#80 - Swords Up

Jason gets obsessed with buying a Samurai sword. And we talk about cults, movies, and JB possibly coaching kids basketball. 

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Transcript

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SPEAKER_01: 0:54

Not on purpose. I got kneed in the face when my tongue was in the way. Oh, okay. Yeah, but keep your tongue in the mouth. And I struggle, I'm struggling to say words with my mouth. It's swollen?

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Yeah. What about if you had a group of friends? And let's say there's six friends. Group, group. And then those friends had the option to each have their own samurai sword with an engraved friend group name on it.

SPEAKER_00: 1:18

And would you not want to do that? And then when the samurai swords all like came together, you turn into one giant robot that could fight the evil people of the We could stand in a circle and raise them up in the air and touch tips, like the Power Rangers used to do. Power Rangers would have been your age, would it not be? Like that age group? Yes.

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Just past us.

SPEAKER_00: 1:39

Yeah, it was too old for the Power Rangers.

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I remember watching it when I was on the farm. I remember watching it, and it like my dad would look at me and he just he just looked so disappointed. Because it's not good team.

SPEAKER_00: 1:49

Oh, it's terrible. Uh, but it was huge. Like I missed, I missed it. My uh cousin, Mike, who listens, uh was all about the Power Rangers.

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I was about the pink Power Ranger. She was my childhood crush. I remember you wanted to be her. Early teen crush. Well, you know what? I could if I had a samurai sword.

SPEAKER_00: 2:12

Did they even have didn't they have like bow staffs? I don't have weapons. No, I think some did.

SPEAKER_02: 2:18

Megazord had a weapon when he when he because my my youngest is in a power ranger. Megazord has a weapon, but I don't think the Power Rangers had weapons.

SPEAKER_01: 2:24

I was I was about to ask why you know the name.

SPEAKER_00: 2:27

I think that you're wrong. Can you please uh verify that? I better do this. I am pretty sure Power Rangers have weapons. I think you're probably right.

SPEAKER_01: 2:36

I may have gone as a Power Ranger for Halloween. Okay. Pretty into it. Like an adult Halloween costume? When I was like five. Okay. It was a long time ago. I feel like Jason would still go as a Power Ranger.

SPEAKER_02: 2:47

I would. Yeah. Whatever. Yeah, Power Rangers had weapons. You're right. I know. Oh, because they my kid got this set for Christmas last and they all had the weapons with them. That's right.

SPEAKER_00: 2:55

You're so wrong with that.

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Yeah. Yeah, Red Ranger had the sword. Yellow had the size. Yeah, I remember this.

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Uh fact-checked our first thing that we said wrong today.

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Good. That's what we're doing.

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Three seconds in.

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That's right. I like the Ninja Turtles weapons the best. For like superheroes, like not superhero, but you know what I mean. Like characters that we grew up with, Ninja Turtles had the best weapons, I think.

SPEAKER_01: 3:18

They have like nunchucks? They all had different ones.

SPEAKER_02: 3:20

Yeah, they all had different ones. Leonardo had Samurai. And they were opposite of their personalities. So like Donatello's super smart, so he had the most rudimentary bow staff. Raphael's super aggressive, so they gave him a defensive weapon being the size. They all balanced off their personalities opposite. Seriously, Michelangelo had the nunkchucks. He requires the most discipline for nunkchucks. He was the most least disciplined, or most least disciplined, the least disciplined.

SPEAKER_00: 3:41

Yeah. I never thought about that.

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And are you serious? That that was the whole purpose. I didn't know that. Leonardo had the deadliest weapons, even though he was the one who's supposed to be righteous and true and not to kill and all that kind of stuff. But they gave the deadlift weapons. This is an actual fact. How do you know? I didn't know this. I'm a big Ninja Turtles fan.

SPEAKER_01: 3:58

Yeah, you act shocked like you shouldn't be able to do that.

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Sorry, I forget. I obsess about things. I I I like Ninja Turtles.

SPEAKER_00: 4:04

Like I could definitely tell you which uh Ninja Turtles had which weapons, but I could not have told you that they were why they had them.

SPEAKER_01: 4:10

Now, could you say that because of your own interest or because of children?

SPEAKER_00: 4:13

Oh, I watched Ninja Turtles a lot when I was a kid. That's our age. That's our Power Rangers. That was before Power Rangers. Yeah, it was.

SPEAKER_01: 4:19

Okay. Yeah. I couldn't tell you either. Like I couldn't even, like I could give you like a color. There was a red one. Yeah, but you suck. Yeah.

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There was a red Ninja Turtle or a red Power Ranger?

SPEAKER_01: 4:29

I don't know either. Both, right? Winning. Wow. The fact that you want to get five other adults together, and you just want us also stand in a circle and touch the things.

SPEAKER_02: 4:39

No, no, no, no, no. We have the option to get a true samurai sword from Japan right now, and I think we should do it. And I think having a sharp samurai sword, it'd be so cool.

SPEAKER_00: 4:49

Not just sharp, but like sturdy. It has to be sturdy. You can hit it with something, it doesn't like the handle of the bamboo sticks.

SPEAKER_01: 4:56

What's the name of the sword from Kill Bill?

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Yeah, that's the well, it's a samurai sword. The one that uh what's the name of it?

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I don't remember. If only there was a way.

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Well, do I thought that was a rhetorical question, like you know the name.

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He doesn't know much. I don't know much about it.

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It's a movie, and you're not gonna know what it is. I'm surprised you saw that movie.

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Haturi Hanso.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It's a katana. Is that what a is a samurai sword a katana? Yeah, yeah.

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Okay. I think Tony would know about those.

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Well, yeah, he does like the uh the movies. He doesn't kill Bill, right? That's why? That's why? Okay.

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Can you turn my ears down? Your ears are too bad.

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Sorry, I'm in a I'm in a weird mood.

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Jason's yelling.

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I got excited because I really do like Ninja Turtles and all that stuff. The lore behind it, all that stuff. I'm a big fan.

SPEAKER_00: 5:42

Um yeah, I like them too. Moving on. Yeah, please. For the love of God. Oh, it's all good. I don't care. I like them too. Uh how I did see something uh this week that has got me thinking. Uh, especially when I was driving over here, I was thinking about it. So I I sent it to you, I'm sure you never watched it. Uh, it was a lady from China discussing the population of China. It I'm it's messing with my head. Yeah. Okay, so basically the fundamental, and you're gonna need to do some uh checking.

SPEAKER_02: 6:11

Yeah, I'm I'm setting it up now.

SPEAKER_00: 6:13

Fundamentally, what she is saying is that if they did, she believes, and she is a person who's left China and um is like running away from the government. Uh, she believes that if you did a census and a true census of the population, that they would probably be around 400 or 500 million. That's what she says. Which is like a billion short. Yes, at least a billion. I think there's I thought that's supposed to be like two billion. Can you see what the what the current population of China is? It says a billion.

SPEAKER_02: 6:40

1.4 billion.

SPEAKER_00: 6:41

Okay, 1.4. So yeah, so a billion short. So she thinks they're about a billion short. And then she's like, let me, she's like, all you have to do is look at the math. And she said, so the night in 1950, uh, they had 500 and some million. I'm sure you can look that up. It's like 500 and some million, they had 1950. Uh 1979, I think, is when they implemented the one child policy.

SPEAKER_02: 7:02

So, how many like half a billion in 1950. Half a billion.

SPEAKER_00: 7:07

Yes, so 500 million. So where if you want to increase your population, how many kids does every couple need to have? Just think math-wise. Oh, three. Yes, at least three. Yeah, right. Minimum. Minimum three children to increase their population at all. Okay. Right? If you have two kids, you're not increasing population. Uh when you die, it evens out. Is my math okay here? Okay. You're just doing a one for one. Okay, one for one. So they implemented a one child policy in 1979. Okay. Can you try to can you look up at the population channels in 1979?

SPEAKER_02: 7:47

969 million. Okay, so on the rise, halfway between the two.

SPEAKER_00: 7:51

Okay, perfect. So almost a b almost a billion. So but between 1979 till I think like 2015, they had a one-child policy in place, meaning the vast majority of people in China were having one child. There's some that are having more, because I think the people who are rich could have more, and there's probably like some some different like ways to get around it. But in general, most people were only having one child, which means the population decreases. I don't think China does much immigration.

SPEAKER_02: 8:23

It has not. Yeah. Uh it's grown at the same rate since 1950. Like it's literally grown.

SPEAKER_00: 8:29

How? How is it possible that they essentially went another six hundred million people growth when they're having less children? They're not even meeting meet meeting standards to be even with their like with two children per couple.

SPEAKER_01: 8:47

The one child policy was effective until 2016. Yeah, no, crazy, right? Yeah, that doesn't. I mean, how many generations would you have from the 79 to uh two?

SPEAKER_00: 8:57

Two?

SPEAKER_01: 8:57

Yeah. Yeah. So then you're not replacing the population. No.

SPEAKER_00: 9:02

Like it just the math doesn't make sense. And I mean, maybe we're idiots and just not thinking about this, right? But the when she brought it up, and again, she's just saying that like she just from looking at it, she's like, it does it doesn't make any sense. She says that I think the Chinese government's lying about the population because they want it to seem like they have a lot more uh force and whatever population boom that they do, which makes sense when you look at like the documentaries you you've seen about the deserted cities, cities that essentially should hold millions of people, and there's like tens of thousands of people living there, so it looks like a ghost city.

SPEAKER_02: 9:37

So urban couples in China could do one. Rural families were allowed to have two. It says ethnic minorities were allowed to have two or three, and both parents, if the both parents were only children, they could have two.

SPEAKER_00: 9:51

But you're still only meeting replacement value.

SPEAKER_02: 9:54

Yeah. Yeah, nothing. But but I guess here's what happens if you had a secret baby over there.

SPEAKER_00: 9:59

Yeah, um, well, they people a lot of people killed the baby if they weren't a boy.

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That's why they have 300, like just like over the cliff.

SPEAKER_00: 10:05

Well, that's the thing is the other thing is everyone wanted a boy. So if they had a daughter as number one, a lot of people like murdered them so that they could try again and have a boy. Um, but here's but maybe I'm thinking about this wrong because it it says that it stopped.

SPEAKER_02: 10:17

So it's it says that the growth rate has slowed, but really has started to stop since 2022.

SPEAKER_00: 10:24

Because the replace so if you have two kids, you've introduced two humans into the world, and until you die, there's there's four people instead of two.

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Yes.

SPEAKER_00: 10:33

Okay. So maybe that's where I'm not thinking about this right. So you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_02: 10:37

So like if you if you Yeah, that that's what it says here too, is because the the kids were born in 1980 would have had children in two what two thousand ish. Two thousand, and then these they're still alive. They're still alive, so you're doubled up now until like twenty thirty when they start to die.

SPEAKER_00: 10:57

Maybe that makes more sense. So then so then but what's gonna happen is an insane uh just dive in the population at a certain point because there's not gonna be the replacement value isn't there. Maybe that makes more sense now that it now that I'm talking this out.

SPEAKER_02: 11:13

Yeah, because it g it takes a long time for it to be in effect. It takes two gener or two generations for this policy to actually make a difference number wise.

