Episode 141: New Years Resolutions Update

0:09 Welcome back to another episode of Record, My Father. Today we're going to be talking about a little update on where we're at with the New Year's resolutions. So far so good. I mean, we hired on the marketing team they're. Pretty much going forward, we're coming into the first into the first quarter and one of the things can I, I'm just going to cut you off there. And just. Because I'm just such a, what's it, what rhymes with chick anyway? What, what, what, what I'm thinking we should do is one of the things that we had last year is we wanted to be more consistent and more focused. And so one of the ways that you can become more focused is have a strategy and then see how the strategy is working. At the beginning of the year. We we list out all these different things we want to do.

0:52 And if we wait till the end of the year to look at them, we're going to find that we'd forgotten about 80% of them. So what we want to do is review them each quarter and see if we've actually been able to accomplish anything that we said we really cared about in the beginning of the year. Exactly. We're we're kind of surprised that we did do a lot of things. I'm finding that orange isn't my color as well. You see me, I look kind of large, you know, in the orange. I'm not liking Orange on you're. Not an orange guy. No, not put that watch on on the wall. Watch, oh, this watch right here. Yeah, that'd be nice. But I think 11 for me was, oh gosh, it was get the marketing plan out. Yeah, the marketing plan is, I mean, I've been executed. So that's going well.

1:39 That's going good on the social media and whatnot, we now have 5 different social media platforms that they're constantly posting on, which I'm enjoying. That's going fantastic. Otherwise, what was the let? Me give you a list, yeah. Yeah, let me hear some. I listened to the the this is from episode 131. Yeah, it was our basically what we did in 2025 and what we want to do in 2026 is a rehash and years were were you want to finish more books you're having. Trouble still? Still having trouble doing that. I don't know what it is. I think it's the phone, man. The phone is. I'm the same Sir, same way you said you did 22 last year. 15, I think 15. 15 and then you wanted to do and you and you've completed zero so far.

2:33 I think 1, maybe two. Yeah, this year's going a lot worse. Actually, then I wanted, I wanted to do that too. That was one of mine was to read more books 'cause I think I learned more. If I, if I can stabilize my, you know, ADHD, I think I've completed one, maybe 2. I still have. It's funny, I had five open at the beginning of the year. I have 4 or 3 or 4. Open right now, I've read about half so of six different books this year already. So I guess if you think about if you read half of 6 books, that's really you complete three, you know, So you think about that, you take your wins where you can get them. We both had travel more and I had to travel more because I'm I was all being fixed physically last year and there's more things I want to do. But we ended up, we did pretty well last year. If you start to look at all the different things we've done and where have we been this year, I did the. Most I've ever done.

3:26 Last year I think, yeah, we did a. Ton last year right now I. Think I did six countries last year. Yep, when you did the Mongolia, you did Mongolia twice. Mongolia twice. Japan, Korea. London, Portugal. Was that it? Yeah, yeah. Is that? It me and you. Me and you didn't do anything, did we? We. Didn't go to South America, did we? No, no, we didn't. Enough for my recollection. Because I did, I did the Lisbon, Portugal, all that kind of stuff there. I did London to Europe. I did. We did Europe last year. We did Paris to London, which is really kind of cool. That was the backwards way.

4:10 Did the Gaverney and saw the Monet thing and then that I hate. You for I wanted to, I wanted to do that. Did I? Did I give you that idea? What does that mean? No, I I wanted to do that for. So. So you're lying. So I did give you that idea. Like, like I wanted to go skiing in the Chico. Oh yeah, and then I did. Somebody got to do that and I didn't get to do that. I won't talk to him anymore. Well, I just got back from my third trip of the year, Scranton, which which was to Scranton, and it really wasn't. It wasn't supposed to be. It was the Cardboard Classic and everybody. They make these sleds. Out of oh, that's what it was, OK.

4:51 Yeah, and we, we're, they're sliding on the sleds and everybody drinks and laughs at them and they do silly stuff and they get, you know, prizes and stuff like that. And then people dress up and, and I met, I went with a buddy and we met his brother and her daughters and we all got hammered and we got introduced into peanut butter liquor and we drank a lot of that. I have. You never had screwball before then? I've never had screwball. It's really good. It's really good. I'm going like every time somebody tells me that it's like fireball, you know, give me a plate of shooters, you know, and, and unfortunately I took $500 in cash and I spent it all on well, the. Screwball problem is the amount of sugar that you have in there.

