Latest / SpaceTomatoes / Wallets, Turkeys, Trails, and MP3 Nostalgia
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- 0:00Well, good morning and welcome back to another episode of the Space Tomatoes podcast.
- 0:27I'm one of your hosts, Havik
- 0:30I'm LX, hello, welcome
- 0:33See, now you know us
- 0:35Alright, well here we are again
- 0:37It's a beautiful Sunday morning
- 0:40A little overcast today for us
- 0:43Maybe not for them
- 0:44Well, that's true, that's true
- 0:46Well, when you're watching this, it won't be
- 0:48Well, maybe it will be, I don't know
- 0:49Maybe it'll be next Sunday morning and you'll be like
- 0:51Yeah, this is great
- 0:52I don't know
- 0:54nobody knows
- 0:58yeah the power of the internet and recordings right make it whatever time you want so i was
- 1:09sitting here getting ready right and it's it's just kind of a thing that i always get a kick out
- 1:13of right we've got uh heritage you know turkeys right and just sitting here and i've got you know
- 1:22dual monitors and a camera and this microphone and mixer and all this stuff and then right behind my
- 1:28monitors is a window right and uh looking in between the monitors and the desk all of a sudden
- 1:35i see movement and i look and there's turkeys our turkeys i still get a kick out of that we've had
- 1:41them for years and it's just i get a kick out of just seeing the turkeys right there in my yard
- 1:46it's pretty cool that is pretty cool yeah and they're goofy like cruise around packet stuff
- 1:52big birds too yeah they're pretty big i saw the pic you sent me yeah yeah they're not
- 1:58what else i saw on that pic what that book that book that you were supposed to read like since
- 2:04episode one well it was just a little working on that i am actually yeah oh good yeah i'm close to
- 2:12halfway i think now so oh good yeah it's it's hard if if i didn't have to edit all the time
- 2:18i'd have more free time to read how did you ever get through like lord of the rings isn't that like
- 2:26gigantic books like bunches of them yeah see i had this whole thing back then where like i lived
- 2:32with these people that fed me and took care of me and like i didn't really have anything like as far
- 2:39as a commitment or like you know no job no nothing you know for part of the year i had to go to this
- 2:46building to like deal with other people that wanted to like impart information on me and stuff
- 2:54so were you a cat that sounds like a cat as a child a cat what's what's the difference yeah
- 3:02pretty much a cat yeah pretty much so no i was a kid i i was i was a kid when i read
- 3:09those books i was a kid when i read moby dick i was a kid when i read you know uh little women
- 3:17and i was a kid when i you know i mean all of this stuff so i don't know i enjoyed it i like
- 3:25to read i'm an adult and you say no no time for that garbage anymore i mean you know i get done
- 3:31with my day and i've got a few hours to spend with my my wife you know what i mean yeah and
- 3:37oh i hear you you know it's kind of like i want to spend time with my my wife i love her i like
- 3:42i like spending time with her i hope so yeah i know it would kind of suck if i didn't right
- 3:49hey i live with you and i don't like you that would suck yeah been there done i mean i'm sure
- 3:54there's some people that don't enjoy spending time with their spouse or whatever yeah i've been there
- 4:01kind of sucks for them i think i've been there yeah but you know my wife is awesome i love it
- 4:07and so i want to spend time with her so it's kind of hard to dedicate like and you know reading's not
- 4:13something for me anyway that i can just do in little short stints i i get into it and then i
- 4:19just i want to read and so i'm just like decreasing that window of time that i have to spend with my
- 4:26wife which already feels way too short so that's really just busting on you we're just giving you
- 4:33a hard time where i where i read the most is when i travel i get on an airplane man i'm i'm in the
- 4:38book you know stuff like that so maybe i'll read do you do the audiobook thing you know they don't
- 4:45have one i looked oh yeah i've looked on a few places trying to find an audiobook for it nobody's
- 4:51done one all right which kind of sucks because that is one thing that i do you know i will do
- 4:57is is you know tune into an audiobook book when i'm doing you know minutiae right when i'm doing
- 5:03work stuff when i'm doing you know whatever i can i can have you know an audiobook in and
- 5:10you know it's not the same as reading but hey it's better than not my opinion so maybe we can
- 5:17Just get on a call and I can read it to you.
- 5:19Well, what I was going to say is since we're having alpaca pretty soon, I'll just go nose into the book and ignore everything going on around me and read the book.
- 5:27There you go.
- 5:30Now, you know, hey, we're going to be going out to Oregon.
- 5:33I should be finished with it by the time we get back.
- 5:37Yeah.
- 5:39You taking the trail?
- 5:42Taking the trail.
- 5:43The Oregon trail.
- 5:44I don't want to die of dysentery again.
- 5:46Don't get cholera.
- 5:48Right.
- 5:48Yeah, don't try to cross the river.
- 5:51You have died of dysentery.
- 5:53That was my old ways.
- 5:55Like, all right, fine.
- 5:57Have you ever finished that game?
- 5:59I never finished that game, ever.
- 6:01And again, I was young, and I haven't tried since.
- 6:05But yeah, I mean, it's just a tough one, right?
- 6:07I mean, you've got to make all the right decisions going through that.
- 6:11I mean, you think about it from a Western pioneer standpoint, man.
- 6:15there's not a whole lot of room for error there, you know?
- 6:20You know, we were talking about that the other day.
- 6:22So if we walk two miles a day, a little over two miles a day,
- 6:26so that's like 15 miles a week.
- 6:28And we were saying to each other, yeah, if we start now,
- 6:32we can get to Havoc's house, you know, a little under a year.
- 6:35I was just going to say, you won't be here for Alpaca.
- 6:38That's for sure.
- 6:39No, no.
- 6:40i mean it had to be uh you know something to travel back then right yeah yeah like an undertaking
- 6:47oh yeah yeah and especially when they would they get out there with huge wagon trains and stuff
- 6:52right those things you know i mean they're they're pretty pretty stout pretty robust uh but there's
- 7:00like very little in the way of suspension on them if any yeah um and you're going off you know this
- 7:06there's no road you know what i mean you're you're going you're in the dirt on you know like
- 7:11oh well there's a little canyon okay what do we do now we'll just divert like you know 50 miles that
- 7:19way just crap like that you know river crossings oh fun times right there you know
- 7:27you mean you better take what you need because there ain't no triple a out there either yeah
- 7:31yeah there's no no ambulance no uh no airlift or any of that stuff yeah yeah no it's it's you know
- 7:40i mean like a you know just a simple thing like a twisted ankle could be the end of you you know
- 7:46it's crazy quite literally yeah it's very crazy it's insane when you think about what these people
- 7:54did right like the you know the people that you know first came out to uh california to settle
- 8:02in california had to go over the sierras you know and they had to go through arizona you imagine that
- 8:10you're just like man it's getting hotter and hotter and hotter and there's more and more sand
- 8:14and why do all these bushes hate us so much with all these pokey things on them and then the next
- 8:20thing you know you're going like up a mountain there's no road how are you going you're just
- 8:27going up a mountain and then you know then the snow comes in and you're like oh now we got to
- 8:33eat each other to survive you know dawn or here i am complaining that the uh the ac in the car is
- 8:40taking a little too long to start cooling off right yeah i mean it's it's insane you just think
- 8:48about it you know it really is yeah it also makes me a little bit more able to understand how someone
- 8:57pulled their wagons up to arizona like phoenix area and just went yeah this is a great place
- 9:03we're gonna stay here you know what i mean like it's uninhabitable there's no ac right i mean
- 9:10you're out there in the desert in Arizona building a house out of wood,
- 9:16which where's the wood?
- 9:20Are you cutting down saguaros or something and some ancient technique of
- 9:25making them hard enough to build a house out of or what?
- 9:30Good point.
- 9:31Yeah.
- 9:32I mean, just craziness.
- 9:33You know, these guys, these guys did a lot.
- 9:36It's a pretty, pretty, pretty, I don't know, early, tough type of thing to do.
- 9:46You know, what do you, well, I'm an old whiz settler there.
- 9:49Just be like, wow.
- 9:53Yeah.
- 9:53I've only been to certain parts of Arizona, not, not Phoenix.
- 9:59We went to Yuma.
