Episode 147: The American Dream

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Welcome back to another episode
of Record of My Font.

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We're going to talk about the
meaning of America since we're

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both Americans, You know, I
think we are we are American,

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right?
I think so.

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And I don't know, I think that
you came up with this idea.

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And what I first think about is
the American dream and the the

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white picket fence, the dog, the
1 1/2 or 2 1/2 kids, you know,

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in the.
Owning your home in the.

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House, yeah.
Owning, Owning a home, yeah.

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Owning a home, I think to me is
is always been at the core of

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the American dream.
It, it, it that it doesn't

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really matter of all the other
stuff.

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It's sort of like that's the
typical American family.

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It's, it's cool that it excludes
anybody of any race or any

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different sexual orientation.
That's the American dream.

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And but I mean other than that.
Well, that was funny that that

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reminds me of when we were at
that one Great American

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restaurant with somebody who I
will not name.

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And she said, man, it was so
much better when I was a kid.

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And you said, oh, yeah, when
segregation existed.

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It's just I didn't mean it like
that.

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I didn't mean it like that.
And I still think about that

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moment to this day because I
don't know, we, we often think

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about in the past and we, we
think of ourselves before

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anybody else.
We missed.

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These were so much better back
then because they were better

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for us and not better for other
people, Right?

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And maybe I don't know what is
it to be American other than to

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be selfish.
You know, I think that that

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might be a part of it.
What Hunter S Thompson said were

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a bunch of used car salesman
ready to kill anybody who makes

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us feel uncomfortable.
And I think that that might be a

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part of it.
There's a, there's a portion of

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that I'm, I'm, I'm absolutely
sure when you, when you listen

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or you, or you think about the,
the way the population is today.

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But I don't think it's any
different than it was before.

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I think the, the reason that we,
we come out as being meaner in,

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in my eyes today than say 20-30
years ago is that now, I mean,

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when I was in the 60s and 70s
when, when somebody did

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something wrong, 6 people knew
about it, they heard about it

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and it impacted their lives.
And it might have been positive

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or negative or whatever.
Now when somebody does something

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horrible, the whole world knows
and, and it, and it impacts you.

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And the thing that the
unfortunate thing is, is that

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horrible things travel faster
than good things.

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So it, it seems to me that
everybody's going to be somewhat

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affected by more horrible things
because that's what news is.

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It isn't about what happened.
It's about what, what's happened

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that's horrible that we can
point to or and say, hey, look

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at this, you know, how will this
change your life?

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Because you will click on it
'cause you want to know, 'cause

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you want to know that somebody
else in the world is worse off

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than you.
You know what I mean?

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I think, I think that's like a
big part of it is that whole

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idea of, well, at least we're
not, I mean, at least I'm not,

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you know, at least I'm not
living in Iran right now.

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I mean, hey, it could be worse,
right?

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You know, at least I'm not in
Somalia.

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At least I'm not, you know, for
the.

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Time being, we can still
critique the government, or so

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it seems.
Maybe because we have a slightly

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less large.
Well, they're following the

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most.
But, you know, I don't know,

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it's kind of, it's kind of
interesting.

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Yeah.
Yeah.

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But as we get old, I mean, I
think the capitalism has always

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been the illusion of choices.
I don't know, you know, but I

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don't know you.
When you were in college, you

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could pay for tuition if you
worked this summer.

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Is that what you used to say?
Right.

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I could, I paid for.
I went to old domain college,

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old domain university and it was
like 1700 bucks a year or

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nineteen.
It was state supported, not

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state funded or something.
It was like a partial.

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They had a little bit of money
that came from the state and I

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could work a summer job as long
as I did overtime like every

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week I could make, you know, I
think I had to average about 50

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hours to be able to pay for all
tuition, room and board.

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And I lived in a place that cost
100 bucks a month, you know, and

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my utilities were usually
utilities and and that's when

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cable was just starting, you
know, do we even have phones?

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I don't even remember if we had
a phone or not.

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It was pre sell.
You know, there's no cell phone.

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Did we have a phone in the
house?

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That's funny.
I don't, I don't remember having

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one at all.
That's kind of weird, you know,

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that we didn't have a phone.
We didn't need to talk to

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anybody.
If I need to talk to somebody, I

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go to school and call on the pay
phone, you know, and back then,

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you know, it was long distance.
And so why would I call you?

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You know, we would write letters
or, or, you know, there wasn't

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e-mail and things like that.
But but you could do that.

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You could pay for school by
working a summer right now you

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would have to make for just to
go to Oldham and and to live

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indoors you'd probably make have
to make 15 or 20 grand over a

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summer which I don't think is
realistic if.

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Not more than that,
realistically, for the entire

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year.
Yeah.

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Yeah, I mean per semester it's
like 15.

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Isn't it 1520?
No, I mean in state though.

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No, it's in state because
Virginia has really good in

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state discounts.
I forgot.

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About that, we're trying to
compare apples to apples, you

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know?
So for me, it would be Old

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Dominion University tuition,
huh?

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And that's a good bearing.
Well, and but but also like when

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you look it's 11/7.
Oh, really?

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OK.
Oh OK.

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In state is 11 about 11,700 and
out of state is 32.

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Maybe that's why.
OK.

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I was comparing it to out of
state prices.

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Is what I was thinking.
Total estimated annual costs,

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including housing and books,
ranging from roughly 31 six.

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Wait, SO316 for in state or out
of state?

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There we go.
Also, it wasn't crazy.

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So they're saying, they're
saying 20,000 on addition to see

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it's 11790 and they're saying
11680 is that would be they just

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add 20 grand on to it.
They say your living expenses

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for a year of going to school
there would be 20 grand.

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Well, that's why.
Funny, but I can't imagine that

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it would cost that much 'cause
you figure it's I mean you're

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going to have a roommate. 1000
bucks a month.

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Well, the reason why I quoted it
so high is because your first

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year, your first two years
usually are mandatory on campus

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and they pump how expensive
living on campus is.

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It's more expensive than just
renting your own apartment.

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It's kind of crazy 'cause then
it's like, oh, you have to buy

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the meal pass, you have to buy
this, you have to buy that.

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Yeah, 'cause it's, it's of quote
UN quote convenience, when in

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fact they're just kind of
screwing you over.

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I mean, that's really what it
is.

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It's more of a profiteering
thing than an actual teaching

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thing to me at least.
I don't know.

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Yeah, yeah.
Well, this is not, I mean

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average 32 grand.
OK, so it wasn't crazy.

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I feel better about myself.
Now so let's say let's say you

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get a crazy job and you work I I
mean May, June, July, August,

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right, you get 4 months.
So that is 4 * 416 weeks.

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Let's say you get what do you
make 15 bucks an hour?

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If that in Virginia, what did?
Virginia.

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Raise it to 1550 yet.
So let's say 15 an hour, 15 an

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hour times 40.
Man, I remember when we were at

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7:25 until recently, that was
crazy. 600 a week a week times

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16.
That's 9600 bucks.

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There you go.
That's not even that's, that's

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not even a third.
Oh my God.

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I will say they have a great
Community College system, but

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even then, I mean like when
you're in Community College,

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you're still paying for college.
So it's like you got to take out

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loans.
I mean, that's really the only

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way that you're going to be
able.

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To do it.
Do you think this goes to the

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American Dream being out of
reach for many people?

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Well, I think also at the same
time, master's degrees aren't

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even looked at as sealing the
deal on a job anymore.

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And I think that that is crazy.
That's a little.

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Crazy.
Yeah.

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When I was a kid, anybody that
went to school, with the

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exception of my parents, had an
opportunity, good jobs, But you

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had to have confidence in
yourself and what you were doing

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and the stuff that you learned.
You know, I mean a crazy world.

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Sometimes, I mean, if you have a
business undergrad now, you

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might be able with the correct
networking, depending on what

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school you went to as well, get
into wealth management.

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You could, you could, but it's
like it's very difficult.

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It's also GPA requirements are a
37.

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So for wealth management, yeah.
To work at some of those top

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firms.
Yeah.

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So it's, it's, it's hard to get
in, but that also is really a

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high consideration of what
school you went to as well,

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'cause I don't think they're
hiring Edible Dominion, you

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know, like I don't think that
they're hiring out of a lot of

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these others, these other
schools.

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But yeah, I don't know, I think
that undergraduate degree is not

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considered very valuable
anymore.

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And people are often wondering
like, why wouldn't I just go get

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the trade?
And I would say, I mean HVAC is

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going to be around.
Forever LG learns what is your

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learners are going to.
Be around forever.

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What did I learn?
Yeah.

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To think pragmatically, to think
and according to many different

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people's ideas that wrote
throughout time, to be amiable,

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to read people is really what I
learned.