5:35 Same thing with. They were only doing like 1 oz drinks. They were not. They were little little fun caps. You ever had those? What, like a bottle cap or something? It was no, no, it was like 1 inch tall by 1 inch across. It was not that big. It wasn't an A Jiggers oz and a half. They were giving you an ounce. I've never even heard of that. Yeah, it was. It was. So we were doing those and they were like 6 or 7 bucks apiece. Oh my gosh. Oh, I mean on that Friday, Thursday, I think I only did about 8:00 or 10:00 Friday. I was then I was to like in the 20s. That's really. Yeah, yeah, it was, it was, it was bad. And then we went back to the hotel and then we had there was this lady there.

6:21 I don't know who she was it Nana Noonan's, Nano's, whatever. We had these martinis that were like, you know, 6 oz or 8 ounces of vodka and, and they throw a lemon peel in it and it was just, and we had three of those. And so you know, and and. Then on top of the 25 shots. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we had some beer we had, but it's not. Really, 25 shots and it's all day anyway. You know, it's all day, so it wasn't really all that crazy. That's not that crazy. But we were hungover and we really didn't start until about 1:00 because we were so hungover from Thursday night. And so it was we we went to bed. It was like, well, we went back to the hotel and then we went back out and, and it was like we did and somebody cut off my TV early. So I don't remember that.

7:11 But then Saturday we were much lighter because we're coming home Sunday and we just listen to the music and they had, you know, it was really good time. I was surprised. I'd go back. I'd go back. You come. If you were, you go. Back. I'd go back, 'cause I was, I think it was a good time. I was worried that going, you know, going with the buddies that, that we're all super overdoers when it comes to being stupid drunk. Well, it's the brother that way. Yeah. Oh, really? OK. Oh, yeah, yeah. But he's a, he's a more of an instigator. And then he sits back. Well, I sat there and I instigated and he and he was down on Friday and then Saturday he just, yeah, killed him, you know. So we were all it was, it was crazy. But traveling more is that I am going to go to the guy Zoo Falls and book the trip.

8:02 We booked the trip to Jasper, going to Banff, Banff to Jasper in Calgary. I'm also going to in in the fall, December, whatever your mother's going to put us to Prague in Budapest. But it's it might include some other countries in Austria or something like that. It's Christmas time stuff, so I'm going to get a lot of travel and that's and not even including whatever else you and I do or whether or not I. I'm trying to do Redwood for my birthday in man. I'm trying to do that. I've been trying to get there but every time I go to San Francisco I'm like, it's 4 hours away from from San Francisco. If you, if you don't, if you don't go with your girlfriend, I will come out and I'll go with you and we'll fly.

8:42 You'll be my girlfriend, is what you're saying? Yeah, well, no, I think it's weird that I would come and hang out with you and your girlfriend. That just, I mean, unless, unless my wife is dead and that makes that kind of thing. And then it will be OK, but otherwise? It's just that's just that's a line that I don't know, I still feel comfortable with, you know, you. Got to be sad, old man. You got to be, you got to be sad, old man. That's exactly. 'Cause then, then it's going to be choose that drunken fool or you know, and you're like. That's how you mine the the what is it the emotional gems there? You said you wanted to do the marketing plan and you've really done that. That's done. Yeah, there's more. No, there's that's we're just beginning. We got more.

9:25 We're done. We're finished. We both said we wanted to drink less than. At this point I would say no, I have not achieved that. I would say not really Mardi Gras. Yeah, yeah, I forgot about that. We went to Mardi Gras too. I forgot. We went to Mardi Gras as well, Rose. Bowl Mardi Gras, I'm doing something almost every month and it's and unfortunately the first quarter and into a little bit is just all about the party, which is, you know, I may not make it. Yeah. So what were you? Saying, you know, I may just, I may just be dead before the end of the year, so. That's what it seems because you have our fit or whatever it is, or. A fib.

10:06 The heart thing, yeah. Yeah, well, here's cool thing. I came back. Nothing. Were you taking the pills the whole time? No, really, no. I came back and usually I have a episode day after two days after after going hard, I usually have a. Stroke every time I drink. And I took AI just I took a pill ahead of time and said why wait? And so I haven't had any. And I'm like, oh, so you know, maybe that's curbed at whatever the case may be. Well, that's good. Sit in the Supreme Court. That was one of mine. I. Heard that? Yeah, we. Were I won, I got one. I got a seat. I got a seat next to did you really?

10:47 Yeah, that's great something versus Powell. So I'm going to go see a Supreme Court argument Flowers the the POW. It's a what the hell is it arbitration? It's a it's a really big deal, the case. So I can't wait to see it. I can't wait to see the Supreme Court justices. And I'm gonna eat a lot of beans and I'm gonna fart, really laugh. And then when they say who was that? And then I'm gonna do a space launch you had. They still do those? Yeah, I was. Saying they do three-year, three a month roughly. They do three a month. I I wouldn't. Absolutely. There's 33, they're out of Cape Canaveral and there's one in California. Your way.

