Episode 98: Spring

0:01 Welcome back to another episode of Record of My Father. Today we're going to be talking about spring. What do we think about spring other than allergies and sneezing? Like the last episode, right? You what the? Sneezing. The amount of sneezing. I think I opened the last episode with eight sneezes, maybe 9. So at this time you're going to open with O2. 1515 So what do? You say what do you say when a person is non religious and they do you say bless you or do you say gazootite? Or do you say? Frogs can't fly. I am still figuring that one out. I like frogs. Can't fly. Frogs can't fly. That's pretty good.

0:42 Yeah, something we're going to. Work that in. Is that going to be a part of the merchandise line that we're going to put out? Yeah, we're going to have frogs that have wings and we're going to say yes they can. I like that idea. We'll do Bob the Builder on him. You ever see those fish that can fly for what I think it's like a half a mile or something, Like they come out of the water and they have the wings. Flying fish is. That what they're called I don't know. Yeah, I believe they are. Yeah. But it's like a small swordfish, that's what it looks like. Or like a Marlin or something. Is a Marlin and swordfish the same thing? Yeah, that's what I believe, yeah. They are the same thing. I'm gonna stick with that. They look like the same thing that I've ever seen. I don't know. Yeah, they're kind of the same. There's probably various classes of that particular species that, you know, some have long swords, some have shorts, some have long fins, some have short.

1:29 Because I remember seeing, and I don't remember the hell I saw this, but I saw in somebody's wall there was a 1 Marlin fisherman and they had like 6 or 8 of them and they had a giant one in the middle and they had little ones. And they said that's a duh, duh, duh, duh, duh. And I'm like, I don't remember what the hell they. Diameter of the thing as well, yeah. Well, well, they were big. They were giant. I mean, the the smallest 1 was like 4 feet, but they were big. They were real big. They. Had to like 300 lbs or something. Oh yeah. Yeah, they're. Like, they're like fat relatives, you know, just just come out of the woodwork. Exactly. Say something inappropriate. You can. You can count on me. But they're getting overfished like every other thing in the world, right?

2:11 Because it's like, what is it, 90% of the world's largest fish are gone now? The world's big fish? I saw the, I, I saw a meme that said at the turn of the 19th century, you saw all these people out there and they were just, there was fish all underneath the boats and everybody was with Nets and grabbing everything they possibly could. And then all of a sudden then it shows 2020, two or three or whatever it was. And then it shows everybody just has hooks trying to catch the last couple fish. And it was sort of like the way the environment is. Today, which is, you know, off the coast of Newfoundland in that area like that is people don't live there anymore and that was one of the largest fishing communities of all time. Well, I.

2:51 Iceland in particular, when we, our last visit, we, we went to the sardine factory herrings, sorry, not sardine herring. And they literally would make, bring millions and millions and millions and millions of them in, you know, just, they set up 3 or 4 different herring factories within and they're huge, you know, they're huge fishing communities in the 40s and 50s and they built Iceland, you know, the whole economy was built off of that because they had evidently chum salmon and all that kind of stuff was something that what you could sell. And it was a really good for this, that and the, I don't know what the heck soap and dogs and whatever the hell it was, but it, it was a huge export for Iceland. And then it's gone over fish.

3:39 They, they just, they just, you know, they took everything. It's like the slurry that is imitation crab meat. Cause what is that? That's like haddock mixed with like three other kinds of fish. Yeah, it could be, yeah. Certainly tastes like imitation crab. I'm amazed that they can get the crab taste, but there's something about that texture, though texture's a little lacking. Oh, just a Yeah, it's. Kind of mushy. So it's not the same. It doesn't have the same and that well, that's the same thing that you look when you're trying to get a a burger and you eat that Beyond Meat and you can't. And and I don't think it tastes the same, but that's just. Certainly not, but at the same time, I don't mind it. I don't mind it that much. Sometimes I almost prefer it, which is funny, really.

4:20 I don't I don't know if it's any better for you though. I don't think so. I think it's just the alternative. It's. Put you out the field with the dogs and eat the grass. Yeah, it's funny. They use like, what is it, beet root to simulate the, it's like blood. It's like glycogen or something. You know when you get a steak and it's red? Yeah. And it has like the red, the red leaking out of it, the liquid that beetroot for that. On Oh Wow. Yeah, yeah. Isn't that interesting? That is, but we were, we were going to talk about spring and I think that that it, it really, it came at me hard this year because I don't know why I just I, I just look around and I look out the window and I see flowers at every place.

