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Ep: 80 The Economy Sucks… So Why Is the Beach Full? · The Sense and Senseless Podcast

• Bryan: All right, so picture this middle of the work week, middle of September. We're standing on the beach and it's packed. Restaurants are full. All the star parking lots are full. People are rolling around in these huge ass vehicles with only one person in them. And gas ain't exactly cheap right now. Yet everyone says the economy sucks. And most surveys basically agree with that. And then you look around. And everybody's still spending all their money. So which one is real? Are we in a pinch? Are we just bitching about prices and going about our day like it doesn't matter? We're going to get in that tonight. We're also get into why a car now has to remind you that there's a kid in the backseat. And we're going to play a clip from somebody in Congress finally saying the quiet part out loud. This is the Census Podcast. Stay with us. yeah. Hey everybody, welcome back to the Sins and Sisters Podcast. I'm Brian. Jason: Now I'm giggly. Bryan: He's Jason, man. He's Jason. This is your first time joining us. Welcome to Jason: We're sorry. Bryan: the welcome to the family. We're just two average guys discussing shit in a way that everyone can hopefully understand. So tonight we're going to start on a beach, but we're going to end up in a car that yells at you. And in the middle, we're going to stop to talk about Congress. I'd be pretty quick. Maybe not. You kind of think before we start chasing? Jason: No. Bryan: Right. So I don't remember if it was last week or a couple weeks ago, but not long ago. Me, we, me and Jason and our family, we we're on the beach just relaxing and enjoying ourselves. Now, don't get me wrong, we're not big ballers, but we do have good jobs. And but we had to grind to get where we are in our jobs. And we're fortunate enough to be able to do that, you know? And while I was out there, I noticed something. There's a lot of people. In the middle of a work week, middle of September. Not normal summer vacation season, you know, and it got me wondering if the economy is so bad, why were so many people on the beach? Why all the restaurants are full? Why are the star parking lots just full of cars? Why are there so many people on the road in these huge ass vehicles with just one person in it? When gas high as fuck? So what is real? Are we in an economic pinch? Are we just bitching about prices and going about our days and it doesn't matter? Everybody, seems like everybody's saying the economy sucks. And just about all the surveys agree. But if you actually watch what people do. They haven't stopped spending money. Sales are still up. People are still out buying stuff. And that's a big reason the economy's still growing and unemployment's still around 4%. The cash registers aren't empty. Gas is where it gets weird. Gas isn't cheap. It's one of the things that got worse. Fuels have gone up a lot. And you're seeing around. Four dollars and fifty cent in a lot of places. Around here it hovers around $375, $4. And that's a big reason inflation's back up near three and a half percent. Grocers aren't falling exactly either. So it's not that the price has calmed down and nobody noticed. The stuff people buy every week still feels expensive as fuck. And they're paying it anyway. I mean, does the parking lot lie? Or or is the headlines lying? I mean, which are we Jason: I mean, when we went out to eat and all that stuff, I mean from anything to co I guess we can give shout outs. I mean, I'm not gonna give non shout outs, because that's but like Big Mike's, that was damn good food. So if you're in the Gulf Shore or Orange Beach, highly recommend Big Mics. But it's a little pricey. But so were some of the places we didn't really care for were pricey. Bryan: Yep. Pricing. Yep. Jason: And I mean it's Bryan: How long we had to wait? Jason: Big Mice we had to wait an hour, didn't we? Bryan: Yeah. Yeah, it was an hour. During the middle of the week. Yeah. Jason: On a on a weeknight. Yeah. On a weeknight in the middle of September. And we went there non s maybe Mississippi. I seen a lot of Mississippi license plates up there. They may have had some areas on spring break, but I know my area wasn't. They're on spring break this week. So that's basically the there was still a week in between us being there and their spring break and that's what I try to do. I try to I don't want to be there around a s big spring break, right? Or fall or sorry, fall breaks. I try to get it out of season 'cause I want less hustle and bustle. But it it seemed like remember we walked down, you look down on each side of our 'cause we're we're at a condo and I guess that's a private area there. You look down to the public sides on both ends and it was packed, was it not? Bryan: yeah, people everywhere. There's people everywhere. But the economy's bad. Jason: Yeah. Right. Yep. Bryan: So I d I don't know what to believe. We're gonna figure it out though. So like, share, follow. We appreciate it if you guys do that. You know, follow the show, subscribe so the next one doesn't miss you with a Census podcast. Family doesn't grow if you don't tell somebody. All right, so some people may have income that's somewhat kept up with an inflation. However, a lot of people are dipping into their savings and putting a lot of it on card before COVID. People were saving on an average of 7% of their disposable income. Then we got those STEMI chicks. Those STEMI chicks during COVID, they pushed the average way up to around 32% at its peak in April of 2020. And that dropped to around 12% at the end of 2020. in August of twenty twenty six the saving average of your disposable income is around four percent. So you went from twelve percent then to twenty twenty to now we have four percent. And before the pandemic was at seven percent. So our savings have gone down. Credit cards tell the same story. According to the New York Fed, the credit card balances at the end of 2020 were around $820 billion. They bottomed out near $770 billion in earlier 2021. By the second quarter of 2026, credit card balances in the United States of America totaled $1.26 trillion. That is up four hundred and forty billion from the end of twenty twenty, roughly fifty-four percent. So there's that. People are using their credit cards. People dipping into their savings and putting shit on the card. I guess that's one way to keep it rolling, huh? Could it could it be that the people were sitting at home during COVID and stacking their ca cash and then since then they just been spending their money like crazy like they ain't gonna get locked up again? I don't know. Jason: Yeah, I mean 'cause I think me and you were out on the beach discussing this situation, right? 