other you know I mean yeah treat it like anything else I guess I mean that would probably realize
[01:16:58] here's the funny part that uh I didn't realize that Pocky was owned by Hershey
[01:17:04] why didn't either I just found this out by looking about it uh trying to find out if they
[01:17:10] had anything more about um about Harris Wolaba I wonder if there would be an underlying lawsuit
[01:17:18] coming as well well so that's that's the other thing when you learn again okay how big Pocky
[01:17:29] you think that company act okay they make tortilla they make chips okay yay but then when you find out
[01:17:36] that's a brand of Hershey yeah oh wait a minute Hershey's kind of like when I found a manufacturing
[01:17:43] part in the bag of Hershey chocolate chip is my wife got I thought oh boy this is gonna be good
[01:17:52] it wasn't as good a chip for life it wasn't as good as I thought it was gonna be
[01:17:58] here's a couple coupons yeah pretty much thank you for bringing it to our attention yeah
[01:18:05] oh yeah wish it would have been better um let's see here uh yeah speaking about how old we are in
[01:18:21] and start contrast to other people evidently a trending thread on twitter slash x slash
[01:18:31] Elon Musk's failure uh was um signs that you're 40 so let's go let's go through some of these
[01:18:43] because I think some of these are hilarious if you're in the supermarket and you realize
[01:18:47] the music that's playing was the same music at your junior high high homecoming dance all right
[01:18:56] uh yes if the cashier asks for id for age restricted items and and laughs
[01:19:07] no no they don't I've never had a cashier laugh
[01:19:14] if your social media feed is filled with pictures of your friends kids and their latest achievements
[01:19:19] oh god can we first day of school need I say more I'll tell you what though I just had somebody
[01:19:30] somebody just joined our division he's a new boss and he has small children who are also starting
[01:19:38] school and they were like do we really have to take these stupid pictures and so he went ahead
[01:19:44] since he was starting a new job at the same day he went ahead and took the chalkboard and did
[01:19:49] up one for him of starting new job and he posted that to our managers group and that was the
[01:19:57] funniest thing we'd ever seen one of my co-workers did the did did her kids first day of school
[01:20:06] first day of school and she did first day of rto so yeah uh if a teacher once told you you won't
[01:20:16] always have a calculator in your pocket yeah that's when you were cool and you just stuck out your
[01:20:24] wrist and said yeah but I got one of mine right here you know hangovers have become an all-day
[01:20:32] affair instead of quick recovery that ain't a lot that ain't a lot the older you are the longer they
[01:20:41] take to recover that's when you realize they're just not worth it they're just not worth it anymore
[01:20:48] I get to buzz it and I just like no I'm gonna I'm gonna hold off an hour then I'm gonna re-buzz
[01:20:53] then I'm gonna hold off an hour then I'm gonna re-buzz that's how it's gonna work now
[01:20:56] like I had a dinner with with with some some co-workers last on this past Wednesday and we sit down
[01:21:07] and it's like all right so it's like 6 30 when we finally get to get all the work done and we go
[01:21:14] sit down for dinner and guys come around I order a beer and co-workers like yeah
[01:21:19] uh um gray goose twist the lemon like bro you realize it's a school night right
[01:21:32] I know I really think that should be one as another one
[01:21:39] that was dessert
[01:21:42] I'm a cappuccino black sambuca chilled
[01:21:46] but bro ski
[01:21:55] when you wake up injured and don't know why you got out of bed wrong that's all it takes
[01:22:02] I was gonna say notice there's no implying you actually did something the night before
[01:22:07] it did you went to sleep that's what you did yeah you went to sleep thinking whatever you
[01:22:12] went to sleep with was going to get magically fixed when you woke up it doesn't sometimes
[01:22:17] get worse when talking about directions you say let me map quest it no but you could you might say
[01:22:24] hey remember when we used to print out map quest instructions and you had to cross the country
[01:22:30] with 13 pages of printed directions because you didn't have gps or the atlas book that kept
[01:22:40] you know in the side so I remember to staff picnic in Virginia okay this was arguably where
[01:22:54] shaggy and my friendship was born I'm driving down from jersey with alblink azoid in which
[01:23:03] yeah forget it useless for driving there is no gps what made you think a blind guy was going to be
[01:23:11] helpful when we were driving dude the prick had that braille thingy he could have the
[01:23:18] for all I know he could have the directions in there turn by turn tell me what to look for
[01:23:23] no I had the map quest directions printed and folded up so I could just keep them right
[01:23:31] like on top of my steering wheel and when I got to the one turn I could just flip it so it was like
[01:23:37] a pyramid so I could just flip it up and have the direction and I did the same thing going home now
[01:23:43] back then while we were there I bought a usb gps and the program for my laptop dune did the same