11:28 What are they even? Shooting up there to the. Sky They're shooting satellites mostly, but occasionally a person. But why a person? We already put people up there. Space station, they want to go back to the moon because Vietnam is now going, you know, Vietnam. Really. Yeah, that's something I want to do. What else? You were said you wanted to listen to the cranberries all the way through. Yeah, I don't want to do that anymore. I don't. Want to do that? We're going to we're going to scratch. I thought that was. Scratch that, that was. I don't want to. Listen to that. We both said Jim Moore. I was very good at the gym until you took me to. I mean, I was doing it all the time until you forced me to go to Mardi Gras. February 14th, 15th, 16th, 16th, 15th we went to 15th and I have been just I have not recuperated from that because I was there and then I had a week in between and then I went to this, this Cardboard Classic and hit it again. And so I have and also I have the flu. So I I didn't, I haven't had a I'm looking. What it is, is I'm just giving pussy reasons as to why I didn't succeed.

12:39 That's kind of what it sounds like, yeah. Yeah, it's true. You're right. You can always work out on vacation, you know that's always a possible. No, you can't do that. Hike four. I would say that I am doing that. I'm religiously going with Jose every week, even in the cold and in the snow. And we do. And then I have other hiking buddies. So one of the cool things about doing things as a retired person is I have a lot of friends that are retired so they don't have the same flexibility, but I pick different ones. And now I have 12344 different people locally that I hike with. So that's kind of cool, you know, and that that encourages me to, I have four different potential dates. I also much more cognizant of the dogs taking them out to walk the 2 miles in the morning.

13:29 And it's not, you know, when I go with Jose, it's five. I'd rather do 5 or 6 every day and get, you know, right from the beginning you say you. Walk 4 miles with the dogs 2202 OK 2 miles. I was about to say, I'm like, there's no. It's like it's like 2.1 or you know. That's 2.1. Really. Yeah, it really is. It's surprising. I don't believe that that's. Crazy. Well, it's very strange that one of the things that's weird is I wanted to do more steps and stuff and I changed. I got the new Apple Watch in January and I got it because it's got the A-fib thing to see, you know, when my heart's beating at 180 beats a second per minute that that I would be able to tell and the I could send it to people that could say, hey, you're dead.

14:16 I used to have the Fitbit, which it was simple, easy, everything was on there. It was very you keep track of everything, but it actually had me doing about 1015% more steps than the Apple Watch, the Apple. Watch. The Apple Watch gives me an average of 8000 steps a day, whereas the Fitbit gave me an average of around 11,010 to 11. Interesting. Exactly the same thing on the exact same arm, and yet it's so much less or so much more. And, and I don't know what the reasoning is. You know, obviously one's calibrated differently for what a step is, right? Yeah. You know so. Well, I think it's attached to your wrist a lot of the time you shake your wrist around.

15:00 Doesn't matter and. Then you get steps and then you doesn't matter. With an Apple, why? I've seen people do that. I'm going to get more steps and it's like, really? You're cheating yourself, then you're cheating yourself. This is stupid. Yeah. I I've never, I've never understood that. I don't. I don't. I don't. That's not part of my thing that I want to do is to be. It's kind of like people that cheat on golf. I don't. I don't get it. I mean, you're cheating yourself. You're not going to be a pro, OK? And you're not going to get. Paid. I can't believe you'd say that. And the whole idea that you're going to sit there and say, hey, I shot an 85, when in reality you shot a 96. So does does that make you feel better about yourself when you lie about your accomplishments 'cause that's what you're doing, You know, and you really got to look at that and say what kind of a person needs to lie?

15:52 You know, I mean, it's, it's about talking about your Weiner. You know, it's like, no, that feels. Good to lie about though, you know? OK, that feels good to lie about. That sounds good to lie about, but I mean the number, you know, Ochen, how much can you bring to press 450? You know what I mean, right? I don't I don't understand the whole bench press thing either. My shoulders destroyed from bench press. Yeah. And I I haven't done barbell bench in maybe. Three years, two years, two months. That's crazy. I just don't. Believe in it anymore 'cause there's so much stress on your front delt. It's not worth it. It's not worth it for me lay. Flat on your back. Take the what do you call them dumbbells?

