#61: Fighting Kids and Planning Funerals

How many 5 year olds do you think you could take out before you are overwhelmed? Have you planned your own funeral? We dive into super important questions like this... Welcome Back! 

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SPEAKER_00 0:04

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SPEAKER_06 0:50

So divide that into how many minutes? Or how many hours? 60, 120, 240. So like four and a half hours of non-stop without a break.

SPEAKER_07 1:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:02

That's a lot. You think you'll get it colored in before you die?

SPEAKER_00 1:09

I fucking hope so. Are we going to put that at his funeral?

SPEAKER_02 1:12

If he does, a half-filled calendar.

SPEAKER_00 1:15

And they're like an X on the last.

SPEAKER_02 1:18

We won't even finish it.

SPEAKER_06 1:20

If I do die prematurely, please do that.

SPEAKER_00 1:27

Just a big red X there. That's the last PowerPoint slide. Nobody will find it funny but us. Well, you guys, because I'll be dead. You'll find it funny, maybe. How do you want whoever you are?

SPEAKER_05 1:41

And I never know if we're going yet. Are we going? We're always going. How do you want your funeral structured? Um what do you want that to look like? I never even thought of that.

SPEAKER_06 1:52

I I don't know. I think about what I want my obituary to say quite often. Oh fuck.

SPEAKER_05 1:57

Please tell us.

SPEAKER_06 1:58

Well, I don't have like a lay, I don't have a script. I wanted to say something like he wasn't a complete asshole. Okay.

unknown 2:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 2:07

Okay. Step one. Just turn it. Yeah, we can make that happen. Yeah. He was turning his life around. He was listening in a college and got his G E D.

SPEAKER_06 2:19

I think I want my funeral to be like a party. Yeah, I agree.

SPEAKER_00 2:24

It won't be afternoon. Yeah, it won't be.

SPEAKER_05 2:27

But afternoon or night, like you want an afternoon? There's no afternoon funerals. Yeah, I want to know.

SPEAKER_00 2:31

What are you talking about? Yeah, there is.

SPEAKER_05 2:32

It's always afternoon. It's like the most funeral. No, I mean like sorry. I'm at like uh 8 p.m.

SPEAKER_00 2:37

How is that afternoon?

SPEAKER_05 2:38

It's afternoon. Oh my gosh. Would that be evening? It'd be evening. Yeah, evening funeral.

SPEAKER_06 2:43

Would you not agree 2 p.m. is the most depressing time of day?

SPEAKER_00 2:47

I don't think it's pretty close.

SPEAKER_05 2:49

It's pretty close.

SPEAKER_00 2:50

I think it's nice because like I'm almost done work, ready to go home, getting ready to go home, a couple hours.

SPEAKER_06 2:55

Here's the deal. For my funeral, and it's gonna be on record now. I want it to start at about 5 30, dinner at 5 30. Dinner? Yeah, cocktails at 5. Funeral dinner. Yeah. I want a giant bowl of edibles. Like just a mixed bowl of edibles. You can't say no because people can't say no because it is my funeral. Unknown dosages, and it's just full send.

SPEAKER_05 3:18

Is it like a lottery where some have like one milligram and the rest have like 20? Yeah. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_06 3:23

Um we'll give if and if there's like elderly people there, they can have a bit of an exemption, unless it's my funeral and I'm elderly, and then they get no exemption. So we're all just gonna be like 70 years old. They're just gonna sit around and stare at each other or just be ri There'll be a lot of food.

SPEAKER_05 3:38

Okay. I like that.

unknown 3:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 3:42

I like that a lot. That's that's that's uh like a supper celebration. Yeah, totally. And then just yeah. It's kind of like a wedding reception. Are you doing the body? Or are people carrying it in and stuff? Like what what do you want that? No, because I want that's the depressing part. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 3:56

I mean, if you want to, but I want to be buried in a mushroom coffin.

SPEAKER_05 4:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 4:02

Why not?

SPEAKER_05 4:02

Is that is that one of those that like I want the tree one? Is that the one like you have a mushroom coffin, like mushrooms just grow on the ground?

SPEAKER_06 4:08

Yeah, like you don't get you don't get uh cremated.

SPEAKER_00 4:12

Why not just get stuck in a hole with no coffin? I don't think you can do that. Why not? That doesn't make sense to me. You like why wouldn't you be able to do that? What? Just like chuck me in the hole. Like go the if it's deep enough, nothing's gonna dig you up. Because we're human beings and we have to regulate everything.

SPEAKER_05 4:30

But is a coffin required for funerals? I believe so.

SPEAKER_00 4:34

It's stupid if it is, to be honest. You know, I was gonna bring up Braveheart again, but you haven't seen it.

SPEAKER_05 4:40

I I can't Google anything because my I I want to know if a coffin's mandatory or some form of box. Let me look that up. Oh, here we go. I got we're good.

SPEAKER_00 4:50

Uh in that movie, there's uh they bury they basically wrap them in like a shroud and then put them in the dirt. Well, yeah, and that was in like what the 1400s. I don't remember the year of that movie. I feel like it was 1800, 1700? I don't remember. I have no idea now that you ask.

SPEAKER_05 5:10

So we've got no legislation in Alberta required that a burial casket can be used. Oh, this is cremation, though. Funeral homes and crematories do require the deceased to be enclosed in a container which is combustible, of rigid construction, and equipped with handles. Why does that mean why?

SPEAKER_06 5:28

Hey, listen, from going forward, can we get you set up with an AI to help you do your podcastly duties? Yeah, that would be a good idea.

SPEAKER_05 5:39

Oh no, that there's some green burial communities in Alberta as of 2020. So the green burial they're just uh just straight in the ground. Lethbridge is the first to allow green burials, the s the city named Lethbridge, in public cemeteries, and uh a city named Calgary will be soon to follow.

SPEAKER_06 5:55

Okay, well then there you go. If I hypothetically lived in one of these cities, just put me right in the ground. Uh Braveheart was 1280. That makes sense. Yeah. How do you guys want to be buried?

SPEAKER_05 6:05

I don't know if I care. I want that tree thing. You know, like a tree coffin. So you you you die and they put you in this uh cocoon essentially, and a tree will grow out of it. I could do that. But if if I had like land, then that's what I do.

SPEAKER_00 6:19

So I already have a burial plot. I already know where where I will be buried. Uh it's out by my um wife's childhood farm. Because they have uh burial plots out there. Do they do green? I think they'll do whatever you want out there. It's l it's like it's literally almost kitty corner, like less than maybe a kilometer away from where she grew up, and they have uh like a cemetery there. Um that's cool. Yeah, well not cool, but no, it is that it's cool. Yeah, it is. Um I don't know if I care.

SPEAKER_05 6:55

I for her cremation, I don't sure what if like me and CJ were in charge, we dug a giant hole, put your cold cold plunge in it, filled it up, of course, made it cold, and then you just you went in there and we and we topped it up. That was it. And you're in, you're plunging for life.

SPEAKER_06 7:11

Plunging for life. Or or death. Are you are you concerned? Like, do you want to be cremated first or embodied?

SPEAKER_00 7:17

I don't know if I care. I I think I've thought about the cremation thing. I then uh if I get cremated, I don't know if I care if I do or don't, but if I do, I want my urn to be super cool. Like I want it to be like black marble with like a dragon on it or something sweet.

SPEAKER_05 7:31

Dis displayed in the house?

SPEAKER_00 7:33

Yeah, like it should be, right? But because it's super cool, but I don't know if uh my wife would want me on the shelf for life.

SPEAKER_06 7:39

Well, hypothetically, indestructible too, so if it gets accidentally knocked over, you don't go all meet the parents or meet the fuckers, whatever everywhere. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 7:47

There's a couple movies where that happens. I don't need that. Uh I don't I less care about that.

SPEAKER_05 7:52

They mix it in like milk or something like that, because they thought it was Nesquik. I I thought that was maybe Meet the Parents.

SPEAKER_00 7:58

No, it's not that one, because that one knocks over and it ends up in something. Yeah, I do know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_05 8:04

Um there's a weird I I think cremation is the way to go, but the weird thing is it actually oh, this is so hypocritical. It scares me, cremation does, because I don't know how that's gonna affect my afterlife. Agreed. That's exactly what I'm saying. Oh, okay. I thought that was the weirdest fear to have.

SPEAKER_00 8:18

It is weird.

SPEAKER_05 8:19

It is weird.

SPEAKER_00 8:26

It's not contained any longer in the human body.

SPEAKER_05 8:29

But but what if the cycle of life is determined among you're you're like feeding the earth? Like, because if you die, you go naked funeral or whatever, green funeral. You feed the earth, you feed the plants, you feed all that kind of stuff when your body decomposes. If that's part of the cycle, removing myself from that cycle is my fear. I like I don't know why, but I'm not usually like this about certain things.

SPEAKER_06 8:48

I like that you said naked funeral, though, like you make all your guests show up like uncomfortably naked.

SPEAKER_05 8:53

No, no, I am naked and displayed. They're not. They're wearing clothes.

SPEAKER_06 8:56

Oh, like you're like dink out?

unknown 8:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 8:58

With like a like a like a soft fluff.

SPEAKER_00 9:01

I don't think that works anymore. That happens.

SPEAKER_06 9:05

Uh the reason that I change well that the reason that I guess I formed an opinion on how I want to be buried is I listened to a podcast about uh pan-psychism. Okay.

unknown 9:14

What?

SPEAKER_05 9:15

Pan-psychism.

SPEAKER_06 9:16

You laugh and I don't even get a chance to explain it. Is it a word? It's a word that sounds funny. It it is something. Uh it's like the concept that of like a universal consciousness. And I'm worried that if I'm cremated, I'll be excluded from the universal consciousness. How would that change it? I don't get how that would change it. Oh, I don't have enough information.

unknown 9:34

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 9:34

But I just I want to be oh natural.

SPEAKER_00 9:37

I don't care. I don't care. I I definitely agree with the like it's it's not gonna be a party, like obviously, especially if it happens sooner than later, right? Because you're younger, it's more tragic. But um I definitely would like it to be like so the the one the one I recently went to um for my father-in-law was actually really it was at the rec center in the town, and it was very um it was it was awesome. It was just like it was a couple of his friends talked, a couple like and and family talked, and um it was but it wasn't like super long, it was pretty short, then there was like uh stuff afterwards, like in the right in the f in the few um rec center. And so it was just felt like a lot more um I don't know, I th it didn't have the church thing involved because there was no like sermon or like verses and that that's something sometimes that stuff drives me crazy. Um but if it's somebody's if that's what somebody likes, okay. I don't know, it just it seems useless to me, because in the end the whole point is to be there to kind of like think about the person that's gone and celebrate them and have it like you know and have conversations about that per about that person. And so I think that that the environment that that happens in, uh it was really like kind of relaxed and and it was good.

