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Knee Deep, Cheap Seats, and Rich People Conceit · Rik and that Michele Chick

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Welcome to Rick and That Michelle Chick, the weekly
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podcast where your hosts, Rick and Michelle, confidently dive
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into topics they know absolutely nothing about and somehow make
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it sound legit. They're not experts.
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They're not qualified. Honestly, they barely googled
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it. So grab a drink, lower your
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expectations, and let's pretend this counts as content.
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So buckle up. Facts are optional, but the
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bullshit? That's premium grade.
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This is Rick and that Michelle chick.
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I wanted to give you a knee specialist update.
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I saw them last week and and hand delivered my X-rays.
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They did their own X-rays and unfortunately my knee is shot.
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Basically they basically said the same thing.
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If both sides hadn't been losing joint space they could have done
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something but but because both sides have significant joint
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space loss there is not really anything they can do.
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They did suggest that I try and like the you know the gel
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injections, the hyaluronic to help prolong or put off having a
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knee replacement. But it does look like a knee
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replacement is in my future. I will try the injections, but
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the injections are for mild to moderate knee issues, arthritis,
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that kind of thing. So I don't really know how much
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good they're going to do, but I'll try them to see if they can
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buy me some time. Otherwise I will have to go see
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the surgeon over there about getting a knee replacement.
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So crazy. Not great news.
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That's not, that's not, that's not great news.
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I'm, no, it's kind of sad, but I'm, you know, I'm young, but
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they said that the knee joints are lasting a good like 15 to 20
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years now, so. I'm glad you'll be dead by the
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time that's. No, I feel like 70 in like 20
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years, like 71. So I just have to have a
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revision basically so. How, how, how long do you think
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you're going to live till? I hope past 70 wait.
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You think so? Into my 80s, yeah, I think.
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How long do you think you're going to live?
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I think the crazy thing is, well the crazy thing is none of us
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know like no like every like it's crazy that every day
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someone who think you think who's going to live forever
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passes away and then some and then someone there that's
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smoking, you know, 2 packs a day and eating or 102.
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So you're really, you really don't know.
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So for me, my dad passed away at 71, my real dad and my real mom
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passed away at 68. But they were heavy smokers and
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heavy drinkers, whereas I've done, I've done none of that.
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So, so. But again, I could have a heart
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attack and keel over right now. You could.
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While we're doing this podcast, so I always think about, I
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always think the big thing I think about is, is the age
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difference between Megan and I because we're because she's nine
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years difference. Right.
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So, so I'm already like, and then I thought about it like I
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was driving. This is just how morbid I am.
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So I'm driving down the road coming, coming home from work,
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you know, and I think, well, if I died today, she could probably
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take my because she gets my 4-O1K.
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And your life insurance? I have like what I have one year
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salary of life insurance. Oh, Jay has a lot of life.
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Of course. Well, he makes a lot of money.
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I don't. I make nothing.
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So I make nothing, but she gets, I mean, she gets my 4 O1 Ki have
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some mutual funds. I have some stock.
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I mean, I have, I have, I have little things, nothing that no
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one cares about. But I thought to myself that
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it's like, and this is not, you know, like, let let's say I got
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cancer and that drained anything and everything that I have,
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which is very little anyway, right?
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I think I'd rather just keel over and not to be morbid, I
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just think I'd rather just keel over from like just be dead
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rather than have some some long illness.
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Trying out. Well, because I because I want
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my wife to have what I mean what little I have, I want her to
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have it. So I would hate, I would hate to
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get ill and then be a 10 year thing where you're now you're
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just broke. You can't work medical bills in
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America bankrupt people all the time.
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I think about, you know, I think about myself in terms of what if
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I was in a wheelchair, you know, can I still do radio?
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What if I had no limbs? Can I still do radio?
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I think about all the time. I think about what if I'm blind?
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If I suddenly went blind like and I'm trying to be on the air,
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would someone help me or would I just, or would that be the end
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of it? Would I have to take the $500
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dollar a month disability check and that'd be the end of me?
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I mean. It's because the computer can't
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read you the song title and then you.
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No, I mean, I could still, I mean, I'm not, I, I don't have
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talent like Stevie Wonder or Ray Charles or Ronnie Milsap or they
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could sit there blind and play the piano.
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I don't have any of those skill sets.
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I mean, this is it, this this one thing that we're doing is
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about it. But I, I think I need my
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eyesight. Oh, and I need my hearing.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So.
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So there's a couple things that luckily I have all those things,
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but I, I think about like man and I, so I, these are things I
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think about daily, not, not just in a whim.
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I usually when I'm in the shower, when I'm driving down
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the road, it's the same thing as when I see a guardrail.
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I'm like, oh, I wonder if I should hit this guardrail.
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So. So my brain works works like
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that, but but right now I'm at that point in my thinking that I
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I wouldn't want to cost my I wouldn't want to cost my wife
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any money, right. So if I just killed over dead,
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that would be good for all of us.
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Right. No, no prolonged anything.
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Just just let me. Just let me go.
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Yeah. So, so when I'm thinking about
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your knee, I, I, you know, the minute I thought about your knee
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replacement, the all I get in my head is a picture of you on this
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little trolley, you know, pushing this, pushing that, you
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know, little scooter. No, with knee replacements, they
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want you up and walking. OK.
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I would have a Walker, but I would be like, OK.
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So or, or you're at the at the the Walmart in the in the
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electric. Scooter chair, What around?
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Yeah, what? Do they?
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What do they call those things? I think they are like a little
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electric wheelchair with a little basket on the front and
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yeah. Do you ever, do you ever
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question people that are in the wheelchairs at all?
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I mean, I don't walk up and ask him.
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I don't, I don't say crap to him.
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I'm just saying do you have a question like, hey, why is that?
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Why is that person in a wheelchair?
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No, because. You know I know.
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Yeah, they're. Hang on, I'm going to go.
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I knew he'd do that. Hang on.
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I think the mail comes at this time almost all the time.
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Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, or, or, you
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know, because my wife and I've got into this conversation about
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like, we'll see the disabled placard.
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Right. And not that I and she says I'm
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just way too judgmental. You go, she goes, you're just
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way so judgmental. I'm not judgmental.
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I I'm proud of the fact that I could get out of my car and walk
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into the store. But there are people that you
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can't see their disabilities. Totally.
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And just because they need to park in the handicapped and you
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see them walking doesn't mean that there isn't something.
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Megan will tell you so here's the deal.
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Here's this is as as truthful as I can be.
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Megan will tell you how judge mental I am by the fact when I'm
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going down the interstates and I'm doing 5 over right and then
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I get passed by somebody who who has a disabled placard on I get
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I get pissed because #1 when I'm driving down the.
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Road can't speed what? So #1 when I'm driving on the
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road, I'm leader of the pack. Yes.
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So I'm so I'm 5 overs, I'm five over religiously.
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I'm not trying to speed, but but I am 5 over, right.
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And then somebody comes ripping by who's supposed to be
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handicapped with their little blue placard.
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And, and I, she, she sees me go irate every single time.
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Because to me it's like, if you're handicapped, I'm just
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saying what, why are you speeding?
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Why are you being crazy? Why are you ripping?
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You know, so you don't know their ailment.