- 10:00We went four wheeling out there and there's like absolutely nothing there for, for those
- 10:04that don't know like that's the place where they filmed the that star wars movie return of the jedi
- 10:09where they're uh like they have that monster that eats them in the sand and there's nothing except
- 10:14sand out there yeah it's changed a lot of people is it yeah yuma got kind of built up pretty pretty
- 10:21much um still fairly sparse i mean it's not like a phoenix or something where you've got a city city
- 10:27but yeah there's a lot of suburbs out there now sand apparently is a great place to put a suburb
- 10:34i mean florida and you know where we were staying they had like like three inch styrofoam in the
- 10:40windows just because yeah because it got so hot out there yeah you have to do all kinds of tricks
- 10:45man you really do it's it it's hot i mean really really hot like you go outside it hurts to breathe
- 10:54kind of hot you know at night it would get quite cold you can yeah you can yeah like 110 during the
- 11:01day and then it dropped like 40 at night's pretty good swing yeah i imagine that's a that's fairly
- 11:08rare well maybe not though yeah i mean for maybe maybe it's because i was not used to i was freezing
- 11:14to death at night it's pretty cold yeah they i mean they do have some really beautiful places
- 11:20in arizona like the desert in general is is gorgeous during certain periods of the year
- 11:25the rest of the time just avoid that just just please save yourself the trouble and avoid it
- 11:32um but like you know up near flagstaff pine top area of arizona is is beautiful it's in mountains
- 11:40you know pine trees and you know just not what you would think of when you think of arizona so
- 11:46when i say arizona i'm really talking about the you know the the non-mountainous areas of arizona
- 11:53You know, the flat, sandy, cactus, desert, barren, hot, very hot place.
- 12:02And like a half a percent humidity, too.
- 12:08Well, yeah.
- 12:09We're a little bit on the opposite end of the spectrum as far as the humidity goes.
- 12:14So where I'm at in Florida, like, dude, I don't know how people lived here before air conditioning.
- 12:20It probably wasn't fun.
- 12:21no mosquitoes and humidity yeah and the humidity like for people that aren't you know familiar with
- 12:29the area the the south in general but florida more so if you don't you know if you if you were
- 12:37living in a stick built kind of log home or whatever that thing's going to be dripping
- 12:43inside during the summers and and your your your big problem there is going to be
- 12:50mold right i mean everything would just be covered in mold after
- 12:55you know a period of time a couple of years or something yeah yeah if you don have some kind of climate control yeah forget it yeah that that the big thing you know like we come into the the fall and it
- 13:12beautiful out and i want we want to open the windows but we can't because it hasn't gotten
- 13:17fall enough to remove the moisture and again you know you you do the open the windows during that
- 13:24time of the year and the the ac units start alarming on high humidity you're like okay well
- 13:31maybe i need to close the windows that's kind of what we've been contending with a couple weeks we
- 13:37can we can open the windows from about the time we wake up to man about 11 o'clock or so noontime
- 13:43at the most then we gotta shut everything up and start the ac back up again yeah we're we're in the
- 13:50we're solidly in fall at this point um you know 70 degrees is daytime you know 40 is nighttime
- 13:59now 44 42 41 hut hut hike i threw in a foosball reference there he
- 14:10well that's nice yeah i can't wait to come up there and visit yeah it's less than three weeks
- 14:20I'll bring my jacket the one time a year I get to wear it.
- 14:23What is it now?
- 14:2419 days, I think.
- 14:27Something like that.
- 14:28Yeah.
- 14:30That's going to be awesome.
- 14:31Oh, you know what?
- 14:32Mmm.
- 14:33I get to wear my wool hat and my jacket.
- 14:37Mmm.
- 14:38I got a thing for jackets.
- 14:39I don't know.
- 14:39I like jackets, but, like, I can't ever wear them.
- 14:42Well, you can.
- 14:43This is too hot.
- 14:44I can, I guess.
- 14:45Yeah.
- 14:45I mean, it never stops.
- 14:49but you're like, okay, well, it's a little different.
- 14:51My wife wears jackets sometimes in 80-degree weather.
- 14:55I'm like, really?
- 14:56Oh, yeah.
- 14:57Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 14:59That's a choice?
- 15:00Well, there's two reasons for this, okay?
- 15:04There are.
- 15:05Number one, she's got Renault's disease, right,
- 15:09which is her disease.
- 15:11I don't know if it's a disease.
- 15:12Renault's.
- 15:12We'll just call it Renault's.
- 15:13It's not a disease.
- 15:15Maybe it is a disease.
- 15:15I don't know.
- 15:16Anyway, it's messes up her circulation.
- 15:19So, you know, like if she just grabs a, like a can of, you know, soda or a beer or something
- 15:27like that, her fingers will lose color and they get really cold.
- 15:33So that's one reason.
- 15:35The other reason more often, the reason she does this, women don't get pockets.
- 15:44what i don't i don't know why but come on like designers like put pockets on there for women
- 15:51they they like pockets believe it or not maybe not all of them but you know pockets are cool
- 15:56we have pockets on all our stuff like you go to the same place and get the same you know like like
- 16:03pair of jeans you know for woman and man and the women's will have no pockets but the men's
- 16:09Really?
- 16:09I never noticed.
- 16:10Yeah.
- 16:10They don't put pockets on their stuff.
- 16:13Ask your wife.
- 16:15I will.
- 16:16Yeah.
- 16:16We don't get a purse, though.
- 16:17Maybe you should start carrying a purse.
- 16:19I don't.
- 16:19I have pockets.
- 16:22Don't need a purse.
- 16:23Is that why we don't get purses?
- 16:24Because we have pockets in our pants.
- 16:26Yeah.
- 16:26Yeah.
- 16:27We have pockets.
- 16:28That makes sense, I guess.
- 16:29Pockets are killer.
- 16:30We love pockets.
- 16:31Nice.
- 16:32I mean, you know, I couldn't imagine a world with no pockets.
- 16:36I would just be like, there's something very wrong with this.
- 16:39How do I carry all my junk?
- 16:43Fair enough.
- 16:44Just imagine before wallets.
- 16:46You just, like, have a bunch of crap floating around.
- 16:49You're like, well, what do I do with all this?
- 16:51And we've got all these business cards and all this other crap going on and, you know, ID and credit cards.
- 16:57I guess before wallets, they probably didn't have most of that stuff.
- 17:00So it wasn't as big a thing, right?
- 17:03Hmm.
- 17:03Probably just.
- 17:04I need to get a new wallet.
- 17:05Probably just had, like, you know, some coins or something.
- 17:08Hmm.
- 17:09I don't know.
- 17:13Yeah, wallets are kind of finicky.
- 17:14We stopped and looked at them the other day.
- 17:16I need to get a new one.
- 17:17It's just hard to decide.
- 17:18I hate getting a new wallet.
- 17:22I need one, too.
- 17:24It's like falling apart.
- 17:25It's horrible.
- 17:26I make my wife carry it.
- 17:28No.
- 17:29I don't like having it in my pocket.
- 17:30I have a pocket, but I don't want to use it.
- 17:31I make her hold it.
- 17:33She's like, man, this thing is like shedding all kinds of stuff in my purse.
- 17:37I don't want it.
- 17:38Get a new one.
- 17:39yeah yeah she's like if you don't take care of it i'm gonna take care of it
- 17:44come on those things
- 17:48i i don't like it i i don't like shopping for wallets so i i do the same thing i'll have my
- 17:54wallet until it's way past its time to be replaced because you got to go i can't like
- 18:00look at a wallet online and buy a wallet not gonna work not even close because i gotta go
- 18:06and look at them and feel them and is this the right texture is it gonna you know mold or is
- 18:11gonna stay in this shape and and really be sad for me to carry around you know is it thin enough
- 18:18is it flexible enough does it have the right pocket structure in it i mean there's a whole
- 18:24thing right yeah and and so you're like a leather guy or like a textile guy no leather guy yeah
- 18:31of leather i don't know why i've i've kind of checked out the you know the other you know styles
- 18:41everything even those little metal wallets wallets you know um i i saw those they well i looked up
- 18:48wallet once on my ipad and then like you know it starts shooting ads from 80 different wallet
- 18:55companies at me like places i've never heard of before yeah yeah no i've tried all those types
- 19:02they just don't feel comfortable to me the the leather will you know form to because okay
- 19:09how often do you put your wallet in a different pocket than normal um never yeah are you a front
- 19:18pocket guy or a back pocket guy? I am a front
- 19:20pocket guy. So am I.