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In the English degree, interact
with people that disagree with

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you.
That's 100% what it is, but I'm

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saying that a lot of people,
unlike myself, are not as

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privileged and they're looking
for an actual job and.

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Practice living.
Practice living with other

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people.
Yeah, that as well, but I'm

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saying H back things, an
elevator repair and electrician

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electricity is going to be
around forever, you know and

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it's like.
It's I.

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Think that those trades are, I
mean, they're going to actually.

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Give you a job, Well, I think at
some point they'll just have in

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their modular housing.
It will be fully.

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I mean the wires were already
been.

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I mean, it's going to be a long,
long time before that happens,

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you know?
Power.

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Power eventually will not run
over a wire.

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It's still going to be power
there, electrician, the job will

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change.
But I mean, it's still a job.

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You know, it's like like the
elevator is a hover elevator.

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It's still an elevator, you
know, like it's still, you're

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still going to have to fix it at
some point.

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And it's like, yeah, everything
breaks, you know.

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And until then, I mean, those
are some pretty solid jobs.

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Yeah, but.
I can't imagine that.

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I think the the if a job is all
you're looking for, that's one

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thing.
And I think.

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Most people are though, I mean
with $200,000 in loans.

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That's all I wanted was a job.
I wanted an opportunity.

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I wanted to be in a business
field I didn't want to work for.

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I didn't want to work for Giant.
I didn't want to work for

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Safeway.
I didn't want to work for, you

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know, Ralph's, none of the
supermarkets.

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I didn't want to be that guy
working as a checker.

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And the checkers made good money
and they were union, you know.

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But those checkers today are no
longer exist, you know.

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Well, that's what I wanted to.
Do I wanted to work at a

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clothing store?
That's why I got an English

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degree?
No.

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No.
That's a great idea.

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The whole reason I got an
English degree was one, I didn't

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want to do a Cal advanced
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That was going to be a
requirement and I was having a

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difficulty with that.
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And I was, and he told me, I
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why don't you just do what you
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And I said, I do have the
privilege to do that.

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And, and then I did, you know,
and I think it really did pay

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off because I, I enjoy reading
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life.
I feel that there is a internal

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difference from now as opposed
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I feel much more well off and
intellectually, yeah, I don't

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know.
Smarter things can push you, but

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you'll you can.
You can think your way through

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them.
There's a level of self

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actualization that comes with
education too, that you realize

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where you are in the world and
how other people have

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accomplished these great things.
And then you put yourself, if

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you want to accomplish these
great things in line with those

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people.
And I think that that's a

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valuable thing.
Or you just degrade them.

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Or that, yeah.
Or you just say, well, he

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actually was a liar in a cheat.
I'm smarter and I can't be a

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liar in a cheat.
That's why I can't be

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successful.
I mean, that's a lot of people

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do that too.
Or the only reason they got to

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the top is because they killed
people along the way.

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But we used to, I mean, I would,
I would tell you that most of

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the big companies I worked at
that a lot of them did work that

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way.
You you were looking for the

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next position above you, and the
way you would get it is you

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wouldn't necessarily have to
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but that was one way the other.
Next Gen.

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I step on is a very common
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say.
So I would say that moral

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integrity is really, really
falling apart.

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I would say that it's in lieu of
the last 10-15 years of this

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country.
You know you.

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Think it's you.
Think there's integrity is less

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today than it was 15 years ago
or 20?

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Percent, without a doubt, yeah.
Really.

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Why we're?
Too distracted.

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We're way, way, way too
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We don't have something that was
in Nicomachean Ethics by

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Aristotle called the
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You know when you go to a mall,
right, and there's music

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everywhere and it's meant to be
distracting because then you

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can't think and then you just
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And therefore, when there's no
music and you have silence in

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your life, you have something
called the contemplative

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thought, which allows you to
contemplate your life and where

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you are and who you are.
But without that, we are just

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constantly distracted by what's
in our pocket, which is our

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phone, is it not?
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So that, I mean, Aristotle said
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And I mean, when was the last
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the general thoroughfare
Republic, that we had silence in

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which we could look at the
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Now it's all noise.
There's so much noise that has

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accumulated, you know?
And walk the dogs.

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The.
Woods nothing there in the

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backyard when I walk the
backyard and The funny thing

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here's The funny thing I never
take out my phone if I go to any

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office, doctor's office, any
place else where I'm sitting and

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doing nothing.
I don't look around like we used

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you used to say hi to people,
what you in for and all that

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kind of stuff like that.
And you don't do that anymore.

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And, and in Group settings, I'm
I'm more friendly, but I have to

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be careful because I'm older.
So, you know, as the wife says,

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you know, it's good to be
friendly, but it's not good to

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be creepy.
So, so don't be creepy, don't be

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creepy, you know, So hey, there
is that.

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And then but I think that, you
know, that's, that's really shut

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people off a lot, you know?
Pandemic.

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I mean, what?
What is?

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What is?
I mean the meaning.

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The meaning of life to me is to,
when I think about it, and I

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mean, it's changed.
It's really changed.

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All I wanted when I was a kid
and was to go to college, when I

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was working instruction, all I
did was want to make enough

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money to be able to live on my
own and without a roommate or

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anybody, just mine.
I wanted mine when I, when I

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went to college and I was there
and I shared rooms and I didn't,

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I didn't really have a problem
with anybody.

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I never, I mean, I'm an easy
roommate.

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I don't give a shit.
You know, as long as you're

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reasonably clean or you want to
be clean, I'm OK with that.

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Cleaner than what I grew up
with.

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I I, I couldn't be and more
filthier, you know, 5 pack a day

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smoker and that kind of just
nasty anyway.

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That's difficult.
Yeah, I couldn't, I couldn't, I

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couldn't, I couldn't deal with
that.

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But but then, you know, when I
got out of school, all I wanted

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to do was pay my rent and get
hammered and hook up.

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I mean, there was really nothing
that was, that was it.

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There was no.
So my dreams and my aspirations

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kind of changed as they went
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And then when I started the
first business, it was basically

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if, if I think back to that
time, it was I need a job.

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And this looked like the easiest
job that would make the most

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money that I could possibly
imagine, you know, And The thing

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is, is that I am have been and
have always been incredibly hard

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worker.
And once I learn how to do

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something and I can replicate
it, I can do it twice as fast,

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three times as fast, five times
as fast.

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And that's why I could do
research really, really well

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because I'd done it 3000 times,
you know, it's that kind of

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stuff.
And then you would commit it to

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memory and, and I have a really
good like, you know,

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encyclopedia type bullshit.
You know, what was the last

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double dummy merger that you
remember, You know, and it's

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like, Oh well, Walt Disney, DC
Holco, you know, those kind of

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things, weird stuff anyway.
And then, and then I never

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really thought about getting
married, never even never even

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crossed my mind until like, you
know, I just tripped over your

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mother.
It happens when you're not

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looking for it.
Yeah, we, I mean, we tripped.

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There was no, there wasn't this.
Hey, I'm going to get married

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and have a house and live in the
woods.

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So I was living, I had a
roommate and I was living with

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him and you're, you're, I was
dating your mother at the time.

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And she was worried that because
my, my roommate at the time

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wanted to buy a house, so we
should invest in a house.

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And she was like, well, if you
buy a house with a hemp, she

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didn't say this, but she was
thinking it.

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Then you've told me where I
stand, which I would have been

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true.
And that's why I wouldn't do it.

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And that's why I was like, well,
Lisa's coming up at the end of

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the month, what am I going to
do?

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And then that's when we decide
to move in together with the

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idea that something more
permanent would happen.

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And I mean, I look to the
future.

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And it's like, I mean, I never
really had set out to get

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married.
I never set out.

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You know, I think we, we we
thought kids would come along,

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but, you know, at some point we
didn't.

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And then you came along, you
stopped looking.

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And then, yeah, you stopped
looking for it.

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And it just sort of shows up and
it just like every wonderful

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thing that I've ever had happen
to me.

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It's been, you know, it's been
not through, I don't want to say

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not through planning because
the, the business entities and

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things that I did, we we did
extensive planning, but the

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personal stuff was basically, oh
shit, this is silver now It's a.

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Certain lesson behind.
Massaging and relaxing the

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intuition and wanting for things
in your life and specific

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milestones, I think, and for
accomplishments, because I don't

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think you're ever going to be
able to accomplish certain

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things if you really, really,
really, really try overtly hard

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because there's something about
the world that doesn't want you

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to do that.
That it, it doesn't, it isn't an

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inherent lesson unless you
forget about it for a little

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bit.
You know, I don't know what it

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is.
It is because when you forget

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about it, then you're really
doing it subconsciously.