16:32 They do dumbbell press from the floor. Dumbbell bench press is way better or 4. With dumbbell bench press, the problem with that is your arms come back down here and that puts a great deal of stress there. Well, it should be a 45° angle. You should be pushing to your back, that's what. You, you, you're saying go be. Here, your elbow should be basically diagonal with your lats and that you come down, so you're pushing up through your lats instead of up here. Yeah, 'cause that's where, well, that's why I messed my shoulder up, 'cause when I first started working out, I thought that everything was symmetrical with your pectoral muscles. It's not. That's not true 'cause if you're doing that, everything is on your front, dealt, and then you're going to wear that joint out like I did years ago and now I got crunchy shoulder and nobody likes crunchy shoulder.

17:22 Nobody does. Yeah, nobody enjoys crunchy shoulder, that is. But yeah, I know 45° angle with your lats pushed through your back. That is the lesson of the day. So you want to do finish your book? Oh yeah, I completely abandoned that. I started reading anime I got through about. Another 80 pages though, you know, So maybe at this point I'll be done in the next four years. It seems like you're focused on a lot of big projects and it's very, very difficult to do that, to move the ball forward with a big project. I've been thinking about things that could actually make money potentially. It's like I was reading the writing too, because it's it. It's funny that you read your writing from five years ago and then you say, man, I was a bad writer. Man, I was a bad writer.

18:08 I'm going to have to do a lot of work to reorganize this. Why wouldn't I just write a book now? Because that was a lesson. That was a lesson, right? And why wouldn't I just write another one? And that's not a bad idea. One with more planning and one with. And it takes the lessons that I've learned in the last one. Well, that's the thing that I've seen. The little bit I know about writing a book is the the book that the books that I've written are all started out with the with the table of contents. OK, I don't. Know about all of them. Yeah, the ones I've done, the ones I've. No, the ones you've. Done. OK. Ones I've written have been very structured because there was a path beginning, a middle and an end. It was what you're going to learn about. You're going to how you're going to learn about it. And it was an organized fashion.

18:56 So it was, it is really just a teaching book. So it's like, OK, it's kind of like history, you know, history. We don't learn about the Vietnam War before the Civil War. It just seems kind of stupid. That's dumb. Yeah. You know, 'cause you, you, you do them in. In what do you call it? In a linear fashion, No. And when they happened, you know, historical order, I guess. We have done cold reach outs for the animation thing I directed, which has been going pretty terribly. You know, it's hard. You were. Talking about you had an agent. Well, it's like you make the art. Yeah, Yeah, I am partially represented now. Can you make it happen? I could actually, yeah. Let me talk to you. Don't have to pay him dude resource. No, no, no. Because that's something you could hand and say, OK, give me some money. Yeah, but weirdly, if you get a job doing that, you're probably going to have to quit your regular job. Which I have no issue doing at all. Oh man, but you got a uniform now. She'd be pissed.

19:50 She'd be so pissed. Oh my gosh, She was like, you're not going. To leave your uniform. How big? Well, I actually got it and. Fit me, that's the question. Double XL pant, double XL shirt, double XL or triple XL sweater because I want it to fit me in 40 years when we all start eating mush like Soylent green. So that's why I ordered all of the the kind of accoutrements for the outfit like that. So we're like halfway through the podcast and we've gone through all the audience and we picked out all the different things and the things that we've been successful with and thinks we haven't. So the ones that we've been successful with marketing plan, I want to jigger, I'm going to do some stuff on the marketing plan coming up. I want to make sure that the subscriptions are taken better and I want to do, I want to make sure that LinkedIn is covered. That's on me.

20:45 OK, We're coming in the second quarter. I want to make sure that I got plans I'm going to do. That's a good. Idea during the second quarter, I'm going to go to Gazu Falls with Pushka for 12 days, 14 days. We got to get ones loaded up like we used to. We used to get. Like we're going to do. These. Yeah, down. I mean, what are you doing tomorrow? I don't go to she cut my hours again. I'm good, I'm good. She cut my hours again. So I mean, we can do. Yeah, yeah, we could do this. I'm going to keep my reading. I feel that I'm really where I want to be with, with travel. I want to do I, I, that's what I feel. I feel like I've got as many things on the books as I really need 'cause I'm doing now one a month, which is more prolific than I've been in three years. You know, not, not all distant, but going to California and then go into Moab and then go into South America and then go into Europe.

21:46 And then, I mean, so I feel like I'm, I've got that covered because I'm going to see Edwin also that's going to be figured into there, which is Florida. And then I'm going to see. And if I do that, I'm probably going to go to Cape Canaveral because I want to see a space launch. And I told him what I wanted to do was come down, go there and then drop back and hang out with him, You know, because that's the thing it's, it's, it's really silly that people would say, why would you do that? It's like, I, I, it's something I want to do. It's a big deal for sure. And then the drinking thing is always that, that's just a everyday occurrence. I, I, I think that is when I'm not in high, high party mood because you know, when you go to Rio, you're going to party. When you go to Mardi Gras.