- 19:22Yeah. So like
- 19:23I did look at the store the other day
- 19:26and they have actual front pocket
- 19:28wallets. It says it right on the box, but
- 19:30I don't know. It seems kind of weird. What's the difference?
- 19:33It's smaller.
- 19:34It's like a freaking left-handed screwdriver.
- 19:36Okay. Kind of.
- 19:38We have left-handed screwdrivers.
- 19:40They're only $2 more.
- 19:45Right.
- 19:47Crazy.
- 19:48i don't know and then they got black and they got brown and they got yeah yeah i don't know man yeah
- 19:54you gotta get the right one for you and it's just such a personal thing yeah it's it's an
- 20:01interesting thing it is wallet shopping is my wife's calling me indecisive it's not indecisive
- 20:08it's just you have to find the right wallet you'll know it when you find it you're like oh
- 20:15there it is that's the one and i don't know how but but you find it and you go yep that's the one
- 20:22and it is it's the one it's the wallet for you maybe now that i'm thinking back on it i don't
- 20:29know that i've ever actually bought one for myself in the past they might have always been like here's
- 20:34your wallet oh really i think so i don't even know where it came from yeah no i'm i can't remember
- 20:42i'm i'm trying to think yeah i guess when i was young like my first couple of wallets my
- 20:48my dad got me a wallet when i was like nine or something it was maybe 10 11 no nine eight nine
- 20:57it was an old uh vans wallet you remember those the nylon ones with the velcro i do yeah yeah
- 21:07very cool that just reminded me i still have my first wallet no from when i was a little tiny
- 21:14child no really yeah yeah maybe i'll send you a picture you can put it up all right it's uh yeah
- 21:21it's plastic and it's got spider-man on it dude i actually got a story about it and and like so
- 21:30when we lived in our uh first house in massachusetts we lived up against these train tracks
- 21:36and our house got broken into, right?
- 21:41And whoever broke into our house actually stole the change
- 21:44out of my plastic Spider-Man wallet.
- 21:48Like there's a little like a change pouch on it.
- 21:51Yeah, they took, I mean, I don't know how much could have possibly been in there.
- 21:54I mean, but they took that, they took it and left the wallet.
- 21:58How cold hearted are you to look at a plastic Spider-Man wallet
- 22:01and go, yeah, I'm taking what's in there.
- 22:03You know that's a little kid's wallet.
- 22:05You know it.
- 22:06They needed it more than I did, I guess.
- 22:09Yeah, well, you know, hey, all right, maybe.
- 22:13Just, yeah.
- 22:17I don't know.
- 22:18I guess I wouldn't be talking about it still 50 years later if it didn't bother me.
- 22:23Right?
- 22:23I mean, it's a violation.
- 22:25It was like your ice cream money, man.
- 22:27What the heck?
- 22:29Dude.
- 22:29Now I can't, when the stupid truck comes in with his ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding,
- 22:35ding, ding.
- 22:36I can't go running out and buy my ice cream.
- 22:40I wanted a bomb pop, dude.
- 22:42And you stole that from me.
- 22:44Out of my first ever wallet.
- 22:50I guess it's a good thing they didn't take the whole wallet, though, right?
- 22:53I guess.
- 22:54I wouldn't have it.
- 22:55It's true.
- 22:55Not that I'm going to do anything with it, but I think I know where it's at.
- 23:00I'll send you a picture of it.
- 23:01That would be awesome.
- 23:02I'll certainly put that up, because that's cool.
- 23:04i like old stuff like that like my wife uh you know a lot of these companies are doing the return
- 23:12to work thing right so which is kind of ridiculous because she's been a remote worker for since i've
- 23:20known her so but they just decided everyone's going to now so anyway um that's part of that
- 23:28you know packing lunches and doing all that kind of stuff so i got her a snoopy lunch box like
- 23:34like old school metal snoopy lunchbox with the snoopy cartoon on it a little cartoon around the
- 23:40side you know i was like this got the little thermos in it uh yeah we i didn't i didn't get
- 23:45a thermos for it oh okay yeah yeah i probably still have my old lunchboxes dude i was like a
- 23:52i'm a hoarder of crap it's just apparently i got it somewhere yeah i think i got a transformers one
- 23:58and maybe a G.I. Joe one.
- 23:59I mean, that's still pretty cool.
- 24:01I'd keep it.
- 24:02Oh, and I do.
- 24:04The Black Hole, that movie.
- 24:05Remember that?
- 24:06Oh, I do.
- 24:07That's the metal one, yeah.
- 24:08Wow.
- 24:09Yeah.
- 24:10I think it's all in an attic in the box,
- 24:12right next to the Ninja Turtle.
- 24:13The what?
- 24:15There's a Ninja Turtle up there?
- 24:18Yeah, a box of Ninja Turtles.
- 24:20Probably all of them.
- 24:21Like the figurines?
- 24:23Yeah.
- 24:24That's cool.
- 24:25So you're not a hoarder.
- 24:26You're a collector.
- 24:28whatever you want to call it purveyor of fine junk yeah yeah kind of
- 24:35i mean i did i did go through a phase of selling a bunch of that junk on ebay
- 24:40you know 20 years ago i don't really miss any of it you'd be interesting to find out how
- 24:46how much of that
- 24:49i forgot i was on that's going to be noisy throughout the whole thing that's going to
- 24:55annoy me i didn't hear it yeah you're good yeah i won't hear it until uh i go into editing and
- 25:01then it'll just be like oh dude why didn't you turn that off oops i just made my life
- 25:10infinitely more difficult way to go avic
- 25:13but some of that retro stuff man that's that's you know very collectible stuff if you find the
- 25:24right people so it's kind of cool and people like nostalgia sometimes i like nostalgia trying to
- 25:31relive their childhood yeah i like it i like it in fact the the person that we're hopefully going
- 25:39to have on the guest tonight we had some audio issues um it's always tough if you don't have
- 25:46all the gear it can be tough right um usually we get through it and it's fine um but
- 25:52But we were talking at one point about wood stoves because I love to have a wood stove you know and I don mean just a wood burning stove I mean like an actual like Amish stove you know with ovens and you know the works
- 26:11And he found one.
- 26:12And so I'm excited because I want to I want to check that thing out.
- 26:15It's apparently an older near you.
- 26:17Well, it's it's in a state adjacent to my state.
- 26:22So probably about four hours away.
- 26:24you'll leave the house to go do those kind of things i know that or i could find someone to
- 26:30actually get it and bring it to me and that's probably what will happen what do those things
- 26:35weigh how much does something like that weigh a lot a lot like i mean it's like two guys can
- 26:40throw it in the truck or you need like five or six guys that throw it in the truck um i would
- 26:44i would probably go with someone that does like safe moving and stuff like that oh wow yeah they're
- 26:50heavy they're real heavy they make you know the uh when i was living in uh northern california
- 26:57we had a wood burning stove delivered and uh a friend of mine actually did it and they have like
- 27:05powered dollies for them right so they bring it on you know in a truck lift gate comes down
- 27:12and they put this dolly under it that's powered right and you know you don't even have to rock
- 27:18the thing back it has its own kind of mechanism to do that and then it's got back wheels too so
- 27:24when it leans back it's got back wheels and then when you get to stairs it walks up the stairs for
- 27:29you oh wow yeah nice yeah it was really cool but those things are super heavy and this was just a
- 27:35wood you know standard like heat your house wood burning stove so given the weight of that thing
- 27:42a full stove very very heavy like we would have to reinforce the floors type stuff oh
- 27:49yeah probably not designed to hold quite that much weight cast iron is that what they're made of yeah
- 27:56yeah or steel you have a spot for it picked out no no we have to redo our kitchen our kitchen is
- 28:05so stupid like literally our kitchen is sized for you know 1.25 people that's it it's tiny we we have
- 28:15like two 36 inch countertops that's it it's just ridiculous well i mean maybe the people that uh
- 28:24built your house just like to eat out a lot they don't like to cook at home i guess i mean because
- 28:30you you run out of space just trying to like prep a meal you're like yeah you do i don't have the
- 28:35room for this you know you've seen it yeah it's it's ridiculously little cooking there and like
- 28:40you have to just like kick everybody out like all right you guys get the heck out of here i don't
- 28:46need you all hovering around me because there ain't no room exactly yeah yeah i mean it's very
- 28:50it's very small it's it's it's ridiculously tiny that's that's one of the one of the things that
- 28:56really annoys me about this this place but you know hey there's ways around that yeah i don't
- 29:06have the ways around that i would like to have the ways around that but i do not have them
- 29:13but someday you know we'll get that it's it's got an angled counter which kind of reduces the space
- 29:22We think we're just going to kind of bring that out straight and extend it out.