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And I think that is important.
I it's, it's, it's weird.

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It's like I think about our
business and the growth and the

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growth in each and every one of
them.

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And I had a, a person that I met
and he was telling me how much

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he mired me and that I was the,
the first guy ever to do in

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legal tech what no one else
could do.

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And I was like, what are you
talking about?

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Because you're the first one to
get, you know, to break out of

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the $2,000,000 bubble.
Like what do you mean?

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He goes like there's, there's no
other legal tech companies that

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get past 2 million in revenue.
That's like, I never realized

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that.
And he said, and you did it

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twice, like, oh, and I never
looked to like we didn't look,

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we would set goals for the next
year and we would do like, oh,

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we want to go 34568, whatever
numbers we would set, but we

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would set a pathway and a
structure and all this kind of

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stuff.
And it wasn't, it wasn't the

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idea that we were going to do
something somebody else wasn't

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doing.
It was we wanted to grow.

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And it was all about we just
want to grow.

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And the faster we grow was fun,
you know, And that was, it was

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bigger or bigger.
Bigger means more choice.

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That's what we thought.
And until you get bought and

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then you don't have any choice.
That should Americans in

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general, just to generalize this
a little bit, I think the

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government has a responsibility
to keep a healthy population, to

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keep a population that 75% of it
shouldn't have to live paycheck

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to paycheck, you know, and I
think that.

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This maybe that.
Fear of socialism is what really

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is keeping us back from people,
just allowing to be helped

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because even when you were
growing up impoverished, you

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told me multiple times that you
would never accept government

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assistance because.
That's what my mother said she

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would.
She would rather be, she would,

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she would rather if she said
sell myself before I would take

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a hand out.
And that's more people than you

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think.
I think that's a lot more people

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than you think.
I was like, you know, thinking

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like, wow.
I mean, there were times when we

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went to the pantry and there was
nothing there, you know, I mean,

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and it was, it was like the last
day.

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So you would, you know, make it
or break it by going out and

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hunting for bottles.
And that's how you ate.

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So, but it was that that was few
and far between for food now,

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you know, the heat was always
low.

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The there was no air
conditioning.

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We didn't use the dryer because
it cost a dollar.

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You know, we had a dryer, but we
didn't use it because, you know,

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only rich people used a dryer.
You know, you think about those

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things and I guess it was
really, it was tight.

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You know, it was, it was real
tight.

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But like I've always said, when,
when she, one of the things I

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said is like, we didn't know we
were poor until we weren't.

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I mean, that's, that was mine.
This is like, oh wow, you mean

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everybody's meat's not slimy?
Until you realize where you came

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from.
Yeah.

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Yeah.
Then then you start to realize

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and you do that and you and
stuff.

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But I mean, we were chasing, we
all chased the American dream.

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We all, we all did the
education, we did the education

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round.
Every single one of us paid for

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our own education.
We had help here and there.

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You know, we lived at home
during the summer.

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We did certain things like that,
but it was we were driven.

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We were all driven and we didn't
have help from high school.

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I mean, high school counselors
did nothing for us, which is

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kind of sad.
You know, you would think that

445
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,240
they would, you know, I, I, I
was at, went to a high school

446
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,480
for four years and I never even
talked to a counselor once,

447
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:14,840
once.
How sad is that?

448
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:17,640
I wasn't only.
Counselors, but they tried to

449
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,400
funnel people to a college
'cause they were getting paid

450
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,360
under the table to do so.
Right, right.

451
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:26,640
But at least they, but at least
they had a a motivation to do

452
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:28,360
that.
I mean, mine didn't even have a

453
00:24:28,360 --> 00:24:30,760
motivation to talk to us and it
was just like.

454
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:34,120
They were forced to though by,
well, there's only 70 people in

455
00:24:34,120 --> 00:24:36,360
my school, so it's kind of like.
What are you really?

456
00:24:36,360 --> 00:24:40,280
Paying for to go to private
school, if not an absolute

457
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,480
guarantee to get into college,
right?

458
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:44,960
That's kind of the whole point
of a private high school is the

459
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:49,160
absolute guarantee, right?
But at the same time, man, I

460
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,840
don't know what a weird, what a.
Weird, they were filling

461
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:54,520
Vermont.
Well, that and then like the

462
00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:58,120
with all of the people that
worked there, it was just like,

463
00:24:58,120 --> 00:25:03,200
in hindsight, just so moronic.
A lot of moronic individuals

464
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:07,320
teaching that did not deserve to
have a pen in their hand 'cause

465
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:14,520
they were so ignorant and also
overzealous and frankly very

466
00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:18,600
comparative to Neanderthals.
And I think that, yeah, you

467
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:23,240
learned in spite of that.
Learned about my own health,

468
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:26,000
what it means to feel good when
exercising.

469
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,160
I think that that's probably the
largest thing that I learned.

470
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:29,360
That's the biggest thing I would
say.

471
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:31,200
That was definitely the largest
thing.

472
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,680
I think a no cut team is
definitely funny.

473
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,240
I think it's a funny thing, but
I think it's, it might be an

474
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:41,720
important thing in some aspects,
in some aspects specifically for

475
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:44,560
just running.
I mean, being able to have, to

476
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:48,400
have to move every day is, is a
lesson in itself.

477
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:53,360
I mean, even Thomas Jefferson
said an hour of muscular workout

478
00:25:53,360 --> 00:25:55,840
a day and an hour of
cardiovascular workout a day is

479
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:57,840
what a man needs.
And I think that's true.

480
00:25:58,120 --> 00:25:59,640
And I.
Think Thomas Jefferson said

481
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:00,440
that.
He did.

482
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:02,000
It's on the I thought.
It was Ben Franklin.

483
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,320
It's on the thing in one of the
gyms at UVA.

484
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:06,280
Yeah, really.
Yeah.

485
00:26:07,120 --> 00:26:07,480
Every.
Day.

486
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:08,640
Yep.
Wow.

487
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:12,440
Used to see it all the time man
it is.

488
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:16,240
Amazing how?
Many people are on anabolics in

489
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,120
general that are below the age
of 19.

490
00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:22,440
I think that's crazy, yeah.
Chasing the American Dream.

491
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:26,000
I just can't imagine pinning
testosterone or trying to learn

492
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:31,000
right now and being so torn out
in about 3 years 'cause I'm not

493
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,440
getting regular blood tests and
then I'm on TRT for the rest of

494
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:35,800
my life.
And then like because you can

495
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,760
never make back the naturally
the testosterone 'cause you

496
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:42,960
really out your level so hard.
And it's like and even like the

497
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,720
professionals that are competing
like it's you don't the biggest,

498
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:50,440
like most paid bodybuilder in
the world is not like making

499
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,280
that amount of money to destroy
your own physical health and die

500
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,880
at the age of 50.
Like I don't, you know, I.

501
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,440
Don't, well, there's AI think
there's a mindset that you look

502
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,200
at something like that and it's
gorgeous and it's gorgeous to

503
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:02,480
you.
I think it's incredible.

504
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:04,520
I I do think it's an incredible
feat, don't get me wrong.

505
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:06,520
Yeah, right.
And then you look at that and

506
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,480
you're saying I want to be that
because then people will just

507
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,800
look at me naturally and think
that I'm great looking and all

508
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:12,080
this stuff.
But in reality.

509
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,800
It's only men that look at you.
It's if you're if you're a.

510
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:17,520
Decent person.
You can.

511
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:19,800
You can get there, Yeah, you
know.

512
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:23,080
No, that's for sure.
You know, see how wonderful you

513
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:26,160
are or how wonderful you're not.
You know, from that perspective,

514
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:30,640
here I go, yik.
I would really like to see the

515
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:34,960
American people have access to
affordable healthcare in the

516
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,080
next 20 years.
I would really like to see that.

517
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:41,680
And I think that that is a part
of the dream when mommy and

518
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,920
daddy don't have to worry about
their wages being garnished by a

519
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,600
large healthcare company because
when they were at the hospital,

520
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:52,040
they didn't get an itemized
receipt for a concussion that a

521
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,640
bandit that was put on their
head that was $900.

522
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:58,080
I, I don't want to and I don't
understand why we even have to

523
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,080
ask for itemized receipts at
hospitals because I find that

524
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,160
frankly a little ridiculous that
somebody went to school for 10

525
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,000
years to scam people.
I don't know.

526
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,480
I think that's interesting.
Yeah, there's, there's lots,

527
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,520
there's lots of that.
The healthcare, the I mean, I'm

528
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:15,160
a healthcare education because I
think a healthy population and

529
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,320
an intelligent population and
the whole and the thing you're

530
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,360
when, when, when you see it now
when you talk about the trades

531
00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:25,000
and how people are pushing the
trades in a very big way is so

532
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:30,120
it's some way to answer for
people that wanted to learn.