5:02 I mean the yards covered flowers and they go out in the woods and I hike it. Scotts run park and all the all the purple and Blues are coming up all along Potomac. There's little white flowers, little pink flowers, little yellow flower. If you look closely at the ground, you see just tons. And the guy that mows our lawn, I haven't cut it higher so it doesn't cut off any of the flowers. So you, I just have, I have a yellow field in the back, yellow and purple and pink. And it just wow. It just to me, I don't know what color does it. It just sort of the first sounds or the first thing and the birds are going freaking crazy, you know. So it just it, it it makes me more alive, more apt to get up early in the morning, more to want to see the sunrise more want to be outside and not sitting on the couch or doing a silly podcast, you know, that kind of stuff. And but then I get pulled in and and then they get out and then they pull me back in.

6:04 Yes, that's what they do. Yeah. Yeah. What do you think you're noticing it more this year than any other year? Sobriety, maybe I. Don't. That'll do it. I don't know. I mean, because usually you just want to sleep till 2, you know, But now it's like I'm officially, I think I'm officially retired. You think I'm retired? Yeah, I don't know. We can keep guessing until you're dead, you know? What about that? Let's do that. That's kind of more fun. Let's hope that it's a long time and not. Later, not tomorrow. Well, I want to just live past the 5th, you know? The 5th of this year. No, May, because I'm going to I'm going to go to the Derby and I'm really excited about that. And I don't know why, but more so than ever before, I mean, I'm we've got costumes and all this other kind of stuff to go and wear hats and you know, this is just going to be great. Wait, was it, we already talked about this, but was it once or twice before?

6:57 It was once right? I've been once before. Yeah, once before, OK. And. Then I hear that people go there every year and I'm like, really? This could be something, who knows? We'll see. I just hope they kill at least twelve horses this year. I really only want to go. Yeah. That's right, I forgot about that. If they whack a bunch of. Horses. It's got to be more than 8, which was last year's record. Yeah, we're so it's. Got to be at least 12. Winnie, Winnie nae nae. Next year after that, it's got to be at least 20. If they're not killing at least twenty horses a year, then I'm not going to show up. I wonder how much of that goes, I mean what the insurance pay is out on that is? Well, that's why they do it. I'm pretty. Sure, you know 'cause it's. Cheaper than. Yeah, Yeah. Well, they well look, they can stud I think after that. What is that now?

7:43 I I mean that means they can mate them with other horses and evidently if you have a winner, you know a super winner, people will pay millions of dollars to have sex with your horse. Not people, but people have their horse mate with you because then the mayor that is born or the whatever the hell they are the female. Good one. That was a guy like. That one, the female can have more and and you what you do is they take the bloodline and that is to believed to be like makes a better and faster horse if it's from this horse or from that horse or whatever the case may be. You know, evidently horses are it's cool to be incestuous there, you know, provided that your bloodline is from King Charles or whatever the hell it is. Yeah, there is a King Charles now, right? I think so, something like that.

8:31 Yeah. Something like that. Yeah. So what about what about out there? How's the how's the flowers or flowers everywhere? It's like any other day. It's like any other day throughout the year. It's a little hotter. It's like 80° now 7580. Degrees we got. It's like any other day. There's no seasons. We have April showers, just like it's raining. It's it's overcast right now, but the colors in the backyard are just crazy. And azaleas. I have a lot of azaleas in the yard. There's probably 102 hundred maybe and I got patches of them that are anywhere from 5060 meters by 30 meters that are just huge areas.

9:13 You know this, you lived here. They did and they're like 8 and 9 feet high and they're just covered with blossoms. This year they're just and they're in a peak last week in April, first week in May. But as they come on, you see them start to and there's like, and there's and it's weird because I have them that they peak early. Like I have one in the back. It's just beautiful, brilliant ink and the blossoms come out and it's like the first pink that I see. And it's just, I don't know when. For some reason, when I see that life come out, you know, that it just gives me a, that we're whatever that, that, you know, it's like eaten in a cone made out of Snickers bars or something. I don't know something like that, you know that just gives you the the. Crazy.

