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Gen Z and Amazon in the Amazon | Episode 99 · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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It is time to leave your worries outside and come laugh with us inside the
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treehouse. I'm Dan O'Malley along with Trey Trenholm and Raj Sharma. It's a
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luxury you have being inside the treehouse, where you get to leave your worries
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outside, whereas all of us lately have been having a carousel of problems.
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The storms last week obviously affected everybody in North Texas, affected you, Trey
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and Raj, and it hasn't really stopped. There's been something every day since.
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Raj, your power was out last week. Before that, I was
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having power issues. Then your power is back, storms are still happening,
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and now my power's out again. Although it's on right now, yes now,
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yeah, but if if I go dark at some point, that'll be
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it'll be a WAPA outage. The Water and Power Authority. I think should
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be the new villain in the next Avengers movie. It's like I know that
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everything got blown up with Jonathan Majors as King, and they were setting that
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all up. It was going to be the King Dynasty and it was going
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to be the next big Avengers team up type of thing, and and then
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he got into some serious legal issues and Marvel said, we're gonna we're gonna
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back away from this storyline. So I now offer up as tribute an evil
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team up to go up against the Avengers, the Water and Power Authority of
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the United States, Virgin Islands and RKAT up against the Avengers and Avengers five.
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That's a formidable opponent. Yeah, it's like Godzilla versus Mathra. Well,
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you one would think it would just be a solo project that Thor could
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just easily fix it with just by smacking it with his hammer with lightning and
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be like, hey, that's all fixed. But they thought he'd fry the
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grid. Butt's more of like Phonzie hitting the jukebox with his fist. They
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turn it off just so they can turn it on and look cooling fingers.
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Hey look what I can do. Whereas here in the Islands WAPA, the
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Water and Power Authority, they're not cool like Phonsie. H. It's it's
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like a two man approach. So one person is doing the distraction, right,
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It's like, hey, look at me over here, I'm a shiny
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object, while another guy has some tree trimmers and he's just severing the power
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source all together with a big smile, and then the money symbols in his
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eyes because they still charge even though you don't have power. Yeah, so
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we've got fondie, you've got more like Cheach and Chong. You know what
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I believe. I'm gonna put that together in a nice photo and slap it
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on wapa's Facebook page. Here's our the head of the Virgin Islands Water and
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Power Authority, Cheech and Chong. So yeah, what they've been doing is
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here they've found short. The cable that supplies our power on Saint John that
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goes on the ocean floor some from Saint Thomas last week or two weeks ago
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had a short in it, so they had to find and fix that.
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So they did that. Uh and now they found another one and so now
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that now that's been a problem. So since five o'clock yesterday, we've had,
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you know, rolling outages as they try to divert power and try to
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find whatever it is that they're trying to find to fix. Now, is
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there a okay, is there a cap for population on the island, because
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that will because I think that's where you're rolling blackouts are gonna. This is
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how it starts. When they're like, oh well there's short's happening, and
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it's because there's too many people utilizing power at the same time. I don't
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know, I have not heard anything about that as far as uh, you
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know, no more people right, although would be uh, it would be
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helpful because one of the things they do when you stay in the islands as
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a tourist, when you come visit, right, whether it's you're staying out,
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there's only there's there's whether you're staying at a hotel or at an airbnb.
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Most of the places here have mini splits. Central AC is rare,
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right, so the MANI splits. What they tell you to do is when
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you leave, turn it off. Don't leave it on all day because it
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sucks the power out of the entire grid. And I think that's what people
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do because like when you go to Mexico, man we us Texans will run
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Mexico's grid into the dirt. Because if you've ever gone to the resorts in
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Mexico, what do you do when you get in there? You turn that
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AC all the way down and then you leave it there for the entire stay.
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M I don't know anyone that's ever turned the AC at their resort up
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to a quote unquote reasonable temperature. No, No, that's where you got
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to get your money back in some way. One is at the swim up
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Bar. Two was at the buffet, and UH three is again at the
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swim up Bar. And number four is the in room air conditioning. You
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run that mfor all the way down. That's the most Indian thing you ever
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said. See, I think you you applied the Indian label to my frugality.
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That's we invented it. So that's what you call it frugal. We
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call it cheap. Yeah, I I do put the like what is it?