SPEAKER_05 10:53

But you get the at yours, would you have or did they have like a slideshow plan? Yep.

SPEAKER_00 10:58

Yeah, like that's always hard though. Those are the worst, right? And especially now. It's the best though, like the slideshow is the best, the worst and the best. Completely, it is cathartic. Especially, but especially now with like the videos, like you can throw videos in there now, right? And it's just it's super tough. Actually, well, my actually my grandparents had some foresight and and they had done like uh some interviews. I can't remember who in my family did it, but they kind of sat down and asked them some questions, and they played that at the funeral. That was super, super hard. Because it was like again, it's like they're gone, but then you're sitting there listening to them talk about something and hear them have a conversation about what they thought about something, and it just it's obviously in the moment, it's about it's super difficult to deal with. But but in but I think it's like you said, it's the hardest part, but probably the best part.

SPEAKER_06 11:42

It would be they're gonna play the average superior podcast at my funeral.

SPEAKER_00 11:45

Yeah, probably probably about to dig through some clips and find some crazy things you said.

SPEAKER_05 11:50

What's what's the walkout song? What's the one on your on your way out? What's the song that everyone's gotta hear when they're instead of the awkward footsteps of the pall bears, they gotta hear a song. What's that song?

unknown 12:02

Come on.

SPEAKER_00 12:02

That's a tough one to think about.

SPEAKER_05 12:04

That is, do you go like do you go a little funny or do you go sentimental? Like it's I think I go funny. I go a little funny. I don't know what it would be though.

SPEAKER_06 12:11

So I think I'd do something like some like hard rap, like bitches ain't shit. So I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 12:17

I do some nickelback or something. How you remind me or something like that. Leader of men. Leader of men.

SPEAKER_06 12:26

I don't know. I I think uh I think a good funeral would be like for me selfishly, having everybody do something that would make me happy.

SPEAKER_00 12:37

I love that because it's so pointless because you're you're just gonna have like a grudge jujitsu match on the stage between like champagne and I don't know, somebody else. Uh yeah, I don't I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 12:47

Um I think about death a lot. I never think about the funeral part because that's the part that I really won't be involved in.

SPEAKER_06 12:56

No, but I I like I the reason I think like I think about maybe what I want my eulogy to say is because like you're crafting that right now by your actions.

SPEAKER_00 13:04

Yeah. So that you're kind of in in theory thinking about what should I be doing so that that thing, so that doesn't look like I'm a piece of garbage at the end of the day.

SPEAKER_06 13:12

So that the opening line was not is not like, well, he was a dick.

SPEAKER_00 13:17

Well, I think even people who are they usually don't say that in their eulogies.

SPEAKER_06 13:22

But think of, yeah, but think of like the some of the most depressing images of a funeral you can picture, like somebody's like I don't know why I'm coming up with this, but somebody's like white trash, 68-year-old, alcoholic, just um like disgraced or or or what's the word? You know, like don't have contact with your father anymore. Yeah, yeah, that kind of thing. Right? And then like go to that guy's funeral, there's like three people sitting in the front pew of this like shitty old church.

SPEAKER_00 13:48

Right, but that's that's not that's not like that's just like no one's gonna show up to that. That's the thing. That's fucking depressing. Completely. And that's definitely speaks to probably a way you lived your life, but yeah, hence you're crafting your eulogy right now.

SPEAKER_05 14:04

I'd have a decent crowd, like a you'd you'd be thick.

SPEAKER_06 14:07

You'd be thick. I think we'd all be pretty thick in.

SPEAKER_05 14:10

We would. We'd be being the second level. I think all three of us would be second level seating.

SPEAKER_06 14:13

You wouldn't be, because you just said you'd have a decent crowd, like you're unless the coffin's up there with us. Well, no, like what? Well, sorry, the way you were talking made it sound like your funeral, you'd have a decent content.

SPEAKER_05 14:23

Oh, yeah, like the amount of the attendance. I think that I wouldn't, out of the three of us, I wouldn't have the highest attendance in the funeral. I think it's not a popular contest. No, I know it's not a popularity contest, but I just I I honestly I feel like JB would have the highest attendance. I agree. Yeah, I think so. No, like just more interactions, more people. I don't know. I just feel like you would. I don't know. I don't have never thought. I know, I know you guys are coming to mine, that's all that matters. And I'll come to yours.

SPEAKER_00 14:44

So the weird part is it's like that that that changes a ton if that happens this year, or that happens.

SPEAKER_05 14:51

Well, I'm coming there out of friendship or out of spite.

SPEAKER_06 14:53

25 years from now, 30 years from now, right? I'm gonna be significantly more sad if it happens this year than in 2023.

SPEAKER_00 14:59

I think that's how that works.

SPEAKER_05 15:00

I think I'm definitely coming if CJ goes this year. Yeah, I hope so. I hope so.

SPEAKER_00 15:06

Yeah, just make sure you and then we'll play this. And they'll be like, you guys are so messed up.

SPEAKER_05 15:11

And his half-filled life calendar. Yeah. Well, he didn't have that much to go, but he didn't know it.

SPEAKER_06 15:16

But everybody's wondering why they're freaking barbecue just baked in the pews. He's like, what happened? Uh let us pay you a podcast. Yes. Maybe we get more followers. We got more listeners though. Yeah, but then it's there's just two of you. Who'd you who would you replace me with permanently?

SPEAKER_05 15:31

Oh, um, yeah, yeah, yeah, Jeff. Yeah. Oh, do we get the room if you go though? Because no. You're kind of the next to no one.

SPEAKER_06 15:40

We should serve this as like kind of my will, like you guys can have, but this is not also you already own this stuff, but you are welcome to my house to take this out of here. Oh, we're welcome to this. Anytime the room is then ours. No, no, no. I think this out.

SPEAKER_05 15:52

Can we put another door in so we don't do like like a like a suite? Yeah, you know, come in the side door. Come through the window. Come through the window, yeah. Nice.

SPEAKER_06 15:58

Well, so you guys heard it. So you're replacing me with Jeff. No, I don't maybe.

unknown 16:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 16:03

Or would it just all fall apart? No, I think you guys continue.

SPEAKER_00 16:07

Well, as long as we have or we become solo. We we have there's a fracture, there's a split, there's a fracture, we don't agree anymore. So he does a solo one and I do a solo one.

SPEAKER_05 16:15

Okay, well, uh just Bilber style, rant into nobody.

SPEAKER_06 16:20

I've actually been thinking about creating a solo podcast.

SPEAKER_00 16:22

What are you gonna talk about? I have no idea. Well, I think that you should start with that. I would listen to it. Would you? Well, I figure I think you need to like have an idea of what your plan is to talk about.

SPEAKER_06 16:32

I don't think I do because look at this podcast. Look how successful we are hosting.

SPEAKER_00 16:35

But we can rip, we can like we can sit and just talk about stuff, but how are you gonna do that with yourself? The same way anybody else with a solo podcast does. No, but I think people solo podcasts usually plan and have like so like Huberman obviously does tons of research and plans and thinks about what he does. He's also got credentials. I don't have credentials.

SPEAKER_05 16:53

So you'd be more the Bill Burr, like this happened to me today, and I'm gonna I'm gonna complain about it for 10 minutes.

SPEAKER_06 16:59

I think I I but a little higher. I think I'd be more like the like talk about all the same shit we talk about, just but just to myself.

SPEAKER_00 17:05

I feel like you don't need to do that because you can just do it here.

SPEAKER_06 17:08

No, I I can only do it here once a week. You want to do it more than that? Kind of you want to do like a daily 10-minute rant, but like 20 minutes here and there, like just throw it out to the world.

unknown 17:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 17:19

Yeah, that's that's a blog. So part of you're making a blog, an audio blog. Yeah, an AUG.

unknown 17:25

God.

SPEAKER_05 17:26

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 17:27

So sometimes as I think about this podcast, even, and so the way I'm thinking about you doing a solo podcast. Negatively, yeah. No, and I'm just like, uh, and the way I look at people who consistently share their life every single day on Instagram or any social media platform, part of me is like, why? Like, there what's the point? Why do people care? Why do I think people should care? You know what I mean? Like, that's kind of how I feel sometimes about all that stuff.

SPEAKER_06 17:59

But some of that, like Instagram curation, you know, like generally people on Instagram are putting like, look how fucking fat and ugly I look this morning when I first wake up, right? Like, usually it's like the best version that they curate for Instagram. I don't think our podcast is like that.

SPEAKER_05 18:15

Or our podcast is a 6 30 a.m. wake up with no makeup, no hair done, nothing like that. Like way too much food. Yeah, that's 100% this fine.

SPEAKER_00 18:24

Yeah, I think I think obviously there's different reasons why people post. Uh, I think there's the the original plan of it is to like, hey, I want my family friends to see, you know, what I'm doing or share my life. And I think that's fine. Like, I don't think that's a problem. I think it's a good way to keep connected sometimes, maybe in a world. I mean, connected isn't the right word because we're definitely not like connected on a level that is like we used to, but you know, people who live other places can see what you're up to, or your old friends, and I think that's fine. But then there's like people who do it for the likes and for the clicks, and for that, um, probably believe probably for like a bit of uh satisfaction of seeing that people oh look at I got a thousand views, and well, yeah, a hundred percent. And so that I feel like that is like it a negative.

SPEAKER_06 19:10

But then if you relate that back to the concept of me starting a podcast, like or like even our podcast, I think people like in fact I got a text from somebody that said they really enjoyed our last podcast, got more value out of it.

SPEAKER_00 19:22

Did you listen to that one?

SPEAKER_06 19:23

Most of it.

SPEAKER_00 19:24

Yeah, I haven't finished it yet.

SPEAKER_05 19:25

It was pretty good. I started, but my wife is also listening to that one too, I guess. Because of the description that's on there. The description got her, and she wanted to listen to it now.

SPEAKER_00 19:34

I don't even I just AI and learnting it.

SPEAKER_05 19:36

Yeah, something about that, and then like the three words that you say to your younger set, like it's in the description. She's like, Oh, I want to listen to that. Did you change that?

SPEAKER_06 19:42

I made a I made an Instagram post like you directed me to do. Good job.