- 29:29You know, yeah, we'll figure it out.
- 29:32I have a plan and it'll, it'll open it up and give us a lot more space, but it'll, it'll
- 29:39be interesting.
- 29:41Yeah.
- 29:42And then maybe we'll put a big cabinet with like, you know, pull outs and, you know, you
- 29:49know shelving units and all that stuff where that triangle thing is now and as soon as you do all
- 29:56that stuff they'll probably put 160 house development right across the street from you
- 30:00that's like my biggest fear right now there there's some ag plots real close to us that are up for
- 30:09sale thankfully they want insane amounts of money for them right um the acreage cost out here has
- 30:18gone through the roof it's insane you were saying that yeah yeah and uh thankfully that's the case
- 30:25but as it becomes more desirable that won't be an issue anymore and one of those things is
- 30:31definitely going to end up being a huge subdivision and that's just sad to me it is go away stay out of
- 30:39my area, go somewhere else.
- 30:42There's other open spaces
- 30:43you can populate.
- 30:46Right.
- 30:47And if anybody was thinking
- 30:48of coming to Florida,
- 30:49we're full.
- 30:50Just turn around.
- 30:51Go back somewhere else.
- 30:53We aren't full.
- 30:54Okay, I'm not going to say that.
- 30:55We aren't full.
- 30:56That being said,
- 30:57there's a lot of open space.
- 30:59You don't need the open space
- 31:01right next to me.
- 31:02Okay?
- 31:03There's a lot of open space.
- 31:05Go somewhere else.
- 31:07You know?
- 31:08Get closer to the city.
- 31:09You're a likable guy.
- 31:10You said so yourself.
- 31:11Yeah, I'm sure.
- 31:12People just want to be near you.
- 31:14That's, well, that's the way it is.
- 31:16It's always the way it is.
- 31:19My people, they love me.
- 31:21Pull.
- 31:22Ka-choo.
- 31:24What was that, Mel Brooks?
- 31:27The dictator guy, and he's like, you know, talking to another guy.
- 31:31I can't remember the name of the movie.
- 31:34But, you know, he's talking to like a guy from the press or whatever,
- 31:38and he's like well you know how do you handle all the and he's like what do you mean my people they
- 31:43love me pull he yells pull and like a human goes shooting through the air he shoots it with shotgun
- 31:50like oh my goodness wow i don't know why that came into my head but it did it was funny it was a
- 31:58funny part of a movie i liked it a lot made me laugh what was the name of the movie i don't know
- 32:03oh but mel brooks i think was the was the guy if you just look up mel maybe i'll try and find it and
- 32:12i can't put the clip in here though because you know that's not our stuff so look up mel brooks
- 32:19my people they love me pull or something like that you'll probably i saw he's doing a
- 32:27space balls too i guess he's getting uh he's getting up there in age oh is he really
- 32:32yeah i saw a bunch of stuff for that i started filming that that's that's pretty cool
- 32:39space rick moranis is coming out of retirement too is he really yeah is he gonna wear the big
- 32:45helmet again i would imagine one one can hope that that was my wife really likes that movie
- 32:52i guess it she watched it a lot when she was a kid or something i guess i i remember seeing it
- 32:58I don't, I, I liked it.
- 33:02Yeah, I liked it.
- 33:03They did.
- 33:04Didn't they do a remake of that airplane as well?
- 33:10Maybe.
- 33:11I think they did.
- 33:12They did an airplane too.
- 33:13What did we run out of ideas?
- 33:16Yeah, of course.
- 33:17We're just out.
- 33:18I did see, uh, they did naked gun again or something.
- 33:21I haven't seen it.
- 33:23Yeah, I haven't either.
- 33:23I think
- 33:27I can't remember
- 33:31what movie we watched last
- 33:33yeah
- 33:35I'm not a big movie
- 33:37guy usually but sometimes
- 33:39I like throw a movie on
- 33:40I get stuck
- 33:43into a rabbit hole
- 33:46I like movies
- 33:48but I like the movies that I like
- 33:50so I just re-watch movies
- 33:52I've already seen
- 33:52my music is like that like yeah if it's past like a certain date i'm not really interested in it it's
- 34:04expired i'm like stuck in that little window yeah for some reason yeah i'm not so much uh but there
- 34:11are definitely genres that i have no interest in um you know i i it's not that i you know yeah i
- 34:18just have no interest in them none zero so but i can go with you know music from the 70s the 80s
- 34:24the 90s the 2000s even some of the stuff that's coming out nowadays is okay i guess um but it just
- 34:33seems like everything nowadays is like music is has it did the whole thing like what we're doing
- 34:40with ai and content creation it just became formulaic and it just bleh you know well there's
- 34:49a lot of uh a lot of digital tools being used as far as uh right pitch correction and all that stuff
- 34:57yeah yeah and not only that i mean you got people out there that are like you know like big time
- 35:03people like a country singer what was the guy's name uh morgan wallen i think yeah that's it
- 35:10morgan wallen there's no band there's no band it's just a dude singing this is not that's not
- 35:17the way you do that dude that's in that that's not it's all electronic bs in the background
- 35:22it's just a dude hi i'm here to sing for you let me put on this electronic music to accompany me
- 35:30you can take that country stuff you can go hang out with my wife over there somewhere
- 35:35and i'm not interested anyway yeah yeah i get it you know it's not for everyone but i like all
- 35:42kinds of music everything like hardcore thrash metal uh you know grindcore rock and roll
- 35:51a little bit of jazz blues uh some funk uh just all kinds of stuff you know
- 36:01the i didn't hear you say rap don't like rap or hip-hop i don't i just don't want them at all
- 36:09no no all right none of this you know that's the auto-tuned stuff and i just it's i don't know
- 36:18hey look these people have talent in a certain way i suppose but i don't see it as musical talent
- 36:26right i could i could see it as lyrical talent for some of the rappers but even that some of them
- 36:32i've heard and it's just like what why would you listen to this what is this this is just garbage
- 36:38i like some of the older rap stuff sure sure yeah yeah like um not so much the new stuff yeah like
- 36:47the old uh run dmc type stuff yeah probably a little bit later than that oh okay i was like
- 36:54like 50 cent or something tupac uh no that's my wife she she likes him i make fun of her okay good
- 37:02i'm like listening to the spotify i'll put on you know like one of his songs she'll like give
- 37:08me the side eye i'm like it's for you coolio l-o-cool j i don't know yeah no she likes him too
- 37:16yeah all right all right yeah i like all kinds of stuff but i do i do tend to gravitate towards
- 37:22country i like country music you just like the boots well i do love the boots but for me it's
- 37:29it's the storytelling right it feels very from the heart in a lot of not all of them obviously you've
- 37:37got a bunch nowadays i turn on the the you know get in the car with my wife and it's got the
- 37:43country radio station on and i can't tell the difference between that and like the the you know
- 37:49hip-hop station it's it's the same thing now and i'm like that i don't know what that is but that
- 37:54isn't country it's it's garbage it's all auto-tuned you know and you get that warbly voice in there
- 38:00and i'm like that's it turn it off get no i i'm going to get angry now yeah that's it oh that is
- 38:08oh i don't i don't tune country music let me write that one down too that just pisses me off
- 38:14i'm like that's just right next to big government low effort garbage
- 38:18but i'm gonna be uh what's the guy's name uh that i just i just saw what is his name
- 38:30um the lead singer for stained is now doing country aaron lewis that's it he's good he's
- 38:38good I like his music he has a band well he's singing country now so you can't
- 38:43like him anymore you're not allowed okay you already said yeah you made your
- 38:50stand I like the line buddy you got to stay on your side of the line now I
- 38:56didn really listen to stain that much when they were like around but you know 20 years later i like playing that stuff on the guitar four chords yeah it was awesome
- 39:09it's easy to learn right i mean hey you you get it down it's it's good it's fun i i used to enjoy
- 39:18that too picking out a tune figuring it out and then i'd be all proud of myself look what i can
- 39:24and and i had fun i just stopped having fun doing it i guess
- 39:29and i can irritate my wife by uh singing the same song for you know eight days straight yeah that's
- 39:37that's a fun one right there that's not quite like yeah it's like having one of those it's like
- 39:42having a cricket in your house you know it just won't stop and you can't find out yeah it's one
- 39:49those i feel so bad for my my my father um growing up i decided i wanted to learn violin
- 39:59oh yeah yeah at least it wasn't drums i guess but uh yeah i decided that so yeah i imagine
- 40:05there was a good year of time where that was you know not desirable noise
- 40:12do you still have a violin oh oh you think you could play one still
- 40:18maybe yeah probably not not well for sure i mean you know i i do remember the fundamentals how to
- 40:27hold the violin um you know how to get into first position uh how to hold a bow etc but it's it's
- 40:35one of those things you you get a feel for it right i mean it's just you know the same i guess
- 40:40probably very similar to guitar,
- 40:43only it really changes, right?