'Cause we were making the comment that even though the condo we were staying at, the parking lot was at the most half full, it wasn't ever full. So, and like I said, that's that's w this year for me, well, other than the two weeks I spent in Nebraska where my son's in the Air Force to see my grandkids, to me that's a little bit different. But this was mine of my wife's big vacation that we do with you guys. And we took our daughter, she's twenty seven. It's not a little kid. and she works and all that stuff. So she took off too, just like an adult, but we paid for everything. So she's still like a kid. But anyways, I had to put that in there. Bryan: Thanks, Garley. Jason: yeah, she had a she had a great time one I I gave her money at the casino we went to. She won some money. I didn't get that back. She gotta put that in her damn pocket. whatever. I just will Yeah, I'll just trim that off for Christmas and her birthday. She doesn't know that and I don't know if she's listening. Bryan: tell us how you really feel about her. Jason: But anyways, what I was trying to get at is I don't I just I guess I don't understand. Or like I see on TikTok and social media a lot now where people are just basically saying, F it, I'm gonna live my life. No matter what it costs. I'll I'll burn up a credit card, I'll burn my sa I'm not trying to die with money. I'm not saving money no more. We're gonna go out and have a good time. And a lot of people I'm seeing that a lot. Bryan: Real it. I haven't seen it. I don't that's that's Jason: And maybe they push that on the a logarithm. Yeah, I I got a Bryan: The algorithm. Jason: l algorithm or whatever. Maybe they push that out a lot 'cause maybe they're trying to get us to do that, right? Maybe that Bryan: everybody go broke? Jason: yeah, they're trying to tell everybody to blow all your money and all that stuff. But I'm sure the credit card companies don't like that because you rack up all them credit card debt or whatever, more than likely people are gonna file bankruptcy and the credit card companies ain't gonna get shit. Pennies on the dollar. Bryan: But then we pay for all that. The the people that paid their bills. Jason: Yeah, I know. The government'll bail out. Yeah. Bryan: yeah, the government will definitely bail out credit card companies because they're bailing out the banks at that point. And they're definitely gonna bail out banks. they already talking about that with AI. I forgot who it was the other day. One of the AEI CEOs made a comment about, you know, basically knowing that they're gonna fail and that the government should have a something to back them up to bail them out should they fail. It's like, what the fuck? Are you serious? Yeah, I wish I can just go through life and just you know, just just take chances and take chances and somebody's just constantly bailing me out. Yeah, that it's gotta be great to fucking be like that. Asshole motherfuckers. Jason: Yeah, and like I've spoken on other episodes where we've talked about money or the last episode we talked about fraud and all that stuff. And I tell ya that stuff bothers me because of I've had financial issues before and, you know, some bad spending and put us in a pickle and it bothers me. And sometimes I wish I had that laid back. I've gotten better, but sometimes I wish I had that laid back mentality to not really care. Let's go do something. Well w I I asked my wife, the first thing I'm like, Well, what does the bank account look like? Bryan: I gotta admit, Jennifer's who reels me in because I I have no problem just going do shit. 'Cause I don't I don't know. I I it was years ago, I can't say many years ago. What my dad was sick and I I'll probably tell you a story. He was in the hospital and you know, we didn't know if he was gonna make it and I my my mom and my sister left and He wanted some Oreos because nobody would give him fucking Oreos. I wanna give him some fucking Oreos. Made him happy. He wasn't supposed to have the shit, but fuck it, you know. And I remember him looking at me and he says, son, he said, I want you to look at me really good. And remember this these are your golden years. If you want to do anything, do it now. And Jason: Yeah. Or could just Bryan: and that fucking hit me hard. You know? And I just don't forget that. And it's like, you know, if you if you want to do something, do it while you can. And I'm not talking about like Money while while you physically can fucking do it. You know, because one day you might not be able to do it. Now, my dad, right now, I mean, he he's, you know, in a lot worse shape and you know, he can barely talk and shit, and he doesn't get around good. And I seen that progression. So if you're just gonna wait till retirement to live your life, the life you're gonna live is not the one you're gonna want in most cases. You know, it's just not. Not if you can physic if you're physically able to do it now. I'm not saying go broke, but fuck go live your life. That's that's my advice anyway. And that's just how I live. Now, Jennifer, she wants to what are we gonna we need money for when we retire? And I'm just, fuck, let's just live till we retire, then we'll figure it out if we retire. That's just how I look at it. But I Jason: 'Cause some people say if you stop doing shit when you retire, a lot of those people end up dead quick. Just I don't know why. It's like a saying. Like you better not get lazy when you retire because a lot of people When when I guess I don't know if it has to do with that damn thing of you doing the same thing every day or or, you know, during the week that routine and it messes I don't know. It's just something I always hear is you better stay active when you retire. And I don't know if I'll ever fully retire. I might walk away from the job I'm at at some time and then go get a job at Lowe's or Menards or maybe even door greeter at Walmart. That'd be fun, like