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What like? What do you set your thermostead at normally? If you
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if you're when you're at the resort, what do you turn the AC on
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down to at a resort in Mexico? Is uh at night? As low
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as it'll go? Okay, I will be somewhat conscious about it because I
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live here, so I'll turn it up some during the day, but I
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still want to when I come back into that room right from a hard day
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at the swim up Bar, I'm gonna make sure the temperature is nice and
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chilli. Okay. I don't like cold, That's the thing I don't want
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like. I can't like if it's up to me, Like the girlfriend likes
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to keep it low, I'm a seventy three seventy four. No, that's
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good for me. Trey. Trey is Treys like Frosty. He's melting as
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soon as you touch seventy Yeah, I'm like, seventy three is good,
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seventy seventy three is cold. Seventy four I'm solid with. Like, I
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don't need it. I don't need it to be I don't need to live
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in a fridge. I don't know. I'm desert people. That's what I
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set my thermoce at to when I'm away. Okay, I just wanted sixty
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seven when I get home. Sixty seven degrees. Wow, that's insane.
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That's why Urkott may have a point. Now I might be, I might
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be on their side. I'm just saying, like, seventy three seventy four,
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I'm good with so h. I mentioned the Water and Power Authority and
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they they get run through the ringer quite a bit, the same way that
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Urkott does in Texas, and rightfully so in both instances. Right that includes
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parody accounts on social media, and sometimes the parody accounts actually let me,
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let me rephrase. Sometimes the entity you're trying to parody is so stupid it's
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difficult to parody it, right right, yeah, And a great example of
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this is the Water and Power Authority of the Virgin Islands. I sent this
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to Tray the other day. I'm Raj. I'm not sure if you saw,
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but I'm gonna share it with you now to make sure and share it
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with everybody inside the treehouse. So this here is a post from WAPA.
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They were very excited being able to take a break from all their Please pardon
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the service interruptions. Thank you for your thank you for your understanding. We
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apologize for the inconvenience posts. They broke it up with a post about a
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new hire. So any any news, any any good news they could throw
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out there. They were very excited to do it, right, So,
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Raj, can you see that? Okay? All right? So right here
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from WAPPA four days ago, after a long hiring process, this is on
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This is on their Facebook page. By the way, after a long hiring
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process and weeding through at least twenty candidates for our new billing specialist. Specialist
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is spelled sp E s h A l I S t so. After weeding
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through at least twenty candidates. Our new billing specialist has been hired. Our
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hiring panel says she blew the interviewers away with their skills and knowledge. Here's
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her photo. Raj Okay, that that look familiar to you at all?
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No, Trey, Yeah, what's that look like to you? The casting
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couch? Yeah? Oh, the casting count adult website. So this is
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where you need to pay close attention because when you go up and look at
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the actual WAPA logo, it's not actually them. It says not the Virgin
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Islands Water and Power Authority. Huh Wilma dick Fit power station will keep you
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in the dark. And here you have the logo Virgin Islands Water and Power
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Authority working against you. And on the and on the introduction again, we'll
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keep you in the dark. Wow. And as seventeen hours ago the most
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recent post WAPA update, the current is currently out. Current time to restoration
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of current is currently unknown. WAPA spokesman Manual Labor said, Unfortunately, our
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current CEO jumped before the ship sank, and we're currently reading through the plant
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manual to restore current. Does it has anyone done in or one and you
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know of the listeners don't want to do that. I need to look up
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to see if somebody has. I need to look up to see if somebody
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has. But I mean, this is just terrible. It is an interesting
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way though, to get people, you know, to enjoy Facebook again,
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which is making fun of the things that they hate, which is actually interesting
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because I saw a story today about so we're all aware Facebook is for the
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old it's for the older folks, right, It's for sort of people around
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our age, and older millennials will use it a little bit, but it's
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very much a gen X and hard boomer thing. And gen Z is too
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cool for it, right because they're on Instagram and TikTok and maybe other platforms
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I haven't even heard of you. So Facebook is trying to remedy that,
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maybe because they know TikTok is you know, on the bubble, and they're
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trying to find a way to woo gen Z into Facebook. Although it was
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interesting they said they're not trying to convince gen Z that the book is cool,
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just useful. But all I can see is Steve Bashimi and thirty Rock
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walking up to a bunch of kids wearing a Facebook t shirt with her backwards,
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red hat and a skateboard saying hello my fellow kids. Trey, you
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you work with gen Z because you work in the service industry. You're a
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manager at a at a very cool you know, night spot in Dallas,
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and a lot of your staff is gen Zh. All of them, pretty
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much all of them. How do you How do you handle that? How
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do you relate to them? I? I do you try to tell them?
