#79 - Life’s Random Pleasures

Jason is back! We discuss music, shows and other joys of life. Thanks for listening! 

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Everyone can understand why you need to do it.

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What do you do right now?

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How many milligrams? Nine? Your reaction was the same. Nine? Yes.

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Why is it what? Do you have to go poop yet? Dude, it's that's like nine's like a warm-up.

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Nine is like you have a problem. Nine is like a I'm cutting that up.

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I have fully embraced the nicotine in my life.

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Okay. Yeah, I we can tell. Where do you get nine? Is that a male thing or from the state?

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I'm not saying that on the air.

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Alright.

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I get it from a source of lawful.

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You've admitted to the possession of it, so I don't think it's a big deal. I don't think a poss possession's illegal. Is it? It's not. Nor is selling. Nor is selling, oh yeah. What is then?

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Importing? Um I don't know. I don't frankly don't care. What it what it I don't know. What did the government feel like making illegal this week? Ooh, teachers. No, nothing true.

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That's just what's up? Yeah. Uh I was driving here and I was uh listening to some tunes, and I just had it on Shuffle. And it's like I find it interesting when like old songs come on that you haven't heard in a long time, how you can remember lyrics that there's zero chance that you would have remembered if someone just says, Hey, where are the lyrics of that song? You know what I mean? But like the song starts, it comes on, and you can lit you can do all of the lyrics from like whatever the 90s for me.

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I love I love songs like that.

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Isn't that weird though? Our brains work like that.

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Like it recalls it because you heard the tune.

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Yeah. Yeah. But like without it, you would never have been able to do the lyrics.

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Why is that? Do you think that's more of a you thing though? I couldn't. I don't know if I like it.

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Yeah, but you don't have a voice. No, you don't have a voice. Who doesn't have a voice in their head? Me. This is not my brain.

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But you know how people like some people just like know a lot of lyrics.

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And I think I like I I think I do when the song comes on. I could not tell you the lyrics like now. What song were you listening to? Uh there was a couple tragically hip songs that came on. Uh there was a Sarah McLaughlin song. Which one? Idia. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. Good tune. Uh, but like could sing the whole thing, but couldn't do it, couldn't tell you the lyrics right now.

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Did you watch Gord Downey's last performance?

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I did not. Yeah. That was heartbreaking. I I really like the tragically hip music, but I don't I don't know if he was a good performer. Like, I feel like I've heard a lot of people who went to the shows saying he was not good live.

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He was really good live until about like 2000. Oh. Like you look at it.

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Is that when the cancer hit?

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Uh I don't oh, I don't know that. But I know like early 90s, if you go watch the Misty Moon concert, the Tragically Hit is the first concert they did on Much Music. It's an hour and a bit long, and he is a very good performer on stage. It's like a small bar.

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Okay, but like performer versus like actually good sound live. Oh you know what I mean? Like the performance might be cool, but like does he sound good? I went three times to them.

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But they were all early on, and they all sounded good. I don't know what maybe near the end. I can't really remember the last concert. I remember there was uh he kind of went off and did his own thing on that last concert, but like um I can't remember what he sounded like.

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Well other one I heard that the other one that I heard was not good live was R Lady Peace. Terrible. Yeah, I never went, but I get another band that I really like, and again, music that I could probably sing all the songs to see if it comes on. But it was a single singer for them, right? Yeah, Rain, Rain something. Rain. Yeah. Anyway, yeah. I heard uh that anyone who would go into them, like, yeah, his he's not good singing live.

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I've been in there, he's terrible.

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See, and I could care about the quality of the performance. I care uh solely at a concert about what it sounds like. I agree.

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Quality of the sound, which is why Which makes the performance good. Yeah, I would agree, which is why it sounds funny. But uh Josh Groben, when I went to that concert, like incredible. Why does that sound funny? I don't know, because like something like that. He's got a great voice, don't like his music, but like incredible like concert because it was just it was like he was singing, like it was like a CD. Voice quality.

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You know what the thing about the Tragically Hip for me is, though?

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What's the thing?

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It's one of those few things where you listen to the old Tragically Hip songs or pretty much any hit of theirs, and it's gives you the feeling of what it I think it used to be to be Canadian. Yeah, like for me. I just think that's nostalgia. Yes, sure. But that's my that's what I tie that to.

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Yeah, I I agree, I completely agree. Uh I grew up like listen like when I played hockey um and stuff, we that would be like we'd be playing that and Nirvana and but like but a lot of tragically hip um in like the locker room.

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Yeah, but if you listen to Nirvana, you're not gonna you're not gonna be like that's what it feels like to be a comedian.

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No, I agree, but I'm just saying like the that time for the case. Nirvana was terrible. Uh no, it was terrible.

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Maybe you don't like the genre. Do you not like it?

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I don't I don't really like grunge. There's some grunge I kind of used to get down with, but like from a pure lay person's musical observation, they're fucking terrible. I disagree. What do you what part do you disagree with?

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Again, I think it has to do with when they came out and um just it was different. And I don't know. I don't for me, like it was just the first time I kind of heard that style of of music, and I I don't know, there's something about it. There's something about it that I think people there's a feeling to it.

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Like I don't the one CD I the with the the naked baby where he's chasing the dollar. That's the like the only CD I can remember.

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Um you can't I think music's interesting in the fact that like obviously voice quality matters, but it's interesting when sometimes it's not that's not what matters. It becomes like the feeling of it, or and again, nostalgia is weird in a way that some of the stuff you could listen to back then that were like was like your favorite music, you listen to now, and like objectively you're like, oh this isn't that good.

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But yeah, maybe maybe I came a little bit strong when I said terrible. Yeah, you really did, but not good, and and I yeah, okay, I don't like Nervon all that much. But the same with ACDC. A C DC is terrible.

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I I don't love ACDC, but there's just certain certain A C D C songs that I'm like, oh yeah, that's a good tune. That's that's how I feel about it. Yeah, but like I would never I don't think I've ever listened to an ACDC album from beginning to end.

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Would you seek out and play an ACDC song if you're driving on your own? Like, would you be like, oh, I really want to hear this song?

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No, but if like the main ones popped up, I might listen to most of it.

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That's that's how I feel about Nirvana. If it pops up, I'd listen, but I'm not gonna search it out and like try and find it while I'm driving and then signal at the wrong intersection like I did on the way here, like you saw. But yeah, I'm not gonna search it out for Nirvana. I signal at this intersection every time on the way out here. It's so dark in the road.

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There he is. And then all of a sudden he starts signaling and slowing down like he's first of all, driving what like exactly the speed limit, which is annoying. Second of all, um second of all, he gets starts slowing down at a random intersection. I'm like, what is this not him? And then he then he like stops and speeds up. I'm like, what is it?

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I hit about an 80 before I pushed it back up. I I I got confused. I'm old, whatever. Um, I'm not gonna search Nirvana. You're not that old. Yeah, okay. Uh ACDC, I'm not a big fan of either though. But I wonder if that's a if that's an age thing. Like if we were a little older, we would like ACDC the same way that some of us like Nirvana.

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Yeah, what year was like it the what year is ACDC like the biggest? I think it's gotta be an 80s. Okay.

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But I think the thing maybe for me would be those those songs, you know, smells like Teen Spirit or pretty much anything by ACDC and uh stuff like that. They're very simple like from a musical standpoint, yeah. Which to me I feel like is uh because the m oh like again from a layperson standpoint, the mus the music is not great, like the musician ish musician. That's not a word. But um I think sorry uh musician. The musicianism is, however, uh that for me is why it doesn't stand the test of time, because there's not a lot of like valuable complexity to the music or a quality, whereas like some other songs that are quite musically good. What? What is that? Uh what do you mean?

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I'm not talking, I'm waiting for you to finish. That's nostalgia.

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Yeah.

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You're nostalgic about it. Like, is that what you mean?

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Well, I just think like those songs stand the test of time because they're musically good.

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Like Okay, but that but because something is complex or simple doesn't make that good or not.

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But like but simple can be good and simple can not be good, and I'd say teen smells like teen's bearing is simple and not good. Okay, okay.

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Simple and not good. Yes, there's simple songs that can be good and give like simple songs that can be bad, and there's complex songs that can be good. Yeah, for sure. It's just music. But like you go back even further to like the 50s and the 40s and sometimes the 60s, and some of that music is still amazing. Like just the sound because the sound quality is it's raw. It's like the sound. There's no you know what I mean? Like, I'm talking like uh Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, like that kind of stuff, where it's like it was real music. That's why for me, Christmas the best Christmas Christmas music is the old Christmas music because it's like actual, legitimate like instrument playing and not like pr overproduced. I like I love like the Bing Crosby and the like that kind of stuff for Christmas because I don't know, it just feels more that's that might be a nostalgic kicking in. But I I maybe, but it just to me it feels more um real. Yeah. You know what I mean? That's because it is like it is completely and I think that some of the stuff now uh the well I don't know. I don't know.

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Is that why you whistle Christmas tunes throughout the year?

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Maybe it's nostalgic. Maybe, but also I don't know, maybe it's why I listen to more country than anything these days, because I feel like it's more real music and has like a connection um from a lyric perspective more so than some of the other stuff. Which just seems like meh. Like I I I have no ability to connect to like Drake. Are you s are you listening to new music? Like I'm not always I listen to music all the time.

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No, no, I listen to music all the time, but I don't listen to anything new.

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I always check the new folder and the Apple thing and see what's there. I should. And then my kid, right? My kids always listen to music and she listens to like stupid things.

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My kids are listening to a lot of stuff that we listen to, like MM, all that kind of like it's that is now the kids are like liking it.

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Um sure, but even yeah, even MM, you're like, okay, yeah, there's some tunes that are like nostalgic from he was kind of like when we were in when I when I was in the bar phase, this was he kind of got big. Uh but again, like from uh actually like there's no connection to that music.

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I listened to 50 Cents, uh, get Richard Die Try, the first CD with In the Club. That that CD that came out I was on grade 12. I loved that CD. I listened to it like a couple months ago. I'm like, this is terrible.

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Yeah.

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Even the In the Club song, I'm like, this was the song. Oh, for sure. And like I'm like, this is not that good, and I don't know why I liked it so much.

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Okay, it's just I don't know, that time, I mean that age, the the feelings you're going through. Yeah. Trying to be cool. The feelings, the drinking that you're starting to do. Yeah.

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What's like your favorite like bad band? Like, what's what's a band or a singer, whatever, that you like that everyone's like, they're terrible. Because everyone kind of has that, I feel.

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I'll have to think about that. What do you have an answer?

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No, I don't. Because like Nirvana might be kind of like a lot of people don't I don't know. I don't know.

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Yeah. Yeah, I don't really have an answer to that.

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No, I mean Amy Winehouse would be mine, I think.

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I thought she was good.

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I well, I I like it, but a lot of people, it's one of those things. Like, she's not I don't think she has a great voice, or sorry, had whatever. A great voice. Um, but I like her music. It's got like a gritty kind of yeah, like a July talk kind of rough to it, you know.

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I think her voice would have been like interesting in like a different type of genre. Ooh, AI could probably take care of that for sure. But this is why like uh like Billie Eilish, like whether you like her music or not, and I think actually her music, some of her music's really good, but her voice and like her style is I find super interesting. I like it.

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I couldn't name one Billie Eilish.

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Oh really? There's uh I've been playing piano game a lot a lot lately, and uh I've been trying to learn uh some songs, and one of the ones that popped up was Oceanize, and it's actually pretty easy chord progression, and uh it's uh it's interesting. I I just her she's such she's got very good songs. And the thing that's interesting about her, and I think people uh some musicians in general is just how natural it is for them. Like at that, I think that album that came out with uh oceanize was she was 14, which makes no sense to me. No sense, and it was developed like her brother is the one who like produced it in their room in their house, and it is impressive. Like you go and listen to that, and first of all, like how is this person 14? And um probably speaks to some raw talent. Oh, completely, completely.

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That's like Bieber at some point.

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He's uh I would he I think he still is, but like his music's not good.

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He's just he's very but he like a like a raging cocaine addiction or whatever he's got going on. I don't know what's going on with him.

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Oh, is he going down a Britney Spears spiral type thing? Is that what's happening?

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And I think that uh that's I mean, let's be real, you can't just be a young teenager. No, something of fame for him.

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Wasn't he like 12 when they first found him? Yeah, when Usher signed him or whatever. When you went to the Diddy House? Yeah. Is he a is he a Diddy House of T? Oh.

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I think that they did some horrible stuff to him. Oh, to him? Yeah. Oh, with the baby. Like, there's like uh there's a song, some music lyrics that I can't when the whole Diddy thing came out, uh, some people were showing some lyrics that he did that you're like, ooh. Like if that's talking about that, that's rough. Uh yeah.

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I don't I don't think there's many child stars of anything music or movies that really escaped from child stardom unscathed. Not at all.

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We see a lot of spirals.

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What's the name of um Corey Feldman? No, okay uh singer, female, her dad was a country star.

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Um she's like my favorite singer.