SPEAKER_05 19:45

Oh, yeah. Well, you guess what? You got a listener out of it. Dude, I'm telling you, you have the stories, don't do anything.

SPEAKER_00 19:51

Instagram stories because they're like they're gone forever. Like you have to post. Okay, but here's here's the deal.

SPEAKER_06 19:57

You have to post the deal. There's no argument here I feel. Inst this Instagram stories are the only thing I look at on Instagram.

SPEAKER_00 20:04

Okay, but you that's you. I'm just saying that I'm mean you're you but I'm just saying that's a passing so how many people so many people have stories where they have like a thousand things they just click click click click click fly do it yeah yeah whereas like on their feed if they scroll through it oh there's like a post it's like it's there it's not going away or somebody comes and they looks up look up us and they pop up and they see okay well there's like five posts how come right it just it's just content it's not totally not to be crazy it just has to be no I agree and I like what you said like the whole the reason I wrote the description that way was to try and create some like interest right like what three things would you say to yourself and then you're because like your wife said oh I want to hear what that would be yeah she yeah right she was not impressed but yeah no yeah whatever Bitcoin I'm like yeah it was more about money Bitcoin by hold uh and then that she swears like a sailor so that that didn't help but that's good no it's all good um anyways what are we talking about no nobody wants to listen to my podcast I think nobody said that I no like the reason the reason you're doing isn't for isn't for the likes and we don't do this for for likes yeah and I and the reason I'm interested in it is because the things that we talk about that I am interested or passionate about I just think I want to I could like talk more about them solely. Solo le I don't know I feel like it'd be weird to do like a solo it would be tough. I I think without like a without a something even jotted down like a a pathway or something to be like this where we go I think it'd be difficult to sit I mean I can talk forever but but but here's no like even if even a ping pong table folds up so you have something to bounce something against oh my god fuck me is that Confucius that's true is that Confucius did he say that yeah he was all about the folding ping pong if Confucius actually was a world ping pong champion my bet my bet is that ping pong wasn't invented well they called it Zing pong oh okay well while you do that I'm gonna look up Confucius or ping pong what came first I I I want to cap this off by saying like this is part of my whole premise of not giving a fuck what other people think.

SPEAKER_06 22:00

It's something I'm interested in I might do it.

SPEAKER_00 22:02

But I did make a list um because I know it sounds to me like you want a a a uh framework a pathway to talk about in this podcast I I don't think we need it all of the time but I think sometimes it would just like again during the week if something pops in my head or like oh that'd be fun that'd be good to talk about I just put it in a notepad that's all I did.

SPEAKER_05 22:18

Yeah that's good okay well do you want to see my notes for this week uh sure okay well at least pulling that up uh ping pong was about 1800 years after Confucius so we're good yeah but when was Zing Pong?

SPEAKER_00 22:27

Oh no we're like we're yeah never mind 551 B C E is Confucius and ping pong's 1880 so we're a little off man we're idiots go ahead I I knew that yeah I know you knew that I actually I was actually wondering okay so the four things I wrote down 200 sextillion stars because I'm still thinking about it JB didn't get race I didn't what yeah you're you're you're the the lottery yeah you didn't get the race we'll talk about this JB didn't get race JB slept in Jason smiled out loud okay I mean all things from the last 20 minutes the last 20 minutes you just did this I did it while you were driving here okay uh stars why are you obsessed about this so many stars there's so many it is and each of those stars hypothetically if they have a solar system how many planets is that a lot originally it was called Wiff WAF and they used a champagne cork for the ball that'd be that that would not be even anyway yeah it wouldn't it would be bouncing reflexes he didn't get pulled hey uh so yeah the lottery draw for the Texas race that I was tr wanting to do it did not get it uh there was uh I listened to the the reveal and there was at one point where it was they said uh my first name and I was like and it wasn't me and my heart skipped a beat Jonathan Barnes Fuck it was weird because it was like my heart like jumped I was like it it's it's I don't know it it's it's probably good a good thing.

SPEAKER_06 23:56

Maybe next year yeah I'll I'll put it in again okay sorry about that we're thinking about potentially signing up for that blackfoot one yeah I'm in for that I was talking with uh our friend Drew about that okay actually when is that is that May yeah I'm 100% Jason you should be in for that too it's it'd be like a warm-up is it a 50 hundred it's a 50 but it's like a significantly easier 50. It's like flat.

SPEAKER_00 24:18

Well that's not flat flat er there's a lot of up and down but they're small up and down they also run a baby ultra anyway uh that's running you did say last week that you had a feeling you were gonna I did I I thought I I I mean I have a feeling every week I'm gonna win the lottery so it just goes to show you can't trust your feelings.

SPEAKER_06 24:37

I was like I think I'm gonna get this okay uh do we want to talk about you sleeping in then or Jason's texting?

SPEAKER_05 24:43

I want to know about him sleeping in first.

SPEAKER_00 24:45

There's no there's nothing to talk about. I forgot to put a set alarm I forgot I just went to bed and didn't set an alarm. It's Sunday had I had nothing to do this morning. You had something to do this morning. Like what? Oh this yeah well that that was that was if you look back that was a confusing no I knew we were I still I I assumed it we were doing this at eight I just completely forgot last night when I went to bed I didn't set an alarm. You was it confusing because nobody answered my text?

SPEAKER_06 25:09

I did answer. I think I said I'm good.

SPEAKER_05 25:12

Nobody did no nobody did it it was a very open-ended thing.

SPEAKER_06 25:17

It's almost like somebody needs to create text messaging where like it solicits you for a response.

SPEAKER_00 25:22

You don't have to that's that's what the thumbs up is no like it won't stop like it'll keep pinning you until you respond to it you haven't answered this yet and this is important and then like the sender gets to like the importance or you could rank it on a scale of like one to five importance like you need to respond to this. Anyway that's what happened not a big nothing really bad.

SPEAKER_06 25:42

Okay. The last thing I have on my list and then hopefully you guys have lists because people like lists. I've got one is you you smiled out loud.

SPEAKER_05 25:49

Yeah so that that's I know you hate it. I hate it so much during the text message string uh I said something that like I assumed or I had I was stuck at that one building doing the keys I'm I'll be a bit lol or something like that. And then uh CJ's like did you actually laugh out loud I'm like no but I just put that in there like I smiled but you just put lol and it drives him nuts. Bananas to the point as is at your uh at your funeral I'm gonna be texting everyone lol he's dead lol he's dead lol we knew this would happen he didn't finish his calendar that idiot lol uh that bothers you why does it bother you so much it's such a common thing too though I don't know it's probably something that shouldn't bother me now that I know I didn't LOL and I just SMOL I feel kind of you feel like you're right. LOL's it's thrown around too much. It's like it's like a challenge coin. Everyone just gets one now it's like no you gotta earn that did you if you lol you laughed out loud?

SPEAKER_06 26:55

Because then if I said did you laugh out loud and you're like yeah that was fucking hilarious.

SPEAKER_00 26:57

Yeah I'd be like oh sorry okay I I just assume 90% of the time someone puts that it's not funny.

SPEAKER_06 27:08

Yeah. Yeah but then why are we putting it?

SPEAKER_00 27:10

I don't know because it's do you use I think I think we put it because it adds context to the to the text as like I'm trying to be funny or I'm trying I'm not being serious. You need lol more then because most of your texts come across as hyper serious and I think nine none of them aren't yeah that I think that's what it is. I think it's like to like add a playfulness so that you can't get the wrong context of oh like the it sets a tone. The key and peel skit is my favorite I was just thinking of that exactly with the texting. An LOL would have saved that immensely yeah uh what what is it like whatever you whatever whatever you want man it's like whatever I want or something like that it's just hilarious. He's just reading everything like negatively it's it's one of the funniest the whatever you want lol that wouldn't have been a skit. Yeah he's like oh I don't care or something like that just you don't care?

SPEAKER_06 28:03

Yeah the fuck do you mean you don't care? Exactly it's a funny skit. That's so true in texting though you get a text and just read it the completely wrong way. Yeah because I'm I'm probably really good at actually doing that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 28:16

My my my favorite is uh K. The response just the letter K. And that is that's my wife's lol so she sends me a bunch of stuff and I'm like K and that's it she fucking hates it she goes off but that's like the thumbs up thing. It's the same oh the thumbs up on the messages really cranks me up too right like when you send a message somebody's saying but that's the confirmation you were looking for like if he would have thumbs up the thing yesterday and I would have thumbs up we would have been like solidified in our plans.

SPEAKER_06 28:42

No because the way I interpret it is like so if instead of the thumbs up you could the finger or a thumbs up. That's what how he interprets it just the finger. If I if you could replace the thumbs up with like a little text bubble that said like copy or like received or like acknowledged. And for that is what the thumbs up and what thumbs up is contextually that could also just mean like cool.

SPEAKER_05 29:03

Yeah but cool is still an acknowledgement of the plan.

SPEAKER_06 29:05

No it's not it's like if you're like hey guys do you want to come over at like eight o'clock this morning you send the thumbs up like to me that it reads like either yes I'm coming or like yeah like how okay you're reaching here there's no context of what that doesn't mean yes I understand and I will be there.

SPEAKER_05 29:22

I think there is it's not like a wavering like gladiator the thumbs in the middle is going up or down I can't tell up or down.

SPEAKER_06 29:27

No it's just straight up up there we need that emoji the wavering middle middle line though I'm surprised there isn't one and then depending on when you look at the message it changes yeah I don't understand you that there's no that always means yes I understand or yes I'll be there I just I don't know what if like for okay let me ask you this if I sent out a message saying would you guys like to go for dinner and you send a thumbs up back to me I could interpret that as like yes I like to go for dinner or yes I like the idea of going for dinner. Well sure but there needs to be some conversation like when, where all that stuff but I think that conversation has to happen still than in the other situation with a thumbs up. No. No like you're more specific. Yeah you could want to meet up at 8 a.m tomorrow and do this thing yeah and if you I like the idea of that versus like I'm committed to doing that action. I I just I so disagree with him I think thumbs up is on I'm there. Imagine if we had to make important business decisions using this try and like logic. We hey would you sometimes kind of do actually like if I sent you a message say we run a corporation it's called the Average Sperior Corporation and I send you a a message in our Slack chat because that's how we work remotely and I say hey fellas would you like to acquire this business for$100 million and you fucks both just put thumbs up on there and then I acquire the business and you're like no no no no like we'd like to but it doesn't mean go ahead and do it.

SPEAKER_05 30:49

I think there's a lot more nuance and details needed for a$100 million business purchase or a podcast at 8 a.m on a Sunday maybe or maybe that's what it means.

