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- 0:00All right. Well, welcome back, everybody. Sorry for the short hiatus.
- 0:04I had vacation travel and then some business travel put me out for a little bit.
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- 0:28You think we do?
- 0:30We did get two comments.
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- 0:37Absolutely.
- 0:38We enjoy that.
- 0:39And as said, we responded to each of them.
- 0:42Oh, you did.
- 0:42I didn't.
- 0:44Well, you know.
- 0:45You tried to get me on there, but like my technology aversion is very strong.
- 0:51So I don't know if I'll ever be on there or not.
- 0:55But I do look.
- 0:56I look from afar.
- 0:57I think that's probably best to keep you out of the comment section anyhow.
- 1:02I admire the comments from afar.
- 1:05That's a good way to admire them.
- 1:07I like that.
- 1:08I like it a lot.
- 1:10I actually got my wife to watch last time.
- 1:12Well, I mean, I didn't get her to watch.
- 1:14She asked me.
- 1:15She was inquiring, and I said, hey, this is where it's at.
- 1:19It's, I don't know, a little embarrassing, I guess.
- 1:24Okay.
- 1:24Slightly.
- 1:26Maybe.
- 1:26I don't know.
- 1:27I was more worried like what I said about her, but everything I said was pretty good.
- 1:33Yeah.
- 1:34I mean, hey.
- 1:35So it went over well, I think.
- 1:37Awesome.
- 1:38I didn't say anything negative, thankfully.
- 1:41Why would you?
- 1:42I wouldn't.
- 1:43I just, you know, like, I don't know.
- 1:46I kind of go off the cuff and then I forget what I say.
- 1:48And then because, you know, I don't really like podcasts.
- 1:51So I definitely don't really listen to it.
- 1:54But I listened to it from, you know, like across the room.
- 1:57I heard her listening to it.
- 1:59I'm like, I hope I didn't say anything bad.
- 2:01But I didn't.
- 2:02So it was all good.
- 2:03I think you did just fine.
- 2:05Has Mrs. Havoc watched either of these things yet?
- 2:10No, she keeps telling me I've already heard them.
- 2:12And I'm like, what do you mean?
- 2:13She's like, well, I'm in the other room, so I can hear everything you're saying.
- 2:17Oh, she can hear me too?
- 2:19No.
- 2:19And that's what I keep saying.
- 2:20I'm like, all you hear is me.
- 2:22You don't hear, you know, LX.
- 2:24You don't hear, you know, other people if they're on the show or whatever.
- 2:29So I'll be here to watch.
- 2:31Well, don't force her.
- 2:32I mean, you know.
- 2:32Yeah, I'm going to strap her down, you know, clockwork orange, taper eyelids open.
- 2:39You can be facing charges or something, right?
- 2:41Yeah, okay.
- 2:43So that's off the table.
- 2:44Yeah.
- 2:45All right.
- 2:46Maybe a briber.
- 2:47I don't know.
- 2:48Is that legal?
- 2:49Right.
- 2:49Is that illegal?
- 2:50Bribe your spouse.
- 2:50I think that's completely legit.
- 2:52Like, nobody cares, right?
- 2:53I don't know.
- 2:54You can bribe your kids.
- 2:55It's okay.
- 2:56Nobody cares.
- 2:57Sure.
- 2:58Yeah.
- 2:58I don't know.
- 2:59I don't have kids, so I guess, yeah.
- 3:02I tried bribing the cat.
- 3:03It didn't work too well.
- 3:04I mean, cats just don't care.
- 3:06So, you know, the fact that they don't care, they don't care about the bribe.
- 3:10They don't care in general.
- 3:12They just don't care.
- 3:14I mean, when I opened the snack cabinet, she comes to running from wherever she's at.
- 3:19Oh, yes.
- 3:19then as soon as they're gone
- 3:21so is she
- 3:22there's your bribe
- 3:24you get you know
- 3:25six seconds of
- 3:27you know
- 3:28cat bribery working
- 3:31and then the cat returns to you
- 3:33I really don't care about you
- 3:34you're just an oversized can opener to me
- 3:37I mean she chooses to sit on my lap
- 3:40once in a while
- 3:41and I appreciate it
- 3:42you know like
- 3:42you do all this stuff
- 3:44provide you a home
- 3:46and you know like
- 3:47medical care
- 3:48and toys
- 3:49and all that stuff. At least you could sit on my lap
- 3:51for, you know, once in a while. Well, they do like
- 3:53doing that. Yeah.
- 3:55Probably just stealing my warmth.
- 3:57It has nothing to do with affection at all.
- 4:00Yeah, I'm pretty sure
- 4:01you're right. I just
- 4:02generally low opinion of cats as pets,
- 4:05but that's me.
- 4:07Yeah. Nah, I'm just... I love my cats.
- 4:09They're pretty good. Oh, yeah. Same.
- 4:12Same.
- 4:13I'm not saying I don't love my cats.
- 4:16We have multiples.
- 4:18I just...
- 4:19okay I love cats I like them outside they're great outside you don't have to clean up after
- 4:26them they don't puke on your floor they don't give you attitude you know they're just cool
- 4:32and then you go outside you pet them they sit on your lap if you're sitting outside and then they
- 4:37run off and do their own thing and it's all good you get the benefit of the cat without
- 4:41the other parts like the the hidden box of poop somewhere in your house yeah yeah it's interesting
- 4:48how this keeps up.
- 4:49This is
- 4:50the second show where we've talked about
- 4:54cat poop in your house. Why is
- 4:56that? We have nothing better to
- 4:58talk about, I guess.
- 4:59I have all kinds of stuff talked about. I'm sure you
- 5:02do too. Probably.
- 5:04But anytime cats come up, we
- 5:06have to inquire as to
- 5:07why it is we have
- 5:09a box full of their fecal
- 5:12matter. Hidden as best you
- 5:14can, but you still know it's there.
- 5:16I mean, they make furniture for it.
- 5:18Right.
- 5:19Now we have like a fake potted plant thing.
- 5:22Yeah, we have like a, I don't know what it is, just a big wooden cabinet thing.
- 5:27And it's got a hole cut in one side.
- 5:28And you don't really know it's a cat box, but it is.
- 5:32That's what it does.
- 5:34Nice.
- 5:35Really, its only purpose is to hold a cat litter box and be a bigger box to put a smaller box of fecal matter in so that nobody knows there's a small box of fecal matter inside the bigger box.
- 5:48I may have said this before, but, like, somebody would make a killing, like, be richer than Elon if they came up with a poopless cat.
- 5:57Like, you know.
- 5:58Yeah.
- 5:59It would be crushing.
- 6:02I can see.
- 6:03Yeah, that would go over really.
- 6:05That would.
- 6:05Honestly.
- 6:06Like, who wouldn't want one, right?
- 6:08Why not?
- 6:09Yeah.
- 6:09That would be, like, the best thing ever.
- 6:11I think it would.
- 6:12That would solve some of my hesitancy towards house cats.
- 6:20Well, I mean, at least you don't have, like, a house goat or something.
- 6:22True.
- 6:23True.
- 6:23Yeah, that would not be good.
- 6:25I mean, they got those little ones.
- 6:27They're pretty cute.
- 6:28I could see Mrs. Havoc bringing one of them things home and being like, hey, look what I got.
- 6:33Well, yeah, so we need diapers on it because they don't, they really, there's no potty training a goat.
- 6:40But they're like, yeah, I'm just, I'm going to take a pee right now.
- 6:43Here I am.
- 6:46The pellets, I guess that's not so terrible because they're dry and they just kind of all over the place like little pellets.
- 6:56And welcome to poop talk with Alex and Havoc, right?
- 6:59I mean, come on.
- 7:00Come on.
- 7:01Why did I go down this road?
- 7:02There has to be a million forks in a row and I had to choose this one with all the poop.
- 7:08It seems to be something interesting to you, though, because it's not the first time.
- 7:13Mental, I guess.
- 7:15Anyway, how's your garden doing?
- 7:19We've got everything pretty much prepped.
- 7:25We've got seedlings started and all that good stuff.
- 7:28We still have to clean out the high tunnel and get it bed ready.
- 7:32we actually saw a major discount on the
- 7:37the Vigo garden
- 7:41bed thing so got a few more of those to get rid of
- 7:45we pulled up the wood beds we had down in the
- 7:49lower raised bed garden and
- 7:53replaced all those with Vigos so
- 7:56my wife got text from them last week too they were threatening
- 8:01that the price increases.
- 8:04Yeah, that...
- 8:05The tariffs scare us into buying more, I guess.
- 8:07And I'm like, yeah, I don't like those tactics
- 8:09particularly, so...
- 8:11Well, you've got, you know,
- 8:13tariffs coming, and we all
- 8:15know that that's...
- 8:18It has a high likelihood
- 8:19of raising consumer prices
- 8:21at least for a period of time.