533
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:36,880
And I think I'm in opposition to
making learning bad.

534
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:40,000
I think I completely.
Agree, I think we should make it

535
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,240
affordable I.
Mean well, I was going to just.

536
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:45,160
Doesn't make sense for the
average American to take out

537
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,960
$150,000 in loans, no.
Community College.

538
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,520
And get a liberal arts degree.
It just doesn't.

539
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:52,360
It's not.
It doesn't make sense for those

540
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,000
that aren't of that privilege,
you know?

541
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:56,680
Yeah, it doesn't.
It doesn't.

542
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,000
Yeah, you could.
You could if you get a liberal

543
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,160
arts though, you learn.
I mean, as you said, you learn

544
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:06,360
you, you have a wide variety of
things that you know, I mean,

545
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,320
you see.
The cogs in the world more so

546
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:10,800
than you do if you were to
become an electrician, 100%

547
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:12,960
couldn't.
Agree more no and your and your

548
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,640
writing capability is just so
much better.

549
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:20,160
I mean I did business.
So for me, the thing I

550
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:24,640
understood is like, you know,
what are the four basic building

551
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:27,680
blocks of every single business,
you know, marketing, sales,

552
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:34,120
product and drug dealing, You
know, that's just it.

553
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:35,560
Drug dealing is always a good
one.

554
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:38,720
I think that that should always
be fitted in there, especially

555
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:40,560
for a liberal arts degree,
because when you get out you're

556
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,920
going to need a profession and
you're going to want to go into

557
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:45,520
business for yourself and I
think that that is really of

558
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,360
importance.
I digest, but yeah.

559
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,560
So the meaning of America is to
be a drug dealer but be

560
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:53,320
educated.
Yes, yes.

561
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:55,880
That's what we need to do is
we're trying to get to the point

562
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,960
where where it matters.
And when we say the meaning of

563
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:02,840
America, do you think one of the
things I like about it is is we

564
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:07,400
I was saying earlier is the
devil entendre was the idea that

565
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:09,960
people are meaner today than
they were.

566
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,240
And I don't I don't see I don't
buy that.

567
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:17,080
I, I feel like it's only because
maybe we are a little meaner.

568
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:21,800
Maybe we're a little meaner
because we're exposed to, well,

569
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,360
everybody else is doing it.
There's no hardship like

570
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:26,960
financial hardship.
And I feel like financial

571
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:28,840
hardship inherently makes people
harder.

572
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:30,840
I mean, like at Russian people,
right?

573
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:32,960
I think that that is
interesting.

574
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:35,720
But you were talking about
educated drug dealers before and

575
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:39,480
what is that but the Sacklers?
And I think that that is that is

576
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,880
kind of the definition of the
American dream and instituted

577
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:46,720
this whole heroin epidemic and
now fentanyl epidemic.

578
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:50,280
Isn't that kind of interesting?
And none, none are well, I mean,

579
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:52,880
the weird thing about the
fentanyl is if you look it up,

580
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:56,240
it's Chinese, you know, we're.
The Chinese manifold, it is

581
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,120
there xylazine as well, which is
trank, yeah.

582
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,880
But but the number one
manufacturer of fentanyl for the

583
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:04,080
United States, you know who it
is?

584
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,880
Pharmaceutical companies.
Oh yeah, definitely the the

585
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:13,840
illegal fentanyl is only a
couple ton over.

586
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:19,160
I think it's 86 tons of fentanyl
is distributed by pharmaceutical

587
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:20,920
companies every year and you're
just.

588
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:24,280
Like tons.
Tons, tons.

589
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,360
They use it all the time in
hospitals.

590
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:32,760
So I mean, I, I keep feeling the
idea that it's going to turn

591
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:35,480
into another oxy thing, you
know?

592
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:37,200
It already is.
It already has.

593
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,400
Except people are actually dying
this time.

594
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:43,720
Yeah, the issue, too.
I mean, if you go back, I really

595
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,000
think about the whole Yale study
in 2009 when they were doing in

596
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,320
vitro for women.
They were taking their eggs out,

597
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:52,760
and they were freezing them.
And women would say, wow, like,

598
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:54,680
I don't feel the pain
medication, can you give me

599
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:55,880
more?
And the nurses would be

600
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:57,640
hesitant, say, no, we can't give
you more.

601
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,240
We can't do this.
And they're like, they would

602
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:01,520
give them more.
And they're like, why isn't it

603
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:04,000
working?
And it turned out that even at

604
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:08,480
one of the most highest esteemed
universities, Yale, that the

605
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,520
nurses were backdooring the
morphine for these women that

606
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:14,600
were going through the NVITRA.
Isn't that interesting?

607
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:17,320
Yeah.
So I mean, it's it's even in

608
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:21,160
your highest institutions and
people act like, oh, so I can't,

609
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:24,040
couldn't possibly be there.
And I'm like, well, yeah, they.

610
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,200
Were backdooring.
Morphine and all of the nurses

611
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:31,120
were fired from that program.
Didn't AM go to jail?

612
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:36,440
I don't believe so.
Yeah, I mean, if if I held you

613
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:43,120
down and I cut you and didn't
give you any pain.

614
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,320
Miller Medicine, It's.
Far worse than that.

615
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,720
I'd go to jail.
It's a needle that pierces your

616
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:51,480
cervix.
Yeah, yeah, the the what I've

617
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,360
heard.
Is I hit you with a hammer?

618
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,440
It's worse than giving birth,
apparently.

619
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,000
It's worse than my God, Oh my
God, it's like about 5.

620
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,000
It's like 4 or five times worse
than giving birth, which is like

621
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:06,440
to some women that is, but like
man like that is at the one of

622
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:10,320
the highest institutions in the
medical world and.

623
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:11,920
You still you think about that?
Yeah.

624
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,320
You still have things that are
terrible to go on.

625
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:21,720
Yeah, yeah.
Well, crime pays and you know,

626
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:26,840
and the more that it pays, the
less that you'll ever be held

627
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:29,400
accountable.
Oh 100% it does seem like evil

628
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,520
always wins now doesn't it?
Yeah, that's the thing that kind

629
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,880
of bothers me the most about the
American Dream being smashed is

630
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:39,320
the idea that it seems like
evil's ahead of it right now.

631
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:44,960
And just everywhere you turn,
there's, you know, this is bad.

632
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:47,000
That's bad.
We're, we're going to, we're now

633
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,080
going to put fluorocarbons back
in the water.

634
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:52,280
We don't care anymore.
We're, you know, we're going to

635
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,920
have, we're not going to use red
dye in our Cheerios, but we're

636
00:33:54,920 --> 00:34:00,440
going to pollute the water.
There's a weight here that you

637
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:02,360
feel.
I think on a daily basis I can

638
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:06,400
feel myself getting meaner as
well and caring less about other

639
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:08,040
people.
It's funny because that's why

640
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:11,719
you're saying I'm tired.
I'm tired of yeah, I, I just

641
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:15,199
feel it internally and it's,
it's a weird feeling cause I've

642
00:34:15,199 --> 00:34:18,040
never felt this way 'cause I was
raised different than that.

643
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:21,159
And even I still feel it though.
You feel this way 'cause when

644
00:34:21,159 --> 00:34:24,080
you travel, like of my recent
travels, you feel like the

645
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:28,600
celebrity, like, oh, like that's
the people are nicer.

646
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:32,679
Like I remember when we went to
London not that long ago and the

647
00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:40,080
people were not nearly as hard
as it was very interesting.

648
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:42,440
It was very, very interesting
because they're eating the the

649
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:46,880
jacket potato from Subway, you
know, And if we had jacket

650
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:50,840
potatoes here at Subway, I think
that we'd be a little bit bit

651
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,639
better off, you know, you think,
I think so.

652
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,160
If we had Ben's chili on Ben's
Chili Bowl.

653
00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,520
Do you remember when we went to
the second location for that?

654
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:00,120
That was.
Fast.

655
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,400
Nasty.
That was so nasty, really bad.

656
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,560
Oh my God, that was incredibly
disappointing.

657
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,560
Well, your mom bought some
Turkey chili the other day from

658
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:14,800
for from Ben's from Giant.
It's now carried in Giant Ben's

659
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:15,720
Chili.
Bowl chili is.

660
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:19,440
Ben's Chili Bowl Chili and their
hot dogs or their Polish

661
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:20,720
sausages or whatever you call
them.

662
00:35:20,720 --> 00:35:22,880
I like Polak.
Johnny's my is my.