[01:23:53] thing yeah yes so you had to run your laptop which by the way our laptops had maybe two hours of
[01:24:02] battery life two hours what are you talking about we had to get an inverter the size of a shoebox
[01:24:09] so okay so that's where I was going with this so I wound up at a later date helping one of our
[01:24:20] co-hosts move from west virginia to albany uh-huh and I'm running my laptop driving down to west
[01:24:29] virginia with the with this gps thing working and it starts to die I had to find a truck stop in
[01:24:36] order to find by an inverter that was big enough to be able to run that laptop yeah which to this
[01:24:42] day I still have it in the in the highly unlikely event I ever get a camper and need to run
[01:24:49] electric often I know I know that was such a oh it was it was such a road trip man it was so bad
[01:25:01] uh yeah um you oh Jesus next one oh god you printed out greeting cards and birthday banners with a
[01:25:11] dot matrix printer or simply you know what the holes on the side of the paper were for
[01:25:17] I actually brought this up the other day at work I said I kind of wish we had a dot matrix printer
[01:25:24] so that we could print out a banner I said and then we could take the little things on the side
[01:25:29] and we could make the worms like we used to and I had new employees look at me because they're
[01:25:35] in their 20s go what and I'm like yeah that's what she used to do it's just a perforated
[01:25:43] holes and you made little wiggle with them I so my mom wasn't on a dot matrix printer but my
[01:25:55] I will never forget my mother got the hallmark official hallmark card program
[01:26:03] right and I swear I got the same birthday card for at least seven years straight because my
[01:26:12] mother at that point refused to ever buy a card in the store and yes the wiggle worms yes
[01:26:22] you would save up all year this way and if you figured out and you could fold them
[01:26:28] and you'd eventually have one giant one that went all across your desk so I was just looking up
[01:26:37] because I didn't have the hallmark program but boy did we have copies of the print shop
[01:26:43] print shop yes oh my god there is a version for windows 10 the print shop 23.1 deluxe border
[01:26:57] bound still makes it I almost want to buy it now compatible with windows 11 all the clip art you
[01:27:12] could ever need oh um here's one you already know about AI and his name is clippy that's yes that's right
[01:27:34] you've jieves it before you googled it yes uh yeah and you remember using encyclopedias
[01:27:46] before wikipedia I have one better yeah you used to own encarta on cd I got one even better
[01:27:59] you used to have to go to the library oh yeah that's where we had encarta I used l and or you
[01:28:05] have to use to and you would have to look up stuff on microfilm or micro fish or you had to use
[01:28:11] that stupid card catalog thing that nobody understood how it really worked
[01:28:20] this one I'm not too quite yet you get great enjoyment from watching birds at your bird feeder
[01:28:25] bro we're there do you have the electronic bird feeder the the smart bird feeder no oh you need one
[01:28:37] that way you're on team move that way the bird buddy that's what you need it is a smart bird feeder
[01:28:45] and you can not only will it take pictures of your birds as they come and feed but it will also
[01:28:55] identify your birds oh no no it's like a ring camera for birds no yeah I think mrs. a man needs one
[01:29:11] how much is it uh even going further how much is it well you let me tell you this right now
[01:29:16] you can buy knockoff versions because the that's all yeah that's all I need to know
[01:29:21] can you get it on team move that's all I need to know probably probably because the cheapest
[01:29:25] version here is $200 for a bird feeder he's not a bird feeder it's going to identify which squirrel
[01:29:33] is eating my damn bird seat but you need one with the solar roof so that's two seven yes so okay
[01:29:44] you make a noise when you make a noise to stand up yep caught myself doing that the other day
[01:29:52] I said holy crap how the hell am I going to get through another hockey season at this point like I feel
[01:29:58] like I feel like I'm falling apart I make a noise to sit up in bed let alone to stand up
[01:30:08] standing as an ordeal you know but yeah so those are all signs that you're uh in your 40s I hear
[01:30:23] people talking about now like oh well I'm oh god I'm 30 I'm so old like I will kick your ass I swear
[01:30:29] to god I will take this belt right off you have no idea you are you are not old
[01:30:37] in I'm oh god so I'm at work the other day this is one good thing it's going to be show
[01:30:43] material the fact that I'm actually going to work now but I'm at work the other day and I'm in
[01:30:48] the elevator going up from the from the parking garage floor and the elevator's full right so as people
[01:30:57] are coming in I'm right there I'm like what floor and I wind up pushing all buttons all of it's five
[01:31:01] we get to like see us coming up I'm like okay third floor bedding housewares major appliances
[01:31:08] I turn around it's all interns they're all looking at me like uh oh you didn't you didn't say
[01:31:16] in my head the little man is jumping out well I was in the workplace I at least had the sense