- 8:24Yeah.
- 8:25Maybe we just consume too much as a
- 8:27country, then. I don't know.
- 8:29It's possible. It is highly
- 8:31possible. In fact, I would say, yeah, for sure, without question. But, you know, anyway, they
- 8:37offered discount and yeah, I saw that, hey, our price is going to, you know, rise, you know,
- 8:44whatever percentage. I bought before that because they had like a 40, 41, why 41? But they had like
- 8:53a 41% discount. And I was like, all right, well, I'll buy. I knew we had a few more beds we needed
- 9:00to replace with this.
- 9:01So we've got one that's an eight by eight bed with cattle panels kind of arched over
- 9:08it.
- 9:09Okay.
- 9:10And we use that for trellising plants.
- 9:12Like, you know, cucumbers is a big one, beans, things of that nature.
- 9:17But the problem with it is, well, it's not how I want it to be, right?
- 9:24So one of the things we want to do is use the Vigos in the long but not super wide format.
- 9:31I don't remember.
- 9:32It's like two by eight or something like that.
- 9:35Put the cattle panels in between those.
- 9:37So we go in the bed and then it would trellis over.
- 9:40It goes over like jumps to the next one.
- 9:42Yeah.
- 9:43And also give us a little bit more height because as is, you kind of have to hunch down to get in there, which is kind of a bummer.
- 9:51Right.
- 9:51So that was one of them.
- 9:53and then what we've been using as a watermelon bed decided to go ahead
- 9:58and throw that one in there as well.
- 10:00Unfortunately, I completely brain farted, and instead of the white ones,
- 10:07which I want because it's hot, I got Sky Blue.
- 10:12So whatever.
- 10:13Or maybe those were what was on sale and nobody cares about Sky Blue
- 10:18and likes it.
- 10:19I don't know.
- 10:19I don't know.
- 10:20She asked me about it.
- 10:21I know she wants to get a couple more to round out what we have, and I just kind of blew her off, I think.
- 10:26Maybe I should reinvestigate it and let her get them before they get unaffordable.
- 10:35It doesn't hurt to have more garden space.
- 10:37I mean, we got that freezer.
- 10:40We did.
- 10:41I had to do a smaller repair to it already.
- 10:44Oh, really?
- 10:44The joys of buying used appliances.
- 10:47Yeah.
- 10:48What happened?
- 10:49So we have a temperature probe in there so we can keep an eye on things.
- 10:55I got one in the other one, too.
- 10:56And I noticed that it was slightly warmer than it had been, like not drastically, but it was originally around minus 10.
- 11:06And then it jumped up to around zero.
- 11:10And it was constantly running.
- 11:12So I pulled the stuff up and the coils were all frozen up.
- 11:16And it ended up that it was the defrost timer, which I found a, I don't know.
- 11:24It had good reviews, but not OEM quality for less than $20 on the Amazon site.
- 11:31But it seems to be working fine.
- 11:34And it'll run through a defrost cycle, and it won't ice up the coils and not work as well.
- 11:40And actually, the compressor will kick off once in a while.
- 11:43Well, hey, I mean, for less than 20 bucks, if you have to replace it more than once, it's not like it's breaking the bank or anything.
- 11:50No, YouTube comes in handy when researching these things.
- 11:54I mean, if you called somebody out, probably paying you for two, three hundred bucks, I'm sure.
- 11:58I'm positive they probably have like one hundred and fifty dollar service call.
- 12:02Oh, at least.
- 12:03Right off the bat.
- 12:04And then I'm sure they, you know, give you a surcharge on the part itself.
- 12:09Oh, yeah.
- 12:10But I mean, you know, people are entitled to make a living.
- 12:12Well, of course.
- 12:13It just gets expensive.
- 12:15It does.
- 12:15It does.
- 12:17I mean, you know, hey, you become an expert in that stuff, and that's what you do, and you can figure it out and fix it in 10 minutes.
- 12:24That's what you're paying for.
- 12:25Mm-hmm.
- 12:27Yeah.
- 12:27I mean, there's Chilton's manuals everywhere, but you don't see people tearing their engines, well, with some exceptions.
- 12:34I've seen some pretty questionable videos on YouTube.
- 12:39Well, there is that.
- 12:41Yeah.
- 12:42There's a reason there are professionals for a lot of things.
- 12:46Yeah.
- 12:47Some people just should not even attempt their own automotive repairs.
- 12:52It's very cringeworthy.
- 12:55No doubt.
- 12:55But if you have a spare vehicle and you don really need to depend on it or care much about your safety or the safety of your loved ones that are going to drive it And I like Hey go for it I mean you got to learn someplace
- 13:06I guess.
- 13:07Yeah.
- 13:08I'd agree with that.
- 13:10I guess for the most part,
- 13:11maybe sometimes.
- 13:13I mean,
- 13:13I wouldn't,
- 13:14I wouldn't try the,
- 13:15you know,
- 13:15like if you're depending on the vehicle for,
- 13:17you know,
- 13:19transporting people like Uber or something,
- 13:21I'd let a professional maybe handle that.
- 13:24It also depends on what it is,
- 13:25right?
- 13:26If it's a hose or a belt or something, okay, great.
- 13:29I don't know if you're rebuilding an automatic transmission.
- 13:32Yeah, call someone.
- 13:34Yeah, yeah.
- 13:35Now, transmissions, even within automotive technicians,
- 13:40transmissions are like their whole separate thing.
- 13:44That's, you know, like their own specialty.
- 13:46Most mechanics really don't even get into that.
- 13:49They let somebody else handle that stuff.
- 13:50If you're ever getting the compunction to do something that involves springs, don't fire a professional.
- 14:01They turn into very damaging projectiles.
- 14:06They can. They can.
- 14:07I've seen way too many people with those things stuck in ceilings and walls.
- 14:13You're talking like coil springs, like suspension springs?
- 14:16Suspension springs, yeah.
- 14:18They're not that bad.
- 14:19if you don't know what you're doing, they're very bad.
- 14:24Oh, let me just unscrew this. It'll come right off.
- 14:27Yeah, no, if you don't have the right coil compressors,
- 14:31and then, yeah, no, you just don't go like, you know,
- 14:35stick an impact on the end of your strut assembly
- 14:37and decide you want to take the spring off.
- 14:39That's a bad idea.
- 14:41Yeah, exactly. And it happens.
- 14:43I'm sure it does. I'm sure it does.
- 14:46Yeah, I've seen some pretty bad,
- 14:49I'm going to replace my own brake pads jobs, too.
- 14:52Oh, yeah.
- 14:53Yeah.
- 14:54I don't know.
- 14:55I mean, you kind of depend on brakes to stop.
- 14:57I've seen some pretty bad.
- 14:59Those are four.
- 15:02Cut a hole in the floorboards and put your feet down like Fred Flintstone.
- 15:06Right.
- 15:06You know, I don't know.
- 15:09People think they, I don't know.
- 15:11I mean, that's the paradox of YouTube, I guess.
- 15:15Everybody thinks they're an expert on everything after watching a video about it.
- 15:21Experience is a, I don't know.
- 15:23Yeah, it certainly can give a full sense of confidence at times.
- 15:27It can, yeah.
- 15:28But other times you get someone on there that really knows what they're doing and they'll tell you, like, watch out for this.
- 15:34You need to be careful here.
- 15:35You know, they're very, very thorough about it.
- 15:38But there are a lot of people that are like, oh, there's no problem.
- 15:41Just do this and flip this over and you're done.
- 15:44And people are like, oh, I could do that.
- 15:46That's easy.
- 15:48Right.
- 15:49Yeah.
- 15:49So I watch a guy that does a guitar repair.
- 15:53He's a luthier.
- 15:53He's in Canada.
- 15:55Name is Ted Woodford.
- 15:57And like, I think it's amazing that they can take this guitar that's like totally unplayable.
- 16:02It's like, you know, got a big crack in it or even a hole in it.
- 16:06You know, then the guy can fix it.
- 16:08So it's actually a playable instrument again.
- 16:11Like, there's no way, even though I've watched, you know, a bunch of videos from this guy, there's no way I would ever attempt that.
- 16:17Because, like, just wood is not my thing to start with.
- 16:20But it's just, you know, amazing.
- 16:22And he can explain how to do it, but I'm sure that, you know, a lot of that comes with experience and screwing up along the way.
- 16:30Oh, yeah, for sure.
- 16:31But, I mean, you know, if you've got an older one and it's all damaged and you're not going to pay to fix it, why not?
- 16:36Give it a shot.
- 16:37I mean, you're probably not going to break it any worse if it's already broken.
- 16:39That's, you know, the other thing.
- 16:41You might, but you might also learn something, right?
- 16:45So what's the worst is broken already.
- 16:49If I break it worse and I learned something, I actually gained something.