SPEAKER_00 31:01

Maybe it means yeah do it go ahead because$100 million is nothing we got it we just got that F U money we're so rich.

SPEAKER_06 31:07

$100 million chain just do it. If you could send one emoji that would like concisely like cement the idea that I'm okay to spend 100 million of our dollars what would you send? Would it be the thumbs up?

SPEAKER_05 31:20

Or it's rocket chip that means nothing rocket ship means nothing unicorn would it be unicorn it would be what's that graph it's just like a little graph and it shows the the thing going up graph yeah stock graph I think uh I think thumbs up is it yeah or like that meme of the guy from uh parks and rec doing this when he's in the world no but a meme especially if it's a person with body language I'd much rather take that yeah I'd send you the nodding meme of that wilderness guy you know he like turns around and nods up and down I don't I can't I don't know yeah whatever it's a thing.

SPEAKER_06 31:52

Anyway that's what I do okay well from now on any been large business decisions we'll do via emoji.

SPEAKER_05 31:57

Yeah yeah only but only a hundred million plus please everything else we should talk about it okay changing gears I don't know are we I don't know I could go deeper into I don't want to all right what do you have on your list I uh said a do not disturb on my phone so at 9 30 every night you can do all these settings with your phone I didn't really fucking look into this before now so at 9 30 at night my phone goes grayscale automatically like everything is just a exactly and then all my uh text responses are like I don't get any notifications besides like a phone call from a couple different numbers that are important and that's it and I found it's amazing. Especially the great like the grayscale is it's sad that I have to do that to to limit my enjoyment of apps but it helps out huge and I didn't know it was a thing.

SPEAKER_06 32:48

Yeah um are you affected by the TikTok ban?

SPEAKER_05 32:52

Is that in Canada too or just the states you know what I don't really know I've been trying to avoid a lot of TikTok but I've still been on all I know is that like American people can't put up stuff but all the Canadian people in UK like everyone can it's just the American people can't upload content anymore or have the app anymore I think. Yeah they can't have the app but Trump will fix all that he's something like that.

SPEAKER_06 33:09

He likes China so China okay how long have you been doing this do not disturb a couple weeks. Where do you find this this setting?

SPEAKER_05 33:18

I had to I had I had to look it up and watch a video on it and then when I tried to explain it to somebody else we had to watch that same video because I didn't explain it right. So but the best part is so if I'm like noticing I'm on my phone a lot I can just do this you know you go to your wallet like you double uh you double click or whatever I can like triple click and my phone just goes grayscale so I can like discipline myself because I have no self-control when it comes to that but the grayscale thing I was it was a Huberman mention it on that uh Sean oh the guy with the the guy with that low voice Sean Ryan podcast and I'm like huh and I tried it I'm like yeah it really makes everything not fun yeah um I wonder yeah I at nighttime the only thing I do on my phone is read at that time so I don't know if but during the during the day I've tried it and I just find it so gross.

SPEAKER_06 34:09

It is gross I can't tolerate like I have to have color.

SPEAKER_05 34:12

Yeah you need some color in your life I need some color in my life okay most people with your hair color do. Yeah I was trying to go for a ginger it didn't work out yeah anyway I triple click and it's good. Yeah okay so that's that and then uh we cut out margarine at our at our house we only use butter and we got like a butter bell to keep the butter soft on the counter 20 years. That's disgusting that you actually put margarine oh yeah 100 you made the choice that you wanted margarine at one point no no I did uh I would say oh she might listen depending on the description too my wife is very pro-margarine I guess so much and she it's so bad she calls it butter and it dries she's like oh can you put the butter in I'm like we don't have butter it's like the well the the other butter I'm like no it's not butter it's like it kind of it's kind of one of those can't believe it's not butter. Yeah so now we've converted her she's got we got butter and we got a little like a butter bell to keep the butter on the counter fresh and all this water in it?

SPEAKER_06 35:02

Yeah it's been those things are terrible you'll stop using that real fast. Really?

SPEAKER_05 35:06

Yeah why I've had it make my butter go moldy no no but are you replacing water?

SPEAKER_00 35:11

But I don't I don't want to replace water. Why do you need water I confuse it with this?

SPEAKER_05 35:14

Well if you if you put if you put the salt like we use salted butter though. Do you use unsalted? Yeah I just stopped using it after like a week or two because I hated it oh well we we've had it the same butter in there for like over probably two weeks we're topping it up obviously but but that's also silly that you have to refill your butter bell with water.

SPEAKER_06 35:30

Why is there water in it?

SPEAKER_05 35:31

So the water provides that so you put the it's like a bell and you flip it over and it goes into this cup that has water in it so the water creates a barrier so no gets no no air gets into your butter which causes it to go moldy.

SPEAKER_00 35:43

My butter never goes moldy I just you do counter butter?

SPEAKER_05 35:46

Yeah yeah I just do fridge butter. Counter oh I hate fridge butter fridge butter is no it doesn't you can't smoothly you're not living your life what are you doing here I do wine fridge butter. So still okay well here's the thing here's the thing CJ some people can't have wine fridges in their house based on you know their economic status so I don't have a wine fridge you could have a wine fridge you have appropriate economic standing to have a wine fridge that's that's a valid point you don't have any wine in your wine fridge do you I do I just don't drink it it's actually that's the one thing that I'm really missing is is wine.

SPEAKER_06 36:21

White or red?

SPEAKER_00 36:22

White okay anyway salted butter yes yeah uh margins yeah I grew up with margin that's just oh we had and then yeah I has it literally it's probably been 20 years.

SPEAKER_06 36:36

Are you doing organic butter?

SPEAKER_05 36:38

Because there's your next top up uh the the one from Costco says organic.

SPEAKER_06 36:42

Yeah yeah so I'm like assuming it is well if it says it is you think if it says organic says organic it doesn't make it organic I think there's regulations that actually stipulate if you say organic what that means. No I trust the government so I oddly enough uh we talked about this a while ago I'm noticing more and more organic stuff at Costco still yeah uh to the point of where I bought organic tomato sauce diced tomatoes and tomato paste yesterday okay which I'm surprised they had all three of those things.

SPEAKER_05 37:10

Like all they still say organic or whatever.

SPEAKER_06 37:12

Yeah what's the check there you just look at the it says like for me if I'm I'm pretty much just looking if it says organic. Okay. Do they have uh the flour that you use? Costco? Yeah no no you gotta get that at the little Italian bakery.

SPEAKER_00 37:27

Do any of the like Walmart or Superstore or Save on none of that has organic or whatever flour?

SPEAKER_05 37:35

No but you know what you have is a vehicle I do I can drive you to other places where where would I buy organic flour on the way home today?

SPEAKER_06 37:45

You would stop giving it so hypothetically if you lived in a city called Lethbridge and I'm not saying that well that's the one where they they can bury people in just naked I read about that so hypothetically if you lived in Lethbridge you would go to the purple carrot you would go to the little Italian bake house or you'd go to the closed Sunday purple carrot's open come on I don't think so you want to bet you want to bet a bag of flour?

SPEAKER_05 38:07

No that's probably like$90 closed on a Sunday you should have bet a bag of flour Jesus what about that Broxburn you're too quick you're too quick uh Broxburn might be open. No Tuesday open this see this is now I can't eat healthy. This small city that we've never heard about is actually making me eat unhealthy because they don't sell the right kind of flour.

SPEAKER_06 38:27

Urban grocer might have it also close Sunday why does nobody fucking work in this town well not the organic people it's open oh wow urban grocer Sunday open I can't guarantee that they have the brand of flour that I well they probably don't because they're open on a Sunday no one can buy good flour on Sundays.

SPEAKER_05 38:44

Okay so you got rid of margarine and you would just flour. I I didn't realize like how much like she we were using in our household it was terrible.

SPEAKER_00 38:53

But yeah the the butter's really good okay I like it I threw out a whole bunch of plastic cups yeah oh yeah you did how many like useless cups do you have like way too many yeah everybody does right you need probably so if there's I'd say you need the double amount the cups that are in the house is my it would be my idea your family would need like eight so we would need eight cups no that's not that's a gross why you need like two of the amount of why because you can have multiple beverages something like you have water and milk.

SPEAKER_05 39:22

So if you have water and milk.

SPEAKER_06 39:24

Rinse it we can two of us we have four cups right now.

SPEAKER_00 39:27

Yeah I don't have two yeah yeah there you go multiple beverages you have water and a coffee right that's think I don't I okay need need is the is that what I said need not it would be nice to have sure functionally you your family of four only needs four cups sure but that's that's why I went with I would go with sixteen like four cups per person.

SPEAKER_05 39:44

So you have your you have your mug your glass cup for water yeah your your four cups for cups sixteen cups okay and then not to mention the to go side of it but I bet you we have seventy.

SPEAKER_06 39:53

Sure and what if you have guests especially if we're working in multiple if you have twenty two and a half guests

SPEAKER_00 40:00

Well, they're conscious, so they're bringing their own cups because they don't know if you have plastic and they don't want those microplastics in their testicles. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 40:07

I I threw out cups that I had gotten from my first year of college this year.

SPEAKER_00 40:13

It's crazy the the stuff that you just accumulate. Oh my god. It just it should just go in the garbage or donated. Like it's insane.

SPEAKER_05 40:20

Well, do you have any like school stuff from when you were in school?

SPEAKER_00 40:22

Yeah, but I think there's some I think there's some keepsake stuff that's fun to keep. Like you gotta keep some of that stuff. And I get get like a Tupperware container or like one of those big blue ones. And like even with our kids' stuff, that's that's always difficult. Like what do you keep and what do you not keep? Um and so but I think it's good to keep some of that crap because it in, you know, when they're when they are adults and have families and their kids want to, oh, what is this? And like going through it and seeing what you know they did in like high school and junior high.

SPEAKER_05 40:51

Seeing the old school way to do math, sure.

SPEAKER_00 40:53

Like or just like pictures of things or like whatever, right? I think it's good to keep some of that stuff, but the problem is like it should be sparse, like you shouldn't be keeping like all of grade six's work, like you know.

SPEAKER_05 41:06

Well, my wife does, yeah. All the school books, all that it kind of doesn't make sense. How much do you do you think like one person produces in useless shit throughout their life? Oh, I oh my god, like how many pounds of useless stuff? Tons. I don't have no idea.

SPEAKER_06 41:19

Oh my gosh, dump trucks worth, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:21

So much.

SPEAKER_06 41:23

I still have college textbooks that I should throw out because I don't know why. Like I'm never gonna read them again.