[01:31:22] not to go that way but I I literally turn around and I'm like oh see a little man on my shoulders
[01:31:29] like every single one of them still has wet hair from the fucking womb oh my god these young ones
[01:31:35] you could be your you could be a father to all of them mm-hmm yep oh I same thing when I do
[01:31:44] movie references and stuff at work they don't have a clue we we were before we moved up to the
[01:31:54] work station area where we're at there were three of us that were reserving one conference
[01:31:59] room and we were all sitting there while the one guy has an intern that's he's training and comes in
[01:32:05] talking about and he's like yeah well you know I'm 24 and I looked around
[01:32:12] everybody's got the same look like yeah we've all been at this freaking company longer than he's been alive
[01:32:18] yeah we are officially them now yeah I've I've been working now for over 25 years so I started my
[01:32:28] career when some of my employees were born so pretty sad and that's like I have I have a guy
[01:32:37] who works for me who I found out now he's probably in his mid mid to late 20s I would say
[01:32:44] but I found out he's a grandpa no no no I found out just the other day
[01:32:49] he doesn't even have not having a house I would understand all right still probably getting your
[01:32:55] feet underneath you he doesn't even have an apartment he literally rents a room well I guess
[01:33:03] I guess it's fine I guess maybe he's doing better financially than I am and it's probably a
[01:33:09] smarter decision but boy I can't imagine doing that when I was that age of course by that age
[01:33:15] I already had a kid so you know I'd had had a kid for a long time but you know so yeah
[01:33:28] let's go through this other list here neither one of us are boomers right
[01:33:32] no no no I'm I'm Gen X I'm solidly Gen X so yep these are things that boomers got 100% right
[01:33:50] yeah all right so the it's the opinion of boomers are number one I agree that I don't want to talk
[01:33:58] to an AI bot if I have a question issue or need assistance let me talk to a human being who is able
[01:34:04] to understand what I'm saying don't make me jump through the AI hoop I 100% agree with this one
[01:34:12] I'm sick of the automated chat bots trying to say oh I have a problem with my bill
[01:34:20] well let me see if I can help you with that your current balance is
[01:34:24] bitch I know what my current balance is that's why I'm telling you I have a problem with my bill
[01:34:30] yeah see and I'm one of the jerks that are designing those things right now so you know
[01:34:38] I can say this a poorly designed one is extremely infuriating 100% percent
[01:34:44] and there should all just like a call tree there should always be an option to get out to a human
[01:34:51] all right okay so here's the thing there are some things that it can handle
[01:34:56] and like if you were just calling to check on the balance of your checking account
[01:35:01] you don't need to talk to a human all right let the robots do stuff okay that's fair
[01:35:09] that's fair um you know like amazon something doesn't show up the AI bot can easily
[01:35:15] issue credit for me that's fine yeah but the next free part of that whole AI conversation
[01:35:24] because this actually happened was can I speak to a person please I'll be happy to connect you
[01:35:33] but before I do can you please tell me more about your problem mm-hmm I just told you
[01:35:41] that is how I'm typing oh yeah I'm an angry type I just told you I have a problem with my bill
[01:35:55] yeah the best is when you when you get the voice AI when you're on the phone and you hear a thing
[01:36:08] the processing sorry I didn't understand
[01:36:15] I'm having a damn stroke every time I call one of these things somebody needs to write it so
[01:36:20] is that it's understand is bitch listen to what I'm saying but no I completely get it just needs
[01:36:26] to understand if the word bitch appears anywhere in there just put them through to a right okay
[01:36:31] actually that's the back door code word there actually is a thing called a sentiment score
[01:36:35] on bots or they evaluate whether it was a positive or negative experience and I can't imagine
[01:36:42] that the word bitch is rated as a positive experience if it is it must be but must be you know postfix
[01:36:51] with bitching but no I the other thing that kills me with those with those interactions and and one
[01:37:00] of the things that I've absolutely said this cannot be a sequence that happens is when you do go
[01:37:06] through like Comcast does this right what's your account number what's your name what's your
[01:37:11] address what you know can I verify your your information with with your so last for your
[01:37:16] social security number all right I can't answer your question so I'll transfer you to an
[01:37:20] opera to a person transform me to a person hey let me get some of your basic account
[01:37:26] information what's your account number what's your address what you did but but but
[01:37:31] all the same crap I just entered and answered and took the time to put it in
[01:37:36] no pass it off I know you can do it I have the technology you can do it
[01:37:42] I have noticed that instances where I run into that are getting less and less