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She's amazing. So good. And like the the like seven pack a day smoke smokes voice is so weird from that person. Like when you see her talking, you're like, what?

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But like have you seen that meme or short video of her singing and then the the pug? It's like yeah, it's a or it's a clip of her talking during an interview, and she's like, When then I fucking and then it's a pug going like it sounds the same.

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Was she a child stuff? It was a child stuff, yeah.

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Star Wars Disney stuff. Sorry, did you need to check your watch? Uh I did check my watch. Uh Hillary Duff, same thing. Um did she yeah, Hillary Duff did music too. Oh, that then there's a new the newer, like the newer ones that I don't know their music with, like Olivia Rodrigo Rodriguez. That name sounds really familiar. She's like a really famous singer that like my daughter listens to. Uh she was like uh like Disney star. It's that that's a weird, like culty like progression, right? Where and a lot of them, oh uh Justin Timberlake was another one. What's the chick name from the new Tang not Tangle Twisted movie? You know what I'm talking about? Oh Ariadne Ariadna Grande. She like there's like she plays a stupid.

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Her voice is phenomenal, insane. Insane, yeah.

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Yeah, but like her seeing her like as a little basically young teen in these Disney shows, and then all of a sudden she's this like music superstar. Like, obviously, they have to be talented to get into those music like Disney world.

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They're just talented in general, too. Like those people like honestly, like Justin Timberlake is probably one of the most talented people that because he he did all the acting, and when he's also and just everyone, some people are just so good at everything.

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They are, and and but then it's like it's also who you know. That's the weird thing about that industry, it seems like it's like like for sure, because there's talented people obviously who never get anywhere. Um, but it's the right place, right time. Maybe it's it, but it's like you start in that Disney realm, and next thing you know, you've you're meeting all the producers and the people you need to know in order to launch your career, so it just becomes like a kind of a runway.

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Which is as long as you can avoid those diddy parties, you're probably good.

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That's exactly the thing. Like, maybe there's some darkness on that side of it too.

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There it probably is terrible a lot. How could there not be?

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I agree, yeah. I don't know. Well, because it's all about making it's all about money, right? In the end, it there's gotta be because it money's involved, right?

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Well, money and humans, because I think I suspect the majority of the abuse that they would suffer is outside of the psychological abuse, is like sexual abuse. Because humans are twisted. Yeah. And you just get these vulnerable people in these situations, probably where bad shit happens. For sure. I yeah.

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And as a parent, it's like, how do you it's in it's very interesting, actually, like exposing like you want to shelter your kid, like and expose them from the harms of the world, but you also, if they have a natural talent for something, you want to like push them in, or not push them, just say like give them the the road to like okay, this is how you are gonna use that talent. And if you saw a kid, so your kid all of a sudden, like at three years old, she starts writing, she starts like making poems that you're like, geez, like and then you're like, it's it's just it's a it's a step above anything you've ever seen a kid do. And the next thing you know, she starts always singing and humming, and you're like, This is actually pretty decent. And then you're like, you know what, maybe we should think allow her to like try to do that. Next thing you know, well, Disney's got an edition, let's go over here. But then you're what you don't think at the time is like what are we exposing them to by doing this? Do you know what I mean? And and I find there's a lot of that. Um, in there's different pitfalls in like every industry, like sports, all the things. There's gotta be this, you know, things that are gonna get you in trouble, or you're gonna expose your kid to a world that maybe you didn't mean to because of like you you're meaning good, you wanted the all everything good for that person, but all of a sudden, whatever, they're being invited to a Diddy party at 17, you're you're and you know what I mean? Like it's it's a weird thing.

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I had a friend when I was younger, she did some modeling uh in her teenage years and modeling in Japan and stuff like that, and some of the stories and just the the you know the the things that happened are mortifying. Completely.

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And and again, you're putting a usually a child, like a teenager or a child in a position where they don't know that it's not normal and they might feel awkward and weird about it, but they don't know that this is like I can't say I that they can say no or that they can say hey what something's I don't this doesn't like feel right. Like like we always talk about like trusting your kind of spidey sense, right, in terms of a threat or whatever. Like you something's off, something's off about this person. So you trust that. You could be wrong, maybe it's just something weird, but you trust that because of your experience in life, and you know, you're confident, that kind of stuff. But if you're a person who isn't either confident or hasn't been around long enough, and you're getting this weird feeling of like, ah, something I don't feel something's not right here, you're like, Oh, is this just a new situation I'm not used to? Or you know what I mean? So they don't trust that instinct of like I need to get out of this spot.

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Yeah, or somebody's manipulating your environment, whatever power dynamics may or may not be there. Like it it probably is very tough. Oh, I can't imagine.

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But like I said, the that's everywhere. That's it's uh in hockey, it's in it's in everything. Like there's potential that you could go down some we end up in some weird rabbit holes because of exposure to whatever, right?

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And it's the more money involved, the worse it is.

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For sure.

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But it's but it's yeah, for sure.

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Well look at Harvey Weinstein, which is weird. Yeah, right?

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All these people's careers that hinged on him, you know, hey, you want to be a famous actress? Well then you gotta do this. Well, come into my office with the bed in it. Yeah, uh, because this is what they all do. Every this is what they this is just part of how but how long did that go on for? Oh dude, who knows? I don't know a lot about Harvey Weinstein other than the general kind of theme.

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I just think he's I think he's like the figurehead for the thing that's always happened. Do you know what I mean? Like I think it has happened forever, and he just got for some reason he's the one that they decided to talk about.

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Well, yeah, you put a put you put a person in a position of power that uses that power to manipulate people who have goals and dreams and aspirations and creates this barrier of like you gotta do these things.

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Which is like where I always find it interesting that people think like the whole silence thing, right? So what it doesn't mean we have to get conspiracy theories today, but like the idea that like you people won't keep their mouth shut, like they do, they all they have forever. Like you can't tell me that that industry, there isn't half of that industry that couldn't say tell a story about something somebody that would get them like in insane amount of trouble these days, but nobody talks about it. Even the Diddy thing. How many people were at those parties, saw some crazy shit, and never like Leonardo DiCaprio? Like that was he at the Diddy party? Oh, he's in like all the pictures. He was like the guy they would call and he'd come to all of them. Um they have pictures they show I saw a picture on the internet. It wasn't it wasn't fake, I don't think. Um you have to have that caveat. Yeah, 100%. Who knows? I don't think. Uh, but like that's the but again, it's these gigantic parties with all these famous people who shut their mouths. They probably saw something that made them it was awkward, or they're like, ooh, that's kind of I'm gonna go over here. And maybe they didn't like directly see the craziness of it, but they they like ignorance uh is bliss kind of thing doesn't apply when you're pretty sure there's some sketchy things happening and you're at that party, I don't think. Right? And so this idea that people like, oh the no, that would that can't be true because more people would have come out and said something. Are you sure?

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Yeah, and I could imagine you know, you witness something like that in that situation, you start to question be like, Well, is that really what I saw? Is that what's happening? I don't know.

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Or you or are you just it's not my problem? Like there's a lot of that. Yeah, there's a lot of that.

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It's like, oh, it's not my problem. It's like a bystander effect or something. Completely, right? But what's keeping them quiet? So you think like the conspiracy we don't gonna we won't talk about conspiracies, but the conspiracy thing with it.

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Why are we lying? We're going to.

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Okay, well we'll we'll we'll we'll gently touch conspiracies, but if like let's say the moon conspiracy, whatever conspiracy you have, they're probably gonna keep silent under threat of like maybe death, or maybe they're paid off, right? But if people are at a Diddy party, they're just keeping silent because they just socially access. I think access.

SPEAKER_04: 23:06

I think you think in that world, it's like the access to that room allows you to get your next uh music deal or movie deal or whatever the thing. So if you say something that this that now you're no longer invited to that room, it affects your livelihood or whatever. So they just like, well, it's not worth my time saying something because now next time I need to go get a an album made, who am I gonna go to?

SPEAKER_03: 23:34

Or you or you're a nobody that maybe doesn't even have those career aspirations, but you're at that party and you see something and you're like, well, I could say something, but let's be real, like I'm gonna get crushed by Diddy and his extensive monetary resources and lawyers.

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And who's gonna believe me?

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Because I'm in a really famous people. Who's gonna believe me? And that uh maybe I'll just I'm just not gonna say anything.

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It's gotta be tough, like yeah, it's gotta be tough.

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The silence side of it, like just Is it gonna be is it tough this is gonna sound dumb, but is it tough do you think not not for Diddy, but like somebody who has, let's say, absolute power to not get corrupted. Yes.

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Impossible. No, I wouldn't say impossible. Like it's impossible.

SPEAKER_02: 24:15

It's very close to impossible, I feel.

SPEAKER_04: 24:17

I don't think it's impossible. I think it would be very difficult, but I feel like it's like you're a big Superman. You're a big Superman fan.

SPEAKER_02: 24:24

Yeah. I like that's the thing. If you're Superman, and I I totally get now, I'm a big DC fan. I get what Batman was worried about, right? Like I get it a hundred percent because nobody's all true.

SPEAKER_04: 24:36

No, nobody's a true hero if they have that much power. So Batman basically thought that Superman was the ultimate threat. That like if Superman just decided, you know what, screw this, I'm just gonna take over the planet, no one could no one could stop him. So basically he was he was like planning how to do how do I defeat this guy because he's just he was like he was like trying to find the deterrent to stop Superman if Superman ever turned or decided I'm done with this. Because no one's that good. Yeah, like that's a thing.

SPEAKER_02: 25:03

No one is that good.

SPEAKER_03: 25:03

But I think that is if you look at history, I mean the this statement absolute power corrupts absolutely exist probably for a reason.

SPEAKER_02: 25:10

Yeah, but uh but I like the fact that because well I'm not gonna get in combat, but like Batman was looking at Superman because Batman all he knows is humans. And so he knows humans are corruptible. So he just assumed that since Superman looked like a human, he was corruptible and that he could go turn evil, right?

SPEAKER_04: 25:25

One of my favorite uh with DC comics is uh the one where he does go crazy, uh Superman. Uh I can't think of the name of it off the top of my head, but basically the Joker uh ends up killing Lois Lane, uh, which is Superman's girlfriend, wife. Uh so and then the Batman catches the Joker and is like interviewing him or holding him in a cell, and Superman just smashes through the wall and kills Joker right in front of Batman, and then just decides, nah, humanity doesn't deserve uh they they don't know how to they gotta basically they can't not kill every pe each other and it's all bad, so I'm just gonna rule. So he just takes over and is like this ultimate ultimate like ruler of Earth, and it becomes it's a really interesting one.

SPEAKER_02: 26:13

So it's full Viltramite, hey? Yeah, it's really good. Viltramite. Nah sorry, that's another show. I don't know what that is. Invincible. Oh, yeah, that's good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 26:22

Comic book nerds.

SPEAKER_02: 26:23

No, I just I big fan of DC. They're fine. And the the best thing in in my life is when James Gunn came to the DC universe because he is just he's amazing.

SPEAKER_03: 26:32

That's the best thing in your life.

SPEAKER_02: 26:33

Well, the best the best thing in my super in my comic book life will say is that he's over there now and just it's gonna be awesome in the next couple years. Who is that? He's like he's a he made a movie maker. He made like Guardians, right? Yeah, Guardians. Peacemaker. Stuff like that. No? Alright, anyway, moving on.

SPEAKER_04: 26:51

Yeah. No, it's good. Uh actually, my there's a new Batman series out uh that um my kid had just got the first uh volume of it and I'm reading through it, and there's the it's still ongoing. It's really interesting. It's kind of a different take on it.

SPEAKER_02: 27:04

I did forget my my youngest, the six-year-old, is asking about Batman. I'm like, you know what we could do? We could watch a little action scene from a movie because you know, he doesn't kill anyone. And so I just I I just tell him to search Batman on YouTube on the on the TV. Searches Batman. I'm like, yeah, hit the first one, and I kind of turn around, and it's the one from uh Batman versus Superman, where Batman goes into the warehouse and destroys and kills people. Because I hides in the corner, top corner, looks like a horror movie, and just starts just stabbing people and stuff like that. Like, oh, I forgot about this one. Yeah, but that was a really good scene.

SPEAKER_04: 27:35

Whatever. Your six-year-old uh knows what Batman's about now. Yes, he does. He's not the hero you want.

SPEAKER_03: 27:41

He's the hero you need. That's right.

SPEAKER_02: 27:43

There you go. See? You're joining in.

SPEAKER_03: 27:46

I like it. Only because I watch the movies, like the like the Batman, those, like Christian Bell ones. Those are good.

SPEAKER_02: 27:51

I'm pumped to rewatch the older Batmans like the Val Kilmer, because they're terrible.

SPEAKER_03: 27:55

Why would you be? Yeah, I but you're pumped to watch Michael Keaton. Yes, I am.

SPEAKER_02: 27:58

I like I want to watch him again. Uh, George, the George Clooney, right? What wasn't it another one? Yeah, Val Kilmer. Oh my god, yes, yes. Yeah, they're they're absolutely terrible. They're not super violent though, so I can watch them with young kids at the end.