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You don't know why you don't know you're so judgmental.
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But, but don't do you? Have you?
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Do you ever say? Do you ever spend your life
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questioning these things, Michelle?
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No, no can't. Handicapped people are capable
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of speeding too, so I don't know.
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I know, but but it but it frobs me.
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I get upset about it. I do.
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I'm like really, really. I mean and I'm not talking about
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just going 5 over why, why? I mean I'm already speeding.
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I'm already. So they're doing a good like
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10/15/20 over depending on how fast they are going.
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Great, yes. Yeah, I'm like, I'm just saying,
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it's like. I know people who have
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disabilities that aren't visible, sure, who have
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handicapped stickers. So I understand from that point
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of view because I see it first hand with those people.
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So I'm. Not taking, I'm not taking away
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anything away from anybody that does that.
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But I also know, same as you, that people use other people's
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placards too. Like they'll like, I'm like, I'm
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borrowing Dad's car. Oh, hey, by the way, guys.
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And they pull up like I've got the handicap thing.
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Yeah. And then they then they pull
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into a handicap spot and they walk into the store.
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Right. Yeah.
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So I'm, I'm just saying for that my, my pet peeve, as Megan will
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tell you, is getting passed in the freeway by somebody with a
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handicap placard. OK, I think you're just mad
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because someone is passing you. On.
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Well, that too, but that too. Because I'm Don't you ever think
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of yourself as leader of the pack.
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No, not anymore because I'm like, I don't need to get a
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ticket. Why that will have?
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To set my cruise control because I will do more than five over if
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I'm not paying. Attention Oh yes, I I, I've
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always been a leadfoot, so I I have me too.
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I have to religiously nowadays, I do set the cruise and I try
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not to, I try not to let for me, driving is a big anxiety thing
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because I just get I not, not once I get irritated, but it's
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like, I don't know, I just it, it, I think it's getting, I
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think I think people are becoming more and more shitty
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drivers. Oh yeah.
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Do you think so? Yes.
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Oh I used to get road rage all the time but that was like 10
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years ago and I've had to just try to be Zen about it and yell
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at people. While I'm driving I really
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believe that the the phone has added to it people complete
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assholes. Yeah, yes.
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Period. Like there's no respect.
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There's not. People aren't respectful anymore
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when you're driving all these different things because I think
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they're so locked into their phone, you know, and, and when
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people say, Oh, well, they're not on their phone, yeah, they
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are. You can be on your phone without
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it being visible. Exactly.
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On your phone? Oh my God, they've got view
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screens. They got freaking computer
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screens now. And bullshit, you know I did.
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That, but you can't. You can't watch things on those.
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While you're. Driving I.
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Mean, yeah, but but when you're driving down the road, you see
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it plopped up, you know? You don't know, but you don't
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know what they're doing, no. But.
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You don't. You don't.
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The ones that are built in the cars have, you cannot watch
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things like on them, like it it's enabled, like you cannot do
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it. Like you can't watch like a
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movie or YouTube or whatever it is on them.
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So yeah, I mean, unless there's some way around it, I don't
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know. That, yeah, my wife, Megan, I
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mean, she number one, she listens to a lot of audio books
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these days. But yeah, I mean, she she also
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has put whatever Harry Potter on now, she may not be watching it,
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but she's listening to it. Right.
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You know, but people are probably.
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Listening to a. Podcast Drive the car.
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I'm like hello drive the car so. So anyway.
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Honey, drive the car. Didn't you see that disabled
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person pass us? Yeah.
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Oh, I get Oh my God, don't get me, don't get me.
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I mean, is that, and I'm not trying to be judgmental about
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it. I'm just like, I'm like, why the
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hell are you speeding? If you're crippled, Why the F
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are you speeding? That's all.
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That's why I had this all my. Question, just like the rest of
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us. So yeah, OK, let's move on.
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We found out this week that Jackson cannot graduate from UW.
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Not yet. Was he supposed to graduate?
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Yes, he's supposed to graduate next month.
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But he's not been there for years.
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Yes, he has What? And he did running start what?
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So he isn't he's missing a class.
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It is the foreign language, the sign language, because he took
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ALS or whatever it is ASL one. And.
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Two yes, American Sign Language. 1.
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ASL he took that at YVC for running start because you have
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to have, you know, your foreign language credit to get your
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bachelor's. So he took that.
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Well, he just found out that he has to take one O 3, and so now
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he cannot graduate. You could graduate.
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Well, UW lets you graduate if you're missing a class, but
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you're going to take that class in the summer.
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And because it's sign language, three, they only.
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So they do it in order. So 1 is in the fall, 2 is in the
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winter. So 3 is going to be in the
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springtime of 2027. So he can't take it until then.
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So he can't walk at graduation. And we have people coming from
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Arkansas. We have all this.
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Yeah, so, but there's also a wedding that they're also coming
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to. So I mean, they're still all
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going to come up. I mean, he feels really bad.
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He which why his advisor didn't catch this, but these advisors
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sometimes are worthless at the colleges.
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But he talked to his advisor, he talked to the people in
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humanities, he talked to the sign language teacher to try and
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figure something out so that he could at least walk at
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graduation. But no, what's that?
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What's not going to happen? What's his degree going to be
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in? Economics and you need.
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To learn sign language for economics.
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Well, you have to have a foreign language.
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You have to have your foreign language credit.
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And so he's missing. That one class, so American Sign
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Language, counts. Yes it does.
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No, that no I understand exactly.
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Which is what Shaylee has hers in, too.
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In sign language. So which they they do sign
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language and we can't really understand them, I bet.
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And it irritates me. Yeah, Yeah.
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Did you take foreign language in high school?
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At all? No.
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Saying I no horrible. I have no I have no I I barely
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do English. I've tried to start Duolingo on
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and learning Spanish but it is slow, it is rough, it is rough.
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I feel like, you know what, like what they say when you're
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younger, it's easier to pick up. Different languages?
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I bet it is. And I think now that we're
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older, it's a lot more difficult, at least for me.
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I don't know. When you think about certain
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things, there's certain skills. It was interesting, like there's
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certain skills. I absolutely try to avoid an in
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school and I don't have any skills so I so I can't type
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right. So I so I'm I'm much more a hunt
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and pecker. Right.
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You know. I'm great at it either.
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No, but I can do. I could probably do, let's say
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2020 words a minute. You know, I'm saying I'm not
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fast by any means, but because I have to write a lot of content
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these days. So I still, you know, it's
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probably 2020 words a minute, but Megan, my wife can just
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boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.
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You know, she has a degree in English and she can just do it.
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So, so I think about, I think about things like foreign
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language. I sucked at typing.
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I sucked at man, I was, I'm worthless.
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I am actually, you know, as worthless as they come, so.
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Can you draw or your art? Didn't you draw?
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I'm Marxistic, yes, I so yes, I'm yes.
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So I took a lot of I took a lot of art classes.
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Writing. I can.
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I can write. Just not, I'm not just not just
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not. I wrote a book.
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Yeah. No, I can write.
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I write content all day. I just I never we can.
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Dictate to AI to write things for us like we don't care
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necessarily. Help tape it all out.
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Yes, yeah. Well, it was funny.
