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Bull Session Vol. 12 · Bearded And Crunchy

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SPEAKER_01: From good your heights to podcast listeners everywhere.
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SPEAKER_02: Welcome back to the back again with our weekly we just talk about whatever the fuck we want to.
0:37
SPEAKER_02: Right.
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SPEAKER_02: Um how you feelin', Bob?
0:41
SPEAKER_02: Uh not too bad.
0:43
SPEAKER_02: Not too bad.
0:44
SPEAKER_02: You were doing alright, had a good week.
0:46
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: Uh as obviously I know, and our listeners have heard you say a few times.
0:52
SPEAKER_02: Uh you you you definitely have some sinus issues and stuff like that.
0:55
SPEAKER_02: So it's it's it's nice you're feeling all right this morning, man.
0:58
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, a little more open.
0:59
SPEAKER_01: Got a little more drainage though, unfortunately.
1:01
SPEAKER_01: Making me cough, but yeah, you know, whatever.
1:04
SPEAKER_01: I've been dealing with it forever.
1:05
SPEAKER_02: It's a seesaw.
1:06
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
1:08
SPEAKER_01: It's a give and take.
1:09
SPEAKER_02: Yep, yep.
1:10
SPEAKER_02: But um really, I mean kind of a kind of just a a busy week for the both of us.
1:18
SPEAKER_02: I mean, like you you did a lot of delivering this week.
1:22
SPEAKER_02: I did.
1:22
SPEAKER_02: I worked from home the majority of the week, but I was fucking swept.
1:28
SPEAKER_02: Dude, I was so busy.
1:29
SPEAKER_02: Because one of our guys, he came back from vacation.
1:31
SPEAKER_02: He just recently got married.
1:32
SPEAKER_02: Congratulations to you if you ever listen to this.
1:35
SPEAKER_02: And they went to Italy for their honeymoon.
1:37
SPEAKER_02: Ooh.
1:38
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
1:38
SPEAKER_02: And he's um he's a good dude, man.
1:41
SPEAKER_02: Him and his him and his his fiance, um they've been having some they're they're trying to have a baby.
1:47
SPEAKER_02: Oh, okay.
1:48
SPEAKER_02: And they're, you know, he's got uh a rare disorder um that that in order to see it it can skip a generation.
1:58
SPEAKER_02: Like it's it's it's it's a really rare and and odd thing that he has.
2:02
SPEAKER_02: And if I'm getting this wrong, I apologize, but um, he has this thing where uh he can have he can be tested to see if it'll be passed along and yeah, so he's trying to make sure that that that that his kid don't but uh yeah, they they got back and uh yeah, it was back to business, man.
2:24
SPEAKER_02: I was I was pretty busy.
2:26
SPEAKER_02: But you uh have uh a couple of things you want to talk about.
2:32
SPEAKER_02: So I figure uh there's no time to bullshit about it.
2:36
SPEAKER_02: I mean it is the bull sessions, but uh you you were sort of going into the story on the way in.
2:43
SPEAKER_02: I had to I picked Bob up this morning, he'll talk about that story as well.
2:48
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, why that had to happen.
2:49
SPEAKER_02: But uh yeah, go ahead and and and and and and start, man.
2:54
SPEAKER_01: So yesterday, which was Saturday, this won't come out till whenever.
2:59
SPEAKER_02: But it won't be this week.
3:01
SPEAKER_02: Well, it will be, but I think it'll be Friday instead of Thursday.
3:03
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, whatever.
3:04
SPEAKER_01: It is what it is.
3:06
SPEAKER_01: But um no, it'll be Saturday, because the 26th is Saturday.
3:11
SPEAKER_01: It might be one of those rare occasions that the video is up before the audio.
3:14
SPEAKER_01: It'll be Friday.
3:15
SPEAKER_01: Oh, okay, Friday.
3:17
SPEAKER_01: I thought it was the 26th.
3:18
SPEAKER_02: Oh, yep, yep.
3:19
SPEAKER_02: No, no, you're right.
3:20
SPEAKER_02: It will be Saturday, so this will go up Saturday.
3:22
SPEAKER_02: Okay, yeah.
3:23
SPEAKER_01: Okay, yeah, a couple days late, sorry, people.
3:25
SPEAKER_01: But um so we played the East Akron band show last night.
3:30
SPEAKER_01: Um East, Ellot, Garfield, Bookdown and Us.
3:34
SPEAKER_01: So and we got there about the same time as my dad ended up coming with his fiance, and then my mother-in-law and brother-in-law came with us, and we all got there crazily at the same time.
3:51
SPEAKER_01: And I'm watching East walk in, and I'm like, oh cool, like their their unis are pretty crisp, you know, they look nice.
3:57
SPEAKER_01: That's our alma mater, baby.
3:59
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's what I was, you know.
