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Was Life Actually Better Before the Internet? · Gentlemen Hour

• Filthy P: Without further ado. I thought of saying it's like an introduction. Uncle, when did technology take over our lives? Nineteen eighty three. Was that it? And was life better before all this tech? Don't answer that. all right, Unc. You remember when you could leave the house and nobody could find you? It was like, yeah, I'm just gonna drive off. I don't know really know where I'm going. You're going off of the wind, off of the scent, off of the instinct. Yeah, that's what I that's what I was looking for. Instinct. There was no cell phones, there was no GPS. ⁓ there was no Google. ⁓ but guess what? We survived. We made it. Somehow we always made it home. today, that's what we're talking about, bro. We're talking about technology and not just technology, just inventions, you know what I mean? ⁓ that changed our lives, changed everyone's lives. ⁓ and ⁓ yeah, so we're gonna discuss it. We're gonna find out how how that tech is hitting us and whether we like it or whether we rather go back to them good old days, them simple days. We're gonna find out next on ⁓ a very innovative innovative gentleman's hour. There you go, bros. ⁓ Drop the intro, I don't even have anything. Been old school. Drop the intro. Hell yeah. Like the first time you like that was sound like the first time you did it. Drop that intro. Drop that intro on your head. Well, Unc. So we're talking, ⁓ like I said, we're talking technology, which that's why I'm wearing these glasses. I bet you were thinking, like, damn, I know this full wore glasses. Well, guess what? These aren't just regular Ray Bands, brother. You know what these are? These are meta, brother. These are meta. I'm filming you right now. I'm analyzing you. I'm I'm I'm doing a lie detector by your movements. I mean this thing can detect anything. It see it detects your nervous. Look at that. Sh it can tell it can tell I just peed my pants a little. No, but I we are talking technology. Look at this is all technology. You would be doing this twenty years ago. You wouldn't be on a laptop. You wouldn't have your iPad right next to you. ⁓ so I wanna hear kind of like ⁓ your origin story. Do you remember the first time That you actually let's talk about like the internet. When was the first time you remember using the internet and how did it make you feel? What were you like thinking? Did you even know how to use it? ⁓ Yeah, let's start there. Let's start there. The origin story. First time you use internet. That I can remember I was actually going to Season, bro. I was I know if I told you I went there for a year. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I I they used to have Like a like a computer lab, I guess. Sorry, taking a picture. Yeah. Freaking Pointexter. Yeah, the i lab or computer lab, yeah. Yeah, they used to have they used to have computer lab and I went in there and they're like, ⁓ yeah, you know, it's ⁓ whatever. So I jumped in. It's like all the internet, I was like, ⁓ let me see what this is, right? Looking around and I think I typed in like Cypress Hill or something like that. And then and then like a forum popped up, like a Cypress Hill forum. ⁓ okay. I jumped in there, dude, and it was people commenting, ⁓ yeah, the this album is the best and I I love this man and I started just trolling me like You went right into it. Yeah, I was like, man, blah, blah, And next thing you know, bro, it had I had spent like an hour and a half in there just on that same freaking website. It was like a mess it was like a message board, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, so it I guess I think it was like a Cypress Hill forum. And then you click on it and you go into like a little room. People are just saying their coaches. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, ⁓ what is this? And I remember every single time 'cause I had a break. I think I had I think I only had like two classes a day, right? But on two of those days of the week, it was like a three hour gap. So I was kind of there for like for for a good amount. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, 'cause I mean I I didn't know how to do any of that. I didn't schedule my I didn't I didn't make my schedule right. Right. So I would go in there dude and just I remember I was drinking like in Arizona and just Trolling, trolling. But yeah, and I mean compare like I don't I guess that just attracts me, right? 'Cause I don't know why I like that that that this my later bro just in there in there You might have been the first troll of all time. You might have been the one that started all this online trolling and and Yeah, man. Like what was the point of that, bro? It's just wasting my time in there. But you know, yeah. But it's fun, huh? That that has to be the first or the earliest that I can remember using the internet. Yeah. I say I about probably about the s I mean it had to be about the same time. Yeah, 'cause I was a little bit older than you. And I remember we we had a computer. I don't know if I ever d used the internet in school, but ⁓ I remember having a computer. My mom my mom and dad, I guess, bought a a big old computer and I remember we used to do the dial up. Remember you'd have to be like connect to the phone line and then you're like, Okay, click and it's like doo to do and then it'd like finally come on. And I you're right. It was a lot of like rooms and message boards. There weren't like there weren't it wasn't like it is today, like all the sites and all the I guess all the information wasn't uploaded yet. This was just like bare minimum. But I remember the first thing me and my buddies started using it for was like for all that the trying to pick up chick stuff. There was all like you'd go into a room and there would just be people in there chatting and then you just try to chat at ⁓ and then if you if you like kind of click with somebody, then you Exchange emails and then you y go and chat when you can. It was just it was weird, bro. It was weird. But I remember using it for that and there was no pictures, there was no nothing. It was all like just basic information. So I feel like you're right. A lot of message boards and just where you just go sound off because I guess it wasn't fully you know, nobody was really using it to its potential yet. But okay, what about another quick question, taking it back to childhood? Now, forget the internet, what was just the coolest New tech you remember ⁓ coming into your life as a kid. ⁓ man, it's gotta be eighty-five, I think. Eighty five, eighty six, the the the Nintendo. Except I remember we had we had an Atari. Yeah, so did I. But but I never and I think my sister played it. I don't think I was really it was ⁓ it was more for her because you know she was older than me. But the Nintendo was on me, dude. That was mine. And I just remember I remember the first time I played it. I don't remember whose house I went to. What game? What game? Probably Mario the first. Yeah, not even not even Super High, it was just Mario, Mario Brothers. No, no, it was Super Mario. ⁓ it was Super Mario Brothers? Whatever the you know the you how it came the the the two games in one? Yeah, yeah. ⁓ yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And then Duck Hunt with that orange gun. So so I remember I r we we must it must have been like a party or maybe we wanna go visit and I remember thinking like, damn, dude, like, this is dope. This is dope. So and then you know Wait how how old how old were you in eighty five? How old were you I was probably five or six. ⁓ so you're still young too. Okay. Yeah, I was little dude. Okay. Okay. And you're just like blown away. Did you get to play they let you play it? The older cousins let you play? Yeah. I mean that sucked it was back when you used to pass the controller, everybody got a life. Yeah. It's like, ⁓ hell yeah, blah blah blah. And then ⁓ you died. Give me the controller. ⁓ yeah. You gotta wait till it came back. Yeah. ⁓ Now you bring me dinner. See how I'm living over here, bro? Hey, spe Did you watch our did you watch our last show about America Me prison? That's what it's like for me, brother. I don't I I I don't know. I don't know how you can complain wearing meta glasses how I'm living over here. Hey, she bought she bought me these meta's too. These are honestly sick. I just ⁓ it's hard to wear. ⁓ I think you thought I was talking to it. But I can't eat these right now, I'm on the show. Hold on, let me eat these real fast. The first Nintendo ⁓ what was I did I wait, what was I talking about? My bad. So your that was it? You ended it? You your first one was a Nintendo? Yeah, I mean I think I think that that was the one that stands out the most. And I mean I mean I s I play video games to this day, bro. So it's it's been a forty year it's been a forty year relationship with video games. So it just it started, huh? You w you fell in love right off the bat. Yeah. Yeah. It What was your best game? I can't even I can't even explain, bro, like how how how I love like I've loved video games since I was, you know, five years old, six years old. And there was a time where obviously like girls came first, obviously. Yeah. But then then I went back to it, bro. You know, I became a I became a parent, I had more time on my hands, and just it just I don't know. It it's it's relaxing. It's it's very comforting. So what was your favorite game, Nintendo? Nintendo Contra. Contra pickable. ⁓ bro. ⁓ double dribble. ⁓ heck yeah. Heck. Those are classics, bro. Yeah. Remember what was ⁓ RC Pro Am? Remember that? RC Pro ⁓ The little mud tracking? Yeah, bro. Gosh that's that's when ⁓ Bro, Spy Hunter was hard, but hey, that's when life was remember just Spy ⁓ Spy Hunter you could drop oil on Yeah, the okay. Oil slick. And then Hey, that's when life was simple, bro. It was easy. It was pure. You know, all only thing I had in my mind is get up, try and beat Castlevania, a little alone time by myself, go jerk off, come back, try to beat try to beat Zelda, eat some pizza, go back, watch watch a movie, probably jerk off again. Like that, bro. That's life was simple. You had no problems, you had no issues, man. That was great. Okay. All right. ⁓ we could talk about that for another two hours. So let's move