9:58 Yeah, it gives you the goosebumps and they're like the run, you know, that makes you just feel like your shoulders go up, your back and just the whole good makes you feel better. About life in general, yeah, Something about. Yeah, I mean, if you don't have bad times, you don't have good times. And that's the that's the beauty after winter. And then you see all the trees and slowly you can, you can see, we can see the neighbor's house all winter long. And then all of a sudden it just sort of the, the leaves just start popping out and popping out and popping out. And then you can't see the neighbor's house. It's just, it's cool to go out every day and see wow. I can see the less of it. Wow. Can you see the the floodlights still from the back of your yard even in the summer?

10:38 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We, we, we had our lights out for a while. We cut those on. That was another thing like we, we just cut those on when the spring light spring came out, you know, and I found Mr. Who is it Felix or no, I guess it would be a, a, a pterodactyl possum. Guy was in the backyard the other day. The, the dogs ran out the back door, ran down there, chased me, ran under the fence. He was on the other side of shine the light at me making this wild possum noise. And I was like, I'm just kidding, man. And the dogs were just going nuts and I had to grab them and drag them back. But they, you know, roll, roll, roll, get out of my yard. Roll, roll, roll, get out of my yard. And the possum was glad to get out of the yard, but he's on the other side.

11:23 He's trying to dig a hole next to a tree, which I think he's there now. And that of course, made me want to say, you know, I should probably have some possum houses here. I would rather do the Groundhog house. You know what you could do? You could build those little Hobbit homes for them with the little door. Because I remember seeing that guy running across the lawn years ago, a little fat guy, and I wanted to put put him in a cage for some reason. There's something about being a human and seeing something cute and we're going to stay out that needs that belongs in a cage in my house. What is that? Why is that? I don't know what that's another positive sign of spring. Let's catch the animals. Let's catch them. Let's catch them. And what? I saw that guy though, he looked great though. Yeah.

12:04 I haven't seen one in years. There's a guy that lives in the back and he lives right by the, the rear sewage cap down by Scott's Run and then which is about 75 yards from the house. And then, and there's one in the front that lives where the where the where the water comes from, all the gutters is put together and, and there's an output into a little pool of cistern, whatever that captures the water. And then it slowly rolls into the Creek. There's the guy lives there. And so when he's out during the day, if it's a warmer day, he will be out and then they will see him and they will run after him.

12:45 And he's like, it is the funniest thing in the world to see the fat dude run. I didn't know where he resides. I've seen him go in there and then disappear, so I I'm guessing that he lives there. You you don't go in there and drink tea with him or something. No, no, no, I mean I have. Like no tea drinking with the. Like across the Creek, you know where we sit in the front on the I got I got water on God, three sides of the house. On the in the front the the fox lit, there's a big, huge, I guess Poplar probably 3 1/2 feet diameter. And underneath that the, the roots are all around the edge of the Bank of the Creek and it's about 9 feet deep, 10 feet deep to where the water is.

13:32 And right there in there, all the roots are exposed. And the fox live in there. Because I saw one come out snatch a what I think was a chipmunk. I'm not really sure because I were there. They're cool. I know, I know that was, it was kind of horrible. But I was sitting at the chair there and I smoke a cigar and this guy, and then I see all this rustling and I hear this, the squeaking. And then I hear the then I see him pop it up in the air and catch it in his mouth. And that was it, you know, And then he runs back down and runs underneath. And then I set up another bird feeder in the front and evidently see the one in the back is away from all the brush and everything so nothing can get close to the birds to kill them. You know, occasionally you see a big puff of Dow, no, no Dow dove feathers just out like that.

14:23 And that's when my I have a red tailed hawk that comes in and kills them. Well, in the front we now have, I guess you would call him Sammy or no Felix. Felix the fox comes down, runs around, he runs around the corner. He he and they and the what the birds do is they're underneath the bird feeder and on the bird feeder, the ones that are underneath the bird feeder fly up to the limbs right into the close by Bush to hide. And he comes around the corner and he doesn't go to the bird feeder. He jumps into the Bush. He knocks them off the limb, he catches and then he runs away. I mean, it's just it's it's like, wow.