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Do you try to share with them a new TikTok you saw? Do
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you try to involve yourself and their TikTok dances? Do you wear crop top
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sweatshirts and short shirts with socks and sandals? I try my best to h
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be gentle with them. You have to be very gentle with them. They're
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very sensitive. They're they're they're very in touch with their feelings. They they
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have not everything. This is one of the great analogies. You know,
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when we were growing up, if a kid was picking on you, you
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know, you went to your parents'. Parents are like, you know,
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when you act like it doesn't you know bother you, they'll quit. So
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you basically had to either you know, learn to deal with it or fight
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mm hmm. Yeah. It was basically it was is basically, we either
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had to find a way to defuse it or we escalated to the point to
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where now you leave me alone. And with the with the fisticuffs and this
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gen z. You know, they really literally are used to if someone was
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picking on them. Then they went and told the adult and they all got
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set down and they talked about it. Why you know it's wrong to do
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that, and that's just they are. I can't even I literally I have
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had a couple of servers that I've had a problem with that. You know,
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as it gets later on the night, twelve thirty one am, they
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just kind of get into a coast mode. I'm like, hey, you
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know, my first time was like, hey, we're open till two.
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You know, we gotta keep going. You know, let's let's keep making
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those sales. We got bonuses. You were taking the Jason Garrett clap approach.
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You can do this. Let's go, guys. You have to be
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you have to you have to be positive, you know, encouraging encouragement,
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even though deep down inside your bill parcells. So that's the first time.
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Second time, it was still nice, but I was like, hey too,
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really to the coast need to get back out there on the floor.
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M that's literally what I said, come on, Kieran, we need your
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last hour here. And because of that, then I had to have a
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talk with other people because they're like, well, they feel like that you're
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that their jobs on the line when you when you say things like that,
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and I said, it is that's that's the nature of this business. It's
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yeah, it's a it's literally a results business. And if you don't have
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results, And I've always told all staffs of this, like we're all replaceable.
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You're in the service industry and bar business, you're all replaceable. Don't
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ever don't ever think you're you're you're the golden child and the bar is gonna
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fall apart without you. It won't. The only way that bar will fall
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apart is if there's no alcohol in it, exactly. And they're just it's
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and they're so they have this just sense of of it's like they think they
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they think they know so much and they don't. Yeah, and just and
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it's it's one of those things. It's like just because you've had like we
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had to work for information, like we know, like world books and encyclopedia
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and a Dewey decimal system in a library. They have no it's just all
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but they don't have any filter on where they're getting their information from. So
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half of them they think they know everything, but they've just been watching YouTube
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videos of another dipshit. Yes, yeah, I just uh in my head,
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I've always wondered what like a gen Z military would look like. You
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know, drop and give me twenty if you are so inclined. But it
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hurts, Okay, you know, we will stop for the rest of the
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day. I you know, we we used to joke about millennials being just
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kind of soft and yeah and yeah, no we at least had kids.
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Well yeah, but you know, now we're looking back on it's like,
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you know, the millennials were like the little brothers and things when we still
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slap them around, they were okay, this one't Yeah, I liked.
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I will say I'm glad. I'm gonna be gone when they when gen Z
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really gets the power, because I don't know what the hell that's gonna happen.
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In reality, it's jen X's kids that are that are producing the gen
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Z kids. And and we've talked about this before. It's like there's there's
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there's been an overcorrection and because a lot of us, a lot of our
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experience is growing up, we're still coming to terms with as adults. We're
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still learning about ourselves and figuring out, oh, you know what, maybe
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this particular thing was not supposed to happen, or or that lesson was a
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little was a little too hardly learned, or you know, you're supposed to
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stop at a certain point with the beatings as opposed to taking you know,
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halftime and towel breaks and water breaks and things. Mm hm. So I
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think a lot of it is is some overcorrection to where now you get it,
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it's you know, it's like, you know, there's some good things.