663
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:27,240
That's also my favorite as well.
You know, but she bought the

664
00:35:27,240 --> 00:35:31,640
Turkey chili and it's, it's OK.
Well, tell me the answer to this

665
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:32,920
question.
What's the difference between a

666
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:38,440
red hot and a Polish sausage?
Red hot is just the color of the

667
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,000
hot dog.
They're they're just, it's the

668
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:42,840
skin.
It's just a regular type of

669
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:43,800
skin.
It's not hot.

670
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:46,960
It's not spicier.
Or whatever it had to be spicy,

671
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:49,000
no?
Interesting because I have these

672
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,680
red hots that are really hot.
Really.

673
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:53,800
Yeah.
And that's the difference.

674
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:57,440
Louisiana Red Hots is what
they're called at Costco and

675
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:58,800
that's what I've been eating
recently.

676
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,520
Really.
Yeah, and I'm enjoying them, I'm

677
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,200
not going to lie.
But it's like you can only eat

678
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,920
them every so often because they
light you up.

679
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,480
They light you up on the inside.
They do.

680
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:12,360
I I've been doing the Chicago
dog thing where you take a

681
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:15,120
gorilla's pickle, though you put
it in the bun and.

682
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:18,680
Then you put spicy bright red
finely ground pork or beef

683
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:23,320
sausage pickled while Polish
sausage kielbasa is a

684
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:28,400
traditionally smoked coarse
ground pork and beef sausage

685
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:32,680
seasoned heavily with garlic.
Red hearts are generally smaller

686
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:38,640
snacks, whereas Polish sausages
are giant large things that make

687
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:42,000
you go Hey, I would have thought
I will.

688
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:44,560
You know I'll mail you a
Louisiana red hot.

689
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,440
Hopefully I'll use some dry.
I'll get some dry ice.

690
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:49,040
Don't do it.
Don't don't get dry ice.

691
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:50,560
Put them on that dry.
Ice, you want me to send it

692
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:51,520
over?
Yeah, I was.

693
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:55,120
This is an interesting thing
because I was, was I talking to

694
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:58,320
you about this, that I thought
it would be really cool if we

695
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:00,840
were to start mailing stuff
like, you know, a sandwich

696
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:02,920
through the mail.
I think that would be cool.

697
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:05,840
Yeah, and just put it into a
brown picker bag and and send it

698
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,640
and see what happens.
I remember the trend months ago

699
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:11,080
where people were vac or what is
it?

700
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:15,080
It's like when you dehydrate,
when you dehydrate something.

701
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,360
Somebody dehydrated an In-n-out
burger and then brought it to

702
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,640
their front on the East Coast
and then they rehydrated it and

703
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:23,800
it tasted like in and out, but
it was not great and.

704
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:26,800
It was, it was not great.
I was thinking about pork and

705
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:31,360
beans, just dumping it, not the
can, just the beans into a bag

706
00:37:31,720 --> 00:37:35,440
and sending them to you and just
like a Manila envelope, the the

707
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:38,480
brown ones, the big brown ones,
those.

708
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:40,160
How do you feel about English
breakfast?

709
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,960
What do you think?
I think very.

710
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,520
Wet.
Yeah, Wet, greasy, nasty.

711
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:53,680
Probably a little bit better
than the breakfasts that my

712
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:55,640
father used to cook for me when
I was a kid.

713
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:58,520
Not by.
Really, it's a low review and I

714
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:02,080
know the depictions of those.
They're just, yeah, yeah.

715
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:06,480
The with the, we had the grease
tub on the stove with two or

716
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:09,760
three roaches dead in it and
pour the grease in.

717
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,280
But don't, don't let the roaches
that are in the grease go into

718
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:18,880
the pan, heat it up, pop the 2-2
pieces of eggs on there chain

719
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:23,560
smoking, flip them and then
they're still wet and then throw

720
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,240
them on your thing and then and
throw the bacon in at the same

721
00:38:26,240 --> 00:38:29,600
time.
Bacon, it's hot.

722
00:38:30,240 --> 00:38:34,600
It's like you ever seen like the
white until it just as it starts

723
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:39,040
to change color from white to
less greasy, pick that up and

724
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,000
throw it on your plate with the
grease.

725
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:44,760
No, no straining, nothing on,
and then that's your breakfast.

726
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,920
Well, that's an explanation for
why you like extra crispy bacon

727
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,280
right there.
That's an explanation is why in

728
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:53,320
your adult.
Life you like the extra crispy?

729
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:55,640
Like that's why you like it
almost burnt.

730
00:38:56,720 --> 00:38:59,760
Sunnyside eggs The Sunnyside
eggs were I can't.

731
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,520
Do those.
Chili crispy on one side.

732
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:04,960
OK, that's not You could never
flip them.

733
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:07,520
You couldn't flip them because
his hand was shaking so much in

734
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:08,760
the morning, you know?
So there was.

735
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,000
It's funny, but it's not.
You know it's funny, but it's

736
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,800
not the end of.
Your We were chasing the

737
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:19,280
American Dream, OK?
I mean, that man was working on

738
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:23,000
a doctorate at Harvard, so it's.
Like that's weird.

739
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:25,600
That's like so weird.
I told my girlfriend that the

740
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:27,720
other day and she's like, what?
Like he was educated.

741
00:39:27,720 --> 00:39:30,920
I'm like, yeah, he really was.
Like, really.

742
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:33,440
Well, that was the.
Strangest thing is, is that I, I

743
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,760
until you know, and we talk
about education and it's like

744
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:41,840
where we were, and they were
very, you know, big about

745
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:46,560
pointing out how uneducated
everybody on the block was.

746
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,760
And then if you were to, when I
got older, I was like, well,

747
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:54,240
why'd you live there if you're
so damn smart?

748
00:39:54,240 --> 00:39:59,520
What were you doing living there
among the poors, you know?

749
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:02,160
Hey.
Guess not.

750
00:40:02,240 --> 00:40:05,440
Why would often say the least
intelligent are ones that

751
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:09,280
classify others as stupid, you
know, And I think that because

752
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,480
if you're thinking about other
people that much and you're

753
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:13,840
comparing yourself to other
people that much, then there's

754
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:17,360
something they have that you
don't, you know, And it's it's,

755
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,880
I don't know, That's a very
important lesson, I think.

756
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:25,880
Yeah, I was at at dinner last
night and the IT was the last

757
00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:33,360
time for many moons Pizza round
went there and it's in Stafford.

758
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:35,200
I think it's going out of
business.

759
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:38,360
But I was there with a bunch of
friends and and and I said one

760
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:43,280
of the things that my mother
didn't like was Yankees and

761
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:49,080
Catholics and a good friend Jane
is there and she's a Yankee and

762
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:51,520
a Catholic.
So it was just kind of like just

763
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:52,720
hate it.
There's only two things she

764
00:40:52,720 --> 00:40:54,840
hated in this world, Yankees and
Catholics.

765
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:56,880
And and it's like, and you know
what?

766
00:40:57,480 --> 00:40:59,680
She was married to a Yankee who
was a Catholic.

767
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:01,560
That's really.
Funny, it was a.

768
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:04,480
Strange.
Well, he came from a Catholic

769
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:06,920
family, whatever the hell that
means, you know.

770
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,200
And my brother married.
Yeah.

771
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:15,080
My, I mean, my wife is Catholic.
You know where she was started

772
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:18,600
out with Catholicism, but not
really anymore.

773
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:24,320
We haven't been, well, non, non
churchgoers.

774
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:26,720
We're horrible.
We're those people.

775
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:30,960
We yawn late at night, too.
This is, we're doing this at

776
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:34,240
2:00 AM because that's how
important our audience is.

777
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:36,480
And we lie.
So yeah.

778
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:38,720
We're doing a 24 hour podcast
right now.

779
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,200
It's actually it's kind of an
hour long podcast.

780
00:41:42,240 --> 00:41:46,680
We might go for multiple days
here, you know, maybe well.

781
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:48,120
We're talking about the American
Dream.

782
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:50,720
There's a lot of things.
I mean, you know, I got to the

783
00:41:50,720 --> 00:41:55,040
point earlier where I was saying
I was about getting married and

784
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:57,920
then we want to get a house and
that was like the natural thing.

785
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:04,320
And then but it wasn't that I
never, when I was 22, I didn't

786
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:06,240
think about being married or
having a house.

787
00:42:06,720 --> 00:42:12,400
And here I am 2930, just getting
married and it's like I want to

788
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:14,920
own a house.
Don't know why.

789
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:16,560
You know what I keep thinking
about?

790
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:19,800
It's a 7 foot 2 jar jar bink
statue I keep seeing on Facebook

791
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:23,000
marketplace and it's like.
How much does it cost?