22:34 We we lied to ourselves when we went there. So we're going to drink only light beer in the town of sugar alcohol, which was a lie? That was a lie that we told ourselves, Yes, much like the lies that many people tell themselves. So what do you want to do? What do you? What do I want to do with my life or. No, next quarter. Fuck your life doesn't matter, man. No, not really. We're doing strategic planning here, Sir. You know, what do I want to do? I want to so after I get off here, I'm going to start doing the translation. I'm going to e-mail the translator and say do you want to do 85 hours of translation please? And then so that's what I'm going to do when I get off a year. So when I get. That so you're you're you're. Going to do that unlocks a whole world of work to do.

23:18 Like that's crazy. Like that in itself unlocks I'm a crazy amount of work. I want to call Cartoon Network directly and say, so how do I send you my materials? I want to be. I want to do that because I've been putting that off. Do you know people like Cartoon Network? I'm friends with three people on LinkedIn. I did this on purpose, strategically, and then they can. You can see that they all read the messages and looked at my profile. They never responded, so I'm thinking about just fucking Seneca anyway and saying what it is that's that's really bad. Yeah, don't do it. You don't really do that. That's a little forceful. You're only going to get one shot. Yeah, for them to open it up. And they probably said, ZSP Productions, who's that? And then they looked at it and said, oh, he hasn't done anything.

24:05 Fuck him. Exactly. That's what they did. So that and I do that all the time now. If you come back and say finish documentary. Oh, it's not the documentary. This is for the cartoon. This would be. This would be finished. Cartoon things done. It's been finished. It's called It's been spiders up the. Water spout up the water spout. I oh, I also wanted to do a prototype for a a sales thing to make a, a small stuffed animal that's like weighted like weighted stuffed animal for. WWF the The Wildlife Fund. Somewhat similar to those in a way.

24:46 Save the spider. Yeah, save the spider. GoFundMe for saving the spider. Hey guys, welcome back to the Interrupting Cal podcast, where somebody interrupts me every 5 minutes. No, not 5 minutes, sorry. That's 5 seconds. You know what I was thinking about the other day? Micro Center. You know Micro Center. Yeah, crazy. If you go in there, you feel like you're in 2004. So kind of, yeah, that's true. Kind of nice. It's kind of nice in there in Micro Center. But I digest. Yeah, I digest. But yeah, no, I'm excited for the rest of the year. We got some some travel planned. I think me and Christian are going to do something at some point.

25:31 We're going to do Lebanon, but that seems to be a little scared idea right now. That seems to be not a great idea. Well, Jim and I, Jim talked about Cyprus and they were, is that Turkey also that's kind of they've been attacked twice. So until there's stabilization over there. And I think the, the, the, the biggest thing that's going to happen with all this war stuff is that when we used to be welcomed with open arms in other countries, people are now not going to do that war. Passport privilege is falling like two or three rungs. It's crazy. Yeah, and you're travelling, when you're travelling to different state countries and they judge you by what you're the guy in charge says or does is a big, big deal. It really, it really is for travellers. It's it's what it's what makes humankind, you know for sure. But although we're probably going to have to change the definition of this to human being. No, exactly what's the absent of kind unkind. Unkind.

26:42 Human. Unkind. Well, I think we're going to see the aliens soon. I think they're coming. I don't know. What do you think? I think is there's going to be as many distractions that they can throw in front of the American people to avoid certain obvious. Things aren't even talking about the Epstein bottles anymore. Well, yes they are. Oh, they're still talking about them? Yeah. Oh, that's good. Yeah, you got, you got senators questioning people about whether or not it's a, you know, when you found pictures, they were in there. This guy's told us they were in there and there were pictures with the president and this person who's obviously underage, naked. Wow, that's though there were photos like that. Yeah.

27:24 Well, that what's crazy too is I don't understand how the FBI was scrubbing the files with all his name, his name in it and yet nobody's going to jail for that. Nobody's going to jail for well, I what I don't understand either is you even have some of these files with the victims names just not blacked out in there, but everybody else's names are blacked out. And it's like, what the what is that? What is what's going on? Ash Patel? Yeah, it's just a piece of garbage. Well, that's not him. Well, that's that is not him. It's also. Who else is it? Oh really? OK, gotcha. Yeah, it's, it's a, it's a group of people.