[01:37:48] yeah ah super frustrating they are learning I will the machines are learning that's right
[01:37:54] they're they're just leveling us into a false sense of security before Skynet takes over
[01:37:59] that's the way that this happens so the next one on this list
[01:38:06] in my own experience older generations were far more DIY friendly when it came to pretty much
[01:38:12] everything building repairing cooking etc whether that was a mindset based on lack of finances
[01:38:18] I'm not sure okay so let's let's break this let's separate this a little bit
[01:38:23] mm-hmm building I find myself straying away from it like I built my computer
[01:38:36] five years ago mm-hmm I don't know if I could bring myself to build another computer in fact
[01:38:43] when it came time to replace Kim's I bought mm-hmm because I just don't have the time
[01:38:50] I don't have the patience you got other stuff to do cooking I will agree like you've got all
[01:38:57] of these things like Hello Fresh and and and and blue apron or all these that's basically cooking
[01:39:04] for dummies mm-hmm so I think it that is the new generation's idea of cooking which by the way
[01:39:13] of hello fresh or any of those want to sponsor ptr radio we will be more than happy to do that
[01:39:20] send us your way bro I will take pictures post on my Instagram account I got an Instagram account
[01:39:26] yeah I post stuff I will take pictures and post up me cooking and all of that stuff if you want to
[01:39:31] sponsor us mm-hmm not opposed to y'all my issue with Hello Fresh is I can't let my wife cook
[01:39:37] Hello Fresh because the going joke is she uses every pot that we own to cook the Hello Fresh
[01:39:43] meal and the deal is whoever cooks the other one has to do the dishes so that's my only issue with
[01:39:50] Hello Fresh repairing this is where I have a problem things are not built this is not a generational
[01:39:58] thing it's it's a manufacturing thing you can't repair 99% of the stuff that you've got anymore
[01:40:05] no you used to be able to raise you used to be a praise they don't make it like they used to
[01:40:10] is legit you used to be able to open up the hood of your car identify everything in it take it all
[01:40:17] apart put it all back together and most of the time it would work and you would have fixed the problem
[01:40:22] but now that problem could be electrical it could be in the computer it could be anything else
[01:40:28] you don't know what the problem is until you've you know gone through the diagnostic system
[01:40:33] you know and the same thing is for washing machines refrigerators stoves you know all this
[01:40:39] I mean you have to take a concerted effort to learn how to repair items you know it's not just a
[01:40:46] YOLO it you know I mean I replaced the starter in my 88 Chevy Celebrity without you know by looking
[01:40:57] at a Shilton's manual for you know an hour and then it's four hours in my driveway figuring
[01:41:04] it out I couldn't do that today I mean not without a dedicated shop and a lift and specific tools
[01:41:15] you just you don't have the resources to do it even if you wanted to and if you did if you do decide
[01:41:24] to then your warranty is void because somewhere there's a little foil sticker that says void if
[01:41:31] broken which is which is one of the reasons why legislation going through several states and at
[01:41:37] the federal level for right to repair is important you can just look at the agricultural industry
[01:41:45] as a prime example farmers used to work on their tractors they can't anymore all right right
[01:41:53] so yeah no I mean it's yeah it's just it's simple changing of the times next one I remember
[01:42:02] birthdays or mark them in a calendar and we'll send a text or card so many people have told me
[01:42:08] they appreciate me remembering knowing I don't have social media to remind me it means a little
[01:42:14] more to them knowing I remembered and reached out we still have a calendar in the kitchen
[01:42:24] in the kitchen well and the rule in the house is if it's not on the calendar it's not official
[01:42:31] yeah I mean one of our ex-co-hosts Nate him and his wife have a shared electronic calendar
[01:42:38] which is where they put everything that's going on because a busy family has things going on and
[01:42:42] sometimes you you know if you can put it on there it's no different than having one hanging
[01:42:46] on the refrigerator or whatever you know and actually it reminds me of a
[01:42:52] miva hole a reddit article that I that I came across the other day which was
[01:42:58] there was a guy and I'm a lot like this guy actually who has trouble remembering things
[01:43:04] okay so like didn't remember you know when his wife had an important thing coming up at work
[01:43:10] or couldn't remember it if left to his own devices couldn't remember you know certain
[01:43:14] anniversaries or certain you know extended relatives birthdays or whatever and so he
[01:43:21] would put them into his phone as reminders of things that were important to him that he needed
[01:43:27] to do especially things revolving around his wife like if he knew that she was going to have a
[01:43:32] difficult day coming up he would make sure to put an appointment in that says you know for 8 a.m.