- 40:45Because the pressure and the angle
- 40:49that you put on a bow
- 40:50will produce different sounds.
- 40:52You know, there's a feel to it
- 40:56that you have to have.
- 40:57And then for violin, there's no fret, right?
- 41:02So you're just on a board.
- 41:06So, yeah, yeah.
- 41:08I could, I'm sure I could probably make some noise with violin, no problem.
- 41:12And it wouldn't be terrible squeaky noise, but you know, playing anything decent would
- 41:17be hopeless because it's been over 40 years since I've picked one up.
- 41:26Oh wow.
- 41:27Yeah.
- 41:28Yeah.
- 41:28So yeah, it's not like riding a bike.
- 41:32I don't think.
- 41:33And yeah, I was a kid, but you know, Hey, I'd give it a shot, but.
- 41:38I have no interest in doing it anymore
- 41:41Do you ever watch
- 41:43Little House on the Prairie?
- 41:45Oh yeah
- 41:45Yeah so my wife and I watched that series
- 41:48I don't know maybe a year ago or so
- 41:50and uh
- 41:51now that I'm a little bit older
- 41:54I can see when Pa took his fiddle out
- 41:56that he wasn't actually playing
- 41:58It was a little disappointing
- 41:59Yeah I pick up on that
- 42:02a lot of like you'll see something
- 42:04like a show or whatever and someone's playing
- 42:06a violin and I'm like they aren't playing
- 42:08shit there that is 100 not someone playing a violin or even some of these youtube or they're
- 42:16not youtube like tiktok videos people playing guitar and stuff and i'm like they're not even
- 42:21playing that right it's not working yeah you know yeah with a violin it's pretty i guess if you if
- 42:28you don't know how to play one it wouldn't be as easy to determine but if you played one ever
- 42:33you can look at it and just go
- 42:35that is not matching to the music
- 42:38the bow stroke just doesn't match
- 42:40right
- 42:41yeah did you see that thing
- 42:44I guess there's like a bunch of scammers that go around
- 42:46they set up like a violin with a
- 42:47like a speaker or whatever and they're
- 42:49you know sitting there you know playing along
- 42:51but they're not actually playing they're just
- 42:53collecting money from people for
- 42:55playing a pre-recorded
- 42:58session it's kind of crazy
- 43:01gotta get paid somehow man
- 43:03I guess.
- 43:04I don't know.
- 43:05There's also some really amazing street musicians.
- 43:10Oh, yeah, for sure.
- 43:11I remember we actually, we were in Cozumel, Mexico.
- 43:17And we were having dinner at this place off the beaten path a little bit.
- 43:21And next thing you know, this family comes walking up.
- 43:24And I'm talking, you know, there's like eight kids.
- 43:27And they're various ages.
- 43:29Probably the youngest one was about six, seven.
- 43:32And this family comes up and they put their cases down,
- 43:37pull out violins and guitars and stuff,
- 43:40and just start absolutely crushing it.
- 43:43It was beautiful.
- 43:44It was amazing.
- 43:45It was pretty cool.
- 43:47So I enjoy kind of stuff like that,
- 43:49seeing street performers that are good at what they do.
- 43:53I think that's pretty neat.
- 43:54But yeah, if you're sitting there faking people out,
- 43:57just, yeah, come on.
- 43:58Get an act.
- 43:59are there any music stores
- 44:02that buy you anymore like
- 44:03even bigger ones like chain ones like
- 44:05Sam Ash or I don't know I don't think
- 44:07they're around anymore like Guitar Center
- 44:09there was a Guitar Center
- 44:11in Charlotte
- 44:12but I don't know if it's still around
- 44:15probably but I don't know
- 44:17and I don't think we
- 44:19have a Sam Ash
- 44:20or what was the other ones
- 44:23was it Goodies
- 44:25or something
- 44:26yeah I don't know
- 44:29Yeah, there's another one.
- 44:30That's the two I can think of.
- 44:32But yeah, we had a guitar center.
- 44:34But it's an hour away, so.
- 44:37Yeah.
- 44:40But we could probably go find one when we go get your haircut and your beard trimmed.
- 44:46Oh, we're still doing that?
- 44:47Yeah, it's booked.
- 44:49Yeah.
- 44:50Oh, it is?
- 44:51I went yesterday.
- 44:52And my wife was asking me.
- 44:53She's like, when did that happen?
- 44:54I'm like, I don't know.
- 44:55It just kind of happened, I guess.
- 44:57Yeah.
- 44:58Yeah.
- 44:59It'll be fun.
- 45:00You'll enjoy it.
- 45:01She's bringing me to the salon before we go.
- 45:06I'm embarrassed to even talk about it.
- 45:08She wants me to get a facial.
- 45:10Oh, yeah.
- 45:11It's like they go in your beard and they take out.
- 45:14I don't know what they're going to do.
- 45:16I guess she had one.
- 45:17She thought it was great.
- 45:18It is great.
- 45:18She's like, I almost fell asleep.
- 45:19Yeah, it is great.
- 45:21Relaxing.
- 45:21They massage your head and everything.
- 45:24Yeah.
- 45:24It's fantastic.
- 45:25It's absolutely fantastic.
- 45:28Feels great.
- 45:29Yeah.
- 45:30And afterwards, you feel all moist and glowing or something.
- 45:35I don't know.
- 45:36I've never had a spa experience, I guess.
- 45:41Yeah.
- 45:42I don't know.
- 45:42It's fun.
- 45:43She really seemed to enjoy it.
- 45:45It is great.
- 45:45It's a good time, man.
- 45:47It feels good.
- 45:47And it is very, very relaxing.
- 45:50They put on that soothing music and, you know, warm towel and put on some, you know, I don't
- 45:57you know one of those vaporizers with some essential oils in there it's just a very
- 46:04relaxing environment right off the bat and you feel like oh this is relaxing and then they start
- 46:10working on you and it's like wow i feel very relaxed i'm going to start snoring pretty soon
- 46:17here i guess that's what the girl told her she's like if you fall asleep start snoring don't worry
- 46:24about it it happens all the time yep yeah it's great i think you'll love it i mean you've gone
- 46:30and done what have you done so far uh just like the my arms that like some kind of not exfoliation
- 46:38but they clean your arms they put some i don't know salt scrub my legs uh no some kind of other
- 46:45stuff i don't know okay whatever they use and was it enjoyable yeah it was all right they did the uh
- 46:54the led uh red light therapy thing i don't know it seems like it might be improving a little bit
- 46:59well cool it's not hurting no probably not it's just light yeah you know maybe they could hurt
- 47:06you i don't i don't know well maybe if you turn them up a lot so we were thinking about actually
- 47:12getting a device for using at home one of those red lights considering it but yeah i i would really
- 47:19check into those because you know i guess like a more commercial system is going to be pretty
- 47:28expensive and it's going to be you know tuned to the right you know light wave frequency and all
- 47:35that kind of garbage whereas yeah i mean you know the home and use the big ones do get expensive
- 47:41this is like a handheld and and they do make a million of them and i mean they have them from
- 47:46you know like amazon 30 bucks but then i'm like they probably don't work yeah but the one that
- 47:50they suggested like the one that she said she would buy if hers breaks and what she's going
- 47:56to replace it's like 500 bucks yeah so while it's not like super expensive i mean it's still quite a
- 48:01bit of money but i mean if it helps it that is a yeah it's a worthwhile thing right but the the
- 48:08question is is that what's doing it like i said to you right give it some time and see you know
- 48:15introduce just that everything else stays the same introduce just that and see is there an
- 48:22improvement and that way you'll get a real you know kind of because you would change something
- 48:30else as well right you added something to you i i upped the uh the turmeric uh curcumin
- 48:36supplement a little bit and we also we we did recently change um i had been using the brawners
- 48:43dr brauner's castile soap yeah and i guess that could be a little bit drying for some people
- 48:49so um what she used was a hemp based cleanser so we're i actually moved over to that in the
- 48:59last couple days okay yeah that that might actually be a huge thing yeah dr brauner's is
- 49:05great stuff love love this stuff but yeah you know some people put like essential oils in it
- 49:13They get the unscented one and then put their own essential oils into it.