15:07 And you know, he, he, he, he's not very particular. He'll eat a nut to hatch just as quickly as he'll eat a chicken DDD or a what are the gold ones? Gold fences I haven't seen. The yellow on the bottom that we're talking. About yeah, it's a a Cardinal or a Blue Jay 'cause they're usually up in the feeder and they don't fly right there, they fly away 'cause they're, yeah, I'm stupid, but not that stupid. No one seems to hit the cross. Crows are. They are the most cowardly. You know, you open the door and they run away. All the other birds go like, oh, it's just Tim. And then Mr. Fox says, yeah, it's just Tim. So they know what I'm going to do. And then they come out and they they eat the little birdie birds.

15:54 That is funny, I have never seen something attack a crow. Maybe it's 'cause it's bigger too, I don't know. Yeah. It might be because of it. Remember I scared them away with ABB gun and I would shoot it to the little container there there's. There's a. Baffler made out of melt metal and they would run up and they would try to try to and they couldn't get it. Well, with a every so often the the crows, I mean like murderer of crows would get together and say, Whoa, we're going to eat all the fills to it. So they come down and groups and just start hitting the suet. And then I would scare them away thinking for some reason that crows don't deserve eat and and and pretty birds do So and see, this is society's the same way. The the the the people don't get anything and the pretty people get everything.

16:43 So you let the birds eat all they want, but the ugly crows don't get crap. But anyway, the the the point was is if they land on the feeder, I was sitting there and I was shooting and my elbow like that and I pull the trigger. Oh my God. Last time I shot ABB gun and that was 8-9 years ago, maybe 10 that. Was eight years ago. Right. I think so. How did you see him? Well, you were, I think you were like 15, so. I thought I was like 20. I don't know. You're like 12. 20. Oh, you could have been 20. I don't. Know it was 20. Time, to me, is sort of like me. I have no recollection of time either. I.

17:25 Don't know, but I, I, I, I plugged him and it was so weird 'cause the bird was sitting there chipping and then he just like fell. Right into the heart, yeah. Did no wings, no out, No. Yeah, no. Nothing. Dead. Fell to the ground. I was like, is he faking? And I'm like, hell, hell of a fake, you know, I went out there, wasn't moving. Then I wrote, I flipped them over and I saw the hole right through the and I was like, damn, amazing shot, but I wasn't aiming for that. Anyway, I buried him and then I didn't do that anymore. Do you think he was faking when you buried him? No, no, he was. He was dead. I could have left him there and you know he.

18:06 Didn't check for a pulse or anything. Because, because in the in the springtime, you see animals that get killed and they get killed in our yards, you know, in the yard here. And I'm in a community where there's everybody has a little bit of property. So there's space between them and there's a lot of animals that are being crouched on and all the other neighborhoods come here. So we had a deer, big buck, probably 8 point died in my front yard. I saw it about four O clock in the afternoon and it was dead and it looked like it was hit by a car or something. And, you know, it's all a little bit messed up and not much.

18:48 And it's in the afternoon. I'm like, Oh my God, I got to deal with this 120 LB thing. Yeah, yeah, I'm going to deal with it tomorrow because it was just getting dark. I go and go to bed, wake up the next day, come out. It's not in the yard anymore. There's a drag mark across the yard all the way over to the pine tree, which is 3040 meters away. You know, nearly nearly half a football field 'cause we don't use distances. Brown House. Yeah. And was stuck into the bushes there. And I went over there, head was gone and he was worked on a lot.

19:28 And I was thinking like, what in the heck Carried something that weighs as much as probably you over drug him. Drug it over through the azaleas and to the other side by the underneath the pine tree. And then later that day you started seeing vultures. All the vultures started landing and the tree was full of vultures just, you know, like 30 or 40 and they come down and, and inside a four days there was only a few bones left. All the bones were gone. Everything was gone. I don't know where the bones went. I didn't look for them, but there was just like the only thing left was a rib cage that was still there. The head was gone, the legs were gone. All the meat was going to was no more Thing Zero. There was a little bit of fur.