just trip people and be that asshole at the door that's I need to see your receipt. Let me let me see that receipt. But anyways, Bryan: But to retire you have to live another fifteen, twenty years, right? Jason: Yeah. Bryan: So you're not guaranteed another fifteen, twenty years. That Jason: I know. I'm not guaranteed my retirement pay. Bryan: Exactly. So I mean you're not guaranteed tomorrow. That's the whole reason Jason: I know. Bryan: it's like, you know, just live a little bit. I understand saving money and I'm not saying go in a hole and fucking go bankrupt on credit cards, but if you are physically able to do something and you got a little means to do it, fuck up do it, man. Don't make an excuse not to do it. That's how I feel. So So would you consider that we in a resilient i economy? Because of all this or you think that one day the fucking bill's gonna come and we all have to pay that motherfucker. Jason: One day it's gonna catch up with us and and a lot of those people. Like if you're living are is that what you're getting at? Kinda like do do I feel like people are living outside their means and it's resilient? Bryan: Yeah, I mean, d right now it looks like does it look like we have a good economy. So, I mean, do Jason: Yes. Bryan: should should we consider what it looks like now that it is a resilient economy, or do we think that one day that this bill is gonna come due with all the money that's being spent? Jason: Yeah, and I th I think it's gonna come due because you can't you can't go to the store, you can't go to the gas pump, you can't go and look at your utilities and your tax increases on your homes and insurance increases. You know what I'm saying? You can't look at that and say that the prices didn't go up, like substantially. Bryan: yeah, yeah. I mean all of it's going up, I mean. Jason: And if you keep getting a two and a half to three like three percent at the most or or less than that raise every year, your inflation is overtaking you. Bryan: If you get in three percent. Yeah. Jason: If you're getting the I said if if you are. Bryan: Yeah. That's what I'm that's reiterating that. If you get in three percent. Jason: My wife got a two cent raise like two years ago. She just Bryan: Yeah. Jason: laughed and the and her manager gave her a four. She got an exceeds and got a two cent raise. And her manager was like, I am so sorry. And my wife just said, Don't worry about it. My wife does that because she doesn't have to have that job. She don't. I make enough money to cover everything, but it's extra money that Bryan: She likes her own money. Jason: we gotta have, right? So it does come in handy, but she don't have to have it. But it keeps her busy and she enjoys it and it's work from home. We're not gonna complain about it. And she's still a force. She bust her ass because she's a hard because well, she lives with me and I kinda drive that stuff. Bryan: It's all it's all because of you that now you taking you taking the credit for her. Jason: Hell yes. Hell yeah. Dude, she comes in there. She goes, no, she she's got in there. She's superwoman. She'll try Bryan: Really? Jason: to lay down on me, but she's superwoman. She's a bad she is, she's a badass at work. So Bryan: That's good. Jason: now sometimes around the house she'll be like little frill, little but no, at work she's a badass. So that's why I call Bryan: She ten Jason: her out. Bryan: she's six foot tall and bulletproof at work. I at home she's fucking four foot two. Jason: Hell yeah. she's four foot ten and ten yeah. Four foot ten and in a booster seat. Honey, I can't re you know, I did watch her fall into the washing machine one time. That was funny. So now she's got her grabber or whatever. Bryan: All right. So let's let's take this a step. Jason: But it love you, honey, 'cause I know you're probably gonna watch this. Sorry. Yeah. I'll be staying at a hotel next week anyway, so we're good. Bryan: Good. we're gonna take this a step further. The national Jason: All right. Bryan: spending numbers it looks fine mostly because the people at the top earners are carrying the average. The top 20% of households are doing about 60% of all the spending. And their spending has been growing faster than prices, so they're actually getting ahead. Everybody else is spending a little more in dollar terms, but not enough to keep up with inflation. So the registers stay busy. The GDP number stays green. And a lot of that is one slice of the country covering most of the bill, while the other 80% are basically treading water or slipping. And that's why it hits the lower income people harder. Utilities and essentials like gas, food, electricity are a huge chunk of their budget. And we don't have the stock market cushion. So we we're the ones more likely to be keeping the People are spending story going by saving less, not by getting a hit. So technically, the overall economy isn't bad, technically. Right? It just feels bad because everyday prices are the highest fuck. And a lot of the spending propping up the headlines is coming from the top 20%. So we live in different worlds, basically. And they're telling us we all live in the same world, and the economy's great. But the different worlds are rich and poor. But have you seen the dial? Jason: I knew you were gonna bring the dial in here. Bryan: Have you seen a dial? Jason: No. I don't even look at that shit. You were talking about doing some trying to do some day trading or whatever, some Bryan: No, I I try stocks and I suck at it. Jason: Or stocks and stuff like that, yeah. I mean I don't Bryan: Well the our company gives us a a a discount to buy stock in of the company. So I I can buy a discounted stock and if I sell it then I can buy I can try to buy stock. So I I try that. And it's not all I mean, I'm talking about my wife tells me to diversify and a little bit of money I've got, you can't diversify it and buy multiple stocks. All right. Let's just put it that way. We're not talking about a lot of fucking money. Jason: Yeah, I know. Bryan: But I suck at it. Everything I buy, I fucking lose money. And it is ridiculous the amount of money I can lose. Well, I can't say the when you look at the percentage wise of what I lose, but what I gain. It's it's stupid why I even try to do it. But I believe kind of like when you buy scratch off lotto tickets or something, I'm