4:00
SPEAKER_01: I was talking to the the lady at the in the parking lot who had an e uh an Ellot band shirt on.
4:05
SPEAKER_01: I said, uh, because you know, East had walked by, I'm like, Oh, that's my alma mater.
4:08
SPEAKER_01: I graduated from there in 01.
4:10
SPEAKER_01: She's like, Oh, that's awesome that you're coming to support.
4:12
SPEAKER_01: And I said, No.
4:15
SPEAKER_01: I switched sides.
4:17
SPEAKER_01: I said, the all you gotta do is look at my purple hoodie.
4:20
SPEAKER_01: She goes, Oh, Barbara, and I'm like, uh-huh.
4:23
SPEAKER_01: And she hadn't seen, you know, the band, our band yet.
4:26
SPEAKER_01: And literally, we're standing there talking, you know, me and my dad are kind of chit-chatting, and my wife and her mom are chit-chatting, and I'm catching up with Chris, my dad's fiance, and I kid you not, between the bathrooms and the school, there's like a little walkway where they can walk down and park the buses on the other side of the football field.
4:48
SPEAKER_01: I just hear doo-doo, deck, deck, deck, deck, and I'm like, who is that?
4:56
SPEAKER_01: And it because it's like booming, like booming loud, like in between and then around this corner, I see this line of purple and black with the purple and black plumes on their hats.
5:08
SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, oh fuck, that's us.
5:11
SPEAKER_01: Like, that's us making all that racket.
5:14
SPEAKER_01: And I'm just watching this line.
5:15
SPEAKER_01: I I got goosebumps talking about it right now, but and I'm watching this line come in, and I'm like, wow, like to see it all spread out like that, it's like, damn.
5:25
SPEAKER_01: And we're not that we're actually smaller this year than we were last year.
5:28
SPEAKER_01: We only got like 88 this year.
5:29
SPEAKER_01: We had a hundred last year.
5:31
SPEAKER_01: But they're walking in and they're doing their, you know, they're screaming and yelling and drum line's going crazy, and they walk into the stadium and I I want to say she's probably like early 50s black lady.
5:47
SPEAKER_01: She goes, she was working the door for the stadium, and she's like, That's how you make an entrance baby.
5:53
SPEAKER_01: And I was like, that's us.
5:54
SPEAKER_01: I was like, that's Barbadine, because she was like, Who is that?
5:56
SPEAKER_01: I was like, that's Barbadine.
5:58
SPEAKER_01: I was like, that's us.
6:00
SPEAKER_01: She goes, Y'all know what you do, and I'm like, We do.
6:03
SPEAKER_01: And it was just like, it was great.
6:04
SPEAKER_01: And I've I kind of felt bad because the bands that were there that were, you know, Ellot and East were were hosting this, and we're like three times the size of both of them.
6:16
SPEAKER_02: Sounds to me like I mean, because they've they've condensed because you know, Central's not a school anymore.
6:22
SPEAKER_02: Right.
6:22
SPEAKER_02: Uh I don't I don't even think is Kenmore even still open.
6:25
SPEAKER_02: It's Garfield Ken.
6:26
SPEAKER_02: It's Garfield Kenmore.
6:28
SPEAKER_02: Um what the only other one that that's still there that wasn't at that was Firestone, which makes me think they don't have a band.
6:34
SPEAKER_01: They do, because we played Firestone week one.
6:36
SPEAKER_02: It's it's small too.
6:38
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
6:38
SPEAKER_02: So but yeah, man, that's I mean, look, I we talked about this on the drive-in.
6:44
SPEAKER_02: Like Akron has like not really changed.
6:48
SPEAKER_02: I actually think it's grown a little bit in population, but you know, these generations just aren't having kids like they used to.
6:54
SPEAKER_02: So, you know, the that's why they've had to combine school shit.
6:57
SPEAKER_02: They're doing that in Norton, they just combined uh the high school and the middle school, or not middle school, but they took eighth grade from the middle school and put it in the high school.
7:06
SPEAKER_02: And so, yeah, but that's uh you know, I I as much as you know I I I loved being a hip-hop guy and all of that.
7:15
SPEAKER_02: There are some things about me that wishes I would have had some musical talent.
7:19
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I mean, it it you know, and I I hate to say shit like this all the time, but it wouldn't have mattered anyway because my dad wouldn't have paid for that shit and I wouldn't have been able to do it anyway, but um, you know, it it's awesome because I could sit here and watch, and you know, if you guys are listening, go watch the YouTube, you'll be able to see Bob's face light up as he you know, he's he's a first of all, we know this, I've said this, and he's a great dad, but like you can see the enthusiasm for for for his kids and band and stuff, and you know that's that's that's awesome that they you know they they not only showed up, but they showed out.
7:54
SPEAKER_01: They showed the fuck out.