SPEAKER_00 41:27

Yeah, I I got rid of a whole bunch of those a couple years ago.

SPEAKER_06 41:30

And it's always this for my brain. So, for example, we just threw out a bunch more plastic cutting boards. Yeah, I finally threw them out yesterday, but they've been sitting on my front bench for a while, and it's my brain that goes through the thoughts. It's like, okay, what if I need this? In what scenario would I need this? And then my my second thought is like, can I do something with this other than throwing it out, such as just donating it? And finally, yesterday I was like, who the fuck wants donations of used plastic cutting boards? Completely, right? It's just stupid. We keep way too much shit. We do.

SPEAKER_00 42:00

That's why like sometimes I see those, there's those uh those home shows with those tiny homes, and part of you is like part of me is like that actually would be kind of nice to like pare your stuff down to fit into this small closet. All of the storage is like you don't have much storage, so figure out what is important to you and put it in this in this little house.

SPEAKER_06 42:20

Um if I was Uber Rich, I would hire like a Marie condo to come in and organize all my shit, you know, the place for everything. Oh, the minimalist place for everything. Yeah, yeah. Uh oh, she's awesome. I've never I I've I've actually never watched it. I just kind of like know that she exists.

SPEAKER_05 42:36

The one cool thing that we did is uh all like everyone has so many shirts, like just useless shirts and stuff like that in your closet that you don't really like you can organize them. She like you put all your hangers like one way, and then as you wear that shirt, you flip that hanger around or whatever. So like so then and you do that for 60 days, and then after that, all the all the hangers that are still faced that way, those are pointless clothes. And I'm like, huh. And I went through and I cleared out a lot of my closet. I have trouble throwing out clothing too.

SPEAKER_00 43:03

Throwing out everything. Me too, because it's like that one shirt that's like you don't love, but it's maybe in the context of it's a little bit nicer, like fancier, so you maybe you should wear it. I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 43:13

Yeah, or get this the shirt that I have in my closet that is my head on the body of a stegosaurus. That's a keeper. But it's a but is it like it's from my my cousin's stag. Right. It was called his his stegosaurus. That's funny.

SPEAKER_05 43:28

That's that's actually really that's really funny.

SPEAKER_06 43:30

Horribly done, of course, right? Because it should have been. But then I look at it and I'm like, oh, that was fun. And then I don't throw it out, but then it just takes up space in the back of my closet.

SPEAKER_00 43:38

Yeah, I have a bunch of those, like ones you got through something. Like it's got like not like not super, you know, like attached to it, but it's got it with a reason why you got that shirt. Like, hey, maybe like uh I can't even think of the what what it is. The one that the one that you bought, the one that you bought, the the red cotton shirt. Oh, consistency over time equals results. Exactly. That one. It's like I can't really throw that out. You can't throw that out. You should just wear it. It's a cotton, like thick cotton gilded in it's not super comfortable.

SPEAKER_06 44:14

Uh, but if you did wear it, it would make me happy.

SPEAKER_00 44:17

Oh well. Maybe I will have to then.

SPEAKER_05 44:20

Think about how much stuff in your house that you're never gonna touch or see or use again.

SPEAKER_00 44:24

I know, that's why everyone should purge, I think, a couple times a year. Yeah. It's fun, it feels good.

SPEAKER_05 44:30

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Like a garage garage clean out day? Like when you get that garage cleaned out and it's nice and it feels so good. You just want to hang out in there.

SPEAKER_06 44:38

I've been trying for six years to get my garage organized.

SPEAKER_05 44:40

Well, you know, you have a lot of uh a lot of kids and stuff, so you gotta really organize their activities and all that. It just gets easier as this goes along. So you're gonna have you're nothing but time.

SPEAKER_06 44:51

And again, I keep just telling myself, like, I'm gonna build a workbench versus just fuck, I should go buy one. You know what I mean? Because it's always like, oh, I should just build this. I can just do this myself. Yeah, just buy one, but then you don't make the time to do it.

SPEAKER_00 45:04

Yeah, things are difficult.

SPEAKER_05 45:08

Life is hard.

SPEAKER_06 45:09

What do you what do you have on your list for us today? I don't I didn't make a list today.

SPEAKER_00 45:13

Oh, your list was a lot of fun last week. Let's see if I for there's leftover things. Uh, did you see about the Trump inauguration that uh they had to move it indoors? Yeah, because it was cold. Nah, I think it's because there's some people that are trying to kill them. Wow.

SPEAKER_05 45:27

Was there some low roofs that people could climb up on and slope and just casually shoot at him?

SPEAKER_06 45:33

Yeah, I think so. They said it was because it was cold.

SPEAKER_05 45:36

Is that to is that Tuesday? Is it this coming?

SPEAKER_00 45:40

Tomorrow, it's tomorrow. Uh January 20th. Oh, it's Monday? Yeah. Uh, and then I was I was listening listening to that uh Tom Holman guy, the border, the new border czar. Uh he's hilarious.

SPEAKER_05 45:51

The border czar? Oh, is this? No.

SPEAKER_00 45:55

Oh, dude. He is so fun. Like, he is so hardcore. It's like Oh, he looks like he is. He just like people are um, I can't remember they're talking to him about uh, well, what are you gonna do? Are you gonna separate families? He's like, uh, are you gonna separate kids from their parents? He's like, nah, we'll deport the kids with the families. Like he's just like so hardcore. It's pretty funny. So he's like, Yeah, starting Tuesday morning, uh, ICE is gonna be told to do their jobs, meaning find these people and get them out of our country.

SPEAKER_05 46:25

They're gonna take the handcuffs off ice was his completely.

SPEAKER_00 46:28

And they're like, Well, what have they been doing the last four years? He's like, Well, they've been told they unless these people have like significant criminal history, they can't get rid of them. He's like, That's not the that's not how this goes. He's he's in he's funny to listen to because he's just super hardcore. This is the rules. Here we go.

SPEAKER_05 46:43

This guy screams 5'11 pants on a day off. Oh, for sure. Oh my god, look at him. Multiple items quite a bit. How many pockets? How many pockets?

SPEAKER_06 46:51

It'll be interesting to see what happens. See, this and the downside to this, like I fully support this, but the downside is the pendulum will swing so far exactly that you you miss the things that now like a moderate approach should address.

SPEAKER_00 47:05

And but that's like what that's that's always the issue with like it's always gonna be the issue when something goes too far the other way. It starts pissing people. We talked about this before where it just separates like the the centrists become split and get pushed to the sides of whichever side left or right, depending upon their uh their thought process, but they get pushed further from the center because they're so opposed to something that was done on whatever the left side that they get pushed to the right. Uh like that could be any whatever issue, it could be like the women in like um trans women in sports thing, it could be whatever that pisses people off so much they're like, well, this is complete BS, they go hard the other direction. Um, so I don't know, unless you can get some somebody, somebody moderate with some actually moderate ideas. I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 47:48

I've been moderating my time on Twitter, X, uh, so I have been less exposed to the politics stuff in the last week. Yeah. Which has been nice a little bit. It just goes, it goes in like fluctuations.

SPEAKER_00 48:00

It does. Um, but then in in our country, like again, it's just seeing the or and I I haven't dug into this a ton, but seeing the liberal side trying to find or like all these people putting their names in for the leadership role, like again, there's nobody that's popping up. Can they not can we not find somebody who's like again, slightly left, like maybe they have like left-leaning ideas, but they're they're centrists. Like they in in general, they're very um, I don't know, the critical thinkers, they are logical, and but all we're getting is like Christya Freeland. It's Christine. Christina coming to my house. Like, I don't get how I don't get how she thinks that she would be a good choice. Like, do you are they so insulated from other everyone's opinion? Do you think that's what it is? Like, are they it's the money, it's the people, it's it's the system. It doesn't make sense though. No, none of it is.

SPEAKER_05 49:02

Is a person who is not all the way that way just a sticking a little closer to the middle, and they would they would have all the votes.

SPEAKER_00 49:10

I don't know if they'd have all the votes, but they'd have a lot better chance.

SPEAKER_05 49:12

Oh my god, they'd have the best, they they would, they would win.

SPEAKER_06 49:15

I like uh I I I think you're I think you're like a like Pierre. You're overlooking the fact that this isn't per se democracy and that like they're trying to pick the best candidate that the three schmelts around this table would pick. They're trying to pick pick the best candidate in light of all the money and influences and special interest groups, whatever, regulatory captured groups that are going to benefit from these people.

SPEAKER_00 49:40

Yeah, which is a problem.

SPEAKER_06 49:41

Which is like fucking politics is a garbage. Like it's it's just because in a true democracy, it'd be like JB would run. Well, you'd be like a center right left. I don't know. I don't know, right down the middle. Yeah. I don't know. You'd change your opinion every week. Yeah, based on information. Um, but like, because that's the thing, right? Hypothetically, in a true democracy, it should be like uh just hey, who do you who do you guys want to be prime minister? Okay, well let's let's all just like talk about the shit that we think we should do and then we'll just pick the best one.

SPEAKER_00 50:11

Yeah, completely. I just it just seeing seeing how the liberals are like I don't know, like I just it just blows my mind because I don't see how anybody that currently has put their name into the the leadership is going to be any better than Trudeau. Yeah, I I don't know. I just want to move to the states.

SPEAKER_05 50:29

Well, we might not have to move. Oh, here we go. I'm just joking. My boy had questions about that because they were talking about it at school. Oh yeah? Yeah, they were like, oh, he's gonna be the 51st, we're gonna be the 51st state. I'm like, no, let's watch the actual whole clip. And then we watched it and he didn't say military action, but he was given we said economic, didn't he? Yeah, he said economic, but to like a to my boy, he viewed it as military action vibes that Trump was given off. And I'm like, no, no, no. These are the and we had explained that, and then my daughter came home with the eating the dogs and eating the cats. Remember when he said that in the screen?

SPEAKER_06 51:02

Eating the dogs, yeah, and they meet the cats.

SPEAKER_05 51:04

They made a video that they watched at school of some guy like doing an auto-tune song with it, and she's like, Why does he want them to eat dogs and cats? I'm like, No, I'm like, this is actually what happened when people were homeless, they were eating dogs and cats and all this kind of stuff, and they're like, Oh, I'm like, oh god, school is getting weird.