on. All right. ⁓ Alright, let's start with the ⁓ the first questions. What technology absolutely blew your mind the first time you saw it? ⁓ maybe that was the Nintendo. Something else besides the Nintendo that you fell in love with right off the bat? ⁓ you know what? I'm gonna say ⁓ my ⁓ my little walkman. Yeah, I was gonna say it gotta be something with music, right? Yeah. If it wasn't video games, it was music, bro. And I remember ⁓ I must have been maybe like eleven when I got my first walk brand. And it was like a sharp or a saniel, one of those cheap brands. Yeah. And it was just it was cool, but then like once I started being more mobile, like I remember I'd ride my bike with it and it would always like it would eat up the tape. ⁓ man. So it wasn't until I I I started saving up my birthday money and I bought a ⁓ an Iowa. ⁓ shoot. Nice. And bro, it had yeah, it was it was it was probably the the greatest thing ever, dude. And then I w I remember I always had in my pocket, I always had two tapes on me. One inside and then the other one in the back pocket. Damn. And then I started making mix tapes. Like like ⁓ recording ⁓ from other some CDs and other stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Bro, it it was man, ⁓ you know what? That to me is probably like the funniest time of my life, bro. Rolling around on on a bike. Right, with the music with my walkman on. And then I remember I would I would take it to school. I had a hoodie that I put in the in the in the armpot the little the front the front of the little arm warmers or whatever that little sleeve is. Yeah. ⁓ rolling in the backseat of the my dod my dad's dodge where they were, you know, they were going we're going to the market. It was on me all the time, bro. All the time. That was the first time you had like really portable music. Cause think about it. The only way you listen to music is either in the car or somebody brings like one of the with batteries, the boom box, but Well, I guess there was there was tape players in that, but this was your own personal and like you said, you could start making your own tape. So that was like the first kind of like what we have now where we have our playlists, you know. You made your own playlist back then on your tape. Dang, bro, that brings back memories. That I I'm trying to think if that's for me. Mine too is probably music. Because when I was already born, there was already TVs. So it wasn't like, you know, you know what I mean? That would have been my number one because I love TV. That's not that impressive. I love TV, but it was like I mean they've advanced crazy, but like the first thing that that really that kind of blew my mind that I didn't I didn't nobody else had or I had first or or early was ⁓ the f the first ⁓ like in your room the stereo player remember where was like a a big ol' box in a cabinet and it would have like a record player, I don't know, an equalizer in there, a tape player, and then I think even the speakers were in there or on the side. And ⁓ my dad, because he worked at a a furniture store, so I guess he would get ⁓ for for cheap. So he he bought like one of the first ones when it came out. I remember I bro I would just sit in my room and I was playing albums on it. I was playing albums. Well, yeah, it was only albums and cassettes. And I don't even think I had any cassettes yet. I was still playing albums. And I remember I would sit in my room and just ha that thing I used to love now it would be a big old eyesore 'cause it was like a ke big old cabinet. But back then it it was it was individual pieces, right? Yeah, they were all like individual. I guess you could add stuff. I that's why it's like that. You could add stuff in there, but ⁓ bro. And then the light like the way it would light up and that was like my first real bass unit, you know, and I was like, ⁓ bro, that I would I love that thing. I love, love, love that thing. I would just sit in my room and listen to music. So look at that for both of us. It's you know, music is always like I I don't know. I remember going to visit people, right? Like aunts, uncles, like cousins, like like the older because I'm like I said, I'm I'm the youngest So I had a lot of older, like my cousins are old enough to be my parents. Right, right. And we would go, ⁓ my, we're gonna go visit so and so or they're having a party at so and so. And I remember like tripping out because yeah, everybody had that setup. Yeah. Where they had the big speakers, right? Yeah. One in each corner or whatever. Yeah. And then they had the little thing. Right. And it was like a turntable on top. Yeah, The double cassette deck. Yep. Yeah. The little equalizer part. Yeah. ⁓ d it was I that I thought that was so cool. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I love that thing, man. ⁓ okay, how about this? What pe ⁓ what would I dunno what the hell I write, but basically I think what I'm trying to say is do you think technology makes people more productive now or more lazy? I mean it actually probably could be both, but what do you think? I think it I think it depends on the person. Because you you can take You can take technol technology and make yourself lazy, right? Right. Or you can take the same technology and make it work for you and expand on it. Right? I mean, it's all it all it all depends on you. You know what I mean? Like I but I can't but don't you think it starts kids lazy from the get go? You know what I mean? Because everything is like now they get everything in their I Yes and no, because it That light off. Sorry. If you if you if you introduce you have to you have to introduce technology to a child. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. Right, right, right. I get that. But also you can see these kids and like bro, the way the kids have school now, I don't even know what the hell they're doing. Like, but all they know is I have three kids in this house. Well not well, two in cast that I can go to and be like, hey, I don't know what the hell this ⁓ yeah. Boom, boom, boom, and they're just ⁓ it's a it's a Google Doc or it's a whatever Yeah, yeah. And I'm like, what the hell are you guys talking about? So that's what I'm saying. So to me, if that if if if they're if they're functioning with it, that's fine. But if they're like using like chat GPT to make write a freaking ⁓ an essay or creative writing and they're just using chat GPT, yeah, that that sucks. Which because I think it does take away. Most are yeah. You you know most are why I mean that's an easy way out. So they're gonna be like Well yeah, why would I write this whole thing? I'm just gonna put a couple of ideas down and let it write it for me. I mean, how do they how does that even work now? How do teacher like, is there anything you can do or they just have to 'cause like literally they could write their own report, you know what I mean? Like ⁓ they have a they have a theme, bro. I think Cass was telling me, like, she turned in a paper or something and she was like, ⁓ they have yeah, it as you're as you're submitting it, I think. ⁓ huh. It'll tell you, ⁓ this is twenty percent A ⁓ AI. So then you have to like go and what when she's like she's pissed 'cause she's like, No, I didn't even use it. Yeah. It just Yeah, 'cause how would you how can you guarantee that you know you know I mean, how can a computer know a hundred percent or not that somebody I'm gonna tell you this. I I use ⁓ I use ⁓ AI to correct ⁓ Natalia's homework. I mean, I would too now. Why yeah, why why wouldn't you? I suck at math, bro. ⁓ yeah. I mean So she's like, ⁓ dad, can you check my homework? Like, God damn it. So I just I'll take a picture of my phone and I'll submit it and then it'll tell you boom boom boom. Okay, number seven is wrong. Blah blah blah. And you look, ⁓ yeah, sure it is. And does she say, Well, why? And you're like, I don't know. You figure it out. Like fix it and come back. You just asked me to grade it, not to fix it. Yeah, exactly. ⁓ yeah, that's yeah, it's kinda I don't know, bro. It's kinda scary, but all right. It is scary for sure. ⁓ speaking of AI, okay, how about this? Would you, Unc, would you say this is Five years from now, there's a doctor shortage. So now there's AI that will I mean, why couldn't it? Actually, now think about it. That sounds good. Would you take advice from an AI doctor that told you something pretty extreme? ⁓ or would you be like, No, I I need to see a real, a real human, a real human. Give me a give me a ⁓ a professional Indian doctor, one of them real ones, you know what I mean? Like I wanna know I I want the top of the top. Yeah, the cream of the cream of the crop. ⁓ cream of the crop. Yeah, yeah. Something like that. I'm ⁓ I I have two things, bro. One, yeah. I think I just got a notification that said that I like an email that I have access now to ⁓ chat GPT medicine or something that ⁓ shoot. So Hey, write me a message. No. ⁓ yeah, I got that a couple a couple actually like a week ago I got that. And then two, what's the difference between If you use AI and like Web ⁓ D. That's a good point. And everything they've taught a doctor came from like books or some kind of knowledge that AI will have all that. You know what I mean? So w so we do we need anybody? Do we even need people? Do we don't need people anymore? Do we need HVAC? I mean, can ⁓ can a a robot go up there and do the same, you know what I mean? A robot can go up there, but how are you gonna get him up there, dog? Did I send you that robot Olympics? Yeah, that's why I brought it up. Yeah, those fools work. That looked like the worst soccer game I ever seen in my life. I I would have left if that was if you invited me if you invited me to t to Natalia's soccer game and that's what was happening, I'd be like, hey bro, I gotta I gotta get them out. Those things were falling over. That was funny though. That was funny. But ⁓ okay. I mean Yeah, y I mean, I why wouldn't you take the advice of A of AI? It it has all the information there is like to be known, you know what I mean? It In theory, you would think the AI would know more than even a doctor, because the doctor doesn't know everything, you know. I'm sure they have to research stuff. Or ⁓ think about like a lawyer, bro. Like, you know, AI would know every single law, every single case, ever they would know everything. You just punch it into AI, yeah. Here you go. Here's this is the you know what I mean? Like, damn, bro, it's kind of scary. There's not gonna be a a lot of need for people. ⁓ and then speaking of robots. 