7:55
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and and you know, it's it's something when you when you you know you go somewhere that somebody's invited you to, and you go, okay, watch how we do it.
8:06
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you know, and then and then put on that type of performance.
8:09
SPEAKER_02: That's fucking awesome.
8:09
SPEAKER_02: And you sent me and I'll and I'll throw one of them up.
8:12
SPEAKER_02: Uh you sent me the the video couple.
8:15
SPEAKER_01: I didn't film like whole songs like I normally do.
8:18
SPEAKER_01: Uh I I took a little bit of our break because I was with everybody and no, that's I took some clippies.
8:23
SPEAKER_01: Uh but I'll I'll throw a couple of them up when I'm editing this.
8:26
SPEAKER_01: I do have a funny story from that too, though.
8:29
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
8:29
SPEAKER_01: And it comes from my wife.
8:30
SPEAKER_01: Thank you for this.
8:31
SPEAKER_01: I'm sharing it.
8:32
SPEAKER_01: I love you, but I'm sharing it.
8:34
SPEAKER_03: Oh shit.
8:35
SPEAKER_01: There was uh an older lady that was sitting on the other side of her last night, and I don't know where they were from.
8:42
SPEAKER_01: Uh what school, I don't know.
8:44
SPEAKER_01: Um, but it was funny because all the we played what fourth out of five.
8:50
SPEAKER_01: So it was uh it was East opened it, and then it was probably Ellot since they put Yeah, but East opened, it was Garfield, then Bookdull because Bookdoll was there.
9:01
SPEAKER_01: Bookdull's uniforms were they were crispy.
9:05
SPEAKER_01: Uh and then we played fourth, and then Ellot closed.
9:07
SPEAKER_01: Oh, so they bookended it.
9:09
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
9:09
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
9:10
SPEAKER_01: But it was funny because the weather was eh yesterday, so they canceled.
9:15
SPEAKER_01: Normally there's an intermission after a couple bands, they take a break, blah, blah, blah.
9:18
SPEAKER_01: They said due to the due to the weather, possibly we're getting rid of the intermission, we're just gonna play straight through.
9:25
SPEAKER_01: And so Bookdowl finishes.
9:27
SPEAKER_01: Now, mind you, the biggest band at that point had been East, and it was maybe 30 kids.
9:33
SPEAKER_01: So this this little old lady sitting on the other side of my wife, and we start getting up, and you're watching this line of purple come down the stands, down the stairs, getting on the field, all the instruments.
9:44
SPEAKER_01: And she goes, Oh my god, there's a lot of kids in that band.
9:50
SPEAKER_01: And she goes, she turns to the lady she was sitting with, she goes, This is gonna be good.
9:55
SPEAKER_01: And I was like, just wait, just wait, you'll see.
10:00
SPEAKER_02: So that's that's always good when you hear somebody else say that shit.
10:05
SPEAKER_02: Uh you know, Nort Norton has a a really good band too.
10:10
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and I think that's and and Wadsworth does too.
10:12
SPEAKER_02: So that goes to show something about that that cluster there that they take the art seriously.
10:18
SPEAKER_02: I and I appreciate that because there was a time when it felt like Akron schools did that.
10:23
SPEAKER_02: I mean, especially when we were doing remember when we had vocations and you could go to the other school for a half day.
10:28
SPEAKER_02: I was lucky in that the vocation I took was at East.
10:31
SPEAKER_02: Um, so I took tech prep engineering to me in that crazy.
10:35
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and I ended up in there.
10:37
SPEAKER_02: Uh yeah, uh I actually took so I took robotics.
10:41
SPEAKER_02: Ooh, I took computer programming.
10:44
SPEAKER_02: Nice.
10:45
SPEAKER_02: I took electronics, where I actually built a motherboard that like we actually built from scratch.
10:51
SPEAKER_02: I'm talking soldering diodes and resistors that can like basically a big calculator.
10:57
SPEAKER_02: We built one.
10:58
SPEAKER_02: Uh, and then I took polymers with Mr.
11:01
SPEAKER_02: Jones.
11:02
SPEAKER_02: I took all four of those over the two years that I was in the vocation.
11:05
SPEAKER_02: Um, and it was it was it was fun.
11:07
SPEAKER_02: Um who would have thought, and one of them I took was CAD, like CAD was part of it.
11:12
SPEAKER_02: And who would have thought, you know, what 20 years later?
11:17
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
11:18
SPEAKER_02: You know, it's crazy.
11:20
SPEAKER_02: But um uh I forgot where I was going with that.
11:26
SPEAKER_02: Man, I've been doing that a lot later.
11:27
SPEAKER_02: But anyways, um, yeah, dude.
11:30
SPEAKER_02: Uh oh, I was talking about Norton and Wadsworth.