SPEAKER_00 51:19

It's so weird because they're not again, they I feel I feel like they're not presenting just the information. Oh, like very slant, like very slanted side of he's bad. Oh, it was actually I was in a meeting uh last week, and some I had to keep my mouth shut because there was somebody in that meeting, they're like, Yeah, you know, the world's just interesting right now. There's like there's some pretty pretty difficult times up ahead here, you know, with you know the whole Trump getting in the office thing, and I was just like, uh I think it's the opposite. Welcome to every time I have coffee with my parents.

SPEAKER_06 51:53

Yeah, it was in it was interesting. I I told my parents yesterday that I want to move to Texas, and they were like, uh what? They just could not comprehend why. You're like coming out to them. Like, by the way, guys. Well, because every time I go see my parents, I love my parents, but they just my mom's like, Trump's such a fucking idiot. And I'm just like, I have to shut my mouth. Because I'm just like, I just don't not see things the way you see them.

SPEAKER_00 52:18

Yeah, and I mean, here's the thing is like, yeah, maybe he is sometimes like maybe he is, like, I don't know, like, but but again, on what scale? Like, what are we talking about? Because you look at what he's potentially doing and the people around him, like we've talked about this a million times, but you're like, he it looks like to me that he's setting up to actually put America first and do things that are benefit the country versus everybody else.

SPEAKER_06 52:44

Yeah, but even even like blanket statement, we're so guilty of this blanket statement about people, like even saying Trudeau is an idiot. Like maybe he is, maybe he isn't. We don't actually know. Um I don't know. Uh for sure.

SPEAKER_00 52:56

I because I mean what does idiot mean? But what does that mean?

SPEAKER_06 52:59

Or even you know, like just because you're a the there's maybe like a difference between being an idiot or I don't know, it doesn't matter. Point being, um what were you saying before your meeting?

SPEAKER_00 53:10

I was just saying that, oh, before that? I don't remember.

unknown 53:15

Fuck.

SPEAKER_06 53:17

Remember? We need like a running log of what we're talking about.

SPEAKER_05 53:19

Um that's kind of my job.

SPEAKER_06 53:21

Yeah, do you have something?

SPEAKER_05 53:22

No, no, I'm just uh looking up Trump's.

SPEAKER_06 53:24

Uh like but true democracy, right? Like if you just pick the most qualified or the most like who you perceive to be the most qualified person, this wouldn't be an issue. Um, that's what I was gonna say. So 51st state. I would be I I'm curious if it would be out of the realm of possibility for Alberta. Because Alberta is having giving me the most separatist vibes right now.

SPEAKER_00 53:45

For sure, because she's like standing up to the government and saying, Okay, well, if and she makes a ton of sense. Like if the state's concern is the border, and they say if you guys don't deal with the concern with the border, we're going to apply tariffs to the country, then why not take care of the concern which is the border? Like it's not rocket science. You do that, and then maybe you avoid some of these tariffs that would be a problem for us. And that's kind of what she said. Okay, cool. Let's set let's let's beef up the border like they want us to. It's not, it is what it is.

SPEAKER_06 54:15

Yeah, but because for example, she's going to the inauguration tomorrow, which I think is great for our province. I I like that politicians are doing things to foster relationships, not damage relationships, right? And my expectation of a politician would be that regardless of whether or not you disagree with these people, like it's like diplomacy. You need to find ways to connect with these people. It's uh it's it seems to be a no-brainer for me, except our our premier is the only one that's doing it.

SPEAKER_00 54:44

Is it uh is what about Saskatchewan? Because I feel like he is on the same vibe.

SPEAKER_06 54:48

I don't know what his name is. Um Mo, something. But because and I've talked to a lot of people. But he uses those vibes too, though.

SPEAKER_05 54:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 54:54

Well, he does, he's the same conservative. Scott Mo, Scott Moe. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Talk to a lot of people in our circle, and most people are like, oh yeah, like separation, or like hypothetically, like if if they said like treading the states, I'd be on board. But not everyone, right? No, no. Some of the people in our circle have been like, oh, that's weird that you don't see it the way that I see it, and that like I think us hypothetically becoming based on my perception of it, becoming the 51st state would be beneficial to me.

SPEAKER_00 55:21

Right. I it's not ever gonna happen. But isn't are you sure? How how? How like I just don't see like how that how does that happen?

SPEAKER_06 55:27

Okay, but draw this across a timescale of 100, 200 years. At what point? Like, you just borders change in history, countries amalgamate.

SPEAKER_00 55:34

Sure, but I'm just thinking, like, from the actual, like, how could that happen? Like, how does the states buy Alberta? Like, how does Alberta become the state? But it could happen. How? That's my question.

SPEAKER_06 55:44

Like, well, first off, how like a referendum where the majority of people in Alberta say we want to secede. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 55:50

It could it could happen.

SPEAKER_06 55:51

Just could happen.

SPEAKER_05 55:52

The the amount of complexity involved in it, I feel, is this where my mind is just like, I don't know if it could, because it's just there's so much.

SPEAKER_06 56:00

Yeah, the complexity, I guess, is where I find it interesting, is because everybody gets not everybody, it's easy, I think, for us to see things that have complexity associated with the process and then just seeing them as not doable. Um, I had a good example of that, but I guess it doesn't matter. Like at some point, play it out over four years and say these tariffs happen, but for whatever reason, Alberta avoids the tariffs with the states, which I think is what the goal of the premier is right now. Yeah, right. Yeah. Suddenly Alberta is like so much more economically prosperous. Sure, but then the equalization payments are just gonna Sure. But it but at some point, right? Like, what if like the economic conditions got so bad that then the majority of people in Alberta said, okay, like we're done. Like it makes more economic sense to do this thing. Yeah, like I just I you're right, it's like a super complex decision. I just I don't know, it's interesting because it's not out of the realm of possibility.

SPEAKER_00 56:49

Yeah, it's super it is interesting. I just I just I'm too dumb to know how that would actually look. We're all too dumb. These are way too dumb for that. So it's insanely uh I yeah, it's so complicated. And like uh have you watched Landman?

SPEAKER_05 57:03

No, not yet. That is on the list, though. That everybody says it's amazing.

SPEAKER_00 57:08

It's it's super good. Um, but it's also interesting because it's very obviously so it's about the oil, oil down in Texas, and it's very interesting to see because they have some speeches that completely like bash like uh electric cars and solar and wind.

SPEAKER_05 57:25

Is big oil sponsoring this show?

SPEAKER_00 57:27

No, but it it's just it's but it's just realistic. It's like okay, this you keep they keep saying that they want this to work, but here's the actual facts. And he kind of goes on the speech about you know wind windmills and wind turbines and how much oil they use and how much it's just they like and then how much energy they actually produce and whether they can't even take that energy from here to there, and it's just interesting stuff, right? But this it it and then being in Alberta where we produce a lot of oil, it's and the amount of money that we would make, you know, yeah, with the pipelines and stuff, it's uh interesting.

SPEAKER_06 58:02

Ultimately, I think capitalism is gonna be it well, it will cat the reason the West is probably still better off than non-capitalist uh governments or or economies is because capitalism like money still dictates what gets prioritized, right? And that's the reason why, for example, large hedge funds and even parts of the government now in the states, anyways, and Canada in some ways are moving away from like DEI or green climate uh energy. There's a huge pushback on that, hey, right? And I find it funny to watch the trickle-down effect of you know, these hedge funds, these hedge funds have moved out of uh the DEI thing or the climate thing. Uh the FBI just closed their DEI office. But then at the same time, like the trickle-down effect, well, I guarantee you we'll see it in two years, but you know, we're still getting emails at the municipal level from the nursing home saying, like, hey, like this is our DEI thing. I know. And I'm like, oh, you guys are just like you're just behind, right?

SPEAKER_00 58:57

This will catch up and you'll be But it but not not quick enough, is the problem.

SPEAKER_06 59:02

But it's changing, you can literally see the pendulum swinging the other way. Yeah, and it's all because of money.

SPEAKER_00 59:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 59:07

Right? The money flows out, and suddenly everybody's like like rats off a drowning ship, they're like, Oh, there's no money in this anymore.

SPEAKER_00 59:13

I was trying to find there's a headline I read, uh just the headline. Uh, and it was something about somebody's dropping their climate change initiative as well. Like they're starting to drop that kind of stuff too.

SPEAKER_06 59:22

Yeah, there's a bunch of the big Canadian banks I think are getting out of it.

SPEAKER_00 59:24

Yeah, that's it was the banks, that's what it was.

SPEAKER_06 59:26

Like BMO, CIBC, whatever it is. Um because truly, there's no money in it, right? It's the the the the the money has spoken, and I don't understand like the consumer level money versus like the um whatever the other level corporate money are like uh yeah, you know. Yeah, it's it's crazy. Institutional, that's the one I look through. Institutional money. Um because like people aren't buying electric cars, or like solar isn't proving to be maybe be as um good as you think it is, or like windmills are fucking terrible. Yeah. Especially for the environment, which is everywhere.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:00

They're everywhere. Yeah. We were driving up to Lowman, and there's so many of them. So we started looking up, okay, how much do these things cost? And I think we figured out they're about six million per windmill. But and what's the lifetime payoff on one of those? So that's what I'm that's what I'm saying. I was asking, I was trying to uh while I was driving, I was trying to get my wife to look up how much do they cost, how much do they produce, and at what point do they become profitable? And it depends, but like over the 20-year lifespan, because they only have 20-year lifespans, uh most of them should be profitable. I think they should set at year 10. Something like that. So like you So half their life. Not necessarily not necessarily it could be at year 10. I think some could be longer. So for 10, I mean you for 10 years you can make some decent money, I think. But and but I guess it takes like that long to generate enough to even pay it off. Um and then that doesn't include, again, land rights, like you're paying all the you're paying X amount of dollars for to have that on the land, and that's kind of what the the show Landman's about.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:59

Uh my wife has some relatives who who signed up and got their like long-term lease to the to I forget which company was to have these windmills on. Yeah. And they didn't look into it too much. It's kind of on the so that they have a 25-year lease, but once the 25 years are up, the company just walks away. Really? And they have windmill. Like, what do you think? So they started looking at like how to dispose of them and stuff, and that they don't they're they don't you don't can't dispose of them safely. They're just they're just giant pieces of metal. You have to just leave them. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:26

But they that you leave them until when? When they what at what point are they a hazard?