SPEAKER_04: 28:07

Yeah, but we watched I watched them with my kid when he was younger.

SPEAKER_02: 28:10

Yes.

SPEAKER_04: 28:10

There's some scenes. Uh the first one with Michael Keaton, because uh he's trying to hit up hit up that girl. I can't remember who what her name is. The blonde.

SPEAKER_02: 28:19

Yeah, Alicia Silverstone. No, no. No.

SPEAKER_04: 28:22

Anyway, it's just like, oh, okay, this is a little much.

SPEAKER_02: 28:25

Well, uh, my wife was gone on the weekend. We watched um because we watched the nine Star Wars already, like the main nine. And I'm like, yeah, you know what? My favorite one I remember is uh Rogue One. I'm like, okay, kids, let's watch Rogue One together. Everyone's like pumped, we got all this stuff going. We started watching, I forgot how uh real that movie was, and then like in the last 30 minutes, it's a spoiler, whatever everyone's seen it, hopefully, everybody dies and get like just gets shot and killed in the planet. And so where this is all happening, and I'm like, kind of look over at my six-year-old, is crying. We had to have like a full family living room style debrief about the movie after because he was so sad. It was the first movie he's ever took, it was the first time he's ever seen war. Do you know what I mean? Like that version of war. Wow. Do you know what I mean? Like, that's a very serious movie because it's very saving private Ryan. It's it's essentially that, but with Star Wars mixed in. Yeah. And he did not, he yeah, people he got sad. He got sick.

SPEAKER_03: 29:17

He probably shouldn't watch Lone Survivor. Yeah, it's a good show.

SPEAKER_02: 29:20

Well, he's he's almost seven, so we're probably fine. Yeah, he's gonna be he's gonna have some problems when he gets older.

SPEAKER_03: 29:27

Have you watched The Perfect Neighbor?

SPEAKER_02: 29:29

No, uh, we talked about it at the two night. I was sitting with a couple guys and they were all talking about it too. And I'm just trying to avoid spoilers because we're probably gonna watch it this weekend because we were with without kids on the weekend here, so we'll be watching a movie or dark.

SPEAKER_04: 29:41

There's not much to spoil, dude.

SPEAKER_02: 29:42

Yeah, like I know nothing about the actual news story, like all that stuff. I don't know anything. Is it is it one of those things where if I know the news story or no, it's still watch it.

SPEAKER_03: 29:50

It's it's it's just a good story. Like spoiler alert, somebody gets killed.

SPEAKER_02: 29:54

Oh, that makes it a good uh documentary. You know, I don't like those documentaries when no one like dies. You know, it it it's not it's like I watch a law in order. I used to I used to be a big fan of Law and Order, and if it's like one where no one died in it, I'm like, this kind of sucks. Yeah, you know?

SPEAKER_03: 30:07

I want to see it, I want the entertainment value. Uh it was good. It was just uh, at least for me, nobody else seems to have had this experience. It was like pretty like there were some emotional parts.

SPEAKER_02: 30:15

Yeah, you said I think you said that too. I didn't say that.

SPEAKER_03: 30:18

Yeah, he felt nothing.

SPEAKER_02: 30:19

Oh, first of all, I didn't finish it. You cry in every Disney movie, a real movie about stuff.

SPEAKER_04: 30:25

I don't know. Honestly, nah, never mind. You don't want to know about it, so we're not gonna talk about it.

SPEAKER_02: 30:30

Yeah. Yeah, we'll save it for next time. I'm gonna watch it this weekend. So big weekend coming up, no kids. We haven't had no kids in a long time.

SPEAKER_03: 30:37

And you're just gonna watch movies.

SPEAKER_02: 30:39

Uh we have some plans. We have some date ideas. Some knitting, maybe. No, we we've got we have a Lego set we've been working on for like a year and a half and we have to finish it. You have to. Well, we have to because it's a fall uh uh floral Lego set that we've been working on for quite a while. What do you do with it when you're done? Uh we put it on our table. It's as a centerpiece.

SPEAKER_04: 30:57

Legos aren't that hard to do. Yeah. Like it shouldn't take you that long, is what I'm trying to say.

SPEAKER_02: 31:02

I understand. I understand. I understand. Until you're in the set. What? Until you're doing the set, it's a little it's pretty hard. It's pretty hard. And it's not like we're doing it like just with a cup of tea and sitting there. We usually have something on board or some wine or something like that. So it gets a little difficult to do the Lego set, or I leave us alone.

SPEAKER_04: 31:17

There's 17 pieces left over. Whatever, throw them out.

SPEAKER_03: 31:24

Are you guys doing gingerbread houses?

SPEAKER_02: 31:26

Uh no. Christmas, yes. Yeah. Gingerbread houses.

SPEAKER_04: 31:31

Well, I don't eat them, but they're fun to build.

SPEAKER_05: 31:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 31:34

I I don't I eat the candy off of them, and then I throw out the rest. Yeah, that's what I do too. That's what I can drive by and grab a juju all the time. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 31:40

Yeah. And then all of a sudden you just have this like shanty of a house at the end, and it's just garbage, and you just throw it out.

SPEAKER_03: 31:45

It's like a Northside house. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 31:47

My pet peeve though is they never give enough candy. You have to go buy more candy to put on them.

SPEAKER_05: 31:53

Yep.

SPEAKER_04: 31:54

You gotta stop at the dollar store, get some can get some good candy, and then some extra icing for glue. Sometimes the candy with them isn't the top top shelf either.

SPEAKER_03: 32:03

It's uh yeah, it's like the low brand. Okay, are you gonna make your own gingerbread uh walls? No, I'm gonna buy them.

SPEAKER_04: 32:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_03: 32:10

I'm just excited. Uh I haven't made a gingerbread house in years, and like this year it's it's a thing we can do. Yep. It's gonna be fun. And I'm gonna load that thing. I'm gonna make it instead of a house, I'm gonna make a gingerbread tower.

SPEAKER_04: 32:20

You should just actually make a gingerbread twin tower. A gingerbread. Oh, I know. You go gingerbread walls, but then you use jujubes to brick the outside. So you put like a jujube layer and then icing, and then a jujube layer all the way to the top, so it's nice and like solid. So the wind, when the wind blows, it can't get to those walls. It's quiet. Where are you keeping your house? Insulated.

SPEAKER_03: 32:42

What happens if I fly a plane into it?

SPEAKER_04: 32:44

Uh you're fine, because the jujubes absorb the energy. They absorb the energy mostly, and so well. Let's be honest here.

SPEAKER_02: 32:51

You're probably you're probably blowing that thing up from the inside and they're gonna fly a plane into it.

SPEAKER_03: 32:56

You weren't here for that yesterday. Was it last one?

SPEAKER_02: 32:59

It was last one. I think you guys started talking about it because I'm listening to that one right now with Tony? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 33:03

Yeah, we got we got a little into it. We said we weren't going to. Every time they're like, no, no conspiracy theories.

SPEAKER_04: 33:08

We can't not. Uh I saw a meme the other day uh where they're like, I can't remember what show it is, but like how long can you go without like bringing one up? It's like, and it's like four minutes? Is like four minutes okay? Like, no, that's not enough. Like, okay. I can't remember the mu the movie's from. I'm gonna find it because it's funny.

SPEAKER_03: 33:25

They're just the most interesting thing to talk about right now.

SPEAKER_02: 33:28

Ah, there's so many. It's endless. It's literally endless. Yeah, I would like to go back to a time where you didn't have all this information.

SPEAKER_03: 33:36

Well, ignorance definitely is bliss in that sense. It yeah, it really is. It's Theo Vaughn and Bobby Lee. That's why it's funny. Do you listen to that podcast?

SPEAKER_04: 33:47

No. I I have not uh I listened to one podcast recently. Because you look you like Theo Vaughn, you crush a lot of Theo Volks. Oh, he's hilarious.

SPEAKER_02: 33:53

Yeah, he's really funny. Uh he usually has good guests too.

SPEAKER_04: 33:56

He does, really good guests. Yeah. Uh he had I listened to one, was it a country music star? I feel like it was like a sing, it was a singer. Mm-hmm. And it was really good. It's funny. It's just like it's funny the guests that he's getting, like, because they're super famous. And he had Trump. He had the Rizzler kid.

SPEAKER_02: 34:12

It's pretty hilarious. The Rizzler kid or who does that that face? I don't know if I've seen that. Is it like a fifth or probably a 12-year-old kid he had on the podcast? And it is hilarious.

SPEAKER_04: 34:22

He had an Amish kid that I wanted to listen to, and I never got to listen. I never got there.

SPEAKER_02: 34:26

I started following that guy on Instagram. He's on his like Rum Springer or whatever.

SPEAKER_04: 34:30

You know, it's called like the where they go where they leave the c the colony for the year. Oh yeah, yeah. So that's what he's on. What do you call it? Rumspringer? Isn't it called Rumspringer? I don't know. I think I'm right. It's something like that. It's like their mission? Look it up. It's not a mission, it's like where they like they leave and go f figure out the world and do stuff and then they go back.

SPEAKER_02: 34:49

That's like a mission.

SPEAKER_04: 34:50

With like not like a mission mission, but like convert people. Well they're like doing the opposite. They're basically leaving all of their like simplicity of the culture behind, going to see what the real world's like for a year and then go back.

SPEAKER_02: 35:03

And then travel back in time and go back to Oh, rumspringer. There you go.

SPEAKER_04: 35:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_03: 35:08

Rumspringer.

SPEAKER_02: 35:10

I was not wrong.

SPEAKER_03: 35:10

Alright.

SPEAKER_02: 35:11

It's a term that means running around or jumping around. Between your 16 and goes for a year or more.

unknown: 35:16

Huh.

SPEAKER_03: 35:18

Or just or you leave and never come back. That happens too. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 35:21

Like that would be they get to use all technology.

SPEAKER_03: 35:23

There you go. And that's the problem. You know, you get that little phone, that little TikToks.

SPEAKER_02: 35:27

How many people come back?

SPEAKER_04: 35:29

I think a lot, actually. And I can understand it, I think.

SPEAKER_02: 35:33

I like watching their barn raising videos when they kind of speed it up and they put a whole barn up at a day. It's it's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_04: 35:40

You know, I I could I I could see like them leaving for maybe like a while, like four or five years kind of thing, and then being like, I just want to go back to like simple life.

SPEAKER_02: 35:51

I would like a reverse rumspringer right now. Like just go live on their side for a couple months just to avoid everything.

SPEAKER_03: 35:57

They can make some money doing that. Like tourists pay us to come get rid of your technology and do all this work by hand.

SPEAKER_04: 36:04

And like live in the rigid structures and um gender roles and whatever.

SPEAKER_03: 36:10

I'd love to uh kick it on a hot or egg colony for a while, see what that's all about.

SPEAKER_02: 36:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 36:14

Although they they're heavy drinkers.

SPEAKER_02: 36:16

They are. My mom used to teach on one, and we spent a lot of time on it. A lot of fun.

SPEAKER_03: 36:21

No, no, I think that's no. I don't think so. That's my experience.

SPEAKER_02: 36:23

But I think it's very accurate.

SPEAKER_03: 36:25

Like, you know.

SPEAKER_04: 36:27

You know that place uh north of the um greenhouse, that the gigantic greenhouse over there? Uh it's like north of Coldale by like I don't know. What is that place? What do they what do they grow there? Do we know?

SPEAKER_03: 36:41

Is it like lettuce? Are you talking the one closer to Pitcher Butte?

SPEAKER_04: 36:46

Yeah, north, north uh east of Picture Butte. Well you said Coldale, now you said Pitcher. Well, like so that would be the same area. So Picture Butte, northeast, Coldale, north. Right there. There's that intersection.

SPEAKER_03: 37:00

There's one on the south side of the highway that runs west of Pitcher Butte from the Coldale Highway. I don't know.

SPEAKER_04: 37:05

It's a it's gigantic. It's gigantic. You know what I'm talking about? I don't, apparently. It's like gigantic greenhouse. Anyway, I thought that that was run by like hotterites or something, but then they built there's this gi super nice house they built on the other side of the road now that I think is the owners of the greenhouse lettuce and other leafy greens. Okay, that's right.

SPEAKER_03: 37:25

Well, there's a big lettuce greenhouse on the way out just past Coldale. Yeah, it's not that one. Like I'm talking that one's like I remember the numbers for that greenhouse. They grew something like I don't know, 10,000 heads of lettuce a day or something crazy like that. A day? Yeah, a day. Yeah. Lettuce doesn't grow.

SPEAKER_02: 37:41

No, like not like a not like a day.

SPEAKER_03: 37:43

Well, the thing about growing things is you can start them at different periods.

SPEAKER_02: 37:47

So they would produce and they stagger their growing. Yeah. And do 10,000 heads of lettuce a day. Then why am I why am I paying four dollars for an iceberg lettuce head if that if they're growing 10,000 a day?