28:05 Well, now we. Got what's your face? The woman that shot the dog that was like a baby dog and she's out. She's got she got rooted out right? She's out of here. Now, but she just got a $200 million cartoon or something that went to a company that was 8 days old. And so there's a big question about cartoon. Well, she did an advertising campaign. Oh, interesting. OK. $243 million advertising, which Health and Human Services does. She gave the contract to two companies. One was 113 million or 123 million or 100. I know it's 147,000,000. And the other one was like 77 million, 147 million was somebody that was a friend of hers that started and incorporated the company 8 days before. Oh, that was what the thing that he was like talking to her about.

28:57 He's like, so where is this thing in Virginia? And she's like, I don't know what you're talking about. He's like the company that is based in Virginia that you are running things through or something like that. I remember that was in. The she did not know, yes, she didn't know it was a competitive bid. You're like, well, who else was the bidders? What? I mean, the competitive bid is more than one, not just one. And it was, you know, in, in a company that started up 8 days ago. It's, it's and it was a started out by a Republican operative that was a good friend of or whatever. We're, we're going into a minutia on this because it's, it's just so obviously on the surface criminal for sure.

29:40 And and yet you it it if it, I think it was any other department there would they'd have a special prosecutor trying to nail them. And that's not being that, that's not happening. Well, that hasn't happened for the entirety of this. So I mean, what are you going to do? It's only been a year. It's it's it's, it's the shock and confuse well. Let's see if the Democrats just want to lose again. Let's see if that's what happens when. We think about resolutions. Do you? Do you? We see this continued chaos. How does chaos affect you? How does chaos affect me, though? Well, this is kind of what I was talking about in the past episodes where the baseline for morality and ethics is so incredibly low and it affects the American people in such a way that it carries over into their own lives and they themselves become pieces of garbage because it's a reflection of our own nation is what the president is, right? Everybody's like, well, Donald, I'm like, besides the point on everything else, he's just not a ethical or morally kind of but guy.

30:42 He's not a moral or ethical man. And therefore the reflection on the people means that's OK. That's an OK thing to be. And I, I just, I sense a sort of aggression. I sense a source of anger and kind of, I got mine. You get yours now more than ever in the US and an aspect. And you deal with younger people. But especially people my age are willing to screw you the moment they meet you. It's crazy. Especially where I'm living now, where that was kind of a norm before, It's even more of a norm now. And it's it's crazy. Yeah, people are willing to screw. You.

31:23 All the way to the bank. Yeah, I hear it's, it's kind of insane, you know? Yeah. That's crazy. No, it's really bad. Oh yeah. They're really bad and I hope that we can get back to a place to where people aren't just so willing. Well, at the same time, I kind of believe that humans are inherently evil. I do I believe that Hobbesian kind of ideology or what is it's Machiavelli that these these kind of excerpts or creations of humanity are the checks and balances for us acting accordingly and not evil because that's what he believed is that the out kind of exterior things that we were involved with the functions of society is what keeps us not evil.

32:07 But in reality, the when those functions themselves are kind of reflecting is evil. Isn't everything just evil? After all, yeah, they're breaking them down. Yeah. What bothers me, I mean, there's there's two weird things that you hear and see over and over or that that certainly has effect on me and a lot of people I know. And IA buddy here that's from Spain and he want and he wants to go back and he's AUS citizen and he's like, I don't this, this is not this is crap. There's a weight. There's a weight that you feel when you live here now it just is. And it's a weight that everything is kind of just failing in a way societally. And then also.

32:48 We don't get the FEMA money out. We don't. Enter personally. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. It's not, it's not feeling too good. Doesn't matter if you get divorced three times. Doesn't matter if you're the head of Department of Homeland Security and you're cheating on your husband and you're spending 700 millions on new jets with a bed in the back. And you say that that's for taking people. It doesn't matter if you say, hey, there's a picture of Squidward behind you, and I say no. And you say, but we can see it. And you say, oh, it must have been put up there afterward. And then and then you say, no, but I, I have AI have a videotape of you nailing it up. Oh, well, that videotape was altered. Well, no, actually I have an E.

33:34 And in every single level you lie. And at the end you go, but you have a fan. Well, that's what I liked about Nixon, is that he got caught. He got caught and he said, you know what? You know what the right thing to do is, is for me to step down, 'cause I'm a piece of shit. And he did. And he, he, he. Only did that because he was forced, because the Senate, they, they did a count. He didn't do that out of his. He only did that because they said, OK, today you're going to be impeached and then they're going to try you and they're going to remove you.

34:17 And right now you have less than 10% of the votes not to go to jail. Oh wow. So so he. Oh, never mind then he. Left, he left and the whole idea was leaving was hey Gerald, you come in and you take my spot. And remember when we started to try him and hold him accountable for paying people, seeking the IRS on people, for paying people, Ford goes, Merkel's got to move on. We got to move on. We got to pardon him. And everybody said if you pardon him, it's it's going to be the end of your career.