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There's a lot of good things that you know. The gen z is
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that they're bringing they're being brought up in, which is to be in touch
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with some of their feelings. The problem is it's all the feelings as opposed
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to balancing it out. Like it's like, you know, it's like you
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can you can have a boss that might be hard on you, that you
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think is hard on you, but you have no idea. Oh, I
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go back to like the guy the Cliff who is the original owner of the
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loon who you know I've worked with and everything like he he would make these
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these kids like curl up in the fetal position just literally drop drop and suck
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themb Yeah, I mean it's you you it is remark that was probably wrong.
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Absolutely, there's no doubt about that. You know, maybe a little
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too, but like you can't. I literally and Dan, you've known me
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for a long time, and and like I say this, I I have
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been you know, is in sobriety. I have been much more milder and
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collected and think before I speak more. But I have to. I literally
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I have to stop and and collect myself and and just like feel like I
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have to be mister Rogers with them just to try to just to try to
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get something done that that normally you just go, hey, wipe the tables
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down your job. I mean it goes you know that. There's that Jon
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Ham like little video clip of like, you know, you give me ideas,
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I give you money grows like but you don't, you know, so
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appreciation that's what the money's for. I saw that the other day. I
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feel like my phone was listening to me pretty hard, and it felt like
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I needed to see that. Obviously, and I think what happened was it
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fed it to you, Trey, and then it listened to our conversation and
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said, let's feed this to Dan as well. Because in the context of
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that scene you kind of get where Peggy's coming from and mad Men because he
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never does really say thank you, and he takes he does take her for
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granted. His character absolutely takes her for granted. But he's also right when
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he says, that's what the money's for. You don't ever say thank you,
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that's what the money's for. And then that's when you realize you have
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you have leveled up in adulthood. Is when you identify more with John Ham's
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character in mad Men. Yes, and you're like, I'm kinda I'm kind
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of on Draper's side there. Yeah, Well, it's one thing. If
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there's all so you have to put perspective with this. If it's someone who's
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you know, making crap money, okay, like the one's working for me,
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they make great money, it's like you're you know, you're not,
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you're not scraping by. It's really all about perspective. So our generation,
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I think is extremely gifted and unique in that the technological advancements in our lifetimes
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is astounding. The things that we started with, yeah, and grew up
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with. We grew up with the technology. Our parents, the boomers and
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such, they had an entire lifetime of you know, going through at least
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part of adulthood before they ever had to worry about learning anything about computers and
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and that stuff. If they were going to do it, it was they
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they wanted. They had to seek it out. Like my dad, he
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wasn't There's no way he could be a he's not a born computer nerd.
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He's a boomer, and you know, he was born in nineteen forty nine.
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He had to become one, right. Whereas all of us we grew
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up with that stuff. We grew up learning how to do things on a
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big chief tablet, and some of us, like me, with an oversized
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pencil that said Danny. Yeah, that said Danny on it. Guess just
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in case there was another big red pencil in first second grade. Didn't want
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to have any confusion. That was mine. We learned how to kind of
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draw on an etcha sketch. We played actual board games, whereas now you
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know, I'm going to fire up Black Ops six in November. As a
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middle aged man, and I get to appreciate all those things, whereas,
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like Trey your saying, we had to actually go to the library and do
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some reports at one point and projects, whereas now you can just have AI
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do it for you. Yeah. Also, I think a lot of it
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has to do with the perspective about what you have and being like, hey,
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this is really cool what I got. We also we had to teach
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our parents how to use the bleeping Internet and email and everything else. So
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it's like every time jen Z, it's like every time you're emailing Nana,
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thank thank us. Every time you see, you know, an old person
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with an AOL account, know that there's a gen xer that suffered greatly and
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that was their last resort is just to give them the fucking AOL account.
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Here's your disc for one hundred and twenty six free hours. No AOL.
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I just uh, from a different perspective, like I the way we grew
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up, Like I believe in bullies Like that it sounds ridiculous, right,
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but I believe in them because they for me, Like bullies made the world
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go round, right, Like you learned different skill sets, uh when you
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were being bullied, right, Like what Doctory was saying like, either you
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learn to fight or you learn to avoid, right, but there's something new
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learning to deal with conflict. That is what and that is what gen Z
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absolutely has no grasp on. They cannot deal with conflict out of any way,
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shape or form, and it literally just shuts them down absolutely. And
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I I people ask me all the time, like, you know when it
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with stand up? I'm like, I was bullied. That's how I got
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into stand up because I learned how to make people laugh. That was my
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resource is. I was like, it takes a special kind of asshole to
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hit you while you're while they're laughing. Like, if you have somebody that
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can laugh and punch you at the same time, that's a sociopath. And
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you've identified that, you go, that guy's not right. But it's it
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is it's conflict resolution, right, And that's all it came down to.