20:21 Fur was kind of everywhere, but it was just like, I mean, they totally got rid of it completely. Didn't even have to lift a finger. Yeah. And so I was saying to myself, like, if something dies in the yard, you know, like somebody, I know I'm just going to leave them there and they'll be gone in three or four days. Exactly. And people go for all this. You got to put them in a VAT of acid and liquidate them. You know, if you're a serial killer, I can give you pointers on that. If later in life, you know, you decide you want to kill people or whatever, but I mean, just leave them in the front yard, man. They'll be gone. Of course, the the smell really wasn't that bad. I'm surprised, you know. And that's what spring means for you. Yeah, dead.

21:02 Animals in the yard. In the yard. That's it. I, I've talked about a couple of those, but no, I think it's sort of like rejuvenation of life. It gives you for some reason. I know it's kind of a horrible time to say this with all the stuff going over in Gaza and Ukraine and Nigeria and Sudan and and Venezuela. The the list is endless of the horrors that are going on in the world around us. But it's like here, it's other than if you can separate the political bullshit from it, that it that it's just beautiful and you know, wow, if you stay off social media to some degree, you don't seem to eat all of the negative stuff, you know, which is I.

21:46 Think you're more talking about the the natural world, you know? Yeah, the natural world. And it's like, it's so it's, it's sort of like life starts over again. You live so adjacent, though. Humans live so adjacent to it. We believe that it's something different and not intertwined with our own lives, which I think is interesting. Yeah, it is funny that we we can move it away and say, yeah, the fish are just doing it on their own. It's like, well, without them you wouldn't be here. Without the trees, you wouldn't. You know, we don't even see ourselves a part of it at all. Yeah. Which is kind of sad in a way that we live so adjacent and so. Well, I think that it it really depends upon your your belief system, right? I mean whether or not you. You, I would say the majority of people I've, I don't believe that we're a part of the natural world.

22:29 I really don't feel that way. Yeah, we, we were sort of planted in here. We are. We are cousins to the cockroaches or something like that, you know. But even then, you'd be affiliated with the YEAH. You're right. You're right. So, so true. We're the aliens. We're in charge. That's it. They're everything here is for our. More in charge or is something that that everybody believes. You can't say somebody in New York believes that they're part of this this system. Yeah. No, no, it's also like what? In an urban area. I'd imagine that farmers probably feel it more. Way more. Seeing it and the, and you know, when you, when you put seeds in the ground on a, on a, on a completely like fresh thing and then all of a sudden, you know, 2 weeks later you got corn stalks popping up or whatever the hell you plant that, that that rejuvenation of life is just like for me, it's a thing.

23:24 It, it just, it makes me more alive. It makes me more jumpy. It makes me, my days are longer because I want to be alive to see it, you know, and I also happen to be a, what do you call it, a connoisseur of color, you know, bright color. Yeah. Well, I don't like, I, I mean, I, I think Ivy and and paxandra and all that crap that's green that covers the ground. It's pretty and everything. But, you know, I have green counter that blooms a white little flower. I don't know what the hell it's called. And then I have witch hunt or witch tail, which is in the front. That's the one that all has the big white flowery things that are in bushes and they come up and they smell like Uzo, which I mean, it's licorice, but I say Uzo because or what is the other one?

24:13 Sambuca. You go out there and it's like, oh God, I remember the last time I got hammered on Sambuca. I don't. I never have and I never will. It's so gross. It's a. It's a. It's a. It's a story. I don't even like the the taste of a knee at all. Black licorice to me it's just I don't like the. I'm OK with the ankles, but knees are just there's no one on them. No, none. None at all. No knuckle bone. You ever do chicken feet? You ever do a chicken front? No, but I do do. Not my favorite. Hamster. No, no Guinea pig, Felipe, you have to eat the Guinea pig and got on its back splayed open like this.

24:54 You know when you eat something with his mouth open and the teeth are looking back at you, you're like, that's what the crunching sounds like you. Did the goat head soup too right? We did the goat head. We did not even do the soap. We had the head of the goat. No soup. You had to do no soup. It was just a hand. City. No, no, no. You got to eat the head. So we and it's cooked in the ground and we're in Morocco and in Morocco. What the hell was it? What the Hell's the city? Marrakech. Yeah, Marrakech. That's where we went. We sat and they cooked it under the ground, pull it out. They put the head on a plate and Gem and I ate the head and I mean it was, it's got so much cumin on it that it was like.