SPEAKER_00: 11:20

Well, because you double because you having two kids, you were doubling the population till you die.

SPEAKER_02: 11:25

Yeah. But they're still at 68% of people be between the ages of 15 to 64. That's a big range.

SPEAKER_00: 11:32

So on paper, I was like, yeah, that doesn't make any sense. But then you start talking about you're like, okay, well, no, that does I think okay, I can see, because if they had 500 million people, everyone had two kids, you'll have a million, you'll you'll have uh billion people until those parents die.

SPEAKER_02: 11:48

Oh, by 2050, 40% of the population will be over 60 years old.

SPEAKER_00: 11:53

Ooh.

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And you'll only have 15 children under 15 will only be 10%. Oh wow. So that they are stretched. Yeah, okay, that makes a lot more sense. So is it so they will just have a massive population decrease over 20 years?

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So I just fact-checked myself. Uh, you can't believe everything you listen to on the internet, people. No, but like it it just oh, it's terrible, it's absolutely terrible. And that's what like um Elon talks a lot about, like this population decline, not this population boom, because there were not at a certain point, like so for China, for example, sure they might have 1.5 billion, but in by 2050, what's that number gonna be?

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Because most of those people 40% of them are gonna be gone essentially.

SPEAKER_01: 12:39

I don't know. I'm here for this conspiracy though.

SPEAKER_00: 12:41

Uh it doesn't make sense now that I talk about it. Well, the conspiracy was just that China was lying about their population, that they actually have way less people than they say they do. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02: 12:50

Because because they will in like 20 years.

SPEAKER_00: 12:52

Well, that's the thing in the head she was explaining, well, the math doesn't make sense, and I was like, Oh, yeah, it's true. But I think it does. Now that I'm talking it out.

SPEAKER_01: 13:01

Maybe there was that guy on Rogan a couple years ago. Um, he was the one talking about population decline and saying that China was heading for like a disaster of population collapse. Oh yeah, the Zohan's name is Peter Peter Zohan.

SPEAKER_00: 13:15

Yeah, Peter Zahan. Zahan, yes. Yeah. Uh yeah, he was talking about that like in 10 years they're basically screwed because they're they're like all those people over 60 are gonna hit be 70, 80s, and they won't be able to they're not working anymore, and there's nobody to replace them from even a work perspective, uh, to make the basically the country run. Um, but I think a lot of countries are seeing that, like Japan apparently is very bad as well. Yeah, they forced abortions.

SPEAKER_02: 13:40

Yeah. If the kid ended up being born, though, it doesn't say they killed them. They they would fine um sterilizations. Oh my gosh. And they would find the children or the adults? Well, it just says forced abortion sterilization, so I'm assuming the adults, but then you also had to pay high fines. So you were fined, it looks like weekly for your kid you had to pay. Oh my gosh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 14:03

I don't but that's the weird thing, I think, is like we have a very we live in a very different place, obviously, but even hearing the things that e uh happen in other countries, um I don't know. I think you have to take a lot of things with a grain of salt. I'm not saying it didn't happen. I obviously believe it happened, but it who knows, like some of these because especially when there's a country like the communist uh China who's like reporting their own stats.

SPEAKER_02: 14:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 14:30

I mean you can't I don't know if you can take much of that at face value because they obviously have an agenda and they want to look good in terms of like from on the world stage, so they're gonna say you know things that don't make them look bad. Like everyone's happy here. Oh, it's like North Korea. Everyone's so happy here. What are you talking about? We're we're doing great.

SPEAKER_01: 14:49

Here's a crazy number for you. We have our population is three percent of China's population. Ooh. Three percent.

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Yeah, I don't like thinking about that. That's all right.

SPEAKER_00: 14:59

It's probably what's like literally like a city, probably. Like what's Shanghai or what's uh Hong Kong? Is Hong Kong Hong Kong's part of China again?

SPEAKER_02: 15:06

Kind of? Well, he looks that up. The policy prevented, they estimate this Britannica, a couple of different sources, 400 million births. Including the forced abortions and stuff, like 400 million not alive because of that. Not that they killed 400 million, but like prevented, right? Jeez.

SPEAKER_01: 15:24

The municipality of Chongqing has the largest population with over 31.9 million.

SPEAKER_02: 15:30

Yeah, it's our country. That's a that's a municipality, some rural areas.

SPEAKER_01: 15:34

It's almost our country, not quite. Shanghai has a population of 41 million.

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And that's Canada, is approximately 41 million. Fuck.

SPEAKER_01: 15:45

What? Could you imagine? How do these people get along?

SPEAKER_00: 15:47

How do you live in the same area? But this is why you and no offense to anyone who might get offended by this, this is why Chinese people are kind of assholes. Like, if I was on a plane with a bunch of Chinese people coming back from Thailand when I was like 20s, and they were just they're just all about them. Like they will cut the line all day. That they don't give a shit. Because they because to them, it's like they have to, if you don't do that, you don't get what you need. And with that many living in a with that many people in an area, you're like, you have to look out for yourself, and that's you're you're only worried about you.

SPEAKER_02: 16:22

Is that the most dense populate population density probably dictates behavior though, but is that the densest place?

SPEAKER_00: 16:29

China and there's gotta be places that are really dense too.

SPEAKER_01: 16:33

Yeah, Manila. Considered the densest city in the world with a population density of 46,000 people per square kilometer.

SPEAKER_02: 16:40

46,000 people per square kilometer?

SPEAKER_00: 16:44

What? Is that even enough room to move?

SPEAKER_02: 16:46

No, I'm gonna look up like how many meet like what?

SPEAKER_00: 16:49

46,000 people per square kilometer.

SPEAKER_01: 16:53

People aren't supposed to live like that.

SPEAKER_00: 16:55

Like no. Can you if you okay if you put 46,000 people in a square, literal square kilometer, like side by side, is there room? Well, I mean, there has to be. No, it doesn't know because they can live on top of each other with apartments.

SPEAKER_01: 17:09

Oh, good point. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 17:10

Like it doesn't you don't have to.

SPEAKER_01: 17:11

I don't like it's scary.

SPEAKER_00: 17:12

That's like I'm actually curious if you could actually stand in a square with 46,000 people of one kilometer by one kilometer.

SPEAKER_01: 17:20

Well, well, let's find out.

SPEAKER_02: 17:21

Square kilometer is gonna be a thousand by a thousand, like a thousand meters by a thousand meters, right?

SPEAKER_00: 17:26

Yes.

SPEAKER_02: 17:26

How many meters are most people So you got a million meters in a square kilometer? So you got forty-six, what, thousand people?

SPEAKER_00: 17:33

Yeah.

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Oh, I don't know if I'm doing this math right.

SPEAKER_00: 17:38

One thousand. No, one hundred thousand one hundred thousand.

SPEAKER_02: 17:42

So forty-six thousand people divided by a million square feet.

SPEAKER_00: 17:45

Is it a million? 1,000 times 1,000?

SPEAKER_02: 17:48

Uh yeah. It should be six euros.

SPEAKER_01: 17:52

A person takes up more than a foot, though. You were talking meters here, not feet. Yeah, you're looking at a million square.

SPEAKER_02: 17:57

A million square meters. Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 17:59

You can fit approximately seven to ten million people in a square kilometer if they're standing shoulder to shoulder.

SPEAKER_02: 18:04

Oh, they're they got lots of room. What are we doing?

SPEAKER_00: 18:06

You just need four stories. Okay, we're fine.

SPEAKER_02: 18:08

Stretch out, guys. You're fine.

SPEAKER_00: 18:10

They can like lay down. They're fine, they got lots of room. Dude.

SPEAKER_02: 18:13

But you are you are correct, though. I've noticed that that like generally Chinese people are very rude. I think people when it comes to like they're self-selfish kind of thing. But I think it's just how they were raised.

SPEAKER_00: 18:24

Uh and I they don't I don't think they have a choice. And that's like we've we view it as like selfish and like I only say that though because like I was in when we're in Taiwan, it was different.

SPEAKER_02: 18:33

And traveling and stuff, that's what I've noticed. Not like we don't have a lot, a big population here. Yeah, we do, but I I don't think it's noticeable.

SPEAKER_00: 18:41

No, no, you can't even compare it.

SPEAKER_02: 18:43

Yeah. So I'm assuming there's a big difference between like a second, third generation family who lived outside of China versus Toronto.

SPEAKER_00: 18:50

What's the density of Toronto? Because it's they that would be the probably the most dense, or Vancouver, maybe, but Toronto's got to be the most dense city we have. Toronto's the only real city we have. Yeah, I think. So, like what's that? What's the density of that population density?

SPEAKER_02: 19:04

Uh 4,800 per square kilometer versus 49,000. Yeah, it's a little different. Yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_01: 19:11

It's a hundred times more.

SPEAKER_02: 19:12

We're thinner in Canada. We're okay.

SPEAKER_01: 19:14

I'm gonna push back on the statement you just made saying generally Chinese people are very rude.

SPEAKER_02: 19:18

I said second to third, like yeah. I would say anyone I've met here, being like a second generation, third generation family outside of China, has not really been rude. But I've had interactions with a lot of people who are from their first generation, even, and it's just there's a different mentality about not being selfish, but like I'm getting mine first. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01: 19:38

Well, you have to when you're standing shoulder to shoulder.

SPEAKER_02: 19:40

Exactly, right, 100%. So it's uh I think it's just mostly based off of how they grew up, if they grew up in that area.

SPEAKER_00: 19:46

Yeah, I'm saying people who like are directly from there, like who grew up there or live there. That's that's my experience of the people that um I was on a plane with, but that's a very anecdotal one time thing.

SPEAKER_01: 19:56

But you just must not be happy. There's no way you could be happy.

SPEAKER_02: 20:00

I don't maybe that's what it is. Maybe Yeah, maybe we take for granted the room we have just to Oh for sure we do relax. Maybe I don't know.

SPEAKER_00: 20:08

Oh the space. Like I had I knew some people from even England that had come over and when I was like younger and they could not fathom that we because we drew drove from Regina, Saskatchewan to Calgary, Alberta, which is like an eight-hour drive where you pass through four towns, five places. They could not wrap their head around the fact that we were still driving and there was nothing. They're like, what is like where how long is this drive? Like they could not understand. Where are these people from England? Oh. Because like, again, even Is it all just towns over there? But it's also like it's a it's an island that you can't drive in you can't drive for nine hours with barely seeing anything. You know what I mean? Like that's they just it just blew their mind. So yeah, the like how how like sparse our country is in terms of like population is crazy.

SPEAKER_02: 20:57

If you take all of Canada, what do you think the people per square kilometer one in Canada or less or less?

SPEAKER_01: 21:04

Yeah, I'd say less than one.

SPEAKER_02: 21:05

That's surprised. I thought it'd be like what it's four. That's that's surprising. Yeah, I thought we had a lot more uh area.

SPEAKER_00: 21:12

Yeah, you know, but you put four people in a in a kilometer and you probably can't see them. Well, if they stand at the four corners, yeah. Yeah, you can't see.