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So when I was, so when you took what they called the ASVAB test,
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they'd come take an ASVAB and say what?
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What? This is before radio, but what
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occupation you'd be great at? Mine was politician, minister,
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minister, counselor, counselor, different things like that.
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And it was funny is 70% of my skill set, 70% of my skill set
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was verbal and and I can horrific on math.
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They said no, yeah, me too. Nothing.
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You're not. Don't don't even bother.
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Yeah, I mean, I don't even know if I could be a good cashier at
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the grocery store. I think nowadays it's a lot
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easier, but because. It's not a lot of people are
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using cash anymore, so. Right, Well, count it back.
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I think that that you can scan it and I think it adds it up.
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I mean, it's totally different. But but when I grew up with the
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bogans, my mom taught me to count cash back, you know, and
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you had to do it in your head. I mean, this is like you said,
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the older I get, I can't do any. I, I, I did it as a kid, right?
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I could do it, but I can't do, I can't do it now.
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I'm like, well, how do you do those things?
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So, so yeah, no foreign language like you said, no sign language.
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I, you know, my foster sister used to, used to talk in pig
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Latin. Do you know what pig Latin is?
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Yes, that's not so real language.
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I know, but I but but my foster mom and my foster sister would
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go out to web whatever, like you know, now I knew when they were
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talking about me about Christmas presents because I could kind of
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make out not to say what the presents were, but I knew they
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were talking about me in terms because, because, because in pig
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Latin Virgil. Well, that's going to be still
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right. That's a unique name, and no
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matter how your pig, Latin. That name up.
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It's still I know when you're talking about Virgil.
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You can't disguise that. You can't disguise it like it's
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like, So it's interesting. When I took Spanish in like
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junior high, I had to be Tim Oteo because there's no Spanish
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version of version. There's none.
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So the so misses Chavez was like, you're going to be Tim
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Oteo. I'm like, what the fuck's a Tim
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Oteo? Did you ever take Spanish in
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junior high? No, I did not take anything.
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Oh, you did? Oh.
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X wasn't even an F, wasn't even an F, it was X So poor Jackson.
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So we got people coming in. Yeah.
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So, yeah, so. People are going to come no
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matter, right? Because there's a wedding.
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Yeah. So, but, but he's not going to
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be able to walk even lacking that one class, no.
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So he's going to have to wait till next spring to take this.
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Class to take it and then submit.
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He'll still get his degree from UW even if he takes it at YVCC.
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He could take the three class at YVC and then it will transfer to
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UW and then that will make it so that he can graduate from UW.
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So if he wants to walk, it's going to have to be next summer.
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Interesting, so even though he has his degree early would would
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they give him his degree now? I mean, he could get it like
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like if he takes that sign language three class in the
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springtime and passes and then he he can get his degree.
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He has to. So.
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So no matter what, without this class he does not get his
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degree. Correct.
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OK. So, so and the only time that's
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available is this coming. Spring so.
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He's got, so basically he's got a year.
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Yeah, at UW or at YBC, it's both in the springtime because again
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like it goes 1-2 and then three so and they don't regardless of
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where he takes it because. He already did 1 and 2 right?
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Yeah, and regardless of where he takes it, it will still qualify.
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So my question to you is, of course, can he take, can he take
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any other language class or? No, because he has to start all
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over, right? Yeah, they just want your money.
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Well, I mean. It's ridiculous.
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It's ridiculous. So, so I'm not going to go on a
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tangent, but I am, I am a huge fan.
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I understand. I get that they want you to have
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a rounded education. I get that.
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So I've always been a big fan of high school should be the
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foundation, right? The foundation of what you do.
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Now, let's say you're really great at math, or let's say
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you're good at economic, whatever it is, you kind of
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decided to decide what you did once you get to college.
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I really believe college should be what your degree is going to
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be. And you know what I'm saying?
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Very specialized. If I'm going to be like you
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said, if I'm going to be an English teacher, all my courses
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should be towards in that degree, right?
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Not Oh well, you have to take pottery one O 1.
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Right, you have to take math one and two and.
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Right, right. I think I think if you're
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proficient in like in in certain things, it's like so I just
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think it's absurd that the the university is like, well, you
21:21
got to take pottery one O 1 right.
21:23
You're going to be an engineer like what?
21:25
That says nothing to do with what I'm doing, you know, and.
21:27
It's not like she doesn't have no he has the sign language 1
21:31
and 2. So I don't see why they.
21:34
Couldn't just be like, OK, you know.
21:36
Sign off, sign off and off you go.
21:38
Yes. It's crazy.
21:40
So it's crazy. School.
21:42
Schooling's crazy, Michelle. But he was super upset and
21:45
crying and yeah, I don't blame. Them he's got to wait.
21:48
Well, he's got to wait a year. These kids put a lot of work
21:51
into school. It's not easy, so.
21:54
I. Mean he was I think he was like
21:57
he was afraid he was afraid that we were going to be mad and it's
22:00
like it's not it's not your it's not your fault like sure,
22:05
someone. Should advise the advisor.
22:08
You know two of my two of my best buddies for high school
22:11
were second year seniors. So no, they were they were
22:15
second year seniors for me. So you know me well enough to
22:19
know that I front loaded freshman, sophomore, we didn't
22:24
have running start when I was a kid.
22:25
So there was no, there was none of that when I was a kid.
22:27
But I front loaded everything. So when I got to my senior year,
22:31
it was it was played, you know, I had a couple classes, but it
22:34
was basically, yeah, play time just get just get through the
22:39
year basically because because I want, I want to get out there as
22:42
soon as possible. I didn't, I did not want to be,
22:46
I didn't want to be a second year senior.
22:48
And and so yeah. And so I I front loaded
22:51
everything, all the hard classes, but it was a lot
22:54
different back than for you and I.
22:56
Yeah, it was. It was so, but now nowadays they
22:59
have running start, they get like they get a A degrees coming
23:02
out of high school I. Mean, I mean he, I mean he and
23:05
Matthew and Shaylee all did that so.
23:07
Now back in our day from yeah, now back in our day from
23:11
Washington State, we did have the advanced degree and the
23:14
academic degree and then we had the general general diploma.
23:18
So, so I was like, I just, I just I front loaded general
23:22
diploma. I was like, I'm not doing
23:23
advanced, I'm not doing academic.
23:25
I didn't, I mean, I did go to, I did go to college just for that
23:28
one brief moment. And I did get into college, but
23:32
college was, I mean, college turned out not to be my pathway.
23:35
Yeah. So, but poor, poor Jackson, I
23:37
get it, I understand and letting you guys down and all that, but
23:41
and he's got to wait a year and he's got to wait a year.
23:44
So I guess when did you find out the news?
23:48
Just he just told us Monday night so.
23:51
So it's still sinking in. Yeah.
23:53
So what? OK, so he's got to wait for the
23:55
class. So is he going to work this
23:58
summer and this fall? What's he going to do?
24:00
I hope so. I mean, he's obviously going to
24:03
have to move home. He's not going to stay in
24:04
Seattle. There's no reason for him to
24:06
stay in Seattle. So come on.
24:07
Move. Home.
24:08
Come on. Absolutely.
24:10
Come on, mom. No, and he knows that, and he's
24:12
fine with it. Yep, on Capitol Hill.