SPEAKER_04: 38:00

Because that's probably what why yeah, that's what they can charge. Uh I just picture them plucking everything plucking everything like at the end of the day, replanting, and then the next day Yeah, they just come up again. Don't you know how lettuce like Harry Potter. That's like a Harry Potter thing. It'd be like, pop, there you go. Get a bar.

unknown: 38:17

I gotta find out if this number's true.

SPEAKER_02: 38:21

Well, I did we care what just to let you know, I have it in front of me.

SPEAKER_03: 38:25

And what's the number?

SPEAKER_02: 38:26

40 to 60,000 heads six days a week.

SPEAKER_03: 38:30

Yeah, that's a big number.

SPEAKER_02: 38:31

So that would be 10,000. And this is the one north, you think? Yeah, this is the one that says that uh 11-acre holdy factory, blah, blah, blah. Supplies to Wendy's Canada and other big chains.

SPEAKER_03: 38:41

And Wendy's always has crisp lettuce. You know what they do? I like a good Wendy's burger.

SPEAKER_04: 38:45

Uh actually an AW burger with a lettuce wrap instead of a bun.

SPEAKER_02: 38:49

But I want to pay 20 bucks for a few. Yeah, you're paying the same amount of money. I hate AW for that reason.

SPEAKER_04: 38:53

I love the best food.

SPEAKER_02: 38:55

The best food.

SPEAKER_04: 38:56

I agree. The burgers are the best by far.

SPEAKER_02: 38:58

Not the best, the best onion rings, not the best fries.

SPEAKER_04: 39:00

I would say their burgers are my favorite. 10 out of 10. Yeah. But to pay 20 bucks for it, 20 bucks.

SPEAKER_02: 39:06

You know what's a good under like a whopper.

SPEAKER_04: 39:08

With the root beer and fries, like not just a burger. I don't like their fries though. Their fries are blug.

SPEAKER_02: 39:14

Just filler. I would go to AW and then drive across the street to Wendy's and get their fries and kind of mix it in that way.

SPEAKER_04: 39:22

With a frosty drink.

SPEAKER_02: 39:23

With a Coke, because the McDonald's is across the street again, so I'd have to do the three stops and have a burger drink.

SPEAKER_03: 39:28

Sorry, you can't get Coke at any of the other places?

SPEAKER_02: 39:30

McDonald's is the best Coke.

SPEAKER_04: 39:32

How can they have any isn't isn't Coke Coke?

SPEAKER_02: 39:36

Coke is Coke, but McDonald's has like an actual different kind of syrup than the other restaurants. It coke supplies them, so their Coke tastes a little different. I don't believe you. Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 39:44

Well, I'm getting the old AI out here.

SPEAKER_03: 39:48

Oh, sorry, JB's phone's ringing. Standby. Why is that a bad thing? I I don't know who'd be calling me. We well, as you heard, we were just talking about JB about checking his watch a lot.

unknown: 39:59

Yeah, what's

SPEAKER_04: 40:00

What's going on, JB?

SPEAKER_03: 40:01

Nothing is going on. That's why I appreciate you have a Casio. It adds no value outside of telling you the time.

SPEAKER_02: 40:08

Yeah, they run like six different standards that other restaurants don't have and it provides a different.

SPEAKER_04: 40:12

Yeah, but I don't, okay, but sure, they have different standards, but why would Coke be different? That makes no sense to me.

SPEAKER_02: 40:18

Because they run a 5.3 to 1 ratio of water to syrup. JB.

SPEAKER_04: 40:23

But why would they not just like get Coke and then serve Coke?

SPEAKER_02: 40:27

But they do serve Coke. The way they make it is different than the other restaurants.

SPEAKER_04: 40:31

That okay, you're saying make it. Doesn't Coke just show up as Coke?

SPEAKER_02: 40:36

Coke comes in bags of syrup that they miss with their own carbonated water.

SPEAKER_04: 40:38

I don't think those drink dispensers work. I don't know. I've never thought of it.

SPEAKER_02: 40:41

Are you serious? Yes. Okay, you know when you go to a drink dispenser like at Costco or something like that, you put your drink over there and you see like a strand of color and a strand of white. I've always wondered why. Yeah, that's it mixing. That's the ratio that it produces. So McDonald's is a 5.3 to 1.

SPEAKER_04: 40:54

And what about check Wendy's?

SPEAKER_02: 40:56

All right, checking Wendy's ratio.

SPEAKER_04: 40:58

Wendy's cochre.

SPEAKER_02: 40:59

This is an amazing podcast for anyone who's listening to it.

SPEAKER_03: 41:02

We've really, really digging. I didn't never like I knew like really talking about important shit tonight. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 41:10

Yeah, they do a five to one. So McDonald's is a 5.3. Yeah. Yeah. So McDonald's optimizes it, making it a little sweeter. 5.3, 5.4 to 1.

SPEAKER_03: 41:19

Why wouldn't Wendy's just up it a little bit? Because they, I don't know.

SPEAKER_04: 41:22

Cheaper. I don't know. Cheaper not to.

SPEAKER_02: 41:24

You know what? That's probably what it is. McDonald's doesn't really raise prices, though. I think Wendy's McDonald's are kind of consistent. No, it's still. Are you kidding me?

SPEAKER_03: 41:32

We to for to feed a family of two and a half, it's like$45 at McDonald's.

SPEAKER_02: 41:37

I think that's an over-exaggeration. It is. It's not.

SPEAKER_03: 41:41

It isn't it.

SPEAKER_02: 41:42

My family would be like a like a$40 McDonald meal. Three happy meals and two meals, probably run about$41.

SPEAKER_03: 41:48

No. Yeah. To get a Big Mac, two cheeseburgers, large French fry uh diet coke. Is that just for you? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 41:54

Okay. See, there, I think that lies the issue there in the comparison. Yeah. Is I'm getting a meal, maybe a cheeseburger on the side, because that's a nice little add-on.

SPEAKER_03: 42:03

It's not enough food.

unknown: 42:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 42:05

Oh, I can do without the fries, but you I need like minimum three burgs to go yet.

SPEAKER_04: 42:09

Holy I hate the uh McDonald's burgers. Hate? Hate. They're garbage. Other than like they had the sirloin burgers for a while. Yes. Those were good. They don't have those anymore. No, because they're like tiny, disgusting little thin patties made of sawdust.

SPEAKER_03: 42:30

I like Big Macs. I have one every evening. I want to say Tony hadn't had a Big Mac in his entire life up until a few years ago.

SPEAKER_02: 42:36

I think he 100% right.

SPEAKER_03: 42:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 42:38

Which is weird.

SPEAKER_04: 42:42

Sure. I don't know if it's weird. I don't know. It's probably good. His parents didn't feed him garbage growing up.

SPEAKER_02: 42:50

My kids eat a lot of garbage. I'm uh we crush a lot of happy meals. I would say like probably like two times a month. Maybe it's not that bad, but still. It's a lot more than I would like them to have.

SPEAKER_03: 43:01

I thought you were gonna say like two times a week.

SPEAKER_02: 43:03

No, like that to that to me is a lot. Like two times a month's quite a bit. But I still remember like it's nostalgic for them. I think McDonald's is a nostalgic for us. Because I like to remember McNe McDonald's because my dad used to take me, and I remember we'd go to like Taekwondo, and then on the way to the city before we went home, we'd stop at McDonald's and I'd get uh my Big Mac Meal, and I still think of that every time I get a Big Mac Meal.

SPEAKER_04: 43:21

Are you still taking the kids to judo?

SPEAKER_02: 43:22

Uh yeah, Lannon's really liking it. Really, really liking it. The other two kids are just kind of they came and watched tonight, but he loves it. Oh, okay. So we had a little uh we did some shark rounds on the weekend with dad, and I I'm noticing he's he's it's it's he's getting better and he's getting like more aware of what he's doing. It's really cool.

SPEAKER_04: 43:39

When are they gonna move him to the kids' class?

SPEAKER_02: 43:40

Uh be January. So we had to take the first just one semester in the beginner and then in January probably. Yeah, he's loving it. And I'm noticing a marked departure difference in his behavior even after stuff like that. Like he's much more respectable. Like he's yeah, he's got like that teenage danks kind of attitude going, but it just goes away after he goes to judo. That's good. It's really good. Your boy's doing two? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 44:05

Nice orange belt now. Look at that.

SPEAKER_02: 44:09

Is this the orange belt? Is that a competition stage yet where he can? Uh you can go, yeah. But not.

SPEAKER_04: 44:14

No, we're gonna go. There's an Edmonton tournament in March we're gonna go to. And then maybe one other one. I can't remember.

SPEAKER_01: 44:23

Nice.

SPEAKER_02: 44:25

It's kind of dangerous though, because like the two boys were fighting the other day, and I noticed Line, like Landon lined up for like a hip toss on his six-year-old brother on like the hard floor. Yeah, I had to be like, wait, wait! Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 44:39

You just gotta put a mat room in your house.

SPEAKER_02: 44:42

I got we have some like this really crappy old tatami mats that we put in the garage, but it is nothing like the floor at that judo club.

SPEAKER_03: 44:49

But it beats the heck out of a concrete floor. Oh my god, yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 44:51

Yeah, but they get tougher, right?

SPEAKER_03: 44:53

Yeah, yeah, totally.

SPEAKER_02: 44:54

But I don't.

SPEAKER_04: 44:57

It's because we're old. Yes, we are. We're getting softer. You especially. Thank you. He's been picking on me lately.

SPEAKER_02: 45:06

I have, I have. Yeah, I don't know why. I don't know why because you hurt your back. Yeah, yeah, that's what happens.

SPEAKER_04: 45:11

Uh on the drive over here, I was thinking, meh, I'm just gonna keep pushing too hard until it breaks in half. And then is it still hurting? Oh, this morning it was super bad. Did you work out this morning? No. I haven't worked out uh maybe a week. Just because I'm trying to see if resting it helps it, but it hasn't been, so it's something like, well, well, do I get back at her? I've been doing stretching. I'll do like there's a little yoga thing I follow at night.

SPEAKER_02: 45:36

Any kind of like a cold plunge? Anything like that? I think one of those.

SPEAKER_04: 45:40

Uh actually, I just booked an appointment for what's it called? Something massage. It's like a specifically like a muscle like pain thing. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02: 45:51

This sounds terrible.

SPEAKER_04: 45:52

I can't think of the name of it. Let me look it up.

SPEAKER_02: 45:54

Like active released, that kind of thing?

SPEAKER_04: 45:55

Um, no, maybe it's this lady I I had gone to before who was like a chiropractic, chiropractor who she gave up her chiropractic license because she found that this thing that she did, this massage therapy thing she did was more effective in the end. So she decided to give up her chiropractic side and just focusing on this. So she's not a doctor anymore? I guess not, unless you can be a doctor of massage healing. I don't think so. Okay. Not a real doctor. I don't know. I'm not gonna look it up and I'm not gonna.

SPEAKER_02: 46:29

I like my carapractor plays because it has a red light bed that I get to use.

SPEAKER_04: 46:34

I find it quite funny. I think we might be going back to that um place in Mexico we went uh beginning of the year. And uh this time I'm gonna go use that sauna every day. When are you going? I don't know yet. Maybe December.

SPEAKER_03: 46:47

Twice in one year.

SPEAKER_04: 46:49

Maybe.

SPEAKER_03: 46:52

Yeah. It's a lot of Mexico.

SPEAKER_04: 46:57

I love it. It's it's the best. It's for the price. I mean, it isn't super cheap, but like for the price and what you get, um like I don't have to think about anything. Just eat and drink and chill.

SPEAKER_03: 47:11

Sit by the beach, watch the waves roll in, sit by the pool, swim in the ocean, try not to get eaten by a shark. I don't go in the ocean much, to be honest. I'd rather be at the pool.

SPEAKER_04: 47:21

But you could do that here. Uh no.

SPEAKER_02: 47:23

It's I never got it until I had the kids and we were getting older. Like, yeah, I like it. I got it. I'm all inclusive all in.

SPEAKER_04: 47:29

A guy named Pedro serving me drinks as soon as I finish my one. He's like, oh, Jay's, you need another one? Yep. Yep.

SPEAKER_02: 47:35

What are you what are you taking for uh are you taking American money down there? Are you taking I take American?

SPEAKER_04: 47:40

You take American? And then I usually tip right away at the beginning of the day because you these guys stick around all day and serve. So you find the area you want to be in, you that you plant. You plant for the day. If you even if you leave, you stay your leave your stuff there, you plant for the day. Yeah, first time he comes by, you give him a nice tip. Yours the rest of the day. Are you a towel placer in the morning? Uh this place you didn't need to. It was that's nice.

SPEAKER_02: 48:02

Yeah, it was it was amazing. I hate that state more crazy towel that people are animals. Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_04: 48:06

I I I the last place we went to, the second time we went to that one, it was like that because the first time it wasn't, and the second time it was, I'm like, like it made me not want to go back ever again. Yep. Even though the place was awesome. But um, because it's just like that's stupid. But uh, this place was not like that. Maybe it was the timing of the year. We'll find out if we go back, if it's different, but uh yeah, you yeah, so you tip at the beginning, and all day. See he sees you without a drink in your hand, he's coming.