gonna hit something one day. But I don't. I I I yeah, I suck at it. I and I guess I should follow Pelosi's advice or follow whatever Pelosi does. But I I don't want to be them people. You know, it's sad. It's it's probably the easier thing to do, you know? But it's like, fuck them people. Jason: Yeah, I know. Bryan: I just I don't know. It I guess it's a bad bad attitude to have because they do they do have good stock picks and I'm just Jason: yeah, they're they're experts at it, dude. Do you think that they were they had some inside information? Bryan: You would you would think, but they they're not. They're just very well qualified to do what they do. Jason: Yeah, they are. Yeah. Bryan: And even though it's legal for me to even follow what they do and buy I I just feel like it's just dirty. I do. You know, so I don't do it. And it's probably stupid on me because you could probably make a lot more money that way, but I'm just trying to do it just trying to figure it out. Cause I want to learn Jason: Yeah. Bryan: it my way. Jason: Yeah, whatever. I mean, it's yeah, it that's crooked as hell. Bryan: Yeah, I d I don't know. Call me stupid. Jason: No, I I I'm just calling you you got morals. So that's what I like about you. Bryan: Well, thank you. So w we talked about we were fortunate enough to go to a beach for a week, right? And I have a very stressful job. You have a stressful job. And it was just nice to go to the beach and fucking relax and just revive ourselves for a week. It was. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: And me personally I I I don't get to do that often. And it wasn't until recently that I learned how to slow down and relax. Many years, you know, if I had time off, I was doing something constructive. I did not I just didn't have time to relax. I just didn't do it. I I would found myself making myself miserable, you know, trying to live up to something that I I couldn't live up with. Just Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: running myself in the dirt and just pretending I was fine. And that wasn't a great formula at all, but that's all I knew. You know, slowing down and relaxing for me was not an option. There was always something that had to be done. And truthfully, I'm still that way on most days. But I've at least found a way to relax and let shit go while on vacation. Jason: You've gotten better. I still catch you like having to put some more sand in the little feet of the and adjust this and adjust that. I mean you're you're constantly having to I I don't know, it is it A D D, O C D, I don't know. Bryan: Something can always be better. I'm always it's Jason: I know, but Bryan: always Jason: but to see you like kicked out on a on a lawn chair or whatever, beach chair, and just lay there for a little while. It was like, all right, this dude's finally chilling out. Bryan: It's nice. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: And but why am I saying this? This is why I'm saying this. It took me my whole adult life, up into you know, I mean now I'm fifty-two years old now, to realize that relaxing is not a weakness. And I hope someone listening to this might hear this and maybe realize slowing down, you know, just a week a year i is great for your soul. It is. Now, I have to admit, going back to work after a great relaxing week is fucking hell. It was hell. But the the hell that I face every day at work is what affords me the ability to be on that beach. And I understand that. But man, it'd be nice to be rich, wouldn't it? Fuck. Jason: We talked about it. Bryan: the other thing I want to s Jason: We talk about the people on that bottom bottom corner which they are they've earned y y I can tell they're an older couple. The ones we passed by, yeah. I just wanted Bryan: yeah, the condo yeah. Yeah, those people got it nice. Jason: to ask, like, and he would probably tell us what you're doing right now, we didn't do. You can't do you can't have it young and old. You know. They probably busted their butt and put their stuff away like we were talking about that we learn or we were taught there until our Somebody got older and said, Hey, like your dad gave you that advice. Live your life now. Bryan: Yeah. Or they got into that condo when it was first being built, they invested their money Jason: Yeah. Bryan: and they owned all of and then they sold all of I doubt that, but Jason: Yeah. Yeah, they may have yeah, and they may have came from money or something. I don't know their story, Bryan: Yeah. But they look like they live in life. Jason: but they look like they're having a good time. And I'm like, I would like some of that. Bryan: yeah. They are definitely enjoying themselves by doing nothing. Just relax they're d they're not doing anything. yeah. Jason: Yes. And the nice as hell too. Nice as yeah, talk to you every time you walk by. 'Cause I even told you, I wonder if they ever get irritated about having that corner spot right there where everybody but Bryan: I think they wanted that. Jason: yeah, I think they like it. 'Cause they get talk to people so but yeah. Bryan: Yeah, they do wave you over and shit. So I yeah, they they got it nice. Jason: Yeah. I mean I was tempted to ask him, Can I lay in your hammock if you're not in there? 'Cause that looks nice as hell. Bryan: You you you didn't see the upside down potaple, did you? Jason: Did did they have one there? I like pineapple. Bryan: No, I'm just fucking with you. All right. The other thing I wanna say is find what makes you happy and do more of that. Whatever it is, whatever makes you fucking happy, find it and and just do it. And Jason: Unless it's really nasty or really illegal, don't do that. But Bryan: It depends. You know? no, illegal. Okay. All right. Jason: I said really illegal. I didn't say illegal. Yeah. Really illegal. Bryan: Really eat. Jason: Like shit that'll yeah, put you in prison. Yeah, you can't do that, right? You need you Yeah, you need Yeah. You know, if you're a thirty Bryan: no, yeah, you can't do that. We well you you can't get caught doing that. But you shouldn't do that. But do it Jason: something year old female teacher, stop having sex with with kids under eighteen, you know, just 'cause that makes you happy doesn't mean you do it. Sorry. I had to throw that out there. Bryan: But you're right. If if it's legal and you want to do something, I