24:15
But he does he. Up on Capitol Hill.
24:18
No, he's right near the school, right off of like 45th and.
24:22
You know you know Capitol Hill, right?
24:24
I do, yes. OK, I I am, yes.
24:27
Well, no, I'm just saying no, that that's that's a cool
24:30
neighborhood and and and very pro LGBTQ.
24:34
Yes, yeah. So I mean, even when I moved to
24:36
Seattle in the late 90s, people were like, we I want to park
24:38
Capitol Hill. Yeah.
24:40
That looks there. No, it is absolutely.
24:42
The posse's on Broadway, so it's sort of mixed a lot, a needle
24:48
drop on that. So yeah, I mean, you know, so,
24:51
yeah. So I was curious if if he wants
24:53
to stay there to hang out with his buds or whatever.
24:56
No, that's not happening. You guys have you guys have had
24:58
that conversation already? Yeah, he already knows that he
25:02
would like to to be an attorney, but he has to take the entrance
25:08
exam for that, so he'll have to study.
25:11
So maybe while he's waiting to take this sign language class,
25:15
he can study for that, because he'll have to take that in order
25:18
to get into law school. I'm so jealous.
25:20
So but we want him to at least go and maybe job shadow at a law
25:27
office or, you know, if you can't get an internship, just to
25:30
make sure, like, OK, let's not like, yes, he says he wants to
25:35
be an attorney. It would be civil law is what
25:37
he's interested in. But it's like, let's make sure
25:40
this is really what you would like to do instead of investing
25:43
all this time into taking this entrance test and getting in and
25:48
then a year in, you're like, I don't like this so.
25:51
Yeah, because the the courtroom TV shows are nothing like really
25:55
practicing law especially well, it depends on what you depends
25:59
on what what you you know. Right, He would like to do with
26:02
civil law. So I.
26:03
Would say, I would say 99.9% of law, you know, being a lawyer
26:06
can probably be pretty boring, make a lot of money, make a lot
26:10
of money, you know, and, and that what the devil's in the
26:13
details. Yeah.
26:15
Definitely. I'm just, I'm just jealous.
26:18
I'm just jealous. I'm just jealous you know you.
26:21
You and your brainiac children. I mean.
26:24
You have brainiac children, I mean.
26:25
Just got lucky. I don't know is that it's got to
26:29
be Jeanette. I mean, it's genetics.
26:31
I just you. Know, I think I don't know I
26:34
mean some people say it is genetics but it's like OK, well
26:37
they didn't get it from me they must have got it from Jay so.
26:40
Well, Jay is very Jay is super smart, is he not?
26:42
Very analytical. He's he's very analytical.
26:45
That's where the math comes from.
26:46
Yeah. It's like, yeah, I mean, hey
26:49
there again, there's nothing wrong with being creative.
26:51
I mean, creative is, you know, there's, there's different
26:54
levels of genius. You're saying I'm dumb.
26:56
There's no. I'm saying there's different
26:59
levels of genius. I mean, I mean, I look at, let's
27:01
say Michael Jackson, you know, genius, genius, Prince, genius,
27:06
you know, I mean, there's all these different levels of
27:09
genius. There's there's no doubt about
27:11
it. So, but, but your kids seem to
27:13
have this, the extra, you know, they're biologists, they're
27:17
lawyers, or that's what I mean. These are things that they're
27:19
aspiring to be. Right.
27:21
Matthew's a chemist. Shaylee wants to be a geneticist
27:25
is what she her degree is going to be in.
27:27
So yeah. And then Benjamin is a kid you'd
27:29
have a beer with, so. No, he he is IT specialist.
27:34
I'm. Kidding.
27:35
Cybersecurity. I'm.
27:38
Kidding. I'm kidding.
27:39
Don't. I'm just joking.
27:40
I'm just being funny. Guys don't.
27:42
Don't take it though. It's going to make a comment
27:45
like, hey, what are you talking about?
27:48
No, absolutely no, absolutely no.
27:50
I mean, no, I hear you. So no, he's IT takes a lot of a
27:53
lot of intelligence and all the all the all your kids are super
27:57
smart. So thanks, yeah, just.
27:58
You know, like I said, you know, couldn't you have at least one
28:01
bad apple, one bad egg in there so we can talk about him?
28:04
I'm still talking about Logan, you know, and Kyra, you know.
28:11
Somebody said like, you can't define your kids by what they do
28:17
for a living or their career the other day that I read that you
28:21
can't slap that label on them, that you just have to let them
28:25
be people. So yeah.
28:27
So it doesn't matter what they all do, as long as they're good
28:29
people and. Yeah, no, actually, even though
28:32
I make jokes about it. Yes, absolutely.
28:34
I mean, absolutely. So I mean, being a radio, I mean
28:37
it's funny is like everybody thinks being a radio DJ like,
28:41
oh, that's the best job or how how much fun it's.
28:43
Not. But it I mean it, I think it is.
28:46
There are fun times about it, but it's not all fun and games
28:50
though. Either but but it's but it's
28:52
like it's funny when I go to Megan's friend's houses, it's
28:56
not I don't I don't think like my brain doesn't think like that
28:59
anyway. But but all of her friends have
29:02
nicer homes than we do. I mean, if you were, and again,
29:06
I don't know how you define nice, does that make nice home?
29:10
Who? Who?
29:11
Is that subjective? It is subjective.
29:13
It is subjective. I mean.
29:15
What's that? That's just you thinking that
29:17
that. Doesn't mean that because
29:19
remember, I'm still the same guy who thinks about hitting the
29:21
guard rails. I'm going down the road so.
29:23
After getting mad that handicapped people are.
29:25
Skating opacity So so this this, This is why Logan's messed up
29:30
because this is what Logan inherited.
29:32
See, when you think about hey, why is Logan messed up?
29:34
Well, right there, this is what he got.
29:37
He's not messed up. So well, I'm just saying this is
29:39
this is what you know, as as your kids got Jay's, you know,
29:42
noggin, Logan got this noggin, and that's probably not a good
29:46
noggin to get. I'm just saying.
29:48
But but no, have you ever not been, I mean, well, you guys,
29:50
you guys make a fairly and you guys make a great living.
29:54
That's what we do, but we also have four children.
29:56
Then I get it. No, I know need to pay for all
29:58
the stuff so. But have you ever gone to
30:00
somebody's? Have you?
30:01
Well, I guess have you ever gone to somebody's house and go wow,
30:03
they must make a lot of money. Yeah, like.
30:06
How did yeah or like how do they afford this house or.
30:10
You know, I'm most amazed. So I'm most amazed by the fact
30:15
that people who have boats and campers and like multiples of
30:21
those things and they've got AT VS and they've got Harleys and
30:26
I'm like, but you know, and let I mean, I don't know, I mean.
30:30
But and how do you afford all of that?