11:33
SPEAKER_02: But yeah, you're you're uh it it it amazes me that like you know people say all the time that like oh you know like my kid's band is good and stuff, but like you know, listening to Barbadon, man, they they got something going there.
11:48
SPEAKER_02: And it it always makes me wonder because like I remember when we were in high school, East's band was amazing.
11:55
SPEAKER_01: And my wife was on uh at that point it was Flagline, they call it Color Guard now.
12:00
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's what they called it when Sonny was in it.
12:02
SPEAKER_01: So she was on Flagline, she she played in regular concert bands, she played uh clarinet like my daughter does.
12:08
SPEAKER_01: And it's random play clarinet.
12:10
SPEAKER_01: So they all have that in common.
12:11
SPEAKER_01: But yeah, I remember eating because I had friends in marching band too, and I remember it being like three times the size that it was what I saw yesterday.
12:20
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, it was huge.
12:21
SPEAKER_01: Not saying that it was it was good like last year.
12:24
SPEAKER_02: Oh, I mean, you can make a small band sound good.
12:26
SPEAKER_02: It's just it it it scares me because you know, history, science, math, language arts, all that stuff's great, but like there's not enough in public schools that influence creativity and and and the artsy shit.
12:47
SPEAKER_02: Yes.
12:48
SPEAKER_02: Um, and I don't I I I think that's a problem.
12:52
SPEAKER_02: It is.
12:52
SPEAKER_02: Um, because we're going back to just pumping out obedient workers, and it's like, bro, you gotta give people I mean that's I will say this, that's the one good thing about social media, is they can't have a hold on you that long because you'll see how the world is.
13:08
SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
13:08
SPEAKER_02: Whether for better or for worse, right?
13:10
SPEAKER_02: Um you'll see how the real world is, but it bothers me.
13:14
SPEAKER_02: That's why I like seeing, you know, like like like bands and and singers and artists that that that go into funding you know, you know, um music programs and stuff like that in order to keep these have these kids something, you know, to do.
13:34
SPEAKER_01: I I can tell you this obviously you know Barbadon's only twenty-five thousand-ish people, pretty small community.
13:43
SPEAKER_02: I I think it's yeah, yeah.
13:45
SPEAKER_01: It's like twenty-two, twenty-five, somewhere in there.
13:47
SPEAKER_01: But when they announced earlier this year that it was gonna be a pay-to-play situation for all the sports and the marching band and shit like that, I don't know how much you followed any of that, but there was a story that was picked up by the news, different news stations up in Cleveland, and what happened was is that the Barbadon community stepped up and they paid for basically the whole year for marching band and football.
14:14
SPEAKER_01: So we didn't have to pay a dime for our kids to do marching band and shit.
14:17
SPEAKER_02: And that's you know, and that's crazy, but that's a testament to you know, you guys don't know this, but and and and I don't mean this in a mean way, but Barbarton's not a rich we're not um I mean they're not you know fucking desolate or nothing like that, but it's not a rich, you know, it's it's not like your Firestones or your Nortons or stuff like that.
14:36
SPEAKER_02: Um so the fact that and and and I will say this, I uh you know, I've heard stories about the guy, but I know that that that Rockies drive-thru, they they they at least put on a good front to make it look like they helped.
14:49
SPEAKER_02: So I mean Okay, yeah, that's all I will say.
14:54
SPEAKER_02: Like I said, they put up a good front to make it look like it.
14:56
SPEAKER_01: They do.
14:56
SPEAKER_01: But again, anyways, like I said, the community came together, paid for the kids, which I thought was amazing that that happened.
15:05
SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, I'll take it.
15:08
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
15:09
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I I see when they say pay to play, I I remember having fees for football every year when I played.
15:16
SPEAKER_02: We do we do.
15:17
SPEAKER_01: We have regular it's like I want to say freshman, it's like$70 freshman year, and then every year after that it's$30.
15:27
SPEAKER_01: No, it's only like$30.
15:28
SPEAKER_02: Okay, okay.
15:29
SPEAKER_02: Um, yeah, I mean that's about I remember it was like$25 or something, and that basically paid for like our lunch for two a day, our t-shirt, little shit like that.
15:37
SPEAKER_02: But um I guess yeah, pay-to-play would I they they had they would have to know that like I understand that funding for schools right now is really down with the state of our our education department, but I I I feel like that that just doesn't sound like a good business decision because you're gonna end up with less money because so many more people just aren't gonna be able to do it.
16:05
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
16:05
SPEAKER_01: And a lot of people dropped out before that happened.
16:09
SPEAKER_01: So our band was gonna be bigger, and but a lot of kids ended up dropping out because of it.
16:13
SPEAKER_01: They couldn't afford it, man.
16:14
SPEAKER_01: It was like a hundred bucks a kid.
16:16
SPEAKER_02: It's it's not cheap.