mean, fucking do it. You know, you you the only person that will live your life. Jason: Yes. Bryan: No matter how you look at it, you're the only person that will be with you every day of your life. You're the only person that can make yourself happy. You you sit. Simple as that. So if you find something that makes you happy, just go do more of Jason: Well, I'm on Bryan: it. Jason: I'm gonna say this. We we we got this cat that works. he doesn't work for me, he works somewhere else, but he's helping us out right now. And love him to death. He's a great dude, really great dude. And this dude, he travels everywhere, he takes on anything. That dude this dude will work like all this overtime, right? And come to find out he's doing it for his kids. And this dude's been in the industry for like Close to forty years and he's he's Bryan: so he got grown ass kids. Jason: a grown ass dude and he's got grown ass kids and he says his kids will not want for nothing. Bryan: Yeah. Jason: And I admire that to a point. And I told him that. I said, Hey, dude, I admire I'm not gonna say his name. I mean anybody Bryan: Yeah. Jason: that works with or that works with me or for me or whatever that listens to this and know exactly who I'm talking about. But then I looked at him and I said, Hey dude, sooner or later you gotta say, fuck them kids. Because seriously, my parents they they provided for me and they did a few things for me as an adult, like when I was a younger adult. They helped me out a couple times, but for the most part, dude, I've earned everything that I've gotten. I didn't get a hand-me-out. I didn't I didn't get some trust fund. I didn't get some thing handed over. My grandpa passed away. Me and him were like, I can't twist my fingers enough how tight we were. My grandma said that grandpa wanted you to have his 85 three quarter ton truck. And I hardly drove it. It was a diesel, and diesel has always been more expensive than gas for a long time. And I really didn't have the money to be putting in, you know, diesel into it. And I had a company vehicle. I didn't drive a personal vehicle, right? So and then if when I was off, we took the car because it was just a single cab, you know, a three seat truck, and I there was four of us. So it wasn't really practical for a mo most of but I told my kids the same damn thing. I'm not I we paid one semester my daughter's college and after that we didn't pay no more. And she got upset with us 'cause we weren't gonna send her to a university that all her friends were going. I'm I'm sorry, I don't have that money and I'm not putting that money on you. Bryan: I I agree with you. But the only thing I Jason: I'm Make your own. Bryan: that might make that guy happy though. Jason: It it is, but I I told him I admire you for doing that. Bryan: Yeah. Jason: I really do. But at the end of the day, that's not my mentality for that. Bryan: That's not my mentality, the but I mean that's what makes him happy. So be it. But I agree with you. No, I I want I want to enjoy my life a little bit. You know. Jason: And I hope his kids I hope they admire the crap out of him and respect him and and Bryan: yeah. Jason: treat him with dignity and 'cause what that man is doing for them is I I just have to do it sometimes just to to because work requires it. This dude's doing it to, you know, make sure his kids don't want for nothing, even as adults. And maybe their kids' kids. You know, he's trying to make it where His kids kids, his grandkids have a good life. You know what I'm saying? And this doodle Bryan: assuming that it hit these his kids don't still live with him. Jason: No, I don't know. I don't know if they do or not. I think one's getting their doctorate, like gonna be a actual doctor doctor. I know you said your sister got her doctorate degree on her own, and I mean that's admirable as hell too, as a single mother. So hats off to you. Who who was it? Gail? Missy, Missy. So Bryan: no, it was Missy, I was my sister Melissa. Yep. Jason: hats off to you, Missy. Good job with that. And it's seriously, I really do. I respect the hell out of that. That's awesome. But At the same time, you know, I'm these vacations we take, I told ya we get back from it, I'm already looking forward to next year. Bryan: You know what's what I I I love our vacation. what's sad, it's sad and fortunate at the same time. It it's fortunate that I have a job, even though it's stressful as fuck, that I make enough money to where I can go do something like that. But it's fucked up that you gotta work your ass off under so much stress just to go be able to to be relaxed for a week. You know. so it's like Jason: To go enjoy something that I'm you can argue or whatever, that God made that should be free. Bryan: no, God yeah. I mean yeah, he made the coast. Right, yeah. Jason: It Bryan: I Jason: but it still costs money to go do it and it costs it's it's a good chunk of money. I I mean we're we're we're blessed to have friends that give us a little bit of a discount too to stay there. And other other than the big dude that got the phone call and had to shut the pool down and that's another story. I I'm not gonna dog he the dude was doing his job. He was. Bryan: It was just it would do I'm just doing my job. Jason: Yeah, I'm just doing my job. I got a call. I got a phone call and I gotta shut the pool down. And Bryan: I got a call, man. Science. Jason: It's science. But anyways, Bryan: Science. Jason: it's got an HOA and all that stuff. So you're gonna put up with that a HOA. So you're gonna put up with them HOA Bryan: It's got a hole. It's got a hole. Jason: rules, you know, the regulations like the government throws on us. So the HOA's got, but when you when we were doing the regulations a bit, I was thinking of an HOA. That's all it is, is a government HOA. Bryan: Yeah, that's it. That's what he should have said then. That does make sense. Jason: Yeah, I d i I thought about it and it didn't come out my mouth. I'm sorry, but it's it's still, you know, I've never had that really in my life where I've known people that have something that I'm not using them for. They're still making good money, but they're helping us out a little bit. You know what I'm saying? And it gives us the opportunity to go do something nice and not have to fight the crowd, right? 