30:32
Because that stuff is not cheap. And then the gas for that stuff
30:36
now shit. Yeah, I think I think about
30:40
little things like like, yeah, I mean, or even from even from a
30:43
vacation standpoint. I know you guys do a lot of
30:45
vacations thanks to Jay's work, you know, and you do your own
30:49
vacation. Yeah, but but as long as I've
30:51
known you, your vacations, even with the you make, you know,
30:54
your husband makes good money. You don't do crazy, outrageous
30:58
vacation. I've never seen you guys do an
30:59
outrageous, crazy vacation. But I look up, but you go on
31:02
Insta and you see somebody who's a receptionist and you're like,
31:04
what the F? They're like in Greece, They're
31:06
like in Turkey, Istanbul. No, I'm like where the fuck?
31:10
I mean, there are ways to do things on the cheap, like you
31:14
can still have a great vacation and not spend a boatload of
31:18
money, so. I know you there are ways.
31:20
Well, not in today. I mean, I don't know about today
31:22
because it's absolutely outrageous and I'm, I'm, you
31:25
know, and, and again, luckily, luckily I don't have, I've never
31:28
had that kind of envy anyway, because because from where I
31:32
standpoint, so, so for me, because I, I feel like I came
31:36
from so far behind. Yeah.
31:38
And I look at my siblings or I look at my own, my own family,
31:41
my own close family. And I, I have an, I have an
31:46
abundance of wealth. Right.
31:48
You know, so, so I am so fortunate and so lucky.
31:52
So even though I look at somebody else's house and go,
31:54
man, that their, their house is newer, they've got a newer car,
31:58
all these different things. I also look at at where I'm at
32:02
in life and go very, I'm very grateful.
32:04
Yeah. Because, because, because I have
32:07
lots of things too. So, so I mean, so it's, I mean
32:11
it's, I mean, I guess it's all relative.
32:13
Yeah, it's all subjective. Yeah, it's all subjective.
32:17
I always look at it like just just the fact that, you know,
32:20
I'm come up, I'm come up on 3838 years in radio.
32:24
That's people don't make, but people don't make it.
32:28
I mean, no, that's a long, that's a long, that's a long
32:31
career, you know, so, so, yeah, so very grateful.
32:35
But I but I do look at other, I still do.
32:38
I go to Megan's friends and go, jeez, this must be how the other
32:41
house lives. You know.
32:44
But then people. But then people come to our
32:45
house and go, wow, you guys have a, you know, you have a big
32:48
backyard or you have a big house.
32:50
You've been to my house. Yes, I have a couple times.
32:53
I call it the, I call it the Brady Bunch House.
32:55
It's like it's 19. It's 1970.
32:57
Yeah, because you came to the house warming party and stuff.
32:59
Right. Yes.
33:01
So I mean, it's a cool. Your house is nice so.
33:05
For a DJI. Didn't say that.
33:10
But but for but for. Yeah, but not as nice as the
33:12
general manager's house. Well, of course not.
33:15
I mean, right, they make the money.
33:18
Right, exactly. So well, good luck to Jackson.
33:21
I think, I think take the year to to to decide what what he
33:24
wants to do. I think I I like what you guys
33:26
said. Intern doing some internships.
33:28
Yeah. You know, what did he, did he
33:31
say what kind of lawyer lawyer he wanted to be?
33:33
Civil. Oh, interesting.
33:35
So I like that. Probably like.
33:38
That's right. Yes, LGBTQ.
33:41
That. Kind of thing.
33:42
So, yeah, yeah. No, I love that.
33:44
I think it'd be great. I've seen how he dresses
33:46
sometimes. I'd love for him to go into
33:48
court a little flamboyant like that.
33:49
I'd love that. And he probably would.
33:52
I I think it'd be hilarious so. Let Jackson know I didn't care.
33:56
He would not I. Love it.
33:57
Hey man, go and go and dress like Elton John.
33:59
I'm all for that any day, any day of the week.
34:02
I don't know if the judges would like.
34:03
No, you need to be wearing. I That's a distraction in my
34:07
courtroom. Seeing too, too.
34:09
Seeing too many, too many. Cousin Vinny's, I guess.
34:11
Right. The Utes the utes What are you
34:14
wearing? What are you wearing when you.
34:17
Yeah. OK, let's move on.
34:19
My son Jack, my son Jack, my son Matthew.
34:21
I'm getting my son's mixed up. But I mean, when they were
34:24
little, I'd be like yelling all their names.
34:27
So whoever was getting in trouble because I was getting
34:29
the name wrong, but so Matthew text me on Monday.
34:34
He was at the Demi Lovato concert in San Francisco and
34:39
they had bought tickets, but they were like way, way, way up
34:42
in the Nosebleed section. And he said the tickets were
34:45
still like 60 bucks. But he said that because the
34:50
there wasn't very many people in the venue, they were moving them
34:53
down to kind of fill it in, to make it look like there was more
34:58
people there. And I was like, oh, my gosh.
35:01
I was like, I mean, that's great that you get to move down.
35:04
Yeah. But I had read that a lot of
35:07
these artists are having to cancel concerts because tickets
35:11
are not selling. And I don't mean, like, the B or
35:15
C artist. I read that it's like Post
35:17
Malone, you know, like legit artists that normally would
35:22
almost sell out a venue, kind of artists that, yeah, people just
35:27
aren't buying tickets. I'm guessing they can't afford
35:29
them. Well, I think that I think the
35:31
inflation, the gas prices are just gotten now, they're just
35:34
outrageous, right? I, I, we gave away Demi Lovato
35:39
tickets. I don't know how it went.
35:40
The radio station get our, our radio station giveaway Demi
35:41
Lovato tickets. We've got Hilary Duff coming up.
35:44
Oh nice. For White River Amphitheatre,
35:47
Matthews musical taste definitely seems along the lines
35:49
of what I like for sure. So but so we have Hilary Duff
35:53
coming up, we've got Lionel Richie tickets, we've got
35:57
Santana with The Doobie Brothers, we've got train.
36:01
So I've I've been, I've been to events where they have moved.
36:06
People. People up but and yeah, but I
36:09
mean, usually when I see, I know things happen to bands, but
36:13
usually when I see you know, so at work, they're cancelling the
36:16
show. I'm like, ticket sells.
36:18
Yeah. That's the first thing I think
36:20
of, you know, even though they try to make it, you know, you
36:22
know, unforeseen circumstances. Yes, they try and yeah, give
36:27
some bullshit excuse, but we all know it's because tickets are
36:29
not selling. Well, tickets are well look at
36:32
OK, let's talk watershed. Watershed got cancelled this
36:36
year and it may, it may never come back because I think what's
36:39
happened is the price. And your friend Soul, who does
36:44
listen to the podcast, We could probably tell you the cost of
36:46
getting an artist. Yes, is outrageous.
36:49
Is outrageous and well, Jay could tell you that he, you
36:51
know, running, running the casino.
36:53
Well that they get casino priced but which means they get it
36:57
even. Jacked up.
36:58
Yes, yeah. Someone, someone had said to me,
37:01
now, I mean, Jay can correct me because I know he's in the
37:03
casino business, But someone had said to me many years ago when I
37:07
was in Bakersfield, CA, and I was, that was back in the day
37:10
when I was hobnobbing with Trace Adkins and Chris Cagle and all
37:12
those guys. And Chris Cagle had said that
37:15
they loved casino money because casinos, Casinos, OK, so county
37:20
fairs that, well, that's why, my gosh, Yakima doesn't have any
37:25
acts for their 10 days. They can't afford them.