- 49:17And that helps introduce some oil into it,
- 49:19which gives it a little bit more of a moisturizing or,
- 49:23or protective barrier type of a thing.
- 49:25I don't know.
- 49:26All right.
- 49:27I don't know.
- 49:28It works.
- 49:29So it's good stuff.
- 49:30A little bottle lasts for freaking ever too,
- 49:33because you've got to dilute the car.
- 49:34Yeah.
- 49:35You just use a little tiny bit.
- 49:36You've got to dilute that stuff.
- 49:38Like don't,
- 49:38don't use it straight.
- 49:40You remember that little meme that went around,
- 49:42a story of a guy that got the the peppermint one no dude i'll have to find that i'll put that up if
- 49:51i can find it he gets the peppermint dr bronner's and this stuff is super concentrated and it's got
- 49:58real peppermint oil in it right okay so he he starts you know he gets in the shower with the
- 50:04bottle and starts squirting that into his hands and lathering up and he's like
- 50:09when he gets to the nether regions things change he's like this is uncomfortable i'll find the
- 50:21thing it's pretty funny it's hilarious actually it's a really good one come out smelling like a
- 50:25candy cane bro oh i'm sure i'm sure and and yeah both both too warm and way too cold all at the
- 50:34same time, right?
- 50:36Nice.
- 50:37Oh.
- 50:43Hey.
- 50:47What are you doing?
- 50:49Good morning.
- 50:50Good morning.
- 50:52Good morning.
- 50:54Okay.
- 50:58Well, that's what happens in the morning when my dog wakes up.
- 51:02She wants to come see Dad.
- 51:05It's a beautiful thing.
- 51:07Yeah, that's awesome.
- 51:08It is.
- 51:09Sorry for the distraction there, folks.
- 51:13I'm sure nobody minds.
- 51:14And now I've got this going on.
- 51:17Dad.
- 51:18What's that?
- 51:19Hold on.
- 51:32there we go see i didn't even notice well i did i was like hey that's open now that's not supposed
- 51:49to be there but it was so now it's all fixed up we're all good oh yeah i'll have to see you like
- 51:59the curtain. I'll have to see if I can
- 52:00find that because it's pretty hilarious.
- 52:03You'll get a kick out of it.
- 52:05yeah yeah and i do like that curtain the curtain actually it helped a lot yeah yeah i think nice
- 52:15yeah well maybe i need a curtain you know little tweaks and tune tuning things along the way right
- 52:22cutting off external light actually is better than having it in general for this kind of stuff
- 52:29because the light will change as the sun goes across the sky.
- 52:35So even in an hour, it changes immensely,
- 52:39which just makes the camera, it's weird.
- 52:44Go watch some of it.
- 52:45I think I got my lighting down pretty good now.
- 52:47I think so too, yeah.
- 52:49You can go watch some of our older vids
- 52:51and you'll see what I'm talking about.
- 52:52It's like, oh, dude, it goes.
- 52:54I did, it was pretty bad.
- 52:56It's gotten better, hasn't it?
- 52:58It's much better.
- 52:59everything's gotten better and you you don't have the shine anymore which is pretty awesome
- 53:05pretty awesome you used to have like this this glowing yeah all right what's that
- 53:11well you noticed at first you're like hey my forehead glowing like yeah kind of right yeah
- 53:18yeah yeah it's definitely tuned up in the little bit of blue in the background really kind of
- 53:25Live and learn.
- 53:26Sets things off.
- 53:27That was your idea.
- 53:28Yeah, yeah.
- 53:29I like it.
- 53:30It looks good.
- 53:30You got a little bit back there too, right?
- 53:33Yeah.
- 53:33Yeah.
- 53:34Yep, yep.
- 53:35You can't quite see it right now
- 53:37because I don't have all the curtains closed.
- 53:38I can see it back there.
- 53:40Yeah, you can see the kind of bluish,
- 53:42bluey, bluey.
- 53:45And my shelf with Mr. Hacker sitting up there.
- 53:49Right here.
- 53:52See, you got a whole shelf full of collectibles.
- 53:54you're just as bad as I am
- 53:55a lot of that crap is
- 53:56awards I guess
- 54:02celebrations of my
- 54:04I did things
- 54:07better than other people did things
- 54:10apparently and so they said hey
- 54:11we recognize that you did things better
- 54:13than other people did things
- 54:15so you're really cool
- 54:17and you do good things
- 54:19so we're going to give you a good thing
- 54:22plate
- 54:23or a piece of glass or black sand really but you know same thing
- 54:28you made our corporation eight billion dollars this year we'll give you this
- 54:34piece of plastic with your name here's your plastic here's your sign
- 54:38that's pretty much what it is
- 54:40yeah so yay yay me i did things better than other people did things apparently or maybe i just was
- 54:51one of the people and they're like yeah just pick that guy we've already done that guy over there so
- 54:57yeah i don't know sometimes it's nice to be recognized it is it is yeah money money works
- 55:05too i like i like that that aspect works better than a plate or a piece of lexan but you know hey
- 55:12pizza party you could have had your pizza party you know yeah
- 55:21Yeah. Yeah. I miss the old days, the old days in tech. You know, we used to get stuff. I mean, people always gave you stuff. They're like, Hey, you know, we're going to come talk to you about our company. And you're like, yeah, okay, come on.
- 55:34genuinely interested in what they were, you know, at least in the concept, right? Or the,
- 55:40the, you know, the, uh, technology in general, right. Um, to do a thing, right. So you'll have
- 55:50multiple people come in and we do it better than they do. And they, you know, we do it better than
- 55:54these guys and we have this and they don't have that. And so you go through all this, but everyone
- 55:59used to come in and they'd be like, Oh, Hey, here's a polo shirt. Oh, Hey, here's, you know,
- 56:04some desk gear and squeezy balls and whatever the, you know, all the stuff.
- 56:09This is just stuff.
- 56:10Hey, would you like some stuff?
- 56:12Yeah, I would like some stuff.
- 56:13Okay, cool.
- 56:14Would you like clothing?
- 56:15Yeah, I like clothing.
- 56:16I've gotten jackets, backpacks, all kinds of stuff.
- 56:20Nowadays, nothing.
- 56:22Nobody gives anything anymore.
- 56:24It's just, no.
- 56:25It just doesn't happen anymore.
- 56:28What happened to the good old days, man?
- 56:30Give me some tchotchkes.
- 56:31you can't even get free like aol cds anymore i know right dude those things were great for coasters
- 56:39you know free you can put a string on them and tie them put them in your yard and it keeps the
- 56:45birds off your blueberry bushes and you know i mean you can throw them at people you know
- 56:51used to get them in the mail all the time like up to 300 hours of free internet or i don't know
- 56:57I never signed up before, so I don't even know what they actually gave you.
- 57:01It was exactly what they offered.
- 57:03Those were good old days when you got to hear that beautiful tonal music coming out of your modem.
- 57:11I kind of miss that.
- 57:12It would be kind of cool to set that as when you go and log on to your system,
- 57:17it just plays that as it's logging on.
- 57:22Yeah, it's a bit of nostalgia.
- 57:24Maybe you could do that for the intro and then people won't even know until they get like an hour in.
- 57:29Like, what the heck was that all about?
- 57:32Then we'll get here and they'll be like, oh, yeah.
- 57:34I'll see if I can find one.
- 57:35I'll see if I can find one.
- 57:37I'll see if I can throw something together.
- 57:39That'd be fun.
- 57:39That's a worthwhile adventure there.
- 57:42I can dig on that.
- 57:49Talk about nostalgia.
- 57:50Yeah, yeah.
- 57:51The olden days.
- 57:52It's so interesting.
- 57:53I was thinking about this.
- 57:55Like, we were around for the invention, or actually the release of the public version of the Internet.