SPEAKER_02: 21:20

Yeah, but then you can see a kilometer. No, that wouldn't work because then the next square kilometer is right up against that first square kilometer, and then the corner, you know, people would be right beside each other. So, you know.

SPEAKER_00: 21:31

Take that I that's surprising to me, actually.

SPEAKER_01: 21:36

If you all stood in the middle and like angled out, and then everybody else in the other squares stood, then you could probably be uh two kilometers.

SPEAKER_02: 21:42

You could probably put everyone in Canada to the point where they can't see. No, that doesn't work. No, you could do it so everybody in Canada. No, you could do it so everybody in Canada couldn't see each other.

SPEAKER_00: 21:50

Speaking of stupid conversations, are we sure that uh the earth isn't flat? Yeah, yes. Well are you?

SPEAKER_02: 21:58

Uh yeah. From what I've seen firsthand, don't know.

SPEAKER_00: 22:01

What about sp and space is real? It's a real thing. We think space is real. You gotta get off Instagram.

SPEAKER_02: 22:06

And Katy Perry went there and she's dating our friends. Oh, yeah, from the astronauts went there. Yeah. Oh, Katie Perry.

SPEAKER_01: 22:11

I did see the thing, uh, one of these bullshit Instagram clips where it's like the earth is like a section of like a larger earth. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 22:19

There's some crazy things, and they're fun, they're fun. I they're super fun. That's the problem, is like I find them hilarious, but then sometimes you're like, what do we actually know?

SPEAKER_01: 22:29

Nothing. I think we know that the earth is not flat.

SPEAKER_00: 22:32

I I I hope, yeah. I I'm on I'm on board. Are you? I am. Because you seem like a little bit questioning here. No, I'm on board, but then like you hear um, I mean you hear things, and I you can't don't verify those things, of course. But like the what one I heard today was there was a they did this experiment where in like the there's like the salt flats where it's like the flattest part, like there's nothing for like for a long, long time. And so they did experiments where they set up like um things like kilometers apart, and they're at certain points like hey, if the curvature of the earth is this many inches per blah kilometer or whatever, you shouldn't be able to see that thing. It should be and then they're like, but we can see them all. So again, I don't have a clue if this is a real thing.

SPEAKER_01: 23:11

It's it's round.

SPEAKER_00: 23:12

Yeah, dude. I I yeah, I know. I know. Yeah, I think we just gotta see it for ourselves. Um, yeah. Go to space. I don't want to go to space. You don't want to go to space? No. Dude, I'd love to go to space. I would not get in a rocket right now.

SPEAKER_01: 23:26

You can't tell me that you wouldn't come back from that with a new perspective.

SPEAKER_00: 23:29

Oh sure, but I'm telling you, I'm not getting in a spaceship right now. Why? I don't think they're good enough yet.

unknown: 23:34

Bro.

SPEAKER_02: 23:34

Good enough yet?

SPEAKER_00: 23:35

I think I think they will be.

unknown: 23:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_00: 23:38

Like I think it'll be as it'll be as safe as like getting in an airplane.

SPEAKER_02: 23:41

Your failure rate right now is about two to three percent uh for like failure being like the rocket blows up.

SPEAKER_03: 23:48

Ooh.

SPEAKER_02: 23:50

I mean, like back back in the 50s, it was 70%.

SPEAKER_01: 23:54

And people are getting on top of those things. Yeah, we're just doing that.

SPEAKER_00: 23:57

What's uh yeah, two to three percent.

SPEAKER_02: 23:59

Yeah, three percent in twenty twenty four. I'm gonna need like a point one percent.

SPEAKER_00: 24:02

Yeah, but you say that, but we back in a long time ago, if you've been a listener, you've heard this one with the old grapes, the poison grapes.

SPEAKER_02: 24:09

Yeah, how many grapes you eating?

SPEAKER_00: 24:10

That was like a 1% chance.

SPEAKER_01: 24:12

No, didn't we have a thousand grapes?

SPEAKER_00: 24:14

Uh maybe.

SPEAKER_02: 24:14

Yeah, there was a thousand grapes in the room. One is poison. For everyone you eat, you get like a certain amount of grapes. Okay, so it's not one percent.

SPEAKER_00: 24:20

Never mind.

SPEAKER_01: 24:20

Yeah, if there's a hundred grapes in the room. Fuck, I'm still probably eating one. Are you serious? Well, I'd have to go back to the old episode, but I think so. I would not. This is yeah, no, no, we're not doing this again.

SPEAKER_00: 24:31

I I'm just saying, so I was like 1%, 2%. I'm surprised you're not still getting on there.

SPEAKER_02: 24:36

What's the what's the failure rate of a plane?

SPEAKER_00: 24:38

Oh, it's gotta be super. We've definitely looked this up.

SPEAKER_02: 24:40

0.01%?

SPEAKER_01: 24:41

Well, it's like every oh, it's like a lot.

SPEAKER_02: 24:43

Yeah, there's a million planes up on the Was it?

SPEAKER_01: 24:45

You'd have to fly 56,000 times before.

SPEAKER_02: 24:47

Yeah, one in eleven million, I guess.

SPEAKER_01: 24:50

No, that's really low. Yeah, super low. How about that UPS plane crash though? Well the messy thing is, sorry, I didn't see I think I saw that, but I didn't really pay attention. Dude, I I just have nerded out so hard on plane crashes. What happened? It's a bad idea. It took off and did I not send you the video?

SPEAKER_02: 25:08

No. 100% did not send me the video. Okay. UPS plane takes off with like no people on, just packages.

SPEAKER_01: 25:14

Three three pilots.

SPEAKER_02: 25:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 25:16

Takes off, rolling down the runway, left engine falls off, wing is on fire, plane like gets like a hundred feet off the ground and then crashes into a warehouse and kills like another uh 11 people. Ah big explosion.

SPEAKER_02: 25:33

So what's the what's the what's the what's the CJ tinfoil hat? Well we got just error.

SPEAKER_01: 25:39

How does the engine fall off?

SPEAKER_02: 25:40

Oh, okay. I thought it was like that you were gonna go into a conspiracy. I'm assuming one of the fan blades on the jet engine came apart and then like can you hit a if you fly in the the jet like the jet engines could can you hit birds and stuff like birds can fly in there and it just destroys the like ice.

SPEAKER_00: 25:57

That's what happened to the one that landed in uh Hudson Bay. Uh bird flew. Didn't that bird flew on that engine as it was taken off? Both engines.

SPEAKER_02: 26:04

Um are they scanning for that when they're I mean they're they're they're so high up.

SPEAKER_00: 26:08

I know, but like on takeoff, I think around airports, that's why they have a whole bunch of like anti-bird crap. Like they're they're like murdering birds all the time around airports. Okay, I'm fine with Canada geese.

SPEAKER_01: 26:16

I'm fine with that. Canada geese are like the number one killer of airplanes. I have no idea if that's true.

SPEAKER_02: 26:22

I'm totally going through, that's that's gonna do some damage. That's what hit the But I meant like a sparrow or like a robin.

SPEAKER_01: 26:29

I feel like a level one like that's a lot of people.

SPEAKER_02: 26:30

You know, like you could you could sneak through there.

SPEAKER_01: 26:31

Well, yeah, when they when they build jet engines, they test that. Like to have a jet engine certified, you have to test it so that it can ingest a bird and not explode outside of like the case, like the the cowling. Um I do have the book written by the pilot of that plane in the Hudson, if you want to read it. No, don't Sully. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 26:48

Chesley's movie Sully movie. Why is he can let me ask a question? Why is he?

SPEAKER_02: 26:52

He was drunk, wasn't he, or something?

unknown: 26:53

What?

SPEAKER_01: 26:54

What the fuck?

SPEAKER_02: 26:55

No, this this is.

SPEAKER_01: 26:56

You're thinking of the Denzel Washington movie.

SPEAKER_02: 26:59

I thought yeah, that's the one. What's that one? That's not the same one. I think that's called Flight. Oh, anyway, the drunk guy. The drunk guy landed it in the proceed to talk about a Canadian hero and ignore the fact I said he was flying drunk.

SPEAKER_01: 27:11

Sorry, a Canadian hero? Isn't it in Hudson Bay? Isn't he Canadian? Sorry, the Hudson River. Oh.

SPEAKER_00: 27:18

Not the Hudson Bay.

unknown: 27:19

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00: 27:20

Oh, we suck.

SPEAKER_02: 27:21

Tell the story.

SPEAKER_00: 27:22

Stop listening right now if you're listening.

SPEAKER_02: 27:24

Have you not heard of listening? No.

SPEAKER_00: 27:26

You you don't know this one?

SPEAKER_02: 27:27

Did you take it off, hit a bird.

SPEAKER_01: 27:28

Then he landed it in a freaking river.

SPEAKER_02: 27:30

I don't know. Okay, I'm totally getting the two movies messed up. Because I swear.

SPEAKER_01: 27:34

Oh, yeah, because Sully is a movie with Tom Hanks.

SPEAKER_02: 27:37

And is not drunk. He's just, he literally saved a bunch of lives, and that was it.

SPEAKER_01: 27:40

He just did his job well.

SPEAKER_02: 27:41

Was the Denzel movie based off a real life thing? No. Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 27:44

Well then I you've watched the Denzel Washington movie. Can you turn my ears down a little bit more? Like it gets to start.

SPEAKER_02: 27:49

He's just so loud tonight.

SPEAKER_01: 27:51

Can you turn him down?

SPEAKER_02: 27:51

I'm sorry, I'll stop. But yeah, sorry.

SPEAKER_01: 27:54

Go watch go watch the documentary. Okay. He they take off out of New York at 3,000 feet, they hit birds, lose both engines, and then are forced to land in the river, and everybody lives.

SPEAKER_02: 28:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 28:08

Which is like incredible and highly unlikely.

SPEAKER_00: 28:13

Okay, but would not like if you had to put a number on the percentage of pilots that could have done that. 3%. I don't know. No, my my no, I'm thinking the opposite. I'm thinking the vast majority of people could have done that.

SPEAKER_02: 28:28

Like flying.

SPEAKER_00: 28:29

We have no idea what we're talking about. I agree. I agree.

SPEAKER_02: 28:32

Flying without engines isn't really flying. You're just gliding, let's be honest.

SPEAKER_00: 28:36

But I'm just saying, like, everyone made him out to be this big hero, which I'm not saying he isn't.

SPEAKER_01: 28:41

He stepped up though. I mean, I kind of think he is.

SPEAKER_00: 28:43

Okay, but I'm just saying you put most decent pilots in there. Do they not do the same thing? I don't I don't know. I don't think so. Why? Just fly it into a building?

SPEAKER_01: 28:54

No, like I I again, fuck, we have no idea what we're talking about.

SPEAKER_00: 28:58

I know that, but I'm just saying, like, I feel like that's kind of his job is to try not to crash that plane.

SPEAKER_01: 29:06

For sure, but then you had I think he had two minutes to make a decision as to where to land this plane in a very populated area with no engines and like how to get it down and not everybody not to die and land on water, which planes are not designed to do. Like it's read the book, bro. It's fucking impressive.