37:28
Right, because casinos have priced them out of they said at
37:33
least it have priced them out of county fairs and different.
37:38
Things. Yeah, You know, so I think
37:42
people don't realize it costs just as much to bring an artist
37:44
as it does to do the whole back line.
37:47
Yeah, yeah. So when you bring an artist.
37:48
So let's say you bring an artist for $50,000.
37:51
Well now it's $50,000 on top because you have to.
37:54
The lights and the stage and the sound and the Yeah, it's.
37:57
Crazy. It's crazy.
37:59
So when you, but when you see big artists like Demi Lovato,
38:02
but I also look at it too, like I think people can also be very
38:06
nostalgic. And so I think that Demi, like I
38:10
say, in 10 years, Demi will be sold out again.
38:13
You know, I think, I think it's crazy because for me, I'm going
38:17
to go see Toto at the White River Amphitheater.
38:20
And those who don't know Toto Africa, I saw Toto in Spokane at
38:26
the Knitting Factory for $25 and there was maybe a couple 100
38:31
people there. This is back in 2007.
38:34
And they couldn't get arrested in America at that time.
38:38
There was a 20 year lull where no one wanted to hear Africa or
38:43
they or they were the laughing joke of that, right?
38:46
And so I went to the show. Of course, I'm a huge Toto fan.
38:48
So I went to the show and I got front.
38:50
I mean, we were standing room only.
38:52
So I just went right to the front.
38:53
So I'm literally underneath Steve Lukather and Bobby Kimball
38:56
as they perform. And then suddenly Africa blows
38:59
up again. Same as journey.
39:01
Well, I I saw a journey. I saw a journey back in the
39:04
early 2000s at some small venues.
39:07
And they and they they weren't selling out.
39:09
And now, because don't stop believing, you know, so the next
39:13
generation discovers something that blows up again.
39:17
Yeah. So I think Demi Lovato is is
39:19
Demi Lovato kind of in that like.
39:22
I see her in the like Hillary Dove, like Hannah Montana, you
39:27
know, like that's what my kids grew up on, which is why Matthew
39:30
would want to go see her so. Do you think Miley Cyrus can
39:33
sell out a venue like? She might.
39:37
I mean, I don't know. I mean, I'm guessing that
39:40
generation would all want to go, but I feel like they would want
39:44
to go see her also as Hannah Montana.
39:47
I don't know. I like the fact that she's
39:48
embraced that because she just did the 20th anniversary, which
39:51
I sat down almost because I did enjoy Hannah Montana and I like
39:53
the fact that she embraced the character.
39:55
Again. So so she did and she performed
39:57
one of the, you know, best of both worlds and all that.
39:59
But I was thinking like, yeah, we've got we've got tickets to
40:02
giveaway for Hilary Duff. Now.
40:03
I always know when when we do these ticket giveaways, if they
40:06
come back to us multiple times. Then it's not selling.
40:09
It's not selling. You and I both know that because
40:12
because radio has changed so much that if something's so
40:14
people have always asked about, let's say, Pink or Justin Bieber
40:17
or even Taylor Swift. Right, you don't.
40:19
You don't get tickets. You don't.
40:21
You don't get tickets to the shows that sell.
40:23
Nope. So when they, so when?
40:25
So I'm always amazed when something does come through
40:27
like, hey, can you help us out on whoever it is?
40:29
I'm like, right? And then you own or Yeah.
40:32
Yeah. Then you know it's not, then you
40:33
know it's not selling. So yeah.
40:35
But again, I think there's so many factors now.
40:38
Number one, I feel like everybody's out on tour.
40:40
Yes, I was going to say it's saturated.
40:43
I think it's a combination of it's saturated with all these
40:46
artists out on tour. Probably the cost of the
40:49
tickets, just, yeah, the economy, people are having to
40:53
pay more for gas, so they just don't have that extra income for
40:57
tickets. Tickets are stupid expensive too
41:00
so. Well, but I was thinking about
41:02
even for a football game, even for a baseball game, even for a
41:05
hockey game, you know, I would tell, I was telling Megan that I
41:10
think the Cowboys are playing the Seahawks this year.
41:13
And I went, honey, you know, if I get ahead of it, can I, you
41:16
know, can I'm thinking of buying some tickets to go to the
41:18
Cowboys and Seahawks game. You know, she goes.
41:20
Well, of course we can go, but I can't even imagine what those
41:23
tickets are going to be because last time I went with you guys,
41:25
Yeah. So anyway, yeah, we lost.
41:27
Yeah. Parking alone like outside of
41:32
the stadium is like 60 to $100.00 so which is crazy so.
41:38
Yeah. Well, yeah.
41:38
And then the, and then the gas and the everything you get there
41:40
and all that. I mean, you're looking at, I
41:42
think, I think almost anything and everything you do now is
41:44
1000 bucks. Yeah, easy.
41:46
It's crazy. Somebody price like a like Major
41:49
League Baseball game for I think a family of four.
41:51
And we're not talking like good seats either.
41:55
And did like food and everything.
41:57
And it's like $200 just for that.
42:01
So I know it's yeah. For me, that's it's just
42:04
absolutely ridiculous. And I wonder if it's going to
42:05
keep getting worse and worse or is there going to be eventually
42:08
a you know, is that is that why you know, because I know we're
42:11
going to talk about Coachella. Is that why the big festivals,
42:14
you know, well, well, Watershed, I mean.
42:16
So there have been, there have been multiple music festivals in
42:18
the Northwest that haven't succeeded.
42:21
Rain. But there's ones that do like
42:24
look at EDC in Las in Las Vegas, that's like 400,000 people that
42:29
they get for that thing. So yeah.
42:32
I think, I think it, I think it just depends.
42:34
Well, I remember it's so funny in the in the radio business
42:37
back when we were doing the bull bashes, it was funny.
42:39
You'd go get Les Schwab to buy a sponsorship, but Les Schwab was
42:42
like, well, we need we need to know the artists before we even
42:45
they did remember they. Blame them, yeah.
42:47
They're like, I'm not buying it until I know who the artist is.
42:49
Then you go, oh, it's Brad Paisley or it's Blake Shelton.
42:51
OK, now we'll spend 20 grand. Yeah.
42:54
You know, But I don't even think nowadays you could get 20 grand
42:56
out of a sponsor, at least in a small market.
42:58
Radio. No, those days, those days are
43:00
gone. Those days are gone.
43:02
These, you know, So. Yeah.
43:03
So Demi Alvada. That's.
43:05
That's surprising. Post Malone.
43:06
Surprising. Well, Kid Rock, I have.
43:09
No, I have no problem with that guy not selling shit.
43:12
I know which I know he's not either, so.
43:14
Yeah, when he, when he's cancelling his crap, I'm like,
43:17
yeah, you and Scott Baio and Ted Nugent to work in.
43:20
Yeah. Yeah, OK, You mentioned
43:21
Coachella. Let's move on.
43:23
Did you see where Coachella is suing?
43:27
It's a shelter. I think it's in Michigan.
43:29
I could be wrong. It's just a shelter.
43:32
They named one of their dogs Pawchella.
43:36
You know how you know how these places have to give them names,
43:39
which we, when we foster kittens, have to give them names
43:42
so that when they go on transport, they have a name.