792
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:25,440
We should buy it.
It's like 1500 bucks and it's

793
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:28,960
like man it's it's expensive but
it's 7 foot 2.

794
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:31,840
Do you know guado?
Do you know who Guado is from *?

795
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:32,280
Wars.
No.

796
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:34,680
No.
You remember the the first one

797
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:38,120
when it's like baby or not,
babe, but he's child.

798
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:41,480
He's a pod racer, the Jedi, he's
a child, he's pod racing, right,

799
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:45,880
and the guy the blue like bug
man and he's like get start your

800
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:48,360
engines, pod racers or whatever.
You remember the blue dude.

801
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:53,160
That's who Guado is, that's
Iguado's the fat blue bug guy

802
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:57,560
and they they're selling Iguato
for like 500 who's like 4 foot

803
00:42:57,560 --> 00:42:59,720
tall or something.
And it's like, man.

804
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:05,080
What are they made out of?
I think they're all like cast in

805
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:07,040
something I can't remember.
Of course they're cast.

806
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:09,120
It's not plastic.
It's something that's not

807
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:11,400
breakable.
I think it's like a heavy

808
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:12,680
plastic.
You can put them in the garden.

809
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:15,800
I don't know.
That's a good quiet.

810
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:17,480
I don't know if they're like in
the backyard.

811
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,040
Well, you know what I would do
is I'd take those and I make a

812
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:21,920
mold.
I'd make a mold out of them,

813
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,560
cast them in iron.
That would be crazy.

814
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:28,280
Then you could resell them,
double or triple your money,

815
00:43:30,240 --> 00:43:32,120
then you can make his.
Yeah, there's a lot of people

816
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:35,640
that would spend 10s of
thousands of dollars on a 7 foot

817
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:37,120
jar.
Jar Binks I'm.

818
00:43:37,240 --> 00:43:38,600
You never know.
You know your market.

819
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:41,600
It's a huge audience.
I know your market.

820
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:44,640
Find the niche.
When you, when you, yeah, when

821
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:45,840
you got to find the right
people.

822
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:48,880
I mean, that's almost like you'd
want to have a custom job where

823
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:53,720
they come in and say, I mean, I
knew Doggy's brother really,

824
00:43:53,720 --> 00:44:05,080
really good with metal, and he
had a person come to him and

825
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:13,000
wanted to do a lightsaber.
Duplicate silver, all out of

826
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:18,160
aluminum, a solid aluminum
ingot, and with all the little

827
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:20,200
controls and all that kind of
stuff like that.

828
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:22,840
And he made it, you know, it's
like 500 bucks.

829
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:24,280
But I'd love to see what it
looked like.

830
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:29,240
Yeah, he said it didn't light.
And I said, well, what's the

831
00:44:29,240 --> 00:44:30,640
point?
Because that is kind of cool.

832
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:33,640
He was going to, he he made a
place for something to be

833
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:38,320
inserted to make it do that.
I was like, Oh my God, this is

834
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:42,040
really kind of cool, you know?
He's a machinist, right?

835
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:43,240
Yeah, he's a machinist.
Really.

836
00:44:43,240 --> 00:44:48,840
Really I that's a lost art that
I hoped it continues on and as

837
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:51,040
machinists, I think that we're
really.

838
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:54,800
Good, we hope the the custom
parts and custom things.

839
00:44:54,800 --> 00:45:00,520
And I mean, the other brother
was a woodworker Carver made

840
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:03,920
just incredible pieces.
And you know, it's it's like

841
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:07,600
some people have a skill and
they have the opportunity to

842
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:11,840
work at it and develop it and
make, you know, many wonderful

843
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:13,440
things.
Are they still alive?

844
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:15,800
That could be.
No, that could be part.

845
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:17,920
Of they're dead.
No, one of them is.

846
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:21,080
OK, is the one that I met that
one time still alive?

847
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:23,760
Yeah, OK.
That's yeah.

848
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:25,920
Because I didn't meet the other
one ever.

849
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:28,000
I only met one one time.
No, you wouldn't have met him.

850
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:31,440
He was.
He was probably you.

851
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:36,120
I mean, he only saw him a few
times and I, I met him.

852
00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:37,320
I think I.
Remember what he looked like

853
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:39,320
too.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

854
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:40,560
He's the dog.
He's wedding.

855
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:44,360
I I was not there.
Yeah, I don't think you were.

856
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:45,640
I missed that one, man.
Were you?

857
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:47,560
No, no, I missed that one if you
were.

858
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:49,760
But I was there when his dad
died, I remember.

859
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:51,760
That yeah, I went down looking
at the blue.

860
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:56,680
Bathroom and the they had a blue
toilet in there or something and

861
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:59,840
green Oh it was green toilet.
And it was The toilet was green,

862
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:03,080
the sink was blue.
The there we go, different

863
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:04,840
stuff.
And it's funny when you remember

864
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:06,720
because when you're a kid, it
seems like everything's kind of

865
00:46:06,720 --> 00:46:08,080
blue.
I don't know why there's like a

866
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:10,640
blue hue because it was very
early in the morning.

867
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:13,840
I remember.
And you took me over there on

868
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:15,640
like, a Saturday.
It must have been because I

869
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:17,800
wasn't going to school.
And.

870
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:22,040
And then they wheeled the dead
dad out and the blanket blew off

871
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:23,520
of him.
And then I got to see my first

872
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:24,640
dead guy.
That was cool.

873
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:30,400
I remember that, Yeah.
What a good time.

874
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:31,440
Yeah.
You were looking out the window.

875
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:32,840
I was looking out the window.
Yeah, I was looking out the

876
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:33,520
window.
I didn't see the.

877
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:35,320
I didn't see the.
I didn't see the dead guy.

878
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:37,920
I went in and saw him in the in
the back bedroom.

879
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:41,400
But I've seen, I've seen a lot
of dead people.

880
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:46,640
I've helped dead people.
And it's, it's, it's, it's not

881
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:49,040
part of the American Dream.
No, that is definitely, I

882
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:50,880
wouldn't say, a part of the
American dream.

883
00:46:51,240 --> 00:46:52,880
Well, something that we often
talk about.

884
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:57,440
I mean, I don't think seeing
your parents degrade mentally is

885
00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:00,640
a thing that makes you stronger.
I don't know counter to what a

886
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:02,040
lot of people believe I guess
is.

887
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:04,440
Yeah, that's, yeah, I think I
would.

888
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:09,080
Say, Hospice industry in the US
is frankly disgusting, and I

889
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:12,840
think that we'd be a lot better
off if we had legal euthanasia.

890
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:16,680
Yeah, it would be a lot.
I, I would agree with you as far

891
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:18,400
as me chasing the American
dream.

892
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:20,000
That would be a great way to
end.

893
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,640
But I know a lot of people that
that couldn't do it because of

894
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:30,880
their faith or for other
reasons, you know, and maybe

895
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:32,600
that's always like they're
always they.

896
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:35,800
Always question those guys and
they're like, what do you do?

897
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:37,880
You believe in gay marriage?
And then they say no.

898
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:41,320
And then it's like, well, you
shall beat your slave if he

899
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:43,240
doesn't yield to you.
Do you own any slaves?

900
00:47:43,240 --> 00:47:45,160
And then of course the guy says
no.

901
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:50,160
And then it's like, why do you
choose to be cruel then to

902
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:53,080
specific people?
Because you.

903
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:55,880
Can.
Yeah, it's kind of interesting

904
00:47:55,880 --> 00:48:00,400
how people's cruelty resides in
a faith-based acumen.

905
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:03,040
I don't know.
I think that that is very, very.

906
00:48:03,240 --> 00:48:06,520
You see, they would argue that
abortion, stopping abortion is

907
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:11,200
not being cruel.
It's saving a, you know,

908
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:14,200
proposed life.
You know, that's, that's the

909
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:17,000
argument.
And then the the other side and

910
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:19,720
other side is like they're
always saying, it's not this,

911
00:48:19,720 --> 00:48:21,680
it's not that, but it's like, it
doesn't really matter.

912
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:26,400
I don't care what it is.
It's, it's her body and it's her

913
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:33,120
life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.

914
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:35,960
Those, those are three
guarantees we have in the

915
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:41,680
Constitution and she has those
rights and you know that that

916
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:48,680
thing in her, that thing in her,
whatever you want to call it, is

917
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:52,600
not a legal entity.
So stop exactly.

918
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:54,960
If you want to make it a legal
entity, make it a legal entity

919
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:58,960
and shut up and insure it and
charge anybody and all that kind

920
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:01,320
of stuff.
I love old white men policing

921
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:05,480
other people's bodies in which
they should have no rights over.