- 16:53And another one that I watch, like they fix consumer electronics.
- 16:57And like, again, another thing that I really don't have any interest in doing myself,
- 17:01but I find it interesting that these very expensive electronic devices can be rendered
- 17:07completely useless by a nearly microscopic resistor just like one of them goes bad so like
- 17:14you know these guys got the microscopes and the tiny tiny little you know probes and things and
- 17:18you know for and and the components are literally pennies and they can fix you know like a 300
- 17:24you know tablet or something with you know a three cent component it's kind of crazy that
- 17:32they design these things to be so disposable.
- 17:36I mean, most people will just throw it away because it's not, you know,
- 17:39end user friendly whatsoever to repair that stuff.
- 17:42Sometimes it's not even feasible to send it in.
- 17:46Yeah, for sure.
- 17:47Yeah, it's, you know, it's the way the world is now.
- 17:50Consume, consume, consume.
- 17:52Right.
- 17:53You know, my, for example, my wife had like a fitness watch
- 17:58and the battery needed replacing in it.
- 18:03And so we called around some places
- 18:05and to get the battery replaced
- 18:07would cost more than the new device cost,
- 18:12you know, brand new.
- 18:15So it's like, you know,
- 18:17if you can't do it yourself
- 18:18and some of that stuff,
- 18:21there's a lot of it manufactured
- 18:23with like no visible screws.
- 18:24So you need like the spudger tool.
- 18:27it's like a flat pry bar thing to open up these things.
- 18:30And if you do it wrong,
- 18:32it's like game over anyway.
- 18:35Yeah.
- 18:35It's broken.
- 18:36Yeah.
- 18:36And it's very broken.
- 18:38Yeah,
- 18:39exactly.
- 18:41It's broke.
- 18:42It's not coming back from that.
- 18:44Right.
- 18:45Yeah.
- 18:47So anyway,
- 18:48I don't even know how we got off this tangent that we started on a
- 18:50appliance repair,
- 18:51but yeah,
- 18:52I mean,
- 18:52appliance repair is not too terrible.
- 18:54I think the older stuff is probably better quality than the newer stuff.
- 19:00It is for sure.
- 19:04So we went from basically solid state stuff, right?
- 19:08You had kind of a turn dial knob, a clicker, if you will, right?
- 19:13And it would click to a certain thing and you would push a button and it would go.
- 19:17And now you've got a digital screen and everything.
- 19:20The knob isn't actually turning anything.
- 19:23It's just creating a little pressure on a foil plate to make contact with the circuit board behind it.
- 19:30The biggest part of that whole machine now is just a circuit board.
- 19:37And 9% of the time, you have a problem that's on that circuit board.
- 19:41It makes it more difficult for you to be able to repair it.
- 19:44And of course, that's a very expensive part to replace.
- 19:48Yeah, exactly.
- 19:50And they're pretty sensitive, too.
- 19:51It costs $120 to make and $250 to replace.
- 19:57Right.
- 19:59And then if you buy it and that's not the problem, then you're stuck with it because you can't return that stuff either.
- 20:07Yeah, a lot of the times, that's for sure.
- 20:09Yeah.
- 20:10Yeah.
- 20:11I mean, car automotive repairs get in the same way.
- 20:15They used to have one computer controlling the whole car back in the 80s.
- 20:21when they first came out with them.
- 20:23Now they have, you know, seven, eight different, you know,
- 20:27computers controlling different things. Crazy.
- 20:30My ABS module on my truck, right?
- 20:33The automatic braking system.
- 20:35That thing took out my cruise control and my, what else?
- 20:41My tire pressure monitors and, you know, a bunch of other stuff, right?
- 20:45Right.
- 20:46It was like, what the heck is going on here?
- 20:48And so, yeah, it's this little computer in your truck.
- 20:51And, of course, it's one of the most – I could freaking replace the engine for the cost of this little module.
- 20:58Yeah.
- 20:59That's kind of crazy.
- 21:01It is.
- 21:02It is.
- 21:03Yeah.
- 21:04It's even crazier looking at the prices of, like, these 80s pickup trucks.
- 21:10Have you seen them recently?
- 21:11Mm-hmm.
- 21:12They're getting, like, $10,000, $15,000, $20,000 for a 1980-something pickup truck.
- 21:18It's like, what?
- 21:19No way.
- 21:19Oh, yeah.
- 21:19go look at a uh you know go look at something that's in good shape like an old 69 camaro or
- 21:27something yeah it's like eighty thousand dollars for the dang things right but then again i mean a
- 21:32pickup truck is 80 a hundred thousand dollars which just blows my mind i'd rather have the
- 21:39twenty thousand dollar 1980 yeah that's that's probably why guys are are paying that for them
- 21:46I think so.
- 21:48Five, 10 years ago, you couldn't give the things away for $1,500 or a couple thousand bucks.
- 21:54Yeah.
- 21:55But anymore, the electronics have gotten so crazy.
- 21:58And you're almost guaranteed if you have a problem with the vehicle, it's going to be electronic in nature.
- 22:04And that's where the bill comes in.
- 22:06I mean, it just gets crazy.
- 22:08And most mechanics that I've known despise working on electronic stuff.
- 22:13Why is that?
- 22:14Because they can't just plug into it and get it?
- 22:16diagnosis from the computer you can or you can get an idea right but if there's like a you know
- 22:23a cable harness that's been rubbing on some steel for a while and there's a short somewhere
- 22:28then they're just hunting and pecking tearing panels off the dashboard getting under you know
- 22:35all that stuff right and they're just like no i kind of remember when um when carburetors being
- 22:42phased out for fuel injection. Everybody thought, you know, like the sky was falling down back then.
- 22:49And now it's kind of the other way around where nobody knows how to work on a carburetor anymore,
- 22:54basically. It's, you know, like they just don't want to deal with it.
- 22:57Yeah. I don't mind carburetors so much. I did have an old 1959 Mercedes at one time.
- 23:06it was a straight six with
- 23:09dual carves
- 23:11that was fun
- 23:12like every two to three times you drove
- 23:15the dang thing you had to go in there and adjust
- 23:17the carburetors because they'd get out of
- 23:19timing and it was just
- 23:20right yeah
- 23:22I mean there have been some you know
- 23:25improvements over time
- 23:27I'm not going to disagree with that
- 23:29but there's
- 23:31a lot of things that I don't know I
- 23:33don't feel that we need and I think it
- 23:35Puts a lot of complications and a lot of added cost.
- 23:38A lot of the government mandates, you know, they call them safety.
- 23:42But, you know, the backup cameras, the braking system, you know, a lot of the.
- 23:48Now most cars have the radar systems in them, you know, collision avoidance, the mirrors that light up.
- 23:55And we don't have any of that stuff.
- 23:58But I don't know.
- 24:00When it works, it's OK.
- 24:01when it breaks
- 24:03everything you know touch
- 24:05touch screens I don't think the touch screens are
- 24:07you know how are they going to be in 10 years
- 24:09probably not great
- 24:11who knows
- 24:12holographic screens
- 24:15right
- 24:15I don't know
- 24:17I kind of miss the tactile like just buttons
- 24:21instead of you know navigating
- 24:23a touch screen
- 24:24I have a lot of moments where I just
- 24:27think you know what
- 24:28an Amish buggy
- 24:30and hook the horse up to it, and I'm good.
- 24:34Right.
- 24:35And, you know, I just, yeah.
- 24:38Speaking of which, I did read more of that book.
- 24:40Oh, you did?
- 24:42I did.
- 24:42I did.
- 24:43I still have not finished it.
- 24:44I need to, but.
- 24:45Yeah, what is the name of that book?
- 24:48Better Off.
- 24:49Better Off.
- 24:50That's right.
- 24:51I've gotten around here somewhere.
- 24:52Let me do a plug.
- 24:53Yeah, because you talked me into getting the book.
- 24:56Actually, you bought it for me,
- 24:57And we were going to do like a book club kind of thing and discuss it.
- 25:02And I don't know.
- 25:03I read through it.
- 25:04I liked it.
- 25:04I enjoyed it.
- 25:05But it's about a college.
- 25:09I think he was a professor or something.
- 25:11And he decided to move into an Amish community.
- 25:15And that's it.
- 25:16Better Off by Eric Brend.
- 25:18So, yeah, he moved into an Amish community with his wife and kind of, you know, just lived.
- 25:24He didn't become Amish, but he lived within the community and followed their protocols and such.
- 25:29And he learned quite a bit.
- 25:31Yeah.
- 25:31I think he enjoyed it.
- 25:33So far, I'm—oh, go ahead.
- 25:35Sorry.
- 25:35No, I was just saying he stayed there for, you know, quite a while.
- 25:37I don't want to give the whole book away, but he stayed there, you know, quite a long time.
- 25:40Yeah, I've been enjoying it so far.
- 25:42Every time I pick it up, I really enjoy reading it.