SPEAKER_00: 29:26

I'm not saying I don't know. I d I feel like I feel like a pilot who is decent would have done that.

SPEAKER_02: 29:32

They did it on a simulator a lot.

SPEAKER_00: 29:35

Yeah, so if he's doing it on a simulator, most of the time.

SPEAKER_02: 29:37

Well, no, no, they they attempted. Uh 53% was kind of what they found could could succeed at the simulation of that flight.

SPEAKER_01: 29:47

And that's without the real world stress kind of knowing what is happening. Yeah. See, that was that was a cool part of this movie. Um have you seen the movie? I have not. Okay. So they take off about 3,000 feet above ground, they hit both birds. And then Oh, I take that back. Sorry, we I no, you go ahead, Jason. I wasn't involved.

SPEAKER_02: 30:06

You go and I will you go and I'll recount later.

SPEAKER_01: 30:09

This is the cool part, is they take off, they he hits birds, and then he they land it in the river and they're fine. And then in the NTSB hearing, they have these pilots fly the simulator where like they hit the birds and then they immediately turn to the airport and land the plane at the airport, and they're like, Well, like, how come you just didn't do that? And he's like, Well, hold on, like, we're human beings. I had to like figure out what the fuck was happening. It's not like I knew this was happening, right? So, like, he hit the birds, and then there's this like 30 seconds of like, holy shit, what the fuck just happened? What do we do? Yeah, so now like way less time. Now I really don't have a lot of options. I gotta land in the river. It's like it is super impressive. Watch the movie. I probably won't. Read the books, do something. Jason, you were gonna say.

SPEAKER_02: 30:56

No, it's it's 70 to 90 percent of experienced pilots. The 53% is doing the uh thing you said, the like turning to the airport. Turning to the airport. 70-90% could do I guess as a conservative estimate. Could land the plane on the other. But Sully's Edge was calm analysis and glider background from unpowered flights he had trained in.

SPEAKER_01: 31:16

Yeah, I don't know. Like human beings generally don't make good decisions under stress, which is why I like love stories of people that make good decisions under stress. That's cool.

SPEAKER_02: 31:23

It wasn't a skill alone, but preparation for meeting the opportunity.

SPEAKER_01: 31:26

What where are you getting? I don't know.

SPEAKER_02: 31:28

It's the LaGuardia says I don't know. Anyway, I will watch that movie.

SPEAKER_01: 31:32

Yeah, it's good. Or just the documentary on YouTube.

SPEAKER_02: 31:34

Maybe I'll watch the one where Danzel gets caught drinking and flying again. Well, that was a good movie.

SPEAKER_01: 31:38

He's like flying the plane upside down.

SPEAKER_02: 31:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 31:40

What movie is that one?

SPEAKER_02: 31:42

That's what because it crashed, it was gonna crash, and he he had to fly it upside down, and then they tried to recreate it, and no one could do it because they were sober, but the drunk pilot could do it because he was like, it was awesome.

SPEAKER_00: 31:52

What movie is this?

SPEAKER_01: 31:53

Uh Flight?

SPEAKER_00: 31:54

I think it's called Flight. Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 31:55

It's not a great movie.

SPEAKER_00: 31:57

Is it on Apple? I think it's on Apple TV. I I don't know. Maybe not.

SPEAKER_01: 32:02

Okay, well, but just the next time you get on like a WestJet plane, like I don't want to think about this. You're confident your pilot could do the same thing?

SPEAKER_00: 32:09

I would yeah, I want to be confident my pilot can do the same thing. I don't think he could. Okay, well, I'm gonna be confident.

SPEAKER_01: 32:15

Especially with DEI hires these days.

SPEAKER_02: 32:20

My feed's been getting filled with a bunch of people getting kicked off planes. Like on the plane getting kicked off.

SPEAKER_00: 32:26

A lot of those are fake.

SPEAKER_02: 32:27

What?

SPEAKER_00: 32:28

Like AI fake or just no like set up. Like they're like you can tell the ones that are like on Facebook.

SPEAKER_02: 32:32

Like these are cops rolling on the plane.

SPEAKER_00: 32:34

Um those might those ones might be real, but there's a lot of like fake um plane set like sets where people are like dealing screaming and yelling, and yeah, it's crazy. Like what Facebook is, I think, might be the worst for it. I think everyone, everything does it, but they're just there these videos that like are trying to evoke this emotion of like, oh my god, I can't believe that happened. And then you kind of look into it and like, oh yeah, that's completely set up.

SPEAKER_01: 32:56

Like rage bait.

SPEAKER_00: 32:57

Yeah, it's and it's just completely like people acting, like just like hey, let's think of something that would be crazy that would piss people off. Like, okay, let's act this out. And they set up a s make a set and they film a video.

SPEAKER_01: 33:06

And you know why do they have a fake plane set?

SPEAKER_00: 33:08

Dude, you like if you look now, um, a lot of those fake plane sets uh on those videos, there's like a LED strip that goes along the top edge. That's like you can tell that's how I know it's fake, because that's there all the time.

SPEAKER_02: 33:21

Yeah, interesting. People are ridiculous.

SPEAKER_01: 33:24

Well, it's like the ones people will influencers will rent private jets on the ground and then use them to film, like oh right. Getting on a private jet, yeah, yeah, zoom FaceTime and then like stop the video and be like, okay, thanks. See you later.

SPEAKER_00: 33:38

Yeah, but people I think people have done that for like taking a picture in front of like a nice car, hitting my car.

SPEAKER_02: 33:42

Yeah, but a p that's a whole different ballgame, I feel. Oh, dude. Or if you go sit, do they sit like you could sit on the plane and pretend it's flying the wheels and are not turning.

SPEAKER_00: 33:51

Yeah, you're paying money to do it.

SPEAKER_02: 33:52

But then when the camera turns off, don't you just feel like a like a piece of shit?

SPEAKER_00: 33:55

They must feel like for sure. There's that documentary about uh it's on Netflix about the it's like an influencer house. Um it ended up being like this cult.

SPEAKER_02: 34:04

Is it that dancing one? Yeah. I watched that. That is nuts.

SPEAKER_00: 34:07

Yeah, it's so crazy. It's like essentially it ended up being like a cult. But basic some this rich dude starts this influencer house where all of these like young influencer people or people who want to be influencers come and stay. And they there are a bunch of dancers who are doing like these dance videos, but they so they plan videos all day and then they go do them and they practice and they rehearse and like it's a job. Um, but it becomes basically this cult with this dude sleeping with people and it's a dance troupe. Basically, but like they yeah, it's like it's weird, it's super weird. So these all these like girls and these dudes have like millions of followers, and their whole goal is to just like make good videos, and it's uh it was a weird, it was a weird thing.

SPEAKER_02: 34:49

But it was really and then they cut off communication.

SPEAKER_00: 34:51

Yeah, so they like talk talk stop talking to your parents and like they start like trying to influence like their all their finances and uh take control of all of that. It just it's super weird.

SPEAKER_02: 35:00

Like, come live here and we'll own your entire life. Yeah, and we met. But the problem is I watched that, and so I was watching it, and then one I I followed this guy on uh TikTok, and so does my wife. He's a dancer, and he's so awesome. Anyway, he pops up on there, and I'm like, oh boy, and he was one of like the victims of this thing, and it's it's just not good. But yeah, they they allowed him to like write letters to their parents, and that's about it.

SPEAKER_00: 35:24

Yeah, you like it was messed up. You know you're in a cult when.

SPEAKER_02: 35:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 35:28

Did you guys watch Smallville?

SPEAKER_02: 35:30

Yeah, all of them. You would have all of it. Did you see that? I've watched it so many times. Of course, how many three times maybe? Oh, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00: 35:35

All the way to the first Smallville fuckboy, aren't you? There's he is, it's alright, though. There's so many episodes. I remember wanting to rewatch it. There is ten seasons or eleven. There's twenty-one or twenty-two episodes in every single season, and they're an hour long.

SPEAKER_01: 35:51

That's a lot of content.

SPEAKER_00: 35:52

Yeah, 218. Crazy. Are you aware of the actress there that went to jail for next year? The Nexium cult.

SPEAKER_01: 35:59

Is that what it is? Yeah. There's a documentary about that, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00: 36:01

There is called The Vow. Uh, watch that. Also, there are the people who are who left uh the Nexium Cult and basically got their leader put in jail, have a podcast called uh It's a Little Bit Culty. And I listened to that quite a bit. What's the Nexium cult about? Was it just uh Um So it started Kool-Aid or sex?

SPEAKER_02: 36:19

It's one of the two. That's all.

SPEAKER_00: 36:20

Well, it all starts with the Kool-Aid. No, it all it all starts with self-development.

SPEAKER_02: 36:24

It just does end with the Kool-Aid.

SPEAKER_01: 36:26

The crazy thing about it is, and we've talked about this if it's does it start with participating whole life, dividend-paying whole life insurance policies?

SPEAKER_00: 36:32

No, but it could if you'd like it to. Um it it always starts with some guy for some reason has some ideas and his personality is magnetic, and I don't know what it like. You know what I mean? Like, I don't understand it because but there's people in history like that, like just they talk and people want to listen. Um, so there's a guy like that who's like talking about you know getting better, doing things like having a community, and we're all about you know growth and development and all the right things strangely familiar. But that's the thing, is it sounds like Welcome to the Average Spirit Podcast? Exactly, and that's the thing is people get people get sucked into it initially. It's for the reasons of yeah, you know what I am missing something in my life. I want to feel part of a community, I want to focus on my growth and my mindset, and all these things all sound great, right? And then for him, it was like there was like they basically start this progression of like stages. Okay, you have like you're at the lower level, and then you can advance to here, and then you can advance to here, and then the whole time apparently he's got this like secret top secret group, and like an inner circle, yeah. And he's like, So the girl from Smallville, uh her job, or the reason she went to jail, was she was supposed to be recruiting new women to come into the community, um, kind of get them involved in the community, and at a certain point bring him into like this ladies-only group, uh, where they become basically become this guy's property. Um, and they were branding the dude's name in them. Um they did a ceremony, Welcome to the Welcome to the Group. Part of the ceremony was they did a brand. Yeah, it was messed up, super messed up. So but the people that ended up um the the documentary is super worth watching. It's it's called the vow. It's really interesting. And the people who and the people who now have that podcast, they're really interesting people because they're they're they basically woke up one day and said, Are we in a cult? Like, they legit, like they had no idea because they were they were so into the idea of I'm trying to they then they were high up in the community because they were like leaders and they had been there from the beginning and they wanted to help people, and so they were very focused on like you know, bringing this new person in who's struggling with life, and like, hey, how do we get you connected? Okay, let's let's focus on okay. What do you think of oh you got some negative thoughts? Well, we need to get rid of it, we need to help you focus on positivity, and we need so like they they really had this like mentality of I want to help people grow and be better in their life, and so some of the weird stuff that was happening around them, they just didn't really realize it or just kind of discounted it, like eh, it's that's that's just him, he's just a weird dude. Um, and then anyway, so they end up waking up and be like, Well, I think we're in a cult. Uh and they the process the vow goes through the process of these kind of these three or four people who were very high up in the organization realizing one day what what is going on here, and then tearing it down and getting the guy thrown in jail. So So what what was he in jail for? Uh I think it I think it was like like sex trafficking. Uh look it up. Just look it up. Yeah, I think it was sex trafficking, and it was like uh his name is um something Reneer Reniri Renera. I can't remember.