25:39 Any eyeball? No, no, I didn't do that. They offered. They offered some of the weird stuff and I was just like, no, no, they and Jim was I, I don't think he didn't eat the eyeball either, but we ate that and there's a lot of people eat, There's a lot of people eating the head there, you know, so it was. Well, that's a big thing. The the head and the soup is the biggest thing. I thought. Yeah. I I would imagine soup would have been much better than the head because the head was nothing but. At least in a broth of some sort, right? It was dark meat, that's all it was, you know, dark meat. And I love dark meat. So I think everybody does. Well, a lot of people like when they eat chicken. When they eat chicken, they want to eat the breast and. All that and.

26:20 See, I am. I want to eat the wings, the legs, the the the pieces. You know, I want to be happy. I don't want to be. I don't want to be health conscious. Yeah, yeah, that's true. I don't understand that. I don't get the the white meat over the dark meat thing. I don't even think calorically it's that big of a difference either. I can't imagine that it's that it's night and day and caloric value. I wonder, I wonder if there's like more vitamins or the, you know, there's more poop in the brown meat than there is in the clear meat or something. I, I have no idea. Well, like, I mean, you know, I mean, you eat catfish. It's a, it's a bottom feeder. It lives off the poop and you're eating reconstituted poop meat, you know, so. Well, it's like a a pig as well.

27:03 Pig is the same thing. You know, pigs eat like all sorts of stuff that makes them happy. That makes I mean, I love being an animal that's happy. You know, I don't want to eat a sad animal. That's just no fun. The. Veal tastes great. That's a really sad animal. God, I I just can't. So it's really good. I haven't eaten in years though. But it's also like my decision making is not going to impact that world at all. I don't see the reason now. One man looks like the same thing with recycling and how 85% of the stuff you recycle goes in the dump anyway so I don't really. Well, true, but you also have to say to yourself, the other side of that is that one man can change the world if he has, if he continues with his voice to have other people follow what he doesn't say. If you do it, you're right.

27:49 If a few do it as opposed to none, there's a. There's a difference there. Right And you come to a group and it's the same thing like I mean technically you would say this the same thing in voting in the election. I don't my vote won't count. It's only one. Well, yeah, but if if you permeate that attitude to all of your immediate surrounding and then they permeate it to their surrounding and they then you've got thousands of people that are like, screw it, my vote doesn't count. I'm not going to vote. So it's like then absolutely it's not it's not going to work. I think the. Recycling thing, though, is more that I want the government to hold Big Coal accountable for the lack of reports on coal scrubbers and coal plants that are way more responsible for greenhouse commissions than I am.

28:33 And why am I being held accountable as a single person more so than an entire industry? And that is, that's a little let. Me fly my private jet over to your house and tell you why you're bad. Exactly. Yeah, it's, well, I also think that when I was growing up, the food pyramid was a big thing, and the food pyramid was endorsed by Big AG to make it look as if grain and milk was the most important thing that you should eat always. And that's when I was growing up as well. When I got into high school, they told us the recycling was one of the most important things, which was probably also propagated by Big Coal. So we see like this continuation in education that these these these systems just continue to endorse education that's telling you that they're not the wrong guys. They're not the bad guys. Well, they're they're they're they're paying the politicians who are making the laws that are then enacted by the FDA. The what?

29:23 What is it that's expect your meat, USDA, all of those. Now remember that, that there are truly shitty laws and bad things like that that happened. But there's also there is good that comes out of that. There's there's lots of good that comes out of that. So you you basically have to, I would hope, eat the teaspoon or tablespoon of poop so that you can get the pint of ice cream. In regards to what though, what are you? Well when you when you look at society as a whole, I mean it's like when people look at the government, the government sucks. I hate them and the the reason they hate them is because of 1 little aspect or one. Little Oh, OK, yeah, no, I see what you're talking about. You know, we, we all have health, You know, to some degree the poor people are, are somewhat taken care of, not not in a great way, but in some ways we, we do, we do look towards them.