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Uh. It is one of those my my parents' generation like that. This
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is the thing that taught us was if you can't beat them, join them.
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I'm like, that's the worst advice you can ever give a kid.
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It should be like, if you can't beat them, find a group of
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kids that you cannot have to worry about beating. If you can't beat them,
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join them. Is why there were such a huge gang problem growing up.
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That's exactly like and my mom is like, you know, I got
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beat up one time and I came home and I was crying. My mom
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was like, had that same thing, which like you go back outside and
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you don't come home until you beat up that boy. And I'm like the
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old my my joke on stages, I was like, I don't I never
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went back home after. I don't know. I don't know where they moved
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to. This is the only set of clothes I've owned for thirty years.
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But I mean that was the thing, like you got beat up, and
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it's like that was their ideas, like hey go back out and you go
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and fight till you till you resolve it. Uh. And so it is
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a wildly different because my girlfriend's daughter and she she's also a listener, so
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uh she she she's gen z. And it's amazing to watch what what shuts
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them down. It's it's very true. Conflict shuts them down. Stress shuts
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them down because there's no there's nothing that's overwhelming because they have so much information
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that they have at the palm of their hand. So nothing's really overwhelming,
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whereas like, yeah, go ahead, they can deal with conflict online.
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Yes it's face that. Yeah, it's face to face that. They absolutely
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and that's that is a whole other problem of their lack of I was just
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there was just a study came out about I mean it was from recruiters and
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they were like, nineteen percent of job interviews are bringing their parents with them.
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It's like, Wow, they lacked their interpersonal skills suck. I saw
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a story like that about gen Z a handful of years ago, and I
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thought, there's no way this is true. It's got to be from the
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onion or something. And no, it's absolutely, uh an actual thing.
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And like Trey you just said, you've seen it come back around again.
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So it's not exactly going anywhere. And the thing that's crazy to me is
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the parents are going. They're enabling it. But it's also because it's like
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if I if I go with you, will you will you leave me?
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Will you please get out of this house? I'll go with you, but
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will you stay there? No? There is something to be said about that
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because they've over because the parents have over corrected so much and they were cool
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to have the kid move back home after college and pay for everything and keep
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paying for everything. Not necessarily mandate getting a part time job ever, Just
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let them do whatever they want and find their way, take a gap year
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from nothing, like what's the uh so now they can't get rid of them.
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It's like giving a cat milk. And now what they want to do
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is they want to rehome the child to an employer. Yeah, please take
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this kid to work for minimum wage, even though it's the same minimum wage
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I had when I was a kid. No rehoming fee. Yeah. Pause
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dot com. All right, so let's stop hating on on gen Z and
30:48
for the record, not hating, just a little of venting a little uh.
30:52
It's a little uh you know. I mean there was another study it
30:56
came out Friday where you have seventy four percent of employers said gen z R
31:00
possible to deal with. Yeah, and they're being fired at a rapid rate,
31:03
and the results are a lot of them are committing suicide because they don't
31:07
understand that. They don't understand the authority figure. They think that their boss
31:11
is their buddy, so they don't understand like when they go, hey,
31:14
this deadline, I need this by Monday, and Monday rolls around and it's
31:18
not there, and they're like, oh, well he's not gonna fire me.
31:19
That's my buddy, Steve. And then they get fired and they're like,
31:22
oh, my friend fired me that way, and it's they define their
31:25
self worth that way, and so a lot of them are killing themselves.