- 25:44And then I have to do something else, and I put it down, and it's like I want to get back to it and stuff.
- 25:51I should probably reread it so I remember.
- 25:54a little better.
- 25:55I sure you will You be fine The whole Amish community it kind of alluring to me I don necessarily want to be part of the Amish community as far as the strict religious doctrines and things like that
- 26:11But I appreciate the rooted nature of it without the technology and the helping your neighbor and such like that.
- 26:24Yeah, no, the community aspect of it as well as the family, right, is just insane.
- 26:31There's something amazing about that, right?
- 26:35They don't, you know, in our lives, you know, you have children, they grow up, they want to move away.
- 26:41They want to go do their own thing.
- 26:43And they have children and their children move away.
- 26:46And, you know, it's just this kind of splintered family cell.
- 26:49whereas with the Amish they
- 26:51you know they all stick together and oh
- 26:53you know kids are you know growing up
- 26:55so let's build them a house and a barn
- 26:57and the whole community
- 26:59comes together. Have you ever watched
- 27:01one of those barn raising videos?
- 27:03No I haven't. It's
- 27:05absolutely insane. We sit here
- 27:07with all these people with all this
- 27:09technology and all these tools
- 27:11and watch people build houses
- 27:13and it takes them months and months and months
- 27:15these guys will come in and build
- 27:17barn with a house above it and, you know, the works.
- 27:22And they're done in, you know, two, three days.
- 27:24With no power tools.
- 27:26Yeah, yeah.
- 27:27And with fitted joinery and, you know,
- 27:30they're not just screwing stuff together with a, you know,
- 27:33a Milwaukee nail gun.
- 27:35They're making, you know, nice wood joints on these, you know, buildings.
- 27:42Oh, yeah.
- 27:43That's going to last for, you know, a long time.
- 27:46Yeah, hundreds of years.
- 27:47And, you know, the one thing they do have that, you know, obviously a lot of people don't have is, you know, they'll bring in the whole community.
- 27:57So you'll have 150 or so people there doing that.
- 28:01But, you know, even still, it's just, I would strongly urge anyone that hasn't seen one to just go out there and search Amish barn raising.
- 28:11It's fantastic.
- 28:12They've got some time lapse ones that'll show it to you in about, you know, three, five minutes or something.
- 28:18You just watch the thing go up.
- 28:20And if you pay attention to the sun, it goes up, it sets, you know, and then it starts again.
- 28:26And second day or so, the thing's done.
- 28:30It's mind boggling.
- 28:32I mean, they had a barn raising in that book.
- 28:35And they seem very good at delegating responsibilities to certain people.
- 28:40You know, even the children have duties and, you know, they add to it.
- 28:48They don't, you know, they don't take anything away from the process.
- 28:52Everybody has their part that they do.
- 28:54And I think it's great how a community can come together like that and help each other.
- 29:00But you got to be there for when other people need help too.
- 29:03So, you know, it's not just a taking.
- 29:05You have to give as well.
- 29:06So it's unfortunately a rarity to see that outside of natural disasters in, you know, our world.
- 29:16Right.
- 29:17But you do see it.
- 29:19Even with the disaster thing, it just kind of seems to me that once the news feed shuts off on a certain event in a few weeks, then everybody kind of drops off on it and kind of out of sight, out of mind.
- 29:33And, you know, meanwhile, the people going through that are still going through that for much, much longer than it was being talked about.
- 29:42You know, in Western NC, I know that, you know, a lot of that did happen, but it died down.
- 29:51But the local communities were still, you know, they're busting their behinds trying to get things built back up, roads made, you know, whatever they need to do, you know.
- 30:02Right.
- 30:03No, that's great.
- 30:04It would be nice if the local news kind of kept up with that, but it doesn't get any views, so I guess they don't do it anymore.
- 30:13There's no clicks in it, man.
- 30:15Yeah.
- 30:16All about the clicks.
- 30:18Oh, everything's about the clicks.
- 30:20And if you disagree with what I'm saying, leave a comment down below.
- 30:24Tell me how you disagree.
- 30:26Yeah.
- 30:26Like and subscribe.
- 30:28Or don't like.
- 30:28I don't care.
- 30:30But be interactive.
- 30:32We would like that.
- 30:33That's pretty awesome.
- 30:34I noticed that might be a little trick that people use on these videos.
- 30:40I think they intentionally have a controversial something or other.
- 30:44If you disagree, go ahead and comment down below and tell me.
- 30:49It does help the algorithm when people comment to push it out to other places so they can be viewed by a larger audience.
- 30:59You think?
- 31:00Yeah, no, that's how that works.
- 31:02Okay. Yeah. I'm not super well versed. I just, I like the interaction.
- 31:07I enjoy it. I don't do it for anything other than I get to talk to my friend on the, on the camera.
- 31:14Right. Yeah. All right. And that's, that's the best part.
- 31:18Yeah. Cause I don't, I don't really, I don't do the phone thing. We, you know, like we chat and text, you know, but I enjoy doing the video chat, which is something I don't normally do.
- 31:28But by don't do the phone thing just to let everyone else know, he doesn't have a phone.
- 31:36He just doesn't have one.
- 31:38So there is no phone to do the phone thing with.
- 31:41I mean, my wife has a phone if I needed to use a phone.
- 31:45But it's her phone.
- 31:46It's not my phone.
- 31:47You know, so I did see something pretty interesting.
- 31:49I guess they're looking to change
- 31:53like flying kind of rules and things
- 31:56where they're like making it a digital boarding pass
- 32:00where you have to show it on your phone
- 32:03when you go in there.
- 32:04I know they do that already,
- 32:06but I had to fly.
- 32:08I've only flown twice in my life.
- 32:09When I went, I printed the actual boarding pass at home
- 32:13and I brought a piece of paper
- 32:14and it was quite obvious that nobody does that
- 32:18because when I got there,
- 32:19like every literally every person except me had their phone out.
- 32:25And what happens when they make it 100 percent digital and somebody does not have a phone
- 32:30or, you know, a device like that?
- 32:33How do they work that?
- 32:34No, they're going to keep my understanding is that they push the digital thing.
- 32:38I've used it in the last couple of travels that I've had.
- 32:43It just makes it easier for me.
- 32:46It's just a paper porting pass on your phone.
- 32:49Right. So that's all cool. The airports did go to facial recognition.
- 32:56Yeah. So that's what they're doing. They're turning it into the AI facial recognition, something or other.
- 33:02Yeah. Coming into coming out of Nashville when I went into the security line. Mind you, I've done this three times already.
- 33:09Coming out of the coming into the security line there, they're like, you know, insert your ID here and then stare at this.
- 33:16And I'm like, yeah, I prefer not to.
- 33:18what i'm like yeah i'd prefer not to he goes but uh it i understand i i would prefer not to
- 33:29oh okay and then they just proceeded to take my id and look at it for
- 33:37i don't know an inordinate amount of time put it light to see the holograms and re-look at it
- 33:44to look at me and spend some extra time trying to make it.
- 33:51It's not yet mandatory then.
- 33:53No, and that'll probably be the day I'd just say no.
- 33:56Did you get the extra probing?
- 33:58I did not.
- 33:59I was ready for it.
- 34:01When we went to California, they did that at the airport on the way out.
- 34:08Then coming back, same thing.
- 34:10Then going to Nashville, same thing.
- 34:13Then coming back, same thing.
- 34:14And it's just like every time I'm like, no, I don't want to.
- 34:18Nope.
- 34:18When I flew, they pulled me into that little booth thing that, I don't know, like takes a picture of your room.
- 34:26I guess.
- 34:28And no, he's like, you got any jewelry on?
- 34:31I see something like around you.
- 34:33And I'm like, no, I don't even, I have nothing.
- 34:35Yeah.
- 34:36So like, you know, he's all padding me down.
- 34:38I'm like, dude, I don't know.
- 34:41They seem a little aggressive for some reason.
- 34:43they always are
- 34:45the silliest thing is they've never
- 34:48actually stopped
- 34:49anything from happening so they're just
- 34:51wasting our time
- 34:54and I don't want to get into all that
- 34:56but it's
- 34:58it's annoying
- 34:59to say the least
- 35:00and I'm not saying that there's not
- 35:04maybe some
- 35:05additional security that's needed
- 35:07for airports and flying
- 35:09and stuff like that but I think
- 35:11it's a bit ridiculous
- 35:13Yeah.
- 35:14I don't know.
- 35:15Take your shoes off.
- 35:16I'm just thankful.
- 35:17I did take my shoes off.
- 35:19I think actually the second time I wore flip-flops so I didn't have to deal with all that nonsense.
- 35:25I was wearing my Western boots because I can.
- 35:29Right?
- 35:32You just want to be more difficult.
- 35:34You just want to be...
- 35:35No, I would never do such a thing.