34:57 You're never going to make be president again. And they were right. He lost, but fuck him. He was wrong. He was absolutely wrong in every way you need to. Holding people accountable is the most important part of our law. And right now that's not happening. And we need that. We need accountability back or we need to believe that other people, when they do things wrong, things will happen to them that will hopefully stop all of us from doing the same thing. I mean, you know, is it, is it OK for if, if I get into elected office to hire all my family members to, to sell them things?

35:37 And I mean it just like just open, open, open graft and just just wide open steal everything you possibly can. I'm surprised there's any furniture left in the White House. You know I'm. Just I miss when we had like really great warmongers that just did it for the love of the game that just were like, you know what we're going to do? We're going to bomb these two towers and then we're going to, we're going to go invade the Middle East for the love of the game. For the love of the game and a 300% increase on Halliburton stock instead of the whole molesting children and killing them and eating them thing. I don't really like that I miss my. OG.

36:19 War mongering President. Here's a question. Here's a question. You have to say that every single cabinet member in the Trump administration today will tell you that in attacking Iran was necessary, right? Yeah, everyone, they'll all, they'll all say what he did was right. That's what he should have done. He should have done the despot he should have got rid. They'll all say that, right. If you go back and you look at a rock and you look at all those, all the heads of Bush, every single one of them were justifying it as well. They were all saying mushroom clouds coming. And Colin Powell, the one person that knew better than all of them. And he said, he said he was given false information, but he voted for it.

37:07 Clinton. Hillary Clinton was a senator. She voted to attack Iraq. That might be one of the best propaganda machines of all time. You start to look at the two and you go like, well, the difference between Bush having everybody go after Rock and that is that he sold it to the American people in a longer process, whereas Trump just didn't sell it in a longer process. He did the same damn thing. And and it seems to be incredibly stupid. But if we knew he was going to do it and knew how he was going to do it, which we knew how rock was going to be, we're we're moving all ships over there, everybody. I mean, we had, you know, every day on Fox News with just like American strong force.

37:54 We're there. We're we're heading for war, you know, and you were like, why? You know, weapons of mass destruction. You do not want to see a mushroom cloud here when they were nowhere fucking near it. You know, just like, just like Iran, Iran's nowhere near it. They didn't have it 10 months ago. We blew up all of their, all of their. No, I take that back, not ten months ago, in 2015, they had 10,000 kilograms of uranium processed, which was 50% processed or something like that.

38:36 It needs to be 99% and it takes forever to do. Well, Obama, they destroyed all that, all of that down to like 12 or 15 kilos, which they were going to use in for electronic stuff and that's it. And then Fuckenheimer came in and and made that all go away. So, but they haven't had a chance to build a pack. It takes like decades to make that happen. He destroyed all the centrifuges. Everything was totally wiped out. Their nuclear program was crippled. Their, their nuclear program to actually make it into a nuclear bomb.

39:18 You know, that was, that was totally wiped out and crippled. And and yet I, I don't, I don't the, the, the, the, the thing now is it's just very weird. Here we are talking about our goals. My goal, and hopefully in the news cycle is to I would love to see more accountability. I would love to see this war not progress, but there's nothing I can do about that. My goal is to stay off the Internet. I think that's my goal. That's a good I think that might be. Better stay off social media because at the same time it's like they're just making money off you.

39:58 You know they're making money. There's some information I'm. Going to go to every protest. I'm going to throw rocks at the cops. I'm going to do that. I'm going to do all the stuff that you're supposed to do. Point your gun at me. You know. We should make merchandise, it says. Point your gun at me. Yeah. That would actually be really funny. That's a good idea. That's a merchandising idea right there. OK. Merchandising idea #742. What are the merchandising idea? Gun at me. Hey, you, no. Or should it be hey, you exclamation point, point your gun at me. Exclamation point. When you have a little button right in the middle of your shirt and you push it as a speaker. Oh, like the cards like birthday cards that open, they fold out.

40:40 Just like that, you have a birthday card that opens on your shirt. Yeah, I like that idea. It's got to be like detachable and detachable though, right? No for sure it. Always didn't work I think. So, but it has to be the, the whole funny thing about it though was 'cause it was a National Guard, you know? So how do you get that directness, that level of directness when you're talking to a specific sect of the military on AT Shirt like that, you know? We do, we do on site now. Now what you're proposing here is that we do mobile or what do you call them? What is it when you're walking? Walking. I don't know. Yeah, no.