- 58:07The implementation of it.
- 58:09Yeah.
- 58:10I mean, we were around for a lot of technological advancements, right?
- 58:17I mean, I remember in the early days, it was records and eight tracks, right?
- 58:23And then we got cassettes, which were way more portable than eight tracks.
- 58:29Because eight tracks were big.
- 58:30Let's just be blunt.
- 58:32That's a big cassette.
- 58:36Then from cassettes we went to CDs And from CDs we went to mp3s and now we just subscribe everybody subscribes you don
- 58:49i hate that i still have my old in my truck i have my old cd case you know one of those those
- 58:56you know like nylon cases with all the i got one somewhere i use it still
- 59:01i pull out my george straight throw it in the truck drive down the road nice yeah nice did did
- 59:11you ever get your uh your ipod working that you found you know i i did not i didn't pull it out
- 59:15i kind of thought about it and then i was like yeah i gotta go find it and find the charger and
- 59:20i'm sure it works i would imagine those things were pretty pretty robust you know yeah it was a
- 59:28I don't know if the battery would still be good anymore.
- 59:30I may have to pull it out and try, see if I can get it to at least boot,
- 59:35and then I can just pull all my music off and onto my own system,
- 59:40which would be cool.
- 59:43It's kind of crazy to think that you could have basically a whole jukebox
- 59:48full of music, probably more, I mean definitely more,
- 59:51just in the palm of your hand, you know what I mean?
- 59:53Oh, yeah. No, that was huge.
- 59:54I was like, wow.
- 59:55i remember the beginning the beginning mp3s with like you know 16 megabytes or whatever not megabytes
- 1:00:03it was probably gigs but you know you could put like maybe 8 10 12 songs on them you remember
- 1:00:10those things yeah not really no i never i never had one till like late in it my first um mp3
- 1:00:17player was one of those little uh ipod nano i don't know it was about the size of a quarter or
- 1:00:23So it was, you know, square, no screen on it or nothing.
- 1:00:25Just a little round iPod shuffle.
- 1:00:28Just a little round thing with the, yeah, the button.
- 1:00:32That's all it had.
- 1:00:33Left, right, yeah.
- 1:00:34Yeah, no, in the beginning there were a bunch of different companies that were making them.
- 1:00:40You know, there wasn't, like, Apple hadn't even, you know, begun to corner the market at that point.
- 1:00:46Right.
- 1:00:47And so, you know, it was kind of like a cheesy little, you know, proprietary BS kind of crap, you know.
- 1:00:56And then Apple came out and just kind of just took over the entire market.
- 1:01:01That was it.
- 1:01:02It's pretty much done.
- 1:01:03I can't even remember the names of the companies.
- 1:01:06That's how bad it is, you know.
- 1:01:08Apple.
- 1:01:09Like SanDisk made one?
- 1:01:10Maybe.
- 1:01:11Yeah, probably.
- 1:01:13Yeah.
- 1:01:13Yeah, maybe.
- 1:01:14I don't remember.
- 1:01:15I want to say there was one that I had called like a Rio or something.
- 1:01:20Oh,
- 1:01:21okay.
- 1:01:21I don't remember,
- 1:01:23but there were,
- 1:01:23I mean,
- 1:01:24there were some interesting brands.
- 1:01:26Yeah.
- 1:01:27That you don't hear about.
- 1:01:29So I guess Apple just,
- 1:01:31they're all probably all at a landfill.
- 1:01:32Now Apple smoked them so badly,
- 1:01:35so badly.
- 1:01:36Just like,
- 1:01:37Hey,
- 1:01:37we're going to give you way more space and we're going to just like make it
- 1:01:42intuitive and easy.
- 1:01:43And,
- 1:01:44you know,
- 1:01:44it was really an innovative thing you know yeah those first iPods because uh I remember my uh
- 1:01:52my friend's son had one they they were I mean by today's standards they were fairly large but they
- 1:01:58were like all metal they I mean they look you know like they're substantial and they you know
- 1:02:03they look pretty nice but I they actually had like a like a hard disk drive in them didn't they it
- 1:02:10wasn't like solid state it was like moving parts and stuff in there wasn't i don't think so but if
- 1:02:16it if it is that thing's probably dead then oh um yeah because it's i think it's one of the like
- 1:02:22the 360 gig ones or whatever it's it's a you know big size unit you know it's like
- 1:02:28not quite as big as my phone with the case on it but you know it's a sizable unit
- 1:02:35but he had that reminds me he he he had that for a while and then like zune came out and that's all
- 1:02:43i want a zune a zune zune like he pestered the crap out of his parents until he got one for
- 1:02:49christmas i guess and then i think zune folded pretty soon after apple apple took that yep yeah
- 1:02:57they oh they just cornered and owned that market so quickly too it was amazing really was
- 1:03:04and I couldn't believe I had to actually load iTunes onto my system to actually use the dang
- 1:03:10thing. I'm like, I don't want an iTunes. And they started those, you know what? Those rat bastards,
- 1:03:16they're the ones started the whole subscription crap. You got to use iTunes. I'm like, I don't
- 1:03:21want to use iTunes and you have to sign up and have an account with us. Did you ever do the,
- 1:03:27uh, I don't want you to incriminate yourself like the LimeWire or any of that stuff.
- 1:03:32lime wire where was where was that other one napster oh napster uh you know i played around
- 1:03:40with it for a little while but i mean i had so much music i i've always kind of really been into
- 1:03:45music so i had my own cds yeah and you know i and i still believe that this is absolutely a right to
- 1:03:53have your own cd you can you know put that on another device and take it with you right so i
- 1:04:01I would primarily my iPod was just full of CDs that I own that I had put in the thing and moved them to MP3s using iTunes.
- 1:04:14So all the DRM was there and everything else.
- 1:04:17And I never really, you know, the Napsters and all that kind of stuff.
- 1:04:22Hey, that's cool.
- 1:04:23You know, I don't really care.
- 1:04:27But it just wasn't my thing.
- 1:04:29No, not really.
- 1:04:31But I admittedly did play around with it for a little bit, but I didn't really do much with it.
- 1:04:39And I certainly didn't keep or take a bunch of music that, yeah.
- 1:04:45I mean, creators.
- 1:04:46You're just scared you're going to get sued by Metallica.
- 1:04:48Not at all.
- 1:04:49I've always kind of thought of it like this, right?
- 1:04:51I mean, the creator made that, you know, and yeah, you know, in some cases they make stupid amounts of money for it, right?
- 1:05:00and they get kind of stupid about protecting that right.
- 1:05:03But at the same time, you know, I pay for it.
- 1:05:07You know, it's kind of like, you know, people, you know, like to,
- 1:05:10like to make like PDF versions of books and stuff I go buy the book because someone put their you know time and effort into writing a whole book you know and they don get a whole lot of money from publishers you know So I
- 1:05:32just buy the book. I think it's the right thing to do for me anyway. I'm not going to tell you
- 1:05:37what you should or shouldn't do. You do what you want to do. And yeah, if you're comfortable with
- 1:05:44it go for it right I mean fair enough what am I gonna do what am I gonna say about that I'd like
- 1:05:56to write a book I don't think I could ever write a book I started much when I was young
- 1:06:00I was in my early 20s I started writing a book maybe I'll do that still working on it no I stopped
- 1:06:10couple years later stopped no yeah I think it was like 15 pages in or
- 1:06:15something it wasn't terribly difficult I just writing requires a lot of time and
- 1:06:27thoughtfulness that is no hey I want to play you know what failed authors do they
- 1:06:37start a podcast it's a ways true to form here we are nice so what do you get on the books for today
- 1:06:49anything good yeah we're gonna be planting a bunch of stuff we've got we've got planting I
- 1:06:54gotta get muck buckets we've got to get down to the compost we've got a couple more beds to fill
- 1:07:01up with dirt which is just going to be shovel and wheelbarrow work and um we've got uh an external
- 1:07:10light fixture that i've got to replace uh oh and a big piece of wood that i have to do some work on
- 1:07:19and put some things on it so it'll do the thing that it's meant to do all right yeah so we got
- 1:07:26we had a good day worth of stuff going on i think yeah what about you guys um
- 1:07:35we might go visit uh my wife's parents yeah i think they're due for a visit are they
- 1:07:41yeah maybe time time for an oil change yeah actually it is for her car oh there you go
- 1:07:47i'm gonna get that over here too it's a good excuse
- 1:07:49hmm
- 1:07:51might bar her car
- 1:07:53bring it over here
- 1:07:54do that tomorrow
- 1:07:54no there you go
- 1:07:55then you get to visit
- 1:07:58without having to visit
- 1:07:59hmm
- 1:08:01nah I don't mind visiting with them
- 1:08:03I like visiting with them
- 1:08:04good
- 1:08:04that's a good thing
- 1:08:06yeah
- 1:08:08yeah
- 1:08:09all our new starts
- 1:08:10are doing pretty good
- 1:08:11out in the garden
- 1:08:12good
- 1:08:12we had to peel some
- 1:08:14snails and slugs off them
- 1:08:16the other day
- 1:08:17hmm
- 1:08:17You're using a lot of mulch?