[01:43:36] hey make sure to tell wife you know have a good day today or hey I know it's going to be rough
[01:43:42] you know let's do a special dinner or whatever little things so that it didn't appear like he was
[01:43:48] a you know thoughtless butt head basically right and I mean I I do that too I've put in reminders
[01:43:58] about when certain people passed away so that I can make sure that I'm there for my wife when
[01:44:04] she needs me if I know that she's having a bad day or whatever I mean I've put it into my phone
[01:44:09] because I know that if left to myself I'm not going to remember it and his am I the a whole
[01:44:15] question was he's like my wife saw my phone pop up one of these reminders and gave me a hard time
[01:44:24] about it she's like he she she she tells me it's inconsiderate of me to have to rely on the device
[01:44:33] to remind me and you know doesn't understand you know thinks that it that is thoughtless
[01:44:42] and overwhelmingly and I happen to agree with the comments they say that she is wrong
[01:44:48] that the thoughtless thing would be to not do anything to address the innate behavior
[01:44:54] because what he's doing is saying listen I know I have a problem
[01:44:58] I know that I probably can't solve this myself but I don't want to have the behavior
[01:45:04] exist continue to exist because I don't want to be a thoughtless partner so even if it takes
[01:45:08] something to remind me I want to do the effort so it shows that he is it's worth the effort
[01:45:14] for him to do these things but that you know he may need a little bit of help along the way
[01:45:20] so I mean I completely agree with so yeah I
[01:45:24] it's that there's part of me that says you know what she's gonna be kicking herself down the
[01:45:31] couple years down the road when he when they find out he's got Alzheimer's and that's why he was
[01:45:37] forgetting all of this stuff or wasn't able to figure it out um no I I have birthdays
[01:45:45] and and yet you know it's the social I'm glad they mentioned social media in there because
[01:45:53] I found myself relying on Facebook to tell me when people's birthdays are yep me too so now
[01:45:59] anytime I actually do put those in my phone so that when Facebook goes the way of my space
[01:46:04] I at least have it in my phone yeah um and unfortunately I have it in my phone okay
[01:46:13] so I'm I'm gonna tell you this I'm gonna admit this to you I have your birthday in my calendar twice
[01:46:21] because for some reason one calendar had it on one day and another calendar had it on the other day
[01:46:29] and when I merged those calendars now your birthday is twice so I have I I'm admitting this because
[01:46:36] well why not that's why a lot of times you'll see the post it's his birthday week so let's see
[01:46:46] for Shaggy because I don't know which friggin day it is well it's a 15 so you can delete
[01:46:53] okay but yeah no I mean that you know I I agree I you know and I don't see a huge
[01:47:03] difference between a electronic calendar and a physical calendar I think they're
[01:47:08] very similar but yeah I agree that you know having things and one of the things that I I try to do is
[01:47:15] I don't actually post on Facebook and all those things I try to either text somebody or in a
[01:47:21] very rare instance call somebody if it's their birthday because I think it's a little bit more
[01:47:25] personal you know it at least shows that you were thinking and not just jumping on the bandwagon
[01:47:30] with everybody else I guess you know yeah so you know that now that doesn't mean that I don't try to
[01:47:37] also show it publicly but you know I just think that you know it it does try to you know show hey
[01:47:43] listen you know beyond just the social media channel uh you know I kind of remembered so
[01:47:50] you know all right uh next up they generally see voting as an absolute must they don't need
[01:47:57] to be persuaded by someone they just vote every time there's an election whether it's local or federal
[01:48:02] I wish that tendency would have carried on more now I vote every November
[01:48:12] and if it's a special election in my town I will vote as well
[01:48:18] the only ones I don't vote in are primaries
[01:48:21] mm-hmm because I refuse to New Jersey makes it damn near
[01:48:28] it's too difficult in my opinion to change your party affiliation once you vote in a primary
[01:48:34] yeah so for that reason I just don't vote in primaries yeah I don't do primaries either uh for
[01:48:42] other reasons relating to employment it's just you know it's a kind of a general government
[01:48:47] rule don't vote in primaries because then they know your party affiliation uh you know
[01:48:53] and that makes sense uh you know so I don't um but yeah and honestly it's only been something
[01:48:59] within maybe the last 10 years that I have been involved in 10 or 12 years that I have been
[01:49:05] involved in is voting I wasn't involved in it when I you know got to voting age
[01:49:09] it's only recently that I've you know become interested in politics to some degree
[01:49:15] um and honestly this happens to be another I don't know if it was a topic I was discussing
[01:49:21] here with somebody else but you know honestly if they would make it a federal holiday I think
[01:49:25] that would increase the the voting turnout we are we are one of the few first world countries
[01:49:32] where election day is not a federal holiday you know where it is not a bank holiday