31:29
Jesus, that's dangerous. Yeah, that's a and there's no I don't even
31:32
know how you resolve that. But it's like, I'm your boss, I
31:36
need this by Monday, and that is that. And then they go,
31:37
oh, okay, well i'll just get up to you by Thursday. Yeah,
31:41
that because that goes to a whole nother thing. They and it's like
31:48
I I've actually I've talked to a couple of them. I'm like, being
31:52
on time in business is really important. It's a lesson. I was like,
31:56
I was horrible about it. It took me getting sore to really get
32:00
but I'm like, when you're constantly late, that is a time management issue
32:04
on your end. That is not life. You know, all of a
32:06
sudden that you know, you think it's throwing you curveballs every day you're not
32:08
handling your time. Time and deadlines. Oh, they're bad at it's like,
32:15
but it's also it's again it goes back to kind of the conflict thing
32:20
of you know, they really didn't have like we had grades posted where everyone
32:24
saw if you did an A or a C. They don't have any of
32:28
that. They they it's and and they can't handle conflict. And anyway,
32:32
I'll give you this, And I've talked to teachers about this when I'm on
32:36
stage, and this is one hundred percent factual. And it started in California
32:39
is or maybe Washington State. But they don't they're not grading with bread ink
32:45
anymore. Oh that I was actually about to bring that up that started like
32:50
twenty years ago. Real it was twenty years ago, Okay, it started,
32:54
and there were some teachers that did it on their own just because they
32:57
didn't want it to be that harsh. But it wasn't like a data wasn't
33:00
a district wide thing. It wasn't a school thing. And I come from
33:02
a family of teachers. This is why I'm I'm kind of in tune with
33:06
this. And most of the teachers in my family are all like, you
33:09
know, use the redd ink it's important mm hm uh. And they're big
33:15
on consequences and so conflict and consequences the sort of the things that that you
33:21
know gen Z is is struggling with, whereas our generation again, this is
33:25
where it's the over correction. Our generation being gen X, dealt with that
33:30
probably too much. And I think that's the reason why most of our kids,
33:36
which are gen Z, we are over correcting as parents some of the
33:40
wrongs. We're trying to right some of the wrongs that our parents did,
33:44
but some of us are going way too far with it. And that gets
33:45
into into the school atmosphere where instead of read ink, they shift to purple
33:51
or blue green or or green or instead of you know, like we used
33:57
to get stickers on on things. Now it's probably just you know, no
34:02
expression face emoji if you fail, as opposed to the middle finger that it
34:07
probably should be. But yeah, So the conflict and the consequences thing,
34:13
and so the the ink thing, that was the thing that started years ago.
34:15
We first started seeing stories about it and talking about it on the radio
34:20
show back in the you know, in the early mid two thousands, and
34:22
we were all stunned. We're like, what what is this? This is
34:24
crazy? What's that going to lead to? Well, now we know,
34:29
yes, and it went from conflict and consequences to Dungeons and Dragons. That's
34:32
where we went. I see. That's one of the things that gen Z
34:37
has done really well is they took something that was you know, super nerdy
34:43
culture, Dungeons and dragons, and if you laid it as a kid,
34:45
as a gen xer, you were a loser. That's part of the reason
34:49
why Stranger Things is so popular because so many people identified with it because they
34:52
were the ones at someone's house playing Dungeons and Dragons and secret because they didn't
34:57
want anybody else knowing about it because it was Loserville, right. But gen
35:00
z has taken some of those things and brought them into the light and made
35:04
it kind of cool, like, hey, nerd, stuff's cool. Yay,
35:07
okay, but let me just say this. I got to invite what
35:09
I was probably twelve, twelve or thirteen maybe, and I got invited to
35:15
this guy Brandon his house for He's like, came out, We're about to
35:20
play this cool new board game. I'm like, all right, that's kind
35:22
of weird because we can just ride bikes and play outside and play football,
35:27
play basketball, right, And so I go over and this is when I
35:30
realized about Dungeons and Dragons. I walked in and I saw who was playing.
35:36
And I was not a popular kid. I was, I was picked
35:40
on, I was I was bullied. But I had a hutch and I
35:45
had a football, so kind of kind of brought something to the table when
35:50
I when I went bike riding and or out on the street and I looked
35:54
around and I was like, no, that's that's when you refused. I
36:01
am glad you had the wherewithal. I'm glad you had the presence of mind
36:07
to know what it was and to not go in it wasn't. I'm glad
36:13
you I'm glad you were given the choice and you made the choice you wanted
36:15
to make. It wasn't even know what it was. I was like,
36:17
I'm not this bad, That's what I mean. You knew what that was.
36:22
You didn't know what the game was or anything like that. You knew
36:25
the general feelings in the room, and you wanted no part of it.
36:30
I saw a ten sided die and I was like, I'm out. I'll
36:32
see you guys later. Vincy's white kids, let me play wide out.