- 1:08:21There is some mulch in there, yeah.
- 1:08:23Well, I mean, we bought some topsoil.
- 1:08:25Topsoil.
- 1:08:27Filled dirt?
- 1:08:27A lot of mulch in it.
- 1:08:28Filled dirt?
- 1:08:29Yeah, a little bit of dirt with a lot of sticks, you know, like mulchy sticks.
- 1:08:34Well, for you guys, that's probably a good thing, right?
- 1:08:38They will break down.
- 1:08:39It's not great.
- 1:08:41Oh, eventually, yeah.
- 1:08:42It'll take about six months or so.
- 1:08:44and at that point it'll be very rich soil you know it's kind of like what what ours is we had
- 1:08:51it delivered probably four months ago five months ago and when it was delivered it was kind of like
- 1:08:58yeah okay it's you know a lot of clay with wood chips in it basically and you know i just let it
- 1:09:05sit there in a pile for a long time and then we put it in and by the time we put it in it's it
- 1:09:11started at least breaking down nice yeah it works yeah that clay stuff can be your friend
- 1:09:18it can also be your worst nightmare i mean so compacted and so impossible to grow anything in
- 1:09:26yeah yeah we mix them in that we got you know in our stuff it seems to hold the moisture a little
- 1:09:32you know just just a little bit not not a lot but oh it'll hold hold moisture really well really
- 1:09:38really well yeah yeah you can you can do this thing so we've done it in certain areas where
- 1:09:45we're starting the garden to kind of determine what our compaction is like in in drainage right
- 1:09:54drainage is really impacted by compacted soil so dig a hole right about you know 12 18 inches deep
- 1:10:02and then fill it with water come back the next day if it's drained fill it back with water and
- 1:10:08then see how long that takes to drain we've had holes hold water for weeks yeah wow yeah all right
- 1:10:18yeah so that's where the broad fork time to build a pond back there that's where the broad fork
- 1:10:24comes in well and a lot of people when they do ponds here they don't line them there's no need
- 1:10:28it's all clay so it it's not gonna you know seep uh at a rate that would be worrisome for most of
- 1:10:37the year.
- 1:10:39Because we get a good amount of rain here.
- 1:10:42So, yeah.
- 1:10:46Nice.
- 1:10:47I want a pond.
- 1:10:50That'd be pretty cool.
- 1:10:51We found a cool house.
- 1:10:56Near you?
- 1:10:57No.
- 1:10:59Ish.
- 1:10:59Oh, okay.
- 1:11:01Like Wyoming?
- 1:11:02No, closer to you, actually.
- 1:11:04Or South Carolina.
- 1:11:06I'm up for that.
- 1:11:07Yeah, South Carolina.
- 1:11:08It's about two hours in.
- 1:11:1348 acres.
- 1:11:15Bigger place.
- 1:11:18All one story.
- 1:11:20Well, it's got a basement too, which is interesting out here because that's going to be wet.
- 1:11:29Maybe not where this is.
- 1:11:30I don't know what the soil composition is there yet.
- 1:11:33So it'll be interesting.
- 1:11:34Yeah.
- 1:11:34We're just kind of checking it out.
- 1:11:36We're not planning on making any moves anytime soon.
- 1:11:40But you know, the whole, the subdivisions are coming.
- 1:11:44That's, that's just a reality, right?
- 1:11:46At some point.
- 1:11:47It seems inevitable.
- 1:11:48Yeah.
- 1:11:49At some point we will be surrounded by them.
- 1:11:51And I I don want to be the little farm in suburbia Sorry Way too many Karen for that crap Sorry So like I mean do you hold out till the property values get like super high sky and then just bail out
- 1:12:05Or like, when do you decide to make that move? What's the best financial thing to do?
- 1:12:11Well, financially, the best thing to do is to time it correctly so that you're at the peak of the market.
- 1:12:17You sell your home and then you rent a place for a year or so while the market tanks.
- 1:12:21and then you put all that money into a new house.
- 1:12:26But that's, you know, I'm not,
- 1:12:28investors can do that, right?
- 1:12:32Because they don't even live in the house.
- 1:12:34So they're just trading, you know,
- 1:12:36it's like trading cards, right?
- 1:12:38So I'm not in that position.
- 1:12:40So for us, it'll likely come down to
- 1:12:43if it becomes too much of an annoyance
- 1:12:47to live here anymore,
- 1:12:48then we'll have to look elsewhere.
- 1:12:51Yeah, there's some annoying crud going on right now.
- 1:12:58Well, you know, like someone wanted to propose a bike path, a freaking bike path across the state.
- 1:13:05Like for what, like 12 people?
- 1:13:08There's maybe 12 people that want to do this.
- 1:13:11Well, it's not going to cost money.
- 1:13:13In what world are you living in that?
- 1:13:15How much concrete is that?
- 1:13:16that amount of concrete is going to cost tens of millions if not more dollars not to mention the
- 1:13:24time and work going into it the the sad fact that they'll likely steal people's property and yes
- 1:13:31it is stealing it through eminent domain and you know and then the upkeep right it doesn't just
- 1:13:39keep itself up it's got to be you know weeds will grow up through the joints in the concrete
- 1:13:44you know that all this stuff's got to be taken care of regularly you know it's like for what
- 1:13:50a bike path across the state a bike path most of the state has nobody in it you know what I mean
- 1:14:02what kind of brain dead moron no just no no
- 1:14:13you stand it stand out there with your picket sign no bike paths well you look if you've got
- 1:14:21a community and your your your community is a planned community and y'all want to throw a bike
- 1:14:26path and go for it but like to to you know request that the the people of the state fund a bike path
- 1:14:35for the tiny fraction of a percent of the population that would use it
- 1:14:40is is stupid i cannot in any way shape or form make that okay
- 1:14:46like are there no roads where they want to go ride bikes i'm sure there are i mean there's
- 1:14:53already technically a bike path there right since they can like just share the road yes yeah yeah
- 1:14:58yeah and i understand not wanting to be on the road i get that that's not my problem though
- 1:15:07that shouldn't be made my problem either i don't care
- 1:15:11period i don't even own a bike maybe they should make a horse path the old paths are a horse path
- 1:15:20that's the thing the road is a horse path the dirt is a horse path that wooded area also a horse path
- 1:15:28you know up the mountain down the mountain cross the river it's all a horse path that's the beauty
- 1:15:35of horses it's all horse path so yeah if you want to make a i'm all in we'll make a horse path
- 1:15:46through the state. Oh, look, boom, it's already done. There you are. We're done. It already
- 1:15:52happened. No, no taxpayer funding needed, you know, no silliness. No, no, no bureaucracy,
- 1:16:01no BS. Yeah. And what if, you know, they just decide one day, well, you know, we can't
- 1:16:09afford to keep this up anymore. And then they close it down and make it like, you know,
- 1:16:12illegal to go on it now.
- 1:16:15Well, why? Because we can't keep it up.
- 1:16:19Now we got on that
- 1:16:20subject again. It's a beautiful day.
- 1:16:24It's a
- 1:16:25beautiful day in the neighborhood.
- 1:16:27A beautiful day in the neighborhood.
- 1:16:30We can talk about
- 1:16:30puppies. I like puppies.
- 1:16:32Puppies are awesome.
- 1:16:35Puppies are the best.
- 1:16:36They're so wonderful.
- 1:16:39Yeah.
- 1:16:40I think we can probably wrap it up.
- 1:16:42Maybe we should just wrap it up at that.
- 1:16:44Yeah.
- 1:16:44I think we did.
- 1:16:45I think we did pretty good.
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