43:45
And so Coachella is suing this shelter because they named this
43:50
dog Coachella. And I'm like, what is wrong with
43:54
them? I mean, code, the people who own
43:56
Coachella are horrible people anyway.
43:58
But I thought that is ridiculous.
44:01
Like, that's just the dumbest thing.
44:03
Like who cares that they named this dog Podchella?
44:06
They should put money behind it so that it can get adopted.
44:10
Yeah, it's like Coachella asked this, this Detroit animal
44:13
shelter to not use Pochella. They've reached out.
44:16
They say that's trademarked. But but you and I have learned a
44:19
lot of lessons being in broadcasting is you can't say
44:22
Super Bowl. No, you can't.
44:25
You know, it's the big game. That's why we always say the big
44:27
game. Yeah.
44:28
Anything tied any and this I? Mean, but they're not using
44:31
Coachella, they're using Pochella.
44:33
I know so. It's awesome.
44:36
Yeah, the dog. That's adorable.
44:40
They're just heartless bastards. Well, that's for 1%.
44:44
Of course, which also rolls into Yeah, go ahead.
44:47
Yeah, love, love, love pets and animals.
44:48
You'll love Pochella. It's an acre of vendors, pets
44:51
for adoption, free admission, food.
44:54
It's the it's the Veterans Memorial Museum.
44:57
Oh it's an event, not the dog's name.
44:59
I thought it was the dog's name. I no, I think it's it's an
45:03
event. Oh, well, I could see, you know,
45:07
if it's if it's an event, but it's still not like Coachella,
45:10
it's in. Detroit.
45:12
It's not even close to California.
45:14
That's what I'm saying. It's in Detroit.
45:16
Like who cares? So.
45:18
So none of us can put Chella behind anything.
45:22
Is that what they have? Trademark.
45:24
Yeah, if you go, it's, you know, it's Yeah, it's Rick and
45:28
Michella I. Was just going to.
45:30
Say Rick and Michella. So hey, it's Ricky, Michella,
45:33
the the podcast. Yeah, you, they're going to send
45:36
you a cease and desist. So guys in the biz, it's called
45:38
a cease and desist. Yeah, it is.
45:40
Yeah, that's just, that's horrible.
45:43
Who cares if it's a festival? People, people are, I mean, now
45:50
the, the, the president of the, the animal shelters apologized,
45:54
did not realize that they were, you know, trademarked and all
45:57
that. So, right, But Potchella isn't
46:00
trademarked. So it's just Chela.
46:03
It's just Coachella is trademarked.
46:07
But does that mean anything that's like sounds close to it
46:11
is similar to it is. Trademarked or you're going to
46:13
get. Yep, you're going to get sued.
46:15
That's ridiculous. It's the same.
46:17
Thing it's the same thing. So they have Coachella.
46:23
So they hood Cella, Film, Film Cella, Whole Cella, Conchella,
46:29
Carcella, Bocella, Afrocello, Floated Cello, Bookcella,
46:34
Cowcella, and Barkcella have all been flagged.
46:38
And they have aggressively protected the Coachella name
46:40
through the years, targeting anybody who uses Cella in their
46:43
events. That's good.
46:45
That is just ridiculous. Yep, they said.
46:49
The season desist letter to the Dearborn shelter is far from the
46:53
first time Coachella's owners have gone after groups using
46:56
Cella in that. Name, of course.
46:59
I I understand wanting to protect your brand, but this
47:02
isn't even like similar. Yeah, it is not even similar to
47:07
your music festival. Yeah, and it's in Detroit and
47:12
you know, but again, it's it's the same thing as people have
47:16
people have tried to trademark. What is it?
47:18
Is it did Kim Kardashian trademark?
47:19
She wanted trademark Kim, the word, you know, Kim or
47:23
something. She got shot down.
47:25
Oh, that's good. But because everybody with the
47:27
name Kim, what are they going to do?
47:29
She got shot down when she tried to do some type of like, oh, I
47:32
want to, I want to trademark Kim or something.
47:34
She got shot down so. All right, let's continue
47:39
talking about horrible rich people.
47:41
Yes, Did you? Spend the last We can spend the
47:45
last 15 minutes bitching about the one percenters.
47:48
Yes. Did you see?
47:49
So there's a neighborhood near the Seattle Children's Hospital,
47:53
it's called Laurelhurst, I think.
47:56
And they are upset about the life flight helicopters, the
47:59
sound of them disrupting their multi $1,000,000 homes.
48:04
And so now Children's Hospital is having to land to the
48:09
helicopter somewhere else and then ambulance the kids in like
48:12
15 to 20 minutes. And keep in mind this is not
48:17
like there's not like daily life flights.
48:20
There's maybe 3 a week at the most is what these people are
48:24
complaining about. And these kids are if they're
48:27
having to be life flighted, they're already critical like
48:30
that time to like land and put them in the ambulance and drive.
48:34
There is is minutes could mean everything between life and
48:39
death or any anything for these kids.
48:41
Like it is like what is wrong with these people?
48:44
If that was their kid, they would be perfectly fine with it
48:49
happening. So I thought it was horrible.
48:54
Well, but they've come to Yeah. I mean, yeah, I'm trying to look
48:58
down some of the, you know, it's.
48:59
Like there was a protest, I think it was last weekend and
49:02
somebody. A bunch of rich people were out
49:04
protesting. No, no, no.
49:06
People were protesting then in their neighborhood, and somebody
49:09
was, like playing the sound of helicopters, like, continuously
49:13
at this protest. And I was like, yes, like, so,
49:19
yeah. Yeah, it looks like they're
49:20
gonna, like you said, they're gonna be diverted.
49:22
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but now it's trying to see
49:29
if they're Yeah. Wow, it's just crazy.
49:33
Yeah. And again, it's not every day.
49:36
This is like they said maybe three times a week that they're
49:39
having to life flight. Kids in kids from Yakima get
49:42
life flighted over there. Yeah, it's crazy.
49:47
And you know, yeah, it's crazy. My yeah, my niece who had
49:53
leukemia got life flighted from Alaska to there, so.
49:58
Yeah, they're going to Graves Field at the University of
50:00
Washington, and less special circumstances require landing.
50:04
They have to land. Yeah, it it, Yeah, If they have
50:07
to land, they can do it, but. That's still like.
50:10
But but the article says the helipad was a way to get
50:13
critically I'll patients from across Western Washington
50:15
directly to care saving hours. So.
50:19
Yeah, wow. They But apparently these rich
50:23
people have been fighting this since 1992.
50:25
Of course they have like, but now it's like actually happened
50:29
where they have to land somewhere else.
50:32
You live, you live in such a fantasy world where you think
50:35
the rich really care about you or I, Trump just said, getting
50:39
off an airplane just said I don't care about people's living
50:42
situations. And then JD Vance says he didn't
50:44
say that. Yeah.
50:46
It's like you need to listen to your own president, dude.
50:49
I don't, you know, it's I, you know, I think the world needs a
50:53
little kindness. I mean, how hard is it to be?
50:56
But but again, we live in a we live in a universe, you know,
50:59
right now where it's me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me.
51:03
You are, you know you're you're anything that disrupts my days
51:06
and inconvenience. Yes.