36:38
I'm a fifth level made. You'll give me a thirty seven year old virgin
36:42
and we'll see. Yeah. But that stuff now is actually kind of a
36:47
cool thing. And part of the reason all this stuff happened is because of
36:53
the Internet, right, because everything's all the information, it's accessible right there,
36:58
it's easy to have, and because of that, it's corrupted us as
37:05
a society, as an entire planet. And I will say this, given
37:12
our parents parenting style, if we had had the Internet, the world would
37:17
probably have ceased to exist because we would have probably blown it up. Yes,
37:21
I absolutely agree it's best that the Internet was not unleashed into our hands.
37:27
At least at least I will say this and the only saving grace I
37:30
can kind of give them is gen Z is a kinder, gentler generation.
37:37
Like I'll give them that. They're very kind, and they're very open to
37:39
other people's they're very aware of other people's situations and understanding of their feelings.
37:44
They're very empathetic, yes, and I mean, I guess if that's a
37:47
good quality. I don't know it can be, just like life is not.
37:54
Life is not empathetic, but they are now. Life is definitely not
38:00
empathetic. But you know, the internet has has changed the world, right
38:06
And not only has it changed the world, but we should be aware now
38:09
that the consequences that come along with Internet usage. Right. M Despite that
38:17
knowledge, someone still thought it was a good idea to give a remote tribe
38:22
in the Amazon access to the Internet for the first time ever. Why exactly
38:29
how do you think that went? Did they did they embrace it or did
38:35
they chuck uh stab them with poisoned darts. No, they they embraced it.
38:42
I don't think they saw them for the first time and then handed them
38:45
an iPhone. I think this is a little bit of a process. But
38:49
when they finally introduced the internet to this to this remote Amazonian tribe. They
38:54
they definitely embraced it to the tune of they're now already grappling with gossip,
39:00
Instagram, violent videos, scams and of course porn nice I can't wait to
39:07
see tender profile. How do you even look that up? On only fans?
39:23
That's the only fans account that has only one fan. Your visit us
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Even Jacklin right now has is that Rusty with you in there? The
40:08
people? It's my little baby beagle, Hi Rusty. If Tara and I
40:15
were doing an event recently large event at a very lovely mansion or here on
40:21
the island, they're called villas, and while this is a multimillion dollar villa,
40:24
it has a bit of a poopy smell around the property. I can't
40:28
help it, but I have to admit that when I smell a poopy smell
40:30
at a house, I think of plumbing. And when I think of plumbing,
40:32
I think of you, Jacqueline. So I smell who reminds me of
40:36
my friend Jacqueline. I don't smell poo. I smell of what's that perfume?
40:43
I just bought product Paradox spoilers myself last month. It needs it needs
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a plumber, doesn't it when you're smelling poopy around the house. Here's what
40:52
I think. And I learned this a long time ago. I was I
40:54
was in high school, and I was a food runner at Studio Movie Girl
40:58
in Planeo. And I came home from work one day and I told my
41:01
dad's dad this restaurant, the whole place smells like pooh. I said,
41:05
why is that? He goes, let me know. I'll come walk around.
41:07
And he walked around. He goes, you guys have so many floor
41:09
drains, and the pea traps are probably dry, and the vapor barrier is
41:15
broken, and sewer gases, sewer smell is probably leaking out through the floor
41:19
drains. And I imagine in an opulent mansion on an island, they probably
41:22
have a lot of outside floor drains for near pools or events, I would
41:28
take a stab. I don't know, obviously, because I'm not there to
41:31
say that that that has even happened to me. I had a master bathroom
41:38
that had a double vanity, one on one wall and one on a different
41:40
wall. And I'm kind of a tall woman. I'm five' seven and
41:44
my husband at the time was six foot tall, and so we both used
41:47
his taller sink because I didn't want to crouch down to brush my teeth,
41:51
and so we never used the lady's vanity in my bathroom. And one day
41:54
I walked in and I was like whoo, and it came out and I
41:57
told my ex husband, I said, use the air fresh, and he
42:00
goes. I just got home and I was like, well, why is
42:01
my bathroom smelling like that? And I was like oh, And so I'm
42:04
walking around like a psycho sniffing drains and I realized, I was like,
42:07
it's this strain. The pea trap is dry. And so my advice to
42:10
everybody before you call me for a stinky drain is to run the water for
42:15
five minutes. And I know this is a very controversial statement, but the
42:19
Italian in me says, you drop a capful of olive oil in there,
42:22
because it'll add a layer of lubricants in there that I think reseals it.