SPEAKER_02: 48:33

Are you gonna be a Mexico family? Not a chance. I think you will. I said the same thing. You go on one trip and you're like, this is it.

SPEAKER_04: 48:41

Hey, guess what? There's somebody else in your relationship who has a say in this. I think she would agree with me. I disagree. You guys are gonna go.

SPEAKER_02: 48:47

She's too young to know what she wants right now. It's gonna be what she wants. It's not gonna be you two deciding. It's gonna be what she wants. I was meeting his wife, but yeah, I was meeting his daughter. She's gonna decide. If she likes it, you're going back. That's what's gonna happen.

SPEAKER_03: 49:00

Dude, I can confidently say right now we will probably never go to Mexico. Why wouldn't you why you wouldn't? Because it's none of what you said sounds fulfilling to me in any way.

SPEAKER_04: 49:10

Just relaxing. So you take a book that you haven't been read had read for a while, you hadn't had a time, you take a book, your kids chilling in the pool, you jump in and play with them for a while, they're happy, you jump up, read a book for a while. I think it's the sun. You relax. Oh, yeah, you have mine as him as a day walker kind of style.

SPEAKER_03: 49:27

Yeah, the sun, regardless of the sun, I can do all that here.

SPEAKER_04: 49:31

You can't, dude. It is so different. No, you can't. It's it's different.

SPEAKER_03: 49:34

Like to me, it sounds like you're paying thousands of dollars to go do exactly what you could do here and go sleep in your own bed.

SPEAKER_02: 49:42

Yeah, but you can do dip your foot in Park Lake? Like, what? Yeah, don't understand. What are you gonna do here?

SPEAKER_04: 49:49

It is not even close to the same thing.

SPEAKER_03: 49:52

Yeah, obviously, it's not quite the same.

SPEAKER_02: 49:55

Not quite. He's the guy who's gonna go to Mexico. He'll go to Mexico in a couple years with his family, and he'll make friends of other people there and still stay in touch with them. That's the kind of Mexico travelers.

SPEAKER_04: 50:03

So when we went to the wedding in Dominican, I take away the crazy flight long flight and some of the people who got sick. Take away that stuff. But that was one of those people. Okay, but pretend you weren't for a second where you didn't get sick. I haven't been sick once when I've been in Mexico. Uh that atmosphere was that not awesome.

SPEAKER_03: 50:23

The reason I had a great time in the Dominican was because of the people that I went there with.

SPEAKER_02: 50:27

Okay, well, you're also gonna go with your family, so you like them as well.

SPEAKER_03: 50:31

Yeah, but then why don't I go somewhere that we want to go get experiences that we can't like can't get?

SPEAKER_04: 50:39

Like a Mexico on a beach and you can't get here. Weird.

SPEAKER_03: 50:42

No, I don't want to go travel somewhere so I can sit there and Okay, cool. Then yeah, okay. I I would like to go, like I envision using that money to go like to like cool places, like, hey, let's go to like Poland or something like that. Let's go to like Japan, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02: 51:01

You can still do those things, but you will like a Mexico trip when your kids are at the age, they're they're running around.

SPEAKER_03: 51:07

Maybe I'll be proven wrong, but right now I'm gonna say not a chance. Alright.

SPEAKER_02: 51:11

To each their own.

SPEAKER_03: 51:12

Because you probably did this before you had kids.

SPEAKER_02: 51:14

Uh not much, no. We did a couple times, but I never enjoyed it as much as I do now.

SPEAKER_03: 51:19

Yeah, but you you purposely sought it out before you had kids, is what I'm hearing. Like you did do it.

SPEAKER_02: 51:24

Yeah, my my we do we did stagger trips. My wife would pick a year, and then I'd I'd pick uh the following couple years or whatever, and she would pick Mexico, and I'd like to go. So this is kind of fun.

SPEAKER_04: 51:33

You said stagger chips, but then why do you get to pick a couple years?

SPEAKER_02: 51:35

No, like every every sorry, every couple years. Like it's not like every year we would do something.

SPEAKER_04: 51:40

I used to pick one, I pick two. And then she picked one, and then I picked two. That's how this works. It's how a relationship works.

SPEAKER_02: 51:45

No, it's like every couple years we would uh train. But yeah, I never liked Mexico until the kids, and I watched them just down there speaking some Spanish. Hola. Hey? Uh yeah, and I just it's a por favor.

SPEAKER_03: 51:57

Part of the reason this is not a slight against you, but part of the reason I have such a adverse It seems like it's gonna be a slight against you. Well, it's gonna come across as a slight against you. It's not. Um, part of the reason I have an adverse reaction to the thought of that is because it to me it kind of embodies everything, not everything, some of the things I really dislike about us as a human race.

SPEAKER_02: 52:16

Oh, like the slothiness, like the fat people in Wally kind of thing. Yeah, 100%. There's a little bit of that going on.

SPEAKER_04: 52:25

But you wake up, gym.

SPEAKER_03: 52:27

So what you're saying is you're fitter in Mexico than you are here.

SPEAKER_04: 52:29

Just just first of all, there's a time. I'm gonna I wanna come punch you in the face.

SPEAKER_02: 52:34

But just imagine like you go in there, you gym, you sauna, you go before the people are up, before your family's up, you're in, do those two things. You go have a breakfast by yourself with a little cappuccino, then you go up to the room, the family's just waking up, and you go down to the pool. You're walking, you're walking. It's amazing.

SPEAKER_04: 52:49

The humidity and the sounds of the animals and the palm trees, and like it's just not it's just getting light out. I'm walking to the gym by myself, chilling, get in the gym, do a workout, walk back, just breathing it in, just feel so nice, it's so warm out.

SPEAKER_02: 53:07

And that breakfast you have in the morning when the family's still sleeping, you look around the restaurant, you look around the buffet, whatever it is, and you just see like happy dads just enjoying this small amount of time, and it's so good. But then you go up and you have a great day with everyone else. It's it's the best. I I'm a big fan.

SPEAKER_03: 53:21

You could sell me on that if it was a villa with not a whole bunch of other people staying in the same kind of area with the same amount of people. Yeah, but I've I don't have that type of money.

SPEAKER_04: 53:32

Um and also some of the times when you go to these resorts, it depends on the time of the year because they feel that way because there's nobody there. Like there's are there's way less people there, and they're big enough that like having less people, it's like super, super noticeable. Like the one, the what like last year when we were there, or I guess that was this year, uh, there's a couple times we went to the pool for the first like four hours, we were the only ones at the pool.

SPEAKER_03: 53:57

Would you do would you find enjoyment out of that if you went there and didn't drink at all?

SPEAKER_04: 54:03

Yes, because the food's so good. And I and I I say drink, but I like I I'm having like like I've never drived, I don't think I got drunk one time.

SPEAKER_02: 54:13

Oh, I did. No. The kids saw me at my best.

SPEAKER_04: 54:17

I mean I had my finest one day. Yeah, like I not once was I like drunk. I I'd have a couple, go do something.

SPEAKER_02: 54:24

You your resort you pick is pretty good food though. Really? But you guys went to the Dominican, and my assumption being the Dominican is not the best type of food. Like it's kind of more bland.

SPEAKER_04: 54:32

Honestly, I had no problem with it at all. Yeah, but I mean it was I can't I can't remember to be honest. It was I feel like it was okay. But it was like buffet the whole. Oh no, there was a couple of air. No, we had a sit-down meal. That was yeah. But the ones like the last couple we've been to Mexico, uh, you book these a la carts and they're like very, very good restaurants.

SPEAKER_02: 54:50

Yeah.

unknown: 54:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 54:52

It makes you happy.

SPEAKER_02: 54:53

Just give it a try. When you give it a try, you can come out and listen to this and eat your words. Hey, you know what?

SPEAKER_04: 54:57

Hey, stop, stop, help me. You just do you. Okay, I'm not I'm sorry. I'm sorry for trying to push you into going to Mexico.

SPEAKER_02: 55:02

Just go to go to Poland and take your kids to the Holocaust, the museums, and all the stuff over there.

SPEAKER_04: 55:07

Take your five-year-old.

SPEAKER_02: 55:09

I think. It is. Yeah. There you go.

SPEAKER_04: 55:11

We talked about maybe going to Bonnie experience. We talked about maybe going there to watch jujitsu, but then we're like, well, can we go all the way there to watch jujitsu? Because then and then not go do other things. And then if we're gonna go do other things, this becomes a weak boys' trip. Yeah, now we're just like now we're just in Europe for two months.

SPEAKER_03: 55:26

Yeah, in Europe. Like this sounds like the beginning of hostile. You know what interests me is going to South America. Because it's it's the place you hear the least about. Like where? Like Brazil? Just South America. You know, we always hear about things happening in Europe and Asia, North America. Not a lot of talk about South America generally.

SPEAKER_02: 55:45

Probably a reason for that. I don't know what that would be.

SPEAKER_03: 55:48

Um, there'd be some cool places to go for sure. Dude, like I'd love to go to like Chile or Peru, Argentina, Argentina.

SPEAKER_02: 55:53

Argentina, yeah, Argentina. I don't know my geography that well.

unknown: 55:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 55:57

I had a friend that went uh to Brazil. I think he's been to Brazil twice, maybe. Uh really really liked it. I mean, the Brazil's big, very big. Yeah, humongous. Who else we know? Somebody else who did a big trip. It might be um George, works with at the college now. I feel like they went down and did like that whole like area, like Peru, and I can't remember. It was like but he was showing us like pictures and super cool, like all bunch of tons of waterfalls like converge in this one spot. And anyway, I don't know. Yeah, like I I like the I love the idea of travel, but then I also just don't want to do it. Like, this is why I also I think I like Mexico because it's like a five-six hour plane ride, boom, you're there, back home, safe air quotes. Um because like we we pay for the resorts, we usually stay on the resort. Like we don't really go out and do excursions. We have in the past, but we haven't recently, and uh there's some like maybe false security in that, but then the idea of like going to sometimes like just touring around Europe is just like I don't know. Maybe I'm just getting old and our friend Alistair did that with his kids.

SPEAKER_02: 57:04

The three are they got three boys? Two boys, something like that. Anyway, they went to Europe he he speaks so highly, but they always do those trips instead of the like the Mexico, the resort trips.

SPEAKER_04: 57:13

And it's probably better. It probably is better.

SPEAKER_02: 57:14

It probably is better, and then and their and their kids get to expose to a little more culture too with the city. Japan? Japan would be one of those.

SPEAKER_04: 57:24

I think that'd be interesting to take your the family to, but also not cheap.

SPEAKER_03: 57:28

But then, and you also then have to do because I'd like to go to China, I'd like to go to Japan, I'd like to go to Korea, I'd like to go to like Southeast Asia. Do you have a thing for Asians?

SPEAKER_02: 57:37

Yeah, it's kind of one one area that you're kind of concentrating on. Like you can go to Europe too.

SPEAKER_03: 57:40

I don't know. It's for whatever reason in my brain, that's the area that's I would like to go to Japan, though.

SPEAKER_02: 57:45

Like anyone who's gone there has said it's amazing.

SPEAKER_03: 57:48

I would pick Asia over Europe.

SPEAKER_04: 57:51

Would you go to the pyramids and try to dig a hole and see if you can find the uh Yes, yes, I would bring tools.

SPEAKER_03: 57:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_02: 57:59

I'm just trying to think about what I'd rather go to Asia or to uh Europe.

SPEAKER_03: 58:03

Having been to neither, it's hard for me to really say that, but like the culture, maybe the my perception of the food. Like food would be a big part of why I would travel somewhere.

SPEAKER_02: 58:12

I feel like we have a weird perception of food, I think, though. Like if you go to China, their their food's gonna be different than our like the Chinese food here, right? Of course.

SPEAKER_03: 58:20

Chinese food is not Chinese food.

SPEAKER_02: 58:22

Exactly. Yeah. I wonder if it's the same, it's probably the same-ish with Japanese food. Why is maybe Vietnamese food too?

SPEAKER_04: 58:28

Maybe why is it when you're younger down? Explanation I'm not thinking of right now when I'm asking this question, but why is it in your 20s your like um your propensity for risk taking and just like not even thinking, actually, not even risk taking, just like oblivious of the risk, is like so much higher than like as now at my age, where it's like, well, is it worth the risk? Like, is it worth going and having all these potential risks? And I think that is legitimately just a function of age and experience. Because like when I went to Thailand when I was 20, 20, 21, didn't even cross my mind. We didn't we did not have a plan when we landed in Bangkok. No plan. Did not have like an idea where we were staying that night. We got in a taxi and they took it take us to a hostel, basically, is what we said. And we know we got one of those lonely planet books because this is before I think I had a cell phone. So we had one of those lonely planet books, and we're like, here, no, no English. Like, let's go here. Okay. That was like our plan. And like the thought of like, oh, this might be dangerous, didn't even cross my mind.