16:17
SPEAKER_02: I mean, we're you know, me and Rhiannon are lucky in the fact that if our kids want to do something, we don't have to worry about that.
16:22
SPEAKER_02: But uh, I also know there's you know, like for me, like I had to pick and choose.
16:27
SPEAKER_02: Like another reason I never played baseball was being able to afford the equipment.
16:31
SPEAKER_02: Yeah um, you know, with wrestling, uh, all I needed was headgear and knee pads.
16:35
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, true.
16:36
SPEAKER_02: True.
16:36
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
16:37
SPEAKER_02: With football, that's the type of equipment that you can't buy because it has to be regulated by the city, so I didn't have to worry about that.
16:44
SPEAKER_02: So a lot of the sports that I chose, I didn't play basketball because at that time I sucked.
16:49
SPEAKER_02: But um, but that was why I chose some of the, you know, one of the reasons why I chose to meet same with like shot, you know, in track and field.
16:56
SPEAKER_02: That's why I did that, because you didn't need no need a lot of stuff.
16:59
SPEAKER_02: But when you play things like softball and bowling and golf and and and uh band and yo, that shit adds up, man.
17:07
SPEAKER_02: You need a lot of equipment.
17:08
SPEAKER_02: Like with polling, you have to have your own bar.
17:10
SPEAKER_02: You can't go around.
17:11
SPEAKER_02: I mean, there's just golf.
17:12
SPEAKER_02: You have to have your own club.
17:13
SPEAKER_02: Like there's just a lot.
17:14
SPEAKER_02: And and again, I also think that's probably why not a lot of people, you know.
17:19
SPEAKER_02: We only had, I think, my senior year, I think we only had two guys in the whole senior class that golfed.
17:25
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I was gonna say it wasn't very yeah, it wasn't a big deal.
17:28
SPEAKER_02: You know, um, I I think we I think I'm hoping that as our generation starts to move into the older statesmen and politics, we'd listen to the younger generation and and start focusing on keeping these kids creative.
17:45
SPEAKER_02: I it needs to happen.
17:46
SPEAKER_02: Because I mean, all a lot of these jobs that you want these people to take are gonna be taken over by AI.
17:53
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so let them be creative and let's have them do the fun jobs and shit.
17:57
SPEAKER_02: Do you know what kind of society that would be?
17:59
SPEAKER_02: Or all the mundane shit that they want us to go to school to learn.
18:03
SPEAKER_01: Well, they're still pushing college instead of trades and things.
18:06
SPEAKER_02: I mean, and and you need that's okay too.
18:08
SPEAKER_02: You need both.
18:09
SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
18:09
SPEAKER_02: You need a balance.
18:10
SPEAKER_02: That's what you need is you you l you don't even need to talk.
18:15
SPEAKER_02: Right.
18:15
SPEAKER_02: You need to have a basket A and a basket B with a pamphlet for college and a pamphlet for trade school and let them make their fucking decisions.
18:22
SPEAKER_02: Because that's what um so I've talked uh Jermaine's son, uh Gabe, the one that played college football for the University of Houston, uh, he graduated college.
18:33
SPEAKER_02: After that, guess where he went?
18:34
SPEAKER_02: Trade trade.
18:35
SPEAKER_01: Trade school, figures because he's in Texas.
18:38
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
18:39
SPEAKER_01: That's well, you could but the thing is, is the way it is nowadays, bro, you can make as much or more in the trades.
18:46
SPEAKER_02: Oh, no, no, no.
18:47
SPEAKER_02: It's not even close.
18:48
SPEAKER_02: It's so much more.
18:49
SPEAKER_02: Dude, a regular welder can start out at$30 an hour out the gate.
18:55
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
18:55
SPEAKER_02: And don't even get into shit like underwater welding and oil rig welding.
18:59
SPEAKER_02: I mean, those guys literally, I mean, I I I've seen where those guys can make upwards of like six, seven hundred thousand dollars a year.
19:08
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
19:08
SPEAKER_01: I I it's funny you say Texas, but my uncle, for a long time when I was a kid, he worked in the city of Houston as a natural gas pipe welder.
19:23
SPEAKER_02: Oh, he made a good He made good money.
19:25
SPEAKER_02: Well, that's you know, that's the feet the field that Jermaine's in.
19:29
SPEAKER_02: Really?
19:29
SPEAKER_02: Like, he's worked for companies that deal like Exxon and like he deals with the oil racing shit.
19:35
SPEAKER_02: He handles the safety measures for those guys that are out there working on them and shit like that.
19:39
SPEAKER_02: Um because obviously Texas is a fucking oil, you know.
19:45
SPEAKER_02: And natural gas.
19:46
SPEAKER_02: That too.
19:46
SPEAKER_02: That too.
19:47
SPEAKER_01: That's what I was saying.
19:48
SPEAKER_01: He my uncle did natural gas lines.