'Cause I know I think one time we talked about crushes and you were like, Yeah, a little crush on that little robot, Vicky from ⁓ small from Small Wonder, remember? You were like, Yeah, I was feeling like Harry. That little dress and everything. So you would you like Harry? If you had the opportunity, Unc, to own a robot, you know, like Vicky, would you own a robot? That's actually ⁓ no, not like Vicky, hell no. Or just okay, a regular robot. I don't know. But actually an adult robot fool. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But isn't that slavery? I mean, is it like one of these robots from the Robot Olympics that are running into the walk? Because if not, I don't I don't know. ⁓ those are those are dope. So no, it's ⁓ it's almost like the one from Rocky Four, but it can do more. You're welcome. I saw. It's my favorite. You're the greatest. Remember, it was like giving her drinks, remember? Polly, remember it comes into Polly and is talking like a girl. It's like, hi Polly, you look wonderful today. Alfred's looking at her, he's looking at her like, yeah. You know what? If if if I was rich and single, yeah. Hell yeah. Why wouldn't you have a robot? Hell yeah. I think robots like are dope as heck. Remote control, anything like that. Anything like that as a kid I used to love. I think I even had a little remote control robot and it would just tee tee tee tee tee tee tee little shiny lights and all that. Yeah. Hell yeah. I I like robots. Even if they take over someday, like Terminator, ⁓ we we probably deserve it. ⁓ Terminator was not a robot, fool. What was Terminator was? Cyborg. I'll be back. And you call me a nerd. All right. Cyborg. I don't even know what that is. What the hell is that? That's a would you ever want to travel to a new world? No, I ⁓ I know what I meant by that. I think I know what I mean. I think I know what I mean. You why? 'Cause I was I was going so fast I think I shorted some of the questions, but I was thinking, okay, 'cause you know how like now who is it? ⁓ Elon and Who's that basos or whatever? They're all doing these rockets to the moon and try Say the technology came in your lifetime. You had the opportunity, you can take you and your whole family and go live on the moon. Would you do s be willing to do something like that? Say though this world's becoming overpopulated and they're saying, Hey, we don't know how much longer it can take. If you want to be one of the first to go, you gotta f you got a free pass. Because guess what? They need HVAC repair up there. So you got you got one of the you got that golden ticket. You got that golden ticket. Like you ever see Greenland where they start they were giving people like with specialized like jobs or whatever, they give them the ticket. So you got the ticket. Would you go? I th I thought you were gonna say they needed ⁓ the gentleman's hour in in planet planet B or something. I was like, Yeah yeah, just roll down, we get our own ⁓ we'll get our own little sweet. With our robot with our robot partners? With the robot, yes. We'll shake our checks and get some robots. Some high robots. Nah, I would I I would never hell no. Why? Ca you're not like adventurous? You're not like I'm not adventurous at all. I hate flying. Yeah, well this is if we can take the bus there, I'll I'll do that. No, this is out of the yeah, no, this ain't ⁓ fast and the furious. Remember they flew a car into space? ⁓ yeah, yeah, yeah. ⁓ all right. For me, I don't know. Yeah, I'm not either. I I like to talk a big game. Then when it comes down to it, I get all nervous and I I I can't decide. I'd just be like, I want to I don't want I don't wanna leave. Do they have T V up there? Am I gonna you know what I mean? ⁓ yeah, not not for me. Can I watch the Raiders from over there? Hey, it's hard enough to watch the Raiders, bro, if you don't have the package. It's ⁓ I believe that. That's a that's the most thing you've ever said. It's always work. hey, if you could live forever. ⁓ how about this? Okay. Yeah, I remember this one. So say they come up to you again because they're like, hey man, Unk, you got that golden ticket, brother. They come up to you and they they make you this offer, Unk. You can live forever, but the only way is your whole body is a robot. The only thing that's still human is your head. Hell yeah. You want to be our Hell yeah, dog. Come on. ⁓ You can't even yeah, but you can't even bang as a rope. You're a robot, bro. You can't do nothing. I mean, do you even do you even sleep? This just sounds like torture, bro. A dance robot or advanced? I'm in advanced. ⁓ you're that new hybrid model? Yeah, I'm advanced, homeboy. You're not the I got that ⁓ robot thrust. Hey, hey, hey, chill, bro. Chill. I would too either. I would too. I I'm not gonna lie, that shit would be I would just go around pi be picking fights. I would, you know, I would break people in half. I wouldn't give a crap. Pick up cars. But you got this? Yeah, your head your head and your brain, all that is still normal. All this is just robot. Hell yeah. I mean, you're basically Iron Man. You're basically Iron Man, brother. Hey. Yeah, I would too. Yeah, where where my rockets at? All right, Uncle. ⁓ do you remember last week? I th was it last week or the week before we did a little time to rewind segment? You know, what is it? The rewind the tape. Yeah, yeah, rewind the old cassette tape. Remember how you you play it to the end and then like ⁓ you have to flip it over and rewind that sucker? All right, now we're good to go. Or you could just flip it over and play the other side, huh? Yeah, play the other side. Play the other side. ⁓ I don't payback. All right, ⁓ guess what guess what year I'm taking you to? ⁓ guess what year? already know you saw it. Damn it. Nineteen thirty-seven. Now but I'm taking you back to eighty-eight, the year I was in my prime. The Dodgers won the World Series. The Lakers won the championship. The Raiders were were good. I don't think they were good. Yeah. They were they were in the playoffs and all that. ⁓ I was I was young. I was fresh. I was in my prime. I was at my athletic peak. ⁓ things were good. Okay, so I'm gonna take you back to eighty eight, all right. ⁓ where you're a young buck, all right. You're just starting off that that unk life. Yeah, cause you eighty eight. How old were you? I was ten. Eight. ⁓ yeah. ⁓ you're full of life. You know what's up at eight. All right, all right. Yeah. ⁓ so let me set the scene. It's nineteen eighty eight, Russia and the US is still going at it. That's why we had Rocky Four, the Cold War. ⁓ like I said, the Dodgers won the World Series. Kirk Gibson walk-off home run in the ninth against Dennis Eckersley. Stop, bro. Right. That right there is enough to h make eighty-eight the best year of all time. ⁓ I don't know what your kind of gear was, but back then it was acid wash jeans. Nah, bro. I I didn't I didn't call it that way. And ⁓ and of course you were playing, look at that. I I wrote it down. Nintendo getting down in some contra. So let's go back in time. All right. It's 1988, Unk. There's no phones, there's no GPS. You're on a drive, ⁓ you guys are going out of town to visit, you know, ozzin cousins, uncles, whatever, you guys get lost. What do you guys do? Or what did you do? ⁓ back well Or can you remember You what it's funny? I I just had this conversation with ⁓ my sister Rosie. And back Danbrill before we went anywhere, if my dad didn't know how to get there, ⁓ okay. We we hit a we hit up my my Theo Javier or Mathil Tomas. Shout out both them. Okay. ⁓ They knew how to get everywhere, bro. And then we just wrote it down like Yeah, yeah. You get on you jump on the five and then you get off on Cotella, you make a left, and there's a seven eleven and on that seven eleven you make a right. I'm like, whoa, okay, whatever, right? So I we I don't think we ever got lost. And if we did Wow Hey, do you dip into a gas station? Go in the gas station Hopefully they send you in the right w in the right direction. If not, I think you just drove around. Did your did your parents like ever fight or get mad when they got lost? Nah. Really? Because I mean my my mom and dad never really fought in front of us. But also like I said, I don't think we ever got lost. Okay, okay. Because I think I think they they kind of knew ahead of time and they were pretty on it. Most of the most of the times I remember my mom and dad arguing in the car was because my dad was was had been drinking and he was driving home. And there was times where he was he was swirly, you know what I Yeah, yeah. Why didn't you why didn't you take over, get it get in front of the dad? ⁓ I was gonna say, did your dad did did they use maps? Did they have like a Thomas Guide or anything? Nah, they I mean they had those old ⁓ I think somebody got a triple A once. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think they gave them to him. Okay. So he had them in but he never used it. He never used it. Okay. For ⁓ for me, we got lost a lot, but it was usually with my mom, but it was always when we were going, like I don't know, where she was she always used to take us to like you know, like educational stuff like museums and all that kind of stuff, right? Always like downtown LA and all that, or or su ⁓ she likes just to go to downtown LA. So she knew it like the back of her hand because I guess her dad used to always go down there and take her, and then she worked downtown. So she knows it like I don't know if she still knows it, but back then she knew it pretty good. But she would always get lost because she was always trying to take some like weird, you know, like, ⁓ man, it's it's gonna be backed up over here. We're gonna go around this. Then before you know it, we're off the freeway. And she's like, But she always had those maps, I remember, but she was like the one person I knew that that like she knew everything. everywhere. Like she knows every she did. Like every like ⁓ you just take the like how you were saying you take the like your your c uncle or whatever, take this to that and you're right there. Like she knew all that. But she would get herself lost a lot because she would go places where it was like where are you going? Like you know, always trying to do too much or something like that. But I remember her getting lost a lot. And she had no problem you know pulling over and just asking somebody and then she'd get right back. ⁓ yeah yeah. Okay. And she'd be right back on track. And she definitely used those maps, I believe. I think it was like the same ones, those pull out ones, but I remember her popping those open a lot and like, ⁓ shoot, yeah, that's right. The one I was like All right, you know what I mean? So I I do remember getting lost a lot. or how about this? Your car breaks down, what'd you do? ⁓ am I driving or my my my pops is driving? Well this is my board's eighty eight, right? Yeah, it's eighty eight. It's eighty eight. Yeah, the year's still eighty eight. That's ⁓ you know what? That's another thing. I don't ever remember my dad's car breaking down. Not even a flat tire or anything. Nah. I mean I mean it obviously, you know, but also when I was eight, he had I think he had just gotten rid of his truck and he had that little dodge, that that little he had like a brown dodge dart. ⁓ okay. And back then, bro, those carts were like basic. ⁓ Didn't have a lot. They like a couple fan belts and spark plugs and caps and rotors and ⁓ he never worked on them, but I don't ever remember it breaking. You know what? One time at the SWAME, it left us there. ⁓ yeah. Yeah, we were at the San Fernando SWAME and and it didn't want to start. And ⁓ I think he I think he called my uncle one of my other uncles, my tier Raul, and he was a ⁓ he was like the he was like the the the family mechanic. ⁓ okay. So I think he rolled up and it was it was like a I think like an a carburetor adjustment or something something weird. Or no, it might've been like a like a busted like a vacuum hose or something and you just cut it and connected it and on your way back. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't really remember ever there being big old breakdowns or anything, but yeah. Yeah, you know what? Same thing. I don't remember a lot with mine, but I do remember I w one time I don't know who was it. It must have been me and my cousin and we were with my uncle and I and his wife and I forgot where we were driving back from, but we were in the valley and we were coming back up to Palmdale and his car broke down. I remember it like started that you know, the steam starts coming out of the out of the top and he pulls over. And I I think he started just because it was like, Wait, what do you do? I mean they had those call boxes. I just remember he started walking up, like I don't know if he was going to a call box or like maybe one of the exits to go to a phone, but it was like there was no cell phones. The only way you could call is those call boxes. But it just so happened that my dad was getting off of work at that time, so he was heading home and just driving by like, ⁓ shoot, that's ⁓ my son and and unc and art or whatever. So then he went, U-turned, came back around, and then he helped us out. And it was like it was something it was like with the water, 'cause I think he went I went with him. I remember we went to the the gas station up there and we got water or whatever. And I I remember them putting water. So I think I guess it was just w I don't know, maybe the water broke or was leaking. I don't know what happened, but they put water in or whatever and then it was enough to get back on back going. And then I remember I I went with him back in the you know, with him obviously in the truck. But I do remember that time being on the broken down on the side of the road and it's like What do you do? You know what I mean? The only way is to call somebody, like you're saying, either to come pick you up or you maybe call somebody to tow you, but yeah, that back then, do you remember like triple A? No, I don't remember anything like that. I mean, I guess maybe they had like just probably from ⁓ like a mechanics, like maybe they had tow guys. I don't I don't know. I don't remember a lot of that. It's crazy, huh? Back then it's crazy. Now I mean you just have an app triple A, boom, boom, boom. We've had triple A for as long as I can remember. Bro, when I was growing up, you had to learn how to change a tire. I remember it was like a big thing. I gotta learn how to you know, and now it's like change a tire, what? Like I told my son, ⁓ you gotta learn how to change a tire for what? Every time we've Somebody comes out and like triple A is like free. I don't know. Everybody has a damn Triple A account. So it's like I I remember the last time I got a flat and I was like, ⁓ I'm gonna change it and I think it was deserts. Like, why are you just have triple? I was like, Actually you're right. Why why the hell is that? Yeah, I will let the Yeah. Why am I gonna go do it? But but you know what? It was cool to be able to do that kind of stuff on your own. I remember one time like rotating my own tires when I first learned How to use the big old jack. I was at my grandma's house and my uncle had a he was like ⁓ he was like a car painter, so he had that that you know that big old nice one. I was like, ⁓ this is it was just like three pumps in that car was like shh I was like, ⁓ this so I remember I was just like ⁓ I kept I was like road I was just finding something to do because it was like so cool. Like, ⁓ this is dope, man. I I hate messing with those little the ones they give you the little the little ones, but ⁓ the little butterfly jack? Yeah, I hate that sh I never know where to put it. It's like my first car had a a a bumper jack. That was all kinds of dangerous. Yeah, I don't bro, I hate Like a little square plate? Yeah. And then you put this other like long bar and it has like a little hook. And it hooks there's a little notch on the bumper and it'll hook onto it. And then you jack it up. Ba ba ba. ⁓ hell no. Bro, one little kick on that thing, that thing's on top of you. That's some ⁓ final destination stuff, brother. All right. ⁓ Well, you're eight, so I don't know if this is gonna apply to you, but Maybe when you were a little bit older. Do you remember going somewhere? You're gonna meet a buddy from school, maybe at the movies, at the mall, and you're there. Hey, let's meet in front of the da da da all right, all right, I'm there. Now it's been about thirty minutes. What do you do? Well, you know what? A at eight I was meeting people like I remember I had home meetings. Yeah, in the let's meet up at the liquor store, John's liquor. At eight? Yeah. Damn, bro. You were in the game young, huh? The liquor store was on the next block. Yeah, but you're still this thing right here? On the background? Yeah, but I see it, but you're so eight. That's Van I's. Yeah, but you're so eight, even if it's across the street. I started walking home when I was eight. Damn. All right, okay. So what do you so what would you do when your your buddy didn't show up? Or say I would just I remember I remember I'd be I'd be sitting there like, man, like not like Where's this foot? Where's this foot? ⁓ man, I don't know where he's at. And it's like, I you what? I'm gonna start playing. Cause we would play against each other. And I had I had like a dollar, bro, and quarters. Like, I'm that's only four games. Yeah. I you know what, screw it. And I remember that guy I burned a dollar and I go home. And then that was it. ⁓ huh. And then I hit him up the next day at school, like, hey fool, what the hell? Where were you at? ⁓ they didn't let me out or I didn't have money. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, ⁓ well, I didn't know. You know? No cell phones, no nothing. You're right. That 'cause I remember that happened a lot of times where like you're meeting up and then the next day it's ⁓ yeah, sorry, couldn't make it. Did I mom I was out there waiting for happening up? Yes, but no cell phones. I couldn't tell you. Yep. Damn. Okay, how about this one? ⁓ you wanna go see a movie. Young Unc is like, damn, I'm feeling this little chick, bro. This little this little girl in my class is looking great. You know what? I'm gonna hit her up. I'm gonna see see what she's doing this week and see if she wants to go catch a little flick, maybe dinner flick. And some dessert. How do you book that movie at that age? What do you do? You Hey, ⁓ you would call? Wait, how did you? The theater. For the times. But remember that was just the times, remember? How did you ⁓ you just paid there? You go ran there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's free. Yeah, you'd find out, okay. Yeah. And no, I remember it. I would write it down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sometimes you miss it too. Sometimes you would miss it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, ⁓ okay, cool. And then you show up and you stand in line. You stand in line. You get your you get your movie ticket and then you go inside and then they tear it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. And now you just have it on your phone and you walk in and boom, boom, boom. They don't even have a box office anymore. ⁓ they at a mine they do, but like there's one person in there and you could tell there's nobody going up. Yeah. I haven't seen a person in a box office in a long time. Yeah, I haven't seen anybody use them use the box office. Yeah, that's that's cra you I remember that because you would call a number and it would go through the times and you're like sitting listening. Then it was like, ⁓ sh I forgot that I didn't s I didn't hear it. You had to hang up 'cause it would go Yeah, 'cause it would go pretty fast. Yeah. You have ⁓ waiting to exhale thing at ten forty five. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Twelve fifteen PM. Yeah. Two forty and you have to listen to all of it. All of ⁓ Yeah, it sucked when your movie was at the end. But then what sucks too is you didn't even know. You might show up. The movie sold out. It's like, damn it. And then it's like you gotta look on the board, find something else. You know what I mean? It like there was no way to know like it is now. Like it's just so much more convenient now. Yeah, bro. That Yep. Okay. ⁓ what about this? How did you book a plane flight? And I was thinking about it because I was like, wait, how did you book a how did you book a like how did you even know about flights back then? Like I know you weren't booking flights at eight, but what do you remember? Pre-internet, how did you book a flight? ⁓ I'm gonna use the only experience I had because I I didn't get on a plane until I was an adult. Same idea. ⁓ no, yeah, yeah. But we used to take the Greyhound a lot. Okay. Yeah, my mom, my mom and I would go every summer up to Salinas, ⁓ up north. And we have a bunch of cousins and two I had two uncles that were that used to live up there. And we'd we'd roll out, bro. Like my mom who spoke no English. With my grandma who spoke no English and we jumped on the Greyhound. The first time we did, we did it out in out of ⁓ downtown LA at like midnight. ⁓ jeez. What? I honestly I think we just drove there and it was like, hey, what time are you guys? What time's the next the next bus out to Salinas? ⁓ two AM. All right then, two AM. Let's get that one. And you would sit and wait. And we just sat there and waited. Yeah. And then we jumped on that. And it's crazy because I'm I probably was eight the first time we went. And you to get to Salinas from downtown LA is probably I'm gonna say maybe like a six hour drive in a regular car. ⁓ okay. But on the bus? Yeah. And the greyhound? Bro, it's like ten, twelve hours, bro. I thought you were gonna say two days. No, bro, it felt like two days. And then cause you stopped. Boom. All right, we stopped off in ⁓ Wherever, let's say ⁓ Bakersfield. Yeah. Okay, we're gonna we're gonna be here for twenty minutes. Boom, and then you cut across to the one on one. Okay, well now we're in Santa Barbara, we're gonna be here for an hour. That was like where we ate lunch. Bro, I'm eight translating from my mom and my grandma. First off, that's crazy. But secondly, what are you doing? There's no tech, there's no technology at that time. You're just sitting there twiddling your thumbs. ⁓ I I I no not not the first time I went, I didn't have anything. As I got older, 'cause we would go every summer at now I have my walkman and you I mean, it it got to the point where the last time I went, I would think I was thirteen and I went with my walkman. Bro, I had I had streaks for tagging. I had fireworks. I had like three lighters on me. Bro, I was I was like a walking felony, dude. You know what I mean? And my backpack my backpack was all tagged up. My shirt, I had baggy pants. ⁓ you know it was it was a totally different for the first time. Just trouble. I you may do with what you have. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which was which was pretty much nothing. There was no bro, I think I had like a a coloring book or something. You know what I mean? Yeah. I that reminds me of like car drives. Like if we drive to Mexico or we drive up north and it was just like there was nothing to do. You know what I mean? You listen to you listen to music, but fight with your sibling. I fight with my sister in the backseat, but you're just sitting there. You have no control, bro. You're a kid. Yeah, you're a kid. Your parents And that's why music on and that's why I don't understand why kids why parents are always getting mad at kids for asking w when are we when are we gonna get there? 'Cause what the hell, man? I mean I can't just sit in a car for eight hours. Like you gotta this ain't humane. You know what I mean? You gotta give me something to do. Yeah, okay. I I I remember all that too. But so going back to a plane flight, so you don't know how they booked them. I don't how do they I mean I'm assuming the same way, you know? Like you just show up, but like You just show and like what do you guys have right now? Hey, what do you guys have? Trying to get to Barcelona. okay. Maybe people had like a database, like a like a Yeah. Like a portfolio, like, ⁓ you know, United flies out to Hawaii from LEX, you know. Yeah. Okay. All right. All right. All right. That makes sense. That makes sense. Okay. ⁓ okay, your parents I hope yeah, maybe they did leave you alone. Your parents left you alone for the day. They said, hey, we'll be back about five. All right, cool, cool, cool. You've been messing around. You're back. I'm gonna get home by five to make sure that that, you know, I'm home when they get there. You get home, ⁓ they're not here yet. Let me go shower, man. I've been messing around, playing that mud, doing all that dirty stuff. You go shower, you come out, ⁓ shoot, it's ⁓ it's already about gonna be about seven. You sit around, watch some TV, eight o'clock. They're still not there. ⁓ what do you do? You just you don't open the door for strangers and you stay inside the house. You wouldn't try to call who? An aunt, ⁓ I mean maybe an older older cousin. Like bro, these were real life problems back then when you were young scenarios. Not even young, bro. Just back then you couldn't get a hold of there was no cell phone, so it's almost like I where I have no idea where they're like I have no idea how to get a hold of them. You know what I mean? Like I don't know. I remember some times where it was like that and it's like calling your parents and there's no no or like at work supposed to be picking me up. ⁓ they're they're not they're not answering. Like what is going on? What do you do? You feel so helpless or like when your parents didn't pick you up, you know what I mean? There's no cell phone. Mom, where are you? ⁓ I'm sorry I'm running late. ⁓ okay, cool. How how late are you gonna I'm gonna be half an hour. Okay, cool. When you don't know, you're just sitting there like maybe she decided to finally leave me once and for all. She's she said I'm a bad kid, she's not gonna come pick me up. You know what I mean? Like Anything is running through your head because you can't get a hold of ⁓ So when they're late, by at least for me back then, it was like the end of the world, like what is going on? What is going on? If if they're not coming home, bro, like I don't even know, like who would you call? For me, I would've called I would've called my yeah. For me, when my grandma was living up there, I would've called her or my aunt because I probably would have been cool, but my sister used to get kinda scared, I think. So I probably for her, like, hey scared. Let's call grandma then, I guess. Because yeah, yeah, yeah. ⁓ I'll call her 'cause you're scared, not cause I'm scared. Bro, one time 'cause I used to When we first moved up there, we were still going to school down. Maybe I told you this story. I was still going to school down in the valley. So my dad would drop us off like on Monday at school. My grandmother would pick us up. We spend all week with my grandmother. She would take us to school and then pick us up. And then on Friday after work, my dad would pick us up and we'd come back up to Lancaster. And I remember one time at school, nobody picked us up. It was like Friday. It was like eight o'clock. It already passed the like the daycare part. The lady was like calling the numbers on the phone, but nobody picked up. I I think she only she only had like my house phone number. There was nobody at my house. And ⁓ I don't even think I knew my grandma's number to call. So it was like we're just waiting, waiting. Finally, I guess it was already nighttime. It was one person just there with us, just like I think my sister was crying. No, it was a lady. I remember it was a lady, but it's just a worker probably, but I think she was probably pissed. Like, what where's this kid's parent? The kid's parents. My dad ended up going to my grandma's that night after work, so he gets off at like 7 38 to pick us up. She says, What what are you doing here? I thought you were picking them up from school. He's like, No, I I'm pick I was picking them up for your house. They're like, ⁓ my fuck. Say he rushes over there, gr gets us. It was eight o'clock. Why? No cell phones. No, no would that happen these days? Nah, bro. It wouldn't happen these days. You call around the cell phone, mom. Where the hell are you? What's going on? Dad's supposed to spit it. Tell him get over here, man. BS. Back then, I didn't know. I for all I knew, my family was dead. They just decided they left us here. Like I don't know what's going on. You're a kid. It's always the worst case scenario, but that's the one thing I appreciate about like technology cell phones is you can always get in touch with somebody. You know what I mean? Hey, where are you? ⁓ my soul, okay. You can track their location now. That's how crazy it is. Yeah. ⁓ all right. All right, Uncle. Good good answers. We're we're already at 48. All right, we might have to skip. We got too many, ⁓ too many segments here, brother. ⁓ how about this one from eighty eight? ⁓ you're infatuated. Remember we were talking about Small Wonder. You're infatuated with Small Wonder because you got the biggest crush of all time on Vicky. Friday night, the newest episode's coming out. But you gotta go you gotta go to a a family party. What do you do back then? You don't want to miss it, but you're not gonna be home. You miss it. You miss it, huh? You miss it. There's nothing to wait, there wasn't VHS in when in 88? No, they they did, but I remember. You know, ⁓ you know what? I'm I'm I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna go back back back. Okay. And we ha we always had a VCR. We always had TVs in the house, right? We always had cable. I don't know how we did it. My dad was like, we o we always had cable. I mean it was basic. It wasn't like the premium channels, but we always had basic. Yeah, yeah. And my mom And enlisted in me enlisted? I don't know if that's the right word. To to learn how to program a VHS ⁓ V C R so complicated. To record her novelas, bro. Because there was two that were showing on at the same time. At the same time. So on one of the TVs, like ⁓ you can't touch it, don't change the channel. And we had a You know, whatever. So it was that from like seven to eight on that TV. Yeah. And then she would watch it during the day when she was home. But she was the only one that did that. I don't remember ever trying to record anything. But bro, how how hard was it to some of the I how complicated was some of those I remember it was so complicated to it was complicated just to set the the clock and then you're trying to do timers and it's like ⁓ you could do you could do like different type of timers and it was just like ⁓ man, that i and then you go and like it's ⁓ it's a perfect perfect then you go watch it and it was like ended up recording and said that eight at night it was like eight A.m. and it's like something like, What the hell is this? ⁓ sh I didn't change it to eight PM and then remember back then if you missed it, bro, that's it. It was like they didn't do reruns. There was no ⁓ stream it. They would do reruns like during the summer, but I didn't give a sh about it, you know, six. And you didn't know when was playing. And you didn't know when it was playing, yeah. Well, do you remember the little ⁓ it was like I don't know they were free or what they were like little TV guy or was it a T V guide. And that's that's the only way you knew what was playing because there was no there was no guides like it is now. So you'd re read into the little flip through the pages and like, ⁓ shoot, Friday, full house is you know I mean? Like, okay, cool. I gotta make sure I watch that. But there was no guides, yeah. But the T the T V guide the T V guide was in in in my house was like luxury, bro. ⁓ really? Yeah. Because my dad my dad swore by the daily news. ⁓ okay. And then we would get the daily news delivered and it would come on Sunday. And it was like it was like I don't know what it was called, but it was like a like basically their version of the T V guide. ⁓ that's right. The newspapers had them too, yeah. Which was more like a magazine size. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then he would and then he would circle it. So he would know what's what he's gonna watch. Like ⁓ this is right right and yeah. Yeah, that's right. The newspapers had it was like an entertainment section and then it would have a their own Yeah. But the T V guide had more detail and stuff, huh? Yeah. Yeah, the T V guide had like interviews and it was thick. It was like a fat little Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dang, bro. Look at how how hard life was back then. You know what I mean? We had to read and circle stuff and like okay, let me remember it. ⁓ my gosh. All right. You wanna do the you wanna do this Mountain Gent more real quick or you wanna skip it? Mine were just basically. Where were you on, dog? Let's just skip it. 'Cause mine were let me hear yours. Mine were just the du cell phone, internet, automobile, and planes. Like, come on, man. What did you have? I I had a feeling you had something in I mean my mine was similar. I have the internet number one. Yeah. The cell phone number two. Yeah. Car and then television. Yeah. Okay. Yep. Yeah. Yeah, I think everybody. So we'll just skip that. All right. ⁓ Kind of like on the same same subject we're at. Things that that the internet has murdered. I'm just gonna go over ⁓ if you want to talk about any of ⁓ Phone books. Remember that was the way to like, hey, go look up da da da or go call the cleaners. Where how do I go look it up in the Gary's cleaner or go look it up in the phone book? ⁓ sh all right. But there's four of ⁓ Did you use the phone book a lot? Yeah, hell yeah. You know you know which one was my favorite? The GTE? That's the OG. Yeah. That's it was the white pages and then the yellow pages. Yeah. And it was this big fat book that I would drop off once. Yeah. Boom. When when did that stop? When did that stop? Twenty years ago? ⁓ I don't know, dude. I think I I think at one point you had it requested. Yeah, 'cause I remember I would still see it at my grandma's and I'm like Where how did wait I what? How'd she get a phone book? I'm like And then I kinda just w I remember looking through it, like, ⁓ let me scroll th I remember the back was like yellow pages, so it was like ads. I I used to like to l or like advertisements. Yeah, businesses. So I like to just scroll through those, but yeah, phone books. Bro, we had this guy must be doing good. We had a plumbering, he took out whole page. Bro, we had nothing going on that we're like looking through phone books for entertainments. What about this? This one was was big for us because my mom bought ⁓ early and I use them all the time for school. Encyclopedias. No internet, how would you get information? ⁓ well, you go to the library, you go to the library. But did you have encyclopedias? You know what? My dad bought one. I wanna say I think when my sister graduated high school. Okay. Because ⁓ she's gonna go to college, so she needs to like I think there was there was two sets that she that he bought. It was a regular encyclopedia and then there was like a medicine encyclopedia. ⁓ that's dope. ⁓ sh so I mean that one had that one was scary, dog. You'd open it up at the round page and it's like ⁓ what is this? Like burpies? ⁓ And they had pictures. ⁓ god. ⁓ yeah. I used to hate those those health. Yeah. And it'd be like, ⁓ somebody's somebody's infection. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that sh scary. That sh almost got me to stop trying to do stuff, but it didn't. How about this? Maps. ⁓ well we talked about that. You said your pops didn't really use ⁓ My mom had tons of ⁓ in in her love box guide. Yeah, I had a Thomas. I thought they were cool. I remember getting my first Thomas Guide, like when I first started driving, like I didn't know how to read it. I was like, What are all these little lines and why every ⁓ I couldn't read it? ⁓ how about this? Not the dirty one, so chill. Classified ads. Not the LA Express, bro. Like regular rentals. How did you look for a job back then? ⁓ let me open the paper and look at the back warehouse ⁓ warehouse warehouse manager for for staff. Yeah, like call this number. Then you call some numbers and they were all s it was all like I remember one time I g found one in the paper and it was like office job making dead I called it up and it was like It was like selling those products, like selling ⁓ makeup and stuff door to door to door. I'm like, what is this? Bro. I thought it was a real job interview. I I was ⁓ I think I was eighteen or nineteen. I I had just quit the the the movie theater and I was dating this girl, right? She's like, You need to get a job. Like she was on me, bro. Damn. She was like pissed that I was at home doing nothing. Yeah. Well enjoying your life. So I opened up the penny saber. You remember the penny saber? Yeah, yeah. Penny saber was legit too. And I'm looking same thing for jobs. And is the one that said, ⁓ ten dollars an hour. ⁓ hell yeah, sign me up. All right, cool. So I hit ⁓ up and they're like, Yeah, come on down. I'll take that right now. I went, I applied, and they're like, Okay, come back for training. I was like, damn, I got the job. Hell yeah. Right? Hell yeah. You know what it was? It was cut cut co knives. ⁓ Selling them? I did a job. Door to door? I went there, right? And they're like, every every every ⁓ Every every meeting that you set up, if you make a sale, you get ten dollars. Yeah, yeah. Usually the th the the meetings take an hour, so that's ten dollars an hour. Okay. So I was like, All right, cool. So I was Man, all right, and like, yeah. So tomorrow for a second day of training, come back with a list of twenty people that you can call. I was like, All right, cool. And then I remember I I drove home. All right, cool. Yeah, and and I hit her up. I said, Hey, I'm gonna pick you up right now. I'm leaving, blah blah blah. All right, cool. So I got to her f I got to her patent. Let's go out to dinner. So we're talking and she's like, What happened? I was like, ⁓ they they said that I just have to and she's like, No, she goes, You only get paid if they buy something. Yeah, bro, yeah. And was like I was like, What do you mean? It's like, Yeah. She and then she's like, What did they ask you? I like, Well, they told me that tomorrow I have to give ⁓ a list of people I can call. And she's like, No, she goes, They're gonna start calling people and she was like, Who you gonna give ⁓ Harass email. I was like, Well I have you have to put your mom down, I have like I have my aunt, my uncle. I like they're like, No, like these people are gonna get mad. Yeah, bro. They harass you. Yeah. Yeah, my buddy did that one time, but he was like, Don't buy don't but he bought some vacuum that was like worth he ended up getting suckered into it and it was like a five thousand dollar vacuum and he's like, Can you but he had a to get the next discount he had to go and have five people, you know sign up to watch them do a demonstration your house. They came over and it was like I met he didn't even tell me the price yet, but he was like, it's a lot. I was like, ⁓ what what could it be? And I remember I was like, after the demonstration, the lady I was like, dang, this is pretty I'm like, it's not bad. She like see me it was like hot water shooting in and it was a big old vat. And and then she's like, So we want to sit down and talk about, you know, the the price plans or whatever. And I'm like, Yeah. So I'm thinking I'm kinda thinking like, what is this? Probably like five hundred bucks? Like I actually might buy like this sh like She showed all the dirt that it picked up and I was like, Holy crap. She's like, you know, your vacuum just spreads it around. I'm like, I didn't know that girl. Talk to me. And she did. She won me over until she said it's about I forgot what it was like 4,500. Four thousand. I almost I almost started I almost started laughing out loud because I was like, who would buy a vacuum for four thousand? Like, you know what mean? Like at that time, this was years, years ago. I'm like, you could go buy a little small. Hyundai for five thousand, like what the what the hell am I gonna do with this vacuum? Yeah. And then that Joel was all pissed. He was like, I if I don't get he he thought my buddy thought that he just had a show five people, but it was like you had to get five more sales to get it, you know, and then they would cover it or something. It was like there's almost like a pyramid, like we'll give it to you for free if you get five more people to buy and then they'll get it to free. The more you bring in, the more money you make. Right. So they then they bring in more people. Yep. Yep. And it just keeps going on and on and on. But you sucker other people. Yeah. What is it? Cut co? Are they still in business? I mean, did you did you make any sales or no? You never went back? Nah, I didn't I never went back. I went to a training. Did you get paid for the training? No, I didn't get paid for sh for anything. That's funny. All right. What was that on? It's ⁓ classified. ⁓ how about this? This was sad. Video source. Remember going into Blockbuster, bro, and you're like, damn, and the and the covers looked all good. I would get like I always try to get chick stuff with naked chicks, like meatballs or you know what I mean? Like, hey, and be You like that? I'm like, Yeah, we'll check it out. I'd go go with go wa go watch it in my room, lock that door and come out three days later. Whoa. But what what was your you like you like renting movies? Was that like a a a nor like for us it was always a Friday night thing? You You know what what introduced me to a lot of movies, bro, is that my sister got a job in high school. At work. At a at a at a movie at a at a video store, like a video store. ⁓ okay. It was a it was a mom and pop's. ⁓ yeah, yeah. Those were legit too. So they would let her bring them home whatever, dude. She would bring me a movie every shift. And then she's like, ⁓ you gotta watch it 'cause I gotta take it back tomorrow. Yeah. All right, cool. Bro, I watched so many movies, bro. When was that movie? During that was in the eighties? Or ninety. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 'Cause she graduated in eighty eight. ⁓ okay, okay. In high school. Okay. So it must have been eighty eight, eighty nine, maybe. Yeah. Dang. And and she was bringing me movies and I bro, and then like I think that's what kinda got me into like movies, like just and then all all that fed into my my my my empty ⁓ empty library, bro, with with with useless information and useless pop culture. Right, right. Yeah, that's why I know a lot of stuff that I've All your quotes and yeah, yeah. Useless. I mean it is, bro. You know? Hey, you know that we have a video store out here? Like an old school one? Yeah. They have VHS stuff and everything. It's on ⁓ it's in ⁓ New Hall. But who like it's just for rent or to buy old stuff or You can go yeah, you can go rent stuff. Do people go in there? I don't know. It I I'll send you the link. It's on the Yeah, because I wouldn't even know I wouldn't even I think I have a I still have I know I have a Blu ray player, but I don't VHS sh it's been I actually have a VHS combo D V D player. Like and it works? Yeah, it should. I mean the last time I I have it in the garage, it's just chilling. Yeah, I used to have one of those too. It was sick, huh? That was dope too. They're like four hundred bucks now on on marketplace. For ⁓ for one of those? Yeah. Wait, so what do you do with all your VH I still have some old girls gone wild VHS tapes? Like what do I do with those things, bro? Take him to Costco and convert ⁓ to D V V Ds. Yeah, Desiree will beat my And then take the D V Ds and convert it, put it on a flashback. Let me ask Desire, she knows. Babe, what did I do with all my VHS? Guess I just got rid of ⁓ Okay. All right, ⁓ at the Goodwill. Yeah, I guess. House phones. Do you remember like getting a call and then somebody else well you didn't you're Rosie was already older, huh? But I was always like fighting with my sister over the phone and someone would call while she's on the phone or then s or someone tries to break in on your call and You remember ⁓ the drama of having a house phone or having to call somebody and their mom picks up. I that that was the one thing, bro. It wasn't until ⁓ I was kind of a late bloomer, bro. It was probably ninth grade, tenth grade, my last year of middle school, my first year of high school. And I used to hate it, bro. I used to hate calling gr calling girls. It's the worst. How scary is that? No, go Yeah, yeah, You never knew what you were gonna get. You never knew what you it was crazy. And then ⁓ I remember there was one time where this girl called me. She called me and at that point, at that time, we had a we had a the main phone was in the kitchen. Yeah, our we had a kitchen. So my mom's like, There's a girl calling you. I was like, What? A girl? ⁓ shit. Let me get on. Let me get on. Who's this? Yeah. And she's like she's like, Hey, I was like, ⁓ hey, what's up? What this Hey was you were? She's like, What are you doing? I was like, Nothing right here. Right here. Bro, it's so embarrassing, bro. It's so embarrassing. Because I'm sitting there and and you can see my mom. She's sitting in the living room watching. Watching eyeballing. She's watching me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, what is this who's who's he talking to? And I'm like, dude, and I was like, and I don't want to say anything, so I'm like trying to cut it off and she just kept on asking questions. ⁓ are you gonna go to school tomorrow? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, you're right. You think you think maybe we can talk? Yeah. Like I'm like, dude, yeah, they were they were weird. I'm trying to Weird like that. Yeah. I'm nervous and then I'm scared. Like, ⁓ it's all these emotions, bro. And just it was a mess. Yeah. But bro, why didn't you have one of those? You didn't get one of those where you could buy the extra long cord that went like fifteen feet and you just walk around the other. I didn't have money, fool. I wasn't buying stuff right now. No, they were you go to Radio Shack, they're like fifty cents. Who's gonna take me to Radio Shack? Your sister, bro. And you could stretch that thing. We'd go I'd go into another I'd go into another room and just sit down on the floor because you're right. That that kitchen phone did not help when everybody's right there staring at you. Or what about when you're on the phone and then somebody cuts in on the other like in the other room? Hello? Hang out. I'm on the phone. You just hear Yeah, bro. ⁓ man. All right. ⁓ all right. Let's let's move on. Let's go to this last what are we at? Yeah, all right, this let's end it with this. Uncle's favorite segment, smash or pass. All right. You tell me on these new ⁓ techno technological advances if you smash, which you know what that means. Or pass. Come on, move it along, move it along. All right, social media. Just all of it. Yeah, it's it it's good, huh? Even though it can be crazy, it's good. YouTube, our our our daddy. Come on, bro. That's our bread and butter, homeboy. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. I have I have all this. Hell yeah. No, that's Mac for sure. Smash. What about podcasts? Specifically the gentleman's hour. There's only one, bro, that ⁓ definitely smashed. Yeah, but dude, that is a like, do you think like r regular radio is gonna be gone gone too pretty soon? Like, or do you think it'll always still be there? There's there's always gonna be a market for it. But I feel like it's gonna go the way of like Jack your fan. What is ⁓ what's ⁓ they don't need what was that? Yeah, it was just they they just play the hits, huh? Or like yeah Jack. It's gonna be AI for sure. That's an AI ⁓ you're right. ⁓ Influencers. Influencers. Yeah, and you know what? I just honestly a lot of it is jealousy because those dudes make so much money from like what? Like just acting like nonsense. Idiots, nonsense. I mean, I guess you gotta give them credit, but it's just like it's such a shame. There's like a lot of talented people that they make more money than these damn influencers cause they j and they just do dumb sh they just do stuff to keep going viral. You gotta give ⁓ credit 'cause it's hard to stay relevant. True. True, true. But they are doing a lot of dumb stuff. Dumb stuff that I throw speed guy? ⁓ god, I hate that guy. Yeah. All those dudes. Yeah, all those dudes. That there's some little white guy named Jack. And it looks all crazy. ⁓ all right. ⁓ how about this? I love it. I'm pat I'm smash smash all day. I don't know about you. Remote work. I'm gonna ⁓ I can't I can't Hey don't bash it too bad. Don't bash it too bad. Yeah, no, I can't smash her past because I've never done it. You can say you think I'm a you can say you think I'm a bitch. Say what's on your mind, homie. What ⁓ I thought you would be like, ⁓ anybody does remote work. ⁓ it's a bitch. No, no, no. Okay, all right. Bro, I'm gonna tell you this. Tell me. Talk to me, goose. It to me it's very hard to do remote work. ⁓ yeah, it is. Hell yeah. Like I I know. No, no, it it 'cause it's it's hard to say like I know what you mean. There's so many distractions. Right, right. That's what I mean, yeah. And it's like that that can't be that cannot be that cannot be easy. Yeah. Like to me, like I know for a fact I gotta wake up tomorrow. Right. I gotta drive to my job, do my job, and then drive home. Right, right. Like that's my routine. Right, right. If I was at home and I could do it from home, I'm like, damn, let me let me let me jump on the PS five real quick. If I gotta if I gotta clock in at seven, guess what? I'm gonna give him up at six fifty five. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean there there's so many things that that's right, right, right. Right, right, right, right, right. Because of because of that. But guess what? I'm actually gonna be taking a new job, well, going on a new team, and I gotta spend seventy five percent there now. So I'm gonna be in I'm gonna be at work three days a week. Full days. ⁓ no. Full days, brother. Ten hour days. Hey, is that good though or what? No, it's not good, bro, but So where are you taking it? I don't know, because I just want to do something new, bro. I'm tired of the other. So man. More power to you, brother. Yeah. And if I hate it, brother. This well, it's not like a promotion or anything, but if I hate it, this manager is cool as hell. I'm just gonna tell him, hey, brother, it's just not for me. I need to I need to go back. Send me back. Yeah, send me back. Yep, yep. All right. ⁓ instant news. Like, remember the old days, you didn't find out it was until it was on the news on TV. Or your paper. Now until I bought a paper from the from the from the from the newsy. Yep. Now get your paper here. You know where I get my news? I get text from Uncle Louie that says Hayden Pantieri died. You know what I mean? It's like it's It says Hayden Panteri died. It's like that. What do you think? Is that good or is that bad? ⁓ that's a half half smash, half and smash. Yeah. I I I like I like it because you gotta find out like damn, this is crazy. But then it's also like sometimes I don't I don't wanna find certain things out like when I'm at work. ⁓ okay. ⁓ that makes sense. Yeah. Right, right, right. That sucks. Yeah, and you're at work. But don't you think also too sometimes it's like it can be an overload, it's too much. It's just like nonstop, nonstop, nonstop. And I just like I used to like the days of reading the paper, like, ⁓ what's ⁓ what's cool. Read what you want, right? Yeah, you read w exactly, you read what you want. Now they just throw everything at you and it's just like Damn, it's it's a lot. I don't know. It's like I remember when COVID hit. ⁓ yeah. And it was like, fifteen cases in California. Twenty-five cases in California. A hundred I ⁓ man, it w every time I looked at it, I hated Facebook, bro. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. That yeah, that was. I remember just like, what is it gonna go down? What is it gonna go down? ⁓ how about this, like online shopping? Specifically ⁓ Amazon. That's another one, bro. ⁓ half pass, half smash. Why? Because it's running all the like regular walk in source. Brick and mortar. Brick and mortar, they call it, yeah. ⁓ that because I couldn't tell you the last time I went into Target by myself. The last time I went to Target, I was with Laura and we went to go. I don't remember we took the day off and we wanna go I don't remember by what. But but I used to like going to Target, bro. Like I I used to walk around and just Go to the clearance section, whatever. Yeah, just check her there. Now I don't know the last time I go. Now it's made me a spoiled little brat. That if a if a if a if a package from Amazon isn't getting here the next day, I'm like upset. Yeah. Yeah. ⁓ yeah. You got that prime or what? Yeah, we have prime. Okay. There's sometimes where I'm like, dude, two days, two days from this. What the hell happened to me, dude? Sometimes I pay more for the one day. And it doesn't even matter. I don't need it in one day. I can get it in two. If I see anything over two days, I ain't buying it. Yeah. It's cra that's crazy. ⁓ all right. We'll skip the rest of these because Spotify, yeah, of course. That's a smash. Or just say smash or pass. Spotify Apple music now at the at your fingers. Spotify. ⁓ bro. Spotify smash, smash, smash. Self checkout. Self checkout. Self checkout. Pass. Pass. Smartphones. Thought you didn't like people. I love people, dog. They just don't love me. Ha ha there you go. That's it's a line for a shirt. I like people, they just don't like me. ⁓ sh goes down here. ⁓ yeah, this one I know you're all about. Tinder. Tinder, that's all you. Or else I you know what? I I'm gonna say smash. Yeah, because that's how you got your chick, right? You would have you would have never met me. ⁓ wait, what? I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. No, that's a pass. I don't care about Tinder. Bro, you said you met Laura on online. Christian Mingle. ⁓ Christian Mingle. Christian Mingle is a smash, smash, smash. Christian Tingle. How about AirPods? ⁓ yeah, of course. You love those if you love the OG. AirPoop. But mine only lasted two hours and I hated that. ⁓ that's yeah, that does suck the battery. Remember my remember I used to have ⁓ on here and they would die out on the show. ⁓ what about this? Electric cars. Pass. What? I'm smashed. We're about to go to elect, homie. I know. You we had this conversation you were calling me a bunch of names. Yeah, hey, but I am gonna get back a truck, but I want a a big ass truck. What I I want a forty five hundred. All right. crypto. I want a diesel, bro. Like over the top, like ⁓ Hawk. Hey, what if I a rig? What if I show up to your house, bro, with Optimus Prime? ⁓ I'll show it to the bowling alley like that, homie. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. I don't play around. Crypto is ⁓ pass. Yeah, pass because I don't really understand it. I don't know I don't get it. I don't get it. So if I don't understand it, I don't I'm not putting no money into it. ⁓ what about this? Kind of scary. Self driving cars like those Waymo's. Yeah, that's scary. I haven't been in one, but I heard it's scary. You need you need the human touch, bro. Yeah, bro. I want to see somebody at the back of somebody's neck. You know what I mean? I wanna see no nothing up there. How about this AI? That one's kind of ⁓ controversial. I don't know. I I I agree with it to a certain point. ⁓ I'm all for entertainment purposes. I'm all for for making promos for your podcast. But I'm not I'm not Now I find myself looking at stuff, I'm like, this has to be AI. This has to be AI. I hate that. I hate that. I don't like that. and then you still have ongoing beef with AI member, because every time I post the the new screenshots for the Bro, you make me look like crab dog for the thumbnails. You're like, That does it. You look you look good at it. I look like I look that does it some Joey Diaz See, it's not me. It's because that one time that one guy made that comment. You never want to let it go. All right, Uncle. Well, guess what? We're gonna finish it with you. Uncle knows best. so all this technology we're talking about, all this ⁓ new stuff we get to play with, what's your opinion? Is it good? Should it keep going? Can it go too far? And the last little bonus question, what do you miss the most? about old tackers or anything you miss them almost maybe it's that cassette player like something like that. as far as the new technology, bro, I'm gonna say like everything in life, bro, moderation. Yeah, 'cause yeah, I think I think too much technology is gonna make people lazy. It's gonna make people not do what they should be doing. ⁓ but I'm also in favor for obviously advances in in technology, bro. Get us I don't know if you saw they they released I guess new images off of Mars. ⁓ I saw that bro it looks like it looks like palmdale brother I thought it was little rock. I thought it was a pear blossom. No I could live over there. Yeah so so stuff like that, yes. Medicine, yes. If it if it if they're gonna find a cure If AI can find a cure for cancer, more powerful. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. But I don't need these videos of bears and lions fighting in the woods and then you know what I mean? Like i it's it's crazy because Like I said, moderation is gonna is is is key to this to me. I agree. I agree. And I and I and I think if as long as they use it for the better the better the betterment, the betterness of of as long as they use it for better. Right, right. And they and they they make advancements in health, advancements in science, advancements for yeah. Stuff that's gonna get us to a better place, then I'm all for it. Yeah. But if you're using it for nonsense, if you're using if you're making me look like Joey Diaz on crack, come on, bro. Get rid of that. You know the one I use now is just a straight screenshot. The only AI did on the one is cause sometimes it makes it makes a bunch of weird lines and wrinkles on our face. So all I said to AI is. No, but it's like weird. It like darkens them. It's weird. It's weird. If you look real close, you can see all these weird little like I don't know if it's the image. All I do is that's a straight screenshot from me or make this guy ugly and make me handsome. And then I put AI just smooth out our faces because get rid of all those things. And that's it. That's us which just smoother face. That's it. That's and a couple of those are nothing. There's legit screenshots. But anywho, anywho. ⁓ what was what's the one thing you miss? Yeah, what's the one thing you miss? I miss the simplicity. I miss I miss I miss the carefree. The carefree the carefree times. The simplicity of of life. And I guess it was because I didn't know any better because technology wasn't where it's at now. So you you you get I mean, you obviously with age you get to reflect on life. Yeah. So yeah, I mean that's probably what I miss the most. That's a good answer. I love it. I love technology. I miss you're right. I miss like last night, ⁓ I told you that's why I was late on the video for today. The power kept going out. My son's just sitting down there. He looked like he was about to freak out. I kinda was about to freak out 'cause I like I haven't had the power out in forever. I don't I didn't know what to do with myself. My son was like, What are you doing? I like, Me and Desire were lighting candles and he's like, What are you guys and I'm like, This is what you had to do back in the day when the power went out and the power sometimes would go out for the whole day. It wasn't like, ⁓ it's you get notices and alerts. No, it was just the power's out. All right, I don't Hey, get the candles, go get the flashlights. I think my mom will put the radio on with the battery and we just sit there in the dark and just listen to music or yeah or or talk radio or something. And I was like and he was like, What? And I was like, Yeah, that ⁓ my the power just went out. ⁓ no, technology. ⁓ no. ⁓ it was my my computer. Hey, wrap it up, wrap it up. ⁓ so anyway, so I yeah, bro. I I love technology. I love I love all the advancements. I do miss the simplicity, I do miss the sim simple of put a tape in and listen to the whole thing and back and you couldn't skip songs unless you fast forward and it wasn't worth it. You just listen to that whole sucker. So I do miss that stuff. I do miss riding a bike. Now they got electric bites and electric scooters and come on, bro. What happened to just a a skateboard or a bicycle? So I do miss a lot of that stuff. ⁓ but I am happy to be that we've seen so much tech advances in technology in just our lifetimes. And I am I I I am curious to see, you know, we're we're we're old, we're old, Unc, but we're not that old. We're gonna still see some more stuff, so who knows? Maybe one of somebody will be living on the moon soon. I don't know. But either way, I hope the gentleman hours sticks around and survives, you know what I mean? And ⁓ let's end it on that, Unc. Thank you. Thank you to you, thank you to ⁓ my computer is weird stuff. It's going off and on and off and on. thank you to ⁓ everybody listening. Thank you to ⁓ everybody at that on Saturday again. Another shout out to all of them. That was cool. And ⁓ yeah, let's keep this thing going. Thank you, Unk. I'm gonna end it.