SPEAKER_03: 59:31

But that sounds like so much fun.

SPEAKER_04: 59:33

It was it was awesome. Like, there's not there is never there will never be a time that I learned more about myself, probably, or at least like grew as a person, probably in in those in that month I was there. Tried some things, you know? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 59:46

Some things. Some things.

SPEAKER_04: 59:48

Some things. Well, no, it was just like just like like I don't I don't I could not do that now. I I'm just ignoring it. Uh I couldn't I couldn't even do that now. Like just like get on the plane, hey. We're go I know we're going to this city. We'll figure that out when we get there. Like that's what would be a thing.

SPEAKER_03: 1:00:03

You could if you didn't have kids that relied on you.

SPEAKER_04: 1:00:05

Yeah, you're you're accountable to people as well, right? Right, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:00:08

And your wife. Like, I think if you in ten years were like, hey, I'm going to Vietnam, I'll see you in a month. I think you could do it. Yeah. And you need to go and you also need to go with friends. Like doing that by yourself would be super yeah. Probably uncomfortable. We bring a couple buddies and it's like, hey, we're gonna solve these problems together.

SPEAKER_04: 1:00:29

But we ran into people all the time when we were there who were by themselves traveling, which is like so weird to me. But they went to Thailand by themselves and they were just checking the things out and meeting people and like it just it was weird. Do you ever watch they're Europeans though? All like all of them are Europeans.

SPEAKER_03: 1:00:46

And they also probably have the benefit. Like most Europeans are generally a lot more bilingual than we are. Not Thai, though. No, but I think like they just have more experience with other cultures. Very much so, yeah. Because like we are very much one culture north of Mexico.

SPEAKER_02: 1:01:03

Our last Mexico trip we did last year, maybe there's a lot of Europeans at the resort. Like well, like way more than there were Canadians and Americans. I didn't notice. We honestly didn't know.

SPEAKER_04: 1:01:13

I wonder if that was consistent. Uh the when we were in Dominican, there were a lot of like Russians. Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_03: 1:01:20

It was like it was like half. It was actually really neat. Uh they were not super friendly. No, not friendly at all. Friendly.

SPEAKER_02: 1:01:26

Oh, really? That's so weird. Because I've heard Russian people are the friendliest people that you can meet.

SPEAKER_04: 1:01:30

Like, yeah, but like simple things like the one guy had a drink. Yeah, like the one guy had a drink, and it looked like go out. And I think one of us is like, hey man, what drink you got there? And he's just kind of like looking at us like why would you talk to me? Oh geez.

SPEAKER_03: 1:01:41

It was and that's for sure just cultural. Yeah, it was just very different.

SPEAKER_04: 1:01:46

Um traveling, Europeans. Nope, it's gone. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 1:01:56

My my goal is when I retire and when we retire, like and the kids are out of the house. That's what we do is we just go, hey, let's go rent a cheap apartment in Japan and just go live there for three months. Okay, cool, now we're back, and then just do those. Not like a trip, but just like a just go live there.

SPEAKER_04: 1:02:12

You're gonna get a job while you're there?

SPEAKER_02: 1:02:13

That's what we can't figure out yet. We're trying to teach some English. Trying to work those problems right now, but yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 1:02:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:02:22

This is gonna bug me.

SPEAKER_04: 1:02:24

I um it would be like I don't, yeah. The ability to just do that kind of stuff with like a certain amount of money is interesting, right? If you just have I don't know the number, but like ten million dollars, and you're like, okay, cool, we're we're good for life. We're just gonna live really like modestly, but we're gonna go do that. We're gonna go live here for three months, we're gonna go live in Switzerland for the winter, we're gonna go to like just whatever.

SPEAKER_02: 1:02:50

That'd be amazing.

SPEAKER_03: 1:02:51

I feel a lot more called, compelled to do those type of things these days, and like literally in the most hardest part of my life where that would be possible. Yeah, exactly. Which is hilarious.

SPEAKER_04: 1:03:00

That's the hard part, right? It's all time, it's timing, and like you, yeah, you are unable to do that right for the next quite a few years.

SPEAKER_03: 1:03:08

Yeah. But that would be the thing. Like, it there's so much neat shit out there to see. You just have to have the means to do that. Do you think when the aliens land though, any of that's gonna matter?

SPEAKER_02: 1:03:18

Nope. Don't want to talk about aliens. Oh wow. Well, it's supposed to be landed by now anyway. Isn't that Atlas thing close to Earth or it's not?

SPEAKER_04: 1:03:25

Uh no, it's near the gonna be near the sun soon, apparently. Also, we're good. No, but like that's where the I guess then they can see what it look at it better for some reason, which makes all sense. Because if it's by the sun, doesn't that make it harder to see?

SPEAKER_02: 1:03:36

Well, you're not supposed to look at the sun, so I can see that.

SPEAKER_04: 1:03:39

If you can't look directly at the sun, is it even real?

SPEAKER_03: 1:03:43

Stop!

SPEAKER_04: 1:03:44

My blown stop.

SPEAKER_03: 1:03:49

I don't know. I don't know. This really is gonna bug me. I had like a very valuable thing I wanted to talk about with traveling, and my ADHD brain just punted it right now.

SPEAKER_02: 1:03:59

Just to let you know the Burger King ratio is a five to one as well for Coke.

SPEAKER_04: 1:04:04

Good. I'm glad we figured that out too. Where are we going?

SPEAKER_03: 1:04:11

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02: 1:04:11

Where would you go on a boys' trip with our group? Like who who where would we go?

SPEAKER_03: 1:04:16

Wherever we want. But here I think this.

SPEAKER_02: 1:04:18

I would like to go to like a Poland with the guys. Yeah. I feel like an experience like that.

SPEAKER_04: 1:04:24

Because yeah, like a like a band of brothers experience.

SPEAKER_02: 1:04:28

Yeah, something like that. You know, we're all kind of like a band of brothers tour. Maybe we all don't make it back, you know, something like that.

SPEAKER_03: 1:04:33

Let's just join the French Foreign Legion while we're over there.

SPEAKER_02: 1:04:35

Like, because I feel like our group of friends would be like a like a not a cultured tour, but like more of a not a partying trip. It would be more like a purposeful thing. Like, let's go to Auschwitz with everybody and we'll experience that. You know, that that's kind of who I feel like we would be.

SPEAKER_03: 1:04:50

We you know we can do that, right?

SPEAKER_01: 1:04:51

Yeah, well, no, yeah, I understand.

SPEAKER_02: 1:04:55

The concept that helps, and I'm getting uh 150 a week from the government for my kids uh not being in school, so I think we can afford this pretty quickly.

SPEAKER_03: 1:05:01

Are you getting 150 a week? Isn't it 150 a week? Isn't like 30 years?

SPEAKER_04: 1:05:06

That's pretty legit.

SPEAKER_03: 1:05:08

Yeah? Why don't we just keep them going to school?

SPEAKER_02: 1:05:11

Yeah, that's that's that's the goal here. Let's they're gonna go.

SPEAKER_04: 1:05:14

I think they're going back Monday. I think they're gonna get forced to go back, and then they're gonna call Daniel Smith a communist, and uh yeah.

unknown: 1:05:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 1:05:23

Hey, the kids will be out of the house again. So that's exactly right. They'll be with their friends because it's they gotta get back with their friends.

SPEAKER_03: 1:05:30

Well, it's not like COVID, they can still see their friends.

SPEAKER_02: 1:05:32

No, I know, but it's just hard to you have to organize play dates and stuff is not the easiest free running around a lot, you know.

SPEAKER_03: 1:05:38

Do you still call them play dates when your kid is over 10 years old?

SPEAKER_02: 1:05:40

Uh no, I don't call them with the boy, I don't call it play dates, but with the other two I do, so under 10, I guess would be the cutoff there.

unknown: 1:05:46

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 1:05:49

Did you just put another one in those face in your face? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 1:05:51

Don't you have to go to bed at some point tonight? Like I don't understand. That's 18 right now.

SPEAKER_03: 1:05:56

No, I took one out and it's like a hot. I was doing like an emergency reload.

SPEAKER_02: 1:06:00

Are you are you double dipping those things, or are you just uh one one one at a time? That's it.

SPEAKER_03: 1:06:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 1:06:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_03: 1:06:06

Will that not affect your sleep? I don't think so. Dude, I've been sleeping so good for so long. I have the odd night consistently good.

SPEAKER_04: 1:06:15

Really? I've but I think I'm the opposite right now, which is also a lot of things.

SPEAKER_03: 1:06:18

Is that also why you look like uh just a bag of dicks all the time? Probably. Wow. That was rough.

SPEAKER_02: 1:06:23

Wow.

SPEAKER_03: 1:06:24

Not like you don't you don't physically look like a bag of dicks, but your aura looks like a bag of dicks.

SPEAKER_04: 1:06:30

Uh that could be why.

SPEAKER_02: 1:06:31

Uh the I like him on nicotine.

SPEAKER_04: 1:06:33

This is hilarious. Was it Monday with the wind?

SPEAKER_02: 1:06:36

Yeah, it was terrible.

SPEAKER_04: 1:06:37

Like it was I think I was up for two hours looking at my roof, wondering if my roof, my shingles are ripping off. Yeah. It was so bad.

SPEAKER_03: 1:06:46

Is your best is your bedroom west facing?

SPEAKER_04: 1:06:48

Uh yeah, like our yeah. Uh and so uh I didn't sleep much, so then that was a problem. And then we w went into that uh however many hour workday that was, nine fifty, fifteen hours, and then got like four hours sleep that night, and then so I still haven't recovered from all that.

SPEAKER_03: 1:07:06

And but why'd you get four hours sleep that night?

SPEAKER_04: 1:07:08

Because I got home and uh the our international student had a friend that was staying over for the night and they were chilling, so I was making sure they were good, and then I don't think I went to bed until like 12 30, and then I got up at 5 30. Uh and then again, I was awake that night as well for some reason. Oh I just my kids drive me crazy. Doesn't matter. Anyway, I haven't had much sleep this week, and that's probably the sleep debt. Yeah. How are you gonna fix this? I need to sleep. How are you gonna get out of this funk? I need to sleep, and I need to go back to the gym.

SPEAKER_02: 1:07:40

Well, I think you crushing those tequila things right now might help you sleep.

SPEAKER_03: 1:07:44

They're like 1% are they?

SPEAKER_02: 1:07:46

They look really healthy.

SPEAKER_04: 1:07:48

Uh they're z how many calories. Is it a five? They're 140 calories, so they're not that healthy. That's not bad. Uh for an alcoholic drink, that's not bad. Only eight grams of sugar.

SPEAKER_02: 1:07:57

Yeah. It's good.

SPEAKER_04: 1:07:58

And they're tasty.

SPEAKER_02: 1:07:59

You can't throw stones there in nicotine, alright? In the glass house you can.

SPEAKER_04: 1:08:03

We could argue that it's better than this, but whatever. I don't know if it is or isn't.

SPEAKER_02: 1:08:08

We'll find out in like 30 years when all the science actually comes out. Exactly.

SPEAKER_03: 1:08:12

It's uh you know what? It makes me happy. It makes me feel good. It makes you happy.

SPEAKER_02: 1:08:17

It can't be that bad. I bet the most unhealthy thing at the table is this.

SPEAKER_03: 1:08:21

Uh the most The Zero Sugar? Yeah, I don't know. Pepsi, cherry is that Cherry Pepsi? Yeah, it's Cherry Pepsi. That sounds disgusting. That's my vice.

SPEAKER_04: 1:08:31

Ugh. Did nobody pick up on my song lyrics I said there? No, I didn't. Okay.

SPEAKER_03: 1:08:36

If it makes you happy. Yeah. Is that Sarah McLaughlin? No. No. No. Can you try again? No, I have no idea. Oh, that was way better than my version. Yeah, you know? You don't know who that is? Come on. Canadian. Linus Morset? No. That Celine Dion? Oh fuck, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02: 1:08:52

It's Canadian. She's Canadian.

SPEAKER_04: 1:08:53

Cheryl Crow? Yeah.

unknown: 1:08:54

No.

SPEAKER_04: 1:08:55

Cheryl Crow is a good idea. No, no, she's not Canadian.

SPEAKER_02: 1:08:57

Okay, well, that's my bad. I led you astray with it. Yeah? And some hits.

SPEAKER_04: 1:09:02

Who sings that song?

SPEAKER_03: 1:09:03

Cheryl Crow.

SPEAKER_04: 1:09:05

Yes. She's got some hits from the 90s. What did she sing? I could find it. Uh since we're coming back back to music here. Oh, my wife's been texting me. Sorry.

SPEAKER_02: 1:09:15

You know what's a good song? Is Black Velvet by Alana Miles? No?

SPEAKER_03: 1:09:20

One hit wonder. Darn it. Do you know that song? Yeah, I do.

SPEAKER_02: 1:09:23

I've been playing it way too much at home. It's weird. I have a weird obsession with that song. Anyway.

SPEAKER_03: 1:09:29

Yeah, she's definitely one of them one-hit wonders.