19:49
SPEAKER_02: Right.
19:49
SPEAKER_02: See, he he deals with the oil oil line.
19:51
SPEAKER_02: Oh, you know what?
19:52
SPEAKER_02: Before we get into yours, I I forgot.
19:54
SPEAKER_02: There is actually something that did happen this week.
19:57
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
19:57
SPEAKER_02: Uh that's worth just talking about just because.
20:00
SPEAKER_02: But um I I've told you this, I don't know if you people know this, and a lot of you probably won't even know this exists, but uh I could give the average person a thousand guesses of how we heat our house and they they wouldn't they wouldn't figure it out.
20:13
SPEAKER_02: Are you guys oil?
20:14
SPEAKER_02: We're fuel oil.
20:15
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
20:16
SPEAKER_02: Um my father-in-law found out over the last year or so that less and less uh HVAC people are willing to work on fuel.
20:26
SPEAKER_02: Oh.
20:27
SPEAKER_02: Um so this week uh we had a propane furnace put in and really uh this Tuesday a uh propane tank generator.
20:40
SPEAKER_02: Oh, generator.
20:41
SPEAKER_02: So we're gonna have both.
20:42
SPEAKER_02: Ooh.
20:43
SPEAKER_02: Uh it's gonna save a ton of money.
20:46
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
20:47
SPEAKER_02: It's already like when our air is running, it's so quiet.
20:50
SPEAKER_02: Oh, I could imagine.
20:51
SPEAKER_02: Um, but uh yeah, so that happened.
20:54
SPEAKER_02: Uh my dogs went fucking ate shit.
20:56
SPEAKER_02: Oh, I'm sure they did.
20:58
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
20:59
SPEAKER_02: Uh that was Thursday.
21:00
SPEAKER_02: Um, but man, they were they got there about sorry.
21:05
SPEAKER_02: I tried to hold that in.
21:07
SPEAKER_02: Um, it was about between 745 and 8, and they were gone by 245.
21:14
SPEAKER_02: No shit.
21:14
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they didn't fuck around, man.
21:16
SPEAKER_02: We were in and out, and they were but he used, I'm I'm sure you've seen them, Blending Sons.
21:19
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
21:20
SPEAKER_02: Uh he goes to them and they're you know they're local.
21:22
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
21:22
SPEAKER_02: And they're probably a little more expensive because they're a little more went up, but I'm telling you, dude, they do an amazing job.
21:27
SPEAKER_02: They've come.
21:28
SPEAKER_02: They were the ones that they came out to work on that stuff.
21:31
SPEAKER_02: But even the older guys there were like, man, you know, once they retire, these young guys can learn how to work on fuel oil.
21:36
SPEAKER_02: And um and and the shitty part is it's not even that like it's not propane's not cheaper than fuel oil.
21:45
SPEAKER_02: Fuel actually is very affordable.
21:47
SPEAKER_02: But again, it's the systems, it's the systems and that shit.
21:51
SPEAKER_02: It's it's gone away from that.
21:52
SPEAKER_02: So which is what they do in the industries.
21:54
SPEAKER_02: If if if you want to stick to the old thing, they'll eventually just quit paying attention.
22:02
SPEAKER_02: It erases itself out.
22:05
SPEAKER_01: Our daily Sunday morning truck asshole.
22:09
SPEAKER_02: But going into my next story, uh uh, you told me an interesting story this morning.
22:15
SPEAKER_01: Um what happened to you on Friday?
22:20
SPEAKER_01: I got pulled over going to work and Norton.
22:26
SPEAKER_01: You kids and you're not following the law.
22:28
SPEAKER_01: Well, it's my fault, but um I have apparently become absent-minded in my forties, and even though my birthday was in March, I forgot to get my tag for my car.
22:42
SPEAKER_01: So, you know, the man they had to come down on me, make sure I knew that, you know, my my tag was expired, and I said, Thank you.
22:48
SPEAKER_02: I know you said you got pulled over in Norton, so you knew that was gonna happen.
22:52
SPEAKER_01: Of course.
22:52
SPEAKER_01: And I had two cops for something that was very trivial, and I'm like, really?
22:57
SPEAKER_01: But whatever.
22:59
SPEAKER_02: A little into their defense.
23:00
SPEAKER_02: I mean, it it there could be some nefarious things going on.
23:03
SPEAKER_01: Sure, you know, but at that time in the morning it's a Cadillac with blacked-out windows in the back.
23:08
SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
23:09
SPEAKER_01: It but but I was decent because when I get pulled over, I know my windows are dark, it's factory like that.
23:15
SPEAKER_01: So what I do is I roll all four of my windows down so you can see completely.
23:19
SPEAKER_01: Everything in the car, yeah.
23:20
SPEAKER_01: And I'm just like, and then they find out it it that it's just a middle-aged white dude in a Cadillac.