SPEAKER_02: 39:55

Um because like some of that stuff How do you deal Like, how does the government deal with a cult if they're not doing it? Because it always it's always about like they get arrested for sex trafficking or underage sex or something like that, right? But like if somebody just starts that and they don't bring all that weirdness into it.

SPEAKER_00: 40:13

There's not they're not doing it. Like honestly, if a community like that doesn't get to that point. It's just called a church. Well, that's a but that's a hundred like you're completely right. If it doesn't get to that point, it becomes just a community of like-minded people who are doing something, and there's nothing wrong with it in the end. Like that's the thing. He's not in jail. Uh yes, he is. Yes, he is.

SPEAKER_01: 40:30

He went to jail for 120 years.

SPEAKER_00: 40:33

Next team is NXV. It's like a weird thing. Oh, just the Vow.

SPEAKER_02: 40:37

There's another cult called the VAW Bible Church.

SPEAKER_00: 40:40

Yeah, no.

SPEAKER_02: 40:40

Which, anyway, sorry.

SPEAKER_00: 40:41

Uh yeah, look at uh look up the VOW documentary.

SPEAKER_01: 40:45

It'll tell you what the um But the girl from Smallville, she was like number two. Like she knew what was going on.

SPEAKER_00: 40:50

She knew what was going on, and so she was basically his she got brought in, and she's in the in the documentary as well. She got brought in, she was struggling with life. He kind of helps her get her life back on track, ends up being in the inner circle. And the reason she went to jail, I believe, is because she was very responsible for like had a knowledge of what was happening, and then but bringing people other people into the situation to try to give him new blood essentially. Jesus. Yeah, she got out. Um, she's out, and she actually started a podcast.

SPEAKER_01: 41:21

Of course she did, because that's what people do.

SPEAKER_00: 41:23

Um, I'm actually super curious. I haven't listened to it. I can't think of her name. Allison Mack. Yeah, there you go. Um she got out, started a podcast, and she is discussing. I saw somebody tell I saw a post about it the other day. She's talking about like basically what happened. And I'm curious to listen to it. I just haven't had a chance.

SPEAKER_02: 41:42

Very cool. Not very cool.

SPEAKER_00: 41:45

William Rainier, is that right?

SPEAKER_02: 41:46

For some reason, it's given me 120 years, you got a million and a half dollar fine, and I'm just not fine at a name. Keith. Keith Rainier. Keith Rainier. Yeah. Rainier, yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 41:55

Yeah. Anyway, it's a really good documentary. I I I love that crap. I love learning about that stuff because it's uh I just find it so compelling. And the thing that I like about the podcast they have, a little bit culty, is like they just it's very interesting because they're like, if you think it can't happen to you, you're wrong.

SPEAKER_01: 42:13

It can't happen to me. You're wrong. I'm not. It could happen to you. You for sure would get sucked into a cult.

SPEAKER_00: 42:20

Yeah, it could, it could.

SPEAKER_01: 42:21

100%. If I could pick one person in my life that would be sucked into a cult, it would be you.

SPEAKER_02: 42:26

Don't don't make a fan. Like, I agree with him. You would be the one.

SPEAKER_00: 42:29

I could not be.

SPEAKER_02: 42:30

No, you'd be like, I definitely would have could have been. You go to like let's say you go to a shoe store and there's like some attractive guy that starts talking about ultramarathons and then you just get infatuated with him, and then he slowly manipulates you a hundred percent could be manipulated to a cult. You would realize you would realize it happened after the fact. You'd be like, Did you wake up one day and be like, oh, I should get it here?

SPEAKER_00: 42:48

No, it wouldn't.

SPEAKER_02: 42:49

But I feel like you would be in the inner circle and I'm too skeptical now.

SPEAKER_01: 42:52

No, I I I am he'd literally be like, hey bro, do you like ultramarathons and like CrossFit? Yeah. Because boy, do I have a deal for you now? He'll probably have a jujitsu.

SPEAKER_02: 43:01

Like a jujitsu shirt on or something like that. He'd be like, oh, you know, like what?

SPEAKER_01: 43:06

Would you like to see my Apple Watch? Oh, yeah, cool. Now come into my dark room and take your clothing off.

SPEAKER_02: 43:12

No, you wouldn't you wouldn't go that far. You would catch it. But you're the most likely to go to the first meeting.

SPEAKER_00: 43:18

I will agree with you that when I was younger, yes. I disagree that it could happen now. And I I think we should do a poll. Well, no, everyone.

SPEAKER_02: 43:26

How about this? He would be the most likely to start his own cult as well. Would you admit out of like or I think you're I would definitely be willing to start a community. Exactly. The way he answered that.

SPEAKER_00: 43:38

Like a community of people who want to do better in this life, uh, who want to live in a uh in a in a community setting. In a community setting, in a way where you know you hang out and you you have Sunday dinners together. That's that's fine. And you are but then can you just can you stop talking about it and just fucking do it? Uh if I I don't have the money. If I had the money, I'd do it.

SPEAKER_02: 44:02

He if we had a cult, he would be the first ones to bring up the brands.

SPEAKER_00: 44:06

No, we get tattoos.

SPEAKER_02: 44:08

We get tattoos, but like some sort of identifying mark.

SPEAKER_00: 44:10

Okay guys, we need to design a logo here.

SPEAKER_02: 44:13

Some kind of flare, if you will.

SPEAKER_00: 44:14

And then we're we we all it's voluntary, it's all voluntary. Then you're gonna get it tattooed on our chest. And then it's that's how it starts. But then at some point it's like, how do I identify who's in the group? Well, it's like now mandatory. You have to get it tattooed on a chest. What if I want to leave the group? You can't well then we burn it off of you. No, that doesn't happen. We either cut it or burn it off of you, like sons of anarchy.

SPEAKER_01: 44:35

Okay, that's a bit extreme.

SPEAKER_02: 44:37

I think we stick with the tattoos so we just get laser removal because it's way less tattooing over it. Yeah, I'm good with that.

SPEAKER_00: 44:42

No, we slice it off.

SPEAKER_01: 44:44

Yeah, maybe. Okay.

SPEAKER_00: 44:45

That place that we uh trained the other night, that would be a perfect spot, dude.

SPEAKER_01: 44:49

Uh, 100%.

SPEAKER_00: 44:51

Like we just surrounded by mad cows. That that place, I that's a cool place. I would like to see it in the daytime though. Yeah, I'd like to see what's up there. I'd be curious. But like you take out there's like six houses, six, seven houses, you renovate them all, you have a little like central area in between all the houses to like hang out.

SPEAKER_02: 45:09

The central quantit is a very important part of the just have like a little bonfire out there, yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 45:14

Sing Kubaya every night. But like, do you have to you could play guitar? Because you like playing guitar. You could get back to guitar, bro. Okay.

SPEAKER_02: 45:22

Could literally go by the bonfire and cut up watermelons with our katanas. Be amazing. Have you ever swung a like a samurai sword? No. I think it'd be a super cool. Have you? No. Don't poof me. I would love that.

SPEAKER_01: 45:41

Go buy yourself a samurai sword, you fucking weirdo. Well, I don't want to be the only one.

SPEAKER_02: 45:45

Because I don't feel weird. Just my family. I have like dad. Why aren't we having like why are we having craft dinner this month? Well, dad bought a samurai sword by himself. No, if I do it with like five other people, it's not a big deal because it's like a kind of a shared interest. Like a group of people doing the same thing.

SPEAKER_00: 46:03

Oh, we could do that for the community. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Once you've proven yourself.

SPEAKER_01: 46:07

Yeah, like you had to like, you know, run X number of miles or like swim up straight like that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 46:13

Well, now I just want to be in the cult for the samurai sword.

SPEAKER_01: 46:16

Skift your seed to the cult leader.

SPEAKER_02: 46:18

Yeah, there it is. That that's where see it always goes there. We need to go there. Well, here's another thing. How many female cult leaders are there?

unknown: 46:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_02: 46:27

Like there Well Yeah. Uh there can be any.

SPEAKER_01: 46:32

And if there are, they're guaranteed not hot. Although Alison Mack was pretty attractive.

unknown: 46:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 46:37

Which one in small though was she? She was the one who had the newspaper. She was the friend.

SPEAKER_01: 46:41

Oh yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_02: 46:43

Well, it just says far less. Far less than males.

SPEAKER_01: 46:46

Well, yeah, because like males are always the creeps. Did you and you I know?

SPEAKER_02: 46:50

That's what it says. Why so few? And it kind of talks about, yeah, males are more into uh the sex that goes along with that.

SPEAKER_00: 46:57

Did you uh you watched Wild Wild Story or Wild Wild? Oh Wild Country? Wild Country. Yeah. Yeah. There was a female cult leader in that, wasn't there? No, there wasn't. No, she she was just high. No, Osho was the leader. She was like just kind of his right-handed. Sorry, what is it called? Wild Country. It's basically about if you've never seen this, you'd like this. It's really interesting. It's like a four-part, five-part series about a cult that started in India. Um, kind of got really big, and then so they moved, they wanted to move over to the States. They bought a whole bunch of land in Oregon and moved over to like this by this small town in Oregon, and then it got gigantic. The cult did? Yeah. Oh. And uh it's uh really interesting. But like the cult leaders were from India? He was an Indian, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 47:39

Oh, neat.

SPEAKER_00: 47:40

Yeah, uh something but got hit. Oh show they called him. I can't think of his real name. Um, really, really good documentary though.

SPEAKER_02: 47:47

It says the two most famous are Wild Wild Country and uh Nexium. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 47:52

But they're not the top dogs, they're like Well, because that's the thing, is you so that's the weird thing, is like what do we call an occult? Because at the end of the day, Scientology, if it wasn't given religious status, it's a cult. Well, for sure, but if it wasn't given gov by the government religious status, it would have been classified as a cult. But so is Mormonism. Completely. And so I guess you could like there's a lot of religious um things that you so is CrossFit. Yeah. Yeah, that's my point.

SPEAKER_02: 48:19

Is like there's a lot, there's a lot of like things that are very Hit His cult experience, he would join some gym and then he would get into the like a crossfit. It would start with fitness or something, and then that's how they pitch you.

SPEAKER_01: 48:30

It'd be like an ultra runner club, like uh, you know.

SPEAKER_02: 48:33

Be careful by the way. We're just ready to go.

SPEAKER_01: 48:34

We like to run ultra marathons, but also also like I need you to sign over the title to your house and your wife.

SPEAKER_02: 48:39

Yeah, pretty much.

SPEAKER_01: 48:41

Not that you can sign over your wife because it's 2020.

SPEAKER_02: 48:44

Well in the cult in the cult, you probably can.

SPEAKER_00: 48:46

You can do that?

SPEAKER_01: 48:47

You can just sign them over.