'Cause I hate to say it, our area right there is pretty Bryan: it was nice. Jason: Yeah, you got the pool and you got the beach. You don't even have to find nowhere to park. Your stuff's secure. Bryan: Nope. Just walk down there with the cart, set up the tent. Jason: Yep. It's it's sweet. Bryan: Done for the day. Jason: Never thought I'd do that, but I always n didn't really care for the beach. I love it now. Huh? Bryan: I hated the beach. All yeah, not that I can relax, I like the beach, but I hated the beach. Fucking hated Jason: Yeah. Bryan: it. Jason: I hated it in California. I mean, we were right there by it all the we could have went to it all the time. Went there a couple times. I jumped in it, got a mouthful of salt water, and I'm like, ugh. You know, I'm used I'm a river kid, Ohio River and Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake and you know, I'm brown water people. I I ain't that damn saltwater. You you won't see me, huh? Bryan: I don't like salt water really, but I don't really like salt water but th there's not Jason: Yeah, and then I lost my damn nice ass Oakley sunglass, prescription sunglasses, and the damn the second last day on Thursday, the ocean got some damn fish flying around with my sunglasses underwater. Yeah, Bryan: In the ocean. Lost it all in the ocean. Hey man, look what I got. Jason: getting all the hose. But anyways, yeah. Bryan: All right. Let's shift gears a little bit to something I find a little completely fucked up. Jason: All right. Bryan: All right. So I recently had to purchase a car. And I have to admit that in itself is something I don't wish on anyone. I hate the car purchasing experience. And but Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: luckily for me, my wife took care of that shit. Anyway, these new cars have all these new fucking features. And one of them is like that is the adaptive cruise control. You remember that from One you had. And that shit just weirds me the fuck out. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, this is where the car pretty much just drives itself. Which was fine when I was going straight. But when I got a curve on the bridge and this motherfucker was I'll fight in the car with for the steering wheel, Jason: Yep. Bryan: it freaked me out a little bit, all right? And I'm old and that shit just fucking a little weird to me. I mean, you find you found that too, right? Jason: Yeah, on a curve on a exit. And I wasn't wanting to take the exit, but the car was wanting to, and I was sitting there like hanging on the wheel, like, bitch, we're we're Bryan: Yeah, it's like Jason: we're not getting off the parkway. Bryan: fucking car. Jason: It's Bryan: So, but out all the features that's scary. But out Jason: Chat GPT driving that bitch. I know. Bryan: out of all the features this car has though, it's the fucking warning light that tells you to check the backseat when you stop the car. And which I know the reason, you know, but but I can't understand why the fuck you need a damn car to remind you you have a kid in the back of your fucking car. I just don't. I mean, are we that distracted in our day that we don't know that we have our own fucking kid or our kid, period, in the backseat. So I had to do a little digging in this. According to noheatstroke.org, there are an average of 37 deaths per year from people leaving a kid in a car. The highs were in night 2018 and 2019, which was 53 each year. So from 1998 through 2025, 1,041 children died from being left in a hot. And it breaks down like this. About 53% was forgotten by a caregiver. About 24% of children, they gained access to the vehicle on their own and became trapped inside the vehicle. And then 22% knowingly left by a caregiver. This is where they went in, ran a short errand, you know, just a quick stop, let the kid finish a nap or something, crack the windows, and only could be a few minutes and come back and their kid's dead. And then a small remainder are still unknown. Now, I wasn't the greatest father, but I knew if my kids were with me. You know, I I I know everyone makes mistakes and I'm not casting stones. But that feature in a car should never have been needed. You know, it shouldn't. It saddens me to know that we need a fucking reminder that we have a loved one in our backseat. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: You know. And we talked about this on the vacation too. I mean, my answer is give your kid your phone. Because you know you're not leaving your fucking phone in a car. You Jason: Mm-mm. Bryan: know? You might leave your kid in a hot fucking car, but you definitely ain't leaving your fucking cell phone. So Jason: I have to raise my hand and say I wouldn't be able to do that because I've left my phones at the house, dude. I've got halfway to work. Like, Bryan: I do too. Jason: shit. I left my phone at the house. Cause I went to call somebody and I left my phone, my laptop, all that shit. And yeah, so but I wasn't raised on all that. Bryan: Most people that are distracted though leave their Jason: Yeah. Younger people now that are used to having phones and tablets and all that stuff, you're right. If you give that up, you'll you'll definitely make sure you got that. Like you probably put on you you grab your phone before you put your clothes on. Bryan: Yeah, most people do. Jason: But you know, there was a I don't know, she I'm gonna say she was in her forties or fifties, a doctor up here in near me. I'm not gonna name the town. About an hour from me. but she left she went and picked up her granddaughter to take to the daycare. I think we were telling you, you and Jennifer this. And she she went she was a doctor. She went to the clinic or whatever where she works and didn't take the granddaughter, forgot about the granddaughter being back there, went inside and worked all day. And the the husband went to pick up his daughter from the daycare and the daycare said she never came. And Bryan: Ness Jason: the the husband either called his mother in law or or I don't know if it was the the the d the daughter mother or daughter son. I don't know which which one, but they called the grandma. I I'm telling you right now, I couldn't imagine that feeling of Bryan: no. There's no doubt that that she didn't want to leave that kid in the car. Jason: No, that wasn't on pur and I mean, you gotta have some serious like you said, even when I was it