23:25
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you're just a honky and a catalog.
23:27
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and everybody and they're like, Oh.
23:29
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, are you profiling me?
23:30
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, right.
23:31
SPEAKER_01: That's what I'm saying.
23:31
SPEAKER_01: They were hoping reverse profiling me?
23:34
SPEAKER_01: I hate to say it, but they were hoping.
23:36
SPEAKER_02: Right.
23:36
SPEAKER_02: Uh yeah.
23:38
SPEAKER_02: But yeah, I mean, but you know what though, that I mean, to be fair, I don't know if you remember, but back in January, I uh I needed it in my birthday last year, my license expired.
23:50
SPEAKER_00: Oh no, did you forget?
23:52
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and I didn't know until Rihanna was like, hey, you got a letter.
23:55
SPEAKER_02: Oh no.
23:56
SPEAKER_02: Uh your license is uh expired or not suspended, expired.
23:59
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
23:59
SPEAKER_02: And I was like, fuck.
24:00
SPEAKER_02: But I found out you have six months for your license.
24:03
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
24:04
SPEAKER_02: Um, you don't have to get it immediately.
24:06
SPEAKER_02: Right.
24:06
SPEAKER_02: Um the problem was I I wanted to get the real ID, um, but I haven't had my birth certificate in 15 years.
24:17
SPEAKER_02: I just I don't know where it's at.
24:18
SPEAKER_02: Um, but it it used to be to get your birth certificate, you had to go through the county that you were born in.
24:26
SPEAKER_02: Um now you can actually go through the state website and get to that.
24:31
SPEAKER_02: Oh, okay.
24:31
SPEAKER_02: Um, but I did have a new birth certificate sent.
24:34
SPEAKER_02: But it I was disappointed, man.
24:36
SPEAKER_02: I I want the old brownish.
24:39
SPEAKER_01: That's what I have.
24:40
SPEAKER_02: I have I don't have mine anymore.
24:42
SPEAKER_02: I mean, if I do, I don't know where it's at.
24:44
SPEAKER_01: I have mine.
24:45
SPEAKER_02: But I got a new one.
24:45
SPEAKER_02: It was like 25 bucks.
24:47
SPEAKER_02: Blue.
24:47
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I was like, it makes me feel young.
24:50
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's all new and crispy.
24:52
SPEAKER_02: I because I wanted to get, but now that I have that, I'm gonna go back and get my because I got the eight-year when I got my license.
24:58
SPEAKER_02: Oh, no, I didn't even know they did that.
25:00
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and well, and you know you can get two years on your tags now, too.
25:03
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
25:04
SPEAKER_02: I did I did that for my tags this year.
25:06
SPEAKER_02: Um, yeah, you can actually get uh eight years on your license.
25:10
SPEAKER_02: Um and I went ahead and did that.
25:12
SPEAKER_02: I said, fuck it, I'll just pay for that, and then I ain't gotta worry about it until I'm well into my fifties.
25:18
SPEAKER_02: I just think about that.
25:19
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I I just keep hoping that the state of Ohio gets rid of e-Check because it's a fucking joke.
25:24
SPEAKER_02: There's only three counties that still do it, and we live in one.
25:27
SPEAKER_02: I know.
25:28
SPEAKER_02: It's us, Cuyahoga, and like one weird one, like honing or something like that.
25:34
SPEAKER_02: Because Stark County doesn't.
25:36
SPEAKER_00: No.
25:37
SPEAKER_02: I I can kind of see why back in the day, with all the rubber factories and that shit, right?
25:42
SPEAKER_02: Like Cleveland being very industrial, but it's 2026.
25:46
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
25:47
SPEAKER_02: Like nobody Well, I I was glad that they finally got to a point where they removed you having to pay for it.
25:53
SPEAKER_02: Right.
25:53
SPEAKER_02: That's stupid.
25:55
SPEAKER_02: That was I mean, it was only like I mean, when we were young, it was only like but when we were young, it was like 10.
25:59
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
25:59
SPEAKER_02: And then it got up to like 20, and I'm like, whatever.
26:01
SPEAKER_02: But I'm like, dude, you don't make everybody do it, and we gotta pay for it.
26:05
SPEAKER_02: And we gotta pay for it, right?
26:06
SPEAKER_02: And and I also felt like, well, if we don't have to pay for it, then eventually they're gonna go, oh, we ain't got the funds for this, and just stop it, but it's still fucking there.
26:14
SPEAKER_01: And they there was that report that came out from the EPA that said that we were in the clear on all that and that it could go away.
26:20
SPEAKER_02: Well, and they said we had been for decades.
26:22
SPEAKER_02: And they won't do it.
26:24
SPEAKER_02: No, because it's it's it's I don't know where they're getting the funds from, but I don't know.
26:28
SPEAKER_02: Because I mean, like I said, we don't have to pay for it anymore.