- 35:38You're just contrary.
- 35:39That's your problem.
- 35:40maybe maybe a little bit so like i mean i watch these videos of these guys that like
- 35:49give really hard times when they get pulled over like you know i i get that they're asserting their
- 35:55rights and stuff like i don't know i don't know if i have enough patience to do that and not
- 36:01get beat up you know like dragged out the window because i mean exactly i don't want to deal with
- 36:08that nonsense there's a limit to mine right but you know when they're rolling out new stuff new
- 36:15technology and they're like oh this is going to make things easier it's it's not the reason you're
- 36:19doing this it's not um and uh you know i i am a technologist so i have limited extremely limited
- 36:29trust and in technology in general and depending on who is wielding and holding wielding the
- 36:37technology and housing the data also determines my level of trust.
- 36:42And in this case, let's just say that there is no one, I think, that is much below
- 36:50public entities on my trust level.
- 36:56You're just thinking negatively.
- 36:58This is all for your safety and convenience.
- 37:02I'm very well aware.
- 37:04I know.
- 37:05I know.
- 37:05So I probably need to go to the re-education camp, you know.
- 37:11I mean, to make it even easier, you don't even have to carry your phone anymore.
- 37:14We're going to put something in your right hand,
- 37:18and maybe you can have it in your forehead if you want to,
- 37:21and then you don't have to worry about any of this stuff.
- 37:23Sure, yeah.
- 37:27Sounds like a story I've heard before.
- 37:29A little story you've heard before.
- 37:31Yeah, no, when that comes, I'm out, man.
- 37:33Nah, I'm just, I'll have to disagree.
- 37:35I'm trying to basically, I guess at the end of the day, you know, if these things come in and they either garner acceptance or they don't.
- 37:47And if there are enough that say, no, I don't think so, or I'd prefer not to, then it becomes very difficult to make that a mandated thing, right?
- 37:57I don't know. I think we're probably going to be in the minority because I think most people, they just want to comply because they don't want to face confrontation. Most people don't like confrontation.
- 38:11This is true.
- 38:11So they would, I think they would rather comply with things and just, you know, go with the flow, which I mean, I get it. I get it. You know, but I don't know. I guess I'm kind of contrary as well. Sometimes.
- 38:27time.
- 38:28Right.
- 38:29Maybe a little bit.
- 38:30Believe it or not, though, each time I was doing this, I was seeing more than just one
- 38:36or something like that.
- 38:38It wasn't just me saying no thanks.
- 38:40Right.
- 38:41I mean, who knows?
- 38:43I mean, sometimes you just, I don't know.
- 38:45I don't know.
- 38:46Sometimes it's difficult to say no to things.
- 38:48It's always easy to say no to things.
- 38:50It's just difficult to deal with the somewhat uncomfortable situation you might be in when you say no.
- 38:58The repercussions And my wife always tells me everything has a consequence And I like you right I mean good or bad It does Every choice you make has a consequence one way or the other
- 39:12No, it does. It 100% does. You know, it's, it's, uh,
- 39:16it's one of those things I, I just don't look.
- 39:19I don't see a need for another enhanced level
- 39:27or layer of security at this point.
- 39:30I think it's enough.
- 39:34I think it's enough.
- 39:36It's been enough.
- 39:39Arguably, it was too much when they implemented it.
- 39:42So now everyone's kind of gotten used to it.
- 39:46And it is what it is.
- 39:48But, you know, if they had come out in the beginning when they, you know, was it 05 when the TSA, you know, came into effect, if they had come out and said, OK, you're going to go through a body scanner or a facial recognition and everything's going to be scanned, you're going to have to take off everything.
- 40:06but the primary clothing you're wearing, et cetera,
- 40:10people would have just lost their minds.
- 40:13And so it's the frog in the pot of water, right?
- 40:18And you just start that burner off low, and froggy never mind.
- 40:23Yeah.
- 40:24I mean, it's also difficult once you go down that road
- 40:26to kind of back up that road.
- 40:28I think once that ship sails, you're kind of done.
- 40:32To my knowledge, there hasn't been any real instances where the road rewound, you know?
- 40:41Yeah.
- 40:41So.
- 40:42Like, I mean, weren't income taxes supposed to be a temporary measure back in the day?
- 40:49Mm-hmm.
- 40:50Yeah.
- 40:51It seemed pretty untemporary at this point.
- 40:55Yep.
- 40:56Yeah.
- 40:57Did you get your taxes done?
- 40:58We just did ours.
- 40:59What a pain in the neck, man.
- 41:02tomorrow you yeah it's it's one of the yeah it's one of those areas that i um
- 41:11my my my wife doesn't mind it so much except having to do them together right she's like i
- 41:22don't you are not this is not a good thing for you you know and i don't understand the whole
- 41:28process of it, right? I mean, it's like, why?
- 41:31Why? If you want to steal my money, steal my money.
- 41:34Stop making me go through hoops so you can steal more of it.
- 41:38Just take it. You know what's even more infuriating than
- 41:40income taxes? I know, like I want to watch your face
- 41:44on this one when I say this word. Property taxes.
- 41:47Yeah.
- 41:51Right? Let me pay rent on the house that I bought.
- 41:55Right? Yeah.
- 41:57That's something you can pay on for 30 years and then you can like lose it all for, you know, a few thousand bucks that, you know, for some unforeseen circumstance, you couldn't pay it.
- 42:08Yep.
- 42:09That's kind of crazy.
- 42:12No, it is.
- 42:12It's beyond insane.
- 42:15It's beyond insane.
- 42:16It really is.
- 42:17I mean, the entire notion of this is insane to me.
- 42:23Right.
- 42:23I mean, granted, okay, look, I'm not going to argue the validity of programs or the need for this or that.
- 42:32I'm not even going to do that.
- 42:33All I'm going to say is this one simple thing.
- 42:36There is no way that anyone can convince me that it needs to be this convoluted, complex, or require any of my time.
- 42:46Any of my time.
- 42:48That's just a reality of the situation.
- 42:51And the fact of the matter is the only reason it hasn't gone away is because it's the largest and most feared enforcement arm in this country.
- 43:00Period.
- 43:01That's true.
- 43:01It's the only reason.
- 43:03It's for that purpose.
- 43:05So anyway, a little tangential there.
- 43:08Hopefully we don't get like a strike on the account.
- 43:13Yeah, the channel.
- 43:14And, you know, I mean, YouTube does that too.
- 43:16They use AI to read the whole transcript, everything you say, so they know exactly what you're saying.
- 43:23Oh, yeah.
- 43:24That's why when you upload, it sits there and says, well, it's going to take us two hours.
- 43:28I'm like, dang, things upload.
- 43:30And they're like, well, you know, we have to make sure.
- 43:32I don't know the code.
- 43:34I'm sure there's a list somewhere of the trigger words for YouTube.
- 43:38I don't know what they are, but we'll find out.
- 43:43I know one of them.
- 43:44It starts with a V, and it's not vermin.
- 43:46Oh, that, you know, still?
- 43:49Maybe not.
- 43:50Maybe.
- 43:51I don't know.
- 43:52I don't want to test it, though.
- 43:53You know how you'll know if we hit on something, you'll get that little blue warning box,
- 44:00or, you know, like a descriptor box underneath the title of the video,
- 44:05and you'll be like, what the?
- 44:06Like, we're not even talking about that.
- 44:09Why is that there?
- 44:11Right.
- 44:11Yeah.
- 44:12It is what it is.
- 44:13I don't want to say it.
- 44:14I don't even want to give any examples because then it'll probably put it
- 44:16there.
- 44:17Yeah.
- 44:17Please don't.
- 44:18That's awesome.
- 44:20If you didn't do that,
- 44:21if you were able to manage just a wee bit of restraint for right now,
- 44:26I,
- 44:27I,
- 44:27I have to try very hard to do that.
- 44:31Same,
- 44:32same.
- 44:32Yeah.
- 44:33Every fiber in my being just wants to say whatever it is,
- 44:38but I,
- 44:39yeah,
- 44:40same,
- 44:42same.
- 44:42Maybe as we go, and we did have some comments and suggestions.
- 44:47One of them, someone had asked us to start up Spotify.
- 44:51I've not done that yet.
- 44:52I'll have to work on figuring that one out.
- 44:54And someone else had asked for Apple, and I'm completely,
- 45:01and I know nothing about the Apple ecosphere, really.
- 45:06Yeah, my wife's all about the Apple stuff.
- 45:08She likes it.
- 45:09all right well maybe she can she can help me it's probably not that difficult to figure out i just
- 45:15don't have an apple account is the thing and i'm uh okay so we'll we'll figure something out either
- 45:22way people will deal with it i you know like there's more than more than one uh option there
- 45:28they're all bringing kind of the same thing i wouldn't worry too much about it then maybe we'll
- 45:34We'll start up one of those alternative sites as well.