[01:49:40] uh next up the ability to negotiate with car salesmen so this one I feel
[01:49:51] I wish we didn't have to this one's well this one's going to go the way of the dodo I think
[01:49:58] I think we're moving more towards the model of this is the price and this is what we're selling
[01:50:05] it for you know good better and different you know Saturn was that would they that was their
[01:50:12] entire dealership structure well I can tell you right now with the lack of inventory on the lots
[01:50:19] at least around here um you take what you get and you don't have room to bargain uh because
[01:50:27] there's just no inventory here so it is like all right you can either get the car at what
[01:50:34] we're offering it or you can order it wait wait you know six to eight weeks and still pay MSRP
[01:50:42] so there there's no bargaining involved there no I the bargaining comes in when
[01:50:51] you have a trade-in of some kind that's where that's where you have the bargaining
[01:50:57] and built yeah the chip there's still a little bit of room there you want to take the next one
[01:51:02] well that sure uh saying just be home by dinner time I'm a Gen X or raised by boomers and we just
[01:51:09] disappear into the neighborhood woods whatever for hours and no one raised the fuss as long as you
[01:51:15] were back for dinner or if it was summertime and after dinner home by dark which could really
[01:51:20] sneak up on you if you were outside in so a couple of things here um summertime my curfew
[01:51:31] was street lights are off mm-hmm I had to be home by or at least in front of the house when the
[01:51:40] street lights were on because I had friends that live close enough that you know we could hang out and
[01:51:46] play out in front of somebody's house as long as we knew with whose house we were in yeah um
[01:51:54] just disappearing outside yes we would play we would play a game called manhunt which is
[01:52:01] kind of like hide and seek mm-hmm but it would encompass entire city block our entire neighborhood
[01:52:08] blocks uh and games would last for hours because you'd always have that one schmuck like me that
[01:52:18] would actually wear camouflage and like hide in bushes and stuff uh disappearance woods yes
[01:52:26] the woods by our one school actually somebody took the time to build a BMX track not far from
[01:52:34] the pentagram that was hanging amongst the trees so we don't know if these are related or they just
[01:52:40] had proximity to each other but um yeah and if you weren't going to be back for dinner you had to
[01:52:48] find a pay phone and call and say I'm gonna be late this is why and this is where I'm at
[01:52:53] and this is where I'm at which was easy because you had the quarter in your sock
[01:52:58] or in your shoe you know yeah uh we didn't have my parents house we didn't have a ton of space
[01:53:09] or a ton of kids around us they were my immediate neighbors and that was pretty much it and I was
[01:53:14] older than most of them but then when we would go to you know uh daycare during the day
[01:53:20] or whatever I mean they lived in subdivisions where you could just and had bikes where you could just
[01:53:25] go for hours riding around and nobody said anything I mean we are just gone on bikes and it didn't
[01:53:33] matter uh so yeah it just exactly same same thing I don't know if you have a problem with the
[01:53:42] next one or not but boy I do why do restaurants have to be so darn dark turn the lights on I
[01:53:51] can't see my menu or my date you know I so I kind of get mood lighting it's it's a little bit more
[01:54:04] private when things are dark you're not making up for it by having the little candle votive thing on
[01:54:12] the on the table yeah no but I need more than a I need more than a two watt light bulb to read
[01:54:20] my menu I have actually whipped out my phone's flashlight to read the menu before so yes I know
[01:54:34] or or or or take a picture and zoom it yes if I forget my readers that is definitely what I have done
[01:54:59] so um all right next one why do I need a subscription for everything I want to own my
[01:55:07] software and basic services should be included uh that's not coming back just give it up it's not
[01:55:14] coming back you have no idea how much this this this bothers me even microsoft has kind of flipped
[01:55:21] a little bit like 365 people held on to office as long as they could so now you can buy copies of
[01:55:30] office mm-hmm one time yep for one computer yep which because microsoft saw that their biggest
[01:55:43] competitor was their previous version and so that's where the monthly subscription model came into
[01:55:50] play boomers are more okay with mediocrity millennials are absurd obsessed with the hustle culture and if
[01:55:57] you're not working a job with two side gigs or pursuing your passion they think you're not doing
[01:56:02] anything at all mic your thoughts on this as someone with a side hustle well boom yeah so boomers
[01:56:19] and gen Xers like Jen I don't feel any need to try and advance my career level at this point I'm good at
[01:56:35] what I do I've by my higher ups have shown appreciation for the work I do if that's how you define
[01:56:50] mediocrity oh okay I don't need a title mm-hmm I know that I'm gonna wind up working for these
[01:56:56] these interns at some point in the near future I know that because they they they're of the
[01:57:02] mentality that if I'm not a VP in five years then I need to go to another company well yep