SPEAKER_02: 1:09:32

I would think so, but that song is money. I don't know who Amanda Marshall sings.

SPEAKER_04: 1:09:37

Let it rain?

SPEAKER_02: 1:09:38

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 1:09:42

I guess you don't need to worry about like getting this pulled off from playing music because nobody listens to it.

SPEAKER_02: 1:09:47

Let it rain?

SPEAKER_03: 1:09:58

No? Oh, maybe. Yeah. Maybe.

SPEAKER_02: 1:10:03

I gotta listen to that on the way home because uh my Spotify thinks I really like K-pop demon hunters right now, and I continually have to readjust my playlist. What is that? It's like a Netflix show that the kids are obsessed with. They've only seen it once, but there's a lot of music associated with it.

SPEAKER_04: 1:10:15

And it's actually not bad music.

SPEAKER_02: 1:10:17

It's actually not bad. Like I listened to it on the way out here for about 15 minutes before I realized I was singing along. Then I'm like, oh I go back to my Rogan podcast. But yeah, it's it's pretty good.

SPEAKER_03: 1:10:26

See, I don't listen to music when I drive. So yeah. Are you a podcast person? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 1:10:30

Are you like what would you say your connection to music is? You just kind of like, man, I don't care, or do you like feel connected to music?

SPEAKER_03: 1:10:37

I went through a period of my life where music was like the sole thing I was interested in for many, many, many years. What happened? Who starts you? I don't know. Me. I hurt myself usually. Uh just stopped. I don't I don't know. The passion went away.

SPEAKER_02: 1:10:53

Interesting. I will I will sit and listen to music and just do nothing else. Which is great.

SPEAKER_03: 1:10:57

And I'm sure that's actually probably very good for you, like your brain.

SPEAKER_02: 1:11:00

Yeah, it calms it down.

SPEAKER_03: 1:11:02

Yeah, and it's a it's a good music is a healthy release or a healthy pursuit, a healthy thing to do. I just I don't listen to music when I drive. You know how when we get to work and there's people, the same people that always like you know, they all race for the stereo, yeah. Three of them, and whichever one gets there first. I don't like noise like that in the morning.

SPEAKER_04: 1:11:22

Oh, I don't mind it. I I don't like some of the people's noise in the morning. I like a good song. Well, somebody whose last name is similar to mine, his his music in the morning is really difficult to listen to.

SPEAKER_03: 1:11:34

Yeah, yeah. But like even because I think Tony generally I like Tony's music tastes. Yeah. In the I just like silence, dude. I fucking I crave, especially first thing in the day, I just crave silence. And so to come to work and like whatever, no big deal. And just like noise, well, regardless of if it's good noise or not, I'm just like, uh I'm weird. I we get we just as you get older, you just get a little bit more fucking particular or finicky about the things that you'd want to do or not do or hear. I don't know. It's like we there's an office near mine, a workspace near mine at the nursing home, yeah, where they they have the radio on all day. Um, and it's I don't know, like whatever local radio station. And it's loud enough that obviously you can hear it when you're in that workspace, and everybody like you know, six desks in there, all those people could hear it. And I was in there talking with somebody today, and I was like, asking her, I was like, hey, do you do you like this? And she's like, Well, I don't really notice it, you know. Sometimes I hear a song I like, and I'm like, oh, that's good. And I was like, like, I legitimately could not work in this office. I I'm I'm sorry. Like, and that's just just I love background noise. I can't work without yeah, I can't background noise. My I like I like like a good house playlist. Like I'll put on some house music while I'm working because it's just I can like kind of vibe to that while I'm doing my thing.

SPEAKER_04: 1:12:49

But like music without words for sure is good when you're working. Um when I used to study when I was studying when I was in university, I I listened to music all the time. During during while I was studying, but it's all like like instrumental or something.

SPEAKER_03: 1:13:03

Yeah, yeah, and I don't I I say like I think there's still a place for that. It's just I have a different uh desire to hear sounds than maybe you do. You should uh maybe wear like um earmuffs. Walk in in the morning with those big 3M earmuffs on, yes. And a helmet. Yeah, but like the person whose name rhymes with you just comes in and just melts face at six in the morning.

SPEAKER_02: 1:13:29

Are we doing like like slaughter? Are we doing like I can see like a Pantera vibe?

SPEAKER_04: 1:13:33

Yeah, yeah, something got Lincoln Park, Lincoln Park, like live Lincoln Park. Yeah, just in the shower Lincoln Nuts, yeah, that's a little movie. In the shower, just like loud, and like singing at the top of his lungs.

SPEAKER_03: 1:13:46

Yeah, he's loving it. He's loving it, and I love that he loves it. And I I love that people can just be so different in like what they want to do with their like noise, I guess.

SPEAKER_02: 1:13:56

I play the same song pretty much in the shower every like when I go to work and I I I play shoop by uh You're so weird. Whatever, whatever. I play that, but then when the they they feature a male in that song, I don't know who it is, but this rapper, when he comes to sing, that's usually that's right at the time when I'm done sharing, I get out then. And it literally be playing that every day, and people make fun of me about it.

SPEAKER_04: 1:14:18

Yeah, they should.

SPEAKER_02: 1:14:19

No, it's a good song first off, it's a good first off, it's a good song.

SPEAKER_04: 1:14:22

Okay, once uh one if I hear it once a year, it's a good song. If I listen to it every single day, I would kill myself. Yeah, it reminds me of like some sort of like version of that where you're like some dude who shouldn't like that thing, and I don't know.

SPEAKER_02: 1:14:39

No, it's it it's an appropriate like song. It's not like I can't like somebody who looks like me can't like that song that much.

SPEAKER_03: 1:14:46

Well, you can like whatever song you want, yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 1:14:48

It's like I do like that song. That, or like if I'm in a somber mood, I play Tuesdays Gone by Leonard Skinner. Those are my two shower songs in the morning. Usually I showered it on time, so there's not a lot of people in change room, which is nice, but yeah. So I I would be the the name that sounds like you of the what could say the other change room. Shoop, shoop, uh, doo doo.

SPEAKER_03: 1:15:08

Take all the take all these individual, these idiosyncrasies that have developed, you know, in like the 40 years that roughly plus or minus a few that we've all been around, and now times that by like another like 30 years. Because we're gonna be so weird, so and so like stubborn and just set in your ways.

SPEAKER_02: 1:15:26

And I I really enjoy, and Tony was the one who got me on it. Like, everyone's weird, and they're so right. Like, we were back at Thanksgiving, uh, two weeks ago or whatever. The family was around the table. My mom's like, let's just throw out something we're thankful for. So she starts working around the table, gets to me. I'm like, I love how we're all just so weird and we all make it work.

SPEAKER_01: 1:15:44

And she did not like that at all.

SPEAKER_02: 1:15:47

She got really upset. I mean, she's like, We're not weird. I'm like, yes, we are. We're all weird in our own way. Mom, we're weird as fuck. And my dad's like, yeah, we do weird well, and then like everyone's on the same team, and she's like, We're not weird. I'm like, Yeah, yeah, we are. We are. Everyone's weird. Everybody, all three of us are super weird, but we all get along. Super weird. Yeah, and we're all different weird. I don't think I'm gonna do it. I love that. You're you're so you're so weird. Fuck. Yeah. But it's weird because your weirdness balances with ours. It's nice.

SPEAKER_03: 1:16:14

Yeah, like if we're all just like the same, just carbon constantly. Oh, I agree.

SPEAKER_02: 1:16:18

Like name a normal person. I no, there's nobody.

SPEAKER_04: 1:16:22

There's uh there's norms, I think, like like scales of norms.

SPEAKER_03: 1:16:29

Yeah, like we all fit into the agreed societal norms that we should. Well, uh for the most part. Yeah. But that and but that plays back to this whole thing we're talking about, right? Is like I find it really funny that we have so much in common and generally like like click in so many ways, but like there's just so much difference. Yeah, I want to go to Mexico. Or you're like, I you want to go to Mexico, and I'm just like, I fucking could not want to do that less. Yeah, that's right. And it's just it's like you still have these things that are very uniquely you in whatever fashion or in the pursuits that you choose your time. I think it is interesting.

SPEAKER_04: 1:17:07

I don't know why yeah. I mean, obviously it's uh some sort of um combination of upbringing and experiences that kind of leads you down the roads that you uh things that you like and dislike when you get older.

SPEAKER_02: 1:17:20

But do you notice your probably your boy or your girl? Have you noticed things that like that's like me? That's like me. Like little little traits that he little weirdness that he has that is like you?

SPEAKER_04: 1:17:33

Probably.

SPEAKER_02: 1:17:34

I'm trying to think of something, but oh my ten-year-old's a carbon copy. It is just me 30 years ago. That's just all it is. It gets crazy.

SPEAKER_03: 1:17:44

Here's the fun thing, though, is I notice now that like I have a child old enough to talk to. Yeah. Which is super fun, and like we're starting to have like legit-ish conversations.

SPEAKER_02: 1:17:54

What does she think about the aliens she thinks is? No, we're not there. Okay, all right.

SPEAKER_03: 1:17:57

But like just to see things that are like, I'm like, that's like that's neither not you didn't get that from either of us. That's just like like explicit personality coming out, right? Right. And I'm just like, that's fucking cool. Yeah, it's super fun, right? Like she just says those like funny, weird things, and I'm like, You're weird. Like, why'd you do that? And it's just not not, it's not like we did. It's super neat.

SPEAKER_04: 1:18:18

Uh and it'll be interesting with the second how like how different they will be in your like how different they'll be. You look raised the same environment, like love the same, taught probably the same things, but all of a sudden they're just like, Why are you so like what is why are you so different? Like, why do you need me to show up this way and this way you're the up this way, and it's just it's like, what is going on?

SPEAKER_03: 1:18:41

Well, it's like that book Tony was telling us about on Tuesday. It was it the birth order?

SPEAKER_04: 1:18:44

Yeah, I think so.

SPEAKER_03: 1:18:46

I need to get that book and read that book because he was he was saying it's a book that talks about as you have more kids and the order that they're born in, it talks about like these universal things that are common between you know, if you're the firstborn, yeah, secondborn, whatever, and he's like for whatever reason, he's like, it's so accurate.

SPEAKER_04: 1:19:02

But there's also like the love languages, but for kids, like the same, like you those five love languages like for relationships is one that they have for kids and how you um your kids you basically do a survey based on your kids and then how they uh need love expressed or whatever.

SPEAKER_03: 1:19:16

It's weird too because and I think we've talked about this, like touch is not my love language, but with a kid, like it's like oh I just want to cuddle or like give me a hug. It's just like weird how like you just kind of adapt to uh like I guess kids or whatever that ends up, like how that how you end up showing affection, yeah, love. It's interesting.

SPEAKER_04: 1:19:35

Or maybe because you realize that's what they need.

SPEAKER_03: 1:19:37

Again, it's a bit of both. Like it's not just like you're doing it because they need it, or that's how you can communicate your love at this stage, right? Right? Like there's not a lot of words of affirmation uh that are well, I guess you can yeah, no, maybe there is, but yeah, you're right. It's it's appreciated different, right? Like uh what is it, quality time is all time hypothetical. Is quality time.

SPEAKER_02: 1:20:01

Yeah, for now it is. Yeah. So they don't want you around.

SPEAKER_03: 1:20:04

Exactly.

unknown: 1:20:05

Oh, I don't want to hear that.

SPEAKER_04: 1:20:06

If if but really I would say not that don't want you around, it's just like that's not a priority anymore. It's like they'd want to be with their friends. I sent her, I sent my kid a Instagram video the other day. And it's just like the somebody's saying like three rules I should wish I would have told no one when I was, and one of them is no one loves you more than your parents, not your friends, not your teachers. Like in the moment you might feel like you want to because that that's where she's at right now, like where everything's like, but I need to hang out with my friends, my friends, but my friends are doing this and they're doing this. And it's like, how about we just gotta hang out with you? How about you just hang out with us tonight? And she's like, Well, yeah, but like but they're doing this, and like and I yeah, I remember like that stage, right? And the like that you're missed, you're forgetting that they're not always gonna be there. The ones that are your friends right now, when you're 15, you might not even know in 10 years for sure. But like, guess what? We're gonna be there as long as I don't get hit by a semi going home tonight, like we'll be there, right? And so, but I I get it, I get how you as a kid you don't have that foresight. And what's important now is like social interaction.

SPEAKER_03: 1:21:09

Yeah, but if you could go back now, would you change that? That's interesting, right?

SPEAKER_04: 1:21:15

That's a good question. I know like going back with the knowledge you have now. If and if here, but here's the thing if you do that, if you did go back now with the knowledge you have and did change it, you would be a very different person.

SPEAKER_03: 1:21:26

Yeah, true that.