like if I was in a truck, it was always a single cab because we didn't have extended cabs then. So yeah, you know, my kids we didn't have airbags in my truck. I had a eighty-five GMC single cab truck. My grandpa had the or eighty-three, my grandpa had a eighty-five single cab. It didn't have airbags. And you just turned the car seat around, right? Until they got in a booster seat and then they sat up front. I mean, we did it as kids. I mean we survived anyways. When we were in my wife's car or my grandma's car or something like that, where they were in the back seat, I mean I was in the rear view mirror all the time watching even when they slept. I was constantly looking at looking at looking at I at no time like you said, did I ever f think my or not realize my kids were in the car with me. Bryan: I I just don't get that. But I we're just so distracted today is Jason: distracted and stressed and Bryan: It's ridiculous. And Jason: Yeah. Bryan: again, I don't think anyone wants their child to to die like that or die, period. Jason: No. Bryan: But we have to put more emphasis on our children. We just do. right, so before we close it out, if if there's something we said or I said that pissed you off, or you we missed the mark, or you just want to tell us how full of shit we are, or reach out to us, email us at the Sinst and Senseless Podcast at Outlook.com. We read your shit. We might even put you on the show. Send us what you think. We're interested in. A few more things before we go. I wanted to talk about Thomas Massey's speech in the house telling us how all this shit works in DC. I think this man's telling the truth and for what it's worth, I think he's gone out swinging and I and I love it. So I don't know if you've seen this, but here's Thomas Massett giving us the the layout of how it works up there in DC. Yeah, that that that whole thing is like eight minutes long, but it it's really good. I mean he goes into a lot of shit. I think he's lying? We talk about it. Jason: Why would he? He's leaving. Bryan: Yeah. I mean it it is Jason: He's like that dude that got hemmed up at work, like retaliated against, even though most work say no retaliation, and if it gets caught they they'd lose their job. Bullshit. If somebody it yeah, if somebody wants you out like Bryan: Anonymous Jason: a higher person and they don't like you, they'll get they'll get rid of you. 'Cause we all nobody can follow the company standard to a T. Nobody can. Bryan: no. They they they could find a way to get rid of you if they wanted to get rid of you. Jason: Yes, they'll find a way. And we all know that. And it takes a little time, but they'll get you or they'll make your life a live in hell and push you out. So that's what I'm getting at is why would he do that? I mean, he's that guy that is like somebody getting pushed out of a place that all right. Bryan: Well yeah, Jason: Yeah, I'm about to run my mouth right now, Mother Effers, on everything y'all Bryan: I don't know if it was Jason: doing. Bryan: last week or the week before when he was he called out all the names the of the conspirators and the Epstein files on on the floor of the house. So I mean, yeah, he's coming out swinging. He's every chance he gets, and he he in this speech he gives right here, he talks about why they're not able to vote on whatever he's trying to get passed because they keep taking well, basically he says that Congress only works like I don't know, one or two weeks a month and they only work three days a week because two days of travel and they only work so many hours. It's like they they don't do anything is what he's saying. He said the DC week is just, you know, is so short and it it's crazy, man. They these people do not give a shit about you. If you if you believe what Thomas Massey like Marjorie Taylor Green and Joe Kent, if you believe what these guys say, they don't give a shit. You can listen to other people and they might say otherwise and so be it, you know. But this is these are the ones I believe. Yeah. I don't think they have anything left to lose, honestly. So I got a couple crazy stories before we go. This one is it's a crazy story out of Florida. I'll just play it. It this family's just sick. Jason: Geez. That's Florida Bryan: Yeah. Jason: people, not Kentucky. Don't want to hear it. Yeah. Only a hundred times. Bryan: That's fucked up, huh? I bet you that's North Florida though. They they the Jason: Yeah, North Florida and the panhandle right there. That's some backwoods places right there. Sorry if you listen from there, but you guys are back. I've been a g guy I knew that I was in Iraq with is grew up in that area. D d d around De Funiac Springs, yeah. Bryan: Yeah, you said he was from Defuntiac Springs, Well, I'm gonna tell you a story about that 'cause I every time I hear that that and I wanted to tell you that while I was on vacation. Every time I hear that area, I think of the story when me and my brother was going to was coming back from a job somewhere in Florida. I don't know if it was Jacksonville, Fort Lauderdale, it don't matter. We stopped in the gas station in Defuniac Springs to get some gas and something to eat. And we walk in and there's this girl in there and she got a black fucking eye. We're like, man, that's strange. And she's pregnant. And so we we shopping, and you know, we we can hear the conversation going on, and she got in an argument with a boyfriend, and a boyfriend pretty much beat her up. And so we up there to check out, and the friend's like, girl, he shouldn't hit you. You pregnant. And me and my brother looked at each other like, he shouldn't hit you at all. Doesn't matter that you're fucking pregnant. Jason: It's okay if they ain't pregnant, but if they pregnant, you're crossing the line. Yeah. Yeah. Only 'cause you got a baby in you, baby, that he shouldn't have laid a hand on you. Now any other time, he alright to do that. Cause sometimes you just gotta put her in check. Huh? Bryan: Maybe that's why women s stayed barefoot and pregnant. That way they didn't get beat up. I'd much rather be pregnant than beat Jason: I guess. Hey, shut up. Holl y'all put that crap on Holly's plaque, barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen. Bryan: shit. Well yeah Jason: That's funny. Bryan: they I fucked your mama a hundred times. Jason: D maybe a hundred times. The mama said that. Bryan: What the fuck? Yeah, what the fuck? Can you imagine being her husband like, no, you know how stupid you gotta be? What they kept going in the master bedroom and locking the door. What Jason: I thought they were in there making mac and cheese. Bryan: I mean, what the fuck? Jason: Sounded like they're in there stirring mashed potatoes or something. Bryan: She looked like a bitch though. She probably had him in she he was probably cuckold. He just wasn't in the chair. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: And that's sad. Could you imagine being cuckold by your fucking stepson? Your stepson's fucking you yeah. No, that'd be his stepson, I think, though. Jason: Yeah. Her regular son. Yeah. I know, but that's but because his wife's regular son. You it'd be different if it was her stepson and she was yeah. Bryan: yeah, yeah. yeah, yeah, no, I'm just saying can you can you imagine though you sitting there watching y Jason: Dude. Bryan: your wife's son, fucker? Jason: That that's worse than coming coming home. I don't know I can't remember if you guys were around at Yuma that time when when when I kinda not nasty hooked up, I was just with this Hispanic girl and her sisters crap, what happened with that? I can't rem I can't remember the full story, but there was a guy that they knew came home and caught his wife with another woman. Like she the the woman left her marine husband for another woman, like became a lesbian. And I'm like, man, that's gotta hit punch you right in the gut, man. There's one thing for your wife leaving you for another dude, but to leave you for a woman? I mean you done drove your wife to being gay. Like, I don't know. That's just kinda weird. But that one takes the cake right there. You know, mom and son banging and the stepdad didn't even know. Like I I had no idea. Like there was a lot of times they went in that master bedroom. It smelt Bryan: Yeah. Jason: funny in there when Bryan: You know what? I was just thinking of I don't know if you was Jason: What? Bryan: with me that night at at Johnny's. And I I we ended up this this girl and her friends brought us back to the base in a van. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: And in the van in the back, it was just a fucking cargo van. And in the back of the van was a mattress. That's all it was was a fucking mattress. It was two front seats and a mattress. And we're sitting on the fucking mattress. And back then I was like, yeah, look, we got a van, you it's taking us around. Now I think back like, Alright, so was that did he live in there? Was that like a rape van? I mean, what the fuck? I was back then, yeah, I didn't I didn't question that. Like I've been the back of the fucking free candy van, just gone. Jason: We didn't question shit like that back in. Yeah. We Yeah. Got a got a cargo van with a mattress and a big bag of candy and we thought we were like fucking living it up. Like, damn man, this is awesome. Can we have some of this candy back here? Bryan: Fucking stupid man. Just in the back of a van. shit. Jason: Wasn't wasn't a problem back then. Bryan: Nope. Alright, so last video. This poor lady is just going about a day when boom, she's underneath her own fucking car. And I'm gonna try to give a visual to y'all listening as best I can, give a play by play. Unless you you want to take that over, Jason. Give a play by play. You can do it while you see it. It it's not it all it is is music. And that'd be that'll be even that'll be even better. 'Cause you you'll we could pause it. here you go. Jason: All right. Yeah. I haven't seen this before, so I'll do my best. All right. And if I go blank, just you need to get on the video and watch. All right. All right. We're at a gas station. Big woman comes out. a car pulls up to her. my gosh. Hits her in the back and pushes her car over top of her. There's a big black woman trapped underneath a car because it's two black women getting out. I guess they got beef with this woman. They shutting the door. They ain't letting that dude get it get the car off of her. Yeah, y'all need to go back and watch the video. Now another black girl's getting out of the car. Yeah. Now they're driving off. And she still Bryan: That's fucked up, huh? Jason: Damn. I was trying to give a play by play. Yeah, you gotta go back and watch that. Bryan: Yeah, that that lady walking back to a car, another car pulls up behind hers, hits her car and rolls right over her. She's stuck underneath her motherfucking car, like her fucking whole body. yeah. Her head's at the bumper, all the way underneath. Jason: Yeah, and she was a big woman too. And and then there was yeah, it was two black ladies that got out of the car that hit her car and they shut the door on that dude that was trying to get the car off of her. Like, nope. She gonna be stuck. Bryan: Well, then backed up backed up and left. Jason: Yeah. I guess you don't piss them women off. Bryan: Yeah, I don't know if that was intentional, that was a mistake. I I don't know. They they Jason: No, that was intentional, dude. Bryan: pushed that car pretty good damn ways. Jason: Yeah. It was funny they caught her coming out like that too, like they had that like planned. Like, we're gonna watch her come out and we're gonna shove that car over top of her. Bryan: That's pretty fucked up if you think of it that way. Jason: Yeah. Somebody's gonna watch that probably and be like, that's AI. AI did that. It might be, but it was still funny and cool. Bryan: They were filming it off of a camera with another camera. That's a that's a store camera. And Jason: Yeah, the store camera, yeah. Bryan: they they got their phone camera or whatever, filming it off the store camera. Jason: okay. Bryan: That's how it's all put together. All right, you got anything else, Jason? Jason: No, no, that was a weird one to end with, but Bryan: All right. So to recap, we have an economy that looks fine and feels terrible. Remember that working hard is a great attribute, but also taking time to recharge doesn't make you weak. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: We have a car feature that shouldn't have to exist. Some families are just too fucking close. And you have to keep your head on a swivel while you're at a gas station. All right. Thanks spending time with us. 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