SPEAKER_05 1:01:31

I don't know. Because the well, the trees falls in the forest, no one's around here. Like, same windmill falls, no one's around, it's not gonna damage. Unless you're standing underneath it. Yeah, I guess they can put a sign up.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:39

That's the difference, I think, with some of like again, this that show uh that's the difference on that. I think a lot of the oil companies that would have have like these agreements where they come in, they build the roads, they build all this infrastructure, and then if they ever leave, it all gets taken away. Oh no, no, no, that's a problem.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:55

Uh, I will say that's a problem that I am aware of in Alberta is uh abandoned wells and remediation and stuff like that. Okay. Huge problem here. Interesting. Yeah, because corporations do not own the end of that lifespan for that exact reason, adjacent like your is your family. Distance from family, right? That's yeah, like that's a huge problem, is having all these old abandoned wells that need remediation. And it's all fine. I need to build infrastructure, like that benefits communities. But then you have this blight on the land that is now the landowner's problem, and they can't afford to remediate it or well.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:28

But it's interesting because it I think it obviously depends on where, but in this show, it's like these some of these landowners are making$200,000 a month to have these things on their pro their property. Yeah. Yeah, it's insane. Which would be super cool. They could put a pump jack in my background and say, I agree. I agree. I mean, yeah. That's that's the funny part. That all of a sudden, all of your protests about like, well, I don't think they look good. I I'm concerned about what they're doing to the land. Hey, I'll give you$200,000 a month for the next 20 years. Uh okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:58

I watched a clip of Landman, and it's Billy Bob Thornton giving the gears to a farmer who tried to call, like, calls him out a little bit on his ethical behavior. And he's like, You don't get to say that because like I'm paying you this much money and you're turning a blind eye, essentially. Yeah. And I watched that little speech, and like that makes me want to watch this show. It's a good show. Like, there's so good at it.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:16

It's yeah, it's a good show. I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:18

We we watched uh like American Primeval. I haven't watched that yet. Holy shit, is it good? It got me on a fundamentalist LDS rabbit hole. Uh it's first of all, the show is amazing. They it goes into like Bringham Young and all that stuff, and it didn't this Mormon militia stuff I had no idea about. Anyway, so it brought up a conversation with someone at work who used to live near this town called Bountiful in BC. Okay. Have you heard of this?

SPEAKER_00 1:03:42

I've heard of yeah, I've heard of the town. I think it's because of the FLDS stuff.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:46

Yeah, and I like she she was really close to it and grew up and saw the kids at the the beach wearing their full dresses and all that stuff in the water, and it's kind of not good. It's gonna be my new obsession because of that American Pride. The show itself, though, super good.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:02

So Hell on Wheels, uh back then, like they kind of touched on that as well. Yep, yeah. That was a good show, too.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:09

Not to the extent these people are about it, but it's yeah, just watch it. It's I'm gonna watch it. I I was gonna start it the other day. It's got it's got violence, it's good. Oh man, it's everything, everything about it's so good. It does, it checks every boxes on like the male and female viewing checkbox. It's so good. Okay. I've been watching no TV. Okay. All right. Just been doing the the X on your phone, eh? No, I just staring at the ceiling, meditating. Just sitting there yelling at, yelling at your your own podcast, just just going off.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:39

Yeah, I've just been thinking about what I want to talk about in my own podcast. Uh no, dude, I went to bed at frickin' I was asleep by 8 30 yesterday.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:47

That's good good good for you. It's good for you. Yeah, yeah, fair enough. On a Saturday night, awesome.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:53

Well, sorry, like do I have to stay up at the record?

SPEAKER_05 1:04:56

I stayed up until a solid 10 30 last night. Yeah, but what time did you get up this morning? Oh, 5 15, 5 30. Okay, yeah, yeah. Because I had to go to the gym before this, this supposed tentatively planned podcast with a thumbs up. You're getting after it. Yeah, we watched uh Princess Bride last night with the whole family.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:11

Oh, great show. Yeah, I've actually seen that one.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:14

Appropriate for kids? Like, if that's good. There's some stabbing, but like a little bit of bleeding and stuff. But the it was awesome. It brought up like all these different topics. My six year old five-year-old's wondering about. Yes, he's five. He watched the show, whatever. We gave it context.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:28

As you would so good.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:30

And then he it was awesome. So watching my kid go from like, you know, uh, the little kid in the show that the grandpa's reading the book to or whatever? Yeah. Uh the guy from the Savage. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:38

Daniel's David, Daniel, something savage.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:40

That was my boy at the start. He's like, this is a kissing movie, and he's not wanting to watch it. And then it started turning to the action, and he was full on board. And ah, I forgot how good that movie was. I poof, I'd have to watch it again.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:52

My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:57

It's so good. I have no frame of reference for that. I had despite having seen the movie, I have no frame of reference.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:01

Oh, I've seen that movie. I couldn't tell you a lot.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:05

Oh, we've talked about this. 20 movies quote the most.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:08

I don't know. It's not that one. I don't know. That one's got a solid quote. A couple of them, but it's not that's got lots of good quotes. It's not that one though. But then uh in the related thing, Willow popped up and the related tab on Disney, and the kids were asking about that, and I watched the preview. I'm like, this is actually for them as well. Yeah, it'll be fine. So yeah, I'm pumped to watch that now.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:27

I don't know what movie I quote a lot. I don't know. You know, Dumb and Dumber? Because I do quote movies, and you've never seen them, and you're like, uh-huh. I do the Big Gulps line a lot.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:34

It's a big problem right now uh in my line of work where everyone's 23. They don't know. Okay, yeah, and then I get angry because they have no idea what they're doing. Yeah, have you seen that movie? They're like to you.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:46

No, no, but in their defense, you do that to me. Yeah, but they're like good movies that they should have seen. What would what do you mean you should have seen them? Why should you have seen them? Because they're awesome. Why am I expected because I'm part of this culture to have partaken in these cultural icons?

SPEAKER_05 1:07:00

Have you seen the movies that they think are awesome? I don't know. Exactly. Right? That's that's I don't care.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:06

Like the fact that most of them haven't seen Blackhawk down really rouse me up.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:12

Yeah, there you go. So that pisses you off, but it's the same with the call that one's around. It's the same with like super bad or like knocked up or uh those are staples.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:20

I agree with you, but those are staples for us, not for like you think you like you don't don't think that your parents would feel the same way if they were like, Oh, like I can't believe you haven't seen like um I don't know, whatever movies they thought were.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:32

The sound of music, I don't know. I've seen that. Yeah, yeah, we all have actually. Yeah, I haven't seen I haven't seen deliverance.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:39

Yeah, I don't know, nor will you ever, likely. Probably not. No.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:43

There's enough content out there, I don't need to do that.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:46

Except your TikTok, you're gonna lose that soon.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:48

No, I I don't. You still you still get it.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:51

Yeah, if you if only if you delete the app, apparently you can't reinstall it.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:55

I think you I think I can reinstall it in Canada.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:57

Yeah, it's just the same thing.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:58

But I don't know if you're no, I think in the States you can't even like look at the street. No, you can't.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:01

That's so I was listening to a podcast talking about this the other day, and they said as it stands now, if you have TikTok, it's not gonna like disappear, but they'll no longer have eventually it'll stop working because they're not gonna allow updates and you can't download the app anymore. But if you currently have the app, it'll work until it no longer works. And apparently it's being replaced by this app called the Red Red Note. Red Note, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:24

Which is also a Chinese app. It is, it makes no sense.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:27

And and it's a reference to uh some communist leader's book. Oh, really? Um I can't think of what it is.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:36

Oh, yeah, you're right. Little red book. Is it Mao? Do you want me to say this? I'll try. Zhang Hangsu.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:43

But but it's like it's like some sort of like communist leader's like I can't remember.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:48

Yeah, it's a communist party the founding father of the Chinese Communist Party and his little red covered notebook of quotations. Yeah. So that's kind of what it's named for. It's like a red notebook.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:56

It's like another communist thing. Whatever.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:59

Awesome. But yeah, I guess everyone on TikTok before the ban here is saying, like, yeah, I'll be on Red Note and all this kind of stuff, and this is Red Note is the new TikTok. It's the same fricking thing, I think. It is, right?

SPEAKER_06 1:09:10

It's the same people owning it and for the same purposes. I'm proud to say that I've never had TikTok on my phone. Me neither.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:16

Yeah, whatever. I don't care. I don't give a fuck. I I don't look at Instagram stories, so you know.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:23

Yeah, but if you used Instagram more, it would actually benefit this podcast.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:26

Yeah, I probably would. Why would that why would it be? For my my 20 followers or whatever I have on Instagram? I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:33

I don't even know if you're not gonna those 20 followers don't follow our Instagram page. Uh they probably do. Well, we don't know that if you don't like it when's the last time you were on Instagram.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:41

Well, the other day someone said, hey, I they texted me saying they DMed me a link in Instagram because they didn't want to copy and paste it into the text message string. So I logged in and looked at my uh it looked at that message. So that was uh a week ago I logged in.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:54

You could repost our episodes that I put on our stories on your story. To the 20 people that probably have yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:01

You're right, you're right, you're right, you're right.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:03

It's all about compounding returns.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:05

I love this because this isn't a job, though. I don't want to do job things because I know.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:09

I know. Uh so I had a question though. This came up in jujitsu the other day. How many faceless NPC five-year-olds could you fight off at one time? What's an NPC five-year-old? Well, I don't want you to picture like fighting off your own kid.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:23

Oh, yeah, that's because I was that's what I was referencing.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:26

Yeah, no, like picture like a faceless.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:27

Because my kid is five.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:28

Sure. Well, we can say four year olds, but like five. Like how many?

SPEAKER_05 1:10:32

Inf infinite.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:33

No, uh not infinite. And I'm not saying they're coming at you in like a straight line, you can just like front kick each one away.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:39

Like I'm in the middle of playing in a field and they're in a circle pattern around me.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:42

Yeah, and it's like, you know, like the second matrix when all the like the agent.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:46

Do I have a pole? No, no weapons. You have no pole. Agent Smith. Agent Smith. And how long do I need to fight them off for?

SPEAKER_06 1:10:52

Well, you need to destroy them. Or or like until you get overwhelmed. How many could you do?

SPEAKER_00 1:11:02

How many five-year-olds could overwhelm you? Uh it's up to you. I know how many could overwhelm me. Oh, you know. You know how many.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:08

You're in the 50s, probably, eh?

SPEAKER_00 1:11:10

Oh, dude. You can do more than 50 at a time? Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:15

They're circled and closing the circle in all attacking. It's not like a movie where one person attacks the other one just stares there. They're all right.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:20

You make an example of the first one, and the rest of them get stared at the end.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:23

No, no. They're NPC robots. They're NPC robots. It's like a simulation. I would say 50. I would say 50.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:29

50 at a time. Are you out of the fucking mind?