SPEAKER_00: 48:50

Wow. I didn't know that. Have you signed up for your next ultra marathon? What are we talking about?

SPEAKER_02: 48:54

Registration's open.

SPEAKER_00: 48:56

Did you register? Look at how much look at check it out to see how much left uh how many spots are open available.

SPEAKER_02: 49:01

It's gotta be open on November 1st, it's probably dude.

SPEAKER_00: 49:04

It filled it was filling up quick. Well, like what are you waiting for?

SPEAKER_01: 49:10

I don't know. I think you're gonna leave this box unchecked. No.

unknown: 49:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 49:15

Are you? Probably.

SPEAKER_00: 49:20

I feel like um It's on September 11th. Yeah, it's a week later this year. How do you see is it just you have to go to uh I'll find it here. I said we can do this off. If it's on September, we can do this all air.

SPEAKER_01: 49:33

I expect you to run it with like Oh, you're right, it is too. Like a like an air pass.

SPEAKER_00: 49:38

That's a good point. Damn it.

SPEAKER_01: 49:41

Go full in the full turnout.

SPEAKER_00: 49:47

I'll find it here. Uh yeah, it is September 11th. It's kind of an odd date to have that on. Yeah, I don't know why they moved it midweek. Uh it's a Friday, it's a Friday Saturday, like it always is. Um 22 spots available.

SPEAKER_01: 50:07

What are you waiting for? I can tell you're thinking about it.

SPEAKER_02: 50:10

Yeah, just do it. I might have already done it. Yeah, good yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 50:15

I haven't told my wife. 100 shit. 100 again. My yay. Is Tony doing it with you? You guys are such fucking cucks. Good job. You just love getting punished.

SPEAKER_00: 50:30

Um I've had visions of my not finishing it, and uh bothers me. Um, whose idea was it, yours or Tony's? Uh, we didn't even talk to each other. Well, I asked him if he's gonna sign up and he said for sure, and I didn't know if I was going to, to be honest. I'm sorry for calling you a cuck.

unknown: 50:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 50:52

Uh nobody I've literally told nobody about this. Uh you just told everybody. I know I did, but I couldn't, yeah. I've I haven't told my wife.

SPEAKER_01: 50:58

Uh I haven't made a post on Instagram, and my post tonight's gonna be JB's running 100 mile again.

SPEAKER_00: 51:04

She um she will when she asked, she asked me a while ago and I said I didn't know. She's like, Do you want me to show you the video of you saying you're never gonna do it again after the last race? And I was like, No, I'm okay. She has a video of me saying I will never do that again.

SPEAKER_01: 51:18

If you finish that hundred mile. If you finish this race this year, there needs to be some consequences. Okay. Oh, geez.

SPEAKER_02: 51:25

If you finish it, maybe we all pitch in and get him a samurai sword.

SPEAKER_01: 51:28

I I think that could be worthy of being uh knighted a samurai or whatever it's called.

SPEAKER_00: 51:33

I I am yeah I initially I wasn't going to because I was like dreading the process of training for it again, but I'm actually looking forward. I've got a different idea of how I'm gonna do it this year, and I'm looking forward to kind of implementing it with your feet? Like what uh just no, just like my training for it. Like I'm just gonna I'm gonna focus a lot more on um like speed work during the week. So like I want to get comfortable at like a six um minute per mile speed. No, I'm not I'm not saying I would I know I have no I'm not gonna run that fast at all, but I want to be feel comfortable running you know like a full mile. It's so it's 10 miles an hour on the treadmill, is what it is. So I want to be comfortable doing like a full mile at at that pace and then chilling, like then doing an easier mile and then a full mile of the pace. I want to be able to do that uh for a while because that's actually not fast, and I know it's like it sounds fast, but like people who are running um um marathons, that's not a fast run. Like a six yeah, for them. Yeah, no, I know that people from Kenya. No, like I'm talking like tall skinny people. Like uh truit truett haines just ran like a 220-something marathon.

SPEAKER_01: 52:45

Yes, truett Haynes, the son of Cam Haynes.

SPEAKER_00: 52:48

I know I'm not saying I'm not trying, I'm not trying to be that because I don't care about that speed in the ultra, but uh being able to have that speed is gonna give me a lot more leg uh endurance, I think, through the training of it.

SPEAKER_01: 53:00

Have you can did last year did you was it Grock that did your training plan for you? No, I didn't do it. I just ran, bro. Okay. Have you considered seeking like assistance from a professional in developing this training plan? I don't need assistance.

SPEAKER_02: 53:14

You pay for something, you can do it yourself.

SPEAKER_00: 53:16

And then like so my plan is basically to do speed work um a couple times a week at minimum, and then uh do a lot of leg endurance stuff like the stepper and stuff, and then on weekends to try to get one at least 10 to 20 mile run every weekend.

SPEAKER_01: 53:32

I will come bike it with you. Okay.

SPEAKER_00: 53:34

I just want to I just I didn't I did like two or three longer runs. I did a lot of running, obviously last year. I can't I don't know what my kilometers are up, but they're it's pretty high. But um I want to kind of consolidate that to um less runs but longer runs. And on the I'm just gonna do the course. Like I'm just gonna run that course. Other than the last 16k loop that we can't get into because of private land, but um what's 15, 30, 34k is like the portion that you could run without going into that private land. I just wanna I just wanna wrap that thing out like a stupid amount of times.

SPEAKER_01: 54:09

Who else is signing up for it?

SPEAKER_00: 54:11

I don't have a clue. Haven't heard anybody. Uh uh our friend Aaron, she signed up for the 100k again, I think. And maybe uh our coworker, um Josh. He mentioned he might.

SPEAKER_01: 54:26

Really? Yeah. You have a 50k credit.

SPEAKER_02: 54:28

Yeah, I just looked. It's still there. Yeah. I uh should probably put it towards that.

SPEAKER_01: 54:34

Because it's a free entry. Well, you paid for it. It's not free.

SPEAKER_02: 54:40

No, it's free. No, the money's already spent, so it's free. It's a sunken cost. Yeah, but like when I put money on like a Starbucks card, I get Starbucks with it, it's free. I'm not paying it.

SPEAKER_03: 54:51

That's not how that works.

SPEAKER_02: 54:52

I I think it is. Yeah, I went in a deep kind of rabbit hole about that. Like Starbucks is cards? Yeah, they because they essentially created their own currency. Okay. Where people would buy in and they have so many million and unused um credits.

SPEAKER_00: 55:07

But everyone anyone has a credit called gift card card. Anyone who has a gift card, that would be the same thing.

SPEAKER_01: 55:11

Yeah, gift card is the same thing. It's a liability on a balance sheet, I think.

SPEAKER_00: 55:14

Is that not what you mean though?

SPEAKER_02: 55:16

Yeah, I guess so. Never mind. I was thinking like somehow, how would they because there was some I watched this weird post where the people would in put the money by Starbucks gift card, all that kind of stuff. Then the Starbucks would invest that money and like use that until it was being spilled. So they kind of used it the same way.

SPEAKER_01: 55:33

It's kind of like a loan or a credit list.

SPEAKER_02: 55:39

Like he bought a golf course for 50 million, but then used everyone's green fees and or everyone's membership fees and invested that the first golf course he bought, and he and he made way more money off the investment from people's memberships than actually paying for the the golf course, that kind of idea.

SPEAKER_01: 55:53

Yeah, I mean I think that's how smart people make money. That's how interesting that's how everybody's got virgin airlines. Well, same thing, like loaned, not loaned money, but like Yeah, well he leased an aircraft and then they had like a 30-day term on the lease, so he like filled the flights up to pay for the lease before he like had the aircraft. Because he never had money to lease an aircraft or something like that.

SPEAKER_00: 56:12

Yeah. Well, I was looking at a thing the other day about again how rich people similar to some other stuff. How rich people don't pay taxes, and you're like, Yeah, they just don't like so like Elon Musk, for example, like he just got paid in uh stock options, and then he's like, Oh, I have I have a millions of I have millions and millions of dollars worth of stock. Hey bank, can I have$10 million? Like, sure, here's ten million dollars. So then he's got ten million dollars sitting in his bank on like because of the fact that he's got all this other stuff options are just closed completely, which the ten million isn't uh income, so he doesn't pay tax on it, and it's and it and now he's paying on the interest he can actually claim because it's uh um the word I'm looking for. Anyway, it's a loan from the bank. Uh so it's interesting, it's just interesting that it's a shell game and it's it's legal because that's the way the system was made.

SPEAKER_01: 56:59

But yeah, you gotta be rich to make money. Yeah, and then when you have money, you don't have to pay to have money. I know, isn't that funny? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 57:07

What level does that happen at? Not our level. Not our level, but like an achievable level for us? No.

SPEAKER_01: 57:13

Tens of tens of millions of tens, yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 57:16

I think so.

SPEAKER_01: 57:17

All saltiness aside, I'm gonna mock you relentlessly, but I do hope you finish this one. Thank you. I have nothing but best wishes for you. Thank you. I will not be running.

SPEAKER_00: 57:24

Okay, you're gonna come uh run a leg though, maybe? Sure.

SPEAKER_02: 57:26

Okay. I'll join you on your slower. So you when you do that six minute?

SPEAKER_00: 57:30

Yeah, come till I'll jump on that. No, at like two or three in the morning. Uh that's when you can come join me. Because I'll be right. I'll that's when I'll need my so e-bike it is. No. We come walk it.

SPEAKER_01: 57:42

Yeah. But offer a few e-bikes. Oh, you got it. Oh, did you? I didn't know you did.

SPEAKER_02: 57:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 57:48

To work? Uh no, just on the trails.

SPEAKER_02: 57:51

It's fun, hey.

SPEAKER_01: 57:54

Which on an e-bike does not.

SPEAKER_02: 57:56

No, no. You your distance doesn't matter. You can't really do it. You can't throw that down.

SPEAKER_01: 58:00

No, it doesn't mean anything. So it's fun. Yeah, super fun. Yeah? Yeah. Uh I'm not a super great um mountain biker. Mm-hmm. You doing any jumps or what are you doing? Like I've got some air, bro. Hitting any, yeah, um have you popped a uh wheelie? Yes. Nice. Yeah, good for you. And then I immediately went off the back end of it. Dude, it's like it's like doing all these things you used to do when you're like a teenager now, and like kind of like a little bit older, and you're like, fuck, this is like kind of hard and scary.

SPEAKER_00: 58:32

Yeah. Yeah, things uh your brain tells you you can do things, and all of a sudden your body's like, not really. Yeah. Not really. I might be coaching my kids' basketball team. I know, basketball.

SPEAKER_02: 58:45

Um, that's like you're taller than them. So barely.

SPEAKER_00: 58:51

And not some of them. Some of these great kids are gigantic. Um see how that goes.

SPEAKER_02: 58:58

Are you a do you know are you a basketball rule?