[01:57:11] but pursuing your passion part that's the part I don't because I don't know a single millennial
[01:57:18] at my job that went to school for what they're doing like yeah none of them have a have a degree
[01:57:28] in Sanskrit so I don't and that's that's a degree of passion I mean look you so I don't know
[01:57:38] I I have actively turned down promotions you know have actively not gotten you know pursued
[01:57:46] promotions and because I like where I am I believe that that is where I need to be
[01:57:52] and that I'm good where I am and but that doesn't stop me from pursuing other things in my off hours
[01:57:59] that I want to do for my own personal fulfillment because your job should not define you you know
[01:58:06] your eight to five should not define you um you know you also shouldn't be so busy hustling
[01:58:14] that you can't live your life either though because that's not a life so you know especially right now
[01:58:21] you know side hustle stuff is taking a backseat to other stuff and that's just the way that it is
[01:58:29] because I've you know it's a it's a sequence of burnout you know recharge burnout recharge
[01:58:37] but you know I I do enjoy doing some of the side business stuff it's fun and here's
[01:58:43] the other thing like a lot of these side gigs that people that they that millennials think are
[01:58:48] they think are side gigs people are making careers out of this yeah they are you know so like like
[01:58:57] being an uber driver if you think you're doing that as a side gig okay well people are doing
[01:59:05] that full time and they're making I'm not going to say they're making a good living some of them
[01:59:09] some do but they're that's they're making a living yeah I mean and to some degree also the cost
[01:59:16] of living is a lot higher some people don't have a choice yeah some people don't have a choice other
[01:59:21] than to find another job and that's the other thing side gig right so somebody's not going to work at
[01:59:28] in their office in a financial job during the day nine to five eight to five and then go walk
[01:59:34] work at Walmart at night yeah no because that's beneath them you know you they're not going to go
[01:59:40] start flipping burgers at night no they're going to be a twitch game streamer or something that
[01:59:48] you know excites them or that they have more fun with who knows so yeah uh appliances don't
[01:59:54] need computers in them all these fancy fridges stoves washers and dryers are all breaking
[01:59:58] much faster and are unfixable uh we I don't disagree yeah we talked about it yeah uh somebody says
[02:00:08] there are cusper I mean my wash my washing machine does not need Alexa for god's sakes oh no no that's
[02:00:18] it is kind of handy if your oven has it it there are some things but I don't need I don't
[02:00:27] need to get reminders on my freaking echoes that no your washing machine detected that your underwear
[02:00:33] is getting thin would you like us to order any more no no but I do want to preheat my oven to 425
[02:00:44] so my pizza can cook quicker uh so so what's what's a cusper evidently it's somebody that's in
[02:00:51] between from the sound of it it sounds like somebody who's in between or right on the cusp
[02:00:57] between like millennial gen Xer you know I would say probably that says I cannot stand reading books
[02:01:05] or long articles online well at 26 a cusper that would be between millennial and gen z yeah probably
[02:01:18] yeah but this says I had to print everything out to read it okay so I don't I don't like reading
[02:01:28] long form stuff online but I'll read short not form stuff till the cows come home and usually get into
[02:01:35] a deep hole yeah if I if like I don't understand it I've never owned a kindle like I would never
[02:01:44] read a book on a kindle yet another conversation that the missing party probably would have chimed in
[02:01:51] about yeah um probably have a better input on this particular topic than me because quite frankly
[02:01:57] I don't read yeah me neither unless I have to I don't read I and that's probably why my eyes
[02:02:04] have gotten worse over the past couple of years but I oh oh oh yes may I go ahead life before social
[02:02:21] media like being able to enjoy simple things without feeling like you have to make a post
[02:02:27] with pictures for people to see we all have those friends that feel they need to document their
[02:02:39] entire life like it's a damn episode of big brother on their instagram stories and stuff
[02:02:45] and I have often said don't get so busy posting your life on social media that you forget to have
[02:02:57] a life yeah I feel the same way when I see people at concerts recording on their phones looking
[02:03:03] watching the concert in front of them through their little screen you know or anything any
[02:03:09] event like that yeah I mean I get doing it for a little bit yeah and you know like I'll do it in
[02:03:18] an ascar race like I'll record the start of the race and I'll watch through the phone just to make
[02:03:22] sure I'm getting this the lead the front of the pack in the in the video and not just recording
[02:03:29] nothing but well and I would the other so I gotta scroll and make sure I'm not gonna
[02:03:38] I'm not jumping the gun here but um yeah you know like here's the other thing people post
[02:03:45] up stuff on on their stories and I on Instagram and I post up stuff like this too so I'll admit
[02:03:54] to it but you post up things and you say you're gonna do stuff or you talk to talk