SPEAKER_00 1:11:32

They can't all so first I don't I don't disagree. 30 to 40. For sure. 50 can't get to you initially. So you're just dealing with probably 10.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:42

Yeah, at most 10.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:43

But at what point do you get held down or like you lose like 100%?

SPEAKER_05 1:11:45

How are they getting held you down? They have to They're weak. They're not Yeah, I'm sticking with 50. They're weak.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:53

55 year olds. 10, 20. I'm going 100. Oh fuck. I'm going to 100.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:59

If I was to bet my life on it, like if I had to say like this is if you live, you live. If you don't, you die. Like I would say I would say 35. 35, 100%, there would be no issues in me winning.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:11

I just find that hard to believe.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:13

Have you fought a f I've fought a five-year-old. My kid is five. It's it's not hard. It's very easy. It's not hard. And for you guys, you your numbers should be in the triple dish.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:21

Well, no, you don't you don't want to go to the ground. No, no, you stay up. You gotta stay up on your hands.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:25

Yeah, but then that's the thing. At some point, they're gonna drag you to the ground. How are they gonna drag you? By sheer numbers. No. That'll be difficult for them to drag you to the ground.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:34

How is an ant gonna take you down? Well, if there was even if the bajillion ants, how would the ants take you down?

SPEAKER_06 1:12:40

Well, just picture like the ants like climbing up your legs and like eventually they engulf you.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:44

Yeah, because there's a lot of real estate because the ants are small, so they can climb your legs with a lot of them on each leg. The five-year-olds can't do that. You can get like two five-year-olds on a leg.

unknown 1:12:50

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:51

If you got like seven or ten five-year-olds holding your legs, yeah, like at some point you can't move your legs. You might have three, five of the ones on your legs.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:01

Yeah. I I think you overestimate the strength of a five-year-old.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:05

I've never grappled with a five-year-old.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:07

You can come by today, later today. My boy will fight you. He loves to wrestle. And you'll see, like, oh, this is actually really easy.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:15

Like, like without having ever fought a five-year-old. Like, I'm gonna say, like, 20.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:19

Okay. You would destroy 25-year-olds. Like, you wouldn't even be out of breath. I think you're that's that's right, right.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:27

Yeah. I think you're overestimating it. How do we make this how do how do we simulate this?

SPEAKER_00 1:13:31

We need uh some sort of like computer simulation.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:33

My kids got kindergarten tomorrow. Just come online, right? Put some mats down.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:39

How much harder does it get at 10 years old? Like, do these numbers decrease independently?

SPEAKER_05 1:13:43

Yeah, it gets harder. I'm sitting th I'd do 30.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:47

30 10 year olds. Fuck off.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:50

30 like not fat kid 10-year-olds, like normal 10-year-olds. 25 to 30.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:56

Grossly overestimate your abilities.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:58

Buddy, like a punch. Like, I they're not taking you down. Yeah, they can't hurt you. They can't hurt you. You just stay up. That's it. No one's double-legging an adult man at 10-year-old.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:09

They can't, if they punch you, that doesn't hurt.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:12

I want to test.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:13

How strong are the kids that you're fighting? I don't know. I never fought a kid. Oh my uh speaking of fighting kids, I was starting at Judo last week and uh was watching the class before, which was all kids, and one of our friends' uh son was there, and it was hilarious because he he was uh fighting with this girl who's like a little bit bigger than him, but obviously been there longer. She's got a green belt, he's got a yellow belt. I think green's like two or three higher than yellow. I don't know the belt system there. Anyway, he was like they're kind of starting standing and like grabbing each other's ghee, and she turns and just tosses him, just boom, and he looks over, and his eyes are just like as big as you can ever like they're just gigantic, and it's like, oh my god. And so he gets back up and he gets tossed again. He keeps looking over. I was sitting with his mom, keeps looking over, and she's just like the look on his face was hilarious. Like surprise or like shame, just like no, kind of like but like surprise, but like impressed. Yeah, like I don't know. It was like he wasn't hurt or anything, he was just like, Oh, like wow, this is crazy. It was pretty funny.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:17

Like an eye-opening thing a little bit too, because just because he's a boy, he's like, Oh, I got this.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:21

I don't I don't think he I don't think he had that opinion at all, but like because like I think he knows like if somebody's been there a lot longer, they're gonna be better. But yeah, it just hit his like the look on his face was hilarious. It was like I think it was like half like amazement and he was impressed and half like terrified. It's just good for the ego.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:37

It's good, yeah. Right, just uh release uh little release valve on the pressure of that ego. I got tapped by a girl yesterday, she's very good. But I got tapped at uh PFA? Yeah, nice. It's good for the ego or lack thereof. How? How is it good for the ego? How does she tap you? Uh inverted armbar. She's fucking good. Nice. Yeah, and I got long arms. Just put it out there. I like to just hang it out for people to do it. Just not put your arms out there. Thank you. K Rex arms. Yeah. Sometimes I just stand up. Yeah. Just stand up. Just stand up.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:06

Yeah. It's not that easy.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:07

I am trying. I'm trying to stand up. What does it look like?

SPEAKER_00 1:16:11

Hey, I am trying to stand up.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:14

See, that's like quoting movies. Nobody knows what we're talking about. Yeah. But I'll put it in my story. Yeah, you should.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:19

If you go off newtons of strength, like the average man is about nine times as strong as the average five-year-old. Because the only way they can judge strength of five-year-old is grip strength, which is like 73 newtons, and an average person is like 500 newtons.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:32

I don't know what a newton is. I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:34

There's no way to judge the strength of a five-year-old. It's blowing my mind that you think you you would lose to like 45 news.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:39

But but by that argument, then nine nine so nine five-year-olds would be the that would take nine five-year-olds per hand to equal your strength? Yeah. Okay, so you should be able to fight off 18 five-year-olds. Yeah, but I have legs too. I don't think it's a direct direct translation.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:54

No, it's it's not. There's no way to there's no way to do this.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:57

What like do you think we could get like waivers?

SPEAKER_05 1:16:59

So they would sign it, their parents would sign it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:17:02

Do you think we could get enough five-year-olds together in a group with like some rules of engagement here? Like don't you're like you are not allowed to hurt these five-year-olds.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:08

No, because you can't do it without hurting the five-year-olds. That's the problem. Like you could not actually test that theory because you would have to hurt them, because you want them not coming back.

SPEAKER_06 1:17:18

Right.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:18

Right? You can't just like slightly push them to the side. You'd have to go neon smith. Yeah, because they're gonna get back up and then they're gonna be a problem again. You need to end them. Until they gas. Like, what if they're so tired?

SPEAKER_05 1:17:28

Oh, yeah, their cardio is gonna be dog shit too. That's the other thing, right? Like, they're not gonna have wind.

SPEAKER_06 1:17:35

Five year olds have bad cardio.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:36

I why well mine kind of does. I don't know. My my sister's a teacher and they had an arm wrestling competition at school before Christmas, and then we always had like an arm wrestling competition. We meet up for family Christmas just to, you know, show that I'm the strongest. But uh when we're doing it, she is arm wrestling these 14 and 15-year-olds, and she's then smashing each of them. And she's from like it's a smaller town uh where she's teaching at, and she is she beat the entire class, and then she went and at Christmas we arm wrestle each other, and I arm wrestled her, and I'm like, oh my god, and she was destroying the kids, and she's not near like she's not as strong as me, obviously, right?

SPEAKER_06 1:18:12

Because you're a male and you're male. 100%.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:14

And and I and the way I beat her, she's like, she's like, I destroyed every kid with no issue. I'm like, how strong are like 14 and 15-year-old kids then?

SPEAKER_00 1:18:22

I you know what though it depends, man. Like I just went, I was just at a tournament this weekend with for basketball. There's some freak 14-year-old kids. Oh, dude, there was uh there was this 14 year old, he's probably 6'3, like and thick. Like it does not make sense. There's some gigantic kids.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:39

Yeah, like you know those kids back in school in like your elementary or early junior high that were like shaving.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:45

And you're like, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_00 1:18:46

Yeah, there's some of Scarlet's friends are like 6'2, like big kids.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:51

Yeah, I'm not joking, it's crazy. Oh. I remember about 12 years old, my dad and I got into like a uh a confrontation, and I like came at my dad and he just like straight like poof like one armed me. Like I it was like I wasn't even there.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:04

Yeah, dad's strength is super cool.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:06

Yeah. Today, yeah, and I'm always like you've seen like we've talked about this too, right? You like that crossover where like what at what day is like that role reversed? Because that that day is coming gone.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:18

So what I'm hearing you say without saying is you could beat your dad up.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:23

Yes, I could. That's why when we do the arm wrestling competition, I don't I don't arm wrestle my dad. It's just a sign of respect. I don't, you don't do it.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:30

Yeah, he just he's just the man just nodded each other, plus the shoulder might break.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:33

Yeah, he arm he arm wrestled my nephew, or sorry, my cousin, and they were good, they were getting after it, and they did uh because he had a wrist thing, so they did wrist wrestling, so you put your arms here and you do the arm wrestling that way. And uh there was some shoulder issues that popped up because we didn't warm up properly. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:48

That rotator cuff that always happens.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:50

Yeah, so we had to shut that one down, but yeah. I think feats of strength is good. I'm gonna wrestle all my kids today and make it a Sunday tradition. No, I'm serious, I'm serious. Like just uh They like to fight, they like to wrestle.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:02

Every time you leave the fight.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:07

Great is going great to buff it. You're gonna put on your wrestling thing.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:18

There you go. They can loosen the fabric up for me a little bit.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:23

Yeah, they probably should have a finger if you have anything.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:29

Like a wrestling finger. What's a finger? Oh, like a unicard. Yeah. Okay, what do you think of the unicard?

SPEAKER_00 1:20:40

I don't know if it's gonna fit me though.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:46

I think it's a fair.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:48

Well, I think a carefully finger wouldn't fit.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:54

I'm not good enough to wear a thing like grappling.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:04

I don't think you were one of the top and bottoms. No, this is like a strap. Like a strap thinglet. Like a ruffle wear. I don't think I want to ruffle my kids in that thing. Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:28

That's alright.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:29

Because my wife's fighting too, and I'm not wrestling my wife in a thinglet.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:32

You should. That'd be hilarious.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:35

It would not be.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:39

It's very revealing though.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:41

Yeah, that's why I'm not wrestling my wife and a thinglet in front of my kids.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:46

Your kids don't have to be there.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:49

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SPEAKER_05 1:21:58

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