SPEAKER_00: 59:01

I know I know a base amount. Uh, there's some other guys that are gonna uh some like guys who play basketball who are kind of like 20 are gonna come help as well. So I'm gonna get let them run the basketball stuff. For me, honestly, head coach? I think I will be just because they need an adult to do it, like an older person. I for me, what what I'm interested in being a part of, though, because that age group drives me crazy. Watching them, uh the same kids are playing volleyball right now with my kid, and the lack of effort and the just like you're gonna punch a kid. I'm I'm gonna try not to. I'm gonna try not to, but the lack of effort drives me crazy, and they're so individual minded, and there's no like with the girls' team, so with my daughter's teams, it's all they're always been like, Hey, good job, giving high child high fives, like at playing volleyball. Someone missed a shot, no one cares. Hey, it's all right, man. Give me here, give me a high like the girl. Teams, like my daughter's teams, have always been like that. This boys, like these boys, are just all little dicks. Like they're just they're like, oh, I can't believe you missed that. And then they go shank the next one, right? But like they don't, but of course, they can't recognize that they suck too. And it's just like they immediately get on the backs as people that aren't good. Or not not good. They're that make a mistake. Um so I'm looking forward to the opportunity to like beat that out of them a little bit in terms of like I like what my plan is coming in is being like all all ex mistakes are gonna happen. I could care less about mistakes, I could care less about us winning games necessarily. I I if I don't see effort, like I wanted effort. I want you to show up and want to be there because you don't have to be like you don't you have to sign up to be here. And if you don't want to be here, then don't sign up to play basketball or whatever sport it is, right? But if you're here, you're here, I want you and the other thing was some freaking kid was sitting on the bench the other day with her phone.

SPEAKER_01: 1:00:58

That's that's an NG.

SPEAKER_00: 1:00:59

The the ref, the ref of the the ref of the volleyball game, stopped the game and says to the coach for the phone? Yeah, says to the coach, tell them to get off their phone. It was it was hilarious. I loved it. I was like, yes, good job. Yeah. Because it was like a school, and they're like, what are you so anyway? So the the teacher was like, Oh, sorry, and got the kids off the phone, but like that it's like it's a such a there's such a level of almost disrespect towards the coach that of their volleyball coach this year because of just their terrible attitudes that I was like I think I need to coach these people and I'm gonna be um I my goal is to try to be an influence for this is bullshit, you can't do this. And I'm hoping because the basketball side of it, that's I mean, I know I know the basics, but that's where these other guys will come in and hopefully teach that that side of it and actually the plays and stuff, they can help me with that because I don't know. But at that age, it's not really like grade seven, eight, it's just kind of like the the plays are kind of like not tin bits hockey, but like basically right idea, right? So it's more so I want to influence the mindset, hopefully. And some of these kids who have this idea that they're like super good and like they can run this, they I could just do this myself, and all the oh, that person screwed up again, oh can't you catch past, like that kind of stuff. Like, I'm gonna we're gonna have a hard time with that. We're gonna we're gonna deal with it.

SPEAKER_02: 1:02:18

I think you're gonna have a hard time.

SPEAKER_00: 1:02:19

No, dude, but it need but it needs to be dealt with.

SPEAKER_02: 1:02:21

It's general, and I'm loving it. Tell you what, I benched a seven-year-old when I was coaching soccer, and it I felt like the biggest the best person, like I felt so like the confidence was high. Benched that seven-year-old, so happy about it. Parents come after, thank me, like all that kind of stuff. The best thing. That's the thing. Because their kid their attitude is you're right, you're 100% right.

SPEAKER_00: 1:02:42

Because if I in grades seven and eight, if you can, I'm hoping, and maybe this is I'm losing my maybe I'll lose my mind because it won't work, but I'm hoping if you can have some sort of influence on just like this is not acceptable because no one's told them that, which I don't understand, but nobody's told them that. Your attitude is not acceptable at all if you want to play in any sort of team sport. If you want to be an individual sport, go go do MMA or judo or something where you don't have to like play with a team, then you can be this cocky little person who thinks that they're the best and actually isn't very good. That's fine. Go do that over there. So I'm just I it's gonna be interesting how this works out. You're I'm already riled up about it.

SPEAKER_02: 1:03:23

I can see you're riled up and like you're fine. I believe as long as you can put it in perspective, that and yes, you can't change the societal decline and screen time dependency of these kids over basketball.

SPEAKER_00: 1:03:34

No, no, I can't, but I can control the hour that I have them with twice a week.

SPEAKER_02: 1:03:38

I'm gonna love and if if it's can we come to like the no, seriously, can we come to the games and watch you just like tune these games?

SPEAKER_00: 1:03:45

I just want I want I want effort, I want um some cooperation and cheering your teammates on whether or not they screwed up or they didn't screw up. I don't like that's the thing that drives me crazy because it's it's it was like it was so like volleyball was so painful to watch because of they weren't they aren't good, that's one thing, but it wasn't just that. It was like just their there's no team. Everyone is so just individual focused that it was like there's why are we doing this? There's no point in even doing this. And like I was like raging at watching volleyball. And I said to my wife, I was like, I think I might need I think I'm gonna see if I can coach the basketball team.

SPEAKER_02: 1:04:23

I mean, I I would say that if you looked back on some of these cults, um the cult leader probably had a moment just like this of I'm gonna change society, I'm gonna get a group of like-minded people together, I'm gonna like seriously. This I agree. Yeah, he would be the cult leader.

SPEAKER_01: 1:04:38

100%.

SPEAKER_02: 1:04:39

Anyway, I am so happy.

SPEAKER_00: 1:04:41

I think I think I'm gonna be the coach.

SPEAKER_02: 1:04:42

I'm not positive, but boys team though, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:04:44

The boys 7-8, yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 1:04:46

Nice. That's that's good.

SPEAKER_01: 1:04:47

I hope that this is the start of like a documentary. Like that won't be Remember the Titans. It won't be.

SPEAKER_02: 1:04:52

So okay, that okay. I thought you were gonna go another direction with it. Whoa.

SPEAKER_00: 1:04:55

I'll be assigning them movies. Okay, we'll watch Remember the Titans, number one.

SPEAKER_02: 1:04:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 1:04:59

Friday Night Lights. Yeah, that's a good one.

SPEAKER_02: 1:05:01

I don't know. I don't know how many basketballs. Oh, Coach Carter.

SPEAKER_00: 1:05:05

Oh, yeah, that's a good one.

SPEAKER_01: 1:05:06

I don't think I've seen it. Oh, it's it's really good. It's Sam Jackson. Sorry, did you have a message?

SPEAKER_00: 1:05:11

Yeah, I do. I'm sorry, I'm answering messages because my child's in uh the city and I need to pick her up here at some point.

SPEAKER_02: 1:05:17

There's so many more football movies and basketball movies.

SPEAKER_01: 1:05:19

Yeah, because nobody likes basketball.

SPEAKER_02: 1:05:21

Oh, Coach Carter. Yeah, Space Jam.

SPEAKER_00: 1:05:23

Space Jam. Sure. That's it. Space Jam, super cool.

SPEAKER_02: 1:05:26

That's it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 1:05:27

Have you seen these clips of uh Wemby uh playing in the NBA? What's a Wemby? Wemby's a guy.

SPEAKER_02: 1:05:33

Guys don't follow sports.

SPEAKER_00: 1:05:34

He is uh NBA player. Have you seen anything recently with him? No, dude, it makes no sense. He so he looks the reason I thought of that is uh Space Jam in that do you remember the one uh the scene where Michael Jordan jumps? Yeah, yeah, he reaches out. Yeah, yeah. So that guy. So he got taller somehow and better. Like over the summer?

SPEAKER_02: 1:05:57

Seven foot four.

SPEAKER_00: 1:05:58

Yeah, and his seven foot four, and I think his wingspan is like eight feet. It's absolutely insane. It is eight feet, yeah. He stops, he literally blocks dudes where they jump as high as they can, and he stands straight up and just blocks them with not not coming off the ground.

SPEAKER_01: 1:06:13

Crazy, dude.

SPEAKER_00: 1:06:15

You should watch some of his clips. It doesn't make any sense. Like, and and he's and it's not just like he's good because he's tall, he drops threes from like the logo. Um, it's crazy. It it looks he looks like a fake character. He looks like he looks like Slender Man or I don't know, it does not look real.

SPEAKER_02: 1:06:32

He does not look real.

SPEAKER_00: 1:06:33

No, he doesn't. Like his proportions are so messed up, uh, it's freaky. But I've seen some like clip, and this year he's just absolutely destroying. Um like he's just ever absolutely everything. Defense, offense, he's just absolutely destroying everybody.

SPEAKER_01: 1:06:46

Wow.

SPEAKER_00: 1:06:46

Yeah. There's a video of him standing beside, oh, I can't remember. There was a picture of him standing beside somebody else on another team who was like one of their biggest players, and he makes them look tiny.

SPEAKER_02: 1:06:58

I can't remember who that is.

SPEAKER_00: 1:06:58

Who is that?

SPEAKER_02: 1:06:59

I don't know. The doesn't say that person looks like a child next to him.

SPEAKER_00: 1:07:03

Well, that's how I feel when I stand beside like Jeff. Like he's literally a foot taller than me.

SPEAKER_02: 1:07:07

Darren Fox. Darren Fox.

SPEAKER_00: 1:07:10

Yeah. But then you put you put Jeff beside him, and Jeff would look as small as I do compared to Jeff, which makes no sense. Yeah. That's what's weird, right? Wow.

SPEAKER_01: 1:07:19

Yeah, I don't think people are supposed to be that tall. No. Like that's that's a that's a huge height difference. It's like two feet taller than you. M more, yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 1:07:26

Yeah, no, two feet. Exactly two feet. Yeah, that's yeah, I'm five seven. He's that's crazy.

SPEAKER_02: 1:07:31

Crazy. No, he's seven four.

SPEAKER_00: 1:07:33

Oh, okay. So not quite two feet, but yeah, because I was like, five four?

SPEAKER_02: 1:07:36

No.

SPEAKER_01: 1:07:38

No, I'm not. But it's funny, you said the other day, like you you forget how tall your friends are, right? Like I just look at everybody like, oh yeah, like we're all just kind of like humans, like adults.

SPEAKER_00: 1:07:46

Same with age, though, right? When you when you get to know people really well and you kind of um and then even with our work, we work with a whole bunch of different people of different ages, and you kind of just start thinking, oh yeah, we're all the same age. And then when I when you're old like me, you're like, yeah, they're the same age, and then you wait, oh wait, you're 15 years younger than me. Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 1:08:04

Yeah. Well, some of those new people have got to be younger than 20 years.

SPEAKER_00: 1:08:07

Yeah, yeah. They're some um is there any 20? Yeah, there's gotta be 22-year-olds, yeah, for sure. 20 years younger. Crazy. Creepy.

SPEAKER_02: 1:08:15

Yeah, that's a whole person. I can't figure out like between us. It that makes no sense. Anyway, never mind. We're just old, you know what I mean? That's like a whole generation.

SPEAKER_01: 1:08:23

Well, you're old.

SPEAKER_00: 1:08:24

I'm still kind of holding on to youth.

SPEAKER_02: 1:08:26

Well, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 1:08:27

Um we're gonna have a basher for your 40. Yeah. Let's do something.

SPEAKER_01: 1:08:32

Yeah, maybe. I'm not a big birthday sound.