922
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:07,840
I think that that's insane.
I think that's particularly

923
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:11,600
crazy, I mean, because, you
know.

924
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:14,080
Healthcare.
Healthcare they pay for, They

925
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:18,000
pay for Dick pills, right?
Yep, gender affirming care is

926
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:22,800
what that's called, Yeah.
No, no, can't be called that.

927
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:25,440
You can't call it that.
No, can't call it that.

928
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:29,640
Make sure we we hard, you know.
And they're really advertising

929
00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:33,240
those to young men now, which is
scary all the time.

930
00:49:33,240 --> 00:49:36,400
On the Facebook I see Blue chew.
Well, do you?

931
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:37,360
Which is.
Insane.

932
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:41,800
Advertising to like 1718 year
olds, my people my age too.

933
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:45,160
And I'm like, man, are there 26
year olds out there that can't,

934
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:48,520
can't get it up?
And it's like, if they are, then

935
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:51,800
that's a societal problem.
That's not their problem.

936
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:52,400
That's.
Correct.

937
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:57,400
I think no, there's there's,
there's When you're that age and

938
00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:01,800
you're not comfortable around
women, you'd be nervous and

939
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:05,160
you're worried you're going to
get old, you know, You know,

940
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:07,320
softy Wiener.
It is a mental thing.

941
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:09,320
I will say that all.
It's more a mental thing.

942
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:11,960
Yeah.
So you want to, you want to

943
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:16,480
cheat and be ready.
And, and I understand that, you

944
00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:20,040
know, because it's a, it's a
really big pride issue if you're

945
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:23,080
going to have sex with someone
and then, you know, the, the

946
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:27,320
woman doesn't really have to do
anything.

947
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:31,520
You know, there's no part of her
body that it has to change in

948
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:34,920
order to function to have sex
other than to be lubricated, You

949
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:37,720
know, whereas the men, we we
need a stick.

950
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:40,680
And if we don't have a stick,
well, we ain't having any, you

951
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:42,640
know, it's not going to happen.
That's fair.

952
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:44,040
But at the same.
Time too.

953
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:45,480
I think it's a pornography
issue.

954
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:49,040
I think that that's a huge
problem in the US, not in the

955
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:51,400
US, in the world.
I mean, maybe specifically the

956
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:54,640
US, but like, I don't know, I
think that that is really

957
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:59,480
damaged a lot of young men in
this country a lot because it's

958
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:01,760
one, it's unrealistic
expectations from the time that

959
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:04,880
you're first introduced to it,
which for me, I was way too

960
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:06,320
young.
That's crazy to think.

961
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:07,760
About well, you were like
second, third grade.

962
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:10,320
Yeah, yeah.
And that was the advent of the

963
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:12,240
Internet.
And when people realized, oh,

964
00:51:12,240 --> 00:51:16,840
wow, the Internet is absolutely
an all-encompassing being, which

965
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:19,440
is, oh, in my opinion, we
created God.

966
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:22,600
I mean, is that not what we did?
Is that not what we did?

967
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:28,840
Every album, every story, every
written thing is there and every

968
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:32,680
sex act.
I remember 2nd to 3rd grade when

969
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:34,960
the when he or was it 3rd to 4th
grade.

970
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:36,560
That's when you guys learned
about.

971
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:38,480
Red to 4th.
Oh, red tube, Yeah.

972
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:41,520
Yeah, and the 4th graders told
you, you know, and they're like

973
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:45,320
Redtube, Redtube.
And then and I remember the one

974
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:48,360
of the teachers saying Zachary
is the one that told everybody.

975
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:51,320
And it's like.
Was not me what I mean?

976
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:56,280
People blame they, you know, you
were, you were a, you were a

977
00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:59,160
trouble person.
Well, I remember some you were

978
00:51:59,240 --> 00:52:02,440
beat up on the bus and they were
like, they were blaming me for

979
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:03,960
it.
Right, you were an outsider.

980
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:06,320
And I was in the front of the
bus and it happened.

981
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:08,520
You were an outsider.
And I still, I was thinking

982
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:11,040
about this the other day too.
I had to go to her retirement

983
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:14,280
party and I was so mad about I'm
still kind of.

984
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:16,240
Upset about Who is that?
This is Waddle.

985
00:52:16,240 --> 00:52:17,680
Waddle.
Yeah, Yeah.

986
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:20,320
Mom was coming with me and I'm
like, how really.

987
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:22,640
Really.
You're going to make me go to

988
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:25,960
this woman's retirement party?
Tormented me for six years.

989
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:28,760
I didn't realize that she may
just sign the confession.

990
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:32,640
That was the worst one.
And I hope that she's in a

991
00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:36,480
terrible place that I really do.
Because if it's not, if it's me,

992
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:40,800
if I experienced that by myself,
imagine how many other kids

993
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:45,080
experienced that by her, by her,
you know, a.

994
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:47,680
Lot.
A lot, I imagine.

995
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:50,880
Yep.
Yeah, sadly.

996
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:53,760
You get older and then you
realize how lazy adults are,

997
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:55,320
truly.
Yeah, we are.

998
00:52:55,720 --> 00:52:56,720
Yeah.
Yeah, we should have done

999
00:52:56,720 --> 00:52:59,040
something.
Well, no, not not that you were

1000
00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:04,680
lazy that in order to satisfy or
satiate other parents's opinions

1001
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:08,480
or things like that, they were
so quick to just make something

1002
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:11,080
up and just say blame it and
scapegoat it.

1003
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:14,160
Cause scapegoating is so much
faster than actually caring

1004
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:16,560
about the situation.
You know as.

1005
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:20,880
Long as we can find someone to
blame, yes, is is we we can

1006
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:22,280
point the finger at someone
else.

1007
00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:26,520
I mean, that was the one thing
that that here I go back to the

1008
00:53:26,720 --> 00:53:31,160
whole company analogy with
everything is like we, we would

1009
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:36,480
always focus on what can we do
to fix it.

1010
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:41,480
When we fixed it, then we can
figure out who to blame.

1011
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:46,040
But right now we need to fix it.
And usually by the time we fixed

1012
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:49,480
it, we forgot about blaming
anybody and no one gave a shit.

1013
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:53,720
So it was a really good place
and a way to work was when

1014
00:53:53,720 --> 00:53:55,800
something went wrong or went
sideways.

1015
00:53:56,240 --> 00:54:01,120
You wouldn't like spend all this
time arguing over whose fault it

1016
00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:03,840
was.
You would spend all this time

1017
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:09,200
fixing the issue and then and by
the time you moved on, by the

1018
00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:11,680
time it was fixed, you didn't
really care.

1019
00:54:12,240 --> 00:54:14,080
It's very, you would just fix
it.

1020
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:15,880
And how can we make this not
happen again?

1021
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:20,720
You know that was it.
Yeah, well, that's like Tylenol

1022
00:54:20,720 --> 00:54:25,760
when somebody died of a drug
overdose because the Tylenol was

1023
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:28,680
poisoned and they pulled every
single bottle.

1024
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:31,960
One of the one of the greatest
business.

1025
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:33,760
You would see a business use
case.

1026
00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:36,920
I I read this, it was business.
One O 1 is where I saw that,

1027
00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:38,360
yeah.
And they do it.

1028
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:42,320
The Tylenol did it.
And what's the one?

1029
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:45,960
What's the Perrier did not.
Oh, I didn't realize, Perrier.

1030
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:48,600
Yeah, Perrier was, Perrier was
the other side of that.

1031
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:52,280
Perrier had benzene.
They found benzene in the in the

1032
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:55,160
in the water and they didn't
tell, they didn't poured it,

1033
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:57,600
they just kind of hit it and
they found it.

1034
00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:00,240
And like 6 months later it came
out that it was benzene in it

1035
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:03,120
and it was such a small trace,
but it was enough that it would,

1036
00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:08,600
it could somewhat affect you.
They instead of pulling the

1037
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:12,520
soda, I mean sparkling water,
they discounted it.

1038
00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:16,680
That's crazy.
That's so crazy.

1039
00:55:16,680 --> 00:55:22,360
And, and and three or four
months, nobody would touch

1040
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:27,240
Perrier.
It went from the only soda water

1041
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:31,360
that people would drink only,
you know, it was the rich people

1042
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:36,000
drink was Perrier, that was it
to nothing.

1043
00:55:36,680 --> 00:55:40,240
It's still kind of they had
hundreds of millions of revenue

1044
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:47,080
just up in smoke just like that.
But Tylenol, they spent like $50

1045
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:49,920
million pulling it all off the
shelf and throwing it all out

1046
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:53,240
and milled in a new capsule that
was plastic along with the

1047
00:55:53,240 --> 00:55:55,840
connection.
I mean, everybody was like whoa

1048
00:55:55,880 --> 00:55:57,080
and so plastic.
Seal.