42:29
And then I never had that problem again, and once a week I would
42:31
just let the water run at that sink for thirty seconds. That's simple fix
42:35
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43:23
Back to this. A remote, resilient tribe deep in the Amazon rainforest
43:28
was recently able to access the Internet for the very first time thanks to Starlink,
43:32
which is the internet service that is satellite based, not the UFOs and
43:37
the skies. Everyone thinks it is. So how are they spending their time
43:43
in the Amazon rainforest, this remote tribe like most of us, they're looking
43:49
up all the standard stuff. They're now dealing with gossip among the tribe,
43:52
Instagram, violent videos, scams, porn. They have group chats full of
44:00
gossip, addictive social networks, abusive online strangers, hours and hours of sports
44:06
streaming, the violent video games, scams, misinformation, and miners watching porn.
44:14
But it does make me think maybe the village shaman has now an access
44:19
to real medical knowledge, and you know he can look up on YouTube how
44:24
to do you know? Surgery? Yes, that's what you want to give
44:29
somebody in the Amazon his web MD. Now everybody in the village has some
44:39
sort of cancer. That's what it's gonna be now, or you also have
44:45
some parts of the you have some villagers saying that the shaman is not a
44:49
real doctor. Now, to help combat this dangerous internet situation with this Amazon
44:58
tribe, they've now decided to limit internet access. Oh okay, so now
45:05
we want to make them angry that's good. Yeah, they've restricted internet access
45:10
to two hours in the morning, five hours at night, and all day
45:14
on Sunday. Wow, that's because these guys are still hunter gatherers at the
45:20
end of the day. They still need to go and do that stuff to
45:22
eat and live and such. Amazon will deliver anywhere. If Amazon doesn't deliver
45:30
to the then I don't think Bezos needs to have a boat that big.
45:42
They're all Prime members. They should get it for free. Right. The
45:50
copyright infringement, that's not bad. They probably went to legal Zoom and now
45:54
they're going to be filing paperwork against Jeff Bezos for copyright infringement upon Amazon because
46:01
you know what their legal paperwork is going to say, first named it.
46:15
That's so, that's what that's like, the level none of us can ever
46:27
actually get because we don't live there and we're not then yeah, yeah,
46:35
I'm sure they really you know, I love watching Gordon Ramsey videos. Why
46:40
don't you make it look like this? I think that's just what the remote
46:45
Amazon tribe needs is the right amount of tips and knowledge to make the perfect
46:51
beef Wellington. And I'm not to burn a scallop, no, I just
46:54
think it's gonna be like the next time they have the village feast. It's
46:57
like this was not plated right. The eye appeal is not going. There's
47:05
not enough height on the plate. The textures are all wrong, the color
47:07
is off. This is just your porridge, is ship. I have had
47:22
better crocodile. So is the crocodile. So just think about that the next
47:32
time you get an Amazon package. Is that there's a tribe in the Amazon
47:37
that might be right there with you. Wow, So this was just a
47:42
social experiment done by somebody I honestly don't know. I mean, since since
47:46
the Internet was provided by Starlink, it might be Elon Musk doing his you
47:50
know, Bond villain type stuff by you know, meddling the remote tribes and
47:53
just just doing experiments. Yeah, I would I think there. I believe
47:59
there are tribes in the Amazon that are protected, like literally you're not allowed
48:04
to make contact with. Yes, they have never had any outside contact that
48:08
that I do remember his story. There was a tribe like that a handful
48:12
of years ago or a few years ago, whatever it is, and they
48:16
had the photos of them from a drone and then then the drone was taken
48:21
down by the tribe to be a you know, rocks or spear or I
48:27
don't know, beast master type. There was one where a photographer went in
48:32
and they told him like, it's at your own risk and didn't come back.
48:37
Like they never heard from him again, and he assimilated with the do
48:40
you guys, did you guys hear that story? I did, But the
48:44
version of this story I heard was that they ate him. Yeah, oh
48:46
they did. Okay. I thought that he assimilated at first, and they
48:49
were like, oh he assimilated so long. Okay, that's so terrible.
49:15
Oh, oh, all right, we'll be at Burmafest. If you feel
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