SPEAKER_00: 1:08:34

Okay, we're gonna do it anyway.

SPEAKER_01: 1:08:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_02: 1:08:35

Well, you're gonna get a you're gonna get a samurai sword. That's what we get when we're 40.

SPEAKER_00: 1:08:39

Is it? Yours is now it is and a key to your house at the cult at the cult place.

SPEAKER_01: 1:08:45

That'd be a cool 40th present. Like, hey, here's your sword and here's your key to your new house in the commune.

SPEAKER_00: 1:08:50

If I win uh if I win the lottery between now and then, I'll do that.

SPEAKER_01: 1:08:53

You'll start a commune?

SPEAKER_00: 1:08:54

Uh no, not a commune. I'll start a community.

SPEAKER_01: 1:08:56

That's the same thing.

SPEAKER_02: 1:08:58

You just buy the land and then we we'll we'll handle the rest.

SPEAKER_00: 1:09:01

Build it and they'll come?

SPEAKER_02: 1:09:02

Yeah, like yeah, buy the land, then we'll we'll we'll all build our own house.

SPEAKER_01: 1:09:06

I'll sell my house. I can just build a house there.

SPEAKER_02: 1:09:08

I'll put the utilities to my house. Like you don't have to do that. Just buy the land and then we're good to go. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 1:09:14

Okay, if you're listening to this and you want to join our community, please hit us up at Average Superior. Uh I don't think anyone runs any of our our social media platforms anymore. But I sure don't. Uh I haven't been on Twitter since I got my new phone, so that's probably about a month and a half.

SPEAKER_01: 1:09:28

I s I still waste a lot of time on Instagram. I just don't have a lot of desire to post anything on Instagram.

SPEAKER_00: 1:09:33

Uh, I haven't checked our email in probably four months.

SPEAKER_01: 1:09:36

So we got we got invited. We got an email today.

SPEAKER_00: 1:09:38

Oh. Oh, speaking of that, I thought somebody was reaching out to that Cassandra lady to talk about the ultra.

unknown: 1:09:43

I forgot.

SPEAKER_00: 1:09:44

Oh my god. Uh, she actually was just on another podcast.

SPEAKER_01: 1:09:50

Uh I got an email from Liam Austin. Don't know who that is. Uh Liam at million dollar virtualsummit.com.

SPEAKER_00: 1:09:57

Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 1:09:57

Good day podcast host. Would you be interested in getting booked on 50 podcasts this year? 50? And I just want to email him back and be like, bro, I don't have time.

SPEAKER_00: 1:10:06

We barely have time to do 50 podcasts a year.

SPEAKER_01: 1:10:09

Like, when the fucking scam I know thing is that. Oh, it's well, his email is what what was his email?

SPEAKER_02: 1:10:17

Million dollar what?

SPEAKER_01: 1:10:19

A million-dollar virtual summit. It's a fucking cult. A virtual summit. He's good because he's gonna say, hey, do you want to get better? Do you want to improve? Join this cult. Do you want to be a millionaire? Do you want to be a millionaire? All you have to do is get my brand on your stomach.

SPEAKER_00: 1:10:32

You got a brand your butt, your right butt cheek.

SPEAKER_01: 1:10:35

And I'm here for it. Okay. It's a make me a millionaire.

SPEAKER_02: 1:10:41

Designed to help entrepreneurs host profitable online summits and virtual events.

SPEAKER_01: 1:10:45

Why does Liam have our email?

SPEAKER_00: 1:10:47

Uh, why do we need to host a pro- I don't want to host a summit?

SPEAKER_02: 1:10:49

I'm just gonna probably say, I don't know, the internet.

SPEAKER_01: 1:10:52

What podcasts would he be booking us on?

SPEAKER_00: 1:10:55

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01: 1:10:55

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00: 1:10:56

Uh we can't really book, uh we can't really go on other people's podcasts.

SPEAKER_01: 1:10:59

We can't even get people to come on our podcast.

SPEAKER_00: 1:11:00

Yeah, we got an empty mic right there.

SPEAKER_01: 1:11:02

Yeah, like all the time.

SPEAKER_02: 1:11:05

So, yeah, reply. Say yes. Just see where it leads.

SPEAKER_01: 1:11:09

No, because then he's gonna like say some things I'm gonna feel bad, and then I'm gonna be like, okay, fine.

SPEAKER_02: 1:11:13

He's gonna guilt you into it. Yeah, let's say what happens. So if you're the lead, he's the one that gets guilted into the podcast.

SPEAKER_01: 1:11:18

I am the one that gets guilted.

SPEAKER_02: 1:11:20

Oh, I got I don't feel I feel bad, guys. I'll show up. It's all good.

SPEAKER_01: 1:11:23

I I I tipped a guy at Subway the other day.

SPEAKER_02: 1:11:27

Oh, what are you doing? Because that's that's there, what did he put the work in? Like, did did he do something?

SPEAKER_01: 1:11:33

No, he didn't. He actually did a shittier job, but because he was nice, this is how like weak of a human being is.

SPEAKER_02: 1:11:38

Is this the scenic drive one?

SPEAKER_01: 1:11:40

No, this is the one on 43rd.

unknown: 1:11:41

Oh.

SPEAKER_03: 1:11:42

Oh.

SPEAKER_02: 1:11:42

I like the one on 43rd better than the scenic drive.

SPEAKER_01: 1:11:44

No, it was shit. He was nice, but then I asked for MM cookies and he gave me macadamia nut.

SPEAKER_00: 1:11:49

Did you throw them in his face?

SPEAKER_02: 1:11:51

Can you get can you get a return on that tip?

SPEAKER_01: 1:11:53

Can you Yeah, I want my tip back. Yeah, do that.

SPEAKER_00: 1:11:55

Uh you can't get Subway now if you get a foot long without spending$20. Mm-hmm. Oh, it's$20 every single time.

SPEAKER_01: 1:12:02

Well that like we had two what do we have?

SPEAKER_00: 1:12:05

Cold Cut combo.

SPEAKER_02: 1:12:06

12 inch Cola combo. I gotta be under it.

SPEAKER_00: 1:12:08

Uh with uh with uh cookies and drink.

SPEAKER_02: 1:12:11

You're at 20? A W A and W prices for Subway? I went to And you would know because you you do Yes, it's 20 bucks.

SPEAKER_00: 1:12:18

I went to what's the Peter Pita Pit?$24.

SPEAKER_01: 1:12:24

Just for a meal?

SPEAKER_00: 1:12:25

I got a s I got an extra large one and a drink.$24.

SPEAKER_02: 1:12:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_00: 1:12:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 1:12:31

I don't like this. Insane.

SPEAKER_00: 1:12:33

With the tip too?

SPEAKER_02: 1:12:34

Probably. I think I always tip. Oh, yeah. Do you tip at those places?

SPEAKER_01: 1:12:41

I I was actually mad at myself that I tipped because like I have a no-tip rule.

SPEAKER_02: 1:12:45

What are you doing, like a dollar or two?

SPEAKER_01: 1:12:46

I just did 15%.

SPEAKER_00: 1:12:48

We should uh Japan has no tips.

SPEAKER_01: 1:12:51

Yeah, we should not have tips.

SPEAKER_02: 1:12:52

I think Japan also has samurai swords. They do. Just check into that.

SPEAKER_01: 1:12:56

Oh, I'd I would tip the guy. Like you don't have a samurai sword.

SPEAKER_02: 1:12:58

You don't tip at all?

SPEAKER_00: 1:12:59

No, they it's like um frowned upon.

SPEAKER_02: 1:13:02

So is there wage like how do they offset that? Wage higher than wage, probably, or less.

SPEAKER_00: 1:13:07

Uh just culturally, there's no tips. Uh actually, even that uh food truck, the Japanese like um shaved ice food truck that was at Kona? No, it's not Kona. I can't think of the name of it. It's a Japanese name. Um but it was it was at the whoop up days. Anyway, uh the there's no tip option.

SPEAKER_02: 1:13:27

Like it.

SPEAKER_01: 1:13:27

Yeah. Maybe we should go back to where you can only tip with cash.

SPEAKER_00: 1:13:31

Then nobody would ever tip because no one's got cash. Yeah, I know, but if you did a good job. Just flip them a dollar.

SPEAKER_02: 1:13:37

Do you carry cash?

unknown: 1:13:38

No.

SPEAKER_00: 1:13:40

Oh, if I had cash, I'd tip you. Sorry.

SPEAKER_01: 1:13:42

Yeah, sorry, bro. Like I just do you take debit? No. Oh, darn.

SPEAKER_00: 1:13:46

Um, I'm sorry, but I'm gonna have to uh cut this short. I gotta go.

SPEAKER_02: 1:13:50

I'm good.

SPEAKER_00: 1:13:51

I know it's uh it's been an hour.

SPEAKER_02: 1:13:53

But the basketball conversation riled you up a little bit. No, I guess I'm so pumped.

SPEAKER_00: 1:13:56

I gotta go pick up my kid.

SPEAKER_02: 1:13:58

I'm so pumped.

SPEAKER_00: 1:13:59

Chauffeur, that's what I am. Yeah, I I am honestly I am looking forward to the basketball thing. I think it will be challenging. Um, I feel like I'm gonna get some kickback, put some pushback. I'm looking forward to the stories. But you're gonna mold. You're gonna meld a bunch of people.

SPEAKER_02: 1:14:14

I want to. Can we just show up? Can can CJ and I just come to and just out of nowhere, just come to practice.

SPEAKER_00: 1:14:19

We don't have to keckle or what?

SPEAKER_02: 1:14:20

No, we don't get we're helping. We're helping. Uh can we be your no sir? Can we be your assistant coaches? Bring us on the team.

SPEAKER_00: 1:14:26

I I have two boys, two guys that are probably gonna be assistant coaching. Uh you know what you know, you know one of those.

SPEAKER_02: 1:14:31

Can we be the maybe the assistants to the assistants? Maybe, yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_01: 1:14:34

We would be ball boys. Yeah, they'll be the most inflated balls you've ever had. Wow.

SPEAKER_02: 1:14:38

Okay, well, that's that's fun with grade eight basketball, boys basketball. Awesome.

SPEAKER_00: 1:14:44

Uh thanks for listening to episode number, I think this is 80, is it not?

SPEAKER_01: 1:14:47

I can't believe we've done 80 podcasts.

SPEAKER_00: 1:14:49

This is 80.

SPEAKER_01: 1:14:49

I needed this too. You're 7980.

SPEAKER_00: 1:14:51

So thanks for listening to 80 of these. Uh, if you're listening, if you're a new listener, we appreciate you. Spread the word.

SPEAKER_02: 1:14:57

Check us out on Million Dollar Events Summit.

SPEAKER_00: 1:14:59

We don't use social media because we suck. Uh, but yeah, spread the word. And if we end up getting uh like you know, some consistent followers and listeners, we might be booked on 50 podcasts. Maybe we can make some uh$5 doing this thing, it'd be awesome. All right. Okay, bye.

SPEAKER_01: 1:15:16

Bye bye.

SPEAKER_00: 1:15:19

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