SPEAKER_04: 1:21:27

And like how you socialize and maybe the circles that you end up in, because maybe you're like, you know what, no, I'm not gonna go out. I'm not gonna go hang out with my friends, I'm gonna stay home because that's more important. And then all of a sudden you never go out because what's important is hanging out with my family, because they're you know what I mean? Like there's a weird line. So there's like that weird, you have to allow that socialization and that going out for sure. Um, so it can't be just one or the other, but I think just as a parent, you just become like, oh, okay, interesting.

SPEAKER_02: 1:21:54

All I want is when my kids leave. They just they when let's say when my kids are 20 to 30, all I want, all I want is them just to be like, hey, meet up for a coffee, and I say yes, and we do it. Like I just want them to want to spend like one day a week just spending some time with me, and then it's a win. That's all you got. And I and it's so weird you talk to anybody like uh my boss at work, Travis, like he talks about his daughter and him now. It's like they get along so well, but she just doesn't have the time because she's starting to move advance, you know, do her own thing, university getting a job. Like it's just it's it's gonna go away, and they don't like thinking about it.

SPEAKER_03: 1:22:35

That's why it'd be super tough if you have kids that move away. Yeah, I yeah, I guess that's a scary prospect, and who it's like literally unpredictable, I think.

SPEAKER_04: 1:22:46

I don't know. Yeah, I agree. It's like you can't prevent that because you don't want if that's where whatever they want to do is leading them, like you want them to do their thing. But yeah, for sure, that's very, very interesting.

SPEAKER_03: 1:22:56

Yeah, and then maybe your only hope is that you're independently wealthy and can just be mobile enough to be around more.

SPEAKER_04: 1:23:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:23:05

Or unindependently wealthy. Unindependent unindependently wealthy.

SPEAKER_04: 1:23:09

Independently wealthy. You're still saying wealthy, so I think that's good.

SPEAKER_02: 1:23:14

So you just you just you're rich. You you got money.

SPEAKER_04: 1:23:17

You're still saying the word wealthy, so I feel like we're still okay.

SPEAKER_03: 1:23:21

Yeah, I don't know. Uh I think if your kids move away and you don't get to see them, like that's gotta suck for a lot of parents. Yep. I think it would. Yeah. Of course it would.

SPEAKER_02: 1:23:32

We got a couple years.

SPEAKER_04: 1:23:34

Three. I think she I don't think she's going anywhere. I I think she'll stay here in the area. But that's also possible who she meets, she comes to spend her life with. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:23:48

It's a big question mark.

SPEAKER_04: 1:23:52

We'll talk about this in three years when uh I'm gonna come on this show and we'll just cry about it.

SPEAKER_02: 1:23:57

That's very we'll have to do it for Mexico because we know he's gonna go and be obsessed and want to stay down there.

SPEAKER_03: 1:24:01

Listen, I would go. I I would do a trip like that if it was all of us going. If it was a group of people that I like to spend time with, I will go.

SPEAKER_02: 1:24:10

Yeah, I don't know. The the rule like I don't know. I I I think I had I I had the most fun when I took my kids down there. But the rule is like my and I can't mess this up because she'll call me out if I get facts like this wrong. Yeah, we didn't talk about that. No, we don't want to double that. Um like we do like if it's a seven-day trip, I get two days where we do what dad wants. And so what dad wanted last time was to get in the back of a pickup truck that had a couch bolted to it, and we just drove around the city in Mexico, and she she and this tourist guy showed us a bunch of different stuff. That's fun. And then the rest of the time we do what she wants, which is more of that reading the books, all that kind of stuff. So like it's it's nice, but I think one day.

SPEAKER_03: 1:24:53

So you do two days a year. Yeah, I couldn't.

SPEAKER_02: 1:24:55

No, no, and the rest is her. Like we do one to two days of like little adventures, right? But then the rest of it, I couldn't do seven days. Some people have done the two weeks. I couldn't do 14 days of just sitting on the beach. I couldn't do that.

SPEAKER_04: 1:25:05

Uh I could not either. We debated doing a 10-day. That's a long one. Um, because seven sometimes doesn't feel like quite enough. So you're like maybe ten. But usually by like day six, I'm like, okay, let's go home. But it's because I'm like relaxed, I'm good, I'm good to go back, I'm recharged, I'm let's get back to it. Yep, I agree. Do you like cruises? I've never done one, and I don't really want to do one.

SPEAKER_02: 1:25:26

I'm the same, but then I you watch that poop cruise documentary?

SPEAKER_04: 1:25:29

No, don't base it off the one cruise. Have you seen other cruises where like a rogue wave knocks it over? I don't like thinking. I don't think it knocked it like knocked it over.

SPEAKER_03: 1:25:41

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02: 1:25:41

Have you found a person who's gone on a cruise and says they don't like cruises? No. I haven't either, and so that's why I'm like, I might like it.

SPEAKER_03: 1:25:48

Well, I guess you gotta try it. I don't want to.

SPEAKER_02: 1:25:50

Well, would you do an Alaskan or would you do like a like a European coastline?

SPEAKER_04: 1:25:55

So I so I lied. I I would, but there's like one called the Viking cruises, and it goes through like the ri it's a river cruise. Yeah, and it goes from like Amsterdam down to like Hungary. Oh, Tanner did one of those. Yeah, that's the one he did. Yeah, and that that one I'm like I'm in because I can see the shore. There's the shore, there's the shore. We're good. And there's some culture exactly, and you get to see the castles and cool shit. That's cool.

SPEAKER_03: 1:26:18

Again, I just picture cruises. I don't foresee myself ever doing a cruise. Um, I just picture a bunch of fucking knee braces like sit down.

SPEAKER_02: 1:26:25

There's gonna be the people from Wally no matter where you go on vacation. There's just gonna be just ignore those people.

SPEAKER_03: 1:26:30

Yeah, I know, but that's the the thing is that's the type of people these activities attract.

SPEAKER_04: 1:26:34

No, it's not it's not. It's all types of shit. Yeah, well, you're wrong. It's all types of people, dude. There's like there's super fit people who wanted to go chill for a week.

SPEAKER_02: 1:26:45

And there's people like just who are like you, and what you'll do is you'll go there and they'll look at you, and you'll look at them, and you'll do this. You'll give a little nod. Because you know you're in it, like in your when I went to dad breakfast after the gym and saw in the morning, I go there sitting there looking around. All the people there looked exactly like you guys. Because they're just they're out there, they go to the gym in the morning, they stay, you know, they stay active, and they're there enjoying themselves. And then there's there's also the the people and the rascals rolling around with like three drinks in and just plateful of deep fried food, whatever.

SPEAKER_03: 1:27:16

What is a rascal?

SPEAKER_02: 1:27:17

It's like a little scooter. It's like one of those little things they have at Walmart, you sit on and you know.

SPEAKER_03: 1:27:21

I've noticed a lot of people in Costco using those these days. Yeah, what is that?

SPEAKER_02: 1:27:25

I've noticed that too. They don't supply him. There's only like one or two at the front door, but I swear there's like a dozen rolling around there.

SPEAKER_03: 1:27:31

It's it's people that I feel like don't need it and younger people.

SPEAKER_02: 1:27:35

Oh.

SPEAKER_03: 1:27:36

Like the last guy I saw was like 20 years old. Probably the microplastic. Is he 400 pounds? No. I was like, this is weird, bro. Like, get the fuck up and walk. Maybe he just doesn't like walking. Yeah, but it's weird. We're all gonna be rolling around on rascals with our knee. I have a knee brace? Yeah, we've got knee problems. Have you ever seen? I think it's like a two of you.

SPEAKER_01: 1:27:59

Like you probably need two. I have like a fleet of knee braces.

SPEAKER_03: 1:28:02

I gotta find that it's an Instagram post and it's like the knee braces of Disneyland. And it's just a picture of all like like overweight people's knee braces in Disneyland.

SPEAKER_04: 1:28:09

That's super weird. People who are like super into Disney, but they're too big to even get on the rides.

SPEAKER_03: 1:28:15

You've been to Disneyland?

SPEAKER_04: 1:28:16

Uh, both Disneyland, Disney World. Okay.

SPEAKER_02: 1:28:18

And you just World. And we feel like there might be a one in the spring here coming up.

SPEAKER_04: 1:28:24

I think we're gonna do Disneyland in 2027. No, Disney World in 2027, with my you know, like my daughter will be in grade 11 or 12, 12, and uh kind of like, and then all of our cousins and my mom and stuff, because they're my mom's been to Disney, I bet you 12 times. I don't know. That's awesome. Wow. She they love it. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_03: 1:28:43

Yeah, it's a big expenditure. And I could see myself with kids.

SPEAKER_04: 1:28:47

Oh, yeah. Doing that. You got you have to with kids. Like it's it's just the atmosphere and like the amount of like effort put into like just the aura, like the decor. Like it's such a cool thing. And I think at a kid at a certain age, just like they'll never forget it, even if it's like, oh I remember when I was like 10 and I went to Disney, that was amazing, right? That's uh so we did Disneyland, I think, when my kids were, I don't remember, 10 and 7 maybe. And then we'll probably go back one time before she's like she graduates graduates, but we'll go to Disney World because it's a bit more spread out and more walking, and Disneyland's really kind of really tight.

unknown: 1:29:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:29:27

Big financial commitment.

SPEAKER_04: 1:29:29

Yeah, yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_02: 1:29:30

Until November 6th, right now it's 25% off. If you book a package for like entry tickets or what? You for shopping? For yeah. Uh the whole the the package itself. So the flight hotels, all that stuff, they have some promotion going for 25% off. Even the fast passes until November 6th.

SPEAKER_04: 1:29:46

I feel like a family of four, it's like you're not gonna spend less than$10,000. Dude, I bet you it's not less than$20, well, no, for sure it is. Yes, it is. For sure? Yes.

SPEAKER_02: 1:29:57

The nursing home couple that has two kids that's went like every year, uh, she runs it under$10K for a five-day all in. Like under$10, like really she hooked me up with the travel agent that books their stuff.

SPEAKER_04: 1:30:12

The problem with the Florida one is um it's seven days isn't enough. No, it's not, hey? There's too many parks. There's like there's like four or five Disney parks plus like the water park, then there's Universal Studios, which has two or three parks now. And the one time when I went I was a kid, I was probably 12, maybe I was a bit older. We went to Space Kennedy uh the Kennedy Space Center, uh down that would be and that was cool. Like I love that, and I want to go back there, but that's another full day. And then there's also Tampa, you could go to Tampa Bay because they have uh Bouchard Gardens, which is another park. Like, there's too many things to do that you kind of if you're down there, you might as well do them, but you gotta be there for like 10 days minimum.

SPEAKER_02: 1:30:49

It's like going to Poland for like an MMA tournament. You gotta go to Auschwitz because you know you're there.

SPEAKER_03: 1:30:53

Yeah, 100%. Have you did you do Disney as a kid?

SPEAKER_02: 1:30:55

Yeah, I have same age as uh about the same age as your oldest when you when they went. Yeah. And I still remember it, still got good memories, all that stuff. Still got the t-shirt from Splash Mountain.

SPEAKER_04: 1:31:06

Ah, that's gone. They got rid of Splash Mountain. Didn't people die in Splash Mountain? They got rid of Splash Mountain? Yeah, no shoot, that was the one. I think they changed the like the theme too, which is annoying because that was my favorite. I love that one. Briar Rabbit? Yeah. Yeah. Okay, let's go home. I'm tired. And uh you need to sleep. I need to sleep, people. Alright. Good luck sleeping with your 18th. Uh guys, if you got to the end of this, congratulations, because you could have thrown this one away and not listened. We didn't talk about anything.

unknown: 1:31:33

We talked about everything.

SPEAKER_04: 1:31:34

But thank you for listening. We appreciate your loyalty and your commitment.

SPEAKER_03: 1:31:38

Episode 80 coming up next. Episode 80. It's gonna be huge. It's a big one. We got a big one planned. I don't know what we're doing.

unknown: 1:31:44

Yeah, me neither.

SPEAKER_03: 1:31:45

But if we tell them it's a big one, they'll listen.

unknown: 1:31:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_03: 1:31:47

Listen to number 80.

SPEAKER_04: 1:31:48

We need to find a guest. We have a guest that's gonna be so cool. Yeah. Okay, bye.

SPEAKER_03: 1:31:54

It's it's Diddy.

SPEAKER_04: 1:31:55

Oh, really? I don't want to be here. Do you have baby lotion?

SPEAKER_03: 1:32:01

Uh Jason's taking his headphones off. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_02: 1:32:02

I thought we were done. That's my bad.

SPEAKER_03: 1:32:04

No, I'll take mine off and just keep talking then.

SPEAKER_02: 1:32:06

We could just do this without headphones off.

SPEAKER_04: 1:32:08

I don't know, can we? Let me try, let me try what it feels like. It's legitimately not that bad. It's fine. It's just that like you don't know how it's recording.

SPEAKER_03: 1:32:14

Yeah, that's a good point. And it hurts my ears wearing these headphones.

SPEAKER_04: 1:32:18

It actually hurts your ears. Maybe stop smashing your ears into mats. You loser.

SPEAKER_05: 1:32:24

Right, see ya.

SPEAKER_04: 1:32:26

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