[02:04:00] but you don't walk the walk because your story is only up there for 24 hours yeah so when it's gone
[02:04:05] it doesn't mean anything if it's really important I'm putting that shit in a real post to make sure
[02:04:10] that I can go back and point to it and say this is how I felt this is how this is what I mean
[02:04:17] well you know my word is my bond and I feel like that's lost on the new the younger generations
[02:04:23] as well if I tell you I'm gonna do something I'm gonna do something if I tell you I'm not
[02:04:27] gonna do something I'm not gonna do it and I think that people get the wrong idea about life on social
[02:04:34] media sometimes because they think well my life sucks because it's not as good as this influencer
[02:04:39] or this person or whatever and I have to constantly remind people they're only showing you the part
[02:04:44] of their lives that they want you to see you know you're only seeing their life online you're
[02:04:50] not seeing all the other stuff that goes with it so you know a life filtered is not a life lived
[02:04:59] so I like that yeah yeah social media is like that's like the highlight reel yeah of a game
[02:05:09] I had you know damn well there's 60 minutes in that football game not every play is great
[02:05:14] yeah I had a I was doing a conference last week I was lucky enough to be brought in virtually on a
[02:05:21] conference for work for a group of people who were into human services and from all over the
[02:05:28] country and more proof that I don't always think before stuff comes out of my mouth I was talking
[02:05:35] about actually using AI and having it generate your first draft of things because sometimes
[02:05:42] coming up with the first draft is the hardest thing and so then taking that first draft and
[02:05:47] basically sometimes you completely gut it but at least it gets thoughts out onto a page
[02:05:52] and I made this stupid analogy I said sometimes you have to throw spaghetti against a wall
[02:05:59] to get a Picasso now that has come to live forever but what's funny is people knew what I meant
[02:06:09] you know and so now I'm you know but I mean that's that's not something I would normally put out
[02:06:15] there on social media but I'm glad that it happened nonetheless so here here's another one that I
[02:06:23] that I recently learned instead of apples to oranges you're comparing apples to potatoes yeah
[02:06:29] and I was like well apples and oranges are both fruit okay
[02:06:39] let's let's get through the rest of these because we're on overtime now
[02:06:43] Jesus yeah number 14 asking workers at a grocery where a certain item is I think you can still do
[02:06:49] that in a lot of grocery stores I refuse yeah I refuse I don't but you can't I get I will get
[02:06:55] pissed off and point out to management when the signs at the end of the aisles don't
[02:06:59] match up to what's in the aisles I wish they had more on the signs so that I knew more items
[02:07:05] showing up to things you said you would and not flaking at the last minute before cell phones
[02:07:09] you had to show up to meet someone when you said and couldn't text the last minute saying something
[02:07:13] come up that's just being rude even if you texted the last minute give me a real menu my
[02:07:20] phone hates qr codes nobody around here does that we got many well that's that's that's a
[02:07:26] covid thing yeah texting while convenient for many things is not an equivalent replacement
[02:07:33] for chatting on the phone with a loved one or an old friend no sometimes it's much much better
[02:07:39] see this I have a three text rule if it takes more than three texts to complete your train of
[02:07:46] thought dial the number yes that's a good rule that's a good rule I like that and the last one
[02:07:54] my grandmother still ends a call with well I don't want to run up your phone bill which I adore and
[02:08:00] will use if I ever talked on the phone ah yes the date that would that should be another thing of
[02:08:08] your uh your 40 if you remember pay by the minute cell phone plans I just had to explain this to
[02:08:17] the damn intern last week about how my first cell phone which was just slightly smaller than the
[02:08:28] Zach Morris phone and I looked at him I said I pause I'm like he doesn't know who Zach Morris is
[02:08:33] right but I said my first cell phone was $60 a month and I got 30 minutes of call time with that
[02:08:47] and then he said well how many texts did you get and he go what
[02:08:51] there was no text exactly there was no such thing as text the first time you forgot to hit end on
[02:08:58] that phone that you would hit end like it was going out of style yeah because even if the other
[02:09:04] person hung up and you didn't hit end you kept getting billed you should have you started that
[02:09:09] happens you should have started that conversation with when somebody called me on my pager and I
[02:09:13] needed to call the back you know just to warp his mind or every phone used to come with a charger
[02:09:23] because they didn't all use the same cord or this was before usb or the bag phone explain to
[02:09:30] him a bag phone sometime car phone yeah yeah oh yeah yeah so all righty well folks uh as you know
[02:09:43] this has been just a simply amazing episode with uh quite honestly your two favorite hosts
[02:09:52] so want to thank you guys for tuning in we will be back on the second
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