26:31
SPEAKER_02: So and they're paying these people at these places good money.
26:34
SPEAKER_02: Uh I mean it's not the best, like it's not like they're making$30 an hour, but it's definitely a way to make a good money.
26:40
SPEAKER_02: Right.
26:41
SPEAKER_02: Um, and I will tell you this, um, those guys don't get paid enough.
26:47
SPEAKER_02: The last two times I went, I actually had to get it on my car before we traded it in, and Rihanna got crazy and I got her car.
26:53
SPEAKER_02: And there was this guy there, and he was the only one there, and they had two lanes open, and dog, he was killing it.
26:59
SPEAKER_02: Oh boy.
27:00
SPEAKER_02: Nailing it.
27:00
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I mean, I mean, when I say by himself, I mean literally by himself.
27:04
SPEAKER_01: No shit.
27:05
SPEAKER_02: And he was getting us the fuck out of it.
27:08
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
27:08
SPEAKER_02: Um, and it was the same situation this last time, but I was the first one, so I just seen the cars lining up behind me, but he was on it too.
27:15
SPEAKER_02: But then eventually another guy walked up.
27:17
SPEAKER_02: But I'm like, dude, they give these guys two or three fucking people to do this shit all day.
27:21
SPEAKER_02: It's like I don't know.
27:23
SPEAKER_01: Well, and now they have the self-service ones at at those.
27:27
SPEAKER_02: See, I've never thought to do that.
27:29
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
27:29
SPEAKER_01: Just because like most of them are 24 hours, seven days a week.
27:33
SPEAKER_02: I've I've heard that.
27:34
SPEAKER_02: There's the only one that's like that.
27:35
SPEAKER_02: Oh, there's one in Wadsworth?
27:36
SPEAKER_02: Yep.
27:37
SPEAKER_02: I thought the one over on Brown Street did it too.
27:39
SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm talking about?
27:40
SPEAKER_02: You know where the giant eagle and then that plaza is?
27:42
SPEAKER_02: I think the one over there does it too.
27:43
SPEAKER_01: I think they have self-service, but I it's not 24 cents.
27:46
SPEAKER_01: It's Monday through Saturday.
27:47
SPEAKER_02: Well, considering the neighborhood.
27:49
SPEAKER_02: Well, um, yeah.
27:51
SPEAKER_02: Um, yeah, I mean, I I mean that's yeah, that's about the I I don't I don't think I have anything else.
28:00
SPEAKER_02: I'm trying to think.
28:01
SPEAKER_02: Like I dude, like I said, I was so busy this week.
28:03
SPEAKER_02: Like I said, Rihanna's been on her book event.
28:05
SPEAKER_02: She sold seven books.
28:06
SPEAKER_02: Nice.
28:07
SPEAKER_02: Uh so that's good.
28:08
SPEAKER_02: Uh I I don't really have I don't really have a lot to add.
28:13
SPEAKER_02: And this idiot forgot.
28:15
SPEAKER_02: Oh, you forgot your notebook.
28:16
SPEAKER_02: Um, but luckily, uh because I know I'm a fucking idiot, um I have uh back on.
28:30
SPEAKER_03: You're welcome.
28:32
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, um look, I'm an idiot, okay?
28:35
SPEAKER_02: I'm sorry.
28:36
SPEAKER_01: I'm in I I'm enjoying the fact that I figured out how to put custom sounds on here.
28:41
SPEAKER_01: And adding this stuff has been fun for me.
28:45
SPEAKER_01: Because it's easy to hit the canned laughter.
28:48
SPEAKER_01: I I have I have one.
28:51
SPEAKER_02: You gotta joke.
28:53
SPEAKER_02: We're moving into that.
28:54
SPEAKER_02: But I honestly have to say I don't think I should say this one.
29:00
SPEAKER_02: You can find another one.
29:01
SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna have to because I'll tell you it offline.
29:04
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
29:07
SPEAKER_01: Is it a fancy?
29:10
SPEAKER_02: Uh I I will say this one.
29:13
SPEAKER_02: Uh I didn't come up with it, but um why do men get evacuated first in an emergency?
29:21
SPEAKER_02: Why?
29:22
SPEAKER_02: So they can have time to themselves to think of a proper solution.
29:26
SPEAKER_02: Or I said that wrong.
29:28
SPEAKER_02: I said that wrong.
29:29
SPEAKER_02: I meant to say why do women get first, but that's because that's all I got.
29:33
SPEAKER_02: That that was a bad one, but I I I I have another one, but i i it might be a bit too much, but the joke was actually why do women get evacuated first so the men can have time to think of a proper solution.
29:45
SPEAKER_02: But uh I guess on that note we'll see you next session.
29:51
SPEAKER_02: Next session.
29:52
SPEAKER_02: See you guys.