- 45:38And, you know, that way we can talk about whatever we want to and not have to worry about it.
- 45:45There you go.
- 45:46I didn't even think about that.
- 45:48Do like a long format and cut out the stuff that, you know, we can't.
- 45:53I several, a lot of people do that, I guess.
- 45:59Or a lot of people.
- 46:01How can I say this?
- 46:03Post 2020.
- 46:04Like in that area where you had those certain words that you couldn't talk about?
- 46:08They moved over to other...
- 46:09Somewhere around early 2020 that, yeah.
- 46:13They had to move to other platforms to discuss certain subjects.
- 46:18Indeed.
- 46:18I don't really want...
- 46:21You know, that's not the desire.
- 46:23No, I don't have any desire to talk about that nonstop.
- 46:27But, you know, like sometimes things come up.
- 46:29Exactly.
- 46:30And that's where it's like, yeah, okay.
- 46:32it would be nice to be able to release, you know,
- 46:36that uncut piece that has stuff that might make
- 46:42the powers that should not be upset.
- 46:50You're getting pretty good at this stuff already.
- 46:53Man, I'm trying, you know.
- 46:54It's difficult.
- 46:56My head goes, how do I say this?
- 46:58How do I say this?
- 46:59Right?
- 46:59It's like a brain exercise that keeps you sharp.
- 47:05It does, yeah.
- 47:06That was awful loud.
- 47:07I guess if I have the air hole, I wonder if it's going to be able to figure that one out.
- 47:11It's going to go, no, that was natural.
- 47:13It's enough dB.
- 47:15Don't cut that out.
- 47:16Maybe I'll just leave it in to annoy people.
- 47:19Oh, I'm sure.
- 47:21For those of you who think it's a terrible hazard of your health there,
- 47:26Just go ahead and comment down below and let us know how horrible it is for you.
- 47:32Yeah.
- 47:32If you think vaping would bad for your health, please comment.
- 47:36We'd love to hear what you have to say.
- 47:37Yeah.
- 47:38I mean, it's definitely better than cigarettes for sure.
- 47:40I don't think there's any doubt to that, right?
- 47:42So that's the big piece, right?
- 47:48My personal perspective on it is if you're not a smoker, why would you?
- 47:53Don't do that.
- 47:54Right.
- 47:55It's idiotic.
- 47:56right uh but if you are please please please go do that or something else but get those things
- 48:06out of your life you know like drinking water water is a good habit for you you think better
- 48:13than cigarettes right okay yeah probably yeah it's personally my favorite beverage yeah i used
- 48:21to never drink water. I was addicted
- 48:23to the sugary beverage for
- 48:25a long time. The one in the red can.
- 48:27I don't even want to say their name because it's horrible
- 48:29for you.
- 48:31Yeah, the one that
- 48:32rhymes with smoke.
- 48:35Yeah, that one.
- 48:37Dude, I think that was just
- 48:39as addicting as cigarettes. Without question.
- 48:41Yeah. It's purposefully addicting.
- 48:43Yeah. And it used to be cheap.
- 48:45It's kind of expensive now, I noticed.
- 48:48He used to be able to get
- 48:49a 12 pack for like
- 48:513 bucks or actually
- 48:53$2.50. It was like 4 for $10.
- 48:57Now it's like
- 48:57$9 for one.
- 48:59I remember sometimes you'd walk
- 49:01into the store and be like yeah 3 for 9
- 49:03or something like that. Right.
- 49:05Yeah. 4 for 10. I remember
- 49:074 for 10 for sure.
- 49:09Yeah. But I guess cigarettes
- 49:11were that way too because
- 49:12dude they're like almost $10 a pack
- 49:15now. I remember
- 49:17going to buy my father
- 49:19packs of cigarettes at Woolworths for 25 cents.
- 49:24Wow.
- 49:24And he would give me 50 cents and I would go buy the pack of cigarettes,
- 49:29but I had 25 cents and I would go to the penny candy section and pull out,
- 49:33you know, just gobs of candy, you know?
- 49:37I mean, it wasn't like, you know, you know, the, the big name candy bars.
- 49:41It was wrapped candies, but it was, it was good stuff for as a kid, you know,
- 49:46candy cigarettes, you know, back in the day, teach your kids to smoke.
- 49:50Come on now.
- 49:51The ones that are like chalk or like the bubble gum ones?
- 49:54They were kind of both.
- 49:55You know, the first time you, if you blew on it, it would blow out like chalk smoke.
- 50:01Oh, okay.
- 50:01Right.
- 50:02Oh, so those are the bubble gum.
- 50:03They had the hard ones that I remember.
- 50:08They were like little hard sticks, like kind of minty or something.
- 50:14I'm sure they're helpful for you too.
- 50:16Don't remember those, but yeah.
- 50:19Hey, what are you going to do?
- 50:21East Coast versus West Coast, I think is different.
- 50:25Yeah, probably.
- 50:26Probably.
- 50:27You know what I learned the other day is butter.
- 50:29Butter is different shapes, East Coast to West Coast.
- 50:33That's not.
- 50:33That's what I said.
- 50:34I heard that somewhere.
- 50:36Like the sticks are a different size.
- 50:37I don't think so.
- 50:38No?
- 50:39Same sticks I grew up with.
- 50:42When I was lied to.
- 50:43Like a pound of butter came in four sticks.
- 50:45Right.
- 50:46Yeah, but the shape of the sticks, like they're long.
- 50:48I heard they're like more square.
- 50:50I don't know.
- 50:52Maybe I misheard.
- 50:54I don't know.
- 50:54They all seem to have been the same to me, but I don't know.
- 50:58There are definitely some differences, you know, like out here you've got Hellman's mayonnaise.
- 51:06The exact same mayonnaise on the West Coast is called Best Foods.
- 51:11Okay.
- 51:11And out here you've got Hardee's.
- 51:14You know, Hardee's the fast food chain on the West Coast.
- 51:19That's just Carl's Jr.
- 51:21Carl's Jr., right.
- 51:23Yeah.
- 51:24What is the ice cream, like Dryers and Edie's or something?
- 51:28It's basically the same.
- 51:30You've got Dryers, you've got Breyers.
- 51:33Yeah, I know there's one that's like it's just the same thing but different names for some reason.
- 51:38Yeah, I'm trying to think of what that would be.
- 51:42Not a big ice cream fan.
- 51:43I mean, I like it, but my favorite flavor of ice cream is vanilla.
- 51:49These do.
- 51:50My go-to.
- 51:52Like, if I want ice cream, I would like some vanilla ice cream.
- 51:55I haven't had it.
- 51:56Actually, the last time I had it was when we went to dinner.
- 51:59And it was with that banana Foster's.
- 52:02Oh, yeah.
- 52:03That's probably the first time I've had ice cream.
- 52:05in three years at least.
- 52:07That's a heck of a dish right there.
- 52:09That was pretty good.
- 52:10I've never had that before, and that was pretty darn good.
- 52:15Yeah.
- 52:16No, that's a really good dessert.
- 52:19I quite enjoy it.
- 52:20I was actually really, really hoping to see it coming out like flaming
- 52:24and everything because I saw it once like that,
- 52:25but I guess they don't do that anymore.
- 52:27Probably liability stuff.
- 52:29Yeah, I think somebody got caught on fire once or something,
- 52:31so they quit doing that.
- 52:32yeah they still do it it's part of how it's made right they do if you go to like some places i've
- 52:40been to a brunch they'll make it for you but it's behind the glass and they do the flambe
- 52:46i don't know if it's still called flambe because it's not good well i guess
- 52:50yeah i don't know but and then they'll you know slide it under once it's it's done you know so
- 52:57what is it some kind of alcohol they put on it and then it burns off yeah yeah i'm not certain
- 53:03what the alcohol is to be honest in fact if you happen to know comment
- 53:07see you're getting good at this
- 53:11i have to man you're getting really good at this you're an expert
- 53:16yeah i'm not i'm really not certain what they what the alcohol is so but yeah they put some
- 53:25alcohol in there and they light it off just to burn the alcohol right the flavor of it yeah i
- 53:30don't know if it's like a rum or a bourbon or a cognac kind of would think it would be a cognac
- 53:36but i i don't know but it's good i have no way i'll have to see now i have to look it up because
- 53:41it's going to drive me crazy you know i just need to know along with the water thing i'm going to
- 53:45confirm the butter thing too and then you can comment i maybe i will i'll even comment so you
- 53:53want to try to do this once a week or something absolutely that's what i was saying once a week
- 53:59and we'll release shorts throughout the week you know so we you know tease up to what the next one's
- 54:05going to be maybe get people excited about it people seem to like the shorts for some reason
- 54:10i saw there's quite a number of views on that short attention span maybe maybe maybe they
- 54:17distribute that to a larger audience that's how that happens i think it just churns faster right
- 54:23it's a lot quicker to make it short and create content that's you know quick and easy uh than
- 54:28it is to do a full-blown session so i think and i do think the attention span you know has a bit
- 54:35to do with that you know tiktok is another one of those things where it's you know very very short
- 54:40videos short short form seems to be kind of the way people want things never been on there
- 54:47I mean, I've watched them because other people have posted clips or whatever, but yeah, it wouldn't bother me at all if it disappeared. It wouldn't bother me at all if it stayed either. And if you have a different idea.