41:22 Could we do a podcast? Why? You and I were walking and saw things. That's what streaming basically is. Right. See, I saw I saw a guy at the park in and I thought it was kind of cool. He was a influencer. Whatever the hell. Podcaster, right? And he was reporting to his subscribers on what was happening and he set up a camera like you have cut it on and he had his little mic and he was speaking into the mic. I'm here at the Cardboard Classic, the 2026 Cardboard Classic.

42:04 What you see behind me is a huge pile of rubble from all of the different things that have raced today. And I'm over there going, hey, show me your tits. Mr. Serious, you are Mr. Serious. Oh sorry, I thought this was a Mardi Gras. I. Thought this was a Mardi. A Mardi Gras is so funny. I thought this was a Mardi Gras. I don't know why the pluralization of that is so funny. There you go. I thought it was a Mardi Gras, man. What am I supposed to say? That's the way it was. But that was I We could do that on our next trip. Like if we go to Red. You talked about Redwood 4. We need a video diversification for the marketing team.

42:44 That's what they talked about with something like that. But other than that, yeah. Well, we we need a camera that you can carry on your shoulder. Something like that. You can videotape. Or one have a similar one? Yeah. A lot of people were just setting these up. I mean, he just had a little, he had a tripod that he just set his little. That's all you got to do. That video up and he just did the video and he did his own reporter. Hi, Bob Johnson here reporting live at such and such, you know for sure. And we'd be reporting on live, right? Yeah. Or we can have little tidbits. You know, we're talking about our next episode's going to cover this issue, you know, something to that effect. I kind of like that idea.

43:29 Wow. So resolutions for the second quarter, we're going to kick out Listen to the Cranberries full albums I am going to complete. I will have completed my sitting on the Supreme Court. I will have. I don't know if I'm going to finish any more books. I'd love to finish just the one. I've got 1. I want to read about 70 more half books I think this year because that's why I'm. Going to continue my hiking and. That makes me happy. I want to get back in the gym downstairs. That's I don't like finishing books anymore. I think I'm just going to read half books for the rest of my life. Although I'm looking at Tai Chi, What do you think about that? I I've always wanted to do Tai chi. They now have those they're they're selling the hell out of it to me because I'm seeing them do every meme that I look and it's like, you know, it's so only 7 minutes a day.

44:15 Always talk about that kind of silly stuff where something's only a certain amount of day. It's relaxing, I'll tell you that much. We sit in chair and you do it. Sit in the chair. Yeah, it's chair sitting Tai Chi. They do it standing up. Oh you can do it standing up and they have chair sitting for old fat people like me. I want to make a sculpture this year too. I forgot about that. I've I've, I've really realized that my most recent passions that have pretty much extended the the whole entirety of my life are water features. You know I love a good water feature. And I have that one. I have that one here. I can exactly. And I want that would actually be pretty cool. That would be pretty cool. And you're just trying to get rid of my stuff. But I.

44:57 Mean it can get lost in the mail, you know. I prefer it not the the I mean. Putting it in the trash can't be taken out tomorrow. I have some of them this weird mail. Sorry dude, Ben. I mean I paid 20 bucks. I'm sorry. I should have paid for trekking too. Because. Because it would be an Amerifax dump. Well, that's good. I like. We should do one on getting rid of your kids shit when he moves. How? How to Delete your Kids Memories by Phil Brown. Oh, that's great. One at a time, I one. May know that you cannot delete all of his memories, but you can. Certainly until you kill him.

45:40 All of his material possessions and throw them away so that he can have nothing to really touch. To have a feeling of when he was an adolescent ever again. Oh, I remember that. I think I got that with the hermit crabs. Yeah, You know, it's got the big needle on the top that I poked my hand on. I I. Stand my hand on that every time. I don't understand why that well, you took the glass out, that's why. Because it used to be. Fell out. It fell out. Sure, Sure. All right. Well, I think we're wrapping up here. We'll talk to you later. We'll talk to you next time. Well, we got, I mean, what, what other? Is there any other goals that you can think of? Resolution. I need to figure out how to redo my website because the guy really screwed me on that. OK, so put that down website.

46:22 Yeah, hold on. Website removal. You want to change your website. I might just have Ethan do a complete overhaul and just redo the whole thing because I need it. I need a customizable and it's in a certain circumstance to where it's not even customizable. So how useful is a website that's not customizable? It's not, you know, So I'm just going to have Ethan do a complete overhaul. Ethan. OK, Ethan. Overall, life's a party, man. We quiet now. And on that note, these and gentlemen. I'm going to go walk to Griffith now I think. Any other people? I'm going to go do that. All right. We'll talk to you later. Bye. Bye. Watch out for the serial killers.

47:02 Watch out for them.