51:08
And and people's attitudes are like my anxiety or my, my world
51:13
has been disrupted. I mean, look at the people who
51:15
wouldn't wear masks. They they did want to because it
51:19
inconvenienced them, but yet it would have protected other
51:22
people, right? So so I go.
51:25
To America that were inconvenienced by wearing masks.
51:28
Which brings me to another interesting topic.
51:30
So I was doing a Taco Bell grand reopening in Othello.
51:34
I know this is going to be a stretch, but in terms of of
51:37
where I'm going to go with this, but but it's interesting.
51:41
So I was talking to the regional manager about Taco Bell and he
51:45
said that they're shrinking their dining rooms because
51:50
people don't eat a Taco. I mean, they don't eat in the
51:51
dining room anymore. So 80% of their business comes
51:57
from apps. And then he says it's insane,
52:01
but it's almost all Uber Eats and DoorDash.
52:06
He says this generation is willing to pay 30% extra, 40%
52:13
extra. So that they don't have to go
52:16
into the restaurant. To go anywhere.
52:17
To go anywhere, yeah. Yeah.
52:19
I mean, and, and probably the people doing that probably don't
52:22
have the money to be doing that. I'm just saying no.
52:26
I, you know, young, it's going to be well, the younger
52:29
generation is doing this. Yes, so I.
52:31
Yeah. So I think so.
52:32
I thought it's, it's interesting that everything is about
52:35
convenience for them, you know, themselves.
52:39
So having to wait a little extra time to get a coffee or having
52:42
to wait, you know, So why would the, you know, why would these
52:45
rich, rich people be nice when it's like it disrupts their
52:49
life? Right.
52:51
You know, but saving a life. Eaters are not rich people.
52:54
Well, no, I'm just saying I think, I think, I think in this
52:57
world right now, there's a general lack of empathy and
53:01
caring for your fellow man, right?
53:03
But I think the generation that is door dashing, like you said,
53:07
so that would be like Jackson and Shaylee's, the younger Gen.
53:10
Z, we're talking Gen. Z mainly.
53:13
They were young. You figure Shaylee was in middle
53:17
school when the pandemic happened and it I think like her
53:21
anxiety got worse and a lot of other kids, they got worse
53:26
because they were allowed to be at home during the pandemic for
53:30
years and years. And then once everything
53:32
reopened and they had to go back out into the world, it was
53:36
almost like they didn't know how to function.
53:38
It was the weirdest thing. And I feel like that's just kind
53:42
of continued for them. Like they that's why they are
53:45
fine with door dashing. That's why they are fine with
53:48
mobile ordering and just running in and picking it up, because
53:51
then they don't have to interact with someone like their
53:54
generation again. They can't make phone calls
53:58
either, most of the time for themselves.
54:00
So so so. That kind of goes hand in hand
54:02
with their just how their generation is.
54:04
I know. So I joke about this a lot on
54:06
the show, You know, about things I don't like to do.
54:09
It's if I don't have to interact with.
54:10
People you don't like to make a phone?
54:12
Call. I don't.
54:13
I won't do any of that. But on the flip side, you know,
54:16
Pearl, my beloved foster mother. Yeah, You know what I'm saying?
54:20
If if I if I whined about anything, she'd go pull some
54:23
weeds, you know what I'm saying? You know?
54:25
No, I mean her. Her solution for everything.
54:28
I mean. No, I mean was go to work.
54:31
Her solution was like the modern day go touch some grass, Like
54:34
that's what. Yeah, like you need to go touch
54:37
some grass, like get outside. So I think that's probably what
54:40
drives Megan nuts is because I am perfectly capable.
54:42
Yeah. Yes, you are.
54:44
Anything and I mean anything and everything and so, and, and my
54:48
foster mom drilled so I mean drilled things into my head.
54:53
So I mean, I, I was very fortunate to have an amazing
54:56
mother figure and and, and and my Logan and I got into an
55:00
argument about it one time because he was like, I want, I
55:02
want, you know, he goes your foster parents.
55:05
He said about my book. He goes, well, I don't think
55:06
they're very good parents. And I went whoa.
55:10
And then I I was. Like you don't, you don't touch
55:12
the gold standard, you don't touch the platinum standard.
55:15
You know, they were absolutely 100% amazing and love me more
55:19
than me. I no one has ever loved me more
55:21
than they, you know, but they also, but they also didn't
55:24
suffer fools. Right.
55:26
They're like, they're like, we're not going to let you get,
55:28
We're not going to let you get off easy.
55:29
We're not going to. During during that time period,
55:32
that's how we were parented. No, I know and they did it
55:36
better. They did it way better than most
55:40
parents that were boomers or of us Gen.
55:43
Xers Like like your foster parents were the exception to a
55:47
lot of the boomer parents that we.
55:49
Encounter because they they went through the Great Depression, so
55:51
they have a totally different aspect on that.
55:53
But but yeah, it was one of it was one of those things where
55:56
it, you know, it's, it's things I don't, I don't there's things
55:59
I don't like to do, but I but I can do them right.
56:02
You know, for me I always joke it's an on and off switch.
56:04
Yeah. You know, when I go, when I go
56:06
do a, a live radio broadcast, I'm the most animated, you know,
56:11
and the nicest. And you know what I'm saying?
56:13
I'm, I'm on, I'm on stage, I'm acting and, and, and so I get, I
56:19
get. You're masking.
56:21
You're doing, you're masking. But I don't have to.
56:24
But I do, you know? But but that's because because
56:27
Pearl taught me like, hey, man, you, you step up to the plate.
56:30
You know, I mean, no, you step up to the plate, you take the
56:32
shot. Whether you missed the shot or
56:34
not, it doesn't matter. You step up to the plate.
56:36
You don't refuse. Yeah.
56:39
You don't refuse to step up to the plate.
56:40
You just get up there and just go do it.
56:43
And. If you fail, you fail.
56:44
OK, you failed but but but but not even trying was not was not
56:50
acceptable. So it's like it's the same thing
56:53
as I hate spinach. I hate it with a passion.
56:56
Hate spinach but as a kid my foster mom made me try it and
57:00
once I went this is crap she goes OK well at least now you
57:03
tried it. But.
57:05
You would not allow me to sit there and say I don't like
57:07
spinach. Have you tried it?
57:08
No. Yeah.
57:10
Nope. You're going to try it first and
57:12
then you can say yes, I don't like it.
57:14
Yeah. Anyway, we need, we need more.
57:17
We need good parents out there. I don't know, just a different
57:21
generation, but I just thought it was actually fascinating that
57:24
the Taco Bell guy had said that so much It like, there's got to
57:28
come a point where fast food restaurants won't have a dining
57:30
room. No they won't.
57:33
It'll just it'll be kiosk because no one wants to interact
57:35
with anybody. Right.
57:37
Shaley loves the kiosk app. Yeah, yeah.
57:39
Yep, Yep. So, so I I'm just saying that's
57:42
the future. So in terms of those, those
57:44
concert tickets, in terms of the the doordashes, I mean, I think
57:49
I don't know what, I don't know what the next 10 years going to
57:51
look like at all. I think it's going to be crazy.
57:54
Well, hopefully there's still podcast.
57:58
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