- 55:04some of them are
- 55:06entertaining I guess
- 55:09it seems like a major
- 55:11time waster
- 55:12we had a friend
- 55:15staying here and you stay here for a little while
- 55:17and he'd sit on the back patio
- 55:19he'd be there for hours
- 55:21just swiping
- 55:23them videos
- 55:23he'd have to go somewhere
- 55:27and it'd be like dude it's
- 55:28noon and he's like what
- 55:31I just sat down here
- 55:33you know like three hours ago and it just you know the time just went kind of crazy pretty
- 55:40amazing to me and that also came like became a big thing right around the 2020 time frame didn't it
- 55:47kind of weird that's interesting do a deep dive people making big big money off those things
- 55:55well sure yeah yeah there there are definitely some people that you know have meteoric rise and
- 56:01and, you know, a lot of fame on that kind of stuff.
- 56:04If, you know.
- 56:05I think they produce the,
- 56:08a lot of people do controversial content just for views.
- 56:11And actually, I think they do it for the comments as well.
- 56:17You know, the haters are getting just as many clicks
- 56:19as the people that enjoy what they're doing.
- 56:22It's kind of weird to me.
- 56:24It's an interesting thing.
- 56:25I've never been a huge fan of short format, right?
- 56:28I'd rather kind of dig in and really, you know, enjoy a conversation or enjoy a topic or, you know, wherever the case is.
- 56:40Then just those quick hits, you know, on to the next one, totally different, on to another one, totally different, on to another one.
- 56:48And you know I think it came out around the same time or at least became very popular here around the same time because that around the time where I would like you know post a video that was 10 12 minutes long
- 57:03and, you know, next thing you know, everyone's like,
- 57:06I'm not watching that.
- 57:07That's forever.
- 57:08I can't remember.
- 57:11You know, and it's gotten to the point now where, you know,
- 57:14like some really good joke material, right?
- 57:18And it's, you know, maybe a paragraph to tell the joke,
- 57:22and it's good.
- 57:22I mean, really good.
- 57:24And people go, I'm not reading all of that.
- 57:26It's like, what?
- 57:28Yeah.
- 57:30So.
- 57:31I mean, even this format here, you know, I think all of the videos so far have been over an hour long.
- 57:37So, I mean, I'm sure that puts off a lot of people that just, you know, either, you know, they don't.
- 57:42I don't want to say they don't have an hour.
- 57:44Most people could find an hour if they wanted to.
- 57:46It's just, you know, investing that time.
- 57:49It's just, or, you know, the attention span.
- 57:51I think, you know, to the credit of the folks that had requested this, putting it on a more podcast style, you know, the delivery service like Spotify or something will be.
- 58:07I think we'll get more uptake from that sort of a thing because the fact that you can turn your phone off, put in your pocket and listen while you're doing other things.
- 58:16Yeah.
- 58:17Yeah.
- 58:17And you close out the app, come back to it five days later, and it's in the same spot.
- 58:22Which brings up the subject.
- 58:24If you want to do that with YouTube, they charge you like 30 bucks a month or something.
- 58:29Oh, do they?
- 58:30Yeah.
- 58:32Oh, I didn't know.
- 58:33Oh, that's right.
- 58:35If you want to close the app and just listen to it, like the music section, yeah.
- 58:41I forget exactly what it is, but it's something like that.
- 58:44Maybe 19 bucks.
- 58:46I don't remember.
- 58:46but they keep trying to push that.
- 58:49What's that?
- 58:50Every month?
- 58:51Yeah, every month.
- 58:52Wow.
- 58:53Yeah, no thanks.
- 58:55Yeah.
- 58:55It just seemed like a lot of money just for a feature that ostensibly should just be there.
- 59:02You would think so, right?
- 59:05I would think so.
- 59:08I mean, you want people to consume the content, right?
- 59:11That's your purpose.
- 59:12but they you know if they have to get up and go they have to cease consuming content or pay you
- 59:19extra money and let's be honest i can't imagine there are that many people that are doing that
- 59:25maybe there are maybe it is an attractive thing to a lot of people i really don't know
- 59:30and like i i do that quite frequently with podcast apps right or just podcasts in general you know
- 59:38stop and start or, you know, I'll put my phone in my pocket and get on the tractor and start doing stuff.
- 59:44And I'm listening to a podcast.
- 59:46But I certainly wouldn't pay someone, you know, even $10 a month to do that.
- 59:52Yeah, that's I'm not going to pay it either.
- 59:55So good.
- 59:57Good.
- 59:58I'm making a change, man.
- 59:59So you heard about the War Dragons 10 year anniversary?
- 1:00:03Oh, War Dragons.
- 1:00:04Yeah, I did hear about that.
- 1:00:06I blew my mind.
- 1:00:07Like, I just can't believe, I mean, I remember six, seven years ago, everyone going, yeah, this thing's going down.
- 1:00:17It's gone.
- 1:00:18Done then.
- 1:00:19Yeah.
- 1:00:20Maybe another year.
- 1:00:21And here we are.
- 1:00:22It's 10 years.
- 1:00:23And they're going to have an art contest.
- 1:00:26My suggestion was an artistic rendition of the flaming dumpster floating down the river.
- 1:00:33You know?
- 1:00:33Right.
- 1:00:34Right.
- 1:00:35Yeah, I don't know.
- 1:00:36I mean, I have good memories of, you know, playing with my friends and making friends and all those things.
- 1:00:43And I enjoyed it while I did it.
- 1:00:46I'm just, you know, that was a certain season of my life and I'm kind of just past it now.
- 1:00:51Yeah, I mean, I honestly I did.
- 1:00:53I really enjoyed it.
- 1:00:54But I think, you know, I enjoyed just the base game, just learning the dragons and the placement and getting better at a specific dragon and doing things like that.
- 1:01:05and the camaraderie.
- 1:01:07Right.
- 1:01:08But, you know, I mean, there's a good amount going on in there.
- 1:01:12It's always the same great amount of things going on in there.
- 1:01:17But, you know, the camaraderie is still there.
- 1:01:19It's a team game, so it makes sense.
- 1:01:22I thought it was kind of ironic.
- 1:01:23I saw the poster for the most recent,
- 1:01:28the season theme or the new tower that they have out
- 1:01:33is called Soul Drain.
- 1:01:35Yeah.
- 1:01:36And I thought that was rather ironic.
- 1:01:38Like that feature was in the game for, you know, a long time.
- 1:01:44Isn that like the main purpose of the game Exactly I mean at least time drain Oh my goodness I wouldn even care to venture how many hours I
- 1:01:56wasted. I don't want to say
- 1:01:59wasted. I'm not going to say invested
- 1:02:01either, but spent, consumed,
- 1:02:03spent, you know, playing that
- 1:02:05game. I mean, it had, dude,
- 1:02:07I don't even want to know.
- 1:02:09I don't even want to know.
- 1:02:11But you know what? We're going to get
- 1:02:13some guest speaker
- 1:02:15or guests on the show.
- 1:02:19Okay.
- 1:02:20From that old crew.
- 1:02:22Nice.
- 1:02:22Might have an analyst, your help.
- 1:02:24Really?
- 1:02:25Yeah, a conversation came up in my old team's chat.
- 1:02:29All right.
- 1:02:30And we were trying to figure out,
- 1:02:33there was a specific member that got forum banned,
- 1:02:36but they didn't get forum.
- 1:02:38They got forum banned for a period of time,
- 1:02:42as opposed to permaband.
- 1:02:44but the period of time was until
- 1:02:473,018
- 1:02:49nice
- 1:02:50can you guess who it was
- 1:02:53no
- 1:02:55it was on your team
- 1:02:57on my team
- 1:02:59no idea
- 1:03:00think about someone that everyone
- 1:03:03talked about like
- 1:03:05this person probably has 50 devices
- 1:03:08and they're playing 50
- 1:03:09they are dread
- 1:03:10who was that
- 1:03:12Panda
- 1:03:13yes really
- 1:03:15panda got forum
- 1:03:18banned until the
- 1:03:19year 3018
- 1:03:21thousand year ban
- 1:03:23wow yeah
- 1:03:25maybe I know maybe I just forgot I don't know
- 1:03:27I don't recall that though
- 1:03:29but I mean it sounds appropriate
- 1:03:31I mean like for what was going on
- 1:03:33at the time like I mean it just sounds
- 1:03:35like something that would happen
- 1:03:36yeah but it's like someone literally
- 1:03:39took time instead of just
- 1:03:41banning them outright
- 1:03:42to go on and say, I'm going to ban you and then enter a number of days that was beyond ridiculous.