1049
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:02,320
Yeah, that's where it came.
It came from you had to open it

1050
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:05,400
and you had to and it and the
top was sealed because it used

1051
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:07,920
to be when you open up about
bottle of aspirin, there was

1052
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:12,280
just a, there was just a cotton
ball stuck in there and you

1053
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:15,240
could get right at the pills.
I can't do that anymore.

1054
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:18,640
Can't do that with a lot of.
Things I miss being able to take

1055
00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:22,360
pills in the grocery store, you
know, and just leave the bottle

1056
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:23,880
on the shelf.
Right.

1057
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:30,040
I miss the I miss going to the
the food bar and taking a bite

1058
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:31,240
of something and putting it
back.

1059
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:33,880
That's what I miss.
Man, that is just foul.

1060
00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:37,080
Oh my gosh, did you notice how?
Wait, that is actually an

1061
00:56:37,080 --> 00:56:39,360
interesting point.
Salad bars don't exist anymore

1062
00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:41,200
right?
Because of COVID.

1063
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:44,240
No, no, they still, they still.
They do.

1064
00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:47,000
They do all over New York.
They have food bro.

1065
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:48,280
In New York.
Food Bar.

1066
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:51,160
Yeah, My God, that's crazy.
Yeah, they're all.

1067
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:52,920
Oh, wait.
Whole Foods definitely hasn't.

1068
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:56,680
What am I talking about?
Yeah, Whole Foods, Wegmans, all

1069
00:56:56,680 --> 00:56:58,160
of them.
And you know, I go through what?

1070
00:56:58,160 --> 00:57:00,560
I'm thinking about.
Yeah, I go through and I, I

1071
00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:05,000
usually I go to bathroom, don't
wash my hands and then I go and

1072
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:06,840
I just pick some food out of the
bowls.

1073
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:08,360
Handfuls, right?
Yeah.

1074
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:10,720
Yeah, well, I don't I.
Put it in your pocket.

1075
00:57:10,720 --> 00:57:13,240
I let I lick it and I drop it
back in.

1076
00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:15,600
That's what I do.
I remember when when that guy

1077
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:16,720
did that.
Oh my gosh.

1078
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:19,080
Oh my God, that was crazy.
Never.

1079
00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:23,880
And the and the and the retort
that he gave me, that's what I

1080
00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:25,080
said.
But everybody does it.

1081
00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:29,720
But everybody does it.
And I was just like, Oh my gosh,

1082
00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:32,320
that's the end of the world for
me.

1083
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:35,280
I can never go to because I was
really hooked on the whole salad

1084
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:37,120
bar theme.
You're an avid salad park.

1085
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:40,640
Yeah, you just destroyed it for
me, you know, I was like, wow.

1086
00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:44,000
Well, that you know what I
immediately thought what is even

1087
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:47,600
worse than that is the soup,
because I immediately thought

1088
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:52,120
about the soup after that in the
spoon that you dip in, how many

1089
00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:55,680
people think lick the soup?
How many people do you think

1090
00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:57,840
lick the soup spoon?
You know, like.

1091
00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:02,320
OK, I you just now you've you've
ruined another person ever since

1092
00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:04,600
that.
It not only ruined it for you, I

1093
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:07,120
have never eaten at a hot bar
ever again.

1094
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:09,480
And you know what?
I'd rather the guy behind the

1095
00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:13,280
counter, I don't know, not use
his, not wash his hands and

1096
00:58:13,480 --> 00:58:16,640
finger my chicken or whatever,
then somebody in the general

1097
00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:18,520
public do it.
I don't know why that's better.

1098
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:19,280
But they just.
Why?

1099
00:58:19,360 --> 00:58:22,200
Is it because the general
public, they're all pigs, but

1100
00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:23,720
they're all seeking the American
Dream?

1101
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:25,880
They all are.
That's what this is, and the guy

1102
00:58:25,880 --> 00:58:29,480
behind the counter is probably
imported and he's trying to get

1103
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:31,080
citizenship, so that's the
difference.

1104
00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:32,960
Right, but he's also seeking the
American Dream.

1105
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:34,040
That's the most.
Important part?

1106
00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:36,720
Well, that's what it used to
drive people here.

1107
00:58:36,960 --> 00:58:40,800
It's funny.
I would be curious how yeah,

1108
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:44,240
quote UN quote high immigration
is these days because I don't

1109
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:46,040
believe that it's as high as it
used to be.

1110
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:49,720
No, I think a lot of people are
frightened of this country.

1111
00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:52,640
No, I mean, we're literally
going to be grease if we

1112
00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:54,360
refinance our debt.
It's going to be crazy.

1113
00:58:54,840 --> 00:58:57,480
You're looking at people that
are that are it's, it's, it's a

1114
00:58:57,480 --> 00:59:01,760
sad thing.
It sure is that it's, it's what

1115
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:04,920
it is, is I think it's let's not
think about the future.

1116
00:59:06,720 --> 00:59:10,200
Let's think for today.
What can we get for today?

1117
00:59:10,200 --> 00:59:13,560
So you owe me a salad bar salad.
What can we get for today?

1118
00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:16,320
Not a salad bar salad.
We're not getting 1 today.

1119
00:59:16,560 --> 00:59:18,720
Gosh, maybe not tomorrow either.
Geez.

1120
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:21,120
Well, I think that's pretty much
our episode for this week.

1121
00:59:21,120 --> 00:59:22,680
We're about an hour here.
Yeah.

1122
00:59:23,080 --> 00:59:25,040
You're right, you.
Are I actually got the time

1123
00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:27,160
right for once, which is cool.
Wow, looked at.

1124
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:32,640
My clock here and we started at
59 and it's 658, right?

1125
00:59:32,640 --> 00:59:35,360
Now I think I need to lick the
top of a catcher bottle.

1126
00:59:35,920 --> 00:59:38,320
Oh, I remember that one too.
I was going to mention that one

1127
00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:40,600
with me said that.
Oh my gosh, she said.

1128
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:43,680
She's in a Cracker Barrel and
she sees a guy put ketchup on

1129
00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:47,720
his hash Browns in the morning
and then he licks the top of the

1130
00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:48,640
ketchup.
Bottle.

1131
00:59:48,640 --> 00:59:51,800
I've never used the ketchup.
After never used it again after

1132
00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:53,400
that I'm like no, no, I need
packets.

1133
00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:56,320
What do you need packets Sir?
It's like, sorry.

1134
00:59:57,600 --> 01:00:00,520
Can you lick the bottle in the
back and just pour it into a cup

1135
01:00:00,520 --> 01:00:02,640
or something?
That's OK, I'm fine with that.

1136
01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:05,360
Long as I don't see it as long
as I that's.

1137
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:07,040
That's it.
That's it exactly.

1138
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:08,520
No lick in the ketchup.
Pop pop.

1139
01:00:08,920 --> 01:00:11,520
Well, as always, check out our
socials.

1140
01:00:11,520 --> 01:00:13,640
They're growing.
We went from 60 followers on

1141
01:00:13,640 --> 01:00:16,000
Instagram to 88.
I'm happy about that.

1142
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:17,280
Yeah, and we got.
You.

1143
01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:20,120
No, no, we're between.
Streams out there, so thank you

1144
01:00:20,120 --> 01:00:21,880
guys for listening.
Really, it seems like we're

1145
01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:25,240
getting some new new listeners
and I know we're obnoxious, but

1146
01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:28,880
join us on this obnoxious
journey and check out the new

1147
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:31,840
episodes and follow what
Instagram.

1148
01:00:31,840 --> 01:00:36,520
We have a TikTok now TikTok.
We do Facebook go go like the

1149
01:00:36,520 --> 01:00:37,520
Facebook.
I've been sharing it.

1150
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:38,680
I've been sharing that quite a
bit.

1151
01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:40,400
Have you been doing the LinkedIn
at all?

1152
01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:41,680
They don't.
They don't have.

1153
01:00:41,680 --> 01:00:43,200
They don't control the LinkedIn,
just you.

1154
01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:45,920
No.
And then for both, both, both

1155
01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:50,880
ones, I've been posting it on
both sites, mine and sharing.

1156
01:00:50,920 --> 01:00:52,960
Yeah, well, this one's I also do
Facebook.

1157
01:00:53,640 --> 01:00:57,520
This Friday after what is what
is today, 426-2026 going out

1158
01:00:57,920 --> 01:01:01,040
this week, this upcoming Oh wow,
see you guys soon.

1159
01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:02,400
Bye bye.
Bye.