30:22 The society as a whole. We make roads across the country. We don't, you know, our roads line up with the roads and all the opposing states are all the not opposing, but adjacent states. So I mean, those are the things that you don't think about that the government does to make sure that, you know, we all have power from we don't, we usually don't have, I mean, in Virginia, we don't have rolling power outages. I know they do in Texas now because they've privatized it, because. They have. Yeah, that's one of the reasons that they're having so many problems is because what you do when you privatize is you cut down the number of plants that you have because then you can make more money and you don't. The, the, the, the public system is we have to build a factory a, a power plant that at the worst possible time it will work. Whereas in a private sector you don't care about that. You want to, you want to minimum size, the size and scope of the power that you offer.

31:18 And you will tell the people that, no, don't use it when it's 85° outside. Cut it down and you're like, we'll, we'll, that's, that's not what the public side would do. That that's what somebody's trying to make money would do. They would try to maximize their profits by not having as many plants, by not having as much power, because you know, you got to, you got to pay, you got to prepare for the spikes, you know, have they ever? Privatized the library. I'm going to lose my mind. They, they voice now they're, you know, the oversight and banning the books and all that kind of stuff like that is just disgusting. You know that that to me is that that's just a disgusting. That's specifically in Florida if I remember correctly. No, no, no, they're no like 20. Alabama states 28.

32:01 It's that high enough? Yeah, I need to get caught up in my. Mothers Against Intelligence, I think it is is out there trying to. Well, that was the whole thing with Mothers Against Drunk Driving. When that first started coming along and you looked at people that died in drunk driving accidents, ages, what was it, 16 to 21? And then what happened was when they pushed it to 21 to buy alcohol, the deaths just went from 21 to 25. It was just. It was. Just what they did is they moved the skew. They moved it from here to here. Yeah, they did nothing. They did nothing in reality. They just, they just moved them because then people weren't more. They didn't get used to it. And I think that that abstinence and punishment has never worked in our society for anything.

32:46 Oh no, it just doesn't, you know? When people say you can't have sex before marriage or you can't have sex before you're 20 or you can't have or you're not allowed to drink alcohol. I mean, I was drinking alcohol when I was 6, So I don't you know, and and we were not allowed to, we're not allowed to smoke either. I remember the first time I smoked was like I vomited. It was just ugly. But you know, here took a hit and I was like 8 and I just you know, because I didn't you look at me inhale, but you shouldn't inhale. And I'm like, I like I know how to smoke a Winston when I'm 8 years old. Do I mean that was in front of all places, the boys club. I remember that that was that was a memorable thing. Smoke That's that's another that's going to be a quote on the on AT shirt.

33:29 You know how to smoke a Wednesday. When I'm 8. Years, Oh man, I just, I, I booted, I booted and I, I turned like a different shade of color and Oh yeah and it was like. And it was not just one of those, it was one huge Harry from the bottom of my guts. I pulled everything out that I had and I put it on this guy's shoes and he was upset. Yeah, I thought I would be as well. God, I can see his face. I want to say damn, 'cause his brother smoked. His brother was my age too, but he smoked like a lot. And you're thinking like, and he and he used to brag about his Kitty. Yeah, look at him.

34:10 He's 8 years old. He smokes 1/2 pack a day and I'm like and that was something to achieve. Bragging right? Well, that's like when people always say we have like a war on sleep in this country. We're like, oh, I only got 2 hours of sleep last night and I'm like, you're supposed to be proud of that. You're proud of that, but you only got 2 hours. Well, oh wow, we're we're almost out of time here. Oh wow, so you work 90 hours a week so I can take the whole day off? I think. You should work more. I'll be enjoying my time. Because this bitch be lazy. As always, thank you guys for listening. It's been a pleasure doing this and we're going to keep it going. We're going to keep it going. We're really consistent recently and it's been good. It's been fun.

34:50 It's been, it's been a great time. We have AQ and a section on Spotify. Always ask questions and we'll try to give you some answers and we'll publish your your comments no matter how vulgar we will. Yeah, yeah. Joe, Joe, I got your, I got your e-mail and your text, but I, I, I couldn't make out the e-mail address to reply to them. So please send it again. Yeah, one more time, if you could just. Yeah, Joe Rogan, please, just. One more time, just one. More time and we'll be set and that's what we're going to do. And yeah, and we are both willing to come and come on your show and make it a better show if you if you need, OK. We'll bring one of our swath of followers as well. Yes, we yeah, we will at least increase the size.

35:32 Probably not. All right. Thank you guys. Love it man.