- 1:03:51Right. Just, you know, it's pretty, pretty petty.
- 1:03:55I liked it. We didn't always agree on everything, but, you know, he.
- 1:04:02He always had a logical, you know, reasoning for for what he did and had a way to say it.
- 1:04:09I never had any issue. It was cool.
- 1:04:12you know i mean blunt direct and maybe that's that's what it is yeah some people don't like that
- 1:04:18yeah blunt direct and strongly opinionated but there's nothing wrong with that in my eyes
- 1:04:24no i i i dude i i still don't know how i didn't get that band treatment i i probably should have
- 1:04:30by neither do i i i did i got banned for a stupid meme i remember that that's yeah it's just
- 1:04:39It's just PG.
- 1:04:42It's just PG.
- 1:04:43There you are, right?
- 1:04:45It's just the way things were handled.
- 1:04:49In that one chat that we are both in, wasn't there some employees or former employees of Pocket Gems?
- 1:04:56Maybe we can get one of them on.
- 1:04:58That would be cool.
- 1:04:59That would be really cool.
- 1:05:01Maybe their NDA has expired or by now.
- 1:05:06But we could certainly make sure that, you know, we don't cross any of those lines.
- 1:05:10Right.
- 1:05:10I think that's that's an important thing to do.
- 1:05:13If you if you've signed an NDA, then you should stick to it.
- 1:05:16Right.
- 1:05:17Right.
- 1:05:17No, I'm 100 percent not not endorsing anybody break their NDA at all.
- 1:05:24But what if it's expired?
- 1:05:25That's something else.
- 1:05:27Yeah, absolutely.
- 1:05:28If it's expired and maybe it expired with their, you know, with I don't know.
- 1:05:33Right.
- 1:05:33I have absolutely no idea.
- 1:05:35I would very much like to peek behind the curtains a little bit.
- 1:05:39Same here.
- 1:05:40Or just hear their experiences or, you know.
- 1:05:44Hey, there's a lot to talk about, I think.
- 1:05:48A whole lot.
- 1:05:50You know?
- 1:05:50It would be cool to get some of the other folks from the summit.
- 1:05:54Yeah.
- 1:05:54That would be fun.
- 1:05:55Yeah, you got a little peek when you went there, I'm sure.
- 1:05:57Oh, I did.
- 1:05:58Oh, yeah.
- 1:06:00Yeah.
- 1:06:00What is that?
- 1:06:02There's a website that people, Glassdoor, where they write about their experiences working.
- 1:06:08I wonder if Pocket Gems has one on there.
- 1:06:11There used to be another one.
- 1:06:14I won't do it because of language reasons.
- 1:06:18I don't know if it's even still around.
- 1:06:20But there used to be one called Eft Company.
- 1:06:23But it was, you know, the whole spelling.
- 1:06:26Nice.
- 1:06:28Yeah.
- 1:06:29So, yeah.
- 1:06:30Nice.
- 1:06:31I mean, you never know whether it's just somebody that, you know, got fired because they were
- 1:06:36incompetent not doing their job or whether you know somebody with a legitimate beef But I be curious to hear what you know some of the stories are Yeah I mean anytime you hear one side of a story you have to take out the grain of salt right there there typically
- 1:06:49typically three sides to every story there's your side there's their side and then there's the truth
- 1:06:55and that's usually somewhere in the middle so but it would be interesting that would be good but i
- 1:07:00think our next pull in should be mr croft yeah see what he's been up to and he'd probably be amenable
- 1:07:08to it, I would think.
- 1:07:10He's already said he would.
- 1:07:12Oh, okay. He's got the equipment.
- 1:07:15So he's good.
- 1:07:16And you would know this better than anyone else, but
- 1:07:18I would imagine nailing down
- 1:07:20time is probably going to be the
- 1:07:22more challenging aspect.
- 1:07:24More than likely, yes.
- 1:07:26So maybe we'll load up a few other
- 1:07:28people and just
- 1:07:29push him around until he can make it.
- 1:07:32There you go.
- 1:07:33Excuse me. I think that'd be a lot of fun.
- 1:07:37I'm almost always available.
- 1:07:38Leave it open to him.
- 1:07:40Whenever he's ready, I'm ready.
- 1:07:43All right.
- 1:07:44I'm good with that.
- 1:07:45Sounds good?
- 1:07:46It does.
- 1:07:47All right.
- 1:07:48It's time for me to put the chicken to the bed.
- 1:07:51All right.
- 1:07:52Before we wrap up, anything cool, exciting, fun going on in your world over there?
- 1:08:01Besides the broken freezer?
- 1:08:02No.
- 1:08:04It's almost time to put up the sunshade.
- 1:08:06Oh, yeah.
- 1:08:07In the garden.
- 1:08:08Yeah, everything's getting a little crispy.
- 1:08:10You in the 90-degree days already?
- 1:08:13I'm getting there.
- 1:08:14Tomatoes are crying a little bit.
- 1:08:17It's April.
- 1:08:18You guys wanted me to come in May again.
- 1:08:20I'm like, no.
- 1:08:22You can come back in May, too.
- 1:08:23Come in June or July.
- 1:08:25May there is like August for us, and I don't like August for us at all.
- 1:08:30It's not pleasant.
- 1:08:32It's a great time for in the pool or inside in the air conditioning.
- 1:08:38But if, you know, you go on vacation, you don't want to just be like, I can't be outside.
- 1:08:43Like, go skateboarding?
- 1:08:45Yeah, no.
- 1:08:46I will melt into the asphalt.
- 1:08:49The wheel.
- 1:08:50Getting stuck.
- 1:08:52You see the plastic material starting to, like, you know, spread like paint.
- 1:08:59Yeah, no, I've tried to get all the outdoor chores done, you know, that I possibly can.
- 1:09:05And then, you know, the oil change on the car I just did.
- 1:09:10We had a nice day today.
- 1:09:11It was beautiful today.
- 1:09:13That's awesome.
- 1:09:14Like 71.
- 1:09:15Nice.
- 1:09:16Low humidity.
- 1:09:17But it's all going to go up.
- 1:09:19Yeah.
- 1:09:19It was like 62 to here today or something like that.
- 1:09:23And it's going to be like one tomorrow.
- 1:09:26Yeah.
- 1:09:27Yeah.
- 1:09:28Things to come.
- 1:09:29This might be our last nice day.
- 1:09:31I don't know.
- 1:09:31At least we have a pool.
- 1:09:33Jump in the pool.
- 1:09:33There you go.
- 1:09:34When it's 87, 88 degrees outside and it's hot, humid, you jump in the pool, it feels great.
- 1:09:43It feels absolutely wonderful.
- 1:09:45We need to come visit when we can use your pool because normally we come in November when it's like an ice skating rink.
- 1:09:51Well, you know you're always welcome.
- 1:09:53Always.
- 1:09:54And I mean that.
- 1:09:55And you know that.
- 1:09:56You should know that by now.
- 1:09:58So anytime, just plan it out.
- 1:10:00Let us know what works for you.
- 1:10:02There you go.
- 1:10:02it's almost a guarantee we will be here because i i mean i'd prefer to be honest with you quite
- 1:10:11quite very literally honest if i could never ever leave my property i wouldn't i just would not
- 1:10:19oh i i completely understand yeah i completely understand i have literally gone months without
- 1:10:26stepping off my property and and i like those months they're great we could have a whole other
- 1:10:32episode on this because we've discussed this at length that you and I just seem to be magnets
- 1:10:38for just jerks and idiots out in public for some reason. I don't understand why,
- 1:10:46but they're like a heat-seeking missile towards both of us.
- 1:10:50The beeline, it's like, oh my God, yes, we will do this. The next one, we're going to do a segment
- 1:10:56on just that. I'm going to take a note.
- 1:11:00We can just talk
- 1:11:00about our past experiences and
- 1:11:02all that stuff.
- 1:11:04Yeah, anyway.
- 1:11:07Been there, done that.
- 1:11:08I'm more than happy to stay home.
- 1:11:10Awesome. I got that noted now.
- 1:11:12We're going to do that.
- 1:11:14As always, if you guys have any suggestions,
- 1:11:17anything you'd like to see, anything you'd like
- 1:11:18us to talk about, heck,
- 1:11:20if you'd like to come on the show and talk with us,
- 1:11:23put something in the comments.
- 1:11:24We'll see what we can work out.
- 1:11:26There you go.
- 1:11:27No promises, but we'll do what we can.
- 1:11:30And keep at it.
- 1:11:34Have a great day.
- 1:11:35Thanks for listening.
- 1:11:36See you.